Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - April 5, 1973, Steubenville, Ohio STEUBENVILLE 259 of Mingo Junction and the Area PHONE 2825311 APRIL 1973 36 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS Pane Asked Senate Curbs m Power On Spending WASHINGTON AP Pol lowing two votes reasserting congressional spending author the Senate today moves toward its first test on whether funds should be spent to rebuild North Harry is attempting to amend a dollar devaluation to bar Ameri can aid for North Any such he should be throttled at the I we are proposing works of peace that will be wiped out by the engines of he There were indications the amendment would be shelved by the at least In two lopsided votes the Senate attached to the same provisions aimed at curbing presidential impound ment of money and holding fed eral spending to billion in the fiscal year starting July President Drops Cut In Welfare WASHINGTON AP The Nixon administration has changed its mind on a threat to withhold half a billion dollars a year in federal welfare funds from states with ineligible or overpaid The changes will give states a new 18month timetable be ginning next year to correct er rors in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children AFDC the govern ment said As originally proposed last penalties for over payment and ineligibility would nave begun this Frank un of educa tion and said the ad ministration was conceding that the original timetable was not He said the adminis tration was not retreating on that errors must be Thirtyfour states had re a prestigious Washington law firm and had threatened to sue in an attempt to block the original Under the new states will be given three six month target deadlines begin ning next 1 to reduce er Failure to meet a target would result In a proportionate loss of federal money for that States will be allowed error rates of 3 per cent for in eligibility cases and 5 per cent for overpayment The original proposal would not have permitted any error provides that Congress will retain the power of the Sam Ervin said in defending the Demo cratic package that was rushed to the floor at the urging of Ma Leader Mike President Nixon has asked a budget ceiling of billion but he opposes restrictions on That is the prac tice of presidential refusal to spend monty appropriated by This Nixon is refusing to spend billion for such domestic programs as health care and hospital Senate Republicans argued Ervins amendments would take away the presidents chief tools without offering anything to replace The said John would be to make the chief executive the chief Its a mandate to without regard to effi common sense or econ The provi sion was adopted on a 7024 vote the spending ceiling by an 884 Ervin hailed the votes as evidence that Cori gress is just as anxious as the President or anyone else for the government to set its finan cial house in Thieu Sees Cambodian Fall Threat WASHINGTON AP South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu says that if Cam bodia falls under Communist military it will be come a threat to his After two days of summit talks with President Nixon at the California White the South Vietnamese leader and Thieu arrived here late Wednesday for meetings with N congressional the press and financial authorities on postwar reconstruction in In In an Thieu ac knowledged concern over the Communist offensive now under way in Cambodia because Cambodia is my If Cambodia falls it will be a threat to He said the North mese and the Viet Cong have not lived up to their agreement signed in Paris to withdraw from Cambodia and South Vietnam would like to comply with the terms of the Paris he but gave no details given on what action Saigon might take to help The United States is providing heavy air support to Cambodian News Briefs POW Group Wants Jane Fonda Out PITTSBURGH AP A lo cal prisoner of war group says it will seek to haw actress Jan Fonda stripped of her citi and films in which she appears banned because of her antiwar Melva spokeswoman for the local We are said Wednesday that beginning today the group will circulate a petition urging that President Nixon revoke Miss Fondas citizenship and that she be deported to North Indian Settlement Rumored Near WOUNDED AP Settlement of the armed confrontation at Wounded Knee could come today despite a minor snag that has developed in peace the governments chief negotia tor Kent Frizzell said he had expected to reach an accord on Wednesday with leaders of the American Indian which led a takeover of the hamlet by mili tant Indians But Frizzell said the peace talks adjourned when dis agreement arose over minor le gal terminology in the final point on a 10point list of Indian A sixth straight day of nego was scheduled to begin at noon EST Heavy Fighting Hits South Vietnam SAIGON AP The South Vietnamese government today reported the heaviest ground action since the cease fire with more than 200 casu Military sources claimed that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were probing in preparation for a major offen The government reported infantry and artil lery attacks on four positions west of in the central in the Cambodian border area 50 miles north of Saigon and in the Mekong Del The heaviest casualties were reported in two day of fighting around a government position five miles southeast of Cai in the northern Mekong March Prices Soar Over 2 Per Cent WASHINGTON AP Wholesale prices soared per cent in posting for the month