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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1955
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70 KILLED AS RACE CAR EXPLODES
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Reuther Urges CM President To Enter Talks
Contra€t Parleys in Last Stages;
385M0 Set to Strilie Tonigttt
'bulletin
DETROIT (U*)—General Motors handed the CIO I'nited Auto Workers Lnion a new offer last night aimed at averting a strike by .385.000 GIVI workers at midnight tonight.
The offer was reported to be patterned closely after the .settlement reached between the UAW and Ford Motor ( o, last Monda.v.
DETROIT (IP)—Walter Reuther urged General Motons Pre.sident Harlow Curtice yesterday to enter contract talk.s personally and help bead off a threatened company- wide .strike by thousands of CIO United Auto Workers at midnight tonight. $ _
Curtice promptly rejected;   _ ,
the invitation and said other|/l f|M^|M«|M|Aft# <(.mpanv officials had "fun'^ff ^'¦¦¦•¦¦¦^¦¦* |imderway authority to negotiate."        l^i^m ^ .    .     '^.^^    .
R..utlMT   toid   Cunicc    negoti.i-|fjT  ^T^^ft   11» If ^ (*'"«** "«"""»•
tions "have reached a critical! ^^ ¦ ^*' *•*•¦• ¦¦ ff%^ The problem also will come up »t«gp. with time running out andj ifor review before the Senate Le¬ with a number of basic Issues still i^s^m^^^^^     i * J
uire^iv d 'aenoce rieod
The   cro   president   said   in   thf;
House Probe Of Vaccine Is Ordered
Inquiry Coincides With Sharp Attacks On U. S. Explanation Of Polio Shots Mixup
WASHINGTON (IP)— Chairman J. Percy Priest of the House Commerce Com'- mittee yesterday ordered a full investigation of the vac¬ cine controversy.
Priest, a Tennessee Democrat, said his group will dig into the vital issue of the vaccine's seJety,' the advisability of giving shots i during the Sumimer polio season,! and the way the pro.rram hasi been operating.
39 i<rea Men in Penn State Institute Class
AKMOciate engiIu^er degreeH were conferred on S9 local graduates of Penn State TetUinical Institute, 660 North H'ashlngton SL, at the cen¬
tennial coninipnt'fiiient exereitwh of Pennsyl¬ vania .State I'niversity yesterday at Beaver Field on the campus.
Scores Injured As Flaming Auto Roars Into Stand
Driver Going at 160 MPH When Crash Occurs Sending Death Through Cay Throng
LE MANS, France (ll*)—A sports car hurtled at 180 miles an hour off the Le Mans race track yesterday ex¬ ploded in the air and spread flaming death in a denselya ma.ssed throng of spectators.
Ive Mans Police headquarters put the tentative death toll at 70 and said the number might be even higher. Mor* than 100 persons were reported injured.
!    In   New   York,   h   reine-,j^	
Isentative   of   the   American!     ,
!Automobile Association Con- L|AAM||A11f Al*
jte.st  Hoard  .said  lie had nolbldwIIIIUff Wl
i record   of  any   racing  acci-
about   a   week   from
William iGreen  as  chairman  of the Rruther didn't indivai. in hislP«"n-^'^''vania   Turnpike lettfr   to   Curtice   exactly   wftat; Commission.
itiatter. .till remain.-d   o'oe taken      Qrcon     is    Phil^ielaAi.    oity ."" *!..'^••u-^'?r„r.«.^^iL:3 ohaJ™an for the Democrats and important ,j,ay]o.-,   a   potew   leader   of   the
„ . ,    Charies  Frederick  Miller of 328,two  vears  of  study  at   the  locaJ grams    of   draftiing   and    designjf^^'lt.    that    approached    thlSI
Me   said   the   hearings   wjll   get]paimer   St.,   Plymouth,    led    thejTechnical    In.stilute.    He   studiedilcohnoiogj' (and electrical  teehnol- casualty   toll.
