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Bey Kesaedy It keck freai Honolulu. Made the trip from there to Montreal la Vfr boors.

Roy says that whfle in Haw-

Sam's in Augsburg, Germany for Us Insurance company. And he'll be there about two years.

Sam Wrote that he likes the piece very nraeh hut sorely misses Kiwanis, the Base aad Plattsburgh. His address:

0901 NEAUSASS

_ _ ^ . . _ - ^ - . a w * & Jn todby's complex govern-m thtek <htf»'s o 6roW#m r*#nto} *P*«*&*-

a ' ^ o r * ~ * f t « M C c * * ^ h ne«fed 1$ initiative oc- ^ w / w „ „ _ « „._-. Deportment.; * rM^Y tloii prohibtHng such actions by state ait, he called on Henry Kaiser, ^- It ts*L*d Iht otder dn its ^W+'&p&rrwnH. A vitoJ principle is ot ^ * * ^ M-year-old industri-

^mfoM€^m^^ with c t w t y «Mfe. R ' x n * f J . , . KaSTgot his start hi Lake pr onyoni else a* for os we Gov, Rockefeller should immedtote- ,vlua*r *" n ***" * ~ ^

ty bor state deportments from trying / : 1 t e * s * » a flagrant usurpation of such power grobs in the future. And Home nrfe. It wos on ottenpt by p thf Legislature should noil it down

Placid years ago when be was in the photographic business there for about eight years.

Then he went to Florida, put

Richard Wagner Strauee 4, Augsburg, Germany

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Aarea Scheter theeght the P-R editorial urging city super­visors to play a larger role \& city government was Just fine and he was wholly in accord with it

He thinks the city and the supervisors should try to work out some sort of system so that there could be much more

He thinks funny By JIM BISHOP

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Stote deportment to issue a mandote with a specific law in the ntxt session UP h i s o w n building. It attract to*counties thot would hove required Usurpation of home rule is already * » * * attention that he began communication between them !*- ^ x j . -i 11 i // building for others. And this

them to pay out money on a motter for advanced. Jnless every effort to Uunche<J t h e fabulous career _ , # 1

over which they would have hod no chip away at home rule is resisted cit- Roy said he told Kaiser all D a i l V d e v o t i o n control. ies and counties will soon find that the about the area and its poten-

Counties ond cities already get only power they have left is to sign mony mandates from the State Legis- the checks mandated by the state and

7oture whkH increases salaries of all its departments.

tiaL It would be great if Kaiser took an interest in helping de­velop iL

light Side By GENE BROWN

Gifted Ckfldrai:

Woman at the doer: "We're taking up a collection for the Orphans Home. Would you care to donate something*"

Housewife: "How about a f-year-old boy, a 6-year-old boy and a 3-year old girl?"

Voice From Back:

The most prominent citizen of a HkkBe Georgia town died and all the substantial citizens turn­ed out for the funeral, plus several Atlantans.

At the solemn graveside serv­ices, the town drunk wandered up and stood at the back of the assemblage. As the minister in­toned, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," he said, wYou can't be no fairer than that"

GRIN AND BEAR IT BY LICHTV

Here's another reminder about letters to the editor. They must be signed and the name will be_ published. We do not publish letters without the name.

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Sam Moedy seat a Christmas card saying * Frohe Weihnach-ten und ein glueckliches neuses Jahr."

The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to pro­claim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. (Isaiah 61:1)

PRAYER: 0 God, our Father. we need Thee even- moment. Help us to find in Thee the strength to meet life s obliga­tions. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer, we ask. Amen.

The comics sat at a front table at Toots Shor's. They were attending 4 p. m. breakfast, which consists of a Bloody Man, eggs Benedict, and a Bloody Man. It was cold out, so they talked of Florida and Jackie Gleason, which are big and warm and expensive; one of which is flat.

I have heard these talks be­fore. The losers always bury Caesar. But not this time The consensus of the poached eyes and filleted toupees is that The

shaking his head, 'theyYe nam­ing street after Gleason." True. But street names can be alter­ed Talent can't. The Fat Man has it. He had it when he was 14 years old, standing on a Brooklyn street corner making kids laugh.

As they talked, building the man higher and higher until no one could be that great, I work­ed over a beef stew and sour rye bread and thought about how funny Mr. G. can be off-camera. One time, 1 sat in an

Greatest is now a genius, to be empty theatre with Phil Silvers, ranked with Chaplin, W. C. and Gleason walked onstage to Fields and Laughton. Not long alter the lighting. Silvers stud-ago, they called the same man a bum, a lush, a flashy slob who was only as funny as his writers.

"Dowa in Miami," one said,

led the buik of Gleason, the handsome Irish puss, the wavy jet hair and the red carnation, and broke into laughter.

Gleason hadn't said a word.

What a 5% surtax means to you By SYLVIA PORTER

"If only daddy would let me help him assemble that gift, we'd all get to bed earlier!"

