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DUSTED OFF
UN-DEST ALINIZIN G
Anyone who has been wondering What became
of the Kremlin’s campaign of smiles and destalinization
got his answer in the appointment a few weeks ago of
Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the toughest, bloodiest old
Bolshevik of them all, as Soviet minister of state
control.
The occupant of this seat (according to the Soviet
rule book) controls the pursestrings, directs produc
tion, allocates materials, supervises the activities of
other bureaus of the government and of all manner of
state, cooperative and public organizations. In the con
duct of these responsibilities, the minister of state con
trol must work closely with the chief of the secret
police. In this post, Comrade Molotov also has “active
representatives” checking on the military—in camps,
bases and seaports.
While his immediate predecessor seems to have
exerted little authority, it should be recalled that Joe
Stalin used this job as a springboard to the top, and
that Molotov is just as calculating, just as devious, and
just as ruthless as Stalin ever was.
It is the view in some Washington circles, how
ever, that Vyacheslav has 'been “demoted,” and has
been made the head bookkeeper of the Soviet. But it
is difficult to reconcile this attitude with the swift and
unforeseen reversal to the old blood-bath brutality in
Hungary, the massing of armed force along the borders
and in East Germany—the restitution of the lusty
insult for the destalinized smile.
Bulganin and Khrushchev are still the waxworks,
but their next state journey could well be into Siberia
—on one-way tickets. As we have been saying, when
Stalin died, when the succession fell to Georgi Malen
kov, when Georgi slid off his throne, when Bulge and
Krush were first inflicted on the world, and in recent
weeks—watch Molotov !
Simulified Card
Will Helo Many
B.
Figure Income Tax
As a result of surveys and stud
ies conducted by the Internal
Revenue Service, several million
taxpayers who last year filed
their returns on Form 1040 are
this year receiving in the mail the
simplified punchcard Form 1040A
which makes possible easier prep
aration of a return and can be
more readily processed by the
Service.
The card form enables the tax
payer to provide all pertinent in
formation on his income and ex
emption status if his income was
less than $5,000 in 1956, consist
ing of salary or wages from which
tax was withheld, and he had no
more than $100 total of other
wages, dividends and interest,
and if his deductible expenses
were less than the standard 10
percent calculated as part of the
tax table for incomes up to that
figure. * t
Last year about 15 million tax
payers who could have used the
card form actually used the: long
er Form 1040. {
Four Killed in
Light Plane7 Crash
PHOENIX, Ariz., IP)—A novice
pilot, apparently gunning his
plane during a spin,, came barrel
ing out of the overcast yesterday
and slammed into an empty house
on a quiet residential street. All
four aboard were killed.
The light plane missed a nurs
ery school by only a few hundred
feet.
A few hours before the ill-fated
flight, Raymond C. Roberts,, a 38
year-old oil exploration engineer
from Costa Mesa, Calif., hail rent
ed the plane at a Santa Ana avia
tion school near his home.
Along with Roberts, the victims
of the crash were Unbin N. Hart
man, 52, Robert’s business part
ner; Robert’s wife, Leona, 40; and
Mrs. Anna Hartman, 51.
The CAA said Roberts got his
pilot’s license Dec. 24 and had
flown only 24 hours solo.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor-in-chief:
I’m a German girl and I have
a great question: will you publish
my address in your newspaper?
I’m very fond <lf writing to
boys and girls of my age. I corres
pond with boys and girls out of
the whole world.
I think tha t more boys and j
girls must correspond with chil-!
dren from other countries, so we j
can do something for the peace. |
I will be seventeen in January
and I live in a village. I go to
school in the nearby town. My
hobbies are: reading, records,
to play sport and to correspond
with all tooys and girls of my age.
Yours very truly,
Holge Hotop
Wasbuttel
Kreis Gifhorn
Germany
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Members of New Congress Playing
Musical Chairs With Office Space
By ARTHUR EDSON
| AP Newsfealures Writer
! WASHINGTON, (JV—Here in
i Washington, it might as well be
spring.
Up around the capitol there are
signs of life everywhere. Yester
day Congress came back to work,
or its legislative facsimile, and al
ready we have more than a full
house. This is because Alaska has
sent along a three-man delegation
which won’t be seated because
Alaska isn’t a state yet.
Naturally every new Congress
calls for considarble switching of
offices.
I This explains the unfortunate
case of Sen. Frank Church, the
! 32-year-old Idaho Democrat who
j hasn’t a desk he can call his own.
Church has a suite of rooms as
signed to him, but he can’t move
in because Sen. Allott (R-Colo).
hasn’t been able to leave yet.
Allott is supposed to move right
away, but can’t because Sen. Al
bert Gore (D-Tenn) hasn’t moved.
Now Gore is eager to move out
so that Allott can have his office,
only he c_..’t get into his quarters
until Sen. Walter George (D-Ga)
clears things out of'his office.
George, who has been on the
I job longer than anyone still in
the senatoring business, did not
run for re-election. He has been
collecting his things, some of
which probably date back to the
day he became a senator, on Nov.
8, 1922*
If all goes well, George will
complete his moving soon, there
by setting off a chain reaction
that eventually will enable young
Church to have a nook of his own.
Why this game of musical
chairs? The answer is simple: The
better quarters go to the sena
tors with the most seniority.
Sen. Allott, for instance, will
get larger rooms by taking Gore’s
spot, and two washrooms in
stead of one.
The scramble for the better of
fices is tremendous, especially on
the House side, where 435 mem
bers jockey for position.
“Roll Call,” a newspaper pub
lished every two weeks for those
who work in the capitol, reported
what happened after the defeat
of one prominent representative.
Within ilO minutes, it said, five
secretaries had called the build
ing superintendent to ask for the
loser’s office.
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