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, ' ' Alcohol awareness page 3 ;, '' '.tl! \() ' Carter Department of Labor announces reports 1o/o price rise oil plans· WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices rose another 1 percent in March to produce the largest <luarterly increase in four years, WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi although there was some indicanon last month that food prices dent Carter told the American might be leveling off, the ~overnment said yesterday. people yesterday night "each The March rise followed mcreases of 1 percent in February and one of you will have to use less 1. 3 percent in January, the Labor Department said. oil and pay more for it'' as he Taken together, they show wholesale prices rising at a seasonally announced plans to gradually adjusted annual rate of 14.1 percent--the largest since 16.4 percent lift ceilings on U.S. produced recorded in the final quarter of 1974, said department economist crude oil by 1981. W.D. Thomas. In his text for a television Wholesale food prices increased 1.2 percent in March, down radio address from the Oval sli~htly from the increases of January and February. Energy Office, Carter said he is asking pnces increased substantially last month as gasoline rose 2.9 Congress to impose a ''windfall percent at wholesale and fuel oil costs climbed another 5. 3 profits tax" that would sop up percent. half the extra revenues that od Rises in wholesale prices eventually are reflected in the prices companies would get from consumers pay for food and other products. · higher prices under decontrol White HOuse press secretary J ody Powell said the figures or from price increases dictated "certainly were not welcome news." He also said the report by the Organization of Petro indicates the Carter administration still faces a long road in its leum Exporting Countries. fight to control inflation. Although Carter may legally But Powell said families concerned about their food budgets lift controls without congres could take some comfort. He noted that "pork, chicken and sional approval, the House and vegetable prices actually went down." Senate must approve the tax, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had told the big wholesale increases so far this year have "built up pressures which faces an uncertain fate on This tree was only one of the reported sights of damage Capitol HilL caused by last nights 60 mph gusts. [Photo by Mark which will push up retail prices for the next few months.'' Emphasizing that revenues Muench] (continued on page J] from the tax wold go to poor ===-==· :-=-=----=--=·---- families, mass transit proJects and efforts to develop new energy sources, Caner sought Campuses suffer damages from violent winds to put lawmakers on the spot by declaring: percent of our total service area "Every vote a~ainst it will be by Michael Lewis 9 p.m. The South Bend Police re a vote for excessive oil company Executive News Editor Another tree fell between ported that there were "nu out of powe.r at any one time. profits and for reliance on the Keenan and Zahm Halls later in merous trees down and power We still have a number to make whims of the foreign oil carteL'' the evening. Pan of the tree outages" in South Bend last in South Bend. Some won't get Carter argued that these and The Notre Dame and Saint fell against Zahm, but the night. Parts of the city were picked up until tomorrow mor other measures he is taking or Mary's campuses suffered an extent of the damage to the still with electricity at 12: 15 ning." proposing will combine to cut unknown amount of damage building was not known. a.m. ''There have been no emer U.S. demand for imported oil last night when violent winds Some automobiles parked in John Blake, division superin gencies that I know of,'' Blake while increasing domestic swept across the northern part the Stepan lot were damaged tendent of Indiana and Michi continued, ''WSBT is running energy resources. of Indiana. No exact figures when a lamppost was knocked gan Electric Company, said that on an emergency generator, but were available, but the extent down by the wind. Security there was "a maximum of 5 they're still on the air. " "Even with the windfall ·----- profits tax in place, our oil of the damage was thought to reported that John Moorman, producers will get substantial be minimal. assistant director of mainte new income - enough to provide SMC escaped with only ''a few nance, was on the scene. Farm support committee plenty of incentive for increased minor incidents" according to The weather also figured in domestic production," the the Security office there. A few some electrical problems near president argued. branches and mailboxes were Lyons Hall, when an electrical decides to push refferendum Carter said he will demand felled by the 