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I 1 1 it Plt TilMI-Stir POLICY PLATFORM ADOPTED i Forest Park School Board Shuns Racial Stand Depletion Allowance Trimmed by Senate million annually As the Senate prepared today to vote on the amendment sponsored by Sen Albert Gore (D Tenn) to raise the $600 personal exemption Assistant Treasury Secretary Edwin Concn spelled out the opposition in a well-publicized seven-page letter to Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long (D La) Cohen said that raising the exemption to either $1000 or $900 not be because it would cut government revenue too sharply Gore's plan which Includes raising the exemption to $1000 would cost $148 billion annually when fully effective in 1973 Cohen said compared to the $9 billion in individual tax cuts provided by the House-passed bill outcome of a segregation case in federal court McClain says the present policy adopted in March 1964 has been approved and found constitutional by the District Court ana the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit THE CASE known as the Tina Deal case has been in court since 1963 Appeals still are pending There was Mime dissatisfaction expressed that elimination of policy statements on education and race might tend to dampen the entire platform but the: board agreed without vote to eliminate references to racial policy statements Board member Frank Davis wrote the policy statements which were adopted with slight amendments Board member Mrs Virginia Griffin tried to amend each statement with broader language but her efforts were denied except for two instances The policy statements are subject to polishing by resent board members at leir last regular meeting to revi- next Monday and sion by the new board which takes office Jan 5 NEW board members met with old board members in open session after the regular meeting yes- terday to discuss the background of past actions and pending actions but there was no indication of dis-agreement over the adnoted policy statements a i statements of policy were gleaned from the Cincinnati School Survey (Campbell Report) the committees reports and administration recommendations The policies list board beliefs as: Individualization of Instruction: Future development of the educational process should be firmly directed toward this both through the use of materials and curriculum and through reorganization of classes and staff such as non-graded primary grades and team teaching programs Disadvantaged and Handicapped: Compensatory and remedial education programs and personnel must be encouraged and strengthened Curriculum Develoi ip- Id ment: Curriculum shou correspond as closely as lossible to the realities of pos life that students face or are likely to face in the future Curriculum studies should involve parents and responsible community rep- -resentatives Research and Innovation: As little time as possible must elapse between formation and implementation of new ideas and techniques The board supports an educational research council of school ty and community personnel to place prioritie research problems In-service Training: Continual learning and adaptation by all professional educators is vital to the growth and progress of the educational process and strong in-service training programs must be instituted for all levels of person- BY THOMAS TALRIHT Scrtppi-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON: The Senate after voting to cut the 275 per cent oil depletion allowance for the first time in the 43-year history today faced a showdown on proposals to cut Individual Income taxes by raising the present $600 personal exemption as high as $1000 The Nixon Administration declaring that any such increase in the ex- emption would pitch the the government further into the red and spur inflation lobbied frantically to defeat the proposal warning that its adoption could result in a presidential veto of the tax reform bill being considered by the Senate Treasury officials who indicated they had lined up enough votes to keep the exemption from being raised to $1000 said that subsequent efforts to raise it to $800 could be rated only a until the Senate votes late today THE 62 to 30 vote yesterday to cut the oil and gas depletion allowance criticized for years as a of the need for tax reform insured that the depletion allowance will be' reduced probably to 215 per cent The House voted earlier this year to cut the depletion allowance to 20 per cent as part of its sweeping tax reform bill' This would cost the oil and gas industry an estimated $400 million a year The Senate Finance Committee moved to soften the House provision by voting to cut the depletion allowance to 23 per at a cost to the industry of $175 million annually An attempt yesterday by Sen John Williams (R Del) to get the Senate to go along with the tougher House figure