TRURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1967
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE THREE
THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE
*LBJ.
Asks
Increase
r' In Postage, Pay Rates
Plan T o Raise
Stamp Costs
By One Cent
Government's Wages
Will Aim for Equality
With Private Industry
WASHINGTON OP) - President
Johnson asked Congress yesterday
to hike postal rates-from letters
to books-by $800 million a year
and to increase the pay of civilian
workers and military personnel an
average of 4.5 per cent.
The present 5-cent first-class
stamp, the 8-cent airmail stamp
and the 4-cent postcard stamp
all would be raised by one penny.
The proposed 4.5 per cent pay
increase would be the first step
of a three-stage plan with the
avowed aim to give government
workers pay equality with private
industry. There would be further
pay increases in each of the next
two years.
Government officials, without
being specific, said each follow-
up pay raise which Johnson
wants enacted this year might
be the range of 2 per cent.
The average 4.5 per cent pay
increase for both civilian em-
ployers and members of the uni-
formed forces would be effective
next Oct. 1.
Johnson, in a special message,
recommended that Congress "take
the final step this year to achieve
full compatibility with private in-
dustry."
To accomplish this, Johnson
urged that the added pay in-
creases for civilian workers be
made effective in October 1968
and October 1969.
His recommendations for in-
creased postal rates include:
-Second-class mail newspapers,
magazines, and non-profit publi-
cations, an average increase of 22
per cent for all categories phased
over a three-year period begin-
ning Jan. 1, 1968.
-Third-class mail, bulk mail,
also called junk mail by some,
and pareels weighing less than
one pound, an average increase
of 28 per cent. The rate increase
for single pieces of mail would
go in effect Jitly 1 and the bulk
rate Jan. 1, 1968.
-Fourth - class mail mainly
books and records, an average
increase of 21 per cent, effective
July 1.
Except for first-class mail, all
other classes of mail are opera-
ting deep in the red and officials
said the proposed pay increase
would be more than enough to
put his traditional profitmaker in
the red, too.
President
Might Delay
Tax Boost
Business Slowdown
May Interfere With
Deflation Legislation
WASHINGTON (U)-The ad-
ministration may have to ask
Congress to put a delayed fuse
on President Johnson's tax sur-
charge plan, proposed of timing.
The government claims to be
sure the tax boost will be needed
to quell inflation later this year,
when an expected revival of pri-
vate demand is reinformed by the
scheduled rise of federal spending.
But because the business slow-
down hasbeenddeeper than ex-
pected, the need for a tax hike
may not have become clear by the
time the surcharge proposal must
be spelled out to a skeptical Con-
gress. Some lawmakers have said
that the 6 per cent surcharge on
income and corporation taxes
might bring on a recession.
Congress
There is talk of an early ad-
journment, perhaps by Aug. 1.
If Congress quits without acting
on the plan to raise about $5.5
bilion extra revenue a year-or
on some alternative measure-
the administration will face two
unhappy possibilities:
First, a resumption of strong
price-wage pressure by the year's
end, with the government pouring
out billions more than it takes it.
Second, history's biggest peace-
time deficit in fiscal 1968, the
budget year that starts this July
1. Neither the administration nor
Democratic members of Congress
would like to carry that much red
ink into an election year.
Modifications
Modifications of the tax pro-
posal are possible. Some change
seems certain perhaps a smaller
surcharge to start with; or a
delay in the effective date until
fall; or possibly even a request
that Congress give Johnson dis-
cretionary power to invoke the
temporary surcharge, if and when
needed, during the congressional
1 adjournment.
But the Republican coordi-
i nating committeee already has
a used the fiscal dilemma as the
springboard for an assault on
what it called the administra-
t tion's "reckless spending" and
"deliberate deficits."
ODESSA (A')-Soviet aid ship-
ped from this Black Sea port to
North Vietnam apparently has in-
creased sharply over the past two
months.
Informed shipping sources say:
there are signs of strain on facil-
ities of the port, long a major one
for the Soviet aid that goes to
North Vietnam by sea.
These sources believe the strain
is due to the increased use of the;
sea route from Odessa to the
North Vietnamese port of Hai-
phong.
