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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Tuesday Evening, April 18, 1967

Growing Support
For Tax Credits
Indicates Fight

Vol. LVIII, No.

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tax credits for college expenses.
Such a plan won Senate approval last Friday by a vote
of 53 to 26, but was expected
to be blocked by the House.
However, a perceptible shift
in sentiment toward the tax credit
plan was sounded Monday by
some members of the Higher Education Subcommittee of the
House Education and Labor
Committee.
While this subcommittee does
not set tax policy, its members
are influential in helping to mold
house view on matters involving
education.
The tax credit plan, said Rep.
Edith Green,
"might go
through the House this year."
Mrs. Green is chairman of the
Higher Education Subcommittee. In past years, she and other
key members of her subcommittee
had strongly opposed tax credits

for college expenses.
But now, with spiraling college costs putting an increasingly
tight squeeze on family budgets,
Mrs. Green said, there has been
a noticeable shift toward support
of the plan in the House.

"We think its certainly worth
taking a look at this year," she
said.
Administration officials oppose college tax credits on three
grounds.

Prof. Morris
To Speak Here
Prof. Bernard S. Morris, professor of government at Indiana
University, will speak on "Intelligence Research and Foreign
Policy Making" at 8 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the
Commerce Building.
Between 1948 and 1963, Prof.
Morris served in the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research of the
Department of State, where he

headed the bureau's committee
on world communism. During
most of this period he also was
a professor in the School of International Service of American
University.
Prof. Morris is author of the
"International Communism and American
Policy."
The lecture, sponsored by the
UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, is open to the public.
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growing signs Monday that the
hard pressed to prevent income
First, they say, it would cost
the treasury about $600 million
in the first year and about $1.3
billion annually by 1970.
Second, they term it "class
legislation" that would aid only
those with sufficient income to
pay taxes.
And third, they say that its
benefits to taxpayers would be

negligible, because institutions
would almost immediately increase tuition charges beyond
what they now feel they can demand.
"In effect, then, we would be
subsidizing private institutions
of higher education," Secretary
John W. Cardner of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare, told the Green subcommittee Monday.
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Under the
plan, annual tax credits would
be provided to cover part of the
costs of tuition, fees, books and
supplies for college students.
A maximum credit of $325
for each student would be allowed
each year. That amount could
be deducted from the tax otherwise payable.
The credit would be 75 percent of the first $200 of educational costs, 25 percent of the
next $300, and 10 percent of the
next $1,000. It would be available to anyone paying college
expenses parents, other relastudents
tives or
tives or
studentsif the taxpayer's income
did not exceed $25,000 a year.
Lesser tax credits would be
allowed for those with incomes
between $25,000 and $57,500.
There would be no credits for
those making over $57,500.
The tax credit plan was attached by the Senate as a rider
bill to reto a
store tax benefits for business
investment in equipment and
buildings.
The amended bill is expected
to win Senate approval later this
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week. It then would go to
conference committee for
reconciliation of differences.
It has been widely assumed
that members of the House Ways
and Means Committee will insist
that the college tax credit rider
be deleted.
But even if this is done, further
attempts could be made this year
to win its approval, either as a
separate bill or as a rider to some
other tax measure.

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Members of the Kentucky Babes display the
trophy
won this past weekend at the annual Pershing Rifles Regithey
mental Drill Meet at Columbus, Ohio. The UK Pershing Rifle
Civil War team also won first place in its division. The Kentucky Babes won the same title last time and one more win will
give them the trophy to keep.
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Law Journal Writer
Questions Liability

