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Conservatives Fear Rocky's Spending
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A dark shadow is moving across the bright political image of New York's Republican Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. It is moving, which is the Governor's good fortune. If the shadow comes to rest it could take on the outlines of Poe's bad luck raven.
THE SHADOW consists of Rockefeller's spending record. Conservative Republicans will not be happy about that and less so if, as suspected by some conservatives, Rockefeller comes up this time with a deficit.
The governor campaigned last year and was elected to a second term on a solemn pledge that he would not raise taxes. He further assured the voters that he would not resort to bond issues in lieu of a tax hike or draw on reserves of state funds to meet expenses.
PAY-AS-YOU-GO was the bugle note of Rockefeller's campaign. Heavily taxed New Yorkers liked the idea, especially the pledge of no new taxes. Rockefeller had little more than dummy opposition from the Democrats and their nominee for governor. But when the returns were in, Rocky had a bulge of no more than 500,000 votes. He and his managers had figured on more than that, a whopping majority that would have becalmed Republican opposition to Rockefeller's nomination next year for president. His majority was disappointing.
Even so, Rockefeller's re-election, Richard M. Nixon's defeat in California and some lesser factors zoomed the New Yorker to front runner position for 1964. Not merely front runner, either, but front runner by several laps. Then Rockefeller produced his budget for the state of New York. The voter's anguish was loud and immediate.
ROCKY DID NOT propose new taxes. But he laid on a 40 per cent hike in motor vehicle registration fees. License fees for physicians, pool halls and such also went up. The average increase on a New York motor vehicle was $9.50.
Rockefeller explains that these revenue measures are in the areas of fees, not taxes. This exercise in semantics verges on a quibble. But Rockefeller has on his side the solid argument that registration fees have not been increased since 1923 — and what can you buy now that doesn't cost more than 40 years ago?
THE REPUBLICAN legislature is shaken. The voters are pressuring
their legislators to reject Rocky's program. That would be a political reverse of magnitude for the governor. Worse for him, however, is that the uproar over fees has focused attention on his spending record and spending plans.
New York's new-born conservative party is inviting Republicans everywhere to observe that Rockefeller's new budget represents spending proposals 61 per cent in excess of spending by Averell Harriman, the Democrat Rocky succeeded as governor. Rocky's budget is just short of $3 billion.
These are facts to be considered in connection with the obvious Republican strategy for 1964. That will be to assail President Kennedy as a slap happy spender. Conservatives who have been bepauling Rockefeller as a fiscal conservative may want to take another look. He is, in fact, a big time spender in the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy tradition.
Newsmen Receive Praise, Criticism
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. - (UPI)
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. - (UPI) —Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy praised newsmen last night for initiative which on occasion has supplied the Department of Justice with leads in criminal cases.
But the attorney general, addressing a meeting of the New Mexico chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism society, criticized the press for occasionally printing information damaging to national security.
Newmen supplied the Justice Department with tips on labor racketeers, Kennedy told the New Mexico audience of editors and reporters. It was a newspaperman who first exposed the manipulations of fertilizer kizing Billie Sol Estes in West Texas, he said.
But several times in recent years, Kennedy said, newspapers have published security information — and once this gave the Soviet Union a "breakthrough." The attorney general declined to be more specific.
The President and the administration have made all the facts "humanly possible" available to the American people concerning Cuba, Kennedy said, and because of the tremendous national concern the nation's security actually was compromised to make facts available.
Karl A. Wittfogel, professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, will speak here March 22 on "Oriental Despotism: Problems in Macro and Micro Analysis."
Oriental Despotism Subject of Lecture
Aldon Bell, KU assistant professor of history, said last night that Prof. Wittfogel is comparable to historian Arnold Toynbee and that many people consider Wittfogel's work more significant.
Prof. Wittfogel is author of the book "Oriental Despotism" which has recently been re-issued in paperback.
Jet Crashed In Mid-Air
MIAMI — (UPI) — A Federa
Aviation official said yesterday that "without a doubt" the Chicago-
bound jetliner that crashed in the Everglades killing all 43 persons
aboard broke up in flight.
