I momimm "OPERATION MADBALL" with JACK LEMON ERNIE KOVACS Friday, Feb. 19 2 showings 7 & 9P.M. Room 100-Law School Cheap Flicks-50c Fill in ticket information: place, price, day, time for Program III Feb. 17 & 19-8 p.m. Dawson Aud--Adrian College $1.25 (50 min. S & W of AA) john whiting House WASHINGTON (P) - The House may be on the verge of halting government money for development of a supersonic trans- port after a decade of support for the pro- posed 1,800-mile-an-hour jetliner. An Associated Press nose count shows 202 House members against the SST, 188 for it and 29 undecided with 14 unreached or refusing to say where they stand. That's too close for predictions but if opponents can hold the 202 no votes they need to win over only 16 of the undecideds for a 218 vote House majority to halt fed- eral money for the SST. The Senate voted 52-41 last year to scrap the program but the House held firm and kept it alive. The new House lineup is a sharp shift from just two years ago when page three may cut the vote for new SST money was 126 to 64. Congress' cutoff of federal money could kill the program and pull America out of the supersonic jet-age competition-but the Nixon administration says it has alter- native contingency financing plans for con- sideration if Congress takes that step. The nose count showed House opposition to development of the 298 passenger, delta- wing SST based mainly on grounds of air- port noise, the environmental question, distaste for government financing of a private plane, and contentions that the money should go instead to social pro- grams. The only thing the SST will do is get us from Harlem to Watts in two hor .:in- stead of five." said Rep. Robert F. Drunm off SSTJ (D-Mass.), the first Catholic priest to be a voting member of the Rouse. But several opponents and many of the undecided congressmen say they would vote for the plane if they had hard evi- dence it would not be a pollution prob- lem. A special administration study group is expectedto try to supply such eviderce before the vote next month. Continued federal money for the plane hangs on the uncommitted congressmnen and most of those interviewed ind.cated they could go either way. Aides in some offices said candidly thcugh eff the record that the members' - tes will depend on pressures fromtheir districts. 'he SST vote, expected by mid March be cn whether to continue iederal Funding funding for the development proram the remaining three months from April to June 30 for fiscal 1971 at a level of $210 million a year. Spending authority for not only the SST but for the entire S5 billion Department of Transportation operation was extended to March 30 as a result of a Senate fili- buster and House deadlock over the SST at the end of the 91st Congress early last month. Opponents have been promised a sepa- rate vote on the SST not tied to killing highway funds and the variety of other transportation programs. Its simplest form would be motions in both the House and Senate to strike SST funds from the transportation bill. THE DEVILS THRU SAT. Trueblood Theatre Box Office 12:30 Curtain 8:00 UNIVERSITY PLAYERS .I rP Mid~ioan NEWS PRONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 43atill764-0554 I Thursday, February 18, 1971 , Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three news briefs Nixon urges debt limit hike; price index soars By The Associated Press r AN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN housed PX officials and others in luxurious Saigon villas in return for help in forging a slot ma- chine monopoly and boosting liquor sales, a Senate investigator testified yesterday. With funds provided partly by Jim Beam Distillery Co. of Chicago and Carling Brewery of Cleveland, William Crum reportedly befriended civilians, sergeants and generals with gifts and parties, bribes and kickbacks. LaVern Duffy, the investigator, was testifying before the Senate permanent investigation subcommittee. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE Maurice Stans said yesterday he fully disclosed his financial holdings to the Senate before being confirmed in January 1969. The secretary's statement came three days after The Associated Press reported that he held 38,000 shares worth $318,000 in Great South- west Corp., a major Penn Central railroad subsidiary, at the time his Commerce Department was involved in administration plans to help save the railroad from bankruptcy. Stans said a trust he had set up at that time had been "totally blind" although he had received information from companies whose securities were held in the trust. * * * THE ARMY'S former top enlisted man, Sgt. Maj. William Wooldridge, and seven others were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of conspiring to defraud noncommissioned officers' clubs in Vietnam between 1965 and 1969. The indictment also named a California corporation that sold to service clubs, Marmed, Inc., in which Wooldridge and four other de- fendants were shareholders, Atty. Gen. John Mitchell announced. In addition to conspiracy charges, the indictment also alleges fraudulent claims and bribery on the part of some of the defendants. SHERIFF LUCIUS AMERSON of Macon County, Alabama, thej first black sheriff elected in that state since Reconstruction, was arrested yesterday by federal authorities on charges of beating a prisoner. Indicted last Friday by a federal grand jury, Amerson was accused under the civil rights laws of assaulting another black following a shoot-out at the county jail in Tuskegee, near Montgomery, last Au- gust.