Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - October 6, 1972, Lubbock, Texas 50th No 293 64 Pago Lubbock Friday Morning October 6 1972 Price 10 Cents Full Leased Wires UPI Link Denied New Social Security Okayed LAUDS PROGRESS First Tech Arts Sciences Student Visits Alma Mater By CELESTE LOUCKS Staff ON THE brink of retire ment as associate general counsel of Gulf Oil Corpora tion Irwin Coleman the first student to enroll in the School of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech returned to to visit relatives see the school he watched in its conception Coleman in the final stages of handing over the responsibilities of all anti trust work of a complex oil corporation with interna tional interests said he re turned to Lubbock this week to dig up ancient history The project involves histo ry reaching back almost a half a century the year the school first opened its doors I had the privilege of being with the people building this I dont mean with bricks and See ARTS Page 14 IRWIN COLEMAN Recalls Techs Early Days BY TEXAS SENATE Emergency Funds Measures Okayed Br AUSTIN The Senate passed three bills Thursday designed to let the governor handle small financial emer without having to call a special legislative ses sion to get the job done In addition to giving the governor that authority was set aside for him to draw on until next Aug 31 The bills go to the House I hope these three bills will keep us from coming down here every 30 said Sen A M Aikin Paris who sponsored the proposals This power was one of two Gov Preston Smith ave for calling the 30day scs on which must end by Oct The insurance re not made as much regress He has since opened he session to 25 other topics Plan Fails Meanwhile a Senate commit e failed Thursday to approve competitive car and home in rate but the issue as far from dead Lubbock Area CEREMONY at Floydada officially opens the new Floyd County Com munity 13 SPR B State And Nation FILIBUSTER against a to create a separate con s u m e r protection agency drones on after solons fail in bid to shut it off Page 1 Sec B DEFECTING Democrats especially Catholics and unionists are returning to the McGovern fold the lat est Gallup poll shows 4 Sw A THE nations wholesale price rise slackens disrupt ing the pace of inflation 14 Sec A And The World INDIAN Prime Minister CIA spy hunt picks up support on an assert Communist Party of IB Sec C CHOI EnLai tells Ameri can newsman only tion of Taiwan and involve ment in the war block ties 13 Scr A EDITORIALS COLUMNS Page 10 Section C REPORTS Pages 1213 Section C TACITLY NEWS Pages 2fi Section B PLAINS AGRICULTURE Page 13 Section C RADIO TV PROGRAMS Page B Section C SPORTS NEWS Pages 15 Section D TODAYS Pago a Section C COMICS 11 Section C COMIC DICTIONARY CAREER WOMAN A woman who is in everything but her age The Senate Economic Develop ment Committee with Sen Wll am Moore of Bryan absent ed 33 on a competitive rate ill cosponsored by Dallas Sens like McKool and Oscar Mauzy Under Senate rules a is cad if it falls to receive ap roval from a majority of a full membership w a s expected to vole gainst the measure Mauzy served notice he would ry to bring the hill before the ull Senate on a minority report must get a majority vote n the Senate in no ase loss than 15 have ie printed and laid out as a ve measure And it takes a two majority to bring a ip for final vote Other Bills Okayed Before breaking for the week end the Senate also passed to he House bills which would Establish the Texas Film Commission by law as part of he governors office premiums for many coastal residents who are to buy windstorm and catastrophe insurance at higher than normal rates aviation schools Sen SUBSTITUTE Page It Aged Sick Voted Hike By Senate Conference To Seek Approval Of House By Thf Pnu Sen ate early today passed an increasing numerous Social Security Medicare and welfare bene fits but delaying for years reform of the program for welfare families The vote was 71 to 5 Started With Nixon The Mil designated as 1 since it was the first House measure introduced in the 92nd Congress was submitted origi nally by President Nixon as a measure to deal with the problems of families with dependent children The numbers drawing benefits un der this program have been skyrocketing with the total now about 11 million However the Senate was sharply divided about what to do about these problems In the end it decided not to ry for a solution at this time Senators voted to shelve the three principal plans and in stead provide million a year for a test of all three The testing process could take up to eight years Mean while the present program of Aid to Families Dependent Children will continue 10Hour Session The Senate stayed in session more than Ifi hours to complete action on the legislation The was under debate eight days Earlier Thursday the Senate adopted an amendment to pro tect recipients of a previously approved 20percent Social Se curity increase from boosts in public housing rents or loss of food stamps or commodities The amendment was sponsored by Sen Walter Mondale D