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Consumer Agency Bill Runs Into Roadblock 1C! WASHINGTON POST SERVICE SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON A bill to create an independent consumer advocate moving swiftly toward expected passage by the Senate, slipped into parliamentary quicksands last week and was still there when Congress recessed for the Democratic- National Convention. That makes the bill much more vulnerable to efforts to kill it or limit its impact now than it would be on reaching the Senate floor in August. The reason is that most important consumer bills, win overwhelming support once they come to the floor. Even ligis- lators who try behind the scenes to gut them acclaim them once they have to vote on them out in the open. A couple of weeks ago, Son.

Morris H. Cotton, R-N spoke plainly about this phenomenon. The Senate was about to vote on a bill for an independent product safely agency. (The bill passed, 69 to 10). In remarks that he candidly told his colleagues he would delete from the account to be published in the Congressional Record, Cotton said that the word "consumer" has become "sacred" and it is "very dangerous" for a senator to be labeled "anti-consumer," especially in an election year.

The bill now mired down would give the proposed independent consumer advocate unit the right to intervene, in behalf of consumer interests, in formal and informal proceedings of federal agencies and cowls. The Senate Government Operalions Committee met lo act on it last Thursday, after a subcommittee had approved it unanimously. Representatives of about 150 companies and trade associations, principally the Grocery Manufacturers of America, tried to line up support among senators for an amendment that would strip the right of the administrator to intervene as a party in federal proceedings and leave him only an aniicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court. role. In that way, (IMA president George W.

Koch has said, the administrator" could not "disrupt decision-making." Sen. Charles H. Percy, said in an inleVvicw a i some prominent businessmen told him they oppose the nmicus amendment as "a sham." He said the White House is opposed, too. The administration, meanwhile, was seeking support for in amendments of its own. Their most important general effect would foe to cut back sharply the power of the administrator to intervene in informal agency proceedings.

A similar result would be achieved by a bill, sponsored chiefly by Rep. Chef Holifield, that the House passed last October 34-! to 44. The Government Operations Committee was to lake up the stronger Senate measure at 10 a.m. Thursday. They were to do so in a conference room off the Senate floor, so members could break off lo fake part in the numerous important votes the was taking just before adjournment.

At first the sponsors--subcommittee chairman A a a A. llibicoff, and Sens. Jacob K. Javits, and Percy--were unable to master a ID-senator quorum. Rut finally they rmmded up HI supporters of the bill.

Only thr-n iliit four oppnncnls appear: Sens, Allen, D.Ala.. William E. Brock HI. Sam .1. Krvin and Edward (iiirncy, R-Fla.

The same pattern was repeated twice in HIP The second time around, only Brock and (lurney appeared. The of how tliix came "about, as expressed by numerous sources who asked not lo l)e identified, were wildly conflicting. One scenario was a the While House, secretly, wanls no bill at a and a one of its legislative i a i men. a a 11M "Wally" Johnson, was orchestrating a a i James R. chief counsel of (he committee.

Johnson told a reporter Unit the claim a secret admin- i a i opposition to the bill js "utterlv and a the claim of manipulating a a i "absolutely a i i a Calloway termed the claim a he had worked i Johnson ''preposterous." It Was Senseless But Joyce Is Dead LOS ANGELES TIMES SERVICE SPECIAL TO THE HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif. An all-points bulletin was issued Monday for four men in connection wilh the shotgun slaying of a 4-year-old girl here. A sheriff's department spokesman said a witness had reported seeing the four suspects in a car in this Los Angeles suburb at about the time Joyce Ann Huff was felled by a shotgun blast. Deputies said they could find no motive for what appeared to be a senseless killing. They appealed for help from the public in their search for the suspects.

Joyce lived with her mother Bernice, 37, and father Leland Woods, 61. Sunday evening the little girl was shot in a neighbor's yard, where she had gone lo play wilh her friend, Terry Brickner, 5. "I was in the living room when it happened," the girl's mother said. "At first I thought the children had gotten hold of some firecrackers. I rushed to the kitchen window to see where the girls could have found the firecrackers," she said.

She saw her blood-spattered daughter being laid down by Terry father, by Terry Brickner's father. Her daughter was nil by 42 pellets from the single shotgun blast. Two of the pellets lodged in the brain, fatally injuring her. As her mother looked at a great of blood on the ground and at some of tile pock marks made on her kitchen door by Ihe shotgun pellets, she said: "I can't believe it. It's so senseless.

Unless they were doped I can't understand anybody wanting to do this. The Woodses have lived 'in their modest home for the. pasl three years. They sometimes discouraged their daughter from playing on the streets because the neighborhood is described by some residents as "rough and tough." JOYCK ANN HUFF shot to death XPRE WS Tuesday, July 4, 1972 Page 3-A Something for Everyom ASSOCIATED PRESS Fence-painting, flag-waving or just plain fun. There's something for everyone on lap Tuesday as the nation marks another birthday -No.

A national fcncc-paiuling conlcst will highlight the annual National Tom Sawyer Pay Tuesday at Hannibal, where Mark Twain wrote, about tfic adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Other events include a frog-jumping con- Five Are Killed test, with frogs sponsored by governors of all the states bordering the Mississippi River; a raft race; a barbecue, and, of course, a parade. For flag-waving, there will be a national telecast of a patriotic extravaganza staged in Oklahoma City and featuring a cast beaded by Bob Hope. The show took place Sunday and was taped by NBC for showing at p.m. CDT Tuesday.

