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Show 8A DESERET NEWS, Wednesdoy, Octob 1 8, 1 972 Congress Overrides Pollution Veto Continued from First Page 82.5 percent, raising from $1,680 to $2,100 the amount Social Security retirees can earn without reduced benefits; extending Medicare coverage for the first time to some disabled and creation of a uniform national minimum welfare income of $130 a month for over-65- , blind or totally dis-- . abled individuals or $195 per couple and The bills are the spending-limi- t final obstacles to be cleared before the j)2nd Congress could finally quit. Leaders said they were hopeful today would be the day The President served notice in his veto message that he would draw the spending issue in the closing weeks of the na. tional political campaign. not sustained is If this veto let the issue be clearly drawn. As with the spending ceiling, so with this bill, a vote to sustain the veto is a vote against a tax increase. water-pollutio- n con However, ferees still could come up with a compromise which would put tighter controls on the Presidents powers to make cuts to stay within the ceiling. Senate-Hous- e Last Friday the Senate voted to accept the ceiling but to exempt from any reductions several categories of spending and to limit cuts in any items to 10 percent. The House had voted to give Nixon the unlimited powers he requested On Saturday, conferees on the bill watered down the Senate provision. Under the compromise, the President v ould have been allowed cuts up to ceiling in the same legislation in which it would be enacted percent in broad categories; within a category he could have eliminated entire 20 This version was accepted by the House, 166 to 137, Tuesday but was turned down 39 to 27 in the Senate. Sen. Russell B Long, Backers of the Senate controls said that Congress already had yielded too much retreat that But Long declared Democrats taking this position must be prepared to face Nixons charge they were opening the way to higher taxes and more inflation its measure He then moved to add to the bill an amendment which would repeal the first-clas- in power to the president other fields and that they were unwilling to give up the power of the purse ., manager of the bill, said it was obvious that the President never would accept the Senates version of the ceiling and that the Senate would not on Hubert H Humphrey, insisted that the big .dget deficits of recent years have been caused not by irresponsible spenders, but because the economy is out of balance. s We have been in a recession for a long time," he said- The president has gone to deficit spending to try to get out of it. The House and Senate also sent to Nixon a continuing resolution to run the foreign-aiprogram through Feb 28, 197J It calls for spending at a annual rate, $1.5 billion less than Nixon asked n Awjed Sen The Senate adopted his motion; the conferees will have to decide what to do about it programs OF NURSES MASS MURDER d n famiCHICAGO (UPI)-T- he lies of eight student nurses slain by Richard Speck in 1966 and Mrs. Corazon Amurao Atienza, the only survivor of the massacre, were awarded $3.5 million in damages Tuesday in a civil suit against Speck Mrs. Atienza, who hid under a bed while eight other nurses were murdered one by one, was awarded $1.5 million in damages The families of the slain women were awarded $250,000 each ,n slayings It certamly seems to us that we must prevent this monster from coming into any overtimed the death sentence Ln the case last year Court said the future, the Wachowski, Casimer and attorney for Mrs. Atienza the victims families Wachowski conceded it was not likely that the money would ever be paid because Speck is in prison, but said Speck has taken up art and may write a book which may be made into a movie and make him a lot of money to Speck was sentenced in chair electric in the death 1967, but the U.S. Supreme money in R. COMING America's Tastiest SPAGHETTI SAUCE "A vote to override the veto is a vote to increase the likelihood of higher taxes." Nixon, in vetoing the bill, acted against the recommendation of William D. Ruckel-shauhead of the Environmental Protection Agency Ruckelshaus warned that a veto would raise questions about the administration's commitment to dean up the environment The measure, passed overwhelmingly in the Senate and House, was opposed by major industries and by some state I and local officials. Sen. pdmunt) S. Muskie, ; floor manager for the antipoliution bill, said the Presidept was just plain budgetwrong"' in his wrecking charge. The only budget we have 1973 before is his us budget arid the spending this bill provides' for 1973 is $250 million,"" Muskie declared, That will hardly bust the budget Over the ong run, this total amount of money is needed to do the job. We crack the whip it; this I bill on industrial and munici-- ' pal polluters, hut unless we provide the moiry to build the . plants we must have, this doesnt mean ,, anything," Muskie said. , The Senate vote to kill the n spending ceiling ' ' may have been the death blow for that Nixon proposal. , -- sew'age-treatme- 1,99 Sliced Bacon 63 Fryer Breasts 53' Bucket o Chicken - $250-biliio- McGovern Again Asks SIGMAN For Debate PRICES EFFECTIVE SEVEN FULL DAYS STORE HOURS WEEKDAYS Continued from First Page ; posal which was scuttled by the Senate Tuesday a cynical 7 device to draw public atten-- ; tion away from the pain and ' cost of the mismanagement our economy has suffered for four long years " In his speech to the Eco-- ' nomic Club of Detroit, the Democratic contender said a Nixon recession had strangled the economy" and cost two million Americans their jobs Nixon has tentatively scheduled another of his paid political radio addresses Thursday The subject has not been Friday, the Presi. announced. dent will go to Philadelphia to sign in Independence Hall the bill authorizing the sharing of $30.2 billion in federal revenues with fhe stat:s and cities. McGovern received a pledge of campaign help Tuesday . from Sen. Edward M. Kenne- dy McGovern aides said Kennedy would stump from coast-- . to coast for McGovern during the final two weeks of the race, concentrating on the big industrial states. One of the aides described Kennedy as "the most popular Democrat weve got. 8 A.M. -- 1018 THRU 10 P.M., SUNDAY 10 1024 A.M.-- 7 BAR-- PKG. GRADE "A" IB. GRADE "A" ALL MEAT o 1972 P.M. - Chunk Tuna DEL CAN Baby Food Fruit Drinks Asst. Jell-- o Potato Chips CAN 15-O- Z. Saltine Crackers HEINZ STRAINED DEL 46-O- Tomato Soup MONTE CAN Pancake Mix YOUR CHOICE PKG. COUNTRY KITCHEN PKG Choc. 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