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Mel Allen Tops
Valachi's Diction
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
World Series began this week
right at a time when the current
Senate crime hearings were get
ting really interesting.
This presented a conflict
which I foolishly tried to re
solve by keeping up with both
at the same time.
I spent the day shuttling back
and forth between the Senate
press gallery, which has a tele
vision set, and the Senate cau
cus room, where the investiga
ting subcommittee was at work.
In one place, the attraction
was the World Series. In the
other, it was a hearing locally
known as "sing along with Va
lachi." In one place, the Dodgers
were murdering the Yankees.
In the other, the Cosa Nostras
were murdering the Mafias.
In one place, Mell Allen, the
broadcaster, was giving a
play-by-play fcount of baseball-type
warfare. In the oth
er, Joseph Valachl, the under
world informer, was giving a
shot-by-shot account of gangland-type
warfare.
After awhile, this began ot
get a little confusing. For in
stance, when the Dodgers were
at bat in the second inning, a
reporter stuck his head in the
gallery and asked "Who's on
first?"
"Lucky Luciano," I replied.
WHAT THE TAX BILL WOULD MEAN TO YOU-I
(First in a Scries of Ten)
The odds are that the massive tax reduction bill will become
law by the end of 1963 or early in 1964 with the changes retro
active to Jan. 1, 1964.
The bill which would give American taxpayers $11 billion
in annual tax savings when fully effective in 1965 was passed by
the House on Sept. 25. It is now in the Senate and unquestion
ably it will be many weeks before the Senate completes its work
on the measure and reaches agreement with the House on any
differences which may arise. But it's a safe bet that President
Kennedy will sign whatever bill Congress finally sends to. the
White House.
Thus the chance that this bill will become law by Jan. 1
makes it isrporiant for all of us to know two things:
(1) Just exactly wnat tax DreaKs coma we expecc lor our
selves under the bill? And
(2) What should each of us do, or avoid doing, between now
and Jan. 1 to make sure that we don't lose out on any tax saving
opportunities or get hurt by any new tax pitfalls which may
become law on New Year's Day?
The widely publicized rate cuts for both individuals and corp
orations are only part of the 1963 tax bill. Also in the bill are
special provisions creating new kinds of tax breaks which could
save far more in taxes for many of us than any of the rate cuts
would.
Here's one illustration of such a special break. A person
over 65 who sells his house at a profit and doesn't buy another
might not pay any tax at all on (he profit if lhelli:l bill be
comes law. But this could be so only If he sells his house after
Dec. 31, 1963. It could not possibly be so If he sells It (luring
1963.
This example dramatizes, the type of tax saving information
you'll read in this scries. U you are 65 or older and you expect to
sell your house at a profit without replacing it, you should know
right now that you might save substantial amounts in taxes by
postponing your sale until 1964. If you must sell in 1963 because
you otherwise would lose a customer or would not get your price,
then fine sell in 1963. But there will be thousands ot 65 or older
homeowners who can wait to sell in 1964.
You cannot be certain that the 1963 tax bill will becom.'! law
and thereby make your profit tax-free. No one can guarantee
this. But if you can hold off on your sale until 1964, you put your
self in a position to get the lax break If the bill docs become law.
By selling in the remaining weeks of 1963, you eliminate the possi
bility of getting the tax break. The knowledge that the special
provision on home sales is in the proposed measure should in
fluence your decision.
Of course, this series will oxplnin In simplest form how you
would save under the rate cuts in the House-passed bill.
Even more significant, though. It will explain what Ihe
new tax breaks would he and what you should do or nnt dn
now In order to qualify for them. The 1963 lax bill also umild
rrdurp or cut out certain existing tax breaks. Agnln, ynu
mould know what, if anything, you can do In protect yourself
iRiiinsl the possible loss ot these tax nrnriMs ami this series
will help you on this.
The bill passed by the House is more than :UK) pages long.
Over the months it was being prepared in the House, so many
yes-no-maybe stories were written about it thut yuu're the rare
newspaper reader indeed It you have a clear understanding of
what its provisions would mean to you.
Thus, in this series I will submit the proposed changes most
actively affecting tens of millions of us, including changes in
capital g.ins, deductions for stale taxes, casually losses, child
care expenses, mical expenses, sick pay, the dividend credit
and exclusion and group life insurance.
Next: The tax rate cuts and Ihe new minimum standard deduction.
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"Nothitif Makas Clathas Claan at a Laundry"
MONDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1963
Actually, of course, it was
"Moose" Skowron.
Meanwhile, back in the cau
cus room, the name of Gaeta-
no (Three Finger Brown) Luc
chese was injected into t h e
crime hearing.
"Gee, I thought 'Three Fin
ger Brown' was a coach for the
Yankees," I told a colleague.
