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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - December 3, 1968, Norwich, New York The evening Sun vol. 78. No. 173tuesday, december 3, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy sales tax of brings drop in land taxes by Casey Jones Chenango county taxpayers faced last month with a probability of an average $13 per $1,000 tax hike on assessed valuation will receive an average decrease of almost $4 next year. Board of supervisors despite caustic opposition from some members who declared it was a rubber stamping medicaid a passed a Resolution for enactment of a two percent sales tax starting March i. The measure passed As predicted in mondays evening Sun by a 17 to 5 margin although Frank Curtis of Bainbridge later changed his vote to the negative. Ironically supervisor Merritt a. Meyers of new Berlin who began the crusade for a sales tax almost a year ago and then decided to request the Board to postpone action in the face of heavy opposition was absent when the vote was taken. The legislator who is also administrator of Chase memorial nursing Home in new Berlin was attending a meeting on a new facility for the Village. He had previously said he would vote for the proposal at this time but would not introduce it again. The proposal was introduced by democratic supervisor William Cooper of Lincklaen and immediately seconded by Smyrna supervisor Hugh Elliott who was originally slated to present it Edwin Crumb clerk of the Board said that or. Cooper told him he wanted the measure introduced so it would be used exclusively for lowering real estate tax Levy. Budget director Clyde Hitchcock of Bainbridge said that an application of $1 million for the last nine months of 1969 will mean a general tax of $31.66. This years general tax was $35.25, he said with the average increase previously expected for next year at $49.54. Norwich attorney Richard q. Devine representing the Bainbridge merchants committee appeared at the session and requested the Board not to pass the measure without holding Public hearings a second time. Telegrams from various merchants in that town also arrived after the measure was passed. City of Norwich supervisors in apparent delaying tactics made several moves to postpone the Resolution. John e. Dolan moved to table the action until after the Board had been re apportioned but the motion was lost by a 17 to 5 vote. A question was also raised As to How much in revenues can actually be expected from the tax. Sig Erv isor Richard Ryan of Oxford noted that previous estimates had placed the sum at $1.7 million for the year or $1.2 million for the nine months period. County attorney James Haynes said he had been advised the count would receive about $1,350,000 annually for each one per c Supe it a Robert Mcneil said he wanted to know How much w ing to be realized before he voted pm the proposal. Haynes said that proper action would be to pass the ution and then introduce another one to set the amount placed in the revenues Side of the budget. I. Cock in consulting with the state Agency said he had advised that $1 million in revenues would be a Good sum to apply. Or. Dolan declared that a a we re buying the sales tax for he said that during the last few years Aid to dependent children a coir. Has increased about $20,000 annually Home Relief has increased some $80,000 altogether and other accounts have gone up in similar proportions. To 1965, however the medicaid appropriation was $300,000 and now in 1969, the appropriation is for $2 million he said. This is an increase of $1.7 million or about the same continued on Page 3 threat of higher state taxes in air Albany . Apr the threat of massive increases in state taxes continued to hang Over new yorkers today despite a Promise by gov. Rockefeller that he would do every thing possible a to Cut Down on proposed increases in next years budget. Rockefeller acknowledged for the first time last week that he faces a major Revenue Gap in his next budget a Gap that his financial aides say probably will exceed $700 million. The governor has said that his department and Agency Heads have asked for $1.5 billion above the current state budget of $5.5 billion. Monday in one of his few appearances in Albany since he was Defeated for toe Republican presidential nomination a Rockefeller did Little to dispel rumours that he was considering making up the difference Between requests and Revenue by asking the legislature for increases in the state s income and sales taxes. Flanked by state budget director t. Norman Hurd the governor said he could not say much about his budget until he had talked it Over with Hurd and other budget aides. Rockefeller would say Only that he would have a recommendations to make to the Legisla weather Cloudy with rain developing late tonight possibly mixed with wet Snow at first. Rain continuing into wednesday morning tapering off to scattered showers or Snow flurries in the afternoon. Low temperatures tonight in upper 30s, highs wednesday