The Kane Republican from Kane, Pennsylvania • Page 1

r. 15 me Senate is On Verge of 0 lil; Appr oving Tax Gut mm VOL. NO. LXXXII, No. Only Afternoon Kane Dally Newspaper Published In and Mt.

Jewett, Friday, March McKean CocUy 21, 1975 low 23. Noon reading 38 WASHINGTON AP) The Senate is on the verge of passing a $30 billion tax cut bill designed to stimulate the economy while providing some immediate and long term tax relief to most American families. After removing parliamentary roadblocks and voting higher taxes on major oil companies, the Senate aimed to pass the bill today. That schedule would allow a Senate House conference to work out final Retails of the bill and have it sent to Another District Capital Is Seized by Viet Reds 1 esident Ford for his signature by Wednesday. The tax relief would be felt by mid May, when the Treasury Department would mail 1974 tax rebates of up to $240 to taxpayers across the nation.

Senators planned to consider a dozen amendments to the bill today, but the final Senate version of the tax cut is expected to provide: $10 billion in rebates on 1974 taxes, with almost all families assured of a minimum $120 check and a maximum $240. An additional $1.7 billion refund for working families whose earned income SAIGON, South Vietnam AP) The South Vietnamese government lost another district capital in the Central Highlands today and one of the bases guarding the outer western approaches to Saigon. The government threw more than 1,000 paratroopers into the defense of its capital, rushing them to positions within 10. miles of the city on the western flanks. The reinforcements were flown down from the northern provinces around Hue which President Nguyen Van Thieu is abandoning.

Sharp fighting was reported south of Hue, the former imperial capital on the north coast. Field reports said about 80 per cent of the city's 200,000 people had fled south toward Da Nang, 40 miles down the coast. Military sources said the district capital of Kien Due, in the lower Central Highlands, was lost after a 500 round artillery barrage and an infantry assault. The fall of the town threatened to cost the government the entire province of Quang Due. The Saigon government has already written off four provinces in the highlands, Kontum, Pleiku Darlac and Phu Bon, plus Quang Tri andThua Thien in the north and Phuoc Long and Binh Long, north of Saigon.

Sfill Intends to Sell Eye Don Schlopy Has Received Close to $5,000 in Donations totals less than $8,000 this year. This "earned income credit" would be 10 per cent of taxable income up to a maximum credit of $400. This provision, which the Senate endorsed Thursday night by a 78 to 12 vote, has the effect of offsetting the Social Security tax bite on families too poor generally to pay income taxes but whose paychecks still are subject to the Social Security withholding. A 4 per cent reduction in the tax rate on the first $4,000 of taxable income. This $2 billion provision is aimed at providing relief to low and middle income families, but virtually every family would receive at least a $40 reduction in 1975 and 1976 taxes.

An optional $200 per person credit against taxes instead of the current $750 per person tax exemption. Although this provision could help taxpayers who do not itemize deductions, it is designed especially to aid larger families that do itemize. The cost is $6.1 billion for 1975. A $100 across the board government payment this year to every person who receives a Social Security or 'if I Donald Schlopy, 52, of Moffit Alley, pictured left, talks over his "eye for sale" situation with Dick Deckert, young Erie Times feature writer who followed through on an advertisement placed with that newspaper convinced the local man is sincere and doing what he can, the best way he can, to improve his lot in life for his three children and himself. The local man, who returned to work today following a two weeks layoff at Affiliated Industries as result of a.

materials delay, is attempting to provide answers to plans for the money which is pouring in from all parts of the country. Strike CalledPlants Picketed Stackpole Union Contract Negotiations In Standoff railroad retirement benefit. A tax credit for any person who buys a new home as a principal residence between March 13 and Dec. 31 this year. The credit would equal 5 per cent of the home's purchase price, up to a maximum credit of $2,000.

