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4 Lancaster New Era Metropolitan Lancaster 1970 U. S. Census 320,079 Today's Chuckle The real trouble with money is that you cant use it more than once. Local Weather Clearing tonight, lows to mid 20s. Partly sunny Thursday, highs 35 to 40.

Precipitation probability 10 tonight, thursday, Complete Details Png 3 Price 15c Daily Home Delivered 90c A Week 98th Lear No. 30,952 METROPOLITAN EDITION UNCASTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1975 Where Expenses Rise This list of major features of the county budget shows New Deficit Upsets Mayor ggjjy Rejected Parking Authority Asks At 2 London Expenses Up to $19.7 Million In 76 Budget Inflation, Annex, Expanded Services Blamed for Boost 7 0f an Hour Boost By JACK POUARO Nw Era Staff Writer The Lancaster Parking Authority yesterday recommended a 10-cent-an-hour rate increase in the citys three parking garages and a hike in the bulk monthly parking rate of $2.50. The recommended rate increases will boost parking from 25 cents to 35 cents an hour and the bulk monthly rate from $12.50 to $15. The authority also announced its projected deficit for 1976 would be $363,000 instead of $300,000, as originally projected, and that the rate increase wouldnt wipe it out. Mayor Richard M.

Scott this morning expressed surprise and shock over the authoritys revised projected deficit. The city is legally responsible for debts that the authority cannot meet. Mayor Scott said his own budget is so tight that the city cannot now pick up the additional deficit from the authority. SCOTT HAD AGREED. Originally, the authority had told Scott to account in the citys 1976 general fund budget for a deficit of $300,000.

Scott did this, agreeing for the city to pick up $150,000 and a new parking rate increase to handle the remaining $150,000. What it all means is that the new revenue from parking rate hikes lumped with the $150,000 contribution from the city will still leave $50,000 of the total projected $363,000 authority deficit unabsorbed. Scott said this morning he had no idea until approached by newsmen last night that the authority had disclosed a new and higher projected deficit for next By CHARLES H. KESSLER New Era Staff Writer The County Commissioners this morning unveiled a $19.7 million budget for 1976 calling for a two-mill increase in the real estate tax and an average 6 Vt per cent pay increase for county employes. The budget, which is expected to be adopted Dec.

31, is $1.5 million higher than a year ago. Benjamin Weaver, county administrator, explaining the proposed budget at the weekly commissioners meeting, attributed the budget increase to inflation, the cost of erecting a courthouse annex, the pay increase and to expanded services. PAY INCREASE Regarding the pay increases, Weaver said the countys 810 ull-time employes will receive a boost of 3 per cent plus a scheduled annual increment of about 3 per cent, bringing the average total to 6 Va per cent. The salaries of the commissioners, set by the legislature, remain unchanged. Asked about his own salary.

Weaver said this is determined separately by the commissioners. ADDED INCOME The two-mill increase will bring the real estate tax to ,16 mills and will result in an additional income to the county of about $900,000. Weaver explained that $400,000 of this total will go to added payroll costs. Expenditures in almost every county department are up for 1976. The biggest increases are $248,562 for the Bureau of Childrens Services, and $128,195 for the Lancaster County Prison.

Funds for the Bureau of Childrens Services are being boosted to $2 million, Weaver explained, largely because of increased costs of state-required programs. These include day -See COUNTY Pag 2 R. WESLEY SHORE Chairman Surprised year. He said he had based his 1976 budget on the original $300,000 projection given to him by authority members, and incorporated into the budget now completed. The $363,000 is just horrifying news to me, he said today.

It's a helluvathing. They first presented a deficit to us of $280,000 to $300,000, then a final estimate of $300,000. We cant handle the extra $50,000 in no way the way numbers look now. It upsets the whole budget. I based my whole judgment on them raising $150,000 and that, I figured, took a 10-cent hourly rate increase.

