European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripb3 tue Idoy Jan tiry 14, 1969 continued my Page if enough or when the enemy will weaken to thie Point where we can phase Down the level of the general said Thieu is presumably speaking for himself concerning the cutback. "1 know highest court will Rule on 61 soles Tox continued from Page 1 for state taxing purposes a serv iceman May not be considered to have moved his residence to Testate where he is stationed. The Law specifically mentions in come and personal property taxes but says nothing about sales and use taxes % Navy officer the Case arose when Navy d. Schuman a resident of Nebraska stationed i Connecticut walked at a state sales and use tax levied on a pleasure boat which he purchased. He paid the tax under protest and joined by the u. S. Government took the Issue to court. Judge m. Joseph Blumenfeld of the u. S. District court at Hartford ruled that the 1942 la was intended to cover sales and use taxes and handed Down summary judgment in favor of the United states 2nd circuit court of appeals affirmed the decision. Different category the states told the supreme court that sales and use taxes should be put into a different category from personal property and income taxes category based on the location of the transaction rather than the residence of the purchaser. The circuit court decided that sales and use taxes were in fact related to personal property and thus came under the exemption in the Law. The court cited a 1966 Case in which the supreme court agreed that servicemen stationed in califor Nia did not have to pay Testate s Auto License fee levied in lieu of a tax As Long As their cars were properly registered in their Home states. Said Smith inhale Pitt n-1lave More progressively weaker. Krock declares of to such . Plan my Westmoreland added that has never heard of Anusch for die Reduci Iott fou i in Are. Continuing to apply pressure on the enemy. He growing said Inion to re Washington Fuji Wil i great tease of scald. Son was the most impressive As Day i was talk rag Tif Clum a a person Roosevelt in his methods Coolidge was a tease and Harding was in Awe of theoffice Truman was the most tolerant of criticism Ana John son the vain est of Aulii r these Are Arthur Toj Rock assessments of some of the i Al presidents whom he knew an wrote about during his 60-year Obj selects 33 for boost to two stars Washington is Johnson has nominated 33 air Force brigadier generals for temporary promotion to two Star rank. The list includes four officers in Europe. European nominees Are Davidi. Liebman Deputy commander for command and control j-3eucom George v. Williams commander of Tus log renew. Dupont Secretary of the shape staff and Dale s. Sweat Deputy chief of staff plans Safe. The nominations Are subject to Senate confirmation. Career As a journalist including33 years As a new York times Washington 82-year-old Krock now retired discussed presidents he has known in a 30-minute television special broadcast sunday by the Columbia Broad casting began the program by discussing president elect Rich Ard m. Nixon. He said Nixon is not a wavering Man but on who moves with Assurance once he has decided on a said Nixon is very willing to forget animosities or simply skate Over them in order to achieve the end he has in View and unlike some other presidents i be known he does carry grudges. Wilson most impressive Krock said of All the presidents he knew Woodrow Wilson was the most impressive in his person whereas Franklin d. Roosevelt was i repressive in his methods his ways his person and in a lighter Side that Wilson did not reveal though he had it. Wilson had it but Roosevelt made it the journalist said Roosevelt once said one of the most important things a political candidate could do was be seen in Church. Asked if that werer l True Krock said Well they All do Don t they pulled Havana those Idem Aren t they he said yes _ then he said As he fit he put the Box Back in his he never offered me one but Ashe was puffing he you smoke too Don to you and isaid yes 1 do. And that was the end of b. Johnson Krock said was a victim of history but would come put better than his present rating he said Johnson has be Iii haunted throughout his presidency by the legend of John f. Kennedy an absolutely enduring legend of superiority Grace of All the qualities he Johnson never had of har Vard of his origins were in contrast were inclined to give him an inferiority Complex i Tea he at the the vain est of Alli have Ever in also Johnson egotistical and most loquacious of the , Krock said was leaving office a bitter pal .1 think now Thanh feels deliberately a sound of to Ted much into of sacrifice re calves to nor War to let Gay Abrams Wam fed of enemy troop buildups Northwest of Sai gon and below the demilitarized september Campaigne did not Offin zone we that he s been the victim forms of v Unap Proia Tion injustice or misunderstand ing of the problems that came before him Many of which fhe created himself but he does no realize 5 f Johnl and Robert Kennedy he said Bobby wait crusader Nowise f o a red until ratios order / think it s ,.