procession    of    associate    degree;electrical technologj". and  will  be;ogy were instituted here In 1953.        f^rancp'"*      Piorro      lovotrlJ students.   Mr.   Miller  was   chosen I employed by Bell Laboratories of!    The graduates: rittiit,tf s      r eiie^   ijcvepn
for   the   honor   of   being   student!Summit, N. J. Shown above, left to right, firatl^'*^   orlVinif   the   Sliver-g-rev
marshal   for maintaining a straight     This    waa   fi^e   fir?»t    two-year row:  Bernard S.  Klem,  ."56 Souoh I Mercedes     death     car.     Hi.S! three   average—90   to   100%,    the|alaas to be graduated  by the lo-| Welles   St.,    Kingston;    Fred    E.| American      teammate     John I bor Committee wihioh will resume highest grade possible-during hisi cal   nchool   stace   Wie   new   pro-l (Continued on Page 2. Section 1) iFitch    of    Stamford      Conn   i
its   hearings   on   several   '^-'¦^'"^ n, _'     „t.,„A;r,^   ^...    4^1        j "
control bills next week 'r^j-.       •    1 r Sending   OH   the   Side-1
Editorial ''"es   m   the  gay  crowd  ofj
250,000 waiting to take bis| turn at the wheel when tlie| accident occurred.
Valley Denied Turnpike Benefits Because of Political Waste Here Of State Highway Funds in Past
pHsi   Curtice«   two   predecessors. Tovlnr  fn   Finht                         Priest said that until his 00m-
Wiliiam   S.   Knudsen   and   C.    E.j       layiui    lU   riyill mittee geU an the answers on the
VVilion,  "itorticiipated when   nego- SCnatC   AODrOVaJ                     vaccine's   safety   and   use,   "Con-
tiations     reached    s    comparable *^*^                               greg-s should  not enact any leigis-
critical   stage." Ol  COngreSSHian                      lation  endorsing  the  mass  inoou-
Hsve'Full Authority' lation of American  children."
Curtice     said,     however,     that HARRISBURG    (IP)—Re-Expl»natlon Under Tiro "Harry Anderson  and  Louis Sea- nuUij„„,j    Cgnate    Pre-iidpnl     He   spoke   out   a»   the   govern-
ton have fun authority.' Ander-Puo'ican   .senate / resident       .^ t;;;^.^^ „ ^^ ^^ ^^_
.<m .s vice president in charge of,M.     Harvey     Taylor's    said tion's  vaccine  troubles  came  un-
r/^nS": ritrrcfaTio^"        "'""^'l.vesterday that he  will   lead "er  hea^  attack   from   the   Na- ot  inau.icriai  rciauonit. f '     u * •     *    r      j     '    a^ona-'   Foundation   foi    Infantile
Rruthern   request   .hul    Cur-   *   ^ ' JW^-t   again.st   Leader slparalyais, one of the vaccine man- II is perfectly ridiculous, to be sure, to
tiie join the taiUs indicated the luomination of Philadelphial"f»cturers, and others. inuUify the benehts of a $350,000,000 turn-
nnion  wa^.  getting  inipalient  at (Congressmen    William     '^ ^    '¦^'ix'f^    conceded    frankly.pjj^Q   j^j        j^^jH   ^^   ^j   ^^^   ^.q^j   regions
.-. 1   if.x^..'  j^i....   In   .n.b. ! s'^o     ..i »; 11     """"'"that   the   safety   standard*   underif i     ¦        . j        i       . i .u   .  .
Which  most of the vaccine  thislbY refusing to spend a fraction of that to year   was   released   had   "failed" provide proper access to it. becauie of misjudgment.'j on the;      But that is exactly what is happening Srtry"' a^d  LTeTcfentists.'  '"1-   'he  new  administration  in  charge   of Termed One-sided r"^ Pennsylvania Department oi Highways
Foundation     President     Basil I reneges on  lost  year's promiss. O'Connor attacked the report a.«i|       And   the  reason  has  been made out- a one-sided  version. He said  that spokenlv  clear.
lieneral   Moforit'   dels.v   in ing a n"* contract offer
mak-
year, the Luzeme County organization de¬ feated Newell Wood's bid lor re-election to \he State Senate.
