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Show Our Phone Numbers Partly Cloudy Variable cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Daytime highs in the upper 40s. Lows tonight near 30. Details, weather map on Page NO. 1 6 3 -- Home Delivery Information --- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PAGES 10c THE MOUNTAIN FIRST WEST'S 5244445 5244 44S Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South -5-21-3535 -- 7 2 5244400 24-2840 Snorts Scores B-1- 3. VOL. 372 New : NEWSPAPER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1969 Mi Violence: US. Must Convert" tar Billions Urged On Jobs, Homes Fir WASHINGTON (UPI) -Domestic violence so threatens America that the nation must switch from a economy to spend an extra $20 billion a year on hces. jobs, education and general welfare, the National Violence Commission WASHINGTON (UPI) Despite the Senates decisive approval and wide political popularity, an increase in the income tax exemption to $S0O faces a stiff battle to become law. The Nixon Administration is dead set against it because of its high cost to the government. Every $100 boost in the exemption costs the Treasury said Friday In its final report to President Nixon, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence said once U.S. gets out of the Vietnam war annual general welfare spending should be hiked by about $20 billion, as an initial goal. about S3 billion in tax lections. POPULAR Deseret Perry Robinett stands Commission near remains of liquid gas cylinder which exploded in Sugar House today. Rattles Shop Area MAJOR PROPOSALS In his judgment the commissions major recommendations were: to dramatize for the American people the prob- lem that threatens this coundual try internally; and the crimineed of expanding the nal justice system while tackcondiling the basic social tions in which crime breeds." The commission said: For the past three decades, the fedprimary concerns of the eral government have been the national defense, the conduct of wars and foreign affairs, the growth of the economy, and more recently, the conquest of space . . they currently devour more s of federal than and approxiexpenditures mately 50 per cent of federal, state and local expenditures two-third- combined. EXOEMOES DEFICIT It said such concentration had left the country with an enormous deficit of unmet social needs and deeply felt so- cial injustices. A. Hart, Philip a commission mem- ber, put it like this: The over-a- il thrust Is Look fellas, the kids are right. If we can get moon rocks back here, we can get clean air . . " Today's Thought Our deeds determine tis, as much as ice deter-viin- e our deeds. George Eliot SUGAR HOUSE A thun- derous explosion at a construction site shook downtown Sugar House at 10:30 a.m. today, but damage was not extensive and no one was hurt Battalion Fire Chief Karl Hasselfeld said hot tar from a spilled ladle caused a tank of liquid fuel to explode, shattering two large display windows in the Southeast Furniture Co. store, 2144 Highland Dr. MISSES SHOPPERS Shoppers passing by were startled, but fortunately none was hit by a large tar pot and other debris hurled by the blast. Perry Robinett, 42, 4373 Rutgers Ave., was operating a tar kettle preparatory to applying hot tar to the roof of the new American Savings and Loan Cb. building under construction across Highland Drive from the furniture store. The bucket tipped, allowing hot tar to run onto a cylinder supplying fuel to heat the tar. WORKER RUNS Robinett said he started to run when he heard the safety valve of the fuel tank pop. I thought there would be an explosion, so I took off. said Robinett who Is an of the American employe Roofing Co., 336 W. G region Ave. I dont want to operate that tar pot any more. Peculiarly, the large front window of the furniture store directly facing the blast remained intact, but two smallwindows, about 10 by 20 feet in size, around the comer of the building, collapsed into shroads over displays of a model kitchen and bedroom. The stores sound system continued to broadcast Christmas carols while crowds gathered around the blast scene and around debris hurled into the furniture store parking lot Inside The Hews Fireman and passerby examine shattered display window. Philippine Unit Leaves Vietnam SAIGON (UPI) The Phil1.330-macommitippines ment to the Vietnam war packed up and left for home today, the first allied military contingent to withdraw completely. From a ceremony at their Tay Ninh base camp 58 miles northwest of Saigon, the Filipinos flew to Saigon and boarded ships for the trip home aftpr three years and three months in the war zone. Manila decided to pull out the group noncombatant engineers, pacification workers and fanners as an economy move after Sen. J. William Fulbright, DArk., alleged that the United States had paid $45 million to keep them in Vietnam. A total of 2,200 Filipino troops were in Vietnam in September, 19GS. Some were withdrawn earlier. Ten Filipin nos National. Foreign A -- 1, Womens Pages ... Editorial Pages Theyre Your Schools Our Man Jones 2. 