in 40s, turning a Little cooler in afternoon. Ture next year and that it would be up to the lawmakers to decide what to do about his budget. He did not say what Type of a recommendations he would have for toe legislature but sources close to the governor have said that it is Likely he will seek a 20 per cent increase in toe income tax and a 2 to 3 per cent increase in the sales tax. The estimated yield of such a markup in toe income tax would be $450 million while a single percentage Point increase in toe sales tax would return about $350 million. These two taxes his aides Point out Are toe Only levies that Are sufficiently lucrative to provide the extra Revenue the governor will need. The deficit of $700 million was predicted in september by state comptroller Arthur Levitt the Only elected Democrat in the Republican Rockefeller administration. The deficit Levitt said then would be evident even after allowing for maximum use of Bond borrowing and natural growth in toe yield from state taxes. The governor left Little doubt in his Brief talk with newsmen that he would be in Albany next year to Deal with toe state s growing fiscal problems. He said again that he would not be a member of president elect Richard m. Nixon a Cabinet but promised he would help the Nixon administration a in any Way i can a from Albany. Rockefeller added he would take his budget problems with him wednesday when he leaves for Palm Springs and the three Day convention of the re pull Cau governors association. Saigon peace plan aired pc envoy scoffs at bid for their support Nixon appointee Saigon a South Vietnam a delegation to toe Paris peace talks will take along a three Point plan informed government sources said today. A a that a ridiculous very rid Culous a said a spokesman in Paris for the Viet congas National iteration front when told the plans third Point called for the Elf and the Viet Cong to rally to the Saigon government. The other Points Are 1. A de escalation of the fighting particularly reduction of attacks on South Vietnam a cities and a halt to incidents in the in militarized zone. 2. A a controlled and Guaran teed withdrawal of North vietnamese forces accompanied by a phased cutback in american strength. A you know very Well the position of our delegation a said the Elf spokesman in Paris. A the puppet administration of Saigon represents no one. It is the creation of the United states. The National liberation front is the legitimate representative of the South vietnamese people who Are rallying to us at this moment. I find these proposals scarcely meanwhile an Advance party for South vietnamese president Nguyen Cao by began arriving in Paris As . And North vietnamese negotiators inched toward the opening of the expanded conference. Nguyan Thieu Nhon Kyd a Spe Cial assistant for legislative relations was the first arrival. South vietnamese officials said Kyd a press spokesman Dang due Khoi is due wednesday. By is expected this weekend. He will supervise the Saigon governments negotiating team but South vietnamese sources said Saigon a group at the conference table will be headed by Pham Dang Lam South Vietnam a chief observer in Paris when the United states and North Vietnam were doing toe talking from May to october. The private meetings Are intended to work out minor details of the expanded peace talks such As toe time and place of toe opening session. Cal tech chief new York apr or. Gun. Nar Myrdal the swedish social philosopher says he believes that Radical leaders who want to turn the negro revolution into a shooting War have Little support among toe negro people. A a they re Only to per cent of the population. Negroes Are Clever enough to know that in a guerrilla War they would be the ones to be killed a said Myrdal whose Book a an american dilemma forecast toe shape of toe racial revolution 24 years ago. Myrdal said a the Ginger in violence As i see it is hat after it comes a demand for Law and order. And throughout history Law and order has been a pre text for not making toe fun la mental reforms needed. A if we done to recognize our debt to toe poor a he said a this country is going to disintegrate into Myrdal told the graduate division of the City University of new York that 25 years ago a i can say i was an expert on the negro problem in America. A Twenty five years ago i could write and not worry that something in the next week would upset my predictions. I cannot do that now a he said. A in the present situation in a not an expert. In a not presenting a View that i feel is absolutely still Myrdal at 70 shows no sign of fearing to kick the sacred cows that has made him toe object of criticism and indignation Here and in his native Sweden. He remains vital he has a full swedish philosopher says militants have Little support from Blacks a big shot is a fellow who has his name printed on company letterheads because no one can read his signature. Head of Blond hair and his Green eyes sparkle. Myrdal had this to say on As poets of the racial revolution a a a in a against