Bradford Era (Newspaper) - May 2, 1975, Bradford, Pennsylvania Mild Portly sunny and mild today with highs in mid Fair anil tool lows In upper Pair Saturday with highs In lew The Your Dependable News Medium WESB VOL 183 l linen ill 16701 FRIDAY MAY Dully ill Main A COPY SOME SHOOTING Vikki 77 State really chalked up anj excellent performance at the re cent New Bethlehem Gator In her first registered skeet for the she used a 12 gauge shotgun dud of 100J Vikki had a total of The match is the biggest one of the year for the New Bethlehem i She placed first in her placed as 12 gauge lady champion she won the Calcutta i who has been shooting for the past two is member of the Bradford Trap and Skeet LAW DAY The coming of May regularly brings with it the vance of Law The County Bar Association will mark the occasion with a dinner at today in the Holiday i Featured speaker will be WilL Schaaf of A graduate of Cornell University Law School where he was coeditor of the Cornell Law he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Philip i Jacobus will be master of The program will be broadcast on starting at ap proximately eight On the committee for the Law i Day observance are these McKean County lawyers Merle Johnson of Port chairman Thomas Brad ford Ralph and James Joseph president of the county is an ex officio member of the The program will be broadcast on starting at ap proximately eight YMCA There has been con reader interest in The Era pictures of former YMCA buildings in connection with the open house at the modern struc ture at 59 Boylston from 2 to 5 The affair also marks the 86th anniversary celebration of the Of special interest is the scheduled appearance of some top names in the world of sports like Larry Brown of the Washington Tony Greene ol the Buffalo Billy star from the world of and Charles veteran NFL This open house will give you the opportunity not only to see and meet these big names in sports but also to see for yourself the many uses of the building and enjoy a look at the City has total of in FRS funds now As of the city of Bradford had a total of uncommitted federal revenue sharing City Manager Norman Butts said that amount is in a FRS trust Included is cash of and investments in the form of certificates of deposit in Producers due May which are currently earning in terest of per The cer and the interest amount to in The balance on as of Receipts for the first quarters of this calendar totaled and interest earned was a total of From the latter figure some was deducted as funds were committed by resolutions of City Council for several projects and The city will receive a final quarterly of in the fifth entitlement period federal fiscal year prior to July s figures 1VJCKEES The bonus number in this weeks Pennsylvania Luky 7 lottery is The numbers 284 and 912 and MCKEES winning numbers in this weeks Bakers Doen Lot tery Three digit 526 Give digit 77979 Six digit House rejects aid request for Viets AP The House rejected President Fords urgent aid request for South Vietnamese refugees Thursday because it still bore authority for mil Hours Ford issued a statement declaring the Houses decision was not wor thy of a people which has lived by the philosophy symbolized in the Statue of He appealed to Congress to draw up new and House leaders indicated they would draft a new contain ing the money the written before Saigon government was up for Congress final approval It was rejected 246 to 162 despite an appeal from Ford that its evacuation author ity was now useless and the money was desperately Opponents cheered and ap plauded as the electronic count ers on each end of the House chamber rolled up the rejection The evacuation has been Ford said in a let ter to the Con gress may be assured that I do not intend to send the armed forces of the United States back into Vietnamese Ford said the cost of taking care of refugees is expected to be more than million and that the million was needed for immediate ex But including House Democratic Leader ONeill of Mas said the House should not set a precedent by authorizing combat troops abroad who are not Ford said he was saddened and disappointed by the House vote and said it does not re flect the values we Cherish as a nation of It is not worthy of a people which has lived by the philosophy sym in the Statue of It reflects fear and misunder standing rather than charity and The State Department said Thursday that the total of South Vietnamese evacuated by the United States now totals nearly Out of this spokes man Robert Anderson ships had picked up about South Vietnamese refu gees on the high seas as of ear ly Defense Secretary James Schlesinger said the evac by use of Navy ships had been completed but the State Department said the American evacuation effort at sea will continue in spite of North Vietnamese Anderson said he did not have an estimate of the final total of refugees but said the great majority will come to the United V assessing the end of the Vietnam said he expects no new Communist military challenges in Asia as a result of North Vietnams He also said it is larly inopportune to con template major changes in military deployments cause of fears that the in American power and steadfastness might be shaken VC complete conquest of Viet HONORED Shapp prepares to a Driver of Distinction award to Mildred Kummerer of Trum Bucks during ceremonies in the Governors of fice in Harrisburg a has ac cumulated safe driving miles over 16 years driving men Oneyear farm is vetoed by Ford WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Ford vetoed a oneyear farm Thursday that administration experts said would trigger mas sive new farm subsidies and re sult in higher consumer food The would raise target prices and loan rates for major crops including corn and It also would bolster federal milk price sup Ford said it would be costly to taxpayers and farmers and amount to a step backward toward previously discredited In the long this would lead to constraints on production and result in loss of jobs in It would induce farmers grow more cotton already in surplus and less soybeans needed for The would jeopardize the competitive posi tion of our cotton in world