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Friday, December 6, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Nixon not to testify
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The Watergate coverup trial will end without the testimony of former President Richard Nixon, N.U.C. District Judge John J. Sirica ruled yesterday. He said that Nixon's testimony wasn't indispensable or necessary and that much of what Nixon knew had been or could be obtained from other witnesses, including the five defendants. Beyond that, the judge said, Nixon's testimony wasn't required because President's credibility as a witness in the 61-year-old Nixon, recovering at his San Clemente, Calif., estate from complications of a chronic phlebitis condition, was subpoenaed last September by trial defendant and former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman.
Unemployment rises
From the Associated Press
Growing lines at unemployment offices are costing states millions of extra dollars in benefits for the jobless, and some officials say there could be serious trouble if the recession lasts much longer. The number of persons who received unemployment benefits for the week ending January 31, is up from 285,000 in 2014 to total 2,420,000 unemployed persons, the Labor Department reported yesterday. An Associated Press survey showed that most states have enough money in unemployment compensation funds to weather anything but a binge, full-scale depression. The nationwide unemployment rate during October was 8.3 million Americans, while 65.3 million economists have predicted unemployment will rise 8 per cent in the months to come.
Weaponry waste
From the Associated Press
BRUSSELS- The top military officer in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Adm. Peter Hill-Norton, said the United States and its NATO allies were wasting $2 billion a year by duplicating research on new weapons. Hill-Norton, a British officer, said there was an allied tendency to overspend for the sake of 100 per cent efficiency in weaponry. He also said there was a desire for too many weapons that would more than do the job. His remedy for wasteful spending is coordination on new projects from the moment of their conception.
Tax reform predicted
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore., the probable next chief of the House Ways and Means Committee, predicted yesterday that a good tax reform bill would become a reality by next year. Ullman, who is expected to lead the committee on the tax-writing committee, said new kinds of taxes were
WASHINGTON—The United Mine Workers (UMW) signed a new contract yesterday that union officials said would send coal miners back to the pits by Monday, ending a four-week strike that had moved to further disrupt the faltering economy.
"With the official signification of this contract,
I am directing the membership of the
From the Associated Press
Many state governments are combating the economic pinch by making do and cutting spending.
Governors plan to bite the bullet
weekend on a separate contract for 4,000
the Association of Bituminous Contractors,
the Association of Bituminous Contractors,
The first frill to go in many states will be the lavish inaugural balls with which governors have traditionally walted into office. Other states are watching light bills, limiting travel and, in one case, dropping Governor's limousines for public trullets.
Some governors who will take office early next month are taking an economy step few families could afford: turning down pay raises.
Among other newly elected governors taking pay cuts is Ella Grasso of Connecticut, who is turning down a $7,500 raise to the $35,000 yearly governor's salary.
"I want to trim the budget wherever I can, and it will make it easier for others to take if I set the example," Governor-elect David Boren of Oklahoma said in announcer remarks to turn down a $7,500 reward would have given the governor's annual salary at $35,000.
From the Associated Press
Miners narrowly accept contract
These are the companies who build mine shafts and processing plants. Sources say they are under heavy industry pressure to wrap up their contract quickly. Miners are likely to honor any picket lines that might be thrown up by the construction workers.
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The union chief played down suggestions that the close vote, which was completed Wednesday night, might create problems in the coal fields.
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"I think the minority will accept the majority rule." Miller said.
A 52-member committee became bogged down in the details of about 100 proposed amendments to the party charter, the main business of the off-year convention, while awaiting specifics of an economic resolution to be debated and passed tonight.
From the Associated Press
After reaffirming selection of vice presidential candidates as a job for the party's national convention and sidetracking a proposal to restore some control over delegate selection to professional politicians, the committee would be more than an hour debating the composition of the party's national committee.
But at the prodding of party treasurer Edward Bennett Williams, a lawyer who has handled many of the party's legal battles, it voted to create a nine-person judicial council to settle party disputes in the post-1976 period.
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace scheduled an early arrival yesterday, followed by Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona and Sens. Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Lloyd M. Bentens of Texas.
Five of the union's 18 regional districts rejected the pact.
Then, it beat back three separate efforts to require future midterm conventions.
It remained unclear how many proposals
defeated by the Rules Committee would be
challenged before the full 2,082-delegate
commence when the charter is debated
Saturday.
Democrats in quandry over rules
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However, a possibility remained that the opening of some mines could be delayed until the war ended.
The contract, approved by 56 per cent of those voting, becomes effective at 12:01 and said most miners probably wouldn't return to work until Monday at the earliest.
United Mine Workers of America back to work," said UMW President Arnold Miller.
With 79,495 of the UMW's 120,000 members voting, Hirsch said the contract was "fully funded."
The new three-year agreement signed by Miller with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association provides for a 64 per cent boost in economic benefits, including a 10 per cent increase in payroll and wages. The second and 3 per cent the third. Wage scales now are $42 to $50 a day.
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The industry's chief negotiator, Guy Farmer, called the pact expensive.
In New York, Governor-elect Hugh Carey has asked that the $80,000 governor's salary be shaved by 10 per cent and that appointees "who can afford it" take similar cuts.
First Floor
Governors or governers-elect who'll be dancing to the tune of the frugal times instead of holding inaugural balls include Minnesota's Wendell Anderson, California's Jerry Browne, Thomas P. Salmon of Vergennes, Richard B. McDowell of Mandel of Maryland, and James B. Longley of Maine, the nation's only governor elected as an independent.
South Dakota, Idaho, Ohio and New York
be for by the state.
Minnesota's Anderson will be starting a second term, and the gala festivities for his first term cost $45,000. In Florida, $60,000 had been set aside for a dance and parade to welcome his second term. Askew, however, is accepting a $10,000 raise to $60,000 a year.
Gov. Salmon of Vermont plans to limit
the time from his home in Bellevue Falls to the
92 rule.
Several governors are copying the money-saving device Lyndon Johnson initiated when he made sure lights were turned off at the White House. Among those going to cut electricity use by states are Gov. Philp N. Wool of Rhode Island and Gov. Philip H. Noel of Rhode Island.
"It will have an impact on coal prices," he said, which would eventually be passed on to consumers through items such as higher electric rates.
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The strike began Nov. 12 with the expiration of the old contract. It forced the closing of mines producing 70 per cent of the coal produced in Australia, and the workers in the steel and railroad industries. Government analysts had predicted up to two years that the mine would run for four weeks, but these never materialized.
Steel producers and the railroads greeted news of the settlement with caution and indicated that a return to full production would be slow.
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