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220 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and Mt. Jewett, Friday, June 2, 1967 TEN CENTS A COPY THE KANE Armed Clash on COSTLY BUTTLES IN Democrats Say Gov0 Must Prove Need For Personal Income Tax A LUCKY WINNER Minority Leader Fineman Unalterably Opposed to 'Request for Blank Check1 5 By VINCENT CAROCCI srri "Fur HARRISBURG UP) Gov. Shafer's proposal for a deferred personal income tax met with a relatively cool reception today from both Republicans and Democrats alike. Shafer proposed in a message to the General Assembly Thursday to balance his 1967 68 $1,861 billion budget with a $267 million tax package drawn without the immediate imposition of a personal in 4 A. J.

Foyt streaks toward the finish of a weird 500 mile auto race in which Parnelli Jones had to drop out within 10 miles of certain victory. Foyt (inset) became a three time winner of the race. IS HID FOR DISTRICT BRADFORD President Char les Crockett of Elk Lick Coun cil, Boy Scouts of America, announced today that Walter T. Weaver has been employed as district executive to sorve scout ing in the Western District of Elk Lick Council. Mr.

Weaver is a native of West Chester, and a grad uate of Salem College. He is married to the former Deborah Gassert of Long Island, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver will reside in the Bradford area.

Mr. Weaver has been active In the Boy Scout program since he joined as a Cub Scout at age 8. He has served as an aquatic in structor at the National Camping School and while in college was an active Alpha Phi Omega member and served as a Scoutmaster of a troop sponsored by his fraternity. He will serve scouting units in Bradford, Bradford and Foster Townships, Duke Center, Eldred, Row, Fanners Valley, Crosby, Smethport, Hazelhurst, Mt. Jewett, Kane, Mt.

Alton, Cyclone, Lewis Run, Custer City, West line and James City. Currently there are 24 Cub packs, 33 Scout troop3 and five Explorer posts, with a total of 1,502 boy members and 547 adult leaders in the Western District. HOLT VISITS THE U.S. WASHINGTON UP) President Johnson welcomed Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt and his wife to Washington, beginning an official visit, Thursday. 1 'Congratulations When Are You dpt.

L. Sherwood Anderson of Kane, who recently was promoted from command of Company 728th Maintenance Battalion, iji Kane to a post in DISCOM with the Pennsylvania National Guard at Harriburg, has a terrific testimonial on the housing situation in Kane. With publication of his promotion, the personal visits the 'phone calls started and are continuing today with congratuations on his advancement and added, "When are you moving?" "Who is going to get your house?" and on and on. Captain Anderson has no intention of moving to Harris burg, his assignment to DISCOM not requiring such a move. He plans to remain in Kane and in his post as assistant manager of Kane Finance Co.

He expressed sympathy today for those in need of housing, stating, "I must tiave had more than 100 calls people wanting my home, or wanting to know if someone got my home, If their place was taken." Captain Anderson observed, "There was never any mention of moving from Kane.1' His situation points up critical demand for housing in Kane, a situation checking growth developmenta situation which will worsen rapidly without question. Tins WAS MORRISON If A i i 4v SURVEYOR' FAILS TO PASADENA, Calif. UP As night fell on the moon, so did the hopes of scientists trying to awaken their ditch digging Sur veyor 3. Scientists at the Jet Propul sion Laboratory said Thursday the 620 pound Surveyor, which landed in a crater on the moon April 19, refused to respond to commands from earth. The spindly legged photo graphic machine faces a two week lunar night with tempera tures dropping to 250 degrees below zero.