mar Ford said in a veto mes Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told a White House brief ing before the veto that the longer run this will be to raise food You cant interpret it Butz suid he thought Fords veto would be upheld in the House where leaders said they would attempt to override it next Congressional sup porters of the said the vote would be close in the but that the Senate probably would override the Ten days ago told re porters that when Kord vetoed the farm he would author ize an administrative action to modestly raise federal loan lev els for wheat and feed Butz said that the President and he felt that ac tion should be The farm besides ing other price support in also raise the loan Congress approved the as a means of providing larger guarantees to farmers who have seen cash market prices for commodities tumble sharply the past six At the same time their production costs have continued the Agriculture De reported that index of farm prices rose 4 per cent from March 15 to April following five con months of Despite the the farm price average was 7 per cent below a year farm expenses con to climb and at mid April were up 11 per cent from a year Under the target price sys if the market prices of commodities fall below pre scribed levels direct federal subsidies are paid to make up the Price support loans permit farmers to offer crops as secur ity in return for federal Under the oneyear the target price of wheat this year would have been set at a compared to now in tally retarded school She is the first woman bus driver honored in the 26year history of ithe APEra Wirephoto First Federal to open its new offices Monday First Federal Savings and Loan corner of Main and Pine will be opening its new building Monday according to an announcement made by John All business will be done in the quarters while the present quarters are being remodeled so Place has asked all customers to use the new entrance on Main Street effective The Inside Story RIDGWAY Present status of AGA in Elk County areas is discussed at public Page 2 HARRISBURG Frame sponsors to aid school districts with sparse Page 9 Wool incentive payments to wool and lamb producers being revived in Page 10 NIW YORK Stock market makes another sharp advance in fairly active trading Page 15 HARRISBURG northern pickerel and walleyes become legal gamefish Page 18 Elk Christian track team defeats host Coudersport and Cameron County High Page 21 Bridge 23 Comics 14 Crossword 3 Editorial 13 Hospitals 12 Television 15 Stocks 15 Women 45 Terrorists fail in try to bomb Irish candidates Northern Ireland AP Terrorists tried to bomb two candi dates Thursday as the people of Northern Ireland voted in an election seen as their last chance for a political solution to Ulsters long sectarian A mob in Londonderry at tacked troops taking ballot boxes for counting in the tion for a con Security across the province was but the widespread violence some security chiefs had feared did not A light turnout was blamed by polling officials on general apathy and a boycott urged in Roman Catholic In 25 miles southwest of terrorists wired a bomb to the car of Hugh a Catholic candi date of the Social Democratic and Labor police report The bomb failed to deto They said another bomb was lobbed at the Belfast home of Social Democratic candidate Tom but that charge also failed to In a 200strong mob of Catholics hurling bottles and rocks attacked police and British troops escorting ballot boxes from a polling station for the army The boxes were kept but three soldiers and two policy men were injured and hospi a spokesman Authorities also reported shootings outside two polling stations in Catholic areas of The expected to di vide along Roman Catholic and Protestant was to elect 78 delegates to a constitutional convention that will try to work out a new form of provincial government for Northern Ire ruled directly from Lon don for nearly a The British troops in the province and the Royal Ul ster the provin cial police were on full but only sporadic minor violence marred the By The Associated Press The Viet Cong announced Thursday they were in com plete control of South Vietnam and issued a series of policy de crees stressing revolutionary government and an end to 15 years of A broad cast warned people acting like Among decrees was an order nationalizing virtually all the business and in the Cuban news agency In a dispatch renamed HoChi Minh the agency said the order covered firms of the former v North Vietnam demanded that withdraw from areas off the coast and halt what it called forcible evacuation of Vietnamese according to the Penta have been fleeing in rafts and small boats into the South China A North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry statement broadcast said the pres ence and the announced policy of picking up refugees from the sea constituted crim inal interference in the inter nal affairs of South In Defense Sec James Schlesinger said that at most there were one or two ships remaining which might still pick up refu are now head ed eastward away from the wa ters of A Viet Cong broadcast from Ho Chi Minh City said the con quest of South Vietnam was completed with the disbanding of four divisions of the South Vietnamese army in the Me kong There was no men tion of any The Viet Cong dropped the word provisional from their official name to become the Revolutionary Government of South Under its new title the regime broadcast a policy manifesto promising religious full public welfare and a revolutionary Anyone acting like Ameri cans or participating in such activities as opening night brothels or of will one decree Other decrees provided for protection of personal including that of foreigners who obey government warn ed against looting and the com of criminal offenses in the name of the new authorities and disbanded all agencies and of the old govern The government ordered con of the property of un specified It also claimed title to the scores of vessels and other equipment taken abroad by fleeing refugees as well as dozens of tons of gold which it said was in pos session of officials now in A broadcast specifically men where more than 125 South Vietnamese