Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - October 9, 1974, Winona, Minnesota Clear to partly cloudy and warmer Thursday of Publication Winona Daily News MINNESOTA 55987 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9 1974 Get That Full or Part-Time Read Today's Classified Ad Job Offerings 30 Plui 15 part of program Ford offers higher taxes less energy By EDMOND LeBRETON WASHINGTON AP ident Ford has challenged Con- gress and the public to accept higher taxes and less energy as part of an gram that also includes jobs for the unemployed and stepped-up production to halt food price in- creases Congress is showing itself willing to cooperate up to a point Comments by many ers indicated that the point at which many of them would balk is enactment of a 5 per cent surcharge on the tax ied on incomes above for a family and for a single person I am aware that any al for new taxes just four weeks before a national tion is to put it mildly considered politically unwise Ford said Tuesday at a nationally televised and cast joint session of the House and Senate But I do say in all I will not play polities with America's future This is the acid test of our joint to whip inflation Appealing over the heads of the lawmakers in the floodlit House chamber he asked hi nationwide audience to grow more waste less drive less heat less share with ers Congressional leaders moved fast on two measures Ford for immediate a resolution to hold spending at billion billion under earlier estimates and tion he said would clear thi way for the government to pour billion into the ailing home market enough for homes by buying conventional as well as mortgages Leaders conferred on ways to cut procedural and send these two measures to Ford by Friday the day Con- gress is scheduled to begin a month's campaigning recess Some said they would consider postponing the recess but plans were being made to avoid a postponement Ford's longer-term program ranged over the issues of taxes food production employment energy capital building and price-raising practices both of the government and the private sector The proposed surcharge would appy to corporate In- come and to private Incomes above the specified levels An individual taxpayer would com- pute his tax in the usual way then add 5 per cent to the tax en that part of his income above the specified levels for a single person and for a couple The surcharge would be in fect for a year only and Ford said I would not ask this If major loopholes were not being closed by the Ways and Means Tax Some congressmen said the personal income surcharge had no chance others that ing public concern on inflation might put it over and many that it could be enacted if tha income floor were raised to or come higher figure He said the tax measures he Is seeking would raise an mated billion which should pay for all the new programs I have recommended in this lage Saying that income Americans have been hard hit by inflation Ford added The tax reform now in the House Committee on Ways and Means which I vor already provides mately billion of tax relief to these groups Principal provisions at the committee that favor low and middle income taxpayers relate to standard deductions used by those who do not ize on their tax returns At present a taxpayer may take a standard of 15 per cent of income up to a top deduction of The would increase the percentage to 17 and the ceiling to To help low income payers there is in present law also a provision for a flat de- Continued on page Ford offers For middle-income families paying Congressmen Indicate little solid support By JIM LUTHER WASHINGTON AP Con- gressmen have indicated little support for President Ford's call on middle-income families to foot most of the for fight against inflation Although there was general praise for other Ford initiatives for relieving the depressed housing industry and spurring business investment many Democrats and some cans were critical of the dent's proposed 5 per cent tax on family incomes above Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott suggested the tax take effect above the Automobiles to travel farther on less fuel By STAN BENJAMIN WASHINGTON AP President Ford gets his way automobiles will carry their passengers an average of five miles farther on a gallon o gasoline la 1978 than they do now Outlining energy policies Tuesday in a wide-ranging eco- nomic address to Congress tha President said he will ally meet with auto Industry top management to seek a 40 per cent improvement in line mileage within four years That pledge elevates the ad- effort from the agency level Federal Energy Administrator John C Sawhill has been after the automakers since last summer to the presidential level And Ford added that he would go after the mileage im provement either by ment or by a warning that he might seek something like a horsepower tax or a mandatory ard for automobiles if auto makers don't cooperate Automobiles in the United States now deliver an average of around 13 miles per gallon Ford's goal would raise the to about 18 miles per lon probably through a com- bination of new engine designs and a higher proportion of small cars The President made no on page Automobiles I 000 level Republican Sen cob K Javits of New York gested House Speaker Albert urged a staggered surtax Sen Paul Fannin Ariz ruled out the tax entirely until every effort is made to cut federal spending In an address to a joint sion of Congress Tuesday Ford outlined the proposals that he said will re- quire sacrifice by all cans At the center of what the President called his grand de- sign was the suggested 5 per cent levy on taxes paid on ily incomes above a year on individual incomes above and on rations The special ta on individuals would bring in an estimated billion of the billion necessary to pay for service jobs when the national unemployment rate exceeds 6 per cent and for other programs Sen John C Stennis and Sen William Brock Tenn pledged support for the surtax Other congressmen said they cannot justify further taxation of middle-income families until loopholes that allow the wealthy and the major oil com- panies to avoid their fair of taxes are closed Business leaders applauded Ford's proposals We con- gratulate the President on his broad program to win the fight against said Richard C Gerstenberg board man of General Motors Corp Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Co said The dent's program appears to me to be a comprehensive start in a unified attack on the most serious problem facing the United States and all the tions of the world t now It sounds like a vigorous well thought out said Donald T Kegan man of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith Inc the largest brokerage house Sen Walter F D- Minn called the tax proposal outrageous Rep Bella Ab- zug termed it-a off House Democratic Leader Thomas P O'Neill viewed It as un- fair There was little indication that Congress