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tie VoL 1S5, No. 173, Glebe Kswspaper Co. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1959 Telephone 288-3000 SS Pagaa li I Boosts Exemption, SS Benefits Conference OKs A Tax Break for All. I 1l could not be blamed for feeding inflation. The President's chief concern has been that the legislation would cause an unbalanced budget next year.

leading Republicans also said they do not think the compromise measure will be vetoed. Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the Senate Republican leader, said he thinks it would be difficult for the President to veto the measure. Sea. Wallace F.

Bennett of Utah, the senior Republican senator on the conference committee, said he considers the bill much better than the one passed by the Senate which provoked Nixon's threat "I would think it has a much better chance to get favorable action," Bennett said. There was no immediate White House reaction. TAXES, Page 4 By Murray Seeger, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON A House-Senate conference committee agreed yesterday on a massive tax reform bill which would reduce taxes for ail Americans and raise Social Security benefits by 15 percent. The compromise bill may be ready for final Congressional consideration Monday and is almost certain to pass. President Nixon will then face the difficult decision of whether to sign the bill or veto it.

Included in the bill with the Social Security hike is a gradual increase in the personal income tax exemption from the present $60D to $750. Mr. Nixon warned Dec. 8 that he would veto a bill containing similar provisions. But the conference committee headed by Rep.

Wilbur D. Mills chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, carefully wrote the legislation so that the impact of the new benefits on the Federal budget a. mite. It was raied yesterday to mat way for a new hotel at the Crown Center building project. (UP I) NO VACANCY TH nine-story I IM PUia in Kansas Cty falls in Mvin seconds with tit aid of 1 10 pounds of dyn- US THE SEASON- MBTA to Buy PennRR Lot Kissing Out This Yule? By A.

S. Plotkin Globe Staff The MBTA ended a 3H-yew search for a new major car storage and repair yard yesterday when the advisory board unanimously voted approval of pu. chase of the Dover Street railroad yard. Representatives of 59 of the transit district's 79 communities, and Chers filled the large Parker House room as Mayor White voiced satisfaction over the outcome of weeks of negotiations. Sale of the 23 -plus acre I r-w Living Costs Climb Again Associated Press WASHINGTON American nre winding up 1969 in the worst inflationary bind in neatly 20 years, paying almost 6 cents a dollar more for living co.ts and with many taking home less pay because of White House efforts to cool the economy.

November prices alone chipped another half-cent from the value of the dollar and pushed the Consumer Price Index to 130.3, more than 30 percent above its 1957-39 base, the government said yesterday. The figure means a family that paid $100 a week 10 years ago for its food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care and recreation now pays $130.50. Nearly $7 of the increase came this year. The 1337-39 dollar, worth cents a year ago, dropped to 77 cents in October and to 76.7 cents last month. Average paychecks of some 43 million rank-and-file workers, more than half the nation's 73 million work force, dropped 62 cents in November, to $116.63 a week, the second straight monthly decline.

It was attributed solely to shorter wvrking hours in the slowing economy. PRICES, Page 3 By Herbert Black. Globe Staff Christmas kissing both of the romantic and family varieties should be kept to a minimum because mononucleosis is spreading among college and high school students. Dr. Nicholas J.

Fiumara, director of the state's Division of Communicable Diseases, said last night Many schools closed yesterday and young people may carry the mono virus home with them for the holidays. Mononucleosis long has been known as the "kissing disease" because it can be spread by the lingering goodnight embrace as well as by the familial greeting. Dr. Fiumara said he hates to be a spoilsport but he thinks the Europeans have something when they kiss each other on the cheeks instead of the lips. MONO, Page 3 Pern Central lot will take place DeC.

31. The MBTA will pay the railroad $7 million, but more than $4 million of this will be reimbursement for relocation of Penn Central facilities to another yard. Sen. Brooke Denies Deal For Brady 1 IF YOU MUST And a Bleak New Year 1 'T 1 4 i. Slocks Up 6 More Points Stock prices continued to climb yesterday.

The Dow Jones industrials average, which spurted 13.86 points Thursday, added another 6.07 points yesterday, closing at A record number of issues 1644 was traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Must experts attribute the latest Wall Street rally to reaction to the opt imLstiout look voiced Thursday by Dr. Arthur Burns, new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Details on Pace II. The agreement approved yesterday also assures that the Bennett-Eliot transit yard near Harvard square can be used for the Kennedy Library complex.

The compromise agreement, on which the MBTA and White's staff worked until 3 a.m. eight hours before the meeting began contained a number of concessions to the city. In one of these the authority agreed to sell to Boston, land not needed for transportation purposes. One element will be the price the MBTA paid the railroad for the land itself but not for the relocation. Thus, an MBTA official conceded, the authority will in effect be selling the city about 10 acres of the Dover street site at a bargain price.

