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Democrats Said To Have Worked For Campaign Bill With Loopholes overwhelming majority. Kirkpatrick has been speaking out against several provisions of the new He says he wants to make it workable by exempting some local officials from its reporting provisions. These provisions are so stringent that they are causing many qualified persons to shy away from running for office, Kirkpatrick says. But supporters of the new law, say Kirkpatrick's real aim is to change the law so that politicians will once again have access to secret campaign funds. These supporters cite the hundreds of thousands of dollars contributed secretly through the years by the Pipefitters Union in St.

Louis to Democratic candidates and to ward and township committeemen in the City and St. Louis County. FROM PAGE ONE Exempting local officials from the reporting provisions of the new law, as Kirkpatrick wants the Legislature to do, would open the to such secret contributions, supporters of the law say. Kirkpatrick denies any such motives. He says he does want local officials in urban areas included under any law.

"My position has always been that I've favored full he says. But Kirkpatrick says the law should be changed to ease requirements for candidates in rural areas. "In the rural areas, people just won't comply with these reporting provisions, especially the ones on personal wealth," he said. He noted that most public offices in rural areas paid very little, if anything. "In the metropolitan areas, where the officials are paid a good salary, they should have to report," Kirkpatrick said.

Critics of Kirkpatrick's views, say, however, that exempting rural candidates from the law could open another avenue for secret money to be spent by state-wide candidates. Money raised and spent in rural areas might never have to be reported if it was spent by local politicians and never became a part of a major candidate's campaign treasury, they say. In regard to the memorandum written by Dowd, Kirkpatrick said it was so long ago that he could not remember. He said Dowd had written many memorandums in an effort to help the House leaders devise a bill. Kirkpatrick denied that he had any voice in planning campaign legislation.

He said it was entirely the work of the legislative leaders. 349 Billions In Ford's Budget FROM PAGE ONE agement and Budget and to other officials. The President's short speech at the budget briefing was timed for Sunday newspapers. Together with the main budget stories that will appear in Monday newspapers, this gave his budget two succesive days of publicity. Mr.

Ford promised to work "very closely" with Congress in trying to improve the economic situation. He said he would "walk the extra mile and give all of my strength to getting the national economy in shape." "I ask the Congress to walk that extra mile with me," he said, "so that together we will lead the country with strength and purpose to a fuller life for all At the same time, he appeared to warn that he would fight hard against substantial changes in the economic philosophy set forth in his budget. He said the budget was a "carefully considered and integrated set of policies, programs and priorities." The implication seemed to be that Congress would make a mistake if it approved some parts of the economic and energy programs set forth in the budget and rejected others. Mr. Ford repeated his opposition to large budget deficits and said he was "'resolved to take those steps that will make such deficits unnecessary in the future." Nevertheless, he said, "we must recognize that in times like these, it is good national policy both to provide financial support to those unemployed and to introduce a measured amount of additional stimulus into the private economy by a tax reduction." Mr.

Ford's statement that the fiscal 1976 budget would show a deficit of 52 billions appeared to reflect the rapid pace of the economic downturn. In his State of the Union message two and a half weeks ago, he had predicted a 1976 deficit of 45 billions. The 7-billion-dollar increase in the projected 1976 deficit apparently meant that the accelerating recession had caused Government officials to make a downward revision in their estimates of federal revenues, because Mr. Ford indicated that the increased deficit was not caused by plans for higher Government spending. "I have concluded that for this year at least, it would be imprudent to initiate any new spending programs, except for energy," he told reporters.

"None is proposed (in the 1976 budget)." The President did not say what the budget deficit for the current fiscal year would be. In the State of the Union message, he had said the fiscal 1975 deficit would be 30 billion dollars, but the budget was expected to show that this figure also had risen substantially as a result of a recessionary decline in Government revenues. As the recession has deepened, Mr. Ford said, federal tax collections have slowed down "as incomes and (corporate) profits slide." At the same time, he said, unemployment payments have risen "very sharply." Suspect Named In Triple Killing Almost by accident, St. Louis police have a suspect in the triple killing and robbery that took place Thursday in north St.

