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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-14
Tax Cuts Voted by House Unit
AVerageDrop
Would Be2O%
Over 7 Years
Action Expected
On Puring Down
Corporate Levy
BY LEE M. COIN
Star Staff Writer

The House Ways and Means
Committee today approved the
Kennedy administrations re-
vised plan to cut individual in
come tax rates by an average
20 per cent over two years,
starting next January /.
Under the formula approved
by a 19-to-4 vote, taxes on
single persons would range
from IA per cent on the first
$500 Of taxable income annually
to 70 per cent on income over
100000. This compares with
the present range Of 20 per
cent on the first $4,000 Of in
come to 81 per cent on income
over 100000.
Married couples filing joint
returns now pay 20 per cent
on the first $4,000 Of income
and 81 percent on income over
100000. The new rate sched-
ule would tax such couples Il
per cent on the first 81 900 and
2 per cent on income over
100000.
Other Cuts
Rates in intermediate income
brackets would be cut by vary
ing percentages. For example,
married couples would be taxed
10 per cent on income between
$4,000 and $4,000. compared
with % per cent under present
law.
In the $i2,OOO-to-$l6,0OO
bracket. the tax would be cut
from 80 to Is per cent.
For income between $4,000
and $4,000, the tax would
drop from 4S per cent to SO
per cent.
These rates would become
fully effective January /, 1865.
About two-thirds Of the re-
auctions would take effect next
January !. At that time, rates
would range from Is per cent
on the first $1,000 of a mar
ried couples income $500 for
single persons) to ~ per cent
for income over $400, 900 ($200,-
600 for single persons.
Reductions Sealed Down
President Kennedy originally
proposed reducing rates to q
range between IA per cent on
the first $4,000 Of income for
married couples $1,000 for
single persons) and IS per
cent on income above $780,
900 for married couples $780,
900 for single persons).
The rate reductions were
scaled down because the COM
mittee rejected most Of the
Presidents proposals for reve-
INCREASING tax reforms.
The committee was expected
to vote later today on the adj
ministration's proposal to cut
corporation taxes, in annual
steps, from So to 48 per cent
on earnings over $4,000.
Several other ia1Rs still re-
main for decision. including
the administrations proposal
to raise 1910 million Of revenue
by repeating the dividend tax
credit, which allows stock
holders to subtract 4 per cent
See TAXES, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-14
Acc, Joint Chiefs
Urge Treuty OK;
Safeguards Noted
By BERNARD GWERTZNdArl
star Staff Writer

star Staff Writer
Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman
Of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, said today the United
States will follow q deter
mined and vigorous policy" to
prevent Russia from gaining
a nuclear advantage by break
ing the test ban treaty.
Assuring the Senate that the
administration would not be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-14

The Treaty Foes Arguments. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-14
HORSE SEMINAR
FOR THE LADIES

FIRST THEY invited Iodiss to the
troek free, oRd now they're teoeh-
ing th-a how to hove a good time
when Shey get there. LoursI Roes
Course will conduct seminar on
the sport Of kings, for women only,
before tomouow's roees. Other events
in the oreo, for men os well as
women. ore listed in the Tomorrow
column on Poss BIS.
NINE PERSONS posed the July
examination qualifying them to
proetiee pharmacy in the District.
They ore listed on Page c-2s.
Hove The Star Delivered
Daily and Sunday
Phone II. 5000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-14
Weather Forecast

District and vicinity-Clear and cooler
with diminishing winds tonight, low near
81. Sunny low humidity tomorrow, high
near 80. Today's high, IA, at 1>pm.; low.
81, at 6:25 am.
Full Report on poss B-4
The chronicle., 1963-12-04

headmaSter r. C. Edwards.
The school, with grades seven
through eleven, was set up in an
antebellum home renovated to
meet the needs Of a high school.
A 18th grade is not operated be-
cause most Of the seniors trans
ferred to nearby segregated
public schools to graduate.
The academy is located near
Tuskegee high, which is attend
ed now by only II Negro stu
dents. One of the original Is was
expelled for disciplinary rea-
sons, school officials said.
Added to the list of accredited
schools by the association were:
the Cherokee County school at
Centre; Houston County school
at Columbia; Cottonwood school
at Cottonwood; Crossville school
at CroSsville; Fayette High at
F'ayette; Lee High at Huntsville
Oneonta High at Oneonta; Sam
son High at Samson, and Vina
High at Vina.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Mountain Post
Of Reds Hit By
Venezuela Raid

