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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - January 16, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather Ulear diminishing winds and very cold tonight Low temperatures 5 to 15 below Zero. Mostly fair wednesday with temperatures around 15 above Zero. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots historical society reviews 1967, Page 5 new Berlin tables tax exemption Issue Page 3 school Board honors memory of or. J. Leo Weiler Page 3 vol. La no. 213tuesday, january 16, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per cop Rocky asks for 9 state tax hikes state nation world drive to make Britain solvent quake toll rises Palermo Sicily apr the casualty Tell in Sicily a catastrophic earthquake moves steadily up today As new tremors spread More panic through the devastated Western tip of the Mediterranean a largest Island. The unofficial Tell Rose to More than 300 dead nearly 1,500 persons missing and More than 1,500 injured. Officials said with that Many missing the final death toll might be 500 to 1,000. As news Waves of undulating shocks toppled ruined Walls in shattered communities a growing of Rescue workers fought against the clock in a desperate search for buried survivors still alive under the ruins. Gigantic bonfires lit up the snowy Fields and vineyards where thousands of refugees spent the night in the open. Families salvaged chairs and tables from the rubble of their villages eating bread and milk brought by Rescue workers and reliving the catastrophe before Dawn monday. Lbs must Cut spending Washington apr the Money message from Capitol Hill to the White House As Congress reassembled Wasny to changed from last year president Johnson must Cut spending if he wants a tax hike. There was Little official action monday with the launching of the second session of the 90th Congress but there was talk Domestic spending must be Cut it came from chairman Wilbur d. Mills of the House ways and Means committee Senate Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen and rep. Frank t. Bow of Ohio senior Republican on the House appropriations committee. Test a enriched air space Center Houston Tex. Apr pressed for time . Space officials begin testing a enriched air a wednesday As a safer substitute for the pure oxygen atmosphere that fed the fire which killed three astronauts Early last year atop their rocket at Cape Kennedy. Pressed for Money the Agency has junked a 1970 pure science research flight using secret reconnaissance photography techniques. The decision to scrap the flight was made dec. 27 but acknowledged Only monday. The atmosphere decision was reached saturday by a Board of space scientists named after the tragedy to assure the fire safety of future american spacecraft. Support Kennedy proposal Market report at 11 20 a.m., Continental Telephone corp. Was 29% open and High 29 Low and last Norwich Pha Macal co. 441/2 open and Low 44% High and last c amp u commune. Cations no sales previous close 28% . Grant no sales previous close 33% Montgomery wards 26 open and High 25% Low 25% last . Fishman i2v2 High Low and last Over the counter general Laboratory associates 16 bid 17 asked Jerrold corp. Taco 35% bid 36% asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Norwich Mills 40 bid Raymond corp. 31% bid 32% asked Victory markets 9l of bid to asked Teize chemicals 27% bid 28% asked Gladding corf. 15 bid 15% asked National Bank amp Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of nor wich 300 bid. A a. A tax Xiv v a a n3 pm hit Xiv. V. T v Vav Quot a a it or. Mum decks awash the ass Thomason takes on fuel from the Carrier ass Kearsarge off North Vietnam in the Tonkin Gulf. A go slow on Early childhood education says local Board by Jerry Weaver a a go slow policy where so called Early childhood education is concerned was indicated by the Norwich Board of education monday night. School superintendent Agatino j. Natoli told Board members that the state Board of regents has announced a Long Range proposal whereby pre kindergarten instruction for All three and four year Olds would be provided by the year 1974. It would be similar to the present kindergarten instruction. William Raynor a Board member opposed any Early action in the proposal pointing out it would need a lot of study. He said it would Cost the District another Quarter of a million dollars for additional classroom space teachers Etc. Natoli admitted it would mean a substantial number of additional classrooms and would also mean obtaining trained teachers. This would Only be the Start he said. But he added the Board should be Alert to the proposal s benefits and disadvantages. It was noted by another Board member Charles Shorter that that similar projects Are being conducted in some schools and they were a really something to Raynor said he would rather see Money