Tucson Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - August 14, 1957, Tucson, Arizona WARM Cloudy Temp at 2 Noon sun 98 S Xf W f 4 56 8910 25262728293051 WORLD WAE EH JAPAN WHO AGREED TO OF ALLIED POWERS VOL 85 NO 194 TODAYS NEWS TODAY TUCSON ARIZONA WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 14 MAin 25855 10 CENTS PAGES School Tax Relief For Vets Under Gun House Tax Study Committee today voted to submit to the Legislature a pro posal eliminating the veterans property tax exemption on the school district level Under the plan veterans would be allowed to claim their tax ex for city county and state property taxes but would have to pay their school district tax levies Rep L S Dick Adams D Maricopa submitted the plan as an alternate to another proposal which would allow veterans tax credits in lieu of the exemptions but would eventually wipe all veterans off the exemption list The committee decided on Ad ams alternate proposal after the committee members discussed the possibility that the initial tax credit proposal might be bottled up in a legislative committee The Adams plan would continue the perpetual veterans exemption on all nonfederal tax levels ex cept that of the school district School taxes constitute the largest portion of the property owners tax Adams said his proposal would give relief where it is most im mediately needed and that it DISCREPANCIES Post Wont Print Fliers Ordeal The Saturday Evening Post has canceled plans to publish an article on the disappearance of Lt David Steeves in the High Sierra because of what it called discrepancies in his story In addition the Air Force is making a thorough but routine investigation of the pilots story Steeves bailed out of his jet trainer over the Cali fornia mountains on a routine flight last spring He was listed aS dead but 54 days later he stumbled out of the rugged mountains and told a detailed story of a harrow ing struggle for survival He was given a long vacation and then ordered to Washington where his physical condition his story and all of the circumstances surrounding his experience are being checked out The Air Force emphasized that it is routine pro to investigate and study any man involved in an accident men who undergo unusual experiences When Steeves first returned to civilization his wife Rita of Fairfield Conn said it was the happiest day of my life But this week she said she was considering getting a divorce The decision is hers commented Steeves but he added It shook me pretty hard stands a far better chance of adop tion than the tax credit proposal Earlier the committee an a package tax program to take a bigger bite out of Ari pocketbooks The Tax Study Committee yes approved a pro gram which the majority hopes the 1957 Legislature will accept in its entirety Sut there are indications that the full package could fail because of opposition to some of its pro The proposed package includes A 50 per cent increase in the state sales tax a one per cent real estate transaction tax a pro posal to base state school aid on current attendance and economic needs and limit school budget in creases and repeal of the fed eral tax deduction in state income tax returns Objections came from several members of the committee Rep L S Dick Adams reiterated his refusal to the sales tax hike unless it is tiec to repeal of the federal deduction Reps Tom Berry and John C Smith voiced similar misgivings about other parts of the package pro gram But Rep R H Wallace R Maricopa said the program should be approved intact by the Legislature If any part failed he said the whole thing would sink At stake is an effort to raise an additional million for state and local government operations Half this amount plus from the real estate tax would be ap plied to rising school costs The remainder would go into the state general fund Smith indicated that the dissent ing committee members may write a minority report for presentation to the Legislature Meanwhile the committee planned to look further into the proposal to establish a limited tax credit for veterans to replace the continuous tax exemption now ak lowed them Under special study is a com proposal under which the state would reimburse cities coun ties and school districts for reve nue they would lose through the veterans tax credit The committee also is consider ing a continuation of exemptions for disabled veterans in proportion to the percentage of their dis ability HEAD DEFY BAN CHINA Photo by Sedley GOODNESS GRACIOUS SNAKES ALIVE The first known hatching of Arizona coral king snakes in captivity took place in the maternity ward at the Desert Museum yesterday One of the red white and young reptiles has emerged from his rubbery egg laid June 19 and anothers head is starting to come out William H Woodin museum director pointed out that this species is harmless and should not be confused with the poisonous coral snake also found in Arizona The new arrivals are on display now at the museum Rules Chief To Stall On Civil Rights WASHINGTON W Chair man Smith DVa of the House Rules Committee said today he is inclined to pursue any course which might result in no or civil rights He gave that broad indication of stalling tactics when reporters asked him about his plans to deal I with rival Democratic and Re publican resolutions aimed to fores committee action and get the issue out for a House vote Do I make myself clear Smith asked Nobody suggested there was any question remaining The conflicting resolutions were formally introduced as moves to break the stalemate over civil rights Essentially however they amounted only to gambits in a war of nerves Smiths sharply divided rules committee holds the key to or issue will come to a vote in the Following a huddle with Speaker Rayburn of Texas Democratic rights strategists introduced a resolution calling on the House to accept the Senate passed with its jury trial amendment watered down Durable Drunk Back 6 At Home Jose who has been booked for drunk so many times he lists the city jail farm as his address is at home today 66 is a valuable man according to city jailer Jimmy Adcock Jose is the caretaker of our chickens and pigs at farm whenever hes which is most of the time Adcock said According to police records since records were first kept has been