Thus, a person buying a $20,000 home could subtract $1,000 from his tax bill next year. Buying a home worth $40,000 or more would reduce taxes by $2,000. A $7 billion tax cut for business, mainly through larger tax credits allowed firms for purchasing new equipment. The Senate cleared the way for final passage of the tax cut bill by compromising on the treatment of oil company taxes. The final version of the Senate bill would repeal the oil depletion allowance outright for the major oil companies.

But the allowance, which permits a company to avoid taxation on 22 per cent of the income from oil operations, would be retained for independent oil and gas producers. He said he is in contact with District Attorney Angell and has sought help from the legal aid department of the McKean County Department of Public Assistance. The money which comes in is "in the bank." The money, he will go for purchase of a used, furnished trailer. No one knows where the situation will slop. Further.

TV and national Associated Press coverage continues and the money keeps pouring in. About the eye for sale, he says, "I sold everything else and will go through with the eye sale as my one ohance daily. There were no crises in patient care during the strike. "We are quite anxious to get back to our patients," said Dr. Richard A.

Knutson, CIR president. "We will make every effort to get back to the hospitals forthwith." The settlement calls for the establishment of committees at each league hospital to work out schedules "consistent with optimum patient care, high standards of training, special board requirements and limitations, and the health and well being of house staff officers, including their reasonable social needs and providing for adequate rest." The league said the money items in the contract, settled some time ago, provide that interns and medical school graduates taking compulsory training get a raise of $1,000 in their average annual pay of $13,500. Residents, taking advanced training, now average $16,000 a year. Under the new contract they will get up to $20,000 a year. COURT HOUSE CLOSING The offices of the McKean County Court House will be closed all day on March 28 in observance of Good Friday.

A 1 if. it I'' I' rl 158 Government forces have abandoned all this territory except Hue and Thua Thien, and they are in the process of pulling out of there. Li the Saigon region, tank led North Vietnamese forces drove a militia force from the Due Hue base camp near the Cambodian border 30 miles northwest of the capital. The Saigon command said the militiamen retreated after the attack knocked out their radio communications. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces have intensified their attacks on the provinces to the northwest and northeast of Saigon.

Two district capitals have fallen in recent weeks and two provincial capitals, Tay Ninh and Long Khanh, are threatened. The exodus of frightened civilians from Quang Tri and Hue continued down Highway 1 in a motorized stampede that took a heavy toll in casualties among the riders and walkers pouring toward Da Nang. A mile long column of vehicles and baiefoot walkers reached the Hai Van Pass by morning, 10 miles from their goal and within sight of it. South Vietnamese troops guarded the highway. The provinces that have been written off had a total population of nearly 2 million, or about 10 per cent of the country's total 20 million.

went on strike at midnight when management and union officials were unable to agree on a new contract. Picketing, at the Resistor Division plants in Kane and St. Marys began early this morning. An official statement was given by the company this morning as follows: "Last day negotiations to arrive at a labor contract replacing the three year pact which expired at midnight Thursday failed to produce an agreement between the Stackpole Carbon Company and Local 502 IUE AFL CIO. Strike conditions commenced at midnight last night at the firm's plants at St.

Marys and also at the Resistor Finishing Plant in Kane. "Negotiation ended at 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The union then canceled the membership meeting scheduled for last night at Elk County Christian High School. "The final offer made by the company's negotiators, headed by Gerald T.

Gallagher, vice president and director of industrial relations, included a general hourly wage increase of $.35 per hour for each of the next three contract years and improvements in most of the major employe fringe benefit programs. A company spokesman said, "The work stoppage, affecting nearly 2000 hourly workers and their families directly (Kane and two plants in St. Marys) has an immediate and serious impact on the economy of this area; with even greater hardship resulting should the walkout continue." Baby Killed in Fall MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) A 1 year old boy was killed when he fell out the door of a moving garbage truck driven by his father, state police said. The victim, David Neeley, had been seated with his mother Judith, his father Nicholas and two more of the couple's children as the truck traveled along a road Thursday in Randolph Township.

