—The Daily Collegian Thursday, September 9, 1976
Compromise tax
measure passed
WASHINGTON (UPI) one of the last items
House-Senate conferees, remaining to be worked out
nearing completion of a The committee hoped to
major tax revision bill, finish its work by today at the
yesterday voted a significant latest.
increase in the minimum tax A major item remaining
on the wealthy. unresolved was how to curb
The tax, which now costs tax shelters. But it appeared
about 30,000 taxpayers 5,275 that a behind-the-scenes
million in taxes that other- compromise had been
wise might never have been reached that would involve
paid, would be expanded to doing away with the strong
cover 300,000 persons and House language calling for
bring in an additional S 1 "Limitation of artificial
billion in revenue. losses" in favor of a slightly
The minimum tax decision, strengthened set of Senate
a compromise between a provisions designed to reduce
stronger House bill and a the more liberal tax shelters.
weaker Senate version, was . The tax bill, one of the
Britain's
LONDON (UPI) The
difference between streak
ing and indecent exposure
in Britain should be rough
ly $lBO and three months in
jail, according to a
government committee
recommendation.
A Home Office com
mittee report on changes in
Britain's sex laws was
released yesterday. It
suggested several changes
in sex laws and the govern
ment of Prime Minister
James Callaghan has
accepted them in principle.
"We think there is a case
for trying to distinguish
sexually 'motivated ex
posure from streaking
ecetera, both to prevent
dilution of the concept of
the former as a sexual
offense and to avoid for the
relatively . innocent prank
ster the stigma of con-
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viction for indecent ex
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It suggested $lBO fines
and three months in jail for
indecent exposure but only
nominal fines for
streakers.
The report also
suggested listing a new
offense dealing with
female nudity in public in
circumstances likely to
offend others.
"Our own view is that
some sanction against
women appearing naked in
public is necessary, given
the volatile state of social
mores and the numbers of
people still likely to be
strongly offended by such
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largest presented to Congress
in decades, would make
hundreds of revisions in the
waY Americans pay taxes,
and would continue current
tax cuts at least through 1977.
The committee also voted a
relatively small increase in
the minimum tax on cor
porations. However, the
minimum tax on individuals
is considered the more im
portant of the two.
The minimum tax is
designed to assure that
wealthy taxpayers do not use
special "preference" income
to reduce their taxes to little
or nothing.
Under current law, a
taxpayer must add together
all preference income,
subtract a flat $30,000
exemption and all regular
taxes paid, then pay 10 per
cent on the remainder, if any.
The compromise bill would
defined
be prosecuted while the
woman was immune," the
report said.
The committee turned
down a suggestion to ex
tend the offense of indecent
exposure by men to cover
both sexes, and said, "The
anatomical differences are
an obvious obstacle."
Male motorists convicted
of "curb crawling"
driving slowly along a
street in an attempt to pick
up women for sex purposes
should be fined $lBO or
jailed for three months, or
both, the report said.
The report opposed pro
posals to extend laws
covering prostitution to
men as well as women
since a section of the
Sexual Offenses Act of 1956
is available against male
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raise the tax to 15 per cent
and slice the exemptions and
deductions to either $lO,OOO .or
half of regular taxes paid,
whichever would be greater.
The conference agreed to a
tax increase of $59 million on
corporations through a boost
in the corporate minimum
tax, designed to prevent
corporations from wiping out
their tax bills with special tax
preferences such as ac
celerated depreciation and
depletion.
The committee also agreed
to changes in the maximum
tax rate, which is 50 per cent
on earned income such as
salaries,• with all other in
come being subject to a
maximum 70 per cent tax
rate.
Soviet jet gives
WASHINGTON (UPI)
U.S. officials yesterday said
U.S. defense experts now are
inspecting the Russian
supersonic Mig 25 that was
flown to Japan by a defecting
Soviet airman.
The officials said the high
altitude interceptor will
supply much information
about the current state of
Russian aircraft 'design and
indicate future trends and
developments.
Although the Mig 25 has
been flying for more than 10
years, it is undergoing con
stant development and
, changes which reflect the
latest Soviet advances
For example, one U.S.
expert said the western
engineers are curious to know
what sort of compound the
Soviets use on the leading
edge of the wing surfaces
which take the brunt of the
super-sonic buffeting and
heat.
Officials said the United
States also is interested in
how the Soviets manage the
Why I Feel You Can't Go Wrong
Buying Any Advent Product.
The Author
Hello. My name is John and I write
ads for Advent.
