Arizona Daily Sun (Newspaper) - June 7, 1973, Flagstaff, Arizona Million School District Budget Projected Flagstaff School District is looking at a combined school budget of almost million for fiscal Sapt David Williams said he was concerned about the proposed budget at this time because there has been no confirmation on almost in federal funds Several district programs are funded by that money The district might have to curtail remedial reading and some programs if the money does not come through he said Preliminary indications that the federal programs will be funded although the money which will be available represents a sizeable cut from last year Williams said the budget figure this year is above last year's figure which came to just over million That represents a 6.4 per cent increase which was allowed by law and a projected increase in average daily attendance He said approximately 10 new students are expected at the elementary level and 70 are anticipated at the high school level The figures Williams released Wednesday do not include bonded in- and levy funds These could add another to the budget he said said he could not begin to project on a tax rate for the district but Indicated it could decrease from the present per assessed valuation The district has million assessed valuation at the present time He also said he could not estimate how much of the proposed budget would be direct taxation He said he had no indication what money would come from the and from fees from the Forest Service Asked what was going to happen with the federal funds that in effect are holding the school budgets in limbo Williams said he had indications the ad- ministration was trying to come up with a kind of educational revenue sharing He said that would involve a direct allocation to the state and the state would handle the needs of each individual district The Williams said would not be introduced until sometime in September He said he anticipates a temporary continuing resolution from the Congress All of the federal education programs had been funded automatically each year but the resolution expired this year and was not renewed The superintendent said cost per student would increase almost per elementary school student and almost per high school student That would bring the cost per in the district to per elementary student and per high school That is computed on a daily basis The two districts high school and elementary would have budgets of million and million respectively Both of these figures are projected budgets Williams said The Board of Education will have a chance to work with the budget on June 20 at a work session which will be open to the public The meeting is set to begin at p.m at Flagstaff High School Williams said he was aiming for a July 2 public hearing and adoption of the budget soon afterward VOL No 256 PH FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA PRICE 10 Flagstaff Williams Grand Canyon Peaks Reservation Fair warmer days Winslow gunny DETAILS ON PAGE 2 Thursday June 7 1973 Sloan Questioned New Magruder Job Trees Threatened SEARCHING for Ips park beetle are clockwise from left Gil of the Rocky Ml Forest and Range Experiment Station Darrell Crawford timber ment specialist for the Coconino National Forest and Bob Frye and Harold Flake regional entomologists for the U.S Forest Service The men searched the Peaks area of the forest Wednesday Above is a section of bark with only one beetle gallery and a badly infested bark piece with a dozen major galleries and more than 50 minor galleries created by hatched beetle eggs A tree in- with the bugs is destined to die Beetles Pose Problem A large infestation of Ips bark beetles may soon arrive to plague the area's Ponderosa pine forests This fear was expressed Wednesday by Darrell Crawford timber management specialist for the Coconino National Forest Actually said Crawford the beetles already are here and have been all along However the deep snows of the past winter insulated many of the trees in which they were lying dormant This summer may produce a large infestation of the tree killers he added Harold Flake and Bob Frye two plant entomologists from the forest's regional headquarters in Albuquerque worked in the forest near the San Francisco Peaks Wednesday to determine the possible extent of the beetles The best way to protect a tree from the bark beetle is to see that it is a completely healthy tree said Flake pitch flow under the bark of a healthy tree will flush the Please turn to BEETLE Page 2 WASHINGTON For- mer Nixon campaign treasurer Hugh W Sloan Jr testified today he had feared administration retribution for telling the truth about the Watergate wiretapping but was assured it wouldn't happen And he said he threw up his hands when the man he accused of asking him to lie former campaign deputy Jeb S Magruder was given a government joP Sloan testified at the Senate's televised Watergate hearings that he visited White House chief of staff H R Haldeman last January after testifying as a government witness at the trial of the Watergate burglars He said Haldeman assured him the administration wouldn't stand in the way of his finding a private job but that no one regarded as a Watergate figure would be given a high government job until the case was cleared up Sloan said he felt very good about the meeting but a few days later read that Magruder had been appointed to a policy post in the Commerce Department At time I just threw up my Sloan said Sloan said he told 1 want you to know that I feel that I did not leave the team As far as I'm concerned the team left me Sloan also told the Senate's televised Watergate hearings that he does not believe Maurice H Stans the Nixon finance chairman was involved in any illegal activities Stans has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New York and has pleaded innocent to conspiracy charges in a fund-raising case Dollar Moves Up LONDON AP The U.S dollar moved up smartly in European exchanges today in expectation of early action by Washington to curb inflation and bolster President Nixon's prestige The price of gold slumped Dealers described trade in both the exchanges and bullion markets as calm but active Costs Up Minimum Wage Endorsed WASHINGTON AP The House has voted to boost the minimum wage to this year and m 1974 and to bring government workers and 1 household domestics under the law The vote that sent the to the Senate Wednesday reversed a bitter defeat suffered last year by the House leadership which has been trying since 1970 to increase wage The votes of newly elected members and rural Democrats who want support later in the session for a farm turned the tide in favor of the legislation