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JAMESTOWN (N.Y.) POST-JOURNAL-Wednesday Evening. September 7,195$
Harriman Eyes Hiked Taxes In '56, Empire C. of C. Says
ALBANY (£*—An official of the'states' is higher than New York's, Empire State Chamber of Com he asserted, merce says the Harriman Admin- L e v i t ofi^e s a i d the Camp-istration' apparently is trying to "condition the people for substantial tax increases" next year.
William A. Mills, the organization's executive vice president, took issue yesterday with State Comptroller Arthur Levitt's report that 18 other states had higher tax rates per capita than New York.
Mills asserted in a statement: "The taxpayers of our state
should be commended for their generous payments to their state and local governments instead of being barraged with phony figures from a State Administration committed to increasing taxes."
Levitt, in a, report issued Saturday, said New Yorkers paid $73.98 in state tax per capita in fiscal 1954-55, compared with a national average of 572.25. The rate of tax per capita in 18 other
troller's report tended to contradict "the notion that New York, so far a t state-imposed taxes are concerned, is a high-tax state."
Mills, terming Levitt's comparisons "unrealistic," said 'the 18 states to which the Comptroller referred were not competitive with New York in general. Many, he said, were rural and most performed gervices that local communities handled in this state.
The Chamber official asserted that Levitt had "ignored important costs of state government" in—as he put it—"manufacturing" a per-capita figure.
Not included in Levitt's figures, Mills said, were unemployment insurance costs, money paid by employers for administration of workmen's compensation, license fees and bridge and parkway tolls.
Mills said Levitt's statement
U.S. Hopes Red China Will Free All Americans
WASHINGTON <» — The State 'Department has hailed Red China's announced plans to free nine detained Americans as a passible first step "in the return of all the Americans in China."
A department spokesman said officials hefe checked by telephone with U. Alexis Johnson, negotiating with the Red Chinese at Geneva. He said Johnson confirmed the reported Red Chinese offer to free nine Americans immediately.
Officials checked their files for home towns and next of kin of the U. S. citizens expected to be freed. There were no U. S. addresses in several cases.
There was some confusion, too, over the total number. Nine persons were listed by the Com-
"looks like the opening gun to condition the people for substantial tax increases at the next session of the Legislature."
munists as free to leave any time, Mow Ynrlr ^ t n f * Fnir two others whenever they apply I' for exit permits and another whenever he settles his affairs — estimated *by the Reds to take two or t iree months.
But, as department officials awaited more details from Johnson, a spokesman said:
"We are hopeful this initial step will result in the return of all the Americans in China."
The department has presented Red China at Geneva with a list of 41 American civilians admittedly held by the Red Chinese. The department emphasizes, however, that it believes there are others.
NO ONE INJURED IN SAMPSON CRASH
SAMPSON 'ATR FORCE BASE U!V—Three artillery officers walked away uninjured last night after a U.S. Army Liaison plane landed 100 feet short of a runway and ploughed through some brush.
The pilot, Capt. S. B. Fein of 187th Field Artillery Group, said the plane developed engine trouble after entering the landing pattern at this air force base.
Observes Grange Day SYRACUSE m—The New Yorto
State Fair swung into Its fifth' jday today, which was set aside as "grange and women's organiza-
(tion day." Morning and afternoon events
'included judging of sheep, poultry. I flowers and food and a fashion show. On tap for the evening program were a musical revue, a ro-
!deo and an automobile thrill show. A crowd of 45,288 swarmed into
I *ie sprawling fair grounds yesterday to raise attendance for the first four days to 257,771. The halfway-mark turnout was slightly below the 261,815 turnout for the first four days last year.
The fair ends on Saturday.
