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1 in is I York Daily Record, Wednesday, January 23, 1974 29 First Joint Session Ever Parties Discuss Convention Financing WASHINGTON (UPI) Democratic and Republican party leaders held an unprecedented meeting Tuesday to discuss better ways to finance their presidential nominating conventions. Kohoutek Photo They talked about everything from selling a twoparty package to television to holding a lottery to raise funds from the public. No decisions were made at the first session of the Comet Kohoutek as photographed about 8 p.m. Jan. 16 by Frank Smith at the observatory of the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg near Lewisberry.

A 35 mm camera with a five-minute guided exposure was used by Smith, a student at Penn State's York Campus He lives at 410 Candlewyck Road. Camp Hill. Bipartisan Committee to Study Methods of Financing National Nominating Conventions. The 30 Republicans and Democrats went over dozens of ideas during a three hour session on how to raise $2 million or more needed to hold a modern political convention. The meeting, which both sides said was the first joint session of any sort sponsored by the two major party national committees, was keynoted by Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss and Republican National Chairman George Bush.

Democrat Donald Petrie, former Democratic party Medicaid Funds Sought For Mental Patients WASHINGTON (UPI) Thirteen medical and civil rights groups plus three states joined Tuesday in asking the Supreme Court to reconsider decision which left state mental hospitals without Medicaid funds. Last December the Court refused to overturn a three judge district court ruling in New York which upheld both the federal and New York Medicaid laws which do not extend Medicaid benefits to patients in state mental The original legal action was brought by Brooklyn attorney Morton Birnbaum as a class action on behalf of persons 21 to 65 treated annually in state On Tax Status Nixon Checks Personally WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon is conducting a personal investigation to determine if his donation of more than $500.000 worth of vice presidential papers to the Trumpeter Asked For Back Taxes On Papers Gift WASHINGTON (UPI) The Internal Revenue Service has assessed bandleader Harry James nearly $29.000 in back taxes. charging that the musican took too big a deduction on the gift of his musical scores to the University of Wyoming. The IRS said James and his wife, Joan. had tax deficiencies of $12,034 in 1968 and $16,745 in 1969 because the scores and arrangements used by James' orchestra and donated to the university's music department had been appraised far In excess of their real worth.

The information was contained a petition filed with the tax court. where James contesting the irs ruling Before the Tax Reform Act of 1969 made the value of such gifts negligible for tax purposes. artists, musicians and public figures could donate their papers and works to museums and schools and claim their appraised value as a tax deduction. National Archives met the W. requirements of the tax laws, a Nixon White House spokesman said said.

Tuesday. In response to questions, Press Ziegler said Secretary the President Ronald was L. aware of published reports that the deed transfering the papers was backdated in order to qualify Nixon for an income tax deduction. "The President is. of course, aware of that charge," Ziegler said, adding that Nixon was investigating "how his paperwork was Nixon has been widely criticized for taking advantage of the $547,000 deduction on his income taxes as a result of the gift.

Congress passed a law prohibiting such deductions after July 25, 1969 and there have been allegations that the transaction was postdated to qualify Nixon for the huge deduction. Edward L. Morgan, who handled details of the transaction as a White House aide. resigned earlier this week as assistant secretary of the treasury because of the controversy surrounding the deed. Nixon has asked a joint committee of Congress to rule on the propriety of the deduction but additionally is conducting an investigation on his own.

Two prominant tax attorneys and long time Nixon friends, H. Chapman Rose and Kennedy Unicycle Rider Beats Traffic WASHINGTON (UPI) The gasoline shortage is not chang ing the life style of computer scientist Robert A. Magnuson. He rides to work and back on a unicycle- and has done so for a half-dozen years. Daily.

in sun. wind, rain or snow, Magnuson mounts his one-wheeler at his suburban home and cycles the one mile to his office at the National Institutes of Health. It's a 10 minute trip a tennis game just before going to work." Magnuson passes automobiles inching down Old Georgetown Road, a major congested artery leading to metropolitan Washington. Unicycling started for Magnuson six years ago when one of his three children asked for a one-wheeler. "You know how fathers are," he said.

