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ing sight veterans vet ices obstacles ! 1 MB jobs, education e blood felt like tears blade of my bayonet, uthful dreams lay dead spent cartridges and broken ig the earth bat, there was no innocence; lere was no future to believe W D Ehrhart ira A Long rian staff writer t years after this was written mam, six million Vietnam- er- a ns have come home to try to i future for themselves, million of them served in Viet aid perhaps for them, the task is hardest Widely publicized psychological or drug related pro-blems of a few sometimes have damaged the readjustment of many Returning during an economic recession has caused the most serious problem In Missouri, unemployment, job- traini- ng and higher education are j some of the veterans' chief concerns ; Of the 4 120 Vietnam- er- a veterans in X Boone County 507 have applied to the Columbia office of the state Division o of Employment Security In the penod from July 1 to Aug 31 1973, there were 588 new applications, 57 ? were Vietnam era veterans Nationally the unemployment rate for Vietnam- er- a veterans between the ages of 20 and 24 was 18.3, for the third quarter of 1975. The rate for nonveterans of the same age wa3 14.1 In St. Louis the unemployment rate for Vietnam- er- a veterans is usually sue percentage points above or below the national rate Emmett Connors a research analyst at the St Louis office of the ( See UNEMPLOYED, Page If) C ZTf 10334 , tv . ?. L ' V I i. 65201 1. --- 1 -- 71 CATV chances look good By Robert G. Ratdiff e MbMorum staff writer " This particular proposal is probably the best chance Columbia will ever have for getting the best deal possible on cable television," said Columbia CATV Commission Chairman George Whitebouse Whitehouse is urging dry voters to approve Tuesday a CATV franchise that could end Columbia's long struggle to obtain cable television His support is low key, though, and about the only campaigning being done is a small series of educational advertisements run in local newspapers by the proposed cable franchise company. The City Council already has ap-proved TC Industries ( TCI) ap-plication for a cable franchise, but final approval by a simple majority of city voters is needed before the proposed cable franchise can be submitted to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC) for permission to operate If TCI, a subsidiary of Telcum Engineering Inc of Chesterfield in St Louis County, gets the go- ahea- d, it plans to import several distant signals and to establish several channels of its own for local cable subscribers. The company plans to import KTVI ( ABC) St Louis, KMOX- T- V ( CBS) St. Louis, KSD- T- V ( NBC) St Louis, KPLR ( independent) St Louis, KETC ( educational) St Louis and KCPT ( educational) Kansas City The cable also will carry the three local television stations By viewing imported signals, cable subscribers will be able to see network and non- netwo- rk programs not earned by local stations The imported stations will be blocked out, however, when they are showing the same programs as the local stations This is done to protect the local stations' advertising income There also will be channels for public, municipal and educational access, leasing, local origin, news, stock market and weather Area FM radio stations also will be carried over the cable If voters approve the franchise, TCI hopes to have FCC approval by April 1, Whitehouse said Once approval is received, the company will begin construction of the system It tentatively plans to begin in the northeast part of the city The first 10 per cent of the system probably would be in operation by July, and the rest of ( See CATV, Page 12) 68th Year No. 92 Good Morning! It's Suntluy, January 11,1 976 4 Sections 32 Pages 35 Cents ; Senate, Ford try joint intelligence reform N. Y. Times Service WASHINGTON The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Ford administration have agreed to work out joint legislative proposals for the reform of the U S. intelligence com--' munity, according to Senate and White j House officials. 1 The plan to write legislation I satisfactory to both the Senate and " President Ford emerged during private meetings in December and early t January between Sen Frank Church, committee chairman, D- Ida- ho, Sen. John Tower, vice chairman, D- Te- x., T m Cochran Four ingenious youngsters seemed to combine three sports Satunlay by kicking around a deflated basketball while skating on Hulen Lake. their key staff aides and senior White House officials The plan was announced at a White House meeting on intelligence Satur-day The dosed door session was at-tended by the principals of the affected agencies It is the first time the options for reorganitabon of U S intelligence were gathered in one briefing for the top level officials and the President Ford bad not been expected to make final decisions on executive orders Saturday A series of orders, some of winch will remain secret, may follow shortly, senior White House officials said. Joint sessions between executive branch officials and congressional committees to prepare legislation is unique m major proposals In the past they have been used mainly to deal with technical details of legislation The House Select Committee on Intelligence