- Until last month, Amerson was Alabama's only black sheriff. Three others were elected last year and took office Jan. 18.- * * * -Associated Press Indicted sergeant-ma jor Former Sergeant-Major of the Army William Wooldridge was in- dicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for conspiring to defraud noncommissioned officer clubs in Vietnam between 1965 and 1969. See News Briefs. JARRING'S PLAN: Egypt accepts U.N. proposals for peace WASHINGTON tAl - Presi- dent Nixon's chief fiscal offi- cers urged Congress yesterday to approve the biggest single increase in the national debt limit since World War I. They asked the Democratic dominated House Ways and Means ,Committee to approve a $40-bil- lion jump, from -$395 billion to $435 billion, and said another in- crease will probably be needed be- fore the end of 1972, so the govern- ment can continue to borrow to- cover deficits. Also yesterday, the government revised January's whopping whole- sale price index upward slightly to seven tenths of one per cent, the steepest rise in a year. The announcement by the Bur- eau of Labor Statistics was a re- finement of a preliminary esti.- mate, announced earlier this month, which had put the Jan- uary increase at six tenths of one per cent. Coupled with the request for the increased national lebt limit was a call for repeal of the 4 per cent limit on the interest the treasury may pay on long term federal bonds. The committee members used the opportunity to attack Nixon's economic policies, but indicated by their questions that they are in a mood to compromise. New Secretary: of the Treasury John Connally acknowledged that predictions of a deficit of only $1.3 billion, on which the present debt ceiling was based "turned out to be very wide of the mark." He said bad estimating, the con- tinued lag in the economy and higher spending, disillusioned the fiscal chiefs and the outlook now is for an $18.6 billion deficit in the year ending June 30 and an $11.6-billion deficit the following year. A $435-billion limit, Connally told skeptics on the committee, should take care of the treasury through June 3, 1972. Most of the total gain in the wholesale price index was attri- buted to higher farm prices, which were up 1.7 per cent for t h e month. But the upward revision was due to a rise of four tenths of one per cent, instead of the three- tenths estimated earlier, in prices for industrial goods. The bureau said that when sea- sonal factors were taken into ac- count the wholesale price index in January was five tenths of one per cent. LT. WILLIAM CALLEY, Jr.'s attorneys said yesterday that Calley would testify later in his trial that he directed the execu- tion of civilian captives a My Lai nearly three years ago. However, Calley's attorneys quoted him as saying he was "hyper or psyched up" during the alleged My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968.1 Defense psychiatrists are prepared to testify that his mind benti under combat stresses, precluding any murder with premeditation. I E,",', A 1 The Michigan Daily, edited and man- NUW A I POPULAR PRICES COUAA P CTURS AD RASTAP PRCZ0C'1C*8 PRESENT A RAY STARKHERBRT ROSS Producton Barbra S~rciani George Segal Theom andthe TONIGHT AT 7& 9 Read and Use Daily Classifieds 37 .MAPLE R0. MON.-FRI. 7:15-9:00 aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- day through Sunday morning Univer- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier, $10 by mail. Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning, Subscrip- tion rates: $5 by carrier, $5 by mail. By The Associated Press Israeli withdrawal from Arab ter- The Egyptian government an- ritory in exchange for certain nounced yesterdaygthat itaccepts guarantees and the stationing of a all the proposals offered by U.N. U.N. peace force along Israeli- mediator Gunnar V. Jarring in an Arab borders. attempt to bring peace to the Mid- Israeli Foreign Minister Abba dle East. Israel, however, stood by Eban said he saw no reason to its demand for a peace treaty with change the position stated earlier Egypt before withdrawing from by Premier Golda Meir that a occupied Arab territory. peace treaty with Egypt must pre- "Egypt accepted all that came cede any withdrawal. in the proposals Jarring offered ! Cairo's authoritative newspaper to us" an Egyptian government Al Ahram reported that Egypt has spokesman said in Cairo, without also informed Jarring that it will elaborating further. pledge compliance with the Secur- Jarring's proposal has not been ity Council's 1967 resolution on the made public but is said to include Middle East if Israel does likewise.I I STARTS TODAY N E ULT I I r