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Income Tax Cut May Be Issue In New Congress
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WASHINGTON — An administration attempt to cut income taxes despite continued high federal spending shaped up today as the dominant issue facing the new Congress to be elected tomorrow.
The tax proposal is the most far-reaching of the brand new measures which President Kennedy's aides are readying for submission to the 88th Congress. Other major administration proposals for the most part will cover familiar ground — medicare for the elderly, federal aid to education and changes in the farm program.
EARLIER THIS year Kennedy concluded that the chief reason that economic growth was lagging far behind his rosy expectations was that taxes were imposing too tight a brake. He became convinced that as long as tax rates remain at present levels, unemployment cannot be reduced to acceptable levels.
For a time last summer Kennedy even toyed with the idea of seeking immediate tax relief. He dropped the idea in the face of opposition from powerful Congressional Democrats. They argued that a quickie tax cut could not be publicly justified in the face of the government's heavy red-ink spending.
HOWEVER, KENNEDY vowed that he would recommend general tax relief next year with the cuts scheduled to take effect retroactively to Jan. 1, 1963.
In this period of international crisis no one rules out the possibility that unforeseen developments could by January force Kennedy to shelve his tax-cutting plans and instead assign top priority to national security measures. However, barring the gravest developments, this is not expected to happen.
The question of how to divide the tax-cut pie could produce one of the roughest Congressional battles in many years. Business leaders
have demanded cuts in corporate levels and high individual tax brackets. Labor leaders have demanded tax relief for workers.
THE ADMINISTRATION'S plan for "top-to-bottom" cuts in individual and corporate tax rates, coupled with provisions to close "loopholes" is not likely to satisfy either group.
The administration is putting together a new farm plan for permanently curbing feed grains surpluses which it hopes will be less controversial than the production controls which Congress rejected this year.
The President will renew his drive for medical care for the elderly financed through social security taxes. The administration also is planning to revamp its big programs of federal aid to education which were defeated in the 87th Congress.
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Except for taxes, most of the major legislative battles now in prospect for the 88th Congress concern measures on which the 87th Congress failed to go along with Kennedy.
The slightly built, 29-year-old Air Force veteran does not answer taunts and jeers. He walks jauuntly to his classes and he often smiles.
Meredith Faces Campaign Of Psychological Harassment
MOREOVER, BEFORE the 88th Congress adjourns in 1964 Kennedy probably will lead a fight for new civil rights legislation. Throughout the 87th Congress the administration avoided a head-on clash with Southern Democrats on this issue, giving endorsement but no real leadership to an abortive effort to push through the Senate a bill which supporters said would boost Negro voting in the South by outlawing literacy tests.
But he shows no signs of doing so.
In addition, Kennedy plans to seek federal subsidies to cities to help them provide better and faster rail, bus and subway service for suburban commuters. This urban mass transit program — advanced for the first time last spring — fell by the wayside in the 87th Congress.
It is a guerrilla campaign of psychological harassment.
OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) — Resistance against student James H. Meredith at the University of Mississippi has gone underground.
UNQUESTIONABLY, the "Ole Miss" student body has not accepted Meredith as a fellow student and there is little doubt that many students hope he will crack under the pressure.
Other students rarely greet him, but when they do he answers courteously.
It takes the form of a whispered threat in a class building corridor, a rock hurled from a group of students or a firecracker placed in a pop bottle and dropped from a darkened dormitory room.
And the awesome force of military power which halted the bloody rioting that killed two men and wounded scores of others when Meredith was admitted as the school's first Negro student has not quelled it.
Meredith, son of a Kosciusko,
Miss., dirt farmer, has virtually no
contact with other students.
WHEN HE LEAVES his dormitory room, deputy U.S. marshals and soldiers are always nearby. He usually eats alone, but occasionally a faculty member or newsman will sit with him in the school cafeteria
The day after Meredith's arrival the campus looked like a battlefield. Now it resembles an armed garrison
armed caribou. Five hundred troops, and about 20 marshals remain in Oxford to guard Meredith, but the harassment continues.
Northern industrial areas of heavy Negro voting believe that Kennedy by next summer will take a firm stand on legislation to bolster Negro employment opportunities. Their timetable calls for House passage of a civil rights bill in 1963 with the struggle to push it through a Southern filibuster in the Senate deferred until 1964.
ON ONE OCCASION. a rock was hurled through a window in the school cafeteria and landed several feet from a table where Meredith was eating.
An angry crowd of students gathered outside and jeered before being dispersed by troops and school officials.
A few days later Meredith went into the student union grill and his exit was blocked by several students. A marshal had to shoulder past them to get Meredith out.
ADMINISTRATION policy makers believe there is a good chance that the 88th Congress will go along with President Kennedy's plea for permanent preservation of a national system of wildernesses. The Wilderness Bill passed the Senate in the 87th Congress but was derailed in the House Interior committee by opposition of timber, grazing and mining interests.
Also on the President's list of "must" bills for the 88th Congress is his proposal to establish a program to help high school dropouts and unemployed youths find jobs. It includes a revised version of the civilian conservation corps which worked in the forests during the 1930's.
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"The Chemical Aspects of Atomic Energy" will be discussed by an expert in that field at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in 122 Malott.
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From 1943-48 he was associated with the atomic energy project at the University of Chicago and with the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he was chief of the chemical process development section and director of the technical division.
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To Alter Mass With Care
THE DISCUSSION still dealt with the second chapter of a draft on liturgy, the first of some 70 subjects expected to come up during the council.
VATICAN CITY — (UPI) — The Ecumenical Council heard warnings today on the "need to proceed with caution" in changing time-hallowed words and gestures in the mass
The Kansas Engineer magazine has won three awards from the national Engineer College Magazines Associated.
A verbal communique at the end of today's three-hour, 20 minute session in St. Peter's Basilica indicated that several of the day's speakers favored retaining the present liturgy of the mass, confining modifications to some details.
The gathering of more than 2,000 Catholic prelates—attendance today was 2,196—resumed work after a four-day break due to religious holidays and to yesterday's fourth anniversary of the coronation of Pope John XXIII.
"The need was restated to proceed with prudence in revising words, gestures, prayers, attitudes which have acquired great nobility through the centuries, while at the same time they have lost nothing of its original significance," the communique said.
'Kansas Engineer Wins 3 Awards
The magazine won first-place honors for the editorial and single issue layout and third place for the non-technical article last year.
Editors for the award-winning issues were Carl A. Leonard, Brookfield, Ill., senior, and Donald E. Hunter, Oak Park, Ill., fifth-year engineering student.
Current editors are Thurman E. Howell Jr., Raytown, Mo., senior, and Robert B. Simpson, Topeka fifth-year engineering student.
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