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15 Friday, April 7, 1972 (The journal Leaders Hope Session to Conclude if 1 1 I. agreed Wednesday night on a $1.65 billion spending bill. The two chambers were still at odds over how to carve up Florida's existing 12 congressional districts to accomodate the 15 representatives of the state is accorded for the 1970s. Both House and Senate versions protect incumbents, and give Democrats the best chances of gaining most among the three new seats. "Congressional redistricting may hold us up but I would doubt it," said Rep.

Marshall Harris, D-Miami. "As far as I can see from the House end, we're in very good shape." Legislation to replace Florida's now-junked 1868 anti-abortion law, recently overturned by the Florida Supreme Court, appeared contingent only on a compromise over a language specifying how seriously a mother's health had to be threatened before she could get an abortion. 'Excused' Escambia and the part of Santa Rosa County extending from the county line eastward to Blackwater River in Milton be granted four representatives. However, the split-Es-cambia formula was substituted at the request of Rep. Fortune, D-Pace, who did not want to run in Escambia proper.

Although Sen. John Brox-son, D-Gulf Breeze, supported Childers' attempt to stop Escambia from being divided, he voted for the overall House reapportionment plan. 'X if Defends mended the settlement to the cabinet, Joel Kuperberg, Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund directors, said the statement his agency had concealed Marco Island dredging violations from the cabinet were "completely untrue." "If it's fabricated it was somebody else's fabricating," said J. Edward Burgess director of the House Natural Resources Committee. whole thing, all the way through, was documents by other people." Although many of the docu "I don't like the idea," said Myers.

"But I sense that's the mood of the Senate." House and Senate conferees on the $1.65 billion state budget, meanwhile, finalized their proposed compromise report. It was expected to go to the House first. "If we can take care of congressional redisricting and appropriations, that really will be it," he said. "I think there's a strong feeling on the part of both houses to get out of here on time." As usual, consideration of the appropriations bill, which determines how state taxes will be spent for the next year, was moving down to the wire. However, nothing much remained but the formality of both houses voting on the bill.

No significant opposition was expected. Senate and House negotiators worked for weeks to resolve differences and Absence From 1A His office staff denied saying he was away on business. Asked where he was Wednesday, Barrow said he was attending to "personal business." Childers said Wednesday afternoon his amendment would have passed on the first occasion had the Crestview lawmaker been present, although Barrow had never publicly taken a position on the House reapportionment plan. The House plan, which passed both the Senate and House Wednesday afternoon, came under fire from both Childers and Rep. Tom Tobiassen, R-Pensacola, because it divides Escambia into two three-member districts.

One district runs generally along the Pensacola metropolitan area, extending as far north as the University of West Florida and alternate U.S. 90, east to Escambia Bay, south to Pensacola Bay and west to Pinestead Road. The other is composed of north Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa Counties and the portion of Walton County from the county line east to DeFu-niak Springs. Originally, the House Reapportionment Committee, headed by Rep. George Firestone, D-Miami, recommended that i XI I TALLAHASSEE (AP)-r- Legislative leaders expressed confidence Thursday the once extended 1972 session will end Friday as planned.

But to manage it the Senate had to schedule a dawn-to-dark session. Senate President Jerry Thomas set Friday's session to begin at 7 a.m. and go "as long into the night as neces-s a to accomplish still pending work on appropriations, congressional reseating and abortion. "We're going to finish and wait for the Senate," said House Speaker Richard Pettigrew. and wait, and wait, and wait." A full day's calendar faced the Senate.

The Senate's failure to pass, as anticipated, an aid-to-cities bill further com-plicated Friday's Senate agenda. It will be the first bill up when the Senate convenes. A major compromise was brewing on the congressional redistricting plan. Both houses have passed separate versions, but late Thursday Senate Redistricting Committee Chairman Ken Myers, D-Miami, predicted the Senate would adopt the House version avoiding the need for a conference committee. Jury Returns New Indictment From 1A dictments in the investigation.

