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Show 'Ifi Didn't know of leak to Schorr, 1 2 say u. s. scene i Wage floor to stay as is i WASHINGTON WASHINGTON (UPD There appears to be no prospect of an increase being voted this year in the federal minimum wage law. Rep. John Dent, chairman oi the House Labor Standards subcommittee, says ha has decided to cancel a hearing set for this week on legislation that would have raised the . ) minimum wage from $2 30 an hour to $3 because there was little chance that it would be approved by both the House and the Senate before Congress adjourns next month GE to pay cleaning bill The state announced . ALBANY, N Y. (AP) today that the General Electric Co has agreed to pay $3 million toward cleansing the Hudson River of highly toxic PCBs The state said it would cooperate in the cleanup program by also contributing $3 million toward the effort. Tons of the industrial chemical polychloriwhich have been dumped into the nated biphenyls river by two GE plants over 20 years lie in the river Sediment. Consumer panel enlarged WASHINGTON (AP) Stung by complaints from consumer groups, Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz is expanding an advisory panel to give the public a larger voice in reviewing federal regulatory programs affecting such activities as meat inspection and milk marketing Rita Zimmer Johnston. Bethesda, Md., was named Tuesday as a grass roots consumer" member of the departments Advisory Committee on Regulatory Programs, increasing the panel to nine from the original eight announced earlier. 4 A AIiVMM (Mil jr W HAVf I pUI ' (UPD - t 2 meat executives fined Two executives of a LOS ANGELES (UPD inajor supplier of meat pioducts to the Army were fuied and given suspended prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to shipping misbranded sausage to government supply centers. Mandel goes on trial BALTIMORE (UPD The political corruption of Gov. Man in Mandel mid four codefendants liognn today as defense and prosecuting attorneys started to quiz more than UN) prospective jurors indictment with They are charged in a multi-coumail fraud and violations of anti racketeering statutes. trial nt WASHINGTON (AP) 4 or knew anyone who did They were also asked if they knew anything of the &St & . , iwt v H 8, 1976 2A i a r circumstances surrounding the publication of tiie document in the Village It Voice. All replied in the negative The subpoenaes lequire the witnesses to turn over to the committee any document they had m connection with their former positions Three turned some papers ovet to a marshal. The committee has spent five months and $131,436 of a $150,000 authorization in its so far fruitless search for the culprit and is nearing the end of its financial and investigative resources Thirteen members of the now defunct intelligence committee and ail its staff members have already testified in private or public that they dont know who gav e the report to Schorr. Officials of the CIA and executive branches h;n e also failed to identify the leaker. DESERET NEWS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 87 and lonely s4f Jfc&fASSJS.JSP - i srar r t " t 5 I r Cassandra Everybody 1 know is dead or moved away. Id like to talk to somebody whos alive. Id like some company." Combined wire sen ices A year ago, Cassandra Edwards of Seat tie was getting money and visits from strangers who read newspaper stories of how she was mugged and robbed of $1 cash and $10 m food stamps. But now her newfound friends have disappeared and Mrs Edwards, alone again, is asking the state to place her in a nursing home. "1 dont blame people for not taking the time to see me. Im not very interesting," Mrs Edwards, a widow, s.pd in an interview Besides loneliness, financial worries helped prompt her to ask Washingtons Department of Social and Health Services to ;c.ove her to a nursing home, where her expenses would be partially subsidized by the state. rent for The her apartment in the citys moderate-incom- e Capitol Hill section takes too big a chunk from her $261 90 monthly welfare check, Mrs Edwards said Fischer vs. Karpov Bobby Fischer of the United Stales confirmed during a one-davisit in Bangkok, Thailand, that negotiations have been completed for a match with world chess champion Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union, the newspaper Bangkok World said It said the series of games is worth $3.5 million to the winner and wll be played hi Manila at a date to be fixed later A raise for ail, except solons on SALT - There will be no (AP) living pay raise this election year for members of Congress. The Senate voted 46 to 25 Tuesday to exclude senators and House members from an automatic pay Jo all federal civil service increase due 0t. employes The House had voted 325 to 75 last Wednesday to exclude nut only Congress but also federal judges. Cabinet members and other top federal officials pnnung more than viT.siNi a year The Senate, however, in adopting an amendment by Sen. Robert A. Taft. agreed to lift the salary freeze for all but senators and congressmen. The ultimate pay raise fate of judges and top federal officials will await decision of a House Senate eoiifei cnee on die billion-dolla- r legislative appropriation bid for fiscal 1977. The exact amount of the federal pay raise, due unless blocked by Congress, is auloinalically Oct. yet to be determined, but it has been estimated at 4 8 percent That would have raised the salary of G25 to $46,750 a year. members of Congress from The current salary