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NATION ASKED TO ACCEPT HIGHER TAX, LESS ENERGY WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford has challenged Congress and the public to accept higher taxes and less energy as part of an anti-inflation program that also includes jobs for the unemployed and stepped production to halt food price increases. Congress is showing itself willing to cooperate up to a point. Comments by many lawmakers indicated that the point at which many of them would balk is enactment of a 5 per cent surcharge on the tax levied on incomes above $15,000 for a family and $7,500 for a single person. "I am aware that any proposal for new taxes just four weeks before a national election is to put it mildly considered politically unwise Ford said Tuesday at a nationally televised and broadcast joint session of the House and Senate. "But I do say in all sincerity I will not play politics with America's future This is the acid test of our joint determination to whip inflation." Appealing over the heads of the lawmakers in the floodlit House chamber, he asked his nationwide audience to "grow more, waste less drive less, heat less share with others." Congressional leaders moved fast on two measures Ford targeted for immediate action: a resolution to hold spending at $300 billion, $5 billion under earlier estimates, and legislation he said would clear the way for the government to pour $3 billion into the ailing home market, enough for 100,000 homes, by buying conventional as well as government-insured mortgages.

Leaders conferred on ways to cut procedural corners and send these two measures to Ford by Friday, the day Congress is scheduled to begin a month's campaigning recess. Some said they would consider postponing the recess, but plans were being made to avoid a postponement. Ford's longer-term program ranged over the issues of taxes, food production, employment, energy, capital building and price-raising practices both of the government and the private sector. The proposed surcharge would apply, School is Dynamited Minister is Jailed in W. Va.

Textbook Dispute CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) A dynamite blast damaged a rural elementary school today and another building was slightly damaged by fire in the wake of the jailing of a minister protesting against textbooks, state olice reported. The West Branch Elementary School In Kanawha County suffered moderate damage from the explosion. The explosive had been placed at the entrance of the building. No injuries were reported.

Pupils from that school were shifted to classes at Chelyan. Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek was slightly damaged when what state police described as a Henry Kissinger on Mediating Trip to The Middle East WASHINGTON (AP) On his sixth mediating trip to the Middle East since the October war, Henry A. Kissinger will test Arab and Israeli enthusiasm for another Sinai withdrawal while searching for a way to link it with an over -all peace settlement. His journey comes amid increasing tensions between the Arabs and the United States because of disagreements over oil prices. The fast-stepping secretary of state, who set out after midnight from Andrews Air Force Base, plans to visit seven countries within a week, possibly doubling back to Cairo before leaving the Middle East for a final check with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

President Ford and members of his Cabinet drove to Andrews to see Kissinger off on what Ford called "a vitally important mission." U.S. officials said the trip is unlikely to produce the detailed terms even of the next stage. "The primary purpose is to give concreteness to the negotiating process, and perhaps to agree on some timing," Kissinger said at a news nference Monday. lources in Cairo said Sadat and his auvisers still reserve a vital role for Kissinger in the Middle East, partly because he engineered troop engagements with Israel on both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts last spring. But the sources said hard-line statements on oil prices by Kissinger and Ford have caused concern in Cairo and other Arab capitals.

They added that Egyptians are uneasy about what they call a delay in U.S. food shipments to Egypt and obstacles in the supply of promised aid in the peaceful development of atomic energy. His first stop is Cairo, after refueling a Torrejon, Spain. He and Sadat will nave an opening session Wednesday night and talk all day Thursday. Kissinger plans to go on to Damascus on Friday for discussions with Assad and to Jordan that evening to see Hussein.

He will visit Saudi Arabia and Israel over the weekend and then Algeria and Morocco before returning to Washington next Tuesday. Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and cool tonight. Lows in the 30s. Mostly sunny and not as cool Thursday. Highs in the 60s.

Probability of percipitation, 10 per cent tonight and near zero per cent Thursday. The Kane Re Republican fire bomb was tossed through a window. The blaze was quickly extinguished. The classroom schedule was not affected. Schools in the Kanawha County area have been the object of protests by a group led by the Rev.

Ezra Graley, a self -ordained fundamentalist minister. The group claims a number of text books used in the county's schools are anti-American and un-Christian. The explosion and fire at the schools in this mountainous coalfield region came less than 12 hours after Graley was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $1,500. Graley was one of 19 persons arrested Monday during picketing. The sentence will run consecutively with a 30-day sentence earlier given Graley for violation of the same injunction.

Picketing resumed this morning at the county's Quincy school bus garage, also in the eastern end of the county. Mike Bell, spokesman for the Kanawha County Board of Education, said only 19 of 33 buses made their runs in the area because drivers were not crossing picket lines out of fear or sympathy with the protesters. TAX BREAK FOR SAVER WASHINGTON (AP) A bill giving savers a $1.8 billion-a-year tax break in a bid to boost the flow of funds for home mortgages was approved Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee. By a vote of 15 to 6, the tax-writing panel approved the legislation sponsored by Rep. Donald G.

