European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday november 14, 1958 demos weigh drive to plug tax loopholes Washington at key con i arcs signal democrats urn weighing drive in the new Congress to plug Long standing loopholes in Theta Laws in an expected scramble for added  with new government spending prospects find a massive budget deficit tax experts regard such a move As the Only feasible alternative to a general tax in crease. No boost in personal or business income tax rates is  Secretary of Commerce Sinclair weeks has renewed a suggestion for a uniform manufacturers sales tax. He said it would permit some cuts in both corporation and individual income tax rates and still increase Revenue. But key House members Sec such move As at Best a last ditch  far a loophole plugging shakeup of the tax Laws May go i Uncertain. Stay Bairn statement democratic leaders of the House where All tax legislation originates appear to be committed to at. Least � Start in this  Sam Rayburn of Texas in a Post election s t a t e m e n t called attention to tax Law revision hearings to be undertaken by the House ways and Means committee when c o n g r e s s convenes i january. Rep. Wilbur d. Mills dark ways and Means commit Lee chair Man noted in a forecast of possible tax legislation published last sep tember that tax differentials an preferences now existing. Cut our tax base by billions of  areas of possible tax revision Mills pinpointed the favourable tax treatment now afforded those who convert Ordinary income to capita gains allowances for depletion of natural resources like Oil and Coal special rules favouring income of insurance companies and the favor Able tax treatment accorded farm and other  elimination of tax preferences some of them in the law0 years or More would be certain to stir up a political Hornet nest. Would Hevers trend it would be a reversal of a con Gressional practice which for years has Beer to add exemptions preferences and loopholes to the a Laws to satisfy the demands of special individual and business , however influential democrats say enactment of a loophole plugging Bill is a distinct possibility even a probability in the new Congress. It would be a two year program calling for House passage the first session and final Senate action in i960.among other things it would mean elimination or reduction of27ms per cent depletion allowance granted Oil companies elimination of tax credits now enjoyed by for eign Oil producing companies re vision of tax exemptions now Al Lowed cooperatives restrictions on the use of capital gains to avoid Ordinary income taxes and possibly repeal of the dividend income credit for individual taxpayers. Weeks spends last Day on Job plastics May turn eskimos into gardeners Ottawa and plastics May provide the Eskimo with his own Garden plot. Tomatoes cont peppers cucumbers Beans and other vege table crops were grown u few feet above the permafrost in the Northland this year in shelter covered with plastic sheeting in Stead of the conventional  technique is one of the gimmicks introduced by agriculture department scientists who Aro helping Roll the Canadian farm front northward. Retiring Commerce Secretary Sinclair weeks pucks belongings in Washington after spending his last Day at the office. Weeks announced his decision to retire last month tie will be succeeded by Lewis l. Strauss former chairman of atomic Energy commission. Up photo 1j.s. Allowing to buy antibiotics Washington a . Government henceforth will permit american firms to ship so called wonder drugs to Russia and its european  Commerce department said the relaxation of Export controls will apply to such antibiotics As penicillin streptomycin aur Comy Cin Torr Amylin and similar drugs. The department previously had denied applications to Export these commodities to the european so Viet bloc except of r research Pur poses and in a few emergency cases. Not automatic relaxation of the control policy does not mean antibiotics can be shipped to the communist coun tries automatically. Exporters still will have to apply for individual Export licenses covering each shipment with on exception. Shipments May be sent to Poland under general Export licenses Cov ering a number of transactions Ofa similar character. The policy change also does not apply to communist China North Korea and North Vietnam. All ship ments of . Goods to these coun tries Are prohibited. Worker buried by slide found Thomaston Conn. Up searchers located the body of Power shovel operator More than 18 hours after he was buried by landslide under a 50-foot Mound of Earth. The legs of Matthew j. Pagarulo 38, were spotted several hours after authorities had Given up Hope that he would be found alive. Construction company officials said they would have to move tons of dirt and Rock before they could remove the body. They said that if heavy equipment was brought in without moving the overhang ing rubble it might set off More landslides and possibly result i additional casualties. Iowa woman is 103 Grundy Center Iowa up mrs. Minnie c. Haren celebrate her 103d birthday at the Home of her daughter. Eight of her 11 Chil Dren Are alive. She has 27 grand children 58 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. 