The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 2

2--San Males Monday, March 11, 1968 Governor to Press Property Tax Cuts By JERRY RANKIN SACRAMENTO A Governor Reagan this week mounts his campaign for SI 55 million in property tax cuts, offering legislators a rare chance to seek re-election with voters receiving lower tax bills before votin day. For both the governor, who could wmd up as the Republican presidential candidate, and the 100 assemblyrr en and senators up for re-election, the property tax reduction program is an opportunity to recoup the loss of some public favor suffered the impact of the 1967 state income apparent. Republican tax hike became Assembivman John G. Veneman of Modesto put forth the governor's tax- cut plan this week by amending it into a tax bill already introduced and pending before the revenue and taxation committee Veneman heads. He said the first sharing on the bill would be March 27.

Tells Need Reagan declared that ''Meaningful property tax relief is vital to every I now vrge the legislature to carry through this legislation an important step in easing the burden on California's homeowners." While homeowners stand to benefit from the most of the relief would go to businesses which own property. The Reagan-Veneman plan would provide cuts in local taxes, starting this fall, ranging from a high of 59 cents for each of assessed value in tiny Alpine County to nine cents per 6100 in Mono Countv. The whole plan hinges on the willingness of the 58 boards of county supervisors to pass on the money they will get from the state in the form of property tax reductions. Some legislators fear the supervisors may use some of the money for increased county spending, but Reagan contends public pressure will avert this. In making public details of the plan Sunday, he thanked the County Supervisors Association, which played a major role in drawing up the legislation.

The governor's acceptance of the county viewpoint was a victory for them and a defeat for other forces which favored the state bypassing the counties and giving the relief directly to the local property owner. If the legislature cannot agree on the administration plan, or another, the state sales a i drop by one-half cent on July 1, under terms of the SI billion 1967 tax raise which provided the funds to finance the tax cut plan. A of legislators have said this wouldn't be such an unfortunate occurrence, and the Republican governor's a faces a rough, uncertain tight in the Democratic-controlled legislature. Key to Plan Key to the plan is the transfer of $191 million to a fund for the counties to administer the tax cuts. This is.

the amount "brought in by the one-half cent of the sales lar revenue. since the 1967 legislation provided for only million in tax relief, some $36 million worth of local programs now paid for by state funds will be taken over Chavez Ends Fast in Support Of Non-violent Farm Reform CHAVEZ BREAKS 25-DAY FAST Cesar Chavez, farm labor leader, eats a piece of bread to end his 25-day fast at Delano, yesterday. About 4,000 farm workers joined him 'in a symbolic bread-breaking ceremony a i the end of their leader's fasting for the principle of nonviolence. With him are Senator Robert F. Kennedy who flew from Washington to take part and Chavez' wife and mother.

(AP Wirephoto) by the counties, bringing the property tax reduction figure down to the required $155 million i i The programs to be taken over by the counties are crippled children's care; agency adoption programs; Superior oCurt judicial pay; local health departments; tuberculosis care; and salaries of county agriculture commissioners, contraci health departments, delinquency prevention commissions and public defenders. The program also provides for repeal of the tax on household goods, such as television sets, and personal effects starting next vear. as! Week for Savings! SAN MATEO KttLSBALE SAVE $10 MORE WITH THESE VALUABLE COUPONS NOW THRU (5fM these COUOWM to sawwss on Foreman's exclusive PiweofhilshiBx. Strict quality control and individual print Dossibre our juarantac of cww- lteta satisfaction MI film developing and priming, A BONUS: With evary roi! of Kodacotor for de- velopinr end priwinz you receive a Free Parkw Album Trifse COUPONS GOOD AT SAisi MATEO OR HILLSDALE 10 ALBUM SIZE 3X PRINTS from KODACOLOR from same or different negatives pro- tided all negatives are same size Cfte eood FOREMAMS March 6 ALBUM SIZE 3X PRINTS from SLIDES xl.70 Add'j prints each $1 98 From same or dttierettt slides provided all slides ore same size seed FOREMAMS tmtii March 15. SUPER 4 4 COLOR PRINTS as reg with this coupon Made from Kodacoloc Instamati'c and other square sizes good at FOREMANS until March IS, I 968.

