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Wednesday, April 6, 1977
University Dally Kansan
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 income above the poverty levels would be taken away under Carter's proposal.
The President promised to veto any congressional changes in his proposal that would increase by more than $100 million a year the program's current projected budget.
The authorizing legislation for the program, which now helps about 5.44 million families buy groceries each month, expires September 30. Two congressional committees have blocked the extension.
Floods hit Avvalachians
Rain-aware rivers inlandated hills in the hilly Appalachians yesterday, daytime, communications and forcing thousands to evacuate or wait for rescue. At least 10 people have been killed in the floods.
"This will be the highest flood ever recorded on the upper Cumberland," a National Weather Service spokesman said.
The worst flooding was in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, where the Cumberland, Big Sandy and Kentucky rivers topwalt flood-walls to build to protect
"I'd say it's the worst in 40 years," Lou Bondurant, a Red Cross spokesman in Ontario, said. "Hundreds of people are being taken to shelters. Thousands of families are."
Cyclone death toll nears 1.000
DACCA, Bangladesh—The death toll in cyclones that lashed southeastern
Bangla was last weeked was expected to reach 1,000 with an estimated 55,000
people dead.
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 Dagca, the spokesman said.
The cyclones struck Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a 300-square-mile area extending from the Rav of Renge洽 coast to about 50 miles north of Dacca.
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Medical teams and rescue parties set out Monday on foot for the hardest-hit
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Moscow taxicabs boycotted
MGCSW—Anny over sharp fare increases, Muscovites are deserting the city's taxis in the first major consumer covetit in memory in the Soviet capital.
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A state-controlled taxi monopoly said the increases, which went into effect April 1, were justified by better service. Western-style inflation is supposed to be
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It now costs the equivalent of 41 cents to travel a mile, double the old rate. The basic fee for starting a trip also has risen, from 13 to 26 cents.
KC will get 'Screw' trial
WICHITA—A federal judge yesterday moved the obscurity trial of Screw magazine publisher Alvin Goldstein to Kansas City, Kan., because he said a local antipomography crusade led by Sedgwick County 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 Kanata's plea to attend a hearing before the trial be moved to his native New York.
Goldstein has charged that federal officials maneuvered to have him tried in Wichita, where public opinion of allegedly pornographic 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 tested yesterday.
Almost all state regulations affecting eyeglasses *came out of smoke-filled air*, and the number of individual opticians and optometrists to keep the larger, more efficient operator out of their states. William Schwartz, vice president of Ochs, an East Coast optical retailer, said
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 information for a role. Senate subcommittee 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 into a professional status so one can hang a mirror on the wall and charge more for eyewearers."
"These self-serving state boards are controlled by the very interests they are interested in."
In Connecticut, for example, there is a four-year apprenticeship requirement, he said. Schwartz contended this requirement was insufficient, although of opticians and keep optical prices up.
In New York, he said, "It's easier to become a doctor than to appear as an app."
Haid said that in Virginia board regulation, employers must be "so onerous and almost can't advertise."
"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
Asked by reporters after a two-hour briefing by the committee if he had the panel's support despite the stalemate in his walks, Vance replied, "Yes, I feel we do."
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 negotiating stance with the Soviet Union.
Seen, Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., said, "Not one word of criticism was said about the way Secretary Vance comported himself. There were no complaints." And there was full support of the committee."
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., a hardliner on U.S.-Soviet strategic negotiations, said the Carter position was "fundamentally right."
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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 the Black Belt movement decade, resigned as head of the Black Voter Education project to make the race.
A HOTLY CONTESTED STATE for mayor in Overland Park, the state's fourth largest city.
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.
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Democrat Ben Sykes slipped past republican George Fryer in a battle that could have been a near victory.
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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 training sessions 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
The Office of Management and Budget and the County of Economic Advisers are required to report to the State Commission.
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TAX LEVIES, bond issues and various municipal proposals were on ballots in the House.
Sykes, who supported controls on the builders, got 6,400 votes to 6,388 for Fryer. He was also the most popular in other mayoral elections, Sylvester Powell Jr. won election in Mission, Eugene Alt was victorious in Leawood, Alfred Winslow was victorious in Shawnee and Thomas A. Seewart sent in Shawnee.
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