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51 THE DESERT SUN, Palm Springs, Calif. Thursday. June 22, 1978 Legislators Cut Raises In Welfare SACRAMENTO (AP) Democratic legislators, reacting to Proposition 13 and Republican pressure, have voted to deny all costof-living increases for 2.17 million California welfare recipients. Republicans had already demanded no increase for the 1.4 million welfare recipients in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program as their price for support of Gov. Edmund Brown $5 billion rescue bill for local governments.

But Assembly Democrats, all of whom face re-election in November, took that GOP demand one step further Wednesday when they extended the cuts to all welfare categories, including the aged, blind and disabled. Meanwhile, the six- BETTY UNHAPPY NEW YORK (AP) Former President Gerald Ford is ignoring pleas from his wife, Betty, that he stay free of politics and spend more time at home with her in Rancho Mirage, McCalls magazine reported today. Mrs. Ford reportedly wants her husband to count himself out of the race for president in 1980, but Ford is said to be traveling more than ever, much to his wife's chagrin, the magazine said in an article in its latest edition. Although his frequent absences are considered to be the cause of Mrs.

Ford's problems with alcohol and drugs, Ford has maintained a whirlwind political schedule, close friends say. And Mrs. Ford is said to be disappointed that once her husband was out of politics, at least officially, he did not cut back on his travels. CHEYENNE. Wyo.

(AP) Former President Gerald Ford had a poorly planned and executed campaign in 1976 and will not seek the presidency in 1980, Sen. Barry Goldwater says. The Arizona Republican said at a news conference Wednesday that his impression was that Ford was not even out to win in 1976. The Republican Party's unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1964 told an earlier fund-raising dinner for Wyoming Treasurer Ed Witzenburger that Ford "doesn't have the stomach" for another presidential campaign. No comment on Goldwater's remarks was given The Desert Sun from Ford's Vail, headquarters, and a spokesman there said the former president was out for the day.

member committee drafting the rescue bill was scheduled to vote today on major provisions, including specific allocations for schools, counties, cities and special districts. The hospitalization Tuesday night of Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy of San Francisco for an allergy condition had delayed hearings on the rescue bill. In another development, Brown scheduled a televised address to Californians Friday on Proposition 13, and Republican lawmakers pressed for broad new spending limits on state and local government. Brown's press secretary, Elisabeth Coleman, said the Democratic governor would "clarify" the state response to Proposition 13, which she said was "the most enormous challenge ever given to any state in such a short period of time." Ms. Coleman said she knew of no plans by Brown to invoke any emergency state powers.

The 57-member Assembly Democratic caucus voted in a closed-door session to deny $233 million in welfare costof-living raises, provided that state employees, legislators, judges and local employees paid by state surplus funds also get no raises. "It was our binding caucus position that no one be treated different, and our clear intent that no pay increase be granted to any of those categories," Assemblyman Dan Boatwright, D-Concord, said in a news conference after a two-hour closed-door caucus. The rescue proposal would grant $4 billion in one-time grants and $1 billion in loans to cities, counties, special districts and schools hit by the $7 billion annual property tax cut mandated two weeks ago by the 2-1 landslide for Proposition 13. But the package was described by both Democrats and Republicans as a onetime measure to give local government leeway to adjust to Proposition 13's severe revenue limits. The GOP plan to limit state and local government revenues is contained in a proposed Senate-passed constitutional amendment pending in the Assembly.

Among other developments related to Proposition 13: -The Los Angeles City Council received a council committee recommendation to lay off up to 2,700 workers, compared with layoffs of 8,000 in an earlier recommendation by Mayor Tom Bradley. -Four Democratic legislators called on Howard Jarvis, sponsor of Proposition 13, to support a bill that would require landlords to reduce rents to give tenants 80 percent of their property tax savings from Proposition 13. -And Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman accused Attorney General Evelle Younger of "making a political threat to the courts" by urging the California Supreme Court on June 9 not to interfere with Proposition 13 because it was "the people's mandate." TEMPERATURES High Low Palm Springs 114 56 (Humidity 5 p.m. Indio 110 77 North Shore 109 80 La Quinta 117 78 Bermuda Dunes. 118 82 Palm Desert 112 78 1000 Palms 114 88 Des.