4 16-2- 1 -- 22. 23 23 Action Ads SECTION Americans Young Comics -1- 13 4 5. 6 Music SECTION B Let's Play Chess Obituaries Weather Map W 2-23 C Entertainment (Nhrtini, of mail outpouring showed Congress the boost in the exemption was far and away the most popular provision in the Senates complex, e tax reform bill. By a 69 to 22 vote the Senate adopted the measure Thursday over Republican protests that it could bring economic about collapse because of its inflationary impact and its cost to the government. Albert E. Sen. Gore, who championed the exemption increase through the Senate and gathered the signatures of more than half of the membership of the House on its behalf, said he would battle to retain it BEGIN NEXT WEEK That fight will be waged in conference a House-Senat- e committee, which planned to begin work next week on the massive job of reconciling two the tax contradictory bills reform measure passed by the House last summer and the Senate's bill. In addition to the increase in the personal exemption, the bills major provisions would: Extend the income tax surcharge at a 5 per cent rate through June 30, 1970. Grant a 15 per cent increase for the 25 million Americans who receive Social Security checks, raising the minimum payment to $100 for a single person and $150 for a married couple and allowing a worker to retire at age 60 of the normal with benefits. This would be the biggest Social Security increase in history. WASHINGTON (UPI) -SJohn J. Williams of Delaware, the Republicans' foremost tax expert, startled his colleagues Thursday by refusing to serve on the House-Ser-it-e committee that will seek to reconcile the House's tax reform bill with the en. Senate's. In an action for which could not recall a precedent, Williams rose from his seat and. in his characteristic d stern and voice, said, I could not in good conscience serve as a conferee on a bill which I feel is so radically wrong. Williams is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. That position would have guaranteed him a place on the conference committee, which will write a compromise version of the tax most likely the reform bill version that becomes law. But in 91 hours of debate, he had opposed nearly all the Senate amendments the tacked onto the bilL At the end, he said it was the most irresponsible action taken in my 22 years of conference. He called the Senate bill a cruel hoax because it promised the American people more than the government could afford to deliver. Williams place on the con- high-pitche- Sen. John J. Williams . . . "bill radically wrong" ference committee will be taken by Sen. Jack Miller. Other Senate mem- bers will be Finance CommitRussell B. tee Chairman and these other Long, members of the finance committee: Clinton P. Anderson, DN.M., who missed all Senate debate because of illness; Albert E. Gore. champion of the $800 exemption; Herman E. Talmadge, Wallace F. Bennett, and Carl E. Curtis, ., .. twx-thir- d er ITEM An 585-pag- was 18 SECTION Photos by Howard C. Moor Fuel Blast re- months ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate violence following the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968. Eisenhower said the Roman Empire, as well as 19 other once great nations, crumbled through failure to recognize their internal problems. Sen. Nws SUGAR HOUSE Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower. brother of Dwight D. The appointed GOP Expert Balks At Job the House negotiating team when it confers with the Senate on the bill's final shape, said he will not accept an exemption increase for the coming calendar year. He indicated he might accept a hike later on. lead RELEASES REPORT Elsenhower, released the port at a news conference. TAX CONFEREE And Rep. Wilbur D. who will Mills, TO REACH GOALS As the gross national product (GNP) and tax revenues continue to rise we should strive to keep military expendwhile general itures levc welfare expenditures continue to increase until essential social goals are achieved," the commission said. serious external While dangers remain, the graver threats today are internal: haphazard urbanization, racial discrimination, disfiguring of the environment, unprecedented interdependence, the dislocation of human identity and motivation created by all an affluent society resulting Li a rising tide of individual and group violence." col- were killed and 34 wounded during their tour. A press release said the Filipino troops had built 11S miles of roads, 11 bridges, 14 10 demonstration schools, farms, two model communities and 54 refugee centers in