would attempt to push through many of the Ford proposals before the pre-election recess due to begin Friday But Speaker Albert said he would favor delaying that recess if doing so would result in quick action on the Ford program WIN President Ford wears a WIN button as he delivers his message to a joint session of Con- gress Tuesday WIN stands for Whip Inflation Now AP Enforcement o antitrust laws part of package WASHINGTON AP Butchers bakers and zippe makers already are feelin heat from the Ford admini campaign again price-fixing Future targe may face tougher and fines President Ford gave the a tack fresh impetus he promised stern en of antitrust laws an asked Congress for harsh pen allies for violators No President since Harry S Truman has taken such strong public stand against gal corporate conspiracies sat antitrust lawyers The administration attack i to end business prac ices which diminish com million and force prices up fo he consumer Assistant Atty Gen Kauper head of the Justice antitrust division as estimated that such ces cost Americans as s million a year I am determined to return the vigorous enforcement of Ford said as e sent Congress proposed lation raising the maximum ne for antitrust violators from to million for ations and for als With his statement Ford took p an attack which has been aining momentum in the de- and the Federal Continued on page Enforcement Under promises to farmers Food price relief not seen By DON KENDALL WASHINGTON AP Even if President Ford delivers to farmers all he promised in his economic message to Congress the deck is stacked against sub- stantial food price relict to con- ire 1976 Ford said soaring food and energy prices are primary in- and the country depends in part on foreign supply for oil But we can grow more enough food for Ford sold To halt higher food prices we must produce more food Ford promised hat the would do all it could to assure farmers they can sell what they grow at reasonable prices and pledged muscle lo see they get enough fuel and lo do the job But ho could not promise clear skies next April and May when farmers want to plant corn and He could not pledge an essential two inches of rain needed next and August Too much rain last spring de- layed planting and too little last summon cut deeply into 1074 grain production Early freezes tills fall have killed much of the corn and soybean crops And consumers will see still food feed is too expensive for many farmers In produce additional quantities of meat milk and poultry There Is only one wheat crop n year one corn and bean crop Those already have been or soon will be vested arc sharply re- from prospects six or eight months ago and they will have to last or another year Tims regardless of Ford's encouragement to farmers the current fond price situation is something consumers will have to live with through 1975 culture Deportment say food prices will continue rising next year But farmers can be aged by Ford's vow to cate all the fuel and ask lo allocate all the zer they will need next A question remains on how much farmers will have to pay for those essential supplies And how much they will get for the wheat corn cattle milk poultry and other items thoy produce On the farmers say skyrocketing costs for thing from baling wire to feed will drive them out of business unless they get a federally guaranteed price story page 2a A of has been ap proved by the School Board of Winona pendent District 861 story page winona County's 1975 real estate tax levy will be up 7.5 percent from this year only slightly more than the increase a year ago story page President Ford's proposals for fighting in- failed to cheer many residents of Minnesota inri Wisconsin stories Brown a who hes I vived two bone marrow transplants hopes to be playing football again by this time next year story page An investigation by the FBI of Gov Wendell Anderson's chief aide has emerged as he major issue in thn state gubernatorial campaign story page Tlle bank failure in the nation s history doesn't mean other collapses are looming where in the industry federal officials page 3b Must exhaust benefits CONGRATULATIONS President Gerald Ford is followed by Rep John Rhodes House minority leader and Sen Robert Griffin Senate minority whip after he delivered an speech to a joint session of Con- gress Tuesday Ford received applause and congratulations from legislators AP Long-term joblessness needed for Ford's plan By ROBERT A DOBKIN WASHINGTON AP Some vorkers apparently would have o be unemployed for a year to for the new public jobs by President Ford Ford recommended Tuesday lat Congress create a new o m m u n i t y Improvement to provide public service obs when unemployment eeds 6 per cent nationally But the President specified hat la be eligible for a public ervice job an individual first ould have to exhaust all benefits The President also mended an extra 13 weeks of unemployment nce benefits for those who ave used up their credits and 6 weeks of benefits for those nt now covered by a regular insurance ram The proposal indicates that ome workers would have to go work for up to 12 before they can apply public jobs because the new insurance will maximum benefits up to weeks for experienced s In general the combined ate ami federal programs now wide jobless benefits up to 39 ranging from to The public jobs that Ford would pay no less an a week and no more an a week assuming ey were for a week Under the Ford plan id local governments would up to billion to pay for the creation of lic service jobs for such ects as conservation beautification and the im- provement and expansion of health education and tion services The money would be in tion to billion already dis- which the tration estimates will provide jobs this winter The nation's unemployment rate climbed to 5.8 per cent of the work force in September with an estimated 1.3 million Americans out of work the bor Department reported last According to Ford's proposal the federal government would provide million to pay for more jobs if the ployment rate reaches for three consecutive months an average of 6 per cent another million for jobs if it reaches 6.5 per cent and an additional billion for jobs at 7 per cent The program would go into effect automatically in local bor markets with high ployment even if the national average remained below 6 per cent Grants for jobs would be triggered when local rates ex- 6.5 per cent Why do you laugh any time anybody says The Republican Say that's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times one can be a Republican when the stock market is up but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth I tell you being a Republican it's a sacrifice October 14 1934 ana by All reserved for Iho WIK Rogers AFTER DINNER TOAST President Ford and Polish Communist party leader warl touch glasses in a toast ing a Dinner nt the Houso day evening Ford gave the dinner In honor of the visiting Polish loader AP
