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Social Security floor debate opens WASHINGTON A Working against a deadline, the Senate opens floor debate toddy on the hotly disputed welfare- reform legislation, a gigantic bill sweetened with Social Security increases. The fate of the legislation is highly uncertain because prolonged debate ovei its controversial isions would thwart congressmen's hopes tor adjoui'iiment by Oct. 1 But the bill also contains mans Social Secunts and Medicare benefits which its sponsors consider highly popular in an election An elfort will be made to rescue these benefit piosisions in some iashion il the lull bill can- not be passed. The 8a J-pane bill has been nearly two years in the making It passed the House in June vt'ar ago and has been stuck since that time in the Senate Finance Committee Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has called the bill to the ilooi despite the lateness in the session to fulfill his Andy of 'Amos and Andy' Charles Correll dies CHICAGO Howdy Amos Howdy Andy" for 32 years those familiar woids opened a radio show that captivated millions of Americans For addicts of the "Amos and Andy Show," there were also the Kingfish, and Sapphire and Madam Queen And there weie the Beauty Parlor and the Fresh Air Tasicab Co But it was the Negro dialect of two white men, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, which drew Americans to then- sets week in and week out after the show went on network radio in 1929 On Tuesday, the deep voice of Correll, who played Andy, was silenced by death. Four days after he entered Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital in the wake of a heart attack.

Correll died. He was 82. Born in Peona, 111., Correll retired in I960 and lived in Beverly Hills, a few blocks from Gosden, now 67, Correll and Gosden met in 1919 as fellow members of an amateur theatrical group touring the South. They formed a two-man team and toured tent shows in the South, sometimes singing duets In 1926, Correl and Gosden started a blackface minstrel show on Chicago's WON which they called "Sam 'n' Henry." When they changed stations in 1928 they had to find a new- name for their act because of the WGN contract. On an elevator ride to their first broadcast they overheard a man greet two other men as "Handy Andy" and "Famous Amos Their search for a new pledge that President Nixon top-priority uroposuls would be given consideration.

As the bill was submitted by the President and passed by the House, it contained Ins proposals to change the sy stem oi providing public assistance foi families with dependent thil- di en The Semite Finance Committee, however, rejected the Nixon plan and substituted its own WorUare system which would impose much tougher- work requirements on patents in the elf me families 1'his dispute is expected to dominate the Senate debate Sen Russel! Long. D-La tlooi manager tor the bill, pie- dicted that all the provisions except those on the 'veliare families could pass in a few day the Social Secuutv provisions in the bill would give special benefits to widows, the disabled, men, persons who ivy end 65 and other gi oups The legislation would expand Part A Medicate, uludi is financed by Social Security, to give coverage to 13 million per sons ho now i ecen Social Secuiity disability payments and to include payment tor drugs needed by chronically ill aged persons Social Security taxes would be raised about J6 billion a ear to pay for these new beiie- iits. Nixon's family-assistance plan would tix a minimum $2,400 annual income foi a family oi four and, for the time, provide nay merits lor the woi- king pool The Finance Committee's plan would lemove Irom the welfare rolls families whose children were in school and require the parents to take jobs i a federal corporation in oidei to receive any income Iran the government Japan-China talks reportedly snagged i A i Japanese newMiien dose to Prune Mitus- tet Kakuei Tanaka deleuauon said that unexpected difficulties ot an undisclosed na- tuie had ciopped up in the dialling ot a communique on lestoung Chinese-Japanese relations The ieporl could not be con- iiniic'd. because both 'lanaka aiui Chinese Premiei Choti Kn- lai a ameed not to disclose an substantive material about then summit talks until are concluded A communique us expected to be issued Fi iday Some Japanese lepoiters. i often obtain confidential information in the ev ddih bnetings le- ceive (rum the chief cabinet seiietarv.

Susiunu Nikaido, as members ot the tighth knit pi mie minister's pi ess dub A Japanese spokesman on Tuesday described the second buiiumt session as ing been out 'energetically and seriously Asked whether the i i i ding meant theie had been a change in the cordial atmosphere ot the meeting, the said it did not A majoi issue in the talks is a a a i i i Taiwan attei recognition ot Peking Although willing to bieak lelations i the iNationalibt- held island, the Japanese wish to continue their biflion-dollai- a i it. Charles Correll bottom, and Freeman Gosden, top name ended The show went tcw on Aug. 18. 1929 and the Amos and Andy Show soon became the most popular in the country- Restaurants fi equently boosted the volume of their iadio sets when the show came on. to satisfy then customers Motion pictures often were cut at midr- eel so audiences could tune in on the doings of Amos and Andy In I960, with television taking more and moi of the audience, Vinos and Andy left the air Negro actors were chosen in 1950 to poitiay Amos and Andy in the television veision of the radio show.

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