Bright food cost picture in August has dimmed •y LOUISE COOK Egg prices generally have been following seasonal their forecasts because a amaller-than-expected Increase In Aatoelaled Press Writer ads. At the start of the year, the marketbaaket survey the supply of pork and poultry and heavy rains In California MARKETBASKET Bargain hunters had a hard time tracking down good showed that the average price of a doten, medium white which disrupted planting COMPARISON k«Jl at tiki supermarket last month. An Associated Press eggs at the checklist store was Just over 71 cents. By July 1, Last month, in testimony before a Senate subcommit- •MrtatttaM survey showed price Increases during Sep- the average was down to U tents a dozen and by the start tee, Howard HJort of the USDA said retail food prices tMkar outnumbered dtcreases by almoat two to on*. of October it was back to 7» cents. during the final quarter of 1978 should remain fairly stable. Tha AP drew up a random list of II commonly —The marketbasket bill at the start of October was an "Lower prices for red meat and poultry along with season- parthuiil food and nonfood turns, checked the price at one average of t percent higher than it was at the beginning of ally lower prices for fresh fruit should about offset mod- supermarket • each of 11 clUes on alarch 1.1171 and has 1171, with the total Increasing at the checklist store la every erate price Increases In most other food categories," he reeheemei on or about the start of each succeeding month. sail OM tan, chocolate chip cookies, was dropped from the list «y Government experts are predicting that food pricei No attempt was made to weight the AP survey results •; WTXZ **•..*»» «f November ltn because the manufacturer according to population density or In terms of what percent HjKK dhKoatkuied the package site used In the survey. alone will rise It percent this year. They origiaaUy had anticipated a S to I percent boost, but were forced to revise of a family's actual grocery outlay each Item represents. RfliS Among UM hlghllghu of the latest survey: The day of the week on which the check was made -The marketbaaket bill at the checklist store went up varied depending on the month. Standard brands and sites • nine dttes and down In four last month. On an overall were used when available. If the requested size and brand \IIMM:Y 0Mb, the average marketbasket bill at the start of October was not available on March 1,1171, a comparable substitute »J!' .31 was 1.1 percent higher than It was a month earlier. During was selected. Items temporarily out of stock on one of the August, In contrast, the average bill dropped by 1.1 percent. survey dates being compared were not included In the over- -A look at the total number of Items showed that 41 all total. Increased In price while only 17 declined. There were about The AP did not attempt to compare actual prices from Ike nine number of Increases In September as there were city to city — to say, for example, that eggs cost more In In Augist, but there were only two-thirds ai many de- one area than another. The only comparisons were made in crease*. There were no widespread sales like the Labor terms of percentages of increase or decrease — saying a Dey specials that helped lower the Sept. 1 totals particular Item went up 10 percent in one city and 6 percent -The boosts hit hardest at staple Items. Eggs increased In another. In price at the checklist store In eight cities; frankfurters The USDA marketbasket issued each month is based n went up In seven cities; and butter and milk each increased a complex set of statistics. It includes 65 retail Items of U. S. In five cttles. See Feed, page 1 4 I he ' The Daily Register Kcyistu VOL.101 NO. 76 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2,1978 15 CENTS Cardinals: We seek pastoral pope VATICAN CITY (AP) - Hundreds of thousands fUed psst with which he responded so frequently, and to the informality Cardinal Giovanni Benelll, the influential archbishop of workmen had to dig through six feet of rock to carry out his the body of Pope John Paul I in St. Peter's Basilica as cardinals and humility that were characteristic of his brief pontificate. Florence, said getting another pastoral pope rather than a wish. His grave is topped by a simple slab. But Vatican officials arriving for his funeral Wednesday said they -would seek a veteran of the Vatican Curia was "the priority of priorities." said no burial instructions from Pope John Paul had been found, "He won the love of the faithful as the smiling pope, open- and the Vatican