Sea Traffic
They attributed the increased
sea traffic to recent Soviet dif-
ficulties in getting aid through
to Hanoi on overland routes
across Red China.
Increased Soviet reliance on the
sea route raises the possibility of
a direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation
on the open sea, should Soviet
ships carry the anti-aircraft
weapons used in Vietnam to shoot
down American planes.
But so far, cources here say,
there is no evidence that such
weapons are aboard Soviet ships
leaving the Black Sea for Hai-
phong.
Goods
Just what Soviet goods leavel
here for Vietnam is difficult to
pin down. Cargoes for Haiphong
are always in crateswhen being
loaded on docks here.
In private conversation, how-
ever, word gets around this busy
international cargo and passenger
port that economic aid, supplies
not essentially military, leave
Odessa and its sister port of
Ilichyovsk, 22 miles to the south-
west.
Construction work, still con-
tinuing, began at Ilichovsk eight
years ago. The new port has eight
or nine berths, compared to 22
or 23 Odessa, but already handles
a larger volume of total cargo.
As ships move past the light-
house into Odessa itself, they
turn left for the civilian cargo
and passenger harbor. right for
the Navy yards.
Security
Strict security is maintained in
the Navy side of the port. It is
understood that some ships sail
from there to Haiphong.
More military aid, however, is
believed to go from another port
about 100 miles southwest of
Odessa and just east of the city
of Izmail.
Izmail is near the Romanian
border and the north of the Dan-
ube. The military port near there
reportedly receives equipment
from both the oviet Union and
eastern Europe and is used ex-
clusively for shipments to Viet-
nam.
FROM ODESSA:
Soviet Port Increases
Shipments To Haiphong
In the Odessa-Ilichyovsk com-
plex recently foreign ships have
been forced to sail with small
cargoes. It is not unusual now for
a foreign ship with a capacity of
10,000 tons of cargo to leave with
a load of only 500 tons.
The goods that are supposed to
get to the ships under foreign
trade agreements are not getting
there.
Informed sources say this is
because the inland transport fa-
cilities bringing Soviet goods to
the port, such as trains, are now
crowded with other cargoes for
Vietnam.
The sources believe that in the
next two months the Russians
encountered more difficulties get-
ting trains across China to Hanoi,
so were forced to tie up more in-
land transport facilities getting
aid to Odessa for shipment by
sea.
MUSbatKE T
-Associated Press
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
EXACTLY 50 YEARS AGO today the U.S. entered the First World War. President Woodrow Wilson
addressed a joint session of Congress on April 2, 1917 to urge a declaration that a state of war exists
between the U.S. and the Imperial German Gover nment.
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SAIGON ()-Hazards of anti- greatest and the roughest we to stage their heaviest raids in
rcraft fire from within North have ever seen." five months-147 combat mis-
Ietnam's civilian centers, im- Expressing a military viewpoint sions. U.S. Air Force, Navy and
une from bombing by Washing- that he said may be outweighed Marine pilots were limited to 70
n orders, drew critical note by political considerations, the mnisions Tuesday, though some
om U.S. Air Force officers yes- lithe, gray-haired officer de- got in to strike at targets south-
rday. Another hazard, bad olared. west and southeast of the port
eather, again restricted missions ''rC of Haiphong.
Ouir nresnt fighter fnrc hs aphn.
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north of the border.
Perhaps with an eye to a pos-
sible effect on Pentagon policy,
the Air Force charged that guns
firing from the middle of a vil-
lage felled the 500th American
plane to be shot down over North
Vietnam, an F105 Thunderchief
lost with its pilot Sunday.
And the first U.S. Air Force
wing commander to fly 100 mis-
sions over North Vietnam, Col.
Robert R. Scott of Des Moines,
Iowa, said, "We can see the mis-
siles coming right up from the
heart of Hanoi."
"Roughest"
A veteran of World War II and
Korea who is now based in Thai-
land as commander of the 355th
Tactical Fighter Wing, Scott said
in an interview he considers the
defenses in North Vietnam "the
vrprbit glie rcer e '
the power to ruin their capacity
for making war, the North Viet-
namese capacity. The targeting
should be expanded to cover any
military or industrial target that
contributes to their war poten-
tial."
