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March 20, Tax-cui bill Sunshine stays as spring nears Ik CoodbA SJTv winter, (From Page One) ing power of the average American worker's paycheck again declined. Real spendable earnings that is, earnings after deductions for Inflation and taxes fell five-tenths of a per cent last month. The rate of inflation has been moderating somewhat in the past few months, with the six-tenths of a per cent increases in each of the past two months marking the slowest rate of Increase since the five-tenths of 1 per cent gain last April. For the three-month period ended in February, prices rose at an annual rate of 8.1 per cent, far below the 14.2 per cent annual rate of increase from July to September of last year. The Ford Administration predicts inflation will subside to a rate of 8 to 9 per cent for the year, down from the near 12 per cent level In 1974.

The Consumer Price Index stood at 157.2 In February, meaning that it cost By Associated Press Mostly sunny skies continued Thursday in Iowa as the first day of spring neared. The official start of spring is Friday. High readings under mostly clear skies Thursday were to be from the upper 30s in the north to the 60s in southern coun-ties. Skies will be partly cloudy in eastern sections Thursday night as cloudiness in-creases in western counties. Low readings early Friday will be in the 30s and 40s.

Mostly cloudy skies will dominate Fri- day and there is a chance of showers, mainly in the northwest. High temperatures Friday will be from around 50 in the north to the low 60s south. Low temperatures early Thursday were from 31 at Spencer and Fort Dodge to 41 at Lamoni after highs Wednesday from 44 at Dubuque to 69 at Sioux City. Weather forecasters said this week that the danger of serious flooding from current snowmelt has decreased at most locations because of slightly cooler than antici-pated temperatures. Near record flood crests had been fore- cast for the Cedar River at Charles City for Friday, but the outlook Wednesday decreased the aticipated crest by three feet and delayed it for two days.

The danger of serious flooding across Iowa seemed to be ended except for the Turkey River at Garber in Clayton talking about. On Wednesday, for example, some workers struck General Motors' Fisher Body Fleetwood plant, idling it and a nearby Cadillac assembly plant. At the same Lime more than 200,000 auto workers remain on indefinite layoff in one of the auto Industry's worst sales slumps. And while the stock market took its sharpest drop in almost a month, a top business research organization said consumer confidence early this year was up for the first time in 10 months. The day also saw announcements that the nation's balance of payments for the last quarter of 1974 hit a new low and that the American Telephone Telegraph which provides most of the nation's telephones, had its first quarterly profit drop in three years.

And the government said that personal income continued rising last month, but only because increased government benefits including a jump in unemployment payments offset jobs lost in the recession. In Detroit, a GM official would say only that the Fisher strike was caused by a grievance Involving production standards, and union spokesmen refused to discuss the issues. GM spokesmen said Cadillac sales are still relatively strong, and the Fisher and Cadillac plants are among the few GM facilities at full production this winter. The strike idled some 5,500 hourly workers at the Cadillac plant where car bodies built at Fisher are assembled. 15 Weather details Iowa: Partly cloudy east, increasing cloudiness west tonight.

Lows 30s north. 40s south. Mostly cloudy Friday with a chance of showers, mainly northwest. High near 50 north, low 60s south. Minnesota: Mostly cloudy and mild with chance of occasional rain south Thursday night and Friday.

Lows Thursday night lower 20s north to middle 30s south. Highs Friday mid 30s to mid 40s. GlobeJazette weather data up to 8 a.m. Maximum 52 Minimum 23 At 8 a.m 3J Sunrise 7:17 Sunset 7:25 YEAR AGO. Maximum 33 Minimum RECORD TEMPERATURES: Maximum 73 in 1934 Minimum -3 in 1951 GLOBe-GAzerr, MMMCItv, lew $5 million maich off BERGEN, Netherlands (AP) -World chess charhpion Bobby Fischer said Thursday he will not meet Soviet challenger Anatoly Karpov in a scheduled $5-million title match, a chess official reported.

"Ifs all over. There will be no match and there is nothing else to do," Fischer said, according to International Chess Federation (FIDE) bureau member Floren-cio Campomanes of the Philippines. He said Fischer called from his home in Pasadena, confirming predictions here that he would skip the match which had been set to begin June 1 in Manila. Fischer said earlier he would not defend the title unless both of his proposals for changes in the scoring system for the title match are accepted by FIDE at a three-day special congress which ends here Thursday. The congress on Wednesday accepted one of Fischer's demands for an unlimited number of drawn games with the title going to the player who reached 10 victories but it rejected a change that would let Fischer keep the title in event of a nine-nine tie.

The developments virtually insure that Karpov will become world champion by default unless Fischer backs down. Campomanes quoted Fischer as saying the decision of the congress was "fine Campomanes said he had received a letter from Fischer before the FIDE meeting saying he would be "calm and satisfied" no matter how the vote came out. Campomanes said he planned to visit Fischer in Pasadena in the next few days but denied he would make another appeal. "I am not going to try to change his mind," Campomanes said. "We will talk about it but he alone can change his mind." Bobby Fischer 'Ifs all ovtr' WELD WEEHESEfPEll nntoi nunr nn Vieinam (From Page One) gency situation and security requirements." It was the first such extension of the curfew since the big North Vietnamese Eastern offensive in 1972.

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officials said four American government employes working in Hue had been evacuated, but four American civilians there had not been located yet. All South Vietnamese military forces were reported out of the towns in the abandoned highland provinces. But newsmen in the area reported that the troops were supervising the civilian evacuation and maintaining order along the crowded roads. Military and civilian cars and trucks were moving bumper to bumper into Cheo Reo, the capital of Phu Bon province. Residents of Cheo Reo joined the exodus, anticipating that their province would go soon.

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