In California, officials reported all campsites at Angeles National Forest were filled by Sunday night. Nixon Sets Nationwide Radio Talk SAN CLKMKNTE. Calif. (Al') President Nixon will address Ihe nation by radio Tuesday in a July holiday speech oxppcled to call for unity to meet "great trials'' Hie President sees ahead for the American people. Press secretary Ronald L.

i I said Monday the chief executive's speech will be broadcast live at 9:05 a.m. PDT (11:05 p.m. CDT) Tuesday from 'the Western White House. Nixon will talk for about 10 minutes, Ziegler said. The speech, which Xicglcr said would be carried live by all radio networks, fits Nixon's pattern of using holidays as occasions for nationwide addresses.

He made radio broadcasts last Labor Day and Veterans Day. Ziegler said the President would discuss in the speeth plans for the Bicentennial observance of the nation's independence in and "touch on other matters appropriate lo the 4lh of July." After the speech, the President will spend the holiday wilh his wife at their Spanish-style ocean-front home. He conferred Monday with his chief foreign and domestic advisers, Henry Kissinger and John Erhlichman; i 13 congressional acts for the relief of Private individuals, and declared portions of Arizona and West Virginia as disaster areas, qualifying them for federal assistance. The White House also issued Nixon's annual Independence Day message, which cited America's heritage as the "home of Ihe free and the haven for the weak and oppressed from other parts of the world." "Great Irials and greater triumphs still lie ahead, for us as a the message said." There are still wrongs to be righted, and new goals of peace, prosperity, justice and a bel- ter environment to be met." In woi-ds Nixon is expecled to expand upon in his radio address, the message added: "But as long as we remain true lo the ideals of America, as long as our energy does not flag and our faith docs not fail, no problem is too great and no evil is too strong to be overcome by a united American people." The President flew here Saturday for a two-week stay-- halfway through an election year which has seen him spend about two- thirds of bis time away from the White House. Of the 182 days during the half-year, Nixon was away from Washington all of 121 days.

A Birtl in the Hand Well, it's better a bird en the head. As a stakre in a fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona, Ilie artwork has had to put up wilh lot especially stares from the tourists. Now that a are banned from Ihe piozza area, the pigeons are back! It's no use to try to be friends with him, i bird, he has a heart of Parts of Key-Anthein Story Inaccurate, Researcher Says C) NEW I I SPECIAL THh" In Truck Collision DAMON, Tex. (AP) Five persons, including four members of one family, were killed Monday in a head-on collision between a large truck and a pickup on Texas 3G, about three miles south of this Brazoria County community. Killed were Frankie Hunooah, 34, a Freeporl carpenter; his wife, Jessie, .12, a daughter, Lisa, and a son, Tracy, months old; and the driver of the pickup Dottier Crump of Richmond.

Highway Patrolman David Kilo of Lake Jackson wlio investigated lite accident said a large truck driven by Apolinar Ramirez 31, of Progrcso collided the pickup truck driven by Crump. Ramirez and his Apolinar Ramirez Ill, were, injured in the wreck and were pulled from the blaxing wreckage by a passing motorist. Kile said Ihe accident's force had "welded" the trucks together. Fischer Accepts -For $130,000 REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer was reported ready Monday night lo meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spas- sky for the world chess championship and a prize pot sweetened by $130,000 from a London banker. Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Fischer, said the 29-year- merican challenger had accepted banker Jumcs D.

Slal 'ffer of the extra prize money and would be in Ihe Tuesday noon deadline. Earlier-Monday, the. championship match turned down Fischer's bid for a cu. the gain receipts in addition to the prize money previously agreed on. Marshall quoted Fischer as saying of Slater's proposal; gotta accept it.

It's a stupendous offer." lie said Fischer considered the gesture "incredible and generous and brave." said in London he received confirmation of Fischer's aeccptance by telephone and had been told the challenger planned to fly to Reykjavik. Fischer must arrive in Reykjavik by noon Tuesday---or forfeit his chance at Spassky and the title. The first game Is to begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday postponed from (he same lime Sunday at Fischer's request, a Francis Scott Key saw Ihe Star Spangled I'janTinr "Wave" over Forl and a BALTLMORK--A former British inlellig- someone oilier a Key had discovered lhat ence officer disputed Monday the tradition (lie Kuglisli drinking tune, "To A a in Heaven," would fit the words. Young Young Lady What do you do with seven two-day-old lion cubs? You name them for the days of the week, then you bottlc-fccd them.

Attendant Cheryl Cabel! at Ihe World of Animals or Dallas has her hands as well as her schedule full. The cubs were born on Ihe same day lo Wircphoto. "I see. why kids should have to believe i a a stories," Filby said. II would have taken a lo make the flag wave, Kilby said, because of its size and the rainy weather.

a a a a a a wrapped soggily around a pule." "And Key wrolc Hie- wurds, IIP i i mil need lo be (old about 'To Anai reon in He knew il as well a.s anyone. He had used the lime for an earlier song." AmrthiM' tviuiilimi--Uial Key I In 1 ori- i a version on Ihe back of an envelope--has been discounted for years, bill il i persists in some quarters. Filby dismisses i i a legend i a "Frauds Scott Key did not pull an old envelope out of his pocket.Knvolnpos wcrn not in general use i about IS 1(1." likely, Key wrolc some notes on the back of a letter. Filby said. And perhaps the lime lo which the anthem was later set--an F.nglish drinking song, "To Anacreon in i i through Key's mind as he saw wilh elation Dial I ho a was slill there and a i Ft.

Mcllcnry had survived Ihe Bri- lish bombardment. Filhy could nol accept, however, the popular notion lhat all four stanzas emerged full blown during Key's favored inspiration. "He didn't come running ashore crying, '('haps, I've, jus! produced the national Filby said dryly. Wilh Edward Howard, vice president and consultant on rare books of the Maryland Historical Society, Filby has compiled a monograph (Hlar Spangled Hooks, $12.50, Maryland Historical Society) that challenges sonic statements which are made in encyclopedias and are generally accepted by historians..