Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - September 9, 1971, Joplin, Missouri Final Edition Hot Clear to partly high today low 90s. VOL. NO. 31. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1971.-THIRTY-TWO PRICE Iii Economic Package Mills Proposes More Buyin Incentives for Individuals WASHINGTON - Tho push to arid more individual tax relief to President Nixon's economic package came to the fore Wednesday as the administration's proposals were placed formally before think there is need For some additional incentive to to buy Chairman Wilbur D. of the House Ways and Means Committee He addressed Secretary the John B. the administration's chief economic spokesman who had finished a plea to the committee to approve Nixon's package Connally argued far from bonanza for Nixon's coupled with existing promise a tax break next year to the ordinary Corporations would get a billion according to Connally s through restoration of the tax credit for in vestment in But Mills pressed Connally for the administration's attitude toward increasing the minimum standard income tax Set for next this special provision al lows low-income taxpayers to deduct more of their than the general rule wouldn't recommend Connally if that's the committee's that obviously is what would testimony was the administration's congressional kickoff lor the new program that Nixon announced Aug. 15, a week after Congress began a The President himself will present his case at a joint session of the Senate and House The President spent much of Wednesday working on thp which will be broadcast live by radio and television net works starting at 12:30 p.m. It. is expected to run nj more than 30 according to a White House As Congress reconvened Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West the Democratic said he sees no inclination to delay action on the Nixon although he said the legislators may want to make some Republican leaders advised the Democrats not to play politics with Nixon's U.S. officials meanwhile confirmed Tokyo reports that a major revaluation of the yen will be sought in economic talks opening Along Texas Hurricane Watch Posted THE SCULPTOR AND HIS WORK - Robert Berks poses beside a seven-foot high bronze bust of President John F. Kennedy which is in the grand foyer of the national cultural center which bears his - New John F. Kennedy Center Holds Glittering Premiere WASHINGTON - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts had its glittering premiere Wednesday night with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's theatrical and with the late President's mother the star Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy occupied the presidential box in the opulent royal red opera house witli composer his wife and When the performance she joined in a 12-minute standing ovation for the cast and She and Bernstein embraced repeatedly before Bernstein went down on the stage to take curtain calls with the 200-member Another Hot Day Forecast Rose Kennedy arrived with her son and Sen. and Mrs. Edward M. Other members of the family were too - all except the Mrs. Aristotle There have been two previous public of the but this was billed as the formal opening of the national cultural and the audience of 2,200 was strictly by It included members of the Kennedy and Nixon performing members of the White House council on the and benefactors of the Kennedy ambassadors of more thaa a dozen nations which have given lavish furnishings to help furnish and the located on a bank of the Potomac River near the Lincoln Mrs. Onassis sent word from Greece a week ago that she had changed her mind and would not attend the formal Preceding Wednesday night's formal opening were two public performances of the Bernstein which has a cast of more than 200 dancers and While President and Mrs. Nixon deferred their first appearance at the center until Thursday night's opening concert by the National Symphony other members of his administration arranged to Among them were presidential assistants Henry A. John Herbert G. H. R. Haldeman and Leonard Garment and their as well as Miss Nancy chairman of the National Endowment for the The director of the Office of Management and the George shared a box with Mr. and Mrs. Jay MIAMI - Hurricane Edith churned through the open Caribbean with 100 - mile - per winds Wednesday while a hurricane watch was posted along the Texas coast for Tropical Storm mustering force in the Gulf of Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Fern was becoming better organized with top winds near 78 miles per point at which a storm is classified as a They established a hurricane watch along the Texas coast from Matagorda Bay south ward and advised all interests along the north and west Gulf of Mexico coasts to stay alert for Fern's further At 9 p.m. EDT a Navy reconnaissance flight reported Fern was indications of It is likely that Fern will reach hurricane intensity later The flight pinpointed Fern's center near latitude 26.5 north and longitude 93.5 or approximately 230 miles east of is expected to move little during the next 12 the forecasters Small craft along the Texas and upper Mexican coasts were warned to stay in port. Dr. Robert H. director of the hurricane called Edith very dangerous and has deepened rap It's too early to say she's going but she is going to pose a real threat to At 6 p.m. Edith was pinpointed at latitude 14.2 north and longitude 78.2 or about 275 miles southwest of and moving Edith's highest winds were 100 with gales extending out 125 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the well organized Although the hurricane was not expected to make landfall for at least 24-3fi it was labeled a to shipping in the Drawing ever strength from the warm tropical Edith Wednesday became the greatest storm since Hurricane Celia slammed into Corpus Aug. 3, 1970, killing 13 persons and wreaking million in property Of more immediate concern to coastal residents was tropical storm churning the waters of the gulf with B0 Fern was 260 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande River between and Mata and