TUESDAY. MAY 12, 1959 System of Collecting Excise Tax to End WASHINGTON (?P)—The 91-year-old system of collecting' federal excise taxes on liquor and cigarettes through the sale of tax stamps will be abandoned next month. The Treasury said yesterday that starting June 24 distillers and tobacco manufacturers will pay the excises by filing: King Baudouin Arrives, Begins Three-Day 'Tour WASHINGTON (IP)—King Bau- , douin of the Belgians got a warm ! welcome yesterday from Presi dent Eisenhower, who assured him the American people will be l happy to see him. The 28-year-old bachelor King' and Eisenhower, both with big smiles, met at the airport in ai colorful setting of flags End military array. "Our people have long admired and respected Belgium," Eisen- hower told the King. "When you travel around the country, our people w I show you - signs of affection and also signs of friendliness and close association with the people of Belgium." -• The dark, blond, blue-eyed young King showed little of the gravity overseriousness, some called it---with which he has reigned since his father's abdica tion in 1951. In good command of his Eng lish, he thanked Eisenhower and at the same time praised the United States. "We are indebtsd to the United States for their assistance in the hours of grave peril, when our very existence was at stake," he said. "But we owe them so much more: Our faith in justice and our hopes for a better world." Baudouin is making a three day official visit in Washington as his first stop on an extended tour, after landing this morning at Langley Air Force Base near Norfolk, Va. His plane -flew non stop From Brussels. SPRING RECORD CLEAN-UP *One Large Group of LP's—list $l9B &$4.98 $1.98 *One Group of LP's—list $1.98 or over ,98 *All in Stock Popular 45 RPM Records $.79 *SPECIAL GROUP of JAll LP's--list 84.98 $2.98 *SPECIAL GROUP of CLASSIC LlPS—ltsf $4.98 $2.98 *NEW ITEMS ADDED PROM TIME TO TIME COME EARLY AND GET A GOOD SELECTION OF LP's UNIVERSITY RECORD SHOP returns twice a month. The de partment acted under authority voted by Congress five years ago. Industry officials greeted the anouncement with applause. They have long contended it was un fair to make them buy the tax stamps even before selling their, products. The new system means they will pay the tax after they make a sale, not before. A spokesman for the Tobacco Institute Inc. estimated that cig arette makers have tied up about $l5O million a year in tax stamps. For the Treasury, the change over will produce a lag in rev ;enues since taxes won't be paid ;as soon as under the old system. Officials estimated the lag at $59 I million and said it would be re flected in the current fiscal year's budget for the period ending June . 3 ,Air Force Chief May Get Surgery WASHINGTON (/P) The De fense Department said yesterday exploratory surgery is contem plated on Gen. Nathan F. Twin ing, 61, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Air Force officer has been at Walter Reed Army Medical Center since May 3 for tests or dered by doctors who didn't like the looks of chest X-rays taken during a routine physical exami nation. Officials said the surgery may be performed today or tomorrow. House Cuts Allotments For Federal Agencies WASHINGTON (/P)—The House trimmed 126 million dol liars from an appropriation bill for several federal agencies yes terday but gave the Veterans Ad ministration $9,559,000--znore than it had asked. The cuts were made in alio:- Intents for the General. Services Administration, the Federal Av iation Agency, the National Sci ence Foundation and the Office of Civil Defense and Mobiliza tion. Starts TODAY and continues through END OF SEMESTER ALL LP'S IN STOCK---SLOO OFF LIST (EXCEPT ITEMS LISTING AT $1.98) OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9:00 P.M. "Across from Atherton Hall" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. 'PENNSYLVANIA Employment Record Set For April WASHINGTON 1W) Unem-' ,ployment fell sharply last month as the number of Americans at 'work reached a record for April. A jump in the job total of 1,184,- 000 from March to April took 1 1 735,000 off the unemployment, rolls. Administration leaders say the gains are double the normal seasonal expectation. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell and Secretary of Com merce Lewis L. Strauss, who joint--; ly announced the monthly em ployment figures Sunday, said they demonstrate accelerating job ; recovery from the recession that began in 1957. Total employment is now 65,- 012,000, more than two million higher than in April of last year.l 'Although it is a record for April, ;the record for any single month' ;remains the 67,221,000 employed July 1957. The total unemployment figure is now 3,627,000. At the depth of the recession a year ago it was 5,120,000. Mitchell and Strauss said that 'in the months since the turning ,point of the recession, the rate of (unemployment is about two thirds (of the way back to prerecession (levels. During March and April ;unemployment dropped over a illion. The ratio of unemployment to the total work force was 5.3 per cent in April, compared with 5.8 per cent in March and 7.6 per cent in Apiil 1958. FREE Tutoring Service for a engineering students sponsored by ETA KAPPA NU and TAU BETA P 1 every Wed. 1-9 p.m. Room 220 E.E. Bargaining Teams Open Steel Talks NEW YORK (A) Streamlined bargaining teams opened bedrock contract talks covering 500,000 steelworkers yesterday. United Steelworkers representa• lives met for less than 2 1 / 2 hours at the Roosevelt Hotel with agents for the 12 major steel producers. Their only announcement after ' wards noted a "common desire to negotiate labor agreements peace fully and expeditiously," Yesterday, four-man industry and labor teams got down to work on actual details of a new contract to replace one expiring June 30. Industry sources have predicted a strike when the contract ex pires. Butlers Jewelry DIAMONDS • WATCHES IWatch and Jewelry Repairing 111 E. Beaver Ave. • • viz 4.6,,W•t....:4•i; • , or just plain on the ball. In any case the above terms describe the sharpest men on campus as listed by their fraternities below. Why? Their 1960 composite will be ready and hanging within 2 weeks after the start of the fall semester. How? Simple . . . they're being photographed now at Bill Coleman's. 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