European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 15, 1978 panel oks a $1.8 billion tax Cut aimed at needy Washington up the Senate finance committee thursday approved a $1.8 billion tax Cut for 7.6 million Low income families with children including an unprecedented negative withholding plan which actually would add Federal Money to some paychecks. The committee making its first decisions on tax Cut legislation also agreed to increase the current $750personal exemption to $1,000 while doing away with the $35 per person personal tax credit. The result would be a Small tax much larger question of individual tax rate cuts was left until a monday session but the committee appeared leaning toward an additional $2 billion Cuton top of the House passed $10.8 billion Cut for individuals. This would be designed to offset social Security tax increases scheduled in january plus some of the effects of inflation. A $16.3 billion tax Cut for Bot individuals and business cleared the House earlier. The finance committee Bill i almost certain to be larger by at least $2 billion but that Bill will face the Senate and then a conference committee to resolve differences with the House tax Cut for Low income working families with children called the earned income credit was proposed by committee chairman Russell Long d-la.,and sen. Daniel Moynihan in. Y. Under current Law a Low income worker with children is eligible for a tax credit of 10 percent of income up to $4,000 maximum $400 tax saving gradually phasing out As income reaches $8,000. Under the plan agreed to by the committee thursday the maximum income would Rise to $6,000 a maximum$600 saving phasing out As income reaches $12,000. Many of these Low income persons would pay no income tax at All. Therefore the credit is refundable meaning that the worker is eligible for a Check from the government if the credit is higher than any tax committee decided that rather than forcing these families to wait until income tax filing time to get their refund the internal Revenue service would begin next july 1 adding a Small amount to each Check just As taxpayers now have taxes labels act irrational1 withheld each paycheck. An estimated 5.5 million families or Heads of household with children now get the credit. Another 4 million would beaded by the finance committee action. Widow says she feels Oswald killed Juk Washington a Lee Harvey Oswald s widow testified thursday that she believes Oswald assassinated president John f. Kennedy As an irrational attempt to seek Oswald Porter told the House assassinations committee she believes Oswald acted alone because his secretive nature would not have allowed him to confide in anyone about an assassination plan. In her testimony thursday and wednes Day she stressed that she does not know for certain that Oswald was the Assassin who shot Kennedy to death in Dallas on nov. 22,1963."i m just As anxious to find answers As everybody else is she pressed for her personal opinion about whether Oswald killed Kennedy she replied yes i do believe he did. I believe the Man was capable of questioned about whether his motives would have been political or the product of mental instability she replied i really Don t know what to say about the motive. If you want my personal opinion As to whether it s mental or political i Wouldhave to say it s the mental state of the per son. The whole matter is so irrational it s difficult for us to come up with any rational . Richardson Preyer d-n.c., suggested that Oswald May have chosen to kill Kennedy because he thought assassinating the Man at the top whatever his politics would bring Oswald the recognition he had Long sought and failed to achieve. Porter said she found that members spent much of the morning quizzing Porter about Subtle differences Between her current testimony and the accounts she gave the Warre commission the Fri the secret service and author Priscilla Johnson example she testified wednesday that she thought soviet authorities censored mail and bugged the apartment where she and Oswald lived in Minsk in the months after their marriage in april 1961. She said then she had no direct knowledge that they were under surveillance but assumed from gossip that the authorities would spy on an american living there. Mcmillan s Book about the Oswald quotes her As saying a soviet commissar told her the couple was under told the committee the Mcmillan account is Correct and that she failed to re Call the situation fully in her testimony. On another Point she testified that she and Oswald stayed in a boarding House in Rotterdam Netherlands As they travelled from the soviet Union to the United state sin 1962. Rep. Christopher Dodd d-conn., noted that she has previously testified they stayed in a private apartment there. Two Colorado firefighters Survey charred Forest area near Denver where ravaged Colorado Forest a Blaze has destroyed nearly 4,000 acres the fire has raged for three Days. Forest service planes were called in to drop fire retardant liquids. A Bridgeport teachers Goto jail by United press International striking Bridgeport conn., teachers were carted off to jail by the Busload on thursday for refusing to obey a judge s Back to work order and Dayton Ohio teachers ignored a judge s order to halt picketing at schools. Cleveland schools were closed while school officials juggled the budget in a court ordered Effort to find Money to fundraiser for striking teachers and non teach ing personnel. The City s 101,000 Public school pupils were among More than 400,-000 students idled or otherwise affected by school walkouts in nine states. A judge in Bridgeport ordered 62 More teachers jailed for defying an order to end their eight Day teachers were loaded on buses for the 54-mile trip to the Connecticut National guard Barracks at Camp Kartell where 76 other teachers already were jailed include the teachers 13 member negotiating team. Dayton teachers ignored a court order to Stop picketing schools. The judge who issued the order said he would take no action until school officials seek contempt citations. Thursday s threatened walkout by bos ton s 5,000 Public school teachers was averted by the teachers Surprise ratification of a contract their Union had urged them to broke out at the ratification meeting following announcement of the vote. Police quelled the disorder. There were no arrests and no injuries. Burlington vt., teachers also returned to classes ending a six Day walkout that had affected 4,500 in Seattle said contract talks produced some movement but no settlement in a walkout that has idled the City s 55,000 pupils for More than two weeks. Strikes in other Washington state school districts including Tacoma idled another 45,000 students. Other strikes crippled school districts in Massachusetts California Pennsylvania and new York. No. Air probe does t explain High cancer rate Rutherford . A a state investigation into a Cluster of cancer cases Here has found nine carcinogens present in the air but none in great enough concentration to explain the abnormally High Inci Dence of leukaemia and Hodgkin s disease. A report on the investigation obtained by the record of Hackensack in Advance fits release thursday night summarizes several months of environmental an health studies into the possible causes of 32 cases of blood related cancers among Rutherford s population of 21,000. Investigators from the state depart ment of environmental Protection and the department of health concentrated on six cases of leukaemia near the Pierrepon school and nine cases of Hodgkin s disease in the town s Northwest sector. Air samples taken at the Pierrepon school All showed signs of benzene a known cause of leukaemia As did one soil Sample there the report said. However the concentrations at the school were no higher than at other testing Sites in the town. All those Sites produced benzene readings of approximately 1 part per Billi on far less than the Federal maximum workplace Standard of 10 parts per million. The report said that industries near Rutherford will be surveyed at a later Date As part of a statewide program
