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15 CENTS Ford Briefs Solons On N-Arms Accord THANKSGIVING OFFERING Indians offer the yield of their land to Pilgrim settlers and receive smiles of thanks in return, in a reenactment of the Thanksgiving scene at Lindley Murray Elementary School. Terry Bergman, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester 215 N. 12th is the Pilgrim boy; Debbie Bennett, 10, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ronald Bennett, 429 N. Jones is the Pilgrim lass. The Indian brave and squaw are Peter Pyles, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Pyles, 421 N. Partridge and Kelly Fernsler, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fernsler, 421 N. llth St.

Mrs. Mary Whitman, St. made the traditional garb, assisted by Mrs. Phyllis Henry, 353 N. Tenth St.

Students at Lindley Murray presented a play as part of their Thanksgiving celebration. (Color photo by Jim Zengerle) Reviews It By BERNARD SHIRE Daily News Staff City council passed on first reading last night an overall budget for 1975 of $6,356,794. Right now, however, the city is short over $100,000 in funds to pay for it. The new budget is $202,000 higher than last year's. The general fund budget enacted tentatively is $2,843,035.

Total income appropriated to pay for it is $2,737,879, or $105,156 short. This general fund budget is $51,093 higher than last year's figure, but $6,000 less than 1973. Deciding where the city will Today In The NEWS Amusements 17 Area 23 Building 12,13 Classified Comics 18,19 Editorial 10 Financial 2 Obituaries 2 Sports 20,21 Women's Pages 15,18 FOR SALE HARD HATS $JJW tACH Rentals Unlimited 273-1112 MO Cwnwill get the money to balance the budget will occupy the time of city officials for the next few weeks. The city must present a balanced budget for final reading before the end of December. Would Avoid Increase Council could either make more cuts in expenditures or raise taxes by two mills.

Mayor Walter Swanger said last night at the meeting he would like to avoid a tax increase, if possible. If council does raise taxes, it must be done when the tax rate is set, usually at the first meeting in December, unless a special meeting is called. The tax rate is now 15 mills. The general fund budget of over consists of expenditures in the five city departments. It does not include the water and sewage bureaus, revenue sharing and liquid fuel tax funds, which are separate but which are totaled into the overall budget.

Has New Obligation One reason the overall budget is up this year is that the city has taken on a half- obligation in the new parking lot at Seventh and Willow Streets. The general fund budget is broken down into budgeted expenditures for the five city departments as follows, with last year's figures in parentheses. These figures may change before final reading, depending on what the city does to balance the budget. Department of Public Affairs, $790,013 Accounts and Finances, $650,761 Public Safety, $435,452 Streets and Public Improvements, $728,197 ($665,566) and Parks and Public Property, $238,612 Appropriations Cut Appropriated expenditures in the Sewage and Water Bureaus have been cut down this year. This was accomplished, by dipping into the sewer and water reserve funds.

Budgeted for the Bureau of Sewers for 1975 is $671,000, compared $738,600 last year. In the Water Department, $1,726,800 has been budgeted for 1975, compared to $1,921,500 in 1974. Revenue sharing is also down this year, with $342,107 allotted for expenditures, compared to $409,300 last year. Liquid fuel tax funds (Continued on Poge M-Cof. 3J WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ford briefed congressional leaders today on his nuclear arms agreement with the Russians.

His severest arms control critic. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, who was not invited, said Ford should have gotten something in writing. Ford and Soviet Communist leader Leonid I.

Brezhnev reached the agreement during the weekend at their meeting in Vladivostok. They issued a general statement agreeing to limit numbers of missiles and numbers of multiple-warhead missiles as MIRVs through 1985. Specifics of the agreement were not released but The New York Times said today the two leaders agreed to limit their offensive nuclear arsenals to less than 2,500 long-range missiles and bombers each. House and Senate leaders and the ranking Democratic and Republican members of the committees on ap- Insurance Firms Seek Rate Hikes HARRISBURG (UPI) Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner William Sheppard said Monday six insurance companies have filed separate rate increase requests for. automobile insurance policies.