Brotzman, R- to exclude from taxation $500 of interest earned every year on money an individual keeps in a passbook savings account, or $1,000 in the case of a couple. NAVY RECRUITS STRICKEN SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Thirty-six recruits were in Naval Hospital Tuesday with infectious hepatitis and Navy medical officers said they suspected food handlers of spreading the liver disease virus. Since the outbreak was detected Sunday, more than 11,000 recruits and workers at the Naval Training Center have been immunized. The stricken sailors were listed in good condition.

RIDGWAY INVESTIGATION Borough police are investigating the apparent theft of $1,910 from a bank deposit packet Sunday at the Center Market on Main Street, Ridgway. The loss was discovered Monday by bank officials who found the amount of cash in the bag did not match the market's deposit slip. The loss is believed to have happened sometime between 2:15 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday when the store was open for business. BUTZ DENIES EMBARGO WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.

Butz denied testimony by a grain exporter Tuesday that the United States has placed an embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and oil producing and exporting nations. FIVE SLAIN IN TEXAS FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) Three sisters were raped and brutally salin and two small children were stabbed to death in a Southeast Side apartment, police reported today. to corporate income and to private incomes above the specified levels. An individual taxpayer would compute his tax in the usual way, then add 5 per cent to the tax on that part of his income above the specified levels $7,500 for a single person and $15,000 for a couple.

The surcharge would be in effect for a year only and Ford said, "I would not ask his if major loopholes were not being closed by the Ways and Means Tax Reform Bill." Some congressmen said the personal income surcharge had no chance, others that increasing public concern on inflation might put it over, and many that it could be enacted if the income floor were raised to $20,000, $25,000 or some higher figure. He said the tax measures he is seeking would raise an estimated $5 billion, which "should pay for all the new programs I have recommended in this message." Saying that low-and middle-income Americans have been hard hit by inflation, Ford added, "The tax reform bill now in the House Committee on Ways and Means, which I favor, already provides approximately $1.6 billion of tax relief to these groups." Principal provisions of the committee bill that favor low and middle income taxpayers relate to standard deductions used by those who do not itemize on their tax returns. At present, a taxpayer may take a standard deduction of 15 per cent of income up to a top deduction of $2,000. The bill would increase the percentage to 17 and the ceiling to $2,500. To help low income taxpayers, there is in present law also a provision for a flat deduction of $1,300 anyone may take, regardless of what percentage of income this is.

The bill would raise the deduction to $1,400 for single taxpayers and $1,500 for couples. "To halt higher food prices, we must produce more food," Ford said. He asked Congress to remove acreage limitations on rice, peanuts and cotton and said he would allocate to farmers all the fuel and seek authority to allocate all the fertilizer they need. Chairman W.R. Poage, of the House Agriculture Committee, however, said that without more assurances of profit Ford's measures would not do the job.

Ford said marketing orders and other regulations were being reviewed to end or change those responsible for inflated prices. He proposed extended special unemployment benefits and creation of a temporary Community Improvement Corps that would go into action when national unemployment exceeded 6 per cent, providing "short-term useful work projects to improve, beautify and enhance the environment of our cities, towns and countryside." On energy, Ford told Congress, "If you've forgotten the shortages of last winter, most Americans have not." He called on Congress to deregulate natural gas prices, open up Navy oil reserves in California and Alaska, modify environmental strictures on use of fuel and pass surface mining legislation balancing considerations of supply with environmental protection. He also announced creation of a National Energy Board, headed by Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, to develop a national energy program, with instructions to reduce imports of foreign oil by one million barrels a day by the end of 1975. Ford asked Congress to increase maximum penalties for antitrust violations from the present $50,000 to $1 million for corporations and from $50,000 to $100,000 for individual violators.

Only Afternoon Daily Newspaper Published In McKean County Kane and Mt. Jewett, Wednesday, October 9, 1974 VOL. NO. LXXXII, No. 21 Overnight low 26.

Noon reading 50 Wilcox Here We Come Paving Train As of this morning 8,100 feet of paving remained on the Route 321 south project from East Kane to Wilcox-with indications that the major part of the paving will be completed this weekand with access to Route 219 in central Wilcox via a township intersection at the McFarland House. There will remain to be paved two 46.5 foot bays open along the route, one adjacent the batch plant two miles south of Kane. George Cadori, state inspector on the project, said this morning that if weather permits the paving train could Due at Wilcox be in Wilcox near the Route 219 intersection by Friday. Meanwhile the big batch plants south of East Kane continues to pour out tremendous amounts of concrete under charge of Lloyd Agosti. The entire operation is advancing on a time schedule with a scores of trucks providing the endless feeding of the paving machine--others moving materials into the batch plant area.

Still another fleet of big truck units is moving in base materials for the berms which will be 10 to 12 feet wide with a deep stone base. Surface of the berms in Two Days also will be "paved" with special stabilizing materials-with that latter phase of the job taking place in the spring. The road will possibly be opened through the Dahoga intersection for local traffic by Friday. Intersecting routes-township roads and the road from Dahoga to Twin Lakes will be blacktopped for their accesses onto the new Route 321. Motorists using the opened paved sections are urged to use caution to avoid dropping off the eight inch reinforced pavement onto the unfinished berms.

