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Governors Clamor
For More Money
By RAYMOND LAHR
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
(UPI) — Tax-troubled state
governors clamored today for
more federal money with fewer
or no regulations on how to
spend it.
But for the opening business
session of the 6’st p—ual
meeting of the National Gover
nors’ Conference, one of its
standing committees endorsed,
with one notable exception,
President Nixon’s plan to start
sharing federal revenues with
the states without strings.
Nixon himself was due to
address the governors tonight,
presumably about his "new
federalism,” with a revenue
sharing system offering more
federal help to finance state
welfare programs and a new
job training plan.
A committee headed by Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York was reported ready to ask
the conference Tuesday to call
for complete federal financing
of state welfare programs.
However, Gov. Ronald Reagan
of California and Gov. John A.
Love of Colorado, both Republi
cans, indicated reservations.
Love appeared in line to
become chairman of the
conference for the coming year.
Loaded With Questions
Governors In both parties
were loaded with questions
about the Nixon plan to allot $4
billion more a year to the
states for welfare.
And after a caucus Sunday,
the Democratic governors indi
cated they were eager but not
yet ready to try to dump the
political fallout from inflation
and the Vietnam War on the
Nixon administration. They
were asking questions about
how the war could be settled.
* The Democrats also agreed to
Invite Sen. Fred Harris of
Oklahoma, their national party
chairman, to a luncheon session
here Tuesday.
For today’s business session,
a committee headed by Gov.
Daniel J. Evans of Washington
submitted a report closely
following the recommendations
of Nixon to share federal tax
collections with the states. Both
plans would give the states
money based on population and
their own tax effort and would
require some of the money to
be alloted to cities and
counties.
However, the Evans commit
tee also called for a greater
allotment of money to densely
populated cities and counties.
This proposal was intended to
make sure that heavily populat
ed slum areas would benefit
more than affluent suburbs.
The same committee’s report
objected to the bill passed by
the House to subject some
interest ipald to holders of state
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and local bonds to federal
income taxes. Gov. Raymond
P. Shafer of Pennsylvania told
a news conference that the
provision would be “disastrous”
for state and local bond issues.
Calls For Action
Another report came today
from the Committee on Com
munity Development and Urban
Relations, headed by Gov.
Richard J. Hughes of New
Jersey. Among other things, it
called for action by Congress
and the administration “to
correct the confusing, contra
dictory, duplicative and over
lapping mass of federal plan
ning requirements and defini
tions.”
The Rockefeller committee
report going to the conference
Tuesday was reported to call
BRUCE BIOSSAT
America’s doctrinaire liberals are probably worse off
than they have been in decades, though the surface evi
dence is deceptively comforting to them.
At a time wnen me country s aemanas for really effec
tive social action are rising steauiiy, tneir characteristic
commitment to loud veroaiizing in oenaii of pure, uncom
promiseu causes is producing severely uimimsnea returns.
home of tneir near-bretnren, tne pragmatic liberals wno
are more interested in wontaoie answers man in unsullied
principles, privately indicate.contempt tor tne doctrinaires,
oays one oi tne practical types:
“ iney re out m tne sunuros waving their copies of the
New itepunnc, wnue omer people are lacing tne hard
reauues ot uroan conflict.”
nut il tne strongly partisan liberals have opened up a
deep cleavage wiui tneir more practical irienas, it nas not
won mem new companions on tne radical iett among tne
stuuems, me DiacK militants and others, Tne radicals are
quue openiy contemptuous ot tnem, even as tne doctrin
aires tuinoie over tnemselves in pursuit of their allegiance.
Tne gravity of tne doctrinaires’ dilemma is somewhat
cloaiteu, nowever, oy tne tact mat tneir innuence oiten
seems greater man h is. Having easy access to, anu some
times command ot, important cnanneis ol puoncicy, tney
can make mg sound waves. Tneir aecinel count is nign, but
tney register tow on tne achievement cnart.
ineir dilemma is at least tnree-told in nature.
For one ming, their great penchant for talking the game
instead oi playing it strikes tne pragmatic Democratic and
Kepunlican lioerals as worse man useless in a critical age
wnen problems are compounding.
Some of tiie practical ones simply laugh at the emotional
agitation the doctrinaires invest in “vernal commitment.”
For another, the partisan liberals’ irresponsibility on the
issue of public money, a characteristic tailing, today puts
them dangerously out of tune with the nation s mood. The
spiraling resistance of many middle-class elements to the
climb in taxes and government spending is reflected in an
impatience which approaches that exhibited by militants
who demand action at any cost.
Whatever the program, the doctrinaires inevitably pro
claim that the money proposed for it is “inadequate.” The
hard truth is that millions of Americans think the in
adequacy lies with those political figures who argue for
new spending of more billions.
Perhaps the most crucial factor in the doctrinaires’
dilemma, though, is their growing recklessness as to the
means of attaining their goals.