Sheppard said if the increases were approved, an estimated 2 million Pennsylvania policyholders would pay increased rates totaling $30 million a year. He said none of the companies has had a rate increase during the past four years. The companies, and their requests, were: Services Office, 13.9 per cent increase that would raise rates for 660,000 policyholders by about $13.3 million annually. Insurance Plan Service Office, 2 per cent increase that would raise rates for 123,000 policyholders by $400,000 annually. Indemnity 17.9 per cent increase that would raise rates for 135,000 policyholders by $4.5 million annually.

Insurance 9.8 per cent increase that would raise rates for 350,000 policyholders by $5.5 million annually- Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance 2 per cent increase that would raise rates for 700,000 policyholders by $2 million annually. Employees Insurance 23.7 per cent increase that would raise rates for policyholders by $3.6 million annually. propriations. foreign affairs and armed services were invited to the briefing. Jackson, who does not fit in any of those categories but heads the Senate Arms Control subcommittee and has long been considered an expert on the subject, said today that the Vladivostok summit was "all verbal." "Apparently there's nothing in writing." Jackson said.

"I think it is so important in negotiating with the Russians 'to get it all in writing. We can't' mislead them, they can't mislead us." Interviewed on the CBS Morning News! Jackson also was suspicious of any secret agreements reached with the Russians. "I hope we get all the facts on the table," he said. "The last agreement we learned of a couple years later that there were secret agreements between the secretary (of state) and the Russians and between Mr. Nixon and the Russians.

So until all the facts are out on the table we will not know what the situation is." Jackson, who is expected to announce shortly that he will be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, said his main preoccupation related to the number of missiles or delivery systems and their size stipulated in the agreement. Congressional sources close to Jackson charged that he probably was excluded from (Continued on Poge 4) Demos, GOP Battle Over Economy Plan WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Dempcrats and Republicans are squabbling over whose fault it is that Congress probably won't act on President Ford's economic program until deep into the winter. Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott said Monday the Democrats aren't doing anything about the economy except talking. "There is no bread in rhetoric," he said. Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey. said the Democratic Congress must try to take control of the economy away from the executive branch because Ford is too conservative to take sweeping actions. "I am not so naive as to expect the President, a lifelong economic conservative, to reverse his philosophy, despite the evidence of the failure of the current policies." Humphrey said. Sen.

Stuart Symington, D- said top employes in the government paid $40,000 or more take a symbolic 10 per cent pay cut. He introduced a bill'to put that idea into effect. Nomination Draws Fire WASHINGTON (UPI) Some critics of vice presidential nominee Nelson A. Rockefeller says he's too conservative; others say he's too liberal. Rockefeller's nomination drew fire from five witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee Monday over his stands on the Attica Prison riot, abortion, and social programs, and his own vast wealth.

Six more critics were to appear today as the committee completes testimony by public witnesses before moving on to congressmen who want to testify on the nomination. And 12 liberal Democrats said-they will try to enact their own tax revision and tax relief program without waiting for next year. Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D- said the liberals would try to attach the package to an appropriate House bill to bypass the time-consuming procedures of committee consideration.

The plan calls for a $3.6 billion tax cut for low and middle-income taxpayers. Scott, in a Senate speech, said the Demcorats were taking the "coward's way out" by proposing "standby" controls on wages, prices, profits, rents, dividends and interest rates. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said in reply he would support man- (Confinued on Page 4) Firm Will Study Bypass Impact A Hershey firm has been hired to perform the environmental impact study for the Route 422 bypass, it was announced today by. Senator Clarence F. Manbeck.

In" a letter to Robert W. Groover, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce highway committee, the Fredericksburg senator said Rosen Associates has been hired for the job. It will take about 12 months to complete the draft, after which it will be circulated for comment, the senator's letter said. At the same time Manbeck presented some information relative to two other proposed highway projects in Lebanon County. Planning Held Up The need for the environmental impact study concerning Route 422 has held up planning for the road since public hearings were conducted this summer.

The study was directed because of opposition to the road at the hearings. Manbeck's letter said an environmental impact study for the proposed Route 501 project is scheduled for completion by Dec. 1. If it is approved construction can start in 18 months. This project would remove the existing "dog-leg" in the highway in Schaefferstown.

