European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              December 1964 the stars and stripes 7 medicare foe favors payroll tax Little the chief congressional Oppon ent of president Johnsons medi care plan said he could support medicare if it were financed by a new payroll tax instead of drawing its Money from social Security added Wilbur he doubted such a pay Roll tax could pay for an Ade quate As chairman of the House ways and Means has in the past prevented congressional action on the medicare pro which would pro tide medical expense help for the speaking to a civic said u his payroll plan were the tax should be sep Arate from social Security and perhaps even administered sep less predictable he said health expenses arc less predictable than the living expenses normally provided for by social Security and arc rising considerably it the two were he the living expenses prob ably would be compromised ant the danger increased of stress ing health care at the expenses of shelter and i personally As have so often that financing health cure of the aged does con it tute a special tha some aged tin Mil presently have adequate Protection against the Cost of illness and that further strengthening of government programs is called Milts he if 20 million aged citizens were to receive the lame health benefits As federa employees get the cos would be 1250 per person be or More than 15 billion he the hone flu had three possible approaches to give the aged fewer Benc fits than considered adequate of Federal employees to make clip1 Bill Ltd dependent on retirement rather than reaching the age o Singer says film Star beat her u or to move Iheng the a eligibility a Back or to relate government help to the Money available the person needing  policy continued the Madl Sonville City count announced that ims will be the Lith straight year without property or poll lax in the Cut the Council Levy of 20 cents per i fair Cash value on shares Banks and Trust the Revenue will go to operation the City a City of get its Revenue through the Cut owned and operated 11 g h and water ook county returns Flolly conv Ossed democrats win control of Illinois House Chicago up the a on longest election ended Hen final returns pushed the Democrat la party into command the Illinois House of repro the democrats swept Illinois giving president Johnson an Edge Over Barry leaders of both parties had assumed that the Republican defeat Hud extended into the rut nobody could he certain until the Cook county canvass was Illinois had to wait until a month after election Oung Singer charged actor Steve a Khan beat her and tied her p after she accidentally spilled drink in his role signed a police report alleging assault and false Cochran was unavailable for police officer to took the report from miss said she had two Black a Lump on her head and raises on her face and upper miss Rae said she spilled a rink during a meeting with two ther men and Cochran about a Art she was considering in a Lam Cochran is the meeting was at Cochrane Home n suburban Sherman she Cochran became very miss Rae and ordered her o wipe up the in became angry and asked Cochran to take her Cochran miss Rae and struck ripped her tied her hands and feet Ted Kennedy takes first Steps since plane crash Boston up Edward Ted has Aken his first Steps since suf Terling a broken Back in a plane crash nearly six months a Kennedy spokesman said the 12yearold senator walked unaided 20 feet around his new England Baptist Hospital room while doctors and nurses watched Kennedy wife Joan was not both Kennedy and Herbert who said the Senato would begin regular walking sex expressed pleasure a the Kennedy still is confined mos of the time to an Ortho Pedi Tore he stepped off the Frame of his trip across the Doc tors said the senator probably would be transferred to a rein Lar Hospital bed Over the week Kennedy has vowed he wll walk out of the Hospital before Christmas and plans to spin the holidays with the rest of the Kennedy family in Palm Beach the youngest brother of the late president John Kenned was injured in the crash of private plane june ii near the Western Massachusetts town o he was in rout to the democratic state Cove lion in nearby actor Anthony Quinn to Bas divorce on incompatibility a actor Anthony Quinn said he will Start divorce proceedings against Katherine de Mill Quinn in jul Quinn said he is taking the action because o the sense of duty i feel toward my two Little boys in he said he Al ready has asked the Volanda to marry Quinn said he will divorce his present wife daughter of the late film director Cecil d Mille on grounds of income he said since he w born in he is sure it divorce will be said Quin in deference to my i be it up to her to take the Dlvore but evidently she in going Quinn said his wife and he ready have arrived at a proper the two neckties and with a dish gagged she said she was released about and permitted to Call her father and grandmother picked her she told act Couves said they would interview Cochran and the other whom she identified As Mark Miller and Mickey she says Steve did role Rae looks Over her Orn sweater with blackened eyes left after accusing actor Steve Cochran of beating binding her with neckties and gagging her with a Dos Towel after she spilled a drink in his at right is role As she appears photos Mahon reports possible billion Cut in defense up George who was at the lbs ranch during talks on next ears Federal said Here hat Congress May lower the de Ense appropriation by about Uoung of Street s no inconvenience uary wherever ii May s being closed by Fayette fiscal it Hast been or even since at least when it was mentioned in a James Park filing n the noted that the Street apparently does not and the closing would cause no in convenience to the Democrat said this Cut in defense spending heralds no change in defense the current defense budget is More than about half of All Federal the government recently announced plans to close Many military Mahon spoke to a group of air Force officers at Dyess air ind i Force base and assured them that the career of the Pilot will not be made obsolete by he noted that 192 million had been set aside for development of an advanced strategic manned bomber to provide a replacement for the returns from downstate coun ties had indicated i democrats would control the House unless the republicans could come up with a surprising finish in Chi they and the democrats were the winners in the Only at Large race involving an entire legislative body in the nations both parties were forced into the a Large race with All candidates running from a single the entire state be cause the last session of the legislature could not come up with a Bill that met the approval of Otto a bested re publican Charles Percy by about votes to win re election last wide territory after Days of the legislators finally faced up to a 102 county District stretching from Wisconsin to from Iowa to Chicago lawmakers were forced to com Pete for votes in the same a Nils i m their colleagues from the till 1 Nois each party put up 118 Candi which represents two thirds of the 177member Veteran legislators had thwarted any idea of Soini for the in ire 177 seats and risking a with the democrats 118 Vic the Only question remaining was which 511 of the 118 republicans won their Way into he this will be determined after the c of county totals Are added to the downstate republicans retained control of the each party slate of 118 candidates favored the incumbents by putting them at the lop of the each party filled out the 118 with so called Blue ribbon selected by commit the Blue re boners May have attracted More votes than the old each party had a 1 Blue ribbon Man Adial Stevenson Iii for the Democrat and Earl Eisenhower for the re a Chicago lawyer and son of the ambassador to the was the Leader among the democrats in Cook county he got in former executive of a suburban newspaper and brother of the former Csc led republicans with 348 the Chicago demo cratic sweep Wai so Strong that the Low Man on the democratic slate Dan Teefey of mount got More than Johnsons margin in set record Lyndon Johnson won califor Nia in the 3 general election by the largest presidential mar Gin in the Stales Frank California Secretary of made Public the final official figures from the general election they showed a record turnout of the voters also turned out in the highest percentage in his tory per cent of the million the official presidential re including Latch porting Absentee voters Johnson Republican Barry Goldwater the nearly Angel Public Lea to show votes for splinter Candy Tom populous los Only boosted Republican i dates and writ Eins for either of elect George Murphys vie Lory margin Over incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger to the final official vote Democrat Republican Jordans official canvass failed South Dakota county without a doctor Clear up Duel county Only Hospital has it was the Hospital closed because the areas Only Richard retired and the 22bed Hospital was unable to find a the two in the presiden tial where then was a difference of be tween the total turnout and the total Johnson Goldwater Jordans office Laid splinters and writ Eins accounted for Only indicating that Vot ers failed to vote for any presidential Johnsons margin of Vic tory eclipsed the previous record for a presidential win in califor that was Franklin Roose belts win Over Alt Landon in 1936 by the democratic nominee car ried All but five of the states 58 Goldwater won Only Al san Diego and Sutler