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Schlesinger told a news conference the plan would only be used in the event of a major supply disruption like the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo. The standby plan, on the drawing boards for several months, was required by a 1975 law passed by Congress to deal with an energy emergency. Under the plan, which Schlesinger said he anticipated would be sent to Congress early next year, the government would mail ration checks to motor vehicle owners every three months. These checks, in turn, could be cashed in at banks and other financial institutions for actual ration coupons, Schlesinger said. He said the coupons would then be required to purchase gas at service stations.

The decision on how much fuel would be allocated for each vehicle would depend on how serious the supply shortage is, the energy secretary said. However, Schlesinger said that a cutback in petroleum products of 25 percent which he anticipated might be the effect of another Arab embargo would probably mean that the average automobile would be permitted two gallons per day. WAITING Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America, leans in the doorway of the Nazi group's headquarters in Chicago Wednesday waiting for someone to open the door. Collin says he's Schlesinger said the plan would also permit a so-called "white market" under which motorists could obtain additional supplies of coupons by finding someone willing to sell them. The energy secretary called the program "a form of insurance.

It is not intended to be utilized except in the event of a major supply disruption." Former President Gerald R. Ford. in one of his last acts before leaving office in January 1976, proposed a rationing plan that would allocate fuel based on the number of licensed drivers in a family. Schlesinger said the new proposal would be easier to enforce than the Ford plan and would provide less opportunity for fraud. Schlesinger saidthat plates are already being made to print new gas rationing coupons.

Room Tax Increase (Continued From Page A-1) As part of its proposed Jarvis budget cuts, the council is considering plans to decrease the upkeep of city parks, street sweeping and turning out palm tree lights to save money. "When you don't have the money to keep a city neat, clean and beautiful, then you are not going to have the draw for tourist dollars," Councilwoman Beatty Beadling stated. Councilman John Doyle contended the city must look "for other sources of revenues" to keep up "our image as a tourist-oriented community." "Think about (the city) three years down the line. What kind of community are we going to have to sell? We might lose them (tourists) forever if they don't like what they see," Mayor Russ Beirich said. He drew a rumble from the audience by adding that hoteliers, who will benefit by Proposition 13 tax reductions, should "put something back in to the community by decreasing room rates." After unanimously passing the room tax increase, the five-member council split 4-1 on votes to increase the sewer connection and serve fees and the development tax.

Councilman Elliot Field, withdrew support for the sewer increases because the council decided to stay the increase, which had been slated to go into effect retroactively on June 15, to this Friday in order to allow developers ready to take out permits to come in under the old fees. Field criticized the move because it will cost the city $200.000 in lost revenues. Meanwhile, Councilman John Doyle voted against the development tax increase because it would add to the cost of a new home. Indio Cuts Dr. Henry Weber Dies 5 Workers INDIO Five full-time city employees, four fewer than expected a week ago, have been laid off as a result of belt-tightening by the city of Indio in the wake of Proposition 13.

City Manager Phil Hawes said the number given notices includes three firefighters and two park caretakers. In addition, nine employees in the federal Comprehensive Employment Training Act program have been given notice. One of these will go to work full-time for the city, Hawes noted. He said the city has 23 CETA positions, but only about 12 had been filled. Dr.

Henry M. Weber, a long-time Coachella Valley resident and active conservationist, died Monday in a Mission Viejo Hospital. He was 81. A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Weber was a Navy commander and served as a field surgeon in World War II.

After visiting the Coachella Valley in the early 1940s, he bought a home here. Dr. Weber was involved in forming the La Quinta Chamber of Commerce, and served as president of the Desert Humane Society. His interest in conservation led him to work here and in Sacramento for game protection, and he was instrumental in extending the Big Horn Sheep preserve and SINGLE LADY Any Denomination 40 to Youngish 50's Part time Light Detail Office Help Advertising Publishing Business Free to Drive to L.A. once Weekly (My car) Prepare Occasional Dinners (But Not Essential) Office and Home Located in Recreation Facility.

Please Phone for Interview 324-3361 Before 10:00 After 4:00 Mr. Lee WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today refused to help settle a dispute between California and Texas over the estate of millionaire recluse Howard Hughes. In a one-sentence order without explanation, the justices refused to exercise the "original jurisdiction' granted to them by the Constitution to settle certain controversies between the states. At stake in the CaliforniaTexas dispute are huge inheritance taxes from the vast fortune Hughes left when he died in 1976. California, in effect, sued Texas in the Supreme Court.