CARACAS (UPI) - Govern.
ment troops raided a mountain
hideout today and killed q
Communist guerrillas in a CUR
battle.
Reports from the scene SAID
the only casualty on the gov.
eminent side was a lieutenant,
who was wounded.
The fighting took place in the
mountain region Of Huesqut, rs
miles from Coro, Falcon State
capital, and nearly 500 miles
northwest Of Caracas.
One Of the first guerrilla cas-
ualties in the surprise attack
was major" Douglas Grave, a
leader Of the armed band.
Two other group leaders, Do
mingo Urbanina, long sought in
the 1850 Staying Of Col. Carlos
Delgado Chabaud, military jun
ia chairman, and Pablo Cabe-
ZaS, we're not at the scene when
the government troops closed
in.
Reports reaching Caracas said
the guerrillas were caught off
guard after a person bringing
them food was captured by the
army.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04

meeting.
Matching 6,975 men over 40
who smoked a pack of ciga-
retteS or more per day with the
same number Of non : smokers,
Hammond S a d 1885 Of the
smokers died during the 34.3-
month period. Only 662 Of the
non-SmokerS died.
Of the cigarette smokers, 10
died of lung cancer while only
IL of the non-smokers died of
that disease. Coronary artery
disease killed 654 smokers and
only 304 non-smokers.
Each man in one group was
matched as closely as possible
with a man in the other group
as to age, race, size, residence
(urban or rural), religion, edu-
cation, marital status, drinking
habits, nervous tension and
many other factors.
Hammond said he was trying
through this matched pair an
alySiS' to eliminate all possible
n~on-smoking differences between
smoking and death rates might
be merely incidental.
Of his findings, he comment
ed that lit is hard to escape the
conclusion that this difference
in number Of deaths was due to
the difference in smoking hab-
it's"
Hammond'S report to the
ANA meeting was based on a
continuing study of 422, 094 men
between the ages of 40 and SO
who were enrolled by Cancer
Society volunteer workers. The
society said it is the broadeSt
study ever made on smoking in
relation to death rates.
The report came after the
AMA'S board Of trustees for
mally proposed an intensive,
long-range research program in
to the effects of smoking by the
ANA education and research
foundation.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
British Musician
Defends Playing

LONDON (UPD-Sir Malcolm
Sargent said Tuesday night that
his Royal Philharmonic Orches-
ira played before an all-white
audience in Jackson, Miss, be-
cause Il was under contract
and it has nothing to do with
me if the audience was segre-
gated"
1T simply wasn't my bust
ness" Sir Malcolm, 68, S a i d,
whether or not people with red
hair or blue eyes were going to
be barred from the hail."
The Royal Philharmonic
played before a segregated au-
dience in Jackson during a re-
cent American tour. A white
British student was jailed but
later freed after he tried to take
a Negro into the concert.
The Guardian said in an edi-
torial today that "talk Of red
hair or blue eyes misses the
point"
"The division of black from
white is. lone of the greatest is
sues that torment the world at
large. For some years now most
of the leading artists in the
United States have made it a
point not to perform before seq
regated audiences.
"We need not make heavy
weather Of the Jackson Incl
dent" the Guardian said, "but
no British artist can now plead
ignorance or inadvertence if it
recurs."
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Thompson Trial
Going To Jury

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. CUPID
The Thompson murder trial,
in recess today, was expected
to 60 to the jury Thursday.
Judge Rolf FoSseen recessed
the weeks-long trial Tuesday
and said he hoped that closing
arguments and instructions to
the jury could be completed in
one day.
The prosecution hoped to con-
vince the jury that dapper
young criminal attorney T. Eu-
gene Thompson, IS, master
minded the "murder-for-hire"
Of his pretty heiress wife, Ca
rol, "a. She was bludgeoned
and stabbed to death March 6
in her home. Thompson wanted
to collect more than 81 million
in insurance on her life and
take up with his paramour, the
state said.
The defense sought to con-
vince jurors the Staying was a
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Charles Bird Jr.
Rites Set Friday

