The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 February 1966 — Page 8

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“BEST IN SHOW” at Hie 90th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show in New York is Gh. Zeloy Moore Naides Magic, informally known as Bitty. The wire haired fox terrier is owned by Marion G. Bunker of Pebble Beach, f-aw

What Does 'Great Society' Mean? Higher Taxes?

By LYLE WILSON By Unitad Prats Intarnotienal Stop, look and listen folks to what the Great Society’s Brain Trust has in mind for the old folks and for the younger working stiffs who are picking up the tab for Social Security. TOe Brain Trust has in mind higher taxes and bigger payments but not, it must be conceded, taxes sufficiently high to cover the increased payments. Some of the increase would be on the cuff along with various other Great Society free lunch programs. The Brain Trust is the left wing society known as Americans for Democratic Action ADA. By reason of its strong representation in the Johnson administration. ADA does much of the Great Society’s thinking and planning. Just around the bend awaits the moment when the ADA confidently expects to have its own man in the White House. If and when that time comes, Hubert H. Humphrey will be president and ADA will be in a position to do more thinking and planning. ADA has announced the end results of some thinking and planning it did last year. ADA thought up a tidy package of 12 think-plans of which No. 3 Invited this essay. Plan No. 3 is as follows: “Double Social Security benefits by 1970, made possible by supplementing the Social Security tax with funds from the general revenue, Increasing the tax base to 312,000, lowering retirement age to 62 and revising the Social Security formula so that benefits are based on the wage earner’s 10 highest years.” That’s a dandy. Plan No. 3 is baited with a little money for everyone and a whole hive of it for the millions of senior cititens, most of them voters who need not worry anymore about SS taxes. The seniors now are getting theirs, getting it in the pocketbook in monthly installments. The junior citizens who are still paying the tax bills will be getting it in the neck.

The ADA bait for the tax paying juniors is designed to divert their attention from their aching necks. At the SS tax rate now prevailing, the taxpaying juniors would pay nearly twice as much SS tax if the base were $12,000 than they pay now on a $6,600 base. The junior’s maximum SS tax jumped by $13 to a new total of $277.20 this year as compared to 1965. The bleak prospect of a $12,000 base at existing rates is that the junior SS taxpayer would be tapped for more than $500 a year. To sweeten the rap, ADA proposes to speed the day when the Junior taxpayer becomes the senior pensioner. Full pension retirement would become effective at age 62 instead of age 65. That is pretty good bait. Even better bait is an ADA hint that maybe it won’t even be. necessary to increase SS taxes to bear the whole burden of doubled benefits. That’s where the general revenues would come in. Most ADA thinking and planning for the Great Society is based on this bogus fly-now-crash-later theory that the voters can be provided with goodies of all kinds without being required to pay for same. Such dreamy pie-in-the-sky policies have been welcomed by the moderately literate or illiterate electorate as a happy way of life. So it is that the politicians shamelessly over the years have contnued to borrow instead of to tax to pay government costs despite a boomtime economy. ADA proposes to supplement SS taxes with funds from general revenue. Strictly speaking, general revenue is tax revenue. But ADA does not have that in mind unless its economic ideas have changed overnight. What ADA proposes is that Social Security shall draw on the treasury general fund to pay some or all of additional benefits. In simpler language, ADA wants to siphon borrowed money into the pockets of senior citizen voters.

A NEW Dawn in Petunia World

Hm petunia, trader the skillful guiding hands of the plant Breeders, has of recent years provided the gardener with more desirable types, forms and colors than any other annual. It is hard to believe that today’s showy varieties have been evolved from the gangling, weedy, small-flowered petunias

ax yesterday.

One of the latest developments, created by John W. Kline *f Pan-American Seed Co, is the completely charming new variety named Sunburst,

SunbtCTtJs a balrony type petunia, moderate^fn growth and covered with handsome foliage, bear many prettily frilled flowers over two and a half inches in diameter. These are the perfection of lemon-yellow daintiness, but more exciting still, nave at their throats a zone of green-gold that provides a hint that they may be another step toward the long-sought-for yellow petunia which plant breeders have for years been

dreaming of.

Be that as ft may, flower lovers, and especially flower arrangers, will'find Sunburst a petunia they will never want

to be without, once they have grown it.

And speaking of flower arrange.*, every exhibitor knows now one color may he utilized to enhance another. This prinripls of contrast, of course, also holds true for the selection of flowers to bo grown in beds, borders, window boxes or planters. To give emphasis to the yellow in Sunburst petunias, and to enhance and intensify the haunting lavender-blue of Such varieties as the lovely Sky Magic, try planting them together. Intermingled or groined in a window box or planter, the color of oadt>iB intensified making a completely harmonious living

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NUCLEAR ROCKET ENGINE O.K.—The NERVA, a nuclear rocket engine, emits vapor after a successful test at the Nevada Test Site near Las Vegas. A larger version could propel a round trip to Mars lasting a year with 30-40-minute bursts of power. This engine, tested for the first time as a self-starting, self-contained unit, performed perfectly, scientists say. It was started, run up to 40 per cent of full power, then shut down and then re-started an hour later.

News of Hollywood By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD UPI—If you’re thinking about asking Celeste Holm for an autograph the next time you see her, you’d better have some cash on hand. Celeste is the only actress I know who charges fans 25 cents for her signature on a scrap of paper. And at that, the fan has to come up with paper and pencil. For the past three years the blonde star has surprised autograph hounds with: “Yes, I’T sign—for 25 cents apiece for UNICEF.” After the fan does a doubletake he or she generally pays up. UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has been enriched by $2,500 since Celeste began her crusade after having appeared in the television show, “People Of The U. N.” She carries a special leather purse whenever she goes out to hold the nickels, dimes and

TRAFFIC LIGHT—A policeman is knee deep In the flood as he directs traffic in Rio de Janeiro after the torrential rains that killed some 700 persons and left 10,000 The rains triggered avalanches of mud and debris. (RasUophoto)

quartan aha eeHeeta. “Almost everyone ia enthusiastic in response to my request,^Celeste said.^Some give me as much as five dollars, and once in a great while—usually from a businessman—I’ll ba given a ten dollar bill, “Some people mutter and walk away, but it happens so seldom that I’m surprised. “From time to time people palm off.a bunch of pennies on me. But usually they are more generous than stingy. Many more times my autographs average out a quarter apiece, and never less than that” In some places the word la (Hit on Miss Holm and fans come prepared with coins clenched in their hands. Celeste, who will be seex next Wednesday in CBS-TV’s “Cinderella,” began -collecting money as her contribution to the United Nations. She has tried to interest other stars in doing the same thing, but with indifferent success.

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The cement manufacturing industry alone uses more than one-fourth of all the natural gas we supply to our industrial customers. Some of the many other products are chemicals, candies, fertilizers, feed and furniture. ^

Gas is industry’s most popular heating fuel. And more and more plants are turning to low-cost gas for cur conditioning. No wander industry looks for natural gas when seeking a new plant location.

1965—ANOTHER RECORD YEAR 3.7% more natural gas was used by our industrial customers in 1965 than in 1964. > J . 1965—18.0 billion cubic feet 1964—'17.5 billion cubic feet To M of ow MwMtf CuBtomia, oar «m*b far An of ooiviag you.

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