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Her alb Mostly Cloudy Considerable cloudiness today and Thursday with a high today near 80 Shower probability 30 per cent (See map Page 2A) Nebraska Rated No 1 in Football see story on Pane ID tarot Wednesday January 6 1971 No 37 Florida's Complete Newspaper 61l Year 94 Pages 10 Cents STREET EDITION Two Latin American Editioni Are Published Daily ixon Flays Congress as Sip Senate Hit on Welfare Throughout it all whether you agreed with me or disagreed with me you knew you had a governor Claude Kirk For the Legislature to even consider increasing the sales lax in Florida to five per cent while our tax inequities still exist would be a complete travesty of justice Askew Press International Telephoto Reubin Askew Takes Oalh of Office as 37th Florida Governor the Democratic former state senator won an upset victory last November Claude Kirk for today farewell Askew Puts ax Reform Before Sales Levy Hike Peace Talks On Mideast Open Again UNITED NATIONS NY (UPI) Middle East peace talks reopened Tuesday after a four-month lapse At 10 am Israel which had pulled out of the talks in August sent its ambassador to the United Nations Yosef Tekoah to confer 30 minutes with Swedish Diplomat Gunnar Jarring the UN peace- seeker Governor Sworn In On Drizzly Day By JOHN McDERMOTT Herald Political Writer TALLAHASSEE Reubin Askew became 37th governor Tuesday and then in a chilly drizzle labeled any increase in the sales tax complete travesty of until everybody pays a fair share Some 7000 Floridians braved the rain and hundreds of thousands watched on statewide television as the new Democratic administration took over government from the Republican regime of Claude Roy Kirk Jr The transformation perhaps the most significant in the history marked not only a change in partisan political 'eadership but also the unprecedented swearing in of three Miamians to state Cabinet posts Joining Askew at the head of government were Secretary ot State Richard Stone Attorney General Robert Shevin and Treasurer-Insurance Commissioner Tom By WILLIAM MANSFIELD Capita! Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE No Changes In Cabinet WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon Tuesday accused the just-adjourned 91st Congress of making a of itself by indecision and inaction in the Nixon was particularly critical of the failure to approve his welfare reform plan He had cited this during a Monday night television interview as one of the main disappointments of his first two years in office The President had not been asked specifically druing the interview to assess the accomplishments of the Demo-cratic-controlled House and Senate but just before leaving for a California trip he issued a strongly worded statement through the White House press office A SPOKESMAN also volunteered that Nxion had no plans for further Cabinet changes Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler indicated that Nixon had anticipated such a question Monday but it was not asked In his statement Nixon said: the final months and weeks of 1970 especially in the Senate of the United States the nation was presented with the spectacle of a legislative body that had seemingly lost the capacity to decide and the will to 91st Congress had the opportunity to write one of the most productive and memorable chapters in the history of American government That opportunity was lost The nation was the Nixon stressed three proposals which died in the 91st One was the welfare proposal family assistance that passed the House but failed to get through the Senate HE DESCRIBED it as most far reaching social reform in four aimed at overhauling chaotic and costly welfare system by providing a floor of dignity under every family and the incentives for Americans to begin to move off welfare The other prime areas of inaction that Nixon cited were: historic proposal endorsed by both party platforms in 1968 to share federal 'revenues on an annual basis with the revenue-starved states counties and Cities proposal to consolidate the complex and complicated grant-in-aid system jerry-built over the years of the federal NIXON HAD said during televised conversation with four network correspondents that welfare reform which would set a $1600 floor under the income of a family of four and revenue sharing to provide no-strings-attached grants to state and local governments would be at the top of his legislative program for the Turn to Page 2 A Col 1 A UN aide stepped out of little office next to Secretary General quarters and said talks have Jarring met Mohammed Hassan el Zayyat UN envoy Tuesday afternoon Tekoah emerged from his session and declined to answer most questions from newsmen But would he meet again with Jarring? are telephones and a meeting can be arranged at short no- said the Israeli diplomat stepping away ISRAEL LEFT the talks in August protesting Egyptian use of Soviet missile might Israel then got a $500-million aid package from the United States President Nixon said in a -Monday night television discussion have made it clear time and again that we would help to maintain the balance of power in the area so that Israel would not be in a position that its neighbors could overwhelm them with their superior manpower or with the forces that they got from the Soviet No time was set for a meeting between Jarring and a representative from Jordan the third party to the talks DIPLOMATS in the UN said the resumption of talks was encouraging But a report Jarring issued at the reopening set a mood almost as cloudy as the dribbling weather at UN headquarters In the report to the UN Security Council Jarring made public his questions to the three parties and their replies It showed continuing deadlock on such issues as withdrawal of Israeli forces from territory taken in the June 5-10 1967 war supplying Israel with and boundaries and the setting up of demilitarized zones manned by UN forces on Arab-Israeli frontiers The 16-page report con- Turn to Page 2 A CoL 8 Kirk: Reubin Reubin Ieen Thinking outgoing governor left rides with Askew to Major New Anti-Strike Law Sought in National Crises Taft-Hartley Act a quarter century ago cause hardship mass inconvenience danger and a threat to the