Friday, March 30, 1973 REACTION Reactio,i lo President Nixon, new .ceili,ag on meat prices u as mixed toda.\. While housewi es u ere generally af)f)laudi,ag tlae P1·esident's action - they were also insisting a meat boycott is still on. Boycott spokesman Gertrude Rebele of Teuksbury, Mass. saying: "Our positio,a - is to get meat down where it was in February - Nineteen-Seve11t -Two." While President Herrell DeGraff of tlae American meat In s tit u t e 111 as ca ll in g the m ea t con tr o ls - "very ,. nf air to meat retailers." DeGraff addi11g: "The 11ew co11trols will bring more problems." Next _ Chairn1an Wright Patman of the House Se11ate joint economic committee, urging a roll-back 011 all food Prices - and a freeze on rent a11d i11teresl rates. Patman going on to sa t . econo,·•." is in need of a strong "the en ire , ., enforceable program - and tlris cannot be a complislted by a freeze on a few item " WHITE HOUSJ-.: The White House - another development in >- th~ Watergate 6•.JBi ■ g affair. President Nixo,a -'4- authorizing past and present White House aides to testify, if called - before a federal grand jury. Tlae ~ President's action - Aa,a,aou,aced by 0 ress Secreta.,-y R on Zieg le r. This in .,-esp on s e to what la e called " "uns ubs tan t ia te d and uncor.,-ob orated charges~ li,akl,ig the White House with the W<Jtergate incide,at. Ziegler addi11g: "The Preside11t wa,cts it made clear - it has ,aot bee,a, is not, a11d will ,aot be the objective of the White House.,,- to cove.,. up or with hold any i,iformatio,a o,a h,e Watergate matter." The President late.,. flyirag to tlle Weste.,-,a White House at Sa,i Clemerate - there to await the arrival of South Viet,aam 's p.,-esideflt Tltieu - who is 2.. flying in from Saigo,.,. The two .-:,pJ« pla,,,,,,,g two / days of talks on U S post war aid. SAIGON ~~ In Vietnam - a sign today that maybe, just ma y be tilings are working out. At ny rate, Ca,aada ~ accusing the Viet Cong of deliberately blocking • official investigations i,ato alleged cease fire violations - Canada's accusatio,a t drawi,sg tlae backi,ag of all three ti/ 0• fellow members )I 011 the Viet Nam International Co : nmissio,s for E,Ontrol and _!,U/Jervision. For the first time - a solid Jro,at. CORONADO With the /1"d now off ret d p - ltrne OW's acrobs tl,e country toda y wer telling of their harrow;ng . • experiences; holf they were beaten and tort14red _ at the hands of their Communist captors. The despair they felt at times - perhaps best reflected tn the words of Captain Harry Jenkins of Coron . ado, California. "Many times" - said he - "I prayed for death and envied my fallen comrades." Captain Jenkins adding: "Death was the easy way out - it's not being able to die - that gets you." Another returned prisoner - Captain Boward Rutledge of San Die go to day was condemning the "constant stream" of Americans coming to Hanoi. Said he: "I'm talking about the Ramsey Clarks, the Jane Fondas, the Cora Weisses." Then he added: "Not only did they prolong the war - th ey caused us a great deal of difficulty." GREENWOOD From Missouri on down - tire flood waters of the rain swollen Mississippi and its tributaries -- ~~ - slowly began t o r•••~ ■ :,, recede today; •••rmsr_.,... ~ a fresh rain-laden storm if roari,rg 011t of tire Rocties. The National ~ather service issui,rg a flaslt flood watch for the e,stire state of Mississippi. At Gre e,rwood, Mississippi an official of the U S corp of e•gi•eers saying: If we a-get ~ e ral,r - it will be catastroplalc." FRANK STANTON One of the giants of the U.S. Broadca ttng industry is moving on - Frank Stanton ..