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A-10-Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, March 29,1977 Permanent tax cut or rebate? Recess for Easter may decide WASHINGTON (AP--If you've already figured out how to spend that $50 tax rebate President Carter wants to give to most Americans, think again. There are increasing indications the Senate may scrap the rebate and substitute a permanent tax cut. Senate debate on the tax proposals will begin in another week and may not be completed until after Congress returns in mid-April from its Easter recess. And what members of Congress hear during trips home may be the decisive factor in determining whether a rebate or a permanent tax cut is in the bill that goes to the White House. The fight over the rebate carries the potential for the most serious conflict to date between Carter and Congress, more serious than clashes over protocol and water projects that have marked the first 60daysoftheCarterpresidency.

Carter is pressing for the rebate as the way to give a quick boost to the economy. But congressional support for the rebate, even among Democrats, is, at best, lukewarm. "I plan to vote for it," said Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, when asked his opinion of the rebate. "Enthusiastically?" he was asked.

"No," replied Byrd. But, he said, "It's the President's program. It's part of his economic stimulus program." On the Republican side, the votes are lined up, 38 to 0, against the rebate. "There's an excellent chance we will defeat the rebate and substitute a permanent tax cut," said Minority Leader Howard H. Baker, R-Tcnn.

Baker is certain of some support among the Democrats as well as of the vote of Sen. Harry P. Byrd Jr. of Virginia, an independent. When the Senate Finance Committee voted to keep the Carter rebate in the bill rather than substitute a permanent tax cut, the tally followed party lines, with the 10 Democrats voting for the rebate and the 7 Republicans and Harry Byrd opposing it.

Sens. Abraham Ribicoff, and Floyd Haskell, made it clear they don't think the rebate is a good idea, but were supporting it out of a desire to give the Democratic President a chance to try out his ideas for stimulating the economy. The administration argument, repeated time after time since Carter took office, is that there is no faster way of giving the economy a boost than with a rebate that could be in the mail to taxpayersthissummer. The House already has acted on the tax bill and voted 219 to 194 to retain the rebate. But 54 Democrats joined 140 Republicans in opposing the rebate.

Only one Republican supported the rebate. Senate ethics code bill may bar professionals WASHINGTON (AP)-ls there a doctor in the House? Yes, but under a proposed new ethics code, there isn't likely to be one in the Senate. And no lawyers, engineers or architects, say critics of the code. Senators opposing the adoption of the proposed code of ethics suggest that if the code is approved as written the only "licensed professionals" in the Senate of the future will be auto mechanics, plumbers, hairdressers and interior decorators. Under Ihe proposed code, which is scheduled a final vole late this week, "an engineer, real estate agent, insurance agent, attorney, physician, architect, consultant or (one who engages in) activities of a similar character" would be barred from earning any money from his profession while serving in the Senate.

At the same time, the code would permit members, aides and employes of the Senate to moonlight in other licensed occupations for earnings equal to 15 per cent of their official salary. The idea, says the special committee that drafted the code, is to prevent real or apparent conflicts of interest between legislative duties and outside activities requiring "substantial" personal involvement, as opposed to jobs where conflicts would rarely occur. But the logic of that eluded Sens. Sources near panel say Future mail delivery outlook dim WASHINGTON (AP) -Your mail won't be delivered on Saturday, more of your tax money will go toward subsidizing the Postal Service and you will have to pay 22 cents for every first- class letter you mail. This is the grim picture of the mail service in 1985 as drawn by a federal commission studying the future of the financially troubled Postal Service, sources said Monday.

