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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-19-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 992. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/992 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Commm (EDITOR'S tyOTE: A pres- 1969 A.D. While the comthission said in which half the nation's 60 mil- tive Sen. Roman Hruska , R- third of American householders vation that until now had been idential commission ¦ last ' . • ' Regarded by many as the some hopeful things about the lion households possess at least ; Neb., to longshoreman-philoso- wish to move because of high accepted as the inevitable lot of week: completed a l Vi-year moral leaders of the Western condition of the nation, its re- one firearm. pher Eric Hoffer. rates of crime—and many have a large part of humankind. investigation of uiole-nce in World they witness the wane of port painted a picture of civil The commission, which issued In its year and a done so. Vigilante-like groups The poor, fhe black, all other America. This article sum. one of the bloodiest decades of half of inves- have organized. deprived groups, can daily sea mariees its findings .) their history. deterioration. ; its final report a week ago, was tigation the commission found created by President Johnson "We are closing ourselves into on their television sets what This is a decade which encom- that, among modern, stable de- they are missing and how near By JOHN S. LAND Such is the picture Of Ameri- • passed the assassination of a following the assassination of fortresses when collectively wis- can life drawn in the final re- mocracies, the United States is should be building the great, their release from misery can WASHINGTON (AP) - Mil- president , a, senator and a Ne- ; Sen. Robert J. Kennedy to de- be port of the National Commission -winner which termine the causes the clear leader in rates of hom- open , human city societies of , the panel said, but the insti- lions gro Nobel Prize , of violence tutions have not yet made it of them cache arms. They on the Causes and Prevention of in its latter half saw ghetto riots in the United States and to re- icide, assault, rape, robbery and which we are capable," the ' play, study , worship under Violence. commission reported. : possible for an expectant popu- involving more than two million commend nuethods o£ preven- among the highest in group vio- lace to achieve guard, fleeing the streets at And this is the commission's 191 tion. lence and assassination. what the econo- ' ¦ persons and resulting in While this is happening, the my and technology are becom- nightfall. Some cry revolution, . •' warning: deaths. Headed by Dr. Milton S. Ei- Commission surveys showed members decided, for the first ing capable of providing. others mobilize vigilaute-like ... Suffer the violence, Ameri- It is a time wherein up to one senhower, its members included half the women and one-fifth of time in man' s history—this one . patrols. cans, or free all citizens from in every 150 Americans yearly persons' of many political the nation 's men fear to walk. —is nearing the capability of re- Commission These are the Americans in poverty and social privation. commit violent crimes, a time stripes, ranging frtfm conserva- outdoors at night. Nearly one- leasing all citizens from depri- (Continued on page 2A, col, 1) Cloudy, colder Greeting tonight; warmer 18 words $1.25 on Satu rday classified sectio n 115th Y«ar of Publication 2 Sections, 20 Pages, 10 Cents Personal exemptions increased Senate-House tax reform conferees reach agreement _ WASHINGTON (AP) Sen- —An increase in the exemp- the across-*the-board 15 per cent through an increase in the per- ate-House tax reform conferees tion to $650 starting next July. increase in Social Security bene- sonal exemption, the form fa- have reached tentative agree- This would be coupled, with a fits of the Senate bill, vored by the Senate. ment on a relief package that But they did not go along with However , income allowance to , the Senate had vot- includes a boost in the personal $1100 low the $100 minimum monthly pay- ed for an $800 exemption by infcome tax exemption from $600 help poor families and an in- ment for an individual which 1971, a figure which along ¦ crease in the standard deduc- . with to.