Funeral services will be held
Friday for Charles Abram Bird
Jr., IS, who died at Veterans
Hospital in New Orleans Mon
day at l pm.
A native and lifelong resident
of Moss Point, Bird lived at 1909
Main Street and was a member
of First Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Bird Of the Moss
Point address; one son, Char
les Bird III, in the Merchant
Marine; two daughters, Mrs.
Beulah Goodwin and Mrs. Villa
Mae Farmer, both of Mobile.
A wake will be held Thursday
night in the chapel of Gulf Fun
eral Service in Pascagoula.
Funeral services will be at
First Baptist Church Of Moss
Point at 1:3O pm. Friday with
the Rev. N. H. Smith officiating.
Interment will be in First Bap-
fist Cemetery in Escatawpa.
brutal by-product of a burglary
at the ThompsonS' fashionable
st. Paul home.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Ole Miss Case
On Accreditution
Comes Up Today

MEMPHIS (UPT-The South
ern Association of Colleges and
schools will decide today wheth.
err to withdraw its generalization
of the University of Mississippi.
The association. which is hold.
ing its 68th annual meeting
here, has had the school under
surveillance" since last year
when Gov. Ross Barnett clashed
with university officials over the
admission Of Negro James Mer-
edith.
The executive council of the
associations commission on col
legeS has three choices. It may
lift the surveillance if convinced
political Intervention is no long
er affecting institutional quail
ty: it may Surveil-
lance; or it may withdraw ac-
creditation.
Loss of accreditation would
make it difficult for the univers-
ity and other state : supported
schools in Mississippi to receive
grants and would be a seri-
Gus handicap to students wish
ing to transfer credits.
Mississippi delegates who met
with the council during the
opening session Monday were
confident the surveillance will
be lifted.
Tuskegee High School in Ala
bama, abandoned by its entire
white student body when or
dered to accept Negro pupils in
September, was dropped from
the list of accredited schools.
The association said Tuskegee
officials failed to apply to renew
their accredited status. Only u
Negroes now are in attendance.
About 1000 educators attend
ing the four-day meeting were
told Tuesday night that Ameri-
can educational institutes should
begin thinking in terms Of ma
tional policy.
Turner Catledge, managing
editor of the New York Times.
told the group colleges and uni
versitics also should begin to
accept, and not fear, financial
help from the government in or
der to produce the number Of
well : educated people America
n2eds.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Tuskegee High School,
Loses Its Accreditution

MONTGOMERY (UPI)-- Tus.
kegee High School, abandoned
by white students when Negroes
integrated the S school under
court orders in September, has
lost its standing as an accredi-
ted institution in Alabama.
The Southern Association OF
Colleges and Schools, meeting in
Memphis, removed the high
school from its list of accredited
schools Tuesday when TuSkegee
officials failed to apply for re-
newal of their generalization.
The association added eleven
Alabama high schools to the &C.
credited rolls.
The SPRAYING red brick
school at Tuskegee gained ma
tiOnal attention with schools in
Mobile and Birmingham during
S~eptember's Indignation show
down.
Gov. George Wallace ordered
state troopers, and at one point
National GuardSmen, to turn
away all Negroes attempting to
enter the school during the
opening rounds of the deSegre-
cation battle between the state
and the federal government.
Legal moves by the Justice
Department finally OVERRIDE
state efforts to maintain Segre-
cation, but the entire white stu
dent body walked out when Is
Negro students began classes in
the formerly all = white public
high school. The boycott is still
in effect.
Most of the students partici-
pating in the walkout began
classes at Macon Academy, a
private segregated school set up
to sideStep the Indignation.
The academy, under the d.
rection of the Macon County
Private School Foundation, is
operating at full strength now
with a staff of seven faculty
members under the guidance of
The chronicle., 1963-12-04

TODAY'S WEATHER-Sn0w and snow showers are forecast
for northern New England, Minnesota, the Great Lakes region,
Ohio Valley and portions of the central Atlantic states. Freez-
ing rain is expected over most of the Pacific northwestern
states. Cooler weather will prevail over most of the eastern
half of the country except for the southern plains where tenn
peratures are expected to be warmer. Little temperature
change is seen elsewhere in the nation.
Mobile Press Register UPT Telephoto)
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
New Information Links
Smoking To Death Rate

PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI)-The
death rate among a large group
of cigarette smokers during a
period of nearly three years
was more than twice as high as
among a similar group Of non
smokers, an American Cancer
Society expert said today.
DR.. E. Cuyler Hammond, pipe
smoking director Of the society's
statistical r research, report
ed new evidence in the relation
ship of cigarette smoking to
death and disease in a paper
delivered at the American Medi-
cal Associations 18th clinical
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Pope Planning
To Make Visit
To Holy Land