Here's some more of the background.
Being Used, Truman Says
Private Power Interests Cited By Ex-President
PORTLAND, Ore. (IP) — nI!!',\''n'*ho,'?r« r*"*'^"!^^"!Harry S.  Truman charged
miles an hour as he came down] ..,      .
^       there last night that Presi»
. . „ _, .       ~Z       ",' ^    dent Eisenhower was being
•John   nteh,  ro-driver  of  the L ,,,   • .  ,-. ^
death car. was in  Wilkes-Barre  !   "•''ed     in  a  deliberate  Cam-
in I95S with the Briggs Cunning- I paign   to   destroy  publicly-
nam   racing  team   to   take   nart  \ e- 1 •     i.      •
In   the   oinnt*   Despair   Hill i financed   jwwer  projects  in
Climb   and    Brynfann   Tyddyn   the  United  States. Road Race. 1    , ,.  w .^ ..^ ..
I    In a speech before « throng «C
Pacific
powcr-consclous Pacific North¬ west Democrats, the former presi¬ dent said "a Republican president la being used to cripple the pro¬ gram   of   river   development  that
had  anoti^er version.
he reads the whole d K.'U'ment.
H. W. Blades, execi'tive vice president of Wyeth Laboratories, took heated issue wih implica¬ tions in the report and statements o* Public Health Service nffidals Which, he said, «ppea-ed to oast "suspicion" on ^ne batch ol bis company's vaccine.
to MV   they   included
.ec'tions    of    the    working   a?ree-^ <^_^^^^ RepuWicans is former Re
m.ut.   econon^c   matter,   and   io-      .^,,i^.^^ T^^^ chairman.
cal p.ant problems. „,    , ...... t^      .
Reuther    took    note    that    lesV     Taylor  called  Leaders  nonuna-iDr.   Jonas
th:!T,  .14  hours   remaim-.:   before  a tion of Creen to .succeed Turnpike the   vaccme,   ..„„   .... .   •"•—-•:;;.^uj-v,
itr>kf   deadline   for   385.000   Gen- Commission Chairman  Thomas J. Salk   declined   to   comment   untiliwnicn
eral   .Motors   workers.   The   .160,000  Evana of CoaidiaJe a "very un'WJae
Aulo    Workers    and     5.000    ClO'move" and urged the Governor to
Electrical  Workers  are  scheduled! "reconsider"   retaing   F,v«ns   until
to «-alk  out   at midnight  Sunday! the   turnpike's   building   prograon
unless   a   new   sett'cment   islls completed.   Taylor said it Is no
reached. I time to change administrations ef
Despite   Reuther's   r«>quest   thatjthat agency.
Curtice    attend    sessions,     hopes 1    i^e '^jpubUcan  Senale has de- were    still    bright    a   settlement ,3y^   awroval   of   other   I^eader
could be reached before the dP^a-; appointments     and     stl'lll     hoMs
''"•¦ .some     oTO'niiations   to   the   Labor
W nil in K Kor New Offer Relations   Board   and   the   Unem-
Tht   union,  since  extending  the I olo^'ment     'im pen sat ion     Board.
deaJImc  from  last,  Tuesday  unti!I b*r those deliavs have been a form
today, has beim waiting fm- a new^j silent,  yielding disapprovail.