And the city could absorb $150,000. Now if thats all out the window Well, I simply don't see how the estimate could MAYOR RICHARD SCOTT Deficit Causes 'Shock' be off $63,000. R. Wesley Shope, parking authority chairman, said he too was surprised by the revised authority deficit, which he apparently learned of for the first time yesterday. The increased deficit was disclosed yesterday at a regular meeting of the authority to discuss the 1976 budget, as affected by the recommended rate increases.

Heres how the proposed rate increase would reduce the authoritys deficit. Without any rate increase the projected 1976 deficit, caused by increasing payments on bond indebtedness, would be $363,000. A 5 cents an hour rate in- See PARKING Page 2 These diagrams show where the county gets its budget revenue and how that money will be spent. Hospitals Dies Doctors Slowdown Forced Closing of Emergency Service LONDON (AP) A five-month-old baby girl died Tuesday night after two west London hospitals refused to admit her because of a work slowdown by Britains hospital doctors. The baby was pronounced dead on arrival when she finally reached a third hospital 10 miles away.

URGENT INQUIRY As an urgent inquiry into the case was opened by health authorities today, the babys father said: I would like to shoot them for what they have done. The baby, Seema Bhaula, was found lying unconscious in her cot about 7 p.m. Tuesday night by her mother, Christina, 25. She called an ambulance to her home in West Drayton, a London suburb, and a crew arrived within minutes to take the baby to a hospital. But controllers had to divert the ambulance twice when the two nearest hospitals reported by telephone that they were closed to emergencies because of the two-week-old doctors dispute.

DEAD ON ARRIVAL The ambulance then had to drive 10 miles on a 20-minute journey t6 the next nearest hospital which was open. The baby was dead on arrival. Doctors are like God, said the babys father, Harmesh Bhaula, of Indian extraction, who was at work in a food factory when the emergency arose. They are supposed to save lives. They shouldnt take their disputes out on human lives, he said.

In a factory a dispute involves only money. Money can be replaced, my little baby cannot, A spokesman for the London See BABY Page 32 House Sessions To Be Televised Starting in Jan. HARRISBURG Starting in January, sessions of the House of Representatives will be televised live by Channel 33 in Her-shey and throughout the state over the public television network. The announcement today represented a victory for Rep. Marvin E.

Miller of suburban Lancaster. He co-sponsored a change in the Houses rules of procedure last January, in which the lawmakers were urged to open their floor deliberations to radio and television coverage. Miller also was prime sponsor of the states so-calied Sunshine Law," which mandates that all public bodies conduct most of their business in open sessions. REP. H.

JOHN HEINZ HI Heinz Enters GOP Race for Senate Seat Pittsburgher Says Scott Not Campaign Issue PITTSBURGH (AP) Rep. H. John Heinz HI today formally announced his candidacy for the Senate, but spent a good portion of a news conference answering reporters questions about the man he wants to succeed Sen. Hugh Scott. I run for the Senate because I believe we need a new generation of leadership, Heinz said in his prepared remarks.

SOMETHING WRONG There is something absolutely wrong with government when regulations come to mean more than people, when problem after problem remains unsolved. Something is desperately wrong when Americans lose confidence in their leaders, in their institutions, and even in themselves, he said. The way for Heinz candidacy was paved last week when the 75-year-old Scott said he would retire after his current term. Scott has recently been the subject of allegations that he knowingly received illegal cash contributions from Gulf Oil Corp. for nearly 20 years.

He has not been available to newsmen since announcing he would not seek reelection. SPEAKS FOR SELF Asked if he thought Scott owed the voters an explanation. Heinz said: I speak here today for John Heinz and as a member of Congress not as anyones mouthpiece. I think Sen. Scott owes the people what he feels inclined to give them.

Heinz, 37. of nearby Fox Chapel, also chided the media for asking candidates what they think about Scott's situation. Senator Scott is not an issue in this campaign. he said. While only one Democrat, Jeanette Reibman of Easton, See HEINZ Page 2 Time of Murder Revised by Police Mrs.