VATICAN NC1TY (UPI)-Pope
Paul VI closed the second seS.
sion of the Ecumenical Council
today with an announcement
that he will make a historic pill.
|grimage to the Holy Land, the
birthplace of Christianity.
The visit, planned for nexI
month, will be the first time 9
pontiff has set foot on Holy
Land soil since st. Peter left
Palestine and established the
papacy in Rome. Peter, Christ's
apostle and the first Pope, died
a martyrs death in the eternal
city in GA AID.
1t also will be The first time
a Pope has LETT Italy since the
time of Plus VII, who died in
1923. Plus VII was taken pris-
oner by Napoleon and carried
Vatican sources said the pom
tiff would travel by plane-the
time a pope has done so.
John XIII did some flying, but
only before becoming pontiff.
The sources said the Pope
would visit holy places in both
Israel and Jordan. They said the
pilgrimage would last "at least
two or three days"
The surprise announcement
was made by Pope Paul at the
end of a half-hour speech clos
ing the councils 1863 session.
In the Latin-language discourse,
he ordered a simplifying and
shortening of proposed DEGREES
in hopes of completing the gath
next year.
He said the practical impli-
cations" of the councils work
be decided by commissions
after the great Roman Catholic
meeting has drawn to a close.
Shortly before, Pope Paul had
promulgated the first two final
actions Of the council-a decree
on the form of public worship
and another on modern commu-
media.
They were the sole final re-
suits of the first two sessions
If the council which met 70
Fifteen other documents
to be decided on, but
.hree are near completion. A
of So faced the council
fathers when they first met last
year, but they we're condensed
and combined into the II.
The next session of the coun-
ell is scheduled to begin Sept.
a, 1864. 1t had been expected
here would be at least one
more session after that, and
perhaps two.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Barnett Praises
Merit Program

MERIDIAN, Miss. (UPD -
Gov. Ross Barnett praised the
merit community program Tues
day as being important in the
states search for industry.
Barnett spoke at a ceremony
here honoring Meridian as hav-
ing won the highest number Of
awards given in basic commu-
nifty development.
Meridian is the first city in
the state to qualify for all 10
awards in the statewide merit
community program.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Three Voncleove
Youths Charged
With Looting

Three Vancleave teenagers
have been charged with looting
at least three households and
cabins at a Vancleave fishing
camp, Chief Criminal Deputy
M. D. Johnson said today.
They will be turned over to
Youth Court Judge L. A. Watts.
Johnson said the youths loot
ed the boats and cabins of
Everything that wasn't nailed
down. including clothes, tools
and fishing equipment. Part of
the loot has been recovered.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
Pas c Of c Sets
Meet Thursday

PaScagoula Chamber of Com
merce will hold a general mem
bership meeting Thursday at
7:30 pm. in council room of city
hall, according to President
Doug Fontaine.
He said committee reports will
be given of activities during the
past three months, the second
quarter.
All members are urged to at
tend, said Fontaine.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
6 State Schools
Are Accredited

MEMPHIS CUPID - Six Mis-
sissippi high schools have been
added to the Southern ASsocia-
ton of Colleges and Schools ac-
creditation list for the 1963-64
term.
They are Clarksdale, Higgins
High; Corinth, Eason High, Hat
tiesburg, Travillion High;
Oak Park High; Quitman,
Shirley-Owens High; and Vicks-
burg, Temple High.
The chronicle., 1963-12-04
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

NEW YORK CUPID The
purchaser Of any antique tele-
phone on display in the win
dow Of 1.-THE Telephone Center
here can phone anywhere in the
United States free any time be-
tween 9 pm. and midnight
throughout November.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
STATE ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSE CENTENNIAL PLANNING EFFORT

The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce became the fifth state wide organization to endorse Gen. tennial Planning recently when it adopted resolution urging support and vigorous action to insure success of the Centennial in 1867.
 Earlier resolutions of support came from the Pioneers of Alas ka convened at Cordova, the Travel Advisory Board, meeting at Haines, the Alaska Municipal League, meeting at Seward, and the Alaska Travel Promotion As sociation, meeting in Cordova.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
Jack Ruby to Go On Trial Feb. ,

