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"There only one Fort Myert and 90 million people are going to find it out." ThomaM A. Edison Fort Myers News-Press The Weather Today Partly cloudy with 40 per cent chance of rain, highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s, lows in the mid 70s, winds southerly, a', 10 to 15 m.p.h. Details or Page 2 A. A Member of the Gannett Grovp Serving Southwest Florida 15c Daily, 35c Sunday Fort Myers, Florida, Friday Morning, August 2, 1974 90th Year House Agrees On TV Impeachmen Coverage Watergate Probe Republican leaders and Nixon defenders said no clear strategy was being shaped for the President's defense when the House debate begins. House Republican Leader John J.

Rhodes has said he will not try to line up votes against impeachment. An aide said Rhodes will announce Monday whether he will vote for or against any articles but that the announcement will not be intended as guidance for how any other Republican should vote. House Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois said "There is no plan for any arm twisting. A lot of the members honestly have not Turn To COVERAGE, Page 2A the House Judiciary Committee has of talks between Nixon and top aides.

Rep. Delbert L. Latta, R-Ohio, meanwhile, said he is considering introducing a resolution to censure the President rather than impeach him. "Any resolution would be directed at the fact that the President should have known what was going on," Latta said. But other members including Rep.

Joseph J. Maraziti, another defender of the President, said there was little support in the House for taking the lesser action against Nixon. "I don't think that's going anywhere," Maraziti said. "But I have heard discussion of it." Although live television coverage is to be formally considered later, Sisk said it "was a foregone conclusion' at the meeting of Republican and Democratic leaders. "Basically it was agreed on by both sides," Sisk said.

He said it was agreed also that the House would consider only the three impeachment articles approved by the Judiciary Committee, with amendments permitted solely for the purpose of killing entire articles or deleting subsections bearing specific charges. Speaker Carl Albert, said leaders are considering taking the impeachment votes by formal call of each of the 435 members rather than using the new and faster electronic scoreboard. The electronic system identifies Milk Co-op Fined 4A Ford Loyalty Expected 4 A Reinecke Will Resign 4A WASHINGTON (AP) House leaders reportedly agreed on Thursday to permit live telecasting of the historic debate and vote later this month on President Nixon's impeachment. Rep. B.

F. Sisk, a member of the House Rules Committee said after the meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders that the impeachment debate is scheduled to begin Monday, Aug. 19. Sisk said the first 55 hours about seven days will be spent on general debate. He said another three to four days, starting about Wednesday, Aug.

28, will be spent on voting on individual impeachment articles. each member's vote by name, but is so quick that it would be difficult for the television audience to immediately single out the tallying. As the leaders met, arrangements were underway for House members to listen to President Nixon's tapes as they sought out evidence to study for the impeachment vote. Headsets were being installed in four House office building rooms so that any of the 435 members who want to can listen to the 19 tapes Biggest Jump In Year Meat Eggs, Sugar Bill ood X-' i-t By the Associated Press Higher prices for meat, eggs and sugar helped boost the family grocery bill an average of 4 per cent during July, an Associated Press market-basket survey shows. The increase was the worst in more than a year and there are indications of more price boosts ahead.

The AP checked the prices of 15 food and nonfood items in 13 cities on March 1, 1973 and has rechecked at the start of every succeeding month. July was the first month since the beginning of the survey in which the marketbasket bill went up in every city checked. The Department of Agriculture's Crop Reporting Board said on Wednesday that prices paid to farmers for their products went up 6 per cent from June 15 to July 15, the first increase after four Associated Press Wirephoto Span Colapses Louisiana State Trooper Lt. Martin Dunn looks over a collapsed section of the 24-mile Lake Poptchartrain Causeway Thursday morning after a tugboat pushing barges crashed into the span. At least two vehicles plunged into the lake near New Orleans following the accident killing two people.

Another Photo Page 2A. months of declines. The board said that farmers were getting 1 per cent more for their products in the middle of July this year than they were at the same time in 1973. The marketbasket survey showed that some of the higher prices already have been passed on to consumers and other increases can be expected as foods processed from the more expensive crops reach the stores. Consumers got a break during June when the AP marketbasket went down in nine cities and up in four.

U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the price for farm-produced foods down .1 per cent during June. The declines during June reflected special sales of meat. The government had urged the supermarkets to lower the price of meat to more accurately reflect declining wholesale prices and an overabundance of beef. Wholesale prices have risen again, although they remain below last year's levels.

The Agriculture Department report issued Tuesday showed that as of July 15 farmers got $35 per 100 pounds for their live cattle, compared with $32.30 last month and $44.60 in June, 1973. Retail prices soared. Chopped chuck rose in nine of 13 cities checked in the AP marketbasket. The average price on March 1, 1973 was $1.12. By Jan.