"'They just can't let their kids do things better even when they get "Learning to ride," he says, "was about as difficult as learning to Soon there was a unicycle for each member of the Magnuson family: Andre, now 16; Claude, 15; Celeste, 12, and for wife, Marie. But Magnuson, 45, an executive type with graying hair at the temples, is the only member of the family who now unicycles regularly. What about unicycling in rain? "I just carry an umbrella in treasurer, and Republican R. L. Herman, vice chairman of the 1972 GOP convention arrangements committee.

were empowered to appoint an executive committee to look into suggestions such as: Have the two parties join to offer their national conventions as a package deal to the television networks, which would bid for broadcast rights. (Richard Murphy, manager of the 1972 Democratic Convention, said he did not think this would go over because TV executives had told him "old movies get better ratings than national conventions except for the balloting -Have the two parties jointly conduct a fundraising telethon in the spring of presidential election years and then split the receipts. (The THEATRES 753-6281 YORK Cinema 2 Miles East of York Rt. 30 HELD OVER! DON'T MISS IT! WEEKNITES Escape Is Everything! ALLIED ARTISTS. STEVE DUSTIN McQUEEN HOFFMAN FRANKLIN SCHAFFNER PAPILLON PG ALLIED ARTISTS 792-1560 LINCOLN -IN DRIVE 6 Miles West of York Rt.

30 NOW THRU SUN. FROM 7:15 IN CAR HEATERS WALKING TALL "BEST AMERICAN MOVIE OF THE Plus LOVERS AND 2nd Hit! OTHER STRANGERS idea seemed popular. especially after Democrat George Bristol told the committee his party raised about $4 million with its last tv fundraising extravaganza.) -Holding state lotteries, with separate prizes for Democrats and Republicans. -Exploring with congressional leaders the possibility of having the government finance all or part of the national convention process. (The most popular suggestion in this area was to have the government pay for all security and law enforcement activities, as it did in part in 1972 with "Safe Streets" grants to Miami Beach.) In 1972, each party raised about two-thirds of the nearly $2 million needed for their conventions from ad books.

STRINESTOWNI DRIVE-IN THEATRE Rt. 83 N. of York Exit 12 Adults Only "THE MAIDS" also "MY DEEP HUNGER" mental hospitals. He argued that the present Medicaid provisions unconstitutionally the discriminated against such paa tients. Birnbaum estimated the number of such patients at that between 700,000 and 1 million.

Under federal statutes, they and received no Medicaid benefits though patients in private general hospital receiving mental health care are entitled to benefits if they can prove a financial need. The district court, in rejecting the case for expanded coverage. said Congress did not intend to supplant state responsibility for mental health. "It is not the function of this court to evaluate congressional judgement," the judges said. The Supreme Court, upholding the judges, did not comment.

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Or there's that old saw about what do I do for an encore." He broods about the automobile. "I feel very strongly about the auto," he says. "It is the worst disaster to befall mankind. Not intentionally. But it has brought a very high death rate, pollution and stench." There is a Magnuson family station wagon "but it doesn't get much use." If gasoline rationing comes, Magnuson would hope to be able to save up coupons for an occasional fishing trip.

Magnuson said the unicycle keeps him fit don't have the back problems which plague, many others my is inexpensive only expense is to change a tire and safe you lose control, you're just left standing And is it convenient? "I park it in the corner of the office." he said. HAPPILY ANNOUNCES THE ARRIVAL OF TRIPLETS TODAY DA CINEMAS DELCO PLAZA MALL, CARLISLE RD. AT ROUTE 30, YORK 843-7711 OPEN AT 7 P.M. MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 2 P.M. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SHOPPERS' MATINEE WEDNESDAY AT 2 P.M.

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