The only operating instructions I
have from Advent are to find accu
rate and interesting ways to describe
Advent products. That gives me a
lot of latitude, and once in a while
(this will be the third time out of a
dozen ads), I like to express some
personal feelings very directly.
The thing that's prompting me at
this point is that I've had a chance
to see the way a bunch of different
companies operate, from an over
stuffed international airline to some
skinny ventures that never really
got off the ground. The way Advent
does things seems so interesting to
me (more so all the time) that I think
it's worth talking about a little.
So.
How Advent
Goes At Products.
I've known the people who develop
and sell Advent products for almost
twelve years, five of which were at
another company they ran earlier.
In that time, I've never seen them
market a product just for some fast
dollars, or in imitation of someone
else's, or because the Advent name
could sell it, or to build up a "line"
with lots of models at different
prices to get at everybody's budget.
Everything I know of has been :
■ A wholly new and different kind
of product they felt ought to be
around.
Or
■ A product that could offer a really
new level of performance and/or
a new level of value.
Or
■ A product that would compliment
something else and make it more
satisfying to own.
Every Advent product I know of
has also come about after some real
questions, seriously asked, as to:
■ What a product ought to do in
someone's home.
■ Whether Advent has any special
ability or reason to make it.
*Dolby is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories
Loop driver hearings postponed t
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania Labor
Relations Board postponed,
at the University's request,
hearings to. decide if an
election is needed to deter
mine whether the Campus
Loop bus drivers should be
unionized under the
American Federation • of
State, County and Municipal
Employes, an affiliate of the
AFL-CIO.
The University requested
the postponement, according
to James M. Elliott, director
of personnel relations,
because "the timing was not
appropriate." The University
flow of fuel and air at high 'analyst can even tell how
altitudes and speed. At high much the Soviets, know about
speeds, air forms shock our techniques and what they
waves in the jet intake which are able to copy."
sometimes cause engines to "Foxbat," the Nato
"flame out" or to suffer designation for the Mig 25,
premature fatigue. was a major mystery and
An official said, "A good controversy , in the U.S. in-
Lawmakers to face
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The charges . include
A special investigating grand bribery, conspiracy and
jury recommended yesterday speculating or wagering on
that criminal charges be official action or information.
brought, against state Sen. The jury also recommended
Francis Lynch and state Rep. that Lynch and Wojdak be
Stephen Wojdak for allegedly charged with five counts of
attempting to secure a $15,000 criminal attempt.
payoff for getting a medical Neither Lynch, 55, nor
student admitted to Temple Wojdak, 37, could be reached
University. for comment last night.
John Scott, assistant state According , to the grand
attorney general, said the jury, Lynch promised to
Special Prosecutor's Office is assist Andrew Goldenberg,
preparing eight charges each son of Dr. Donald Goldenberg
against the two Philadelphia of suburban Springfield, to
Democrats. They should be gain admission into Temple
filed within two weeks, he University's School of Den:
said. tistry. Lynch, chairman of the
■ Whether it has enough of a place
in the world, or is just another frag
ment in all the debris.
That kind of thinking is obviously
different than just figuring out what
it takes to make a product sell —or
getting consultants to dance around
doing "market research," or calcu
lating how much profit the traffic
will bear, or psychologizing about
which color-control panel or grille or
carton will get people all wiggly
inside.
One result of Advent's product
attitude is that out of fifteen Advent
products in seven years, eleven are
still around and healthy and un
threatened by anyone else's n*e*w
i*m*p*r*o*v*e*d 1984 model.
Some Quick Examples of
What Advent Makes.
In the category of wholly new and
different kinds of products, for in
stance, there is:
VideoßeamTM
Life-Size Color Television.
This is Advent's one non-audio
product. I'm not supposed to do ads
on it right now at all, because cus
tomer demand is so far ahead of pro
duction. But if ever there was an
absolutely amazing, nothing-like
it example of something really new,
it's the VideoßeamTM TV set.
This unique two-piece television
set produces a seven-foot diagonal
measure picture. That's ten times
the size of the biggest conventional
currently
is negotiating a
with Teamsters
contract
Local 8.
Jane Pikovsky, president of
Local 8, said the Teamsters
will be involved in the bus
drivers' hearings.
The Teamsters want to
unionize the bus drivers, but
the drivers requested through
the federation that elections
be held. According to state
into consideration...the effects
of over-fragmentation" in
deciding if a group of em
ployes is an appropriate bar
gaining unit.
Bus driver Alex Holt said
that he expects both the
clues to
changes the television experience.
