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21 I i (Mil -t rr" pit TiT JMJLY NEWS. JUNE 0. 1976 iter's Iftemlk Ex-EIedoemis Chief Son Revealed Ambition in '73 linidleirses KeapDi); cSovern'Fires 25 By FRANK JACKMAN Wasnington, May 31 (Xeavs Bureau) Declaring that the principal issue in the 1976 election is "basic political reform," Thomas B. Curtis of St. Louis, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, announced today his endorsement of Ronald Reagan for the GOP presidential nomination.

lly MARIE W. RIDDER Kufhl NtwlMMr writer Plains, May 31 Lillian Carter mother of Democratic front-runner Jimmy Carter, sat in a larjre armchair in her living room and recalled the day that her son barefoot and wearing blue jeans told her that he wanted to be President. It was 1973. the energetic 7S-year-oId widow recalled, and Carter was finishing: up a fuur-ear term as governor of Georgia. "I was recuperating: in the governor's mansion in Atlanta from a shoulder I had broken in Hawaii." Mrs.

Carter said in a recent interview. "Jim nip came from tennis to visit with me. He was in blue jeans and a tee shirt, barefoot." "I asked him, 'What are you going to do after vou have finished your term as He's Not Joking I am going to run for President," he answered. of what? I asked, thinking he was joking. "President of the United Slates, and I am going to Mrs.

Carter said she now has thia eerie feeling" that her son wai right, and she is looking forward to seeing him in the White House. Miss Lillian, as she is known in this peanut-growing town, describes herself as "the most liberal woman" in Georgia. She invited blacks to her front door years ago, stood up beside her son when he fought to integrate their church and, at the age of 67, joined the Peace Corps to care for the ill in India. "I used to say 'if he becomes President," Miss Lillian said of Carter's campaign. "And he used to say.

'Mother, you are so negative about It would get his goat. But since Florida (Carter's victory in the Florida primary) say Sitting in the quiet living room waiting for the Carter's youngest child 8-year-old Amy to return from school. Miss Lillian was asked what aspect of his campaign distresses her most. Her answer was quick: the carping about his Christianity. "If ou live in Plains, the church is the only place we have to go except a beer joint," she said.

"The old windows in that church are Curtis, a former Missour congressman who was named to the Election Commission by President Ford, said he was making the endorsement because of Reagan's opposition to the new federal election law. At the same time, on the Democratic side, Sen. George S. McGovern the party's 1972 presidential nominee, fired two members of, his staff for "becoming publicly involved in the stop-Carter movement." Recalling that Jimmy Carter, then governor of Georgia, has taken part in a "destructive, exhausting" stop-McGovern movement four years ago, McGovern said in a brief statement issued through his office that he wanted "no part of anv such effort in The dismissed staffers were identified as Alan Baron, a top McGovern political operator, and Jack Quinn, former national campaign director for Rep. Mor- ris K.

Udall The tone of McGovern 's state- ment indicated that the principal Thomas B. Curtis "Reagan volved in an 'anybody but Carter movement." He said, however, that Carter's sin of Baron and yuinn was involvement in a stop-McGovern becoming "publicly" involved in drive four years ago "set the the stop-Carter movement, stage for the overwhelming McGovern said that he had Democratic defeat in the eeneral Lillian Carter now it's "when," not "if." the only things of artistic merit in this town. All our lives gravitate to that big white building." Mrs. Carter also said that she doesn't like her son to say that he will never tell a lie. She said she finds the phrase unnecessary.

"Its your deeds that count." she said firmly, her steel-blue eyes flashing. "But I don't tell Jimmy. I am all sweetness and light when he comes home. He needs his time here to be unruffled." 1 i i. endorsed Udall in the Massa i vieeiiun.

prwruisea. chusetts. Wisconsin. Michigan however, to back Carter, if Car- and South Dakota primaries, but i ter won the presidential nomina- tnat "does not mean that win tion. permit my office to become in- Bill, Vou Sure Are Popular Up in Albany As for Curtis, his reason for backing Reagan involved his claim that the congressional rewriting of the Federal Election Campaign Reform Act the law that set up the Federal Election Commission and provided for federal financial aid for presidential candidates made "basic political reform" almost impossible.