reflects a 5 percent automatic raise last year Sen. Ernest F. Ilollings, D SC., chairman of the Senate legislative appropriations subcommittee, defended the pay raise for all officials, including members of Congress WASHINGTON cost-o- f -- diplomats intend to meet their Soviet counterparts soon in quest of a new superpower pact to curb their nuclear armories, now that President Ford has weathered the conservative chairman Within Republican party. Senior administration officials, reporting the meeting plans today, said it is conceivable a second-phas- e agreement can be achieved in the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) by late October While Ford and Ronald Reagan were slugging it out for the Republican presidential nominal ion. the Ford administration hardly dared forge ahead in search for a new SALT pact. But now, according to State Department officials, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger feels frv--r to act. And any progress in the arms limitation area would likely enhance Fords election prospects in Nov ember. U S. PEOPLE v It's back to work SWIFTS Wealth of Health -the Twelve House former staff members of Intelligence Committee today testified under oath they had no knowledge of who was responsible for leaking a seeret report to CBS reporter Daniel Schorr. The House Ethics Committee subpoenaed 18 former staffers who either had not been questioned m public before or were being asked again if they knew who supplied a copy of the report to Schorr. Five of the 18 did not appear at the hearing today and a 13th witness, James C. Mingee III, was asked no questions hut was told he would be interrogated in executive session Schorr turned over the report to the Village Voice newspaper in New York last February despite a ban on its i elease by the full House. The 12 persons questioned in public today were asked if they gave Schorr a copy of the report sometime in January te UVf SAN CLEMENTE, Catif. (LTI) Today marked an anniversary for Richard Nixon, but it was doubtful there would be any celebration behind the walls of his Oceanside estate. It was two years ago today exactly a month to the day after Nixon resigned the presidency in the that President face of impending impeachment Ford granted him a "full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes committed as president A IIW1MI VvliN 1 1 Ho said that if the Taft amendment, allowing the raise for everyone but members of Congress, were adopted there will be 14 White House staff aides running around earning more than senators." The debate mcludeif discussion over whether Congress members, if tbev lacked the guts" m an election vear to vote themselves a pay raise, should deny it to other top government officials. PREWI LaLanne labors Fitness buff Jack LaLanne made like Moby Dick Tuesday testing to see if lie was up to a little t2nd birthday swim. LaLanne. owner of a string of health clubs and nationally televised exercise instructor, rehearsed by trying to swim 100 yards in the harbor, bound hand and foot and tow mg 13 row boats from a rope around his waist, including one loaded with reporters. He didnt make it Award for Bombock Erma Bonibeek, a suburban housewife and mother of three who 11 years ago began writing a local newspaper column that is now syndicated m 512 newspapers, has been chosen to receive the University of Daytons 1976 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Mrs. Bonibeek. a 1916 graduate of the school, is to receive the aw ard at the umversitvs homecoming weekend dinner ' Oct. 23 Actress Sophia Loren, left, and her sister Maria Scieeolone attended (he Church of Sai.la Maria della Perscverana in Rone Tuesday for the funeral service for their father, Riccardo Seiccolonc. He was 69. In Betty's name scholarship lias been set up in the name of first Lady Betty ford to help pay the tuition of students in fashion education The Washington fashion Group announced the scholarship Tuesday Margy Grigg. a director of .he group, said tiie scholarship was named for Mrs. Ford "has focused great attention on a because fashion industry icau Aniei cai gi A . Ex-Dea- found guilty th Former Bealle George Harrison was not aware of it. but he infringed on a copyright when he wrote the melody for "My Sweet Lord" in 1970, a federal judge says. U S. District Court Judge Richard Owen, a composer himself, convicted Harrison of copyright Infringement Tuesday. Although Harrison did not deliberately plagnrie the melody of "lies So Fine " he did essentially use the work, the judge said shank half P&G taps woman Marina V.N. Whitman, professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, has boon nominated to he the first woman director of Proctor 4 Gamble Co Dr. Whitman serv ed as a member of the National Price Commission in 1971 72 and as a member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers during 1972-7- 3 STANDING 0LP FMT1IFVL MMl neednt cost a fortune just I uv kh i mat EawEfl r7 mr, I I ""N Ml it- - M ip e i IE rtE CJAVS fres salmon LE CrS 09 3 Our VitaiTliO pliCSS ATS making us absolutely famous1 And they should be making you estatically happy Well here's more for fame and happiness fie:j. 3.79 Multiple Daily Vitamins, 500 tablets (a supply) Regular leds or yellow with iron Reg. 3.99 Vitamin C, 500 tablets, 250 mg each amount to 417 of the US R D A per tablet (a 77 pxU17 d). th supply) Reg. 3.99 Vitamin E, 100 caps, each 400 I.U.s with DL Alpha Tocopheryl Each capsule contains 1333 of USRDA. 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