SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 196'# fHE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 196, f HE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 'Economists Say Tax Hike Needed VETERANS DAY ADDRESS: Reagan Declares Vietnam War Must End in American Victory ALBANY. Ore. (M -California wears thin. This is the way to The governor said the big Gov. Ronald Reagan, in his most peace and it is a way in keeping threat to world peace is Commun- WASHINGTON W) - The ad- ministration continues to press its argument for higher taxes despite indications of apparent slack and sluggishness in some sectors of the economy. Government e x p e r t s blame much of the apparent slowdown of the automobile strike and con- tend the effects are only tem- porary. The economy, they insist, is building a head of steam and the only realistic safety valve is President Johnson's proposed 10 per cent surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes. But just when the administra- tion needs all the strength it can muster in Congress, some key business data have taken on some tarnish. The government reported last, week the highest unemployment rate in two years-4.3 per cent of the total labor force-arid a 2 per cent tumble in retail sales for October to their lowest level in five months. And Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Ad- visers, acknowledged that income and production figures during LBJ Speech Proposes Talks at Sea By The Associated Press President Johnson led the na- tion's observance of Veterans Day yesterday with a new plea for Viet- nam peace talks. Appearing at early morning ceremonies on the flight deck of the carrier Enterprise off San Diego, Johnson sugested a Viet- nam parley on "a neutral ship on a neutral sea." Speaking to the ship's crew, but addressing his remarks to North Vietnam's leaders, he said, "You have only to say the word for our quarrel to be buried be- neath the waves." Recalls 1941 Declaring again that "our states- men will press the search for peace to the corners of our earth," Johnson pointed out "that the meeting ground could even be the sea," with, the Atlantic Charter of 1941 as a pattern. "Standing here," he said, "specks between the vastness of ocean and heaven, men might realize the ultimate smallness of their quarrels. They just might come to see the waste of war amidst this wealth of God and nature." "It may only be a dream. But it could so easily be salvation. The United States follows the dream of peace, so we include even the seas in our search., For us, the wardroom could readily be a conference room. A neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any. Two Must Meet "So long as two came to the meeting. So ,long as both met halfway. So long as one did not insist that the other walk on water and work a miracle alone." The President said these thoughts came upon him aboard the Enterprise because the ship reminded him of the cruiser Au- gusta, in August, 1941, and an- other time dark with war. Roosevelt and Churchill, he said, met in the wardroom of the Augusta and lit a flame of hope in a charter which held that: There shall be no territorial changes not in accord with the freely expressed wills of the people concerned. -All nations must have the right to dwell In safety gwithin their own boundaries, living their lives in freedom from fear and want. "Nations can meet on the seas to repeat the miracle now," John- son said. "But if they meet, it must be to build on the two cen- tral and timeless principles." September were relatively unex- citing. The full impact of the Ford Motor Co. strike was felt during October, for which economic re- ports are now being compiled. It was the Vietnam war buildup which helped spark the economic boom from the middle of 1965 through last year but Ackley said this appears to be leveling off now. The private economy was peg- ged by government experts last January as the spark for the cur- rent phase of the expansion but the private sector has failed to respond 100 per cent. One government analyst said yesterday a strike at such a large firm as Ford paints a wide swath across the economy and affects a variety of economic indicators. Despite the increased unem- ployment rate, the number of ions is going up and this is what af- fects the volume of goods and services in the economy, the an- alyst added. Up to now, some government analysts say, the tax increase hasn't been needed from a purely economic standpoint because Con, gress hasn't yet increased Soc Security benefits. The proposed increase in Social Security benefits will stimulate the economy while the tax in- crease is designed to slow it. Both were proposed to go into effect before now but Congress has adopted neither and Ackle said the two inactions "pretty much offset each other, so far as their impact on the economy is concerned." Stokes' Win certified CLEVELAND (/P) - Democrat Carl B. Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland by a margin of 1,644 votes, the Board of Elections an- nounced yesterday after complet- ing its official count. The unofficial count in Tues- day's election had Stokes, the first Negro ,elected mayor of a major U.S. city, defeating Seth C. Taft, the Republican nominee, by 2,501 votes. Taft was out of town and un- available for comment on the of- ficial tabulation or the possibility of his seeking a recount. However, a spokesman for Taft said no decision on a recount would be made until tomorrow. "That will give us time to evaluate the official count and the findings of the Board of Elections," he said. -Associated Press VETERANS PROTEST WAR Actors of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, some wearing death masks, perform in Union Square in New York City yesterday during a rally by two veterans groups opposed to the Vietnam war. In this scene a U.S. plane drops bombs over women and children. The rally drew a crowd of about 500, including a few hecklers. The rally began about an hour after a Veterans Day ceremony in the