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Tl'ESD MV 11, 1971 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A Urges Navy Get McDonnell fet By CURT MATTHEWS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Disp atch WASHINGTON, May 11 The Navy should aband on development of its new F-14 tactical fighter plane and use an improved version of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom or the new F-15 fighter plane that McDonnell Douglas is building for' the Air Force, Senator Vance Hartke Indiana, and Re presenta-tive Jonathan Bingham New York, suggested ttday. Budget Cuts Are Opposed By Hearnes By LOUIS J. ROSE Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, May 11 Gov. Warren E.

Hearnes said yesterday that many state programs could be seriously crippled if budget recommendations of the Senate Appropriations Committee were adopted. Hearnes said he was concerned that the committee's revenue estimates might prove inaccurate. The committee yesterday cut about $82,100,000 from the budget proposed by Hearnes for the i iJ If 17 1 ALDERMANIC INSPECTION: St. Louis aldermen in- left), acting director of health and hospitals. The tour was specting emergency room facilities at City Hospital on a to show that the hospital should not be closed, as some tour conducted by Dr.

R. Dean Wochner (fourth from aldermen had proposed. (Post-Dispatch Photo) Mayor Wants Programs Restored fiscal year starting this July 1. The 13-member committee reduced to $35,000,000 a $70,000,000 increase proposed by Hearnes in state aid to public schools. It made major cuts also in the Governor's recommended allo-cations for welfare, mental health and the University of Missouri.

The Senate committee said it believed that revenue estimates for this year and the coming fiscal year were overly optimistic. The estimates were pre-pared by State Comptroller John C. Vaughn. Hearnes made it clear that he did not want to become involved in a fight with the Senate. At the same time, however, he said he believed that Vaughn's estimates would prove more accurate than the committee's revenue projections.

"If they (committee members) are right in their projections, then what they have done is right," the Governor said. "But if they are incorrect, it is a serious injury to all these various programs. We just don't think they are right in their projections." The Appropriations Commu te 's recommendations may come up in the Senate for floor debate this week. They undoubtedly will touch off a heated floor fight, with some senators likely to seek restoration of some of the major budget cuts. The proposals, if approved by the Senate, would set the state for a major showdown with the House.

The committee, a by Senator Donald Manford Kansas City, rejected a recommendation Hearnes for a $750,000 state allocation for mass transit studies. The money had been sought by Bi-State Transit Co. The House also has rejected attempts to include the allocation in the budget it approved. The Senate committee restored a $625,000 allocation for the school lunch program. Hearnes had recommended the item, but it was deleted by the House.

The committee approve also a House-passed $1,000,000 allocation for Harris Teachers College in St. Louis. The total general revenue allocations proposed by the Senate committee represents a cut of about $78,300,000 from the House-approved budget, exclusive of capital improvements. (4) Authorization of more than $50,000,000 in the fiscal year for initial re; tearch and development of a 1 ower-c single-mission fit ihter plane "for possible use in ombination with, or as a substitute for, the F-15." Wants Pentagon Reports The report asked also that th Department of Defense provide Congress with continuous reports on the size, structure and cost options of the air defense needs, projecting 10 years into the future. Senator Proxmire said that the recommendations by Hartke and Bingham would be included in an over-all defense appropriations amendment intended to cut about 7 billion dollars from the defense budget in fiscal 1972.

Student Aid Approved But May Be Killed Special to the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, May 11 The Missouri Senate gave tentative approval yesterday to a college student aid bill. The measure will be sent to the Senate Budget Control Committee, where its death is almost assured- The bill would give a maximum grant of $840 a year to needy students for tuition at public or private colleges or universities in the a e. It would cost $3,305,000. An amendment was added to deny aid to any student who participated in an unlawful demonstration. In a four-hour debate it was charged that any senator who voted against the bill would be supporting unlawful demonstrations.

The measure was tentatively approved 25 to 8. The Budget Control Committee has been killing bills with relatively small appropriations and is expected to do the same with this one. city will not get $500,000 that it hopes the Legislature will appropriate toward the operation of Chronic Hospital. The Mayor said that if the city lost the two lawsuits and the General Assembly did not appropriate the funds for Chronic Hospital, it would set St. Louis's budget back an additional $2,860,000.