$750. - that measure also included. ' ¦: the Social Security benefit tion from the present 10 per . The conferees worked 16^- boost, had brought on threats of hours until 3 o'clock this morn- cent with a $1,000. ceiling to 13 President Nixon had objected a veto by President Nixon. per cent with a ,400 ceiling. to the 15 per cent boost ing and still didn 't quite finish $1 . But the Thus tie conference moved to their work on the entire tax re- —A $650 personal exemption House voted for it unanimously meet his objections in part by form bill, but (conference chair- for all of 1971, with a $1,050 low- Monday in a separate bill. holding the exemption to $750 man Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D- income allowance, and a stand- The low income allowance; and delaying the final effective Ark., said there was no doubt ard deduction of 14 per cent and which may be deducted from in- date to 1972. action would be completed to- a $1,700 ceiling. : come in figuring taxes, will It was reported that Sen. Al- thereafter a remove about 5 million poor day. —For 1972 and ^ bert Gore, D-Tenn., author of $750 personal exemption , with a families from the tax rolls en- the tax relief package in the It was understood the relief $1,000 low income allowance and tirely. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT PICKS UP . • ' .AGfedjf the U.S. 1st from under a Christmas tree; The bags contain useful lrtite Senate bill, was highly pleased package decided on as the last a standard deduction of 15 per The conferees rejected entire- with the agreement. Infantry Division at Dan Tieng in South Vietnam get some items as pen and paper, fruit and candy and are contributed major compromise between the cent with a $2,000 ceiling. ly- the cuts in all tax bracket In spite of his p rediction that Christmas atmosphere as the holiday season approaches. One by groups in the United States. (AP Photofax) widiely. differing House and Sen- The conferees also were re- rates voted by the House in fa- the conference work would end •of them begins picking up America Red Cross Vdftty " bags ate versions provided:; ported to have agreed to accept vor of giving general relief today, Mils said it was almost certain the compromise version of the b ill could not be acted on in both branches until Monday. It was also understood the Nixon fo ease conferees finished work on vir- Expect increased Arab leaders tually all of the dozens of re- form provisions . in the bill SAIGON CAP) — U.S. and Two of the missiles landed in American troops maneuvering South Vietnam during the 48 aimed at tax loopholes. South Vietnamese forces were a housing complex where fami- south of the capital. hours before the start of the restrictions alerted today for increased ene- lies of South Vietnamese para-* It was the third attack in Sai- cease-fire. to hold summit my attacks in observance of two troopers and airmen live, killing gon this week. On Tuesday, Viet Enemy troops , opened fire majot Vietnamese Communist a Vietnamese woman and Cong terrorists blew up a news- with machine guns and rocket RABAT, Morocco (AP) — passe in which they seem nei- anrilversaries. wounding 17 persons, five of paper printing plant, and the grenades on a column of ar- on Red China Arab leaders headed for Moroc- ther able to go forward and ^Dodf oLLoivA- Captured enemy documents them children. next day a lOft-pound rocket de- mored personnel carriers from WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- co today for their first summit conquer Israel nor willing to re- called for a stepup to mark the The other two rockets hit U.S. stroyed three houses and the U.S. 25th Division 36 miles dent Nixon plans to announce meeting in two years. Their treat into a peace agreement surrender. conthihudwrUiu 23rd anniversary today of the military positions on the base, wounded four civilians. northwest of Saigon. Two Amer- three steps aimed at easing U.S. goal was a new unified war which they see as a start of the war that drove the wounding several Americans One official source said there icans and 14 of the enemy were strategy against Israel. The first session will be held French from Indochina and the and causing light damage, did not appear to be a major reported killed in the three-hour trade restrictions with Commu- The meeting, called by Presi- Saturday. Previously listed . SM25.S0 ninth anniversary Saturday of spokesmen said. drive developing against the fi ht nist China, Senate Republican dent Gama! Abdel Nasser of Cub Scouts, Pack 2, g , and six Americans were The summit conference is the the founding of the National Lib- As dawn broke, South Viet- capital, but he added the Viet wounded. Leader Hugh Scott told report- Egypt, is intended to lead the Central Lutheran 10.21 eration Front, the Viet Cong's namese troops began sweeping Cong have "the capability of fir- The U.S.