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Show oiliiHimMAi UniiTi if nr - irWiwrnu filwc Our Phone Numbers Kcws, News Tips Home Delivery hX Sunny and warm through Tuesday. Daytime highs in the mid 70s. Lows tonight in the mid 40s. Details, weather map on Page 10c PAGES 4 2 THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S 524-440- 0 521-281- 0 Information 5 Scores 5 Sports Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. lBt South 524-444- 524-444- 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- 4. NO. 95 iiiNji on m Nice For Basking VOL. 371 iw hI marzmm NEWSPAPER FIRST MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1969 0 WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Nixon today asked Congress to ease the tax load of the very poor and to impose a minimum tax on the very rich. For those in between, the 10 per cent income tax surcharge would be cut in half beginning Jan. 1. In an omnibus tax message to Congress, Nixon also called for immediate repeal of the 7 per cent investment tax credit to help curb inflation. Nixons special tax reform remessage recommended moval of the poor from the federal tax rolls through enactment of a low income For those in allowance. upper income brackets, the Nixon plan would limit to 50 per cent of their income the amount they could write off for tax purposes. The latter proposal resulted 1 Sail Into japan Sea - A f A WASHINGTON (AP) task force including four American aircraft carriers has been formed to back p L & 4 up President Nixons pledge to protect reconnaissance planes operating in the Sea of Japan, the Pentagon disclosed today. It was the first official word of the scope of a U.S. naval armada formed for deployment in the Sea of Japan in response to North Koreas shooting down of an unarmed EC121 aircraft one week ago. U I - 'v i , ' Marines stead f - . ' i ' . AP Wirt ' buddy's stretcher being hoisted to hovering copter. 0 , ' . . . J- HIT x . 3SfOWNS, - r , Piatt ; ,1 BASES Viet Cong Step Up FORCE ACTIVATED tagons ! Shell i ng Often si ve The Viet SAIGON (AP) Cong stepped up its spring offensive again Sunday night, shelling at least 35 military bases and towns. One barrage killed 35 South Vietnamese soldiers end wounded 175 at a training camp. A rocket landed among' about 100 U.S. Marines watching a movie near Da Nang, killing tr.o and wounding 46.. , Eight more Marines were d battle killed in with North Vietnamese regulars just below the Demilitarized Zones. And in Vietnams southernmost province, eight South Vietnamese were killed : and 60 wounded in a mortar barrage. hand-to-han- With" the enemy offensive now entering Its ninth week, the purpose of the increased attacks obviously was to raise the allied casualty toll at small cost to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. club and left the patio a scene of dead and wounded Marines among the battered benches Although incomplete reports and camp chairs. listed 11 civilians killed and. said Military spokesmen 82 wounded in the shelling Comthe Communist today across the country,- most of the targets were military in- mand has launched a stepped up program to take more i stallations. American prisoners, offering One barrage of about 20 such .incentives as portable rodtets hit the Marine heliradios to' troops in the field for capturing U.S. soldiers. copter base at Marble Moun-"taiclose to Da Nang. One They havent done well in of the first projectiles to land this, said one source. Weve exploded a few feci from about noticed a trend the past 400 Marines watching a movie month. They want more prisin the outdoor patio of an enoners. mainly Americans. listed mans club. The bursting Theyre making more of an two bands of irregulars led by, American Special Forces men. j n, shrapnel sliced through the effort" Czech Students Hold Sit-I- n Protest Strike . New alert points also showed ' up on the war maps, in the central highlands along the Cambodian border where Green Beret troops encountered two North Vietnamese battalions infiltrating into the country. Authorities said 3? North Vietnamese regulars were killed ever the weekend PRAGUE - (UPI) Hun- dreds of students carrying rolled-ublankets and pillows strike at today began a sit-ip n Charles University in protest against Czechoslovakia's new " Communist leader, who had pledged to crush such oppo' sition. Youths with long hair and as the battalions sparred With girls In miniskirts and : i trousers carried into1 the liberal , their bedrolls tural and Hussite arts, agr Theology schools fith faculty approval in the first organized protest against Gustav Husak. 17 ic university campus, long a hotbed of dissent against SECTION A. hard-lin- e Communist rule, provided a sanctuary from police reprisals. similar Outside student strikes were report-- . ed at the agricultural school . at Ceske Budejovice University and the liberal arts de- partment at Olomouc University. Still other students in the capital were debating whether to join the The students kept their demonstration against the ouster of Alexander Dubcek as party first secretary and his replacement by Husak ( on the campus for fear of the police outside. In bis first speech to the Communist central Party committee as its leader, Husak had pledged to fight without pity those closer opposing ties with the Soviets. future reconnaissance flights, are three cruisers and for NEWS - In (UPI) landmark decision on behalf of the poor, the Supreme Court declared today that state , laws requiring a one-- . year residency to obtain welfare payments are unconstituWASHINGTON