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Tuesday, October 5, 1976

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an independent student newspaper

Student Senate denies
Honors College funding +

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

The Student Senate sent the
fund-seeking Honors Program home
empty-handed last night. The Senate
later voted, however, to give them
the program a wish of good luck in
its search for money.

The Senate, by a vote of 21-8, chose
not to appropriate $450 for the
Honors Program to engage in a film
program. The bill which provided
for the move was tabled at the last
Student Government (SG) meeting
on Sept. 20 in order for the SG
finance committee to study it fur-
ther.

Dr. Robert Evans, Honors Pro-
gram director, told the Student
Senate that the money, while need-
ed, was not critical to the existence
of the film program.

He said the Honors Program
would show the film series with or
without the financial support of the
Student Senate.

Some senators expressed opposi-
tion to the grant on the grounds that
it would set a “precedent” for the
granting of money to academic
programs, a practice which SG has
avoided in the past.

“I don’t know what a ‘precedent’

really is," Evans said. “Prece-
daits are knocked down all the
time.”

Nancy Daly, Social Professions
senator, said the granting of funds
would have opened up a “Pandora’s
box” in SG. If the Senate were to
begin granting funds to programs in
which student senators participated
in a student-teacher relationship,
she said, then teachers would con-
ceivably be able to “punish" sena-
tors who voted “wrong.”

The program is looked upon by the
university as an academic program,
according to Evans. He said, how-
ever, that until recent years, the
university considered the program a
service organization. The change in
status of the program, he said, was
made in part to allow for a more
stable funding program.

After defeating the move to grant
the program money, a resolution
was passed which gives the Honors
Program the support of SG in
finding money for the series else-
where. ,

Glenn Stith, senator-at-large and
sponsor of the bill, said the resolu-
tion was just “a bone." But he added
that “a bone is better than nothing
when you’re a dog."

In another action last night, the
Student Senate approved the ap-

Not just another report?

Freshman year study has impact

By KIM YELTON
Kernel Staff Writer

A time-honored method that
organizations use for problem-
solving is to form committees to do
studies and make reports on possible
solutions. Usually those reports go
no further than the first intellectual
stage and then meet an early death
from lack of interest or motivation.

A UK commission has written a
report that may be different; its
authors are sure it will defy this
predictable demise. It is the Joint
Vice Presidential Commission
Report on the Freshman Year.

About two years ago Dr. Robert
Zumwinkle, vice president of
student affairs, expressed a concern
over the lack of programs to
acquaint freshmen with the campus
and —once they were here ——to help
them survive their first year.

“I think one thing can happen in a
large university,“ Zumwinkle said
lt‘that time. “A group of students
like freshmen can be easily
forgotten. They have a problem with
newness to the campus. We need to
address ourselves to them."

Consequently, in 1974 he formed a
commission to focus on the
problems. He approached Dr. Lewis
Cochran, vice president of academic
affairs, “to work with people on the
academic side," he said. Together
they organized a committee of
concerned faculty and ad-
ministrative officials to look into the
problem.

That committee then formed task
groups to work on improving UK's
programs in four areas: pre-
admission contacts, advising,
orientation conferences —and once
students were on campus —helping
them to adjust to studies and their
new life on campus.

The first task group looked at the
kinds of information UK sent out to
prospective students to acquaint
them with the university. “We
wanted to improve on how the
university presents itself to
students," said Dr. John Stephen-
son, dean of undergraduate studies.

The fruits of their efforts is a new
information booklet that Stephenson

and others designed.

Another group examined past
summer advising conferences in
order to determine flaws. “Students
are frustrated” at the conferences,
Stephenson commented. “There is a
lot of advising and no talk about the
future or long-range planning."

The committee suggested ex-
tending the advising conferences to
two days “to discuss aspects of
campus life students will confront,
career opportunities, and what
university experiences will be like.
We want to take the emphasis off
short-ra nge goab of fixing schedules
and focus on a student’s future."

The third group looked at
academic programs —how effective
and interesting they were, and the
quality of the classes.

The fourth task group examined
life unconnected to academia —the
campus climate. They made several
suggestions for improving the en-
viron ment on campus, such as using
central locations for outdoor con-
certs and plays.

All four groups suggested ap-
pointing a director who would
continue to work with problems
freshmen confronted during the
year. Two directors have been
appointed —Dr. David Stockham,
assistant to the vice president in
Zumwinkle‘s office; and Dr. David
Chapman, assistant to the vice
president of academic affairs, in
Cochran's office. “These needs were
to havea single point of contact in an
office dealing with problems of
freshmen," Cochran said.

“It will take a long time to test the
feasibility of those programs,"
Steverson said. Both directors “will
be heavily involved in that."

Stevenson will also be working
with them.

“I think it (the report) will find its
way into some kind of action,
Stephenson said.

Several programs to help fresh-
men have already been started on
campus, ahead of the commission
directives, according to Stephenson.
The university now offers classes in
the residence hals to promote a
closer oneto-one learning situation

pointment of Robert Stuber as the
co-director of public relations for
SG.

The appointment took place after
a debate which was held in a session
closed to the public. Some observers
expressed doubt as to the constitu-
tionality of the closed session,
because of a section of the SG
constitution which states that all
meetings shall be “open to the
public.” One senator also doubted
that SG had officially called for an
executive session—which by law is
closed to the public—because an
actual vote was not taken to call for
such a Session.

