Progress-Bulletin (Newspaper) - February 2, 1970, Pomona, California Crash Kilh Two Boys See Story Page Bl Vol. 06 Number 3 MAIL HOME EDITION PRICE lOc a month MONDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1970 2 Sections 24 Pages Congressman Glen Lipscomb Dies at 54 U.S. Rep. Glenard P. died unexpectedly Sunday at Bethesda Naval Hospital at the age of 51. For 17 the congressman represented much of ibe Pomona Valley area in a district which ex- tends west atong ihe foothills to Eagle His death followed months of illness since a malignant tumor was removed from his intestine last On Jan. 3 he entered for surgery for Wood in his and had been hospitalized His allies disclosed he had been undergoing ment for cancer as Recent reports from Washington described him on Ihe way to recovery and planning to nm for tion for a 10th term this His death came as a surprise to hts associates Occupancy of Mr. seat in Congress is up 10 Gov. Ronald local sources While the governor has no power to appoint a member of the House of as he has power to appoint a he can call a special election if he Funeral services will be held in Bethesda Tuesday and again Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Forest Lawn Hollywood with burial Mr. Lipscomb was a certified public He was a native of but moved to California with his in 1920. He spent most of his life in Los Angeles and had established a dence in Alhambra at the time of election to grass in 1953. Little more than one week one of the projects came to when bis Mrs. Virginia authenticated the keef of the United first nuclear the Mr. Lipscomb had backed construction of the frigates in place of conventional troyers since an address to Congress on Oct. 13.1966. Mr. Lipscomb attended Los Angeles City USC and Woodbury Prior to his election to Congress in a special election in 1353, served six years in the California State He served in the Army Finance Corps during World War He had served since 1958 on the House of Committee on a ful committee legislation funds to operate the federal to Col. 1, U.S. Wants Reason for of Nixon Aide Nigeria The United States will demand an explanation from Nigeria of the expulsion of a relief adviser to President the U.S. Em- bassy said Col. Eugene an Army logistics was roused from bed in his hotel Sunday morning and put aboard a plane to West Nigerian police did not say why Dewey was ex- They merely said his presence in Lagos was not at this Dewey was an aide of Prof. Clarence Clyde Nixon's special envoy on Nigerian He had made two trips to what was Biafra while West Germany Signs Trade Pact With USSR Germany West Germany is going to sell the Soviet Union million worth of gauge steel pipe for Beginning in 1973, the West Germans will buy million worth of Siberian natural The the biggest ever be- tween the Russians and a Western was signed The Weather Fair and slightly warmer tonight and with gusty winds at Ex- high today and 72; low 43. The high Sunday was 66; low this 47. Actress Recovery Story Told in P-B Actress Pat Neat suffered a series of massive strokes in 1963. She nearly Her amazing re- covery is the story of love and courage between her and her The is presenting a con- of the Pat Neal based on the and The first article appears today on Elsewhere in the Sec. Page Bridge 8 Classified Ads 9-12 Comics 4 Crossword 5 Dateline 7 Jeane Dixon Doctor Comments 7 Editorial 2 Entertainment 11 Financial Obituary -I Rattles ft Straws 3 Security ft You 5 Southland 4 Sports M Television Women Asks Billion In Taxes To Balance WASHINGTON ident Nixon asked Congress today billion in increased user fees and postal races to balance a record budget and head off fueling deficit Nixon said the with a precarious billion represented on and signaled a shift in the nation's priorities from war to In a brief White House ceremony at which he formally signed the Nixon called it honest He said the program was we not only can defend but one which wilt provide adequate in this period when we must fight GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB Rail Merger Approved By High Court WASHINGTON The Supreme Court approved today merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific In a 7-0 decision the court dis- missed objections of the Justice Department and holding instead that the merger ers the development of a more efficient transportation The new called the Great Northern Pacific will have assets of billion and more than miles of stretching from Chicago to Seattle and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of In other actions the an attempt by Rep. Adam Clayton D- to recover the in congressional pay he lost when he was excluded from the 90th to lift a baq on the broadcasting of lottery It let stand a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court in New York that prohibits the cast of information about the state or the names of the down an effort to discourage southern resistance to school desegregation by to Col. 7, Temperatures Take Plunge By United Press International A blast of Arctic in some places accompanied by swept into the Midlands plunging temperatures as much as 67 degrees from Sunday's Residents of spent Sunday evening with a high of 39 When they woke up this morning it was 23 below a drop of 67 degrees in 12 At the ry fell 10 degrees in one hour and 35 degrees in six for programs the government is involved in the programs the public can In submitting his billion speeding proposal in history to top billion Nixon said he eliminated or sharply cut back number of outmoded and Included were some venerable sacred He also slashed defense spending by Space outlays were cut But he proposed spending million a year for the next five years to curb water and budgeted increased funds for combatting food assistance to the im- proved urban mass transit expanded manpower training and other social budget begins necessary process of reordering our national the Presidnt the first time in two full the federal ment will sperd more money on human resources than on national The President projected government income of billion including the new revenue he wants from higher social security increased levies on truck and aircraft users and increased rates a 7-cent Nixon emphasized that a surplus for the fiscal year beginning July 1 is