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Show All DESEREfNEWSjTuesday, January 30, 1973 4s?r i fit Lameduck Nixon Faces Hostile Congress By RAYMOND M.LAHR ' j j , 1 ; ! - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon heads into his second term cast in ithe role of a lameduck who must battle a hostile Democratic congress over a domestic program that is not likely to gen erate much national interest. Nixon became constitutionally ineligible for another term with his landslide victory. in November over Sen. George S. McGovern. The President Won what he called a new American majority, a victory he said transcended traditional party politics. But if he won a mandate it was one that is not easily read. He said he favored not radical change but change that will work. The specifics of that will be found in the unfinished change business from his first term and the pronouncements still to come from his second. He still must give priority to completing peace terms of the Vietnam War. In addition his New American Revolution proclaimed for domestic policy almost two years ago has not been carried out. His revolution called for a reversal of the flow of power to Washington and a return of it to state and local govern- ments and to the people. This new feder- - ' alism theme ran through his campaign on domestic issues. More than three years elapsed from the time he endorsed sharing federal income tax revenues with state and local governments until Congress approved a much amended version of its own. The welfare reform program he endorsed at the same time rode a bumpy road through the House and died in the Senate. For the New American Revolution outlined in his 1971 State of the Union Message, he restated those two programs and added a major overhaul of cabinet departments and along with a proposal for special revenue sharing of $11 billion. This special revenue sharing plan is to give state and local governments more flexibility in spending the present categorical aid money, which is translated by state and local government officials to mean excessive federal regulation and red tape. Pressure from the states and ocal units of government eventually promptPres. Nixon's domestic plan not ed Congress to act on general revenue sharing, allotting them o'!er $30 billion r expected to generate much nation-- in a period. The cabinet al interest. changes and special revenue sharing Voters seldom get enthused about issues which involve moving around on charts squares and lines tepresenting government'' agencies and functions. Many developed an interest in general revenue sharing, but public interest lagged in the special types defined by Nixon. The bill enacted by Congress i" 1972 did, in fact, contain a form of special s revenue sharing in the of the money Earmarked for local governments. Those units were given freedom to spend it as they wished for specified functions such as public safety, pollution control, public health and recreation. But excluded was education, which comes under a categorical grant program. Voters are constantly interested in taxes. Nixon proposed a year ago that two commissions study methods of financing public schools with the aim of cutting local property taxes by 50 percent. five-yea- YOUR HEALTH two-third- The Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations has voted to tell the administration that state and local governments can handle their own prop No Tests To Prove Who's Dad 0 By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Are there any tests such as blood tests that will show a man and boy are father and son? I need-thiinformation desperately as our oldest son is 14 and my husband has always accused me of having had an affair with another man. Ill do anything without letting this boy know. B.F. S N U G s three (mother, child and presumed father) sometimes can prove that a certain man is not the father. Its this way: when the parents have any pairing of the four possible main blood types (A, B, O, and AB) it is possible to say what types the children can have and what types they cannot have. If your husband would agree to such tests, and also agree to stop accusing you if the tests showed that he could be the father, that might settle the unhappy situation. Note to W.H., Jr.: Yes, ordinarily it is possible to repair broken ear drums, and since you are having so much trouble with your hearing, I would consult an ear specialist as to your case, to see whether either or both ear drums are suitable for such repair. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My doctor told me I have two small polyps in my lower bowel and should have them burnt out. I ignored his advice and had an examination one year later and was told they were the same size as before. I have talked to another specialist in the field and he only tells me not to worry about them. Any advice you would give me could help me make a decision. W.H.C. I believe that a polyp in the lower bowel that is readily removable with a as yours sigmoidoscopic procedure should be removed. It is evidently are a rather simple undertaking. The reason I suggest removal is that polyps in that unlike polyps in the nose or area some other areas sometimes have a tendency to become malignant. erty tax problems. It also agreed that a tax a form of national sales tax was nAt needed for school fi- value-adde- d nancing. The administration doned the value-adde- d has all but abantax idea. Nixon has said he is opposed to federal tax increases and that property tax relief would have to come a step at a time, beginning with help for the elderly whose property tax burden tikes up a substantial part of their income. Before voting on its