in a row the sharpest climb in II the government reported The surge in led by I per cent jump in the whole sale costs of farm products and processed offered no le in consumer prices at the retail level for at least the next several It also forecast further troubles for President Nixons efforts to curb in PITTSBURGH AP Milton Shapp has proposed the establishment of a governors council from Eastern coal producing states to develop befter ways to utilize Shapp in the keynote address to the Governors Coal Con ference also urged that the federal government invest billion annually in the next five years to find ways to use coal without violating environmental Coal is the one source of energy with known deposits that can keep this country growing for the next 300 to 500 he told the more than 130 persons attending the con He said the nation already imports gas and The governor said that in the past decade the federal government had spent what he called a meager million on developing ways making coal a more useful source of To us in as well as the other great coal producing states in this lack of coal research is Shapp The other five major Ap states are West Tennessee and All had representatives at the Part of the billion ex Shapp should be used for the development of new deep and surface mining techniques that would not be harmful to the Other projects suggested by Shapp included Reactivation of a Wast Virginia coal built at a cost of million but abandoned by the federal government before it went into Construction of two other coal Construction of at least three plants to convert coal to natural A requirement that all federal buildings in the East be heated and powered by Flood Areas Get Respite From Water AP Floodwaters of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers have stabi giving a respite to thousands of volunteers who have waged holding battles against the swollen But a Corps of Army Engi spokesman at said the situation was still with levees which have held back surging river cur rents soaked and weak from days of pounding by heavy rain and So far were said one Civil Defense official at where the Mis souri pushed feet above flood level at feet on Wed The known death toll stands at An estimated per sons have been driven from their homes in Missouri and Il linois The Army Engineers esti mate more than seven million acres of land have been in undated by the Mississippi and Missouri and their tributaries in seven states from Illinois to State and federal of say the damage already has reached some The Mississippi crested at feet at Winfield on feet above flood The river is expected to crest at Louis on Friday at the highest water at Louis in 129 years and feet above flood Ervin Battle WASHINGTON AP Richard Kleindienst says the Senate has no power to arrest White House aides who refuse subpoenas to testify on the Watergate But Sam Ervin chairman of the Watergate in says the attorney general is clearly The dispute came Wednesday as four men convicted in the beakin and bugging of the Democratic national ters in Watergate building agreed to talk to a federal grand Ervin and the com vice Howard is sued a statement declaring the committee as of this time has received no evidence of any na ture linking White House chief of staff Haldeman to ille gal political espionage and sabotage during the 1972 presi Committee Approve Stiffer Price Control diplomat Alfred and members of his party walk toward the China border at Hong Kong The team is en route to Peking to establish the Liason Mission China will also establish an office in AP Wirephoto County Jef f ers on County com missioners in a surprise move this morning proposed levying a half per cent sales tax on top of the Ohio four per cent sales The permissive legislation which has been available to boards of county commissioners for some had not been adopted by the commissioners B u t Commissioners Nick Calabria and Russell who were on opposing such said the present county financial condition makes levying the piggy back sales tax a Commissioner Calabria proposed the tax this morning saying that are needed to establish sanitary relieve overcrowded at the up date revamp the judicial adjust provide recreation and pay overdue Prosecutor Joseph Loha brought in a resolution proposing to set two public hearings on the sales tax The resolution was adopted unanimously by Commissioners Calabria and Charles Auditor Dalton Metzger estimated that the half per cent county sales tax will produce about per once it gets He said there is no service charge the county sales tax is collected with the state sales tax and the state auditor makes monthly disbursements the general county Commissioner Hesske said 33 counties in have enacted the half per cent sales He said he was aware that taxes are popular and he noted that he will be a candidate for re election next He This is a calculated risk I have to take in order to get progress in Jefferson I know there will be repercussions and Im ready to live The times of the two required public hearings have not been They will advertised legally in the Meat Industry Keep Market Price Frozen By DUDLEY LEHEW Associated Writer The consumer and the meat industry kept their thumbs of the meat scales today and the impasse left retail prices relatively unaffected by the na Meat contin ued to reflect a severe ranging from a 40 per cent drop for some grocers to 70 per cent at the packing Down 30 Or We butchers are keeping each other company out said Luther owner