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wwmr'i i iimti i 6 14 It IJifla 8Uf Monday, March 20. 1961 Road Headache: Who'll Pay 1 Washington Ufi t- A week of hearings has clearly diag big trucks wouldn't be paying their share. The industry says the administration is working with admittedly incomplete information. nosed the Kennedy administration's first big fiscal headache: The rubber Industry, espe Who's going to pay $900 mil cially retreaders, have pretested loudly. Retreaders cost of roads, these specifically are built to national defense standards.

And they note the general treasury now gets revenues from vehicle and parts excise taxes. The administration retorts this would be just moving a Eroblem from one part of the udget to another. They ask: where is the replacement money for the general fund? These are the conflicts that follow the 25 ways and means committeemen into their sanctum this week. from spokesmen for oil companies, i A special complaint comes from makers and operators of diesel engines. They say that singling out one fuel for especially stiff taxation because, engines don't use as much of it is a discriminatory levy on efficiency and inventiveness.

General Funds Witness who decry further fuel taxes ask why general government revenues shouldn't cover more of the lion a year in new taxes to keep the federal superhighway program from falling hopelessly behind schedule? claim the jump from 2 to 10 cents la the tax on retread rubber would close 18,000 small shops, cost 60,000 jobs. The thought of retaining the 4th cent of gasoline tax, and even more of adding another half, brings despairing cries Buta the House Ways and Means Committee has given no hint what precriptlo It will write. And for every proposed care, there has been someone.to complain that It's worse than the disease. fifJM The tax doctors go into con sultation this week after hear ings end probably on Tues day. Do Something Just about everybody agrees something must be done soon to save the dream of a net of super- roads linking the 4 corners of the country by the early 1970s.

Agreement ends, and con troversy begins, right there Hundreds of thousands of words of testimony boil down to 4 basic proposals for meet ing this basic problem: the highway net will cost $9.7 billion more by 1972 than was estimated in 1956. 1. Dwight D. Eisenhower before he left the presidency proposed that the "temporary" one-cent increase in the federal motor fuel tax, now scheduled to expire July 1, be retained, with another Vi cent added. Thus the tax, instead of dropping to 3 cents a gal fie v.

I lf i i--r-i jff JLmiiiT Iim- 'n State Press Photographers Elect lon, would rise to 4Vi. He pro posed also cancellation of the scheduled diversion from the ing president: and Paul V. Peterson of Omaha, secretary treasurer. About 35 members attended the convention. (Star Photo).

general to the highway fund Nebraska Press Photographers elected 1961 officers at their Lincoln convention Sunday. From left are Eddy Sykes of Ogal-lala, president, Pat Hall of Omaha, vice-president; Bob Gorham of Lincoln, retir of portions of the automobile and parts excise taxes. Assess Users This solution would assess, the extra cost to the great, bulk of highway users gener-i ally by taxing their fuel. i 2. President Kennedy adopted the Eisenhower pro-: RIBICOFF HITS AMA OVER 'BOGUS ISSUE' WashingtQiuIWSecretary of program of federal aid to edu-Welfare Abraham Ribicoff cation.

He reiterated the ad- Sunday accused the Ameri- ministration's nosition that aid can Medical Association of trying to infect the Kennedy for parochial and other private schools be considered administration's medical care 1 separately and after Congress acts on the general aid meas Rep. Reece Of Tennessee Is Cancer Victim Washington Rep. R. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, former Republican national chairman and long a power in that party, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 71.

Reece entered the U.S. Navy Medical Center at Bethesda. Md. in January for treatment of what then was believed pleurisy but which proved to be cancer. He remained in the hospital for a while and underwent minor surgery.

Late in February Reece left the hospital but continued to undergo treatment at his hotel suite. He re-entered the hospital, however, last March 9 in weakened condition. Death came at 6:55 Sunday morn ures. He said his department's re-1 view of constitutional ques-1 tions related to school assist-j ance should be ready for con-grcssional study by March 27. i In Chicago, Leonard W.

Larson, president-elect of the program witn a Dogus issue ot socialized medicine. Ribicoff said many physicians are afraid to support the program because the AMA "exercises jery strong sanctions against individual doctors who speak up their mind." Doctors are in no way involved in the administration proposal to provide health posal with one important difference. He would not increase the federal gasoline tax from its present 4-cent level. Instead, he would seek equivalent revenue from tax hikes that would bear especially on big trucks. There would be stiff Increases in the diesel fuel tax from 4 to 7 cents a gallon and in the gross weight tax on trucks and buses $1.50 to $5 per 1.000 pounds on those weighing more than 26,000 pounds.

Other increases would apply to tires, tubes and retread rubber. 3. Another solution, advocated by oil company, road-user and other witnesses would be simply to take the extra amounts needed out of the general revenues of the government. Stretch Out 4. Finally, some suesested AMA, contended the "overwhelming majority" of the nation's physicians oddosp care for the aged through the the administration bill be- Social Security System, Ribi-1 cause it endangers the duality of medical care.

