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More Talk Of .
Tax Reforms
An issue that resurfaces every election year is that of tax
reform. Specifically, how to achieve a more equitable dis-
tribution of the tax burden.
There will probably never be a time when the tax system
couldn't benefit from reform, but one favored idea
Americans might as well forget about is that there are vast
untaxed billions to be raked out of the upper income,
brackets.
(According to the Tax Foundation, Inc., a (nongovern-
mental organization that researches and reports on tax
matters, the Internal Revenue Service collected $15.8
billion in taxes from income brackets above $32,000 in 1972.
That was an effective tax rate of 55 per cent. ♦ - .
If the tax rate had been 100 per cent, and the IRS had
taken all taxable income above $32,000, the additional
revenue would have been $12.8 billion.
Now $12.8 billion, of course, is nothing to sneeze at —
although it would just barely pay the cost of the federal
government for 11 and one-half days in fiscal 1977.
But suppose Congress were to impose a 100 per cent tax
on all income above a certain level. What would happen,
says the Tax Foundation, is that all income above the ceil-
ing would tend to vanish. People would look elsewere for
the rewards of hard work and success and this source of
revenue would quickly dry up. It would be a case of the na-
tion biting off its own nose.
Which is not to say that ours is the best of all possible tax
structures. Far. from it.
It is only that true tax reform must always have as its
goal a balance between fair taxation of all citizens and
preservation of the incentives whicjKgenerate the wealth
which is available to be taxed in me first place; ■
Give Us A Brake.
For some reason, a bumper sticker dreamed up by
Friends of Animals, Inc., rubs us the wrong way. It reads.
"Caution. I brake for animals.” '
Who doesn’t brake for animals? it's a purely instinctive
reaction, even for experienced motorists, and has nothing
to do with one’s feelings for or against four-legged critters
Who suddenly dart into the road. The trouble is ihat it has
been known to have catastrophic consequences for the two-
legged variety. ' ...
If the people who sport this bumper sticker are telling us
-fine. So do wp
If they are telling us that they will make every
reasonable effort, with due regard for the safety of
thefnselves and other motorists, to avoid hitting some un-
fortunate, confused animal in their path, so will everyone
else who is not a dedicated sadist.
But if they are saying that they would deliberately invite
a rear-end collision by slamming on their brakes to spare
an animal, we just hope that when they do the guy behind
them isn’t driving a semi.
Editorial Page
Sunday, December 5, 1974
• Features
Opinion
Jack Anderson - -*
Dean Of The Senate.
Misuses Influence
Today In
History
By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, Dec.
From Sun Files - -
Realtor Board Headed
By Cathriner In 1956
Prom The Baytown Sun Tiles,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
DEC. 4, 1936
r Kenneth R. Chance, 22, of Bel-
ly dies of injuries suffered in a
car-lumber truck collision four
days ago in Wooster.
Cedar Bayou Coach Lamar
OKman announces the school
will re-enter basketball eompetl-
Uon after taking a year off from
the Harris County Interscholas-
tic League.
DEC. 4, 1941
Water District 2 in Leger Addi-
tion abandons plans for an elec-
tion as the result of the Texas
Supreme Court ruling on Felly’s
right to annex Baytown.
Pauline Doolittle of Highlands
asks Santa for a box of candy
Sigma Alpha Chi, Lee Junior
college sorority, holds a formal
initiation in the home of Kathryn
Mgebroff. Attending are Maryon
Sterling. Emma Davis, Dolores
Priest, Joyce .Waddell, Polly
Gene Stewart,' johnell Stuart,
Marian McMaster and Joanne
Steed.
Two Tri-Cities gridders are in-
vited to join Coach Dah
Stallworth in Beaumont Dec. 15
to. prepare for the Dec. 20 All-
Star game. They are veteran
'Gander tackle Gene Vykukal and
Wyatt Hastings, star.of the dis-„.
trict champion Cedar Bayou
eleven.
DEC. 4, 1956
A Houston salesman, John
Wise, 44, is killed when his panel
truck overturns at a curve near
the Wooster Fire Station on
Market Street Rord. This victim
is the Baytown area 's 10th traffic
death in 10 days.
Edward S. Cathriner, veteran
> Baytown businessman, is elected
president of the Baytown Board
of Realtors, succeeding E. V.
Muller. Eddie Cox is named vice'
president; C. H. Miller,
secretary-treasurer.