The old days

FORTY YEARS AGO: The Border Patrol traveled on

Henry Scheier and son quit the tobacco and cigar business to continue la retailing women's and men's wear.

Martin Van Buren Turner

-* City police were granted a sal­ary increase from $100 to $m a month.

City Court chambers were es­tablished in dry hall

. Hairy L Booth purchased Jtbe Interest of Charies E. Daily in

By FRANK PROVOST

Wallace Murray, a DfcH fire­man, was fatally injured in an explosion near Westport. How­ard Maloney, trainman, was in-jured.

"Snobson's Stag Pa^ty', was presented at a fair at Trinity Church. Taking part were Prof. H. Clay Niles, Robert C. Booth, HoDister Cross, Clarence Downs, Andrew Kavanagh, Ralph Brown, Everest Carroll, Andrew Burleigh, Roy Richards, George Lynch, Frank K. Ryan and David Stafford.

Fire destroyed the Stevenson store at Mooers.

* * • SIXTY YEARS AGO: Thirty-one canal boats were

Icebound at Rouses Point On a program at Keeaeviile

High School participants were Sarah Edwards, Kathryn Lans-feg, Wffiard Kimm, Hazel Pear-aoa, Miriam Hopkins, J o h n

Romeya

If the President dr>es finally end his agonizing game of 4Does She or Doesn't She?" by-

deciding "I do" and he then asks Congress to vote a 5 per cent surtax on your taxable in­come, what would this mean to you, a married couple filing a joint return?

It would mean a tiny tax hike of $31 a year. 60 cents a week, if your taxable income is in the $4,000 bracket.

• • • It would mean a minor tax

hike of $69, around $1.30 a week, if your taxable income is in the $£,000 bracket.

It would mean a tax increse of $219 a year, around $4.20 a week, if your taxable income is in the $20,000 range.

It would raise your Federal tax less than $1,000 a year even if vour taxable income is as high as $52,000.

When expressed in dollar to­tals, a 5 per cent surtax on in­dividual and corporation in­comes would come to $4.5 to $5

and it is. It would be big enough to make a major dent in the Federal budget deficits now an­ticipated for fiscal 1967 and fis­cal 1968.

But when broken down into your terms and mine, the 5 per cent surtax being widely dis-

• cussed in informed circles takes on a new perspective. (High Ad

the day. Thus, the President still may accept the risks in or­der to help achieve a better bal­ance between fiscal (tax) and monetary (credit) policy m 1967.

Assume you are a married taxpayer filing a joint return. Assume you show one of the

Presumably, the amount of tax withheld from your pay would be increased to reflect the higher taxes due.

But the surtax in the 5 per

"What's funny?" I said Silvers held his stomach and gasped "You don't understand," he said, howling. "He thinks fun­ny." Perhaps. The humor es­caped me. When Gleason was broke and out of work, he count-ed $2 in his pocket It was not enough on which to eat the way Jackie eats.

* • • He wed IS cents to call a

Carey Cadillac, drove in style to 68th St. and 11th Avenue, and pulled up to an Italian hot dog wagon with umbrella. "Name your pleasure/* he said gallant­ly to the chauffeur. The driver studied the skinny lavender frankfurters and the weedy sauerkraut, and said: "No, thanks." In the grand manner, Gleason order 11 frankfurters "with everything." He ate them all, drove back in style, signed the slip for hiring the Cadillac, and added a $5 tip for the driv­er.

No matter how deep his debts, Jackie always paid. In Asbury Park, he skipped a boarding house one summer day by dropping his luggage out the back winsow, then walking through the lobby in bathing suit and bathrobe. "Nice day for a dip," he said to the land­lady. Then he hopped into a car, changed into street clothes, and headed for New York. Weeks

following taxable incomes —in-on a new perspective, im^u ™- come after all deductions and ministration advisors shrug off exemptions — on line 11D of to pull income from 1967 into the larger $10-$15 billion totals page one of income tax form 1966 for the sole purpose of mentioned by some Congress- 1040. This is how a 5 per cent avoiding paving the extra tax

surtax would affect you. on the income in 1967.

cent range would mean so little later, when he was working, he to the vast majority of individ- drove all the way back to pay uals that tax experts months the board bill ago decided this possibility in 1967 did not warrant an effort

men.) The moderate impact of a 5 per cent surtax is why the President may decide to make the economically and political­ly risky 44I do" decision in re­turn for an immediate easing of credit

