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Comfocrf Cutoff Measure Sent to Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress finished and sent to President Nixon Saturday historic legislation cutting off all funds for the eight-year-old U.S. combat involvement in Indochina as of Aug. 15. The House and then the Senate voted the cutoff into a measure authorizing stop-gap federal spending authority past the end of the fiscal year at midnight Saturday.
The compromise was sent to Nixon, who has indicated he will sign it. It prohibits any spending after Aug. 15 to support "directly or indirectly military torces in or over or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia." The House approved the measure 266 to 75. The Senate gave it Congress' final approval with a voice vote. By writing the same fund cutoff in
another bill Friday night, Congress had already accepted the compromise with President Nixon to halt the direct U.S. combat role Aug. 15. The compromise avoided a constitutional crisis that threatened to cut off legal spending for the federal government at Saturday midnight in a standoff between the President and Congress over the war. It also appeared to end a four-year-
struggle between the President and Congress on halting the war, with both camps saying there are no clear winners President Nixon's compromise pledge, as relayed by House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford Friday, is that he will not continue U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia past Aug. 15 unless Congress specifically approves it. The President also promised tc sign legislation cutting off war funds then,
Ford said, but would veto any earlier cutoff. The restrictions, however, do not prohibit financial support of the South Vietnamese and other allies fighting in Indochina. At the California White House, presidential assistant Melvm R. Laird said Nixon would sign all the bills being rushed through prior to the holiday recess but not necessarily on Saturday.
He said, "I think we've come a long way and the i^esident is very pleased with the cooperative spirit of the Congress facing up to these very important problems in the last weeks of the session." Some of the war's severest critics, including Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield fought the compromise. He called it "a capitulation and an abdication" of what he contended is Congress' exclusive warmaking power.
5.6% Social Security Increase For 1974 Voted by Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress swiftly approved legislation Saturday to increase benefits for 30 million Social Security recipients by 5.6 per cent beginning a year from now. A payroll tax increase for persons earning more than $17,000 accompanies the benefit raise. The maximum additional sum any employe would pay next year is $35 10. The provisions were grouped with a number of others in two composite bills, which also extended the national debt ceiling beyond Saturday midnight. By late afternoon the bills were passed by both chambers and sent to the White House. A series of compromises averted the threat that President Nixon would veto
the bill containing the Social Security changes. Melvin R. Laird, Nixon's domestic affairs chief, said at the California White House that the President would sign the modified bills. A veto threat was a major factor in the House's refusal Friday to pass legislation which was similar but contained an earlier Social Security increase. House and Senate conferees worked through most of Saturday on modifications. The major change was to postpone the Social Security benefit increase and related raises in other social programs so that the first larger payment would not be made until July,_ 1974, rather than May. Thus, the effect
on the budget for the 1974 fiscal year, ending June 30.1974. was minimized. In addition to the Social Security general increase, the legislation would raise guaranteed federal minimums under special programs for the aged, blind and disabled to $140 a month for an individual, $210 for a couple, up from the present $130 and $195 respectively. The change would be effective July 1, 1974. Effective Jan. 1, the amount a Social Security pensioner could earn without having his benefits reduced would be increased from $2,100 to $2,400. Also on Jan. 1, the maximum wage base on which the 5.85 per cent Social Security payroll tax applies would go up to $12,600. It is $10,800 this year and, under previous law, would have gone up to $12,000 in 1974.
Watergate Staffers Gear For Mitchell Interrogation
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Watergate committee is on a 10-day July Fourth holiday, but some members of the panel's staff are staying behind to prepare for the interrogation of former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, whom one investigator calls ''a mystery witness." In public statements, Mitchell has denied involvement in the Watergate affair. But he reportedly told Senate investigators at a closed-door meeting May 10 that he went along with paying hush-money to the defendants in the Watergate break-in case to prevent further embarrassment to the Nixon reelection campaign. Mitchell headed that campaign until two weeks after the June
It was a battle of cities as well as skills, above, as Amy Burnett, Lewiston, and Laurie Laws, Clarkston, try to scoot the other off a log in amateur burling trials yesterday at the Southeastern Washington fairgrounds logger sports show. At right, Jack Grant, Vancouver Island, tosses a razor-sharp two-headed axe at a log target 25-feet away.