Genera!   Motors   offer.   The   union
txiendfd the contract to give CM j •'*>'»" A'*" M Stake
time   in  study  Ford's  guaranteed!    Taylor's   possible   veto   of   the
wage  plan.  The   Ford   olan   guar-;Green   appointment   is   the   firs*
tntc-es   workers   between   «0   andj threat of  outright  rejection of a
Ki%   of   their   normal   take-home| major   administration   appointee.
pay for as much  M 26 weeks tm    At   stake   is   the   big  Turnpike
event of a layoff. ' Cammission.   a   big  bloc  o*  jobs
Reuther's invitation came while'^d an agency that has not been
Curtice was enroute to Ann Arbor'jn  Democratic controd  for nearly
tf)   receive    an    honorary   degree|tvvo decadas.
from the Uni'versity of Michigan.       ^^ ^ _^ 	
He was Intercopted along the w»yl<,ver   the   "Turnipike   appointmerotj    The Comlnform is the Commu-
im  the   possitjility  that  aU   majori nist Bureau of Information which | appo>ntmeintr      and       legislation'the Kremlin  formed as  a  propa- which might  have even a remote j^anda and coordinating agency in
version. He said  t*Rt spokenly  cl
^¦. ;1*l^:i5:'*'?.r.i:,'.?'i       n is the direct result of Ihe years in
the    political . bosses    of    Luzerne
County—through their state connections- spent and washed millions of state high¬ way money here while Lackawanna County got little or nothing.
The new head of the department is from Lackawanna County—Joseph J. Lawler.
He's going ^o see  that some changes are made.
While the people of this county get it in the neck—coming and going.
• • •
Through all the years when the main use made of .state highv/ay money seemed
it -k -k
the four mile straightaway on the
couree, a  rectangle of  roads out-
I      iQcy, ,. .   , ,,       . side Le Mans, which is sealed off
In   1954. on  fave  jobs,  contracts were for the famous 2.500 mile race let   ior   the   spending   of    $7,500,000    in I   An   Austin   Healey,   driven    by Luzeme   County,   while   Lackawanna   got|Britain's   Lance   Macklin,   pulled;''*''  '"¦°"»ht prosperity to many none. |aside   to   allow   Britain's   famous regiona of our land."
.",.,,, , ., I Mike   Hawthorne   to   pai«    in    a I    Mr.    Truman    accu.sed    pri^^«te
Ip the last two years, while many con-i,pppding Jaguar, tracts  were executed  in  Luzerne  County, Lackawanna got just none cA all for any I'^'^P'"*''"'' ''""' ^'""''
job wholly within its boundaries. I k Jt * ^^r'Til''^ *T«'*"m * i'*"
T     i\. Jl ^n/ic  .     incc        Ll       "'"''*    "'    *"'¦    Austin    Healey.
In the period from 1945 to 1955, whilej hurtled into the sir and explod¬ ed like a fragmentatlnn bomb on  the  grandstand  side  of the
tnd announced his refusal.
VV. Germany Accepts Bid From Russia
Cominform On Way Out,
M ^^m^^^^m^ C*«»#^ '° ^®' votes or aid a favored utility, road JLOffffO Off 30 JrS .spending   in   Luzeme   County   did   some
^  I fancy climbing. J^^\Zr:iX,\:^J:\  ^ « \t -• ielt necessary, to arouse favor "Cominform" as part ofrti bargain|crble     sentiment     in   a   locality,   a   road for cooperation with the weatem j'would be resurfaced or perhaps completely powers,   diplomatic   reports   indi-j rebuilt even if only 5% to 10% worn and Tied to the forthcoming debate [cated yerterday. jneeding but maintenance.
But cheap maintenance work dofesn't provide enough jobs or please the right contractors.
relation  to  the give-and-take tax j 1947
battles  ahead   may  have to  wait     Reports   from   behind  the   Iron
for that big decision.
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iPosial Raies Ukely io Rise
Curtain suggest that the dissolu¬ tion of the Cominform might be promised by Russia as one of its maneiive'rs in the new "soft ap¬ proach" if is now using
It was recalled that the "Comin¬ tern"—Communist International— which was the predecessor of the Cominform was dissolved during World War 2 as /» gesture toward the non-Communist allies.
$6,000,000 was being spent on highway contracts in Lackawanna County, the total in Luzerne County was $27,000,000.
At the present time, highway depart¬ ment    contracts   worth    $10,000,000   and !'*?» ^"pp<'<^. "'^'er a double barrier Turnpike Commission contracts worth $25,- 000,000 are under way in Luzerne County while Lackawanna County has NONE.
