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Next 24 Low to Putt 24 boun: to Lincoln 24-hour rainfall: trace. FULL WEATHER Page 17. FOUNDED IN 1M07 99TH YEAR--230 LINCOLN EVENING JOURNAL MARKET CLOUS Two and Nebraska State Journal if LINCOLN. MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1966 SPORTS FINAL TAX BILL: Ed Unit Gov.

Morrison has Ixn-n asked by hit education advisory committee to tponiof bills on sales-income tax and state aid to public school districts. STORY on Page SuMcriDtloa Prtcpi; TEN CENTS Happiness Amid Mekong River Floods W1REPHOTO Children in a Mekong Delta village in Chau Doc province, southwest of Saigon, play in flood waters. About 20,000 Vietnamese were reported homeless with thousands more facing evacuation. Viet war story on Page 2. AFL-CIO Shifts Tax Position Board Favors Income Tax By JOHN LEE Outstate Nebraska Bureau Fremont--State taxation is prominent on the agenda as the Nebraska AFL-CIO convention got under way here Monday.

The executive board has recommended the body go on record in favor of a progressive income tax. "This is a new position, admitted President Richard Nisley. At the last session we were instructed to circulate petitions against sales and income tax." Nisley said a tax seminar and other methods of a education had led the board to the new recommendation. "This is the time that we must act on this important issue," Nisley said. lie refused to speculate on the outcome of the tax issue.

The AFL-CIO plans committee discussion of a resolution to work to remove "tax schemes" from the state constitution. In an early vote the 23( regular delegates approved the sending of a wire to the state's congressional delega tion requesting an affirmative on the railroad supplemental pension bill withoir animendment before the enc of the current session. Other business slated foi committee action Monday in eludes resolutions: --Opposing amendment 3, which woulc allow the state to "enter into contracts or services or training with private, commercia and vocational schools." --Asking for legislation tc declare a contract null and void and require a merchan to any deposit if he does not deliver merchandise by the a date of de livery. --Seeking legislation a would require a saving of a least before any out-of a bid might he consiclerec on government, purchases, ex cop! i i or construction Mrs. Margaret Thornburgh western director of the Worn en's A i i Dept.

of Com i on Political Educatioi (COPE addressed the open i session, i support of COPK and vote turnout in November. Frank Morrison a scheduled to appear at the convention at the Fremont auditorium Monday afternoon. LI. dov. Phil Sorenson and DritUHTJstio Congressional hopeful Richard Fellman were also expected to appear.

Action on committee resolution is expected to be taken Tuesday. Chicken Dinner 99c Tues. only. Reg. $1.35.

Coat- neys, 1338 Shotgun Attack on Priest Deputy's Assault Charge Dropped Hayneville, Ala. A judge of state court threw out an assault charge Monday against a former special deputy sheriff accused of wounding a civil rights worker during an outbreak of racial i in Lowndes County last year. The decision by Circuit Judge Werth Thagard means that the defendant, Thomas L. Coleman, cannot be indicted again and cannot be tried for the shotgun attack on the Rev. Richard Morrisroe, a white Catholic priest from Chicago.

Immediately afterward, the court got ready for the trial of Ku Klux Klansman Eugene Thomas on a murder charge in the killing of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, another white civil rights volunteer. The dismissal of the assault and battery indictment against Coleman came when State Atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers asked judge to drop it for want of prosecution, but leave the way open for a later grand jury to return another and perhaps more serious indictment. After a conference in an adjoining jury room, Thagard dismissed the assault and battery charge "with prejudice," which means no other indictment can be returned in that case." Coleman, 56, a one-time special officer and a highway engineer by profession, sat among the spectators in the courtroom.

Flowers has a i repeatedly he feels the part- time officer should have been indicted on a more serious charge than assualt and battery, which carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine. Morrisroe, 26, was critically wounded and a companion, seminary student Johnathan Daniels of Keene, N.H., was slain by Coleman Aug. 20, 1965, while the clergymen were in Lowndes County helping Ne- Thomas L. Coleman groes in a voter registration drive. Coleman admitted shooting both men but claimed self-defense.