The recommendations to Congress from the Commission on Postal Service are due by April 18, but participants said the panel has voted to recommend: Ending Saturday mail delivery to save $400 million per year. Increasing taxpayer subsidies by removing a ceiling imposed at the time the Postal Service was reorganized from the old Post Office Department in 1971. Fighting reported near Zairean mining center KINSHASA, Zaire (AP)-Fighting between government troops and Katangan exiles from Angola was reported near the copper-mining center of Kolwezi, In southern Zaire. An American engineer said he had seen many wounded soldiers arrive in the city from the west. The engineer, a by telephone, is one of about 40 Americans with the Morrison-Knudsen Corp.

of Boise, Idaho, working on a HO-million electric relay station near Kolwezi. Their families were evacuated last week to Kinshasa. Unofficial sources in Kinshasa said there had been fighting since Sunday around Kolwezi, in mineral-rich Shaba province, which was known as Katanga when Zaire was the Belgian Congo. Government officials continued to deny claims that Mutshatsha, the government headquarters in the province about 60 miles west of Kolwezi, had fallen. But they confirmed that there had been fighting near the town since Sunday.

A government spokesman said a "major battle" was raging around Mutshatsha, but gave no details. Southern Zaire was invaded three weeks ago by an estimated 2,000 troops, most of them veterans of the 1960 attempt by the Katangans to secede. They fled to neighboring Angola when the attempt failed. The invaders' immediate goal appeared to be Kolwezi and its mines some 220 miles east of the Angolan border. The chances of Congress approving the recommendations appear slim.

But without these measures, the first- class rate would have to be increased to 28 cents by 1985 to cover the sharply rising cost of delivering the mail, sources said the commission determined. Under the commission recommendations, the first-class rate would be held to "only" 22 cents per letter by 1985, the sources said. First-class rates Jumped from 10 to 13 cents on Dec. 31,1975. i i acknowledged that the recommendations will be unpopular.

"We decided not to pay attention to what would be politically popular. We decided to recommend what we felt is needed, "he said. But, he added, "I don't think Congress is willing to accept elimination of Saturday delivery." The commission decided not to make a recommendation on whether money- losing rural post offices should be closed, the sources said. The Postal Service has talked about closing some of its 30,000 post offices as an economy move, but there has been heavy opposition from Congress members representing rural districts. The commission also decided to urge the Postal Service to "get seriously involved" with electronic communication, one source said.

The mail agency has been considering electronic message services that would avoid some of the costs of sorting letters. Henry Bellmon, and Charles Percy, who wondered at length Monday why persons whose work was based on limited training and the price of a license should be favored over those who study years for professional status. Prefacing almost every question with the phrase, "I don't understand this," wheat-and-cattle rancher Bellmon asked whether it would be proper for a senator to sell shrubs, but not be a "landscape architect." "Not If he's licensed," said Sen. Strom Thurmond, who as senior Republican on the drafting panel was temporarily serving as the code's chief defender on the Senate floor. Applying the straight-line logic of the frontier, Bellmon pressed on: "He can't be a physician.

Could he be a nurse? What's so evil about being a doctor and not about being a nurse?" Thurmond, struggling for answers he conceded "may seem contradictory," said the two jobs were "different relationships the nurse lives In a different world, it's low-type work." Insisting the whole business was "ambiguous," Bellmon called for a vote on his own amendment to knock it out of the bill. He lost. Deaths The Rev. Arthur Kinsoiving BALTIMORE (AP)-The Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsoiving, former rector of St.

James Episcopal Church in New York and Trinity Church in Boston, is dead at age 77. He died of cancer Monday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Joseph Petrovtch I A I Petrovich, filmmaker for over 30 years and animator of the 1971 Academy Award-winning cartoon film "The Crunch Bird," died Sunday. He was 52. JuanMarlnello MIAMI (AP)--Juan Marinello, a cofounder of the Cuban Communist Party and the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, died Saturday, Cuban radio reported.

He was70. Justinian Marina BUCHAREST, Romania (API- Patriarch Justinian Marina, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, died in Bucharest at the age of 76, the Romanian news agency Agerpres reported Monday. Diana Hyland LOS ANGELES (AP)--Actress Diana HyJand, star of'the new ABC-TV series "Eight Is Enough," died Sunday. She was believed to be in her late 30s. Denis Bracken LOS ANGELES A i Bracken, a radio newsman who contributed a daily CBS network feature, "Meet the Cook," died Sunday at the age of 45.

