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Candidates talk Enbody claim called JP I The state government's top financial of lower taxes in final efforts United Press Iittrutkxul President Ford and Jimmy Carter both are talking er taxes in hopes of winning the support of pocketbook- conscious in a presidentiaielection. Ford promised to push for 2 tax cut ia January while campaigning Thursday in Indianapolis, Cincinnati aad Cleveland. Carter, campaigning in Erie. Cleveland and New York City, stopped short of promising 3 tax cut bet said one would tome "if our projections are right." Ford scheduled stops today ia Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Houston.

Carter headed for Philadelphia, ToledoandSt. Louis. Ford claimed that the economy was tie biggest difference between him and Carter. He said Carter has suffered "drastic slippage" in the polls because of public concern over his economic "policies of panic." Carter, ia Cleveland, declined to describe a tax cut as "inevitable," as he hsd the day before. "I'm very careful about I promise." Carter said.

"If canhave a five or six per cent economic growth and if can cut oar unemployment rate down to just about what it was when Richard Nixon entered office and have inflation control and a a relationship between government spending and our normal spending, we can realize enough income to have a combination of new programs and to havesometaxcuts." Reporters in Erie asked Carter why he might be iosisg ground to Ford, as in- dicated in surveys. "I'm not." he replied. But Carter told an Erie rally "there are a long, tough five days ahead" and it would be a mistake to take anything for granted. White House Chief of Staff Richard B. Cheney reporters on Air Force One that Ford's staff now is certain that he will have the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

Cheney claimed tiat the Carolinas. Louisiana, Virginia, Mississippi and Texas are shifting to Ford, that he is secure in the traditionally Republican mountain and plains states, is ahead in California and is running neck and neck in most of the northern industrial states. Carter told senior citizens in Pittsburgh tiat Ford had neglected the needs of senior citizens. "That won't happen when I'm president." be said. Carter promised to a "full-time counselor on aging at ray shoulder to make sure I don't forget to pay attention to the special needs of senior citizens." More than 33,000 persons turned out to cheer Ford in a ticker tape and brass band parade and rally in downtown Cincinnati, and several thousand lined streets ia Cleveland as he rode in a motorcade through ethnic neighborhoods.

Carter had big acd enthusiastic audiences in Erie and Cleveland, experienced a disappointing turnout ia Brooklyn when he returned to crucial New York, then then got an enthusiastic reception from some 8,500 persons at Hofstra University on Long Island. The state government's top financial expert said Thursday that if Democratic legislative candidate Joseph Enbody's political "gimmick" on zero-based budgeting were adop'ed it would cut into school funding acd welfare programs for the aged and poor. The financial expert. Lee M. Buf- fogton, director of the state Office of a a i a i a Management, challenged Enbody's public statement that if zero-based budgeting adopted ia Washington State "it would amounttoUOOmilliona year in tax savings for the people this slate, or approximately J100 in taxes for every' rain, woman and child ia this state." Buffington said such an assertion was nothing more than a "gimmick" to delude the public and gamer votes.

"I would wonder what he (Enbody) a i City transit up to voters Homeowners in Centralia and Chehalis will decide in Tuesday's election whether to tax themselves to establish and operate a public transportation system to the Twin Cities. The system would consist of bus service trithin the two cities and the area between. The proposition on the ballot asks voters to approve a household tax of up to II per month to support the public transit system. 'Scottsboro' victim dies YAKIMA, Wash. (UPI I Ruby Schut, said she was one of two omen who made a rape charge against the nine "Scottsboro Boys" in Alabama in 1931, has died in hospital of natural causes.

She was 63. Mrs. Schut, who died Wednesday, said she was the "Ruby Bates" involved in the trial. She claimed she and another woman accused nine black youths of raping them aboard a freight train ia Alabama. The trial of the Scottsboro Xine became one of the most controversial in the South.