was turned Woman Elected Loveland Mayor Be a Full-Time Job nel as quickly as possible Organization: Chan'ces styles in the patterns and of urban living require and will continue to require in creasing flexibility and' adantibilily in the ttrtdj ture of an urban public school system It suggests study of the transfer of the annual school term from semester to quarter system" (not necessarily four quarv ters) and reorganization to include increasing ty at the local school level1 1 (The board voted out s' recommendation of crea- tion of study and mental model subsystems because it involved facta integration experiments') School physical plant! The board demanded i school building survey this school year and ordered program to reolace or vate obsolete buildings Community Relations: The board agreed to meet periodically in area schools set up in-service training--1 in public relations for edu- -cators establirh an advis- i ory committee of volunteer public relations experts and systems to better as- sess public desires andqti titudes Financing: Price I ik must accompany the dpjtapl 1 nd TSrF of each program andpr orities be established a planned programming and budgeting system be stalled that a pay-as-you-go program for capital im- provement construction be studied and that other-' sources and bases of finance ing both state and federal' be explored l-is Davis Fieldcrest Acres Loveland and four grand- children Her late husband attorney Clarence Phil- lips was Bedford County Tenn judge for 14 years and Tennessee hignWayv commissioner for 12 yearsJ Mrs Phillips is Welcome Wagon hostess for Lebanon active member of the Flowering Acres Garden Club apd secretary of the Loveland Beautification Committee She is a member of Sycamore Presbyterian Church Post Retained By Single Vote Walter Smith retained his position as president Yf the Lincoln Heights City Council but only byl one vote His opponent Harvey'Ni Matthews asked the Hamit' ton Counyt Board of Elect tions for a recount The-re- count reduced vbtesN from 549 to 545 and thews picked up three vofei from 541 to 544 30 House Members Ask Nixon a To Seek Curbs on Arms Traffic The Cincinnati Board of Education yesterda? ay adopted a platform of poll' ties in all areas of senool programming except those al dealing with racial segregation William McClain Cincinnati city solicitor advised the board not to change its policy on education and race at this time pending Madeira Views Traffic Plan MADEIRA: Council is going to do something about the congested traffic condition in the business section probably by eliminating much of the on-street parking during peak hours A meeting has been scheduled for 8 pm Monday with council's safety committee council' as a committee of the whole and businessmen who will be affected Jack Pflum of the traffic engineering firm of Sage Pflum told council the city needs four lanes of moving traffic on Miami road between Euclid and Camargo roads to relieve the situation The only wav this can be done is by eliminating on-street parking and left turn lanes during the peak hours of 4 to 6 pm and resignaliza-tion of major intersections he says PFLUM SAYS a survey indicates only 10 parking spaces are used during peak hours Pflum also recommends permanent removal of about 12 parking areas between Euclid and Shawnee Run road Robert Stewart dty manager has been directed bv council to negotiate with the B40 Railroad for a lease of their property on the south side of Dawson road west of Miami road for munidpal off-street parking This will provide snace for about 30 cars Stewart says THE ENGINEERS also recommended Miami road between Camargo and Shawnee Run road be a three-lane highway Stewart says this can be done by re-striping the pavement and eliminating parking Stewart says first efforts must be directed towards getting maximum traffic flow during neak hours by re-striping signs and inating parking Resignal-ization estimated to cost about $26000 would come next The Camargb road intersection resignalization was induded in the recent widening and Hamilton county is providing about $10000 Brown Close On Election Turnout Forecast By Pott Ohio Bureau COLUMBUS An official canvass held today bv Secretary of State Ted Brown revealed that 2706-393 electors cast their vote in the Nov 4 general elections Brown had predicted that 2700000 would vote last month the closest prediction he has made in the tenure of his office Brown said figures show 1226592 voted yes on Issue No 1 to lower the voting age from 21 to 19 years while 1274334 voted no The second constitutional amendment Issue No 2 elimination of- the short term election of state officers had 1432960 yes voters and 795813 voting no Police Aides Wont Guns Too north Adam's mass (UPI): No guns no work That was the position taken by 18 members of the 21-man auxiliary police force who quit work after the city