the so called Marshall plan for the negroes. Ii anything is going to cause trouble it is singling out the negro for special treatment. The negroes Are a minority in this country. Among the poor they re a minority. You can to solve the negro problem simply As a negro problem. You have to solve it As a part of the poor a a i done to think president elect Richard Nixon a proposal for Black capitalism is going to accomplish much. Black Capi tails in is by its very nature not National not Industry but consists of Little insurance Compa Nies Banks and shops. In mall for Black capitalism but its very Petty. It solves very on a Black is Beautiful a a a in mall for overcoming the inferiority negroes feel but As a social scientist in a not for building a Black mythology. Shopping Days til Christmas new York apr Prest Dent elect Richard m. Nixon apparently has chosen or. Lee a. Dubridge president of the prestigious California Institute of technology As his personal science adviser. Nixon told reporters he would announce his Choice today. Anticipation of a Dubridge appointment was strengthened by the fact that he is the Only scientist known to have conferred with the incoming chief executive in recent Days. A physicist the 67-year-old Dubridge has been president of Cal tech since 1946. Over the years he has been a member of Many Federal advisory bodies especially during the administrations of Harry s. Truman and Dwight d. Eisenhower. After Dubridge met with Nixon last week the scientist would neither confirm nor deny that he was in line for the full time White House Post now occupied by or. Donald f. Hornug. He said it was a matter for Nixon to decide and announce. The president elect met late monday with former gov. William w. Scranton of Pennsylvania who left later on a six nation Middle Eastern tour for Nixon. Scranton told newsmen he would sound out leaders of Israel and her Arab neighbors for their views not Only on the tense Middle Eastern situation but also on global problems in general. Declaring that he would be a listener not a talker during the tour Scranton told a i done Tex pert or intend to propound the pennsylvanian will be visiting Israel Iran Jordan Lebanon saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic. He termed that Region a the most vital and certainly the most volcanic in the world Scranton often has said he has no desire to return to Public of. Flee. Asked whether he were wavering on this inasmuch As he was embarking on his second overseas Mission for Nixon in recent months he said a i do not want to return to Public life in any he said he never had dj4 cussed with Nixon any to St i Cabinet appoint n to sell. Sitting la on or parture Rry sen. Joky lbs a a game slim keep pm guessing i a a a a by h. L. Schwartz Iii Washington a president Johnson whose Credo has sometimes seemed to be a keep Mem guessing a does no to appear to be changing his ways in the final Days of his administration. Johnson watchers conditioned by some pretty staggering surprises in the past five years Are Busy trying to figure out just what of anything toe chief executive is planning for a White House Swan song. And Johnson aides showing a Little of the same conditioning have appeared to adopt the policy of not ruling anything out. That was the position taken monday by the state department on the no. I item in the guessing games whether Johnson still Hopes to have a Summit session with soviet leaders on curbing toe missile race. A there has never been a time or place or the level agreed upon a said press officer Robert j. Mccloskey. Mccloskey had been asked about comments Secretary of state Dean Rusk made sunday on television that seemed to imply toe possibility a Summit session was very much alive. Rusk had said there were no plans now for such a meeting but that phrase again he did no to want to a Rule it a the Secretary expressed the theoretical possibility such a meeting might take place. But he did not intend to imply any planning was taking place a said Mccloskeyy in a a a clarifying statement that did no to do much to Cool off the guessing. He also said that soviet Premier Alexei n. Kosygin had raised toe possibility of a Summit session on missile curb with several recent . Visitors to Moscow. Johnson reportedly had been looking Forward eagerly to such a session last summer but called it off after the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Taylor afflicted with lung cancer Hollywood apr actor Robert Taylor known for his strikingly Good looks and forceful Low key performance is suffering from cancer in his right lung his wife said today. A the has known of it for some time a added his wife of 14 years actress Ursula Theiss. Surgeons discovered the cancer after removing most of Tay Lor s right lung oct. 8 because of a fungus infection known As Val Ley fever. Taylor returned to St. Paul a Hospital nov. 18 for treatment of an infection that complicated recovery from surgery. Doctors announced Only that they had been successful in draining an abscess that formed