Montana Standard (Newspaper) - October 5, 1972, Butte, Montana President's pension veto bites the dust WASHINGTON Con- gress overrode President on's veto Wednesday and passed a increasing sions for retired railroad kers by 20 per cent. Nixon vetoed the only a few hours before the House voted 353 to 29 to override the the Senate voted 76 to 5 to override it. The now becomes law without the dent's Nixon said the legislation contained no provision for the new benefits and jeopardize the fiscal in- of the railroad ment system and hasten its In the Sen. Alan said that with a 20-per-cent increase in Social Security benefits voted required we give a commensurate increase to railroad He and other senators action must be taken next year to bolster the railroad retirement Nixon has been overridden only twice previously on both in 1970. The House originally passed the by 398 to 4 and its vote to override was 98 more than the required two-thirds One twenty-seven Republicans joined 226 crats in voting to override while 27 Republicans and only two Democrats voted to sustain the The calls for the increase to be effective as of Sept. 1 for some retired railroad Rep. Wayne said those who claim the retirement fund would be fiscally unsound just not Under the the increase is temporary until next June 30. In the the legislation calls for representatives of the railroads and workers and re- tired employes to recommend by next March 1, ways in- sure the solvency of the road retirement if the temporary increases are to be made The veto was Nixon's fourth this year and his 18th since taking ii Montana Standard 97th 66 Good It's Oct. 5, 1972 10 Cents Minerals crisis forecast New world Mark Chapman of Eugene could write a book to Break a World Record Without Even Realizing son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon casually constructed a stack of cards 14 stories Only later did he learn that the world record cording to the Guiness Book of World Records is 13 Mansfield sees merit in Ralph Nader report WASHINGTON Re- porting under government con- a scientific panel urged that the United States begin limiting its lation and its consumption of It said the already heavily dependent on foreign raw must shift its industrial base to materials or face a disastrous minerals crisis within The panel needled its em- the National Com- mission on Materials accusing it of ignoring the demand factor in the nation's growing crisis in energy and raw It noted that the sion's interim report of last April alludes to re- or restraint of But the drawn from the National Research Council of the National Academy of said is clear that the difficulties imposed by growing U.S. and world populations pervade all other issues It added that can be no effective national or inter- national materials that evades the relationship be- tween demand and environmental in milder the U.S. scientific panel aligned it- self with the general thrust of the of report and British for both published last The Club of a group of international scientists and predicted the col- lapse of modern industrial society unless population growth and material con- sumption are stabilized within the next few The U.S. National sion on Materials Policy was appointed in 1971 with the sion of recommending a national materials policy to the president and Congress by June 30, 1973. The commission issued an interim report identifying at least 36 issues in the area of materials supply but it noted the list might be in- and it contracted with the National Research Council for another study of That now said was but small port the for the view that market forces alone will solve the foreseeable It said appropriate mental incentives and controls should be applied to increase production to meet the needs of unavoidable population but at the same time convert the economy in the long run to a The report said the United States is already heavily de- and is becoming ever more on foreign sources for its raw adding that this provide increasing opportunity for international Attempts to increase tic production of it mean producing quantities of als obtained from deposits measures are not only to stretch our resources but to and perpetuate a able human numbers of humans that must be limited to numbers it can comfortably sustain and their individual consumptions of materials must be kept within portable Welfare reform goes down hard WASHINGTON ate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Wednesday there is good deal of meat and in Ralph Nader's criticism of congressional But Mansfield was the only member of the leadership to have any able comment on the first lume of a massive study of Congress by Nader and his The entitled Runs concluded that it is dominated by the President and special in- House Speaker Carl said he hadn't read it. But without commenting directly on the he said the House leadership is ing to surrender congressional control over the purse strings to the Mansfield said erosion of powers began when the states began to give away their Constitutional re- in return for handouts of various Mansfield said Nader's report spoke of this erosion taking place over the last 25 but he said it goes back 40 years to the first tration of the late Franklin