Now. I know there are people who
can get really excited about a new
razor blade. But to me, the Video-
Beam TV set is the first fundamen
tally new product on the market
since who-can-remember. It's a gen
uine mind-blower, and a lot of peo
ple whO see it can't take other TV
sets seriously ever after.
Why did it come from Advent
rather than one of the giants? Be
cause Advent's President thought
that standard TV was an unsatisfac
tory, small-scale, squashed-in, often
depressing experience that didn't let
him see very much. He also knew
from experience that electronics
aren't the big mystery that ads (par
ticularly hi-fi ads) often imply, and
that it wouldn't take laser beams or
some other 2001 technology to do
what he felt ought to be done. Just
intelligence and work.
The Advent
201 Cassette Deck.
In that same category, the people
who run Advent noticed a few years
ago that they themselves, with a rea
son or excuse to own any kind of
stereo-whatever they felt like, prac
tically never used standard open-reel
tape recorders at home. Because,
while it made sense in recording
studios and for heavy hobbyists and
would-be multi-track rock stars, it
was just too messy, awkward, and
expensive for most , people to use a
standard big tape machine at home.
Tape cassettes, on the other hand,
were ideal for people to use easily
and enjoyably around a house, but
University and the Teamsters students and work fewer than
might maintain that the Loop 30 hours a week.
drivers should be organized If the Board rules that Loop
under the Teamsters to drivers are not an ap
prevent fragmentation. propriate bargaining unit,
Teamsters Local 8 represents then elections will not be held:•
more than 2,000 other Holt said, "If the hearing
University employes. • board rules against us, we
However, according to the will exercise other legal
same law, employes options."
organized in the same group Holt said that he felt the
must have an "identifiable hearings would set an im
community of interest." portant precedent concerning.
According to Holt, the Loop student jobs.
drivers do not have a com- The rescheduled hearings
munity of interest with the will be Sept. 20 and 21 at 10:30
Teamsters. The Teamsters a.m. in 404 Old Main.
require that a member work University lawyer Del
at least 30 hours a week. Holt McQuaide will represent the
said that all Loop drivers are University in the hearings.
future trends
telligence community for as reconnaissance, including
several years. Some . in- inflights over western ,
telligence experts even Europe, according to U.S. (
argued that there was no such - defense officials. They can
airplane, and that "Foxbat" also be fitted with air-to-air
was simply a variation of the missiles, although their
swing-wing Mig 23. ' performance would probably
The planes are used mainly be affected.
charges in payoff
Senate Transportation seeking to delay the mailing
Committee, said he would' of the letter was to gain time
"see what he could do" for a for Lynch and himself to
price. convince Dr. Goldenberg that
But the family found out the ' unless he made the paymentt,
younger Goldenberg had been no acceptance would be forth
admitted
to the school on his coming," • the grand jury
own merits, so Goldenberg reported.
balked at making the payoff. The grand jury also said
Lynch reportedly contacted neither lawmakers assisted ,
Wojdak, who is chairman of the admission of Goldenberg,
the • House Appropriations but they tried to collect
Committee. According to the money after he was suc-'‘ ,
grand jury, Wojdak then tried cessful on his own.
to have Temple officials hold "In their capacity as public
up the letter of acceptance to officials they knew that they
pressure Goldenberg into could learn ... the names of
paying the $15,000: those candidates who had
"Wojdak's purpose in been accepted."
at best, was suitable for background
listening. So again with the idea that
electronics will probably do any
thing within reason if you look at
what's around and use it properly,
Advent proceeded to do what none
of the big tape-recorder manufac
turers was doing—and which some
said flat-out couldn't be done. By
giving real attention to the elec
tronics and mechanics of cassette
machinery (attention that other
manufacturers said just wasn't
worth it for those tiny things), and
by applying innovations like the
Dolby* System and DuPont's chro
mium dioxide tape to cassettes for
the first time, Advent came up with
' equipment that enabled cassette
recordings to equal and potentially
surpass the quality of the best
records.
The tape-recording industry has
become a different, bigger, and much
better one because of that effort, and
some of the makers of the dozens of
cassette machines now on the mar
ket occasionally claim credit for
doing what they actually scoffed at
as Advent went at it.
The big product that came out of
it for Advent was the Model 201
Cassette Deck. All I can say •about
it is that, at a time when cassette
machines come with all kinds of 747
Cockpit Knobbery, and at incredibly
high prices in some instances, I don't
know of any tape machine of any
price or kind (cassette, cartridge, or
open-reel) that can make perfect
recordings as easily and repeatably
as the 201. It's so easy to use that
my son, Chris, started to play cas
settes on it when he was 2 1 / 2 . And I
Chris (2 years ago)