Faced also with what he considers "a < desperate unemployment situation in Lack¬ awanna County,' Highway Secretary Law¬ ler is determined to do something about it.
That is probably only natural, but the tragedy for Luzerne County is that, in the wake of all the prodigal spending that has been done -here, the manner in which poli¬ tics and selfishness ruled the work, we are still supplied with only antiquated, two- lane roads out of Wyoming Valley in every direction.
Local industry has been handicapped and new industry discouraged as a result.
track
The  rear  end  of  the  Mercedes
a point near an underpass leading to the grandstand.
The front "' t*"^ rseer landed 'iO yards away on the harrier setting it afire. The front axle and wheels along with part of tho chassis srythed through the crowd.
S<'reanis of pain and terror arose as fragments of the car rained down on tho rrowd. Smoke and  flames spread  over
power proponents of indulging tn "tricky and devious ways" to de¬ stroy public faith in federal power policies. He charged they had stacked the federal agencies with enemies of public power.
They had been encouraged. b« saiid, J'by a secretary of interior who openly opposes public power."
Mr,  Truman's address before a
Wayne Morse, one-time Oregon Republican who will seek re¬ election next year as a Democrat.
Moric hnd been forced. Trunman said, to abandon hi.s party and turn to the Democrats because he had discovered "that you cannot protect the public interests under present Republican management."'
He told Democrats from four Northwest states at a |2!5-per- plate dinner that Morse must bs kept   in   the  Senate to  help  stop
BONN'. Germany lyi—Tho fed¬ eral republic of We.st Germany. ATLAXTIC CITT, N. J. ilP)— In its first official note to thejAssistani Postmaster General Bu- Soviet I'nlon, acknowledged the.gene L. Lyons last night called Rus.*ian bid to establish dipk)- for "moderate increases in postal itiatic relations and the invllj*tionlrates"   ih   view  of   the   enormous
to Ohance'llor Konrad Adenauer|postal deficit and ne^vly approved'..r-ii; TQAIMIMR PI AN to Visit Moocovn-, it was revealed salary boosts for 1500,000 postal IMtVW inMllllll>l« ri-Mln yesterdaj. lentployes. WASHINGTON  HP)—The Army
The brief note was sent to Serge I    Speaking   at   the   closing   of   aiannounced yesterday a  new  plan Vinogradov. Soviet fcrnbassador to I convention    of    the   New   Jersey under which it will provide basic, """ince, by the German ambassa-jphapter   of   the   National   Associ- dor in  Paris. Baron Vdlrath  voniation  of  Postmasters,  LyoAs  said ^aitzan, three  days ago.  a West a possible deficit of 1399,000,000 is
expected for  the  196* fiscal  year ending next July 1.
Speaking of contracts. . . .
In the spotlight now is the Cross Valley Bypass—from West Nanticoke, across the river on a new bridge and to a point on Ashley Boulevard—which will cost, in all, some $8,000,000 and which, engineers in¬ sist, never v^ill justify the expense.
Nor will it do one iota of good ior internal traffic of Wyoming Valley,
But   it  was  of great   help  when,   last
The arrival of the turnpike was wel¬ comed because it was felt it would change the picture.
Especially after the commission was forced to give Wilkes-Barre an interchange at Wilkes-Barre—instead of nine miles away in Yatesville.
But how much of the good the turn¬ pike CAN do is about to be UNDONE be¬ cause Luzerne County is about to be caught in the backwash of political manipulation.
