European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 17, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 7 mad As a wet Hen at waterfront slickers tax advances delay 4day of collapse for Michigan s Treasury this forlorn Bird found Oil soaked and Strug gling for its life in the Harbor at Vancouver Canada expresses its indignation to the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Many Birds perished when a Barge upset and coated the water with Oil. Associated press photo Lansing Mich. A Michigan Industry through Advance pay ment of taxes has slaved off col lapse Day for the state s Treasury until at least april 15. Otherwise sunday there Wouldhave been nothing left in the Treasury to meet state payrolls among other things. Gov. G. Mennen Williams appealed to Industry feb. 2 for pro payment of taxes to help the state through a Ash crisis. Of varied types most of the taxes Are not clue until april 15 or june 15. Only four Days before his a peal the governor had proposed 5 per cent tax on Industry and graduated personal income tax to raise an additional $140 million year he says Michigan needs to meet expenses. $35.5 million total within five Days Industrial pre payment of taxes passed the $24million Mark and by last thurs Day they totalled $35.5  said his prepayment Appeal got a bigger response Thanh anticipated. The $35.5 million permitted first payments since november to Testate s three major universities. State curbing negro voters Baton Rouge la. A the state of Louisiana defiant of pos sible Federal intervention is try ing to erase More than 100,000 negroes from vote registration Rolls. Segregation leaders have enlisted legislative executive and judicial branches of state government in seeking rigid enforcement of voter registration Laws. They said the . Civil rights commission will have no basis for action if the Laws Are enforced impartially. State sen. W. M. Rainach Louisi Ana segregation chief said some White voters May also be chopped off but Many would be negro Vot ers would be eliminated for each White person affected. Rainach also is president of the Assn. Of citizens councils of Louisiana a group that has purged thousands of negro voters and number of Whites in recent years. Rainach predicted rigid enforce ment will Cut the approximately 130,000 total negro registration to 13,000. Louisiana has slightly More than 800,000 registered voters. Man in the Street stars on color to Chicago up some 8,000 persons Are seeing themselves Ocolor television daily through a new exhibit at Chicago s museum of science and Industry. The museum where the unusual exhibit was installed by the radio corporation of America said it is the Only place in the world where the Man in the Street can actually see himself on color to As Well As in Ordinary Black and White. The closed circuit arrangement flashes the visitor s picture As he stands in front of the camera to four other color sets in the exhibit area. Three of the sets Are located so that the visitor and other spectators can see How accurately the real life setting is reproduced in color and the fourth is located inthe control room manner by a full time Engineer. New controls needed expert warns intolerable smog cities predicted Pasadena Calif. A the world s smog cities will become in tolerable within a few years says an air pollution expert unless new controls can be found and enforced. The Only possible Way to keep smog within tolerable Levels under present controls the research scientist said would be to Crampon restrictions making further Industrial expansion practically  this gloomy picture was draw by or. A. J. Haagen Smit a califor Nia Institute of technology Bio chemist who made the first comprehensive analysis of smog in Tholos Angeles Basin. He spoke on a television program. H a a Gen Smit said before the broadcast that although his conclusions were based on researching the los Angeles area they were applicable to every City in the world which has smog. Explains cause smog is an inevitable result of the increasing use of Petroleum products in refineries in Industrial plants in automobiles he said. You find it in London Paris. And Many other cities As Well As in los Angeles. This is not the Winter smog that comes from soot. It can and does happen at anytime of the year whenever the use of Petroleum products exceeds a certain  civic planning he said must be specifically directed toward air pollution control by the creation of More and larger breathing spaces in the form of extensive Parks and a Complete revision of Bill would allow Home leaves for Model prisoners Washington a rep. Emanuel Celler . Proposes that Model Federal prisoners be allowed a couple of weeks leave at Home. He said this could Hel them become better citizens when they get out of jail. Celler chairman of the House judiciary committee announced he will introduce a Bill to carry out this plan which he said has been successfully tried in England for five years. Pay own expenses under Celler s Bill the attorney general could permit a Federal prisoner to visit his Home or other proper place for two weeks with out expense to the government provided that 1the prisoner has a Good rec Ord 2there is a reasonable prob ability that he would not breathe Law during his visit and 3 the visit