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THE DAILY TEXAN Student Newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin Vol. 74, No. 114 Ten Cenls Austin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1974 Sixteen Pages 471-4591 Congress Overrides Veto House, Senate Boost Gl Education Benefits WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overrode by solid margins Tuesday House failed to override Ford's veto of Administration officials said the back President Ford s veto of a 22.7 percent $220 to $270 for a single veteran, from the disaster relief bill. It was the fourth payments probably would be in the hands increase in most GI education benefits $261 to $321 for a veteran with one depen time his veto has been upheld of 15 bills of the veterans now in school in about 15 for seven million Vietnam-era and four dent and from $298 to $336 with two he has vetoed. Congress did not contest days. The first regular check with the in million post Korea veterans. dependents The rate for each dependent seven of the vetoes crease will go out Jan. 1, they said. The House voted first 394-10. The over two is raised from $18 to $22. Meanwhile, a Twentieth Century Fund Ford vetoed the bill, saying it was in Senate then voted 90-1, with only Assis The loan program will be established task force recommended that veterans flationary and suggesting an 18.2 percent tant Republican Leader Robert P. Grif in the Treasury as a revolving fund to be benefits be eliminated for peacetime raise. He also objected to a new $600-a- fin of Michigan supporting the veto. Both administered by the VA The loans will veterans. The fund proposed that an in year loan program for veterans and an be available to veterans who can't get margins were far over the required two- dividual fund be created for each eligible thirds majority. increase in entitlement for undergrduate help from other federal programs. veteran so he could draw on it as needed study from 36 months to 45. It was the fourth time Congress has The bill allows reservists and National rather than be tied to the limits of a Ford had predicted his veto would be overriden a veto by Ford since he Guardsmen to get credit for education monthly check. overridden. became President. benefits for their six months initial ac The higher veterans payments are The bill increases monthly payments £ However, in another vote Tuesday, the tive duty for training if they later serve retroactive to September, and Veterans for fulltime institutional training" from on active duty for 12 months or more. Mills Enters Bethesda Navy Hospital; Demos' Vote May Weaken Committee WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Wilbur members elected to the new Congress, session of the. House, said he asked his assignments, which it has held since U- Mills entered Bethesda Navy Hospital voted with no audible dissent to increase colleague if something was wrong, and 1911. Tuesday, complaining of exhaustion, as the size of the influential Ways and the reply was: "I'm terribly tired. I'm Mills had used this authority to sway House Democrats voted away more of Means Committee from 25 to 37. exhausted." members who feared they might his power as chairperson of the Ways and This opens the way for increasing the Bennett said he advised Mills to see a otherwise be assigned to minor com Means committee. liberal bloc on the committee and doctor or go to a hospital, and that short mittees with little influence. "I'm terribly tired," colleagues diminishing the power Mills has wielded. ly thereafter Mills called aides and was Many members of Congress have quoted Mills as saying shortly after the At the same time, members have con taken to Bethesda. suggested his removal as committee ? Arkansas Democrat left for the hospital cluded privately that Mills' recent ac chairman, and members of his own panel MILLS HAS APPEARED despondent in suburban Bethesda, Md. "I'm ex tivities have made it likely he will be have met to discuss a possible since his return from Boston where he hausted." removed as chairman of the panel. changeover to Rep. A1 Ullman. D-Ore , appeared with Foxe. the entertainer Who the next in line for the chairmanship Spreaker Carl Albert disclosed that Friends said Mills had planned to be jumped from his car and then into the EARLIER TUESDAY, Albert had Mills — who appeared on stage with floor manager of the effort to override Tidal Basin in October after the speeding openly expressed concern for Mills' Si stripper Fanne Fox in Boston during the president Ford's veto of a minor tariff vehicle, with its lights off, was stopped —UPI Telephoto weekend — confided to him on Monday bill containing a disaster-aid rider, but by police health, as a result both of his behavior in Patching Up for '76 that he was ailing. that he became "addled" and could not Boston and his mood in recent weeks He made no effort to prevent action A workman repairs chairs on the floor of the Kansas City auditorium in DISCLOSURE