WASHINGTON (UPI: —
The federal government
says it has spent nearly $2
million improving Presi-
dent Nixon's homes in
Florida and California, al-
most all of it relating to
“security.” The expenses
ranged from fire sprin-
kKlers'ta gulf carts for the
Seeret Service.

The White House also
disclosed that business-
,man Robert H. Abplanalp,
who helped the President
buy his San Clemente re-
treat, has been getting
some moncy hack in the
form of rent associated
with Nixon's Key Bis-
eayne place.

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

LAST WEEK, after a
further search of record,
it raised this fugure to
$460,300.

On Thursday, General
Services Administration,
the government's house-
keeping agency, said a
still more extensive audit
put the total federal
expenditure at San Cle-
‘mente at $703,367 over
four fiscal years begi:

 
 ning July 1, 1969. This in-
cluded only the residence
there, not the White
House office space.

GSA listed for the first
time the federal expendi-
ture for impravements,
equipment, operation and
maintenance at ihe White
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 Se-
eret Service and White
House communications
staff. The total did not in-
clude an estimated $400,-
000 helicopter landing pad
built by the Army Corps
of Engineers.

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

The White House saic
all of the taxpayers
money spent in San Cle
mente and Key Bis
cayne was for security

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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT said in Washing-
(on it has spent nearly $2 million improving President
Richard Nixon's hames in Florida and California for
security purposes. The White Flouse disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who helped the
President buy his San Clemente, if. retreat, has
been getting some money bavk in the form of rent asso-
ciated with Nixon's Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

 

 

A5.5 PER CENT increase in 1974 payments to all 28
million Social Security recipients is considered certain
to pass the Senale and is likely to confront President
Richard Nixan next week. Its approval by the House
would test Nixon's post-Watergate mood of accommo-
dation with Cangress, signaled this week when he
signed three bills he originially had opposed.

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Thursday slapped
down activily by roving border patrols arbitrarily
stopping and searching cars near the United States
border — even if they do find large amounts of mari-
juana. The court overturned the conviction of an indi-
gent Mexican who was arrested when federal officers
stopped and searched his car, without su
25 miles north of the Mexican border in California and
found 161 pounds of marijuana.

  

THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS Committee, ap-
parently unshaken by the upheaval within the FI,
voted today (o allow the full administration budget re-
quest of $366.5 million to operate the agency in the 1974
fiscal ycar thal starts July 1

ANUMBER OF East Coast Banks Thursday boosted
their prime interest rate from seven and one-half to
seven and three-fourths per cent, following the lead of
the First National Bank of Chicago, which made the
move earlier in the week. The prime rate is the interest
charged by a bank to its top corporate buyers.
 