Morrow, 63, a stockholder in Escambia Natural Gas Corp. at Cantonment, was indicted two times before on a charge of offering a bribe to Commissioner Barnes in exchange for a favorable vote to purchase the gas system. In each case, the charges were dropped. Court of Record Judge M. C.

Blanchard dismissed the last charge Monday and told the Grand Jury to amend the indictment. Morrow, the indictment had said, was accused of offering Barnes a $4,500 bribe last Sept. 29. But attorney J. B.

Hopkins, who represents Morrow, said his client was not in Pensacola on Sept. 29. But Hopkins did say that Morrow met with Barnes a week earlier on Sept. 22. 1 1 vrvt 1 1 OUT OF CONTROL Two gasoline storage tanks burn out of control after an explosion at the Triangle Refinery near Doraville, Thursday.

One man was killed and at least four persons injured. The fire here burns out of control as a state of emergency was declared in the area. (Pensacola Journal-AP Wirephoto) Chess Champ May Not Make World Tourney Report on ments were IIF papers, Burgess would not respond further to the criticism of his "I'll let the report stand on its own merits," he said. "The fat's in the fire. Let's see what happens now." Pettigrew aide Gene Stearns also criticized the report, saying there were questions about how it was made and that it lacked responses from individuals possibly involved in wrongdoing.

Burgess said he didn't discuss the report in advance roses and NEW YORK (AP) A spokesman for the U.S. Chess Federation said Thursday the organization does not have $35,000 to guarantee the appearance of Bobby Fischer of the United States at the world champion chess match in Belgrade. "We can't make such a guarantee for a very good reason. The federation does not have that kind of money," the spokesman said. Earlier, a spokesman for the Belgrade match organ 11 "There is an agreement," said Rep.

Murray Dubbin, D-Miami. "Both sides are about 85 per cent committed to it. Nobody particularly likes the agreement." The proposal likely would allow the operation if a mother's health or life is seriously threatened, if there is reasonable assurance the child will be deformed, or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Also pending before the Senate were bills which would require the state to set up a plan for management of water resources, establish a consumer advocate in the Public Service Commission, implement of the new judicial revamp plan, and set up collective bargaining for public employes. Still unresolved between the two houses was how to distribute some $29 million in aid to local government.

Barrow When the amended House-Senate resolution went back to the lower chamber for concurrence Wednesday, it was opposed by Pensacola Reps. Jim Reeves, Roy Hess, Gordon Tyrrell and Tobiassen. Tobiassen voted affirmatively at first, thinking it was only the Senate plan. He changed his vote when he learned the resolution included the House plan. Hess, Reeves and Tyrrell voted for the House plan when it initially came before the lower chamber last week.

izers had said, "If the Americans agree to deposit the $35,000 pledging that Fischer will arrive to play his match, we would be ready to get the entire machine rolling again. Fischer, who is to meet in the match the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky, the current world champion, was not available for comment. Fischer has insisted that all profits from the match after expenses be divided equally between himself and Spassky. 1 GORDONS JEWELERS St Marco with Kuperberg and other persons because that would have involved "hearsay evidence," not factual documents. Pettigrew has requested a committee hearing on the report, saying he wanted to determine its accuracy.

Burgess said he didn't want to discuss criticism of the report at this point because "anything we do might embarrass the speaker, if it has embarrassed him." He said, however, that Pet-tigrew's staff has made no attempt to muzzle him. i 4 diamonds $250. MAY suggest JUNE Pv I I JLJ V-iLp I if Burgess TALLAHASSEE (AP) A House committee director said Thursday if parts of his report citing massive dredgeand-fill violations at Marco Island were fabricated it was somebody else's doing. The report requested by House Speaker Richard Petti-grew was released this week. It said the violations had been concealed from the cabinet when the state approved Marco Island Development Corp.

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