Docking Outlines Program
Monday, April 21. 1958 University Daily Kansas
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4-Point Tax Plan Presented To State Legislature Session
TOPEKA—(UP)—A 4-point tax plan to solve a "critical" shortage in state revenues was presented to a special session of the legislature today by Governor George Docking. The plan includes higher individual income taxes for all brackets.
He said the present gap between state spending and income was between $17 and $19 million a year
Income-Spending Gap
The first special session in 20 years met at noon today to try to solve the revenue shortage problem.
The 4-point plan includes higher individual state income taxes, reinforcement of a one per cent severance tax on gas and oil, higher state inheritance taxes, and disallowing federal income tax as exemptions on the state corporation income tax.
Bedfast Gov. Docking's message, read by a clerk, said that if his suggestions were made into law, they would bring in revenues of $17.1 million a year.
The tax plan, which is the third budget message he has prepared in 15 months as governor, included only two new suggestions-individual income taxes and severance taxes.
The other points had been sur-
That session ended in a deadlock at midnight Feb. 13. The same 165 members of that Republican controlled group are back to debate the same issues.
gested in the same form to the recently staleated budget session.
Five other revenue sources were mentioned in the message, but were not recommended to be acted on. They were measures the governor would accept if passed by the session.
The tax plan's enactment depends upon the legislature's acceptance of two previous proposals—split the $12.5 million residue and combine the sales and general funds into one fund.
They included higher severance taxes, higher insurance premium taxes and higher corporate income taxes.
Five Other Sources
"There are two proposals to which I am opposed and which I
will veto: an increase in the state sales tax or a return to a statewide ad valorem (property tax)."
Docking has charged that in the past small committees have bottled up his proposals and refused to let them out on the floor for open debate.
Time to Act
"The time has come when further refusal on the part of the legislature to finance the state programs that it has authorized is impossible."
In his message Docking noted his income estimates were conservative and said he took into consideration recession tendencies.
the governor's message concluded with a final request for the legislature to cooperate with his proposals.
"If the economy does not improve, the state government must join with the citizens in tightening its belt and living within its revenues," he said.
"I hope each legislator in this session will act in the best interests of his constituents and not involve them in the petty and expensive pastime of wasting their money in trying to get for himself political advantages."
Clyde Reed, Jr., Republican candidate for the nomination of governor of Kansas, will speak at 7:30 Wednesday to the Clyde Reed-for-Governor Club in the Kansas Union Ballroom. He will speak on Gov. Docking's Administration.
Campaign Brings Reed To Campus
Explosive Is 'Frustration'
CLYDE REED JR.
Mr. Reed was born May 14, 1914 in Parsons and is a 1937 KU graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.
He is married and has two children. Clyde Martin Reed III, 15, and Caroiyn, 12.
Since 1942, Mr. Reed has been editor of the Parsons Sun. He was
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"I don't want to appear gloomy, but as far as the United States is concerned in Egypt, things couldn't be worse. Egypt is now tied more closely to the USSR than it ever was to the West."
Women's residence halls counselors:
All applicants for counselor positions in the freshman halls will meet in Parlor A, Kansas Union, Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m. Upperclass was invited but are interested in learning more about the freshman hall program are invited to attend this meeting.
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Anselm's church, Canterbury House,
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TUESDAY
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Mozart—Sonata No. 8 in C,
K 296. Beethoven—Spring Sonata; Sorgutra-
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Delta Sigma Rho oratorical contest
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Nice Zoology Club 7:30 p.m., 101
Snow, Slides and speaker. Philip Ogilvie,
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A "frustration gap" between material expectations and reality for Egypt's middle class is the potential explosive troublemaker in Egypt, a visiting expert on the Middle East said last week.
Episcopal evening prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
The visitor was Richard H. Nolte, who is now making his third lecture tour of colleges as a member of the American Universities Field Staff. He was at KU April 9 to 19.
Armour Research Foundation, Chicago, developed the nation's largest and quietest jet engine test cell to test the Pratt and Whitney J-57, the most powerful engine in the free world.
secretary for two years in Washington, D.C. to his father, Sen. Clyde M. Reed, a former governor of Kansas, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948. He is a member of the Kansas Commission on Constitutional Revision.
Mr. Nolte said the material expectations of the Egyptian middle class are increasing faster than the actual satisfaction of the wants, causing a certain amount of frustration.
The Egyptian government has prevented trouble by keeping these frustrations focused outside of Egypt. The objects they have focused on have been political and emotional issues with the United States, France, Britain and Israel, he said.
"If the outside focal point is lost the frustrations could cause an internal explosion," he said.
Too Many People
The problem of reality lagging far behind expectations is caused by a situation of too many people per unit of productive land, he said.
"Egypt has six million acres of very fertile land. Living on this land are twenty-three million people." he said. The over population of land means a low standard of living.
"Three-fourths of the people don't have what we would call a decent standard of living," he said. "People there are really living on the margin of existence."
Economic Takes 25%
The Egyptian government recognizes the problem, he said. Economic development programs take 25 per cent of the annual income.
"This brings up a moral problem. Taking 25 per cent of the people's income is taking food out of their mouths," he said. "But there is no choice. The present generation must starve to build Egypt so that their children and grandchildren will not starve."
There are two ways to attack the problem of economic development. Mr.Nolte said. These two ways are to expand agriculture and expand industry.
"It would be difficult to increase the production per unit of land agriculturally," he said. "Investment from this angle has reached the point of diminishing returns."
Agriculture can be expanded by changing to crops which bring in more money and by increasing the amount of productive land through irrigation, he said.
"Now that you have the expansion plan and possibilities there is one more problem: Where do you get the money?"
"Egypt will industrialize," he said. There are many industrial possibilities, such as textiles, ceramics, and paper to expand on.
Industrial Opportunities
The most likely source of money is loans from the Soviet Union, he said. Russia has given Egypt $125 million for factories and technical training.
Russia's economic aid puts the United States in an unfavorable position, he said.
Dean To Speak At Wichita Institute
M. C. Slough, dean of the School of Law, will make opening remarks at the Oil and Gas Institute April 27 in Wichita. The event is sponsored by the Barr Association of Wichita and the University of Kansas School of Law and University Extension.
A. B. Hershberger, a former chairman of the Board of Regents, will be presiding officer for the institute.
George B. Collins, Wichita, a new member of the Board of Regents, will speak on "Currently Used Oil and Gas Lease Forms and the Special Provisions Thereof."
The home of John Harvard's mother at Stratford on Avon in England was presented to Harvard University in 1909 as a rendezvous for American visitors, the National Geographic Magazine says. One of the treasures preserved in the house is Jefferson Davis' walking stick.
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