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House Demos push local option repeal INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — earlier estimates of total Gov. Otis R. Bowen, as any of- budget requests at about $5 ficial, must “be responsive to billion, changes and the feelings of the The Budget Committee recpeople,” says House Speaker ommended spending $3.8 Phillip E. Bainbridge. billion for the 1973-75 biennium The new speaker said the In- **1* ** came out °f diana House Democratic lead- legislature as $4.1 billion, ership will push for a repeal of Revenue Commissioner Donthe local option income tax de- a l t l Clark has told the comspite Bowen’s opposition to any ndttee that state tax collections “tampering” with his 1973 tax this year are running a little program. ahead of last year. But the lat- .... , . i _. est audited figures are for Sepn Si** = TT" tember ^ it takes as long as flexibil'tjr,” Cambridge smd ^ (or them refle 6 c , a I hope he (Bowen) would slowdown i,, corpora(io „ eam recognize change if it is found : nt ,_ tn PTlQt ” “■o 3, 10 exis ’ The big slowdowns, shutBainbridge said House downs and layoffs this fall have Democratic leaders agreed not yet affected state revenue Tuesday to push for a $29.3 figures. An exception is fuel tax million annual increase in state collections, whijeh began dropincome tax exemptions, in- ping when the gasoline shortcrease state aid to local age appeared last winter, schools, cities and towns, and Bainbridge said a bill defito repeal the gasoline “tax-on- nitely will be introduced to retax.” peal the gasoline “tax-on-tax,” He emphasized that the pro- in which the 4 per cent state posals were contingent upon sales tax is figured on the gasotwo things — that the 1975-77 line pump total including state state revenue estimate and federal motor fuel taxes, released today is adequate and This would cost the state about that the House Democratic $5 million a year. Caucus goes along. Other Democratic proposals, Today’s release of recom- Bainbridge said, would include mendations by the State increases in the present state Budget Committee for income tax exemption to $1,000 government spending in the for the family head and for 1975-77 biennium followed each dependent.

Congress ‘vetoes’ Ford’s GI increase veto

Haldeman 'confesses’

WASHINGTON (AP) - A prosecutor in the Watergate cover-up trial says H.R. Haldeman confessed to a crime while testifying about the attempt to get CIA officials to curtail the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in. During a private courtroom conference Tuesday with Judge John J. Sirica and defense lawyers, assistant prosecutor Richard BenVeniste said Haldeman “confesses to a crime, which I believe he has just done, to defrauding the United States through the misuse of the CIA for improper reasons ...” Ben-Veniste was referring to Haldeman’s indication right before the conference that Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters’ testimony was substantially correct. Walters testified earlier that Haldeman had said the CIA should tell the FBI to curtail its investigation and that Haldeman had expressed concern that the FBI probe could be “embarrassing” and lead to “high people.” The issue is whether Haldeman was acting from concern that the FBI investigation would expose secret CIA operations or from the desire to shield Nixon-re-election committee officials from being

linked to the break-in. Immediately after the bench conference, held out of the hearing of the jury, Haldeman returned to the witness stand and denied he had any intention of misusing either the CIA or the FBI or of obstructing the Watergate investigation. Meanwhile, all parties in the cover-up case were to Submit arguments today on whether former President Richard M. Nixon’s testimony must be obtained before the trial can be concluded. Three court-appointed doctors examined Nixon and his medical records last week and then reported that Jan. 6 was the earliest he could give a deposition. Sirica has said he expects the case to be concluded before Christmas. Sirica said Tuesday he would ask the doctors whether they thought Nixon could answer written questions earlier than Jan. 6. William S. Frates, lawyer for ex-White House aide John D. Ehrlichman, suggested Monday taking a Christmas break in the trial and allowing the jurors to go home for the first time since they were seated Oct. 11. William G. Hundley, lawyer for former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, said he would agree to Frates’ proposal.

