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Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1974-12-19 WASHINGTON (APl - President will lower its price increase and that altem pt to convince industrial giants passed legislation to provide jobs in during November. Ford pitted his prestJge against some other steel companies will keep the that it is in the best interests of the public service. of the na tion 's major corporations pubUc interest in mind and not raise country to restrain price and wage The measure would authorize up to This amounted to $2.2 billion at an Wednesday In an effort to avert an in­ their prices as much as U.S. steel." boosts. 330,000 public service jobs in local aMUll rate, and followed an increase dustry-wide boost in the cost of steel. One other firm already had done so : Nessen said the President will government at a cost of $5.5 billion of six-tenth of one per cent, or $7 Ford pits prestige u.s. Steel Corp ., often the CF&I Steel Corp., the nation's 13th decide, after receiving U.S . Steel's and to extend jobless benefits to billion at an annual rate, during beUwether of the industry, announced largest producer. explanation of its price increase, what miUions not now eligible. October. a price boost of 8 per cent on Monday. In Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel his next move will be in efforts to keep Ford a ked an appropriallon of $4 The crucial factor was a drop of 2.5 It higher prices from spreading reiterated Wednesday that it spokesman said : "In our opinion, the billion of the new aid right away from per cenl. or $7 billion at an aMuaJ regards the increase as justified but increases are fully justified and we throughout the industry. 110,000 pubUc service jobs and ex­ rale, in industrial payroUs. in fight to avert promised a detailed written ex­ believe are a reasonable action on our Because it is a basic component of tended jobless compensation planation by Friday. part. " so many industrial products, the price coverage. That money had been The growing seriousness of the That p'edge was sent to Chairman Ford, lacking legal authority to or steel has extensive rippling effrc:ts approved by a House committee. unemployment problem was pointed Albert Rees of the Council on Wage control profits or prices or wages, across other segments of the The recession's impact across the up by a n w report from the Labor and Price Stability, whose immediate thus was resorting to a tactic often economy, now troubled by both in­ whole economy was reflected In a Department that nearly 700, more steel price hike reaction was issued by Ron Nesson, used by the White House in pre\ious flation and recession . monthly report from the Commerce Americans applied for jobless com­ Ford's press secretary: years which has lately fallen into The Congress, in an effort to Department which said the over-aU pensation in the fll'lt week of "The council, reflecting the disfavor . alleviate the bardsbi(l5 resulting from personal income of Americans Decem~ reflecting the increase in President's views, hopes U.S. steel Popularly called jawboning, it is an layoffs attributable to the recession, declined t-.'O-tenth of one per cent layoffs. Thur8day, December 19, 1974 Vol. 107, No. 119 Iowa City, Iowa 52242 10' Black enrollment declines at UI By JIM FLEMING since 1968. when the university first cent in the fall 011973. UJ figures ladleale tbat enrollments Editor began to file bi-annual At the UI. black first-year-student for Clltcaao, Asian-AmerIcan and minority-enrollment reports with enrollment has declined 4.2 per cent in native American studeata have lIIown Black student enrollment is ap­ HEW. two years. from 99 in the fall of 1972 to lacreases slace 1872. 'I1Ie eerollmeat parentiy on the decline at the VI. The total black student enrollment at 95 this fall. figures for ChIcano shldenta III 1974 having peaked in 1972. the VI was 128 in 1968. rose 91.4 per "I'm distressed by the facts. but I was 129, up 4U per cent from 89 In According to statistics recently com­ cent (to 245) in 1970. and rose another expected it." Philip Jones , director of 1912 . Astan-Amerlcan student piled by the university for the Office 92.6 per cent (to 4721 in 1972 . Special Support Services. said Wed­ enrollment cUm~ from $8 In 1972 to for Civil Rights of the Department of Following two periods of over !I() per nesday night. Jones administers Equal 104 in 1974, an Increase 0179.3 per cent. Health. Education and Welfare cent growth. the 17 per cent decrease Opportunity Programs and heads Figures for native Amerlcaas sho,.. lin (HEW). 