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Sledge Hammer Tax Methods
The more one looks at pending proposals
for alleged "lax reform," the more some of
these schemes take on a fraudulent appear
ance. U.S. News & World Report tells about
one such scheme in a late issue. It has to do
with the cattle industry. Without going into
detail, It concerns the fact that losses result
ing from cattle raising which is a highly
speculative activity can sometimes be off
set against other income. The effect of the
proposed legislation, says the magazine, ". . .
would be to discourage any city person with
an income of more than $15,000 a year from
investing in cattle or other farm enterprises.
There also is a Treasury idea to apply a double
tax on property at death first a tax on the
capital gain, if any, then an estate lax on
what's left."
So, to go on, ". . . the Government is
EEC
Three months have passed since France's
President Charles de Gaulle blocked Britain's
entry into the European Common Market and
thereby sharply slowed the movement toward
European unity.
A satisfactory alternative course has not
yet been found.
The urge toward unity still has great
vigor.' Eager proponents of an expanded Com
mon Market have been re-examining motives
and methods ever since Dc Gaulle dropped his
January boriOshell.
Holland's Sicco Mansholt, vice president
of the Commission of the European Economic
Community and the architect of Common Mar
ket agricultural policy, is one who doggedly
insists that a unity embracing Britain and
others must surely be achieved one day.
Nevertheless, judging from his recent
comment in Washington, he appears to have
no answer as to how and when so long as
De Gaulle bars Britain's way. .
He is one among many European figures
who do not believe there can be progress on
De Gaulle's evident terms a closed conti
IN WASHINGTON
New
By RALPH dc TOLEDANO
In a free economy, the rise
and fall of prices arc dictated
by supply and demand. In a
controlled wartime economy, the
Congress puts aside the laws of
the market placo and freezes
wages and prices. The Constitu
tion sanctions wartime price con
trol because it realizes that un
der crisis the government must
take slops which would be con
sidered extra-legal in peacetime.
The Kennedy Administration,
subscribing to the theory that
every day brings calamity, has
decided to impose its own sys
tem of price controls. If the Pres
ident smiles, then prices can go
up. If he frowns, then beware. A
year ago, the steel industry or
a substantial segment of it at
tempted to raise Us prices. Ask
not whether this was necessary
or not. In the past, if prices
were increased beyond what the
market would stand, then great
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
n " what n.imj fflil Ihe an.
rlents refer to the cedar of lh
anon? A llio tree oi uoa, nccause
the wood went into the roof beams
of many of Hie celebrated temples.
Q How many airraids art
known to exist?
A-More than 1,500. The largest
is Ceres. 500 miles in diameter.
Q From what period dor (he
oldest papyrus map date?
A-The Turin papyrus of an un
identified Egyptian gold mine Is
dated 1320 B.C.
Q What do the Four Hon mr n
of the Apocalypse represent?
A Conquest, slaughter, famine
and death. ,
tt-ln what country were the
oldest known mammoth bones
found?
A-Mammoth bones three mil
lion years old have been found in
India.
Q Which planet makes the
hirtJ't orbit around the sun?
A Mercury.
AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Orrgon
Unity Must Come
Frontier Loses Face
corporations went out of busi
ness. It was recognized that no
one could inflate the price lag
beyond what the market would
bear. Jlr. Kennedy, however, in
tervened drastically and the
steel companies backed down the
hill.
In that particular conflict, the
President recalled a paternal ref
erence to all businessmen as
"s.o.b's," and through Secretary
of Defense McNamara handed
nut government contracts for steel
purchases to foreign companies,
thereby increasing U.S. unem
ployment. This was, however,
considered an isolated instance
in which Mr. Kennedy blew his
stack and the so-called "big busi
nessmen" turned turtle.