D. All presidents since then have taken more power into their Mansfield don't blame the presidents but Congress and the Mansfield said he was de- lighted that a report had been issued stressing the need for changes and reforms in Con- As for the comments about him personally in the Nader re- Mansfield is entitled to his Maybe he's The report called Manfield and Albert leaders elevated more because of in- offensiveness and general popularity than because of leadership Council clashes on renewal meet A public hearing will be Oct. 30 for citizens to voice opinions about a proposed urban renewal The Butte councilmen set the hearing Wednesday but not without extensive Alderman Irv Holman wanted a public vote conducted in the urban renewal seemed to have several other aldermen sharing that Edgar J. 81 Butte dies Edgar J. 81, a lifelong resident of Butte and former president of the Vigilante Rodeo and Saddle died Wednesday in a local He lived at 2515 Born in July 1, 1891, Mr. Guay went to local He worked as a Railway Ex- press agent from 1909 until his retirement in 1957, and then for the City of Butte as corral supervisor for two Mr. Guay was a charter member of the Vigilante Rodeo and Saddle Club and a member of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline His wife Augustine survives as do sons and Dr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Guay and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Guay of sons-in-law and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Campana and Lucille a brother Achille sisters Mrs. Mrs. George Mrs. William Anaconda and Sister Marie de of 13 grandchildren and 1 Model City director Jim pointed out that numerous problems could arise from such a Murphy said that the Oct. 19 date urged by Holman would not give sufficient time for proper voter Murphy and Mayor Mike Micone also pointed out that state law does not provide for urban renewal They said the law requires the council to conduct a public hearing and that the council is charged with making the final decision about urban They also said serious legal questions could arise if a vote was believe people should have a voice in decisions that will affect other people's Micone I don't believe in straw votes con- ducted by elected Look at what happened two years ago when a straw vote was conducted by the county about The public officials involved there chose to ignore the results of that vote and did not have the courage to act. I believe this council has to accept its public A straw vote is not binding and the council will have to make the ultimate One of Holman's major COUNCIL Page 10 Anaconda's M. J. dies M. J. 78, of 519 well-known retired electrician and former county com- missioner and state died early in Community Hospital in He was admitted Mass of Resurrection will be celebrated in St. Peter Church at 9 Burial will be in Mount Olivet The Parish vigil service will be in the Finnegan Company Funeral Home at Born in County Aug. Mr. Mee came to Anaconda when he was 9 with his He was employed as an electrician at the Reduction Works until he retired in 1959. An active Mr. Mee served several terms as a fifth ward 10 years as a county com- missioner and eight years as a representative in the state He was secretary of the Montana Municipal League for 16 He was a member of the Electricians Union and the Pensioners and Surviving are his Mrs. Catherine Boyle two sons-in-law and Mr. and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. Fred four grandchildren and a number of nephews and Risk brings death MISSOULA Despite a deputy sheriff's Robert E. 28, rode his bicycle on old U. S. Highway 10 Tuesday night and was struck and killed by a pickup The driver of the Elmer 30, told the Highway Patrol he had not seen the bike or its A highway patrolman who was a short distance behind the truck when the collision occurred said McDaniel was thrown into the windshield of Jacobson's causing it to careen on the now Montana 200. The officer said the bicycle and the truck were traveling the same McDaniel died en route to a hospital from the cident scene about one-third of a mile from A Missoula County deputy sheriff reported he had almost run into McDaniel on the same road a few nights earlier and had warned him about riding in the center of the The death raised the 1972 highway toll in Montana to 307, up 50 from one year Butte weather Chance of Outlook Lower 50s and 25. More weather Page 2. WASHINGTON The Senate voted Wednesday to test three plans rather than put any of them into thereby apparently shelving the subject for It adopted 46 to 40 an ment of Sen. William V. Roth to knock out of the Social the Workfare plan and proceed in- stead with a test ot it and two rival Then it defeated 50 to 35 an attempt to nullify the Roth posal and adopt instead a ily Assistance Plan quite ilar to that sponsored by dent Republican Leader Hugh of backed this declaring it was very close to the tration But Sen. Russell B. D- floor manager for the said White House liaison men had told him Nixon opposed this With the prolonged fight over welfare reform apparently over although the basic issue remains it seemed likely the Senate would pass the massive by the end of the It contains dozens of