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The POCOBO Record Woodland Miss Taking her ease in a shady, wooded glen is The Pocono Record's Girl of the Month, 16-year-old Vicki Keiper. A senior at Srroudsburg High Congress hikes SS 20 per cent SeptV 1 WASHINGTON i I Congress, ignoring hints that ('resident iN'ixon miglil veto the action, voted Friday to boost Social Security benefits by 20 per cenl. effcdive Sept. to niise (axes to pay for it i Jan. 1.

First (he Semite, and nianv hours a the louse, approved Hie benefil increase as pan of Security provisions "hijihlv anunrelated bill Nixon urgently inflationary." And Rep John wanted --to continue for four months the government's authority to borrow. The debt limit exlension was needed by midnight, when previous authority was expiring. Nixon had termed (lie Social What's news IDow Jones-Oftaway News Service) Allies retake Quang Tri SAIGON American H-52 bombers joined Die South Vietnamese- drive Saturday lo retake Quang Tri province the only province (he Smith ever captured by Ihe Communists. South lelnamesc troops pushed lo within one mile of QuanR Tri citv 11 iv provincial capital. Nixon mistaken on POWs WASHINGTON The Slate Department said Friday 15 000 French prisoners of war whom President Nixon said were never accounted for by Ihe North Vietnamese were actually In- dochmese who held French citizenship.

A spokesman for Ihe f- rencli embassy said that of about 15,000 Frenchmen captured in Ihe war in which France lost control of Indochina 6 184 were never accounted for. Nixon, in his Thursday night' news conference, said 15,000 French were never accounted for" and vowed that lie would never thai happen to American prisoners being held by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. McGovern pleads for delegates WASHINGTON In letters lo all convention delegates George S. McGovern appealed Friday for reversal of the Democratic party's Credentials Committee decision to give other presidential candidates more than 150 of the delegates he won in Hie California primary. Hut his lop campaign aide Frank Mankiewicz.

also warned Ihal if the vote leads eventual' ly to nomination of Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey or some other rival. "Sen. McGovcrn would not support the candidate of the convention." Nixon asks fighting funds 1 ''resident NiX()n asked Congress for an additional S.2.2o billion Friday to help pay for the increased cost of U.S.

operations in Vietnam caused by the North Vietnam offensive. That amounted to aboul a 70 per cenl increase in the U.S. war costs. 2nd skyjacker picked up DETROIT The FBI Friday arreslcd a second man in lhe $502.000 hijacking of an American Airlines jetliner and charged him wilh supplying the hijacker wilh a machine gun and helping him elude police after hailing out over Peru, Ind. Neil SVeJcn special agent in charge- of the FBI office here, said Waller John Pellikowsky, .11.

of suburban Ecorse, has been charged wilh a i i and abetting Martin .1. McNally, 28, of Wyandotte, in the hijack. Fischer checkmated? A Germany U.S. Chess Grandmnsler Bobby Fischer may lose his rights as challenger for Ihe world litle if he doesn't show up for his Sunday match i Hussion World Champion Boris Spassky. lhe president of Ihe World Chess Federation said Friday.

The Stroodsburgs. Pa. Saturday morning, July 1, 1972 I 5 Cents W. Byrnes, senior GOP member of Die House Ways and Means Committee, said the President was considering vetoing the bill. Most lawmakers (hough! he would not do so, basing (his belief both on (he political impact oi such an action and on (lie fact the government ivilliin days would be in dire fiscal slrails without the debt limil extension.

Some of the was taken off lhe situation, however, by Senale completion of action Friday on a bill authorizing continued federal spending at current levels. This was necessary because none of Ihe appropriations bills for (he fiscal year starting today have been approved by Congress and executive spending authority in theory would slop al midnight Friday. 'Hie House and Senate wound up Ihe day by adjourning. More food cuts asked WASHINGTON I idcnt Nixon ordered his top economic advisers Friday to meel with all segments of lhe food industry in a further attempt to dampen rising food prices. The meetings, involving grocers, food processors and farmers, will begin as soon as possible, Treasury Secretary George I'.