� time american he said the army was a More of Thev to recommend Dirlean troops slide it s in a i frankly haps i m a real one Jack Amnot Bobby was veld Active. Jack 3got angry at people and said terrible things about them but he mostly said John f. Kennedy had the qualities of political great Ness and if he had not been optimistic about the file Sai i the communists Nave about 40,000 troops to the North and Northwest of Saigon and Are working like mad below the dm2. Seeking options ? the Way i lock at it he the enemy is trying to create adoption so that if he chooses he can attack Abrams about captured enemy documents that indicated when i guerrilla offensive would by in Abrams said we be had plent of documents. They said it would Start in december. Then it was House. Viet Cong kill 8 Yonks blow up 18 copters Saigon up the Vietcong blew up 18 helicopters am killed eight americans monday in a two hour Surprise attack on can Tho air base. Weather mostly Cloudy with occasional change Wedic Joy. Frankfurt hot Felt org High Low 38. Temperature re corded monday ice Tii 4 a pm44 4a Adana t 48 m Matheiu. Cd 87 43 Savuno it m 30 Berlin in 46 60 Bruel clt2 32 cop no 90, a 94 99 Fra Hlun r am pm44 48 Condon r m Madrid cd 27 Munich d 43 46 Paris r m 43 pc Tolck cl48 6� ram p 3 w i Momu. Pc Cloudy i p partly c i a u 4 yer Raini now trl Reeung rain. 2nd weather Wing a journalist cannot remain on personally Friendly terms with a president for Long Krock said unless he the president did t care much what was written about Dwight d. Eisenhower was very tolerant of criticism he said but Truman was the Truman did occasionally blast the press Krock said but was the one president who was outstanding in realizing that he had a Job to do which was i conflict with the one you had to do. And Rode it very smoothly and Warren g. Harding was awed by the presidency and he kept wondering whether he really was competent to be president and have All these people in Calvin Coolidge was a very Dock contract. Continued from Page u the vote would be master contract is retroactive to last oct. 1 an expires oct. 1,1971. The containerization clause provides that any bulk crate either coming from or Destine for a Point within a 50-mile radio of the port will repacked by local dockworkers at regular pay. A Union official said this provision would insure the dockworkers do not los work because of automation. Said he expected theand the new Yorko reunion ,., shipping association to reach contract monday. The master agreement pro Vides for $1.60 an hour increase in wages and fringe benefits during the next three years. The shippers had offered a 98 Cental hour wage increase to the longshoremen who average13.62 an hour and regular wages were not at Issue in the dispute. Assassinated he would have the first of january. I expert achieved greatness in toe White soon they la be talking about Tot " Kin february. 1 expect we Rejust going to have to live with described enemy activity in Side the dm2 itself As fairly Light. They re primarily preparing the Battlefield repairing bunkers and roads South of the zone he commander said South vietnamese troops have made the guerrillas Cut their Way through barbed wire surrounding the base and hurled satchels of dynamite at the parked helicopters. The base also was bombarded by Viet Cong mortar an automatic weapon fire. Four dead guerrillas found after the Battle. Were f4 production halted by strike St. Louis to. Up More than 17,000 machinists walked off their jobs at Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Monday and halted the production of f4 phantom jets. Pickets appeared at the Gates of the sprawling Mcdonnell Plant and marched in the freezing temperatures. The strikers Are members of District 837 of the International association of Denver the bargaining committee of the Oil chemical and atomic workers International Union Caw sunday accepted a 63.0-cent wage increase. Hie proposal from the Union pure Oil co could set a pattern ending the eight Day strike of50,000 Oil workers. Most Gratifying Progress inthe Mekong Delta and pointed to their recent 16-Day offensive in Side the u Minh Forest a guerrilla stronghold for nearly 23years. We be stepped up our equip Ping of the South vietnamese he said and they have bucked up strengthened their promo Tion and training of s the other part get Tiiu the vietnamese fully capable of providing their own Market Hose slightly Down new York a the Stock Market closed slightly lower monday in moderate was no important eco nomic news Over the weekend to stimulate trading. Therefore the Normal monday caution prevailed. Another uncertainty b the course of the incoming presidential administration to take office next week. Oils were off slightly but utilities were up on a hint that in Terest rates might be relieve enough to make fixed return in vestments More interesting. Aware of Price increases for Alu Minum helped those stocks. Gen. Wade named shape chief of staff continued from Page i 14th conic under in chief july 30 and assumed the 4th Nataf com Mand the following Day at ram Stein air base replacing Preston As head of the two commands. A native of Magnolia Ark he began his military career wit the Arkansas National guard in 1934. He entered the air corp primary flying school at ran Dolph Field tex., in 1937, earn ing his commission As a second lieutenant in october 1938.tjl world War a Wade saw air combat As a bomber Pilot in the Pacific theater and later served with the War department general staff in 1949 he was assigned to the strategic air come and in 1954,a commander of the 301st bomb Wing led his unit on the first nonstop mass air refuelling deployment from the United states to the North african base at Sid Slimane Morocco. Wade became commander of the 8th air Force in december 1964, then was made Deputy chief of staff personnel at air Force he in Washington a position beheld until his assignment to Safe
