Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - June 13, 1975, Abilene, Texas THE ABILENE Abilene Tex Frl Eve June orders new food stamp plan drawn up J I I m By MARGARET SCHERF Frew Writer AP The Agriculture Department is under court order lo draw up a new food stamp plan that will allow all to obtain a nutritionally adequate did The U.S Court o Appeals ruled Thursday that the formula for payments to participants is -j Invalid because It Jails lo provide such a diet to all It the Agriculture Department 120 days to draw up a new plan the court allowed the present rules to remain in effect pending department action because of the critical im- of the allotment regulations to the functioning of the entire food stamp system iSC For a family that needs a loaf of bread the offer of a slice is poor the court said opinion written by Judge T The ruling is far-reaching legal decision ever rendered in the said Ron Pollock an attorney and director of the Food Research and Action Committee which brought the suit For the it signals that poor people will have an opportunity to obtain nutritionally adequate diets as a matter of entitlement 1 Funds approved specialists I for U S Senate WASHINGTON AP specialist in- banking housing agriculture foreign relations space etc to assist U.S senator in his committee work Maximum salary a year Senate voted 63 to 35 Thursday to give each senator about lo hire three such specialists at maximum salary Or he could hire more than three people at lower salaries Duties of the new personnel are limited to the subject matter to which his senator boss is assigned The new special assistahts'for committee work are in addition Senate office staff allowances ranging from a year depending on the population of each stale The House last month agreed lo an estimated million in- crease in members staff salaries and other allowances The staff limit in each congressman's office recently was Increased by two to total 18 The salary allowance increased to per congressman's office a total of million a year Tin addition the number of reimbursed trips home from Washington for congressmen and their staffs was increased from 42 in two years to 32 trips a year And each congressman was allowed two newsletters a year at government expense Not all senators benefit fully from the hew slaff allowance chairmen and ranking minority members and others already having committee staff members assigned to assist them will nol be eligible lo appoint an ad- aide on the committee Senators will not be permitted lo have personal assistants on more than three committees no matter how many standing special and joint committees they serve on Sponsors of the staffing resolution a compromise of more cosily proposals estimate its cost st somewhere ween million and million a year Sen F Rollings chairman of the Senate legislative appropriations subcommittee said Senate office staff salary appropriations already had increased from million lo million a year since 1971 The special senatorial assistants for committee work will not be members of professional staffs of the committees to which they arc assigned They will be hired and fired at option of Ihc individual senator sought in road accident A damage suit has been filed against American Mud Corp of Abilene in con- with a Feb 18 accident in which one of its employes was the driver in an accident in which another man was hurt Bob Tidmore of near Guthrie formerly of 1826 Marsalis is a plaintiff in Ihc suit He alleges he received serious head in- juries in a head-on accident on a country road about seven miles south of Abilene At the time of the accident Tidmore alleges he was a guest a car being driven by Mud Corp Bobby Joe Hunter of 1817 then his neighbor is not named a defendant in the suit only the corporation said W L Dub Burke lawyer Tidmore is seeking in damages to cover medical expenses and for alleged pain and mental loss of income and wage earning capacity r Please call Extension 225 IF YOU MISS YOUR AM lo PM lo AM YEAR VOL 361 j Published twice daily except once on Saturday and Sunday by THE REPORTER PUBLISHING CO 100 Block St Cox X 79604 Andrew President and Vice General Manager Vice President of Editorial Editor Second class postage paid al Abilene Texas SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dy Carrier Morning and Sunday or and Sunday 13.75 lax inc per Daily only 43.85 Inc per Sunday only inc per rales on Dy MAI L In Texas Morning and Sunday or end Sunday 54.30 tax inc per month Other rales n MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is ex- lo use or of all local news printed in newspaper as well as the AP news dispatches Weekend SPECIAL Gen Thong Reg 8.99 Now 4 to 10 RED WHITE BROWN YELLOW NAVY BONE 3392 N FIRST The has nol decided whether to appeal the decision further said J Hekman administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service In the Agriculture Department The court slid that 1971 amendments to the Act marked a major shift In the policy of the law a shift from the diets of low-Income households to guaranteeing those households an opportunity for an adequate diet The plaintiffs who Included members of low-income households the City of New York and Ihc Commonwealth of Pennsylvania claimed that Ihc Economy Food Plan food stamp allotments are based docs not provide a nutritionally adequate diet They also claimed thai even the Economy Food Plan costs I more lhan the food provided under the current The court said it would not render Judgment al Ihls time on adequacy of the plan i The Agriculture Department computes payments using I hypothetical family of four that consists of a man and a woman 20 lo 35 years of age a child of either 6 to 9 years of age and a boy 9 to 12 years old Use of the hypothetical family formula does not allow recipients lo buy a nutritionally adequate diet because It docs not consider such factors as the age and sex of family members who actually receive the slumps the court said a month to family of person for a family of four and for 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