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Page 14 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 14,1975 F Bl fl I LeJ JrWr fl v i*'Bß* W 9 ' v- l Mw 1 VAIL, Colo.—First Lady Betty Ford pauses to greet some fellow shoppers in Vail Village during an afternoon lunch and shopping excursion. Mrs. Ford had lunch with friends while the President spent his third day in a row at the golf course. Hie Fords are spending two weeks vacationing in Vail. (UPI) Mrs. Ford doesn’t mind criticism VAIL, Colo. (UPI) - Betty Ford says she doesn’t mind criticism of her statement that she “wouldn’t be surprised” if her daughter had an affair “because our family was brought up on the fact that marriage is the greatest thing in the world.” Mrs. Ford was asked her reaction Wednesday to the adverse comments from some clergymen, politicians and oth ers to her interview on CBS Sunday. “Fine. I think it’s coming out very well and certainly as far as the family is concerned and our children ... because our family was brought up on the fact that marriage is the greatest thing in the world.” She said interpretations of her answer to the question of how she would react if her 18- year-old daughter, Susan, told her she was having an affair were “a little distorted.” The First Lady’s press secretary, Sheila Rabb Weiden feld, earlier related the eldest I Getonthe I to tire savings. Uniroyal’s double-belted Fastrak IS s P ec '^ e d as original equipment on many of America’s finest cars. The Fastrak features: JjF^L^B|SgA \Wa\\ * Two fjber -g ,ass be^s JF * Two P o, y ester cord p ,ies ./ ia \ V a\ * 7B Series des >g n New 9 Gt ° n F astrak f° r as llttle as: W LJI>Y VJ A Whitewall Plus jf F: \'Y V'xj'j Tubeless (with FED. 9 \ < \ Q a'nV" A'J I Size Trade-in) Ex. 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She thinks it has been taken incorrectly. “She believes in a close family where parents and children can talk together.” Mrs. Weidenfeld said a compilation showed 168 tele phone calls to the White House criticizing Mrs. Ford’s remarks and 148 calls favoring her stand. There also were 122 tele grams against Mrs. Ford’s views and 118 in favor. Auto buyers going ‘used’ By United Press International Car buyers this summer apparently aren’t letting the threat of higher prices next year scare them into buying now. They are turning to used cars, according to a UPI random survey. “If it’s salable, it will sell. If it’s clean and in good shape, you can’t keep it on the lot at all,” said Tom Felton Jr. at Johnson Ford in Houston. “When new car prices go up, used car prices go up.” Harry Runfola of Dan Creed Chevrolet in Buffalo, N.Y., says “people are still anesthetized by the 1975 increases.” In Pittsburgh, Bill Cleber of C&B Buick said prospects are buying now because they need a new car, not because of higher prices in a couple of months. New car prices probably won’t go as high as the average S3OO per vehicle increase talked about earlier this summer. General Motors then had set its 1976-model prices an average $206 above final 1975-model prices. GM did raise its wholesale price to dealers by 5.9 per cent, an average of $216 — meaning their profit margins (the difference between their cost and the suggested retail price) is smaller and they won’t be knocking as much off the price to get a sale. In New England, two dealers said there has been resistance to price increases but that most customers have accepted the price jumps. John Walsh, general manager of Carlson’s Motor Sales in Concord, N.H., said he has noticed an increase in sales in the past three weeks, although some buyers are complaining about prices. “With electric bills, water bills and everything else going up, they’re beginning to accept it, though,” he said. The reaction last year was just the opposite. Prices on the 1974 models had already increased close to S6OO in a stream of price announcements, and the talk was of another SSOO jump. “Almost all the people in the world came in to buy the ‘74s before the ‘7ss came out,” said Jerry Richardson, sales manag er of Richardson Chevrolet in Houston. “But business hasn’t changed that much since the announcements began this year.” Houston is one of the few areas of the nation that has escaped the recession and Richardson said business has been steady since April. Felton said he probably won’t have enough cars to meet his demand. But in most areas, it’s the used car business that’s hot right now. GM holds price hikes to $206 DETROIT (UPI) - General Motors will hold price hikes on its 1976-model cars to an average $206 in hopes the lower-than-expected jump won’t cripple the auto industry’s slow recovery from its worst slump since the Depression. The 4.4 per cent increase announced by the industry’s acknowledged pricing leader Wednesday is lower at the retail level than the average 6 per cent — S3OO — that auto executives had talked about earlier this summer. In the past two model years, the average car price has increased by about SI,OOO. The price changes ranged from a S2OB decrease on the Chevrolet Monza Towne Coupe to an increase of SBOB on the sporty Chevrolet Corvette. GM’s top-of-the-line Cadillac Fleetwood 75 four-door limou sine jumped $669, to $15,239.25. The GM pricing decision, announced minutes after re ports from the four U.S. automakers that early August new car sales fell 29 per cent from a year ago to a 14-year low, was expected to be followed by its competitors. |f iVews summary | || Ford checks energy ;g;g VAIL, Colo. (UPI) —President Ford probably will not ;g;g ;g;g announce before tomorrow whether he will appeal a court gg;; ruling that his $2 tariff on imported oil is illegal, says :;gg gg:; press secretary Ron Nessen. gg:; g;g; The President met today with Federal Energy :gg; ;gg: Administrator Frank Zarb at his vacation home to discuss ;gg: ;gg: the court ruling and other energy policy decisions facing ;gg: gg;: Ford. Nessen said he assumes Ford will