The infant fell from his mother's lap when the door swung open on a turn, investigators said. FARM BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON (AP) The House passed an emergency one year farm bill Thursday designed to help farmers who have been faced with soaring production costs. DOUGLAS RETURNS WASHINGTON AP) Justice William O. Douglas has returned to work at the Supreme Court for the first time since his stroke Dec. 31.

Overnight Found Guilty Financier C. Arnholt Smith, a major contributor to GOP politicians, was found guilty Thursday on two counts of causing illegal campaign donations to be made in 1970. Four Major Elements Of Sinai Agreement Near a Settlement JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned from Egypt today with four major elements of a Sinai agreement close to being settled, U.S. officials said.

Still unresolved, however, was the principal issue of how far Israel will pull back and whether it will give up the Mitla and Gidi passes and the Abu Rudeis oil field, newsmen were told. "We are not at the brink of an agreement," one official said as Kissinger flew in from Aswan for a meeting here with the Israeli negotiating team. The key items nearing completion are: Both sides would give "certain assurances" only to the United States while others would be made public. A mutual obligation by Israel and Egypt that they would not resort to force. That is a modification of the nonbelligerency pledge sought by Israel but turned down by President Anwar Sadat.

The Israeli withdrawal however deep it is would be carried out in a number of steps. United Nations forces would take over most but not all of the territory given up by Israel. American officials aboard Kissinger's U.S. Air Force jet cautioned that the negotiations could still deadlock, particularly over the withdrawal line. However, both Israel and Egypt were said to be "easing" their over all negotiating positions, and Kissinger is now reported close to a "framework" for an agreement.

Kissinger met with Sadat for IVz hours at his Upper Nile villa Thursday night. Newsmen were told Egypt had made some "modifications," but these were not divulged. An Egyptian spokesman said Kissinger would return to Aswan either Saturday or Sunday. Cairo's semiofficial newspapers quoted official Egyptian sources as saying the talks had reached a decisive point with the only possible way out being Israel's giving up a demand to end the state of war between the two nations. Car is Bumped by Train in Mt.

Jewett Operator and passenger of an automobile escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon at Mt. Jewett when the vehicle failed to clear the Kushequa Avenue intersection in time and was bumped from the rear by the engine of an Erie Lackawanna freight train. State Police said the car operated by Catherine Erway, 30, of Mt. Jewett with Christine Reinard, also of Mt. Jewett, a passenger, was moving south on Kushequa Avenue and failed to see the moving freight.

Ms. Reinard told troopers she suffered a leg bruise and would consult her family physician. Damage to the car was listed at C3. The diesel locomotive was not damaged. Associated Press Writer KANE, Pa.

(AP) Money and letters are pouring in, but Donald Schlopy, a hard luck father of three, says he will slick by his plan to sell an eye to prove the offer wasn't a gimmick. "I haven't changed my mind," Schlopy said Thursday, nearly one week after placing a newspaper advertisement in nearby Erie offering his eye for $5,000, or the best offer. The story received national attention and Schlopy's mailbox has been overflowing ever since with about 100 letters a day, many with cash and checks enclosed. Schlopy says he's "already received 44 Jlfi9 r1nco tn fha nrioinal amount hp fTjought but the eye is still for sale. He's even been driving his car with one eye closed to get used to the feeling, he said.

"There's been a lot of talk going around about whether I started this as a gimmick and never intended to sell the to begin with. I'm going to stick to my offer," he said. Schlopy, whose wife left him four years ago, says he's been trying to raise his three children in this northwestern Pennsylvania community on the $4,400 a year he makes at various odd jobs. He was laid off earlier this month from a shipping room job and he owed about $4,000 in debts. The eye offer followed was an act of desperation, he said.

"I sold everything worth selling and the TV is being repossessed. There's nothing left but junk furniture. I just couldn't think of another way," he added. Schlopy was called back to his job beginning Friday, but that doesn't change his plans either. "I want to buy a house trailer and furniture provide a decent home for Othe kids to get them out of this rundown place.