would Speed his rehabilitation and would be consistent with the Public interest. Thinking on Public transport. Even relocation of Industry May be Nec  he added even if a satisfactory anti smog device is developed for cars and fit is installed on All cars by the optimistic Date of 1965, the Overall reduction of hydrocarbons result ing from the installations could hardly be More than 50 per cent because the Auto is not the Only  captive Whooper lays another egg new Orleans a Joseph Ine the Only living whooping Crane Ever to produce offspring i Captivity Laid another egg the other Day her seventh since 1957. George Douglass superintendent of the Audubon Park zoo said if to follows her usual pattern she will Lay a second one this week. Douglass said he May place the first egg in an incubator in a at tempt to get to to Lay a Batch of two. To and the male Crip produced four eggs last year and two the previous year. The two from 1957 hatched and Are growing Well. One of the four she Laid last year also hatched and the Chicks developing but theother three eggs apparently were not Fertile. They had been borrowing against Mic impaled full state payment Inge future. Banks had shut off Iret lit based on anticipation when Williams Appeal came. The Early tax Money also permitted payment within a week of 512 million overdue to townships villages and cities plus another ill million for welfare dependent children and old age assistance. State payroll relieved of their overburden current state revenues met Las thursday s $5 million state payroll. But everyone agrees that Indus try s prepayment of tax Money it might have kept and used for another two to four months is merely a temporary prop for the slate s sagging Treasury. Williams has proposed As an other temporary prop that the state Divide its $50 million vet Erans Trust fund Between its universities and permit them to use it As collateral for borrowing. It would be returned Over the  legislature would appropriate for use of needy veterans what the fund has been earning heretofore. As an alternative prop Williams has proposed that a constitutional amendment be submitted april 6that would raise from $250,000 to $50 million the amount the stat can borrow without a vote. Mounting deficit observers say Michigan which ended its fiscal year june 30, 1956,with a $25 million surplus now faces a mounting deficit because of appropriating More Money than it was taking in. Hodgepodge grabs that might be turned into read Cash quickly also Are blamed. While appropriations by the re publican dominated legislature have been going up year to year but not As much As Democrat Wil Liams recommended revenues have been falling off and Williams de mands for More Only partially met. The state has used such Gim micks As converting $19 million Worth of whisky into Cash. This was done by switching from a Cash to credit payment  $11 million surplus in Spe Cial accounts such As one to pro vide bonuses for veterans of the Korea conflict were snatched Upland state Lous put in their place. The Day of reckoning once due sunday is off until april 15. Most authorities estimate Testate s deficit will be $110 million by june 30. Jon Hall weds sex actress Las vegas Nev. A actor Jon Hall and former actress Raquel  Ames became husband and wife at a Las vegas hotel. It waste second marriage for each. Hall was divorced in 1955 by Singer Frances Langford. His new wife was the widow of Stephen Ames a los Angeles investment broke who died five years ago. She made several pictures in the 30s. Did t complain until appendix burst Devotion to Job May Cost paper boy s life Brunswick a. A because John Russell Okerson is a Little boy who won t complain he is fighting a desperate Battle for life. His subscribers to the Brunswick news will read this Story about John because he insisted that other members of his family carry out his 40 daily deliveries on St. Simon Island. A week ago John 10, was insisting to his Mother mrs. John d. Okerson that he was just a Little bit  he did not look right however and she called a doctor. A Short while later John underwent Emer gency surgery for a ruptured appendix. Surgeons found the rupture was old and peritonitis had set  s condition worsened. Further surgery was necessary because of complications from the infection. The lad s condition is Lis Tedas poor. Doctors have informed the family he May not pull through. The Day after the operation mrs. Okerso said John suddenly aroused and said Mother you re Here and i m Here. Howare the papers going to be delivered the Okerson family which includes fou children regularly handles 140 papers As John and his older brother David 12, ear Money for their College education. David who last year was crowned state 4-h poultry raising Champion regularly delivers 100 of the  told his Mother that his brother Bryan 9, does t know my people and neither does Amy his sister who is 8.mrs. Okerson solved the problem by agree ing to deliver the route herself. Together they wrote a note to be pinned to each copy. It said i am in the Hospital. I la be Here a few Days. I la be Back on the Job As soon As i  Okerson will deliver your  the papers have been getting around right on time the subscribers report. Some Oker sons Are carrying on the Job. And they promised they always shall