report, the advisory commission ordered a public opinion survey that indicated only 7 percent of the public thought property taxes wer the fairest, compared with 3(1 for the federal income tax, 33 for state sales taxes and 11 for state income taxes. When asked which level of government gave them the most for their tax money, 39 percent picked the federal government, 26 local government and 18 percent the states with the balance in the don't know' class. This breakdown could raise questions about whether most citizens indeed regard the federal worse than government as an ogre the units close to the people. Nixon did appear to catch the public mood in his opposition to busing public school pupils for racial balance, but legislation for that purpose died in a Senate filibuster. And the voters and all known officeholders in both parties are with him against crime and drug addition een when they disagree about what should be done. Congressional opponents of the revenue sharing bill already enacted are watching for any sign of abuse or scandal in the use of that money. And if history7 is any guide, Democratic committees and their staff agents will be alert for any whiff of scandal in any part of the administration. The party must pull itself together to reoccupy the White House after the 1976 election. Domestic policy is not the only arena. Until the war is settled and probably thereafter, Nixon will be in continuous conflict with the doves in the Senate over their efforts to cut the defense budget to finance their favored domestic 4 projects. Disputes over health insurance and tax reforms should promote debates lasting several years. Arguments about federal spending, deficits, economic controls and them relation to inflation may never end. Federal Agents Nail Drug Pushers For Dirty Cafes , Watered Drinks D If youre willing to have the tests, you evidently are pretty sure that theyd have to prove you right. Unfortunately there is no blood test to prove that the boy is the fathers son. However, comparing blood types of all i were all but ignored by a congress which was under no similar pressure. By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON In the style of Eliot Ness, Federal agents are chasing down narcotics push - ers for such crimes as tax serving cheating, liquor to minors and having dirty E counters in their cafes. Y D Pursuit "In a recent poll, a record 100 percent favored the abolition of the death penalty. The survey was conducted at the State Prison." Mu Phi Epsilon Recital One of Traditional Merit By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic As regularly as birds fly south for the winter and they have had an unusually convincing winter to prove the rightness of this migration the professional chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon finds a way to raise some scholarship money to assist a member of the student chap- ter. Mu Phi Epsilon in case anyone is the honorary sorority has forgotten for professional women musicians. And just as regularly as Mu Phi presents its annual scholarship benefit fund recital, just as regularly does it present a worthwhile recital. The recitalists of last Sundays recital were no exceptions. The first of the five performers was Bonnie Bennett who returned to her first love (I think), the piano. Anyway, there was a time when Mrs. Bennett seemed to be best known for her piano accomplishments. During the past decade or less, she is best known, I think, for her playing in the violin section of the Utah Symphony. In any event, Mrs. Bennett took on the formidable assignment of Liszts Sonata in B Minor. She was highly successful in stressing the composers on hoods of such unorthodox charges dates back to the ",r- - Anderson days of Al Capone, who was jaiied for tax dodging when police could not make murder charges stick. And Attorney General Robert Kennedy carried the practice to an art w'hen his drive netted a major gangster with his car trunk full of illegally shot wildfowl Now, agents of DALE Drug Abuse Law Enforcement are using ' same techniques to nail heroin street hustlers who are too slippery to be caught on narcotics counts. From our conversations in' the field with the agents themselves, here are tactics: some of their Armed with city health codes, the agents are checking out junky restaurants and bars for insects in ice cream machines, dirty counters and scum on sinks. They then turn over their cases to anti-Maf- classical and intellectual facets rather than his garish showmanship. A fluent and competent technician, Mrs. Bennett was always able to cope with the strenuous pianistic demands with efficiency. If there were passages of steel-poipounding in the roulades of double-fort- e octavesl and there were, there w7ere also many beautifully controlled passages of pianissimo melodic lines. n No one would deny either that Bischoff also gave herself an assignment of proportions with five songs by Richard Strauss. The immense charm of Weimliche w'as set forth with power, Afforderung and her excellent performance of Morgen! one which successfully tempered the treacly flow of sentimentality, elevated the song arstically. Coh-lee- For these two, and the other three songs, Schlagende, Wiegenlied, and Caci-lie- ,. the challenging accompaniments were very satisfactorily played by Lennox Larson. Warm applause was also rewarded Francks Sonata for Violin and Piano in A, performed by Marilyn Anderson and Norene Emerson. Their memorable interpretation was warmly sympathetic, well phrased, and, above all, beautifully integrated. There was refined emotional freedom without exhibitionism, sensitivity without sentimentality, and care for details without stultifying