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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 5, 1967

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday september 5, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 Back on Job after being away for a Long time following her cancer operation on july 10, Alabama gov. Lurleen b. Wal lace has resumed her duties at her Montgomery office. Up House working to plug loopholes Avert general increase in Washington a drive is on in Congress to tighten up exemptions and special provisions in the present tax Laws to reduce or even eliminate the need for a general tax increase. The going is rugged against formidable obstacles. But at least some main targets Are being identified. Two of the principal ones Are the 27 percent Oil depletion allowance whose opponents have campaigned for years in vain and the provision that allows capita gains to be inherited without tax. President Johnson s administration says it is for tax Reform but later. Administration witnesses before the tax javits Calls la j Leaf Oak and Bull story9 Washington up  k. Javits r-n.y., accused president Johnson Sunda of using a cock and Bull Story to sell Congress on a $7 billion tax increase. In a television interview Broad cast Over new York stations javits said he May vote for a10 per cent surtax on income taxes when the time comes but for different reasons. According to the administration it would relieve a budget deficit for this year of about$23 billion maybe As High As $28 billion he said. If the country is going to go broke on a net deficit of something Between $28and $29 billion without the tax surcharge it s going to go justas broke with a net deficit of $16 to $21  president is giving us a cock and Bull Story that this ingoing to make or break the coun try unless we give him the  javits said additional revenues were badly needed to help solve problems facing the nation s cities. We be never hesitated to Bor Row to fight a War. Why should t we borrow to fight what is practically a Domestic  according to javits. Johnson was failing to offer new Urban Aid programs or fight for thrones already on the books. Government to sell 140 Washington a the government plans to auction 140 Texas longhorns living sym Bols of the old West As the Bureau of sport fisheries an wildlife describes them. A Bureau spokesman said the sales Are being made to reduce the herds to the capacity of the Range. Longhorns nearly became extinct after other Breeds replaced them As beef producers about the turn of the Century. The Oklahoma Refuge was established in 1927 and the Nebraska one n 1936. They just Seattle Wash. Up they were like so Many Ani Mals watching the survival of the fittest. If you Don t make it it s just too  s How Ann Marie Davenport 20, described the actions of a half dozen witnesses who she said did nothing while she tried to fight off a purse snatcher. She was knocked Down an kicked in the Side at least four times the Young woman told police saturday. Miss Davenport said the at tack occurred at night As she was returning Home from works a nurse. She said her assail ant a tall youth about 20, came up behind  spun around and his Arm hit me under the Chin As i turned miss Davenport said. He knocked me Over the curb Andi fell in the Street with my purse underneath  screamed. The people All turned around. But they just stood there  she said her attacker was kicking her and screaming Gimme the purse you better Gimme that purse the Man fled  said at least four persons were standing on the opposite Corner when she was attacked. A Man and woman who had been walking ahead of her turned around when she screamed but just stood there and watched the would be purse snatcher kick her and several motorists drove by without offering to help her she  after he ran away the people just stood there an watched miss Davenport said. They did t do anything. They did t even ask me if i was Hurt. They just turned and walked away. I went Home and called the police. The police just shrugged their shoulders when i told  said you can t expect people to help you any More " writing House ways and mean committee insisted that combining loophole closing provisions with the proposed surcharge on income taxes would delay the legislation which they say i needed quickly to Avert a Bud get crisis. Rep. Dominick v. Daniels,d-n.j., introduced last week a Bill embodying the maximum objectives of the tax reformers. It would reduce the depletion Al Lowance on Oil from 27 to 15 per cent. It would provide for capital gains taxes to apply at the time of a taxpayer s death to the added value his holdings had acquired whereas present Law relieves the heirs of this Burden. It would end the tax exemption on interest on Bonds is sued by municipalities to finance Industrial plants. Tighten Stock option sin addition the Daniels Bill would tighten up on Stock options Large charitable deductions dividend exclusion gift taxes multiple corporation advantages and payment of estate taxes in Par value government . Charles s. J o e 1 s o nd-n.j., also has zeroed in on the depletion allowance. He authored a separate Bill to reduce it to 15 per cent. The ways and Means committee has taken no action. Joelson has said that if the measure remains shelved he will file a discharge petition a device by which action can be forced if a majority of Mem Bers sign. Whether or not he obtained a majority and he has said he is under no illusions the petition move would put some members on record an presumably would exert some  principal idea Man in the tax Reform drive is rep. Henrys. Reuss a wis. Reuss said he thinks revenues could be increased through Clos ing what he Calls loopholes by about $5 billion a year without getting into terribly controversial areas an obvious refer ence to the Oil depletion allow Ance. Youth worker does unusual Job hiding escapees wins Praise new York up a 23-year-old woman youth Council summer worker who hid out"11 of 12 Young escapees from a Bronx detention Home for two Days was praised for an unusual Job Friday by a spokes Man for mayor John Lindsay. Seven of the 12 youths were brought Back by miss Linda Cusamano after she was promised by the Landsey aide that efforts would be made to find the Homes other than the youth House where they told her they and been beaten and  of the youths w e e awarded to miss Cusamano s Cus Tody two others were paroled to their parents two More we replaced in Foster Homes four were still at Large and the 12th was taken to the youth House by a citizen who found him in a 42ndstreet movie House. The boys had escaped through window from the Home wednes Day and 11 of them were found wandering around the lower East Side by miss Cusamano. Fine attempt comes to a screeching halt Rockville my. Up there Are two ways to catch a speeding Motorist. Just ask the Maryland state police. Start by commandeering two motorists on a freeway at night and using their cars As Road blocks order the motorists to stay with their  motorists were told by a trooper that another trooper was chasing a speeder far up the Road. Very  it turned out the suspected speeder s car veered of the Road and missed the Road Block. Trooper l. P. Gibbs who was chasing the speeder did  crashed into a 1966 Ford driven by mrs. Mary Lou Irving of Springfield a. Mrs. Irving said Gibbs told her the car valued at at least $3,000, was to tally  Impact threw mrs. Irving s car into the other half of the Roadblock a 1967 Pontiac station Wagon driven by Basil Creath of the District of Columbia. Creath estimated the damage to his Carat $442. The Maryland state police said they d pay for every tiling Creath said Friday. Rather than turn them Over to l authorities who might Send Hemback to the youth House she fled with the boys out of the City she said but telephoned Barry Gottehrer head of Lindsay s summer task Force Early Friday. Gottehrer made arrangements to bring seven of miss Cusa Mano s 11 charges into family court where judge Millard l. I Midonick spoke to the boys forbore than four hours and then paroled them. The boys told the judge there been instances where they had Bren beaten with fists and coat hangers and kicked by Counse lors at the House. No charges Gottehrer praised miss Cusa Mano for performing an unusual Job and said no charges would be lodged against her because she was t hiding these Young sters she was merely trying to keep them  her actions were criticized brother City officials however who implied she might actually have been involved in their escape. It was no Accident that she came upon the escaped youths Charles Kirschner acting director of the youth House said. John Wallace director of the office of probation said Legal action should be taken against her. Whiz at figures Claudia Reynolds clutches her prizes after being named miss Tan America in a Dallas contest. The 20-year-old College senior from Monroe la., majors in math an Hopes to go to work in the . Space program. A photo  
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