ine iirst lunar night, scicn tists said Thursday, apparently damaged a critical part since nine days of attempts failed to move the craft The present night all but extinguishes their hopes of contacting it again 'Consuming' Charges In Gifford Collision Two youths face state charges of alcoholic bever ages following a collision of two automobiles at the intersection of Routes 770 and 64G in Gifford at 10:45 p.m. yesterday. State Police report eight young people in the two cars escaped injury and listed damages to the two vehicles at $1,000. Investigating officer Trooper Ronald Fortney in his report in dicated a car operated by Carl William Ross, 18, of Mt. Jewett, failed to stop at an intersection and collided with a car operated by Karen Sue Irons, 18, of The Israeli Border; 1st 'Crisis' Deaths By HAL McClure JERUSALEM An armed clanh erupted on Israel's border with Syria today, bring ing the firiit fatalities Hlneo the Middle East crisis broke out, Israel's army spokesman said two Israelis and a Syrian wero killed.

The fighting came a few hours after the appointment of Gen. Moshe Dayan, a vigorous fight ing man and architect of Is rael's triumph over Egypt In the Suez war of 1956, as defense minister. Israel looked to Dayan to prosecute a vigorous pol icy. The skirmishing was the the village of Kfar Hanassi, populated by settlers from the United States. It is less than a mile from Syral's border.

An Israeli army spokesman said a patrol encountered four armed Syrains as they were returning to Syria. Found near the Syraian's body were a subma machine gun, two antiperson nel mines and ammunition. It was the second day of firing on Israel's border With its Arao neighbors. Jordan said it opened fire Thursday on an Israeli helicopter that flew over its half of divided Jerusalem. Israel said a shell burst hit a house but no casualties were reported.

Egypt showed no sign of back ing down in tne coniroma tion with Israel, which began arly this month after its ally Svria charged the Israelis threatened an invasion. Canal Threat Egypt threatened to close the Suez Canal to any nation that tries to break the blockade Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser has proclaimed in the Gulf of Aqi ba. At the north end of the gulf lies Elath, the Israeli port that mports most of the nation's oil. Israel has warned it will not wai indefinitely for the Western pow ers to work out a plan to nullify the blockade. Premier Levi Eshkol Thurs ay night gave up the defense post and named the 52 year old.

one eyed war hero and political ally of former Premier David Ben Gurion. The appointment was warmly welcomed in Israel, though opinion was divided whether it promised a challenge soon to the Egyptian forces threatening Israel's southern shipping routo through the Gulf of Aqaba or the Arab legions massed on Israel's frontiers. Some Israeli hawks expect their government to take a stronger military posture. Doves said Eshkol would have to approve any change in policy, and so far he and Foreign Minister Abba Eban have been following the advice of the United States and others to keep their forces leashed while a diplomatic solution to the crisis is sought. Sinai War Leader However, Dayan's appointment was expected In Israel to make a strong impression the Arabs, who remember his successful leadership in the 1955 Sinai war.

Ben Gurion hailed Dayan's reentry into the military field as "a very important step." "It will give the country a wise and courageous leader, ship," he said. The semiofficial Cairo news paper Al Ahram, Nasser's usual mouthpiece, claimed that the armed forces now control Israel and predicted that Premier Levhi Eshkol's government would be overthrown soon un less it takes military action against the Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. Al Ahram warned that Egypt may shut off the Suez Canal to any nation trying to break the blockade it has imposed on the gulf between the Red Sea and Israel's southern port, Elath. Cairo Warning In a move to forestall any attempt by U.S. and British warships to break the blockade.

Al Ahram said Cairo would regard such attempts as aggression and exercise Its right to bar the aggressor's ships from the Suez Canal under the 1888 Treaty of Contantinople. The paper said Nasser's government was drawing up a pla to meet "attempts by the United States and Britain to pressuro and provoke Egypt." Al Ahram also charged that passage of the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid through the Suez Canal Thursday "represented an American show of force even though the captain told canal authorities the ship was bound, for the Indian Ocean." The Intrepid, with 78 jet fighters aboard, steamed southeast through the Red Sea Thursday night. The U.S. Defense Department said she was bound lor Vietnam.

