WEDNESDAY, APRV. 20, .1955 Leader Asks for $620 Million Budget; Includes Classified Income Tax Levy HARRISBURG, Pa., April 19 (W)—Gov. George M. Leader called today for a whopping 820 million dollars in new taxes, including a classified income levy, to balance the largest budget in Com monwealth history , It dwarfed all previous tax programs ever submitted to the General Assembly. The governor openly Slaked his political future on a demand that a divided Legislature should trade a sales tax for what he termed an "abilitY-to-pay" tax program centered on income levies I ranging from 1 to 8 per cent. To finance it, Leader proposed: 1. A classified income tax—ex empting the first 81800 of income —at the rate of 1 per cent on wages and salaries, 2 per cent an income from the operation of a profession or unincorporated busi ness, 4 per cent on income from rents, interest and royalties, 5 per cent on income from dividenrig and, 8 per cent frotn long • term capital gains: yield 411 million dollars. Reds Propose Big Four . Meet Ir Near. Future MOSCOW, April 19 (W) t ---'rhe Soviet Union proposed today that the Big Four foreilh ministers meet in Vienna in the nearest fu ture to sign an Austrian state treaty. Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov called in diplomatic representa tives of the United States, Brit ain and France and gave them de tails of the conferences held here last week between Soviet leaders and Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab. He handed them notes which said as a result of those meetings "it is clear that the possibility ex ists to settle the Austria'n .ques tion and conclude a state treaty." A communique on the Raab- Molotov talks called for an end of the 10-year occupation of Aus tria and the withdrawal of all occupation troops not later than next Dec. 31. The note given U.S. Ambassa dor Charles E. Bohlen said: "The Soviet government ex pressed the hope that the govern ment of the U.S.A. on its patt will Contribute to the necessary under standing between, the govern ments of the four powers and the government of Austria concern ing the conclusion of a state treaty with Austria. "The Soviet government con siders it expedient that the min x isters of foreign affairs of the United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union, With the participation 'of Austria, convene in the nearest future to conSidet the question of a State treaty es tablishing an independent demo cratic state of Austria and to Sign this treaty." 4 Million cc's of Polio Vaccine Is Distributed NEW YORK; April 19 (IP)—The National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis reported today that drug companies have shipped more than four million cubic cen timeters of poliO vaccine to health officers in various states. The vaccine is that ordered by the foundation from drug firms for free distribution by health of ficers to school children. ICANSAS CITY, Mo., April 19 (k)—Nearly 20,000 family doc tots are being utged to. give the first two-shot Salk polio vaccine series "without personal profit," r ITT I MITI I "THE COUNTRY GIRL" —Foam/HU -1:21. is* 111211 0 TM.- •:Ml -30 WARNER flient„ a l letaggli,c b l r i a ir I 111 Is This The Truth Behind The $3,00.000 Beet.% Robbery? TONY CU RTIB - JULIA ADAMS "6 Bridges to Cross" ._ . _ Offitiff Deo ms Opn 6 p.M. MARLOW BRANDO ma ma of "THE MEN" id* 1Per4164 WHIM - lack 16146 Festoretim: 6:16. BM. 11:46 Corporate Tax 2. Increasing the 5 per cent cor porate net income tax to 6 per cent: yield $52,800,000. 3. Increasing the 14-mill tax on gross receipts of public utilities to 24 mills: yield 181/2 million dol lars. 4. Extending the gross receipts tax on public utilities to include natural gas firms: yield $11,880,- 000. 5. Require bankd to pay the corporate net income tax while repealing the tax on bank shares: yield 3 1 / 2 millions. Include Federal Assoc. 6. Extend the corporate net in come tax to include federal sav ings and loan associations, mutual savings institutions, building and loan associations, and cooperative banks: yield $5,100,000. 7. Revise the corporate net in come tax law 'XI make dividends received by corporations taxable to the same extent as under the federal law: yield 3 millions. 8. Reinstate the 8-mill tax oh the gross premiums paid to do mestic stock insurance comPanied and mutual life insurance com panies: Yield 'Ai millions. "1 0 .4 1111 `THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Move to Block Ike's Trade Bill Is Voted Down WASHINGTON, April 19 M A Republican move to reduce the scope of President Dwight D. Ei senhower's foreign trade bill was defeated 8-7 in the Senate Finance Committee today with the help of a long distance telephone call. It was a key test of legislation to extend the reciprocal trade agreements act for three years from June 12 and give the Presi dent authority to cut tariffs 15 per cent during that period in re turn for similar trade concessions from foreign nations. Sen. Eugene Millikin (R-Colo), senior GOP member of the Fi nance Committee, tried to limit the extension to two years and hold the President's tariff-cutting power to 10 per cent. Five Republicans an d two Democrats supported. the Milli kin amendment. Five Democrats and two Republicans opposed it. This 7-7 tie normally would de feat an amendment, but the com mittee has a rule that absent members be polled whenever pos sible. A telephone call was put through, to Sen. Russell Long (D- La) in New Orleans, and he voted against the amendment, British Strike Settled LONDON, April lc, (4 3 )—The strike that