"No, you're thinking of 'Yogi'
Berra," he said.
If I had to choose between
Allen's baseball comenlary
and Valachi's crime recita
tion, I would be hard pressed.
Personally, I thought that Al
len had the better diction. He
may bobble a word now and
then, but he wouldn't be likely
to identify a famous New York
street as "Pock Avenue," as
Valachi did.
On the other hand, J would
give Valachi the edge over Al
len in the matter of phraseolo
gy. At one point, the ex-mob
ster described a character nam
ed Charlie Jones as being
sort of businessman. Like he
ran crap games."
Valachi was definitely weak
on geography, however. He tes
tified that he had never heard
of Omaha, Neb., and that he
had traveled from New York
to Arkansas by way of Chicago.
If Allen can't navigate better
than that, he will never make
it to Los Angeles in time for the
third game.
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Soldiers of
By LYI.E C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
United Press International
The GIs who hit the Norman
dy beaches and fought their way
cross country to help liberate
Parii would have trouble now
recognizing the petulant voice
of LaBelle France.
The word now is that France
has little time for the United
States and, more specifically,
feels no need for U. S. protec-
Goldwater Due in
Eugene Saturday
EUGENE (UPI) - Sen. Barry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.) is expected
to arrive here about 4 p.m.
Saturday, three hours before he
speaks at McArthur Court on
the University of Oregon cam
pus, a GOP official said today.
Both Goldwater and New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller are
scheduled to speak Saturday at
the Western Republican confer
ence, but at diltcrent times.
Rockefeller s speech is sched'
uled at noon at McArthur Court.
Foster Anderson, co-chairman
of the committee on arrange
ments for the conference, said
Goldwater planned a news con
ference at 6 p.m. at McArthur
Court's Lettermen's Room. The
Arizona senator also plans a talk
at the Lane county fairgrounds
following his McArthur Court
speech.
Goldwater is scheduled to fly
to Portland by commercial air
line and take a chartered plane
to Eugene Saturday. Rockefeller
arrives in Eugene late Friday.
The three-day Western Repub
lican conference starts Thurs
day. Roseburg Man To
Head Oregon Nurses
ONTARIO (UPI) - James
Hall of Roseburg has been
elected the first male president
of the Oregon Nurses associa
tion.
He was elected to succeed
Barbara Browne of Portland at
the closing session of the asso
ciation's convention here. His
term is for two years.
Other officers elected were
Tina Boycc, Portland, first vice
president; Hannah Borgers, Eu
gene, second vice president;
Barbara Hiatt, halem, secre
tary, and Marie Wetzel, Port
land, treasurer.
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LONDON (UPI) - Raymond
Blackmail, editor of Jane's
Fighter Ships, said Sunday that
a shortage of 20,000 men m tne
Royal Navy has kept 129 war
ships out of full commission.
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Normandy Invasion
tion. The French don't want
any direction, either, from the
Americans.
"Scram, boys," says LaBelle
France to Uncle Sam, "beat it!"
Or, anyway, that is what Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle is say
ing in the series of speeches he
is delivering now. Le Grand
Charles spurned further U. S.
protection in a speech delivered
in the last week of September
in Belley. Only last week De
Gaulle's representative at t h e
International Monetary Confer
ence in Washington, D.C. op
posed policies designed to help
the United States and other
countries with balance of pay
ments problems.
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i Recently, too, De Gaulle hap-
pjiy volunteered to interfere
with U. S. efforts to hold the
anti Communist line in Viet
Nam. De Gaulle, in short, is
conductiong himself as though
he were a majority stockholder
in Western civilization and not
merely the president of a weak
sister who would have flunked
both 20th century tests of nation
hood but for the armed assist
ance of the British, their do
minions and the United States.
The last time the French went
it alone and triumphed was dur
ing the Napoleonic wars. Even
Napoleon's magic finally ran
out of white rabbits. In 1870-71,
the French tried to handle Prus
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were eating rats. They had bet'
ter luck in 1914-18 when British
and Americans arms helped
fend off the Germans.
In 1940 the French collapsed
politically, morally and militar
ily under pressure. They got
their country back again court
esy of British and American
young manhood and the Allied
taxpayers.
De Gaulle stalls on coopera
tion within the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. His pre
decessors contributed mightily
to the chaos in Southeast Asia
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after. He seems not much to
have changed.
Le Grand Charles' bold spurn
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be had in writing, if possible.
And thereafter, the United
States should seek some system
of collective security in which
De Gaulle and France would be
left as once proposed to "stew
in her own juices."
The trouble is that no such
collective security without
France could be devised,
Grench geography and natural
endowments being what they
are. But if there is any isola
tion sentiment in the United
States, De Gaulle will keep it
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