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Wednesday, April 6, 1977
News Digest
From our wire services
Free food stamps proposed
WASHINGTON — President Carter asked Congress yesterday to stop charging food stamp recipients for the stamps.
But about $450 million in food stamp aid to families with incomes above the poverty lines would be taken away under Carter's proposal.
The President promised to veto any congressional changes in his proposal that would increase the budget by $100 million a year the program's current projected cost.
The authorizing legislation for the program, which now helps about 5.4 million families buy groceries each month, expires Sept. 30. Two congressional committees are working to expand it.
Floods hit Avvalachians
non-swouthern rivers imnated towns in the hilly Appalachians yesterday, cutting communications and forcing thousands to evacuate or wait for rescue. At least one man died while attempting to cross a river.
"This will be the highest flood ever recorded on the upper Cumberland," a National Weather Service moleskman said.
The worst flooding was in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, where the Cumberland, Big Sandy and Kentucky rivers topped flood-walls built to protect
"I'm any it's the worst in 40 years," Lou Bondurant, a Red Cross spokesman in Louisville, said. "Hundreds of people are being taken to shelters. Thousands of
Cuclone death toll nears 1,000
DACCA, Bangladesh—The death toll in cyclones that lashed southeastern Bangladesh last weekend was expected to reach 1,000 with an estimated 50,000 injuries.
A government spokesman said the official toll was 682. However, more than 400 persons were listed as missing, including 200 crewmen of fishing boats which went down in the Bay of Bengal and 200 passengers aboard a ferry which capsized in the Padma River near Dacca. The spokesman said.
The cyclones struck Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a 300-square-mile area extending from the Rue of Renal coast to about 50 miles north of Dacca.
Medical teams and rescue parties set out Monday on foot for the hardest-hit jungle areas.
Moscow taxicabs boycotted
MOSCOW —Angry over sharp fare increases, Muscovites are deserting the city's tracibles in the first major consumer boxcar in memory in the Soviet capital.
Taxi drivers, who once cruised the streets bestowing rides on customers who begged and bribed for lifes, now lift up by the score at taxi stands hoping for
The state-controlled taxi monopoly increased the increases, which went into effect April 1, were justified by better service. Western-style inflation is supposed to be
It now comes the equivalent of 41 cents to travel a mile, double the old rate. The basic fee for starting a trollea also has risen, from 13 to 26 cents.
KC will get 'Screw' trial
WICHTHA—A federal judge yesterday moved the obscurity trial of Screw magazine publisher Alvin Goldstein to Karsaw City, Kan., because he said a local pornography crusade led by Sedgwick Attorney Vern Miller prejudiced the case.
U. S. District Judge Frank Theis, who will continue to hear the case when it resumes April 18, accepted Kansas City, Kan., as the new site for the trial, rejecting Goldstein's first request that the trial be moved to his native New York. Goldstein has charged that federal judge Michael M. Gaynor had been illegally permacognitive materials would be more antagonistic than in the East. He had been trying to get the trial moved from Wichita since his indictment by a federal grand jury in Wichita in 1974.
Eveglass cost protested
WASHINGTON (AP)—You may have paid an inflated price for your last pair of eyeglasses because of state regulations that restrict competition among opticians and optometrists, optical retailers testified yesterday.
Almost all state regulations affecting eyeglasses *jump* out of smoke-filled rooms and are blasted attempts by industry executives. With the larger, more efficient operator out of their states, William Schwartz, vice president at Ochs, an East Coast retail warfare unit, has been
Herbert Haft, president of Dart Drug, which sells glasses in Virginia and Maryland, said the profit markup on a pair of glasses might be as much as 400 to 500 per pair.
"The reason the profits are so high is that the field is tightly restricted and the public has no opportunity to get price injections," said the fellow. Senate sub-committee on small business.
Schwartz said state boards and state societies of optometrists and opticians existed for one reason: "to artificially upgrade the business of selling eyeglasses on national status so one can hang a license on the wall and charge more for eyelashes."
"These self-serving board boards are controlled by the very interests they are represented."
In Connecticut, for example, there is a four-year apprenticeship requirement, be said. Schwartz contended this requirement is not necessary of opticians and keep optical prices up."
Haft said that in Virginia board regulations advertised were "so onerous and frivolous."
In New York, he said, "it's easier to become a partner or than to an app-op partner."
"The public is interested in whether it pays $130 or $50 for a pair of glasses. But it is very difficult to get this price information out." Haft said.
Vance gains support of Senate committee despite talk deadlock
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday he believed the Carter Administration had won the support of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in its strategic arms negotiation stance with the Soviet Union.
Asked by reporters after a two-hour briefing by the committee if he had the panel's support despite the stalemate in talks, Vance replied, "Yes, I feel we do."
Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., said, "Not one word of criticism was said about the way Secretary Vance comported himself. There was no criticism." And when there was full support of the committee,"
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Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., a hardliner on U.S.-Soviet strategic negotiations, said the Carter position was "fundamentally right."
Meanwhile, in Washington State, 25 candidates competed in the first round of the race for the congressional seat left behind by the former Illinois became Secretary of Transportation.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Thomas Bradley, first black mayor of the nation's third largest city, was getting 53 per cent of the vote over a field of 11 challengers. Bradley needed more than 50 per cent to avoid a runoff.
The president of Atlanta's city council was elected to Congress yesterday to fill the seat vacated by United Nations' Ambassador Andrew Young, and two incumbent mayors took leads in their bids for reelection.
IN MADISON, Wis., Mayor Paul Soglin, a liberal Democrat, had a lead over Alderman Anthony Amato, a conservative Republican. Amato had led in the first election, but didn't get the more than 50 per cent necessary for an outright victory.
A HOTLY CONTESTED race for mayor in Overland Park, the state's fourth largest city.
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In Georgia, Wyche Fowler Jr., a member of the Atlanta council since 1969, got 62 per cent of the vote in the runoff election against John Lewis. Lewis, who has been active in politics for decades, decades as head of the Black Voter Education project to make the race.
President to sign reorganization bill
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Young's seat filled; mayor of L.A.leading in election
The bill will give Carter authority to transfer, consolidate or abolish many—but not all—agencies subject to veto by either house of Congress.
It was learned that Carter's staff already has been hard at work on making the Executive Office of the President more efficient. The Office of Management and Budget has been conducting a "zero-base" review of the about 15 offices and councils in the White House to see how many should be retained.
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Sykes, who supported controls on the builders, got 6,400 votes to 6,388 for Fryer. He was unanimous in his vote. In other mayoral elections, Sylvester Powell Jr. won election in Mission, Eugene All were victorious in Leawood, Alfred Todd was victorious in Stoughton, and Thomas A. Secterton was in Shawnee.
In Riley County, a 1-cent sales tax went down to defeat, while residents in Ottawa voted not to sell the Franklin County Nursing Home.
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