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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1972 THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. FACE SEVEN News In Brief FHA Program A Mem President Breaks Travel Record attributed by HUD officials to abuses in and lax administration of FHA programs, Including speculation and sale of-substandard homes. 1 Romney said Congress waa also partly to blame for failures of the FHA programs because of flaws in housing legislation enacted in 18 to increase home ownership among low-income families in the big cities. buildings downtown as long as the central city housing continues to be occupied by poor and minority groups and the affluent live around the outside of the city," he said "There can be no solution as long as the suburbs leave or dump urban problems in the central city," Romney said. "Only the involvement of state and local officials, private leadership and the suburbs in tack Hi SAIGON AP) The U.S.

Command today announced the loss of another fighter-bomber over northern Laos, and four American helicopters were shot down during an attack on a U.S. patrol northeast of Saigon. The command said an Air Force F4 Phantom was lost last Friday due to unknown causes and the two crewmen' were listed as missing. It was the 11th U.S. plane lost over Laos and North Vietnam since Dec.

10; 15 of the crewmen are listed missing and si were rescued. A spokesman, Capt. James D'Entremont, said his reports did not indicate what mission the F4 was on, but-presumably it was either supporting Laotian ground forces or was taking part in the massive air campaign against North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minn supply trail network. DETROIT (AP) Because it was hardest hit by abuses and lax administration of FHA mortgage programs, Detroit "has very serious problems which developed in no other city in the nation," said George Romney, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

An interview taped last Friday with Romney was reported Monday by the Detroit News. It was scheduled for broadcast Monday night on a Detroit television station. More serious than the failures and their consequences, Romney said, are the "basic -problems of housing in Detroit and the nation's other central cities. "Detroit's housing problems cannot be solved by putting up a new stadium and- business WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has spent more time away from the White House than in it during the first three years of his presidency. He chalked up more than 300,000 miles of travel, to all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Midway and 19 countries.

Nixon will have to almost double that to surpass Lyndon B. Johnson's total presidential but available records show Nixon is already a more-traveled president than either John F. Kennedy or Harry S. Truman. DANISH PRINCESS: Princess Margrethe is the heir to the Danish throne.

Her father King Frederik IX, is under intensive care treatment in a Copenhagen hospital for an acute heart attack suffered Monday. (AP Wirephoto) Women PC) Security Guards LOS. ANGELES (AP) At the post office, mail chauvinism has joined such bygones as the six-cent stamp and the two-cent post card. Women, who've been sorting and toting the mail for years, are now guarding it as well and investigating postal thefts and frauds. The Postal Service has 52 women among the 1,300 security guards nationwide.

The first was a 27-year-old former judo instructor, Prime, who went to work in Philadelphia in December 1970. Los Angeles has nine, women guards and is recruiting more. Tax Bile Bigger For Many WASHINGTON (AP) In spite of the tax relief voted by Congress last month, millions of Americans will find their take-home pay reduced after Jan. 16 by a bigger income tax bite out of their checks. Congress has increased sharply the withholding rate, to make the amount of tax withheld by employers come closer to matching the employe's actual tax liability for the year.

That will correct the underwithholding which, for many taxpayers, has been a nuisance for years. For 1972 and thereafter, fewer middle-and upper-income taxpayers will have to mail quarterly estimated tax payments or make large lump-sum payments when they file their tax returns. 4 I Veterans Fund Is Going Strong 4 ling the central city housing problems can bring the needed solutions." Romney said that one-sixth 6,000 of 36,000 of all the repossessed homes owned by HUD in the nation are concentrated in Detroit. The city has been plagued by a rising foreclosure rate on FHA mortgages. The second-largest total of repossessed homes is in the Seattle, area, where recently built houses have been foreclosed due to sharp cutbacks in the Boeing Co.

aircraft production, Romney said. Detroit's high rate has been Housing Program May Halt DETROIT (AP) A federal program that has moved thousands of Wayne County Welfare families out of run-down housing and into renovated homes is in danger of being halted, according to William C. Whitbeck, Detroit area director for Housing and Urban Development. Federal officials said the state refuses to provide enough home-maintenance money for families receiving Aid to Dependent Children. The families now get a $5-a-month home-maintenance allowance from the state.

Whitbeck said Monday he had warned county officials that unless the allowance was increased, the program might be halted. State welfare officials said they don't have the money to raise it. GETS TV ROLE: Actor Roger Davis was announced Monday by Universal Studios as the replacement for the late Peter Duel as costar of the series "Alias Smith and Jones." Duel died Dec. 31 of a gunshot wound in the head which police said was probably self-inflicted. (AP Wirephoto) Belgrade Bids High For Tourney NEW YORK (AP) The Yogoslavlan capital of Belgrade has offered a high bid of $152,000 to be the site of next June's world championship chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.

The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that 10 nations and five cities had competed in the bidding that produced the largest cash prize offers in. the history of tournament chess. Fischer, who defeated Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union last fall in Buenos Aires to reach the championship round, said the bids were "not bad they'll have to declined further comment. U.S.

