'Hill' Snag Holds Up Vet Funds
More than 38,000 recently discharged jobless servicemen have been cut off from unemployment compensation because of a Congressional economy fight.</br></br>Money to continue their payments through June 30, the end of the fiscal year,- has been approved by both houses but has been tied up for two weeks in a House-Senate conference by a fight over other issues in what is titled the ÛÏUrgent Supplemental Appropriation Bill.Û Last of the jobless funds for veterans and unemployed former Federal employes dried up about a week ago.</br></br>The House, in passing the supplemental, approved without change the $1.2 billion re-1 quested by the Administration for public assistance, Medicaid and jobless funds. The Senate added to this $75 million for summer ghetto jobs, and $25 million for anti-poverty programs, and $90 million in aid for school districts impacted by Federal installations.</br></br>This provided the first confrontation in the 1968 econemy fight between the hardline budget-cutters in the House and the more flexible Senators.</br></br>House members refused to approve one penny of the Senate increases at the first and only meeting of the conferees nearly two weeks ago. Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.), conference chairman, refused to call another meeting until there was some sign of compromise. Hill said yesterday that House conferees should at least agree to take the Senate items back and let the House vote on them.