in the area of surgery. Today s chuckle capitalist style Prosperity sets Yugoslavia a part from the rest of communist ruled Eastern Europe where it is in evidence during Rush hour on Belgrade s marshal Tito Street. Tion of being the first Coni Monist country to install parking meters unfortunately traffic accidents have nearly kept Pace with the growth in car ownership Greenhorn motorists being inclined to yell a whoa a instead of applying the brakes at the traffic lights. The russians Are aware that comparisons damaging to their soviet system Are drawn by the czechs hungarians and poles who visit Yugoslavia and that Tito land exists As a sort of yardstick by which to measure Progress in neighbouring socialist countries. This is Why Tito is regarded As More dangerous to the russian interest than Dubcek Ever thought of being. Tit ism has spread not Only to Czechoslovakia but to Romania and to a lesser extent to Hungary. All of these satellite countries have now adopted some form of worker management in Industry along lines first introduced in Yugoslavia in 1950. And All have introduced the profit motive As a Market regulator. In soviet eyes tit ism is the supreme heresy. That is Why most yugoslavs i talked to expect that sooner or later Russia will try to wipe them off the map nowhere however did i encounter signs of panic. The people i talked to were Calm confident of their ability to give As Good As they get. Tough yugoslav army now being joined by student militias which Are being organized with the help of world War la partisan veterans according to reports. Red squeeze welds yugoslavs by Tom Cullen Belgrade Yugoslavia Nea a a a it is better to put up with a Toothache than to run the risk of getting a grizzled serbian peasant explained Why he is supporting president Tito in his present showdown with soviet Russia. Looking Back to the postwar period when Tito tried forcibly to collect Vize Yugoslavia a farms this peasant had no reason to love the yugoslav Leader. Yet since the russian invasion of Czechoslovakia on aug. 21, the peasantry As Well As All other classes of society have closed ranks behind Tito. Thanks to the russians yugoslav Unity is greater today than at any other time since the War. The yugoslav people All 20 million of them know that if their jaw ache gets too bad they can always have the tooth out. One of the most striking instances of National Unity is the attitude of the students. In june this year Belgrade University students took to the streets shouting a Down with the red bourgeoise a steel helmeted police had to be called out to quell the riots. Since aug. 21, not one Peep has been heard from these demonstrators. Ear from attacking the Tito government the student activists Are now organizing their own militias for use in the event of a russian invasion on weekends these youths take to the Hills where they Are shown the arms caches used by the partisan guerrillas in their War against Hitler. They Are also Given weapons and tactical training by partisan veterans who have lost none of their old skills. So completely have the russian moves in Eastern Europe played into Tito a hands that some of his critics accuse him of having exaggerated the menace of the czech invasion. Yet none of the yugoslavs i talked to doubts that sooner or later Russia will attempt to crush tit ism by Force. A a the two systems cannot exist Side by Side a an engineering student explained to me. A a russian communism is based on repression and demands Blind adherence in the interests of a mythical International a tit ism puts National in forests first trusts the we it ers to run the enterprises and feels confident enough of itself to permit almost Complete Freedom. The two systems cancel each other it is True that there Are very few vestiges of the soviet style police state left in Yugoslavia today. Instead there is a relaxed atmosphere in Sharp contrast to the tension and rigidity of Romania which i visited before coming to Yugoslavia. In Belgrade a espresso bars people discuss politics freely without glancing Over their shoulders. The Only sacred cow is Tito one is not allowed to criticize his leadership. Yugoslav newspapers contain a surprising amount of hard news As opposed to the usual marshmallow propaganda of the Eastern european press. And the people Are free to worship. The churches i visited from Belgrade a imposing St. Marks to Humble Village chapels were All Well kept and crowded on sundays though the congregations seemed to be predominantly made up of elderly women. Yugoslav shops Are full of goodies that cannot be had for love nor Money in Romania Hungary East Germany or Poland. That is Why the romanians hungarians East germans and poles who come Here for their vacations go Home wondering. In this sense Yugoslavia is living proof that socialism can be made to work without russian help. That other Symbol of Prosperity the motorcar has doubled in numbers in the last five years and Yugoslavia now has the distinct

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