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Pittsburgh Press, April 10, 1978 Carter's All Wet On Water Projects, Foes Say By WILLIAM STEIF Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON This city is about to be the scene of another political squabble over billions of dollars worth of water projects. But this time there's been a significant shift of sides. President Carter, Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus are being painted as the bad guys by the selfstyled good guys, the environmentalists.

The environmentalists took their first potshots last week at Mondale and Andrus, accusing them of "subversion" of Carter's forthcoming water policy. Their anger was aimed at Carter, too. Executive Vice President Thomas L. Kimball of the 3.5-million-member National Wildlife Federation said his group was "deeply troubled" when Carter last year caved in to congressional pressure to cut his water-project "hit list" from 18 to nine. John Burdick of the Coalition for Water Project Review, which consists of 24 conservation said Carter "should exert stronger leadership." Audubon Society President Elvis J.

Stahr felt Carter wouldn't even be given "some of the toughest options" when the water policy proposals reach the White House later this month. "The old ways are more compatible with election-year politics," Stahr said. Politically, the environmentalists are now in Carnegie Fund Hero Fred H. Sochor Dies (Other obituaries, page B-12.) Fred H. Sochor, retired chief engineer for Columbia Gas Co.

and recipient of a Carnegie Hero Fund medal, died yesterday in St. Clair Memorial Hospital. Mr. Sochor, 93, of 328 Midland Carnegie, retired in 1950. He was a member of Canonsburg Lodge AM, Chartiers Commandery 78, Carnegie, Cyrus Royal Arch Chapter 280, Carnegie, and the United Methodist Church of Carnegie.

Mr. Sochor was cited by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in the early 1930s for his rescue of a young woman who had fallen in the path of an approaching train at the old railroad station in Carnegie. "He pulled her from the tracks just in time and the engine even hit his coattail," his widow, Ruth, recalled. "He went right on to work and even call to tell me about it. I didn't know anything until The Press came to our home at suppertime that evening." In addition to his wife, Mr.

Sochor leaves a daughter, Mrs. Mildred S. Wilson; a son, Fred H. five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

at the Bradwell Nirella Inc. Funeral Home, Chartiers Avenue at Mansfield Boulevard, Carnegie, where services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Chartiers Cemetery. Ernest W.

Sarver Ernest W. Sarver, retired shop manager of Highway Equipment Co. of Zelienople, Butler County, died yesterday in North Hills Passavant Hospital. Mr. Sarver, 72, of 9949 Neuhart Wexford, retired two years ago after working for the firm 38 years.

A former McCandless constable, Mr. Sarver was member of St. John's Lutheran Church, North Hills Lodge 716 Pittsburgh Consistory and Syria Temple. He was past president of the North Park Sportsman's Club. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Fedorka Sarver; two daughters, Marilyn Whitten and Carole McAndrews; two sons, David and Samuel; a stepdaughter, Jean Davis; a brother, Norman; a sister, Jennie Atkinson; 13 grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild.

Friends will be received from 7 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the H.P. Brandt Funeral Home, 1032 Perry Highway, Perrysville. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery, McCandless. William H. Hamilton William H. Hamilton, retired vice president of the Montour Railroad, died Saturday at his residence, 427 Meadow Lane, Edgeworth.

Mr. Hamilton, 86, retired in 1962 Pension Limits For Vets Urged (Continued from Page A-1) secretary of defense to pursuade qualified Another persons to stay in the military." recommendation would allow veterans who work for the government in civilian jobs to credit their military time toward a civil Service pension, but prohibit them from collecting military pensions and a government paycheck at the same time a common practice known as double-dipping. The panel's recommendations included: Retirees who stay in for a full 30- year career, could, start collecting a pension Those who stay 20 to 29 years would get checks starting at age 60. Those who left between the 10 to 20- year mark would have limited benefits available at age 62, similar to civilian pension plans. Veterans who leave service before 20 years now get nothing.