Shultz said. Nixon lias asked for a report on the talks within todays. Sftcrpp, Senafe agree on budget; vote today A131) ion i I I HAHRISBURG (UPD-GOV. Milton J. Shapp and Senate Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to trim $150 million from a $3.3 billion budget proposal and put the money into a separate bill for flood relief.

The agreement, aimed to win Ihe votes of three dissident Democrats, came only hours before the end of the 1971-72 fiscal year. The stale lost its legal spending power at midnight. The Senate was scheduled to vote on the compromise today. The House planned to be in session to receive the bill from the Senate. The new budget cuts, engineered by Sen.

Benjamin K. Donolow, D-Philadelphia, included $31 million from welfare and $5 million from the state retirement fund two items which already had been trimmed in earlier negotiations. Itwasexpectedthe legislature would have to restore many of these cuts later in the year. The new compromise was necessary after the Senate defeated the $3.3 billion budget proposal at 2:30 am. Friday.

Three Democrats held out, insisting that flood relief money be passed separately from the budget. Donolow, with the consent of theShappadministration.aceed- ed to. those demands Friday evening. The $150 million flood appropriations was to be attatched to a bill providing $900,000 for a special education appropriation. He said the $150 million was reduced to $115 million for general flood relief, $25 million for welfare payments to flood victims and $10 million to take care of the health needs of the flood victims.

The stalemate threatened (o continue through the weekend --past the start of the new fiscal year. Any delay meant that all state operations, including flood clean-up projects, would have to slop, since no money legally can be spent without a budget. The governor wanted to connect flood relief and his spending plan for next year to insure that both would be passed quickly. Rut the House and Senate, in two separate moves, voted against Shapp's position in pre-dawn sessions Friday. First, the House look an innocuous appropriations bill for Ihe Civil Air Patrol and lacked on $152 million in flood relief.

Democratic leaders tried loslop the move, first by trying to table the bill and later by speaking against it, but (hey were overwhelmed by a solid bloc of Republicans and rural Democrats. Minutes later, the Senate rejected by a 27-23 vole Shapp's House, Senate approve $200 million flood relief By GLENN RITT Ottaway News Service Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The House and Senate, in rapid order Friday, approved a resolution authorizing $200 million in emergency flood relief, and sent it to President Nixon for his signature. The action by both houses completes three days of hectic maneuvering led by Pennsylvania legislators to free the funds expected to be used by the federal government to rehabilitate the flood-ravaged East Coast The $200 million would be added immediately upon Nixon's approval, to the $92.5 million already appropriated for fiscal year 1973. Meanwhile, in other action on capitol hill Friday Sen Hugh Scott, R-Pa. introduced a bill which calls for another $00 million emergency federal assislance for railroad equipment in need of repair or replacement as a result of tropical storm Agnes.

The legislation is the outgrowth of a meeting held earlier this week, and attended by Scott, Sen. Richard Schweiker, Gov. Milton Shapp and the state's congressional delegation. At the time, Shapp told reporters that damage to railroads would extend to $60 million. the a of Labor has a a to hire young persons during the summer to work in flood clean-up and to pay unemployment benefits for those in affected areas.

Scott said that Pennsylvania youth between the ages of and 21 will be paid $1.60 an hour. They are to be hired Ihrough the tri-county community action arencv in Harrisburg, he added. Unemployment benefits are made under the federal- state insurance program for jobless persons, and pavments will be a minimum of $54 weekly, the same paid insured workers under employment laws in Pennsylvania, said The minority leader's railroad relief bill would affect nine major railroads serving the eastern seaboard These companies, Scott said, have reported nearly $30 million damage due to flooding. This total is expected to increase, he added. At present, said Scott, there is no existing federal program to i a i a to railroads.