OF Hy GEOKGE MCAItTIIUR SAIGON (AP) A task force of South Vietnamese paratroop ers and infantry with thunder ous air and artillery support chopped up a crack Communis battalion just south of the de militarized zone and killed at least 150 of the enemy, the Viet namese Command announced A few miles to the west U.S Marines were calling in air and artillery against a bunkered Communist ridgeline where dug in North Vietnamese repu lars killed 13 Marines and wounded G3 on Thursday. The fiKhting raged a few miles below the 17th parallel dividing Vietnam, an area whore the Communists have shown every willingness to feed in fresh troops for a growinj war of attrition. The 5,000 man South Vietnam esc task force of paratroopers, infantry and armored vehicles ran into the crack Viet Cons TOSth Mobile Battalion within five miles of the U.S. Marine base at Dong Ha. The South Vietnamese jumped off on a widespread sweep at dawn and within hours hit the guerrilla battalion of about f00 men in a coastal area of sand dunes, low hills and brush whore it has long operated.

The battle northeast of Quang Tri City was the third in the area in the past two weeks. To the west, the Marines were attempting to dislodge the North Vietnamese from a low ridge line that gives them observation of Con Thien and Camp Carrol, two bunkered Marine outposts just below the demilitarized zone. Buttle in Sawgrass In this area where sawgrass grows five feet high, the Marines hit a strong Communist force near noon Thursday arid battled them until sundown, running into well prepared bunkers and trenches. Inching forward since then, the Marines directed a hail of artillery and ct strikes on the Red fortifications. There was no report yet of enemy casualties in the contin uing battle.

Scattered actions and Red mortar fire were reported oil along the area below the zone, an area shielding the five politically shaky provinces of northern South Vietnam. Sporadic fighting also was reported throughout the five provinces, where Communist infiltration efforts have concentrated for months. In the southernmost Quan Ngai U.S. Army troops sent last month to relieve pressuro on the Marines pursued a Red force dislodged from a mile long bunker complex by naval gunfire Thursday. A spokesman said that no details had been received on what was found in the bunkered fortress uncovered by the fiery naval rocket barrage.

Serious fighting also was reported in the Mekong delta, where the Reds mortared the provincial capital of Tan An miles from Saigon. Tuff the Dragon' The Communists early today shelled a camp holding Red defectors, killing one and wounding. 28. They followed with a small ground assault which was beaten off with the aid of a circling American twin engine plane, "Puff the Magic Dragon' spitting gatling gun fire. A platoon from the U.S.

9th Infantry Division caught the fleeing guerrillas about a mil'j away. An eerie night battle broke out in the paddy fieldi with armed helicopters and the circling Puff again in action by the light of flares. At dawn 17 Communist dead were found. Four of the Americans were wounded. The 9(h announcing the end of a sweep it launched in the delta five months ago uround its camp at Dong Tarn, reported one indication of Red strength in the area.

It said soldiers found and destroyed some 850 bunkers and emplacements and the operation covered less than 5 per cent of the delta. Air Although American pilots flew 127 missions over North Vietnam Thursday, the weather was worse than it has been for a week and strikes were limited largely to supply targets well outside the Hanoi Haiphong area. Many of the strikes were radar directed, some at night. Air Force Thunderchief jets from Thailand ugain blasted the Mu Gia pass which funnels mosi North Vietnamese traffic into Laos and onto the Ho Chi Minh trail. No planes were reported lost and there were no reports of Communist MIC jets in the air ISRAELI LEADER Gen.

Moshe Dayan (above), who led Israeli forces In clobbering Egypt In the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, Is to be defense minister in the new crisis. Three From Pa. Die in Viet War WASHINGTON iJFi The De fense Department Thursday list ed three Pennsylvania servicemen among 05 American soldiers killed in Vietnam. Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas J.

Dean III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Dean of Philadelphia died of wounds, and Army Pvt. Francis C.

Cleaver, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Cleaver, of New Castle died not as the result of hostile action, the Pentagon said. The status of Army Spec.

