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Show Air Getting Cleaner Water Dirtier Report Notes 9 B James H. Phillips Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON c The nation's a.r Setting cleaner, but the rivers and streams are becoming more polluted, the government reported Monday. The decrease in air pollution signifies that the nation is turning the corner" in its efforts to scrub the air clean of conta mounts, said Russell Train, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality Hut he warned that pollutants entering major watersheds from agricultural and construction activities pose a serious . threat to efforts to purify the nation's stream and rivers. ".Until we can deal with these effectively, we will not be able to overcome the problem," Train said. He made his remarks after presenting to President Nixon the diird annual rewater-pollutio- port on the environment which Tram heads. by the council The report estimated the cost to improve the environment during the 1970s would hit a cumulative total of $287 billion for the decade 01 about $100 per person per year. 9 Costs were running about $10 billion a year in 1970 and are expected to hit $".3 billion a year by 1980. Nixon, in an accompanying message to Congress, chided the legislators for failing to take prompt action on some 20 administration legislative proposals to clean up the environment. has "The time for deliberation passed," Nixon said. "It is now time for action." Although the report declared that even Yellowstone National Park "now has air that is contaminated by auto exln.ust fumes," a study monitoring pollutants m Demos Gather today To Nominate Shriver Combined Wire Services WASHINGTON United by a common sense of exhaustion if notiling else, the new Democratic National Committee meet:. Tuesday to ratify II. Sargen Shriver as the partys vice presidential nominee. One by one, most of the party's major power blocs were falling into line behind Sen. George S. McGoverns final choice of a running-mat- e and hope expressing that, at last, the campaign against President Nixon could get under way. The committee is scheduled to go through the formality of a roll call in prime television time Tuesday night, and then give the two nomirees a precampaign sendoff. The last shreds oi possible opposition faded Monday and even the chances of symbolic opposition to McGovern's choice disappeared. Nixon, Jackson Agree On Arms Pact Policy By John W. Finney New York Times Writer House WASHINGTON The White threw its public support Monday behind a compromise proposal by Sen. Henry M. to attach congressionJackson, al understandings to the interim agreement with the Soviet Union freezing the number of offensive missiles. Under the compromise resolution worked out over the weekend between Jackson and the White House, Congress would urge that any future treaty controlling offensive weapons should be based on the principle of equality of forces. At th same time. Jackson dropped a provision in his eailier resolution that would have called for abrogation of the r interim agreement before it expired if the Soviet Union took any steps that jeopardized U.S. deterrent forces, even if such steps were permissible under the agreement. Endorses Nixon's Position five-yea- Instead, the revised Jackson resolution endorsed the administration position that if no treaty on offensive weapons were reached by the expiration of the interim agreement in 1977. this would be sufficient grounds for abrogating the acdecompanying ABM tieatv controlling missiles. fensive antibalhstic The White House issued a statement indicating that President Nixon endorsed the modified Jackson resolution as consistent" with the administration statements and policies. The statement ended the uncertainty over the Presidents position, but did not necessarily preclude a fight in the Senate over the Jackson resolution Committee Delays Study At the suggestion of the Senate Forthe Senate eign Relations Committee, Democratic leadership has put off consid-eiatioof the interim agreement pending clarification of the Presidents views on the Jackson resolution. The Senate approved the ABM Treaty last week but has not yet acted ujion the resolution, which must be passed by both the House and Senate, authorizing the President to enter into the intei lm agreement on offensive strategic missiles. With the presidential position clarified, the Senate probably will return to consid-etatioof the interim agreement, but a sustained floor fight is expected over whether the Jackson resolution would on which change the underlying concepts the interim agreement was reached and which presumably would serve as a basis for a permanent treaty on offensive weapons. This fight will involve politics and Inside The Tribiine Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 (Copyright) But No Rifles Army to Double WACMay Give em Pants By Robert A. Dobkin Associated Press Writer The Army Monday announced plans to nearly double the size of the Womens Army Corps by 1978, to give the WACs almost any type job except combat, and maybe o put them in pantsuits. It's part of a plan to use more w omen in the military and to ease slightly the Army's problems in achieving an allvolunteer Army, by next summer. "By bringing in more women, the Army will bo able to reduce the number of men required in noncombat jobs," explained the WAC director, Brig. Gen. Mildred C. Bailey. Expand to 21,000 WASHINGTON a news conference ., candidate-- It appeared that no one would be nominated except Shriver. A nomination requires the candidate's