6 too old couple loses custody fight for girl., 3 Milwaukee wis. Up husband and wife who want a child More than a Home and Money Alre at the end of their tether no Money no Home no child and Little regard for  Wisconsin supreme court has ruled that George Peebles 51, and his 43-year-old wife Are to old to adopt a 3-year-old girl. The Milwaukee county welfare department will take the child from their care and try to place her with younger parents. Mrs. Peebles broke into sob when informed of the decision. I Don t know what to say she said. All that fight All that  could they we had All the evidence on our Side. Now i Don t know what we Lido. We can t afford to fight any More. We did what we though twas right. To think this is sup posed to be  Good reasons the childless couple had sol their Home and spent their Sav Ings to finance a court fight to adopt the girl daughter of an in wed Mother. The welfare department which originally placed the child in their custody opposed the adoption on grounds they were too old to be Ideal parents. The High court in reversing decision of Milwaukee county judge Rudolph Murdoch said the department had Good reasons for opposing the adoption. Wilbur Schmidt director of Testate department of Public Wel fare said the state has no set policy regarding the Ages of prospective parents. But the age Gap Between the child and the parents must be considered he said. Schmidt indicated the couple probably would be eligible to adopt an older  objection to the pro Lebair Iii votes Naraini 6-month decree Power Beirut up the lebanese parliament has voted the govern ment of rashly Kura i emergency Powers to Rule Lebanon by decree for the next six months. The vote gave the former rebel Leader a 39-1 majority with one abstention. The seven Man bloc of deputies supporting the policies of former president Camille Chamou withdrew from the chamber in protest minutes before the vote. Posed adoption Schmidt said waste fact that the girl s Mother knew that the pc Bleses had the child. The High court based its decision on a similar Case last Spring in which the state department of Public welfare acting As a guard Ian refused to give consent to a adoption. The county judge in that Case said the welfare department s find Ings were arbitrary but the High court reversed the lower court ruling. Mrs. Peebles said a request fora rehearing by the Wisconsin supreme court or a hearing bythe . Supreme court was out of the question. We have no More Money and i would not be fair to ask the lawyers to pay for it themselves she said. I just Don t know what to do. What s left for us lbs ordered to rehire aide fired f or 4balk new York a the Colum Bia broadcasting system has been ordered by an arbitrator to rehire television technician fired last june after refusal to answer questions of a congressional committee probing in american  Man Joseph Papp was also awarded $1,500 in wages. When be leased Papp was the stage Man Ager for show of the month and i be got a  the arbitrator Emanual Stein chairman of the economics depart ment of new York University said in his decision this is not a fifth amendment  of red link Stein said that although Papp had refused to Tell the House sub committee whether he had formerly belonged to a pro communist organization the network contended at an arbitration hearing that App had been released Only be cause on his employment application to concealed association with the California labor school and two other left Wing  arbitrator said lbs had known of these associations before App was called before the con Gressional investigators. We have no Way of knowing whether lbs would have hired Papp in March 1952 if he include these institutions in his employ ment application Stein ruled but. It does not follow that six and a half years later it might rely on these omissions to justify a  to return Papp 37, currently product onstage manager for the Broadway play comes a Day said he was gratified by the decision. A network spokesman agree that refusal to answer questions under the immunity provision of the fifth amendment had not caused Papp s  Case was taken to arbitration under the grievance Machin Ery provided by the contract of the radio and television director Guild with the network. Kaniers set for . Trip Monte Carlo Monaco a Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco will leave nov. 22 for four week visit to the . The Monacan rulers have been invite to the yearly fete of the . War veterans at new Astoria dec. 4. York s Waldorf european edition army Navy air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. J. Cunningham jr., Usa asst editor in chief Nathan j. Magoun managing editor Jack Ellis sport editor Homer a. Cable feature editor Elmer d. 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