4 Duaine K. Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin K. Fisher of York, was changed from miss ing to dead in hostile action.

come tax, However, he asked the legis. lature to enact an adjusted come tax. ranging between a minimum of one tenth of 1 per cent to a maximum of 1 per cent, to take effect once the state budget exceeded $1.9 bil lion and could not be balanced from the existing tax structure The rate would be determined by the deficit. "Our present tax structure simply cannot sustain the de mands that we are placing upon it," Shafer said In his 2,500 word address to a joint session of the House and Senate. "There is no knowledgeable politician or citizen in this state, whether Republican or 'Demo crat, who does not know deep in his heart that a personal in come tax is inevitable for Penn sylvania." Republicans seemed gratified that the necessity of the Income tax can be avoided this year while Democrats stoutly insisted that Shafer would have to prove his revenue needs to them be fore they lent any votes for a tax program.

Confided one Republican leader: "With the exception of the in come tax, I feel we can enact a tax program easily without Democratic votes to balance the 1967 68 budget." House GOP Majority Leadas Lee A. Donaldson observed: "Our caucus seemed relieved that we did not have to resort to a broad based tax this year Fineman Opposition Democratic Minority Leader Herbert Fineman said he was unalterably opposed to a de ferred Income tax. "I'm not about to provide him (Shafer) with a blank check to carry him through the next four years. Such a tax would only encourage profligate spending He's going to have to prove his revenue figures to us before we vote for any taxes." Shafer, in proposing the de ferred income tax, said it was vital to long range budget plan ning. "Either we give up the effort to provide Pennsylvania with the quality education system and other services her people desire and need, or we move to an income tax," he declared.

He further maintained the in come tax would not take a3 much In taxes as some oppo nents would have the people believe. An average family of five, with an annual income of $7,500, would pay only $36.50 a year, he said. Stroup Comment Republican Senate Majority Leader Stanley G. Stroup con cluded that Shafer's program had "vision," adding: "I think we ought to try and face it. Shafer told the legislators that by cutting his $1,861 billion bud get for the fiscal year beginning July 1 by $70 million, he was able to avoid the necessity of recommending an income tax this time around.

He said the budget could be balanced with these tax proposals: A retroactive increase to last Jan. 1 from 6 to 7 per cent in the Corporate Net Income tax to raise $59.6 million, with another half percent to be tacked on In 1969. A nickel increase in the 8 cent cigarette tax, $66 million, with the special one cent tax on cigarettes for the Korean bonus due to expire this year made permanent for anothor $13.2 million. Utilities Levy An increase In the Utilities Gross Receipts levy from 14 to 20 mills, $24 million. Increased taxes on financlil institutions, $16 million.

A 1 per cent net Income tax on unincorporated businesses and professions such as doctors, lawyers and dentist, $24 mil lion. A 3 per cent hike, to 5 per cent, In the 2 per cent inheritance tax, $24 million. A variable tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes, i $17.8 million. All the tax bills, with the exception of the stand by income tax, were immediately introduced in the House. GOP leaders said the income tax measure was held up for a check" cf potential technical errors.

It wa3 also reported that there wero few sponsors for the proposal at this point. Only 170 of the state's 250 legislators were in their seats to hear Shafer's message. The governor had been forewarned that he faced a poor turnout if he insisted on delivering the speech Thursday, interrupting the legislature's Memorial Day holiday. His 25 minute address was interrupted only twice by applause the first time when he said he would propose no income tax this year and the second when he said he had cut the budget by $70 million, instead of $62 million suggested by the Democrats. One light moment came when a few cabinet officers and aides applauded, while the lawmakers themselves remained silent, as the governor mentioned his stand by income tax proposal.