By THOMAS POSTER The Legislature has posted an all-time record for the number of bills introduced, with about measures on the books, and more to come, a survey disclosed yesterday. The old record was 23,000 in the 1974-75 session. Besides selling a record, the 210 members of the State Senate'00 bill. InsteaJ of other people i joining me as sponsors, they put in tavnivor mnnr Kv filing i their own bills in." duplicate bills. It costs the "In all the trials and tribula-j tions of the Federal Election i Commission, only one candidate for President understood the I issue and its importance well enough to subject his personal campaign for President to it," said Curtis.

"Ronald Reagan I who badly needed the federal 1 funds still came out pronipt-j ly and urged the President to veto the crippling bill before it became law." Curtis, who asked not to be reappointed to the Election Com-i mission after the panel was reconstituted, said he would run 1 as a delegate-at-larse from Mis-j souri to the GOP convention Mark Babbbusbh (D-Brooklyn)ha filed 34 bills in one day as soon as he got to Albany after a special election last month. Even though most of the biblls had been introduced some time ago in the Senate and Assembly one pension bill had been introduced three times in the Senate and once in the Assembly the bolls must, by law' be printed and go through the entire legis- The Assembly is expected to pass the bill, that is, the bibll sponsored by Assemblyman Thomas Frey (D-Rochester). chairman of the Transportation Committee. The Democrat-dominated Assembly prefers to pass Democrat-sponsored bills no matter whose idea it was in the oe ginning, Legislature from $6 to $14 a page just for printing, besides administrative cost. In many cases, legislators introduce bills that are already on the calendar, simplyl to give the voters the impression tha they are hard at work.

While the numbe of bills increases every two-year session, the number of bills adopted has traditionally remained the same. In 1974, 1.3 JO bills were approved. In 19'0. when only 3,400 bills were filed, 1,161 were approved. He'd Curb Copycats A number of Democratic and lative process.

Even when the Republican state senators com-j bills are know to be going no-plained this week that newcomer i whers. Sen. Emanuel Gold P'eogeq to r.eagan. A Gamble on Casinos Will Pay the State: Study By THOMAS POSTER legMato'r bill has been dubbed Casino gambling in New York State would creat 7,690 new jobs, bring in at The report said nine small-to- a J'ear in business, a study medium-sized casinos would pro- "billnaping, and at least one i least minion a year in revenue ana gene rate 2su million uwmaker. state ken.

tmanuei the City University Leorislative Institute maintains. duce I.SC0 jobs in al would consider legalization ployment areas and 1.130 other The report, prepared under of dog racing, all-sports OTB Jobs restaurants, night clubs and supporting industries. betting and jal alai. The most profitable plan, the studv said, would then be to per- Most of the proposed aetivi-; Prof. Wassidy Leontief, a Nobel Prize-winner In economics, predicted the benefits if state-operated casinos were set up in New York City, Niagara Falls and the Catskills.

Less Enthusiastic Gold (D-L-Queens) is trying to curb it a bit. Gold has started stamping his bills with a "copyright" stamp that he had make for himself. Assemblvman Nicholas Calogero (R-C-Utica says that billnaping is a common practive in these closing days of the session. "I had a bill on vanity plates that would help the state pick up $3 million in revenues," Calogero said. "It would require anybody wanting special license plates such as any set of numbers or a doctor's plate, even ly favors a limited casino operation.

Legislation that would authorize a referendum on a constitutional amendment to permit gambling is stalled in the Assembly Codes Committee. Limited Gambling Chairman Stanley Fink CD-Brooklyn) and the co-sponsor. Assembly Ways and Means Chairman Burton Hecht CD-Bronx), also favor limited legal- But the report is far less en ties, other than casino opera- mit 35 more casinos in New tions, have run into some legis- York City. Casino operations lative opposition. A limited casi- would increase tourism upstate no plan still is possible, by 10' but only l'r in New according to spokesmen for the Y'ork City, the study said, legislative leaders.

The study did not calculate The report, prepared at Ba- i the effect that casino gamblinsr ruch College, contends that the would have on competition, legal state would benefit most from or illegal, but assumed that it casinos if they were permitted in could take some business from tk Sullivan. County area- aE Ihoioff tracki Jietlinif and from thusiastic than the proponents of legalized gambling were when they promoted the plan last year. Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut D-Brooklyn), who I' -d gambling. a legislator to pay io ior Fink-Hecht (D-Enonx), and in Niagara gal gambling operations. The commissioned, the.

study, general- commissioned the. study, gem those plates. It started out with I sv jv I v-.