Berry’s World
WASHINGTON - In return
for a few favors, Sen. James
Eastland, D.-Miss., the dean of
the Senate, used his tremendous
political influence in an attempt
to bail out a company on the
verge of bankruptcy.
According to sworn state-
ments to the Securities and Ex-
change Commission, the senate
pressured the Agriculture De-
partment's Farm Home Admin-
istration to fund a modular
home factory in his home state.
The beneficiary was to be Stirl-
ing Homex, Inc., which is now
hankrupt. ^
The company had sold mil-
lions of dollars in stock even
though its executives knew the
firm was on the financial ropes.
By 1971, Homex had turned to
the Farm Home Administration
for funds to avoid bankruptcy.
The plan was to have the agency
foot the ball for modular home
construction In Mississippi. Btit
the agency decided not to bail
out the company, because
Homex's units cost too much to
build.
__ Homex then turned to East-
land for help. The company fer-
ried tbe senator arountflriits
corporafe jet. It also rehired for
a fat $50,000 a year an Eastland
crony, Thurston Little, who had
been fired earlier, according to
the testimony. —
A former Homex vice presi-
dent, Harold Yanowitch, told
SEC investigators that “Sen.
Eastland (would) interfere in the
Department of Agriculture along
with (former White House aide)
Fipd LaRue into getting this
project to fly.”
Yanowitch also told SEC in-
vestigators that Eastland insist-
ed that his old pal Little 'act as
an intermediary between the;
company and Sen. Eastland. ” :
Little told us that Eastland did
not know that he was on the
Homex payroll tmiiUftor he was
hired. Little also contended that
Yanowitch was trying to “smear
the senator."
According to the SEC testi-
mony, Eastland also promised to
lobby former Agriculture Secre-
tary Earl Butz andex-Atty',Geh.'
John Mitchell on Homex's be-
. half . As chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Eastland
wielded tremendous influence
with Mitchell. Butz and East-
land are so close that when the
senator was late for the agricul-
ture secretary’s swearing-in
ceremony,- Butz delayed the
event until Eastland arrived, ac-
cording to the testimony.
Yanowitch said he had good
reason to be awed by Eastland.
In another Stirling, Homex-con-
nected project. Eastland closed
the deal with a single telephone
call.
But this time Eastland did not
come through as expected, and
the firm went bankrupt in July,
1972. Homex officials have since
been indicted on multi-million-
doDar stock fraud charges.
Eastland admitted that he
talked to Butz, but the senator
insisted that he spoke to the agri-
culture secretary only because
the proposed factory would be
located in his home state. “All I
asked.” Eastland told us. “was
that (Butz) personally go into it
. Butz said it cost too much.
So 1 said I couldn’t approve it
myself.”
He also confessed that he used
Homex's jet, but only twice, not
on a “constant " basis as the SEC
testimony charges. Little sup-
ported ’’Eastland, maintaining
that the senator did not use the
just more than “two or three
times.” *
In -addition, Eastland denied
that he ever discussed the con-
struction deal with Mitchell. But
in the sworn testimony, Yano-
,witch claims that Eastland “said
to me ‘I will get John Mitchell
into this thing and ... we
should be able to make this thing
happen.' Now these were his
words to me.” *
YANOWITCH contends that if
Eastland did not talk to Mitch-
ell, LaRue did. In fact, it has
been reported that in early 1972,
LaRue and Mitchell flew to Mi-
ami in4the Homex jet.
"Fred LaRue, Thurston Lii-
®fje Jteptohm &un
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memos'if tut Assbotreb mss
Mississippi Republican) and the
senator were intimately in-
volved in . . . pushing this proj-
ect along." the former Homex
vice president swore.
In return for LaRue’s help,
Homex allegedly tried to get a
$75,000 bank loan for him. They
also flew him around the coun-
try in their jet and paid part of
the rent on LaRue's Washington
kpartment. Yanowitch stated.
As for Eastland,, he received
•constant use of our airplanes
. Thurston (Little) would call
from Washington and say, ‘I am
with the senator now and we
want to talk about your project
some more.’ " Little would then
order Homex to "send a jet to
Washington so it could take the
senator . . down to Missis-
sippi." *
T would say the senator had
use of our planes well over a doz-
en times at least," Yanowitch
said. "It cost a Tot of money to
send-a plane down ... We
thought the project was going to
be moved along by (Eastland’s)
interceding for us. That was the
purpose of doing it.” „
Footnote. Little told us that
he was not aware.that Eastland
contacted Butz. It was former
Agriculture Undersecretary Phil
Campbell whom Eastland talked
to, Little insists. He claims that
Eastland’s memory is not as
good as it once was.
