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Student Tax Relief Part of JFK Plan
Education will garner new possibilities through bills now in Congress or to be introduced, but the taxpayers may be $2.8 billion poorer. President Kennedy Tuesday is expected to introduce a bill for a federal aid-to-education program costing $1 billion a year. A part of this plan is for loans and grants for the construction of college classrooms and fellowships to increase the supply of college teachers.
A bill to permit income tax deductions for the cost of higher education was introduced yesterday. Under this measure, expenses for tuition, fees, lodging and meals would be deductible. Another provision would permit deduction of any amount paid to a college or university to be used for scholarships.
THE TAX increase will come through Kennedy's proposal for hospitalization-nursing care for persons 65 and older who are eligible for social security or railroad retirement benefits; increased cash benefits for about one-fourth of those now receiving social security benefits and an expansion of the benefit rolls; and a temporary program of additional jobless pay for those who exhaust their unemployment compensation between now and April 1, 1962.
These plans would cost the taxpayers a $2.8 billion tax increase.
1. The higher payroll levies would be needed if Congress is to provide all the new welfare benefits proposed by Kennedy for more than 17 million persons.
According to the UPI the consensus in Congress was that Kennedy had bitten off far more than Congress could chew despite two factors working in his favor:
2. Only a small portion of the additional taxes would take effect before the 1962 congressional elections. The full effect would be felt starting Jan. 1, 1963 and would come on top of $2.2 billion increase in social security taxes already scheduled to help pay for existing benefits.
Thus, adoption of the President's welfare proposals would mean imposition of a total of $5 billion a year in additional payroll taxes, starting Jan. 1, 1963.
Another administration bill was introduced by Rep. Cornelius E. Gallagher, D-N.J. This would permit the United States to make loans to Communist-dominated countries. Gallagher said the proposal was an administration measure designed to allow President Kennedy to try to improve relations with Poland and other Red satellite countries.
Millay's Poetry Read
Walter J. Meserve, associate professor of English, told his audience at Poetry Hour yesterday that Miss Millay was an "intuitive women's poet, not profoundly intellectual, but a writer with deep insight."
Edna St. Vincent Millay, expressing her philosophy of life through light lyrical poetry, succeeded not only as a writer, but became one of the most popular figures of the 1920's.
"Her personal philosophy is reflected in the way she signed her name to letters as Edna St. Nonsense Millwheel."
He read her poem, "Lament," to portray a sentimental romance on death. "Exiled" illustrated a romantic longing for the sea.
Prof. Meserve chose to read "Aria da Capo," a one act satire on man's love for man, as his primary example of Miss Millay's thought.
"Some of the best sonnets of modern times are among Miss Millay's writings," he commented.
Miss Millay's light frivolous poems are better known than her serious work, but both reflect philosophy of the 1920's, Prof. Meserve said.
He added that the five characters woven about Aristotelian unities had been drawn together by the writer to reflect her age and antiquity in the timeless desire and greeds of man.
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An English version of Puccini's "La Boheme" will be presented by the Boston Opera at 8:20 p.m. February 17, in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets may be purchased at the Union ticket office, School of Fine Arts, and Bell's Music Store.
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PARIS — (UPI)— France said today that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was not endangered when French jet fighters fired across the path of the airliner carrying him to Rabat, Morocco yesterday.
A French communique said the warning shots were fired because the Soviet plane was inside a "danger zone" over the Mediterranean.
The communique said an inquiry had established that "several irregularities and infractions by the (Soviet) crew" had made interception necessary.
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The opera, sponsored by the University of Kansas Concert Course, will feature Lois Marshall, Robert Moulson, and Carole Lorraine in the leading roles.
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France claims a "zone of responsibility" in the air over Algeria and part of the Mediterranean under a 1944 convention giving each state the right to restrict or ban flights over her territory for military or public security reasons.
French sources said the regulations were sent to Moscow through diplomatic channels. These sources said the Soviet plane was actually about 25 miles inside the zone when three French jetfighters were sent up to intercept it.
AUSTIN, Tex. — (UPI) — Sheriff T. O. Lang said he thought the county jail should have a full-time chaplain, but he cautioned that the chaplain shouldn't be on the Sheriff's Department payroll because the prisoners wouldn't trust him.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — (UPI)—Two thousand non-swimming ducks which won a free Florida vacation were pouring into a game management area here today, babbling like tourists over their accommodations for the season.
Dried-Out Ducks on Vacation
The ducks are from Rhode Island where sportsmen rescued them from a plight which threatened to kill the whole flock.
The problem is that the ducks can't shed water.
The flock was trapped on the cold shores of Narragansett Bay, R. I., when a tanker hit an obstruction and spilled a film of oil on the water, making maneuvering a sticky business for the ducks and preventing them from diving to the shallow bottom to feed.
Rhode Island sportsmen, trying to help the ducks, rounded them up and bathed the oil from their
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