Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1973 Page: 13 of 22
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DELORES DELA ROSA
JOHN BOHUSLAV
MIKE DILLARD
TERRY GLLMORE
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JEFFREY LEMMONS
PATRICIA MeCLATCHY
MICHELE PITTMAN
NANCY ANN NORRIS
STEVEN WARD
Panel launching audit
of Nixon income taxes
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He said he plans to stick to “whether
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Chairman Wilbur D Mills. DArk .
said the committee decided on a full
inquiry He said it did not interpret
Nixon's request as limited to the two
major items and that Nixon attorney
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By WALTER R. MEARS
Associated Press Writer
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Kenneth Gemmill agreed
Mills said the review will be thorough
and may include public hearings He
would not guess how long it would re-
quire. but said he expects the staff to
work through the congressional recess
and after Congress returns, probably
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A major question to be determined is
whether Nixon's donation was legally
accomplished by July 25, 1969, the date
on which the repeal of the deduction
provision became effective.
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in California, the Orange County tax
assessment appeals board voted 2 to 1
against raising the assessment of
Nixon's estate at San Clemente
Any action required by the com-
mittee's findings will be up to the
Internal Revenue Service and the
executive branch generally, Mills said.
The provision under which Nixon
claimed the deduction for donation of
prepresidential papers already has
been deleted by Congress from the
revenue code
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The staff of the Joint Committee on
Internal Revenue Taxation was
promised access to all needed
presidential documents by Nixon'S
chief tax attorney The staff also was
guaranteed extra manpower as needed
by the bipartisan committee
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The committee, agreeing Wednesday
to Nixon’s request for a review of his
controversial tax affairs, said it would
go beyond the two matters he
specifically mentioned the validity of a
$576,000 deduction for a gift of papers to
the National Archives ami a possible
capital gains liability resulting from
sale of some of the San Clemente real
estate
House powers born of past
crises, it is voting President L
in history
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Thursday. Dec 13,
the 347t day of 1973. There are
11 days left in the year
Today's ighlight in history
On this date in 1577. the Eng- •
lish navigator, Sir Francis
Drake, began his history-mak-
ing voyage around the world
On this date
in 1781, a day of prayer and
thanksgiving was observed in
the United States to mark the
end of the Revolutionary War I
in 1808, the Spanish city of I
Madrid fell to the French under I
Napoleon
in 1862, during the Civil War.
Union troops were defeated by
Confederates on Marye's
Heights outside Fred-
ericksburg. Va
In 1918, in World War I, troops
of the U S 3rd Army crossed the
Rhine River at Coblenz, Ger-
many
in 1944, in the Pacific war, a
Japanese suicide plane crashed
into the U S cruiser Nashville,
killing 138 crewmen
In 1966, former President
Dwight D Eisenhower was re-
ported in good condition after
surgery for removal of his gall
bladder
Ten years ago The govern-
ment in Cambodia ordered the
United States to close the U S
embassy in that country, and a
diplomatic break was expected
Five years ago President
Ly ndon B Johnson and Presi-
dent Diaz Ordaz of Mexico set
off a blast to divert the Rio
Grande and reshape the U.S
Mexican border, ending a len-
tury-old boundary dispute
One year ago: White House
Adviser Henry A Kissinger re-
turned to Washington from
Paris without a hoped-for Viet-
nam peace settlement
Today’s birthdays Treasury
Secretary George P Shultz is 53
years old South African Prime
Minister John Vorster is 58
Thought for today None can
love freedom heartily, but good
men The rest love not freedom,
but license John Milton.
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pnementdst“thesstpukbeoim Senate is studying existing
pen " o a Presidential emergency powers
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tration should suggest specific first declared state of eme
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Nixon new emergency authority emergency action. signal action weney." oneress has
to deal with the energy short- Final terms of emergency When the House Commerce Passedusmore. than 470. laws
age energy legislation remain to be Committee decided to require delegating2 crisis authority to
The dilemma is familiar on settled between House and Sen- specific legislation if there are h executive branch
one hand, the need for quick ate The bill will include au- to be transportation controls or —--
action to deal with an urgent thority for full-scale gasoline consumptionrestrictions it paw ..L:
national problem, and on the rationing ami fuel conservation drew complaints that this would nvV searcnng
Other, the desire of some legis- measures. The House version tie the Presidents hands in
lators to guard what they con- would require congressional ap- dealing with the crisis That t i
sider congressional pre- proval of specific adminis- provision was upheld by the ror park site
rogatives. tration proposals for restric- House Wednesday night
When the pressure mounts, lions on fuel consumption Emergency energy power I UFKIN Tex ap th.
the tendency has been to dele- The Senate already has are to expire by May 15,1975, Big/Thicketibihasnt yet een
gate authority and look to the passed its bill; the House con- but if the shortage persists, they finalized by (Congress but the
White House for action Energy tinues action on its version to- could be extended Indeed Sen Texas Park and Wildlife
is no ex ception, although there day James 1, Buckley, the con- Commission has already
is provision for congressional Th have been complaints servative Republican from New started searching for a suitabi
control over some aspects of in both Senate and House that York. said that without policy location for a state park in the
emergency legislation would changes shortages could national biological preserve
...1 . Negate extraordinary, un- become . hronic and Congress Commission chairman Jack
Two attend session precedented. dangerous, even could be asked t0 in- Stone said the aerial survev
Mrs Margaret Stephens tictatorialpowers to the execu- titutionalize the extraordinary un Wednesday assures fast de-
president of the Brownwood tiyeabranchoThpsenwords were and dangerous delegation of velopment of the state park
Board of Realtors here ac i PYRe!Puhicat t , power when the Big Thicket bill is fi-
companied by Steele MDonaid . ‘ t think of a single ' he issue of congressional as nally approved by I ongress
secretary, attended a session in L J our economielife that against executive powers has He said a separate parcel of
Austin sponsored by the Texas , not b&. under the direct led the current Congress to act land, not acquired by the feder
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‛ alterations of people s persona A special committee of the remain in its natural state
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STEPHANIE REESE
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MOLLY SNYDER
By EDMOND LeRRETON
Assoclated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) A de-
tachment from one of Congress top
professional staffs is beginning a
months-long audit of President Nixon's
1969-72 income tax returns
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