signature and the written support of 20 commiftee members. , increased ide's, which bv 4 5 percent. increase of 5,433 O ve nv helming! y over 1970 ' T i is on Page 24. ' Against Gun Control By John Chadwick associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday against outlawing private possession of handguns and against requiring the registration of all of their firearms and the licensing - owners. The votes were the first on legislation since the attempted assassination on May 15 of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Final passage of the handgun bill is expected late Wednesday afternoon after more the Senate considers a amendments. First, the Senate rejected 84 to 7, a measure by Sen. Philip A. Hart, to prohibit privately ow n"d handguns of the WAC, will expand to 15,900 by next June and by June, 1978, will be 13,320-memb- the largest since World War II, when it was nearly 100,000. To help attract new enlistees, Gen. Bailey said the green uniform will be restyled to make it more feminine, more comfortable and easier to maintain. A pantsuit for work also is being considered. she said. 21,000, A caucus of Illinois delegates Saturday chose a compromise slate of six members to the national committee, a slate satisfactory to Daley. An anticipated challenge to that slate from Chicago Alderman William Singer whose forces heal Daley out of the convention seats at Miami Beach last month never materialized The national committee's credentials committee met Monday at the Sheraton Park hotel here, but Singer did not show-tito oppose the Daley faction. In a telephone interview he said he would merely file a request that at some undetermined future date the membership from Illinois could be subject to replacement." Critical of Compromise , Singer was critical of the McGovern national strategists' compromise with Daley. "They woiked out a deal where Daley got five out of the six members, Singer said. "We don't accept that decision." But he said no effort would be made before the committee meets Tuesday to unseat the Illinois members. Daley said in Chicago Monday that McGovern telephoned him Saturday to inform him he had selected Shriver. Daley called it a great appointment." It apparently was the first discussion between the two men since the convention when McGovern forces blocked Daley's delegation from taking seats in the hall. The credentials committee heard challenges, most of them minor, from the states of Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersev and Virginia Monday. Only in the case of Ohio did a challenge revive the animosities that plagued the party's national convention. McGovern's Ohio forces joined with Rep. Louis Stokes to try to lebuke Frank W. King, president of the state's AFL-CTand an Ste Page 2, Column 1 any kind. Substitute Measure Hari offered his bill as a substitute for to a measure by Sen. Birch Bayh, ban the sale of easily handguns not suitable for sporting puiposes. Tlie Senate then rejected 78 to 11, an amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, to Bavhs bill to require that all rifles and shotguns as well as firearms be registered and that ownhandguns ers obtain federal or state licenses. snub-nose- also Hruska, spoke against Hart's and Kennedy's proposals, calling them unrealistic. Influence Cited Kennedy said the power and the influence of the National Rifle Assn, could he seen in the defeat of his and Harts proposals. He said also the Nixon administration has failed to take a strong stand for measures. At this tune of the year the weatherman is likely to got rid of anything he has in sto k. A- 4m Sen. Roman L. Hail, in uiging his more sweeping bill, told his colleagues that if they voted foi it they would "be making more likely the survival of your family and your neighbors." Hart's bill went too far and proposal would take out of the market place the kinds of handguns most commonly used by criminals. Bayh .said that his own Hruska, in arguing against Harts bill, said that legislation cannot be enforced unless it is reasonable and has public support. He said some 21, million handguns, including revolvers and pistols, arc sold annually in this country, with most of them purchased by citizens. g Todays Chuckle jyg? Bayh opposed it, as he had Harts bill, saying he didnt want to do anything that would imperil the chances of passing legislation to ban the sale of the small, kind of weapons commonly used by criminals. Hart agreed that his biil would not guarantee the disappearance of handguns," hut he told the Senate it would take a healthy nick out of them and put us in the direction we ought to be going." 1 x ;- : - - V Relativescarry BablbinaAndrade, 5, from burning tone- BOSTON (AP) Fire investigators searched through the charred ruins of a tenement building in the citys Roxburv section Monday, checking for evidence of an explosion which reportedly preceded an early morning fire that took eight lives. Maria Gomes, 24, her five small children, and her mother, Alberta Carvalne, fire. 60, perished in the Ahern, 70. also died. g $ Cath-erin- a Eire Fighters Treated Two oth 'r children, Balbina Andrade, and Candida Andrade, 3. were listed in critical condition at Boston City Hospital. They were rescued by fire fighters. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jose Andiade, eseajMl unharmed. said fire officials Ormand husband. Gomes' Mrs. 5. Gomes, was under treatment for shock, and two fire fighters remained hospitalized late Monday. A third was treated and released. Found dead in their beds on the second floor of tlic building were Mrs. Zelia, 7, Gomes and her five children Anthony, 5, James, 3, Gina, 2 and Michael, 1. The two other victims were found on the third floor, officials said. Cause of the fire officially was undetermined. City and state fire investiga-loi- s were studving reports that an explosion shook the ouilding just before flames wood frame house swept the 21 Fire and police spokesmen said two men who escajied reported hearing an explosion just before they discovered the f la mi's. Saw Sheet of Flames' Police said Gomes told them he was awakened by the explosion, stepped into the hall, and saw a "sheet of flames.' He told them he relumed to the beJioom and was overcome A fire department spokesman said Andrade told firefighters he was watch r room when ing television in his he heard an explosion. He ran into ihe hall and saw flames, they reported. In the meantime, the WACs have been authoiized to wear a more stylish t'ack r shoe and a black beret in place of tne old World War cap. first-floo- patent-leathe- Fire department spokesmen said the flames spread unusually quickly, break ing through the roof of the building before they arrived on the scene . Deputy Fire Chief Frank Sikora estimated damage to the building at $20,000. The structure once had been a singlefamily home, but nad been converted into three apartments, officials said. Same Skirt Lenth Skirt lengths, however, will remain the same one inch above or one inch below the knot'. "We feel this is a good reasonable skirt length for our uniform," said the general. The WACs, now mostly in clerical ancj administrative jobs, will soon take their, missile-repai- r place alongside men as crewmen, radar technicians, electronics operaspecialists and tors restricted for women, and they all invol.e carrying a rifle. The opening of new job opportunities to women followed a report last month v a House armed services subcommittee ninth accused the Defense Department of "more tokenism in the utilizatiui of women in the armed services." Associated Pess Wirephoto house in Boston. Early morning blaze took eight lives. ment Flames in Boston Tenement Claim 8 Blast Indicated Julie Joins Dedication - only 48 are - ' water-pollutio- Senate Votes Women Heretofore were allowed to fill only 139 of the 484 Army jobs, but now ContinSalt Like City and vicinity ued fair skies and warm temperatmes. Chance of ram near zero. Weather map sion The water pollution index of major watersheds disclosed there were 7(1,299 miles of polluted waterways in 1971, an heavy-equipme- Tuesday's Forecast The teport the most startling concluof the worsening problem is that increased stream flow dot's not dilute the pollution level because the rain water or melting snow flowing into the stream carries with it pollutants pickl'd up from the environment. The evidence suggests that, even it all discharges of municipal and industrial pollution sources were stopped, many streams would still he polluted as a result of discharges from runoff sources," pri niarily farmlands which have been fertil ized and urban lands disturbed for bevel opment. Tl nationwide estimate repoited that emissions of carbon monoxide dropped 4 a percent during the year, and purlieu lates 7 4 percent, primarily through con trols applied to smoke stacks. There was no percentage change in the amount of sulfur oxides or hydrocarbons discharged into the air The only increase m the five air pollutants monitored was from nitrogen ox- half-doze- n ity to acceptance of the concept of nuclear sufficiency for future arms control agreement. The White House's political motivations were reflected in a statement by the deputy presidential press secretary, Gerald L. Warren, announcing administration support for the Jackson resolution. told Eagleton Does Likewise Thomas F. Eagleton, whose resignation from the ticket a week ago set off a round of anguished searching, did the same. Sen. Even a new showdown with Richard J. Daley appeared to be avoided as McGovern's forces worked out a compromise with the powerful Chicago mayor. strategic philosophy, with the administration seeking to mollify conservatives who have been skeptical of the interim agreement while the opponents of the Jackson resolution seek to push the administration away from concepts of nuclear superior- She State Rep. Frances Farenthold of Texas quashed ner admirers hopes of making a stand for the nomination bv announcing she would not let her name ge into nonrnation. 82 metropolitan areas showed a ltl 9 percent decrease in contamination. "Based on almost all measures used, air quality on a nationwide basis between 1969 and 1970, the report sdd. "While some of this apparen improvement may be due to changes in weathe. localized short trm fluctuations or other factors aside from a meaningful reduction of emissions, the trend is promising." One significant finding was that communities under 100,000 population suffer problems almost as severe as those in large cities." Associated Press Wtrenhoto Boston firemen carry the body of victim from tenement fire as ambulance attendants and other fire- U men comfort otic of two badly ottrned little girls after the fire raced through their midtown dwelling. V WASHINGTON Julie Nixon (AP) Eisenhower will go to West Branch, Iowa, Thursday to take part in the dedication of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, the birthplace of the late president. The White House said Monday she will be on hand for the formal ceremonies at 2 p.m. CDT. It is the first public appearance for Mrs. Eisenhower sinoo she was taken ill with an attack of v!ral pneumonia a few weeks ago. |
