PAGF TWO
Kennedy Asks Higher Truck Taxes
To Pay for Superhighway Program
WASHINGTON (A*)—President Kennedy proposed higher taxes on big trucks yesterday
to help pay for the superhighway program. He said truckers get the most benefit from
the new roads.
Kennedy asked Congress t
to three cents-a gallon this Jui;
Lawrence
Approves
Housing Bill
HARRISBURG (R) A bill
banning discrimination in the sale
or rental of housing because of
race, religion or national back
ground was signed into law by
Gov. Lawrence yesterday.
By approving such a measure,
the governor said in a statement,
“Pennsylvania has struck a major
blow against this discrimination.’*
Specifically, the new law would
ban discrimination in sale or
rental of multi-unit dwellings and
places of public accommodation,
resorts or amusement centers.
It would not affect sale or
rental of homes such as a duplex
house, which is occupied by the
owner, nor would it affect single
houses.
The law will become effective
Sept, 1.
“In, of, and by itself, this law
can be most effective,” said Law
rence.
“Administered in its full intent
and spirit,” he declared, “It can
become one of the greatest tools
of our, generation for the foster
ing of basic American philoso
phies.”
The new law will also change
the name of the present Fair
Employes Practices Commission
to the Pennsylvania Human Rela
tions Commission.
TWA to Curtail Service
WASHINGTON iJP) Permis
sion to suspend service temporar
ily at Reading and Williamsport,
Pa., was requested yesterday by
Trans World Airlines.
Rusk Issues Policy Statement
WASHINGTON (/P) Sec-have made on the reshaping of
, roi * rx „ i •, U.S. defense policies,
retary of State Dean Rusk said “There has appeared a news re
yesterday he favors strength- port purporting‘to give my views
enmg the non-nuclear military der way about our defense poli
power of the fVee world as well cies," Rusk’s statement said.
.... ■ This news report was highly m
as maintaining its nuclear accurate ’’
might.
In a statement, Rusk reaf
firmed United States commit
ments to the “common defense”
and declared it “is our detemina
tion to back them.”
His statement was issued at the
State Department some hours
after he appeared before the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
The senators questioned him
about news reports concerning re
commendations Rusk was said to
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;o block a scheduled drop in the federal gasoline tax from four
[y 1, but said he preferred not to go along with former Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
recommendation that the tax be
raised to 414 cents a gallon. ■*
- “It is already clear that pas
senger cars are paying more than
their fair share now,” Kennedy
said.
In a 3500-word special mes
sage t® Congress, Kennedy said
the pay-as-you-go highway
building program is in peril be
cause of a threatened shortage
of funds.
He said adoption of his plan
would permit completion of 41,000
miles of express roads on sched
ule without dipping into general
funds or' resorting to a further
increase m*. the federal gasoline
tax.
-''Practically all of the increase
in revenue replacing the gen
eral Yt cent rise in gas tax
would come from the heavier
trucks that use diesel fuel and
weigh over 26,000 pounds," Ken
nedy said.
“This is only fair,” he said.
“Indeed, technical experts in
the Bureau of Public Roads ad
vise me that even this increase
would not charge heavy trucks
their fair share of the cost of this
program.”
Kennedy’s reasoning developed
differences of opinion at his week
ly meeting with Democratic con
gressional leaders and brought a
protest from the American Truck
ing Association.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn of
Texas told newsmen that diverse
opinions were expressed on
whether the money should come
from general tax revenue or from
gasoline taxes.
Title Bout Postponed
MANILA (/P) Flash Elorde’s
defense of his world junior light
weight title Mavch 4 against Cali
fornian Joey Lopes was postponed
Friday because the Filipino is
suffering from a deep-seated cold.
The date was moved . back to
March 19.
Earlier, Chairman William J.
Fulbright of the Senate commit
tee quoted Rusk as calling the
news report distorted.
The Rusk statement, issued late
yesterday afternoon at the State
Department, was cleared by the
White • House, State Department
press officer Lincoln White said in
response to questions.
White also said he thought the
statement followed the general
line which Rusk took before the
Senate committee.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Living Costs
Drop Slightly
In January
WASHINGTON (/P)— Living
costs dropped slightly in Jan
uary for the first time in 12
months because of lower prices
for clothing, used autos and
food.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
said yesterday its consumer price
index dropped by one-tenth of one
per cent, from a record 127.5 in
December to 127.4 last month. In
the index 100 represents ’ average
prices for 1947-49.
Because prices rose throughout
1960, except for a pause in Aug
ust, January living costs were up
1.6 per cent from a year earlier.
The bureau said price changes
in the last few months were not
large enough to affect the wages
of about one million workers in
the auto and related industries, j
Lower clothing prices were the
biggest single factor in reduced
living costs in January. Average
clothing tags were down 1.1 per,
cent, largely because of after-;
Christmas sales of women’s coats
and suits. [
Used car prices dropped 2.5 per!
cent in January. Prices of new
autos were unchanged. |
Food costs were down one-tenth
of one per cent with the biggest
reduction in eggs, milk, fresh |
fruits and tomatoes.
Most other major categories
held steady or showed declines. 1
An exception was medical costs
which rose by three-tenths of one
per cent.
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Senate Approves
Money-Raising Bill
HARRISBURG (ff) The
Senate yesterday approved,
2749, one of the two remain
ing money-raising bills in Gov.
Lawrence's revenue program.
Two Republicans joined the 25-
member Democratic delegation-'to
give final approval to the House
approved measure.
The bill would raise $1 mil
lion through accelerated pay
ment of the bank shares levy
and keep the tax rate si a
permanent 8 mills. The total
assessment produces about $5
million a year.
The two Republicans who joined
in supporting the tax measure
are Sens. Albert R. Pechan, Aim
strong, and Stanley Stroup, Bed
ford.
Still pending is a bill that
would produce $8 million a year
by elimination of the present two
per cent commission paid-to mer
chants for collecting the state’s
four per cent sales tax.
The bill reportedly has opposi
tion within Democratic ranks, as
well as from Republicans.
The House and Senate adjourn
ed until Monday.
In other legislative develop-,
menls, the legislature ratified an
amendment to the U.S. Consti
tution allowing residents of the
District of Columbia to vote in
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presidential elections. The Sen
ate gave final approval 48-1.
The lone dissenter was Sen.
D. Elmer Hawbaker, (R.-Frank
lin).
A scheduled meeting of a joint
legislative committee studying
capital punishment was put off
until next week because of the
pressure of other business.
Mob Riots in Algeria
ORAN, Algeria (A») A ram
paging mob, setting out as a
mourning procession for King Mo
hammed V of Morocco, became
enraged yesterday and burned
two European women to death in
their car.
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