But industry's hesitancy to
stand up lor its rights and Ihe
White House insistence that it
had the xiwer to dictate to Uie
private sector on matters gov
crncd neither by the Constitution
nor any act of Congress seem to
have established a precedent,
The evidence is all in your
daily newspacr. One steel com
pany, which found that its oper
ating profits were not sulficienl.
raised prices on a number of its
products. The stock market
thereupon went into an absolute
tizzy rising and falling till it be
came clear that Mr. Kennedy
would not call out the Army,
Navy, and Air Force (not io
mention the FBI' to subdue this
insurrection. When it became
clear thai the White House staff
was not sharpening its guillotine,
Ihc business community breathed
mote easily.
The shock in Washington, how
ever, was not the kind thai
can be measured by the ordina
ry political seismographs. But in
the cloakrooms of House anil
Senate, in the chatter of the Na
tional Press Club members' bar,
and in other Washington environs
known for conversation ami de
hale, tlie While House reaction
to an announcement of a price
rise hy a small sleel company
caused considerable consternation.
For through its journalistic
claque, the President has now
made it known that he will de
cide when prices can go up and
how much. When a second steel
company increased its rates, ihe
New York Times said in lis head
line. "Accepted by Kennedy."
And this is the shocker. A year
ago, there were many who ar
gued that U.S. Steel's Roger
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said to come along proposing to use a sledge
hammer with destructive effects to get at a
small speculative abuse."
If this represents one of the ways to
spur the economy which is supposed to be
the fundamental principle underlying the
whole tax revision program then words
have lost their meaning and Alice-in-Wonder-land
should be made President by acclama
tion. A cattle ranch is not, as a rule, a liquid
asset. Cash capital is usually small, with the
values lying in animals and equipment and
both, often, are mortgaged. The proposed law
would undermine the whole meat industry
which rests on the livestock producer, the
source of its raw material. Who'd lose? The
ranchers, of course, and all other elements
in that industry. Then, beyond this, the ulti
mate beating would be taken by consumers
and, in all probability, the tax collector too.
nental economic system dominated by France.
Possibly the continental advocates of
Britain's entry are quietly looking to the day
when De Gaulle will have left the political
stage. Mansholt, for instance, was careful to
praise France lavishly for providing the origi
nal push toward unity in the labors of Robert
Schuman and Jean Monnet.
There cannot be many in Europe who be
lieve that new help will come from France on
this score through a change in De Gaulle's
mind.
For those who see a widening European
unity as vital to future security and well
being, the waiting without action is hard. Some
find limited comfort in the knowledge that all
great undertakings have their crises.
Still, unity leaders like Mansholt do not
think that the continued powerful pull of na
tionalismexemplified chiefly in De Gaulle's
approach can be allowed to prevail indefi
nitely. The notion is strong that the unity must
somehow sustain its momentum if Western
Europe is to hold its place in the rising compe
tition of the late 20th century.
Blough had invited catastrophe
by making a special visit to the
White House to inlorm the Presi
dent of Hie across-the-board in
crease. This, in effect, made Mr.
Kennedy a party to the transac
tion. But in this instance, Mr.
Kennedy had no more right to
say yea or nay than the man in
the moon. Unless we have accept
ed a Nazi-Communist philosophy,
the rise and fall of prices cannnl
lie controlled by the White House.
Even in wartime, it was the Con
gress which imposed an Office of
Price Administration and it was
a Congress which wrote it oil
the books despite the attempts of
President Harry S. Truman to
perpetuate it.
The New Frontier may have
overdone it. The steel industry
will set its prices on the basis of
profit and loss. So will the rest
ol American business. Tile While
House may have intimidated the
slock market. But in the long
run. Ihe .New Frontier has made
more enemies than friends in this
latest show of raw power. And it
is friends who win elections.
Al
manac
Hy l ulled Press International
Today is Monday. April 22. the
112th day ot l'.HU with 2.VI more
lo billow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars arc Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury
and Mais.
(in this day in history:
In 1864. Congress authorized the
mint to use the motto "In Cod
We Trust" on nil U.S. coins.
