Show rnimm UNIVERSAL KICROFILXIKG Box 2603 Nixon’s By MIKE FEINSILBEK WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pr- esident Nison’s proposals to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and to share federal revenues with cities and states are likely to run into opposition —in and out of Congress— strong enough to stifle them Democrats and Republicans alike said privately Saturday that Nixon will have to fight hard and steadily if the “second American Revolution” he asked Nixon met with congressional leaders Saturday but asked no commitments to his program it apHealth legislation peared has a healthy chance of passing Democratic-co- n trolled The middlethe recognizing Congress -class appeal of plans intended to make medical care more available and less costly is ready to go beyond anything Nixon will propose in this field comp devolution’ May Meet Opposition ‘S&POlttd in Friday’s State of the Union address is even to get started CORP Backed by the AFLUO Sen Edward M Kennedy has rounded up nearly half the votes needed to pass a MO billion program of national health insurance financed largely through payroll taxes like Social Security Publicly Sen John L Mcand Rep Chet Clellan who head the Holifield agencies But off then ecord leaders of those committees were saying harsh things about the plan One Democratic source called it “cosmetic surgery” and scoffed at the prospect of Nixcn -- in seeking 1972 on the issue that Congress turned its back to a restructuring of the bureaucracy In the source's blow reorganization carries no political clout Powerful lobbies outside of Congress have grown accus D-A-rk Government congressional Operations committees promised to give fair consideration to Nixon’s plans to reduce the cabinet from 12 to eight super- - tomed to dealing with federal departments as they now exist and would fear— and fight— substantive change Rep Wilbur D Mills chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which would handle Nixon's revenue-sharin- g program has dismissed the concept as a “fraud" Mills argues that the responsibility for raising tax money must be held by that level of government which spends it But Mills has promised to give Nixon’s plan a hearing discouraged work and by liberal Democrats who said it was not generous trough to the Nixon's plans to give I IS billion in unrestricted funds to the states however calls for only IS billion in “new” money the remaining $11 billion poor The plan called for guaran- teeing an incomenof $500 to every adult and $300 to every child in the country— $1600 for a family of four plus state supplements which could raise a family’s income to as much as $5000 Adults would lose their aid if they refused to take a Job or Job training The Jobs could pay as little as $120 an hour coming out of existing programs which would be dismantled or cut far back Nixon’s welfare reform proposals are expected to duplicate his “family assistance" dan which passed the House last April but was killed in the Senate by a coalition of conservative Republicans who said it encouraged idleness and The Herald Journal VOL 62 NO LOGAN UTAH SUNDAY JANUARY 20 24 1971 FIFTEEN CENTS T error Bombim Rocks Cambodia s By United Press Internatioaal md blew up Arab guerrillas the Carmel hills south of Haifa They are fiercely leaders threatened a and are the only Arabs subject to military draft in Israel raid into Lebanon in In Tel Aviv Saturday Israeli for the out slaying reprisal some 5000 persons Foreign Minbter Abba Eban st the protest and mourning dismissed as “surrealistic” Align appealed to Druse reports that Arab guerrilla and youths not to take leader Yasser Arafat was considering participation In the indirect Isradi-Ara- b peace neAllon however appealed to gotiations under UJf mediator Lebanese authorities to secure Gunnar V Jarring the retirn of the head for “I didn't know Mr Arafat burial in brad or risk Israeli supported durable and lasting reprisal peace between Israel and the The Druse are members of a Arab states" eban said sect Oat broke away from Eban said that counter-proposin the Uth century Egypt and Jordan 33000 of them live in had submitted to Israel via brad’s upper Galilee and in Jarring were unsatisfactory i land threatened Saturday to take reprisals unless Lebanese authorities use their influence to get Arab guerrillas to return the bead of a tractor driver who was slain and decapitated during a guerrilla raid on the slopes of Mt Hermon 1 Acts like this abominable murder will cost our enemies a great deal” Deputy Premier Yigel Allon told a mass rally at the