To bridge the gap until pension checks start and permit long-time servicemen a smooth transition back to civilian life, the government would provide "deferred compensation" that would be financed by an interest-earning trust fund and could be withdrawn in yearly installments. It would range drom a low of $8,610 for 10-year enlisted men to $140,890 for senior officers who stayed 30 years. Gas Leak Cut Off After Hundreds Flee TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) An emergency crew stopped an ammonia gas leak from an overturned tank truck early today, cutting off a cloud of deadly gas that forced the evacuation of several hundred residents in suburban Clair Mel City. No one was reported injured by the escaping gas, but the tank truck driver was killed and two other motorists were hurt the three-way accident.

the same camp with blacks, Jews and representatives of the urban poor, all big backers of candidate Carter and now sorely disappointed by his performance. Last weekend, hundreds of environmentalists poured into Washington to plot water policy strategy. Carter, Mondale and Andrus all rejected invitations to speak at the meeting. Partisan politics is the Carter administration's justification for going soft on water projects. For instance, an Interior Department official 1 says Andrus couldn't reject a new Denver Water Board project because Sen.

Floyd K. Haskell, faces rugged re-election battle. Similarly, there are indications the White House traded water projects for Senate votes on the Panama Canal treaties. UPI Telephoto NEW-DANGLED CONTRAPTION A giant pair of inflatable legs hangs from the roof of New York's Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Entitled "Della," the legs are part of "The Great American Leg Show" at the museum.

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In recent weeks Andrus has sanctioned not only the Denver project, but others in Colorado, Nebraska and North Dakota. And it appears that all the unbuilt 828 water projects Congress already has approved will be "grandfathered" into any water policy Carter eventually OKs. That means they'll be exempt from any standards Carter imposes. And the U.S. Reclamation Bureau and the Army Corps Engineers will be building $34 billion worth of dams and canals far into the next century.

The nation now spends billions yearly for dubious projects that benefit few people. Federal engineers still assume the cost of money the interest rate is 3.25 to 3.5 percent, when you can't borrow money at twice that rate. The engineers argue their projects offer intangible benefits, but those benefits are often hoaxes. What, for instance, are the "recreational benefits" of Maine's artificial Lincoln-Dickey Reservoir in state with 3,000 natural lakes? Western water use is twice the national average, 73 gallons daily per person in 1975 compared with 38 gallons nationally. The rate is growing faster than the national average.

Yet the General Accounting Office recently reported half the 8.5 trillion gallons of irrigation water the Reclamation Bureau delivered in 1973 was wasted. Carter Wrapping Up Anti-Inflation on Package after more than 50 years with the railroad. He was a former 35-year member of the Sewickley Valley Hospital board of directors and a member of St. Stephen Episcopal Church and the Edgeworth Club. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Alice Stafford Hamilton; a daughter, Mrs. Frederica H. McCafferty; and two grandchildren. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Dallas, S.

Irvine Funeral Home, 702 Sewickley, where services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be private. Obituaries Thomas P. Mellett A funeral mass for Thomas P.

Mellett, a clinical psychologist with the Veterans Administration here, win be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Maurice Church, Forest Hills. Mr. Mellett, 54, of 487 Atlantic Forest Hills, died Saturday in Shadyside Hospital.

A psychologist with the VA for the past 26 years, Mr. Mellett was a Duquesne University graduate who received master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. His work with the VA involved hundreds of disabled veterans. He also helped to train doctoral candidates in psychology. He was a member of the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and American Psychological associations.

Surviving are his wife, Helen; three sons, Kevin, Daniel and Richard; two sisters, Helen Maloney and Cecilia Hogan; and a brother, John R. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today, at Thomas L. Nied Funeral Home, 7441 Washington Swissvale. Burial will be in Good Shepherd Cemetery, Monroeville.

