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8-A. Corsicana Daily Sun, Sunday, July 2,1972 President Signs Social Security Benefits Raise $2.25 Mjtchell ReslgHS More Asked hi For War As Campaign Head Obituaries WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon signed on Saturday a 20 per cent boost in Social Se- WASHINGTON (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) Ap- ident Nixon has asked Congress parently bowing to an ultimatum for an extra $2.25 billion pri- telephoned to the world by his marily for the Indochina irrepressible wife, John N. nearly a one-third increase in Mitchell resigned Saturday as war costs in the wake of renewed director of President re- Mrs. Gunnels stage for what could be vetoing provisions for frantic, election-eve scramble to automatic Social Security U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, election campaign.

in incfeases to cover cost-ofliving The President made the re- The Committee for the Re- Rut hp attrac ive, politically rises. It also includes procedures quest Friday without indicating election of the President an- popu ar ly irresponsible those who suffered from whether it is all or only part of the nounced the former attorney nr prc nex debtceiling floods of Hurricane Agnes extra war costs Secretary of general was stepping down, less and the earlier disasters in South Defense Melvin R. Laird has said than a week after Martha Mit- Dakota can get prompt tax could go up to $5 billion if the chell told reporters that she was refund.s. United States continues bombing, leaving him until he got out of The bill would make the 20 ner politics, me bill would make me per Hend of the year She made known her acute Security payments ef- President indicated at his discontent last Sunday and Congress rushed through the fective in September. It would be conference Thursday night Monday from the Westchester measure Friday just before re- reflected in checks received Oct.

continue war Country Oub at Rye, N.Y, Mit- But he called the measure fiscally irresponsible and said it will cause a deficit that must be offset by cuts in other programs. The Social Security measure, the biggest money increase in the tember. riders bill. He said he is placing Congress on notice now that if this occurs and offsetting cuts in other programs cannot be made, history, was tied to a i will not hesitate to exercise my across-the-board increase in bill extending the $450- right and responsibility to Security payments ef- billion debt ceiling through Oct. 31 of this year.

This linkage, sponsored by Democrats in Congress but voted for by most Republicans, made it for Nixon to veto the Social Security boost without killing the increase in the debt ceiling. Had the ceiling not been increased it would have automatically dropped to $400 billion, thus crippling government fiscally. cessing until July 17 and made it possible for the Social Security payments to be reflected in checks received Oct. 3- a month before the election. The Social Security provisions also provide for future automatic increases linked to cost-of-living rises.

And it includes prompt tax refunds for those who suhered from the Hurricane Agnes and 3. disappointments and brickbats but must accept the frequent absence of a husband and father. I am well aware that this has been particularly true of the Mitchell Funeral services will be at 11 Francis L. Dale, chairman of a.m. Monday at the Scott Funeral the Committee for the Re-elec- Home Chapel for Mrs.

Rosie Lee tion of the President, announced Gunnels, 52, Corsicana, who died that Mitchell will be succeeded as Saturday at Memorial Hospital, campaign director by Clark Rev. L.H. Cole will officiate, and burial will be in Woodland Cemetery. Survivors include her father, J.W. Whitfield, Corsicana; four sisters, Mrs.

Christine Griffin, Mrs. Luella Bledsoe and Mrs. Celia Bailey, all of Corsicana, and Mrs. Maella Wesley of Phoneix, Arizona; and three Dalrymple, Clyde Dalrymple, John Bell, Kenneth Usry, Orville Hare and Jim Allen. MacGregor, a former congressman from Minnesota and currently chief of congressional liaison.

Mitchell lunched with Nixon Friday to inform the President of his decision at that time, a White House spokesman said. spot in handling operations at that pace until congressional relations for the James Whitfield of Republicans, who vainly Hanoi is willing to accept a cease- reiumea to wasningion House will be taken over by Corsicana, Matthew Whitfield of Among his serious objections, Sijuth Dakota flood disasters. Nixon in a White House statement shortly before departing for a two-week stay in The Social Security measure, the biggest money increase in the ft history, was tied to a California, is that this set the extending the $450-billion debt ceiling through October. Without such action, members were told, the government would have to stop paying its bills by Thur.sday. Also included in the hybrid measure and increasing the difficulty Nixon would face in GERANIUMS GERANIUMS GERANIUMS Open Daily and Sunday thru July 15 gregersengeranuims state Rt.

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BANK 3491 to cut the increase to 10 per cent as Nixon recommended, accu.sed Democrats of playing politics with the measure. Neverthele.ss, the Senate approved the 82 to 4, and the House, 302 to 35. Payroll taxes would be in- crea.sed in 1973 and again in 1974 to finance the higher benefits. From $9,000 this year, the base would go to $10,800 in 1973 and starting in 1974. The maximum tax a worker pays this year if $468.

The maximum, for a person earning at least $10,800, would go to $594 next year and, for a person earning at least $12,000, to $660 in 1974. Employers pay a matching amount. In a statement, which the prepared in connection with the bill-signing, he cited in the measure, although he said he greeted special the automatic cost-of-living increase provision to provide a hedge against inflation for older Americans. Nixon said he considered the fact that the bill failed to fully finance the propo.sed increase in Social Security benefits and would add $3.7 billion to the budget for the fiscal 1973 deficit. He said it will therefore be necessary the Congress and the administration to offset the additional deficit created by this measure through cuts in other federal fire and release American prisoners.

only way we are going to get our POWs he said, to be doing something to them, and that means hitting military targets in North Vietnam, retaining a residual force in South Vietnam and continue the mining of the harbors of The request is for money in addition to some $7 billion already in the regular defense request for the 1973 fiscal year starting today. The President also asked an extra $700 million military aid for Vietnam war allies for a total $3.2 billion for the fiscal year. Pentagon Comptroller Robert C. Moot indicated at the time that the intensified war operations were costing a little over $1.5 billion in additional funds every three-month quarter. apparen re- assistant, William E.