a Prague, tional ruling came specifically In cases involving Connecticut, Pennsylvania and the but District of Columbia the precedent may strike down similar residency barriers in possibly a score or more of other states. The majority opinion oy Justice WUliam J. Brennan Jr. upheld rulings by special The sit-in- . i 7--2 5 per cent on islation which would limit to per cent of their incomes the amount taxpayers can write off for tax purposes, This is a plan Administration have been discussing In recent days. Much concern has been expressed because some cit- izens with Incomes of more than J20C.CCO pay no federal Income taxes," Nixon said, These people are neither tax dodgers nor tax cheats. But where we can prevent it by law, we must not permit our wealthiest citizens to be 100 per cent successful at tax avoidance. Nor should the limit its tax government reform only to apply to these few extreme relatively cases. come allowance" which be said would remove more than 2 million low income families from the tax rolls now and assure that persons with lies living in poverty vould pay no federal taxes. He said that this allowance also would benefit students and other young people. As an example, he said that while a student who earns $l,70u of taxable income during the year now pays $117 in federal Income taxes, he would pay none under the new plan, he As further examples, said married couples with an income of $2,300 would pay nothing and a family of four would pay no tax on incomes below $3,500. The tax cutoff for this group now is $3,000 a To remove the poor frorw the federal tax rolls, the Pres- Ident requested a low in- - year, The low income allowance, See NIXON on Pige 3 50 1. Nixon said he then would be willing to eliminate the surtax entirely as of the end of fiscal 1970 If economic and fiscal conditions permit." In calling for elimination of the tax for th poor and creation of a minimum tax for the rich Nixon said: There la no reason why we cannot lighten the burden of those who pay too much and increase the taxes of those who pay too little." He said that both these goals could be accomplished with no impact on maintenance of federal revenues. This would simply mean that the Administration planned to trade off the cost of eliminating the poor by bringing In extra revenues firm the wealthy. The President called for leg any details concerning the operaHenkin said. But tions he said he would name the ... ships. NO COMMENT Asked whether the EC121 flights have resumed Henkin said he could not get into that operation aspect either. The task force carriers include the Enterprise, Ticon-derog- a, Ranger and Hornet. The cruisers include the Chicago, Oklahoma City and the St. Paul. It was not disclosed whether all these ships are now in the Sea of Japan or whether all will be deployed there at the same time. They could take turns rotating in and out of assignment zones along the coast of Korea. Henkin said the battleship New Jersey, which was diverted to the w'estern Pacific during the EC121 crisis, will be coming home. of The large deployment ships to the Sea of Japan apparently will not significantly affect naval operations off Vietnam. rocked Northern Ireland and rioting scarred the city of Londonderry. The British army has about 6,000 troops stationed in Northern Ireland. They were under orders not to Intervene In any civil disorders, leaving antiriot duties to the police. - The 3,000-maRoyal Ulster Constabulary was reinforced by 1,000 special reservists and another 1,000 were to be called up, officials said. Terence Minister Prime ONeill called on the British army for help Sunday night after explosions crippled Belfasts power and water facilities and a series of firebomb-ing- s left nine city post offices and a bus station blazing. The bombings were believed federal e A-- reiv-glou- n - to - protesting the division of membership in the Ire- - The WASHINGTON (UPI) American Cancer Society said today the nations tobacco industry now spends $300 million a year on cigarette advertisto lure people into a ing dangerous habit and keep them smoking. views In prepared testimony for the House Commerce Com- Two physicians speaking on behalf of the society said cigarette ads should be banned from radio and television, where they have been exThey entremely effective. dorsed proposals for tough new health warnings in commercials and on cigarette That law, which provides that all cigarette packs must carry the warning fcaution: cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health, also forbids government agencies to restrict cigarette advertising. If the law is not renewed, the Federal Communications Commission has said it will outlaw all cigarette broadcast ads. Baker 6aid the tobacco industry has increased its advertising fifty per cent, $200 packages. Dr. Sol R. Baker, a Beverly Hills, Calif., physician, and Dr. Ashbel Willians, a Jacksonville, Fla., surgeon, submitted the Cancer Societys C. one-ye- and th' District of Columbia were unconstitutional. The court did not pinpoint whether lesser waiting periods might pass the constitutional test. But a number of welfare cases challenging residency requirements are now in various stages of action in lower courts. The court took these- - other actions: Overturned the conviction of a New York Negro war veteran who turned an American Hag on grounds he wah found 7-- 2 -- Ordered acquittal million to $300 million a year since 1964, when the first governmental warning against smoking was issued. It is extremely tough for nervous, struggling, irritable men or women