JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6.—
(*)-—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,050 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the National Aeronautic association

(fimmtinwauatdt as Wann © fiat ® +
 WEATHER FORECAST,
Montana: Unsettled Satur-
day and Sunday; little change
in temperature,
 
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS it has spent
nearly $2 million improving President Nixon's humes 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 Clemente,
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 improving the Western White Ilouse at
San Clemente since Nixan bought it in 1969,

THE HOUSE LATE THURSDAY VOTED (to create an
independent corporation to handle the free jegal services
program fur the poor, but added a series of restrictions on
what lawyers can do for their poverty clients. ‘The measure,
as passed and sent to the Senate, would bar the attorneys
from engaging in cases involving school busing, school
integration, abertion and governmental lobbying. Final
passage came on a 276 to 95 roli call vote.
 