Social Medicare and welfare benefit The Roth amendment could delay for five to eight years any action to reform the Aid to Families with Dependent dren AFDC is by far the largest of the welfare its rolls have tripled in the last The vote was a defeat for the Alabama's prison hospitals terrible Ala. Conditions are so bad in bama prison a al judge said that convicts perform surgery and rags are used as substitutes for U.S. District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. ordered prison authorities to take im- mediate steps to provide quate medical care for all in- mates and also to put rigid con- on narcotics to stop within the penitentiary in a 12-page decision and an accompanying order spelling out what prison officials must said penal authorities clearly abused their in denying proper medical treatment to the almost inmates in Neglect of the basic medical he justly be called barbarous and shocking to the State Prison Commissioner L. B. Sullivan was out of town and unavailable for comment on the court's Prison hospitals are so badly the court that untrained civilian es and prisoners alike routinely perform tasks for which they are not without formal larly pull screen sick call dispense as well as administer in- dangerous take suture and perform minor the decision it evidence showed a shortage of medical supplies the prison system and have been used as a for bandages and for gauze sponges during which strongly opposed the test It also was a defeat for the conservative majority on the Finance Committee which drafted and Sen. Wallace F. the chief sponsors of said they had hoped to get it through but had decided the Senate would not adopt it at this they supported the Roth Elliot L. tary of education and said it would take a year to devise the at least two years to conduct them amendment would allow up to a year to evaluate the results and draft and a year or two for Congress to act. The tests would be super- vised by which would reach agreements with the states on The states actually operate A test could cover an entire state or a part of Besides the tests would cover Nixon's Family Assistance Plan and a version of it sponsored by Sen. Abraham A. The workfare plan would re- quire many parents on the AFDC plan to take jobs with a new federal agency or lose Nixon's plan would fix a guaranteed annual income of at least for a family of four and for the first time provide supplementary payments to the working Ribicoff's defeated would set guaranteed income at and give greater aid to the Page 3 Olsen in Anaconda Today's Page 7 Sunshine Mine ready to Page 10 Frenchman fires rifle into crowd of children Page 14 Copperheads look at mistakes Sunday Standard A look at the Old West Asbestos contributes to cancer all over the body NEW YORK already linked with lung cancer in insulation workers who was further linked Wednesday with cancers of the colon and A substantial number of deaths over what would be ex- from these cancers were found in a study of in- workers in the United SUtes and Canada covering the period from 1943 through 1971. The report came from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond and Herbert man of the American Cancer Their report was presented to a meeting of a working group formed to assess the biological effects of at the International Agency for Research on World Health in It was made available in New York by the American Cancer In 1964 and 1969, Selikoff and Hammond reported what they call then unexpected ing of a moderate excess of gastrointestinal cancer among New insulation The were too small to permit firm con- have now collected additional the scientists these remain in the same and very much at the same level of ex- two or three times the ex- The researchers said a ilar excess of deaths from cer of the stomach and colon and rectum has been found among insulation workers in they finding may be of erable theoretical in view of the dearth of useful hypotheses on the etiology of gastrointestinal cancer in and cancer of the colon and rectum in Selikoff and Hammond have reported previously that em- ployment in asbestos insulation work greatly increases the risk of lung cancer in cigarette but it is uncertain if the risk is increased among Their studies have found that approximately one death in five among asbestos insulation workers in the United States is the result of lung what they call extraordinary in- Gastrointestinal cancer was more than doubled and mesothelioma caused 7 per cent of all the Mesothelioma is a tumor of the lining of the chest or Selikoff warned last at the Seventh National Cancer Conference in An- that millions of cans who worked in shipyards during World War II faced the possibility of an imminent of this once rare These would be the more than three million Americans who worked in shipyards in the early 1940s, Selikoff and who may have been directly or indirectly exposed to They were urged to get ic medical including chest Scientists believe the is caused primarily by exposure to asbestos which lodge in the tissues and the remaining there Selikoff also has expressed concern about the exposure of the general urban population exposed to asbestos from environmental sources such as air-conditioning ducts and brake