to the campaign against inflation even though it requires cuts in worthwhile programs and an tajt willingness to make hard choices is the driving force behind my 1971 budget he Here is how Nixon's fiscal 1971 budget compares with the fiscal Year billions of 1970 1971 revenues outlays surplus S 1.5 1.3 For the first time in recent for Each Citizen WASHINGTON woman and child in the United States will have an age of almost committed in the new federal The billion spending divided by the 205 million people the government expects the 1970 census to show for the nation's yields a share of Of will go for tional for space for education and for income curity programs and for in- teresi on the national Smaller amounts will go for a multitude of other the butter lists no specific figures for the Vietnam The President said they were omitted to protect the secrecy of his future troop withdrawal Nixon also abandoned former President Lyndon B. Johnson's custom at showing a separate breakdown of to ease Nixon lumped grams for the poor with other social The military budget assumes a billion reduction in outlays for purpose a category which includes and warfare The President projected to Col. 7, 760 Perish in Train Cr BUENOS Argentina A total of 160 persons were killed and 250 were injured in the crash of a cross-country express into the rear of a stalled commuter train bringing ers home from a weekend in the the state-owned way announced The one of the worst Postal Hikes Asked By Nixon WASHINGTON are the postal rate and tax increases that President Nixon today asked Congress to enact so he can make good on his promise of a SO billion surplus in the government's budget for 1971. figures represent the new revenue for fiscal 1971 the increases would POSTAL Increase first-class rate to 7 cents an ounce effective April 1. increase other rates SOCIAL SECURITY Apply tax to first of annual earnings instead of present beginning Jan. 1. 1971. Present law already provides for increasing the tax rate from 4.5 per cent to 5.2 per cent on both employes and employers at that Increase Railroad Retirement AVIATION Raise passenger ticket tax from 5 per cent to S per cent Increase gasoline tax for aviation from 2 to 9 cents a Impose a tax of 9 cents a gallon on jet fuel used by general Impose a 3 per cent tax on air Lew per person tax on ail passengers departing for foreign TRUCKS Increase diesel fuel tax from 4 to 6 cents a Increase graduated levies on MISCELLANEOUS Increase fees for various federal EXCISE TAXES Continue present 10 per cent tax on long distance phone calls and 7 per cent excise on new now scheduled to expire Dec. 31 In addition to these proposed new the administration says it will speed up collection of excise and income taxes and thereby get a increase of billion in 1971 If this were not Nixon's projected budget surplus would be almost wiped even with the new railroad disasters in curred Sunday night 23 miles outside Buenos Aires at General a town on the Officials of the state-owned Argentine Railways Co. said the 21-car express en route from the northern city of San Miguel de to Buenos Aires plowed into the rear of a 10-car suburban train which had stopped due to mechanical ble about a mite from a lonely stop on the pampa 25 miles west of the The suburban train was jammed with gers returning to Buenos Aires from a summer weekend in the It was the worst train wreck in Argentine The worst ever recorded occurred at on Dec. 12. 1917, when 543 persons were killed in the derailment of a passenger There was no official tion for the An unofficial report said a failed to warn the ex- which was moving at an estimated 65 miles an that the local train was stopped in its Another report said the express had been accidentally switched onto the same track as the Officials of the General Mitre which operated both of the the local train ried about 1.090 passengers and the express about 400. Vietnam Gl Weds Woman In Atlanta Via Telephone Ca. With the re- layed by a soldier in Vietnam today married an at- tractive brunette in er keeping her waiting an hour for the telephone The Phyllis 36. wearing a blue wool dress and South Viet Navy Given U.S. Cutters BOSTON U.S. Coast Guard will give two of its the Yakutat and the Bering to the South Vietnamese The Yakutat is stationed at New and the Bering Strait is based at carrying pink clutched the telephone in the crowded of- fice of Justice of the Peace Neill Paul D. take Phyllis Sheets to be your lawful wedded holding another asked a sergeant stationed in Vung Mrs. a divorcee with three works at the At- lanta Army At Vung the Hales had a buddy serving as best CWO Theron McElwaney of nearby Ft. as best man in the Atlanta part of the by ping the wedding ring on the new Mrs. The rings came by last When Leach pronounced the couple man and the new bride told her gratulations to both of We are married In the absence of the McElwaney kissed the This is the second marriage for both Mrs. Sheets and who met last year while both were working at the Army de- He comes from and she was born in Hamlin W. but has lived in Atlanta for 10 Hales was assigned to nam three months The couple plan to honeymoon in Hawaii when Hales comes up for rest and recreation in or day before Christmas I got a letter from him saying ue could get married by telephone and you get about naif off of plane fares and your hotel fare free if you're the wife of a iceman going to meet him on R and Mrs. Sheets Testimony by Lawyer WASHINGTON A prise witness testified today that Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold while a U.S. district judge in had a reputation as an ob- in civil rights The testimony before the ate Judiciary Committee was given by Ernest H. a New York City who said he served as a teer counsel for civil rights workers in the Florida dle in the summer of Most of his testimony dealt a case in which cine were sentenced to jail by a city judge in Tallahassee after they had attempted to integrate the airport and their sub- sequent efforts to obtain release through a habeas corpus LONG DISTANCE BRIDE Theron kisses the check of Phyllis Sheets in a office in Atlanta this morning after became Mrs. Paul D. Hales in a wedding phone conversation relayed by The groom is a sergeant stationed in South slipped weeing ring on her