1, 1974, the average price was up to $1.23. It dropped back down to $1.12 on July 1, but at the time of the latest check was $1.27, a 13 percent increase during the month and also 13 per cent more than on March 1 1973 Turn To MEAT, Page 2A Subsidies Urged To Keep Old Folks Home Baker Act intended keeping the family It costs the state about $600 per patient to keep them in a hospital, where he said geriatrics don't receive proper treatment, or the benefits that living with a family would provide, such as love and affection. "People have told me that if we could provide a direct subsidy of $300 a month, we could get geriatrics into alternative facilities," Caminez said. "Instead of putting money into agencies or more bureaucracy, we should put it back into the family," he said. "I think that's what the together." State laws now keep families from receiving payment for keeping their relatives with them, Caminez said, adding that the law should be changed to provide more humane care for the elderly.

Income restrictions on foster families should be changed also, he said. The Health and Rehabilitative Services DepaYtment has improved many of the Turn To SUBSIDY, Page 2A Act to review the cases of involuntarily committed mental patients, said far too many of the aged whose only problem seems to be old age are being kept in state mental institutions. "The split up of the family is the major cause of mental illenss in this country," Caminez said, adding that many old people were shipped off to mental hospitals becasuse their families could not afford to keep them. TALLAHASSEE (AP) A state hearing examiner proposed Thursday that the state pay families a subsidy for keeping old folks with them instead of shipping them off to mental institutions. "We subsidize farmers.

We subsidize the airlines. We subsidize everybody in this country. I think it's time we subsidized the family to keep it together," Jon Caminez, a Tallahassee attorney, said in an interview. Caminez, who is empowered by the Baker School Records Bill Approved i i Inside Today's News-Press It WASHINGTON (AP) With little notice, Congress has approved a bill to give parents the right to inspect, challenge and protect school records on their children. The authority, applying to all schools receiving federal funds, is detailed in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, a section of the omnibus education bill now on President Nixon's desk awaiting his signature.

The right of parents to inspect the records of their children at first was rejected by the House and approved by the Senate. But the House reversed its position Wednesday when it approved the final compromise version of the education bill. The measure provides that no federal funds shall be made available Fighting Continues iU ill I I 9 Fithtinc continues despite cease fire and Turks reveal firm plans to Buerry Resigns Office As President Of W8BH remain on Cyprus 10A Opinion MUNICIPAL services and taxes By DAVID OSIER News-Press Feature Editor can be initiated by county commissions under an unheralded new state law 6A Local, State STATE FUEL officials predict ora np snnu a ne easier to uei in Southwest Florida this winter "ft under any federal education program to any "educational institution or agency that: Denies parents the right to inspect and review any and all official records, files and other information about their children, including all the material placed in the pupil's cumulative record folder. Allows the release without the parents' written consent of any records or files in which the identity of the child or the parent is easily recognizable, except for certain specific educational purposes spelled out in the bill. The measure also gives parents the opportunity for a hearing to correct or remove inaccurate, misleading or "inappropriate data." The bill specifically applies the provisions to colleges and other institutions of higher education, as well as the elementary and secondary schools to which other parts of the bill apply.

Rep. William A. Steiger, said the act "represents the first step toward providing much needed protection of the right of privacy of school children and their parents." Lee County School Supt. Ray Williams said pupil records have always been open to parents here. "Our parents have always been allowed to have complete access to the records of their children," Williams than it was last winter, but they stop short ol any guarantees IB Sports unknown names filling the Ji iU starting lineups turn televised The editorial spokesman for WBBH-TV, Joseph Buerry, resigned Thursday as president and general manager of the station.

Howard Hoffman, 43, a minority stockholder of the station, sales manager and a board director, was named interim general manager. He said the position of president has been left open. Buerry, 44, who brought together a group of area investors to form the station in 1968, said he quit to spend more time with his wife and three daughters. "For the past six years I've worked very hard to make the thing work and now I want to sit back and spend time with my family," said Buerry, who owns 10 per cent stock in the company, Broadcasting-Telecasting Services, Inc. Buerry said he had been considering the move for about six months.

Hoffman said he learned of Buerry's NFL exhibitions into a new game show, "Name That Team." Ken Picking column 1C 5 -i Associated Press Wirephoto Amusements 8-9C Classified 6-15C JOSEPH BUERRY was not under, fire Daredevil Try Comics l'D Crossword Deaths 48 Daredevil Evel Knievel decked out in a star-studded flight suit, walks to a test firing of the skycycle he plans to use for a leap across the Snake River Canyon In Idaho. Three attempts to ignite the vehicle's engine failed Wednesday, but the fourth was successful, scattering dust and dirt for several hundred yards. Financial U-14A Newsmakers 9A Reader's Line 10B it came as "somewhat of a surprise. He resigned of his own volition and not under fire," Hoffman said. The station's editorials read by Turn To BUERRY, Page 2A TV 10D said.

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