California officials told the justices that only they could pull the states off a "collision course" over the Hughes estate. In an unsigned order apparently joined by all nine justices, the court today said, "The motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied." It appears now that legal battles over taxes on Hughes' millions will continue independently in both states. California had wanted the court to decide which state was Hughes' "home" when he died. Singh Admits Guilt Shivraj Singh, the 20-yearold College of the Desert honor student from India, who eluded police for nearly three months while on an alleged spree of crime, this morning pleaded "no contest" to three counts of trespassing and one of joyriding. Singh appeared in Palm Springs Municipal Court with three counts of burglary and one of grand theft auto, all as misdemeanors, against him.

The followed his disappearance from his home at the Pepper Tree Inn, 645 N. Indian on Jan. 23. Singh was arrested on March 18 after he was seen on a residential rooftop in Palm Springs after he reportedly took a car from a private driveway. That day Singh admitted to having burglarized nearly 50 vacant and unoccupied homes in the city.

He also said he did it for food and shelter, and "not for profit." Bail for the student, who has been in this country only a little over a year, was set at $50,000, but reduced to $1,500 and he was released. Singh's plea was through plea bargaining, and one of the conditions, according to his attorney, Gary C. Scherotter, is that his client not go to jail for any period. Singh was given two psychiatric tests by two psychiatrists, as ordered by the court, and the results of the tests, which are confidential, were a strong factor in determining the plea entered, Scherotter said. "The information obtained through the psychiatric exams, which are confidential, are a result in the reduction," Scherotter said.

Sentencing for Singh, who has already enrolled for another term at COD, will be at 8:30 a.m. on July 27 in Palm Springs Municipal Court. FAMOUS MAKES AT DISCOUNT PRICES! UP TO OFF REGULAR PRICES WOMEN'S BLOUSES SKIRTS PANTS SWEATERS SWIMWEAR GOLF MEN'S PANTS, GOLF TENNIS WEAR Hurry! Hurry! Closing July 1st 'til September Toni's DISCOUNT master charge fashions for less 68-028 HWY. 111 CATHEDRAL CITY, CA NOW OPEN 10-5; THURS. 12-5 Next In Sunor Drive-In Theatre Noting that each state was under no obligation to respect the findings of the other as to Hughes' domicile, California lawyers said the Hughes estate could be assessed more in death taxes than its total assets.

Cohen Burial services will be held here at 8:30 a.m. Friday in Desert Memorial Park Chapel for Ann Marie Cohen, 33, who died June 19 in St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica. A native of Trenton, N.J., she had lived in Santa Monica for five years. She is survived by her husband, Michael Cohen, of Santa Monica; a daughter, Meredith Marie; a brother, Thomas Brennan, and an aunt, Meriam Devlin, both of Trenton, and Mr.

and Mrs. Pat Cohen, her father and mother-in-law, of Palm Springs. The deceased was graduated from Rider College in Trenton and was a teacher in Long Island, N.Y., and at the Christchurch in London, England. Judson Judson Mass will be said Friday for Albert Bart Judson, 55, of 69-450 McCallum Way, who died Wednesday in Desert Hospital. A native of Chicago, he had lived in Palm Springs for 15 years, and in California for 37 years.

For four years, he was employed as a cable car operator for the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. He is survived by his mother, Norien M. Judson of SERVICES AT I Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS 666 VELLA ROAD PALM SPRINGS PHONE 327-1257 BELLEW, MADELINE Private Services, Forrest Lawn Glendale JUDSON, ALBERT Rosary 6 P.M. Thursday Wiefels Son Chapel Mass 10:30 Friday St. Theresa Catholic Church SALAZAR, RICARDO JR.

Graveside Services 10 A.M. Desert Memorial Park Palm Springs; a daughter, Louise Maughan of Atascadero; a sister June Williams of Cerritos; his father, Albert Judson of Florida; and three grandchildren. Rosary will be at 6 o'clock tonight in the Wiefels and Son Mortuary Chapel. Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the St.

Theresa Catholic Church, conducted by Father Edward Connolly. Interment will be in Desert Memorial Park. The Desert Sun 1977 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Post Office Box 190 Palm Springs, Calif. 92262 E.J. Groter, Vice President and Publisher Lisle F.

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