The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 March 1968 — Page 3

Thursday, March 28, 1968

Time running out on excise tax

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Textbooks outdated say Florida teachers

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Time was running out on current excise tax rates today, but the Senate bill extending them at present levels was snarled in the old controversy over trade with nations doing business with North Vietnam. Present excises on automobiles and telephone services will be drastically reduced Monday unless congress acts before then. If mass confusion over collection of the taxes is to be avoided, the Senate must act on the House-approved bill extending current excise levels before then.

Then, both the House and Senate must okay a compromise between the two versions of

the bill.

Senate leaders, thwarted in their attempts to get the bill passed Wednesday, were again hopeful for action today. But there were still roadblocks in its path. The first item of business today was a proposal by Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., to levy a 20 per cent surcharge on American taxpayers who do business with countries supplying North Vietnam. Also awaiting action was a controversial proposal which

Conference is slowed down

DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) — A specific plan of union must be offered before the 10-denomina-tion Consultation on C h u r c h Union can get to work on unification, the chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church said Tuesday. William P. Thompson, stated clerk of the church, said the greatest hindrance to the church union effort seemed to be a lack of readiness on the part of the 90 delegates attending the four-day conference. Union of the 10 denominations

would bring 25.5 million people under one church structure. Delegates so far have agreed to bare principles of faith, worship, sacraments and ministry. They have not been able to work out a plan for structure of

such a church.

“We share your impatience to get on with this, but my feeling is the churches are not yet ready to grapple with the issues involved in church union,”

Thompson said.

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would tack President Johnson’s long-standing request for a tax hike onto the excise bill. Both riders had uncertain futures. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., DVa., a co-sponsor of Mundt’s bill, described it as a tax on war “profiteering.” But Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., said the proposal goes too far and could impede the hopes for freedom which are stirring in some Communist satellite nations. The income tax package, which has captured most of the attention during the four-day tax debate, would combine President Johnson’s 10 per cent surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes with a $6 billion cutback in federal spending. Sponsors of the rider, Sens. John J. Williams, R-Del., and George A. Smathers, D-Fla., were optimistic but the amendment faced formidable opposition led by Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La. The Senate Wednesday resoundingly rejected a plan which would have put an 85 per lent tax boost on businesses making big profits from the Vietnam War. Lurleen Wallace develops blood clot in lung MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) — Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace has developed what is believed to be a blood clot in her lung at the hospital where she is recuperating from a cancer operation, a spokesman announced Wednes-

day.

Her husband, presidential candidate George C. Wallace cancelled plans to hold airport news conferences Thursday in Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina. Ed Ewing, acting news secretary to the governor, said her pulse and temperature had increased slightly and she was still listed in serious condition. Mrs. Wallace’s temperature had been reported back to normal Tuesday for the first time since an operation more than a month ago.

NEW YORK (UPI)- Hayden, Stone, Inc. thinks that “A SELECTIVELY POSITIVE. MARKET APPROACH SEEMS MORE JUSTIFIED THAN A COMPLETELY NEGATIVE Attitude AT THIS TIME." From a technical market standpoint, the firm continues, volume indications are slightly more bullish than bearish, many stocks seem reluctant to yield much further ground, institutional funds for reinvestment are sizable, and the large short position represents an important cushion of support. Thomson & McKinnon feels that there are recent indications that “selling pressure may be running out of steam.” It is noteworthy that the number of new lows has not expanded meaningfully, yet there has been no reversal of trend, according to the firm. E.F. Hutton & Co. comments that the market remains in a strong support area, yet seems to respond optimistically to any news forecasting a change in the Vietnam situation. The news of an impending change in the military command there could provide a basis for some

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - A Florida teachers’ “truth squsLd” told Hoosiers Wednesday that some textbooks in use in the home state of Cape Kennedy axe so outdated they refer to putting a man in space as a yet-to-be accomplished event. Gene Sturchio, Titusville, Fla., a former teacher at Brevard Junior College, and Mrs. Betty Sellers, Panama City, Fla., a former elementary school supervisor, told a news conference here the mass resignation of teachers in their state was “a last resort.” They said they hoped no other state would have to reach the same “last resort” in efforts to better school condi-

tions.

