FIRST LADY WATCHES GOLF Mrs. Jac
queline Kennedy pushes her hair back as she
watches the President drive off the 10th tee
during a round of golf at Newport, R.I. The
CITY TAX SQUEEZIi
New York's recent teachers' salary crisis underlines the grim
probability that we who live in this fabulous city will be hit by
another tax boost next year to cover 1964's record municipal
spending on top of the $200 million tax hike we received this
year to cover 1963's record municipal spending.
Mayor Wagner gave us a big "hint" of this prospect when he
warned last month of "the growing magnitude" of New York
City's financial problems and said, "I cannot give clear assur
ance that our present tax resources will be sufficient to meet
next year's needs." The pay increases given to the teachers to
avert a strike suggest that Wagner's hint may be a forecast. At
$3.1 billion, New York City's income is larger than the income
of the entire federal government in 1933, but it's still not suffi
cient to cover our expanding spending. We New Yorkers are
carrying a record budget, a record tax load, a record debt
but the trends continue ever up.
So preoccupied are most Americans with the spending budget
in Washington that they do not see in proper perspective what
is going on at their own front doors.
What's happening to us in New York is happening in cities
particularly big ones from coast to coast, and such excep
tions to the. uptrend as Cleveland and Boston are mighty few.
While federal spending outside of defense has crept moderately
higher in recent years, the financial scale of all city governments
has doubled in the past decade alone.
In 1962 revenues of our cities totaled $16.7 billion against $8.3
billion in 1952 and their spending hit $17.1 billion against $8.4 bil
lion. At the end of the 1962 fiscal year outstanding debts of the
cities amounted to $26.8 billion against $12.6 billion in 1952, and
their financial assets (cash and holdings of securities) reached
$14.1 billion against $6.9 billion. All the figures for 1962 are up 100
per cent or more over 1952. What's more, the spending total does
not include other local spending by counties, school districts,
special tax authorities, townships even though much of this
spending goes directly for city functions and services. If this
other spending were added, the scale of local governments now
would be well above $42 billion again double the 1952 level.
Where is the money going? Of course, a substantial per
centage goes to salaries, but it is most significant that while city
government payrolls have climbed around 50 per cent in the 10
year period, the number of municipal government employees on
a full-time equivalent basts has risen only about 28 per cent to
approximately 1.5 million.
The fact is the money is spent for an exceedingly wide va
riety of items, ranging from bricks to bod sheets, from airports
lo welfare, from police protection to sanitation. Just operating
the cities took $11,1 billion of the S17.1 billion spent in l!)ii2.
Construction of facilities, purchase of land, existing structures
and equipment took over $4.2 billion. Interest on city debt
absorbed more than S800 million. Spending on airports is up
over 300 per cent since 1952. on housing and urban renew al it's
up over 200 per cent, on libraries it's up over 100 per cent.
The smallest percentage increases have been chalked up for
health, hospitals and public welfare.
Where is the money coming from? Of the $16.7 billion in rev
enues, most come from taxes property and other taxes. Nearly
one-fifth came from sales by municipally operated utilities and
liquor stores. In recent years, cities have been obtaining increas
ing amounts from their own sales taxes.
Where are the cities heading? While some cities are putting
a lid on expansion of functions and services, the trend toward
expansion remains powerful, and since their taxing powers are
limited, cities the nation over are in a growing squeeze.
In New York City, as an illustration, we scream and squawk
each time Mayor Wagner proposes a new tax or "fee," but we
continue demanding new functions and services. We're hardly
unique.
With our city taxes going up, our state taxes going up, our
social security taxes going up, from what direction can we hope
for relief? Only from the federal government and that relief
is what the White House is urging the Congress to vote us right
now. .
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Mrs. Kennedy's mother and stepfather, Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss in Newport. (UPI)
All-Ouf Drive for
Tax Cut Launched
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
administration has launched an
all-out effort for congressional
approval before the end of the
year of an $11 billion tax cut
Treasury Secretary Douglas
Dillon says is "a matter of vital
national concern."
The measure, hammered out
by the House Ways and Means
Committee after seven months
of drafting, goes to the House
floor for debate Sept. 24, and a
favorable vote' is expected two
days later. It was considerably
different from the one President
Kennedy recommended last
January.
But lo speed action on the
cut, Dillon said that wilh one
possible exception the admin
istration would not ask the Sen
ate to change the House tax-cutting
bill.
Dillon's statement Sunday in
dicated that the administration
was eager to avoid lengthy,
time-consuming hearings in the
Senate Finance Committee. The
committee's chairman, Sen.
Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), is a
staunch foe of cutting taxes
without reducing federal spend
ing. Hatch Act Writer
Dies in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UPI)
Former Sen. Carl A. Hatch,
73, known as the originator of
legislation barring political ac
tivity by federal employees, died
Sunday.
Hatch had been hospitalized
since last week with pulmonary
emphysema, a chronic lung dis
ease. After 15 years in the Senate,
the Democratic lawmaker re
tired from politics in 1948 and
was appointed a federal district
judge the following year.
The Hatch acts, passed in 1939
and 1940 and modified by later
amendments, prohibit political
activity by federal employees
and state employees whose sal
aries are paid in part by federal
funds. The laws also limit spend
ing in national campaigns, but
these provisions have not been
enforced and Hatch later pro
posed public disclosure of party
expenditures instead of statu
tory limits.
Woman Faces Trial
In Death of Man
SEATTLE (UPD-Mrs. Bette
Turnbull, 52, was scheduled to
go on trial here today on a
charge of first degree murder
in connection with the fatal
shooting of a man in her Kirk
land home May 26.
Mrs. Turnbull was accused of
killing Robert L. Croome, 48,
who was a bartender in Mrs.
Turnbull's tavern in Bremerton.
At the time of the shooting,
Croome was staying in the
Kirkland home while Mrs. Turn
bull occupied an apartment in
Bremerton.
Investigating officers said
Croome was shot three limes
with a .38-caliber pistol follow
ing an argument over upkeep
of the Kirkland residence.
Mrs. Turnbull's ll-ycar-old
son, Archie Jr., witnessed the
shooting.
Port Authorities
Open Convention
PORTLAND (UPI) - The
American Association of Port
Authorities opened its 52nd an
nual convention here today.
About 350 persons are expect
ed to attend the four-day meet
ing, including delegations from
Japan, Great Britain and Bel
gium. Scheduled to speak at the con
vention are Ryuji Takeuchi, Jap
anese ambassador lo the U. S.,
and Sen. E. L. Bartlett (D-Alav
ka).
Takeuchi speaks Thursday and
Bartlett Tuesday.
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ZURICH. Switzerland (UPD
Hans Gtihl turned his restaurant
into a British pub for a trade
fair. Now he wants to keep it
that way wilh one exception.
"The darlboard is coming out
too dangerous," he said Sunday.
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The Underworld Canary I
Joseph Valachi Getting Stage Fright
As Time for Performance Draws Near
Bv HARRY FEROUSON
WASHINGTON (UPI - Jos
eph Valachi, the canary of the
underworld, is getting ready to
sing in public for the first time
in a command performance be
fore the Senate rackets commit
tee. Despite a year's rehearsal,
the star performer is reliably re
ported to be suffering from a
bad case of stage fright. He
fears criticism of his perform
ance, now expected to be around
Sept. 20, could take the form of
bullets.
Valachi, a stocky, swarthy
Italian, is 58 years old. He has
committed three murders, pos
sibly four, and has some knowl
edge of about 30 others. H i s
most recent murder was com
mited in Atlanta penitentiary
where he was serving a term
for violation of the narcotics
laws. A new convict showed up
one day, Valachi decided t h e
man was going to kill him and
he took direct action by beat
ing his fellow convict to death
with a lead pipe.
Decided To Tell All I
Then Valachi decided to tell
all about what he called Cosa
Nostra, which translates into
"our business" or "our thing."
It is a loose confederation of
gangs in larger American cities,
and in its organizational struc
ture resembles the Mafia which
sprang up in Sicily late in the
18th Century. About a year ago
Valachi was taken out of At
lanta penitentiary and for a
year he was under maximum
security at Fort Monmouth, N.
J., where he could sing full
time, uninterrupted by the rig
orous schedule of a federal pri
son. Explains Criminal Code
Much of the advance publici
ty about Valachi has created the
impression that once he has told
his story to Sen. John McClel-
lan's rackets committee the
walls of the underworld will
come tumbling down and then
prison population of the United
States will shortly be increased
by all the notorious gangsters
in the United States. Such
wishful thinking ignores the fac
tor of Valachi's personality and
some basic provisions of t h e
U. S. criminal code.
"The Valachi case," says
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy,
"represents the biggest intelli
gence break - through yet in
combating organized crime and
racketeering in the United
States."
The key words in that state
ment are "intelligence break
through." The problem now is
to take the list of names Va
lachi has supplied to federal
agents, (he details of crimes he
knows about and forge them
into evidence that will enable
prosecutors to get indictments
and convictions. Many generals
have been in possession of ex
cellent intelligence about the en
my and still lost the battle.
