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Exon promises to sign bills sent by senators By Dick Piersol The Legislature Tuesday passed and sent to the governor the three-bill package considered during the special session. Gov. J. James Exon, after praising the senators for their efforts and criticizing them for not adopting his program, said he would sign the bills. Because they carry emergency clauses, the bills will become law when Exon signs them. Exon said he was happy with the 46-2 passage of LB3. Although the bill was amended from the original Exon proposal, he said it would deal effectively with the state's cash flow problems. The bill calls for seven monthly pay ments to municipalities, counties and school districts through June 30, 1976. Those payments had been made semi annually and quarterly. Tax increase By not passing Exon's proposed bills intact, he said the Legislature "has mandated a 25 per cent increase in the state income tax rate to 15 per cent." The Legislature passed amended forms of Exon's proposed LB4 and LB6, 42-5 and 42-6, respectively. As proposed by Exon, LB4 would have eliminated the five per cent general fund overlevy and provided that only "actual estimated expenditures." oe considered by the State Board of Equalization when computing tax rates. The bUl passed by the Legislature pro vides a general fund overlevy of not less than two, nor more than three per cent, and requires the Board of Equalization to consider express obligations when comput ing the tax rates. An attorney general's opinion issued Monday said that although- express obligations have at best vague definitions', those obligations must be considered by the Board if Equalization if the Legislature requires it by law. The Board of Equalization will meet Saturday to determine sales and income tax rates for the next calendar year. The Legislature also altered LB6, Exon's proposed three per cent budget cut, by exempting agencies including NU, state colleges, technical community colleges, state local mental retardation offices and the Beatrice State Home. Also included in the bill was a plan to transfer, cigaret tax money and revenue -sharing funds appropriated for capital construction, but not to be spent next I : yp.- " hf l ' Pi . rM -U ..-; -vd. t - r" : I W --- --- - Photo by Steve Boarner With visions of administrators dancing in his head, Sen. Herb Duis of Gothenberg takes time out to ponder the effectiveness of Governor J. James Exon's special legislative session. The session adjourned Tuesday after passing three of the governor's bills. year, to the general fund. It also asked that revenue sharing funds for the Department of Revenue be transferred to the general fund to help avoid a cash flow deficit. Senators James Dickinson, Herb Duis and John Murphy made unsuccessful attempts to amend LBs 6, 4 and 3 back to their original forms. Wednesday, november 12, 1975 volume 99 number 45 lincoln, nebraska ' Smith: foot-dragging Congress 'in shambles' By Theresa Foreman Blair-This year's national legislators have done their best to turn Congress into a shambles, charged Margaret Chase Smith, former Republican congresswoman and senator from Maine. Smith addressed an audience of approx imately 300 on the Dana College campus at Blair Tuesday night. Freshman congressmen, Smith said, are dragging their feet instead of making Congress more responsible to the people as they promised. She cited the large number of unre futed presidential vetoes this year as an ex ample of what she called the apathy and lack of initiative in the 94th Congress. Smith, a member of Congress from 1940 to 1973, said that "our elected lead ers shy away from the political risks and responsibilities of wielding the power for which they1 were elected." The new congressmen, she said, were elected for their renunciation of high oil prices. When the time came to legislate though, she charged, "the legislators chose political shelter behind President Gerald Ford's vetoes." Blocking military aid to Turkey over the Cyprus situation and stationing American troops in the Sinai as part of the interim Middle East peace agreement are two more of "the easy way out" this Congress is taking, she said. Smith urged Congress not to abandon the world leadership role she said she thinks it should take "as long as they don't make any committments we are unwilling or unable to keep." Smith, who held the record in Congress for the most consecutive roll call votes- over 2,000-said she is concerned that "these days, nobody's minding the store." Sizing up American political attitudes today, Smith said if most people were forced to choose between the anarchy of the left or the repression of the right, they would choose repression. "However, the Watergate repression has made us susceptible to anarchy in subtle and violent ways because there is no wise leadership in Congress," she said. Smith labeled the 94th Congress as leg islative anarchists. Fortunately, she said, the American people are ahead of their leaders. "They can see through rhetoric and political charisma," Smith said. "Therefore, the bold ones (freshmen Congressmen) are slid ing into home base head first." Smith also commented on the leader ship roles of several presidents who served during her terms in Congress. "Though President Gerald Ford repre sented his Michigan district very well, and was an effective (Republican) minority leader when he was in the House, he can't carry his leadership over into the Presi dency," Smith said. Smith, the only woman to serve in both houses of Congress, is lecturing at Dana College this week as part of the National Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Program. In 