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THE STIRRINGS OF A MONSTER
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'fcTUMBERS OF MEMBERS of Congress, say Washington reports,
were amazed, even dumbfounded, at the public response to
the proposal to apply a withholding tax of 20 per cent on income
from dividends and '.merest. The volume of congressional mail
soared — and the overwhelming majority of the writers were 100
per cent opposed.
The fact brought an interesting comment from the Mason
City, Iowa, C.lobe-Ciazette: One thing the volume of protests over
the proposed withholding tax on interest and dividends has done
is to point out how widespread capitalism is in the United States
today.”
Apparently a good many of us fail to realize that ownership
of stock, for instance, is no longer the province of the few but
of the many. Stockholders in American corporations now number
about 16 million. Most of them are in the middle-income bracket
and many are in the lower income brackets. These people would
have been hit hardest by the 2'' per cent withholding tax. Their
effective tax rate — which is the proportion of total income paid
in federal income taxes — is far below 20 per cent. They would
have been deprived of important income, and would have had to
wait for protracted periods before obtaining overpayment refunds.
On top of that, something like 127 million people have in
tion of lower income families are in this category,
tion of lower income families are in this category.
The American people are still capable of kicking up their heels
when a manifestly unfair legislative proposal is made. That was
the case, happily, with the withholding scheme.
Grassroots Opinion
T^OSHOLT, S.D., REVIEW: "People keep telling us that far
more students will be trying to go to college than there will
be places for them. Therefore the federal government must step
in with financial help for the construction of facilities among
other things. What was quite interesting to us was the fact that
recent estimates by college authorities indicate 25,000 to 50,000
more places exist in colleges than are being filled. Thus it is
interesting, if not a little distasteful, to hear all this bellering on
the part of those who would seek to panic us into further exten
sion of the already long arm of government aid.’’
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ANUUOHAGE t.T Two moves I
In tighten up tie- homesteading j
regulations in Alaska arc expected 1
to have wide-spread effect on the j
availability of federal lands in :
Alaska, the Bureau of Land Man- |
pgement reports.
The Homestead Act is designed j
to provide land for farming, but
most of the patented land in Alas
ka is not being farmed.
In order to curb this situation,
the BLM has begun checking land
claims for agriculture suitability
before approving entry bv a home
steader.
If the land is not suitable for
farming, the applicant will have
to re-file under one of the other
public land laws.
About 15 BLM field agents will
insnect the land and gather data
to determine the land's suitability.
The other move by the BLM is
concerned with land selections by
the State of Alaska.
Under the program, the state
will make selections in various
parts of the state and any federal
land entry that is relinquished
automatically will revert to the
state’s selection.
The first such selection by the
state covers the western portion
of the Kenai Peninsula. All entries
now in effect will be able to go
to patent so long as they are not
relinquished.
Existing blanket filings in other
areas, particularly the Matanuska
and Susitna Valleys, probably will
be amended this fall to bring them
under the new program, the BLM
officials said.
Future selections are expected
to be of the newly devised blanket
type.
As a result, it will be necessary
for anyone buying a relinquish
ment to check first with the BLM
to determine whether a new entry
would be invalidated by either of
the new policies.
On the western Kenai Peninsula,
any filing since July 1 will be
affected by both policies. Any
filing in the state since that time
will be affected by the agricult
ural suitability policy.
THREE ELDERLY REST
HOME PATIENTS DIE IN FIRE
ELECTRA, Tex. UP — A run
away heating-gas truck, abandoned
by its driver after bursting into
flames, crashed into a rest home
Friday, setting off an an inferno
that killed three elderly patients.
“It was just like a lighted torch
spewing a stream of fire in the
front door," the rest home opera
tor Walter Blevins, said.
About 35 bed-ridden or mental
patients in the Hillcrest Haven
Rest Home were rescued. Two suf
fered slight injuries.
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Instruction Begins
Ke >frnihor 17 at U of A
COLLFOF University of
AI; k«» olViC.als alerted students
to tU> schedule >f activities for IT
beginning ; f the first 1962-63
semester.
T.oe Ri 1 trar’s Office also
stated that persons interested in
enrolling or continuing work
towards, a college decree should
make immediate application if
have not done so already. Statis
tics for this year’s enrollment total
are ahead of previous years’ pre
enrollment.. As of Aug. 20. the
anticipated grand total of students
for the fall semester was 1,095. In
1961, the anticipated grand total
on Aug. 20. 1961, was 903.
In announcing the schedule, Dr.
Edward Voldseth, dean of students,
and Mrs. Laura Jones, registrar,
listed the following activities:
Sept. 7, Friday, 8 a.m.: Residence
halls rooms ready for occupancy.
Sept. 17, Monday, 8 a.m.: In
struction begins.
Balloonist Piccard
Goes Up 17,000 Feet
SIOUX CITY, Iowa UP — Bal
loonist Don Piccard apparently has
established another altitude record
after being carried to a height of
more than 17,000 feet by a cluster
of helium-filled balloons.
Piccard’s ascent Friday night
shattered the record of 11,171 feet
for a second-class free flight bal
loon held by Audouine Dollfus of
France.
Piccard came down in a corn
field 38 miles southeast of Sioux
City two hours after the flight
started in a stadium here.
The temperature dropped to 15
degrees at the peak of Piccard’s
flight. He rode in what he called
a bosun’s chair, 60 feet below the
balloons.
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Report P vl Chinn 'Vill
Set Off Nuclear Device
W A S;! INGTON US. Dis
armament Agenes off.eiuU ex
press-, . I tat •lit-- lod; v that C'lmmu
i . t Chin;: probably ' ill t ' off
;■ nuclear explosion within a nea
ter of months.
I’ley made lee estimate in ex
plain; n : the urgency which lies
behind the latest U.S.-British pro
posal for a limited treaty banning
tests of nuclear weapons in the
atmosphere, outer space and under
water.
Under terms of the treaty, the
Soviet Union, U.S. Britain and
France would agree to “refrain
from causing, encouraging, or in
any way participating in," nuclear
weapons test explosions in other
countries.
Over a period of years, it is esti
mated that at least 20 countries
not now possessing a nuclear ca
pability will be able to develop
nuclear devices. This does not
mean, however, that they will be
able to deliver such weapons with
out technical advice and the in
dustrial strength needed to pro
duce costly and highly sophisti
cated missiles.
Army Engineers
Propose $45 Million
Power Dam In Alaska
WASHINGTON </P> — Army En
gineers proposed Saturday that
Congress authorize scores of water
projects across the nation — the
biggest a SI 14.6 million improve
ment in the Illinois waterway.
The projects — for navigation,
electric power, flood control and
other water developments — were
recommended for inclusion in an
omnibus bill in testimony before
a Senate Public Works Subcom
mittee.
A $45,750,000 power dam in
Alaska was proposed at Bradley
Lake on Kcnr.i Peninsula, about
100 miles south of Anchorage. It
would include a power plant with
64,000 kilowatts of installed capa
city. T!m dam would be built by
Army Engineers and operated by
the Interior Department.
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