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gnmiiiiiiiHiiiniiiiiimiiniiiiiimiiiniinMiim I Legislative Candidates a DiC a pun Takes Strong Stand Against Kew Taxes Mills 1 End Fiscal Feuding i SI -i XOVAKj 0L Mississippi Improving Negro Lot GREENVILLE, Miss. What does the South, which has seen its share of race riots, sit-ins, and bombings, think of the racial trauma experienced by big Northern cities today? I got the answer down here in the heart of the Black Belt, an area so named not because of the Negro population but because its soil is probably the blackest and richest in the United States. The population also justifies the name, for in the Delta the ratio is 60 per cent Negro in the countryside, 50 per cent in the cities. GREENVILLE, WHICH has that ratio, is a prosperous farming community where cotton once was king and still is queen. The city nestles below the levee of the Mississippi River, which is higher than most of Greenville's buildings.

The docks where steamboats and barges once loaded bales of cotton are idle now, for the river, in all its might and majesty, cut a new channel, leaving Greenville behind. Jb tUr itnwim miiigj w4nmI tion of what he called "the free ride big business is getting in Florida." "It's reached the point where you can't penalize the family breadwinner any longer, he deserves a break. It's about time business pays for the services it gets." DiCapua, a Connecticut native, went from high school to enlist in the World War II Navy, served for the duration aboard carriers in the Pacific. WITH DISCHARGE HE joined Eastern Air Lines as a ground operations specialist, completing insurance courses in his spare time. Later he was a federal air traffic controller.

In 1961 DiCapua settled in the Daytona Beach area. He's proud of his insurance salesman's record: "In seven years I haven't had a week I didn't sell a policy." Yifl-llltEW PEARSOX WASHINGTON The long, bitter, and wholly unnecessary fiscal feud between President Johnson and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas has been quietly resolved in recent days, making passage of a tax increase within the next few weeks nearly inevitable. Although several roadblocks remain, the biggest obstacle the stubborn impasse between the President and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is no more.

It has become clear in private conferences the past week that Mr. Johnson now is willing to buy a fiscal package tailored to Mills' specifications. THAT MEANS AN immediate $10 billion increase in personal and corporate income taxes, raised by an upward revision of rates, as Mills desires, rather than the LBJ 10 per cent surtax formula. Far more important, the package includes deeper cuts both in current spending and in authorizations for future spending than any the President has previously accepted. Ironically, Mr.

Johnson could have accepted this same package last fall, guaranteeing quick approval of higher taxes by Mills's Ways and Means Committee an event that might well have averted the dangerous gold crisis this winter. But last fall Mr. Johnson had dug his feet in deep against spending cuts and, foolishly, was scarcely speaking to Mills. What moved the tax issue from less than a 50-50 bet a month ago to a highly probable event today was the force of multiple pressures: The inflationary rise of an overheated economy, the prospect of disaster for home building because of escalating interest rates, the increasingly shrill insistence of European central bankers that Washington put its fiscal house in order now. SUCH PRESSURES have greatly diminished congressional resistance to higher taxes and made Mills, along with other tax-writers on Capitol Hill, considerably more eager for a solution.

Most vital, however, has been the impact of these growing pressures on Mr. Johnson, inducing him at long last to By D. G. LAWRENCE Senliiwt Staff David DiCapua, seeking Republican nomination for Rep. Bill Conway's Volusia County house seat, has one overriding campaign plank.

"If I get to Tallahassee I won't vote one cent of new taxes until the '69 CTITP WBk KSISUTTM legislature agrees to tax," he declared. a corporation THE 44 YEAR OLD Daytona Beach insurance agent lumped tax exempt foundations in his denuncia Irvin Boasts By JACK MCDAVITT Stntlntl Stiff Dr. Charles E. Irvin has been a college professor, businessman and lecturer. Now he wants to represent Volusia County in the legislature.

One of two Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for House seat 35, Irvin is the holder of three college degrees bachelor and master's degrees from Oberlin College and a doctorate in education irom Michigan State University. 1 HE TAUGHT AT Oberlin, Allegheny College, Ohio State University and Michigan State and has served as a sales and public staff member or consultant to 22 of the nation's largest corporations, including General Motors, (ilisson Favors By JACK McDAVITT Smtlml Staff Dr. James Glisson, Eustis chiropractic physician and candidate for house seat 33, wants all tax increases in the future to go before the voters before taking effect. "In this age of modern communication, the average citizen can be much better informed on key issues than their representatives were in years past," Glisson said. "To ignore this fact, and the wishes of the people is an insult to the intelligence of the taxpayer." GLISSON, A NATIVE of Jackson County who received his chiropractic degree from Palmer College, pledged he would "oppose any legislation on the state level which infringes on free enterprise.

I will accept that package available for months. Curiously, however, the President came within an inch of destroying his chances for higher taxes in the tumult following Martin Luther King's assassination. On Friday night, April 5, a highly agitated President placed telephone calls to key congressmen. With a touch of panic in his voice, he noted that scores of cities were in flames and said he intended to convene a joint session of Congress to ask for higher taxes accompanied by a massive spending program. The replies unanimously informed Mr.

Johnson that such a course would kill both the tax hike and the spending program. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, Senate majority leader, was particularly influential in dissuading Mr. Johnson from delivering that speech. So was William McChesney Martin, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, himself panicky over economic conditions.