Newsman named

WASHINGTON (AP)President Ford has appointed a former Indiana newsman as his chief congressional lobbyist. Appointment of Max L. Friedersdorf, 45, was announced Tuesday, effective Dec. 31. He will replace William E. Timmons, who resigned Tuesday from the $42,000-a-year job. A native of Columbus, Ind., Friedersdorf is a former politi-

cal reporter for the Indianapolis News, former city editor of the Franklin Evening Star and former reporter for the Louisville Times and Chicago Daily News. He was an administrative assistant to Rep. Earl Landgrebe, R-Ind., and former Rep. Richard L. Roudebush, now director of the Veterans Administration. He joined former President Richard M. Nixon’ staff in 1971.

Lugar overhauls

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Mayor Richard G. Lugar has launched an overhaul of the Indianapolis Police Department by promoting two lieutenants to deputy chief and demoting the assistant chief. Lugar described the two lieutenants, Lawrence H. Turner, 33, and David H. Elmore, 40, as “vigorous crime fighters, extraordinary individuals.” Chief Kenneth B. Hale announced the appointments Tuesday. Assistant Chief William E. Pond was demoted to major and placed in charge of the p lice finance branch. Deputy Chief Ralph F. Lumpkin, who will retire in February, was named assistant chief.

Hale also asked Deputy Chief Raymond J. Stratton to retire. Stratton said he would “stay and work with the chief at any assignment, but I won’t retire.” Stratton, who has been with the department 25 years, was reduced to major. Turner was the policeman named by a grand jury that indicted two Indianapolis Star reporters on charges of attempting to bribe a policeman. The reporters were part of the newspaper team that prepared a series of articles alledging widespread police corruption. Lugar told a news conference, “We will keep churning on. The changes will be substantial and will be soon.”

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has overridden President Ford’s veto of a 22.7 per cent increase in most GI education benefits, and veterans now’in school should get some of their added money in about 15 days.

The votes Tuesday were far above the two-thirds maj rity needed to enact the bill over Ford’s objections — 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate. Assistant GOP Leader Robert P. Griffin of Michigan

cast the lone Senate vote to back Ford’s veto. It was the fourth of Ford’s 15 vetoes overridden. The House failed Tuesday to override another Ford veto. The vote of 249 to 150 in favor of override was

17 votes short of the required two-tirds. The bill would have provided $130 million in tax benefits to victims of several natural disasters. The Veterans Administration has for months been keeping its

Hartke ‘gratified’ with veto override

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, says he was “extremely gratified” that Congress overrode President Ford’s veto of a GI Bill Tuesday. The wide margin by which

both liouses overrode the veto “is a clear statement of belief by the Congress that GI Bill expenditures are investments that reward the men who served and the nation that sent them to Serve,” said Hartke: “The Congress has now made its mandate clear in

regard to the obiligation the nation. owes its younger veterans by rebuffing the President and overwhelmingly passing the GI Bill,” he added. Rep. Earl F. Landgrebe, RInd., was one of jusj Id House members to vote to sustain the veto. The measure oassed 394-

10, with Indiana’s other 10 House members all voting to override. Hoosier congressman split 74 in favor of overriding another Presidential veto Tuesday, a tax relief bill for 1972 disaster victims. The vote carried 249150 but failed to Override for lack of a two-third majority

computers geared to rush out the bigger checks for some 1.5 million veterans receiving benefits under the education program. The higher payments are retroactive to September,_ and VA officials said the back' increases are scheduled to be in checks the veterans should get in about 15 days. VA officials said the first regular monthly payment with the new increases would be in the January checks. At present, seven million Vietnam-era and four million post-Korea veterans are eligible for education benefits. The bill increases monthly payments for full-time institutional training from $220 to

$270 for a single veteran, from $261 to $321 for a veteran with one dependent, and from $298 to $336 with two dependents. The rate for each dependent over two is raised from $18 to $22. The bill contains many other liberalizing features, including allowing reservists and National Guardsmen to count toward benefits their six months of initial active duty for training, provided they later serve on active duty for 12 months or more. Ford said he had vetoed the GI education bill reluctantly because it was inflationary. The bill’s backers in the House and Senate disputed this.

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