refused to agree to the joint sessions A. Searl Field, staff director, said the Hou& e committee wanted to prepare " its own proposals, in-dependently, uncolored by influences of the executive branch. ' Aaron Donner, committee counsel, said chairman Otis G Pike, D-- N Y , told White House of-ficials " there was no way, never," that his committee would want to enter into such an agreement Some staff level sources on both sides of Congress were wary about the joint sessions Sources said the White House had attempted to ' divide and confuse" the committees in the report- recommendati- on stage of their work by these manipulations Church characterized the arrangement as a ' feeling out of the extent of common ground between the committee and the administration as one step down the road to reform ' We reserve for the committee the right to propose reforms even though the White House may take a different view, ' be said. Senior White House officials said that the Ford ad-ministration also reserved its rights to disagree with some of the com-mittee's legislative proposals The joint work sessions will take place in February, according to committee sources Even jouit sessions may fail to solve dilemmas in reorganizing and refor-ming the intelligence community In investigations of the intelligence apparatus, two dear motives have emerged At first the intelligence in-vestigations were seen as an effort to halt abuses such as CIA domestic spying Later the congressional committees and many in the Ford administi ation saw an opportunity to reshape the entire intelligence role for the first tune since the 1947 National Secuntv Act was enacted They have updated reorganization plans begun as early as 1971 by James R Schlesuiger Jr when he was in the Office of Management and Budget Reformers complain that officials of the CIA Defense Intelligence Agencj 1Doctor's bitch p'uts ( See AGENCY, Page 12) Ford in doghouse 1 STERLING, Kan ( UPI) F President Ford's popularity in this f central Kansas town of 2,300 dropped considerably as the 1976 k election year began because be H refused them a small favor. R Ford declined to let Dr. Thomas a Simpson out of his Navy com-- E xmtment so be could practice in 8 Sterling, wherethe only other doctor cj wants to retire. B " H we can spend money in New R York and Angola, then the govern- - B meat has tune for us m Sterling," B said Annie Wyatt, a 48- year-- old R housewife who led the unsuccessful H appeal. B " I feel anger, disappointment and m frustration. They want our money M don't they' We're going to pay our 9 taxes and that money is going to go K to New York, isn't if And they have S doctors'" H Simpson enlisted in the Navy in m 1971 under the now defunct Berry m Plan a program that allowed ffi medical students to complete their n educations and residencies in re-al turn for two years' service as Navy doctors. The plan expired when the B draft ended in 1973 B Simpson finished bis residency at H a Wicbita, Kan., hospital on Dec. 31 H and was ordered to report to a Navy H shipyard eimtem Portsmouth, NJS., jB early this month. Mrs. Wyatt was janstd in the B appeals by the town's Medical B Aspects Committee, Kansas Gov. B Robert Bennett, several B congressmen and finally House ffi Republican LeadeJabRbotto. After rejections fcrUFeotioa and m the secretary ofthe Navy, Rhodes m vent to the White Boose and was MB told the President declined to H overrule the Navy. Sterling's physician, Jack Dysart, 63, who has practiced in the town for 34 years and has taken care of the townspeople by himself since late 1972, said he cannot cope much longer with the sole responsibility for the community's health. " The tension at times is pretty severe. I just don't have the oM drive," Dysart said. " Even gong to Hutchinson ( 35 kilometers or 22 miles away) to see a movie and have dinner with my wife is impossible " Dysart was encouraged when Simpson, 28, said he wanted to practice in Sterling after his Wichita residency Simpson liked the town and was positive the Navy did not need him as much as Sterling, and especially Dysart, did. " I'm looking forward to a two- ye- ar vacation," said Simpson before be left for New Hampshire " I'm not going to work very hard. I honestly don't believe my services are needed where I'm going tike they are in Sterling." Because of Simpson's departure, the town may also lose its 21- b- ed hospital. , Since September 1974, the area's small hnaJnHWM and farmers have contributed more than $ 115,000 to keep the hospital naming. The town kept contributing in hopes the Navy would let Simpoon stay. As to the town's disappointment over losing Simpson, Wilson said " People don't really understand how New York can be guaranteed several bunon dollars and we cant even be guaranteed the attention of the President and a doctor. I doubt if President Ford was thinking about Sterling, Kan., just before he went to steep a night" Kansas consolidation working By Stephen Burgess Bfitsoarlaa staff writer Consolidating activities of the county sheriffs department and the city police an idea being discussed locally has led to more effective law enforcement but has failed to produce any savings in a Kansas county with a consolidated police force, officials there said this " Basically, I think the plan is working," Leslie