European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday August 26, 1978 Man plan beef offers to Cut Cossi Vacaville. Calif. Dpi Vinc Shaw says he has a simple solution to High meat prices a pay As it grows plan for customers who Bear the Cost of raising the beef that will eventually Grace their  s plan involves raising a feed lot steer on almost nothing but Grain to bring the animal to Slaughter weight within a year about half of the time it normally takes. ,. I Call it a pay As it grows plan said Shaw at his 40-acre farm West of Vaca Villa. He Calls the meat super  grow the fastest during their first year. Shaw said. During the second year the Structure of the animal the Bones and sinews grows faster than the rest of the body. Thus after the first 12 months the rela tic percentage of meat in a steer decrease Shaw s plan is to bring the animal to Slaughter weight 1.000 to 1.100 pounds within that first year when the ratio of meat to total weight is the highest. Cattle normally take 18 months to two years to reach this  achieve this goal the cattle arc fed almost entirely on Grain from the time they Are about 5 Days old until the Day they arc slaughtered. Cattle Are traditionally raised on grass or Hay most of their lives and fattened in feed lots for 100-160 Days before  Shaw s system calves Are brought from nearby dairies when they Are 3 to 5 Days old. In the first of five pens they Are fed starter and grower pellets milk replacer cracked Corn and processed Grain. They arc also Given about 100 pounds of Hay Pri Marily to keep them Content he  the time the cow has moved through the other four pens it has eaten about 3.500pounds of racked Corn and 1.500 pounds of diet balancers and processed  feeding plan results in a cow that when processed will produce 450-480 pounds of tender lean meat Shaw  consumer contracts directly with Shaw to raise his own steer. He pays $750 Chrysler s computer controlled welders Chrysler corp. Has installed 14 fully automatic computer controlled welders As part of the $57 million renovation of us Lynch Road Assembly Plant in de troit. The new welders Cost about $65, 000 each. Workers who once did the same Job took special training course Sand Are responsible for keeping the automatic welders operational. A Pentagon s payment of $1 billion to shipbuilders blasted by Admiral Washington api one of the Navy s top admirals says the Pentagon is ask ing for trouble by paying nearly $1 billion in Cost overrun claims to shipbuilders without waging a court  will continue to harass the Navy with unsubstantiated claims As Longas they believe the Navy would rather pay off Cla ims than face litigation or threats of work stoppage adm. Hyman g. Rickover wrote in a recent memo putting him a Odds with civilian Pentagon leaders. Rickover s memo was disclosed thurs Day by sen. William Proxmire. A wis. A ammunition in his fight against proposed settlements of Cost claims filed by general dynamic s electric boat division and the Ingalls shipbuilding division of Litton sys tems  and rep. Thomas Downey d . Are leading a fight to have Congress reject the settlements the result of months of negotiations Between the Navy and the shipbuilders. Civilian leaders of the Navy and Penta gon told the Senate armed services com Mittee thursday the agreements arc Thebes Deal possible Deputy defense Secretary Charles Dun can or said the claim disputes Are the most serious obstacle in the Way of the Navy s efforts to maintain superiority at sea. We clearly had to choose Between the alternative of finding an equitable solution to these very Complex and difficult prob lems or facing years of controversy and litigation with the inevitable delay disruption loss of efficiency and possible work stoppages at our shipyards that this would entail he said. At Issue Are contracts for electric boat to build 18 attack submarines and for lit ton to build five amphibious attack ship Sand 30 destroyers. Defense officials said the Navy and the shipbuilders share responsibility for increased costs. Congressional auditors said the causes of Cost overruns include Price estimates that were too optimistic inflation bad shipyard management poor design draw Ings and specifications. Low Rales of worker productivity changes in the original or Der and late delivery of equipment Navy Secretary w Graham Claytor a emphasized that the two shipbuilders still will lose hundreds of millions of dollars on the contracts. The agreement Calls for the government to pay $484 million to electric boat and $447 million to Litton although the amounts could go higher if the companies losses exceed current estimates and is guaranteed a minimum pounds of packaged beef in 12 that works out to $1.67 a Pound pounds of meat Are packaged Pound. Local meat markets sell a Side o Dufor $1.29 a Pound hanging weight iwo a 25 percent figure for waste during offs ing an estimate considered Cali eur by some expert the customer Ulvi pays about $1.72 for the packaged mac7 Shaw was raised on a farm in Lon ingot his Start in beef raising seven 5 ago near Buffalo ., giving up1& government executive. In 1977 he sold the new York Farmr moved with his wife and four Chitons j his present spread. At the end of this month Shaw Slaughter his first steer raised in Casio Nia on the total Grain diet. But it wont tithe first he has raised. In new York he sold 327 head of then daily fed cattle and said he had Only dissatisfied customer. Round trip fares Cut by Amtrak Washington a a Monk getting its round trip fares by As much percent in some cases through Spring in Hopes of bringing abm Back to the rails from the skies and  now runs most of the. Passenger trains and Many of Thea closing Money. So the system wide to tuft auctions will go into effect sept. 6 in fort to fill nearly empty coaches on  the round trip decreases will be Cost reductions under the family plan and for the . Rail return ticket under the round trip excursion which will be in effect through Cost of a one Way ticket will same As now but the return Uett have a fixed Price ranging Between Ujj $20. Al if a person pays up to $24.99 for thew leg he will pay Only $5 to return fbrtjf.$49.99 first leg the repaid Bill be 00 we 5so-$74.99 first leg the return will a land for any first leg $75 and up the Imp will be $20.for example the new i round trip fare will be Cut from fill $38 plus $15 and the Chicago Lour fare will be reduced from $242top plus $20 the new excursion round trip ply to trips of at least 250 mites athe same train with children under ing one half the special rate. Excursion fares offering 25 percent Bicy will remain in effect for Many "wgs250 Miles and in the Boston we i Northeast corridor where the new if not apply. . Rail Paw prices on the unlimited travel jew rail pass will drop from $25011"Days, from $315 to $219 for 21 from $385 to $259 for 30 Days. To i  rail pass also will reprice the regular family plan spouse and children 12 to 21from 75 percent of the full fare we Jacent. Children 2 to 11 will pay i to full fire instead of 37.5 Hviid of household will continue to fare tory Headquarters i London Ltd demonstrators belonging to right to work movement  party headquarter Tuta houses of parliament.  selves in and staged a sit in until it ejected by police