Other Taxes Available. Badaracco, however, said if this eventually arose the city could increase the utilities tax or other available taxes. Percich, on the other hand, said he They expressed their views at a press conference at which they made public a report that was highly critical of the F-14 being test flown by the Grumman Aerospace Corp. of Beth-page, N.Y. "I am convinced that the F-14 is the wrong plane at the wrong time," Hartke said.

"It is exorbitantly expensive and extraordinarily complicated." Hartke explained that the F-14 was envisioned by the Navy as a multimission aircraft to perform fleet defense from the deckss of attack aircraft carriers. He said that changes in technology and the concepts of contemporary warfare severely limited the effectiveness of attack carriers. "All evidence points to the obsolescence of attack carriers and therefore, to the related wisdom of ending the F-14 folly immediately," Hartke said. Savings Cited Proposals for elimination of the Navy's F-14 and substituting the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom or F-15 would save the Government about $494,000,000 in the coming fiscal year, Hartke said. Ultimate savings, based on a phase-out or etback in the attack carrier weapons system, would be 10 to 15 billion dollars, he said.

The views expressed by Hartke and Bingham were endorsed by Senator Williasi Proxmire Wisconsin, a leader in efforts by Congress to reduce defense spending. The report critical of the F-14 was prepared by a group identified as Members of Congress for Peace Through Law. Other Suggestions In addition to terminating the F-14 program, the report recommended: (1) Rejection of a $104,000,000 request by the Nixon Administration for procurement in fiscal 1972 of Phoenix missiles, principal armament of the F-14, and termination of the Phoenix missile program. (2) Studies to determine what improvements can be made in the F-4 fighter. (3) Continued research and development on the F-15 to improve its cost-performance ratio.

IF IT'S FASHION, IT'S HERE IN SPECIAL SIZES DOWNTOWN i FOUR BRANCHES would favor cutting the budget so there would be no tax increases. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment, after reviewing the Mayor's proposal today, is to meet tomorrow with the al-d a i Ways and Means Committee, the body that handles the city's budget. The aldermanic committee, however, does not have authority to add anything to the budget; it can only cut items or approve the existing fiscal document, said Percich. He is a member of the committee. car on Thirty-ninth Street at 4:30 a.m.

Bottles containing the tablets were identified through the code markings as those reported stolen a short time earlier from a drugstore at 1 9 0 2 Arsenal Street. Neighbors, awakened when the door glass was broken in the store, described the car and occupants to police. Warrants will be sought against the suspects, who made no statements. Police were told that Schoemehl and McCormick entered the store while Duke stayed in the car. 1ENT A PIANO tptttal tatf StMWi' Routt! PtM VNtot tH Style vxi nnlife Bm)WIN PIANO MAM tTT tTIMO MMRRI Ifli OUYI OA.

1-417 MM 3 Seized With Drugs and Apportionment. Board of Aldermen President Joseph L. Badaracco, a Republican, said that instead of restoring items cut from the budget he would favor a reduction in the utilities tax increase now pending in the board. Badaracco said that the proposed four-cent increase in the tax could be reduced by one with the new found $2,500,000. Other Tax Sources In addition, the board president said he would like to see other tax sources examined, such as an increase in the tax on alcoholic beverages and taverns.

Such a tax increase, he said, could bring in an additional $400,000 and reduce the utilities tax by another cent. Both Badaracco and Percich noted that utility tax increases are passed on to utility users, which makes promises of reduced property taxes hollow pledges. Cervantes and City Comptroller John H. Poelker both noted that the city might need the unexpected revenue if two pending lawsuits against the government were lost. These involve litigation concerning the firemen's pay parity with policemen, and would require the city to pay the costs of health and hospital programs for members of the families of policemen.

In addition, it is possible the Heat's Hibachi Great way to liven up the group! Let each guest pick a colored skewer and gather round our party hibachi. Serves eight. $25 Aid Program Extension Approved By Senate By FRED W. LINDECKE State Political Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, May 11-The Missouri Senate has agreed to retain state welfare aid to families with unemployed fathers living at home for two more years, but refused to make the program permanent. Mayor Alfonso J.