The exact amount of land required by the MBTA will be determined after completion- of a study MBTA, Page Sen. Edward W. Brooke denied yesterday that while he was attorney general he had promised not to prosecute George L. Brady, long-sought central figure in the Boston Common underground garage scandal. Brady's wife, Mrs.

Lucy Brady, testified yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court that Sen. Brooke promised not to prosecute Brady on charges of stealing $749,000 from the Boston Common garage project, if a guardian were appointed for Brady. "I got a call from Mr. Brooke saying that if I would take out the guardianship, he would let the indictments gather dust in the drawer and not prosecute him," Mrs. Brady told Judge Edward F.

Hennes- Mrs. Brady testified later that she did cot personally sp eak to Sen. BRADY. Page 5 WATERTOWN Joey's bar was packed yesterday afternoon with bitter men. They were some of the employees who were thrown out of jobs when the B.F.

Goodrich rubber company shut down. was their last day at work and when their shifts ended they headed for Joey's, Just across the street "It's going to be a hell of a Christmas," said Amo Ral-lis. of East Boylston street Watertown, a 43-year-old die maker. After 27 years with the company, they throw me out GOODRICH, Pare 23 Hut for GIoIk anla This Season's Cheer Skips Some Children GOODRICH WORKERS ON LAST DAY (Ste Ven Meter PSotoJ half-smiles as the gift-mkers jostle good-naturedly. Instead of a glare, they give each other a friendly eye as if recognizing a fellow conspirator.

CLOSE SANTA, Page 22 20 at Boston State Hospital Deny Charge Doctors Accused of Conflict WEATHER Low Blow SATURDAY Fair cold. SUNDAY Ditto. (Page 30.) CELTS LOSE, 115-111 The Bucks held off the Celtics, 115-111. In Milwaukee last night Harvard drubbed Army, 9-3, and Clarkson downed Brown, 3-1, in the ECAC hockey tournament at Boston Garden. Details on Page 17.

Bv Bern ice Keane Globe Staff Deck the halls. Trim the tree. Carol, brothers, carol. These are joyous commands, lifting the spirit fit the mood of the scwn. Three days rerr.ain.

The step quickens. Sappers lurry Vnj City streets with a certain bounce. As the big day nears. a change comes over their pormally impassive expression- Anonymous faces sport INDEX To Bartenders VAr a Day Tips Yoj won't see the names 1 of Kev and Pat in today's Iut of contributors. But they are there in more than spirit.

They are two bar- i WHAT IS IT? ENCYCLOPEDIAS All. tenders who donated their tips for a full day, anonymously, so that no child the doctors from the law by certification with the office the S- State was of po effect. The physicians ar a involved practice at the hoJDitars 240-bcd rr 1 facility, a building of crowded wards, r.i-t wiv p-ii-nt elderly, according to Dr. Cole. The superintend r.t that, after some years of difficulty in a-kcuate care to the patients, he had sueitsd t- ullar.ts the formation of Canterbury A A stikesman for Quir.n said t-Ke attorney general was studying the decision tf determine wha' if any further action he nisht take in view ef the f.ndxg.

Chayet insisted t.at a state employees the doctors were exenjt frrrr. the law upon proper cert.fi-caUtn by Dr. Co-e. He said -a'' b.ihr.sj Medicare ar.i it-ther msun: vt 1 some whkh ur Lvin the cf Public Health. By David Wilson, Globe Staff A ruling of conflict of interest asainst a corporation of doctors practicing at Boston State Hospital was issued last night by Atty.

Gen. Robert 1L Quinn. The ruling, in a letter from Quinn to Mental Health Corar. Milton Greenblatt stated that the physicians and surgeons involved collected both from the state as consultants and from Medicaid, Medicare. Blue Shield and other insurers since the formation of their corporation, Canterbury Medical Associates.

last June 19. Neil L. Chayet for the corporation, and Dr. Jonathan O. Cole, the psychiatrist superintendent of Boston State Hospital, categorically denied the allegation.

President of the corporation is Dr. R. Harlow Ker-canson of Belmont, a rad ologist The Quinn opinion Nrld that the ere formation of a professional corporation by the consultant physician at Boston State amounted to a violation of the statute. Wot A4 TW Sm Book Bridge Churches Classified Comics Court Docket Crossword Deaths Editorials Financial Obituaries Sports TV-Radio Theaters Wosrea 14 24-27 23-35 15. 29 IS 3 11-14 23,23 15-21 14 9,19 will be forgotten Christmas Day.

TbUrry Stoa SSM cax taa Cua ami Drcd BstloB. X'Tvamk IN i T- jt t-wnt S. WwT- T- nt 9 Jcfc. "i 5 an la JIaHbox TO HELP GLOBE S.4.YIU, mail donations, to Globe Santa. P.nx Boston C21QI.

or t9 the Gloe dotrn-toicn of fief at Washington and School ttrett or in the Prudential Center. laaae mm aae FRIENDS, Page 23 Acd it said that aa by Dr. Cole to exerr pt CONFLICT. Yizx 4.

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