German, government official  said
It was through Virogradov and Von Mialtsam that the So-viet r»v- ., . „^ „_,. p„, •rnment last Tuesdav sent jtsjMust Be raw tor ¦urprise note to the West Ger-' Lyons said that if the presenet nvan government giving it "deideficit i« to be reduced »™stan- 'acto" recognition bv invltingltially "it must be aocompl'*hed by Adenauer to Moscow and bidding the fair and straight-forward 'or establishment  of   relations.      imcthod  of moderate  ;.icrease8 m
The disclosure of the West Ger-1 postal  rates. 1
»n«n acknowiledgement to Moscow] "It i.s rig'ht and proper that a '^'ne on the eve of Adenauer's!greater share of the cost of car- ^eparture for the United StatM.itying the mail be p; id by thej He will confer Tuosddj- with [users of the service to lessen the President Eisenhower and Sec-re-jdrain on the taxpayers' pockets, ^ry of .State John Foster Dulhs. Lyj^ns  said.
under which i
training for 12.000 National Guardsmen each year at regular Army installations.
The prograim, which will start July 1. will be operated on a volunteer basis.
Valley Scene
Oil Company Faces Strike
Official of ao Denies He Ever Was Communisf
a   wide   area.     Panic    stricken "something evil' that  is happen- spectators   tried   to   fight   their jiiK  in  the  country today. way through the crowd. He said "the future of this part
of the  country depends  not only
For 100 yards along the track bloody pieces of clothing and even .some pieces of bodies were scat- (Continued on Page 2, Section 1'
on having a Congress that is i^-m- pathetic to projects necessary to your economic growth but a sym¬ pathetic   administration   as   well."
Pensions, too
Siaie Senaie io Baiile TrucfcSf Toxes and a Job
HARRISBURG   (IP)—The   Penn-,crease   their   pension   allowances, sylvania Senate, where legislative [Gov. George M. Leader vetoed the
action has been at a minimum re-
first   such   bill  early   in   the
sion on  the grounds it w-ould jmt cently,   is   slated   to   become   theiniembers of the General AssemWy main   arena  of  the   1955  General in a ".special categorj-." Assembly next week as the House i|jp„j Expect*, .^pptoval generally    marks    time^   awaiting;    However.   Sen.   John   H.
DENVER. Colo. (IP) — The CIO OM, Ohemioail and  Atomic  Work-^
ers union said ye.'rterdiiiy its lO.OOOJ WASHINGTON (IP) —John J. said, howevr r. that Musmanno had authorized a strike aigainst' Mullen, an official of the CIO never had asked him to "do any the compaaiy after the currentig^ppi^orkers Union, declared firm- thing wrong" in connection with contract exipires at midnigibt Sun-' ^ , ,      ,
j_y |iy under oath yestecday he never
had   been   a   Communiet   nor   "in
Comipany  and   union   represent-^ aJtives currently are negotiating a any   way"    ajsociated    with    the new   contract   in   sessions   bei  ^ Conimunisit  Party, held i' New York aty. !    Mullen,  former mayor of Oair-
ton,   Pa.,   contradi<*ted   testimony
kit Worth $50?
Men Brave Enough to Wear Shorts Oet Bargain from Ohio Car Dealer
BEJLLAIRE,
     O.    (IPI—The    Mc-
r'rraw Chevrolet Co.'s used car I'nd Bermuda shorts sale ended [¦•st  night.
The   dealer   had   offered   a   SSO
oiscount  for any  customer  br'>ve
"ough to show up  wearing Bcr-
iniuda  shorts  and  a  free  pair  of
L??"^* ^or anyone who bought an
ISUto.
Here's   tlie   box   score:
One guv showed up 1 shorts.   He   got   his   $50   discount
More than 10 others bought cars and got free .shorts.
One gal tli med up in a long- legged tum-of-the-century bath¬ ing suit John McGraw scratched his head but gave her a $50 dis¬ count  too.
Girl in flouucy and feminine dreas being given a most mas¬ culine eye bi/ !40uny woman loungiuff against wall—dressed j Company Offer
in jeans. \    A   union   .spokesman   said   Sin-
Sliavertown tuwcomer learn¬ ing about neighborly spirit in the cooperatio7> he rccfived when locke<i out of his house shortlv after arrival on Back Mountain scene.
given   by  former  FBI  undercover
clair had offered a pay raise of 10, ,     .    ,      ...,,,.
cenU   a.n   hour   bu,t   demanded   aja«ents who had said ho had been three-year coniiract. ja m<»mber of the party.