17,1972, break-in and continued to advise President Nixon after leaving the directorship. Mitchell insisted, however, that he rejected G. Gordon Liddy's plan to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate. His deputy, Jeb Stuart Magruder. has testified that Mitchell approved the plan. Former White House counsel John W. Dean III, grilled by the Senate committee for five days last week, repeatedly swore President Nixon knew of the Watergate cover-up. One of Mitchell's lawyers has said the former attorney general will not corroborate that. But one Senate investigator said_
Mitchell's appearance before the Watergate panel may prove crucial. "When we talked to him," the investigator said, "he didn't tell us anything we didn't know and certainly not everything he did know." The interview took place the day Mitchell was indicted in New -York in a campaign-financing case. He spoke harshly with reporters outside the interview room, saying only the indictment was one of "the most irresponsible acts" ever to come out of the Justice Department. "He certainly wasn't that way inside the room," one informant said. "He was shaking so hard a committee staffer had to help him light his pipe.
The Cyclops
WW Man Among last to See Mystery Ship? By BETSY TRAINOR U-B Staff Writer
William Boldman. 1411 Portland, an engineer in the U.S. Navy more than 50 years ago, claims he may be one of the last people to have seen the mystery ship Cyclops which vanished with 309 persons aboard in 1918. He also concurred with the statement reported in the Union-Bulletin Sunday by a retired Navy diver who said he stood on the deck of the ship in 1969 in about 180 feet of water some 70 miles off the coast of Virginia. "When I saw the article in the paper, said Boldman. "I was sure by the description that he had been standing on the Cyclops." Diver Dean Hawes said the wreck he saw had a bridge supported by steel stilts above the deck. Upright beams ran the full length, similar to the skeleton of a skyscraper, he said. Boldman had been readv to board the
Cyclops the day it left the harbor at Barbados. Brazil en route for the port of Baltimore with a cargo of manganese ore. "I was on the U.S.S. Raleigh m the same harbor the Cyclops was sailing for with her load of manganese." Boldman said. "I had been sick and the doctor told me I could go back to Baltimore with her when she sailed in a few days. "I was standing in line with my bag ready to join the other passengers, when a messenger from the doctor said I could ride back on an English passenger ship that would be more comfortable " The Cyclops was a 19.000 ton collier designed to coal battleships at sea while traveling at high speed. She could slam along beside them slinging great carriers of coal on running steel cables from her booms. "The ship left that same day. and I didn't think too much more about her until I heard a couple months later she had disappeared." Boldman said
Another ship, the Amalco. passed within five miles of the collier on March 9. the fifth day of what would have been a nine day voyage for the Cyclops. On the eighth day of the trip. Naval authorities received a wire from the ship that one of her two engines was out of action, but that she was making way slowly. That was the last ever heard from the Cyclops. "Rumors began flying that she had been scuttled by the captain." said Boldman. "Then I remembered there had been inquiries in Brazil when she docked about a possible mutiny, that the captain of the Cyclops had planned to turn the cargo over to the Germans, and there had been several Germans already on board. "Well. I'm of the theory that the captain wanted to turn the cargo over to the Germans, but the crew found out and was on the verge of mutiny, so he
scuttled the ship.' Boldman says his theory is supported by the fact that Hawes said he was standing on the bow of the vessel. "That means the Cyclops would be standing upright and the cargo is still on her and weighing her down in the stern." he said. The Navy may not believe that the ship was scuttled, but it does believe that the Cyclops may be the ship Hawes said he stood on. According to Navy Capt. L. H. Bibby. assistant chief of staff for operations at submarine headquarters in Norfolk. Va.. the Navy will send out the salvage ship Kittiwake in September in an effort to relocate the vessel. But. he said, there is a chance the Kittiwake won't be able to locate the ship again because "it could be extremelydifficult to find the exact spot (Hawes had been)."
