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Tuesday, December 21, 1954 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon SECTION II Page 7 Incoming Members of Congress May Cut Taxes By DOUGLAS WASHINGTON I Incoming members of Congress show some inclination to reduce individual in come taxes by rnising personal ex emptions and stop right there with tax cuts. A majority of senators and House members taking a definite stand in an Associated Press poll favors hifiher personal exemptions. But the margin is less than 3.2 among the 128 members replying. And even should the 841h Congress de cide to case up on taxes on individ uals, it may wait until 1956. Among lawmakers responding to the questionnaire, there is heavy support for President Eisenhower's bid to postpone apain a reduction in the corporation income tax now set automatically for April 1. There is somewhat lesr enthusiastic back ing for his request to put off a cut In .excise isoles) taxes sched uled for the same date', but enough to indicate Congress may go along on a bipartisan basis. The picture on both corporate and excise taxes could change, since many lawmakers still aren't committing themselves on them. Congressional opinion at this point appears to bo weighted against any major changes in the massive tax revision law passed last summer and against amend ing or repealing a controversial cut in the tax on dividends. Mem bers are 53-41 against -tampering with the revision law and nearly two to one against changing the dividend tax. On a separate 1955 issue which will be handled by the same con gressional committees that process tax bills, both Democrats and Republicans lined up overwhelm ingly behind Eisenhower's propos al that Congress give him more power to reduce tariffs on a re ciprocal basis with other nations. The poll produced replies from 128 of the 531 members of Con gress, from 41 of the 48 states. Some legislators omitted or gave only partial answers to questions on taxes. About one out of six said the government's budgetary end financial situation would guide his decision on tax legislation. Some said they would vote for tax reductions only if the budget is balanced or nearly so, and a balance isn't in sight. The administration now expects to run nearly five billion dollars in the red during the present fiscal year. It figures that govern ment spending will exceed income by around three billions in the next fiscal year starting July 1. Should Congress let excise and corporate income taxes drop as provided under present law. next year's deficit would go up by some three billions more. The excise taxes apply to such big sellers as gasoline, liquor, cigarettes and cars. , The poll showed that 12, senators and 53 House members definitely favor keeping the corporate income tax rate at the present 52 per cent level instead of letting it fall to 47 per cent. Only one senator and 19 House members want it to come down. Senators are divided 10-3 East Salem Has Two Programs EAST SALEM - Two Christ mas programs are planned for East Salem schools this week. Wednesday, December 22 at 7:30 p. m. All pupils of both Swegle and Auburn schools will take part in the program. Parents and friends are invited. Thursday Washington School Mothers' club members voted to provide Santa with treats Tor the school children Thursday, just ociorc the closing of school for vacation. Harvey Wright, superintendent ot Chcmawa Indian School, was guest speaker ior the meeting Thursday with special music by an octette from Willamette Uni versity school of music and the pupils of Mrs. Genevieve Curry ana .miss Eva Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin O'Brien, Lansing Ave. arc moving this week to Bcllingham, Wash., 2125 Victor St. He has accepted a pos ition with an oil company and will be working there. Mrs. O'Brien was a memner of the executive council of Washington School Mo thers club and Friday the board gave her a surprise party with gifts. Her guests were Mrs. Ed win Butler. Mrs. Fred Marlow, Mrs. Don Maus, Mrs. Emery Pad gett. Mrs. William Schmidt, Mrs. Lyle Kingston and Mrs. Dale Mali coat. A new 411 club of Washington school community girls was or ganied the past week with Mrs. Fred Smalley leader, it is a cloth ing club and one of the new Teen Fashion" clubs. Officers are pros' Went, Marilyn Page: vice presl dent. Darlcnc Clark: secretary, .lackie Smalley; news reporter, Connie Ashton: song leader. Shar on Suran and yell leader Marilyn Benidict. They are Junior Hish Eirls and will meet with Mrs. Smalley right after school hours. Guests for a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. A. R. Tartar on Garden Rd