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Nixon Ends Threat to Job Bills WASHINGTON (UPIi In an about-face, the Nixon administration has abandoned its threat to veto a bill creating as many as 200,000 jobs a year for the unemployed, Senate sources said yesterday. Word of the administration reversal was relayed to a meeting of House and Senate members who were seeking to reconcile differences between their two versions of the legislation. The message was carried to the meeting by Labor Undersecretary Lawrence H. Silberman. Informed sources said the administration was pressing for adoption of a provision in the House bill giving preference for jobs to unemployed Vietnam veterans.

There are 370,000 jobless war veterans in the country. This would turn the measure into a veterans relief bill and its approval would come on the heels of President Nixon's pledge last week to find work for returning veterans. The Senate bill authorized federal expenditures of up to $1.75 billion over a two-year period with part of the money available whenever unemployment stood nationally at above 4.5 per cent for more than three months. The unemployment rate in May was 6.2 per cent and it has been near 6 per cent all year. The more far-reaching House bill, carrying a total cost of $4.75 billion, would extend the public service employment program over four years if unemployment remains over 4.5 percent.

Last year, President Nixon vetoed comparable legislation, saying it created "make-work" jobs. Word of the administration's change of heart carried the prospect of quick agreement on a compromise measure which could be rushed through both houses. The actual appropriation for funding the program, however, would have to be voted upon later and could be below the authorized expenditure. Both bills would create between and 200,000 public service jobs in parks, police and fire departments, schools, hospitals and the like, during periods of substantial unemployment. AP Wirwhotc President Nixon's joke gets a big response from Sen.

Allen Ellender D-La. (left) but House Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla. AS-Palm Beach Post Friday, June 18, 1971 Nixon Calls War On Drugs Continued from Page Al After a two-hour session on trie drug problem with bipartisan leaders of Congress, the "President, grave of demeanor, "introduced Jaffe at a brief meeting with the press. the additional funds he was requesting, the budget for enforcement and treatment would amount to $370 million, he said, adding, "If more can be used, if Dr. Jaffe, after studying this problem, finds that we can use more, more will be provided." The danger, Mr.

Nixon said, "is not a danger that will pass with the passing of the war in Vietnam because the probata existed before we were in Vietnam and it will continue to exist afterwards." In a statement released at the same time, the President likened the drug problem to "a tide which has swept the country in the past decade and which afflicts both the body and soul of America." He said he hoped the steps "he was taking would "tighten the noose around the necks of -drug peddlers, and thereby loosen the noose around the necks of drug users." The drug epidemic among servicemen in Vietnam he found "especially disheartening." To illustrate the crime potential of drug abuse, he noted that men who had acquired a $5-a-day habit in Vietnam, where the supply is cheap and potent, would need $100 a day maintain it in America. financial costs of addiction are more than $2 billion every year," he said, "but these costs can at least be measured. The human cost o'annot. American society should not be required to bear either cost." DEPARTMENT STORE doesn't think it is funny. The conversation took place before the start of a bipartisan meeting yesterday in the White House.

The group discussed the drug problem. Ellender is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Ther-A-PeaMcs "Kimg's Eesti" innerspring or foam rubber Latex mattltress and box spring sets 3CH 05 QE0SfB f7Y7 0H It is estimated there are now about 250,000 civilian drug addicts in the United States and about 30,000 among servicemen in Vietnam. Most of these are heroin addicts. At least as many again, according to some experts, are involved in abuse of other drugs such as amphetamines, LSD, barbiturates and marijuana.

Of the new funds requested by the President, $105 million is to be used solely for treatment and rehabilitation for addicts. Other programs to be enlarged include the following: $14 million to enable the Veterans Administration to expand its five drug addiction clinics to 30. $10 million for education and training in the use of dangerous drugs. $2 million for research on drug detection techniques. $7.5 million for intensified investigation of large-scale traffickers and $18 million for customs inspections and pursuit of smugglers.

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