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THE RIVER Yesterday 19.20 Read By More TODAY 18.85 Crest Than 90,000 1965 ... 20.48 20.75 1952 . 17.90 17.93 People Every Day 1951 ... 16.60 17.35 2 SECTIONS 18 PAGES Nixon Asks Poor Be Excused From Taxation No Sight Would Reduce Phyllis DUler says her Floods Threaten New England, South husband blames all his Now troubles on poor eyesight; By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS after a heavy rainfall. The Connecticut was reported pected to crest at 20 feet Tues- dents have been moved from Other traffic look a 20-mile de- "F o r instance, gettting SuHax in Swiftly rising rivers, swollen The U.S. Weather Bureau ia to have risen five feet in 24 day. dwellings along the Mississippi tour around the floodwater. married" .....One of the hours at White River Junction. The situation was, for the banks with as many as 100 more Floods elsewhere in the north- by heavy rains, posed new Hartford, Conn., issued a warn- first things a child learns threats to New England and the A flood watch was* set up most part, under control along ready to move if necessary. ern Midwest were reported on many when he goes to school is South today while flood control ing of flooding- later " throughout the state. the Mississippi, which began its The Souris River, locally receding. that other kids get a bigger January workers along the rampaging major rivers in New England." In the South, flooding was rampage last week. called the Mouse, continued to The Red River, still a lake allowance . .A certain WASHINGTON (AP") _ Presi- Mississippi held their breaths, Roads"were closed by flooding predicted today along the Sa- With the precautionary evac- batter Minot, N.D., in lion-like from Fargo to beyond Grand actor's credit is so bad that dent Nixon sent to Congress to- hoping newly built levees would in Vermont. Telephones in West- vannah River at Augusta, Ga. uations out of the way and lev- fashion. Forks along the North Dakota- when he signed a photo for day an eight-fold package of tax hold. minster; Vt., were knocked out Along the Chattahoochee Riv- ee construction virtually com- The Souris swelled to the Minnesota border, was receding a -fan, the photo came back reforms including a "low-in- In northern New England, when water damaged a cable er in Blountstown, Fla., waters pleted, Wisconsin settled down highest level in 65 years at Min- along most of its length. The , . How come we think, come allowance" to excuse 1 Bome rivers began rising above under a bridge over the Con- rose two feet above the 15-foot to a week of high-water watch ot Sunday with the worst still to Big Sioux in South Dakota, the of those bright answers million poor people from incom« flood stage over the weekend necticut River. flood stage. The flood was ex- in confidence. come. Minnesota in that state and the either on the way home taxation. James Gruentzel, deputy ad- The swirling waters forced Des Moines h Iowa were no from a party, or when the He also recommended repeal ministrator of the state's Divi- 11,864 residents from 2,544 longer a threat. dentist has our mouths sion of Emergency Government of the 7 per cent investment tax , homes in the city of 35,000. In all, the floods drove 19,000 stuffed with cotton? credit effective at once. said the levees should hold, un- The seven-mile-wide town has persons from their homes and Nixon changed his position on 133 Arrested less unexpectedly heavy rain been cut in half , with U.S. 83 caused damage estimated at $31 (For more laughs see upsets the high-water forecasts. linking the two sections closed million in the Dakotas and a one year extension of the 10 35 Military Earl Wilson on Page 4A) per cent surtax, to intake it ap- More than 600 Wisconsin resi- to all but emergency traffic. Minnesota. ply in full only Until Jan. 1, 1970 After Clashes on which date it would be cut to 5 per cent. Bases, Towns This is made possible, the President said, by the estimated In Baltimore $3 billion in revenue to be recov- BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) - ered by repeal of the investment tax credit. He added : Racist clashes following a Mary- Hit by Reds "If economic and fiscal condi- land Youth for Decency Rally SAIGON (AP ) - The Viet end as the battalions sparred tions permit, we can look for- In Memorial Stadium, home 