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Show iirtitffHii & UMi Vote Reform DtSrilET NLWS, Friday, April 18, 1969 i Wot Until WASHINGTON' il'Pl) - 1. fluential House members aie launching a move to leave the method of electing the president unchanged until after Piesident Nixon's opportunity to run for a second term in 3972. The House Judiciary Comagreed tentatively on an electoral Thursday leform plan incorporating direct popular election of the piesident and provision for a lunoff if no candidate got 40 per cent of the vote. Nixon won last fad with 43 per cent of the popular vote. The proposed constitutional amendment is subject to amendment iiefoie a final by the committee, expected perhaps as early as next Tuesday. But it is unlikewill be ly thp kpy rpfnrnr changed. mittee vote Representatives of Pueito Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guani-Samoa- , meanwhile, announced they would try to attach to the proposed amendment a provision giving residents of those islands the right to vote for president. At present residents who are American citizens do not have the vote. Rep. William M. McCulloch, Ohio, ranking Republican on the committee, disclosed he will offer an amendment to 72 SATURDAY DISCOUNTS delav the etfective date of , the titutional amendment until Two veirs after raTitica-noby the necessary 38 cons n states. Because it will be 1971 before some state legislatures get a crack at the proposal, this would have the effect of the change in withholding method of electing the president ujitil after the 1972 election. DOWNTOWN AND COTTONWOOD N. Charge for Alterations Judiciary Chairman Email uel said lie McCulloch's Celler, supported amendment. In a February message to Congress, Nixon said he did not think "aboltion or substantial modification" of the electoial vote system could he achieved by 1972 and "for this reason and because of the weaknesses focompelling cused in l.k)8" he favored a compromise plan that could more quickly win approval A movement in Congress. however, could provide Nixon a graceful way to shift his suppoit from the propoitional reform plan lie endorsed in February to the more popular direct election plan. This would give him a chance to regain the initiative he lost to Congress when it became clear the proportional plan had little support among the lawmakers. JOB CORPS IMPACT Study Adds Fuel To Controversy - A WASHINGTON (AP) new study that says Job Corps graduates earn $1,000 a ear more than nontrainees- - has' added fuel to the controversy over President Nixon's plan to, red lice the swirling The question sou have to answer." he told the congressmen. "is what it is worth to ptoduce tins kind of impact? What we have shown is that. indeed, there is an impact." ttaining program drastically, f The study, prepared FOWLER for the Office of Economic Opportunity hv pollster Louis Harris, was piesented Thursday to the House Education and Labor Committee where are fighting Nixon's order to shut down 59 of the 113 Job Corps centers. suits in lightweight Dacron wool Democrats Fully Automatic pat-tern- s. 39-4- Harris, who said he was paid $300,000 to prepare the study, said it was the most exhaustive review ever made of the Job Corps. The Paris Mens Furnishings Downtown and Cottonwood DOWNTOWN ONLY . The study concentrated on the earnings of Job Corps eniollees before and aftpr their training compared to youths in similar age groups w ho received only part of the training or diopped out of the corps. 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