Druse village of Daliat d Carmel Saturday Druse tribal leaders called the meeting to protest the diooting and beheading of Hussein Sharif Abu Hamid a Druse and Invited 35y ear-ol- d Israeli leaders to An Afternoon In Cache pending aa aftenoen Is Cache Valley was the pleasure ef ap baslaesa aad ai erientatka ts the Utah State University campus pnidmately 291 Utah State legislators and their families Saturday Preparing far a sleigh ride to the dk herds at Hardware above are The tsar fariaded a visit to Hardware Ranch a tour of valley Cache legislators Representatives Dale Workman Charles BaiQea Charles Leaftam aad Senator Beed ! The tractor driver was beheaded in a guerrilla ambush Jan 15 the dame day Israeli invaded Lebanon commandos -- Revenue Sharing Utah Legislators Learn About Cache During Visit Has Little Hope Additional Photos Page II) By MX Naylor I Herald Journal Staff Writer Approximately 200 Utah State Senators and Representatives were in Cache Valley Saturday on a tour of the Hardware Ranch local businesses Utah State University and for attendance at the USU-BYgame as part of a program to acquaint the legldators with the northern part of the state Cosponsoring the event were the Cache legldators Sen Reed Bulla Representatives Charles Leatham Charles BuDen and Dab Workman along with the Cache Chamber of Commerce the Cache County and Logan City Commissions Utah State University end the State Department of Fish and Game Arriving at Hardware Ranch in Blacksmith Fork Canyon the group of legislators and their bullies received a welcome by Utah Fish and Game Director Bud Phelps and in a a huge campfire Along with this they went on the traditional sleigh ride among the elk and at noon were warmed by steaming bowls of homemade stew sourdough bread hot chocolate and appfe pie These were provided fay the Department of Fish and Game Local dignitaries attended the event to acquaint the legldators with Cache Valley and to answer questions Among these were Thad Carlson president of the Cache Dean Smith Chamber of Commerce Chamber secretary President Glen Taggart Utah State University Rolfe Kerr and Swede Larson also from USU Clayton dark at the Cache Chamber and president-elec- t light snowfall they were warmed by Rail Discussion Negotiations between officials of the UTU and the railroad to industry were scheduled begin Monday The railroads have agreed to abide by the recommendations of a White House panel that the nationwide rail strike in six unions representing 425000 weeks workers be given a 37 per cent President C L Dennis of the salary hike over three years Brotherhood of Railway and and work rules that the Airline Clerks (BRAC) said industry considers costly and after foe two hour session thrt inefficient should be eliminated Dennis called off the Dec 10 he hoped an agreement would be reached before the March 1 strike after Congress passed moratorium Congress imposed legislation providing the unions with an immediate 135 per cent on further strike action But Dennis mentioned no date pay raise and ordered them not for resumption of the talks to call any strikes before offered no hint of progress in March 1 Dennis said Saturday that the latest round and said in a the recess hi negotiathe negotiations dxing statement that were recessed “without the tions union legislative chairmen from every state will be in terms of a new contract" tiations WASHINGTON (UPI) between management and one of the four unions that dud down UB railroads la month recessed Saturday without a settlement leaving open the possibility of another BRACs main objective has been a pay increase of from 40 to 45 per cert over throe years Leaders of the United Transportation Union (UTU) and the other two unions involved in the nationwide strike Dec one-da-y 10 are understood to be willing to accept a smaller pay boost as long as work rules are not changed Washington to campaign for ‘long needed improvement and modernization of the Railway Labor Act” President Nixon has asked Congress for legislation that would allow the government to choose between the last best offers of either union or management in transportation strike situations Weather Forecast the southern half of the state Roads were open throughout the state but on two highways trucks exceeding five tons were kept off the road The Utah Highway Patrol reported numerous accidents during the early hours of the day Saturday mostly due to tey roads and have warned motorists to drive with care A good portion of the rest of the nation also experienced light snowfafi Generally light snow was felling in some interior