Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - May 2, 1975, Wellsville, New York pally er Serving and Potter Counties Copyright by Tlw Company All rights r Year New Friday May 1975 10 Cents Per Copy nationalized Navy ships leave Indochina area By United Press International The Viet Cong rulers of South Viet nam took over the nations labor movement today and branded the top union leader a The Viet in a broadcast over Radio said Communist workers seized the headquarters of the Con federation of the umbrella organization for South Vietnams The monitored in said workers 610 refugees still missing Thailand UPI Doctors and diplomats waited in heat at the Cambodian border today for foreign refugees trapped in Phnom Penh since the citys fall to the Khmer Rouge two weeks There was no indication when a convoy carrying the first of 610 foreigners out of Cambodia might reach the Thai frontier town of Khmer Rouge officials failed to appear for a border meeting today with French ambassador JeanLouis the 170 miles to Bangkok in The ambassador was expected to meet with Khmer Rouge officials along the frontier this afternoon in an attempt to determine what has happened to the French officials in Bangkok said a convoy of at least 100 refugees was believed to have left Phnom Penh Wednesday on the trip to the The fate of the foreigners was But some reports said the increasing concern over the welfare of vehicles in the convoy might have run the The meeting was to discuss the status of the Another border meeting Thursday failed to produce any information on the location of the I am Toffin said today after waiting 90 minutes for a Khmer Rouge official to There is no in formation at Red Cross doctors and French diplomats planned to take the out of fuel during the Many of the refugees were believed to be sick after being confined for two weeks at the crowded French Embassy in Phnom Penh amid poor sanitary The who include 515 Frenchmen and 95 citizens of other took refuge in the embassy when the Communistled Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh April At least belonging to the committee for the defense of labor rights seized the labor building in The Viet Cong called the leader of the confederation traitor Tran Quoc but made no mention of his Buu had been considered a possible presidential candidate before the fall of the former The Communists said the con federation would be replaced by a liberation trade union and ordered all members of the old organization to report within 24 The new moving rapidly to impose a Communist society on South has already nationalized all factories and businesses in the The Viet Cong said many persons in the Saigon puppet administration took dozens of cargo cargo planes and jet fighters to neighboring The broadcast by Pekings New China news agency and monitored in Hong said the Viet Cong has the right to recover all property recently stolen and taken away by members of the puppet army and puppet But in Defense Secretary James Schlesinger said the United States retains ultimate title to South Vietnamese warplanes because of aid clauses prohibiting transfer of military hardware to other govern So I would not think that we would have difficulty in reasserting title to those Schlesinger said LEGISLATIVE LEADERS meet Thursday in Albany with Hugh second from and New York City Mayor Abraham third from to study in detail state aid to help the city meet its fiscal From left are Senator John Senate Majority Leader Warren Carey and Assembly Speaker Stanley UPI Farm crop supports vetoed by President Thai Prime Minister in an apparent attempt to avoid WASHINGTON UPI Despite congressional claims that higher crop supports are needed this year to protect farmers and assure heavy future food President Ford Thursday boosting 1975 price feed fending the new government in Saigon and milk has promised to return South Viet J many reported to be in deplorable six were OTB change asked UPI Two Democratic state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would chop in two the present western New York offtrack betting region and set up seperate regions centered around Rochester and Assemblyman Francis Griffin said Thursday the proposal would make it easier and less expensive to administer an OTB operation centered in he admitted there might be some opposition from some of the counties excised from the current One of the two OTB regions proposed by legislation sponsored by Griffin and Joseph both from would include Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Griffin noted that the bulk of the bets now handled in the region originated in Erie and Niagara but these two counties now have to pay for the administration costs of unpopulated areas included in the The would also replace the present rule of the OTB agency with weighted voting to give more populous areas better he It is hard to There is likely to be some opposition from other but right now 1 dont believe many have set up OTB parlors and they really wont be much affected by the Griffin Counties in the other region would be Wyoming and aircraft flown to A Navy flotilla of 46 warships steamed into the Pacific leaving Indochinese waters with about evacuated Americans and tens of thousands of fleeing South military officials at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines said the 7th Fleet vessels would let the evacuees off in either Guam or the UPIs four correspondents in Saigon covered the Communist takeover but have been unable to file dispatches from the South Vietnamese capital since Wednesday President Ford today called on Congress to quickly draft new legislation to pay for the Vietnam evacuation and assist in resettling He made the appeal after the House Thursday killed a million humanitarian aid by a vote of 246 The President deplored that He said in a statement It is not worthy of a people which has lived by the philosophy symbolized in the Statue of It reflects fear and rather than charity and Ford said in a veto message that spending under the would add an unnecessary billion to his budget deficit and would be costly not only to consumers and but to American farmers in the long If the oneyear emergency became Ford it could dry up markets for farm products and lead back to discredited policies resulting in huge multibillion dollar federal spending and a revival of government acreage controls for In the long Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz the would also have meant higher food prices for Democratic lawmakers charged