The key vote came on a substitute backed by Republicans and Southern Democrats which would have stretched Kelley Top Choice To Direct FBI AP Nixon announced today that Kansas City Police Chief Clarence M Kelley is his choice for FBI director selected from 27 top who served years with the FBI before over ai police chief in mi become the second permanent director in the investigative agency's J Hoover ago after the FBI years out the proposed increase another eliminated the new coverage and set a reduced rate for The substitute was defeated 218 to 199 and its major provisions offered separately as amendments to the cratic sponsored by Rep John H Dent were turned back by similar margins The Dent would raise wage rates for three those covered by the minimum wage before was last amended in 1966 those covered by the amendments and farm For the first group the rate woald go to upon enactment of the and to on July 1974 For the second group it would go to this year next year and in 1.975 The 3.3 million state and local ment employes 1.7 million federal workers and 1 million domestic would get the same rates as the second WASHINGTON AP The wholesale price index a measure of inflation in the economy took another enormous jump in May rising 2.1 per cent over April the Labor Department reported today The index showed wholesale prices increasing at an annual rate of 25.2 per cent The biggest increases were in farm products which were up 6.1 per cent over April The general increase in farm prices followed a decline of 2 per cent in April The report was more bad economic news for the Administration since it showed prices were not making the mid- year decline that economists had predicted Much of the increase in wholesale prices later shows up in retail prices to con- sumers Inflation at the retail level ready has been increasing at an annual rate of 8.4 per cent The seasonally adjusted increase in the wholesale price index in May was 2 per cent which means wholesale prices were increasing at 24 per cent annual rate after seasonal changes had been taken into account Industrial commodities in the index increased 1.2 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis showing that industrial costs also are continuing their unusually high rate of increase One government economist termed the increase in the May index horrendous The administration has been predicting since the first of the year that prices would begin to level off after the big increases of the first four months But the May increase in the wholesale index of 2.1 per cent on an unadjusted basis and 2 per cent on an adjusted basis was the biggest monthly increase in years except for an increase of 2.3 per cent in March this year The Labor Department said the May increase in price of farm products resulted largely from higher prices for oil seeds grains livestock fresh and dried and milk Wholesale prices for processed foods and feeds were up 3.7 per cent in May almost entirely because of large increases for manufactured animal feeds I did not and do not believe that Secretary Stans was in any way involved in criminal Sloan said in discussing the Watergate case 1 thought he had been left holding the bag Sloan said he sought the White House meeting with Haldeman after the Watergate trial last January because he was seeking private employment He said there seemed to be a lull in the case that it seemed Watergate had been gotten away with that it had stopped with the seven men who were convicted or pleaded guilty at the trial Sloan said people involved in the Nixon political apparatus were opposed to his views and actions in testifying about campaign payments He said he therefore wanted to make clear to Haldeman why I had done what I had and wanted also to be sure there would be no effort at retribution The fear of Sen Lowell P Weicker Jr asked Sloan Sloan replied Air Service To Flagstaff Is Analyzed Frontier Airlines officials told city and I Chamber of Commerce representatives I Wednesday it would work to resolve the problem of limited air service to I Flagstaff Meeting with the Improved Air Service task force James E Maine director of local service marketing for the said his company would work to inappropriate flight schedules and I would meet with the group again Flagstaff needs an early morning flight I to Phoenix Dr Charles Casebeer task I force chairman told the airlines He said I an early flight would serve the who had business in the valley or the I traveler who has to make connections with I larger carriers I Casebeer told the airlines officials al flight out of Flagstaff which leaves all almost 11 p.m each night was inconvenient and does not serve potential passenger Edward H Gerhardt Fontier of special projects said the location of the city made it difficult tol schedule flights I Marine indicated that the airline has made plans to leave Flagstaff I Casebeer said his committee was to undertake an in-depth survey to find people's attitudes and preferences commercial airlines I Some solutions to the problems with air service here mentioned were morel frequent advertising and promotion flight schedules establishing a fare and working with the chamber inl putting together a package tour plan Robert Milne Flagstaff manager Frontier said he is trying to get th commuter rate approved for the trip The cost would be around for i round trip ticket if the project is approved Classes Resume Tuesday NAUSet to Welcome Students Activity at Northern Arizona University will be at a brisk pace Monday when register for the first five-week jammer session the their first six on the job to a details settled before the tion Offices from 9 5 p.m Sunday will admissions and records business bousing and graduate dean as well as the office to issue ID cards and campus parking permits Linen supply in the basement of the bookstore will be open from p.m ID cards and parking permits will be assigned from Room 141 of the Psychology All students rant bare their new ID card to be admitted to registration starts at Monday the University Center for students whose last names start with the letters E-F The remainder of registration will be as at 9 I-J at at 10 at OP at 11 Q-R at at 1 p.m at Z p.m A-B at p.m C-D at 3 p.m Registration will be open to register at the scheduled time from p.m A late registration fee of will be assessed all students who haven't paid simmer school tuition for the first session by June It More than classes in some 40 area will during the first five During the final five-week session N will offer courses in 45 areas addition to the normal classes workshops will be featured instruction will be for several high school and junior The Camp will offer instruction in