It was questionable whether the special deputy would go to trial this week regardless of Thagard's ruling because the murder charge against Thomas in the slaying of Mrs. Liuzzo had priority on the docket. Buying Dollar on Down Curve for 25 Years Vietnam War Smashed Notable Record of 58-'65 Stability By SYLVIA PORTER The dollar which bought you lOOc of goods and services at the start of 1966 will buy you less than 98c worth of the same goods and services today and probably will buy you only QVzc worth at the end of 1966. This is an erosion of in one year: it illustrates what this year's climb in a living costs is doing to the buying power of the paycheck you are earning and saving. a which bought you lOOc of goods and services in 1964--after Porter the close of World War II is worth only 66s in the marketplace today, will be worth under 66c by ycarend.

The dollar which bought you lOOe of goods and services in 1939--just before World War I I i worth under 43c now, will probably buy only a slim 42c of the same goods and services when 1966 ends. Tliis is a sickening slump of 58c--well over fit)''--and it says flatly that the a a trend of the dollar's buying power has been downward through more a a quarter-century of both hot and cold wars, both upturns and recessions. A our dollar has chalked up I he best record for buying power of any currency of any a industrialized na- i in modern times, this is a bleak performance indeed for the world's greatest currency--and no objective observer denies it. Deliberate Inflation The lOOc dollar of 1950. for instance, is worth only 76.9c today.

The lOOc dollar of I960 is wnrth only 91.7c. Even the lOOc dollar of 1963 is worth only 95c. The erosion is, in part, the result of our determined efforts to curb depressions in our country by expansionary spending- policies. It is a result, in part, of Malaysian Delegate Pleads For All-Asia Vietnam Talks our grandiose attempts to rehabilitate and develop the world by a huge outpouring of dollar gifts and loans. It certainly reflects our deliberately inflationary spending-credit policies to obey Congress' mandate to strive for maximum production, maximum employment and maximum incomes.

But had it not been for the acceleration of the Vietnam war, the dollar's purchasing power would not be headline news now. The decline actually slowed to a creep from 1958 to about the i i to be expected in a dynamic economy and there's no disputing that the vast majority of a i i got pay hikes that dwarfed the drop in the buying power of their dollars. Demands Soaring Vietnam smashed the superb record of 1958-65. War demands piled on top of record peacetime demands are pressing on our supplies of goods and services and pulling up prices. Now rising labor and other costs are entering the picture to push up prices.

The anti-inflation moves made to date --the credit squeeze, acceleration of income lax payments, restoration of certain excise (axes--have not been enough to change thr trend and have surely not directly affected food and service costs. The pending moves--suspension of the tax incentives which have spurred business spending on plants and equipment--almost, i won't be either. There's a grave question whether any steps that will be taken can do more than moderate the decline in the dollar's buying power anytime soon. Wo are into another war-inspired inflationary phase--and barring an end to the Vietnam war, thr most we can reasonably hope for is that thf decline in our dollar's purchasing power won't bo as sharp in ns in IW6 by TIM Uatl 1Mb Red China Seating Also Asked Razak Speaks At U.N. Meet United Nations (UPD--Ma- laysia pleaded before United Nations Monday in support of an all-Asian conference on Vietnam.

At the same time. Malaysian deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak called for admission of Red China to the U.N., without unseating Nationalist China. Foreign Minister Vaclav David of Czechoslovakia rejected "with indignation" the peace proposals offered a Thursday by U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg.

David said the U.S. must accept North Vietnam's principles for negotiation, including Communist Viet Cong's National Liberation Front as "the only true representative of the South Vietnamese people." Razak made special mention in his address of the reconciliation between his country and Indonesia. Shortly before he spoke, Indonesian President Sukarno disclosed in Jakarta he has ordered Indonesia back into the U.N. He pulled the country out when Malaysia was seated on the Security Council. But Indonesia strongman Gen.

Su- harto apparently pushed the! issue and decided Indonesia should return. Razak pledged Malaysia's support for the proposal of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for an all-Asian meeting on Vietnam. Razak stressed the meeting should aim only at bringing the belligerents to a conference table--not at suggesting or imposing a solution to the war. The General Assembly was settling down to business with a 95-item agenda to be dealt with before Dec. 20, the closing date of its new session.