trying to do what is best for them and to be contheir children stantly Invited by witty, exalluring television pensive, commercials to return to their dangerous habit, he said. The American Cancer Society feels it should be ended. Williams, a member of the Cancer Commission of the American College of Surgeons, said the average smoker consuming a pack or more a day can expect years less of life than men who have never smoked cigarettes regularly. mittee, The committee resumed hearings today on proposals to alter and extend the Cigarette Labeling Act, which expires at the end of June. of a Robert New York youth. Watts, who was found guilty of declaring at a Washington, D.C., war protest rally that if he had to carry a rifle in the The first person 1 Army, want to get in my sights is LBJ. The Courts 4 decision said that while Watts committed a . . . very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the Prepidaut " h ivr wr.tncted by the constitutional guarantee of free speech. Overruled Justice William O. Douglas and allowed the Army to send a would-b- e conscientious objector, Louis A. Negre, to serve in Vietnam while the legal fight on his behalf continues in this coun- ent Children, but old age assistance, aid to the totally disabled and to the blind also 5-- try. The welfare decision it? greatest impact on Aid to Families with Depend will-ha- ' See BRITISH on Page United On Welfare guilty under state law of using contemptuous words about the rulnational emblem. In a ing, the Court said the action against Sidney Street violated his freedom of speech rights. The decision did not touch on whether desecrating the flag as punishable by burning unde? federal law would be sr.fi guarded the same way. j , s and Protestants, bufthe demonstrators turned on the poLondonderry, where religious feuding erupted. lice. In the fighting that fol- and Northern land Irelands be politically motivated, Cancer Society Scores Lure Of Cigarette Ads Komind courts requirement in Connecticut, Pennsylvania three-judg- that the fami-officia- ls Kingdom. The Londonderry s riots were sparked by feuding, aggravated by (.barges of police brutality. Two days of rioting in that city left an estimated 260 persons injured 110 Saturday and 150 Sunday. The official casualty toll listed 180 policemen and 79 civilians hospitalized. Roman Catholics, who comprise about a third of the pro- vinces 15 million people, first took to the streets of Londonderry last October, charging that Protestants were favored in jobs, housing and local voting proredures. The Protestant Unionists In turn accused of seeking to seer the ties with Britain. In Londonderry on Saturday the police intervened to head off a clash between Catholics BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND British (AP) troops guarded key installations against sabotage today after weekend bomb blasts 16 destroyers. We will not go into Poor Win INSIDE THE " Z. Henkin, the Penchief spokesman, told reporters the new Task Force 71 has been activated by the Pacific fleet and is under the command of Rear Adm. Malcolm W. Cagle of Grand Junction, Colo. Along with the four carriers, which will be able to provide jet fighter protection Daniel ; cant during calendar year 1970. Therefore, I recommend that investment tax credit repeal be accompanied by extension of the full surcharge only to Jan. 1, 1970, with a to Jan. Brjtish Troops Called In As Bombs Rock N. Ireland Warships r from reports that several hundred persons with high incomes had paid no income tax as a result of loopholes and other tax law provisions. Nixon mpde repeal of the 7 per cent investment tax credit his ploy for convincing Congress to extend the present 10 per cent income tax surcharge beyond its scheduled expiration June 30. Repeal of the investment tax credit will permit relief to every taxpayer through relaxation of the surcharge earlier than I had contemplated, Nixon said. The revenue effect of the repeal of the investment tax credit will begin to be signifi- will be involved, Answering state arugments in support of the residency laws, Brennan said: We recognize that a state has a valid interest in preserving the fiscal integrity of its programs. It may legitimately attempt to limit its lor expenditures, whether public assistance, public education, or any other program. But a state may not accomplish such a purpose by Invidi-- o between distinctions us classes of its citizens." Of O A-- 3 DIRECTOR President Names Rumsfeld WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon today nominated Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, to be director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OFO), In doing so, the President in effect raised the salary of the , antipoverty post from $30,000 to $42,500, the level Rumsfeld currently receives as a congressman. Democrats were quick to point out that in 1964 Rumsfeld voted against creation of R-Il- the Office of Economic Oppor- tunity, along with many Re- publicans. At the time, Rums--I feld said he preferred Re publican approaches to the problem of poverty. ; It was noted, however, that most Republicans took this course, saying they preferred ' GOP alternatives. Nixon made todays a n n ouncement personally, saying that Rumsfeld will re- sign from his seat in the 13th House from Illinois Congressional District to become an assistant on the White House staff with Cabinet rank. Nixon said he expects no in securing Senate troubles confirmation of Rumsfeld. ' 1 Today's Thought Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. James Ellis ! |