-et· · 1 - , iring oda a Vice Chairman of CBS. Frank Stanton's career at CBS - spanned nearly forty years; beginning in Nineteen Tlrirtv-FivE - i after he co11zpleted his college work at Ohio Wesleyan University a , nd then a PHD from Ohio State. It took him o,aly eleve,i years to reach the top, becoming President of CBS and holding that post till he mo ed "" to Vice Chairman two years ago. Along the way - Doctor Stanto11 picking uf> a myriad of awards. In Nineteen-Sixty-One a Peabody Award for helping bring about the "great debates" between JFK a,rd Richard Nixon. In Nineteen Sixty Se en - an American Institute of A re hit e c ts award for significant aclrie vem en ts in the advancement of man's environment, architecture a,i d the allied arts. Jn Nineteen Se enty One - the Pa"l White Memorial I • d effo · rts in !ward:'for courageous and de ermine defending broadcast jour11a lists co11stitt1lio,ral rights." A nd FRANK STANTON - 2 just last year - a second Peabody Award _ for his d,P/ense of "the peoples' right to know." For many years he has been the oice of tire entire broadcast industry. In some way the Radio and TV giant i to Hhom e eryo,ie in this new world of communications turned for ad ice and help. TUNIS Four ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet - under the personal command of Fleet Commander Gerald Miller_ were spear-heading flood , ,,elief today in Tunisia._ ancient Ca · rthage. Admiral Miller's flagship, the U. s. s. springfiela which is anchored in Tunis Bay - serving as a nert•e center of the ope ~ ation. Sen.ding helicopters into tl,e stricke,a areas of northern Tunisia -filled with food, clotl,i,sg, te11ts and medicines. The choppers also rescui,ag those still trapped by flood waters and bringing back the sick and injured for treatment. The flooding in Tun is ia and parts of neighboring Algeria caused by four straight days of hea Y rain. First rer,orts indicating more tha~ a hundred dead a nd tens of thousands left homeless. In some fJlaces _ , e are told, whole villages ending ufJ completely submerged. GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN This next - from the slopes of remote Grandfather Mountain in North Carolt,aa; NJlaere a pair of geologists from Appalachia,a State U,aiversHy _ has just iiscovered thirty to forty parallel groove,, each about a foot long. These - accordi,ag to Dr. Jin, Burkland and his colleague, Dr. Lore,a Ray,no,ad "'4.n,.( "the first positive e vidence" of ice age glacier activity - - - "south of New York". A discovery - said to ",aecessitate a re-writing of all geology te%t-books." NEW YORK The deal h of the one perso,a who perhaps changed tile shape of American women more tlaan 0 ,.y from other - is report~d today Jf New York. Mrs. Ida ~ - w \ r>t7r ~ - Rosenthal Athe i oman ge,rerally credited wltla popularhi,. 6 the bra. With her late husba,.d William - fo1111di11g tie Mat den - form co mp any; eve ,atua lly turni"K out m illio,as, if not billions, abroad - in every size, shape a,ad description. Mrs. Jda Rosenthal 1 - ~ eiglaty-severa. HAUPPA GE Toda Hop-pawg 's most quotable quote comes from Hauppauge, Long Island , w lze re Vic e President St,ir Agnew was addressu,g a R e ,,,, b l i c a n f II n d r a i s i n g d i 101 e r . B i l l - the I> r i c e of m ea t has gotten so high sai o Spiro Agnew - that "two Swiss steaks ha v e just opened a bank account in Zurich." LONDON From London - the story of a y oung A . me racan s tu . de,at i11 search of hi past. T w ent y Jive years old Mike Archdale 1 ho /tails fr om Miles Cit . v, Montana - writing a letter to the British Tourist Authority, ask i ng help - in tracking do., 11 · his long lost British relatives. Mike explaining llow ltis grandfather Lionel Archdale immigrated to the U. s. from Count y A1·1nagh - Northern Ireland - at the end of Ille last centu . r_\ . That's all he knew. As luck would have ii t1'011gll - Mike's letter reach'"!! a (Jublic relations officer at t•e Tourist Authorit y; one Gilbert Archdale - also twe11ty five; who qu ick l y checked his own family tree - and tlle11 dispatclaed hd l "Hello" - said lie a re turn letter to his fellow Arc a e. "I' m y our cousin." And so long ttnlil Monday/