European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday november 22, 1973 Auto execs testify on need for Price hike Washington up Auto Industry executives conceding inflation has washed out Hopes for another big sales year asked the Cost of living Council tuesday for a new round of Price increases to help soften the Impact of rising costs. Officials of Ford motor co. And Chrysler corp. Said that despite record earnings their firms needed the boosts to offset Ris ing costs of labor and materials and help attract More investment capital. At a Csc Public hearing to determine if the increases Are warranted under Federal wage Price stabilization Ford assistant comptroller David n. Mccammon said there would be problems in the upcoming year unless we get substantial Price re  stabilization rules the Csc must Rule on Price increase requests by the nation s largest corporations before they can take effect. Free reply space Ford is asking for a $188 increase in the Price dealers pay for 1974 Model cars and trucks. Chrysler has two increases Pend ing before the Csc totalling $136 More per vehicle at wholesale. General motors has asked for a $208 in crease and american motors corp. For $114.the big four automakers got govern ment permission in september to boost prices to cover the Cost of government re quire safety and anti pollution equip  and Roger j. Helder vice president and comptroller for Chrysler said the Auto Industry had been moderate in Price behaviour during two years of government stabilization policies. If other sectors of the Economy had performed As Well the country would have easily met its National goal of holding inflation to a rate of 2.5 per cent Helder said. High court asked to Rule on Florida press curb Washington win the supreme court has been asked to strike Down a Florida Law requiring newspapers to pro vide free space for a reply from any Politi Cian they criticize. The request came from the Miami her Ald after the Florida supreme court Rul John f. Kennedy a remembrance Washington up Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield who delivered the Eulogy to presi Dent John f. Kennedy in the Capitol Rotunda 10 years ago paid tribute to the late president again tuesday. Titled John Fitzgerald Kennedy a remembrance Mansfield s trib Ute was what is ten years remembered is it shots of infamy in a Dallas Street a clinical report of a murder. Is it a dress dark splotches with blood the swollen faces of grief. Is it a rain filled sky Over Washington a silent throng under the Capitol s dome. Is it two children and a child s single cry a ride less horse. An intonation in a Cathedral. The flickering of a flame. What is ten years remembered How much rain beating on a grave site How much Snow falling and filtered sunlight How Many mind flashes of Aman of his humor and humanity. Of his sense and sensitivity. Ten years after it is All remembered and More an assertion of human decency a Trust of Freedom a Confidence in reason a love of country a kindled Hope for the nation. This was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. This is John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Ten years after. Ing in july in a Case involving the news paper had upheld the state Law. The statute which makes it a mis Demeanour for newspapers to refuse to publish any reply from a criticized politician does not constitute a violation of the first and 14th amendments of the Constitution the state court declared. In its Appeal to the supreme court the Herald contended that the Law is a novel form of governmental regulation of the press which is ostensibly designed to pro Mote fairness in elections but which in fact represents a severe restraint upon the exercise of journalistic discretion by putting the government in the editor s  in essence the newspaper said the Law conditions a newspaper s right to print editorials news stories advertising or any other matter bearing unfavourably upon political candidates. The newspaper added censorship of newspapers in the Guise of promoting fair Ness by requiring a right of reply or Access is nevertheless  the dispute involving the Miami news paper goes Back to 1972, when it refused to give Pat Tornillo jr., a candidate for the state legislature space to respond to Edito rials critical of him. The Florida supreme court held that Tornillo had the right to space for a reply and to seek damages against the news paper. While the Appeal is pending before the . Supreme court whose decision whether to Rule was not expected for Sev eral weeks the Herald has asked Justice Lewis f. Powell or. To stay the ruling of the lower court which went into effect tues Day spice of life Monica Tidwell a deep South Cutie who lives now in Chicago has worked As a balloon Vendor and pedicab Driver and sold ice Cream from a tricycle among other things but the 19-year-old plans to go to College for studies in drama. She has dreams of writing a novel and Mak ing a movie. Senate panel oks social Security hike Washington a the Senate finance committee gave final approval tuesday to a Bill increasing social Security benefits 11 per cent in two Steps Over the next seven months. A 7 per cent boost would be effective on enactment of the legislation with an additional 4 per cent raise taking effect next june. The House has passed a similar Bill but in that version the 7 per cent boost would take effect next March. Both measures would boost social Security taxes by raising the maximum amount of earnings subject to the payroll Levy to $13,200 in 1974, compared with $10, 800 this year. Under present Law the wage base would go up to $12,600. The present tax rate of 5.85 per cent each on the worker and employer would remain unchanged. The finance committee s Bill includes a work Bonus plan to give $600 million of government payments annually to Heads of poor families who have jobs this revises the social service program for the poor to give the states More flexibility in spending Federal funds in this area. Also included Are increased payments to the aged Blind and disabled persons on welfare Rolls under a new supplemental Security income program Start Irig a january and a tightening of child support Laws designed to help catch fathers who refuse to make payments to their families on the welfare Rolls. Stateside Council lists High Odds against speeders Chicago up thanksgiving holi Day Auto travellers who Speed at 70 Miles per hour quadruple their chances of meet ing death in an Accident Over Drivers who travel at 50 ., a National safety coun cil spokesman said Here. The Council has estimated that 625 to 725 persons May die in Highway accidents Dur ing the four Day Holiday. The spokesman said it had no valid Way of putting a figure on the number of lives which might be saved through a Universal Observance of suggested 50  Speeds urged or Man dated in several states As a new Highway limit. But we do know this said the spokes Man that after 50 Miles an hour one s chances of death in a Highway crash double with each 10 Miles per hour additional Speed so if you travel at 70 you have four times the chances of death As you do if you Are travelling at 50." . Agency May seek ban on lighter Washington up the consumer product safety commission May go to court to Stop the Sale of thousands of dutch made disposable butane lighters which can flame up dangerously chair Man Richard 0. Simpson said. He identified the Brand As the Rogers disposable butane lighter which Sells for $1.25 and lasts several weeks. There were 3 million of them on the Market this year he said. Simpson demonstrating the Hazard for reporters flicked on the Small plastic lighter and produced a flame almost a foot High with butane burning from the nozzle. He said the problem is a design  which fails to control How High the user can adjust the flame. The lighters Are made in Holland by Rogers and imported by the Allied products division of consolidated Cigar co., a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. Martha Nixon knew All about Campaign Washington up Martha Mit Chell said tuesday that president Nixon knew everything that was going on in his re election Campaign before and after the watergate breaking and bugging. She said that Nixon and her husband former attorney general John n. Mitchell went out on the presidential yacht Sequoia every night and discussed the Campaign from beginning to  there was t anything that Nixon did t know she said in a Telephone inter View. This is the  Nixon has asserted publicly on several occasions that his re election Campaign was the first Campaign i did t run and that overzealous but Well intentioned supporters on the committee to re elect the president May have been responsible for the watergate developments. Mrs. Mitchell said that her husband would come Back from his boating trips with Nixon and told me he had discussed the  she said that once her husband came Home and told her during the Campaign the president knows everything that goes on. The president knows where you were  mrs. Mitchell has been separated from her husband since he moved out of their fifth Avenue apartment in new York last september. She did not want to talk about their estrangement saying she did not want to Hurt him but did Call him a gone  she said she had not been in touch with him and he is living under an assumed name at a hotel in new York. Mrs. Mitchell repeated her claim that Campaign organizers had a Green Campaign Book and everything they were going to do was in  she said All the Campaign books had been shredded