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-PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE i SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1972 Vrlo Warnings Ignored Flood Aid Urged For Railroads Congress Sends Nixon on 20 AVERAGE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS Si7 nnt iim in rut i feaaafeMsfcafaft miA' 4fr. fe ji 1 200 jL Mi COUPLE J. $ioo INDIVIDUAL i jm -Associoted Press Wlrephoto An angry Itiihliy h'isvher iuh pant admirer and away from neuinmrn al Kennedy Airport coffee ahop. U.S. Whiz Wants 30 1940 1950 soviet.

Din h.i.w. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Hugh Scott, introduced a bill yesterday to authorize $60 million in federal grants or loans for railroad equipment replacement and repairs needed as a result of floods from tropical storm Agnes. The GOP leader said nine major railroads serving the eastern seaboard have reported nearly $30 million in damages and the total is expected to increase when all the information is assessed. At present, Scott said, there is no federal program to assist railroads when a disaster such as Agnes occurs.

He said four eastern railroads suffering heavy flood damage, the Penn Central, Erie-Lackawanna, Reading and Lehigh Valley, are already in bankruptcy receivership. "Several others are reportedly on the verge of imminent financial collapse," Scott said. His bill would authorize federal grants to railroads in bankruptcy and low-interest loans to others for repair or replacement of tracks, rolling stock and other essential facilities damaged by last week's flood, he said. No one railroad could apply for more than 25 per cent of the total funds. Armstrong Pact OK'd Soeclal to the Post Gaietto KITTANNING Directors of the Armstrong School District, minus two members, approved a teachers' contract and a budget last night, three hours before the i i deadline.

The teachers' agreement took 18 months and strikes. Margaret Constanza, board president, and Carl Barton, both against the teachers' contract, resigned from their posts before the meeting. The contract was passed, 4 to 3, and the budget, 5 to 2. Despite an average $900 raise for some 560 teachers, real estate taxes will remain at 41 mills, said a spokesman for the teachers. The morning Post-Gazette will be the ONLY Pittsburgh newspaper published on the Fourth of July.

Fischer Tells Tourney No Cash, No Chess REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Organizers of the world chess championship said yesterday the "whole match" depends on eleventh-hour negotiations between them and Bobby Fischer's lawyer on a new demand for more money by the American challenger. Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer and confidant, arrived on SS Benefits The Senate yesterday passed a 20 per cent Social Security increase, and the House followed suit. Chart shows the amount paid monthly to an average individual and couple who received Social Security benefits from 1940 to September, 1972, when the latest increase goes into effect. The latest boost gives $158 monthly to an average individual; $271 monthly to an average couple. The increase would be the largest in history.

UMW's Boyle Seeks Re-Elcclion in Rerun -Associated Press Wircohoto GEORGE H. BOLDT Inflation level paramount. Pay Board May Up 5.5 Raise Guide WASHINGTON (AP) The Pay Board is reviewing its 5.5 per cent guideline for pay raises, Chairman George H. Boldt said yesterday. "It may very well be the standard will Boldt told a luncheon audience at the National Press Club.

"But if we have to change the standard to reach the objective of a level of inflation between two and three per cent, the standard will change, period." He also said the board will hold public meetings in several cities this summer to permit "any interested person anywhere in the United States to make criticisms or suggestions concerning our regulations." Boldt said the hearings definitely would be held in Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, and perhaps in other places. Since the wage guideline was adopted last November, there have been several labor contracts signed with increases about 5.5 per cent. But, Boldt said, the average for some 10-million workers who received raises since the end of the wage-price freeze was 4.9 per cent. Now, Boldt said, the board is convinced enough time has passed and we have enough relial; data for meaningful review of the original standard." Man Dies After Fire Lawrence Ridge, 30, of 315 Dale McKeesport, the victim of a fire that raced through a duplex home June 22, killing two teen-age girls, died last night at Mercy Bill House Follows Senate's 824 OK of Benefits Continued from rage 1) Under the Church amendment, the average payment for an Individual, now $129 a month, would be raised to $158. For a couple, the average would go from $223 to $271.

The present $70.40 minimum would be increased to $84.50. The maximum which could he received by an individual retiring this year would go to It now is The amendment also would put into the system for the first time automatic increases to meet inflation. Every time the price index advances 3 per cent or more, benefits would be adjusted ac-c i 1 y. The first such change could come in 1975. Social Security experts have calculated that, if the Church amendment becomes law and prices advance 2n per cent annually, a worker starting out now and paying the maximum tax each year, could draw a $2,360 monthly benefit in 2015.

The amendment would change both the tax base, the amount of annual earnings on which payroll levies are paid and the rates to finance the new benefits. THE BASE, now permanently fixed at $9,000, would go to $10,800 next year and $12,000 starting in 1974. After that, it could be adjusted upwards to pay for cost-of-living increases. The rate, now 5.2 per cent each for the employer and worker, would go up to 5.5 per cent next year. These changes would boost the maximum tax, now $168, to $594 in 1973 for a person earning $10,800 or more, and to $660 in 1974 for one earning $12,000 or more.