denied their re-' quest to be issued equipment including guns and 1 handcuffs' Police Chief William Coyne said the auxiliary force organized during World War was used to assist during parades not to combat crime like to enforce the he said Newcomer Wins Canton Recount ClndmwH Tuci Dtc 1 1969 f-TjiV rM JOHN WILLIAMS down by a 52 to 38 vote which means a compromise figure will have to be reached when the bill goes to a House-Senate conference to iron out differences ALTHOUGH Sen Allen Ellender (D La) warned that the of oil depletion lead to a trampling of the Ameri can through higher gasoline prices the Senate moved swiftly to reject amendment to retain the depletion allowance at 275 per cent The significance of the Senate vote to cut the allowance was underscored by the fact that as recently as one year ago tax experts were betting the depletion allowance would emerge unscathed Earlier opponents of the allowance now say these 'predictions underestimated the political potency of the publie outcry for tax reform In a third key vote yesterday the Senate decided to 'leave untouched the present depletion allowances granted on more than 100 other minerals The House voted cuts in these allowances which would have cost their producers an additional $55 PlanCS Vetoed WASHINGTON (UPI): The Senate' Foreign Relations Committee has voted down a request for $545 million to buy a squadron of new F-4 Phantom jets for Nationalist China The cut was made yesterday in a foreign aid authorization measure previously passed by the House Sen George Aiken (R Vt-) says the committee feels 'money can be better spent" aid and arms-sales programs Start a general debate in the United Nations on control of the conventional arms trade I i 1 1 ate multilateral discussions among the major powers which are the prindpal sellers of arms" Use the prestige of the White House to signify US: intention to try to check and control trade in the weapons of war The resolution summarizes what Coughlin reports he has discovered in recent months during a one-man study of this problem: bartered or given away arms have figuredV prominently in 56 wars of consequence since 1945 54 Scott Clash roop Cut Scott indicated that the resolution could interfere with efforts to work out mutual arms limitations with the Rus- sians at Helsinki saying this is the time for this body to send its own signals abroad 7 Mansfield retorted: have no desire to interfere with the negotiations! see any NATO to Consider East-West Meeting -WASHINGTON (UPI): Secretary of State William Rogers flies to Europe today to attend a NATO meeting that ill consider proposals for an East-West conference on reducing armed forces on both sides of the Iron Curtain Rogers heads the US delegation to the winter ministerial meeting of NATO With him are Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and -Treasury Secretary David Kennedy of them fought in undeveloped countries US govern- New Qfiarter First Actions Include Raises For Officials FOREST PARK: The first council under a new city charter organized last night and got down to business approving pay increases for elected and appointed city officials and naming Al Tomb acting cltv manager Judge Lyle Castel of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court swore in the nw council commenting future of Forest Park a bright one with these fine citizens at the helm" COUNCIL elected Edwin Sullivan mayor John Lesick first vice mayor and the first council woman Mrs Loraine Blackburn second vice mayor Tomb's apponitment as acting city manager followed the recommendation of outgoing Mayor Phil White He has held the title of City Administrator Mrs McDonald was elected clerk of council A salary ordinance dontri as an emergence measure sets salaries for elected and unpointed officials as follows: Citv manager $15000 councilipen $1200: mayor $1500: solicitor 82760 and clerk of council $1500 COUNCILMAN Richard Metcalfe and Edward Conklin questioned the size of the pay increase for wHrh jumoed from $360 to $1200 Conklin nronoseH tat it be aised to $900 The motion bv 4-3 vote Oniv Metcalfe voted aitaine adontion of the sal-arv ordinance itself Council also: Gave first reading to a measure raising police pay The police chiefs salary could range from $10088 to $10920 under the ordinance as compared to a top of $9360 in effect Sergeants would be paid from 89048 to $9880 as combared to a current ton of $9360 and patrolmen would make from 87800 to $884(1 compared to a top of $8320 in effect Gave first reading to a measure increasing the range of a fire pay to from $7800 to $8840 compared to a current top of $8320 Reappointed Fred Von Hagen dty solicitor Shellenberger Heads Council SPRINGDALE: John A Shellenberger 640 Smiley avenue was named the new president of council last night after Judge Lyle Castle of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court