Eight of tie nine youths, who ranged in age from 12 to 19, were sentenced to death in the electric chair. Two years later, "Ruby Bates" recanted her testimony and said DO rape had occurred. Appeals, retrials and out-of-court developments for 15 years before tie last of the defendants freed on parole. Just two days before Mrs. Schut's death.

Clarence Xorris. resident of New York City and the last of the nine defendants known to be still alive, received i full pardon from the stale of Alabama. In an advisory vote last November, residents of Centralia and Chehalis voted to support the transit proposal and to submit the household tax to the voters in this election. Steve Tilley, county planning director whose department is coordinating the planning on bus service, said Friday the household assessment will pay the matching funds for state and federal grants as well as operating costs. He said the federal government is prepared to provide a tax grant of 80 per cent of the cost of planning, purchasing three buses and related items.

The state will match dollar for dollar the amount raised by the household tax, which would be over $5.000 a month Tilley said. The tax collection, added to utility bills, would begin early next year, but bus service would cot begin until mid-197; orlater. Tilley said. Name of the proposed transit system is "Twin Transit." According to Tilley, planned routes are designed to serve primary employment centers, shopping areas, government offices, hospitals, health care clinics, raflroid station and bus depot, several parks and Centralia College. He said most of the population in the Twin Cities area lives Jess than four blocks from planned bus routes.

If the new system is approved, the present bos system be phased out and replaced by "Twin Transit." Three buses with a capacity of 20 to 25 passengers are planned for weekday service. A Saturday bcs may also be operated. Present plans call for service to begin at 6 a.m. and end at 6 p.m., but Tilley said that schedule may be reduced by two or three hours in the morning. A vehicle accessible to wheelchairs will serve the handicapped and those unable to use regular buses, he said.

Riders will be charged a fare of 25 cents. Getting out the vote Hundreds of jcoutf wrlll be joins dooHo-door Soturioy to ploce "Rino, Out The Vote" notket oround the door knob. The public i.rvk* by Tumwoler Areo Council Boy ScouM it to urge Americom to their right to rote In this Bieenlennfol year on Tuesday. The three boyj pictured chore ere among 30 who wffl cover rYmfock. From left, they are Oovid E.

Warner YYebeloi Seoul. toy Scout, end Ricky Allender. Cub Scout, oil of Pock or Troop 324, Wmlock. Chronicle Photo Buffington said in a telephone interview. Buffington said that the only place cuts canbe made in the state budget is in the general fund and that "83.9 per cent of the general fund is spent for welfare and schools-for school funding and for programs to assist the aged and poor.

"I don't understand how any reasonable person can stand up and say he can save $300 million ia the state budget." Baffingtoa added. "I'm evea more astounded to think that any reasonable person ould believe him." Enbody. a Centralia attorney who seeks Position 1 in the state House of Representatives from the 20th District, which includes Lewis County, has made zero-based budgeting one of his major campaign issues. "Zero-based budgeting is just a fancy name for complete budget analysis," Buffington said, "something which vie have been doing for years. It means you don't accept the cor.cept the current leiel of etpenditures-we haven't accepted it for years" Buffington said he couldn't understand how anyor.e could make the public statements Enbody Sas.

"It would be interesting to see he could predict a million savings ia thestatebudget." Buffington added. The fiscal and management director also challenged Enbody's statement oa New Jersey's zero-btdgetiag system. "We (members of Buffington's office) have talked to the New Jersey people about their system, and they admit they don't even look at fixed costs," Buffingtoa said there are 200 agencies in the state government supported by both federal and slate monies, and "I wonder what kind of money he (Enbody) is talking about? "Sure. Icouldcct million from the budget with a meat axe, bat the budget is a policy staienfct-if you say you are going to cut that amount a will you be doing to the agencies'" BaffLigtoa said despite Enbody's assertions, his office constantly checks state expenditures. do this all the tirne.

