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Show Lry m,r v T 5SV PH. J Vol :,4 I V n H i'i II , !M lrsy Ky ,&? hj v'y AHl M H (at '' Oiij w .' ViH I.fko ( Jr f ,A V i at Ill 210. No. Tfi vA "T- -. tali , I it - a. , Mind . " - t $ '5 FuLruarv !A iiM $ Pi k e i), 2, :a " Ida m to 4, Alunimg A. ,sr3& A I hu -j 0 W 2T 3X ( e ents TTfe jp'i j - Conflict 0 oulil Rejji&tcr'' By iJtals Lobbyist Bj Douglas L two-mon- th I-- 5 would 'Vx. f f i 'V - x w V. v 1 -- ? amounts received or expended on lobbying activity, and bar gifts over $100 to any one in carry ing out lobby mg Common Cause national publications have labeled Ltah one of the "dirty dozen states with the fewest laws in dealing with lobbying Mrs Thomas sa d Utah and Hawaii are the only two See Page Column 1 A-- - Associated President Ford holds copy fiscal 1976 budget, of which A federal WASHINGTON lUPIi appeals court panel Saturday heard opposing attorneys dispua a judicial decision that Richard M. Nixon s White House tapes and documents belong to the government It adjourned without announcing whether it would uphold thjt ruling Attorneys for Nixon debated lawyers from the Justice Department and the Watergate special prosecutors office before the three-judg- e panel which I'nday night agreed to stay the Nixon tapes ruhng issued Friday bv U.S District Judge Charles R Richey Appeals court officials said after the hearing had adjourned that no decision would be announced before Monday at the earliest Business Classified Com Carrier Editorials At Page 1,5 A-- Natl Obituaries Sports Star Gazer Television Theaters B-- 3 A-1- 8 F'oreign Foreign Lifestyle D-l-- 8 II 1 1 7 Wash. AND MORE . . Pages of Color Comics; Home and Parade Magazines; National Home Life Assurance Co. Offer. Sunday's Forecast Salt Luke and City v minty lacicismg cloudiness with chance snow late Sunday hi alls m mid It's -- ot Lows m upper 20s. Weather map page 20 esentiully, issue, is Richey issued his opinion m connc tion with a senes of lawsuits involving possession ot the matenals Nixon is also suing to overturn the congressional act which declared the tapes and documents to be government material 94th Const LawrenceL Knutson Associated Press Writer By ays WASHINGTON Sen liar.., Gold the 94th Congress is ater, R Ana , trie prohab'y the most dangerous country ahs ever had If the country can survive this Congoss, it can survive anything. Goldw ater said in an interview He S3d that the Senate is poorly run undr Senate Deniocratic leader Mike Mansfield and that thp House is being led into reckless actions by Its least experienced members Both houses are dominated bv Goldw ater selfish interest groups asserted ou have the revo.ution in the llou.e of Representatives bv voting memoirs woo really cion t know, what w w, ? v3 'VVeJl4 - Nixon's request tnat the appeals panel vacate Richeys order on the tapes issue and panel to decide require a three-judg- e the constitutionality of a newly enacted law giving the materials to the govern ment In a decision that would have sw eepmg impact upon the rights of any future president, Richey ruled Friday that the millions of tapes and documents Nixon left behind m the White House are government property and Nixon has no right to take possession of them Suing to Overturn National V. rt trr t. Tribune Telephone 8 J i Nixon Request Page " v A. inside The Tribune 2 - ' ?sr' x J .v ' 8) calls for and has a res Wlraoftoto billion outlay billion deficit i Goldw cter said of aie dung recent moves by freshmen who helped unseat three veteran committee chairmen Lost Senioi lty Golds ater, who lost his own Senate .enor'ty when he resigned to seek the 1964. said he does presidency agree with the seniority rule But 1 don't think that what theyve is the way to change it, he said of By bey mour M. Ikrsh New York Times Writer - WASHINGTON Richard Helms, while director of Central Intelligence, ordc-rea high official of the agenev to withhold Watergate information and deny Justice Department access to a key witness in the fiit six weeks after the break m on June 17, 1972. according to previous'y unpublished d I he official, Howard J Osborne, who Thief Leaves 8l,l53IOV FRESNO, Calif Eh in Ihde (AP)-W- hui his gasoline station here Saturday morning, he expected to find a cash register full of money opened Instead, Ihde told police he found an IOU ' mod bv his employe of two years, Jess Allen Richmond, 31 Officers said the IOU read "I will pay back the money I took. I owe you $1,453 90 " And to make matters worse, Ihde said he figures he lost an additional $136, since Richmond apparently kept the two hours' worth of receipts between the 10 p m time on the IOU and when he punched out at 12 07 a m Richmond and a man who witnessed the IOU, Gerald Lee Hayes have vanished, aaia inves-tigatcr- u iloii-- e uprising Gold water said he detects dangers m this Cong'-cs- t other Members' Altitudes 1 io, I m convinced from the at titudes of members of this CongrtSj that ih y have no concept of what makes the economy run and they have no cone c pi of how money is us.d to make mono, ' ho said TiniavV Chuckle at the little boy stared wide-eyestars Gee," he said, if heaven is tht beautiful on