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NEW YORK (AP) Although the guaranteed income may not be a critical issue in the presidential campaign, its proponents and opponents again will make sure that it gets an airing. They seldom miss'an opportunity. About the only conclusion reached so far is that so long as the war in Vietnam continues there will be no such thing for all Americans as a basic minimum wage, an assured income no matter what job a person holds or even if that person works at all. 8 Foiibonks Daily News-Miner, Friday, September 1 3, 1 968 Fortas May Not Testify If Asked WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Robert P.

Griffin, predicted today that Abe Fortas will not agree to further questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to be chief justice. Griffin said the tip-off, in his opinion, was a letter reportedly being circulated by supporters of the nomination saying it would be a disservice to the judiciary for Fortas to appear before the committee again. The committee has invited him back. Meanwhile, it was learned that the committee plans to start off its reopened hearings Friday with testimony by Los Angeles police about the seizure of strip-tease films involved in Supreme Court decisions. Some opponents of President Johnson's nomination to elevate Fortas from an associate justice of the court to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice have been sharply critical of Fortas' rulings in obscenity cases.

Critics have also complained that Fortas, while a member of the high court, took part in some actions of the executive branch of the government. Griffin, a leader in the fight against Senate confirmation of the nomination, said, "There can be no valid excuse for Mr. Fortas to refuse to appear and answer further questions concerning the extent of his involvement in executive branch operations while sitting as a Supreme Court justice." 'This is a matter of legitimate concern and has nothing whatever to do with the cases he decided as a Supreme Court justice," Griffin added. The letter he referred to, Griffin aides reported, is being circulated by Sens. Philip A.

Hart, Joseph D. Tydings, D- and George A. Smathers, Judiciary Committee members supporting the nomination. An aide of Hart said he understood the letter was addressed to Committee Chairman James 0. Eastland, and took the position that it would be inappropriate for Fortas to return for further questioning.

Griffin, who requested the reopening of the hearings, said that since Fortas voluntarily appeared earlier and answered questions about his role in executive affairs, "It now would be a disservif-e to the judiciary for him not to reappear." ll Vote A "I A People In the Guaranteed Income Aired Again Expenses Up Three Bucks Still, the idea surfaces regularly and is supported by a wide range of individuals who share almost no other beliefs in common. The issue begins to sound like one whose time is approaching. It is obvious that the existence of desperate poverty and comfortable wealth side by side in a nation that seeks equal opportunity for all is one of the basic causes of race and.class antagonisms. A guaranteed income could be one answer. Most popularly suggested is a system using the existing feder- Small Skirmishes On Fringe of City SAIGON (AP) Two small skirmishes were reported on the fringes of Tay Ninh City today, and enemy troops ambushed a U.S.

convoy farther out, but U.S. advisers said it appeared that enemy forces had pulled back for the moment. The fighting was reported on the southwestern and southeast- em edges of the city as 2,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines swept through areas that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese infiltrators had occupied Wednesday. South Vietnamese military headquarters in Saigon said: "The situation is now calm in Tay Ninh There is no major fighting." Enemy troops opened up with small arms on a convoy from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division six miles to the south along route 22, the major highway leading from Tay Ninh to Saigon, 45 miles to the southeast.

The Americans returned the fire with machine guns atop armored personnel carriers. Fourteen enemy soldiers and one American were reported killed in the brief fight. Another five U.S. soldiers were wounded. Two trucks, an armored personnel carrier and a helicopter were slightly damaged, a U.S.

spokesman said. Meanwhile, the allied command in Saigon reported that U.S., South Vietnamese and enemy casualties all dropped sharply last week, reflecting a slowdown in ground action after two weeks of intensified fighting. American casualties were 195 killed and 1,400 wounded, about half the total reported the week before. One U.S. adviser at Tay Ninh said the majority of the enemy force has withdrawn "but lie may have withdrawn only a short way or into a different area.

He can come right back." South Vietnamese headquarters said 22 enemy soldiers had been killed in fighting at Tay Ninh since Wednesday. Government losses were put at 13 killed and 91 wounded. Between 800 and 1500 men were estimated to have invaded Tay Ninh and its suburbs before dawn Wednesday. "I think they missed their chance," said one U.S. adviser.

