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Romney says program

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WASHINGTON (API - Housing Secretary George Romney
says the government's home
owners, subsidy program is aiding moderate-income families at

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the expense of the poor-the

original target of the legislation,
In addition, "irrationalities and
inequalities in ^present programs" have encouraged con-

struction of higher-priced, subsidy homes in areas where lowercost ones would suffice," Romney told the* Senate Banking and
Currency Committee Monday.
"A sizable proportion of the
lower income group which Congress intended to be served by the
programthose in the $3,500$5,000 rangecannot, even with
the
maximum
subsidy
^authorized, carry the basic
WASHINGTON (AP) -~ The in a parked car at that airport. monthly payment required Of the
The car had been rented in subsidized family," he said.
Justice Department has disBoston
and driven to New York
closed its main witness in a conBy contrast, Romney continat
least
12 days before the Cali- ued,
spiracy case involving $43 mil"it provides excessive subfound. sidy to
lion in stocks and securities sto- fornia man's body nwas
families in the upper end
>r
'lai ftoin-thr-thft-Tnaihr ~was~ Thf slayint* ws*? t'r 'lt to the of the Income distributrorr served
found shot to death just two fatal shooting ot*a suspect in an- by this program."
days after a grand jury re- other mail fraud case who was
The program subsidizes all but
turned a sealed indictment in a found in an abandoned rental 1 per cent of interest payments
car at LaGuardia Airport in
secret session.
New York several months ear- but requires homeowners to pay
The Miami slaying of John B. lier.
principal, maintenance, utilities,
Eaton was the second shooting
and other home costs.
Asst. U.S. atty. Neal Sonnett
of a key suspect in mail thfts
Romney advocated an amendin
Miami described Eaton as a ment that would pay a sizable
from New York's crime-ridden
Kennedy Airport in little more key government informant in proportion of these noninterest
the stock conspiracy case.
than a month.
home costs for the lowest income
"He had been named a co-de- families.
Eaton's body was found in a
field near Miami International fendant in the case for his own
"If the present subsidy formula
Airport June 27, just a month protection," Sonnett said.
is not changed, the income group
The 14-count indictment re- able to avail itself of the benefits
and a day after another man
turned
by a federal grand jury -of all programs will continue to
charged in a stock theft from
in
Miami
June 25 named 10 oth- shift towards those families with
the mails was found stuffed in
er
defendants
besides Eaton.
Draft for husband
an abandoned car at Kennedy
The
.Miami
indictments incomes between $6,000 and
^Airport.
Caral Ryan, 22-year-old Australian Commonwealth Games
^9,000the top of the income
The Federal indictment in Mi- capped a year-long investigation range made eligible by
dancer, has made a public proposal of free beer and $120 to any
was spurred by the arrests
ami charged the remaining 10 that
man in Edinburgh, Scotland, who will marry her. Miss Ryan
in Miami last year of four other Congress," he said.
men
with
conspiracy
to
dispose
Romney also wants Congress to
made the heady offer in face of a British Home Office directive
men on charges of possessing
of
the
$43
million
in
securities
mat she must leave Britain since her permittostay has expired.
in bonds stolen as part substitute flexible cost ceilings
stolen from registered mail at $500,000
-A resident of Scotland for five yearsfsbereceives144 bottle*f
of a $15--mtttion shipment at for the uniform ones that now
"Kennedy Airport being sent be- Kennedy Airport.
apply for all subsidized homes
beer a year from her employer's brewery.
tween brokers and banks from
regardless
of location.
That theft, largest in history
1967 through 1969.
"The
consequences
of high
from the U.S. mails, went undeEaton, charged in a stock tected for 67 days before the limits is that builders and sellers
theft last year, was found slain Post Office discovered the regis- tend to gravitate to the stated
in a field west of the Miami air- tered mail pouch was missing.
limits in order to maximize
port only two days after the
A postal inspector said Eaton, profits," he said.
stock conspiracy charges were arrested last fall for possession
"Whenever $18,000 homes are
..returned by a grand jury that of other stock stolen from the being produced for our subsidized
kept the indictment sealed until mails en route from Miami to programs in an area where
UUS ANGELES (AP) - After Several persons were dis- Monday.
New York, had been a key fig- adequate housing could be built
questioning 14f persons in four missed when they said that pre- "" A federal attorney in Miami ure in developing the 10 indict- at $15,000 a unit, we are using 17
weeks, defense and prosecution trial publicity surrounding the has named another man ments, even though he had not per cent more of our limited
attorneys appeared ready today killings of the actress and six charged in a case involving al- testified before the grand jury.
subsidy funds than is necessary
to accept seven men and five others had biased them against legedly forged U.S. sayings
Sonnett said he was uncertain to do the job," Romney said.
women as the jury to try the the defendants.
bonds as a prime suspect in Ea- whether there was any connecSharon Tate murder case.
The proposed jury is,predomi- ton's death.
tion between the slayings of EaThe only reservations about nantly middle aged. The youngton and Rostau, but said, "Our
Joel
J.
Rostau,
34,
Los
Anthe'proposed panel came from est member is William T. Mc- geles, who had been charged investigation is continuing."
Irving Kanarek, attorney for de- Bride, a chemical reactor oper- with interstate theft of securiIn New York, federal authorifendant Charles Manson, 35- ator in his-late 20s, and the old- ties
ties had no progress to report in
from
the
mail
at
Kennedy,
year-old shaggy-haired leader of est Alva K. Dawson, a former was found shot to death May 26 the Rostau slaying.
sheriffs deputy, who is 73.
a hippie-type "family."
Kanarek said no one on the All but three of the jurors are
jury represented Manson's married, and, although all exact
ages weren't given, the average
"way of life."
Attorneys for Manson and appeared to be about 45.
Prosecution and defense attorthree girl followers on trial with
neys
still must choose six alterhim already had exhausted
nates
who would replace any jutheir permissible - peremptory
rors
eliminated
by illness or
ROCHESTER, N X (AP) - A rapidly to urgent housing
challenges of prospective juother
-emergency
during the train carrying the units for 14 needs," he said.
rors.
So Kanarek tried another tack trial. Selection of alternates was single-family homes was on its
Romney and other officials
way toward Corinth, Miss, to- are slated to greet the train
a motion to quash the indict- expected to last the balance of
day.
Wednesday morning "when it arments on ground of discrimina- the week.
"We are .going to use the
The units, known as housing rives at the Mississippi city.
tion in the selection both of
prospective trial jurors and the same meticulous care in-picking modules, are prefabricated sec- Other officials expected to be on
grand jurors who indicted the the six alternates," said co- tions of houses. They can be as- hand include Mississippi Goverprosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. He sembled in one day by bolting nor John Bell Williams and U.S.
Jour ripftfwiante.
Superior Court Judge Charles predicted that opening argu- four modules into-place--on-a -Senators James Eastland--and
John McClellan of Mississippi
Older dismissed the motion, say- ments in the trial might start, prepared foundation. *
The train, which left a manu- and John Sparkman of Alaing he was satisfied there had next Monday or Tuesay.
been no denial of the defend- Manson and his three women facturing plant in nearby Avon bama.
The houses on the train, three
ants' rights.
- - co-defendants appeared elated Saturday, arrives in Corinth
Monday
at
indications
that
the
Wednesday.
The
houses
will
be
or
four bedroom colonials, sell
Many potential jurors were
tedious
jury
selection
was
nearused
to
replace
buildings
defor
about $21-22,000. The Corinth
dismissed after saying it would
ly
over.
They
giggled
and
whisstroyed
last
April
by
a
tornado.
houses will be financed through
be a hardship to be locked in a
George Romney, U.S. Secre- the Tennessee Valley Housing
hotel for the trial's duration- pered, and Manson made faces
tary of Housing and Urban De- Administration and a HUD
estimated at three to six at the girls.
The long-haired "family" velopment, has called the train grant.
months.
leader and his three followers
"one of the most significant
Another shipment of ready-toLeslie Van Huuten, 10, Susan At- "train shipments of the century . tt assemble homes starts from
kins, 21, and Patricia Krenwink"It demonstrates the capacity Avon toward Corinth next Tuesel, 22are on trial together, of the industrialized housing in- day. The housing modules are
charged with murder-conspira- dustry to market in all sections manufactured by the Stirling cy in the slayings last August. of the country and tu respond Humex Cut p. uf Avon.