Minn The one of the most Im portant revisions of the Social Security and welfare laws ever passed was sent to conference with tho House cleared an version of it June 22 1971 Sponsors Confident Sponsors said they are con conferees can roach agreement on the 989page measure next week in time to send It to President Nixon before the 92nd Congress The Social Security provi sions would benefit widows all men disabled persons the Nixon Recalls Error Voting Approach Influence Timing Of Vietnam Pact WASHINGTON President Nixon declaring that Lyndon B Johnson had made a very very great mis take in stopping the bombing in 1968 said Thursday he not permit the November elections to influence the timing or terms of a Vietnam settlement Nixon said the private negotiations in Paris are in a sensitive and that he cannot predict whether or when they might succeed But he said If we can make the right kind of a settle ment before the election we will make it If we cant we are not going to make the wrong kind of a settlement before the The election I repeat will not in any way influence what we do at he negotiating the President said He the adminis trations determination to prev ent imposition of a Communist government by force in Saigon and to win the release of GETS WARM WELCOME Atty Gen Richard Kleindienst was given a warm welcome when he arrived at Lubbock Regional Airport Thursday He held a news conference here then went on to Plainview AP Wirephoto OFFICIAL HERE ESCALATING Pact For Gas Wins Okay chronically ill elderly who need maintenance drugs persons de SCP SOCIAL H Todays Prayer Heavenly Father help us to love humanity for You said that person cannot love God and hate his fellow man Amen A Reader By VAUGHN HENDRIE Staff THE original contract proposal for Uie purchase of gas to fuel Lubbock Power and Light generators was fi nally recommended Thurs day by the Electric Utility Board It will provide the first escalation clauses allowing cost increases to be auto passed along Bank Account Taxing Scored Page fi Scr A since began purchas ing fuel from Pioneer Natu ral Gas Co Other Rates Firm All previous contracts have provided for firm rates In 1072 Power and Light is paying cents per cubic feet of gas according to Utility Director Wood The rate next year increas es to 26 cents under the present contract The 1974 contract recom mended Thursday if ap proved by tho City Council will provide a base price of cents per cubic feet with automatic in creases as the consumer price index and the cost of obtaining gas goes up Wood said Pioneer Sce Pane H Ties Hit By By EUGENE SMITH Staff Atty Gen Richard Kleindienst Thursday made wo South Plains speaking stops the first a news confer nee at Lubbock Regional Airport and the second as speaker of Wayland Baptist Colleges Elec ion 72 public affairs conference in Plainview The nations top lawyer told newsmen in Lubbock that he id not believe the same relationship exists between reporters nd their news sources as exists between lawyers and their or doctors and their patients TWO MISSING Collision Slices Yacht In Half SAN FRANCISCO AP Seven persons were rescued and two children were missing n thick fog off the rugged Mcn docino Coast after the yacht Morning Star was struck and sliced in two Thursday by an unidentified freighter the Coast reported The survivors one with a broken leg were taken the freighter Evamo a Coast Guard spokesman said Two other vessels joined the Evamo to search for the two missing children not immediately iden The Coast Guard identified the rescued persons as Ha Lacy the owner his wife he daughter Donna her husband Tom Dennis wh had the broken leg and Grej Bubic Senate Approves Brantley Dam CARLSBAD Special The U S Senate Thursday ap proved legislation calling for the construction of n mil lion reservoir on the Pecos Riv er between Carlsbad and Arte sia The Dam project wnn House approval Sept 27 and includes funding for con struction and op expenses on the Pecos River dam which is to be locat ed 1S miles upstream from Carlsbad The proposed dam will he built downstream from McMillian Dam and will partly inundate the old structure Shouldnt He Confidential I dont believe a news relationship with the should have the same as that of a doc or he Arizona native contended at he Lubbock airport news con Asked if all these instances dealing with the same the of the client or news said the question could be argued all day but I dont think it is the With Plainview and Wayland dignitaries and citizens and officers crowding he airport lounge to hear him speak with reporters Klein dienst said he must respectful ly decline to comment on the celebrated Watergate Caper bugging of Democratic party headquarters Ordered Not To Talk He said a federal judge has ordered those involved in the case not to comment on it Asked about his involvement in the Frank Bankers Life fraud scandal the attorney gen eral said he participated in the decision to grant Houston financier Sharp immunity from prosecution in return for Sharps testimony which ulti mately led to the conviction ofj House Speaker Gus on