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Penalty on Year-Round Employment
THE VALUE OF ORGANIZED BUSINESS under
the leadership of the State Chamber of Commerce
was demonstrated this week when they announced a
well-prepared plan to aid the ailing Employment
ISecurity Fund.
They propose to increase the benefit payment,
yet make no change in the taxable wage base of $4,200.
They propose that employers pay 3 per cent instead of
the current 2.7 per cent, and not to increase the per
centage paid by employes at all.
A longer waiting period for the jobless in highly
paid jobs is asked, and an experience rating for em
ployes, to start at some later date. v
The plan is well thought out, and will benefit the
fund and the state much more fairly than the plan
to tax total wages, which was rejected by industry
last year but has been brought up again by the special
ESC Committee.
A tax on total wages is a penalty on workers and
industry which works the year around. For many
businesses this would result in doubling and tripling
unemployment taxes, relieving others of paying their
fair share of State taxes.
One of ouir own legislators who has favored the
plan to tax total wages, has stated that all business
people have to do is to foot the bill, then raise prices.
Prices are already too high in the State because of this
kind of thinking.
Surely a compromise can be reached between the
supporters of both plans — one that would be fair to
all taxpayers.
13 Cents Take-Home Pay
ROMAN TAX COLLECTORS, we learn from News
week Magazine, nicked Vice Chairman Giovanni
Agnelli of Italy’s big Fiat auto works, a mere $92,000
in 'income tax on his 1958 salary of $638,000. If Fiat
and Signor Agnelli were in Detroit, the magazine
points out, his take-home pay would have been
$462,000 less — or about 13 cents per earned dollar.
Passports, anyone?
Congress Politicos Intend To Reshape
Budget To Conform With Their Ideas
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Dem
ocratic Congress signaled its in
tention yesterday of recasting
President Eisenhower’s budget
along the lines of its own political
ideas.
Prime target in a drive to pare
down the over-all $79,800,000,000
spending total forecast for the
year beginning July 1 seemed
likely to be the President’s re
quest for $4,175,000,000 in new
money for foreign aid. This in
cluded two billion for military
outlays.
I Although Eisenhower estimated
the amount of actual aid spend
ing at $3,450,000,000, he asked for
more appropriations to stretch the
program out into the future. The
quick consensus was that he will
get less new money than he ex
pects to spend.
On the other hand, Democrats
laid the groundwork to reshuffle
and increase the $40,995,000,000
defense program. They showed
immediate irritation and disap
pointment that Eisenhower’s space
recommendations were not more,
comprehensive.
In other comment, they balked
at increasing postal rates or gas
oline rates, as Eisenhower asked.
They criticized his housing pro
posals. They raked his proposal
to raise the interest ceiling on
government bonds.
By way of action, they called
a Senate Democratic caucus Wed
nesday to take the first steps
toward passage of a billion-dollar
school construction bill there is
every indication the President
will veto.
Outnumbered Republicans an
nounced they will fight not only
to keep the budget balanced but
to assure the $4,184,000,000 sur
plus Eisenhower forecast.
Senator Mike Mansfield (D
Mont) said Eisenhower, in mak
ing this prediction, was trying to
commit his successor, since he
will leave office nearly six months
before the fiscal year ends.
Most of the Republicans
sounded the election year note
that Eisenhower was providing
sufficient funds to maintain the
essential economic growth of the
country.
Civil War Era Charges
Fought by Historians
LEXINGTON, Ky., Iff) — The
Civil War Roundtable wants 51
persons cleared of charges rang
ing from treason to concealing
state arms.
The indictments were returned
by the Fayette County Grand
Jury on June 19, 1862, against
persons suspected of being Con
federate sympathizers.
The request from the study
group will go to the Common
wealth’s attorney.
A similar indictment against
John C. Breckinridge, once Vice
President' of the United 11 States,
was dismissed by Circuit Court
in May, 1958.
Troops Training in Korea
For Atomic Warfare
SEOUL, South Korea, iff) —
Some 50,000 American and South
Korean troops are taking part in
one of the largest field exercises
held in Korea since the Korean
War. An Army spokesman said
the five-day exercise was to
train the troops in counterattack
ing enemy forces under -atomic
war conditions.
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Gruening Asserts
Foreign Aid Dwarfs
U.S. Power Plans
WASHINGTON, M — Senator
Ernest Gruening says he is
shocked at a $75,000 request in
President Eisenhower’s budget to
study the proposed Rampart Can
yon power project on the Yukon
River in Alaska.
“It is profoundly shocking that
a project as important as Ram
part — for which the engineers
said they could use $350,000 — is
allotted only $?5,000 by the Ad
ministration,” Gruening said.
, Survey costs on the huge pro
ject are estimated at one million
dollars, Gruening said. “At this
rate,” he added, “t h e dam
wouldn’t be ready for construc
tion for 15 to 20 years.”
“It is shocking that everything
is done for foreign countries and
nothing for our own,” Gruening
said, citing sums apropriated by
the government for pow£r pro
jects in other nations.
Six Die Tn Collapsed
S. W. Alaska Home
ANCHORAGE, Ufl — A woman
and her five children died in the
wreckage of their home at King
Cove, 600 miles southwest of here,
during a wind and snow storm
Sunday night.
The 'bodies of Mrs. George Wil
son and the children, ranging in
age from 11 months to 8 years,
were found by Wilson when he
returned from visiting friends.
Winds of 60 to fo miles an
hour blew down the small home
in temperatures of 18 degrees
above zero.
Wife of A-P Writer
Dies in Virginia Crash
NEW YORK, Wl — Mrs. Eugene
Gilbert, 25, a passenger on the
Capital Airliner which crashed in
Virginia Monday night, was a
partner with her husband in youth
research work.
Gilbert’s brother-in-law, More
son Kaplan, said yesterday that
Gilbert had personally seen his
wife aboard the ill-fated plane at
Washington, D. C.
Gilbert then boarded another
plane for New York City. He
landed at Idlewild Airport and
was driving into Manhattan when
Me heard of the crash on his
auto radio.
Gilbert, who operated a pri
vate rsearch firm, writes a col
umn, “What Young People
Think,” for the Associated Press.
LETTER TQ THEEDITOR
It is advertised that the Pio
neers to have a Roof Garden
With all the charming and at
tractive* young women who have
come to town as wives of FAA,
Federal Electric, and ACS person
nel and other agencies, some of
them must sing, and must have
Grand-dads, who were always
good for a touch, and whom they
loved just because he was Grand
pa, and who have pertinent rec
ollections of the songs he sang to
them of his boyhood days.
If the Entertainment Commit
tee could induce some of them to
sing some of those old-time songs
Qn the program, it would sure be
pleasing to many an elderly
heart.
Goo-po Eyes, After the Ball,
Sweet Rosey O’Grady, The Band
Played On, Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight, Sweet Adeline,
Bicycle Built for Two, and maybe
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay, or even
He’s Sleeping in a Klondike
Grave Tonight.
It’s a cinch that many pleasing
recollections would be reawak
ened in some oldsters’ hearts to
hear some fresh young voice
sounding thm off at the Roof
Garden.
—AN OLD-TIME PIONEER.