I want to do that and also pay off my debts, so even with the money I got in the mail, I'll sell the eye," he said. So far, the 52 year old Schlopy has been contacted by two prospective buyers. "A lady in Florida wants to buy the eye for her son in California, but I've been unable to contact him yet," he said. An East Liverpool, Ohio, man also is interested but Schlopy says he wants to settle the first offer before going any further with the second. Neither mentioned any dollar amounts for the eye.

QpCIDENT IN COUNTY "Cars operated by Jack Mead, 45, of Turtle Point and Richard Johnson, 42, of Port Allegany, were damaged to extent of $1,500 in a non injury collision at the intersection of a township road on Route 155 near Port Allegany at 5:30 jn. yesterday. State Police from Kane Station investigated. Yoathor Forocast Increasing cloudiness tonight with chance of showers. Lows in the low to mid 30s.

Variable cloudiness with a few showers likely Saturday. Highs in the upper 40s to low 50s. Wind; southeast 5 to 15 mph tonight Precipitation probability 40 per cent tonight1 Kane's largest industry, the Stack pole resistor plant, was struck at midnight after failure, of bargaining groups to effect a new contract. The strike does not affect the Stackpole Magnet Division here which operates under a different contract. A federal mediator is on the job attempting to effect a compromise with reports indicating the negotiators are far aparl lhe union seeking $1.00 per hour increase this year, another dollar next year and another dollar in the third year.

The company has offered 35 cents per hour in each of the three years along with improvements in fringe benefits. Employes had given the union bargaining committee the right of decision including right to strike and a meeting of membership scheduled at St. Marys last evening was called off. Alfred DiDonato, president of Local 502 of IUE AFL CIO, reported employes M. Arnold Engman Dies at Age of 62 M.

Arnold Engman, 64, of R.D. 2 Kane, passed away Thursday at the Adrian Hospital in Punxsutawney. Born Oct. 2, 1910, in Kane, he was the son of the late John and Lydia Anderson Engman. Mr.

Engman was confirmed in local Tabor Lutheran Church and attended Kane schools. He formerly worked on the Engman farm. Surviving are two sisters, Miss Mable Engman of Kane and Mrs. Andrew (Mildred) Varga of Trenton, N.J.; one brother, Herbert Engman of Kane; one niece and several nephews. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m.

today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the John F. Hill Funeral Home here, where funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Andrew Carlsson, pastor of the Tabor Lutheran Church, officiating.

Burial will be in Mt. Tabor Cemetery here. FIRST DAY OF SPRING Spring received a chilly reception on the hilltop today with the mercury at 23 degrees and a blanket of frost glistening in the early sun rise. Around town the robins are appearing, mingling with a variety of other birds and scrapping for food with the yellow black grosbeaks. And, of course, flocks of geese continue their migration northward.

Randy Gustafson, local high school student, reported two large flocks went over his Tionesta Avenue residence about 50 geese in one flock. First Doctors' Strike in Nation History is Over NEW YORK (AP) Physicians who struck 22 private and city operated hospitals here returned to work today, ending the first strike by doctors in the nation's history. A contract offer by the League of Voluntary Hospitals that had been rejected by representatives of the 3,000 member Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) was resurrected late Thursday afternoon, and shortly after 6 p.m. the settlement was announced jointly by the league and the CIR. "We have a contract," a CIR spokesman said.

He said ratification of the agreement by the CIR rank and file was not needed. The doctors, staff physicians at the 15 private and seven municipal hospitals that were affected had walked out Monday morning over the long hours they were required to work. They had demanded that they be required to work a maximum of 80 hours a week and no more than 15 hours at a time. League negotiators had refused to set a weekly limit on the number of hours the interns and residents would have to work. The hospitals affected have 14,000 beds and handle some 24,000 patients.