Fords action would leave farmers without adequate price protection at a time when their costs are at record levels and the government is calling on them for allout food They said administration cost estimates were greatly Ford did not Butz earlier predicted he would the impact of his veto by ordering administrative action to raise wheat and feed grain support loan rates to about halfway between present levels and those proposed in the But he took two steps designed to mollify farm The President promised he would order increases in support loan rates for feed grains and soybeans later if unforeseen further declines in farm prices require such in a move strongly urged by GOP he announced we are determined to do everything possible to avoid any revival of federal export controls on farm Farmers had protested bitterly against federal restraints on exports of soybeans in 1973 and a wide range of crops in late 1974 and early claiming the action had driven down their Chairman Thomas D of the House Agriculture Committee said the House would probably vote on overriding the veto late next but conceded it would be a uphill Butz predicted the veto would be partly because of a recovery of farm prices in Ford meeting Sadat in June Weather Clearing and becoming sunny High temperature 60 to Mainly clear Low about Mostly sunny and mild High in the low Westerly wind 10 to 20 miles per becoming variable 5 to 10 miles per hour The probability of precipitation is 10 per cent near zero tonight and 10 per cent HIGH LOW 46 The high reading was recorded at today and the low at 6 Rain accumulated to inches during the past Barometric pressure at was and Temperatures yesterday were 50 3 51 6 52 9 49 48 today 46 46 50 and By United Press International President Ford will meet Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin separately next month to discuss a Middle East peace reports from Cairo and Tel Aviv said Egyptian diplomatic sources said the meeting would take place early in June in Ford will be in Europe at the time to attend a NATO meeting in The Israeli national radio said Ford and Rabin would meet in Washington as a followup to the Official Israeli government sources said they had no information on a Ford Rabin Tel Aviv newspapers said such a meeting would be natural and logical because of the failure of Secretary of State Henry peace mission earlier this year and Fords decision to reassess Middle East President Ford after Vietnam could now possibly strive for a personal foreign policy the newspaper This meeting could be a last and desperate attempt to avoid a Geneva Both Israel and the United States have said they were ready to attend a reconvened Geneva Middle East conference but also have expressed reservations that such a conference would fail if not thoroughly prepared The Cairo sources said the official announcement of the June 12 the first between Ford and would be released simultaneously pay WASHINGTON UPI If you are a married worker with four dependents and a annual you probably just got what amounts to a weekly Its because federal income tax withholding was reduced Thursday as a result of the tax cut Congress passed in A single person earning a year gets an extra a week because of the smaller It may not seem like much to but collectively the change will increase payroll by billion during The 10 per cent rebates on 1974 federal income taxes that begin going out in midMay at the rate of to for most families will contribute another billion to consumer Another billion in Social Security at will be distributed in the next four The total effect will be to add billion in income at the consumer Economists will be watching closely what Americans do with the extra If they spend it on clothing and other durable this should stimulate production and employment and ease the If people put their bonus dollars in the or use them to pay the tax cut and rebate plan will have a much less salutory effect on the Some employers may not have gotten new withholding schedules from the government in time for this weeks When they the lower withholding would be retroactive to May ALFRED UNIVERSITY Freshman Chris Aman takes advantage of the spring weather to try out a contraption he put Aman used parts from a bicycle and a steering wheel from a 1953 Its great for the leg he but a terrible beast at slow speeds and up UPI NOTICE Effective May the carrier route price of the Wellsville Daily Reporter will be adjusted to 75 cents per This is the first price increase for carrier route delivery since In honor of Senior Citizens the Daily Reporter offers those subscribers 65 and older a special yearround 20 percent discount for all home including carrier and motor Interested senior citizens should refer to page 8 for more Those not subscribing to this newspaper may obtain an application by calling the Daily Reporter at 593 Mary Anne changes her mind UPI Mary Anne responding to news reports that she had asked to receive a raise she originally said she would not now says she will accept all but 25 per cent of the She said the portion of the raise she declines will be used to hire a small number of interns for summer work in her Her statement Thursday came two days after United Press International quoted sources as saying the lieutenant governors office specifically requested that she receive her full annual retroactive to On Miss office had told UPI that Miss still intended to return the money to the The which Miss debated against as a state boosted the lieutenant governors salary from to appropriations were only made for the raise at the beginning of the new fiscal April During her campaign last fall and in her first few months in Miss has said she would not accept the or would accept only 90 per cent of her or give her an annual Thursdays would salary of Miss who said the would be taken out of her July noted that except for Hugh Careys pledge to take a 10 per cent I know of no such attempt by any of the other state elected the legislative leaders or department Miss also pledged to take only that portion of her a payment in lieu of an itemized expense that she actually spends on official returning the balance of the lulu to the states general Miss has been criticized by Republicans for increasing her offices budget to more than three times the amount spent by former Malcolm Wilson in Wilsons last year as second She maintains the funds are needed for her office to perform new watchdog functions over spending by state Miss Edwin receives as counsel to Assembly Speaker Stanley
