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1 Kit Ufa Marias 0G8 SEE TODAY'S till Hi ill wi0 SPORTS E. D'S RE ATEST NEWS A PER The American Paper for Americans 123d YEAR No. 114 1970 Chicago Tribune FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1970 80 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS IQc Z3ET a Revise Father Agree on ana jod ituies r-. PRESIDENT'S DRAFT ACTION HIGHLIGHTS STUDY VAYS TO HEAD OFF HIKE 111 FARE Gas Tax Could Be Solution BY ALDO BECKMAN tchicjio Trlbuns Prist Service Washington, April 23 President Nixon today ordered that no future military draft deferments be 'issued on the basis of occupation or paternal status, and asked Congress to give him the power to end college draft deferments. Those presently holding deferments would not be affected.

Those who applied for deferments before today will have their applications processed as before, with today's Presidential action having no bearing on their requests. mm imi; The President, in a message to Congress, said his long-range PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE IN THE DRAFT LAW See the editorial page goal is end the draft, but emphasized that such a move CMcim Tribune Press Service Washington, April 23 Here are the highlights of President Nixon's executive order and message to Congress on the military draft: 1. The President ordered immediate termination of future occupational, agricultural, and paternal status draft deferments. 2. Congress was asked to give the President authority to end college student deferments.

3. The President asked Congress to change the present draft lottery system to establish" a direct nation-wide call each month by the same lottery sequence numbers. 4. The President indorsed immediate planning for the eventual end of the draft and establishing an all-volunteer military force, but told Congress this is not feasible at present. BY GEORGE TAGGE Oilcan TrlbuM PrtJi Service! Springfield, April 23 Gov.

Ogilvie and Mayor Daley agreed today that it is the responsibility of both the state and the city to avert a fare increase to 0 cents by the Chicago transit authority. Legislative leaders of both parties will carry on the search for a solution at a conference Monday. The big chance for the CTA when today's conference ended lay in a special 2-cent-a-gallon motor fuel tax for Cook county, or in giving the CTA part of the city and county shares of the present 7-cent state gasoline tax. Won't Agree to Both Sen: W. Russell Arrington Evanston, the majority now is not practical.

Nixon asked Congress to amend the current draft lottery system to establish a direct national call by lottery sequence numbers each month. Wants Equal Liability "We need to insure that men thruout' the country with the same lottery number have equal liability to induction," he said. He noted that some local draft boards may not have enough low numbers to fill their assigned quota for the month. To encourage more enlistments and thus move closer to an all-volunteer army, Nixon asked the Congress to provide a 20 per cent pay increase for enlisted men with less than UPlTelephoto Mayor Daley and Gov. Ogilvie smile prior to meeting in Springfield to discuss problems of Chicago transit authority.

Other men are Sen. William Harris behind Daley, George Dunne, Cook county board president; and Sen. W. Russell Arrington (right. Hunger's 'Solutions' Karate School Feud Hurt THE WEATHER FRIDAY, APRIL J4, CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy today; high, in mid 60s; fair tonight; lew, 40; west to northwest winds 10 to 18 m.

p. h. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy; little temperature change. Complicate Problem quired military force levels in Viet Nam and elsewhere, said Nixon, and on the degree to which the combination of military pay increases and enhanced benefits will attract Continued on page 2, col. 1 two years of service, effective BY TONY SOWA ILLINOIS: Partly cloudy aorth- Many solutions have been offered to combat Chicago's hunger problem.

What are the pitfalls in those solutions? Here is another article in a series. Herb Shriner, Wife west, chance of showers and thunderstorms south nd cast central today; high, low cos north, low 70s south; partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; low tonight, in 40s. HOURLY TEMPERATURES leader, said these are alter-native uses of the gasoline tax that the CTA will not get both. The legislature, last year gave the city and county" permission by law to use their shares of the tax for the CTA, but Daley has refused to do so. The city-county shares for 1971 will total 66 million dollars.

If Daley can get G. 0. P. help to put the new 2-ccnt tax thru the Senate, it would produce 40 million dollars a year. This would be almost enough to solve the CTA problem.

A bill for this was passed by the House last June and now reposes in the Senate committee on revenue. It could be acted upon quickly if the votes are available. No G. 0. P.

Promise "We made no commitment when Daley indicated his support of a CTA 2-cent special tax," Arrington said. BY PATRICIA KRIZMIS AND ANGELA PARKER There is no simple solution to hunger. Much lip service has been given to the problem, but little or no progress has resulted'. It has become fashionable to discuss hunger. Hunger hearings are in vogue.

Public officials, like Deton J. Brooks commissioner of the city's de 4a.m...l4S Is. 7 s. Is. Is.

4. next Jan. 1. Would Be Retroactive The proposed pay hike for which would involve mostly draftees, would be in addition to the 8.1 per cent pay raise voted on April 15 and made retroactive to last Jan. 1.

Under the President's proposed pay plan, the monthly pay of a GI just out of basic training would go from $138.30 to $165.90. An enlisted man with less than two years of service, who has reached the grade of E-4 corporal, would get a pay raise from $231.60 to $277.80 a month. The time it will take to end the draft will depend upon re- a. ..4 it. karate school at 9111 S.

Ashland called Black Cobra Hall about 9 p. m. and said he was bringing five men with him to fight. Keehan, who is known as "Count Dante, the deadliest man alive," appeared at the north side school about 10 p. m.

and broke down the front door. They were met by six men inside, and the fight followed. Lunged Into Sword Jerome Greenwald, 20, who listed his address as the Chi-Tao-Chuan-Gung-Fu karate school at 4350 N. Cicero told police he was hit in the back and knocked down by 10 p.m. ...57 11 s.