Rieger, city manager of Manhattan, Kan , saki But he adds that their experience has not saved them any money " The argument was you consolidate record keeping, communications and purchasing and save I don't think that is true," Rieger sakL In January 1975, the Manhattan police department consolidated with the Ogden, Kan , police department and the Riley County, Kan , sheriffs office to form the Riley County Police Department A less extensive consolidation was proposed for Boone County Monday by Columbia First Ward Councilman Pat Barnes Barnes proposed that the county contract with the city for the police department to assume the law enforcement duties currently per-formed by the sheriff's office Barnes said he believed his proposal would result in increased efficiency and reduced costs through consolidation of duplicate activities in the two law enforcement agencies All three Boone County Court judges have said the proposal might be feasible, but the legality and the cost of such a contract have not been deter-mined. W L. Penhollow, director of the Riley County Police Department believes the increased effectiveness of law en-forcement in the county outweighs concerns over cost He says reduction in the site of ' top management," the elimination of one jad and the creation of a single investigative unit for Riley County are some of the major benefits of the consolidation. " We have what I would call a true consolidation," Penhollow said I don't know of any other like it " He said other county police departments exist but they are m counties that are totally incorporated Riley County has ex-tensive areas that are not incorporated as municipalities Rieger agrees with Penhollow that the new department is more effective ' Law enforcement is much better now, both in the county and in the city of Manhattan, he said The authorization for a county police department was established by special legislation in 1972 ' We had a local legislator who in troduced the bill in the state legislature,' Rieger said The con sobdation then was approved by county referendum in 1974 The county pohce department is administered by an organization called the Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board I have no junsdic uon ' said Rieger The county police department is under control of the director and an assistant director who ( See POLICE, Page 10) Court eliminates cars for sheriff By Steve Davis Mtesouriaa staff writer A state statute apparently requiring the county to supply six cars for the sheriffs department or none at all forced the Boone County Court into a special meeting Saturday to make revisions in the sheriffs budget Under tins year's original budget plan, deputies were to drive their own cars on county business. The county was to provide two cars for transferring prisoners and serving legal papers. Sheriff Jack Meyer Thursday told County Court Presiding Judge Bob Brown about the statute Brown decided no vehicles would be provided and transferred $ 4,000 set aside in Meyer's budget for maintain-ing the two cars into the milleage pay ment fund to be used to reimburse sheriffs deputies for driving their own cars. Southern District Judge Carolyn Lathrop Friday questioned whether the budget transfer could be made without the approval of all County Court judges Prosecutor Mity Harper Saturday suggested the court meet in special session so all the judges could approve the transfer, which they did The court originally had approved the county's $ 2 1 million budget for 1976 on Thursday After the brief meeting Saturday, Brown denied Meyer's charge that the $ 44,380 now available for mileage reimbursements is inadequate " This ( the deputy- owne- d car system) wont change law enforcement in this county one single bit," Brown said " We've given him ( Meyer) as much as be needs and then some. Obviously, we don't agree on what it takes for ef-fective law enforcement " County Auditor Don Caldwell has said the $ 40,380 for mileage reimbursements would permit deputies to travel about 425,600 kilometers ( 286,000 miles) in 1976 In 1975, deputies logged 552,000 kilometers ( 345,000 miles) Brown said he bad not seen Caldwell's figures If deputies travd more than 425,600 kilometers ( 266,000 miles) there will be no way the county can reimburse them except through emergency funds Also in the last two months of the year, transfers can be made from the budgets of other county departments, but only with tiie court's approval Brown said Meyer had submitted mileage figures for 1975 to the court and those figures had been considered when the court funded the reimbursement program. Brown said the sheriffs deputies probably would not have enough money to go " as far as they did last year," but law enforcement effectiveness would not be diminished. The budget also limits monthly mileage payments to the deputies to one- twelf- th of the $ 44,380, or $ 3,698 Under the original $ 40,380 budget, $ 3,665 had been available to the department each month Brown said he would not speculate on what procedure would be followed if the department ran out of money for mileage reimbursements before the end of the month, but did say the department would be violating court orders if it spent more than the monthly sum. See The oPJ On The Classified Pages J