arrested more than 200 times for being drunk He was arrested again last night near East 18th street and the railroad tracks Two of best friends welcomed him home where he had been absent since July 30 They are Salvador Chico and Ramon Ruelas both of whom have been arrested more than 300 times for being drunk It Will Sell Reils Copper SANTIAGO ties upset by the recent drop in copper prices on the New York and London markets threatened today to begin restricted sales of the to the Communist world Mines Minister Osvaldo Ste Marie who doubles as foreign minister announced that Chile is prepared to sell copper wire measuring up to in di ameter to all nations of the world without Ste Marie added however that the copper department has been instructed to report all sales to countries and Red held continental China US Threat Ignored American youths defied he United States government today and left for a for idden tour of Red China Just before the ex press train pulled out of station two HUMIDITY HANGS ON Dont mind the skeeters Dont mind the rain But this here humidity Sure gives me a pain ArthrItis Our sympathy dear poet laureate but the weather man is still standing by his guns Warm temperatures scat tered showers and variable cloudiness will keep the hu in the sweaty stage for the next day or so The high yesterday was 98 and the low early today was 75 about the same expected for tonight and tomorrow Dio Rigged Teamster Vote Probers Claim WASHINGTON Ml Senators voted in the election said about went out and I dont know whether Foreign Aid Legislation Sent To Ike out to show racketeer Johnny Dio rigged a key New York City Team sters Union election produced tes timony today of votes by a neigh bor of one of Dios aides a brother inlaw of the aide and a truck driver found drunk in a bar Along with those willing to talk the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee trotted across its wit ness stand a group of characters who took the Fifth Amendment when asked whether they had had a hand in any election gans One who wouldnt talk was Joe Meglino an alleged New York gambler He clung to the Fifth Amendment although committee counsel Robert F Kennedy said he had talked freely earlier to com investigators Kennedy quoted Meglino as tell ing the investigators he was listed without his knowledge as an cer of a fictitious Teamsters local He quoted Meglino as saying too that he could not as reported have been a charter member of a union because he was in a traveling crap game at the time and couldnt have been around Meglino wouldnt verify that to day Ho was asked whether he was taking the Fifth Amendment be cause of threats To that he took the Fifth again Two who said their votes were cast in the they were never members of the Team Basil Koschel a pro duction control clerk and Ar mando a carpenter both of Brooklyn Koschel said he was a brother inlaw of Joseph Curcio identified by the committee as an aide ol Dios said he was close friend and neighbor They said Curcio voted them Anthony Barbera who identified himself as a truck driver and was listed by the committee as having all he remembered was being called out of a barroom Kennedy asked whether the Teamsters cleared out the bar to ct voters No there were plenty of cus tomers left Barbera answered Plainly seeing no point to further questioning he said sheepishly I was drunk at the time I was n the bar drinking and everybody I voted or not Did you know what kind ot an election it was Kennedy asked No I didnt have no knowl edge Barbera answered 1 knew it was pertaining to a union He said he did not know what union and that after he attended the election I never heard from them no more PACT Phoenix Firm Leases Parker Indian Land Interior Department today announced signing of a lease with Colorado River Enterprizes Inc Phoenix Ariz for development of 67000 acres of agricultural land on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in western Arizona Chilson assistant Strike Crushed In Poland tary said the contract calls for the corporation to complete a system on the reservation and develop the agri cultural land at an estimated cost of million He added that during the last five years of the contract one fifth of tne developed land will be turned over each year for use by the Indians who are the bene owners of the property Chilson said he signed the lease late yesterday under authority given in a 1955 law which expired today The proposal had been sub mitted by S W Barton president of the corporation The Indian Bureau last May had invited leasing proposals Chilson said there were three responses but only one other de tailed offer was submitted by River Valley Farms also of nix The land involved consists o three main parcels an agri cultural area of about 67000 acres LODZ Poland ing police and troops crushed a crippling transit strike today Hundreds of troops took over streetcar barns which until early morning had been held by strikers Transport men reported 40 work The strike started Monday in support of wage demands The authorities decided to act last night after strike leaders unwilling to identify themselves refused to negotiate and stood by demands for a written promise of the valley A controversy con the ownership is now pending before the Indian Claims Commission The industrial area is contem plated to include facilities such as a frozen food processing plant a soybean oil mill an alfalfa dehy plant cotton gins and packing sheds On the town lots in Parker the lessees will build modern homes required for their employes and various types of community facili ties that may be needed Under the lease Indians are to be given preference in all project jobs for which they arc qualified WASHINGTON WThe House today passed and sent to dent Eisenhower by a 226163 vote a compromise ing a foreign aid pro gram for the coming year The measure setting foreign aid ceilings was nearly a half billion dollars below re quest It was the Senate last night But even as the House com congressional action on the Eisenhower seemed likely to get a new jolt when a House ap subcommittee votes on a separate needed io pro vide actual cash for the program There was talkof cutting the amount another half billion dollars or more This would make a total slash of a billion dollars below