He had joined the CBS affiliate KNX in 1963. Sidney Thaxter FALMOUTH, Maine (AP)-Sidney W. Thaxter, a prominent Portland, Maine lawyer and civic leader, died Sunday. He was 62. Francisco Matarazzo SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP)-Count Francisco Matarazzo, patriarch of one of Sao Paulo's pioneer industrial families and one of Brazil's richest men, died Sunday.

He was 76. DISCUSS THE ECONOMY--President Carter is flanked by Vice President Walter Mondale, left, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal during a meeting at Article alleges, the White House Monday. Carter called the meeting with his economic advisers to discuss the economy. Phoenix crime flourishes By The Associated Press "New York-based hoodlums" are challenging Chicago-linked mob figures for control of organized crime in Phoenix, according to published accounts of a series by a team of investigative reporters.

The stories said that Phoenix "has a flourishing, but disjointed network of organized crime operatives." Most of the Chicago gang figures, the stories said, are "bottom-drawer hoods," being challenged by New Yorkers "from the Joe Bonanno family." Bonanno, a former New York Mafia figure, lives in Tucson, 120 miles from Phoenix, and had been described as retired. Published accounts of an earlier report by the investigative journalists said, however, that Bonanno, known as "Joe Bananas," is active in organized crime in Arizona and is trying to expand. The stories are based on a 23-part, copyright series by Investigative Editors and Reporters, Inc. The project, involving an investigation of organized crime in Arizona, began after the murder last June of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. Published accounts of the Tuesday installment, the 17th in the series, appeared ui editions of the Indianapolis Star and some other newspapers available Monday night.

The stories in print said the IRE had discovered that mob figures were moving in to control an extensive network of massage parlors in the Phoenix area and have been "muscling into legitimate businesses including the entertainment industry, the music tape industry, the garbage industry and various food and service-related operations." The stories also said, "There is heavy gambling action in Phoenix, again mob influenced," with a lot of bets placed on sports events. The published accounts said, "Several Phoenix lawyers and judges have mob connections and have been described to IRE reporters as availing themselves of prostitutes and orgies." No names of lawyers or judges were given, and the stories did not cite specific instances. The stories said that with the help of the police, the IRE compiled a list of "102 members or associates of organized crime families operating in Phoenix." About two dozen were named in the published accounts. Carter staff reading Clinton letters A I A I i "Clinton, on the envelope, Ihe President said. He promised his staff would bring those letters "directly to me." That was two weeks ago, and Jimmy Carter is still wading through the results.

However, not all the questions, gripes and suggestions generated by Carter's appearance March 16 at Clinton's town meeting are going straight to him. It would take hours to read the 400 letters received so far. And Carter doesn't know the answers to all the. questions. "The letters are now being sorted, and they'll be read by a staff member," says aide Barry Jagoda.

"Some will be forwarded to the President." Jagoda says the rest will be separated "ac- cordingtotheneedfor spec if ic action." "They'll all be read individually," Jagoda says, "and each will be considered for an individual answer." Carter's staff says response to the town meeting and to the President's radio talk show March 5, which generated 3,000 letters, warrants more contact-with-the-people experiments. Among them: A Carter suggestion for network TV shows explaining income tax Form 1040, line by line. The networks rejected the idea. Too dull, said one: The others Prime Office Space in the busy DOWNTOWN AREA 4 City Parting Lots within 1 block Can be used for private or suites from 200 sq.ft. Air conditioned Some areas rowty decorated liSOO Scv Ft 6 35,500 84 Ft AVAILABLE NOW: 452-3033 Wometco-Lathrop Co.

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The IRS says 65 shows will get more than 400 airings before April 15. Another Carter talk show. The staff hasn't asked Carter about that yet. "It's just too far away," Jagoda says. "Our Inclination would be to do it again sometime this year.

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