Among the Sintla'' ¦ plants that The stocky, florid-faced witness would be affected by a walkout ISjadmitted ;hat unknowingly he once the    refinery   at    Sinclair,    Wyo. ^^^  ^^^  j^^^„ ^^ ^ Communist
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Party meeting but he said he was so "shocked and amazed" that he left as soon as he could. Mullen     testified     before     the jiSenate Internal Security Subcom- elmittee   alaout   hie   relailione   with lllMichacl   A.   Musmanno,   associate to take  me  out of there and he 7 j justice   of   the   Pennsylvania   Su- Slpreme Court, in which three 1953 9jbribery trials at Clairton figured. 1-51    The witness, his hair gray and
the  trials.
Musmanno earlier had accused Mullen of trying to "smear" him at the time in statements given to the district arttomey and Pitts¬ burgh newspapers. Attended Red Meeting
In his account of his attendance at a Communist Party meeting in 1936 in Pittsburgh, Mullen—who is director of political activity for the Steelworkers — saJd a steel- workers organirer named George Powers took him to the meeting In a yellow 1 '< building In the "Hill section" of Pittsburgh one night  when   Powers driving
him    home.    Mullen    saiid    he "raised   heck   and   asked   Powers
Dwit, cosponsor of the measure, said ho believed the present bill corrects the objections the Governor had to  the  vetoed  measure.
Tile House -Aprpropriijtion Ootn- mittee expects to wind i*p tt« public hearings on the Govemor'» $1,836,046,209 budget this week an4 it is eexpected the administration will press almost immediately for an early opening of the loil«- awaited   tax fight  on  tne  floor.
Rep. George J. Sarraf. c*Mirm«n of the House Ways asd Means Committee, said there 15 a poasi'- bility that the administration tax orogram will be reported from Ms 22-member committee June 20—If the committee can decide by th** time what rata can be mads In the budget. House Tax Test
Sarraf said he has no plana te hold up committee action whIl* sentiment on the a(bninlstratien tax plans is tested in the Detn«v i-ratic House caucus. At least 10 Democrats 'are reported oppoaad lo the income tax.
The  House   also  has   ready  for final   action   a   series  of   five  ad- did." sylvania,"  Taylor  said ' 'ministration    bills   amending   tha He   said   he   immediately   toldj    The   Senate   calendar,   for   thejoprmanent   registartion  act.    Tha Philip Murray,  then president of first  time   in  weeks,  has  a   feia-im*««ure extends from two to four the  Steelworkers.  aibout tho Inoi-kively   heavy   kMid.     Up   for   con-lyear»t the period in which eligible lljthinning.   gave   a  somewhat   longjdent   and  that  Powers  waa firedjsideration   j ths second major at-tvoters   fould   fail   to   cast   ballina 1-7'and  complicated  explanation.  He shortly afterward.                             temi>t   ot   the   lavu^makeia   to   in-|b«fore loalnc thtir votli^  ric^ift
completion of its committee hear ings on the state budget.
The House, in a Dusy-beaver week, sent to the Senate several major piecee of legislation, includ¬ ing the controversial bill to per¬ mit an increfise in truck weights on Pennsylvania roads from 45,000 to 60,000 pounds.
But tlie major interest in the Senate may center around Gov.j George M. Leader's appointment of Congres.sman William Green to be the new chairman of the Penn¬ sylvania Turnpike Commission. May Refuse to Confimi
Senate President Pro Teanpore .\I. Harvey Taylor raised the pos¬ sibility that the Republican-domi¬ nated chamber may refuse to con¬ firm Green in the new post. In a statement made less than 24 hours after the Philadelphia Congress¬ man's appointment was announc¬ ed, Taylor called it "a very un¬ wise move.'"'
"It    shows    that   the   CJovernor has  yielded   to  pressure  and   put political    consideration    ahead   of the welfare of the people of Penn sylvania,"  Taylor  said
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