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Item.Transcript | ing sight veterans vet ices obstacles ! 1 MB jobs, education e blood felt like tears blade of my bayonet, uthful dreams lay dead spent cartridges and broken ig the earth bat, there was no innocence; lere was no future to believe W D Ehrhart ira A Long rian staff writer t years after this was written mam, six million Vietnam- er- a ns have come home to try to i future for themselves, million of them served in Viet aid perhaps for them, the task is hardest Widely publicized psychological or drug related pro-blems of a few sometimes have damaged the readjustment of many Returning during an economic recession has caused the most serious problem In Missouri, unemployment, job- traini- ng and higher education are j some of the veterans' chief concerns ; Of the 4 120 Vietnam- er- a veterans in X Boone County 507 have applied to the Columbia office of the state Division o of Employment Security In the penod from July 1 to Aug 31 1973, there were 588 new applications, 57 ? were Vietnam era veterans Nationally the unemployment rate for Vietnam- er- a veterans between the ages of 20 and 24 was 18.3, for the third quarter of 1975. The rate for nonveterans of the same age wa3 14.1 In St. Louis the unemployment rate for Vietnam- er- a veterans is usually sue percentage points above or below the national rate Emmett Connors a research analyst at the St Louis office of the ( See UNEMPLOYED, Page If) C ZTf 10334 , tv . ?. L ' V I i. 65201 1. --- 1 -- 71 CATV chances look good By Robert G. Ratdiff e MbMorum staff writer " This particular proposal is probably the best chance Columbia will ever have for getting the best deal possible on cable television," said Columbia CATV Commission Chairman George Whitebouse Whitehouse is urging dry voters to approve Tuesday a CATV franchise that could end Columbia's long struggle to obtain cable television His support is low key, though, and about the only campaigning being done is a small series of educational advertisements run in local newspapers by the proposed cable franchise company. The City Council already has ap-proved TC Industries ( TCI) ap-plication for a cable franchise, but final approval by a simple majority of city voters is needed before the proposed cable franchise can be submitted to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC) for permission to operate If TCI, a subsidiary of Telcum Engineering Inc of Chesterfield in St Louis County, gets the go- ahea- d, it plans to import several distant signals and to establish several channels of its own for local cable subscribers. The company plans to import KTVI ( ABC) St Louis, KMOX- T- V ( CBS) St. Louis, KSD- T- V ( NBC) St Louis, KPLR ( independent) St Louis, KETC ( educational) St Louis and KCPT ( educational) Kansas City The cable also will carry the three local television stations By viewing imported signals, cable subscribers will be able to see network and non- netwo- rk programs not earned by local stations The imported stations will be blocked out, however, when they are showing the same programs as the local stations This is done to protect the local stations' advertising income There also will be channels for public, municipal and educational access, leasing, local origin, news, stock market and weather Area FM radio stations also will be carried over the cable If voters approve the franchise, TCI hopes to have FCC approval by April 1, Whitehouse said Once approval is received, the company will begin construction of the system It tentatively plans to begin in the northeast part of the city The first 10 per cent of the system probably would be in operation by July, and the rest of ( See CATV, Page 12) 68th Year No. 92 Good Morning! It's Suntluy, January 11,1 976 4 Sections 32 Pages 35 Cents ; Senate, Ford try joint intelligence reform N. Y. Times Service WASHINGTON The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Ford administration have agreed to work out joint legislative proposals for the reform of the U S. intelligence com--' munity, according to Senate and White j House officials. 1 The plan to write legislation I satisfactory to both the Senate and " President Ford emerged during private meetings in December and early t January between Sen Frank Church, committee chairman, D- Ida- ho, Sen. John Tower, vice chairman, D- Te- x., T m Cochran Four ingenious youngsters seemed to combine three sports Satunlay by kicking around a deflated basketball while skating on Hulen Lake. their key staff aides and senior White House officials The plan was announced at a White House meeting on intelligence Satur-day The dosed door session was at-tended by the principals of the affected agencies It is the first time the options for reorganitabon of U S intelligence were gathered in one briefing for the top level officials and the President Ford bad not been expected to make final decisions on executive orders Saturday A series of orders, some of winch will remain secret, may follow shortly, senior White House officials said. Joint sessions between executive branch officials and congressional committees to prepare legislation is unique m major proposals In the past they have been used mainly to deal with technical details of legislation The House Select Committee on