DALLAS R - A Dallas judge today officially set the murder trial for Jack Ruby for Feb. 3.
 Ruby, 52-year-old night club owner charged with killing Pres ident Kennedy's accused assas- sin, Lee Oswald, had been sched- uled to go on trial today. Both defense attorneys and state pro- secutors agreed to the delay last week. State District Judge Joe Brown made it official by making a notation on his court docket.
 Ruby is now in Dallas County Jail, being held without bond. Os- wald was slain as police attempted to transfer him from one Dallas jail to another. A nationwide tele- vision audience looked on.
 Oswald was killed Nov. "A, two days after President Kennedy was shot by sniper as he rode through a Dallas street. Oswald was charged with his murder.
 Ruby was indicted for Os- Wald's death two days later.
 The official charge is murder with malice, for which District Attorney Henry Wade can seek the death penalty against Ruby.
 Defense attorneys indicate they will plead temporary insanity.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
Sinatra Son Is Spirited Off In Sierra SnOWstOrnn

STATELINE, Calf. R - An in tense search is spreading over California and Nevada for kid naped Frank Sinatra Jr. The young singers manager, Tlno Barzie, is standing by a telephone at Harrar's Club, at the south end of Lake Tahoe, hoping for some contact with the two young men who abducted Sinatra at gunpoint last night. No ransom demand has been made. In fact, no word has come from either the 19-year-old singer or the kidnapers.
 The FBI moved into the case quickly. They examined the mo tel room at Harrah's from which Sinatra was taken, and went over the kidnapping with Sinatra's room mate, trumpeter John Foss. Foss was left bound and gagged by the two men who abducted Sin atra and disappeared with him in a large automobile in heavy Sierra snoWStOrm.
 The young singers father - widely known entertainer Frank Sinatra - asked Barzie to stand by as possible mediator. Young Sinatra had been singing at Har- rah's. Meanwhile, the elder Sin atra waited in Reno for develop ments. Sinatra flew to Reno from Palm Springs on word that hi son had been abducted
 Roadblocks have been set up al around Lake Tahoe. The name! of two young California prisor fugitives - Joseph SOrce anc Thomas Heating - have beer mentioned in the case. But author ities in Fl Dorado County, Calf. say there is nothing to indicate i they had anything to do with the abduction They are believed tc be in the area.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
Beta Sigs Busy Scheming Holiday Cheer

Ri Kappa Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, met Thursday evening in the home of President Ruth Mclean. The stu dy program entitled Clothing for Madame" presented by Betty Gustafson, was of spe- cial interest to the members as the holiday social season begins. Mrs. GuStafSOn reported on personal observations of current fashions during her recent vacation in Se- attle. An added treat was a report by Mary Honsberger of Women's fashions she saw in Paris and Rome on her European vacation trip.
 The annual Christmas party for both sorority chapters will be held Saturday evening in the North Star SeavieW Room for members, husbands and invited guests. So cial Chairman Beverly Morgan promises that Santa Clause will make an early visit to Nome that evening, with gifts for all. The names of secret sisters for the past year will be revealed.
 Another traditional holiday ac- tivity will be the community Christmas carol sing, sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi. Service Chairman Beverly Blaming is completing details with the Kappa Chapter chairman and they will be an nounced soon.
 Kappa's busy Ways and Means Chairman Mildred Harwood added to the chapter funds Thursday evening with a small raffle and { jewelry sale. A short business meeting completed the full. evening.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
PIONEERS ELECT

In an election held on Decem- Der 4th, the following officers were elected for the Pioneers 1864 season: C. o. Mickelson, pres ident; Stan Morgan, first vice pres ident; Lester Bronson, second vice president; Henry Ulrich, secre- tary; Pearse Walsh, treasurer; Jack Marasovitch, historian; Axel Edman, sergeant at arms; Nels Swanberg, trustee; James Keali- her, trustee.
 Two new members initiated were Paul Dryden and Lymann Madden.
 Plans for the Installation of oftl- cers are to be announced later.
The Nome nugget., 1963-12-09
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT

Occasional snow showers end ing this morning. Northwest winds 35-45 miles per hour, decreasing tonight. Much colder today and tonight.
 Nome data last 24 hours as of , am. today: Precipitation .15 inch. Month total .35 inches. Tempera- lures - highest 33, lowest I. Maximum wind 54 miles an hour from the North. Sunrise at 9:45 a.m., sunset at 2:03 pm.
 Comparative Data Tempera- lures year ago today: high 26, low '. Extremes on this date since 1907: Highest 35 in 1882, lowest -22 in 1923.