Friday afternoon were Mrs. Charles Siegmund, Mrs. Floyd De LaDD. Mrs. Paul Lynch, Mrs. Marv Swinale. Mrs. Ben Brau?ht, Mrs. A. C. Schaffer, Mrs Jess Hntch. Mrs. Ralph Werner. Mrs. Harry ,Iennin?s. Mrs. Earl Wood. Mrs. ilichard Wicklander, and Mrs. William Hartley. PROGRESS MCALLEN. Tex. UP-ow they've !K a radish threshOT. It skates '. the aw-, aid ttpc tte fi Vmici mi ir washing aao B. CORNELL nnd House members 37-19 in favor of extending present excise taxes. On the question of increasing personal exemptions, senators .vent on record U-3 for a boost and House members by a close 34-32. Most 0f the support for higher exemptions came from Democrats, most of the opposition from the GOP. That points to another rous ing fight along party lines, as in the last Congress, if and when the issue comes to a showdown. The personal exemption for a taxpayer and each of his depend ents now is $600. Of 40 members naming a specific figure, exactly half said the exemption ought to go up to $700. Six others spoke up for an Increase of $100 to $200 and eight for a $200 boost. From there, the figures ranged up to a proposed $600 increase. The legislators split 49-26 against amending the dividend provision of the 1954 tax law, which exempts from taxation the first $50 of in come an individual receives from dividends on stock and allows 4 per cent of dividends above $50 to be deducted from the tax bill rather than from gross income. Six senators were against chang ing this arrangement, six for: 43 House members against, 20 for. While Democrats battled the provision fiercely in the last Con gress, and some carried the fight into the November election cam paign, Senate Democrats stood only 5-4 in the poll for amending H and Horse Democrats 16-8. Poll participant expressing a definite opinion divided 85-13 In favor of a three-year extension in some form of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. Newberg Man Killed In Arizona Crash CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (-Harry A. Perkins, 79, of Newberg, Ore., was killed Monday in a head-on collision nine miles west of here. Highway Patrolman C. D. Tyre said Perkins' car and one driven by Jose Lopez Villa, 48, of Stan- fieid, Ariz., smashed together. Villa's car had moved into the left lane to pass another vehicle, Tyre said. Mrs. Perkins suffered two brok- was and all thank, pleasure greeting each man came . and from Hpjj bookkeepers, knew, to you. loud and clear, , . . and Or, to put it another way, the peo ple of the 69 statewide banking offices of The First National Bonk of Portland wish you and yourj a very merry Christmas end heppy, pvuptKtM Yew I Labor Again Giving Party A children'! Christmas pa.ty sponsored by organized labor of Salem will be held for the sixth consecutive year at North Salem high school auditorium Wednes day night, starting at 7:30. Besides a visit from Santa Claus a variety show, singing and a motion picture show will be offered for entertainment. Among entertainers will be a North Sa lem high .trio, Helen Lewis, Bcv Hamilton and Jan McAlpine: Kay Johnson, violinist, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Loren John son; Bill Bartlett, tap dancer, of Leslie junior high; Angles Schnider and Anabelle Day, of West Salem, blackface comedy; Jack Crater and Clarence Sa browskl, novelty music; Dick Eng dahl, pantomime. Lyle Johnson will be master of ceremonies, and Don Smith, Uni versity of Oregon student, will again be organist. Rev. Kevin Murphy will give the invocation. Mayor Al Loucks and Assistant City School Superintendent Charles D. Schmidt will speak briefly. E. S. Benjamin will pre side. The party committee is Alfred E. Chlvers, chairman; Herbert E. Barker, Mrs. Mary Chapman, Mrs. Dorthy Wills and Mrs. Em ma McDougal. The party is a public affair. Chemull Woman Killed in Collision BEND (UP)-A Chemult, Ore., woman, Mildred Beckes, was killed outright last night when the car in which she was riding collided with the rear of a flatbed truck on Highway 97 at Lava Butte, 10 miles south of here. In serious condition in a Bend hospital is George Thomas Epper son, Chemult, who suffered severe head injuries. Another passenger, Lloyd C. Hauptman, Chemult, was hospitalized with cuts about the face and head. Driver of the truck, Roger An derson, Princville, Ore., was not hurt. en legs and was reported In criti cal condition. the night through the bank, were asking just whom for fc making and joy, hen out in. the lobby, loan officers . . and typists question J the same. compartment El guards . . . trust department gn sixty-nine branches that they had a message And so they all a Happy C J 1 APPOINTED t. ;? G. Carroll