Biechler Visited at Least 2 Places Before Returning Home, Probers Say By JOHN M. HOOBERIII Nw Era Staff Writr Police investigating the murder of Mrs. Lindy Sue Biechler today said their investigation has prompted them to change the estimate of the time period in which she was stabbed to death. More Democrats Join Him; Vote Slated for February Snyder's Welfare Reform Plan Wins Another Round in Senate Drive in the Spring Manor Apartment complex. The woman left work about 5:30 p.m.

Friday from Landis Flowers and Gifts, 28 Cottage Ave. Lt. West said at 6 p.m. she stopped at Hertz Rent-A-Car, 229 N. Queen where herhus-band, Philip, works and picked up his paycheck The woman then drove the couples 1968 green Chevrolet Impala to the Millersville branch of the Commonwealth National Bank where she cashed the check.

Police said her next stop was John Herrs Village Market in Millersville, where See TIME Page 32 Police said they now believe Mrs. Biechlers killer entered her Manor Township apartment sometime after 6:30 p.m. last Friday, because the woman was running errands and shopping up to that time, before returning home. Earlier it was believed Mrs. Biechler could have been murdered as early as 6 p.m.

Friday. This finding was based largely on the results of the autopsy. Lt. Harvey West, Manor Township police, said today that after leaving work late Friday afternoon from a Lancaster florist shop, Mrs. Biechler visited at least two places before returning to her apartment on Kloss By JACK MOORE New Era Staff Writer HARRISBURG An elated Senator Richard A.

Snyder today was savoring a hard-fought victory won in the Senate Tuesday that kept his long-stymied welfare reform proposals alive and in position for eventual enactment. But, he cautioned his supporters: Its a battle victory only theres still a lot yet to be done before we can truly claim victory Some surprising rank-and-file Democratic support enabled Snyder and Senate Republicans to stave off a Democratic leadership effort to scuttle the welfare reform measures. In a dramatic floor debate which saw, at one point, even the Senates President Pro Tem, a Democrat, cast his vote with the Lancaster legislator against the wishes of the Democratic leadership, Snyders proposal was promised another floor chance in February. The reprieve was won over strong objections of Senator W. Louis Coppersmith of Johnstown, chairman of the Senate Public Health Welfare Committee.

He admitted at one point that he was bewildered" by statements of some of the seven or more Democrats who sided with Snyder. Coppersmith just didnt have the votes to-bring off his attempted scuttling. That became evident when Democratic leader Thomas Nolan Weaver Says: No Choke But to Hike Realty Tax Benjamin Weaver, county administrator, this morning said the real estate tax is being increased two mills for the second consecutive year by county commissioners because the county has no other place to turn for additional funds. Unlike the city, he said, the county is locked into a fixed tax base. Cities, he explained, can vary their income by changing rates for water, parking, permits and other charges.

ONLY 2 CHOICES The county, on the other hand, may obtain its funds only from the real estate tax and a personal property tax. The personal property tax, he added, has a four-mill ceiling established by the state. This leaves only the real estate tax that can be raised. The 1976 budget anticipates a 16-mill real estate tax will net $7.1 million. This compares with receipts of $5.9 million from a 14-mill levy a year ago.

ADDITIONAL $243,760 Weaver pointed out that a $15 million increase in the assessed valuation of real estate, mostly from new construction, brought an additional $243,760 to the county's coffers in 1975. A large portion of the county's $19 7 million receipts. Weaver said, comes from the state and federal governments for such things as mental health and retardation, childrens services and Medicare and Medicaid for Conestoga View, the county home and hospital. The tendency, he said, has been to reduce these grants and to return the services they tmunce to county responsibility By Postmaster General 23? I st Class Letter Rate Seen by 1980 and Senator Henry Cianfrani, chairman of the Appropnations Committee, sought out Snyder and Senator Richard C. Frame, Republican leader, and suggested that the controversial issue be recommitted to Appropriations "for a study of its costs After winning an assurance and announcing it on the floor for the record that Cianfrani had given his promise to report out the bill again no later than February, Snyder agreed to the compromise.