He said the Hanoi-Haiphong
area is dotted with assembly
plants; industrial sites, military
areas and rail yards as yet un-
hit.
High Lights
The U.S. Command annnounced
a record of 5,557 Viet Cong de-
fected in March, switching sides
under the Saigon goveernment's
Chieu Hoi open arms program.
This brought the total since 1963,
when the program was launched,
to 58,970. But recruiting and in-
filtration apparently are cancel-
ling out both such desertions and
battle losses, with the Red armed
forces still officially estimated to
total 287,000 men.
American and allied troops re-
ported killing 108 of the enemy
in widely scattered contacts Tues-
day.
Clouds veiled North Vietnam after
the break in the weather Monday
that permitted U.S. air squadrons
Professor, 8 Students Die
Iln Cornell Dormitory Fire,
SPRING AUCTION
ART PRINT LOAN PICTURES
ITHACA (R) - A smoky fireE
erupted in a Cornell University
dormitory early yesterday, claim-
ing the lives of a faculty adviserI
and eight students.
Eleven other persons, eight of
them coeds, suffered from smoke1
inhalation. None was considered1
in serious condition.
The remainder of the 71 per-
sons who occupied the two-story,
cement-block building escaped the
choking smoke, some of them by]
lowering themselves on bed sheets
attached to the second-story win-]
dows.t
Witnesses said one of the vic-
tims, faculty adviser John Alden;
Finch, 37, an associate professor
originally of Harrow Weald, Eng-
land, lost his own life after rescu-
ing several students.
Four victims enrolled in a new
program, aimed at allowing a top
student to obtain a doctorate in
six years instead of the normal
seven or eight, were:
Jennie Zu-wei Sun, 21, Upper
Darby, Pa.; a freshman; Jeffrey
W. Smith, 17, Cupertino, Calif.,
a sophomore; Martha Beck, 18,
Evanston, Ill., a sophomore, and
Peter Cooch, 19, Weston, Mass.,
a sophomore.
The upper-class and graduate
women who died were:
Meimei Cheng, 22, State Col-
lege, Pa.; Carol Lynn Kurtz, 22,
Butler, Pa.; Anne McCormic, 21,
Philadelphia, Pa., and Johanna
C. Walden, 25, Helsinki, Finland.
"We never had a fire drill," a
shaken survivor said.
Monday, April 10... 10-5
SOUTH LOUNGE
OF THE UNION
World News Roundup
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WASHINGTON - Chief federal
mediator William E. Simkin said
yesterday the national trucking
industry negotiations with the
Teamsters Union are at an im-
passe and that a strike may be
imminent.
Simkin asked both sides "to
continue operations in this in-
dustry w i t h ou t interruption"
pending further talks with fed-
eral mediators.
The ,negotiations involve 450,-
00 workers for 12,000 trucking
firms. A major segment of the
industry has said it would shut
down the 1,500 biggest firms if
the Teamsters strike even a few
of them.
TOKYO-The Viet Cong has
joined North Vietnam in rejecting
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's
three-stafe Vietnam peace pro-
posal, saying it is only beneficial
to the United States.
The rejection by the Viet
Cong's Giai Phong radio was car-
ried by Hanoi's official Vietnam
News Agency-VNA-and mon-
itored in Tokyo today.
North Vietnam turned down
Thant's proposal Monday, claim-
ing that it does not "proceed
from the realities of the present
situation in Vietnam."
The United States has already
accepted the proposal envisaging
a general standstill in the fight-
ing, preliminary talks and recon-
vening of the 1954 Geneva con-
ference. The proposal was pub-
lished March 28.
WASHINGTON - The United
States announced yesterday a
major easing of its visa, or entry
permit, system for foreign tourists
and businessmen coming to
America.
Starting April 15, the State De-
partment said, visitors from 24
countries can get multiple-entry
U.S. visas good for a lifetime. The
previous maximum limit on visit-
ors visas was four years.
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4:10 P.M. Promptly
CAESAR'S ACTOR
by Henri Gheon &
LEONCE AND LENA
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FRIDAY NIGHT-APRIL 7
UNION-LEAGUE
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featuring:
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THEATER CONCERT
APRIL 7 & 8
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