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Poge Dec 27, 1 967 Two Tax Changes For '63 'i Miami Chief to 'Get Tough' in Negro Areas 4r I Ileal Estate. Social Security bonded out of the can't be Headlev said. WASHINGTON (AP -New Year's day will bring both good and bad news for the American taxpayer. One tax will be erased Jan. I while another will be in- Unknown Makes Good on TV creased for many.

Higher Social Security tax-I es to be paid during 19G8 will i more than offset the repeal of the federal stamp tax on A week ago this young man was one of the most obscure characters in all of Britain. In fact, eight months ago, he wasn't even born. Today he is the darling of the country. How come? Well, a few days before Christmas, he was found abandoned in a women's toilet in Rayleigh. In an effort to find his parents, his picture was shown far and wide in newspapers and on television.

As a result, he was flooded with gifts. Thousands of offers to adopt the blond, blue-eyerd youngster also were received. AP Photos UiL. The chief declined to speculate whether the crackdown might spark racial turmoil in this tourist-oriented city, but added his force was prepared and equipped to deal ith any outbreak of trouble. "We haven't had any serious problems with civil uprisings and looting because I've let the word filter down that when the looting starts, the shooting starts," Headley said.

Floyd McKissick, the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, accused Headley of "setting up the fust fascist state of Miaim." 'WRONG TRACK NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins said Head-ley "is on the wrong track" and in the long run the crackdown would prove to be unwise. McKissick said the crackdown on Negro hoodlums "violates the privilege and iiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim MIAMI (UPIt Negro leaders threatened today to use lawsuits and "drastic action" to prevent Police Chief Walter Headley from arming officers with shotguns and dogs and declaring war on young Negro hoodlums. "This man has no place in a position of public trust." said Florida NAACP field secretary Marvin Davies. "If necessary, we will get a lawsuit to keep him from enforcing this type of arbitrary action." Davies also said he will demand that Headley be suspended until he revises his get tough" order for Negro hoodlums. "If he will not change, he will see drastic action taken against him," Davies warned.

ARMED UNITS Headley announced yesterday he was arming six three-man task force units with shotguns, dogs and orders to shoot to kill and sending them into Miami's Negro slums to combat crime and violence. The 62-year-old veteran police chief said there were 58 violent crimes committed in the Negro district during the Christmas holidays, including four murders. He said community relations programs, speeches and talks with Negro leaders Skirls Will Be Lower, N. Y. Says VlrT '-S If tmuiin i "i- WALTER HEADLEY Get-tough policy had failed to lower the crime rate in the slums and he had no other choice.

"This is war. I mean it, every bit of it," Headley said. The chief said 90 per cent of Miami's Negro population is law abiding, "but 10 per cent are young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. WILL USE GUNS "We're going to use shotguns and dogs to stop them from now on," Headley said. "We don't mind being accused of police brutality.

They haven't seen anything yet. "Felons will learn that they real estate sales, which was voted in 1965 but doesn't take effect until nect week. That tax amounts to 55 cents for each $500, or fraction, of a real estate sale and means between $G0 and $70 million eacy year to the Treasury Department. SALARY BASE Although the Social Security tax rate on't increase for 1968, the amount of salary on which it is levied will from SG600 to $7800. This will mean an additional tax of S52.80 for a person earning $7800 or more during the year.

President Johnson has not yet signed the Social Security bill, but is expected to do so soon. Increased Social Security taxes and repeal of the federal stamp tax on real estate are the only two changes In the tax law that take effect Jan, 1. IRS FORMS Meanwhile, the Internal Revenue Service said it will begin this week to mail instruction booklets and forms for 1967 income-tax returns. immunity clauses of the con 1000 Turn Millionaires Overnight P.y PERCY FORSTER Examiner Correspondent BUENOS AIRES More than HKK) residents of Argentina became millionaires as the result of lottery drawings on Christmas Eve. Thousand more won from 50,000 to 500,000 pesos.

The profits of the lottery will help finance hospitals and other charitable institutions. Largest amount distributed this year was in the province of Santa Fe, with a top prize of a billion pesos. In other parts of the nation first prizes ranged from 50 million to 200 million pesos. There are pesos to the dollar. stitution and it amounts to a secession from the USA." Miami CORE vice chairman John 0.

Brown and local NAACP president George Simpson said they hoped Headley's crackdown would apply to all areas of the city, not just the Negro districts. CORPUS CHRISTI (Tex.) (AP) New York designer Norman Norell. 67, says the hemline is on the way down again. In his spring collection it drops to mid-calf lengths. Norell is here cnroute to New York, where he will finish 80 costumes for his spring showing.

"I'm not optimistic about many of these daytime dresses selling," he said' "but I believe women will like the longer evening and cocktail gowns." "If hemlines go down, they must go way down," he said. "They look gaudy when they end just below the knee." "The trouble with designing these longer dresses is that the bodices have to be so terribly useful or the dresses will look like granny gowns," Norell said. Long skirts create a proportion problem, he said. A long skirt looks strange unless it has an empire waistline. Skirts are a bit fuller and are cut slightly with a few petticoats, Norell said.

Norell has designed for a number of women on the international best-dressed list, including Lauren Bacall, Mrs! Henry Ford. Mrs. David Evans and Mrs. Max Fischer. He also designed some fashions for Mrs.

John F. Ken Belayed Mikis Theodorakis, 42, composer for the film "Zorba the Greek," is still behind bars in Athens today pending an official decree extending him amnesty in accordance with a recent military junta decision. He had been waiting trial under an anti-sediticn law. He may be released late tomorrow. AP ohotO Back at the Ranch Soviets U.

S. Ship Complaint All taxpayers should re- ceive their forms by Jan. 5. Deadline for filing a return is April 15. nedy before she became the First Lady.