on a monthly basis." he said. measure what they (the agencies i have accomplished lgair.il 11 hat they said they uou'd accomplish," Buffuigton said the state government had only tiio tr.iags to work and people, and have to provide services with them. Once a policy deci-ion is made can prune a a i He said that Enbody a simply using "a gimmick" in his campaign rhetoric on zero-based budgeting. "It's like saying if you switched to Gleem toothpaste you'll save $3M million a year--it doesn't say anything about brushing." Baffagton tClflfC Vi' SX year. SStfi issue Great Pumpkin urges safety The Great Pumpkin (Woyne Br.db.rg) mode brief appearance! In eoch ol five classrooms ol Logon Kindergarten Center in Cenfrolio Thurtday at part of traffic safety program tpontored by the Centralla lion's dub.

put on by Centrolio High School Traffic dub, demonsfraied the need for reflector and other Halloween lofety The dub heeded or Br.rfb.ro. and Bob Erickson. Bob Randall, Cenrralla Oub pratldent. wot also preterit. ThU picture taken In the doit ol Mn Richard (Betty) Sleler (teated.

near center). Chronicle Photo Tobacco companies urged to make milder cigarettes WASHINGTON IUPD A National Cancer Institute scientist is urging the tobacco industry to begin mass production lower hazard cigarettes as a "potentially successful disease prevention opportunity." Giq Gori. deputy director of NCI's division of cancer cause and prevention, said he realized his message might offend anlismoking activists. Rochester may bus ROCHESTER-The Rochester school buses caa return to the roads agaia aj soon as parents who have pledged money send ia the cash. Mrs.

Frances Dipola. the head of a citizen committee attempting to restore bus runs, urged parents Friday to send in their pledges im mediately. She said the school board agreed Thursday evening to accept the donations offered and to run the buses for about four months. Mrs Dipola said she has received about $28.000 to pledges to date. Of that some Ki.QW will be needed to run the buses four months.

Mrs. Dipola said parents can mail their donations to the following address: Concerted Parents Basing Fund Post Office Box 455. Rochester. Wash, (Tip code9S579). She suggested that parents, do not send their donations to school with their children.

Those who elect cot to mail in donations, she offered, should take them to the school themselves. People who hive questions about the drive should telepboce oce of the follow icg numbers: 273-5KS. 273-5373 or "The quicker you get yosr pledges ia." Mrs. Dipola said, "the quicker we can get the bases rolling." Dr. Floyd Monti, superintendent of Rochester schools, said the money offered by tf.e citizen com mittee would put all the bases back on tie road for about four months.

That would include a bos for special education students going to Olympia. Parents with youngsters ia that program, however, wcild have to bring them to the Rochester High School to catch the spetiileducation bus. Mrs. Dipola said the board put $3,800 toward operation of the special education bus. But smokers must be protected from their own habits, Gori told participants at a National Academy of Sciences syra posiura on the burden of illness.

"Leaving thera to their fate is neither humane nor economical, particularly as we know that the risk of tobacco related disease can be reduced substantially in at least two ways," he said in a paper on smoking related diseases. It is unrealistic to expect an eventual society of nonsmokers and impractical to consider the abolition of tobacco use, Gorisaid. But the is available to remove certain toxic components from cigarette smoke and reduce a smoker's total smoke intake, he said. Thus smokers could continue their habits with risk. "This technology can be applied on a mass'scale by skilled cigarette manufacturers," Gori said.

Any delay odd be if fi ult to justify." For instance, if one brand of cigarettes produced smoke coatainiag two milligrams of carbon monoxide, a smoker could smoke 22 cigarettes daily without apparent increased risk of cardiovascular disorder, according to Gori. If the smoker chooses a cigarette delivering 20 milligrams carbon monoxide, the critical limit is reached after smoking only two a day. Gori cautioned that noce of his suggested limits indicated safe smoking levels. But production of lower haiard cigarettes within the limits suggested ia his paper for 11 specific diseases could reduce epidemic proportions of smoking related illness to minimal levels severaldecades. These limits are the smoke intake dose that would equalise risks for smokers andnoasrcokers.