60 m.p.h. gusts of wire was felled by the wind. that the oil industry use the wind. Security indicated that the po extra income for energy deve Notre Dame Security received wer was momentarily shut off by Brian McFeeters the Ohio migrant workers boy lopment "and not .to buy a report of a tree down on Notre so the disconnected wire would cott of Campbells and Nestles department stores and hotels as Dame Avenue around 7:30p.m. not pose a threat, but Lyons did The Farm Labor Support products. some have done in the past.'' near the golf course. Althoug not experi~nce a power loss. Committee decided last night to A petition will be circulated Administration officials, the tree blocked traffic for a No incidents were reported to push for a late April referen next week to obtain the briefing reporters on the condi while, the street was cleared by Security after 11 p.m. dum on campus in support of required 1000 signatures, tion that they not be identified though a date for the actual publicly, asserted that the gra referendum has not been speci dual oil decontrol proposal will fied. add 4 to 5 cents per gallon to Committee organizer Ann the rrice of gasoline and home Huber explained that referen heaung oil by September 1981. Collegiate Jazz Festival to begin dum plans have been delayed because of the Adminstration's Some other estimates have refusal to guarantee implemen ranged as high as 15 cents a by Michael Onufrak whose roots are in the blues. Carey describes StaffReporter his style as "wide, hard-hitting and heavy. The tation of the boycott if it is gallon. man is a growl in a three-piece suit." supported by the students. So The implementation of oil The "Sugar Man", as Turrentine is called, far they haven't said either price decontrol will be designed The 21st annual Collegiate Jazz Festival began his recording career in the '50's. He is way," Huber said. to lessen the inflationary impact begins tonight at 7:30 when the Notre Dame Big noted for his work with such jazz greats as Max Vice-President for Student in 1979, when living costs are Band takes to the Stepan Center stage. Fifteen Roach, George Benson, Billy Cobham, Ron Affairs Fr. John Van Wolvlear rising at an annual rate in collegiate jazz ensembles, combos and big bands Carter, and Freddie Hubbard. issued a set of guidelines in excess of 10 percent. The will compete in the rwo-day festival. Joe Sample, leader of the jazz-rock group the early March for all future administration officials esti The festival is sponsored by the Student Union Crusaders, is considered a master of both referendums. His refusal to mated that decontrol would Cultural Arts Commission and is produced edectric and acoustic keyboards. The Crusad approve the boycott referen increase living costs by just almost entirely by students. ers' 1977 album "Free As the Wind" spent over dum has apparently been based one-tenth of 1 percent this year. This year's festival will be judged by six rwo months at the top of the jazz charts, only to on the requirement that veteran jazz musicians whose careers and be surpassed by their 1978 release, Images "exhaustive and extensive" Some other highlights of playing styles ''represent a capsule history of which spent over three months in the sam~ information on both sides of the Carter's new energy blueprint: Jazz," according to CJF chairman Joe Carey. position. Sample has also released rwo solo issue be presented to the Ban independent presidential ''This year we've tned to provide the audience albums and is well known for his studio work student body. commission of experts is being with a group of judges whose talents evoke with such artists as Steely Dan, J oni Mitchell Letters and invitations to established to investigate the nearly all the instrumental and vocal diversities Quincy Jones and Hubert Laws. ' Campbells and Nestles repre Th~ee Mile Island nuclear plant of the idiom,'' said Carey. ''Bud"dy DeFranco is the wizard of that sentatives have been ignored, acetdent and "make recom Judges include Stanley Turrentine, Joe whittled black stick known as a clarinet," according to committee mendations on how we can Sample, Buddy DeFranco, Richard Davis, Philly according to Carey. He has had the unprece- members. "They won't come improve the safety of nuclear Joe jones and Nat Adderly. power plants." Stanley Turrentine is a tenor saxaphonist [continued on page 9) [continued on page 6] ---~--~-~--- --~-- ----~------------------------------- --~------------------------------~ News in brief Friday, April 6, 1979 -page 2 Brown says SALT to save U.S. $30 billion in arms WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Harold Brown said a new arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union would save the United States from spending an additional $30 billion over the next 10 years to maintain the nuclear balance.