"They really could punched in Wednesday morning, but now we have the troops to stop them." Elsewhere, heavy fighting flared up in the northernmost provinces; and enemy gunners shelled Peliku, capital of the central highlands, and an allied airfield in the MeKond Delta. SLIGHT ERROR NEW DELHI (AP) India has steadfastly maintained during its 20-year duel with Pakistan over Kashmir state that Kashmir is an "integral part" of India. Thus an embarrassed parliament, informed that the Kashmir Trade Agent in Bombay was listed in the telephone directory under i a i i quickly ordered the directory to be amended. al income tax structure. The graduations of tax payments now generally decrease until zero a reached.

Zero is when a person of low income owes no tax. Under the guaranteed wage, however, those of extremely low income, or none at all, not only would pay no taxes but would receive payments to bring them closer to zero, or the minimum needed for basic necessities. Incentives to earn would be built into the system. This is the negative income tax. Here are some of the arguments likely to be heard in coming weeks.

First, as the result of the flip of a coin, are those against. It is immoral. You must work to earn your living. Income is not a right. It would perpetuate the handout system.

It would weaken incentives to save and invest and thus become a terrible drag on the economy. It would reduce the number of people willing to fill service jobs, to shine shoes, wash cars, mow lawns, act as porters or take "the smelly jobs," as one economist put it. It would be inflationary. You just can't pass out all that money--it might be as much as $25 billion a year--without creating a situation where you have too many dollars chasing END DENTURE MISERY REFITS DENTURES Miracle plastic DKNTLiRlTE rcfirs loose dentures in five i utes. This "Cushion of Comfort" enses sore gums.

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The committee was awaiting word from Fortas, who has been vacationing in Connecticut, whether he will accept an invitation to reappear for the new hearings. An Associated Press poll earlier this week showed that once the issue gets out of committee, 46 to 26 senators favor Fortas; enough for confirmation but not the two-thirds needed to cut off a threatened filibuster. Subject of the reopened hearings will be opponents' allegations that Fortas has been improperly involved in executive and legislative matters since being named an associate Supreme Court Justice in 1966. Fortas underwent four days of questioning at hearings in July, after President Johnson nominated him to move up and succeed retiring Earl Warren. Also invited to testify at the new hearings were Secretary of Defense Clark M.

Clifford and Sen. Gordon Allott, R-Colo. And the committee said it was issuing subpoenas for Undersecretary of the Treasury Joseph W. Ban; former White House speech writer Richard Goodwin; Deviet W. Pierson, a special assistant at the White House, and Daniel Yergin, author of an article in the July 22 issue of New York magazine.

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Those in favor of a guaranteed annual income argue: -What greater indignity is there than being unable to live as a member of society, to become so depressed that physically and psychologically the climb from poverty is impossible? --It would reduce the cost of welfare by substituting for hundreds of state and local programs. A guaranteed annual wage would reduce the stigma of welfare. --It would give individuals more choice in the use of funds. Rather than receiving food stamps and handouts they would be encouraged to learn the use of money in a competitive society. --Economically speaking, the poor represent a great untapped market.

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(AP) U.S. Sen. George D. Aiken, R- says his campaign expenses went up this year-he spent $17.09 to win both the Republican and Democratic nominations for re-election Tuesday. That's about $3 more than he spent six years ago.

Aiken, who i i expense form Wednesday, cited a boost in postal rates. The 76-year-old Vermonter, who first became a senator in 1911, defeated Bethel schoolteacher William K. Tuftson on Republican ballots and picked up the Democratic nomination on write-in votes. WASHINGTON (AP) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's health is so much improved that his wife, Mamie, has been able to leave his bedside for some social activity.

Mrs. Eisenhower took time out from her bedside watch of her husband Wednesday when she left Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend a matinee per- formance of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," at Washington's National Theater. The 77-year-old Eisenhower has been in Walter Reed for the last four months, under treatment for a series of heart at tacks. His latest and most severe attack came Aug. 6.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) Julie Nixon, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon says even if her father wins the election she and David Eisenhower woa't be married in the White House. HONOLULU (AP) Wendell Phillips. ft.

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