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A Gannett Neivspaper Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday Morning, February 23, 1 977 80th Year No. 46 6 Sections 56 Pages Gulf Coast Edition 20 Cents Congress Reacts Favorably Carter Adds $1 9.4 Billion to Budget Limit hospital charges, 2A WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter asked Congress Tuesday to increase 1978 budget spending by $19.4 billion more than former President Gerald R. Ford proposed, and it appeared from the initial reaction that most lawmakers approved. The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie, D-Maine, said Carter's budget proposals would give the economy a shot in the arm while also showing "a strong awareness" of the need to keep federal spending under control. "The administration's budget plan provides for prudent expansion and continuation of the (economic) recovery at a rate consistent with further reductions in the rate of, inflation," said Muskie, whose committee will strongly influence the final shape of the 1978 budget. House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, said it's possible there will be some they could live with it and would not pose a serious challenge. "I think, in all fairness, we have to try to give the President some flexibility this first year," said Senate Minority Leader Howard H.

Baker R-Tenn. One exception to the generally favorable response concerned Carter's recommendation to save $289 million by cutting off funding for 19 water development projects across the nation. Sen. Pete Domenici, said he changes, but predicted, "We will be in the ball park of what the President wants." He and other Democratic congressional leaders met with Carter at the White House. Carter asked Congress to approve total federal spending in 1978 of $459.4 billion, up from the $440 billion that Ford had recommended three days before leaving office.

Although that would hike the 1978 budget deficit to $57.7 billion, $10 billion more than Ford wanted, Senate Republicans indicated doesn't see how Congress can approve $4 billion more for public works this year, which it is now considering, while Carter is seeking to halt dam construction projects next year. Sen. Quentin Burdick, pledged to "do everything I can to restore some of the projects." A congressional budget analyst agreed privately that Congress probably will restore some of the funds since such projects are popular with lawmakers. See CARTER ADDS, 2 A inside jJhe Journal Defense Budget IU Adequate, I 9(11 9(11 ffnjn Showert Ennn' E3 (13 pirl DefentK WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary Harold Brown, saying there WINDY with a 40 per cent chance of thundershowers. Southerly winds 15 to 25 m.p.h.

High in the low 70s. Low near 50. High tide, 2:53 p.m. Low tide, 12:33 a.m. Data and satellite view, 2 A.

Qulj Coast HOWARD HUNT is due to be released from the minimum-security' federal prison at Eglin Air Force Base today, but his departure, as has been his stay there, is cloaked in secrecy, 1 High School Scoreboard Staff Pholo by Jerry Kovach THETUG ERNEST DOSS PUSHES 500 YARDS OF BARGES PAST ANOTHER CHAIN OF ONCOMING OIL CARRIERS the Ernest Doss is heading toward Louisiana's offshore drilling wells Daily Spills Foul Wate way is a real possibility of U.S. troops becoming engaged in combat, Tiles-day defended President Carter's fe-fense budget as adequate to jWka nation's military needs. 1vo Brown testified before the defejft subcommittee of the House approjvwn ations committee as Carter's militffVj budget, which would cut about 2 cent from the spending proposalaiofc former President Gerald R. FrJffr received its first congressional goijy over. Rep.

George Mahon, chnmo man of the subcommittee, StoHf-Carter's proposed reduction was 'Tj a very radical cut when you considew the magnitude of the request." Carter's recommendations would slice $2.8 billion from the For administration's final defense budget1 by slowing down development of the strategic bomber, of a powerful new mobile MX missile and of other major weapons programs. Most of the cut would come in future years. Only $357 million would be saved next year. Both Secretary Brown and Gen. George S.

Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Mahon the Carter budget was adequate to keep the nation secure today and in the future. Later in his testimony, Secretary Brown said, "There is a real possibility that in various parts of the world our conventional forces might under certain circumstances be called upon to engage in combat." "We need to beef up our conventional forces," he said. He said the United States was not outmatched by the Soviet Union at the present time, but added, "I believe the trends have been disturbing." Both the secretary and the general said the United States would probably suffer heavy initial losses if a Naval conflict with the Soviet Union should break out in the Mediterranean. The chiefs of staff chairman, however, said it wasunlikely that anycon-flict in that part of the world would begin at sea. And the secretary added that even if it did "the Soviets could not have any confidence that they would emerge on top." Brown told the subcommittee he did not think the administration would be submitting any further budget amendments this year.

uur wienncai p)Tirrie Bomb GIRLS Washington 67, Fort Walton 54 Gulf Breeze 41 Marianna 38 Catholic 89, Cottondale 40 Havana 48, Vernon 44 Freeport 36, Bethlehem 33 MuStocks FEWER order? for durable goods and inflation worries get the drop on prices for Wall Street's third straight session. But IBM shines, 4 D. New York Stock Exchange your area during a year. It is certainly in the millions of gallons," says Denny Dobbs at EPA-Atlanta. "This is a tragedy that may not have reached the people yet.

They don't see it on TV; they don't smell it in their parks. They don't taste it in their water." True enough. Nobody's pet dog has been sacrificed to chemicals. Pensacola residents' lawns still grow. The beaches are still white and startlinginly beautiful.