spent on children old enough to learn. He pointed out that some communities could afford and others could not. A first thing you know a Raynor quipped a a they la be bringing them right out of the maternity wards and putting them in Alderman Robert Smith of City wards i 2 and 3appeared at the Board session with a toques a that the school construct a sidewalk on District property along the North Side of Ridgeland Road from Gibson school to Canasa Warta Street. Smith said a great Deal of pressure is being brought against the City s sidewalk committee of which he is a member. He pointed out that pupils coming from Gibson school have to walk in the Roadway which is full of buses taxis and cars. There is no sidewalk on the South Side of the Road which is a residential area. Pupils could traverse Canasa Warta Street North and catch the new sidewalk on the North Side of Ridgeland he said. Residents on the South Side of Ridgeland do not seem inclined to favor putting walks in front of their houses Smith said. If the school did put in such a sidewalk an Extension of the walk on Canasa Acta Street would be necessary to make the connection. Smith said this walk would be on the property of or. Richard Foster on the West Side of Canasa Acta. It was thought that construe Tion of the Ridgeland Road sidewalk would Cost in the neighbourhood of $1,000 or $1,200. The school superintendent said his it office would investigate costs of construction and maintenance of such a sidewalk. Bulletin Houston Tex. Apr a freighter and a string of three barges two Laden with High octane gasoline collided in the Houston ship Channel today turning the water into a blazing inferno. Heavy damage was re. Ported on the freighter following a Gigantic explosion. State police reported none aboard any of the vessels suffered serious injuries. They included 32 persons taken off the outbound foreign Flag freighter the Christiane. Tugs started moving the dam. Aged freighter toward the Todd shipyards at the Island port of Galveston for repairs to its Bow which sheared into Oil barges in the ship Channel. Two of the barges being a neutered by a tug carried 17,-ooo and 13,000 barrels of 94-oc-Tane gasoline respectively. The barges caught fire and so did some of the cargo on the decks of the Christiane including five trucks. Government mum on disaster Loans after Alaska flood Washington a the Federal government refuses to say Why it Lent a prominent Alaska Democrat nearly All he asked for and Cut in half the request of the state s Republican governor after the Fairbanks flood dam. Aged their neighbouring motels last August. The Small business administration which Lent the Money would say no More than who got How much. But it insisted poli. Tics was not involved. The budget Bureau refused to Tell what caught the Eye of fledgling lawyer Robert m. Weinberg when he spotted the Loans in a routine budget Check and referred them to his Supe. Riots. But the sea acknowledged it is tightening its disaster loan criteria said sea administrator Robert c. Moot a while the Fairbanks Loans were not the sole Factor in changing our criteria i must say i saw nothing in these cases to dissuade me from changing them. A but i found no evidence of any collusion fraud Malfesa. Sance or partisanship in these the largest loan in the Wake of the August flood of the Chena River $894,000, went to l. Don. Ald Pruhs Golden Nugget to. Tel. Until a month ago Pruhs was chairman of the Democrat. In Central committee for the alaskan Interior. He Snow a member of the party a state Central committee. Employed As a supervisor in Pruhs contracting firm is Alex Miller alaskans democratic a. Tonal committeeman. A a in a certainly not going to apologize for being a demo. Pruhs said monday after details of the loan were made Public. A i was a Democrat Long before the flood and i did no to Start the flood. Because i was Central District chairman they took my loan and examined it when it was just one of 2,500 Loans. A i Don t know anything about any other Loans. I submitted mine and that s the Only one i m interested the loan required no higher approval than that of the so a s san Francisco office but government sources report Quot a cd that Pruhs retained a Washington attorney to help him get it. Involved was a regular sea loan of about $690,000�?previous, by approved but not paid Coni bind with a $200,000 damage claim into a disaster loan which carries a lower interest rate and allows the Borrower an additional 20 years to repay. Across the Street from Pruhs 38-unit Golden Nugget which opened last May is the 106. Room travellers inn owned by Republican gov. Walter j. Hick. Al. Larger and built on lower ground it suffered by Pruhs own estimated greater flood damage. Acc approves Transfer of lie lenses Washington Cap the Federal communications commission has approved the trans Fer of the licenses of six upstate