the billion Eisenhower orig said was needed to bolster free world strength in the fiscal year that started July 1 House Republican Leader Mar tin Mass has predicted that Eisenhower will have to call a special session nf Congress if it cuts too deep in foreign aid The strength of the opposition even to the compromise authori as shown by the 163 votes against came as a surprise to some supporters of the aid program Their margin of passage was only 63 votes Americans withdrew from the trip and two others said they might de cide later to catch up with tht roup by flying to Peiping Jake Rosen New York leader of the group and organizer for the rip to the Youth Festival said ha would go to Peiping by way of Kiev where he would first at end another youth meeting The US State Department had issued a strong warning that the irip might violate the law resulted in an anxious meeting by the Americans early in the day Several had baen wavering among the 46 who orig planned to take the pm express for Peiping The State Department told each Red China tourist yesterday in a letter from acting secretary Christian Herler that their pass ports would be taken from them it they made the journey The United States has no diplo matic relations with Communist China and considers itself in a quasi state of war with the Mao Tse Tung government IN WASHINGTON today the BASEBALL Oil 7 14 0 N 000 500 6 9 1 McDevitt Labine Roebuck 7 and Walker Crone Grissom 3 and Thomas McDevitt Home Hodges Valo Zimmer INSIDE THE CITIZEN SCHOOL ON THE Its less than three weeks to school opening The Citizens annual BACK TO SCHOOL section is in todays paper ROUGH AIR Both military and civil aviation ers arrested in fights with police of an nour minimum nnA militia Photo CAMERA SHY Mrs Norma Jean Huddleston who has confessed the killing of her husband Donald 26 uses a piece of paper with eyeholes to frustrate cameraman as she steps from police patrol wagon For what she looks like and story see Page 20 and with workers militia Com munist tough guys who help keep order Authorities insisted no one had been jailed but said some strikers were under house arrest The government announced that a mixed state and trade union commission will open hearings into the strikers grievances Fri 1 day lying south of the presently dc out the military and civil j of the trucks which had kept the 2 an industrial area of nnn population moving about 500 acres located along the Some arrests were reported j Santa Fc Railroad on the mesa after a clash early today on j and 3 a residential area IN social service worki coc n MTO nf State Department withheld com ment pending official word of students departure from the US embassy in Moscow In addition to threatening to lift the students passports the department had warned yesterday they might be subject to action under the trad ing with the enemy act Dan OConnell of Chicago said as the train left the station wo have six days aboard before wa reach the Red Chinese border and there are some here who may change their minds and get off A crowd of Russians swarmed iho station platform as the wellequipped train prepared to leave Dozens of bunches of flow ers were thrown through the win dows of the American compart ment AMID SHOUTS of peace and friendship a ragtag Russian band blared out one tune after another The Americans were frolicsome at the station Los Angeles Guy Carawan and Peggy Seeger played and sang America The Beauti ful Stan Fukson Los Angeles and Richard Sherman Chicago with drew entirely from the trip and declined to give a reason Sher man seemed highly nervous The others left despite the ex tremely stiff warning a visit by American embassy consular cer Edward Killham of Chicago and a friendly visit to the sy to see American Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson c Several of the youths were still smarting from the strong language in the letter Some reacted defi antly Others tried to it off or on our rights as Americans to travel where ever we like Thirtytwo agreed on one state ment which the Rev Warren Mc Kenna of Boston read from the steps of the train as a light rain began falling Others making the journey de to sign the mass state ment The statement said we the undersigned Americans traveling to China at the invitation of the are going through some pretty rough flying Page 7 RCJ Chinese government having FOOD PRICE How do Tucson food j received a statement signed by prices compare with those in parts of the country Page 9 acting Secretary of State Chris tian wish at this time to reaffirm our belief in the the citys main street Strikers from the main city ins of 880 lots in the Town of Parker The art required to corn depot situated on Tramway street plete the agricultural development tried to stop factory buses and er surveying condition of Jews in and files his first dispatch on Hungarian refugees Page 21 to travel wage First workers militia were put into car barns Armed helmeted police followed and final ly the army moved in first streetcars on the persuade the drivers to join them Police were called in and a fight broke out Once the barns were under con trol militia went out to bring in streetcar operators from their street early today had two armed homes Authorities claimed 80 policemen beside the driver Later the police were withdrawn By 11 oclock the authorities in the first five years of the lease Where To Find It ally developed and ready for cul On each ot the other areas the rent will he a flat 30 31 a year The rental proceeds will be de per cent of the approximately ported in the federal Treasury 0000 workers had returned by I to the credit of the Indians deter I mined to be the beneficial owners I Crossword Puzzle 10 Editorials 6 Events 25 Financial Page Kay Carson 0 Movies 23 Public Records 30 31 Tucson Tonight and Tomorrow exercise of this right is consist ent with loyalty to our country I We hold widely divergent political views We reject the notion that I we arc a tool of Communist propaganda We too look forward Sports 17 with Mr Dulles to the day when Weather Map 32 tnc peoples of China and the peo Womans View fill i Of America can resume their World News long history of cooperation and Your Stars 11 j friendship We believe are acting consistently with tnis ex 25 pression of hope