It was also announced that plans are complete for the Route 343 project and funds for it are contained in the 1973-74 capital highway budget which (Continued on Page I) Fund For Croce Now Is $1,913 A deposit made yesterday at the Lebanon Valley National Bank for the Alex Croce Jr. fund brought the total to $1,913.56, according to Carolyn DiNunzio, wife of the campaign chairman Frankie DiNunzio and a member of the campaign's board. The figure includes $325 collected by the end of last week. Nancy Deckert, participating with radio station WAHT in the drive, said the total amount includes contributions collected from (Continued on Page I 2) Picture Comparatively Bright Work Steady At Ma Removal Sale EVERYTHING MUST GO to OFF R. T.

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P.M. Typewriter Adder Repairs TIME SAVERS 273-1769 OPEN THANKSGIVING KUCIOUS TURKEY WITH ALL THE TMMMHMS UAMtoCPM CROCE'S CAFE By JAMES SHELHAMER DailyNews Staff Lebanon Countians are living under a silver lining as dark clouds of unemployment cover some areas of the nation. While plants are being closed or employment drastically curtailed elsewhere in the United States, the major industrial plants in Lebanon County are working steadily at full or near full employment levels. This is the picture drawn from a Daily News survey on Monday of the Lebanon County employment picture: "Bethlehem Steel, Lebanon Steel Foundry, Alcoa, Gindy, Quaker Alloy, Sterling Drug, Milsan Mills, Kraft Foods and W. L.

Kreider Sons among others reported stable or relatively stable work forces. The state's unemployment office here listed a big upsurge in unemployment claims but it also said some of the figures stem from partial unemployment rather than full unemployment. Expect Continuation The major plants in Lebanon County that reported good employment also expect this to continue to the end of the year. While some plant owners or managers expect operations to remain good into 1975, others said a lot depends on conditions over which they have no control, such as the energy crisis and the coal strike. The soft spots in the county's -employment picture generally stem from the textile factories.

The Bureau of Employment Security said a large number of these factory employes are working part- time and consequently they have filed claims for partial unemployment compensation. "This gives a distorted picture to the long lines that are being generated in our office," employer relations representative M. J. Schoornaker told the DailyNews. Another official of the unemployment compensation office said, "We are getting quite a bunch of claim applications from Hershey workers." He further added, "We are getting a few from every type of industry with the exception of the machine trades and major metals." Seasonal Change It was also noted that some soft spots in the garment industry may be due to.

an approach of the seasonal change. During the winter the garment industry turns out summer goods and in the summer it makes the winter products. is employment so good in Lebanon County plants when it is so bad in some other section of the country? This was the question asked by the Daily News of spokesmen for Quaker Alloy and the Lebanon Steel Foundry. The answer was: Chemical, petrochemical and other industries of this type, plus power generation industries are still involved in a capital expansion program. As a result they need castings and plants like Lebanon Steel Foundry and Quaker Alloy supply them.

In High Demand A Bethlehem Steel spokesman pointed out that the product at the local BS plant is industrial fasteners and these too are in high demand by other industries. Bethlehem Steel, incidentally, is the only one of the major plants reporting a recent lay-off. A firm spokesman said 24 employes were separated from the payroll but this was due entirely to the coal strike. "We sell mine roof bolts to the coal industry and with the mines idle there is no demand for these items," the spokesman said. The BS spokesman said employment at the local plant is currently 2,450.

Product demand, he added, is high and it should remain so into 1975. At the same time he noted "It could end a lot of the future outlook depends on the coal strike settlement." Stable At Foundry Frank.0. Hill, manager of industrial relations for the Lebanon Steel Foundry, reported employment quite stable with 925 employed. He said this is the employment level for much of 1974 and from present indications the same figure should continue well into 1975. Cecil E.

Saunders, health and safety director for Quaker Alloy at Myerstown, said his plant hasn't furloughed anyone in recent months. "We're still hiring," he said. He listed employment at the 800 mark. "People need steel castings more than anything else," he said in explaining the high degree of employment compared to that in some other industries. He also noted that (Continued on Poge 6) All Drawings Wednesday Because of the Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, drawings for all three Pennsylvania lotteries will be held Wednesday.

Tomorrow's drawings will include the drawing for the 50 cent and $1 games regular weekly numbers. One six-digit and one five-digit Wednesday Double Play number for all games, and one six- digit and one five-digit Thursday Double Play number for all games will be drawn. There will be no drawings Thursday..