"Foul- eastern railroads suffering heavy flood damage are already in bankruptcy receivership, several others are reportedly on the verge of imminent financial collapse nn Erie-Lackawanna, Reading and Lehigh In no said Scott, would a railroad be permitted funding re thM 25 Pel Cent lhe Sl0 million The action by the House and Senate negates a move taken earlier in the week by the latter body. On Tuesday, the Senale voted an initial $200 million for flood relief as part of Ihe 1973 Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill. With the threat of a three-week recess beginning Friday, Congress chose (lie quickest and most expeditious road by drafting and passing an independent resolution calling for $200 million in relief. Democrats Worst spill ever blankets Schuyllcill WASHINGTON (UP!) -The Democratic Credentials Committee voted Friday to deny national convention seats to a PHILADELPHIA (UPI)-Fe deral i i a helpessly E-SSS-SS-5 sjj-Sjjragj all of Pennsylvania's 67 counties a disaster area. The watched six million gallons of designation had previously been extended to just 35 counties Chicago Mayor Vfictord 7 K' "'T' UaUSed was caused when Daley" and instead seat a T'i the dislod a the worst inland oil spill estimated six million gallons of in u.

t. history. ,,,..,.,1.,,.,..,. challenge delegation which largely favors Sen. George S.

McGovern. If upheld through other fights on the convention floor in Miami Beach and in federal courls, il would be the first lime since 1956 thai Daley, one of the last party bosses, has not followed massive Pemsylvanfa dClCgaU It also would It could permanently damage fish and planl life in "the area. The oil spill, which officials feared would infh'ct permanent fish and plant life damage and raise a pollution threat to the nation's fourth largest city, give to McGovern -11 delegate voles, offsetting in part the more than 150 taken away from him Thursday by lhe same committee in a ruling on a California vote challenge. In voting lo scat the challengers instead of Daley's The Coast Guard lermed it "the worst inland oil spill in U. S.

history." As Philadelphia's problems compounded i a other Pennsylvania localities began feeling some relief from the weekend flooding that left 44 known, dead, another 250,000 homeless and more than $1.5 people, (he credentials commit- billion in damages lee ruled thai Daley's delegates The federal government also were ctiosen in secret slate making sessions crankcase oil from storage lagooons at Berks Associates, a chemical firm located 14 miles upstream at Douglassville Pa. Resultant pollution of Ihe Sehuylkili River jeopardized water supplies throughout a five-county region, including Philadelphia. Peter Clapper of Ihe U. S. Environmenlal Protection Agency said il was Ihe first time "we've had deposited oil in great quantities on high foilage.

Some of (his stunf is on the tops of trees. "We could keep skimming it off the water, bul we'd be doing thai for years," said Clapper. "We've got to get to the source on (he banks before they ivere particularly concerned because the oil contained lead additives, which "isn't good for fish, plants or people." In Harrisburg, EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus said he found no evidence of industrial negligence i Agnes drcnchc-d (he area wilh so much rain that il litlerally siphoned the oil over the (ops of restraining lagoons. Ruckel- shaus discussed the spillage problem Friday i Gov Milton J. Shapp." Berks Associates kept the used crankcase oil in the lagoons prior lo refining it for reuse.

The Coast Guard up booms and fillers lo contain the slick. budget proposal which included $100 million in flood relief. Several senators said during the flood debate that the House's action had given them hn "out" so they could reject the budget but slill vote in favor of flood relief. The all-night sessions ended with the GOP victorious and Shapp struggling to keep the state out of Ihe fiscal chaoas which it has experienced for the past two summers. HouseRepublieanLeaderKen- neth B.

Lee, H-Sullivan, predicted Shapp would use "logrolling and extortion" to win Ilie battle. Lee said the governor might be able to pressvire the Senate into approving his proposals, but he said the House would never go along wilh him. "II will go back to (he Senale where there will be some more logrolling and extortion, then back to the House, then back lo the Senate then back lo the House," he said. Lee asked House members to pressure Ihe senators into "separating the issues and putting all of lhe money we can possibly place into (he cash regis- ler for flood relief. "Let's solve what we can of the budgetary problem then solve the rest al a time when we aren't under a gun and litter- ally squeezing away money which should go to flood relief." Demuerals have enough votes in both the House and Senate to pass legislation, bill each chamber has "hold-outs" who have defected lo Ihe GOP position.