388 black students are this bieMium may be part of a minority education counseling ser­ lacrease of 218.8 per cent, from 15 In enrolled at the VI this fall , a decline of national trend. vices a t the UJ. I97Zto 51 tbls year. over 17 percent from 1972. Nationwide data on current black Jones said that "the net decrease in Overall statistics for all four repor­ Fou r hundred seventy·two black enrollments has not yet been compiled black students" was "a result of the ted minority groups - black. ChIcano. students were enrolled here two years by HEW. Due to what they called active recruitment. since 1970. of other Asian- and native Amerlcan - show an ago. "computer mix-ups and bad reports by minority groups. especially Chicano increase of 6 per cent. from 635 in 1972 In the two-year period in which the institutions. " the 1972 figures have still students. " to 672 in 1974. This figure is almost black student enrollment dropped 17 not been distributed in printed form . "Seventy-two percent of the students equal to the overall 1972-74 growth rate per cent. overall VI enrollment rose 5.9 Otber surveys, however, indicate now in Equal Opportunity Programs at of 5.9 per cent for all UI students. per cent. from 20.052 in 1972 to 21.271 that tbe decline in black enrollments the UI are black." Jones said. He According to the VCLA study, the this fall . mllY be a new nationwide estimated that another 20 per cent number of all-mlnority-group fir­ As a result. the percentage of VI pbenomeJlon. A study conducted at were Chicano students. st-year students dropped 12 per cent students who are black fell from 2.4 UCLA earlier this year revealed tbat "One cannot say that the univer­ from 1972 to 1973. At the UI, the num­ per cent in 1972 to 1.8 per cent this tbe national percentage of black fir­ sity's commitment has decreased. It ber of all-minority-group first·year year. st-year students had dropped from 8.7 has just shifted to other minorities." students for that period rose 15.8 per The decline is the first recorded here per cent in tbe fall of 1972 to 7.8 per Jones said. cent . Jones said that the statistiCS show that the VI is "followmg a typical pat­ • tern" in shifts in minority-group Iowa In relation to other states recruitment and enrollment. "Over the next two-year period. Bya Staff Writer enrollment of 2.8 per cent. Only three states jn the naLion - we'll probably see a rapid dechne in In 1972. the state of Iowa ranked ten­ In relation to' the percentage of Maine. New Hampshire. and Vermont Chicano students." Jones said. He ad­ th in the nation when minority minority residents in Iowa . then. the - have a lower percentage of minority ded that the major factor responsible post-secondary education enrollment percentage of minority students in the residents than does Iowa. for the "shifting" was "simply limited is seen in relation to the minority state's post-secondary schools was Additionally , only Maine. Vermont, fmancial resources . population orthe state. higher (186 per cent). and North Dakota have a lower per· "We did not get an increase in funds Bureau of the Census figures for 1970 In raw figures, however, tbe state'. centage of minority post-secondary this year. and money problems always show that Iowa had a minority minority population and students. get in the way," Jones said. "We've population of 1.5 per cent. According to minority-student enrollments remain HEW and Bureau of the Census had to use more funds to bring in other ~1atistics compiled by the Office for among the smallest in tbe natiOll . figures define minority population students. Civil Rights of the Department of Iowa's total minority resident mem bers as blacks. Chicanos, "The important thing is that the Health . Education and Welfare population totaled 41.614 in 1970. while Asian-Americans, and native situation is being monitored. so that we (HEW I. in 1972 the state's colleges and minority enrollments in colleges and Americans. Student figures are based won't slip back to where we once universities had a minority-student universities in 1972 totaled 3.344. on fall. full-time enrollments. were." he added. JCRPC orders 'plan of action' Mass transit improvements endorsed By CONNIE JENSEN Congress apparently inadvertently The plan is to be used as a guide buses - three for Iowa City. five for Staff Writer omitted aid for smaller cities in the only, according to White. It does not Coralville and 15 for CAMBUS. Iowa act, according to Barry Hokanson , commit any local government to a City will lease the buses to the other The Johnson County Regional Plan· senior planner of the JCRPC. specific course of action .
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