LBJ Whets Ax For Budget Cut AT AIL FIVE STORES! GRANT AVENUE, STONESTOWN, jfllfS IllillJllI MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union charged today U.S. ships maneuvered "dangerously" close to a Soviet vide their country with 50 F4 Phantom jets. submarine tender on duty in the Mediterranean. The official defense minis try newspaper Red Star said the U.S. destroyer Davis once "tried literally to shoul der aside a submarine tak ing supplies from the 4750-ton "Don" class Soviet Johnson and Eshkol also are expected to discuss Israeli proposals for peace with Arab neighbors.

The timing of Eshkol's visit, coupled with Johnson's warning last week about the highly explosive situation in the Middle East, added fuel to speculations the isit would be more important than its billing. HOPE IX PRIVACY If nothing else, such a meeting in the privacy of the ranch would give the leaders an opportunity to discuss the crisis with a hope of resolv SAN ANTONIO (LTD -1 President Johnson sum- moned budget director (Carles Schultze and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the LBJ Ranch loday to begin a review of next year's farm spending needs. Schultze and Freeman flew from Washington to Texas this morning in the first of a series of sessions Johnson will be staging to whittle the 1969 fiscal budget by $4.3 billion. The chief executive, who arrived here yesterday for two or three weeks, was expected to have a "fairly busy time" getting his election year programs ready and disposing of some 40 bills awaiting his action. He also has invited Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol submarine tender, Magomet Gadzhiev.

The article by Soviet Navy Capt. M. Krenevsky made no mention of U.S. complaints against Soviet interference with U.S. fleet movements in the Pacific last year and in the Mediterranean this month.

AIR ESCORTS 'The Sixth Fleet air escorts appeared over the Gad ing it. The trip was advanced by a month. Recently, the White House announced Eshkol ould come to Washington in February. Although the White House was not saying anything, something must have happened to speed it up. The President and Lady Bird are expected to get in some relaxation at their zhiev almost daily and sometimes two or three times a day, barely missing its masts with their wings." Red Star said.

"At other times, U.S. destroyers maneuvered dangerously close to the floating base, trying to find out when a submarine was approaching or leaving it." SUIT and his wife to visit his ranch Jan. 7 and 8 to review Middle East problems. SIGNS BILLS The Texas White House also reported Johnson signed three bills last night. One of the measures would extend the existing loans of 25 naval ships to 10 specified foreign countries and makes new loans of two more destroyers for Korea and one destroyer or the Republic of China.

In other actions, the President nominated Federal Judge James Carter of San Diego to the Court of Appeals Stonewall, homestead. Their daughter Luci, her husband Pat Nugent and 6 month old grandson Lyn are RETREATED Korensvsky said the with them. Daughter Lynda and son-in-law Capt. Charles Robb are in Washington but are expected to join the family for a New Year's celebration next weekend. Gadzhiev's captain signaled the 2850-ton Davis, "You are behaving indecently," after the U.S.

destroyer allegedly approached the tender and the submarine. "About a minute later the American retreated to a re-spectable distance," Red Star said. "He raised the answering pennant, Your signal received and "This well illustrates the jei'JELRV reduced 0 off I to off I DAGS reduced 25 to 50 off 1 DRESSES I BRAS DEDUCED 1.99 1 1fl Tn 19 I 6 GRANT AVENUE, STONESTOWN ONLY TO Cm OFF for the Ninth Circuit. He also signed a bill to give a 820 million tax refund to American Motors. The tax break came in the form of an amendment to a relatively Gabon Ousts eace Corps WASHINGTON (AP) -After four years, the Peace Corps will pull its volunteers out of Gabon at the request of the government of that est African nation.

There are 41 men and 11 women volunteers in the Col fact that the days when Yankee sea captains could behave outrageously on the open seas, acting like policemen, have ended," the paper concluded. I ULLiraV reduced 50 off I SHOES 0 GRANT AVENUE, STONESTOWN ONLY WllMfcW CHRISTMAS CARDS 50 I 8-T0 I minor Din concerning Dank holding companies. NO WORD OX POPE Assistant Press Secretary Tom Johnson in response to a question said he had no information on a report the President has spurred a proposal for Pope Paul VI to send a Vatican peace mission to North Vietnam. The agenda for Eshkol's "informal" visit was not disclosed. However, Israeli officials are making a strong bid for the Administration to pro orado-sized.

French-speaking i nation. In the Peace Corps seven-year history, volunteers have been withdrawn from six other countries Guinea, Mauritania, Cyprus, Ceylon, Indonesia and Stanford Drive Richard E. Guggenhime, San Francisco attorney, has accepted the post of national major gifts chairman for Stanford University. GRANT AVENUE, STONESTOWN ONLY il flR )( ISIiUU 3 Designer Shoes, Red Cross, 0( 4 SPECIAL P0RCHASE! HUNDREDS OF UQy Chicago Alderman Shot "Somebody help me. I've been shot," Despres cried as i inn nn Ft he sprawled in the street.

Owen Deutsch, 31. and other residents ran out as two men ran away. They helped 4 f.3U 9.3U sa A-lines. slims, ooresdaids. tweeds: fall colors.

Some reaular stock: 8 to 18. Pi CHICAGO lUPH -Leon Despres. a white civil rights activist representing a racially mixed ward as the city's most independent alderman, was shot last night. Despres told police he was walking the mile from his office to his home in the Hyde Park area not far from the University of Chicago, when one of two men who were fol-1 wi him yelled. "Look out nigger." Two shots were fired.

Despres was hit twice in the right leg by what police described as a .22 caliber "dum-dum" bullets. His leg was fractured. Despres to the hospital. Despres said he knew of no possible motive for the shooting other than robbery. 9.

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