gave the oath of office to three new and two re-elected members Newly-elected members are Harold Carl 687 Castro lane Fred Yingling 207 Harter avenue and Earl Reuscher 541 Smilev avenue Max Cooper 329 Cameron road and SheL lerWer were re-elected Shellenherger succeeds Josenh Roves as council resident was defeated in' the Nov 4 election Council elected Alfred Voelkel as president protein and Cooper was re-ao-nointed representative to the Planning Commission Wyoming Mayor Is Re-elected WYOMING: Fred WramnelmAiei' was -electM mavnr and John JOwiig wa rhoftu vi jnivnr aa th now rwnoil wqa nnri (n 1i Art rhiircb xitxnf ritv jen'Wtnr al vm 1ortd to as winnl'i rn fsvptltlw on fho pinrnin" Co i sal on ancreoH Robert Tali who did not seek re-lction Two councilman Howard Constable 1230 Forest court' an emoloye of General Electric Co and Ed-win Sanders Jr HH Snjingfield niVe who oner HniffsInH with hK either tnnlr thefr Mt for tfca first tin- Conneii also Rt 1 1 n-anansr anil Upt Packer as elerir of poimril Prk'nq Down Parking meter receipts in the City of Cincinnati for November totaled 67-568 as compared to $70370 for November of 1968 The 11-month total for this year is $823927 as compared to Irst 11 $824216 for the months of 1968 Says It Will BY MARY McCarthy LOVELAND: Mrs Viola Phillips has been elected mayor a job she says will be full time for her She says one of the first things going to do is establish an office in dty hall and keep regular hours daily need someone to come in and talk to and 111 be there to she says Council at its organiza tion meeting last niht unanimously elected Phillips to the highest post Councilman George Anderson who has two years to serve of his current term wasdected vice mayor JUDGE William Matthews Hamilton County Common Pleas Court administered the oath of of- fice to the new mayor and three new councilmen Jay Cobb Jack Thompson ana Jerry Thalheimer Cecil Bauer loimer mayor presented Mis Phillips with a gavel- mu a bec-use he says gLvel always do the job Drought the stone home with and I'll put ii to good the new mayor says MAYOR PHILLIPS the first woman official says shall make every effort to give the city the very best in services at the i i II very least cost Her first official act was to invite wives of the councilmen to sit behind their husbands at the council ta- Plwto by Km Sttwirt MAYOR VIOLA PHILLIPS IN A LETTER sent to his fellow senators last night Long backed the administration saying that Gore's proposal was a fiscally responsible proposition" Long also predicted the Senate could finish work on the bill by Dec 10 Backers of the Gore plan pointed out that if his proposed increase in the ex-emotion were trimmed to $803 it would not exceed the $9 billion in tax cuts voted by the House Both the House bill and Gore's amendment call for a low-income allowance to brii tax relief to the poor am for lower tax rates for single persons The key difference is that the House bill would provide tax cuts for virtually all 'other taxpayers by lowering their tax rates rather than increasing the fiersonal exemption The louse bill also would raise the present to 10 per cent standard deduction to 14 per cent with a $2000 ceiling a feature that is not included in proposal ment sells more than $2 billion worth of conventional arms each year to some 60 to 80 nations while the remaining $3 billion (of the $5 billion annual trade) are sold by 25 nations inducting major powers such as the Soviet union Britain France West Germany and Italy US government should supply arms to other nations only to the extent necessary for their self-defense Oversupply fosters military coups promotes economic and fiscal instability and encourages military adventures that endanger peace expanding trade in armaments fuels regional and localized conflicts that could escalate out of control to involve the nuclear powers in a catastrophic worldwide atomic war" The multibillion dollar figures used by Coughlin were supplied to him by the Defense Department and involve only the sales bv governments Besides th ese sales he says: exist several score major private arms dealers who buy and sell arms for personal gain Their business collectively runs to some $100 million per year The largest private dealer in the world is a firm called International Armament Corp or Interarms for short and it is located in Alexandria Va" government is not fooling the Soviets only the American taxpayer says Coughlin Other factors Coughlin thinks the American public should know about: The US is still selling arms to South Africa despite an embargo imposed in 1963 The 1969 figures show a total of $31 million The US still sells arms to the United Arab 1 i $300000 in 1969' arms sold to the Grpek dictatorship in fiscal year 1969 are almost 40 per in cent more than we soli the previous six years Coughlin says he concluded is