The opposition in and out of Congress to an income tax in­crease is mounting by the day. The slowing in our economy is becoming more obvious by the day. But the need for an eas­ing of credit to release more funds into the economy m gen­eral and into the depressed housing industry in particular

billion a year. This sounds big is becoming more apparent b>

Inside Washington

Taxable income $ 1.000

2.000 3.000 4,000 8.000

12.000 16.000 20.000 24,000 28.000 32,000 36,000 40,000 44.000 52,000

Today's tax $140 290 450 620

1.380 2.260 3,260 4.380 5.660 7.100 8.660

10.340 12.140 14.060 18,060

Vfc surtax $7.00 14.50 22.50 31.00 69.00

113.00 163.00 219.00 28300 355.00 433.00 517.00 607.00 703.00 903.00

New tax total $147.00 304.50 472.50 651.00

1,499.00 2.373.00 3,423.00 4,599.00 5,94300 7,455.00 9,093.00

10,857.00 12,747.00 14,76300 18,963.00

At sight of him, the landlady burst into tear?. "We thought you drownded." she said. Toots Shor permitted Gleason to eat off the cuff, and Gleason signed the restaurateur's name to the tab. He left a small tip one time and said to the waiter: '•I'd give you more but you know how cheap Toots is."

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I was with him at Sardi's when Gleason wanted Paddy Chayefsky to write a French movie called Gigot. Chayefsky arrived, bearded and harassed, and Jackie thrust out his hand and found he was shaking a coat hanger. ' Sorry," Chayef­sky said. "I took my suit to the tailor for pressing. The hanger

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Kosygin fails to answer invitations By ROBERT S. ALLEN cod PAUL SCOTT

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WASHINGTON - President Johnson is running into a blank wall in an effort to get into per­sonal touch with Premier Ko-sygiiL

The Soviet leader has re­buffed repeated unasaotmced

by the President to laoch as exchange of corre*

cinfiilyr \0 that Car-lied oa by President Kennedy

Premier Khruab-

fc am efiort to establish soch

written ttvftation to Kosygin to make an official visit.

Gromyko professed to know nothing about the unannounced correspondence, but promised to relay the President's roes-sage to Kosygtn. If be did, the result was 9S unavailing as the President's personal tetters.

Nothing was beard from Ko

arms race between the U.S. and apore's Foreign Minister L e e Russia. Kuan Yew

They proposed that the Pres­ident send either Defense Sec­retary McNamara or .Ambas­sador Averell fiarriman to talk to the Kremlin leaders about

"You know, American Presi­dents have the unfortunate dis­ability of having to face an election every four years,"

In the State Department's letter accompanying Yew's re­marks, Assistant Secretary'

press to i

f e a r le Kosygta tetH-

to fWt the VS. and ef views

tf numot to their

During , iu response

, the Soviet hrashed off the likelihood of a neeting with President John-

"A* a practical \ the qoMftktt of my vis-the U.S. Us sever been

As presented in a recent speech at the University of Singapore, Yew predicted the Viet Nam conflict would last

to xm Kiemun jeaaers aooui to*0 1968> *°<* $** u s - combat their withholding or curtailing f o r c e s t i « r e would run as high Douglas MacArthor II noted: the establishment of a vast sys- ** 7»,*W. "Walt Rostow asked me to

send the statement of Foreign light of the fact Minister L» Kuan Yew, which

that he is a strong supporter he mentioned in a private brief-of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, and tog to you He asked me to say has ties in* both Washington &** he particalarfy commends and Moscow. Highlights of his Yew's statement as a remark-

rrSct twrtm > Paris press ? " * * , o r * " • • * * * " * rjfiewt in ibt I«tt or tbe hct « • " » * » **• * ^^ r trie same -* -» ^ - - *-- y** mftntiAi

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After reading this statemest, tte PrHldnt is said to have AlMiiwI at a conference with foreign policy advisers, Whit 41 I hare to do ta g* these people to make a <fcrect re-|ty? Do they v a * me to get

nay katea aad beg*" \ TKT AfiAIN - Kasy-

Although previous efforts to reach such an understanding have gotten nowhere, Rash and Rostow asked the President to make one more final" plea.

They also advised that the President anzxxxace in hxs State of the Union message to the new Congress that he was ex-tesdisg an invitation to Kosy. gin to visit the U.S.

Wnhoct committing himself os these ideas, the President directed Rasfc to try to ascer­tain Kosygin's reaction to the dtepetch of a special envoy to Moscow and also teair why he had oc* answered the Presi­dent s letters.

comments are as follows "I do not believe there wffl

be any ending of the war in Viet Nam before wen into IMS. And by 1MB. there wffi be any number of Robert Kefioedys around to pat ail kinds of high­ly attractive formulas for re-soMng an the discomforts c* by thee tiffee-fourths of a*mii-ikjc Ainencar. troops That is the number that will eveetaaiiy be 9est to vm Nam.

ably perceptive analysis of the problem/'

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INSIDE STATE DEPART-MENT — Undersecretary Wil­liam Crockett is bemg a "choice diplomatic med in Europe" if he will give up h*s number three job in the State Department The propoe* a: was rr*ade by Secretary Rusk, who would"like to get rA of Crockett, a close Mead of President Johnson.

Crockett told Rack he would give hss rtog witt

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