In l!HS, the Herman niniv he
Hiii using poison gas in World
War I in violation ol the rules of
Ihe Hague Convention.
In 1944. Allied soldiers invaded
New Guinea.
In 1554. the Senate permanent
investigating subcommittee start
ed hearings on the quarrel be
tween lite Armv and Sen. Joseph
McCarthy, RWis.
A thought lor Hie day Frcnih
novelist Marcel Proust said: "The
lime which we have t our dis
posal eveiy day is elastic: the
passions that we feel expand it,
(hose that we inspired contract it,
and habit fills up what remains."
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LETTERS TO THE
Candidate Outlines
There are two important as
pects to our school planning. First
is the urgent objective of finding
relief for the pressure on KUHS
and our suburban elementary
schools.
Second is the area of long-term
city-county objectives: equality of
educational opportunity wherever
possible; redisricting to allow for
non-overlapping 2-12 grade dis
tricts; eventual junior high sys
tems cither 6-3-3 or 6-2-4; flexibil
ity for community growth cou
pled with tax economy, reason
able property tax base equaliza
tion, and maintenance of high
quality.
Our' school boards have been
working diligently with these ob
jectives in mind. Citizen groups
have also devoted themselves to
these objectives.
But time is running out.
Unless a plan can be evolved
immediately from their experi
ence and deliberations, the next
few weeks, not months, will see
the county going its way on a
building program unrelated to ur
ban needs, and the city embark
ing on a building program un
related to county needs.
In the absence of a city-county
plan, let's look at the alterna
tive of a unilateral city building
program.
1. Construct a 600 - 700 student
ninth grade at Summers Lane site
for $1,500,000. This puts our
schools on a 7-1-1-3 basis, perhaps
permanently. Relief is temporary,
occupancy would be imiossible
before the fall of 1965. It would
particularly ail to meet long
term objectives.
2. Expand this school to a 1.200
student junior high at total cost
of $2,500,000.
3. Or, expand this school to a
600-700 high school at a total cost
of approximately $2,230,000.
4. Or. construct two junior highs
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EDITOR
at a total cost of approximately
$2,850,000. Alternatives 2, 3 and
4 would also provide relief only
by the fall of 1965, would be ex
cessively costly, unrelated to
long term objectives.
Another undesirable alternative
is the proposition of city-county
unification into one district. This
would have the apparent long
term advantages of 1-12 district
ing and flexibility. But closer in
vestigation reveals its unworka
bility. There is a community of
interest perhaps between the city
and suburbs, but there is no com
munity of interest between the es
sentially rural area and the city.
Tax inequities would be com
pounded unreasonably. Immedi
ate and long term goals would
not be met by this plan.
Now, let's return to the possi
bilities 6f city-county cooperative
planning.
I would urge the city-county
boards to reconsider the merits
of the following proposal. This
plan is not perfect; it points to a
solution not all at once but by
clear-cut steps. It will not please
everyone. But it does fit reason
ably well into the pattern of our
immediate and long term objec
tives. Step No. 1:
1. County to plan immediate
construction of a second major
high school. If built at Henley
site, key units" would be avail
able by the fall of 1964 to relieve
pressure on KUHS with addi
tional construction to follow in
1065 and 1966. If built at another
site, pressure could be relieved
only by the fall of 1965. The cost
of Ibis school would be approxi
mately $1,500,000 lo be provided
by a county high serial levy.
2. Relief of KUHS would be
here accomplished by a gradual
transfer of 600 KUHS students
from a redistricted area to this
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Proposal
second high school, at a rate of
150 freshmen and 150 sophomores
in 1964, followed by 150 freshmen
each year following. Current 11th
and 12th grade students from the
redistricted area would complete
their education at KUHS on a
tuition basis.
The area to be redistricted from
KU to county unit is most logi
cally that part of KUHS district
which lies south of South Sixth
Street and east and southeast of
the City Elementary District No.