Witness in stock case

found shot to death

Attorneys ready
to okay jury in trial

Housing units to replace

homes hit by tornadoes

Back an fheJbench
Retired Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark with his familiar bow tie and silvery hair smiles
as he poses for a picture at the end of his first day as a trial judge in U.S. District Court in San
Francisco. Clark had been invitedtoSan Franciscotohelp ease the heavy load in court. The 70-yejrold judge was coaxed out of retirementtoaid in disposing of numerous cases.

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Officials say
Soviet SSI 1
improved .

WASHINGTON (AP) - Soviet

tests this year indicate the Rus_ajans have improved the accu-.
racv of their SSll intercontinental ballistic missiles, aetense
- sources say.
Officials stopped short of saying the SSll had become a serious
threat to the. United States' own
ICBMthe Minuteman- but
they strongly suggested it has
progressed in that direction.
The information became
available as controversy mountPri over whether the Soviets had
stopped building new missile
sites 'recently, perhaps to enhance chances for agreement on
nuclear arms limitation.
Jonathan Bingham, D-N.Y.,
claimed in the House Monday he
has information that the Russians i e0 ained from building any
new S$d missile sites for the nine
months before June.
Defense officials insisted that
hard intelligence, gleaned from
observations of reconnaissance
Satellites, shows the Russians
began new sites for the giant SS9
missiles, as well as smaller SSll
and SS13- intercontinental
~" missiles, in the past several
months.
Officials contend these reports
aipport Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird's flat statement
last week that Soviet missile
"momentum has not slowed
- down" and that the 'Russians
Hushed ahead with new starts
both after U.S.-Soviet arms limitation talks opened in Helsinki
last November and since those
negotiations resumed in Vienna
- _jh mid-April.
'
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Although the SS9 with its multiwarhead has been billed by the
Nixon administration as the chief
threat to U.S. minuteman
missiles in a surprise attack, the
SSll and the SS13 are regarded
by military experts as part of the
potential danger to the U.S. landEwdfctorrtflt force.

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