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1:45 tU Killed in Car Crash Delray Beach, April 24 Friday Comedian Herb Shriner, 51, and his wife, Eileen, 43, were killed in a single-car traffic accident near here last night. Shriner was returning from a performance in West Palm Beach. Shriner, who was reared in Indiana, was the star of television's "Two for the Money" in the early 1950s. Their home was in Fort Lauderdale. 7 s.

si. Is. 54 tHIgh. THE MOOM partment of human resources. way has been developed to combat hunger now.

The solution suggested by most of those involved in the problems of hunger is a minimum guaranteed income, but those who suggest it disagree on how much that should be. Nixon Suggests $1,600 President Nixon has suggest Estimated, Low. One man was killed and another was seriously injured last night when a year-old feud between four karate schools erupted into violence involving 12 karate experts and students. James R. Koncevic, 26, of 1561 State Calumet City, was stabbed to death with a saber in the Black Cobra Hall of the Kung-Fu Kempos school of judo and karate, 3561 Ful-lerton av.

Jose A. Gonzalez, 23, of 2245 Iowa was severely cut on the head and was admitted to Belmont hospital where, doctors tried early today to save the sight in his left eye. From Three Schools Detective John. Leonard of the Shakespeare avenue homicide unit said men from three karate schools were involved in the fight. Leonard said John Keehan, 31, owner of the House of Dante t'' 0 and overseer of hunger programs, extoll their programs, tell of the need for more money, and offer solutions.

Still More Solutions The Rev. Jesse Jackson, national director of Operation Breadbasket, offers a panel of Reportedly rejected was Mayor Daley's demand for a 25- Koncevic. When Koncevic ed a minimum of $1,600 annually, supplemented by state contributions, for a family of a a ej Ap.l) Ap.il A.M Mayt Sunrise, 4:57. 4:41. Motorist, 10:41 m.

Evtnint ttim Venus, Mart, ami Situm. Par 14 hours Slides' midnisht, April 11: Mm temperature, 54 desrets; normal. 52; month's deficiency, 41; roar's deficiency, 310. Relative humidity, 4 a.m., 40 str cent; noon, 41 4 s. 31.

Precipitation, none; month's total, 4.04 Inches; April normal. 1.04 Inchot; year'i tottl, 1.01 Inchon deficiency thru March 11, 1.41 inches. Hlaheit wind velocity, 40 m. a. s.

at s. m. Irani met sovthweit. Barometer, 4 a. M.01; 4 p.

N.07. (Map and ether resorts on seas 111 lunged at him, Greenwald million-dollar subsidy for the four. grabbed the sword to ward off the blow and Koncevic lunged into it, Leonard said Green David Daniel, director of the Cook county department of public aid, said the President's CTA from the state general fund. Daley insists he still hopes the legislature will pass a bill containing this aid and another 25 million dollars for wald told police. people who say they are hungry.

With him, they lament the plight of the poor, criticize programs, ask for money, and offer their solutions. Solutions often sound good on paper. Nonetheless, no effective proposal wouldn't help welfare Police were preparing recipients in Illinois, because charges pf involuntary man- Continued on page 2, col. 6 (Continued on page 2, col. 2 Continued on page 2, col.

1 Illinois Abortion Bill Features Gets 20 -Week Limit Action Express Sec. 1A, p. 1 Astro Guide 1A, p. 9 BY MICHAEL KILIAN Bob Cromie 22 Books Page 22 Bridge by Gorcn. 2, p.

11 Classified Ads Crossword puzzle 3, p. 15 Drama, music, Sec. 2 action on their bill will come next Wednesday. The two acted in response to charges from Rep. Henry Hyde Chicago that their bill would permit a woman to have an abortion within one day of birth.

This would gravely abridge that child's constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, he said. Editorials Page 20 Farm Diary Sec. 1A, p. 15 Food Guide Section 2 How to Keep Well Page 20 Living Faith Sec.lA, p. 15 Suzy Says Sec.

2, p. 14 Swinging Things 2, p. 16 Tower Ticker Page 23 TV and Radio Sec. 2, p. 23 Washington Report 20 (Chlcais Tribune Pren Service) Springfield, 111., April 23 Opponents of legalized abortion today forced limitations on a bill which would have given Illinois the same unrestricted abortion law as New York.

Sponsored by Rep. Leland Rayson Tinley Park and Rep. John Henry Kleine Lake Forest, the bill would have permitted abortion at any1 time for any reason. The only restriction would have been that the operation be performed by a licensed physician. After an hour of testimony and debate in the House judiciary committee, Rayson and Kleine agreed to amend their measure to permit abortions only in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, Final committee Rayson acknowledged that Wcek-End Sec.

2, p. 15 Your Horoscope 3, p. 15 that close to birth a fetus could CARTOONS be considered to have life. The question of life would be much less clear in the early stages Comic Page Sec. 3, p.

15 of pregnancy, he said. Pe. Moon Mulllns I I Peenutt 1 14 Piilei 1 The Alumnis I 14 The Neighbors 1 10 Woody's World I 4 Pf. All III 1 1 Prldoy Poitsr 1 II Oil Thorp 1 1 Loueh'o Milter 1 Like li It IA1 Moc Dlval 1 I 1TRIBUNE Stiff photo: By Ovls Cirter Illinois' abortion law, passed in 1845, forbids the operation for any reason, but it gives Wlrepnotol Curtis Tarr, selective service director, tells newsmen about President Nixon's proposed changes in the draft. Little girl on 'west' side reached for slice of bologna.

Her mother often is unable to stretch the food budget. lA.p. 11 Obituaries Continued on page 7, col. 1.

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