Many of them stand right at the precipice. They talk
constantly of the slowness and the failures of the demo
cratic process. Frequently excusing or minimizing the
violence of the radical left, they stop just short of declaring
for some sort of autocratic government.
Part of the explanation is their cumulative frustration
piled up heavily in recent years—at the country’s refusal
to be guided by their emotional clamor. Part is the parti
san liberals’ wish to identify closely with the rampaging
students and black militants they regard as their natural
constituency.
They really do perceive themselves as elitists who know
better than anybody what the country ought to be doing.
The logic of that self-perception is driving them inescap
ably toward increasing disgust with democracy.
A young 1968 worker for Sen. Eugene McCarthy might
have been speaking for doctrinaire types 25 years older
than when he addressed himself to the “political process.”
As casually as he would announce his purchase of new
razor blades, he spoke of relying on democratic methods
only insofar as they showed promise of serving the objec
tives. But if the tone was soft, the language was not. It
was the language of elitist autocracy.
So the “pure-cause” liberals have a deep puzzle. They
have driven themselves to the edge of the cliff and do not
know how to scramble back. In the name of freedom, they
are on the verge of leaping into the pit with the reactionar
ies they profess to despise. They are on the way to be
coming nondemocrats.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Holiday Toll
Nearing 500
By United Press International
With the homeward migration
from Labor Day vacations in
full force today, Americans
were dying on the nation’s
highways at a rate of nearly
seven an hour.
The National Safety Council
had estimated that between 625
and 725 persons would die in
traffic accidents during the
three-day weekend. Some 500
persons die In a comparable
nonholiday period.
Famed explorer George
Rogers Clark gave Louisville,
Ky., its name in honor of Louis
XVI of France.
Kentucky pied
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for far more than complete
federal financing of welfare—a
demand which appeared to
command growing bipartisan
support.
It also was understood to ask
for more federal aid for
education and fewer restric
tions on its use, and more
liberal Increases In Social
Security benefits than were
recommended by the adminis
tration.
Gov. Buford Ellington of
Tennessee, chairman of the
conference, said in remarks
prepared for the opening
session that the governors’
meetings no longer were
forums for political hassles,
regional disputes between the
states and griping about federal
government while the states
were in disorder.
Dream-World Liberals
Have Fallen on Evil Days
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
A United Press International
count at 3 a.m. EDT showed at
least 391 persons killed in
holiday traffic since the start of
the holiday period at 6 p.m.
local time Friday.
The breakdown:
Traffic 391
Planes 13
Drownings M
Miscellaneous 23
Total: 473
California led the nation with
42 fatalities. Texas recorded 28
and Alabama and Kentucky had
19 each. Illinois, Georgia and
Wisconsin each recorded 17
traffic deaths.
Montana, New Hampahlre,
Rhode Island, South Dakota and
the District of Columbia were
free of fatalities.
The highest fatality figure for
a Labor Day weekend was set
last year when 688 persons
were killed. The worst total for
a summer holiday was 732
traffic deaths during the 1967
Fourth of July weekend.
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air bases. Constructed for bombing North Vietnam, they
are now used for strikes in Laos and South Vietnam. The
U.S. base at Sattahip is Thailand's most modern port.
Contingency plan which contributed to U.S.-Thai strain
called for joint forces to move across Mekong River and
hold a buffer zone should Communist advances in Laos
threaten Thailand. Right, Thai trainees run through gre
nade drill under eye of U.S. instructor.
Pentagon Brass
Concedes Some
Expensive Errors
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Top
Pentagon brass have conceded
the military has made some
wasteful and expensive logisti
cal mistakes, but contend these
errors are far overshadowed by
the more important success of
thus far averting nuclear war.
The testimony of top admir
als and generals before the
House Appropriations Commit
tee May 9 was released Sunday.
They sought to counter congres
sional critics who point to cost
overruns and apparent bumbles
in weapons development.
The testimony was released
as a bipartisan Senate coalition
was preparing for new at
tempts, beginning Wednesday
when Congress reconvenes af
ter a three-week recess, to
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: Vice Adm. T. F. Connolly,
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■ War, but he implied this failure
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School Teacher
Stabbed
To Death
BUENA VISTA, Ga. (UPI)
Authorities are still looking foi
a motive in the apparent stab
bing murder of schoolteachei
.Miss Clyde Picard in the bed
room of her home Saturday as
ternoon.
Police said there were nc
signs of burglary. Miss Picard’s
sister told authorities the onlj
missing items were some ring!
the victim wore.
Officers have not yet deter
mined if Miss Picard was sexu
ally molested. She lived aloni
in the house.
Miss Picard taught in Thom
asville before moving to Bueni
Vista where she did occasions
Miss Picard taught in Thom
asville before moving to Buena
Vista where she did occasional
substitute teaching.
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