Pass Amendment Sato and Sean MacBride To All But End Aid Win Nobel Peace Prize Chile Military WASHINGTON (AP) The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved 'an amendment Tuesday cutting off all but a small portion of the government's proposed military aid for Chile. The amendment suspends military sales to Chile on a credit or cash basis until President Ford determines that Chile has made fundamental improvements in the human rights field. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Michael Harrington, initially was intended, in effect, to sever completely military ties between Chile and the United States. But the committee agreed to a revision proposed by Rep.

Charles Whalen, R-Ohio, authorizing the Defense Department to go ahead with an $800,000 program for training Chilean military officers. The administration has proposed a $20 million military credit sales programs for the current fiscal year. A subsequent revision introduced by Rep. James Buchanan, gives Ford the right to approve military cash and credit sales up to $10 million if he determines that the Chilean government has eased political repression. The amendment is applicable to the Foreign Assistance Act of fiscal 1975.

An aide to Harrington said it would not affect the $60 million purchase by Chile of 18 F5 "Freedom Fighter" jets from the United States. This transaction was announced Sunday in Santiago. FIRE DRILL AT HOME A fire drill, held Tuesday evening at the Kane Lutheran Home, was termed a success by Home Administrator Rev. Alfred Ambrose and Kane Borough Fire Chief H.D. Gardner.

The drill involved all 37 patients of the Home. Dr. Gardner said all units of the Kane Department responded to the previously unanounced alarm, with the first unit arriving three minutes after the call at 7 p.m. PA. LOTTERY NUMBERS RENOVO, Pa.

(AP) This week's winning number in Pennsylvania's 50- cent drawing is 683847. The millionare finalist number is 55260. By GENE KRAMER Associated Press Writer Some Japanese political leaders have criticized former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's receipt of a share of the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize. They contend he didn't deserve i it because of his role in keeping U.S. military forces in Japan.

The selection of Sato and Sean MacBride of Ireland as cowinners of the award was announced Tuesday in Oslo, Norway. Citations said the selections were for Sato's efforts to limit nuclear weapons and stabilize conditions in Asia and MacBride's many years of work to protect human rights. The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian parliament said the two would share the $124,000 award equally. Both men are expected to be in Oslo Dec. 10 to accept it.

"Sean MacBride's efforts for human rights and Eisaku Sato's work for limitation of nuclear weapons and for international conciliation contributed each in its own way to securing peace," the committee said. "Their efforts have come in areas that in our time are central to the work for peace." Director Tim Greve of the Nobel Institute said about 50 candidates had been nominated for the 1974 prize. Candidates' names are never officially revealed. -It was the first time that a Japanese or an Irishman won the Peace Prize, although five Japanese and two Irishmen have received Nobel prizes in other categories. The award is named for the late Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who donated the prize fund.

Sato, 73, was Japan's prime minister from 1964 to 1972. He said on learning in Tokyo of his choice that he knew he was being considered but had thought he would not win. A Socialist party official quickly criticized the selection, declaring that Sato as prime minister "vehemently maintained" the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact "which, as a result, allows U.S. ships to bring nuclear weapons to Japan." The prize was split last year between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger President Ford delivers his antiBefore a Joint Session inflation speech before a joint session of Congress Tuesday in the Capitol.

Eisaku Sato and North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho for their Vietnam peace accord, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam war. That decison caused an uproar that resulted in the resignation of two of the five members of the Nobel Committee. MacBride, 70, a former Irish independence fighter whose father was executed by the British, is now United Nations Commissioner for South-West Africa, or Namibia. His award covered not only his work in trying to help Namibia gain independence from white-ruled South Africa but also for drafting the European Convention on Human Rights and his membership in Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists. He said his winning the award "might help" hasten independence for Namibia, which is administered by South Africa under mandate from the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations.

In 1966, the U.N. General Assembly terminated the mandate and declared the country under U.N. control until independence, but South Africa refused to accept the termination of its mandate. Anna Mary Hoover Dies at Age of 83 Mrs. Anna Mary Hoover, 83, of 2 Brightview Avenue, Masury, Ohio, died Tuesdav at 12:15 p.m.

in her home. Mrs. Hoover was born on Dec. 16, 1890 in New Town Mills, the daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Rudolph Weller. She was a member of the Sharon, Pa.

Moose Auxiliary and was preceded in death by her husband Roy in 1956. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Avadna Pope of Sharon and Mrs. Wilma Howard of Westline; one sister, Mrs. Edith Alabaugh of Warren; two grandchildren, six great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Following visation at a funeral home in Masury the body will be brought to the John F. Hill Funeral Home here where visiting hours will be from 7 to 9 on Thursday evening. The Rev. Howard Patterson, pastor of the local First United Methodist Church, will conduct funeral services from the funeral home on Friday, at 1:30 p.m. Burial will follow in McKean Memorial Park at Lafayette..