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FOURTH AVE. 202 HILLSDALE MAIL 344-6877 345-1673 Ob ector Becomes A Marines Hero KHE SANK, Vietnam (AP) -The Methodist minister's son was a conscientious objector and a Marine outcast. He hated war and refused to be a rifleman. His strongest swear word was "Golly." He could not develop a tough exterior. Until he went to work aiding the wounded at Khe Sanh, Pvt Jonathan M.

Spicer of Miami. was despised by some ol the other Leathernecks around and only tolerated by others. Now he is a hero, a growing and badly wounded. Friends said that Spicer joined the Marines almost on a whim when he went to a recruiting station with a friend. Somewhere in basic training, when instructors were attempting to turn him into a professional killer, he rebelled.

"He just sort of suddenly realized combat wasn't really for him," recalled Cpl. Daniel Sullivan of Boston, Mass. "He wasn't afraid of dying. He said it just before the day he was hit. But he said he could not put himself up to killing a man." Friends said Spicer, who stands 5-feet-9, tried to declare himself a conscientious objector in boot camp and at various other points on his route to Vietnam.

He was always told: 'Wait until your next assignment." Finally he was assigned to an infantry battalion at Khe Sanh. the besieged Marine base miles south of the demilitarized zone. "He tempt men." was treated with con- by his fellow infantry- said an officer who was instrumental in getting Spicer transferred to one of Sanh's many medical units. "He was naive, and the toughness Marines show outwardly was foreign to him." 4 Killed In Auto Plunge WEIMAR, Calif. (LTD--Four persons, including three young boys, were killed late Sunday when their car ran off the road, smashed through a a i a guard rail and plunged 40 feet to the tracks below flipping over on impact.

The California Highway Patrol identified the victims as the driver, Bernard D. Copeland, 46, Sacramento: his two sons, Harry, 13. and Robert, 9, and Gregory Small, 8, Sacramento. The CHP said the elder Copeland apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The accident occurred on a Southern Pacific railroad crossing near here in Placer County.

FREE Walnut-Tone Tape Dispenser SCOT FREE with purch ase of six 1296' rolls of "Scotch" Magic Transparent Tape A I 219 So. San Mateo Dr. San 342-4308 "What no one realized" said Lt. Edward Feldman. a medical officer from Forest Hills, N.Y., "was that he was thoroughly unselfish and wouldn't hesitate to put himself in danger." Spicer "was a tiger" when it came to wounded.

wounded man who attempted to get aboard a medical evacuation helicopter ahead of the wounded and roughly pulled him back. Doctors said that when shellfire pinned down the stretcher the welfare He grabbed of an the un- rushing the wounded the helicopters, Spicer bearers men to repeatedly covered his man with his own body. A month ago the round-faced Marine ran out of luck. "He helped get one litter on a chopper and started back to the sandbagged area. said LI.

James 0. Finnegan of Philadelphia, Pa. Other stretcher bearers were having trouble loading their litters and Spicer. despite a call from one doctor to "get the hell in here." turned back to the chopper to help. By DENNIS McCALL DELANO, Calif.

(UPI)--Farm union leader Cesar Chavez, his 25-day fast for nonviolence completed, went into seclusion today following a climactic "Mass of thanksgiving" celebrated on the planks of a flatbed truck. About 8,000 persons, including Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D- N.Y., attended the Sunday afternoon service in Delano Memorial Park. Chavez, weak from the loss of 35 pounds, watched from a low, reclining chair.

