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-3 in This Sister's Memth for (Sod Middletown, June 14 (AP) Sister Roberta McGrath believes strongly prove her point, she bejran that music can teach, and to writing her own sonirs to use a 1 -J i3 Nixon's Office Has That List Of Big Givers Washington, June 14 (AP) A secret list of so-far-unnamed contributors to President Nixon's reelection campaign, reportedly-destroyed after the Watergate break-in, has been at the White House all along. The White House confirmed today that the list has been in the posession of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary, but said it was "never shown to the president." Sources said that the law gives a full accounting of major contributors who gave to the campaign prior to April 7, 1972. The new federal campaign finance law went into effect April 7. Secretary Gets AH Lists Despite sworn testimony from several Watergate figures that all copies of such a list had been either lost or destroyed, one copy of the list was kept on file in Miss Woods' office. Deputy press secretary Gerald L.

Warren explained that Miss Woods "routinely get lists of contributors. Rose Mary compiles lists of people from all walks of life for use in her office because her offices is responsible for recommending and compiling lists of people to be invited to White House functions." Sources said the list contains detailes of contributions of more than $19 million donated before April 7, including more than $14 million apparently raised in less than a month before that date. Also'tm the list are coded entries indicating which contributions were made in cash. The total is more than $1 million. Name And Companies Detailed The list also pinpoints the sources of the money by names of individuals and groups and identifies soms contributors as employes of particular companies, the sources said.

The companies listed include leading oil, electronics and automotive companies and some important defense contractors, they said. Associated Press Wirephoto Sister Roberta McGrath entertains Kathryn DeVille, Timothy Riordan and Edward Bednarz CI. to lochs Squatters Reported Arming East Stroudsburg-, June 14 (AP) Squatters, holed up on government land near here, are arming themselves and digging bunkers in preparation for a battle, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said today. in the classroom. Now, after three years of songwriting, she has made two recordings and published a book of her songs that have sold 4,000 copies in the United States and Canada.

The subjects songs range from the bible to everyday experiences. An Expression of Faith "My whole reason for writing-songs is to show you can sing about God as well as talk about him," she said during a recent interview. Sister Roberta plays a 12-string guitar that is almost half her size. On the first 12 son? recording entitled "A Brand New Day," she. student Judy Smith and the Rev.

Stephen Raughter sing her compositions against a choral background. One of the most popular songs is "I'm Special." The mother of a retarded child said that as she heard her son singing the words, "I can do all sorts of things that are really quite unique," she realized that she has never considered his strong points, Sister Roberta recalled. Children seem to be more influenced by the song. They respond better and there's a freedom there that older people lack," she said. "I've tried writing songs for I Divers find Twins1 Bodies Absecon, N.J.

June 14 (UPI) Divers recovered yesterday, the bodies of twin brothers who dis-appearde Tuesday in Absecon Creek where they had been fishing, police said. Police said the body of Louis Whittaker, 17, was found in the water between Route 30 and Shore Road last night. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Louis' twin brother Paul had been found floating in the creek earlier. The boys were last seen alive Tuesday about 2:30 p.m.

trying to retrieve a lost crab trap. Shrimp Boats Go to Pot St. Petersburg, June 14 (AP) United States Customs agents arrested seven men and seized seven tons of marijuana early today during a raid on two shrimp boats in Tampa Bay harbor. 11, when she crossed from Cana da into Niaga Falls, N.Y., with 42 bags of hashish. The bag3 were hidden in two suitcases with false bottoms.

At her trial, before Judge John T. Curtin, Mrs. Tobias had testified that three men, in Ifepal had forced her to take the 'suitcases older people but they don't seem to work as well," she said. Her singing voice and song-writing talent prompt many to call her the "singing nun." she noted, but she doesn't like the nickname because of its commercial connotation. Sister Roberta receives no money from her recordings or songbooks.

Proceeds go to the Hartford archHioe'-e and l.er order, the Sisters of Mercy, where she lives. A native of Waterbury. Sifter Roberta has taught for 10 years at Mercy High School and now is the school's music director. Next fall she will teach exclusively in the primary grades at St. Patrick's Cathedral School in Norwich.

She began writing songs after being unable to find music suitable for use in classes which she also teaches. Sister Roberta sees room for more popular religious music among teenagers today. "A lot of religious folk music is being written, some of it not so good," she said. She stressed that more emphasis should be put on popularizing good religious songs that already exist rather than trying to capitalize on poor new ones. Canada Limits Export of Gas Heating Oil Ottawa, June 14 (UPI) Canada announced today that it was imposing temporary export controls on gasoline and heating oil, effective at midnight tomorrow to halt the drain on its supplies by the fuel-hungry United States.

