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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, tinder Act of March 3, 1879.
Life and Taxes . . .
U-mjemiiNG IN THIS WORLD," said Ben Franklin, "is
certain hut death and taxes."
The next-ranking certainty is that the administration’s first
demand of the nets Congress will he for a tax reduction hill.
What sort of a measure will he asked and what its impact on
the deficit (SIS billion is one figure that has been mentionel)
remains obscure. Some administration advisors, who tear Congress
mat balk over such a massive increase, are suggesting one tax
reduction hill this tear and another next-—when thev should
realize that one is all thev are likelv to get. Nor should the Con
gress welcome a recommendation to apply the hulk of the re
duction on individual income taxes and what is left to easing
the corporate tax.
1 he onlv conscionahie tax-reduction program in the race or
continuing deficit spending must be dedicated to the stimulation
of the economv — rather than merely to leasing more spending
money in the pants pockets of the largest number of voters.
The argument over cutting the lowest brackets to "create
purchasing power" versus cutting all brackets to spur new invest
ment as well should he settled bv the fact that purchasing power
has been growing as steadily in recent years as investment has
been declining.
The need of the hour is for business encouragement, not
merely tax reduction. Moreover, a complete, comprehensive, care
fullv-thought-out program for economic growth is already familiar
to Congress and to thoughtful Americans. This is the bipartisan
measure introduced by Rep. H. H. Baker of Tennessee and Rep.
A. S. Herlong, Jr., of Florida, and providing for graduated re
duction in all tax brackets over a five-year period.
It would impose a minimum shock of federal revenues — with
an estimated $2.7 billion reduction in individual taxes and $1
billion in corporate taxes.
Equally important, in view of the urgency of tax relief, the
Herlong-Baker bill is ready-to-go. There is nothing in the measure
contrary to administration policies. And nothing more should be
required for speedy passage that a White House blessing.
The President has promised tax reduction effective next
New Year’s Day. This is one way he can get it.
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! JFK and Stevenson Meet
In Public First Time Since
Report of Cuban Flap
WASHINGTON W — Adlai Stev
venson and President Kennedy,
meeting in public for the first
time since the tempest over the
U.N. Ambassador's role in the Cu
ban crisis, shook hands warmly
last night.
Stevenson, quick as ever with a
quip, introduced Kennedy as “the
author, producer, director and
star of Mr. Khrushchev’s new hit
play in Moscow—‘A Funny Thing
Happened to Me on My Way to
Cuba’.”
Stevenson said he was “proud
to be a member of the supporting
cast."
The occasion of their meeting
was the Kennedy Foundation
awards dinner where the Presi
dent handed checks to four for
eign scientists for work against
mental retardation.
In the background were echoes
of the clamor set off this week by
a magazine article — co-authored
by a close friend of the President
— which portrayed Stevenson as
having advocated a soft line in the
Cuban crisis.
The article set off speculation
that someone in the administra
tion was "out to get Adlai.” Ap
parently in an effort to still the
talk, the President made public a
letter Wednesday expressing his
"fullest confidence" in Stevenson.
Last night, presiding at the din
ner, Stevenson received a stand
ing ovation.
Stevenson remarked that the
United Nations may soon be cry
ing for peace "and I have been
crying for it in the past week.”
"But despite what has happen
ed,” Stevenson added, "I am con
vinced that most of the press of
this country follows Joseph Pul
itzer’s remark that accuracy is to
a newspaper what virtue is to a
woman — except, as someone has
pointed out, a newspaper can al
ways print a retraction.”
Stevenson previously had de
nounced the Saturday Evening Post
article as inaccurate and a gross
misrepresentation of his position.
The story, written by Washing
ton newsmen Stewart Alsop and
Charles Bartlett, a close Kennedy
friend, quoted anonymous but ap
parently high ranking officials as
saying Stevenson dissented from
Kennedy's decision to set up a
naval blockade around Cuba and
advocated a diplomatic approach.
In his talk last night, Kennedy
made no mention of the Cuban
crisis.
PUSHINKA EXPECTING
WASHINGTON to — Pushinka,
the fluffy white dog that came to
the White House as a gift from
Soviet Premier Khrushchev, may
be expecting.
“We’ll know in about 10 days,”
said White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger. Pushinka is un
dergoing tests to determine wheth
er she is pregnant.
Pushinka is one of three dogs
owned by the President and his
family. Khrushchev said that she
was a daughter of the Soviet space
dog Strelka.
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Cuba Reports Two
Armed Attacks
HAVANA OP) — Armed counter
revolutionaries struck twice this
week in central Cuba and the
Havana press charged the United j
States was behind both attacks— j
one a seaborne raid, the other an j
ambush.
A militiaman was reported kill- j
ed and a minor political official
riding with him in a jeep was
wounded in an attack close to
Jaguey Grande in Matanzas Pro
vince, less than 90 miles southeast
of Havana.
The seaborne raider shot up a
group of fishermen near Caibarien
in Las Villas Province Tuesday
night. No casualties were reported.
Havana radio said the attack
was at San Francisco Beach. It
described the attackers as pirates
and said they had a refuge in the
United States.
Cuba formally denounced the
Las Villas raid in a note to the
United States and declared it pro
vided further proof Prime Min
ister Fidel Castro’s proposed five
points were necessary as the only
means of settling the Caribbean
crisis.
Castro’s five demands call for
guarantees from the United States
that counter-revolutionaries based
overseas would be checked in their
attempts to overthrow his regime.
Other demands include the re
KETCHIKAN CHAMBER
WILL SOLICIT FUNDS
KETCHIKAN UP) — Members of
the Ketchikan Chamber of Com
merce will solicit funds on the
downtown streets tonight to help
defray the cost of printing 50,000
brochures.
The brochures will be used to
sing the praises of this Southeast
Alaska city with the* idea of at
tracting ferry boat travelers to
spend some time — and money —
beginning next summer.
It was explained that there was
not enough cash in the Chamber’s
kitty to pay for the handouts. So
the Chamber devised the idea of
asking residents as a whole to
lend a hand — cashwise.
Unemployment Rate Is 11.5 Pet.
JUNEAU OP) — Alaska's insured
unemployment rate for the week
ended Dec. 1 was 11.5, higher
than the 9.2 for the previous
week last year, Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson announced to
day.
The number of persons filing
initial claims for unemployment
benefits under the state program
was 762, an increase of 145 from
last week. The total for the same
week in 1961 was 818.
moval of the U S. Guantanamo
Naval Base, and end all reconnais
sance flights over Cuba, and re
sumption of normal trade rela
tions with Cuba.
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