goodmorning. In the Sunday Union-Bulletin: •Former state representative Tom Copeland predicts the end to non-partisan research in the state legislature wil accompany the demise
of the legislative council. See page 10. •Students and teachers in Walla Walla investigate a new way to learn mathematics. See page 18. And: 4 Editorials Page a e 5 Action Line Pi Business ™age 6
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'Things Smooth' as Prison Lockup Ends ByJOMORELAND U-B Staff Writer
Normal routine has returned to the penitentiary this -weekend following Friday night's end'of a 10-day prisoner lockup. "Even-thing seems to be going smooth." said prison official"Robert Freeman yesterday It was Freeman, associate superintendent of treatment, who announced Friday the end of the total cell confinement of about 7-50 prisoners inside the penitentiary walls The lockup was ordered June 20 by Penitentiary Supt. B. J. Rhay after a surprise inmate work strike that began that morning.
The Weather Fair and continued cool Sunday. Low 46, high 74. Chance of rain less than 10 per cent. Monday-Wednesday: No rain, temperatures near normal. Highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s. Northeastern Oregon: Fair and cool Sunday. Highs in the 70s, low 35-45. Ventilation outlook: Good to excellent conditions throughout the day Sunday.
The strike was started by the prisoners" Resident Governmental Council (RGC i after an incomplete midnight poll of some of the inmates. Rhay said. Friday's break in the situation came after agreement between Rhay and the RGC on three of 11 grievances issued by the council. The most urgent complaint, a demand for removal of the prison's doctor, will be handled by a medical-legal hospital investigation team from Olvmpia. Freeman said. He said tbc RGC. now agreed to be representing the entire penitentiary population despite a Monday inmate vote indicating it had less than half the prisoners" support, has said it will abide by the team's findings The prison's doctor. Dr H. 1 Stearns, has asked for vacation time during the investigation. Freeman said. He said Rhay has granted the request but Dr Stearns will be'available for questioning. "If there's to be an effective investigation, then he 'the doctor) should not be involved inside," said Freeman Rhay has also asked the RGC to present its charges against the penitentiary hospital and pnso'n mailroom procedures in writing for investigators The third grievance discussed involving disciplinary regulations, has been turned over
to the state attorney general's office for settlement Eight remaining complaints will be topics at regular monthly "agenda meetings" between Rhav and the RGC. according to Freeman. Those grievances are mental health care, lack of availability of furlough and work-training release programs, tbe intensive care unit, lack of drug programs, parole board policies, the inmate welfare fund, vocational training and stoppage of the inmate newspaper. The lockup ended after lengthy meetings Friday between Rhay. prison administrators, the R'GC and presidents of the penitentiary's inmate ethnic groups Release of the men began about 5 p.m as they were taken out of their cells for showers and clean-up oi the cell blocks, said Freeman Windows were broken and lunch sack and mattress fires started in the wings 'cell blocks i during the strike Freeman said the clean-up was followed by a hot meal, instead of sandwiches and a movie Friday night Asked if there might be any changes in the guidelines for the inmate council, Freeman was cautious
"I wouldn't want to say," he said. "There are some changes in operation and I'm sure there will be some discussions in the future." After Monday's administration-conducted inmate vote, Rnay insisted the RGC prove it represented all the prisoners, instead of a few special interest groups, when negotiations began late this week. Freeman said the RGC provided the warden with "expressions of sincerity " Inmate LaVon Hurst, who was RGC president when the strike began, resigned late last week in what Rhay said was disagreement with the strike He is now a council member but another prisoner, Larry Atteberv, is president. Freeman said news media would not be permitted access to the inmates until possibly Monday. "We want the thing to smooth down and stabilize," he said. More than 200 prisoners at the minimum security building outside the walls were not affected by the strike or lockup.
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