the bottom (hank how it A vould be ou tim mfT side "When you fmu five ou' of six new members of the House opposed to military spending at a time when this country is becoming weaker in the international field, I think thats dangerous. he said nt die the much at all Headquarters at the Watergate com- plex, should not be forwarded to the Justice Department Helms made his decision at a time when the agency was under subpoena from the Justice Department to forward all communications" related to Watergate The McCord letters, sent between July 29 1972, and early January, 1973, w urned the agency that officials of the of the Committee lor the President were planning to contend that the break-i- n was a Cl A operation McCord later wrote, I have the evidence of the involvement of (former Attorney General John N ) Mitchell and cl hers sufficient to eonvince a jury, the ( onve-- s and the press " Osborne also said that Helms had instructed mm not to inquire into the annexs involvement with E Howard hunt Jr, another Watergate par-ti- e ipant Helms further directed. Osborne said, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation not be permitted to interview Karl Wagner, a Cl A employe, who had knowledge that lohn D. Ebrlich-n.an- , then the chief White House adv iscr on domestic affairs, had authorized the agency to establish a working relationship with Hunt in July, 1971 You iorget about that, Osborne ejuoted Helms as having told hmi in late Column 2, Set Page s 1 ram udgtl ihat to sj hil j.tli Jan Is, PD The had jumpcsl a sill thill d'sc r.Lcd as and Trum m culled it in on ,ur, he aid 1 asitmiiinai i! th largest headache had " purn The was director of security for the CIA before he retired in late 1973, told a Houaf intelligence subcommittee m May, Ir)73, that Helms decided that a of letters sent to the agency by saps vv McCord Jr , a member ot the juir-a- c team that biote into Democratic Party or Settling WaP Debts 'll er coid al foi peacetime pioblem is to rejoin mend a big enough defu it to stimulate the economy out of the ret ession, y et not so big as to create future inflation The economic Pravdas MOSCOW have llai rj . ' Eon! said 1 h pe y ou Iclt some aspirin fm me ' The budget and-th- e hkiiv deficit have piescmed Ford, with hoth a jsiliuca! and an economic problem The political pioblem ia th.it hie other membeis ot his party, he has spent most of his career deploiuitf. dtlic.t spending, and now find' himself recominending u Next yeirs deficit wdl le on top of an estimated 12 bduon billion thi to year, also a re Lynne Olson Press Write! By I top polilitai columnist said Saturday the Kremlin will not pay off its $722 million Lend Lease debt to the United States but no'ed with approval that Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev planned to v lsit the United States later this year Not hc Highest While the dollar totals are record j, the likely deficits this fiscal year and next are not the highest the country ha. ever had when stacked up agam.t the sie of the economy and viewed as percentage of Gross National Product The mention of Brehnev by such a high lev el commentator w as a sign that the party chief s detente policies vsi'h the United Slates were still m good standing despite speculation to the contrary and that he is expected to remain at the top of the Kremlin In addition, the President observed Saturday, the- - deficits are more the products of recession than of growing gov eminent Incomes, protits and thus taxes all fall in recessions, while outlays lor such things as unemployment insurance rise hierarchy The administration only a few weeks when the President delivered his State ol the Union message, was estimating that the deficit next fiscal billion to $47 billion y c dr would be Even Gloomier The new number that Ford announced Saturday means hie economists arc even gloomier now than they were then about how far the economy w ill sag in the months to come, and how long it will take to bounce back First Word ago The statement by Yuri Zhukov, who with the knowledge of the highest party and government authorities, was the first official Soviet acknowledgment that the Soviets were repudiating the Lena Leu.e debt as d result of their cancelation of the 1972 trade pact The government newspaper Izvesti- - indicated two weeks ago that the Sov ids would not pay the debt, but it did not make it official A Lend Lease settlement w as made a prerequisite for negotiating a trade agreement by the Inited States, and Lend Lease payments were made dependent on extension of most favored nation status to the Soviets sp aks They W on t Pay the Lmted States puts this agreement into effect, unless they grant us most favored nation status, we of course will not pay, Zhukov told a Soviet television audience The Soviets r eject ed the trade pact alter they said thev could not accept trade legislation that linked most fa vored nation tariff treatment to easing of emigration of Soviet Jew and others, which they considered interference m their internal affairs Say s Lnlt-- s The President, m defending the deficit Saturday, noted that taxes in fiscal 1976 would be $10 billion higher if the economy were still running at the rate of fiscal 1974, while outlays for aid to the unemployed would he S12 7 billion lower T bus if th economy we'e operating at only the rate of a year ago. we would have a balanced budget this year and next " he said Projected Deficits Tre president acknowledged that part of the projected deficits this fiscal y ear and next are also due to the tax cuts he has pioposed to shore up the economy But he pointed out that these tax cuts, while the would be one-tispending limitations he has proposed would be more permanent me tv $$$ Sfc v .. A y ? , TV N .4 hi J ' - V A-- you find a Congress now dominated by selfish interest groups, such as the labor movement. Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and so forth and so on n grow New Testimony Ties CIA With Coverup angerous. they not President said again he will propose no big new spending programs Even without suen programs, the President told leporters, the projected deficit for fiscal 1976 which sta-- ts July 1, is $j2 billion, a record for time of and that projection assumes peace Congress w ill go along with $17 billion m spending limitations and reductions Ford is proposing Cost of Living Ceiling Those limitations include such things as a 5 portent coiling on next summer s scheduled cost of living increase in Social Secunty benefits, which will otherwise rise an estimated 9 percent Congress has already indicated it will not go along with this If it balks at all tiie cost cutting recommendations he . has made, the President said, the dc fn it will rise to nearly 70 billion The President spoke at the start of a budget briefing for reporters m the State iJepartmcnt auditorium Such hnefmss are held every year, with the ur.di-tmdm- g that nothing from either the budget or the briefing will be On Helm' Order - Lobby Registration Another bill SB155. just lntioduced by Sen Douglas G E'schoff, R Salt Lake City vvou'd require lobbyists to rorskr and to report the sources and I X Panel Hears Debate on Tapes Issue The bill provides for annual dis los tire of economic interests of elected state and local off'tials, and candidates foi such offices, plus top level appointed policy making employes People have a right to be assured that the financial interests of holders of or candidates for public office present neither a corf'ict nor the appearance of u conflict with the public trust. Mrs Thomas said c - V' f 4 the The tall, IIB102 is sponsored by Lake City, Reps Byron Fisher, and Rnhard P Lindsay, D Salt Lake City The bill came out of committee "without recommendation" and remains on the IIou e calendar Arts 11. - Tribuna Political Editor A f'uiry of bills eoncemirg conflict of mteies1 is perking up legislator and lobbyist interest in the Uah Lcgesla-ture- , although prospects for passage appear doubtiul to many suppoiters The legislature is a third of the way through its session wth a'l of 'ts promised substantive budgetary and general legislation ahead of it While in weekend recess several legislators and their families were guests Saturday of the Division of Wildlife Resources and Utah State I mversity in tounng Hardware Ranch L in Cache County and attending a basketball game Final Piece Last w eek saw the introduction of the final piece of legislation dealing with government ethics being promoted by Common Cause, the seif styled public affairs lobbying organization The major pieces include a lobbyist registration act and a financial disclosure law for public officials and legislators with creation of a State Ethics Commission and staff to review reports, investigate complaints, enforce compliance and prosecute violations The conflict of mteiest bill is the toughest, said Marge Thomas leader of Utah Common Cause Lawmakers on then own arent anout to conflict But w ed lo e to see it debated No Recommendation A-- Pettr Viip's ashmgton Post W ner WASHINGTON President Ford said Saturday he will send to Congres-- , Mondav a S.VO billion budget lor the coming fiscal y. ar, a sending plan he noted comes to almost $1 billion a day " The budget would increase total federal spending about J35 bilhon or 11 ierced ov cr ih.s fiscal y car s est.niuted outlays, but most of Inal increase would be eaten uo by inflation Subtract the likely "f'atirvij r'i'e and ih( on ermm rt Parker Numbers, Page -i And -- Thev have ;e attitude you (m sjxnd and spe ,d and elect and eket t! Q. ariy says 'ir.efr even though thi cixintrv is dose to national bankruptcy ' 1 think this is probably the most dangerous Congress weve ever had, Goldw ater said And I may be wrong, and I hope I am Goldw ater voiced some similar opinions about the Senate as well, calling that body the Byrd bath, a pun on the 1 v 4 A WJ $ nr name of Assistant Senate Demociatie leader Robert C Bv rd of W eat Virginia - Run Pom Iv thmk he Senate is run as poorly as Ive ever seen it ' Goldw ater aul, blaming B, rd for most of the alleged i .ults 4 I "Me never know what s going to be happening next, he said Mansfield h o given ten much authoi itv to By t d t Jtt, VcN, ! 4d.au - A Sen. Barry CcJdwaicr servative wing will sa.vs con1976 sck srtc te2 Pr-- W Gof presidential nomination I? President Ford does not rut. i xtJ |