But the problems sometimes do hit home. For example, Tammy McFarlane is now a crusader. She became one when she saw what diesel oil did to a family of loons she had come to know very well. See SPILLS, 9A Proof of that statement would stagger you, say EPA scientists in Atlanta. "We don't know how much spills in First of a 4-Part Series By PETER BROWN Journal Staff Writer Oil and chemicals are spilling into the West Florida environment right now.

It may be seven quarts poured into the dump by a guy who changed his crankcaseoil. It may be a three-acre slick thick and stinking that slides into the Gulf from a passing freighter. Perhaps it is a gush of sludge from an industrial pipe on Pensacola's bayous once a stunning blue-green and no the color of bad slate. Whatever the source, federal and state pollution fighters say not a day goes by without a spill of some kind. "The little ones mount up.

Thought of the big ones is horrible," says Dr. Tome Duke, head ol Environmental Protection Agency experiments in Pensacola. "You know, people used to say the oceans were too big for us to worry. We know that was false. We sure know our bays and streams in Escambia are not big enough." Aid Hearing Told Farm Jobs Available VOLUME UP 670 20,449,790 SHARES Gannett News Service WASHINGTON An attorney for a House subcommittee estimated Tuesday that the extent of fraud in the federal disaster unemployment assistance program (DUA) in the Fort Myers area could run from 10 per cent to 80 percent.

Alan Rothenberg, chief minority counsel to the House subcommittee on public assistance and unemployment compensation, made the report to Rep. L.A. "Skip" Bafalis of Fort Myers Beach Tuesday morning. Bafalis also released a small portion of an internal Labor Department memo which he obtained. It said that as of Feb.

1 1 ,3,700 farm jobs were available and only 90 workers had been sent to fill them. He used the memo to bolster his contention that jobless farm workers can qualify for so much DUA money that they have no incentive to return to work. The 3,700 jobs were apparently located in the counties of Palm Beach, Broward, Dade, Lee and Collier. During a subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Bafalis questioned Assistant Labor Secretary Robert Brown about the memo, and Brown said, "I think it is in error." See AID FRAUD, 9 A 'Unchanged, 469 ISSUES TRADED 1,919 DOWN 780 Ocala Senator Supports ERA; Amendment Two Votes Shy Blue Angel Pilot Killed In Training Flight Crash N.Y.S.E. Index 54.65-0.03 Dow Jones 939.91 I ..41 vc4 i I Vt Living CAPITAL punishment is once again the law of the land.

But putting children to death? It's a grisly thought, though hardly far-fetched. With the number of youthful offenders increasing, so may the ultimate penalty some will have to pay, ID. JL Index The Blue Angels fly two flights a day seven days a week during training season, a spokesman said. Kraft spent last season with the Blues doing narration for the air shows and he was practicing to be one of the team's two solo pilots. The 1969 Naval Academy graduate was originally from Gillman, III.

He became the fifth Blue Angel pilot to be killed in recent years in crashes. The Naval Parachute Test Range is located 25 miles west of El Centro. All six Blue Angel pilots were training at the site for next year's series of air shows. Kraft flew 223 combat missions in Vietnam and was awarded two distin-quished flying crosses. A board of inquiry will be convened to determine the cause of the crash.

raft's father is a retired Navy He announced the change in a letter to Wilson. She refused to disclose who had given her the private commitments, saying she wanted to honor their wishes to make their own announce- ments. However, a source In the ERA movement said that Sen. Pete Skinner, D-Lake City, was expected to come out in favor of the ERA around March I and that Sen. Jon Thomas, D-Fort Lauderdale, ww also close to announcing his own support for ERA.

Both men have said recently that they were undecided on the ERA as have Sens. Phil Lewis, D-West Palm Beach, and James Scott. R-Fort Lauderdale. Skinner says he doesn't mind being a "target" of proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, and he promises not to keep them on edge much longer. See ERA, IA From Wire Reports TALLAHASSEE State Sen.

Kenneth MacKay announced Tuesday that he was switching his vote to support the Equal Rights Amendment, putting supporters within two votes of victory in the Senate. Sen. Lorl Wilson, I-Cocoa, said that switch will give the ERA victory In the Senate because she had private commitments from two senators who will announce their support soon. With MacKay's switch, 19 senators have publicly come out in support of the proposed U.S. Constitutional amendment to ban sex discrimination.

MacKay, D-Ocala, said he changed his position because he became convinced he had a national responsibility to ensure equality for women. "The issue has nothing to do with the draft or unisex toilets. It has to do with equal rights and the obvious discrimination continuing it) many of our states," MacKay said. By DENNIS HANOVER Journal Staff Writer A 29-year-old member of the Blue Angels precision flying team was killed Tuesday when his A4 Skyhawk crashed during a solo practice flight in the desert near El Centro, the Navy said. Navy Lt.

Nile Kraft, stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, was practicing a low-level manueverwhen he trashed at the Naval Parachute Test Range, the Blue Angel's training site for 1977 air shows. Kraft's wife Catherine lives in Pensacola, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday night. Witnesses gave conflicting versions of whether Kraft ejected but the Navy said the ejection seat was found in the wreckage of his crashed jet. Debris from the crash was scattered over a wide area of the desert west of El Centro, witnesses said. 1-3D 3D 3A I1A UC, iS JA IB Joano Dixon.

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