After the Roman Catholic rites, Chavez, 41. ate his first solid food since Feb. 14 a chunk of bread handed to him by Kennedy. "You stand for justice and I am proud to stand with you." said Kennedy. "Viva La Causa.

Viva Cesar Chavez." Dedicated to Nonviolence Chavez, a Mexican-American, began the fast to reaffirm his dedication to nonviolence in his two-and-one-half year effort to organize farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley. Chavez said he wanted to discourage some of his followers who advocated using guns and burning fields to attain their goals. An aide read a short speech prepared by Chavez from the rear of a second flatbed truck: "My heart is too full and my body too weak to be able to say what I feel. My heart grieves for all farm workers. The struggle is not easy.

We are poor but we have our own bodies and spirit. Our lives are all we really have. We must sacrifice ourselves for others in a nonviolent way." The crowd enjoyed a huge picnic feast after the mass, with menu items ranging from roast pig to soda pop. Dr. Martin McKnighti Chavez' physician, announced later the leader of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee would leave Delano for about seven days For an undisclosed location "to regain his strength." Farm workers from throughout the valley walked.

hitch- He arrived time a North a the same Vietnamese mortar shall burst among the wounded men and litter bearers, wounding about 30 men. Spicer was hit in the heart, face and legs. He was saved only by a delicate heart operation by Dr. Finnegan and Lt. John Maddilligan of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Finnegan recommended Spicer for the Silver Star for bravery and gallantry. The Khe Sanh base's commander. Col. David E. Lownds, mentioned the Navy Cross.

Men who spent fruitless hours hying to teach Spicer to swear and be tough like a Marine said they felt a little guilty. "Man, he was really out there when (lie shells were coming in," said one. "I'm a little sorry about the way we treated bim now." hiked or rode in crowded cars and buses to the celebration. A half-mile long procession of clergymen and nuns carrying loaves of bread and farm workers carrying their union flag marched from a parking lot to the mass area. Paul Schrade, west coast representative of the United Auto Workers, presented Chavez with a $50,000 check for the UFWOC building fund.

Also in the crowd was Reics Tijerina. head of the Alliance of Free City States in New Mexico. The militant Tijerina said he supported Chavez "all the way" in his efforts based on the nonviolent principle. Kennedy, speaking in broken Spanish, told the gathering he came to Delano to honor Chavez "for the long and patient commitment you have made to this great struggle for justice." "When your children and grandchildren take jobs, you can say 'I was there at the point dered him to drink fruit juices and bouillon last week because of possible kidney a a chuckled weakly at Kennedy's faltering Spanish Non-farm working Delano citizens largely ignored the Sunday event and in some cases expressed hostility. Mayor Joe Hochschild called the religious ceremony "just another fraud." "Everything that comes up that may be unfavorable, he (Chavez) comes up with something new like the fast." Hochschild said.

"All we get is another con game." Martin Zanovich, a grape of difficulty and danger. 1 the area, marched with Cesar'," Kennedy told the throng. "You stood for the right and would not move. You are winning a special kind growers, called the fast by Chavez "a veiled threat" of actual violence, but also a 11 ow threat. Union attorney Jerry Cohen reported he found the parkins' lot at the city park scattered with nails when he arrived Sunday morning.

Early arrivals worked for two hours to clear of citizenship. You are winning it yourselves and therefore no one can ever take it away." Chavez, whose doctors or- 'His Passion For You' Lenten Radio Vespers Dial 1100 on lues-, Thurs. 4:10 P.M. St. Stephen Lutheran LBJTJrges Demo Unity LOS ANGELES I AP) California Democrats should "bury their differences" and move solidly toward i President Johnson urged in a message read to patrons of a $100-a-plate fund-raising i Sunday night.

The message, without specifically mentioning the factional disputes with the state party, said "Constructive criticism is a blessing" and "Disruptive sunity spells failure." The party is divided into working Johnson. Senator Eugene a y. D-Minnesota. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Published Except Sunday loflj So.

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