This move will ensure that unusual export demand for these products does not impair supplies to Canadian consumers," Energy Minister Donald MacDonald told the House of Commons. Temporary, He Says He said the measures would be temporary. The government announcement followed a rapid increase in exports of gasoline and heating oil to the United States. These ex--ports were reportedly straining refinery capacity in Canada. Canada imposed export controls on crude oil March 1, but did not include refined products.

Those controls generally held crude oil exports to their 1972 levels. MacDonald said the imposition of formal controls had followed failure of refiners to agree on a voluntary system to limit their exports. He said the controls would be administered by the National Energy Board, which also administers the crude-oil controls. The board in 1971 stopped licensing any additional natural-gas exports to the United Stated. vice of the board, has decided to impose export controls for a temporary period," MacDonald told the Commons.

"The duration of the temporary period woll be related to improvement in international supplies of refined oil prodicts and also the expansion of refinery capacity in eastern Canads," he said. Probation on a journey to Bombay, Geneva and Buffalo. Curtin sentenced her today to one year in prison, but said she might finish the trm on probation. The woman began crying when told that she would be released from Erie County Jail. Mrs, Tobia3 faces a deportation.

hearing later this month. stalled by environmental groups and money problems, would create a huge lake and recreational project between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The squatters have moved into vacant houses and shacks in the area, defying federal efforts over the past two years to remove them. The squatters deny they are readying for battle. They say they are merely farmers who want to live off the land and be left alone.

They say there are only a few guns in the area, and that they are used for shooting groundhogs. Meskill Signs King Day Bill Hartford, June 14 (UPI) Legislation making the second Sunday of January a state holiday in memory of the birth of Martin Luther King was signed into law by Gov. Thomas J. Meskill. Meskill had vetoed legislation two years ago making the slain civil rights leader's Jan.

15 birthday a legal holiday. Rule State Probe Unit Violates Constitution Albany, June 14 (NEWS Bureau) The 15-year-old Temporary State Investigation Commission was declared in violation of the State Constitution today because it The spokesman said that re presentatives of the corps went to Washington earlier this week to point out to Congress that the squatters are becoming a public danger in the area. Congressmen were shown slides of rifles, ammunition and even hand grenades that the corps says have been brought in by the land-grabbers. The squatters, numbering about 150, have refused to move off the Monroe County land which is the site for the Tocks Island Dam project. The dam, the 21st.

The justice also said previous court decisions that held that temporary commissions were those created "for special purposes." The commission has the power to independently initiate investigations into any area of law in-forcement in the state. The commission files a report annually with the governor and the Legislature but it usually comes out in the spring too late for the Legislature to give detailed study to any of its recommendations. The present commissioners are former Brooklyn Surrogate Edward S. Silver, who collects a state pension that nearly equals his SIC salary; ex-Bronx Assemblyman Ferdinand Mondello, who runs his own law office; and Earl W. Brydges the 35-year-old son of the former State Senate majority leader who was named to the post only a few days before his father retired last December.

An investigation by THE NEWS discovered that there were at least 74 temporary and permanent commissions in New York State with appropriations since 1970 totaling $485 million. The SIC received $2 million in appropriations in the last three years. Divorced Dads Get Break At Least in Pennsylvania Philadelphia, June 14 (AP) Common Pleas Court judge has ruled that fiivorced mothers with independent incomes must bear an equal share of their children's support. Judge Joseph Murphy eaid that requiring the father to provide the largest amount of child support "amounts to'uneonstitu-tional discrimination based on sex." He based his decision on the state's equal-rights law. The decision came in the case of a working Mother who sought an increase in child support from her husband when he got a salary increase.

Judge Murphy rejected the plea, noting that the woman worked and could afford to contribute part of the support. has become permanent. Supreme Court Justice Russell G. Hunt ruled here that the commission's long life was contrary to the temporary intent of the law that created it. There are 25 such temporary commissions now in existence of which the SIC is the oldest.

It was established in 1958. Hunt's ruling came in a case that involved an ongoing probe by the commission into possible corruption in the Albany police department. He quashed subpenas issued by the commission requiring Albany Police Chief Edward McArdle and three detectives to testify before it. Commissioners Get $30,021 Recently the commission has been charged with having political involvements. There are four commissioners, none of whom is required to work full time.

All have political ties. The former chairman, Paul J. Curran, is a former East Side Republican Assemblyman whose late father was Manhattan Republican leader Thomas Curran. Curran became U.S. Attorney in Manhattan last week.

In his decision, Hunt noted that the state constitution provides for only 20 permanent departments and implied that the SIC. by its lofitf rtSnainjjf fcadbecomS Dope Smuggler Wins Buffalo, June 14 (AP) A young woman from Denmark, having been convicted of smugg-gling $100,000 worth of liquid hashish into the United States, cried with joy today when a federal judge allowed her probation. The smuggler, Ellen E. Tobias, fceen id cust63y since' Jan..