Intelligence refused to agree to the joint sessions A. Searl Field, staff director, said the Hou& e committee wanted to prepare " its own proposals, in-dependently, uncolored by influences of the executive branch. ' Aaron Donner, committee counsel, said chairman Otis G Pike, D-- N Y , told White House of-ficials " there was no way, never," that his committee would want to enter into such an agreement Some staff level sources on both sides of Congress were wary about the joint sessions Sources said the White House had attempted to ' divide and confuse" the committees in the report- recommendati- on stage of their work by these manipulations Church characterized the arrangement as a ' feeling out of the extent of common ground between the committee and the administration as one step down the road to reform ' We reserve for the committee the right to propose reforms even though the White House may take a different view, ' be said. Senior White House officials said that the Ford ad-ministration also reserved its rights to disagree with some of the com-mittee's legislative proposals The joint work sessions will take place in February, according to committee sources Even jouit sessions may fail to solve dilemmas in reorganizing and refor-ming the intelligence community In investigations of the intelligence apparatus, two dear motives have emerged At first the intelligence in-vestigations were seen as an effort to halt abuses such as CIA domestic spying Later the congressional committees and many in the Ford administi ation saw an opportunity to reshape the entire intelligence role for the first tune since the 1947 National Secuntv Act was enacted They have updated reorganization plans begun as early as 1971 by James R Schlesuiger Jr when he was in the Office of Management and Budget Reformers complain that officials of the CIA Defense Intelligence Agencj 1Doctor's bitch p'uts ( See AGENCY, Page 12) Ford in doghouse 1 STERLING, Kan ( UPI) F President Ford's popularity in this f central Kansas town of 2,300 dropped considerably as the 1976 k election year began because be H refused them a small favor. R Ford declined to let Dr. Thomas a Simpson out of his Navy com-- E xmtment so be could practice in 8 Sterling, wherethe only other doctor cj wants to retire. B " H we can spend money in New R York and Angola, then the govern- - B meat has tune for us m Sterling," B said Annie Wyatt, a 48- year-- old R housewife who led the unsuccessful H appeal. B " I feel anger, disappointment and m frustration. They want our money M don't they' We're going to pay our 9 taxes and that money is going to go K to New York, isn't if And they have S doctors'" H Simpson enlisted in the Navy in m 1971 under the now defunct Berry m Plan a program that allowed ffi medical students to complete their n educations and residencies in re-al turn for two years' service as Navy doctors. The plan expired when the B draft ended in 1973 B Simpson finished bis residency at H a Wicbita, Kan., hospital on Dec. 31 H and was ordered to report to a Navy H shipyard eimtem Portsmouth, NJS., jB early this month. Mrs. Wyatt was janstd in the B appeals by the town's Medical B Aspects Committee, Kansas Gov. B Robert Bennett, several B congressmen and finally House ffi Republican LeadeJabRbotto. After rejections fcrUFeotioa and m the secretary ofthe Navy, Rhodes m vent to the White Boose and was MB told the President declined to H overrule the Navy. Sterling's physician, Jack Dysart, 63, who has practiced in the town for 34 years and has taken care of the townspeople by himself since late 1972, said he cannot cope much longer with the sole responsibility for the community's health. " The tension at times is pretty severe. I just don't have the oM drive," Dysart said. " Even gong to Hutchinson ( 35 kilometers or 22 miles away) to see a movie and have dinner with my wife is impossible " Dysart was encouraged when Simpson, 28, said he wanted to practice in Sterling after his Wichita residency Simpson liked the town and was positive the Navy did not need him as much as Sterling, and especially Dysart, did. " I'm looking forward to a two- ye- ar vacation," said Simpson before be left for New Hampshire " I'm not going to work very hard. I honestly don't believe my services are needed where I'm going tike they are in Sterling." Because of Simpson's departure, the town may also lose its 21- b- ed hospital. , Since September 1974, the area's small hnaJnHWM and farmers have contributed more than $ 115,000 to keep the hospital naming. The town kept contributing in hopes the Navy would let Simpoon stay. As to the town's disappointment over losing Simpson, Wilson said " People don't really understand how New York can be guaranteed several bunon dollars and we cant even be guaranteed the attention of the President and a doctor. I doubt if President Ford was thinking about Sterling, Kan., just before he went to steep a night" Kansas consolidation working By Stephen Burgess Bfitsoarlaa staff writer Consolidating activities of the county sheriffs department and the city police an idea being discussed locally has led to more effective law enforcement but has failed to produce any savings in a Kansas county with a consolidated police force, officials there said this " Basically, I think the plan is