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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The federal
government says it has spent nearly $2
million improving President Nixon’s
homes in'Florida and California, all of it
relating to ‘“‘security.”

The White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Clemen-
te, Calif., retreat, has been getting some
money back in the form of rent associated
with Nixon’s Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

A month ago the White House had
listed $39,000 in federal funds for im-
proving the Western White House at San
Clemente since Nixon bought it in 1969.

Last week, after a further search of
record, it raised this figure to $460,302.

On Thursday, General Services Ad-
 ministration (GSA), the government’s
housekeeping agency, said a still more ex-
tensive audit put the total federal expen-
diture at San Clemente at $703,367 over
four fiscal years beginning July 1, 1969.
This included only the residence there,
not the White House office space.

GSA listed for the first time the federal
expenditure for improvements, equip-
ment, operation and maintenance at the
White House complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence and office
space— $1,180,522, spread over five fiscal
years beginning July 1, 1968.

Included in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two houses in the
complex for the Secret Service and White
House communications staff.

The White House said one of these
 houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin H.
Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis.

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente and
Key Biscayne was for security-related im-
provements and that all work was done at
the request of the Secret Service, not the
President.

The GSA data showed items such as
$53,644 in fiscal 1970 for interior security
and communications at San Clemente. It
also included $3,303 in fiscal 1970 for golf
carts for the Secret Service patrol at Key
Biscayne.

Two years later there appears another
item of $5,230 for three Secret Service golf
carts there.
 
 

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song were kitted, 15 Infured, and. ng
undertermined number ore missing In
the .collapza of ihe “Fray National
Qank bullding here late. this forencon,

The deaih 1ol)-inay rise ag three
hanrs atter the eraah workinen had
been Baable to eledr away the debrls
only al Iba edge pf the building.

Fallce- estimated the death toll
would mount steadily na rescue crews
ung deeper in the debris.

No aeeurate clicckup could be mada
ot the misaing persons, but it waa
known a dozen or more hava Wit been
accounted fore

Th was feuted that 2 crew of seven:
teen Negrdea, who wére working in
the ceuter af ihe! building, were all
killed. The, rescue crews have not
been able as yél:fo got to the place
where te Negroes were working. -

1tJa_ knows. that 15 pérsons wero
injured,:.sever#l ef who wiry dle,
They were all taken lo gi
here-os they. were brought f7
fallen structure,

Exeavation woik at u nearhy butld-
ing im geueratiy assigned .aa the
cause of he collapse of lhe bank
pullding.

ft wax known several persona were
ina grocery and a.lailor shop, whizb
were a parl of the huttding, hat It
wil! he houry hetore that part of the
structure can he ecarched.

 

 

  
 