take the appeals court g;g; g;:g ruling to the Supreme Court in order to establish his ;gg; :g:g authority to impose the import fees, which he was ;gg: g;g; considering removing. || Battery delays Viking gijg CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - A powered rain in g§; gg;: the batteries of the Viking orbiter poised for launch to g;g; :g:g Mars has caused a second delay in the mission. It meant gg;; :g:g an end to plans to land the space crcraft on the red planet gg: :g:g on America’s bicentennial. gig: Engineers today were removing the defective Viking, gg sig: which had been scheduled for launch today, from atop a gg gg: Tita-Centaur rocket to replace it with a sister spacecraft gg gg: that had been set for launch 10 days after a planned liftoff gg gg today. gg Orginal plans called for a Viking lander to touch down gig: gg on Mars on July 4,1976, as part of the nation’s bicentennial gg: gg celebration. If the launch now takes place as planned, the gg gg: lander will touch down two weeks later. Viking Program gg gg: Manager James Martin said. || New shuttle in works? WASHINGTON (UPI) —There are growing indications gig iggi peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt have igig reached the point at which Secretary of State Henry gig gig Kissinger can return to his shuttle diplomacy. igig gg Kissinger was to fly to Vail, Colo., to meet with igig gig; President Ford Friday after today’s speech to agriculture gig: specialists in Birmingham, Ala. iggi gigi An Israeli government source said Kissinger is likely to gig: igig begin a new shuttle that would take him to Syria, Saudi igig Arabia and Jordan next week. iggi The Middle East negotiations broke off in March with a igig gigi depressed Kissinger admitting his attempts to get both gg;i sides to agree could not surmount years of war. || Confrontation igig LISBON, Portugal (UPI) —The Socialist and iggi Communist parties called rival rallies in Lisbon today, gg-i setting the stage for a possible confrontation in their gg;i gig: violent struggle for power in Portugal. igig •gig But a group of non-Communist military officers igig gigi condemned both parties and called for the creation of a g;g; grass-roots populist movement to run the divided country, -gig gigi In the latest act of political violence, a mob swelled by gigi igig farmers attending an agricultural fair burned down ;g;g Communist headquarters in the northern town of Arcos de gig; ggi; Valdevez. igig || Israel more flexible iggi TEL AVIV (UPI) —Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ggi; igig says Israel has become more flexible in its demands for a ggi; gig; new peace agreement in the Sinai Desert, narrowing the ;ggi gig; negotiating gap between the two countries. igig Israeli government sources in Tel Aviv also reported ggi; ggi; progress but said a number of points were still in dispute. Sadat, in an interview published Wednesday in the gig; gig; Beirut magazine Al Hawadess, said Egypt has not bowed ;gg; gig; to Israeli demands but Israel has made concessions to gig: ;g:g Egypt. ;g;g “Our demands, Israeli withdrawal from the Mitla and ggi; gig; Gidi passes and the Abu Rudeis oil fields in the Sinai are g;g; gig; still the same,” he said. “It is not our stand which has i;gg gg;i changed. It is the Israeli intransigence which has ggji ggg changed.” g:g: IKjR3 COLOR PORTRAIT I LIMIT ONE PER SUBJECT ‘""each K OTTER LIMIT TWO PER FAMILY Groups ST.OO Per Subject I I W" NO AGE LIMIT FREE->m| lone 8x io plaque pru rp*i|K| im MT-.;, 7 <B| ■ WITH PURCHASE OF COMPLETE ULII I lIHIIIILIIV PACKAGE College Hill Shop. Plaza 1 ■FREE * 1 9’ s value ■WKjbCI SPECIAL O.FFER ■ 1 -BXIO Thurs. Fri. Sat w | 2-5X7 otM HQ 95 116 114 104 10 Wallet Size * * *“S 14th . 15* h . l«*h See Store display | PICTURES BY LEONARD WEBB, g YEARS EXP., | \ J x . W w. w. « - < . ..V WBMk Twins separated MELBOURNE, Australia—Siamese twin girls born here and separated in a three-hour operation, sleep in Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. The girls, Yew Tze (1) and Yew Sun (r) were born to Singapore nurse Eu Cheog-Foo by Caesarian section. Mr. and Mrs. Foo left two other daughters in Singapore, aged 14 and 10 years, when the Siamese condition was suspected. The twin girls are reported doing well and on their way to leading a normal life. (UPI) Abernathy pushes for black veep ANNISTON, Ala. (UPI) — Years of riding in the back of Southern Chrsitian Leadership the bus?” he said. “Black Conference President Ralph D. Americans have nothing to Abernathy Wednesday urged celebrate.” blacks to shun the bicentennial Abernathy said blacks are celebration and political party suffering economic bondage in activities next year unless a the “racist work ethic” and black person is a candidate for massive redistribution of in vice president. come j s needed in the United States Abernathy, addressing the SCLC national convention, said “We’re saying to pharoh blacks should be willing to Gerald Ford and that racist support a Republican ticket “if pharoh George Wallace; let our Sen. Edward Brooke of Massa- people go,” he said, chusetts is nominated as Dr Vivian Hend President Ford’s 1976 runrung economist and president rs ma e ' Clarke College in Atlanta, said He said the field is “wide 25 ?*. cent ° f , blac * onen” in the Democratic nartv P°P ulatlon 18 out of work and .. . ~P , the federal government should and a black vice presidential continue candidate should be named by ments one of the major parties. “We must begin to attack The bicentennial has little w here the problem is: public significance to blacks in view of policy,” he said, calling for conditions facing them, more court orders, executive Abernathy said. orders and legislation to in- “What have we got to crease the economic welfare of celebrate? Years of slavery? blacks. \ I I QUALITY TOOL PRODUCTS, INC. I • RtWIHDERS OF UNIVERSAL ARMATURES. I • REPAIR UN ELECTRIC TUOLS AHU MOTORS I Call 228-0911