decided what would be done. suttees or with the same pastoral background and down-to- hearted to all, to Venetian gondoliers as well as to diplomats The Congregation of Cardinals was meeting again today to By coincidence, the tomb will be opposite that of another earth traits officiating around him," said Hungarian Cardinal Laszlo Lekal prepare for the open-air funeral mass Wednesday on the steps of pope who had an even shorter reign, Marcellus II. He died In the An estimated M0.M0 people braved getting rain to view the at a Mass In Budapest. St. Peter's and the conclave to elect a new pope beginning Oct body Sunday after It was brought from the papal palace to a 14 Itth century after only 12 days on the throne of St. Peter. "Everyone wants a pastoral pope like the one who Just catafalque In front of the main altar of Christendom's largest In Washington, the White House announced that Lillian church. passed away, a pope who speaks a language everyone under- stands," said Cardinal Timothy Manning on his arrival from Los Carter, the president's mother, would head the U.S. delegation JoumaJtsU who reported the deaths of the three previous to the funeral. President Carter sent his wife, Rosalynn, to the Angeles. "I believe there are many who possess such a quality." popes said Ike crowd was the largest they could remember, funeral of Pope Paul VI on Aug 11. Boston tie party today though no official figures were avaUable. "We put our trust in the Holy Spirit to Inspire all of us Cardinal Giuseppe Sir!, the 71-year-old archbishop of Genoa BOSTON (AP) - And so there will be a Boston Tie The outpouring of affectionate grief was attributed to the reunited In the conclave and In the prayers of all the faithful that and one of the Italians considered "papabill," or possible popes, Party after all. brevity of Joan Paul's M-day reign, cut short by a heart attack we may find another great pastor and leader of the church," predicted the electoral conclave would last two or three days, In The New York Yankees had their bags packed Sunday, la his bed Thursday night; to the Infectious grin and laughter said Cardinal Huraberto Medelros of Boston. contrast to the election of John Paul in one day. but what they had hoped would be a happy flight to Kansas "This Is a good thing, so we have more time to reflect," he CMy s) champions of the American League East turned said in a newspaper Interview. Mo a trip to Boston for sn all-or-nothing one-game playoff Other Italian papabill include Cardinals Corrado Ursl. To, of today wttbtbe Red Sox. Naples and Salvatore Pappalardo, 00, of Palermo. After coming from M games out during the Ikul 1% One of the first to view John Paul's body In St. Peter's was maatha of the season, the Yankees blew the last of what his brother, Edoardo Luclanl, who was In .Australia on business had hew a ty-fame toad as late aa Sept. M when they when the pope died. dropped Sundays final game of the regular sessea to the Luclanl said the death left him with "a devastating pain." Cleveland Indians. M. But "the Lord knows what he wants," he told reporters. "The Meanwhile, the Red Sex were disposing of the Toronto Lord bad determined that he should become pope and that his BAM Jays M, setting up the second saddea-daeth one-shot should be a short papacy. Whether it is an important one or not playoff In American League history. Today's wiaaer begins Is not for me to say." the best-offlve American League Championship Series m John Paul, born Albino Luclani, was 65 when he died; his Kansas City Tuesday night. brother Is three years younger. The other AL playoff also took place la Boston's The Vatican announced that the pope will be buried in a Fenway Park in IMt, witb Cleveland beating the Red Sex stone sarcophagus In the grottoes of St. Peter's, opposite the M and going on to win the Worfci Series from the Boston tomb of Pope Paul VI and not tar from Pope John XXIII, his • .,- .••-.''•. ' • I -V-.,- two Immediate predecessors from whom he took his papal Bob Lemon, now manager of the Yankees, was one of name. Cleveland's star pitchers In 1MB and spent the playoff game Pope Paul, who died on Aug. ( after a reign of IS years, left in the bullpen For details turn to page I instructions that be was to be buried "in the simple earth," and II Goes on despite jellyfish ABOARD THE IDLE DAY being stung more," she re- A guard with a rifle tired Into hour stops for sips of glucose (AP) - Stella Taylor, weath- ported to aides as the swim the sea and the shark was not and fruit Juice or nibbles of IB ering poisonous Jellyfish continued.