1964, Smith became the first woman nominated for the President by a major political party. Smith and her executive assistant, Maj. Gen. William Lewis, who also is traveling with her as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, co authored Declaration of Conscience, a col lection of several of. Smith's more re nowned Congressional speeches. NU alumni return for Masters Week discussions Nine UNL graduates will return this week to mark the 12th annual Masters Week, Wednesday through Saturday. Masters Week is sponsored by the Mortar Board and Innocents, senior honor aries, in cooperation with the Chancellors office and the Student Alumni board. Distinguished in his or her field, the Masters will speak to classes relating to their professions and meet with students in living units. The Masters include Paul Amen, Gene inside Third Dimension: Title IX and its impact on athletics . . p.5 Also Find: Editorials p.4 Arts and Entertainment p.9 Sports p.U Crossword .p. 12 Short Stuff ....p.2 ' Weather " Wednesday: Partly cloudly and cold. High temperatures in the mid-40s. Wednesday night: Mostly clear and cold. Lows in the mid-20s. Thursday: Sunny and warmer. Highs ranging from the low to mid-50s. Leverton, Francis Nagle, Eugene O'Brien, Yvonne Smith and Nancy Stark. Amen, a 1938 graduate is chairman of the board of the National Bank of Com merce in' Lincoln. He earned nine athletic .. , TV TT J A Ut 1Q79 leueiS til Luit. mm wvupttv3 Cft I..C Iv-Z VS. Olympic Baseball Team in Berlin. Amen is a former UNL freshman football coach. He is president of the Chamber of Commerce and serves on a number of. Lincoln area executive boards. Budig, a 1963 graduate of the university, is president of Illinois State University in Bloomington, 111. He was an administrative assistant to the chancellor, assistant vice chancellor and assistant vice president and ' director of public affairs at NU before leaving for Illinois in 1972. Howe, a Senior Fellow with the Over seas Development Council in Washington D.C., is a 1944 graduate. He served the fed eral government for 30 years, including the Navy Dept. Central Planning Office and the several United States Operations Missions. Klingebiel, associate director of the Union Carbide chemicsl and plastics divi sion in South Charleston, W. Va. is a 1959 graduate. He also is a member of Sigma TTau, science honorary; the American In stitute of Chemical Engineers and the Industrial Advisory Board to the Chemi cal Engineering Dept. at Texas Tech University. Leverton, a 1928 graduate, is a nationally-recognized authority on nutri tion. She is the author of more than 200 publications; the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Nebraska; winner of two Borden Awards for out standing research in nutrition, the 1972 Federal Woman's Award and the United States Department cf Agriculture Dis tinguished Service Award. Nagle is professor of physiology and physical education at the University of Wisconsin. He received his bachelors and masters degrees from NU. He has worked as chief of the physiology section at the biodynamics branch of the Civil Aeromedi cal Research Institute, Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City and as director of the Biodynamics Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. . O'Brien, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of NU is a teacher of composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has com posed works that have been performed throughout Europe and the United States. O'Brien has studied in Germany and at the American Academy in Rome. Smith is a vice president-research and technical writing of the Ibis Co. in Kansas City. She participated in the formation of the Ibis Co., a marketing firm specializ ing in the creation and production of com plete communication packages for the agri business industry. Stark, a 1966 graduate, is an architect with Thomas William Prokasky and Asso ciates, Inc. in Minneapolis. Stark worked in Stockholm, Sweden, where she designed areas within a multi-million dollar shop ping center. Currently she is involved in the design of medical centers for two Minnesota communities. The Masters will be headquartered in Nebraska Union 203. Masters Week schedule: Paul Amm Thursday: MSA Association meeting, 8 p.m. Friday: Luncheon with College of Business Ad ministration students, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Ne braska Union Colonial Room. Gene Budig Thursday: Informal luncheon, noon, Union Colonial Room. Friday: History graduate student rap session, 8:30 a.m., Union 203; Luncheon with stu dents et Nelhardt Pub, noon to 1 :3C p.m. Jamas Howe Thursday: Political science graduate student rap session, 2:30 p.m., Oldfather S38; Dinner et Farmhouse fraternity, 6:30 p.m. Pi Sigma Alpha Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union, Friday: Model United Nations rap session, 1:30 p.m., Union. Ruth Leverton Thursday: Alpha Zeta Ag Forum, 7:30 p.m.. Home Economics Association Auditorium. Friday: Lunch, Nebraska Center for Continuing Education Cafeteria. Yvonne Smith Thursday: Informal lunch, 12:30-2 p.m.. Union; Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Alpha XI Delto sorority. Fridry: Lunch with Women in Communications, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Nebraska Union Colonial Room. Francis Naglw Thursday: Dinner at Alpha Chi Omega sorority, 6:30 p.m.; Carl Weir Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Union Small Auditorium. Ward Klingebiel Thursday: Lunch and discussion at Beta Theta Pt fraternity, noon; chemistry student and facul ty rap session, 3-4 p.m., Hamilton Hall 543.
