Bucks County Courier Times (Newspaper) - August 28, 1971, Levittown, Pennsylvania Shapp to sign income tax Tuesday 23 per cent income tax will be en- acted in Pennsylvania next forcing the state's tax- payers to shell out another a year The Senate approved the tax late Friday night and Gov ton J Shapp immediately ised he would sign it Tuesday along with the biggest part of a billion annual state budget The a bare had been settled the There was little question the tax would pass when the senators took their seats and began an hour of debate that preceded the vote the members were angry about three empty seats on the Democratic side of the aisle Three Philadelphia Democrats loyal to Mayor James UJ Tale refused to come to the Capitol Cor the apparently the wishes of their mayor The sudden disappearance of the trio embarrassed the crats and outraged the cans The GOP leaders ally had promised to provide three votes for the tax to make up for the perennial Democratic William field and Thomas Nolan When the three deiphiaBS could not be Oar senators in mi Sea E- Fleming voted for the tax and Sen Edward L Howard aghast the tax Both are the Republicans were forced to provide five votes Republican Leader Bobert D Fleming's face Gushed red with anger when he talked about it three Democrats who have deliberately absented themselves from the voting are derelict in their said are totally The three who were absent were Sens Herbert J chey and McCreesh called and said they were sick Smith reportedly was not heard from Bui the other senators said the three simply did not want to vote The Republicans who rendered their votes were T Newell Frederick U Richard C 2nd E gomery Duffield and voted as expected and Sen Stanley G was absent due to a long illness About 15 senators rose to de- bate the before the vote and Nolan proposed six unsuccessful including two that would have cut the tax rate to l 5 per cent Ferry boat catches many perish Italy A Greek ferry packed with about passengers and crewmen caught fire off the coast of Southern Italy today sending terrified tourists leaping into the sea to escape the flames Port officials said the bodies of 17 persons had been taken from the ferry by one Lebanese ship along with 400 of the passengers Navy ships and chant ships and fishing vessels re- to an sent out shortly after dawn from the ferry aflame about 25 miles north of this port on the Italian heel An undetermined number of sengers were injured in the blaze which broke out in a kitchen ing a gas explosion aboard the ferry on a scheduled run from Italy to Corfu and Piraeus in Greece Panic spread through the ferry as flames licked along cabin walls and passengers dove into the sea in mas without waiting for lifeboats Ships and small craft up and down the Adriatic Coast answered the dis- tress call and Italian navy units from the base at Brindisi and from around the boot of Italy's flew to help pick up in the waters around the burning ferry One helicopter pilot said he could on Page CoL Good Evenin The floating yen has nothing to do with one's secret desires It's just another nation getting off the gold was artificial in the first place Whoever said that gold was valuable anyway the dentist who puts some in your Devaluation in Tokyo means that we will pay more for Japanese which will make our goods more competitive And Japanese will pay less for what they im- port from which will make our goods com- over too Either we win That's what the Eagles think going into day's game with the Giants By this time you may know whether they were right The New York Giants will move into New Jersey by 1975 And by 1975 we may have a professional football team in too Sparing no expense is what a traveling man does when he's on company time The women marched for equality yesterday in New York Next thing you know they'll walk to the store instead of demanding the family car Question if we really consider them aren't we taking them off their State Senator Ed Howard's tion passed the senate this week Next problem is to get it by the lobbyists in the state House That's where they hang out One of these days politics and lobbies will have nothing to do with legislation But don't hold your breath while you're waiting Don't forget to be careful when you drive this weekend And don't forget to go to too VOL No 206 Sening Bucin County Fram hi SATURDAY EVENING AUGUST 1971 32 PAGES PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Power lines homes flooded L Bucks drying out from heavy damage seen AND NANCY Courier Times Staff Writers County was drying out today from a heavy storm which left thousands of lars damage and caused some to flee their homes Tropical storm Doria dropped 6.57 inches of rain in the phia area from the time the pour started late Thursday night till it ceased about daybreak this me rain and winds reaching 50 miles per hour toppled trees and pulled down electric lines throughout Bucks County Many communities had power failures last night and this ing Volunteer first aid and Civil Defense people were on the alert most of the night Police switchboards were jammed with Firemen pumped out dozens of flooded basements The worst flooding was ed along creek basins By break the Creek was flooding its banks and people Index climb cheers Nixon WASHINGTON ident Nixon's wage-price freeze neared the end of its second week today and the tion savored a report showing a new gain in business activity A government report issued Friday showed the index of leading business broad measure of economic by 1.5 per cent during July It was the eighth rise in the index in the last nine months The period covered in the report preceded the putting into effect of the President's ing new economic but administration officials hoped the Nixon plan to stimulate commerce and reduce ployment would further ate the recovery in the future The administration plan to meet opposition from organized labor Leaders of the American Federation of County and Municipal Employes scheduled a meeting today and Sunday in Minneapolis to discuss strategy for opposing the wage-price policy ing along its banks were warned to