portions of the Pacific Northwest and a snow storm-hoverover much of the Northeast Predictions for today is cloudiness with a slight chance of snow Little change in tem- peraMres is forecast and the lows are set between 25 and 30 highs are expected to be between 35 and 40 a 20 per cent probability of snow is seeu The extended forecast for Monday through Wednesday is variable cloudiness with a chance of scattered snows on all days There is no temperature change expected ed day-to-d- ay adth-essin- In Cairo the semi official newspaper A1 Ahram said Egypt has told the United States officially that Middle East peace talks under Jarring were not making satisfactory progress The newspaper said the Big Four powers including the United States must now give Jarring new guidelines to help his search for a Middle East peace ab ideas! Crisis Over Beheading i PHNOM PENH (UPI)— Cambodian defenders of Phnom Penh battled Communist troops on the fringes of the city dawn Friday with an attempt- 'capital Gen Cambodia’s Lon Nol soldier-premi- er they renewed their drive for a constitutional amendment to guarantee state and local government a share of federal income tax collections Fifteen representatives of the Conference of State Legislative Leaders discussed their budget troubles at a news conference after a meeting with presidential counsellors Robert H Finch and Clark MacGregor They said the White House was neutral toward their proposal for a constitutional amendment under procedure never successfully used The Constitution says Congress shall call a convention to amend the document at the request of of the legislatures Although the drive by the legislatures has just been launched Florida House Speaker Richard A Pettigrew reported that Delaware Iowa New Jersey and Louisiana West Virginia already had acted He said the same resolutions also had passed one two-thir- ds A very light snow fell during file morning in Cache Valley and most of northern Utah while fair weather predominated i But he said brad would go ahead with the talks in an effort “to elicit a public pronouncement from Egypt Jordan and Lebanon they are ready to make peace with us” -- Hence Leaving Hardware Ranch the group visited nine of the 42 industries located in (Continued on page 2) No Agreement In pro-Isra- ed attack on Phnom Penh’s for military fuel depot Friday appealed take the lion’s share of By RAYMOND M LAHR calm but the city remained night Guards crushed the raid WASHINGTON (UPI) -- State available tax revenues in this in Jittery mindful of a commando and reported killing four Viet Saturday night fighting legislative leaders applauded country while states and local US helicopter attack which devastated the Gong President Nixon's new revenue governments are left with no supported by With the capital under a full An American airlift nation's air force based at gunships sharing plan Saturday but meaningful tax options except delivered tons of war materiel Phnom Penh Airport alert amid reports that comfound little hope that Congress for regressive consumer and for the Cambodians as a bloody Viet Cong sappers followed mandos had infiltrated outer would enact it property taxes" terror bombing rocked the up the airport raid before defenses fighting broke out J I in the Sarafaiid area house in Georgia New Hamp- shire Pennsylvania and Wash- ington Although they would have liked a larger amount the legislators welcomed the President's proposal for $6 billion in new money for revenue sharing of federal and a lifting regulation of $10 billion now being spent on existing federal aid programs But Pettigrew said it was ubvious that Congress does not Ltend to act “Let me emphasize that the drive tor revenue sharing is” a movement which knows no ideology” Pettigrew said “It is guided by Democrats Republi-Th- e cans Conservatives and Libo als all equally concened abort the survival of a meaningful federal system all equa'ly concerned about keeping government both responsive and close to the people “The Congress should be warned that it can no longer Utah Legislature Report Second Week Ends W ith Bills Piled Up By CARR1CK LEAVITT A JOHN PAYNE SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -The Utah Legislature ended its second week with a massive Jam of proposed laws in House those in committee By 11 son Friday the Repre- sentatives had cleared their calendar of measures to debate and were awaiting further action from standing committees committees and the Senate sput- They spent the better part of tering along waiting for the Re- the afternoon arguing over the presentatives