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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, VOLUME 50 NUMBER ,?6 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Wednesday, October 9, 1974 SIX PAGES Ford calls for selected tax changes as part of anti-inflation package WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that current rate is 5.8 per cent and is ex- billion a year in benefits so the impact capacity" by converting to coal and inflation can "destroy our country, our pected to increase. of the surtax on them would be more uranium. homes, our liberties," President Ford Under the Ford plan, the one-year than offset by what would amount to A FACT SHEET said the con- proposed Tuesday a broad-ranging jobs program would automatically go companion tax cuts. versation would be accomplished anti-inflation package that would into effect in local labor markets with The President produced no new plan voluntarily or the President would combine selected tax cuts with selected high unemployment even if the national to lower taxes for the poor but instead seek legislation to make it happen. tax increases, special help for the average remained below 6 per cent. endorsed a tax revision bill now pen- While rejecting proposals that he unemployed and new moves to con- Grants for jobs would be triggered ding in the House Ways and Means ration gasoline or increase the tax on serve energy. when local rates exceed 6.5 per cent. Committee that he said would give the gas, Ford said: In a nationally broadcast address The President, in addition, recom- poor $1.6 billion of tax relief. "I will meet with top management of before a joint session of Congress, Ford mended an extra 13 weeks of special the automobile industry to assure — unveiled recommendations that varied unemployment insurance benefits for IN THE ENERGY AREA, Ford fixed either by agreement or by law — a firm little from what had been expected. those who have used up their credits a goal of reducing imports of foreign oil program aimed at achieving a 40 per As was widely reported in advance, and 26 weeks of benefits for those not by one million barrels a day by the end cent increase in gasoline mileage Ford asked Congress to impose a now covered by a regular unem- of 1975. This would be accomplished by within a four-year development temporary, one-year tax surcharge of 5 ployment insurance program. These increasing domestic energy production deadline." per cent on corporations and middle would be financed from Treasury and by conserving oil. URGING THAT EVERY citizen join and upper-income taxpayers. revenues and not from taxes on em- To develop "a single national energy the fight against inflation, Ford said: The President also sought a ployers. policy and program," Ford created a "Here is what we must do .. what liberalized, across-the-board in- FORD ALSO SPECIFIED that to be National Energy Board headed by each and everyone one of you can do. vestment tax credit of 10 per cent to eligible for a public service job, an Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. "To help increase food and lower encourage expansion of factories and individual would first have to exhaust Morton. prices, grow more, waste less. businesses. all unemployment benefits. Ford was greeted with a full minute's "To help save scarce fuel in the TO HELP THE JOBLESS as the Treasury Secretary William E. applause from senators and House energy crisis, drive less, heat less." economy continues to slump — and Simon told newsmen the one-year members after he entered the nearly- Ford specifically urged all living costs rise — Ford proposed the surtax was expected to raise $4.7 billion filled House chamber for the address. Americans to "cut the food you waste creation of a new Community Im- — $2.6 billion for individuals and $2.1 One of the President's major by 5 per cent" and to reduce driving by provement Corps to provide public billion from corporations. proposals would set a 1980 target for a like amount. service jobs when unemployment Simon said the liberalized investment "eliminating oil-fired plants from the exceeds 6 per cent nationally. The tax credit would bring corporations $2.7 nation's base-loaded electrical Declaring that "we cannot ask the Pn•lo or Darrel Thomas American people to tighten their belts if Uncle Sam is unwilling to first tighten Women in male world his," he asked Congress to enact before it recesses a "target spending limit of Gladys Hines, left, and Yolanda Herrera started work Monday as $300 billion" for the federal budget this part of the construction crew building the Med School. They are year. the first women to work on the construction. Freed urges renewed probe of Watergate, JFK assassination By JO ANNA VERNETTI "We need a radical analysis of where Connally had said he was struck by a UD Reporter we have been," he said. separate bullet, not the same one which The American people must demand a A raw and volatile political situation injured Kennedy. full investigation of Watergate and the exists in the United States today where Another piece of contradictory John F. Kennedy assassination to end "a paramilitary invisible government evidence which Freed showed the the United States' decade of con- is being replaced by a multinational audience was a photograph of Lee spiracy, according to Donald Freed, co- invisible government," he said. Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of author of "Executive Action," a book Freed linked Watergate and the Kennedy. The photograph had been about the Kennedy assassination. Kennedy assassination, saying that a altered, and Oswald's face had been Freed, who received a standing series of coverups have occurred in the placed on a picture of a man holding ovation, spoke Tuesday in the past 10 years. two Communist newspapers and two University Center Ballroom. "In Watergate, all we've done is guns. Freed said an invisible government expose the coverup, but not what was Freed said the "lone nut theory" of of vested interests exists in the United covered up," he said. one person assassinating the President States. "Watergate is the passing of one Direct attempts were made to had been formulated to coverup CIA invisible government to another," he prevent investigations about con- involvement in the killing. said. spiracy in the assassinations of John F. Photo by Paul Tittle The invisible government is Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther After Oswald had been arrested, he Gone to greener pastures surrounded by secrecy, Freed King, and Robert Kennedy, and the told police, "I am a patsy. I'm being declared. "We, the people, must attempted assassination of George framed." However, no written report of Businesses which opened in downtown Lubbock problems for the merchants remaining down- exercise our right to know. We must Wallace, he said. the Dallas police's interrogation of are now moving to surburban shopping centers town. demand an accounting for the last "Each election was changed by Oswald was made, Freed said. Oswald in great numbers. The migration is creating decade". bullets not by ballots," he said. was killed by Jack Ruby, who Freed Each case involved an investigation said was a member of organized crime. which was hindered by the invisible Ruby was one of 18 witnesses who died Future appears dim government, Freed said. "The within two years of the assassination, American people never really got to Freed said. look at the situation realistically due to Freed also mentioned several men the suppression of evidence." who had been involved in both Downtown suffers lack of business Freed charged that the Kennedy Watergate and the Kennedy assassination investigation was assassination. A definite link between covered up by the Central Intelligence the government, the military-industrial By LARRY J. CAMPBELL Downtown Lubbock, Inc. began sponsoring a "Park and Shop" program to Agency (CIA). complex, the Teamsters, organized UD Reporter promote shopping in the area. Shoppers could park free in any lot by getting their He showed a film clip of the Kennedy crime, and the CIA and FBI exists, he Downtown Lubbock is suffering from a lack of business, and at least one parking ticket stamped by a merchant. assassination which he said clearly said. downtown businessman sees little chance for improvement in the near future. "It worked well at first when there were more cars and more shoppers," The illustrated that Kennedy had been shot Freed claimed the CIA wanted "It's not a pretty story," said Otice Green, manager of Downtown Lubbock, program was handling up to 4,000 cars a month at first. Now there are only two from both the front and back. The revenge on Kennedy, who they believed Inc., an organization of downtown managers and merchants. "It can only go so far parking lots in the central downtown area, and many fewer shoppers than before. Warren Commission, the official group planned to reduce their power. Ken- down." "People are not going to park their car in one block and walk to the next block to organized to investigate the nedy had announced the pull-out of Downtown Lubbock, Inc. was organized in 1957 by a group of businessmen who shop," said Green. assassination, said that Kennedy had American troops in Vietnam. Freed were feeling the pressure from competition from shopping centers. "Up until that ACCESS ON THE STREET system and maintenance of stores and streets also been shot only from the back by a single said the military-industrial complex time there had been no serious competition from shopping centers," said Green. emerge as complaints. "Streets seem to be maintained better in some areas than gunman. depended on war and was not able to "They knew that the handwriting was on the wall, though.