May Be Lesser 'DcviV WASHINGTON (AP) If Peking's propaganda is a guide, Communist China's leaders have conjured up a bad dream for themselves and have concluded that if two foreign devils haunt them the one closer at hand is by far the more ominous. What Peking is saying seems to lend substance to President Nixon's expressed hope for better relations with mainland China. He said Sunday night hedid not expect anything approaching resumed diplomatic; relations, but he did hope that his February visit to Peking would produce "normalization in terms of setting up some method of communication better than we currently have." Sears Now at Z-zzxa AQUASTATIC out in no-string-attached grant form to the veteran or his dependent suddenly caught short, desperately needing help and with no other agency to turn to for cash. It could be the case of a sud- den illness. A house payment might be due with a jobless veteran danger of losing his home.

Perhaps only supple-, mentary aid is needed by a veteran already receiving some other type of public assistance. The fund paid out $1.84 million to 42,529 veterans and their dependents during the last fiscal year. The largest single item was $504,838 in rent and mortage payments. Other major categories of aid included $295,582 for food, $189,208 for medical and hospital expenses, $130,664 for room and board, $18,562 for clothing and $17,858 for loan payments. "We try to assist in the temporary emergency," Schmidt said.

"We work with other state, local and federal agencies to help out the veteran in the long haul." LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Veterans' Trust Fund, created during World War II, still is going strong and now is serving a second generation of servicemen and their dependents in need of emergency aid. The legislature set up the $50 million fund in 1943. Interest from the fund is used to help out the veteran in urgent need. Most such aid is in the form of direct cash grants and need not be repaid.

During a fiscal emergency in 1959, the legislature borrowed from the fund, but has built it up to $34 million again through a series of repayments. "The state still owes us $16 million, but through some good investments we're getting back fore interest now than we were on the original $50 million," said Frank. Schmidt fund executive secretary. The interest amounts to about $1.6 million a year. Of this, $400,000 is earmarked for higher education tuition grants for Michigan war orphans.

But most of the money goes The Water Softener that thinks for itself Nixon Visiis Shipbuilders SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) President Nixon, in California to meet with Japan's prime minister, flies here today to boost American shipbuilders who face stiff competition from Japanese and European yards. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren told newsmen that Nixon "has a great interest in strengthening the maritime fleet" and noted that Congress has passed administration backed legislation for heavy federal subsidization of modern vessels that otherwise would be built in shipyards overseas where construction costs are lower. Liberia Celebrates MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) Billy Graham borrowed a decoration and white vest to wear and danced the cha cha.

President William Tolbert came late and stayed late. And Pat Nixon got Liberia's highest decoration at Tolbert's gala inaugural ball Monday night. There was. a grand march, with all the distinguished guests promenading. Then dancing until after midnight to the music of three bands, including one from Grambling College in Louisiana.

Call 926-2161 for a FREE Water analysis Sean Water Softener at moit Sean ttortt and in tha catalog STILL IN BUSINESS BED YOUR NEWS QUE PART 1 1 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. 1 The General Assembly ratified, the Security v. Council's choice of as Secretary-General of the UN. a-Max Jacobson b-Kurt Waldheim Match word clues with their corresponding pictures, or symbols. 10 points for each correct answer.

Jp5- -( fj FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover celebrated his 77th birthday 2..... Anti-war veterans seized temporary con Ik JAPAN NOV trol 3 $(o)0 c-Carlos Lortiz de Rozas 2 The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson announced the founding of a new organization, Operation Push, titer resigning as head of Operation Breadbasket, which is part of the a-SCLC b-NAACP c-National Urban League 3 Brigadier General Alexander M.

Haig, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, left for Peking to complete technical arrangements for President Nixon's February visit. True or False? 4 President Nixon (CHOOSE ONE: signed into law, vetoed) a welfare-reform bill requiring able-bodied adult welfare recipients either to take jobs or sign up for job training. 5 The United States and North Vietnam cancelled thePariseacelalIcs "until January-after exchanging protests over the stepped-up air war in Vietnam and Laos. True or False? Site of President Nixon's meeting with Premier Eisaku Sato 4 Mayor John Lindsay announced his candidacy for President VALUES TO 20.00 U. 1972 President Nixon nounced emoya 1 of surcharge on imports 1 New women's liberation magazine PART II WORDS IN THE NEWS Take 4 points for each word that you can match with its correct Pakistan VALUES TO $42.00 Melvin R.

Laird, U.S. Secretary of Defense 8 Site of 1972 Winter Olympics 10 1 diatribe a-a general pardon for offenses 2.. b-an abusive criticism 3. c-a union of groups 4 provisional d-a lessening in intensity 5 coalition e-temporary rz ra's aft calls may be haUed for the fi st quarter, officials say 10 PART III NAMES IN THE NEWS $57(8 Take 6 points for names that you can Indians reportedly expect a long occupation here -MS (Ms correctly match with the clues. TO 14.00 Store Hours: Daily 9:30 To 5:30 Monday Friday Til 9 a-new President of Pakistan Secretary of Commerce 1 Willy Brandt Rhutto Giovanni I.oone HOW DO YOU RATE? (Scor Each Sida of Quia Saparataly) 71 to 80 point! Good.

91 to 100 polnh TOP SCORE! 1 70 polnti Fair. 81 to 90 60 or tfrnrnj FAMILY DISCUSSION QUESTION How much control should the President hfcve over the nation's economy? c-W'hite JSouse Press Secretary d-new President of Italy e-Chancellor of West Germany 1 VEC, Mdl Wlicomin 1 Ronald 1,. 1, Maurice H. Slant 1 THIS WEEK'S CHALIENGEI no kc Name the head of the United States Postal Service. I.

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