Meeks. appointed member of Country Banks Operations Commission of National-Bankers Association. Appointment to Carroll Meeks G. Carroll Alecks, president of the Willamette Valley bank, has received notice of appointment as a member of the Country Bunk Operations commission of the American Bankers association, which has 17 members, Meeks is the only Oregon man on the commission, which has only three njombers west of the Rocky mountains. He is vice pres ident of the Independent Bank ers association of the 12th Fed eral Reserve District and a mem ber of the committee on legisla tion and taxation of the Oregon Bankers association. Meeks' appointment was by Homer Livingston, president of the National Bankers association and president of the First Nat ional Bank of Chicago.. ADVERTISING PAYS DENVER OB-Frank Ross, 32, showed up In the downtow'n area carrying his young daughter and a sign pleading for a job. Two days later he picked a $112-a-week oil field position from among 25 of fers. Snow can contain as much as 35 parts of air to one part of ice. before Christmas, the tellers dj3 0 they should their year Sm while meeting and or boy. and clerks From offices, vaults, and the IP the managers to sang NTs in tones "Merry Christmas New Year!" T4 F1MST MATIPWALBANK OV ttr i mm McAuliffe to Lead in Europe WASHINGTON (UP)-Lt. Gen Anthony C. McAuliffe. famed hero of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, today was named com manding general of the U. S. Army in Europe. McAuliffe will succeed Gen. William M. Hoge. a combat vet eran of both world wars and Ko rea. Hoge will retire from the Army at the end ot Janunry after more than 36 ears of service. McAuliffe is now commander of the Seventh Army in Germany. McAuliffe won fame during World War II when he replied "Nuts" to a German demand that he surrender his troops at Bas tocne during the Battle of the Bulge. Middle Grove Has Pageant MIDDLE GROVE The Christ mas program for the Middle Grove Sunday School was given at the school Sunday night. Leslie Swink, school superintendent, was in charge and gave the program welcome. Pianist was Anne Kauf mann and the invocation and benediction were given by Rev. F. E. Fisher. Members of the pro cessional singers were from the junior high and high classes. The reader was Mrs. William Scharf; the beginners department numbers were directed by Mrs. Clyde Kuonzc; the primary by Mrs. Vera Bassett and the "Carol ers" from the junior department by Mrs. Harry Wilson and Marvia Schwentkcr. Taking part in the play were Lawercnce Britton as Abel; Johnny Crum, Noah; Tom my Latham, Abraham; Mason Burnham, Moses; Davey Miller, Isaac; Danny Miller, David; Mich ael Van Dussen, the prophet; Leigh Pickerel was Mary; Michael Britton, Joseph, and the sheph ards were Richard Lloyd. Law rence Britton and Dennie Scharf. Soloists for special music were Miss Gay Blackman, Miss Cynthia Kaufmann, Mrs. Vera Bassett and Mrs. Leslie Swink. Serving on the committee for treats were Mrs. John Van Laa ncn and Harry Wilson. one of , their carry to all SAIEM BRANCH PORTLAND uiu o(con roorrnf" nMiM Mrgvt Oscar M. Olsen Dies; In Coma Since Sept. 7 Oscar Martin Olsen, 70, un conscious since September 7 when his car and an ambulance collided, died at a local hospital Sunday to become Marion county's 21st traffic fatality of 1954. The death brings the number of persons who died in traffic acci dents in 1954 to exactly the same number that was recorded in the entire year o( 1952 but the number is still far below the record 36 deaths which were caused by auto mobile accidents in 1948. In lfc3 there were 17 deaths from traffic accidents. The accident which was event ually to claim Mr. Olson's life oc curred at the intersection of Pine and Broadway streets when the car in which he and his wife were riding collided with a Willamette ambulance. The ambulance at the time of the accident was heading toward the scene of an accident which took two lives. Mr. Olsen, who lived at 2485 Chemawa road, had been a cus todian at the Keizer school since 1944. He was born at Willow Lake. S. D., March 20, 1884, and had lived in Salem since October, 1942. He married Bessie Bale Wold at Willow Lake. S. D., May 14, 1907. Mr. Olsen was a member of St. Christmas Piano Causes Tragedy GLASGOW. Scotland (fl-Archle Logan got eight friends to help him carry a grand piano he had bought his family for Christmas up to his third-floor apartment. Just below the third landing the stairs collapsed. Two men jumped clear. Logan, the other six men and the 500-pound piano plunged 40 feet. Four of the seven men were trapped under the piano. 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