"To oppose legislation aimed at the eventual socializing of medicine is certainly coff said in a televised interview. Those proposals deal; with costs of hospital, nursing home and out-patient care, he added, but the AMA seeks to spread the impression that doctors would be controlled. "In this respect," Ribicoff i not misleading." he said. "It' is simply an effort to warn the American people." I Dr. Larson said the AMA letting the highway building program stretch out even if this means the roads will not be finished until 1977 or later.

There were also suggestions, not given much chance, for abandoning pay-as-you-go in favor of bonds issues or a said, "when doctors call it, believes the administration socialized medicine, they are proposal would bring social-misleading the American peo- ized medicine for a segment ple-'' i of the population at the out- KiDicott contended tne A.vm set. and for evervone eventu- ally. An alphabet is just a collection of letters until you put together the right combination of letters to make words. Take seven of those letters, for instance you can use them to spell "W-A-N-T A-D-S'. And it's just as easy to use a Want Ad as it is to spell it! realizes the need for a medical care program but doesn't want it achieved.

He said: "You have many doctors who are reluctant and fearful to speak up their minds that they are for this bill but many doctors that I have talked to personally, while not publicly saying they are for health care for the aging, will tell you they think it is a good thing for America and in no way impinges on the freedom or doctors or the freedom to practice medicine as they choose." Ribicoff prophesied that Congress will pass both the aged care bill and Kennedy's toll system on the superhighways. The trucking industry, management and labor alike, has cried murder at the Kennedy proposal. The administration seeks to justify its position by a study of highway costs and usage on the so-called incremental method. Roughly, this means computing the cost of a basic road suitably for light traffic and then figuring what had to be added to take care of bigger and bigger vehicles. Incomplete The administration says that on this basis, even with the proposed increases, the "Physicians oppose the bill because of a principle involved," he said.

"They believe that government medicine, run by bureaucrats under regulations of their own devising, is bad medicine." 10 Nebraska Students Get Fellowships Twelve National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships have been offered to 10 University of Nebraska applicants, the University's Graduate College was notified. The awards are Summer Fellowships for Graduate Teaching Assistants and Cooperative Graduate Fellowships for the 1961-62 school year. The recipients and their ing. Despite his illness, Reece made several trips to the Capitol for committee meetings and votes in the House. Ha left the hospital once to cast a vote with the minority against the proposal of Speaker Sam Ravbura.

to ct. uge the House Rules Committee of which Reece was a member. Recce's death left the House lineup at 172 Republicans and 260 Democrats with 5 vacancies. One of the members of the staunchly conservative faction of the Republican Party, Reece served as GOP National Chairman from 1946 to (1949. Under his direction the" party captured Congress in the 1946 election the Congress which then President Harry S.

Truman was to assail in 1948 as a "do-nothing Congress." One of the more senior members of Congress, Reece was serving his 18th term-not consecutive in the House. His service was interrupted by one defeat in 1930 and" again when he gave up his seat to be party chairman. He ran unsuccessfully for the Senate against Democrat Estes Kefauver in 1948. 12 Prisoners Who Tried To Escape, On Hunger Strike Philadelphia (iP) Twelve prisoners who took part in a prison break at Eastern State Correctional Institution in Jan A phone call to GR 7-8902 (ask for4Want Ads) connects you wittf a friendly ad-taker who will help you word an ad to sell those things around the house you no longer need or use. And when your ad appears in the Journal and Star Classified Section, you're in business.

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Since then France has developed her own atomic devices. A num- On Tuesday, negotiators for oer ot otner countries, some the 3 powers will renew their i of them relatively small in fields of study are: Summer Fellowship Richsrd it of Lincoln, chemistry: Jhn O. Ilerro of Lincoln, luafht-maiics: Charles V. Hcuer of Bertha. malhemat cs A.

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Beyond these factors is an element of even greater importanceone which governs size, are believed capable of doing the same thing. Others Needed The treaty which the 3 powers are seeking to attain will remain meaningless unless it is signed by France and by potential nuclear nationsin particular, Communist China. Spurred on by President Kennedy, the two Western powers have put together a new negotiating position designed to deal with a half dozen major points of. difference. American and British experts went over this program comma by comma in a series of weekend consultations.

The aim now is to try to smoke out the Russians, test their sincerity and, if possible, conclude a treaty in the next two or 3 months. There was an atmosphere of cautious optimism in the Western camp. uary have been on a hunger strike for 12 days, the Warden said Sunday. All 24 of the prisoners in a special segregation block began the strike, said Warden William, Banmiller, but since then all but 12 have dropped out. "We are offering them 3 meals a day 'and a doctor is examining them daily," Ban-miller said.

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