Beginning its first full working week, the assembly continued the general debate Monday morning with Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Malaysia and Ecuador listed as speakers. W1REPHOTO West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Johnson confer at the White House. Macon Pastor Fired For Integration Plea Baptist Church Refuses African Student; Assistants Also Ousted Macon, Ga. (UPI)--A Baptist congregation fired its pastor and two of his assistants Sunday for advocating open- ing church services to Negroes. At the same time, the I ident Johnson will fly to Cape church refused admittance to an African student who had Kennedy Tuesday with West Chancellor Ludwig Erhard Will Visit Cape Kennedy Joint Space Effort Probed Washington.

(DPI) res- been converted to Christianity by Southern Baptist mjs- German I Erhard to show his visitor the U.S. space facility, the White sionaries. "I have committed tfie un-r Pen Is On Quiet Side Knives Being Turned In Things are "pretty quiet" at the penitentiary. Penal Complex Warden Maurice Sigler said Monday. Testimony at hearings on alleged racial discrimination at the prison Friday and Saturday had told of tension mount- Ing inside the institution tween white and colored in- I mates.

But Monday, two days after an investigating committee voiced confidence in prison officials, i said that "knives are already i turned in and we're hopeful things have settled down and will go back to where were before." He said lie and his staff called meetings of all inside inmates, explained the investigating committee's position and said the oast. cell block would not be integrated. Any persons having knives or oilier weapons were asked to turn them in. If turned in i i designated hours, he said, there would be no punishment. Inmates had testified that agitation of a small group while and colored inmates had resulted in knives being made or stolen and being stashed away in cells.

The hearings by the Advisory CommiUeo on Institutions and Welfare had inquired into alleged discrimination in the penitentiary and tense ooiulitions there. The committee approved present policies and said security made it necessary to ker-p the east cell block i its four-man cells as it is (all pardonable sin of a southern minister preaching integration in a southern town," the Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Holmes said of his dismissal by vote of the congregation.

While the vote was being taken, deacons of the Tatnall Square Church turned away Sam Jerry Oni, a Nigerian who came to Baptist-oriented Mercer University here in 1963 despite "the situation" in the South. Oni, was a i in a police car for about an hour. Fired from staff were Dr. Holmes, Rev. Douglas Johnson, assistant pastor, and Jack W.

Jones, minister of music. All three have advocated an "open door" policy in the church. The general membership voted 259 to 189 Sunday to dismiss the three, according to Jerry E. Rodgers, chairman of the deacons. "It has been a test of my faith in a sense, but it has also been a strengthening of my faith," the Rev.

Dr. Holmes said. "This a shown me the importance of Oni. who Jived many years in Ghana, came fo Mercer on the recommendation of a missionary alumnus, Harris Mobley. "He told me about the Oni said.

"But there is a lot of difference between expectation and experience. preaching the truth. Churches Fail In Racial Task Dallas (UPI) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King told fellow ministers Sunday that churches in the United States House announced Monday.

The visit was described as an ov.tgrowth of discussions the two leaders had held some time ago and resumed Monday on joint German-American projects "in the peaceful civilian exploration of space. Johnson and Erhard, beginning two days of talks on N'ATO matters and other topics including space, met privately for about an hour and a half in the President's office. Then they joined top- ranking diplomatic and military advisers for another 25 minutes or so. The White House confirmed the planned Cape Kennedy have failed in their mission trip after a German spokes- to promote racial justice. ''Honesty impels us to admit that religious bodies in America have not been faithful to their prophetic mission on the question of racial justice," he said.

They have "often been an active participant "in shaping and crystalizing the patterns of the race-caste system," he said. 1 King spoke to the Interna-j 1 tional Convention of Christian i Churches (Disciple of Christ), I man had announced it. Details still were being worked out, but Johnson and i guest will fly to Florida aboard the President's jetliner after the chancellor addresses a luncheon Tuesday at the National Press Club. ymnmiiiimiiiiiwiiiiiiiiimmmiiiiimiimiuwg ouncil onciselyl BE SURE TO READ Congo Troops Win REBELLION CRUSHED--Congolese troops have crushed the hopes of supporters of a Moise Tshombc rebellion Paae 2 Extra Point (Hub TODAY'S KICKS--Bob Devaney. stripped of a i a for kicking game, tells how to calm a punter DEDICATION Guide Rock is the site of a new historical a a where Lt.

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