lYuuian To Ask
Eight Billion Social
Security Tax
By Francis M. Le May) .
WASHINGTON. </P) — The ad
'.ninistration was reportedly reli
ably today as about ready to ask
Congress for almost $8,000,000,000
in payroll taxes next year to fi
nance a vastly expanded social se
curity program that would include
government payment of doctor
bills
This would be more than dou
ble the $3,250,000,000 now collect
ed annually for the present limit
ed coverage old age and survivors
insurance and for unemployment
compensation.
Now President Truman is pro
posing health and disability in
surance. and expansion and liber
alization of present old age bene
fits and unemployment compensa
tions.
The administration is expected
t oask for a six per cent social se
curity tax—probably 3 per cent to
be collected from that part of an
employed person’s pay up to
$4,800 (this would make the maxi
mum pay envelope tax $144
agonist a present top of $30). and
probably a similar 3 per cent from
nis boss’ payroll.
Later, when the health insur
ance program gets in full swing
‘•he tax will recome higher—a de
termination has not been made,
but maybe around 4 per cent each
against employee and employer.
Lung fishes live on the bottom
of swamps and in time of drought
burrow in the mud. plaster over
^he opening and wait for the rains. .
Will Confirm
Aeheson Despite
Senate Crities
WASHINGTON. </P>—Critics of
Dean Aeheson scraped the bottom
of the barrel Saturday in search
of Senate votes against his con
firmation as secretary of state.
Senator Capehart <R.-Ind.>, of
ten critical of administration for- |
eign policy told a reporter he does
not know anyone who is going to
fight the nomination actively.
Capehart wouldn’t say how he
will vote, however. Neither would
Senator Brewster <R.-Me.\ whose
friends said he might be among
the few who would not go along
with President Truman’s choice
for the top cabinet job.
Chairman Taft of Ohio said that
while he will poll the Senate Re
publican policy committee to see
if any members want to make an ’
issue of the cabinet choice, he does
not know of any opposition now.
The 13 to 0 count by which the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee approved Acheson’s appoint
ment Friday formally lined up
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan,
chief Republican exponent of the
bi-partisan foreign policy, behind
the nominee.
Vandenberg told reporters he is
preparing a brief speech of ap- J
proval for Tuesday, when chair
man Connally <D.-Tex.) said the
matter will be brought before the
Senate.
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A priest walked up to a young
man hanging on to a lamp post.
“Shames on you! What have
you been drinking?”
“Three Fathers, Feather.”
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Mrs. J. J. O'Leary left by Pan
American yesterday for an extend
ed visit in the States. She plans to
spend a few weeks in Seattle with
her son Chris O’Leary and family
and later go to Honolulu to be
with her daughter Rita Tavis who
is with the Pan American Airways
there. This will be Mrs. O’Leary’s
first trip Outside in 25 years.
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Taft Wants Changes
Not Repeal Of
TaftiHartley Act
9/
WASHINGTON, (Ah — Republi
can Senators Taft of Ohio and
Ives of New York Saturday chart
ed stra ogy to block the drive for
outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley
law.
The goal of the GOP team, as
outlined by Ives, is to trim from
the law certain features most ob
jectionable to its adminis ration
foes, as well as some backers.
President Truman has asked Con
gress to replace Taft-Hartley with
an “improved” Wagrfer Act—the
labor relations law passed in 1937.
Ives told reporters that he sug
gested to Taft ,a co-author of the
controversial measure now on the
books, that their starting point be
a bill which the Senate labor com
mittee approved 11 to 2 in 1947.
Ives said Taft “raised no objec
tion.”
That measure became known as
he Ives-Morse bill when Ives and
Senator Morse (R.-Ore.) joined
with the committee Democrats to
eliminate some of the more strin
gent provisions favored by Taft
and certain other Republicans.
i One out of every ten early
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Justi<T l)t‘ *1 Files
Trust Com luint
Against A. T. & T.
WASHINGTON, </P)--The Ji’.s
tice department tiled suit Friday
to divorce the American Tele
phone and Telepgraph company
and Western Electric corporation.
Western Electric is the manu
facturing subsidiary of A. T. & T.
Attorney general Tom Clark an
nounced that the action, in the
form of a civil anti-trust com
plaint, was filed Friday in feder
al district court at Newark, N. J.
It charges A. T. & T. and West
ern Electric, which is a wholly
owned subsidiary, with “consp;r
acy to monopolize” the telephone
business in the United States.
Clark said he is asking that A.
T. & T. be required to dispose of
all its holdings in Wes'e-n F”me
tric, an dthat the latter be dis
solved and reorganized into three
separa'e competing manufactur
ing concerns.
John Hudert. superintendent of
the Alaska Road Commission for
the Second Division left vts'erlv
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with Alaska Airlines for Juneau
to attend a meeting of all superin
tendents in the Territory and r e
pare a program for presentation
t othe Legislature.
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