new York radio stations to a company that says it will seek to dispose of them. The stations now Are owned by a amp a communications corp., which merged with Continental Telephone corp. Last summer. A amp a said it was unable to of orate the stations at a profit and therefore sought to Transfer them to Continental. The acc approved the action monday on the condition that the stations be sold a within a reasonable period of it asked for a report within six months. Continental officials say they Are willing to continue the broadcast operations but Are ready to sell the stations. The stations Are a mar Oneida the Only am station in the group. Wei pm Ithaca a Jim pm Cherry Val Ley a big f a wether filed Toiv. Pm Deruyter and Miv pm South Bristol. Asks Cut Back in medicaid to Levels of Federal support is discussed Keene . Apr gov. George Romney says he has discussed his proposal for guaranteed neutralization of All Vietnam with soviet Premier Alex Sei n. Kosygin and reports the russian Leader expressed interest but made no commitment on the plan. A if in a elected president this is the thing that will get my immediate attention and ill push it As hard As i can a rom. said in outlining his Viet Nam program monday night. The Republican governor said later in an interview that he raised the proposal during his meeting with Kosygin on dec. 19 in Moscow. Pressing his presidential Pri. Mary Campaign in Munsonville today Romney proposed a Ceil. Ing on Federal spending and a a reasonable tax increase to move the Federal government toward a balanced budget in 1970. He said that is a crucial step to combat inflation. A therefore i propose a Federal spending ceiling in fiscal 1969 to limit the level of total Federal no defense expenditures at not More than the 1968 level a he said in a prepared speech. A with this spending ceiling in effect i believe a reasonable tax increase should be a. Proved both As a measure to help balance the budget and to help curb inflation. Brown considered favorite Albany . Apr Vot. Ers in the 114th Assembly District Madison and Chenango counties went to the polls to. Day in a special election to fill the vacancy created by the death nov 23 of assemblyman Harold i. Tyler a Chittenango. Richard Brown of Bridgeport the Republican candidate was favored to defeat Democrat Robert Mcneil of Norwich in the traditionally Republican District. Polls Are open until 7 . The governor would not Dis. A together with expected cuss the Moscow conversation growth in Revenue As the econ in detail but he said Kosygin my grows we could have a bal expressed interest danced budget in fiscal 1970. Today a churl an executive is judge the company he keeps vent. Today round the around the around the London apr prime minister Harold Wilson staked the life of his labor government today on a drive to make Britain solvent with slash ing cuts in military spend ing abroad and social services at Home. The program which Wilson unveils in the House of commons this afternoon report edly included withdrawal of most British forces East of Suez by 1971, four years ahead of the tar get announced last july and cancellation or reduction of the billion Dollar contract to buy 50 american fill bombers. Under pressure from prime minis ter Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore the Cabinet agreed to keep a Token presence in his Island state after 1971. Wilson a statement willbe followed by a two Day debate be. Ginning wednesday. At its con delusion thursday will come a vote of Confidence in which the government is assured of Victo. Prime minister by by the labor party a com Harold Wilson Mons majority of 35 votes. But Wilson May have to accept the resignation of a minister or two whose favorite projects were treated especially rough. Rochester . Apr an estimated of an audience of Rochester s Busi. Ness and Industrial leaders expressed support monday night for a proposal by sen. Robert f. Kennedy d�?. That the United states end the bombing of North Vietnam As a step toward peace negotiations in Vietnam. Kennedy polled the audience of 800 after an address to the annual dinner of the Roches ter chamber of Commerce asking it to show agreement with one of four alternatives in Vietnam by a show of hands. An estimated 600 agreed with Kennedy a proposal to Stop bombing and negotiate 25 urged continuation of the present bombing policy 3 favored unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam by the . Sen. Robert and 2 supported an escalation of Kennedy bombing a reporter at the dinner 7 said. Albany. . Apr gov. Rockefeller sent a $5.5-billion state budget to the legislature today with requests for nine state tax increases designed to yield $494 million during the new fiscal year. He called for a big 20 per cent boost in the personal in come tax plus fat increases in the levies on liquor gasoline parimutuel racing Large corporations Small