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NYS Sup Ct Appellate Div issues order on Dec 10 that NYC marshals accused of misconduct will face disciplinary hearings by city's Investigation Dept and if convicted can be suspended for up to 6 mos; new order, which strengthens punitive powers of Investigation Comr over marshals, detailed (M)
Reeking, leaking, rotting, rain‐soaked garbage heaped high yesterday in crowded commercial sections of New York City—the worst of it in Manhattan—as the strike by private cartmen stretched through its 10th day.
1st of 2 articles on widespread abuses in Fed housing programs and rise of community protest groups as result of scandals; data from studies, Cong testimony and ints with inner city homeowners show that scandals, dating from '71, are continuing to plague large cities, that HUD and Cong have maintained close links with commercial lending interests, many of whom have profited from low-income housing projects, that dept has failed to supervise mortgage lenders and that complexity of Fed housing laws discourages their examination and Fed Govt has hastened decline of older neighborhoods because of vandalism of vacant Govt-owned housing; most of HUD's problems began with '68 Housing Act that guaranteed mortgage lenders that Govt would honor lenders' claims if mortgages were foreclosed; unscrupulous lenders were quick to take advantage of loopholes in program; Repr Floyd V Hicks says HUD is 1 of largest owners and managers in US; critics of dept say it is also 1 of largest slumlords; illus of abandoned nouses (L)
Sen Finance Com, with concurrence of more than 1/2 of its Repub members, votes, 14-4, to keep present rates for individual income tax withholding in effect through 1st half of '76; com's action, to approve tax-cut extension and rept it to Sen, sets stage for confrontation between Cong and Pres Ford over issues of taxes and spending; com also makes some changes in tax cuts for '76, as contained in bill passed by HR last wk; changes were aimed at giving somewhat larger tax break to families with incomes of less than $10,000; specific com vote against incorporating spending ceiling in tax-cut bill, as Ford has asked, comes in form of amendment sponsored by Sen Carl T Curtis, who proposed that Govt spending be cut, dollar for dollar, for every dollar of tax reduction in bill; amendment was defeated, 11-5, with 4 of 7 Repub members voting in favor of spending cuts; at meeting of Sen Dem Caucus, Sen Edmund S Muskie, chmn of Sen Budget Com, says adopting Ford ceiling now would destroy new procedures for Cong control of budget that Cong is working with for 1st time this yr; Dem Caucus votes unanimously, with 1 abstention, to support idea of 6-mo extension of present withholding rates and enactment next May of ceiling on fiscal '77 spending, in accordance with new budget rules (M)
South Boston HS on Dec 10 begins 1st day under supervision of Judge W Arthur Garrity Jr with fist fights; antibusing activists and pol leaders in South Boston denounce Garrity order; Molotov cocktail thrown into office of NAACP, orgn that brought suit leading to desegregation order; causes $2,000 estimateds city or whites in city; fighting in school put down by increased police forces; headmaster Dr William Reid, who was transferred by Garrity's ruling, says that he has worked hard to implement desegregation orders and maintain integrity of school; teachers at school angered by Garrity's apptmt of Supt Joseph M McDonough to run school (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1975, covering December 11, 1975.
Chicago
Jefferson Starship
Elton John
John Denver
KC And The Sunshine Band
1975Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist[†]
Gerben de Knegt is a former professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist and mountain biker from the Netherlands. He was born in Tilburg, North Brabant.
1975Lee Wiley, American singer (born 1908)[†]
Lee Wiley was an American jazz singer during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
1975Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1905)[†]
Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız was a prominent Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet. Atsız self-identified as a racist, Pan-Turkist and Turanist. He later became a critic of Islam, calling it "a religion created by Arabs, for Arabs". He is the ideologue of Atsızism. He was the author of over 30 books and numerous articles and was in strong opposition to the government of İsmet İnönü, which he criticized for co-operating with the communists. He was accused of being a sympathizer of Nazi Germany and plotting to overthrow the Turkish government.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]