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Show 4A DESERET NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1973 J) Brassys 36 South Main & 37 Richards St., Salt Lake City. Order by Phone 355-626- 3. Isolation offered at Camp David by James Cary Chief, Washington Bureau Copley News Service WASHINGTON Camp David, the presidential community set in a verdant retreat, is a oak forest and Marylands Catoctm Mounatop chestnut tains. It is the isolation and serenity that have attracted Richard Nixon. He has used Camp David as a place to think, write key speeches on welfare reform and Indochina, to work out policy statements and even to nail together the framecontrol program. work of his Phase I wage-price In April, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt selected as the site for a presidential retreat. Camp Misty Mount and Greentop were returned to the park service. after Roosevelt changed the name to Shangri-L- a Jimmy D. littles raiders bombed Tokyo that year. The president claimed facetiously to newsmen at the time that instead of an the planes had taken off from Shangn-L aircraft earner President Harry Truman didnt use the camp much but President Dwight Eisenhower did for the next eight years after he took office in 1953. It was Ike who changed the name to Camp David m honor of his grandson, now mamea to Mr. Nixons daughter Julie. President Eisenhower held Cabinet and National Security Council meetings there while recuperating from his heart attack in 1955. An histone and amicable conference there with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in September, 1959, gave birth to the short-livespirit of Camp David. President John F. Kennedy used the camp, tuo. for conferences and relaxation and President Lyndon Johnson resumed the practice of receiving numerous heads of state there. d 13 pc. famous Burlington in 15 year guarantee on this famous Serta elegant all wood mediterranean Save $ 217 Moorish inspired carvings accent this fine a!l wood mediterranean group Finished in a mellow pecan. Camp David consists of the presidential lodge, Aspen, four guest cabins in the immediate vicinity called WiKh Hazel, Birch, Dogwood and Maple, and a separate area in the northeast comer of the camp where six guest cabins are clustered around a central lodge named Laurel. The cabins, although completely renovated m 1957 and 1958 and improved many times since, are still of the original rustic board and batten construction, stained or painted a moss green. The recreational facilities are extensiv e. Staffed by naval personnel, the camp has movies, two bowling alleys with automatic pinsetters, a swimming pool, skeet range, two tennis courts, a trampoline, golf green with three tees, snowmobiles, sleds, toboggans and sliding disks, an outdoor municipal ice rink ini nearby Thurmont, Md., at the bottom of the montain, pool tables, bicycles, a playground, shuffleboard, hiking and nature trails. Even an archery range can be set up on year-roun- wed. thru. fri. specials LOWEST PRICES EVER ON FAMOUS d request Camp David is one of the few places where President Nixon and his family can get outside and walk in complete and secure privacy. It is an ideal place for meditation and restoring the soul. It is cool, placid, green and still m a world suddenly grown shnll, strident, hot and dirty. It is a place for presidents whose troubles appear as towering and immovable as the mountains encircling Aspen Lodge. size queen FAMOUS MODE QUALITY-Y- oj l.ke this d Public financing the only sure way wont fnd anythrg Mode Cueen size sleeper anywhere near this price' Quality innerspring mattress, exactly as pictured with loose cushion back, and best of all, it s covered in careHerculon free, almost child-ro- corruption had been on the books for over 30 years. When it was passed. By John W. Gardner The Christian Science Monitor News Service - In WASHINGTON, D C. the early weeks of the Senate Watergate hearings, a visitor to Capitol Hill could have witnessed a startling example of one senatorial hand not knowing what the other hand w'is doing (or knowing and not In the bill reported by the Rules Committee, the prohibition contained in the old Section 611 has been deleted, thus opening wide the door to corruption that Congress tried to close 30 vears ago. There is another astonishing in the bill reported out At Sen. Sam Ervins hearby the Rules Committee. The ing thp visitor would have sat 1971 law requires that, in respellbound by the greatest po- porting gifts, candidates suplitical scandal in our nation's ply the occupation and princiand would surely pal place of business of the" history a great help m dehave noted the extent to donors the corruption was termining the true identity of which e fueled by secret campaign donors. The new Rules bill deletes the requirecash. If the visitor left the hear- ment. canng). retreat Crm-mitte- super special Sofa Sleeper at an incredible price! in carefree Herculon exactly as covered Its free with shown delivery full-siz- e Free delivery, freight prepaid 150 miles, BankAmericard, Master Charge 355-626-Open Weeknites till 9 Order any item by phone. Call collect 37 Richard St. - 36 South Main, uptown 3. ings, fought his way past the crowds and television cables in the hall and strolled directly down the comdor to Room 30 he might have had the good luck to see the distinguished members of the Senate Ru'es Committee entering or leaving their highly secret sessions on a new campaign financing bill. Shaken the horrors by revealed at the Ervin hearings, our visitor might have imagined that the Rules Committee would be doing everything possible to diminish the corrupting influence of money m politics. But our visitor would have been wrong Although the bill (now reported by the Rules Committee) has a nurnoer of excellent features effective enforcement through an independent elections commission and a ban on cash contributions, for example it also contains some utterly astonishingly retreats from the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1971. The bill contains limits on the size of contributions from individuals and committees. This might be counted as valuable if it were not for the fact that the limits are far too high. An individual can give a congressional race and $15,000 m a presidential race. It is pleasant to report that all senators do not share this mentality Sen. Phillip Hart has introduced a $5,000 in bill fm public financing jf campaigns and Senators Adlai Stevenson HI and Charles Mathias Jr. have done likewise. It is becoming increasingly clear that public financsoluing is the only long-rution to the seemingly limitless corruption generated by the present campaign finance system. n Another sign of forward-lookingood sense in the Senate was the action of Sen Bill Brock, chairman of the Senate ComRepublican Campaign mittee, who announced that Section 611 of the act specihis committee would not fies that no organization hold- accept any cash contributions ing a contract with the U S. over $59 and would not engage Government can make a camin the practices of earpaign contribution. 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