caution. off-be- city health inspectors so the drug haunts can be closed down for health reasons. . The agents are making cases against operators of dope hangouts that sene liquor to minors, operate after hours and watere i whiskey. The purpose is to shut down drug haunts through follow-uaction by local alcoholic beverage commissions and boards. Because city and state tax cases are often easier to make than federal cases, the agents have offered their tal ents to local tax men. The agents have proved that hoodlums paid cash for big cars at a time when the hoods w'ere telling city tax authorities they had little or no income. In cities where marshals are lazy or overworked, the agents are serving bench warrants on missing suspects or chasing down jail escapees. Sometimes, the fugitives are under charges unrelated to drugs. But they draw their main income from drug traffic, thus are fair game for the narcs. The agents also have unvestigaled bail bond and parole violations by sus- p MERRY-GO-ROUN- D pected dreg hustlers, so that the pushers can be jailed, even when the crimes involved are not directly related to heroin. These novel methods are showing results, but the agents in the field complain they are getting little or no cooperation from then- - bosses, sociable Myles Ambrose. The agents are especially bitter because DALE was the brainchild of President Nixon himself, who installed Ambrose in the job and periodically has praised his successes. The agents tell us they could get twice as much done 'f Ambrose, his chiefs in the Justice Department, or the White House itself would persuade local authorities to give them more help. A letter from Ambrose or somebody else with some clout back there (in a Washington) could work miracles, frustrated DALE agnet told us. A city booze inspector is set in his ways. He isnt going to help me shut down a dop bar unless his mayor has told him to co- operate 100 percent. Despite these complaints by the Federal Narcotics, Tax and Customs Agents, and the local detectives who make up DALE, there have been solid accomplishments. A confidential tally on DALES results its from last January to December 18 first 11 months of operation --- shows more than 100 pounds of heroin, much of it low grade, was seized or w7as brought for evidence by undercover agents. Although heroin is DALES focus, the agents have also collected 50 pounds of cocaine, 25 of hashish, 6,000 pounds of marijuana and smaller amounts of LSD, amphetamines and smoking opium. DALE also claims 3,782 narcotics arrests, 449 convictions and the seizure of a warehouse full of implements of crime. These include $714,146 in cash, 677 pistols, nine hand grenades, 292 cars, an antitank gun, a cabin cruiser, six machine guns, an airplane and 104 pounds of explosives. Footnote: A DALE spokesman conceded that no official guideline had been put out for agents or city officials on the Eliot Ness-stylprosecutions. But Director Ambrose has visited 38 of DALE'S 41 target cities, and in each case has urged local officials to cooperate with DALES innoative methods, the spokesman said. e Consumers Union has started a probe of health insurance costs and as a first step asked Blue Cross for a look at its contracts with hospitals. Although the insurance firm operates under a congres- sional mandate in Washington, it refused the request, first claiming the contracts were too complicated for the consumer , ' group to understand. When the consumers offered to send lawyer, Blue Cross President Donald Farver flatly refused to let the lawyer see the contracts without the hospitals ' ' permission. This means policyholders cannot see the secret arrangements Blue Cross has with the hospitals who treat them. We have nothing to hide. Farver told us, even as he refused to let us ' see the contracts. a exposed a phony Lorill-ar' Tobacco Company campaign to sway the Civil Aeronautics Board against antismoking action. Now a Ralph Nader group has followed up with a formal charge that Lorillard seriously distorted the record. We recently d letter-writin- ' g , In its filing, the Aviation Consumer Action Project asked the CAB to investigate how many letters Lorillard got its ad agencies and employes to write. Lorillard has told writers not to use company stationery, but to , white "by hand, using home addresses to' make the outpouring look spontaneous. The aviation consumer group said the drive raised serious ethical and legal considerations for the Lorillard legal staff because the American Bar Association bans deceit or misrepresentation. Lorillard lawyer A. V. Stevens explained to us that he knew the antismokers had a campaign going and he felt that those with opposite views had a right to ex- t , t f " , , ' : . : , ; press their opinions. This military planning is almost sure to touch off another feud, as the rival services squabble for the declining defense dol- lars. The Air Force is already spreading the word that planes, taking into account the cost of their support, cost four times as much as inter-servic- e , ; , . , sea-base- d land-base- d - planes. In answer to the Navys argument that earners are mobile, the Air Force contends that a prefabricated airfield can be flow a into an area ard set up within three days. The taxpayers can buy dozens of these prefab fields for the price of a single carrier. Insurance Pay Hitch May Hinge On Phrase We have been having problems with our insurance company. On Sept. 3 we wrote a check for the balance of our premium payment to our auto insurance carrier. We dropped it into the mail deposit slot in the door of their office on a weekend. On Sept. 24 my husband was involved in a collision. He reported it to the carrier the next day. only