of Hinds Meats in Los Over the counter business is down 30 or 40 per Crosstown colleague Les Whisenhut agreed with Weather Partial clearing and cool tonight lows in the low 30s sunshine and a little warmer Friday highs in the upper 40s to low The Steubenville Air Quality Region issued an index reading of considered very Winds are from the eight to 12 miles per Temperatures Today at 11 35 degrees at Steubenville filtration plant Wednesday Creegan Starting April 7 thru New Creegan Puppets in Sleeping the long version of Sleeping but done with 7 Tours by ap Purple Plum Nite Club Bob Stewart The Country Rainbow saying Our market is like a ghost Frank the executive director of the National Associ ation of Retail said his organization has been making spot checks since the boycott began and meat sales nation wide are down 40 per No Cause For Alarm He At this the retail grocer has no cause for alarm because the same amount of money is being He said total sales are about the but meat spending has shifted to poultry and The shift has been a boon to wholesalers in the fish busi And many fish retailers are experimenting with selling speciality items in addition to fish usually The outlook is how for the meat Robert Miller head of Union Packing of Los one of the nations largest inde pendent said the boy cott has cut sales by as much as 70 per Miller said that if the boycott it could really in todays Amusements Ann Landers Bridge Comics Crossword Puzzle Deaths Doctors Corner Editorial Page Horoscope Sports Television Womens Page 14 15 16 27 27 21 12 6 9 20 14 knock down retail meat but probably would wreck an entire We are already losing mon ey on every head we he Some of the usual midweek newspaper advertisements by grocers have showed an em phasis In addition to the usual ads pushing this weeks some firms offered help to the protesting con Bohack of New York which advertises itself as The Meat included in its weekly ad three recipes for meatless meals Easy Cheese Loaf and Eggs Tuna Government Says WASHINGTON AP The Star Kist tuna fish that sick ened more than 200 persons be fore it was recalled was rotten at the time it was a government investigation has A Food and Drug Adminis tration investigation shows Star Kist packed the fish in two lots at its American Samoa Cesar Roy of the office of compliance said in an inter view that the fish was so de composed that a trained in spector would have been able to smell Asked about the results of the Thomas manager of marketing for SJar we have all kinds of quality how that oc curred we dont Virgil was not available for later telephone interviews re garding the Star Kist is a subsidiary of Heinz Unit Asks Return to Level WASHINGTON AP Directly challenging President the House Banking Com is recommending thai rents and interest rates be turned to levels of the day before President ended Phase 2 economic The issue is headed for a House floor probably about April Only Extension Nixon wants only an exten sion of his discretionary control which expire at the end of this denouncing the Presidents Phase 3 program as a want stiff Under the approved 21 to 9 the committee Wednesday night there would be no general as raw food interest would be brought under mandatory con for the first The would be allowed to make the ceilings to avoid gross in Inflation Trigger Mandatory controls on and sim ilar payments would be triggered when inflation reached specified The rent rollback would allow the president to permit in creases to the extent that a landlords costs actually Other provisions of the would exempt wages of an hour or less from controls lim it the export of softwood logs and lumber extend the basic control and establish an office to represent consumer backed by power to take court Along Party Lines The committee vote sending the to tht House floor after an 11hour session was largely along party It followed a vote rescinding a deci sion to set limits at the level of May and other prices and interest at March In other economic develop ments Ash Attacks Director Roy Ash told the House Rules Com that a House limit ing the Presidents authority to impound appropriated money would be an open invitation to Ash said in testimony the would give Congress veto power and wea ken chances of avoiding a tax assistant Peter Flanigan told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States will not go the full distance this year in re moving a payments the administrations top expert on international economic declined to predict when a bal ance could be achieved but he said the nation is making head Agriculture Depart ment said beef exports totaled more than million pounds during January and compared with million in the same months last Pork exports were up even million pounds com pared with million Radical Wins Madison Election AP Four years Paul a radical alder was arrested twice during violent antiwar demonstrations near the University of Wiscon sin as the newly elected has become the 1 citizen of this state capital city of rise from street pro tests to the citys top political office was climaxed Tuesday when he defeated Mayor Wil liam for years political was seeking a third term and was being mentioned as a Republican candidate for governor in Although he may still think of himself as a Soglin said he deliberately tried to keep it from becoming a cam I like to consider myself a radical in as much as I want to get to the root of but the reason Im leary of calling myself one is that people all these Soglin