Louis. The suspect is Reginald Darris. He is being sought for questioning. Darris and another man pawned a combination television stereo and tape deck believed to have been taken from the house where the killings occurred, less than an hour after the crime, police said. They said the signature on the pawn ticket was that of Darris.

Police said Darris was convicted of manslaughter in 1968 and served a six-month sentence in the city we. n- house. He has been arrested several times on charges of burglary and armed robbery. Darris's photograph, taken from police files, has been identified by witnesses who saw two men loading furniture into an automobile near the home of Mrs. Emma L.

Ervin, where the killings took place. Mrs. Ervin was one of the victims. In addition, a microfilm was made of the pawn transaction, as required by state law. Police say they hope it will assit in the identification of the second suspect.

Mrs. Ervin was found shot in the back of the head at her home at 4126 St. Louis Avenue. The bodies of Mrs. Ulra Richardson and an unidentified man were nearby.

They also had been shot with a small caliber automatic. Police have sent fingerprints of the dead man to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police authorities in Reginald Darris Suspect in triple killing Mrs. Emma L. Ervin Murder Victim St. Louis County and Illinois in attempt to identify him.

The victim is described as 25 to 30 years old, six-feet, one-inch tall, and weighing 185 pounds. He was black and wore a small mustache. The pawn transaction was discovered by Detective RonAdler and Detective Robert Bergmeier who went to the Sam Light Loan 2601 Olive Street, Saturday to purchase a stereo amplifier. Mrs. Firmin D.

Fusz Jr. Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Firmin Desloge Fusz widow of a St. Louis investment broker, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 347 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves, with burial in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Fusz, 62 years old, Saturday at Deaconess Hospital after a long illness. Her husband was founder of the old Fusz-Schmelsle Co. Wilson Talks With Waldheim (C) 1975 New York Times News Service UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb: 1 Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain conferred for 90 minutes Saturday with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim on the Middle East and Cyprus situations before flying home after his talks in Washington with President Gerald R. Ford.

Wilson said his talks with Waldheim had also covered economic matters and that he stressed the need for providing poorer countries with guarantees of equitable export earnings for the primary commodities on which their economies depend. Wilson, who taught ecnonmics at Oxford, said that the impact of soaring prices of oil and other commodities was particularly damaging for the poorer countries of the Third World and had served to "deepen the economic division between nations." Town Flooded, 1000 Evacuated NACOGDOCHES, Feb. 1 I (AP) More than 1000 persons were evacuated from their homes Saturday, one person was killed and five unaccounted for as seven inches of rain fell in a 12-hour period. Creeks rose as much: as eight feet over their banks. Nacogdoches Police Chief M.

C. Roebuck said the body of one of six persons originally believed missing had been recovered. Gov. Dolph Briscoe called out some National Guard units, and they responded with high-wheeled vehicles to rescue persons stranded in low-lying areas. ST.

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His 1976 budget, Mr. Ford said, will propose "significant reductions in a number of programs up to now considered to be uncontrollable." He did not enumerate any of these reductions but said they would add up to 17 billion dollars. It was believed that part of the spending cuts would consist of proposals by Mr. Ford to slow the rate of increase in such things as Social Security benefits, child nutrition assistance, the food stamp program and Government salaries and retirement benefits. A fact sheet distributed with Mr.

Ford's State of the Union message last month listed savings of 6.1 billion dollars that would be achieved if Congress adopted the President's plan to put a 5 per cent ceiling on spending increases in these and other areas. The President told reporters that tax receipts in the 1976 fiscal year would be 40 billion dollars higher "if the economy were operating at the rate of only a year ago." "In fact, we would have balanced budgets both this year and next" if the recession had not cut into Government revenues and forced an increase in unemployment benefits, Mr. Ford said. the Ca brokerage firm and died in 1960. Mrs.

Fusz was active in Catholic lay affairs, helped to found the Fleur-de-Lis ball, and served as ball chairman in 1968 and 1969. She lived at 320 Bristol Avenue, Webster Groves. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. John Raney of Endicott, N.Y.; Misses Ann and Ellen Fusz of St. Louis; a sister, Miss Marie Cowhey, and two brothers, James C.

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