The family suggests memorial contributions to a favorite charity. Maur J. Weldon WASHINGTON, Pa. Maur J. Weldon, a retired research development and sales engineering employee of the Jessop Steel Co.

in Washington, died yesterday at Washington Hospital. Mr. Weldon, of South Wade Avenue, most recently was a metallurgical consultant. He was an honorary life member of American Society for Metals and the American Society of Tool Manufacturing Engineers, and a member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and the British Iron and Steel Institute. Mr.

Weldon is survived by Mrs. Margaret Weldon; three daughters, Maureen Johnson of Denver, Mrs. Ann Lightfoot of East Hampton, Mass. and Mrs. Catherine, Gyton of Washington; and granddaughters.

Friends will be received from 5 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Richard A. Piatt Funeral Home, 130 East Wheeling Washington. Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Immaculate Conception Church, West Chestnut Street, Washington.

Burial will be private in Hamdon, Conn. Msgr. Martin P. Flaherty Msgr. Martin P.

Flaherty, retired pastor of several Pittsburgh area churches, died yesterday in Mercy Hospital. Msgr. Flaherty, 78, resided at St. Michael Church, Pitcairn. He was a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh for 52 years and served as pastor of St.

Denis Church, Versailles, from 1967 until his ment in 1975. A native of McKeesport, he was a graduate of St. Vincent Preparatory School and St. Vincent College and Seminary. He was an assistant pastor of St.

Bernard Church, Mt. Lebanon; Holy Rosary Church, Homewood; St. John the Evangelist, South Side; and St. James, West End. He was also pastor of St.

Patrick Church, Noblestown; St. Alphonsus, McDonald, Washington County; St. William of East Pittsburgh; and St. Justin, Mount Washington. Msgr.

Flaberty also was a chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital and Pittsburgh Hospital. Surviving are a brother, Father John of Pitcairn and a sister, Mrs. August Franklin of McKeesport. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 tomorrow and until 3 p.m.

Wednesday at the William Pierce Funeral Home, Wall Pitcairn. After 3 p.m. Wednesday, friends will be received at St. Michael Church, 809 Taylor Pitcairn, until time for the pontifical mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. Thursday.

Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, East McKeesport. WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter was completing his plan today to stem inflation and return financial integrity to the U.S. dollar, but aides generally describe the strategy as stressing voluntary restraint rather than bold new programs. Carter is scheduled to outline the plan during a speech tomorrow to the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington.

One officials said it will amount to "a statement of policy rather than major new programs." The policy is being described as "modest" by White House aides and some economic advisers. It will tie in inflation, the energy program, the declining of the dollar and the need for an overall approach to U.S. economic woes. Experts to cut believe the 6 Carter will salary ask Con- ingress percent crease that would go into effect this year for most federal workers. The cut most likely would be slight in order to keep down the antagonism it would stir.

The energy bill, proposed nearly a year ago but still being worked on in Congress, was being emphasized as essential in dealing with the U.S. trade deficit and the declining dollar. Recent government figures put the trade deficit at $4.5 billion in February, much of it attributed to the enormous oil imports entering the United States. The president's speech is likely to include: Approval for cutting more timber on U.S. forest land, a move supporters say would help reduce the cost of new housing.

A request for voluntary price con- Shadyside Man, 59, Found Dead In Home A Shadyside man was found dead in his bathroom, where he had apparently fled to douse flames which were burning his clothes. According to the coroner's office, police theorize that William Bennett, 59, of 5731 Ellsworth was working on a stove in his kitchen last night when his clothing caught fire. negotiations by unions. Carter strongly opposes any governme wage and price freezes. Restraint in the federal spending which he feels has fueled current inflationary trends.

That would be a major reason for vetoing a pending multimillion dollar farm bill which is expected to raise food prices 3 percent if enacted. Another appeal for passage of a national energy bill to stem the flow of U.S. dollars overseas. The nation now spends about $45 billion a year on foreign oil. Pitt Professor Claims $6,000 In Goods Taken A UNIVERSITY of Pittsburgh professor told police someone broke into her home in the 4400 block of Schenley Farms Terrace, Oakland, during the weekend and took $6,000 in goods.

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