1 boundary. This area now in
cludes approximately 600 KU stu
dents. It has an assessed prop
erty valuation of about $6,800,000.
This redistricting is possible un
der present Oregon school laws.
It would involve a petition by
citizens involved to the county
court (District Boundary Board i
followed by hearings and an elec
tion if desired. The effective date
could be July 1, 1964.
The investment of this area in
KUHS would be determined (es
timated $500.0001 and would be
transferred from KU district In
the county district.
Xow, the overall advantages of
this plan arc:
1. The second high s c h o ol
would be large enough to afford
an equal educational opportuni
ty to those students transferred
or redistricted. '
2. Partial redistricting from KU
district to county unit would take
care of approximately half of
present district overlaps.
3. KUHS would have an effec
tive relief of 300 students by the
fall of 1964. and would be at
about a 1,650 student level in
1963.
4. The tax saving to the com
munity would be nearly $1,500.
000. While step No. I would solve
our first objective, immediate ac
tion is still called for on:
Step No. 2:
In consideration of the above,
city-county boards should pledge
to work cooperatively on the
following:
1. Completion of the redistrict
ing of remaining overlap areas,
considering reasonable property
equalization, relief for county ele
mentary system.
2. Initiation of enabling legisla
tion if necessary.
3. Presentation of plan to vot
ers for approval of Step No. 2.
Now these suggestions are not
perfect but they do provide for
action. I urge you to encourage
your board members to consider
them. We haven't much time let t.
I also urge you to vote on May
6. and to approve the budgets re
quested by your districts.
Frederick W. iTcd' Hvrie.
1320 Pacific Terrace.
THEY
SAY..
I've got three words for trade:
It should expand.
Prince Bertil of Sweden, visit
ing New York to boost I .S.
Swedish trade.
We're always faored In win
but seldom do. It's lime we do
what we are expected to dn.
Waller Alston. Los Ancelrs
Dodgers manager.
We arc ready for any sacrifice
to protect our dignity.
-Algeria Pirmirr Ahmed Ben
Bella, protesting French aurlrar
test in the Sahara.
WASHINSTOlOEP
FBI Agents Face
Perilous Capacity
Bv FH.TON LKWIS jr.
If little boys no longer dream
oi growing up and becom.ng po
licemen, it is understand
Consider these shocking Hatb
"tight out of every IW "
forcemeat officers are annually
assaulted in line of duty. More
than 50 officers are killed. It is a
deplorable situation." says rm
Chief J. Edgar Hoover, who fre
quently calls attention to the
abuse showered upon city, coun
ty and state police officers.
A recent incident in Brooklyn.
N.Y., however, shows that these
officers are not the only targets
of hardened criminals.
Minutes before 10 a.m. on April
3, FBI agent John P. Foley
stood on Fourth Street just off
Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brook
lyn. He was on official assign
ment. Foley, a veteran of 15 years
with the FBI and lather ol a
daughter, was stationed near Ihe
Immaculate Heart of Mary Ro
man Catholic Church where fu
neral services were scheduled for
Carmello Lombardo.zi, father of
Carmine Lombardozzi, under
world chieftain, and delegate to
the famed Apalachin underworld
conference of November, 1957.
Without warning, agent Foley
was struck from behind and pum
meled to the ground by at least
four persons. His assailants lied
into the church.
FBI agents rushed to the scene,
arresting John J. Lombardozzi,
Carmine's brother. Agent Foley
was taken to the hospital with a
fractured skull and internal in
juries. Charged with assaulting a fed
eral officer, the four were taken
before U.S. Commissioner Max
Schiffman, who set bond at 100,
000 each, and commented:
"The defendants' obvious good
physical condition is indicative of
the forbearance of the FBI under
such an unprovoked attack and is
further indicative of the excel
lence of the training and disci
pline of FBI agents."