conspiracy charges Kliendienst said he was some what restrained from comment ing on the case because it is See 12 American prisoners of war Rare Conference In his first White House news conference since July 27 a month before he won Republi can renomination for a second term the President stated that there will be no tax increase in although he said Congress could upset this plan by busting his budget with excessive appropriations Nixon said he would explain his tax policies in a radio address to the nation Saturday night In advance he confirmed he had ruled out a value added or national sales tax and said reduction of property taxes would be a goal with relief designed initially for the elderly On other points the Presiden said He would not dignify with a reply charges by Georg S McGovern that his adminis tration was rife with corruption and predicted that the Demo cratic nominees campaign tactics would backfire amon the public Declined comment on th Watergate bugging incident o charges of irregularities in th administrations handling of th SI billion grain sale to th Soviet Union He noted Uia criminal charges are pending i the Watergate case and ths the FBI is conducting thorough investigation of bot incidents He would seek a constitu lional amendment to prohib busing for racial purposes a a matter of highest priority i the next Congress if ng legislation which he prefers is not approved He still supports and wi press for a welfare reform pla based on a guaranteed annual income for fam lies and rejected Democrat compromise proposals he sa would add millions to tl Allies Reds Tar Apart Zero Results Seen In Peace Sessions By Tin Associated Press PARIS Chief Xuan Thuy de lared before and after the 62nd session of the Vietnam reace talks Thursday that the of the two sides re main very far apart on military and political Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh chief delegate of the Viet Congs revolutionary gov said the antagonism n the negotiating positions has created a wide gap that makes the solution to any sub stantial question Ambassador William T Porter again raised President Nixons May 8 ceasefire pro posal as an opportunity to stop all this He said after the meeting We did our best but the re sults were Difficulties Compounded Porter told the session that he Viet Congs Sept 11 declar ation on its proposed tripartite government compounds the difficulties by proposing an ar illogical He said your side has been unable to explain or interpret these proposals Porter commented that If Nixons May 8 offer had been accepted the ceasefire pris oner return and complete American withdrawal could taken place by The Viet Congs press spokes man Ly Van Sau said later that the Nixon plan already had been rejected because of the colonialist conditions of the United Among other things the Communist object that the proposal would leave the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in power in Saigon Mrs Binh reiterated her PEACE Page 11 The Presidents seventh new conference of the year and th first of any kind since his T convention meeting with repo tcrs Aug 29 at San Clement c tnok place in his White See Pago It WRECK KILLS 22 ISTANBUL Turkey API A bus and a taxi collided head on Thursday in southwestern Turkey killing 22 persons and injuring ll SEVEN AREA COUNTIES Commission Approves Water District Vote By KAREN JESTER Staff Texas Water Rights C o m m i s s i nj to put to with ballots for rural residents and those of rated municipalities The strongest opposition to See WATER fi tho voter test a proposed South Plains Underground Water Con servation District No A which would include portions of seven counties A similar was de in by voters in the seven ran Dawson tames Yoakum The move concluded a two Weather Map Page 13C Lubbock and Vicinity Cloudy and cooler today with a of intermittent light rain High today near 70 low tc public hearing at middle 40s Northeasterly school administration about 15 mph today Midland Woman Fatally MIDLAND Special A yearold deaf mute Mrs May Richardson was room here with some 50 i M to death at her farmers and VM here by her husband about of the water rights Thursday group and the Water Investigators said the woman ment Board present i had born stabbed at least Chosen to serve as times in the chest and until the men No weapon was found is expected to take place lice said there was no sign of I in December were John A BUM STEER Sheriffs deputy Frank appears In bo ordering a run away sleer to leave downtown Fin Two steers escaped from a slaughter house gave officers a chase in the downtown area before they were shot and killed AP Wirephoto iM s n p M in i 71 70 forced into the home at 1015 S Mrs Richardson reportedly Gayle Craft of M Maximum Minimum A 4 AM Sun Mtj had been dead seven son County and hours when her body was dis covered by her husband also a deaf mule Services are pending at Thomat Funeral here win and Marion Powers both of Jaine County The hoard is dir to notices regarding Mir r H i nij p M I W Ki Kl Pasn K 51 V B TiR K7 M tion which will be conducted K si 91 in
