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set up similar individual retirement pro grams but the maximum tax-deductible 'V \out any fanfare contribution would be SI.500 a year. The bill also would set minimum stand ards for such key pension program fea tures as vesting, meaning guaranteeing arte Tlms $*rviet 4 -- Without a trace of and without a word of ; of Representatives' imy formally ended yester- no precedent for the House's voting to ac cept a report by one of its committees. A judiciary committee official said that the word "accepts" was chosen with care because the House leaders did not want "anything that appears to be a back t o a worker a nonforfeitable right to a share of the company's retirement fund even if he loses or leaves that job before he retires, and funding, meaning the amounts a boss must have in the plan so it has enough to provide the promised benefits. door vote on impeachment." . Generally, employers would pick one it had begun 10 months was a private agreement both parties about how to le action was taken in the liamentary language that lay after day to conduct When Nixon resigned Aug. 9, there was no doubt that a House vote for im peachment would have been overwhelming. The three representatives voting against the resolution were Earl F. Landgrebe, R-Ind., G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery, of three alternative minimum methods for vesting -- giving full vesting after 10 years of service but nothing before then; open with 25% after five years and increase by steps to full vesting after 15 years' service: or give 50% vesting when age and years of service equal 45 with the final 50% in the D-Miss., and Otto E. Passman, D-La. next five years. Rep. Peter W. Rodino man of the House Judi- . rose and announced: ubmit a privileged report Resolution 803." PLAIN DEALER, Wednesday, August 21, 1974 on gave the committee ;stigate whether former i M. Nixon should be im- 3 cities are high in birth of the House, Rep. Carl responded in the same barely audible voice that treds of other times when en filed routine reports. ' he said, "will be reendar and ordered to be rt Is not routine. Running ds, it sets forth the eviidiciary committee found impeachment.and remo- : resigned, this document ed the basis for the first :nt debate in more than a e House Democratic and :s, working with Rodino tee members, decided on :ently never used before. ant, Rep. Robert W. Kasasin, a ranking Democrat said afterward, that "the atter not seem unre- P. O'Neill Jr. of Massanocratic leader, offered a ending the judiciary comrrk and accepting its re- Rhodes of Arizona, the r, took the necessary parof demanding a second, he, the resolution was apof 412 to 3. agraph of the resolution ouse "accepts tire report" Jdiciary committee. arliamentarian, William hat there was apparently defects; chemical is hit By George P. Rasanen Plain Deader Bureau nite link between the high number of de fects and vinyl chloride. WASHINGTON -- An abnormally high "We're just starting to look into it." rate of birth defects has been recorded in children born in Painesville. Avon Lake and' Ashtabula, all northern Ohio communi ties with manufacturing plants using vinyl chloride. -The Ohio Department of Health is in Dr. Infante said. "There is something in those areas that appears to be related to more malformations at birth." He called the preliminary information that was taken from a study of birth records crude data. The department is looking into the kinds of malformations vestigating preliminary findings of a study showing that for every 1,000 live births in each community, 22 in Avon Lake. 20 in Painesville and 18 in Ashtabula have de fects. The average for Ohio is 11.4. found among babies. Although Dr. Infante declined to be more specific, the depart ment presumably will be checking into the backgrounds and occupations of the par ents of the babies born with malformations. The study came to light when the in dustrial union department of the national AFL-CIO told a congressional committee it fears that excessive birth defects might be related to plant use of vinyl chloride. ' The AFL-CIO, which has been stepping up efforts to negotiate for stronger regula tions to protect the health and safety of workers, had initially asked the health de partment to inquire into rates of fetal mortality in the titree cities. Information on the birth defects has been turned over to the House Committee o n Interstate and Foreign Commerce, which is considering a tougher law regulat ing chemicals used in industry. The chemical, used in the production of plastics, has been under attack by the union as a possible cause of liver cancer. The federal Food and Drug Administration has recently banned aerosal sprays using Painesville has two plants that use vi nyl chloride. Robintech, Inc. and Uniroyal Inc. Ashtabula has a Genera! Tire & Rub ber Co. plant and Avon Lske has a B.F. Goodrich Co. plant that uses the chemical. the chemical. ,: Peter Eomniarito, chairman of the AFL-CIO's committee on worker health and safety, argued that evidence shows that wives and children can become ex Dr. Peter F. Infante of the Ohio De posed to vinyl chloride because workers partment of Health's division of chronic carry the chemical home on their clothes diseases, however, said there was no defi and bodies. 235S9CC1