However, a worker earning $9,000 or less actually wcd pay a smaller tax in 1973 and subsequent years than he would under present law. THE REASON is that the rates prescribed by the law now are higher than those in the Church proposal. For example, under pre-ent law the 1973 rate will be 5.65 per cent compared with 5.5 per cent under the amendment. The Social Security Administration estimates about DO per cent of all workers would pay lower taxes in the next 25 years under the Church provision than under present law. The Senate Finance Committee previously approved a 10 per cent increase In a welfare-reform bill.

But that bill is in trouble in Congress and also would probably take longer to put into effect. The Senate also added to the debt limit bill a tax provision to help sufferers from the recent widespread floods. It would permit persons and businesses with flood losses to file amended tax returns, claim the losses against 1971 income, and get immediate refunds. Without this provision, they would have to wait until next year when they file their 1972 returns. lot of frayed nerves, one additional problem was that Davis carried no written authorization from Fischer to act on his behalf.

But federation officials were hopeful at least that hurdle could be passed. Once iFscher earned right to challenge Spassky, after eliminating a series of strong opponents in the challenge round, plans began to go awry for the "match of the century." There have been disputes over money, the site, lighting conditions, housing and even down to the kind of car the host federation should provide for Fischer. Until the new demand for a share of the gate, Fischer and Spassky had agreed to compete for the biggest prize in chess history: a division of $125,000 with five-eighths going to the winner, and an even split of 60 per cent of the film and TV rights sold to a promoter. SS Boost JL-U SEPT. I960 1970 1 1972 1971 Coupled with the resignation of Titler, 77, was an announcement by John Owens, 81, long-time secretary-treasurer that he will not seek re-election but will serve until a successor is picked.

Titlcr's action opens the way for Boyle to immediately fill the vice president's post with a man who could step In as president should Boyle, for any reason, be unable to complete his term. There was wild speculation about who will get the job. Boyle also can pick a slate probably of younger men with which to make the campaign for re-election. In 1969 he defeated Joseph A. Yablon-ski, who was slain a short time later.

In the wake of Yablonski's murder, which clouded the UMW and Boyle, dissident elements who backed Yablonski formed the Miners for Democracy (MFD) and continued opposition to Boyle. In addition to Miller, the MFD slate includes: Mike Trbovich, 51, Clarksville, Washington County, for vice president; and Harry Patrick, 41, Fairvicw, W. for secretary-treasurer. The MFD has been the initiator of a host of legal suits that has limited Boyle's powers and caused the federal government to investigate all union activities. etnamese troops initiated two more engagements and gave the day's casualties as at least six enemy and five government troops dead and eight government soldiers wounded.

More than 210 strikes were flown over North Vietnam on Thursday the U.S. Command said. The pilots reported destroying or damaging two surface to air missiles, seven bridges, two petroleum storage areas, three petroleum pumping stations and three pipelines. U.S. B52s flew four missions north of the demilitarized zone, the command added.

It rep U.S. aircraft losses over the past week as four Air Force and Navy planes over North Vietnam and one plane and helicopter in South Vietnam. Two more planes were reported lost due to nonhostile causes. (Continued from Page 1) Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the dissident Miners for Democracy (MFD) last night accused Boyle of placing "his own selfish interests above that of our union." Arnold R. Miller, 49, of Ohlcy, W.

at a miners rally at Pineville, W. said he was not. surprised by Boyle's decision to run. "Boyle has been czar of our union too long for him to voluntarily strp down as our union constitution demands for convicted felons," Miller said. "When Tony Boyle was sentenced to five years in jail I had hoped he would resign and not subject our great union to the humiliation of being run from a jail cell," he added.

lie called the upcoming election a ''choice between dictatorship and democracy, between corruption and honest union leadership." Miller predicted an overwhelming victory for the MFD slate. The UMW is under strict U. S. Department of Labor mnnitorship until after the election. A court order forbids the use of union money or employes in any election campaign activities.

THOMAS KANE of the labor department's Washington office, attended all executive sessions. Normally such meetings have been closed to all but ranking UMW officers. Wallace Flying To Ha. Friday Ntw York Timet Nwi Service SILVER SPRING, Md. -Gov.

George C. Wallace will be moved from a hospital In this Washington suburb to a hotel suite in Miami next Friday, his aides announced here yesterday. The partially paralyzed presidential candidate is to be flown in a U.S. Air Force hospital plane, provided by President Nixon, first to Montgomery, for an airport speech and then Immediately on to Florida where the Democratic National Convention begins three days later. HIS SCHEDULED address at Dannclly Field in the Alabama capital city would be his first public appearance since May 15, the day he was gravely wounded in a burst of gunfire at a shopping center in Laurel, Md.

Since then, the 52-year-old segregationist has undergone several hours of surgery and a daily regimen of physical therapy designed to help him adjust to the paralysis of his lower body. A 1 1 his physicians have reported substantial improvements in his condition, including some sensation in his thighs, his condition remains essentially unchanged. He Is unable to move his legs and has no bladder or bowel control. Whether Wallace will make an appearance on the floor of the convention has not yet been decided, his press secretary, Billy Joe Camp, said. "But it's definitely a possibility." he added.