health and Hodgson told newsmen ARE going to be required of the nation whether we will enact a realistic law to deal with national emergency disputes in the transportation industry or limp through repeated crises with a wornout Hodgson said WASHINGTON AP) President Nixon will press vigorously for early enactment of a law to prevent strikes that create national emergencies such as the still-threatening nationwide railroad walkout his labor secretary said Tuesday strikes become something like an industrial Secretary of Labor Hodgson said in announcing the White House is putting top priority on the first permanent major antistrike legislation since the today That was the title and message of Gov Claude Kirk Jr as he relinquished the governorship to Reubin Askew Tuesday It was not goodbye just long until As tradition requires Kirk extolled the achievements of his administration: progress in conservation governmental reorganization the war on crime he added a new style of government for Florida for four years we shook a few trees and cultivated all the The tree-shaking continued right to the end of the speech Kirk again took on Turn to Page 22 A Col 6 is absolutely incredible to realize that neither Adm Ellis nor Capl Brow was found guilty of making a wrong decision Anne Brown wife of Coast Guard Capt Fletcher Brown Jr in defense of her husband and his superior in the Vigilant incident See Pa ye 261 INDEX Amuse Anderson Broder Classified Comics SD Kofoed 5C 2SA Landers 4E 7A Martenhoff 4D 1SD Movies 8D 4C People 9A Crossword 4C Pope ID Deaths 3C Porter 1 ID Editorials 6A Quick Quiz 5C Financial 1 1 Sports ID Goren 3C Thompson 4C Hardie 4D Thosteson 5E Horoscope 3C TV-Radio 28A Huddy 9D Women IE 1 These three Miami Democrats along with re-elected Commissioner of Agriculture Dovle Conner State Comptroller Fred Dickinson and Education Commissioner Floyd Christian make up the new Cabinet IN CONTRAST to the surprise-packed uproarious inaugural address of Kirk four years ago a speech which set the tone for the most flamboyant four years in memory inaugural address was spirited but without surprises The 42-year-old governor who only a few months ago was referred to as got his administration off to a fast start by formally taking the oath of office seven minutes early It was exactly 11:52 am when Supreme Court Justice Roberts began administering the one-minute oath as Askew stood bareheaded on the platform under the towering live oak trees outside the Capitol Askew bluntly told legislators many of whom were in the crowd that he will insist on tax reform as his first major objective HE FLATLY rejected speculation that the sales tax might be increased from the present four cents to five cents in order to meet an anticipated $200-million deficit next year unless tax reform comes first With a raincoat draped across his shoulders put there by a Highway Patrol trooper during the speech and the temperature dropping from the mid-50's into into the as he talked the new chief executive spelled out his goals and ambitions for ail its virtues has one of the poorest tax structures in the he declared in measured tones Then pointing to the tax which traditionally have gone to the politically influential at the expense of the middle and low Turn to Page 22A Col 1 Staff Photo Trafficanlc heads home Parole Job Keeps Sanlo In Stitches By JAMES SAVAGE Herald Staff Writer After spending a lifetime establishing his reputation as South ranking Mafia chief Santo Traffi-cante has begun a new career sewing trousers in a garment factory in Hialeah The same Santo who attended the summit conference at Apala-chin NY in 1957 and was a prime suspect in the unsolved killing of Albert Anas- Turn to Page 2A Col 1 -J'-'' -Associated Press Wirephoto -unuea Press mrernaTionai Telephoto Your Move inauguration ceremonies Congress halted a 24-hour nationwide rail strike Dec 10 imposing a partial 135 per cent pay hike for some 500000 workers involved But the special law expires March 1 and the strike could resume if there is no settlement Key congressional committee chairmen said three weeks ago hearings will be held early this year on emergency strike legislation HODGSON SAID Nixon will resubmit a strike law proposal similar to the one that languished in Congress last year That proposal would have junked the 45-ycar-okl Railway Labor Act which now covers rail and airline disputes and replaced it with one covering all transportation strikes The earlier Nixon bill would have given several options including the White House the power to order strike delays of up to 110 days instead of the current 90 days to permit partial striking of a major industry or to appoint a neutral board to choose either or final contract proposal as a binding settlement Today's Chuckle Sign in a cemetery: are prohibited from picking llowcrs from any but their own A Fed-Up Krltisli Commuter She Goes to Jail for $270 She offered to pay the conductor 90 cents the difference between a second and a first-class ticket But the conductor demanded $270 the full price of a first-class ticket because of a rule that holders of commuter tickets must pay the full first-class fare if they switch compartments THE WOMAN made British Railways take her to court and last month a judge in Brighton ordered her to pay the $270 tare pius an equal amount in court costs But the government delayed putting her in jail apparently hoping she would give in and save it some bad publicity Mrs case roused wide interest among Britons fed up with bureaucracy late trains crowded and cold compartments and rising costs LONDON (AP) A 23-vear-old commuter who lost a court battle with nationalized railway system went to jail Tuesday rather than pay a $270 fare Mrs Anne Melville roused from bed by the knock had a cup of tea and then accompanied him to a London prison to begin a seven-day sentence HAD no time for said her husband Richard 28 an engineer was upset and a bit shattered But I think she is very Mrs Melville a typist was riding on a monthly second-class ticket from London to Brighton in December of I960 when she decided to move into the first-class section because all second-class seats were taken Anne 3IelviIIe Arrives in London by Car I to begin jail term in rail fare dispute.