Cervantes has suggested that some neighborhood programs cut from the budget be reinstated because the city deficit was lower than expected. The proposal drew immediate criticism from some aldermen. The Mayor, in a statement yesterday, said he was pleasantly surprised to find that the final deficit figure for the 1970-71 fiscal year was $2,500,000 less than expected The deficit for the fiscal year, which ended April 30, is $3,505,000. It had been predicted that the city would go $6,000,000 in the red. "I plan to recommend reinstatement in the budget of sev-e a 1 neighborhood programs such as parks and recreation programs, demolition of derelict buildings, additional hous-i inspectors, restoration of funds to the street paving and resurfacing program, tree trimming and weed control," Cervantes said.

Disputes 'Find' "This 'find' (the decreased budget deficit) is typical of the double talk the Mayor puts out," said Alderman Raymond T. Percich Twenty-seventh Ward Percich said the Mayor promised taxpayers last year that he would reduce the municipal operating levy from $1 to 91 cents after passage of the 1 per cent sales tax. He said this would cost the city about $1,400,000 annually in taxes for this fiscal year, a reduction at a time when the Mayor's proposed budget for 1971-72 had increased $7,000,000. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of." "My own opinion is that 's too much fat in the budget now," Percich said. Cervantes said he would make his recommendation today to the Board of Estimate Warehouse Upholstery USAKAM Sale now going on at alt 3 Cerafiol Stores.

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8-5 The law is to expire on Dec. 31, and Senator Raymond Howard St. Louis, yesterday offered the measure to remove the time limit from the act. However, Senator A. Basey Varilandingham Columbia; submitted an amendment to extend the program only until- Dec.

31, 1973. This was adopted on a voice vote, and then the Senate tentatively approved the bill, 18 to 14. The program was created by the 1967 Legislature. At that time, it was argued that the state was breaking up families by refusing to give welfare aid to children unless the father was absent from the home. If the law was enacted, supporters said, fathers who had home to qualify their children for aid would return.

Since that time, statistics from the Welfare Division have shown that few fathers returned home and relatively few families have qualified for aid under the program. Howard said that the program "has been successful depending on how you measure success. Measured by volume, it has not been a success. But measured by what welfare ought to be, in helping a family Three burglary suspects were arrested early today in an automobile containing 1200 stolen barbiturate tablets. Also found was a small quantity of marijuana.

Held suspected of burglary and stealing were Robert Duke, 23 years old, Twin Springs Lane, Ladue; Michael Schoe-mehl, 17, of the 6100 block of McPherson Avenue, and Julian McCormick, 21, of the 6 30 0 block of Cates Avenue. Patrolmtn Bruce Highley and James Arnold, after receiving a radio description of the robbers and three digits of the number, stopped the reg. 751.40 499 CLAYTON CRESTWOOD PLAZA DOWNTOWN NORTHLAND NORTHWEST PLAZA WEST COUNTY Practice Makes Perfect get on its feet, this has been one of the most successful welfare programs." Howard said that in 1970, aid went to 323 families. Of these, 189 were taken off aid because the fathers who remained at home were able to find work and begin supporting their families again. Senator A.

Clifford Jones Brentwood, GOP minority leader, said he 1 i some of those who left the program were transferred to the Aid to Dependent Children rolls, and some were removed because they were ineligible. Jones said giving a welfare check to an unemployed father living at home was supposed to reduce welfare costs, but that they had risen steadily. Howard replied that the welfare rolls had risen because of economic factors, and that if the 189 families had not left the program because the father found work, this would have increased the welfare burden even more. Vanlandingham said he offered the amendment because effectiveness of the program remained uncertain. He said he knew personally of persons on the welfare rolls who turned down jobs to them.

The victim's family said today that the body would be brought to St. Louis for burial. McNamara was a staff sergeant and a gunner of the Lb-erator bomber when it was reported missing on Dec. 1, 1943. His family said today that a total of 10 bodies were found in the aircraft.

Parts of several Japanese planes also were found. McNamara, 27 years old when reported missing, was a graduate of Beaumont High School. His mother, Mrs. Rose McNamara, lives at 5049 Emerson Avenue. The family said posi tive identification was made through dental work.

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