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EIGHT MCDTOUD (OKZOOlf) MAIL TBIBTJKS Tuesday. July IX 1983 House Committee Gives Approval To funds for gonstruGtioEi) Military Army Authorized To Spend Previous Money Allocations Washington (U.R) The House Appropriations Committee today approved $1,402,329,000 in new funds for military construction projects in this country and abroad during the current fiscal year. The huge base-building pro gram, totalling more than 10,000 - separate items, represented a cut of $77,871,000 below the admin istration's request. In addition to the new funds, ,m mmmittp authorized the Armv to grand for construction $483,612,000 previously appro priated lor mimary procure ment but not spent for that purpose. CIA Authorised Funds It allowed the Central Intel- licence Agency to use $3,000,000 of previously appropriated funds . to plan a new headquarters. But it denied CIA's request for $159, 500,000 to begin construction of the headquarters in the wash in c ton area. The committee said CIA's plans were "inadequate' to vote construction .funds now It also refused $79,000,000 to start construction of the new Air Force Academy, whose ultra modern design has aroused some sharp congressional criticism Breakdown of construction funds by services: - Army: $482,612,000 transfer red from previous funds, a cut of $61,388,000. Navy: $439,950,000, a cut of $88,600,000. Air Force: $955,929,000, a cut of $10,929,000 (request for use of $225,000,000 in unspent procure ment funds denied). Access Roads OKd Access roads: $2,250,000 as re quested. Loran stations for Coast Guard: $4,200,000 as requested. Among the projects vetoed by the committee was a. second swimming pool at Travis Air Force base, Calif. Army projects denied includ ed: 100 units of family housing and Fort Huachuca, Ariz., field house and bachelor officers' quarter, $2,615,000. The Navy projects denied in Plans for- a new drydock at the Puget Sound shipyard to handle Forrestal class supercar riers that have been battle dam aged, $2,000,000. Air Force projects denied included: New construction at Beale Air Force base, Calif. Shriners' Parade Seven Hours Long Chicago (U.R) A jackass pa trol from Nebraska and seven camels from Madison, Wis., were in the 10-mile line of march today for the Shriners seven- hour parade down Michigan ave. , The parade, with 25,000 marchers representing every state in the union, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and the Canal Zone, was the first .public event of the week long conclave of the Ancient Arabic, Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Former President Harry S. Truman; Imperial Potentate Frank S. Land, Kansas City, Mo.; Illinois Gov. William G. Stratton; Chicago Mayor Rich ard Daley and past imperial potentates including comedian Harold Lloyd were on the re viewing stand. The 90,000 Shriners and their families have taken over the Chicago Loop the past two days. Bonn Volunteers Bill Clears Lower House Bonn, Germany U.R) The Bundestag (lower house) Secur ity Committee approved the Bonn government's volunteers bill today and cleared the way for West German rearmament to begin this summer. The bill now goes back to the full Bundestag which is sched uled to' give it the necessary second and third reading Friday and Saturday. - - . This insured that the .Bunde stag will have completed action on it before July 18 when the parliamentary summer ' recess begins. The bill enables the govern ment to enroll 6000 volunteers by the end of next March as the first installment of the new 500,000-man West German arm ed forces. QUITE A SHOCK Camden, N. J. Plumber Bill Whalen nearly fainted Monday when he got a better look at an obstruction he re moved from a sewer Monday with a heavy iron bar. The ob struction was a "live" 75 milli meter artillery shelL Army offi cials took it to nearby Ft. Dix to detonate it. American) Washington (U.R) A 12-mem-' ber American farm delegation scheduled to visit Russia will tour Soviet farm areas that "no Americans have seen in this generation," an Iowa farmer said today. Ralph A. Olsen, Ellsworth, la., a memberjpf the delegation, said Soviet authorities had not yet released detailed plans for the American group's month long tour of Soviet farm areas, "but we've been told we'll go as far as 1,800 miles east of Mos cow and about 2,500 miles south," he said. That would take the group into Siberia and into areas of corn, cotton, and wheat produc tion, Olsen said. Tentative plans Farm call for trips to Soviet farms in areas so remote they have not been visited by any Americans of this generation, he added. Although the itinerary has Megaton Ml Tour demote CussSaim IFairimDiiug Areas not been released, an informed source reported . that the tour will start with a three-day visit in Moscow July 15. From there the group will proceed south- Dr. Sheppard Loses Bid for New Trial ; Cleveland (U.R) The Court of Appeals today rejected the appeal of Dr. Samuel Shep pard for a new trial, thus pav ing the way for start of his life sentence at Ohio penitentiary. The three-judge court decid ed that the 31-year-old osteopath had received a fair trial and must serve the second-degree murder conviction. Sheppard was convicted last Dec. 21 for the bludgeon mur der of his wife, Marilyn. He has remained at Cuyahoga County jail here while his attorneys ap pealed the case. The Court of Appeals action was the last in local courts. Fur ther appeals can be made to the Ohio Supreme Court or the U. S. Supreme Court. ward to Kharkov, site of a 'trac tor factory, and. then to Dnepro petrovsk where a large dam is located. Other stops have been sched uled tentatively for Krasnodar, Rostov and on the Don river, Stalingrad, scene of one of World War II's major battles, and Kuibychev. The group will move on to Si beria where stops are planned at Alma Ata, Akmolinsk and Bar nau. En route the group will visit Tashkent. The timetable for the tour is not available yet The farm delegation attended "school sessions" Monday with officials of the Agriculture and State departments. After a news conference they will fly to New York and leave for Russia, via Finland, from New York's Idle wild airport. The American group is un official. Its members, selected by three farm leaders from private life, were picked as "representa tives of American agriculture" and will pay their own expenses Mary's Peak Trek Scheduled August 7 Corvallis (U.R) The 10th an nual trek to Mary's Peak has been scheduled for Sunday, Aug: 7 with proceeds going to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Portland. of $2,500 to $3,000 apiece, offic ials said. Chairman of the group is fir. W. V. Lambert, dean of the Uni versity of Nebraska College of Agriculture. Another member is Lauren K. Soth, editorial writer of the Des Moines (Iowa) Regis ter and Tribune, whose editor ial suggesting the exchange of farm visits led to the tours. London 4U.R) A delegation of Soviet agricultural workers, headed by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Wadimir Matske vich, left Moscow by plane to day for the United States where they will inspect American farms and agricultural methods. A Moscow Radio broadcast an nounced the departure of the Russian farm delegation. 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