mili tary some laden with arrived Tuesday and Thai Prime Minis ter Kukrit Pramoj has said Thailand will return the planes to the now South Vietnamese government if asked but the United States is expected to contest The flow of radio announce ments from Ho Chi Minh City in both South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese dialects con with from Phnom since the Com Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian capital April United Nations seat was claimed by the Cam bodian Royal Government of National Union in a message received at headquarters from where the new Phnom Penh regime was origi established in Growing concern was report ed over the whereabouts and condition of some 600 refugees believed since Wednesday on a 250mile overland trip by truck convoy Phnom Penh to the The group took refuge in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh when the capital fell to Khmer Rouge France has protested that supplies the embassy were cut off and that the Khmer Rouge finally forced the 600 to leave by truck instead of plane even though they included many elderly and sick At the scores of relief agency diplomats and newsmen awaited the refugees for the second Khmer Rouge frontier guards said the caravan ran out of gasoline 30 miles short of the But the French am to Louis said after talking with Khmer Rouge officials at border that some doubt whether group had even left Phnom The new Cambodian claimed in a Paris statement that those in French Em bassy had included hundreds of persons of innumerable crimes against the Cambodian including Sink political leader under the fallen Continued on Page 12 t FRB to increase money Anxiety voiced for group Thai land AP Concern arose here Thursday over the where abouts and condition of than 600 refugees reported on an arduous overland trip across The believed en route by truck convoy from Phnom Penh since ran of gasoline only 30 miles short of the bor frontier guards told relief agency diplomats and newsmen who have been wait ing two days at the But the French ambassador to JeanLouis said after talking on the border with officials of the Khmer Rouge regime now ruling Cam there was some question whether the refugees had even left on the 250mile trip from Phnom Various reports about their evacuation were probably non Toffin and they might still be back in Phnom Members of the group ex from Phnom Penh were foreigners who took refuge in the Cambodian capitals French Embassy when the city fell to Khmer Rouge forces April France has protested that sup plies to the embassy were cut off in violation of international custom and that the Khmer Rouge finally forced the more than p women and chil dren to leave by truck instead The French said there were elderly and sick people in the some suffering from dy sentery as a result of in sufficient food and water in the The new Cambodian regime claimed in a Paris statement that those in the French Em bassy had included hundreds of its It described them as persons guilty of able crimes against the Cam bodian including political leader under the previous gov in Phnom French officials said there were no Cambodian nationals among the approximately 515 French and 95 other foreigners in the Seven including five and two wives of American civilian were reported among The Khmer Rouge diplomatic mission in Paris issued a state ment reiterating that it refuses to recognize any diplomats who had been accredited to the for mer regime and would treat them as simply foreign citi zens in a sovereign The wording indicated the new rulers in Cambodia even con tested French ownership of the embassy WASHINGTON AP The Federal Reserve Board plans to increase the nations money supply by as much as bil lion in the year ending next March to help prod the nations economy out of its deep reces board chairman Arthur Burns said That amount of money equal to onethird of the Ford administrations proposed budg et deficit for fiscal year 1976 and would be nearly enough to pay for a single years oil im ports at the current high The size of the nations mon ey supply is important to the economy because it helps deter mine how much money is avail able for lending and borrowing by businesses and con Too little money can drive up interest rates and dis courage growth too much can contribute to The monetary path were on is sufficient to insure a strong economic Burns told the Senate Banking He said the board proposes to increase the money supply at between 5 and per cent in the year that began in up from about per cent during when the increase amounted to about It was the first time in the 62 year history of the moneyman aging Federal Reserve Board that its money targets had been publicly revealed in The growth figures given by Burns are for the Ml which includes cur rency and bank checking ac As of the end of 1974 the na tions money supply was A further increase in unem ployment was mean by Labor Secretary John He said most economists ex unemployment to continue rising to about and added that employment will substantially lag behind the expected economic recovery later this Dunlop declined to discuss specific but said he ex the increases in unem ployment to be smaller than in the past several President Ford at the same time called for a restoration of confidence in the American free enterprise as he participated in the swearingin of Rogers Morton as sec And in Detroit the Chrysler announced that it will op crate all its plants next reopening the facility at Belvi General Motors and American Motors will operate all their plants next but announced no new recalls of Ford will announce next weeks production sched ule The Fed acts to increase or decrease the money supply by buying or selling government securities in financial by changing the levels of mon ey reserves that must maintain and by changing its own interest rate to member bank The proved a budget resolution in eluding a 1976 fiscal program which sponsors said would bring faster economic recovery than Fords The resolution calls for 3 spending ceiling with a Ford has called for spending billion and a maximum deficit of The measure was sent to the House which is considering its own Trie Market Up