By the year 2008. such cigarettes would have the potential of preventing SOO.fXQ to 600,000 deaths annually he said. "Thus the single most important and potentially successful disease prevention opportunity ia contemporary society caa be set in motion by marketing decisions ia the cigarette industry and, to a less controllable extent, through a major public a i drive and legislative measures leading smokers to new patterns of acceptance." Gori said. Lewis County churches campaign to aid hungry The average person living on aa adequate diet ia a developing country consumes 400 pounds of grain yearly. The average American, by comparison consumes about five times as much.

The worst nutrition a I conditions ia the U.S. exist anosg the migrant laborers ana people living oa some Indian reservation a nd rural poor ia the South. Five million people are likely to die of (i anger ia the world this ye ar. There are hungry arooad the world and in Lewis Couaty. according to the Rev.

William Hunter, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Ceatralia. and chairman of the Hunger Relief Program undertaken by nine Cetratia churches Churches ia Centralij and ia Chehalis where the Rev. Ralph Carr, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, is chairman o( the Hunger Relief Pro- gran, hare cadertakea projects aid world hunger beginning with teams of youth going door-to-door HaBoween -weekend to receive donations for hunger relief and extending through 25 Youth this weekend will be accompanied by an adult and will have some form of identification. Each church will choose its own channel for world relief donations ill be used strictly for that purpose.

In the weeks that follow- notion pictures and lilmstrips ra hunger will be shown, hunger questionnaires will be distributed, the entire natioa wil! be encouraged to fast on Nov. 22 a nd to giv to hunger relief the rccal coney they saved by fasti-g and a variety of other projects wfll be undertakes. Donations are always welccse to the feed banks in Cettralia operated by the Salvation Army aad ia Chehalis the First Baptist Church and directed by the Rev. Hull, church pastor. Donations of food sod money to the local food barJts provide needed nourishment each raonth to many Lewis County families Today in the News Economic index drops WASHINGTON lUPI) The government's index of economic indicators a key factor in forecasting economic trends dipped 0.7 per cent ia September, the second straight monthly drop, tie Commerce Department said today.

Two administration economists said the latest figures do not necessarily mean harder economic times are ahead. Bat Jimmy Carter and AFL-CIO President George Meany disagreed, saying the nation's economy was a "mess." Money improves BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) Tee U.S. dollar today recouped some of its heavy losses of the past few days on European markets, and the British pound made sharp opening gains. Hijacker demanded MUNICH, Germany (UPI) A 26- year-old Czech railroad sorter hijacked a Czechoslovak airliner Thursday night, forced it to land ia West Germany and surrendered. Tie Czechs demanded his extradition today, saying he was susepc- ted of murder.

Quake felt A severe earthquake rocked western New Guinea Thursday night in almost exactly the same area where a tremor four months ago killed nearly 5CO persons. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the latest quake. Plan rejected GENEVA. Switzerland Rhodesian black nationalist leaders today rejected Secretary' of State Henry A. Kissinger's for a black majority government ia Rhodesia within two years.

They demanded black rule at once and threatened to take over the country by force if necessary. Bot white Prime Minister Ian Smith stuck to his position that he has come to tho Geneva conference on Rhodesia oniy to negotiate on the basis of proposals made by Kissinger. On the inside Voting precincts Detailed descriptions of Chehalis voting precinct boundaries appear on page 1. Also in today's newspaper is a tabloid pull-out section, published by the Lewis County Auditor, containing descriptive information about ali the precincts ia the county, Uclans test Huskies UCLA, which hasn't been ab'e to defeat the Washington Huskies ia Seattle ia the past IS years, wonders if this Saturday will be acydifierest. PajeS Candidates make pitches for elective office ia Lewis Co.r.ty i-i the Mi Legislative District their last r.ajor public stand jithe Baw Faw Grarge list night Gordon MacCracken was there acd reports on CLOUDY ing fog ond portiol of-erooon clearing So-urdoy.

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