'of Cong stepped up its spring of- with two bands of irregulars led ward to elimination of the re- the Baltimore Orioles, resulted fensive again Sunday night, by American Special Forces maining surtax on June 30, in the arrest of 133 persons and shelling at least 35 military men. 1970." injury to 88, including seven po- bases and towns. One barrage Other attacks hit the airfields The reform package, which licemen. killed 35 South Vietnamese sol- at Da Nang, Nha Trang, on the Nixon's statement called "long "How do you find decency aft- dier and wounded 175 at a train- coast , and Vinh Long, in the Me- overdue," also includes a tax- er this?" asked Lynn Dorsey, a ing camp. A rocket landed kong Delta. Authorities said the-iich provision to assure that high school senior on the rally among about ,100 U.S. Marines damage was light and apparent- the affluent pay some tax de- planning committee, after the watching a movie near Da ly only one aircraft was hit. spite their ability to use deduc- outburst of violence Sunday. Nang,; killing two and wounding Other barrages hit the . high- tions. land city of Pleiku, a district The new "minimum income The rally, attended by 40,000 46. Eight more Marines were military headquarters about 50 tax" would set a 50 per cent teen-agers, was modeled after miles southwest of Saigon, the limit on the use of the major tax an orderly and successful event killed in hand-to-hand battle with North "Vietnamese regulars headquarters of the American preferences that are subject t« last month in Miami's Orange Green Beret force in Vietnam, at Bowl just below the demilitarized change by law. protesting lewdness and Nha Trang and the U.S. 9th In- prefer- obscenity in America. Its zone. And in Vietnam's south- "This limit on tax ernmost province, AN Xuyen, fantry Division base camp at ences," Nixon's message said, themes were "brotherhood, re- Dong Tam, 40 miles below Sai- spect, responsibility and love." eight South Vietnamese were "would be a major step toward killed and 60 wounded in a mor- gon. assuring that all Americana Wade H. Poole, deputy police Fresh North Vietnamese regu- commissioner, said some of tar barrage. bear their fair share of the fed- lars fell upon a night camp of eral tax burden." those at the Baltimore rally ap- With the enemy offensive now U.S. Marines less than half a parently became bored during At the other end of the incomt entering its ninth week; the pur- mile below the demilitarized the President said tho the entertainment and speeches. zone. For two hours the attack- scale, , pose of the increased attacks "low income allowance will As the departing crowd obviously was to raise the allied ing force tried to overrun the streamed down exit ramps, band of fewer than 100 Marines, remove an estimated 2.2 million casualty toll at small cost to the lower income families from th« fighting broke out. Viet Cong and North Viet- getting inside the perimeter at Witnesses, including a Negro namese. one time and burling satchel tax roles and assure that fami- police officer, said-Negro youths New alert points also showed charges and grenades'^ before lies in poverty pay no federal in- clustered around the exits be- Up on the war maps, in the cen- being thrown :back in "hand-to- come taxi" gan taunting, shoving and hit- tral highlands along the Cambo- hand fighting. The message said a family of ting whites as they passed dian border where Green Beret At dawn, with a gunship rak- 4 would pay no income tax: on through the gates. •;? ¦...—:— . ¦-—— . ¦ income below $3,500; a married troop encountered two North ing them with 6,0Q0-round-a- , ™-—— —— _ , '——' . r _s-—;—~ . ; . , Mora than 500 police descend- Vietnamese battalions infiltrat- mimite bursts of minigun fire, ^ couple with $2,300 income would ed o"n the area in an attempt to VAWA_C CREST .... Water-soaked farm south of Pem- one are covered with water as thus. Red River ; moves along pay nothing, instead of the 5100 ing into the country. Authorities the North Vietnamese pulled ; restore «rder, but the violence said 38 North Vietnamese regu- back, leaving 20 bodies; and four bina, N.D., awaits flood crest of the Red River as it moves the Northern Dakota-Minnesota border. Note farm vehicles they now pay; single persons, spread to downtown Baltimore lars were killed over the week- badly wounded men.