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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1959
Page
3
The edition outlines President Kennedy's 1960 budget plan advocating extending tax rules, raising certain excises, and increasing the debt ceiling to cover heavy borrowings. It calls for higher gasoline and aviation fuel taxes, plane fare adjustments, and stronger wartime cost controls. Additional items include urban renewal funding, housing, labor safeguards, and welfare financing reforms, with Hawaii statehood and DC home rule noted.
President Eisenhower proposes more than 1.9 billion dollars in new or increased taxes, fees, and postal charges in a broad budget plan. Increases include a 3.4 to 4.4 cent rise in the federal gasoline tax, higher postal rates, aviation fuel taxes, and adjustments to farm and consumer cooperatives plus insurance and government service charges. The plan anticipates impacts on motorists, airline travelers, pilots, farmers, and general consumers.
The Admiration reads a fiscal 1960 budget totaling 431 dollars per person, compared with 160 dollars in the current year. President Disenhower forecasts a national debt of about 285 billion dollars at the start and end of fiscal 1960, with population projections near 178.7 million raising per capita debt to about 1,594 dollars.
A string of strong-arm robberies in the Pike area has led police to arrest three young women believed to act as lures for sailors. Eva Ivon Smith 22 Barbara Joan Furman 19 and Matt Douglas Wilson 19 were booked on robbery charges along with four men. Sailors John Calvin Smith Fred Joe Booth Harley A Sutton and George F Reed were held on the same charges. The scheme allegedly involved luring sailors to parked cars then being assaulted and robbed.
Yugoslav president Tito and his wife departed India after a six day visit and a prior stop in Indonesia and Burma. He journals a neutral stance in the cold war and continues to Asia, visiting governments that share that policy.
Gov elect David L Lawrene denounced selecting Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic national convention. He argued West Coast sessions at 9 p.m. would keep eastern voters in bed as the event unfolds.
Moscow dispatch reports Pravda endorses Fidel Castro's execution of those termed Cuban war criminals. The article accuses U S circles of defending Batista supporters and questions why humanity is invoked only after crimes are punished.
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