fascinating to note the countries namely Greece Iran Republic of China Thailand El Salvador Chile and Morocco where our level of arms sales in fiscal 1969 has skyrocketed compared to the average of the previous -i Ar six-year period Are we doing the same thing in Morocco for example that we did in deluging them with arms that will eventually be used against our own Madeira Again Elects McDonald as Mayor i BY II 5 crippi-Howard Staff jWrtter WASHINGTON: Thirty House members today-appealed to President Nixon to try to reduce the $5 billion-a-year international traffic in arms and munitions by governments Rep Lawrence Coughlin (R Pa) introduced a resolution urging a presidential review of arms sales abroad which now total more than $2 billion a year and a presidential initiative with other countries which export another $3 billion Coughlin warned that unless efforts are made to reduce drastically the sale of arms the International trade In conventional arms will reach $10 billion annually within five years In introdudng the resolution supported bv 6 bipartisan group of 29 other House members Coughlin stressed that he is not opposed to arms sales to countries for legitimate self-defense However he said the opposes high-pressure salesmanship by the Pentagon and the of armaments cape-cially to undeveloped countries The Coughlin resolution called upon Nixon to: Review US military Mansfield Over AT WASHINGTON (UPI): Senate leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott clashed yesterday on the timing of a resolution urg ing President Nixon to make a of American troops in Europe Mansfield introduced a resolution calling the stationing of 550000 servicemen and dependents there wasteful and use of the financial resources The Democratic leader added that the large commitment to NATO has the vestiges of military occupation empire the cold war era and financial preeminence MANSFIELD SAID in a Senate speech persistence of these belong to the past and to debilitate this nation's capacity both at home and abroad to deal with the urgent problems of the contemporary era" Scott the Republican leader promptly replied he could not vote for the reso lution now but hoped he could at some later date ble She says they deserve recognition Council committee heads named by Mayor Phillips i safe- are James Thompson ty-service George Ander- son legislative Robert' Weissnian industrial devel- opment Jay Cobb public relations and Gerald Thalheimer finances MRS PHILLIPS a wid-ow lives at 301 Woodwind 1 drive She has two chil-' dren Clarence Jr at torney in Shelbyville Tenn and Mrs Virgil v' MAYOR DAN MCDONALD Planning Commission Appointed McDonald and Councilman Call Schneider Ra represents- tives on the Planning Commission and Harold Caldwell to the Recreation Board Mayor Says MADEIRA: Daniel McDonald 7839 Southside avenue was elected council last night to sixth tenn as mayor Allen Reed J7281 Timberlane drive was elected vice mayor Council appointed Ed- ward Hityman Jr to his sixth term as clerk and A Kinney solicitof for the ninth time Stanley Rozic 7291 Mingo lane an attorney was named assistant prose- cutor for court at $300 annually payable quarterly Indian Symbols SAN LUIS POTbfel MEXICO Aztec Indi- ans here perform dances at church festivals dressed in colorful costumes But you visit one eagle-eyed'' tourist advised look closdyi at their blue shields Which-' carry this legend in Span- ish of Aztec cers San Luis Potosi Lo- JUDGE CHASE Davies Hamilton County Pro- bate Court installed the tucky-Indiana Regional Regardless of the faml- food budget at least three but of every four housewives read newspaper grocery ads prior to the grocery shopping trip new officers Mayor McDonald in thanking the community for its support said lot of hard work and dollars have gone into the community We now rededicate ourselves to the problems of the community" Council also: Presented outgoing Councilman Don Bolsinger with a certificate of merit for his four years of service He did not seek re-election and was replaced by Arthur Smith former Madeira policeman Mayor bearing their names on their FOREST PARK: Councilmen here have those familiar By Pott Ohio Bureau CANTON: Democrat Donald Casar 28 a political newcomer lost seven votes but managed to hold onto his surprise victory over veteran Republican Coun- cilman Ned Overcasher in a recount of Ward 9 votes here Overcasher asker for the recount because GOP con- trol of city council hinged on the result The Democrats now hold the council majority 8 to 7 V- 714 Danvers drive was last night he flipped over 1 legend I triangular blocks of wood desks Wlien Edwin Sullivan unanimously elected mayor ieplate to i his- naniep: Mayor" reveal The standing-room-only election as mayor the crowd broke into laughter beaming -said -the Sullivan exactly as a Named Reed its representative to the Ohio-hen- 1 i.