HAVING ABANDONED his joint session, Mr. Johnson then took a more conservative tack by privately agreeing, in effect, to both parts of the Mills fiscal package. riarito Senttel INTERPRETATION PERSPECTIVE ANALYSIS Apr. 26, 1968 19 A DAVID DICAPUA With his wife of 22 years, three children, he lives in Ormond Beach. For House Seat CHARLES IRVIN Increases JAMES GLISSON House Post KEN RAST He was born in Leesburg, won his degree from University of South Florida.

ft X- -'uMiiii i Vv ft I Jm MP ,1 Mr-). 1 A Hast, Close Last Year, Trying Again PARK FREE SHOP TODAY 10 TIL 9:30 COLONIAL PLAZAORLANDO Varied Background In Bid General Dynamics, General Elect- ric and Bristol-Myers. In his 14 years in Daytona Beach, Irvin has made some 300 free talks to local groups, helping them raise more than $5 million. He also was one of the original organizers of the Daytona Beach Area Committee of 100. "I don't seek just an office in Tallahassee," Irvin said.

"I already have an office. I offer my mind, heart and soul to you in your service." As a candidate Irvin said he would work to get education administered as a business, to halt unjustified tax increases, to support all law enforcement agencies, to seek tougher penalties for traffic violators and to give counties and cities home rule. Voters Bedding On Tax support and propose legislation to further the work of state agencies which fight crime." Now chairman of the Lake County Young Republicans, Glisson is one of two Republicans seeking the nomination to succeed retiring Democrat lawmaker James N. "Gator" Beck of Palatka, as representative of Lake, St. Johns, Putnam and Flagler Counties.

Married and the father of a young son, Glisson has been active in scouting and P-TA work. He serves on the executive advisory committee of a local bank and is president of American Investors Developments Inc. "My decision to run," he said, "was based on the premise that citizen participation in local and state government is desirable." winner to meet Democrat Jack Bryan in November. Instead of occupying a desk in the house well in last summer's marathon session, Rast served as legislative aide to Brevard's State Sen. C.

S. Reuter. He joined the governor's staff as an advance man for the Kirk travels after session end. "I LEARNED A LOT working for Sen. Reuter, traveled thousands of miles for Gov.

Kirk," he declared. "I now have a unique insight into the workings of Florida government from two angles." Rast, 28, left the Kirk staff in the March educational crisis to teach government and economics at Lees-burg High School. "Education is going to be the big issue in the session and it's imperative a legislator be able to separate wheat from chaff, fact from fantasy in this vital area." decline in purchasing value of the dollar. This distrust of the buy-value of the dollar will continue until the administration and Congress factually act to put the government's financial house in order. More Belay NOTE THAT ON Feb.

23 President Johnson set up a high-level administration committee to study a long-range program to bring about price stability. Then there was a delay until April 12, when he named an executive director of this committee. Committees Jake months and months to get results. That means no anti-inflation action is likely until late in the year. But a new president will be coming in next January and President Johnson may decide to let the new man handle the problem.

Andy Capp U4 DtUr Ktmr. hmtm TV For I Aside from this geographic freak, however, the citizens of Greenville are not being left behind. Four years ago, in the summer of 1964, Greenville was the headquarters of the Delta Ministry, a group of white Northern preachers who carried the civil rights gospel all over Mississippi. Partly as a result of that 1964 drive, Negroes have now won their civil rights. THE AGRICULTURAL revolution has come to Mississippi, but not the industrial revolution.

Thousands of Negroes have been put out of work by the development of cotton-picking machinery, chemical weed killers, and acreage cut-backs. As a result, and especially since the death of Martin Luther King, there has been new restlessness among Mississippi Negroes. The white leaders of Greenville are definitely concerned and definitely are doing something. ACCORDINGLY THEY have worked out a project to take over the barracks of the Greenville Air Force Base, now empty, and use them for training projects under the Graflex Division of General Precision. Graflex has agreed.

The federal government in Washington has put up $2,000,000 subject to matching funds. The Ford Foundation has put up $500,000 to help supply the matching funds. The only party which has not agreed is the state of Mississippi. Here, newly elected Gov. John Bell Williams has thrown in a monkey wrench.

John Bell is the rabble-rousing racist who was demoted by the House of Representatives in Washington when he bolted the Democratic party for Goldwater in 1964. He came back to Mississippi to be elected governor in a race where two moderates gave him a real battle Democrat William Winter in the primary and Republican Rubel Phillips in the final election. WILLIAMS, NOW secure as gover-nor, has refused to go along with the attempt of Greenville citizens to give more job training to Negroes. Williams' objections are threefold: 1. The 14-member biracial advisory board contains some civil rights activists, such as Fannie Lou Hamer who ran for Congress on the Freedom Democratic ticket, attempting to unseat Williams.

2. The Greenville plan calls for 25 Negro families to live in the barracks, which have been empty for six years. Gov. Williams claims this would be a "commune" and might lead to communism. 3.

WILLIAMS WANTS safeguards written into the contract with Graflex whereby the project would not become a staging area for civil rights demonstrations. Greenville businessmen, led by banker Ray Smith, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and Gen. Albert Lake, a retired Army officer, are trying to overcome the governor's objections. They are enthusiastic about the project, believe that economic stability through job training is the key to better race relations. Meanwhile the governor has the veto power.

By D. G. LAWRENCE Sentinel Staff Leesburg's Ken Rast, former aide to Gov. Claude Kirk, came within 61 votes of going to the legislature last March. He's trying again.

The hair's breath finish was against veteran Rep. James N. "Gator" Beck, retiring from the Lake-Putnam-Flagler-St. John's seat. 'Rast faces Dr.

James A. Glisson, Eustis, in the GOP primary, the Bryan Unopposed Jack Bryan is unopposed in the Democratic primary for nomination 'for the District 33, State House of Representatives seat. Bryan, 1919 Carr Palatka, will face the winner of the James Glisson-Ken Rast race in the Republican JWild Trading Explained ftb i 17 Thus more delay while the cost of living keeps climbing. Loudest Boom RIGHT NOW THE national economy is on top of its loudest boom ever. At least it is so in gross national product dollars.

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