THE GOVERNOR has been fitted for leg-braces and has been performing an exercise this week in which he is placed between waist high parallel bars and encouraged to swing his body forward. "But I think that any public appearances for a while will be in a wheel chair," said Elvin Stanton, his assistant press secretary. Reds Ready To Resume Peaee Talks New York Times News Servlct PARIS Both Communist delegations to the Vietnam peace conference indicated their readiness yesterday to resume talks July 13 as President Nixon announced Thursday night. But the North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies showed no disposition to back down from their demands for unconditional American military withdrawal by a precise date and for removal of President Nguyen Van Thieu from the Saigon administration. The Viet Cong delegation declared that its peace plan, first presented a year ago today, was the "correct and realistic basis for a settlement of the Vietnamese problem permitting the United States to withdraw honorably from its war of aggression." Both delegations declared that Nixon had been led by world opinion and their own governments to accept a resumption of the talks suspended by the United States May 4.

The President was denounced for refusing to end the bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of its ports and for refusing to abandon the policy of Vietnamization in the south. But these were not presented as conditions for resuming the talks. Parklanc Chain Victimized Again Two armed men grabbed an undetermined amount of money yesterday at the Park-lane Hosiery store at 544 Smithfield Downtown, the second time in two days one of the firm's stores has been robbed. The firm's store on Fifth Avenue was held up Thursday by two men who took $49. trying out your new it really works!" STORE OPEN SUNDAY wsjjsa jfMcoooooooffl Jl Vf reserve the ri'sM fi iijifp i 'c A I 4 1 to limit quantitits fl CHASE SANBORN 0 ROUTE 51 PLEASANT HILLS i 55 1 STATE ST.

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FISCHER HAD BOOKED a ticket and checked bis bags on the plane, but then he hesitated. He demanded his luggage back, got it and disappeared from Kennedy Airport in New York after holding up the flight for more than two hours. What Davis and officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation had to sort out was a fresh demand by Fischer for 30 per cent of the gate receipts collected during the match. Without the extra money, he threatened to boycott the match scheduled to begin tomorrow. It was learned that Gutmun-der Thorarisson, the federation president, spent most of the night in sometimes heated telephone conversation with Fischer's representatives in the United States.

Thorarisson said late yesterday that "nothing has been settled." A MOSCOW DISPATCH indicated Russian concern over developments. A Tass writer claimed Fischer was disrespectful to the organizers and was placing the value of money over that of the sport of chess. In match preparations which have already caused a Slay Suspect War Victim BEAVER FALLS (AP) A South Vietnamese colonel accused along with two officers of killing two American MPs at a Saigon bar has been killed in action exactly three years following the nightclub shootout. According to government reports out of Saigon, Lt. Col.

Nguyen Viet Can was killed yesterday by an enemy rocket that made a direct hit on his bunkered command post at An Loc. The officer had been charged with the Sept. 30, 1969, killing of Pfc. James Workman of Beaver Falls, and Sgt. Eugene Cox of Jackson Heights, N.

Y. He was court martialed, but the tribunal ordered a new investigation into the incident. A second trial was never held. Wildwood Mine To Be Sealed Work will start soon to seal the Wildwood Mine in Hampton Township to halt further water pollution from acid mine drainage. Waste from the mine was flowing into Pine Creek and Willow Run, according to officials of the State Department of Environmental Resources.

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12555. China Routes Target Stepped Up Bombing OjV. Vietnam Slated New York Times News Service WASHINGTON U.S. military planners are preparing a stepped up bombing effort in an attempt to shut off what they say is the last remaining trickle of military supplies moving into North Vietnam from China. Senior defense department sources say that additional key targets in North Vietnam have iJFjoJ CJ? boxes CHUCK HO AST PICKLES 69c MARMADUKE (Continued from Page 1) hundred troops at altcrnste landing sites.

On the southern front at An Loc, the North Vietnamese made four shelling attacks and one ground assault Thursday against government troops trying to reopen Highway 13 to the provincial capital. Spokesmen said South Vi- ment in a news conference Thursday night that unless a negotiated settlement is reached, and American war prisoners released, the current air-sea campaign would continue. Pentagon analysts insist the current program to isolate North Vietnam from outside supply, by mining ports and striking bridges along the two rail lines from China, has been effective. "THIS NEW EFFORT should tighten the noose almost completely," one ranking officer declared. Another official commented: "Hanoi should still be capable of pursuing the war in the south for some months, but at a much reduced level, depending on vast quantities of supplies moved forward in the past.

But the military initiative in the war has shifted to the South Vietnamese, and we expect this to continue." been pinpointed and soon will undergo intensive air strikes. They stress, however, that U.S. planes will not violate the self-imposed 25-mile buffer zone south of the China border. OVER THE LAST several days, military and civilian Pentagon officials have discussed the new bombing plans fairly openly in a series of interviews. They said that Hanoi could hardly be surprised by such an effort, given the widespread mining and air strikes aimed at closing off military imports.

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