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EARLY BIRDS—The first four beauties to arrive for this week's Miss America pageant are shown standing beside a lifeboat on the beach at Atlantic City. The girls are (left to right) Miss Hawaii (Barbara Vieera, Honolulu); Miss Colorado (Sharon Ritchie, Denver); Miss West Virginia (Mary Lou Fryman, Madison); Miss Oklahoma (Ann Campbell, Oklahoma City.) —AP Wirephoto
Nation's Top Charmers Vie For Miss America Throne
By JAMES F. TOMUNSOX ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. «.¥>-The
nation's top charmers today prepared for the hectic whirl of preliminary competitions that will lead one of them into the throne as the new Miss America.
With the pageant now officially Under way af^er a glittering boardwalk parade, the 49 entries will be divided into three groups for tonight's first round contests in swim suit, evening gown and talent categories.
The preliminaries continue tomorrow and Friday nights, with the girls rotating in the three events.
On each of the three nights, judges will announce the winners In the swim suit and talent divisions but not the evening gown. The girls also will be judged for
Eersonality, but these results arc ept secret. Thousands of spectators lined
this resort's famed boardwalk to watch the mammoth parade last night in which the Miss America 1956 hopefuls made their public debut.
Scores of illuminated floats and bands rolled along the two-mile line of march, but it was the girls that drew the attention. All but two of the contestants rode >n convertibles. Miss Pennsylvania, Pam Ulrich of Sinking Spring, rode !n a float entered by her home state. And Miss Texas. June Prichard of Seymour, who is a rodeo performer, paraded on a palomino mare.
June and Miss Idaho, Judy Voiten of Boise, sported cowgirl outfits while all the other girls wore evening gowns.
The current Miss America, Lee
Ann Meriwether of San Francisco, was enthroned on a large float near the head of the parade.
The field of beauties will be narrowed down to five finalists by Saturday night. And then, before a nationwide television audience, Miss America 1956 will be chosen.
Accused Killer Taken After Week-Long Hunt
EDMONTON, Alta. (£>-A week-long manhunt across western Canada ended with the capture yesterday of John Pctlock, 35-year-old farmer wanted for the murder of five members of his family.
Petlock had been sought since the five persons were found shot to death on a farm near Fenwood, Sask., Aug. 29. He was captured without a struggle in a rooming house. The landlady notified police after Petlock's picture appeared in a newspaper here.
Found slain at the farm home were Petlock's 72-year-old widowed mother, his brother Michael, 34; Michael's wife Angeline. 21. and Michael's two young daughters, the oldest about 3.
The family savings, about $fo,000 were missing.
Police said«Petlock had more than $1,000 in his possession when arrested. He was jailed here for return to Saskatchewan.
ALTO FATALITY NORWICH. N.Y. (^H Frank N.
Foster, 21. of North Norwich, died in a hospital here yesterday of injuries suffered Sunday when his automobile plunged down an embankment near Otselic, about 15 T.iles northwest of here.
Freed Hopkins' Identity Still Puzzles Army
BERLIN {3 — The mystery "American" the Russians freed Monday now claims he's a German. U.S. officials say they're not convinced of that story either.
The Soviets released the man as Charles Frederick Hopkins, an American civilian, along with two soldiers who had been prisoners of the Reds for seven years. The civilian said then he was from New York City.
Last night, after extended questioning by U.S. intelligence officers, the Army command in Berlin said in a statement Hopkins now claimed to be Klaus Frederick Glaubite, a 27-year-old German national who had been in Soviet hands since 1947.
"U.S. authorities are continuing to check his story and status," the announcement added. He is still being held incommunicado.
American officers commented that the man spoke excellent English in a manner not characteristic of Germans. They said he obviously is older than 27 and that his story of capture by the Russians was vague.
One source said he thought- the man still might turn out to be an American, perhaps one who is wanted by police in the United States.
The two soldiers, Pvt. Wilfred C. Cumish, Amesbury, Mass., and Pvt. Michael Feingersch, alias Murray Fields, Jamaica, N.Y., are being held incommunicado in an Army hospital while getting medical checkups. They disappeared from their units in Western Europe in 948 and the Army is investigating whether to court-martial them.
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