silenced London's big newspapers was settled tonight, but the seeds of another dispute threatened hopes for an early re turn to publication. McCarthy Shows Tax Refund WASHINGTON, April 19 (A')— Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), today displayed a $1,058.75 refund on his federal income taxes. He said it showed tyro Senate groups which investigated him were "completely dishonest." He said the refund should an swer for all time "the story that something is wrong with McCar thy's finances," or that he had di verted to his own use funds con tributed to his campaign against cOmmunism. McCarthy acknowledged at a news conference he had got into "a technical violation" of law by having photographic copies of the check made for distribution to the press. Secret Service Chief U. E. Baughman contends photograph ing such checks is just as illegal as photographing currency. 4 , Pr-- , . ~ e ' Ch e ar s w i th it(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek" ete.) SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 3 Once again the makers of Philip Morris, men who are dedicated to the betterment of AMerican youth, have consented to let me use this space, normally intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science. • It is no new thing, this concern that the makers of Philip Morris feel for American youth. Youth was foremost in their minds when they fashioned their cigarette. They were aware that the palate of youth is keen and eager, awake to the subtlest nuances of flavor. And so they made a gentle and clement stroke, a suave blending of temperate vintage tobaccos, a summery amalgam of the most tranquil and emollient leaf that their buyers could find in all the'world. And then they designed their cigarette in two sizes, king-size and 'regular, and Wrapped theta in the convenient Snap-Open pack, and priced them at a figure that youth could afford, and made them available at every tobacco counter in the land. That's what they did, the makers of Philip Morris, and I for one am glad. The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning "back." Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek astronomers, and no wonder I They used to spend every blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area, where Greece id generally considered to be. Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from becom ing very popular until .Galileo, a disbarred flenser of Perth, fashioned a home made telescope in 1924 out of three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does not know that stirring story how Galileo stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard round the world: "L'etat, c'est moil" Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four guihers in a single afternoon; Hal Newhouser was signed by the Hanseatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's entire army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his immortal Penrod and Sam. But after a while things calmed down, and astronomers began the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name he chose was Betelgeuse, after his wife Betelgeuse Sigafoos, piom queen at Michigan State College from 1919 to . 1931. Not to be outdone, Fortnfig Of Yerkes Observatory named a whole constellation after his wife, Big Dipper Formfig, the fatted dirt track racer. This started the custom of astronomers naming constellations after their wives Capricorn, Cygni, Orion, Ursa Major, Canis Major, and so forth. (The Major girl*, Ursa and Canis, both married astronomers, though Canis subse quently ran off with a drydock broker named Thwaite Daphnis.) After naming all the heavenly bodies, the astronomers had a good long rest. Then, refreshed and brown as berries, they undertook the gigantic project of charting the heavens. Space is so vast that it is measured in units called "light-years." These are different from ordinary years in that they weigh a good deal less. This, of course, is only relative, since space is curved. As Einstein laughingly said, "E:-_-_-mc2." Well, I guess that covers astronomy pretty thoroughly. But before we leave this fascinating topic, let us answer one ling question: Is there life on other planets? The answer is a flat, unequivocal no. Recent spectroscopic studies havb proved beyond a doubt that the atmosphere of the other planets is far too harsh to permit the culture of the delicate vintage tobaccos that go into Philip Morris Cigarettes . . . And who can live without Philip Morris? This heaVenty column—like the author's more earthy ones—is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS cigarettes—who feel you'll find real enjoyment in their product. Yalta Helpful To U.S.—Dulles WASHINGTON, April 19 (. 1 P} -m. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) cr..oted Secretary of State Dulles today as testifying that the Yalta agreements were "advantageous" to the United States. Asked whether Dulles used that precise word, in an appearance before the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee behind closed doors, Humphrey said he used one of these three words: Beneficial, advantageous or helpful. Ir the 10 years since the agree ments were reached at Yalta by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jose p h Stalin, an d Winston Churchill, many Republicans have hammer ed hard on the theme that Roose velt knuckled under to Stalin. They have said that Yalta set off a train of evehts that lost Poland and China to communism. ©Max Shulman. $ll PAGE NREE
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