takes out the f; imily car and lias an accident.
Who is liable? A writer at the University says it is not neces- sarily the parent, as many believe.
He adds that in lieu of a both, before a license will be
judicial remedy, the Kentucky issued to the child. Our present
General Assembly may have to financial responsibility law is a
act if the motoring public is to step in the right direction, but
be protected from the loopholes it needs strengthening."
Another alternative suggested
that exist in the "family purby Harris would be the impose doctrine."
This conclusion is reached in plementation of a compulsory
an article entitled "The Child insurance program."
He says the General AsDriver Under the Kentucky
refusal to
Family Purpose Doctrine," in sembly's "persistent
the current issue of the Ken- supply the public with effective
from uncompensated
tucky Law Journal, published protection
injury on Kentucky highways is
the College of Law.
by
The author, WilliamR. Harris, a disgrace" to that institution
and to the state.
senior law student from Lexing"Another legislative possiton, traces the family purpose
bility is a bailor liability statute,
doctrine, under which the head
of the family is liable for the unrestricted by an age limit and
whether the owner of
negligent operation of the family operative
knew
car, and writes that it is firm- the vehicle consented to or
of the operation by the bailee,
ly entrenched in Kentucky law.
He says that despite its short- except in cases of flagrant disregard of limitations and stolen
comings, the doctrine will continue to be a vital link in the vehicles.
"Finally, the General Assemmotoring public's chain of debly should weigh the advantages
fense against negligent drivers.
He notes, however, that the loop- of an automobile 'compensation'
holes through which a parent system similar to the workmen's
can escape liability under the compensation system," he recommends.
doctrine are numerous.
Some of the loopholes enumerated by Harris include: a parent
will not be liable for his child's
negligence if the automobile is
not a family car; if the child was
an adult within the meaning of
the doctrine, or if the child drove
in violation of meaningful and
Dr. Robert H. Johnson, a
realistic prohibitions.
Harris suggests potential member of the Policy Planning
legislation that will provide the Council of the Department of
motoring public with effective State, was concerned Monday
remedies.
night with "The Social Sciences
"First, the Legislature might and Foreign Policy Planning."
According to Dr. Johnson the
require an effective showing of
financial responsibility by the toughest problem that researchparent, or by the child, or by ers have in the social sciences
is translating the new ways of
research into policy revelant
forms. "1 don't have the answer," he said, admitting that
They will take part in a panel discussion on it was a tough problem.
"The Relationships of University and Professional
In his conclusion Dr. JohnTheatre," at the opening session of the seminar. son felt that is was impossible
All sessions will be in Memorial Hall.
to resolve this dilemma of inteA program
of folk songs will be presented grating research with actual polFriday afternoon by Miss Ritchie.
icy planning or to measure its
"Historic Preservation: A National Movement," impact.
will be the theme of the seminar's second day.
Not happy with the mimi-muTwo alumni, James Cogar, '27, director of Shaker-towsupport that sociological
Inc., and Clay Lancaster, '38, curator of research receives from the govProspect Park, Brooklyn, will join Dr. Frederick
ernment, Dr. Johnson said this
L. Rath Jr., vice director. New York State Hisforces the defense department
torical Association, Cooperstown, New York, and to go into the field and this
Lee Nelson, chief. Historic Stnictures Branch.
isn't good no matter how qualNational Park Service, Washington, for a panel ified they are.
discussion.
We seem to believe, Dr. John- A

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Alumni Seminar This Weekend
A novelist, a noted folk singer, and a film
star are among participants in the 10th annual
alumni seminar, this weekend, which will focus
on "The Modern University: Patron of the Arts."
FestiThe event will climax the month-lonval of the Arts. Six of the eight guest speakers
are alumni who have received national recognition in the arts.
The speakers include Dr. Frank Davidson,
'30, senior professor of speech and drama at
City College, New York; Donald Calloway, '61,
Hollywood Calif., stage, television and motion
picture performer; Jean Ritchie, '46, New York,
traditional folk singer; and Elizabeth I lard wick,
'38, New York, novelist, essayist, and drama
critic.
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Calif. iolation
of a
ban has caused
the suspension of 23 student
leaders at the University of
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The Redlands students, including student body president
Don Stillman. w ill not be allowed
to return to school until May 16
under the action taken by Dean
of StudentsJamesD. Paisley with
the approval of university presi-deGeorge H. Armacost.
Suspension of the students
came after they had banded together as the "student Ad Hoc
Committee for an Open Speaker
Policy" to sponsor a debate on
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the Vietnam war between
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honor student David
Kramer and Berkeley activ ist
Aptheker, an admitted Community Party member.
Kramer was among those suspended for "open and deliberate
disregard of the university
speaker policy." The policy, set
by the school's Hoard of Trustees,
states that "it is not in the best
interests of the university and oi
the country to give Communists
a forum in which to speak."
University spokeswoman
Edna Steinman admitted that
the policy "is not and has not
been popular with students and
faculty." Mrs. Steinman said students had met with tnistees to
try and get the speaker ban removed "as far back as 1963 and
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1961."
She claimed, however, that
"no one has asked to change
it in the last year or two." Stu-

dent body president Stillman said
that the students "were told that
this is a closed issue" by university administrators, and so no
attempt had been made to meet
with the trustees before the
current protest.
Stillman said that, had the
students gone before the board,
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ROBERT JOHNSON
that as the state
and defense department conu
together there will be a cross
fertilization and integration t
research into our policy making.
This integration, Dr. Johnson
descrilx'd as a fallacy until the
political planner and the scholar
overcome
their detachment.
There has to be a devotion to
innovation, he said.
Dr. Johnson graduated from
Concordia College, Minnesota
and obtained his Ph.D. in government from Harvard Univerof
sity in 1910. The
one of the pried Rockefeller
Public service awards, Dr. Johnson is presently working on a
book for the Brookings
son stated,

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