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. OFFICERS CHARGE: Wther Vietnamese Fire UNION-LEAGUE Announce PETITIONING for Committee Chairmen-Apr. 5-13 ASSISTANT CHAIRMAN PROPS COMMUNICATIONS PUBLICITY CO-ORDINATING ARTIST SECRETARY COSTUME DESIGN STAGE MANAGER LIGHTING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR PROGRAM ADVERTISING TICKETS & USHERS, PROGRAM DESIGN TREASURER PROMOTIONS PETITIONS AVAILABLE AT MUSKET OFFICE-3RD FLOOR LEAGUE ai Vi m to fr te w Endangers U.S. Aircraft 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. UNION-LEAGUE IF 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 "" 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. U TODAY 4:10 P.M. Promptly CAESAR'S ACTOR by Henri Gheon & LEONCE AND LENA by Georg Buchner Student Laboratory Theatre Program Department of Speech I Arena Theatre, Frieze Building Admission Free 11 FRIDAY NIGHT-APRIL 7 UNION-LEAGUE presents BIMBO'S NIGHT OUT featuring: ki ANN ARBOR DANCE THEATER CONCERT APRIL 7 & 8 8:30 P.M. at TAPPAN JR. HIGH SCHOOL Aum. THE FRIARS-if you missed them last Saturday night at Hill, here's your chance to see them for free (You can also- buy their new record "The Friars Night Out" at Liberty Music Shop) I I I