to be told we were not insured as they had not received our premium check. We did not receive any kind of cancellation notice. We even submitted a copy of our checkbook entry recording this cheek, but they refuse to honor our claim. We dont have a cancelled check because it has never shown up at the bank. If this isnt bad enough, we cannot renew our policy because our car was involved in this accident without coverage. We think its unfair. Can you give us any enli- ghtenment? Mrs. K.R.P.. Kearns. Yes, but probably not what you want to hear and may not like. But there may be a way out. It may hinge on your phrase for the balance of our premium This implies that if they payment a accepted part payment of the premium, they may be liable for coverage even though you had not paid the rest of it. However, you pad it on Sept. 3. That turns out to be one day after the grace period of the policys due date. ..." y Thus, its possible, even if the check eventually shows, they will still deny your claim. It might hinge also on how your policy spells out when your premiums are due. You say but indicate that you also had requested permission to pay them quarterly. As far as you net receiving a cancellation notice. Nothing that says they are required to. And, unfortunately, the burden of proof about you putting your check into the mail slot is on you, not them. It appears that not requiring a cancellation notice to be sent is unfair and creates ambiguous inequities in coverage. The state insurance dept., has proposed legislation to the cunrent legislature to correct this. It also seems to us that you have another problem equally as tough. That is to get new insurance. There is an assigned (high risk) program that may help. You can apply through any reputable insurant agent. We cuggesl that you present both problems to the state insurance dept., in the state capitol. You will find them highly knowledgeable and helpful. semi-annuall- Hint for Homemn!ers The Consumer News Notebook (a publication put out by the Office of Consumer Affairs, Executive office of the President reports the suggestions ) of everything I can to get this cleared up but to no avail. Can you? done HXMT Mm You may write to Do-l- t Man, Box 1 257 Salt two readers we want to pass on! To cut the cost of shampoo, put half of the contents of the new bottle into the empty bottie. Fill both with water and mix. It will suds just as well. And dilute one bottle of dishwashing detergent with the same amount of water. You now have two bottles for the price of one. Works just as well. More Info Needed a dealer for the National of North Chicago for five Inc., Press, years. They owe me $62.60 in commission for four month's work. I have written to them a half dozen times but they ignore me. Can you help me? E.B., Salt Lake City. I have been They were quite prompt about 10 in answering us about your prob days '''TTSw take City, Utah 841 10 They seem to think that you should your commission by now but if to return their letter to you (weve you the one we got) to them with your original request (weve also sent back your letter to us to use) and include the name of the customer; date of order, quantity, item number, IBM code number and terms (COD, prepaid or open account). In your et.er to us you only included part of the information. Apparently- they need everything. Send 'em what they want and if that doesnt produce results, well prod them again. Just let us know. lem. have not sent - $10.00 Credit Applied you ask the Doubleday Book Club. Garden City, N.Y., to check its records? I have sent them $10 but have not received credit for same. I'vt, Will Mrs. L.B,., Salt Lake City. It has now7 been applied and theres 10 cents left over which they have sent back to you in stamps. Refund And Apology Last November I ordered a small welder from WelDex Mfg., Co., Houston, Texas for $18.93. I sent them a check. I got the welder but wasnt satisfied and since they guaranteed a refund if I wanted it, I returned it. I have not heard from them. Can you help me get my C.A., Idaho Falls. money? Our prodding letter reached receptive ears and now your refund is being proc- essed. They ace sending you a refund and an apology. Vho Is . Smarter In the army, a major is a higher rank than a lieutenant, yet for some reason a major general is lower than a lieutenant general. I've never been able to find the reason for this, although an . uncle trf mine says a lieutenant is , smarter than a major anyway. Can you tell me the real reason? K.G., Salt Lake City. Ask a Looey and hell agree, but we made an attack on some knowledgeable sources and found out the terminology . originated with early European armies. The rank of lieutenant general originated with the man who was lieutenant or or to deputy to the commander-in-chie- f a king. As such he was second only to . the man at the top, we were told. The 18th century British army had a slightly ! lower rank of sergeant major general, which was later shortened to just major general, the names still in use. -- Action Reaction I just cant thank you enough. Do you know the company sent me the two sets of statues today. Its unbelievable. They are beautiful and Im very happy for such wonderful sen ice. E.H., Price. Reaches Receptive Ears Publishers Central Bureau. Long Island City, N.Y., owes me $12.59. They have ignored my letters. Only .tan solve this. A.C.B., Springville. - 1 i (Editors Note: We're sorry the number of calls and the volume of mail make it impossible to answer every question. Please, no medical or legal questions. Don't send stamps or selfad dressed envelopes, as answers con only be given in this column. 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