Readers’
Views
Editor, The Sun i ; ;
Dear Sir:
Just to say the people of
Baytown have always made my,
Christmas wonderful. I ask you
now I have a brother who has
had two brain tumors removed
and is in bad shape.
He is Joseph ..Vernon Cole of
Apartment 13, Sam Houston
Courts. If the ones that are going
to help; me would send my
Christmas gifts to my brother, it
would make my Christmas a lot
merrier. ’
He has a wife and I’m not sure
how many children and
grandchildren but there are lots
of them.
Thank you all. May God bless
you .
Love,
Jesse Cole
Edison Courts
27 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1783, George"
Washington, quitting as Com-
mander in Chief, had a farewell
dinner with his officers at
, Fraunces Tavern in New York.
On this date:
In 1851, a workers' rebellion
broke out in Paris and was sup-
pressed by Louis Napoleon. The
event is known in French his-
tory as the December Four
Massacre.
In 1875, the New York Tam-
many leader, Boss Tweed, es-
caped from prison. He later
was captured in Spain.
In 1942, U.S. bombers struck
the Italian mainland for the
first time in World War H.
In 1945, Congress approved
U.S. participation in the United
Nations.
In 1965, Communist terrorists
in South Vietnam shot their
way to the door of an American
military hotel in Saigon before
dawn and set off a bomb that
killed eleven people, including
two American servicemen.
.In 1974, a Dutch charter air-
craft with 191 passengers and
crewmen crashed on an island
in the Indian Ocean, and all
aboird were killed.
Ten years ago: Communists
in South Vietnam carried out
repeated terrorist attacks on an
airport near Saigon and on U.S.
offices and living quarters in
Saigon.
Five years ago. Indian
troops, tanks and planes were
striking into East Pakistan, and
Indikn planes hit key airfields
in West Pakistan.
doe year ago: President
Ford and Chinese leaders end-
ed meetings in Peking without
achieving any significant
Change in U.S.-Chinese rela-
tions. - -—
Today's birthdays: Former
movie star Deanne Durbin is
54. Nobel Prize winning biolo-
gist Alfred Hershey is 58.
Thought far today: As our
government deteriorates, our
humor increases. — Will Ro-
gers, American humorist, 1879
1935.
Bicentennial footnote: Two
hundred years ago today, Cap-
tain George Cook of the Ameri-
can armed ship Defense was
back , in Baltimore with two
British ships captured as prizes
and be, requested rum and sug-
ar from Maryland officials for
his next voyage after.Christ-
mas.
Business Mirror - - >
Carter’s Big Job:
Move The Economy
NEW YORK (API-The chal-
lenge to the administration of
Jimmy Carter is becoming by
the day more like that which fac-
ed John F. Kennedy in 1960: Get
the economy moving again.
Both men inherited econo-
mies that were operating below
their potential. Both men were
encouraged almost immediately
to boost the economy by means
of a tax cut.
Whether the resemblance con-
tinues will depend upon several
factors over which the presi-
dent-elect has far less control
than he might wish to have.
He does not, for example, con-
trol Arthur F. Bums, the chair-
man of the Federal Reserve
Board. And he does not control
public opinion and confidence,
which he must have on his side if
his economic measures are to be
effective.
Bums, who has almost auto-
cratic independence in shaping
the country’s monetary policy,
has thrown up a series of con-
fusing signals in recent days that
• leave in question his attitude to-
ward a tax cut.
He has, at different times, in-
dicated he was against a reduc-
tion in federal income taxes, that
'he wasn’t necessarily opposed to
a cut,-that discussion of the sub-
ject was premature, and that his
mind remains open.
Bums could challenge the
president-elect's goals by reftis-»
ing to adjust njonetary policy —
that is, the money supply and in-
terest rates-—.to the fiscal — or
spending and taxing — policy of
the administration.
The potential for such a con-
flict exist?, because Bums has
repeatedly indicated that in his
view the major problem is infla-
tion, while Carter seems to be
more concerned with unem-
ployment.