Tay Ninh province on tie Cambodian border. Up the ' border from their base camp, U.S. troops Thursday and early today pounced on North Vietnamese gunnprs jp swr- firing on American helicop- ters and reported killing 72 of them. The Gls suffered no losses in the fighting in Phuoc Long province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, headquarters said. Viet Cong commandos at- - concrete iaiked a bridge on Saigons main highway link with the southern tip of Vietnam during the night and destroyed the span. The explosions Thursday 120-fo- night left the span 85 miles southwest of Saigon a shambles, disrupting traffic from the southern Mekong Delta, the nation's ricebowL to markets in the capital. Military spokesmen said tnree government troops assigned to guard the bridge were wounded and one civilian was killed in the attack. The bridge is eight miles south of Can Tho, the Delta's biggest city. SLASH TAXES Remove five million poor people from the tax rolls and slash taxes for seven million of the near poor. Allow taxpayers who pay college expenses for themselves or dependents to deduct $325 from their taxes starting in 1972. Impose $5 billion of additax tional taxes through reforms on corporations and wealthy people w ho earn their income chiefly from invest- ments rather than salaries. The House bill was far more severe in its tax reforms and far less, generous in its tax cuts, at least in their immedi-Se- e BATTLE on Page LOCAL GOVERNMENT DETAILS ON PAGE A-2- 3 Detailed recommendations by the Local Government Modernization Study are outlinea today in the Deseret News on Page The recommendations, including the proposal to consolidate the Salt Lake City and County governments into a single unit, are tentative. However, they deserve careful attention by all residents of the area. Recommendations and proposals are the results of months of study by a special task force engaged by the University of L'tah. The study was requested by the Salt Lake City and County commissions. When the report is completed and finalized, it will be printed and distributed to all interested citizens. Meanwhile. a preliminary overall view nt the report can be gained from reading today's Despiet News outline. are given m five The tentative recommendations A-2- 3. brief reports. A-- 9 Dear Postman: Worst Yet To Come WASHINGTON (UPI) Every man, woman and child has mailed an average of 10 Christmas cards and packages already this yuletide season. And with 13 days remaining before Christmas, there are still more than 6 billion pieces an average of alof mail most 30 cards and packages yet unmailed. per person The heaviest deluge is expected this weekend. So far only one red trouble light has blinked on at the crisis control center on the 5th floor of the post office de- - partment here. It signaled a backlog of parcels for Guam in San Francisco and was quickly extinguished with a special airlift to the Pacific isle. As of late Thursday aftersignoon, four yellow lights nifying potential trouble marked the big map. The rest were all green for go. Stressing that the yellow lights flash on at the slightest hint of potential trouble, officials explained they warned of: e'-e- Rain in New York City, 4,400 pounds of mail for Helsinki backed up and being with rerouted from John F. Kennedy International Airport. Rain and a slight conwith incoming gestion eign mail at Chicago. storms in Heavy for- San Francisco. Icy roads in Portland, Ore., and 'nchorage, Alaska, causing some star route delays of delivenes into Seattle. Heavy storms predicted in Washington and Oregon may caue trouble in Seattle. Santa Claus, Ind , w as doing nicely. A volunteer veterans' group helps handle the mail millions of children write to Santa. The peak is expected Satur day. Monday is the final recommended date for mailing the last lot of Christmas mad that destined for local areas and nearby states. J i m Cline, hired away from his post as advertising manager of American Telephone Telegraph Co. in New Yoik City on a sort of loan arrangement, has headed this year's advertising campaign to get the Christmas mail mo mg. Takine the approach the giant Beil System uses to avoid long distance phone call jams at Christmas. Cline said: This year we're doing it differently. Instead of mail early, were taking the first step to try and get people to think of mail in four distinct increments. Thus, the ad promotion has stressed staggered mailings starting on Dec. 1 through Dec. 15. A major radio campaign was mounted to try and impress on people the need for a return address. Cline rounded up 18 national personalities like Ed Sullivan, Cab Calloway and Lome Greene for the national radio His whole campaign spots cast just $32 000 because most of it was free The same type of promotion on Madison Avenue would run to millions of dollars. m rr1 r j |