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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1971
Page
2
Navy officials announced a major uniform change replacing flared trousers with straight legged working trousers. The shift, effective April 38 1973, moves away from belted shirts and buttoned vests for nonmanual tasks while preserving the beltless style for nonworking duties.
Senator Proxmire urged a complete ban on DDT in a Washington letter to EPA chief William Ruckelshaus. He accused the Nixon administration of an uneven policy, noting FDA enforcement of guidelines and seizures while EPA allows interstate shipments of DDT. The UPI report frames his demand amid agency tensions.
President Nixon flew to the New York Harbor area to view a 28 acre site proposed as a federal recreation area for up to 20 million people. The plan envisions transforming Sandy Hook Breezy Point and Jamaica Wildlife Preserve into the New York Gateway Park under forthcoming Congress legislation.
The Civil Rights Commission says progress is limited and some regression has occurred in seven months. It criticizes federal agencies for weak civil rights enforcement, notes housing policy narrowing at HUD, and commends the Justice Department’s housing section while urging a White House civil rights committee.
In Rehovot Israel the Weizmann Institute said scientist David Panon 45 has developed a pocket size cardiac monitor rivaling a bulky electrocardiograph. The device called the heart potential detector is described as a potential lifesaver for battle casualties previously deemed untreatable.
Washington AP report says eight undecided senators will decide the Senate vote on extending the draft past June 30. Administration sources note 45 senators favored extension, 4 opposed, 1 undecided, amid antiwar pressure and proposed amendments, with Stennis opposing a one-year limit and strategists hoping for a two-year extension under a 160000 calls ceiling.
Rep Wilbur D Mills warned May Nixon revenue sharing could destroy the federal system and predicted Congress would not pass it. Mills said the plan misstates surplus revenues and risks curtailing state and local government independence. He will hold hearings to kill the measure. Byrnes proposed a substitute shifting credits and freeing 8.8 billion for state and local use.
Washington expert Preston Martin of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board says mortgage rates have bottomed and are unlikely to fall further. He notes rates around 7.5 percent, with money flow into savings institutions supporting lending, and urges buyers that now is the time to buy. Small builders are returning as rates stay low.
Sen. George McGovern urged the administration to delay new food stamp regulations that he said would drop about 340 000 people from the program. He noted Secretary Clifford M. Hardin denied a 30 day delay to gather more public comment and warned the rules could reduce benefits for about 1.75 million people under the first subay system.
Twenty three people died and twenty five were injured when an autobus plunged down a mountainside near the Colombia Ecuador border between Samaniego and Linares, according to police.
Maj. Gen. W.B. Latta of Ft. Huachuca terminated Tucson area bus service to save costs and leases a Gates Lear Jet Co. Learjet for official travel at about 200000 per year. He argues the jet saves time and protects staff and papers from hijacking while costing less than a Air Force C131 and allows same-day Pentagon trips.
Gerard Smith head of the U S SALT delegation flew to Washington to meet President Nixon and officials, possibly staying a week. Daily low level talks will continue while formal sessions wait for his return, with Soviet leader Semenov and Smith having met on a lake trip. Negotiations stall over anti ballistic missile limits versus a mixed offensive defensive approach. A double session was held Friday to clear the decks for Smiths departure.
A nine-hospital survey in San Francisco shows five facilities with February bed usage down more than 40 percent from a year earlier. About 1,500 of 5,000 beds were empty, as unemployment and rising hospital costs pare the system amid Medicare restraint. Only French Hospital and Kaiser held near prior-year levels, while others like Children’s, Franklin, Mount Zion, Presby, St Joseph, St Luke, and St Mary posted notable declines.
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