leave their homes Hit hard was the southern tip of overflowing Creek forced three families from their homes day afternoon p and ton Fire Companies had to ate one family by boat from their home on Blackburn Ave in Anda- lusia where water had risen about five feet in the house Joe assistant chief of Cornwells Fire said a caH was received at about a leaking propane tank at the home of Edward 1204 Blackburn Ave When the firemen he they found Mrs Fala and her three sons and Glenn 4 stranded on the front porch Boats from Cornwells and Un- ion Fire Companies were THE ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL ON GREEN VALLEY ROAD Don Plump of 589 Lenape Middletown uses a plastic boat to get around Causes extensive damage Doria moves losing steam NEW YORK Storm losing stearn as it moved inland through the populous northeastern section of the dumped heavy rains along the Atlantic Coast today and caused flash power shortages and wind damage the fourth tropical storm of the moved up the coast Friday and early today cut across New Jersey and past New York City It was expected to move northeastward into New England where it was to die At 8 Doria was located about 15 miles north of York heading northeastward at 30 miles an hour The heart of the storm swept to the west of New York but showers and wind spawned by Doria flooded knocked down trees and cut off power to scattered sections of the city A street collapsed in breaking a water and a gas main New York received nearly six inches of rain during a 24-hour but by 8 the sun was In relation to U S dollar Japanese yen on the rise TOKYO price of Japanese yen rose five to six per cent in relation to the American dollar in Tokyo today after Japan floated its money under pressure from President Nixon Stock market prices fell then a rally got underway before the trading ended It was the first test of the yen's since the Japanese government's announcement Friday that the yen would be floated to seek a higher value in relation to the dollar on the international money market The Japanese decision meant President Nixon had for the time being won a struggle to raise the price of Japanese imports to the United States and cut the price of American exports to Japan to reverse the U.S balance of payments deficit which now runs to billion annually The conversion rate for dollars into yen opened at 342.20 yen per dollar at Tokyo's foreign exchange banks It was a five per cent price gain for the yen over the rate of 360 to the dollar prevailing for 20 years During the three hours banks did business the prices fluctuated between 342.20 and 342.40 to the dollar for large transactions by financial The Bank of Japan intervened by purchasing lars to keep the yen close to the level of 342 to the dollar For spot transactions by the man on the street the rate was 338 yen to the dollar The Tokyo stock market took the shock of the yen's upward valuation well After a wave of selling of shares of oriented industries drove the market down in the first a rally got under way The Jones Index of the market's first session closed at up 8.48 yen from Friday's close shining brightly in hattan Doria at one time carried winds gusting 60 to 65 miles an but after traveling overland for several hours the winds had decreased to about 40 miles per hour A hurricane watch which had stretched from to Cape was called off by the Weather Bureau But storm warnings remained posted as far north as with gale warnings beyond that point to Maine New York transit officials met through the night to prevent a recurrence of the flooding Friday which stranded Morrisville boy killed in crash A Morrisville boy was killed this morning when his mother's car ran off Route 73 in Mount Laurel The car traveled 300 feet and hit a utility pole John R of 595 bridge was pronounced dead at Burlington County Mount Holly at Mrs Ruth was ted to Cherry Hill Hospital for leg injuries and face cuts thousands of subway riders Doria caused flash flooding and spawned tornadoes as it moved along the North Virginia and Maryland coasts Friday Violent storms moving in advance of Doria dropped nearly six inches of rain on New York's Central Park and flooded several subway lines Friday There were no known deaths or injuries caused by Doria Friday At midnight Dona's center was located near latitude on Page CoL rescue the family and its five German shepherds Eddington firemen assisted in the evacuation of another family on Blackburn and occupants of a house trailer around the corner on ell Ave Willard said the gas leak was isolated and later corrected by Suburban Propane Gas Co The Philadelphia Electric Co shut power off to the two houses on Blackburn Ave to eliminate the danger of shorted wiring Mrs Fala said last night there was still a foot of water in the which has no basement Mrs Dorothy Stuber of 1046 Lowell Ave said the flood was the worst in the eight years she has lived there Willard said burn Are was completely under and although the water had receded substantially by early the road was still ered Shelter Opened A Red Cross disaster shelter was opened in the Cecelia Snyder Middle School on Road from 4 to 6 p.m for victims of flooding in the Woodbrook Manor Apartments across the street James R manager of the Lower Bucks County ter of the American Red said two families from the ment complex registered at the center before going to stay with relatives Hill said first floor apartments on Page CoL Bennett Cerf dies at 73 MOUNT Bennett the humorist who was president and cofounder of the Random House Publishing died during the night at his home in this suburban chester county it was learned today was well known in publishing and as the author of a number of compilations of jokes and puns but it was his long stint as a panelist on the television my That made him nationally known Police in Mount Kisco said Cerfs wife telephoned them for an ambulance at p.m Friday By the tone the ambulance arrived at the Cerf he was they said Featuring Dozen hours in the air and he's 12 From suicide to a berserk groundhog See feature page 24 INDEX Dear Summer Women's Day Classified Night Classified