square by Veterans of Foreign Wars. Numerous observances of the day were held throughout the country. TEXAS CASE: High Court Decision Pending n Reapportionment Question thorough statement yet on Ameri- can policy in Southeast Asia, de- clared that "the war in Vietnam must be fought through to vic- tory." In a tough attack on the policies of President Johnson and the late President John F. Kennedy, Rea- gan declared: "The one thing that is sure in this situation is that we Americans must finally make up our minds as a people whether we want to carry the war through to a con- clusion, or give up." His comments were in a speech prepared for delivery last night to a Veterans Day dinner. National Interest The governor made clear his belief that giving up would be unthinkable, telling the audience: "Isn't it time that we admitted we are in Vietnam because our national interest demands that we take a stand there now so we won't have to take a stand later on our own beaches?" He added, "Isn't it time that we either win this war or tell the American people why we can't? Isn't it time to recognize the great immorality of sending our neighbors' sons to die with the hope we can do so without anger- ing the enemy too much? "Isn't this a throwback to those jungle tribes sacrificing a few of their select young on a heathen altar to keep the volcano from exploding?" Victory Reagan then called for "vic- tory" in the war and said this means to him: "First, an end to North Vietnamese aggression, and second, an honorable and safe peace for our South Vietnam neighbors. We have been patient long enough and our patience an end to the bombing of North Vietnam, Reagan replied, "stop the bombing, and we will or, encourage the enemy to do his worst." Grasp of Reality Reagan said he doesn't question the sincerity of most Vietnh; war critics, but wonders about their grasp of reality. "The U.S. has work to do and a place to fill in the Pacific, and ... we must not stop fighting until the security of our allies has benn assured in freedom and independ- ence," Reagan stated. "This war has to be fought .. some in high places are reluctant to voice it." Reagan said the eternal dream of world peace "is a good dream . . . but we do repudiate an at- tempt to achieve that dream by methods disproven by all of our past experience. .." He said that the case for free- dom can't be rested with the United Nations as it is presently constituted. Not until reconstruc- tion of this organization puts realistic power in the hands of those nations which must, through size and strength, be ultimately responsible for world order. .." with our basic principles." ist dreams of world domination To war critics who advocate which "we all know . . . even if Japanese Prime Minister To Ask Return of Okinawa WASHINGTON (P) - The Su- preme Court focuses its attention this week on an oil-rich county in the prairies of western Texas with the very structure of the nation's local governments hanging in the in the balance. - There's plenty of sky but not many people outside Midland City. According to the 1960 census, 66,225 people lived in the city and only 1,492 elsewhere in Mid- land County. * And yet, the city elects only one of the four voting commissioners on the county governing body, called the Commissioners' Court. For this reason, Midland - and its mayor, Hank Avery - may make history. Back in June 1964 the Supreme Court ignited a revolution in state government. Seats in both houses of a two-house legislature, it held, must be apportioned' substantially on a population basis. What about grass-root govern- ment, the city and county coun- cils, school 'districts and town- ship boards that derive their powers from state legislatures? Must they be based, too, on one- man, one-vote? The court pondered the ques- tions last term in cases from Ala- bama, Michigan, New York and Virginia. But it never gave a def- initive answer. About all it did was to seemingly exempt from the one-man, one-vote doctrine -local bodies that exercise administra- tive - rather than legislative - functions. The suit begun in December 1962 by Avery, onetme indepen- dent oil operator and architect, may bring the constitutional an- swer. If he wins - and the Justice D anrtmant i nn his side - manv the commissioners perform both legislative and administrative fun- ctions; they can levy taxes, own and operate hospitals and air- ports and adopt budgets for all county expenditures. T h e Commissioners Court's argument will be that its legis- lative functions are negligible, that it essentially is a judicial and administrativd body. WASHINGTON (P) - Japan'si prime minister comes to Wash- ington this week seeking early re- turn of the Bonin Islands and . Okinawa to Tokyo's control. His prospects are bright on the Bon-I ins, dim on Okinawa. .i Prime Minister Eisaku Sato is to confer with President Johnson Tuesday. Best information available from1 U.S. official sources is that he will1 be offered some agreement for restoration of Japanese sover- eignty over the Bonins, including the famed World War II battle-1 ground of Iwo Jima. But there appears little chance that the United States will re-' linquish any time soon of its con-1 trol of Okinawa, now the major1 American miiltary base in the western Pacific. Sato and his adviseis are flying to Seattle today and on to Wash-l ington late tomorrow for talks1 Tuesday and Wednesday. At a meeting Jan. 12-13, 1965, Johnson and Sato reached an1 agreement that recognized the importance to Far Eastern secur- ity of the U.S. military installa- tions on Okinawa and the Bonin Islands. Sato said then that Japan wants administrative control over its prewar possessions restored as soon as possible. Johnson replied that he looks forward to the day when security in the Far East would permit the return of administrative rights to Japan. Since then Sato has been under increasing political pressure from business, labor, the press and the political opposition in both Japan and Okinawa. His expressed view now is that "indefinite continuation of the p r e s e n t unnatural situation" would not only be hard for the Japanese people but a possible stumbling block between Japan and the United States in guaran- teeing the security of Japan and the Far East. Japanese diplomats have said that Sato hopes to gain on his present visit more than a U.S. promise for the return of the Bonins. U.S. military authorities fear that if full Japanese sovereignty were returned to Okinawa it would bring the most important U.S. military base in the western Pacific under the terms of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty which can be terminted after 1970 upon one year's notice. a epar mren is n s ylu - U local governments will have toChrysler Auto Production "Discrimination," said the Jus- tice Department in a brief, 'is " neither greater nor lesser, whethr Halted by Local Grievances malapportionment exists at the stae o,,,t te ocai evi- And, the department said, "so long as the Midland County Com- missioners Court performs import-. ant governmental functions which significantly affect the city resi- dents - and has a general taxing authority over them - the equal- population principle applies and: requires that districting for seats on that body be based on popu- lation." Much of the argument before the high court this week could turn on that point: The kind of powers the Commissioners Court really has. According to the Avery camp, i World News Roundup DETROIT (AP) -Production of 1968 Chrysler Corp. cars remaineds at a virtual standstill yesterday as negotiators strove to settle f local grievances that kindled United Auto Workers strikes at{ several plants. Company and UAW officials: expressed hope near-normal pro-z duction could be resumed, per- haps as early as tomorrow. But hopes for resumption of production at three of Chrysler's Detroit area car assembly plantsl and one truck plant were dashed when some 600 truck drivers re- jected a settlement recommended by their local union leaders. The walkout by the drivers cut off the delivery of parts to the Detroit plants. The drivers are members of UAW Local 212, the interplant transportation u n it. They staged their strike to pro- test working conditions. - The national Chrysler Council of the union met yesterday to discuss a new three-year national contract agreed upon several hours before a strike deadline set for midnight Wednesday. The 200-member council, rep- resenting some 95,000 Chrysler hourly production and mainte- nance workers, was expected to approve the proposed agreement, paving the way for ratification votes across the country Tuesday and Wednesday The UAW's international ex- ecutive board recommended rati- fication of the new agreement at a meeting Friday night. Still to be worked out, however, was a national agreement cover- ing Chrysler's 8,000 UAW salaried workers. Douglas Fraser, director of the union's Chrysler Department, said significant progress had been made in the past few days on local issues. Parts shortages, walkouts and layoffs idled some 50,000 of Chrysler's 103,000 UAW-repre- sented workers; and the auto- maker reportedly produced fewer than 1,000 cars Friday. Its normal output would have been 7,000 autos. - - PEACE CORPS IS HERE FILMS: 4:15 P.M. TUES-FRI. (Nov. 14-17) PLACEMENT TEST: 9:00, 12:00, 3:00 & 7:00 NOV. 13-17-3524 SAB BOOTH IN LOUNGE OF INTERNATIONAL CENTER Phone 763-3189 )IT U By The Associated Press PASADENA-Surveyor 6 lower- ed a soil-testing device to the moon's surface yesterday between picture-taking sessions and scien- tists later said the analyzer was "working perfectly." The 650 - pound, three - legged spacecraft has televised more than 2,300 photographs of a pos- sible astronaut-landing site since soft-landing in a rugged area near the center of the lunar disk Thursday. The soil sampler, similar to one carried to the moon by Surveyor 5 in September, analyzes elements° in the lunar crust by measuring radiation from them. ADEN - Arab nationalists re- newed their fight against British armed forces yesterday after lying low for three days. Rifle, machine-gun and mortar fire broke an unofficial truce in- stituted Wednesday when Saif Dhali, leader of the National Lib- eration Front, appealed for Brit- ish recognition of the front as the potential de facto government of South Arabia. The Arabs apparently were an- noyed that, though Britain plans to pull out of the restive pro- tectorate later this month, ther e had been no reply from Foreign Secretary George Brown. HONG KONG - Two top Red Chinese army marshals are laad- ing rebels opposed to Chairman Mao Tse-tung in a drive for con- trol of the capitals of Yunnan a n d Szechwan in southwest China, according to Red Guard ss SERGEI EISENSTEIN FESTIVAL TONIGHT IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART II (1946) publications reaching Hong Kong yesterday. One Red Guard newspaper said rebel machine gunners shot down a plane dropping leaflets urging the anti-Maoists to surrender. The publications identified the leaders of a force of peasants as Marshal Liu Io-cheng and Mar- shal Ho Lung. Liu once was re- garded as Red China's most im- portant military strategist. Both Liu and Ho have been condemned in Red Guard newspapers and wall posters. TRILOGY ON RACISM & POVERTY PART 11: Father Neuberger and the NAACP YOUTH COMMANDOS from St. Boniface Parish, Milwaukee, Wisc. Sunday, Nov. 12 . . . 7:30 P.M. No Admission Charge Coffee & Conversation Following NEWMAN . .. 331 THOMPSON Social Action Committee !I I I SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 "THE PEACE CORPS: A LATIN AAERICAN PERSPECTIVE" -Slides and discussion with Larry Rodick, PCV in Dominican Republic sand British Honduras -- _ - -- - - - SUPPER (50c) 6 P.M. PROGRAM 7 P.M. Presbyterian Campus Center, 1432 Washtenaw (Supper reservations: 662-3580 or 665-6575) GUILD HOUSE 802 Monroe Monday, Nov. 13th-Noon Luncheon 25c WILBUR BECKHAM, Director, Detroit Branch of Synanon; "WHAT IS SYNANON?" 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