Timmons, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said. Mrs. Mitchell was perhaps the best-known of the Nixon Cabinet wives because of her frequent phone calls to newsmen to present her often controversial in midweek, conciled. But apparently the reconciliation was on Mrs.

terms because the announcement said Mitchell resigned as campaign director in order to devote more time to his wife and In his letter to President Nixon advising him of the resignation, Mitchell wrote of his regret at leaving the post in which he shaped a victory for Nixon in 1968 and said; have found, however, that I can no longer (run the campaign) on a full-time basis and still meet the one obligation which must come first: the happiness and welfare of my wife and In his letter accepting withdrawal, the President noted that a wife not only share the Dallas and Elijah Whitfield of Houston. Miss Hail Funeral services were at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Corley Chapel for Miss Bessie Hail, 80, of Corsicana who died Thursday. Rev. Kenneth Williams officiated, and burial was in Oakwood Cemetery.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Ira Boltz of Corsicana; a niece, Mrs. R.A. Porter of Dallas; and other relatives. Pallbearers were L.L.

Temple, R.A. Porter, Gordon T. Miller and Alan Porter. R.E. Hamilton Mis.

Jones ser. vices are scheduled for 2 p.m. views on issues and personalities. 1 When Mitchell left the attornev Paschal Funeral When Mitchell lett me atiorney made clear her Jssatistaction HamUton, 38, of Trinidad toJin her died Thursday at the Kilman was imaxed in her statements cijnjc in Malakoff. Interment will of last weekend.

Neither of the Mitchells was 1 Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Olga Mae Hamilton, son, Russell Wain Trinidad; two Mrs. Mitchell was quoted in an interview with a New York Daily News reporter last Sunday night that she had been manhandled by daughters, Laura Ue Hamiiion fhi and Lisa Kay Hamilton, both of security guards provided by the Nixon re-election campaign committee and she would leave her husband unless committee. Mayor Unseated at Convention Rehnquist Denies Petition To Throw Out Daley Action his mother Mrs. Smith Hamilton; four brothers, F.C.

Hamilton of Chino, he quit the Kan. and Ross J. Hamilton and D.M. Hamilton, both of Trinidad; and three sisters, Mrs. V.E.

Widdoes of Wichita, Mrs. G.W. Tendlay of McPherson, and Mrs. D.W. Shaw, Eureka, Kan.

Pallbearers will be Bill MINERAL WELLS-Services for Mrs. Luevera Ford Jones, 81, widow of the late J. Frank Jones of Barry, were at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Baum Funeral Home in Mineral Wells. She died late Sunday night at her home in Mineral Wells.

Officiating was Rev. Bill Boulware, former minister of the First Methodist Church in Corsicana and now pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Mineral Wells. Mrs. Ford, oldest member of her Mineral Wells church, had been a member of the church since 1904, when she moved to Mineral Wells. Her husband, who was born at Barry, died in 1957.

Survivors are five nephews; two nieces; five sisters-in-law, including Mrs. Jeff Henderson of Barry and Mrs. Howard Collier of Navarro; and several great- nieces and great-nephews. WASHINGTON (AP) Su- being seated in Miami Beach, preme Court Justice William H. In turning down the petition, Rehnquist denied Saturday a Rehnquist noted that the Su- petition by the successful chal- preme Court is in recess until lengers to Chicago Mayor Rich- October and therefore would ard J.

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The action meant that the challenged delegates will go back to state court and fight the decision at the state level. Meanwhile, a bomb threat in- terrupted a hearing of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee, forcing members to call an early recess for dinner. The threat turned out to be a prank, police said. The insurgent Chicago delegation was awarded 59 Cook County convention seats Friday World In Capsule BABY FOUND 4-day-old girl, CredCTtiaV AIR CONDITIONING MOBILE HOMES WINDOW UNITS CENTRAL SYSTEMS WATKINS ELECTRIC 1417 W. 7th 874-4709 mittee, which held that Democratic organization had violated party reform rules in putting its slate together.

The challengers are expecting Daley to fight the committee ruling on the convention floor, but so far there has been no word from the embattled Chicago mayor. A leader of the insurgent movement, Chicago Alderman William Singer, said at a Washington news conference he expected the challengers to survive all court and convention battles and to be seated at Miami Beach. described as mentally retarded, was shot to death here Friday by a Texas Ranger looking for another man in connection with the slaying of a Pittsburgh constable. The wanted man was later arrested and charged. FLOOD HELP WASHINGTON-Congress has a young couple, their throats approved $200 million in slashed and partially stripped of emergency relief funds for use in clothes, were found Saturday areas devastated by Hurrican morning in a wooded area here.

Agnes and by floods in South They have not been identified. Dakota. a downtown restroom Friday in Houston, was in fair condition Saturday night. Police have been unable to locate her parents. COUPLE MURDERED FORT WORTH-The bodies of Police have no suspects.

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