It was evident that Nolan, sensing the temper of revolt among the Democrats on the issue, was afraid theyd lose if a final vote on the amended bill were taken, Snyder said. Cianfrani was concerned, and quite properly, about the prerogatives of his committee to examine the legislation before floor action. 'Save Millions' But the compromise was really ironic in that the reforms will save millions, many millions, if theyre put into practice and they shouldnt cost anything more to administer," Snyder added. Snyder said he was "completely satisfied," about the delay. Im more than willing to put it off, so that members can study and possibly modify my proposals," he said today.

Til be the first to agree that there are some portions that could stand improvement. Besides, this will give us six weeks in which to confer with Welfare Secretary Frank Beal and his staff to see whats workable and what, if anything, is, in their view, not workable. 'Have To Be Shown' "But were going to be hard-nosed about our insistence that they make an effort, and prove to us if they feel some part is actually not feasible well have to be shown. "The hard fact is that if, as Beal maintains, some of what I propose is already in departmental regulations, they havent been enforcing it. "By making regulations into law, theyd have to and that simple act will save Pennsylvania's taxpayers many millions of dollars, and work no hardship on those who truly qualify for and need public assistance." Snyder's amendment consists of major recommendations he has sought to implement tor the past several years, some as long ago as 1969.

Since Gov. Shapp took office in 1971. however, theyve been kept pigeonholed in Coppersmiths committee. Coppersmiths excuse has been that theyre "unfair, and unnecessary, and an invasion of privacy But even Democrats voiced objections to this obstructionism. This may be our last chance to do some- See SNYDER Page 2 -5 Only Counlian on Basketball Team Former Ephrata High and Gettysburg -71 College star Jay Bucher im-pressed Lancaster Red Roses i basketball a -j Larry Can-non with hustle and de- Bucher fense an(j won a place as the only local player on the teams roster for Saturday's opening game.

For a story on Bucher and the team picture and roster of the Roses see page 44. Demo Leadership Solons Again Eye Expenses Boost HARRISBURG (API Democratic leaders held a closed-door meeting today on a plan to give state lawmakers a $2,500 increase in their expense accounts. The proposal would raise a legislator's annual expense account from $5,000 to $7,500. His $15,600 salary would remain unchanged. Lawmakers have been talking about an expense account increase for months.

It would cost a total of $632,500 for all House and Senate members. Legislative leaders are trying to provide the money in a catch-all budget bill totalling $87 million. A public budget meeting was scheduled for today, but the Democratic leaders postponed it because they hadnt yet reached an agreement in private. 2-tO cC 1952 Oy Uruieo feature SynOtcait Ice Today's New Era Pag Bridge 41 Christmas Story 23 Comic 42-43 Crossword Puxxl 54 Editorials 16 Family 13-14-15 Financial 49 Food 20-21 Health 37 Obituaries 3-11 Radio-TV 43 Sports 44-45 46-47-48-50 Theater 4-5 Want Ads 50-51 52-53-54-55-56-57 Phone Lancaster 397-5251 tional new homes in coming years and about rising costs, he said. The first-class letter rate, now 10 cents, is scheduled to go up to 13 cents Dec.

28. COSTS CUT Bailar has taken moves recently to cut costs without reducing service He also is considering reductions in services, including eliminating Saturday deliveries. The postmaster general said he would move to eliminate Saturday deliveries only with great reluctance. 1 would much preternottodoit" Before Bailar's testemony. subcommittee chairman James M.

Hanley. D-N predicted reductions in Postal Service plus additional increases postal rates aftei the one scheduled tor Dei- 28 WASHINGTON (AP) Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar said today the cost of mailing a letter could go up to 23 cents by 1980. Asked at a congressional hearing about projections that the letter rate could go up to 15 to 17 cents by 1977 and 23 cents by 1980. Bailar said If all the present circumstances continue, including the rate ot mllation.

dial could happen. USE DROPPING He told a House Post Ottice subcommittee that use ot the mail is dropping in all categories. especially parcel post, and further declines are expected At the same time the Postal Service expects to have to extend delivery service to addi- 1 Who Is 'Average' Stockholder? The average stockholder has changed drastically in the last 10 years, according to Sylvia Porter. Hes older, more affluent and more conservative. For a complete profile turn to page 49.

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