working," Leslie Rieger, city manager of Manhattan, Kan , saki But he adds that their experience has not saved them any money " The argument was you consolidate record keeping, communications and purchasing and save I don't think that is true," Rieger sakL In January 1975, the Manhattan police department consolidated with the Ogden, Kan , police department and the Riley County, Kan , sheriffs office to form the Riley County Police Department A less extensive consolidation was proposed for Boone County Monday by Columbia First Ward Councilman Pat Barnes Barnes proposed that the county contract with the city for the police department to assume the law enforcement duties currently per-formed by the sheriff's office Barnes said he believed his proposal would result in increased efficiency and reduced costs through consolidation of duplicate activities in the two law enforcement agencies All three Boone County Court judges have said the proposal might be feasible, but the legality and the cost of such a contract have not been deter-mined. W L. Penhollow, director of the Riley County Police Department believes the increased effectiveness of law en-forcement in the county outweighs concerns over cost He says reduction in the site of ' top management," the elimination of one jad and the creation of a single investigative unit for Riley County are some of the major benefits of the consolidation. " We have what I would call a true consolidation," Penhollow said I don't know of any other like it " He said other county police departments exist but they are m counties that are totally incorporated Riley County has ex-tensive areas that are not incorporated as municipalities Rieger agrees with Penhollow that the new department is more effective ' Law enforcement is much better now, both in the county and in the city of Manhattan, he said The authorization for a county police department was established by special legislation in 1972 ' We had a local legislator who in troduced the bill in the state legislature,' Rieger said The con sobdation then was approved by county referendum in 1974 The county pohce department is administered by an organization called the Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board I have no junsdic uon ' said Rieger The county police department is under control of the director and an assistant director who ( See POLICE, Page 10) Court eliminates cars for sheriff By Steve Davis Mtesouriaa staff writer A state statute apparently requiring the county to supply six cars for the sheriffs department or none at all forced the Boone County Court into a special meeting Saturday to make revisions in the sheriffs budget Under tins year's original budget plan, deputies were to drive their own cars on county business. The county was to provide two cars for transferring prisoners and serving legal papers. Sheriff Jack Meyer Thursday told County Court Presiding Judge Bob Brown about the statute Brown decided no vehicles would be provided and transferred $ 4,000 set aside in Meyer's budget for maintain-ing the two cars into the milleage pay ment fund to be used to reimburse sheriffs deputies for driving their own cars. Southern District Judge Carolyn Lathrop Friday questioned whether the budget transfer could be made without the approval of all County Court judges Prosecutor Mity Harper Saturday suggested the court meet in special session so all the judges could approve the transfer, which they did The court originally had approved the county's $ 2 1 million budget for 1976 on Thursday After the brief meeting Saturday, Brown denied Meyer's charge that the $ 44,380 now available for mileage reimbursements is inadequate " This ( the deputy- owne- d car system) wont change law enforcement in this county one single bit," Brown said " We've given him ( Meyer) as much as be needs and then some. Obviously, we don't agree on what it takes for ef-fective law enforcement " County Auditor Don Caldwell has said the $ 40,380 for mileage reimbursements would permit deputies to travel about 425,600 kilometers ( 286,000 miles) in 1976 In 1975, deputies logged 552,000 kilometers ( 345,000 miles) Brown said he bad not seen Caldwell's figures If deputies travd more than 425,600 kilometers ( 266,000 miles) there will be no way the county can reimburse them except through emergency funds Also in the last two months of the year, transfers can be made from the budgets of other county departments, but only with tiie court's approval Brown said Meyer had submitted mileage figures for 1975 to the court and those figures had been considered when the court funded the reimbursement program. Brown said the sheriffs deputies probably would not have enough money to go " as far as they did last year," but law enforcement effectiveness would not be diminished. The budget also limits monthly mileage payments to the deputies to one- twelf- th of the $ 44,380, or $ 3,698 Under the original $ 40,380 budget, $ 3,665 had been available to the department each month Brown said he would not speculate on what procedure would be followed if the department ran out of money for mileage reimbursements before the end of the month, but did say the department would be violating court orders if it spent more than the monthly sum. See The oPJ On The Classified Pages J |