Conservative economists long
have feared those elected offi-
serious unemployment. As they
see it, short-range corrections al-
most always lead to inflation,
and perhaps worse recession too.
The president-elect is con-
fronted with an entirely differ-
ent consideration that also might
challenge his efforts to return
momentum to the economy.
That is, his ability to Wore con-
fidence.
In an economic context, confi-
dence is expressed in spending.
People who are uncertain of the
- future do not commit them-
selves to it: they are more in-
clined to save, to conserve, than
to spend and exoand.
Throughout 1976 President
Ford (ailed to inspire a great
deal of confidence in the future
- that is, if one is to judge by
the spending habits of individ-
uals and businesses.
ll Carter cannot do better,
therefore, there exists the possi-
bility that a tax cut, if enacted,
might provide funds to families
and business that would end up
in the bank rather than being
used directly to buy goods in the
market place.
These, then, are two distinct
challenges to carter’s efforts to
get the economy moving again,
and both involve his personal
qualities of persuasiveness and
leadership.
If he can convince the chair-
man of the Fed and the people
who elected him that he kiiows
what he's about, then the odds
would seem to indicate success
for his economic program.
Thought
■ The world is divided into
people who do things and peo-
ple who get the credit. Try. if
you can, to belong to the first
class. There's far less com-
petition." - Dwight Morrow.
American diplomat.
Bible Verse
SAYING. WHERE is he that is
born King of the Jews? for we
have seen his star in the east,
and are come to worship him.
The Way
It Was
Dec. 5, 1778 — Soldiers
charged in Boston massacre
acquitted.
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Dr. Lamb
Gas pains
after surgery
DEAR DR. LAMB - I had
my gall bladder removed, but
off and on I have terrible gas
pains. These are relieved by
drinking water which expels
the gas What is the cause <rf
this, and is there any other
way to expel gas? It is quite
painful - almost like a heart
attack. It can come at any
time.
I was out to my garden in
the country and had a jug of
dirty rain water, caught off
my garage roof, to water
plants and just then these gas
pains came, and I was forced
to drink some of this water. I
wonder if my gall bladder was
removed or if it’s atill there.
DEAR READER - The gas
pains may be totally unrelated
to your gall bladder. You real-
ly didn't say whether you had
gas pains before surgery or
not Gas pains are not a
reliable sign of gall bladder
disease at all. Often the gas
pains are part of an inj table
or spastic cojpn or they can be
associated with a hiatal her-
nia. When an X ray is taken it
may show gall stones.
The conclusion is made then
that the stones and the symp-
toms are related. In reality
this may not be the case. Then
if the gall bladder is removed
and the ga§ was associated
with an irritable colon, ob-
viously the operation does not
remove the gas problem.
I am certain that your gall
bladder is out Your story
sounds like a spasm in the in-
testinal tract that traps the
gas. When the spasm is reliev-
ed the gas pain is relieved.
There are many reasons for
this problem, but I would
suggest that you eliminate all
milk products for a couple of
weeks and see if that helps.
Intolerance to milk is par-
ticularly apt to occur after
surgery, and this may be a
temporary situation.
DEAR DR. LAMB - Could
you tell me what causes fever
blisters and what to do about
them? I am 28-years-old and
in good health. I get fever
blisters all the time, not just
one but three or more at a
time. Someone told me a
smallpox shot would stop
them so I got one. I am told it
would wear off in six months,
and I would have to get,
another one.
. My family doctor seems to
think it is not a good idea.
What is your opinion, and bow
does a smallpox shot help?
DEAR READER-My opi-
nion is that your family doctor
is absolutely correct. A
smallpox vaccination does not
help at all for your problem.
Fever blisters as you call
them are really caused by the
herpes simplex virus. At one
time doctors did use smallpox
vaccinations in the hope that
this would help, but the virus
involved is not related in any
way to smallpox, and im-
proving your immunity to
smallpox won't protect you
from the herpes simplex
virus.
It sounds to me like you
have a good doctor; better
take his advice instead of your
friend’s advice. He may want
you to use a drying agent
when the blisters first appear,
such as 70 per cent alcohol,
and if a heavy scab develops
he may advise coating it with
a protective agent. Keeping
the mouth clean, using an-
tibiotics if needed to control
secondary infection, and pain
relieving medicines for severe
pain are about the only ad-
ditional measures that might
help you.
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