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigator Ed Slattery said, however, it may be days, and possibly weeks, before it can be determined what caused the Northwest Orient Airlines plane to disintegrate.
At the crash scene in the Everglades swampland, technical experts examined bits of wreckage flung over a two-square mile area. They measured distances between pieces, took pictures and made notes.
A crew from the Dade County rescue squadron still sought the one missing body in the charred, twisted wreckage of the $6 million airliner.
The 42 recovered bodies were brought to a morgue set up at a hospital here. Doctors and dentists worked with identification experts in the tedious job of identifying the corpses.
Late last night, only 12 of the victims had been positively identified.
In Washington, CAB officials scrutinized every squiggle on a thin, metallic foil tape, part of the flight recorder that was expected to shed some light on the cause of the crash.
A metal "pencil" made the scratch lines as flight 705, a Miami-to-Chicago airliner, climbed into a cloudy, stormy sky Tuesday afternoon.
It recorded the speed, the revolutions of the four jet engines, pressures on the ship and other technical data during the short trip from Miami International Airport to the soft, spongy earth of the Everglades 43 air miles away.
US Treasury Gets Richer
The U.S. Treasury collects nearly a quarter of a million dollars in tobacco taxes every hour day and night — the Tobacco Institute reports.
People-to-people (P-t-P) will try to land as many summer jobs as possible for the international students, Raymond W. Edwards, chairman of the P-t-P Placement Committee, said last night in the P-t-P meeting.
P-t-P Seek Employment For Foreign Students
Edwards, Bethesda, Md., sophomore, said it is difficult to find jobs for foreign students because of the racial, physical and religious barriers. He also said many employers want to hire their home town people.
"Students from other countries should not expect jobs in areas of their studies." Edwards said, "because most of the available summer jobs involve manual labor." He said the students also should look for jobs here at the University.
The international students must have permission from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to work during the summer. This permission can also be obtained from Clark Coan, assistant to the dean of students and international student adviser.
The Placement Committee members will interview students to ascertain their abilities and interests. The committee will try to provide jobs according to student capabilities.
Students interested in obtaining summer jobs should fill out application blanks at the P-t-P office as soon as possible so the applications can be forwarded to prospective employers.
KU Concert Band Plans Winter Fete
The KU Concert Band will present its Annual Winter Concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb.17, in the University Theatre. There will be no admission charge.
The Concert Band is composed of a select group of students who have demonstrated outstanding ability in previous performances with the KU band.
Russell L. Wiley, band director, said, "The program which the band is presenting is charming and difficult. In fact, I've never heard of a college band before attempting some of the numbers which the band will play."
Program selections include works by Claude Dussy, Vincent Persicetti, Bernard Rogers, Richard Wagner, Reinhold Gliere and others.
Members of the P-t-P placement committee include Edwards; Sharon M. Brown, Iola sophomore, and Gregs G. Thomopulos, Benin City, Nigeria, sophomore.
Dole-Postal Feud Settled at The Top
Boyd said it was Dole's intention to use the office for the convenience of the general public in the sprawling 58-county new First District. He added that Dole intended to share the office with Kansas's U.S. Sens. Frank Carlson and James B. Pearson.
The Wichita postal division had ordered Dole to vacate the office in Hutchinson so that it might be occupied by the Internal Revenue Service.
First District GOP Chairman Mc-Dill (Huck) Boyd said, "The effort to dispossess Bob Dole only one day after the space had been assigned to him was purely political and I am pleased that the matter is settled."
PHILLIPSBURG — (UPL) — A feud between U.S. Rep. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and the Wichita postal division was settled today when Dole took the matter to the top.
Michael Monroney Jr., executive aide to the Postmaster General, notified Dole that all efforts to remove his office from the Federal Building in Hutchinson had been halted.
Monroney's ruling supercedes by a considerable margin the Wichita division's orders yesterday for Dole to get out of the office.
Monroney told Dole in Washington, "Mr. J. Floyd Breeding occupied this office for six years and I know of no reason why you should not continue to occupy it."
Dole pointed out that the office was established under a Republican administration and occupied during that time by a Democrat.
KU BARBER SHOP "The College Shop" Two Blocks Down The Hill On 14th Street
BARBER SHOP