"I'm glad I brought so many relatives," Shafer joked beioie returning to his text. Fineman challenged Shafer's figures that the administration was faced with an $18 million reduction in its projected million surplus come June SO and a $25 million drop in projected tax receipts for the new fiscal year. "He'll have to prove that to the Democrats," Fineman declared. "Governors traditionally overstate their revenue problems." Unincorporated Tax? Shafer's proposal to enact a 1 per cent tax on unincorporated businesses also ran into a stiff reaction. "We may have to find a substitute," one influential Republican said.

Shafer said he was able to reduce his budget by cutting S70 million from his original spending plan, including a $11.6 million reduction in general admin istrative costs. Fineman charged that what the governor actually did was to cut the budget by only $10 million. The remaining $30 million was transferred to a bor rowing proposition, he said. "The fact that he claims a $70 million reduction in the bud get shows that we were correct in stating that it contained fat in the first place," Fineman said. "He accepted $30 million of our recommended reductions.

We feel he could have accptd all $62 million without hampering state services or programs. Republican leaders said they were hopeful a tax package could be passed within four to six weeks. List U.S. 'Copter And Plane Losses SAIGON The U.S. Com mand announced today that tho United States has lost 1.3P8 planes and 888 helicopters in Vietnam since the war begun.

This includes two warpluncM downed over North Vietnam in May and not previously announc ed. In one of its periodic reports of American air losses, the command said comb.it losses over the Communist north totaled 567 planes and six copters. Combat losses over the south totaled 183 planes and 331 helicopters. The number of planes lost dur ng May now stands at 38, a record for a single month surpassing the previous mark of 33 in 1966. FIVE DAY FORECAST The.

five day forecast for Sat urday. June 3, through Wednesday, June 7: Western Pennsylvania Mild with temperatures near normal. HVViaKIIIK ,11 LI H'S Hiin l0ws in the 50s. Little, if nnr. 'rainfall likely.

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS PARIS UPy President Charles de Gaulle warned today that any nation which opened fire in the current Middle East crisis would have "neither the approval or support" of France. He repeated his call for the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France to seek agreement on how the crisis should be resolved. Britain and the United States have expressed interest in the idea but the Soviet Union has cold shouldered it. De Gaulle's statement, made at a regular Cabinet meeting, was given to newsmen by a Cabinet spokesman. De Gauile added that in France's view all the states in the Middle East have "the right to live." But, he went on, "The worst thing which could happen would be the opening of hostilities.

"In consequence, th4 first state which would employ arms anywhere would have neither its (France's) approval nor, for greater reason its support." KERSEY WOMAN HURT ST. MARYS Mrs. Joyce Chal ot, 22, Kersey, is listed In critical condition at Kaul Hospital, St. Marys, following a one car accident on Rt. 255 yesterday morning between Kersey and Weedville.

Her car ran off the road and struck a tree, throwing her from the auto. Damages to the 1967 model car was estimated at $1,200. of Oblock equipment in action Oblock Pushing on Route 321 Relocation Project i Mil' Hi i i l. j'" 4 I r. Along the "timber line," right of center, smoke rises from burning brush piles as the Oblock Construction Company pushes rapidly on Route 321 relocation from the Red Bridge project north to a junction with Route 59 at Murshburg.

Clearing for a footer on the three span bridge over Chappel Forks simllur to the new Dam and Route 59 at Casey Bridge, was projected for completion this summer. But, there were 17 major slides on the rough construction this spring, making necessary an examination and atudy for stabilization by a firm of Pittsburgh specialists. may be possible to get a passable forest service road through thla fall. The above staff photo was taken from the lake area at site of the former community of Morrison, 13 miles north of Kane looking up the Chappel Forks valley. In that direction, the Oblock construction on Route 321 relocation has intersected the old U.S.

Forest Service highway which formerly connected the old Kinzua Road with Route 59 In the Maishburg vicinity. "Red Is underway today. There is a major concentration on Route 321 as the company's progress on the U.S. Forest Service Highway 263 along west ierimeter of the lake area from Kiasutha to the Jake's Rocks Road is slowed for special tests. The USF Route 262, Kane's closest north access to the.