The facts bear him out. Since
1934, when FBI agents were first
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
If I give a hundred dollars, or
a thousand dollars, as a contribu
tion to any college of my choice,
I am allowed an income-tax de
duction. But if I send my child
to a private college thus reliev
ing the public colleges of a fi
nancial burden I am not allowed
to deduct a cent.
Of all the inequities in the
tax laws (and there are many
this one strikes me as among
the most senseless and unjust.
The public colleges and univer
sities are bursting al the seams,
and all (he states are heavily
pressed to cope with the rap
idly expanding school.
If we grant incentives to oil
men and farmers and shippers
and other segments of the popu
lation, how much more sensible
lo grant some tax relief to those
parents who are putting their
children through increasingly ex
pensive private colleges.
Several such bills have been
proposed in Congress, and the
arguments for them have seemed
overwhelmingly persuasive to me:
yet all of them have died in com
mittee, because there is no co
hesive group of voters willing or
able lo pressure their congress
men on the matter. There is no
parents' lobby, and Congress is
not responsive to unorganized if
widespread' sentiments.
Education is Ihe biggest busi
ness in America today. More is
"And if I d0H't mf)1 1 ,
do llop' 'r'
authorized to carry firearms and
niake arrests, they have captured
thousands of criminals, many of
whom had gained infamy for'
their exploits.
On but 37 occasions have FBI
agents been compelled by resis
tance to kill the criminal they
sought. One such "prize" was
"Pretty Boy" Floyd, a partici
pant in the Kansas City massacre
which took the lives of three po
licemen and one FBI agent. An
other criminal to meet death
was Lester Joseph Gillis, better
known as "Baby Face" Nelson,
killer of three FBI agents.
A total of 14 FBI agents have
been killed by criminals. The last
sgent to be slain was Richard
lloian, who was killed in a gun
battle with an accused murderer
at Suffield. Conn., April 18, 1957.
Numerous other agents have
narrowly escaped death while per
forming their duties to protect
Americans from the criminal and
subversive. Examples:
A Little Rock agent was at
tacked from behind as he walked
along a lonely road en route to
work. Beaten with brass knuckles,
he suffered numerous facial
wounds and the loss of several
teeth. ''
A Chicago agent was jumped
by two men as he entered an
apartment building lo conduct an
investigation. He was brutally
beaten and robbed.
Philadelphia agents entered a
small apartment to capture a fugi
tive who a few days earlier had
shot and wounded a policeman in
another state. The criminal lunged
for a gun. An agent grabbed
him and the two fell to the floor
of the darkened room. The fugi- .'
live managed to fire two shots '.
as he and the agent struggled.
The first shot struck the agent ;
in his right thigh; the second ;
pierced the criminal's own head,
causing instant death.
A Portland agent who tried lo
stop a bank holdup was mowed
down by machine-gun bullets fired
hy the escaping robber. He was
wounded in the right hand and
arm and both sides. Miraculous
ly, he was not killed.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
spent on our schools, from kin
dergarten up through college,
Ihan on any other segment of
our domestic economy. A huge
share of our taxes, at the town
and county and state levels, go
to pay for the building and op
eration of the school system.
Those parents who send their
children to private colleges arc
paying twice and sometimes three
times as much as those who take
advantage of state and municipal
colleges. In addition, they are
substantially reducing the popu
lation (and therefore the ex
penses! in the public colleges.
It would seem only just that a
tax deduction be granted for ;
such tuition; not the whole
amount, perhaps, but certainly the .
difference between Ihe amount
paid to the private college and
the amount that would have been
paid to the public one.
If we are to encourage educa
tion at the higher levels and our
national need is great in these
areas parents should not be
penalized (or sending their chil
dren to relatively small, 1 0 p
grade, and expensive colleges.
More of this, indeed, should be .
encouraged, to take some of Ilia
burden otf the immense, sprawl
ing and depersonalized state uni
versities. Any rational system of ,
tax reform would include college
tuitions on its priority list for
me nauonai wcllarc.
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