In the house, it was a group of about 30 lawmakers from rural areas who fee), that Shapp is overspending. In the Senate, three slubborn Democrats refused to approve Shapp's spending plan. Maverick Sens. William Duffield, of Fayette County, and Thomas Nolan of Allegheny County, had been expected to oppose it.They were joined by Sen. Patrick Stapleton.D-Indiana.

Democratic leaders tried to shame Ihe three into changing their minds. Fawn still hers GRIFFIN, Ga. (UPI) A defiant woman harboring a baby fawn despite efforts to take it away from her listen- a i a a federal and state agents ex- plained that she is violating the law. But Mrs. Darryl Crumbley refused to budge.

"I couldn't give if up now a a Crumbley said, after the of. ficers left her home-empty handed again. Mrs. Crumbley kept the fawn, Ihe center of a two- week struggle between her a a game i i a who have refused to issue her a permit to keep the a a i a i i goats, three dogs, three cats and a turtle. become a permanent oil sniil moved Friday to allay some of source." the flood misery by declaring He 'said environmentalists Information please Index Race cancellation eases traffic IJ Wt I.

The Schaefer 500 al Pocono has a i drivers and race fans alike are sharing mixed emotions about i a a a agencies breathed a pensive sigh of relief. They still have the Fourth of July influx of traffic to deal with. While no one would say (lie Iraffic would be easier lo hand i i a crowd of 100,000 race fans lo eonlcml wilh. there was an attitude lhe already existing a shortages and holiday Iraffic would be easier to handle with the decision to postpone the race. A a lhe Troop Interstate Route 80 substation of the Pennsylvania State Police in Mount Pocono said throe men were scheduled to handle Ihe anticipated Iraf- fic control duties on I-flO as race fans made their way to (he (rack in Long Pond.

Wilh lhe race off imlefinilely, those men will be assigned to regular patrol duties. The substation is authorized 2.1 men bul since lhe flood of last week seven men have been assigned lo the Wilkcs- Barrc area on flood duty. a a i i a a a derlined the claim of raceway i i a said i forces could not handle the traffic problem if the race was run. In addition, they cited i directly to the destruction a a tropical slorm Agnes. State and.

local law enforcement agencies were hesilanl to predict the amount of traf- i I i weekend, bul drove home the a a a i a a would be on duly. With lhe weatherman calling for sunny skies and warm temperatures during the holiday period it is apparent this will be one of the busiest traffic periods in Ihe Poconos. A a i racecars will not be heard this weekend, there definitely will be another kind of race for Ihose who care to walcli. This one is sanctioned by the Grim Reaper and anyone who drives a car this weekend is automatically entered. The.

i i i a purse will be provided by the a i i a i a i distributed among the "winners" according to (heir exhibited "driving skills." The a a i receive i a thanks of their loved ones for driving safely. Amusements Ann lenders Bridge Classified Ads Comics Crossword Itale Deaths Editorial Page Family Fare O'Brien's Broadway Sports 1 'ages Stocks Teen Forum Television Wcallier Pattern 1 0 9 9 15-19 9 9 10 4 8 9 12-13 14-15 9 S-G 1 0 Weather a a a i peratures in the high 70's and a 70 per cent chance of rain. Sun rises at 5:35 a.m.; sets at 8:32 p.m. Record Weather Pattern On Page 10. i i i i i television network.

Page 2. Columnist Norman I.ehde remembers those good, old- fashioned Fourth of July celebrations. Page 3. Stroudshurg School District a a i a "for the last time." Page DRBC may give county extension on deadline for alternative sewerage system plans. Page 11.

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