officials at exposed points were laying plans for possible just sitting here said Mayor Arturo of Port a town of more than 3,000 on a peninsula jutting into the gulf about 20 miles northeast of Brownsville we have to we School buses were ready to move out residents and Port Isabel was completely evacuated last year when Hurricane Ella made a feint at the area before crashing into the Mexican Brownsville residents know well the fury of a killer of 60 in the Texas and Mexico struck this area in 1967. Compared to a strongly organized storm spinning her winds around a classical Fern was flat and But gaie winds lashed out 12R miles to the north and roughing the seas along the Texas and Mexican she crossed the coast Simpson would get no more than 50-to 60-mile winds for short periods But that doesn't mean that 12 hours from now it wouldn't be 70 to 80 if she started Thursday with the At the Ways and Means Committee Chairman Mills told Connally that if the government is to lose revenue through tax a main objective should lie to do it in a way that will encourage could assure more spending if we provide relief in the lowest he we can give a taxpayer in such a bracket a week he is more likely to spend it than save Nixon proposes speeding up by one year a additional personal deduction now scheduled for Jan. 1, 1973. But Mills said upper income taxpayers whose burden was reduced in this way would not necessarily spend all the so additional stimulation might be Connally rejected any idea of imposing an tax or of postponing the scheduled increase of Social Security taxes in 1972, neither of which Mills There are no excess profits to he He declared corporate profits have dropped billion in five while wages and salaries increased The investment Page 2A) Disqualifications County Clerk Denies Claim Concerning Petition Signers By HARRY HOFFMAN Staff Writer Jasper County Clerk Charles Goll denied Wednesday that anyone in his office in Joplin or Carthage had issued or certified any statement showing that 85 persons were found to be registered voters after they had been disqualified from the Joplin City Council recall petitions on the grounds that they were not Goll's denial was in response to a statement by the Rev. C. W. Dawson to the Joplin City Council Tuesday night that he had proof from the clerk at the courthouse that 85 names were found registered that City Clerk Daisy Royal had listed as not Dawson late Wednesday admitted that he did not have any signed statement from anyone in the county clerk's office regarding such He said his remarks at the City Council meeting had been Goll told The Joplin Globe Wednesday he conferred with all employes of his offices in Joplin and Carthage and was assured that no one in his office checked petitions for anyone He added that the employes were busy registering persons since it was the last day to register before the Oct. 5 special state was advised by employes in the Joplin office clerk's office in the courthouse at 6th Street and Pearl that some persons brought in a number of persons to then asked them to sign the recall he Goll said L. D. Gibson of the Good Government League of Joplin came to his office in Carthage and requested permission to take pictures of all registration would have been an Impossible task during normal let alone while we were conducting the special Goll Goll said he showed Gibson around and pointed out the voluminous files maintained in his Gibson left after Page 2A) clear to partly cloudy skies According to Canvass and hot weather are forecast for the Joplin area The mercury is predicted to reach a high today in the lower 90s. The high Wednesday was 93 and the low was 73. The Empire District Electric Company recorded of an inch of precipitation in the downtown area Hourly - 1 p.m. of Supposedly Registered Voters in County Were Not Registered 1 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. 6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. 85 II p.m. About of the fices show that 4,666 persons the canvass for some We edly 40,000 registered voters in were not living at the address sent out notices persons who Jasper County were not shown and 2,168 had transferred had moved and failed to notify tered when County Clerk Charles to other areas of the this office of their change in ad- n Goll began a canvass of voters a Goll dress and many of B few weeks Of the 20,149 cards sent to the have returned the cards so 86 fioll snid an address card for o they can be eligible to vote in Goll said an address card for post 0fficei 2,754 were real every voter registered on the turned with no such person upcoming he Noon 84 Midnight Thursday 1 a.m. 3 a.m. J - LUl 1ICU Willi IHI 3UV.ll county voter registration books found that address IJo number of n was sent to post offices in the listed at new T* each d Joplin Sklai 7:34 p.m. 4:5S a.m. 10:14 p.m. Last county to verify that the person was residing at the address check of the returned cards from the various post of- a total of 4,060 in In Today's Globe sent to post offices in lin alone who apparently are not registered to unless they 2 7 9 457-filed a change of address card driZ the county clerk keeps ON 2D AROUND THI WITH TEENS ON 61 tion books for the City of Joplin 5? at The total number of re- Neck 3D Comics 40 District Deaths 2A-8C Family Hospital Joplin SD Want showing no persons by that name residing at the address was 2,828, while 1,374 had moved to another Address in the 36 he Goll said his office is required by to check the addresses of all registered voters every four must be done this and we have bean on 37; Wentworth 2, Stotts 1, and 42. Goll said the cards sent to Galena involve who reside in Missouri but have a post office Goll said there are BOO persons between the ages of 18 and 20 who have Of the address cards returned Page 2A) PRISCILLA DOYLE ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT - Susan Miss a Creek gives some advice to Priscilla Miss on how she should wear her Indian Miss Doyle was named Soft by her state SUSAN SUPERNAW Easter Seal Society and was given the The two am in Atlantic City to compete in the Miss America -