THAT Mills had go through with it. Most members agreed that Mills' against him by House Democrats, who weekend appearance with Foxe in preparation for the opening of the Democratic mid-term "Miniconvention" entered the hospital came after the Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla . who voted Monday to strip his committee of Boston was a prime fa,ctor in the caucus Friday. A bevy of presidential hopefuls, including Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D- Democratic caucus, comprising all party sat next to Mills during a later afternoon the power to make House committee votes, although not the only one Wash., and Rep. Morris Udali, D-Ariz., plan campaigning at the event. By NANCY CALL The committee adopted a subcom adopted the weighted pupil concept, teacher certification re-evaluation, to using state money allotted to school dis Texan Staff Writer mittee report on school finance which which is also contained in a proposal by take place at regular intervals as provid tricts to further community mental proposed two major funding changes; A six-chapter draft recommending Gov. Dolph Briscoe, the committee was ed by law." health programs were among proposals one is a "weighted pupil" approach to wide-sweeping changes in the State of not, in effect, endorsing the governor's The committee's report also stated also adopted School local fund allocation. The other is Texas educational system was adopted plan. "The Committee adopted a con that the amount of time spent in teacher statewide standardization of county ap A proposal to "seriously scrutinize" Tuesday by an interim study committee cept. " he said. education programs should have praisal of local property values. the present textbook adoption on educational modernization. The use of market value of taxable reai minimum, not maximum, standards The weighted pupil system would procedures was also approved. Members The committee of 24, created by the estate in each school district as a means Maximum restrictions were originally "recognize the financial needs of school felt that local districts' freedom of 63rd Legislature especially to study to standardize taxation was also set to insure a broad education for - districts in terms of the educational access to instructional materials is education between legislative sessions, recommended as a funding change for teachers in areas other than education, needs of individual students." the com presently severely restricted finished its duties a day ahead of local districts. but committee members said the limit mittee's recommendation read. The An important part of the committee's schedule. In the area of teacher education, the presently served to restrict teaching system is based on the fact that some report proposed creation of an interim committee adopted proposals to effectiveness, instead. Members adopted proposals which, if school programs cost more than others. study committee, already proposed by eliminate lifetime certification of The committee also recommended the adopted by the 64th Legislature, would Programs are broken down according to the State Board of Education, to look into Proposed teachers and the present maximum of L8 use of state funds for continuing educa change state funding of education, treat several areas "worthy of further study student participation in each school ajid hours of education courses. ment of mental health in schools, tion and in-service training for teachers and possible change." This committee funds are allotted accordingly. The committee report said a provision teachers' education, textbook adoption Educating teachers to recognize and should submit its final report to the 65th Don Buford, committee staff member, should be enacted to require the es and teacher-student ratios. deal with emotional and mental Legislature by Dec. 1 1976, the report said that although the committee 'had tablishment of an "ongoing procedure of r problems of students in early stages and said Panel Says Lebermann Announces Formation New Nuke Not Feasible Of Transportation Study Agency By KERMIT FRITZ of community values in the developing of Plans for a possible nuclear-steam Following steering and policy advisory Texan Staff Writer the multimodel, long-range plan. electric generating plant in the Austin- committee consideration, alternative Formation of the Austin Transporta San Antonio area were discontinued Lebermann said a series of public in systems will be presented for a second tion Study, an agency to develop a 20- Tuesday following a feasibility study volvement meetings is planned to in round of public discussions scheduled for year transportation master plan to serve which indicated that economic con volve the community in the planning. late April or early May of next year. ditions are too unstable to begin a plant the City of Austin thrdugh 1995, was an Lebermann felt the program should be Homer Reed, deputy city manager and nounced Tuesday by City Councilman at present.