“Salary was not an issue,” Mrs. Sellers declared. “Conditions in the schools were atrocious,” Sturchio said. They cited inadequate teaching equipment, including outdated text, books, too many pupils per teacher, no released time for teachers and poorly maintained buildings. They said that a so-called $350 million dollar education bill passed by the Florida Legislature and approved by Covernor Claude Kirk, actually contained only $158 million for education. “There was fire and ant control, water hyacinth removal

and other expenditures in this education bill,” Sturchio said. He said a revised tax structure was a principal need in Florida and this was the goal of Gov. Nelson

is favorite

ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) -New York Republican leaders, who control the largest delegation to the GOP National Convention, have named Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller their “favorite son” candidate because they believe he is “the man best qualified.” A resolution naming Rockefeller the “favorite son” of the state’s 92 delegates was adopted Tuesday night at a meeting of the executive committee of the Republican State Committee. The proposal will be ratified by the full 300-member committee today. During the closed conference of the executive committee, the party leaders said they would try to get the governor to change his mind and go all-out for the nomination. Rockefeller, however, said he would not change his status as available to a genuine draft.

the Florida teachers. He said that because of the mass resignation of 35,000 Florida teachers in February, parents are becoming concerned with the condition of their schools. Sturchio said that a sixth grade science textbook being used in the schools near Cape Kennedy says that “someday man may venture into outer space—this is in a textbook where school children can see and hear about manned flights in space.” , The Florida teachers said that after the agreement came to rehire the teachers who resigned, some local school boards refused to reinstate some teachers and administrators or set unacceptable conditions for return. Sturchio reported that as of Wednesday, 2,300 teachers had been “locked-out” and unable to return. He said that while he was offered his job back, three others of 10 from the junior college who resigned were not. “I wouldn’t go back until the other three had been asked back,” he explained. Sturchio and Mrs. Sellers are among 14 Florida teachers who

are criss-crossing the United States to talk about the school problems of the Sunshine State. McCarthy in Hoosier race SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI)— About 20,000 students from across the nation are expected to help in the Indiana campaign of Sen. Eugene McCarthy, DMinn., for the Democratic nomination for president. James Bogle, state chairman of the Hoosiers for a Democratic Alternative, also said Tuesday that about 1,000 Indiana college students would help in the last week of the Wisconsin campaign for the presidential preference primary. Bogle said McCarthy planned to spend six days campaigning for the Indiana Democratic primary, and more than that if Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N. Y., entered the Hoosier primary. Bogle said he met with other McCarthy organization chairmen from states where McCarthy is entered in primaries, and indicated his group plans to spend about $200,000 for the Indiana contest.

Would create long holidays WASHINGTON (UPI) -The House Judiciary Committee has approved by a near-unanimous vote an all-but-forgotten bill that would shift most federal holidays to a Monday to create three-day weekends. The compromise measure, whose chief sponsor is Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., would make Columbus Day a federal holiday and include it among those occurring on a Monday. The bill would designate the third Monday in February as Washington’s Birthday, now Feb. 22; the last Monday in May as Memorial Day, now May 30; the second Monday in October as Columbus Day, now Oct. 12; and the fourth Monday in October as Veterans Day, now Nov. 11. Other holidays would remain the same. If approved by Congress, the bill would not take effect until 1971 to give states a chance to conform if they choose. Salmon boom in Michigan INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A salmon fishing boom was predicted Tuesday in Lake Michigan by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Spokesmen said salmon are returning to the southern tip of the lake in “large numbers,” and, along with steelhead trout, are “abundant at the mouths of streams and at hot-water discharges of power • generating plants.” “These fish are near the shore and close to the surface,” a department^advisory said. The open season has been in effect since March 1. It sets a 12-inch minimum size and a daily bag limit of five salmon, steelhead and lake trout, with a possession limit of 10 fish. The department says the salmon are averaging about two and one-fourth pounds. It says the best lures are “small silver flatfish type, silver rapala or rebel-floating types, and silver spoons.” All you need for getting salmon is an Indiana fishing license. But the department recommends getting a special trout stamp, too, because it says steelhead trout are abundant, and they look very much like the salmon.

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