In 1960 Valachi was sentenced
to 15 years for violation of the
federal narcotics laws. He join
ed the organization in 1930 and
thus he has information of some
sort or other spanning 30 years. '
But everything he has told
about prior to September, 1958, '
is useless so far as obtaining
federal convictions is concerned.
Limitations Statute Key
The statute of limitations pro
vides that a man cannot be pros
ecuted for a crime after five
years have elapsed. For income :
tax evasion the statute is six
years. There is no statute of lim
itations on murder, but murder j
is outside the jurisdiction of Mc
Clellan and the attorney gener
al. It will be up to local pros
ecutors to turn Valachi's infor
mation into indictments and
Rockefeller To Tell
Nomination Plans
NEW YORK (UPI) - Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller said Sun
day that he would announce by
the end of the year, perhaps in
November, whether he will run
for the 1964 Republican presi
dential nomination.
Rockefeller also said that he
would rather see Sen. Barry
Goklwalor (It-Ariz.) in Ihe White
House than President Kennedy.
Goldwater is seen by many as
Rockefeller's chief rival for the
GOP nomination. j
The New York governor spe
cifically praised Goldwalcr's
competence in the field of fiscal
integrity.
"1 think Senator Goldwater
has taken some very clear and
important positions on the pri
vate enlerprise system and its
role in the nation," he said.
. On the other hand, Rockefeller
said he thought that Kennedy
does not have a proper under
standing of the private enter
prise system and its relation to
government.
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convictions for murder. Valachi
apparently has considerable
knowledge about the narcotics
traffic in the United States, but
unless the violation happened in
the last five years nobody is
going to prison on the basis of
his testimony.
The rash of such motion pic
tures as "Little Caesar," "Scar
face" and "Public Enemy" sev
eral years ago created a folk
lore about hoodlums which
many persons still accept as
gospel. Some of that folk lore
has now gathered around Va
lachi. It seems to be generally
accepted as a fact that the un
derworld has offered $100,000 to
anybody who kills him.
Calls Price 'Scuttlebutt'
Who said so? Nobody has
placed an ad in the papers
making the offer. Gangsters do
not distribute hand bills to be
posted in public places. This re
porter's search for verification
of the $100,000 offer led to the
Department of Justice where a
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man who knows what he is talk
ing about said, "I think it's just
scuttlebutt." Further research
indicated the whole thing was
started by a casual speculation
made while some people were
discussing various angles of the
Valachi case.
The purpose of a congression
al investigation, such as Mc
Clcllan will convene for Vala
chi, is to gather Information
helpful in drawing up new laws.
But in the first year of the Ken
nedy administration a set of
five laws was passed giving the
Justice Department new weap
ons for the fight against crime
and racketeers. In addition,
Atty. Gen. Kennedy has estab
lished an information pool for
all the 25 federal investigative
agencies and last year prosecu
tions for racketeering increased
300 per cent over 1961.
So the McClellan committee
is unlikely to come up with
much new legislation as a re
sult of listening to Valachi.
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Some persons contend the hear
ings will be worth while be
cause they will educate the pub
lic in the ways of the under
world. There isn't any doubt
but that the committee and Va
lachi will get missive world
wide publicity.
Crying Need
Some persons deplore that. In
cluding Milton R. Wessel, for
mer chief of the special group
on organized crime, who wrote
to the New York Times: "It is
difficult to understand why the
press has been chosen as the
forum through which Valachi's
story is to be revealed rather
than the courts ... the crying
need is for judicial convictions
that will stick on appeal. Let
ting the underworld know the
intimate details of Valachi's tes
timony now is much like broad
casting the timing, strength and
logistics of a future attack to a
military enemy."
Next: What Valachi had been
telling.
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East Coast Gets Heavy Rains, Seas f
By United Press International
Summer sloshed into its final
full week today with heavy
rains and seas running high
against the East coast,
As much as 3',j inches of rain
drenched the Atlantic, coast
from Delaware bay to Cape
Fear. Hard rains also . fell
across the Great Plains and
along the Gulf coast.
Strong winds whipped up the
Atlantic and sent heavy surf
crashing along the coastline of
the Carolina and Virginia. The
Weather Bureau warned . of
above normal tides along the
mid-Atlantic coast throughout
the .day.
Tides also ran high at some
points along the Southern Cali
fornia coast. Eleven-foot waves
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AGADIR, Morocco (UPI) -The
Moroccan Press Service
said Algerian soldiers infiltrat
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and tried to incite the Moroccan
population of the eastern prov
inces of Tarfaya, Agadir and
Ouarzazate to rebel.
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