European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 8, 1978 gambling Senate trims $11 billion revenues unspent Trenton . A gambling fever among High rollers in Atlantic City has generated almost $5 million in just Over three months to Aid new Jersey s elderly and handicapped but the state still has t decided How to spend it. Slate officials say they be been waiting to see How much Money would be Gener ated by the 8 percent state tax imposed on a Casino s win the amount gamblers  one wanted to write anything specific in the Casino control act without knowing what specific Money would be there says Ben Borowsky spokesman for the state Casino control commission. The nearly $5 million collected since late May when resorts International inc. Opened the first . And so far Only Legal gambling Casino outside Nevada Al ready exceeds the $3.5 million expected annually by the state. But there were no specific plans to spend even that much. Casino control commission chairman Joseph Lordi says the state share easily could reach More than $12 million by the end of the year. Resorts International has shown steadily increasing average daily wins $438,504 for May $534,627 for june $666,209 for july and $759,208 for August. Legislation was introduced last week to create a state Casino revenues study com Mission which is to propose ways to spend the Money. The commission would be com posed of three state senators and three assemblymen. I m concerned that nothing s been done said the Bill s sponsor. Sen. John Skevin a Democrat from Bergen county. I anticipate holding Public hearings throughout the state and having a Legisla Tive proposal by the end of the  the referendum opening Atlantic City to Casino gambling approved by voters in 1976, said the state s share of Money lost at gaming tables should help reduce property taxes and Utility costs of senior citizens and disabled residents. But it did not define senior citizen or Dis  s one of the knots Well have to in  Skevin said.  has National guard in firehouses Manchester . Up National guardsmen with no firefighting training manned fire stations in new Hampshire s largest City thursday because of a fire men s sick out. Gov. Meldrim Thomson ordered the guard on duty wednesday night when the 50 Manchester firefighters due on duty for the 6 . To 8 . Shift All called in sick. There had been a partial sick out since sat urday by the City s 200 firemen. Thomson said the City would ask a Supe rior court judge thursday to hold firemen in contempt of an injunction issued Satur Day against strikes and Job actions. He said the City also would ask the judge to make the firemen s Union pay All costs of mobilizing National guard units. The governor said the state would pro vide whatever Protection will be Neces sary during the immediate crisis but would not interfere in negotiations be tween the City and local 856 of the International association of firefighters. Thomson aide marshal Cobleigh said Concord and Peterborough units of the guard were called out because they included heavy equipment Drivers. They re obviously not firemen they re just soldiers Cobleigh said. From 79 budget authority Washington up responding to changed economic circumstances and anti spending sentiment around the coun try the Senate wednesday Cut $11 billion from the 1979 Federal budget it tentatively approved in May. It rejected several proposals to Cut much  budget Resolution was approved 56 18.the proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning oct. 1 Calls for $577.7 billion in new budget authority a commitment for future outlays some of which actually would not be spent until later years. The figure which compares to $500 billion this year is $11 billion lower than Congress tentatively approved last May for 1979. The Senate budget committee which proposed it said the Cut was prompted by lower unemployment and higher inflation than had been estimated. The Senate proposed $489.5 billion in outlays or actual spending during the year a Cut of $9.3 billion from its May Esti mate and a deficit of $42.3 billion Down $8.6 billion from the earlier estimate. More than half of these cuts represent re estimates of what programs actually will Cost in 1979. Less than half Are actual program cuts. The Senate budget now goes to Confer ence with one recently passed by the House calling for $561 billion in budget authority $489.8 billion in outlays and a $39.8 billion deficit. The Senate rejected 45-25 an Amend ment by sen. William Proxmire d-wis., to Cut another $17.7 billion across the Board on top of the $11 billion budget authority Cut. Then it rejected 38-35 a proposal by sen. William Roth r-del., to Cut about $10 Bil lion in areas such As International affairs science environment transportation Edu cation and jobs health welfare and jus Tice on top of the $11 billion. All parties said their proposals would Send a Clear signal that Congress has heard the sentiment for less spending and less taxes being voiced around the coun try. They differed As to How big a Cut was needed to give such a signal. Country Singer Johnny Cash Waves june Carter s slip to the crowd at the Minnesota state fair which he aug we re in full charge june s slip goes up for Sale toned off for $100. His wife caught her foot in the slip As she left the stage took it off and made a few jokes. Cash then decided to hold an auction. The Money was donated to the Jerry Lewis labor Day muscular dystrophy fund. A Bell claims no head Over spy trials Washington up attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell said wednesday he has taken no heat from the White House or state department Over a rash of prosecutions of soviet spies which some officials believe is contributing to increasing . Soviet tensions. I Don t know How to handle these things maybe Bell told a news Confer ence. But i Don t know that anyone else knows either. Ordinarily if someone Breaks the Law you prosecute  asked if he was getting pressure from state department officials reported to be unhappy with the spy arrests Bell said we re taking no heat we re in full charge. And the Only pressure i be gotten is from unnamed sources in the newspapers. I m the attorney general and the Only person Over me is the president. And i m not getting any feedback from the presi Dent and that s the Only person i look to. The president has often said that he has delegated the prosecutor Al discretion to the attorney general and he would not interfere with it. I have read these stories that the sophisticated Way to run the government is not to prosecute a spy to let him go Home. I read that. But i just Don t agree with that. They Are pending criminal cases he said and if the state department wants to talk to me about it they Are Welcome to or or. Zbigniew Brzezinski Carter s National Security adviser. I always thought it was unusual to be attacked for being too hard on spies it Flo. College Dean Dies at 90 Tampa Fla. A or. Aaron w. Dicus Dean of Florida College and former president of the Tennessee Academy of science died saturday. He was 90. Was quite helpful to me in Georgia where they have alien views about such matters apparently Bell said. Two russian employees of the United nations were due to stand trial sept. 12, but the Justice department tuesday was granted a two week delay so the Newark ., trial would not coincide with a visit by soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. Last month Fri agents arrested a for Mer Cia employee in Chicago on charges he spied for the soviets. The president has known about these cases from the beginning and we indicted them in due course Bell also said he expects to fill out the year in his Post but would not predict How Long he would serve in the Carter administration beyond that. He repeated an earlier statement that he did not wish to serve during a political Campaign