to send across the adoption of rules which were expected flood finally approved on strictly parA large portion of legislation tisan lines 35 Democrats to 29 essential to the workings of Utah Republicans government has filtered into the The Senate adjourned at mohopper during the first 10 days of ments after neon because their the 42 working day session but legislative duties were “caught House committees have been up slow to turn the handle Included in Friday action was Rep Lorin N Pace a Joint resolution of condolence Lake minority floor leader from both houses to the family made a personal plea on the of the late Lamont P Toronto floor of the House to speed the former of state Toroncommittee work along “We to died secretary Thursday have gone through h of The Senate spent time “trying this session and we have only a on” SB 8 which provides that small portion of bills out of the Justices of the peace hold trials log Jam” he said in “appropriate" facilities and Committee Reports that counties provide requires Pace moved that the standing Justices with a copy of the Utah committees prepare a report on Code as well as city and county the bills giving either their proordinances or release them to the gress Sen Thorpe Waddingham House for debate on their mersaid the bill might preits The proposal was passed by a further reconsideration judice near tmanimous vote of five “whole Justice of the A number of recommendations system” from Gov Calvin L Rampton peace Sen Dean C Christensen i R-are incubating — as is a huge Provo objected to a portion of pile of reform legislation aimthe bill providing that a Justice ed at Utah’s overall Judicial of the peace shall hold trial in process his home only when office space Of the 238 proposed new laws has been set aside and furnished introduced to date in both le- exclusively for judicial purgislative bodies 153 are in the poses House and the vast majority of The bill was finally tabled lt one-fift- f when the sponsors Sen Dixie Leavitt City and Sen Ernest H Dean Fork were unable to come to terms with their colleagues on the measure District Attorneys In the House legislation is pending which would essentially eliminate the district attorneys throughout Utah rnd turn their duties over to county attorneys Houre bills 83 through 106 by Rep sponsored Fisher M Byron Satirday night directly across the Mekong River from the old Royal Palace Tracer bullets fired from helicopter gunships could be seen clearly No UB ground troops were commuted to the defense of Phnom Penh under Resident Nixon's policies to keep American losses in Indochina at a minimum But American warplanes woe thrown into the fight and UB Air Force C130 transporf planes flew a shuttle supply service from Saigon to deliver guns ammunition and other equipment desperately needed by the Cambodians The transport planes started landing a short time after the airport was reopened to limited military traffic The bombing Saturday morn- ing nearly destroyed a government immigration office on Boulevard Norodom in downtown Phnom Penh and police reported 20 persons wouided seven of them seriously Investigators said the blast was lt Lake along with caused F lt by Wilkinson Lake Robert M Arbuckle and John E Smith essentially make the county attorney the public prosecutor He would be responsible for conducting all prosecution of public offenses committed within in his county on behalf of the state except for misdemeanor prosecutions under city or town ordinances Also waiting clearance in the House are companion measures that would create a department of community affairs to provide explosives bousing authority which would move in and encourage local authorities to provide low cost housing plans in areas with a Riice II Homer 20 pounds of Later commanders imposed pm to I am curfew on Boulevard Norodom and on a Boulevard USSR Norodom is the site of Cambodian military headquarters the US and South Vietnamese embassies and several government offices Boulevard USSR ruis past the Ministry of Defense and out to the airport In a related move troops blocked police stations bridges government offices and other state technical assistance to “sensitive points” towns and cities The second measures provides for a state demonstrrnable need Although not a legislator Gov Calvin L Rampton has played a role in the 39th Legislature's business (Continued on page 2) prominent Boulevard sjiUIlse MOSCOW (UPI) -- The Soviets today described President Nixon's State of the Union message as “a speech full of promises” but devoid of practical solutions to US problems pre-electi- |