businesses Banks and utilities. Actually Over a full Calendar year the tax increases he pro. Posed would require taxpayers to pay a total of $700 million More. But Rockefeller staggered the effective dates to minimize the immediate Impact in the fiscal year beginning april i. As he had indicated Well in Advance Rockefeller told the politically divided legislature that the tax boosts were essential to provide More state Aid for education medicaid and other welfare programs. His proposed budget would raise state spending from $4,638 billion to $5,494 billion including a $500-million increase in state Aid. Still he observed the record breaking $856-million Rise in spending would be far less than the $1.5-billion Aid increase sought by communities across the state. A there is a definite limitation upon the ability of a governor to keep Down increases in expenditures a he contended in his budget message. Rockefeller sent his record smashing budget into the Teeth of a legislature reluctant to consider tax increases in this election year. All seats in the Senate and Assembly will be at stake in next november s elec Tion. While Republican leaders of the Senate have been some what sympathetic to his and Vance tax signals the assent Blyus democratic leadership has been hostile. One Factor motivating democrats is their awareness that Rockefeller a Stock As a Poten tial presidential candidate is on the Rise. They feel obliged to make As much trouble As pos sible. Faced with a shortage of Revenue and demands for enor. Mously increased spending Rockefeller worked his problem this Way budget Iii Brief Albany . There is gov. Rockefeller a budget is a glance income $5,494,000,000. From current tax revenues �?$4,500,000,000. From tax increases a $494,000,000. From Bond borrowings a $500,000,000. Outgo $5,494,-000,000. For state aid�?$3,205,000.-ooo. For government operations �?$1,632,000,000 for construction projects �?$578,000,000. For interest on borrowings�?$7 9,000,000. Besides recommending tax increases he struck the budget balance required by state Law by budgeting $500 million in Bond borrowings to finance much of his construction program. For example All but $1 million of his $391.million Road building program would come out of the $2.5-billion transportation Bond Issue authorized by new York voters last november. A he proposed to Cut Back the states medicaid program to the reduced Levels of Federal support warning that the alternative would be further tax increases of about $200 million. A he recommended a to per cent increase in the level of state for the Public schools far less than that sought by professional educators but probably sufficient to appease the de mands from that Quarter. The fiscal year Cost would be $60 million. A he pencilled in an 8 per cent pay raise for the states 140,000 employees who have been clamouring for increases of 20 per cent and beyond. This also would Cost $60 million in his budget. A he imposed on All department and Agency Heads a a Spe. Cial Economy savings estimated at $81 million. They would be left to decide How to curb spend ing to live within the funds he allotted. Income taxpayers would be hit with the heaviest increase a 20 per cent surcharge on their tax Bills beginning Jan. I this year. Rockefeller aides explained that it would take time to adjust the payroll withholding tables appending on when the legislature gave its approval. If for example this were done May i the taxpayer would have to make up the january april obligation when he files his 1968 return in april of 1969. The income tax boost would yield $270 million during the current fiscal year and when fully operative in 1969, would produce about $380 million annually Rockefeller a office said. Marine humor shows up in sign Reading. A see Florida planted in Sandy stretch of Beach along China sea near Danang South Vietnam. Neutralization the various business tax increases headed by a major hike in the corporation franchise tax would net about $182 Mil lion in the new fiscal year Rockefeller said. Most would be effective Jan. I. The motor fuel taxes including a boost in the gasoline tax from six to seven cents a gallon would yield $21 million in the new fiscal year. It would go into effect next sept. I. The liquor tax would be raised by to cents a fifth and liquor License fees also would be raised effective sept. I and aug. I respectively with a combined return of $15 million. The states take from Pari Mutual racing would be increased $6 million by reserving a greater share of the daily betting handle. The a a takeout would be boosted from 15 per cent to 16 per cent effective As soon As it is approved with the state and the tracks splitting the extra Money right Down the Middle. This would mean a slight reduction in the payoff on bets at both thoroughbred and harness tracks

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