In other moves, the Senate appoin-
ted Linsey Craig as State National
Liaison, Ronda Damron as Commis~
sioner for Lobbying and Mike Sims
as Urban County Liaison. Melinda
Dejarnette and Joy Eagle were
appointed co-directors of Student
Affairs.

Rainy daze?

Increasing cloudiness today
wih a 30 per cent chance of
showers or thundershowers this
afternoon, 60 per cent chance
tonight. High today in the mid-
70’s, low tonight in the upper 40's,
high tomorrow in the low 70‘s.

 

 

 

 

between students and their in-
structors.

Most d the changes will not be
immediately apparent. They will be
small and incremental, Stephenson
warned. “That is what I see coming
out of this. There are only a handful
of big ones, like the plans for the
summer advising conference. But to
my knowledge this has never been
done before here or anywhere else."

“I encountered a great deal of
positive support from faculty,"
Zumwinkle said. “We were en-
coura ged by many departments who
were concerned with this and are
trying to improve their instruction.”

University of Kentucky

 

 

Assertiveness

‘It might mean learning to be more gentle....’

By VIRGINIA WALTER
Kernel Reporter

ls asertiveness the same thing as
aggressiveness? Elmer Maggard
doesn't think so. Maggard is a
counselor at the UK Counseling and
Testing Center.

Discussing an assertiveness
training class which will be held at
the center this fall, Maggard said
“Assertivenss is more synonomous
to being expressive and forthright.
For some people, this might mean
learning to be more gentle; for
others, it involves learning to say
no.“

The assertiveness training class is
one of three which will be offered to
students, faculty and staff this fall.
The other classes are vocational and
interpersonal awareness.

The purpose of the groups, which
are experimental, is “to bring more
studaits in contact with the coun-
seling and testing center,“ Maggard
said.

“We are providing students with
topical dructuned groups, to show
them that there are a variety of

services that the counseling and
testing center can provide."

The goal of the assertiveness
training group is “to put people
more in charge of their own lives,
and make them feel less helpless in
arriving at their goals,“ Maggard
said. “We want to help students take
an active initiative in their lives."

Maggard explained that emphasis
will be divided among different
areas. Partial emphasis will be on
increasing awareness of goals and
feelings. and part will be on learning
to say “no“.

“The class will be directed toward
an entire approach to living."
Maggard said. “Some of the ac-
tivities of the class will include role
playing, awareness exercieses and
contracts to try a specific behavior
outside of class."

Maggard said it was important to
"give yourself permission to decide
on youractions. Women feel it is not
appropriate to be aggressive. For
many of them, the problem would be
learning to take initiative and be
competitive. without being
apologetic.

Thespian - theatrics

UK Theatre personalities promenade. preen and
prance during yesterday's opening day of the Outdoor
Theatre Festival. Anne Foster (right) is a sophomore
majoring in music and theatre arts. Rob Brown
(center photo) and John Shelton Jr. (center. bottom
plnto) are both junior theatre arts majors. The
festival continues today and tomorrow.

“For many men, it would
probably involve expressing their
emotions," he said.

The vocational group is more
related toacademics. However. the
Counseling and Testing Center is
taking a new approach to an old
subject.

”In the past. you had a test or a
counselor telling you what to do,"
said Ma ggard. “However. this group
is to help the student be self-
(lirccted. We want to increase the
student's awareness of his
vocational style. and provide in-
formation as a reference."

The group will share vocational
experiences, among other things.
This is in order to help the student
discover his vocational style.“

The third type of group offered is
the interpersonal awareness group.
The objective of this group will be
“to increase awareness of in-
terpersonal style."

Ma ggard explained that this group
will have a more general focus than
asertiveness tra'ming. It involves
becoming aware of types of boun-
daries between and within people.

Lexington, Kentucky

“Some people have rigid boundaries
in some areas. and liberal boun-
daries in others.“ he said.

The grouple be fairly structured
andlow key because, Maggard said.
“There has been a tendency to
identify awareness groups with
encounter groups. There is a lot of
pressure on the individual to self-
disclose. This has been clearly
demonstrated as destructive.“

Some of the activities of the
groups may be a first impressions
game. “ getting feedback from other
members of the groups on their first
impression of you," and some role

playing.

Each group meets for eight, two-
hour sessions, once each week.
Group will be limited to about eight
persons and overflow groups will be
set up if more students are in-
terested.

On Oct. 6, interviews will be held
all day for anyone interested in
participating in the groups. These
will be, Maggard said, “Brief in-
terviews to find out if the group will
fit the goals of the person.”

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Farewell,

ninety -fourth

Congress

The largely non-productive 94th Congress
adjourned last week from a session highlighted
by revelations about U.S. intelligence agencies
and Congressional sex scandals.

Perhaps more than any previous session, the
94th Congress was dominated by the actions of
its members. Wayne Hays, a Democrat from
Ohio who boosted himself into an influential role
after serving decades on the Hill, saw his power
vanish at the hands of his mistress-secretary
who couldn’t type.

Other influential legislators retired, leaving in
their wake a battle for Congressional leadership.
House majority leader Carl Albert (D-Okla.),
and Senate leaders Mike Mansfield (D-Mon.)
and Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) called it quits, ending
theirrespective eras on the Hill.

The Congressional session also revealed
stunning information on U.S. intelligence
agencies that would have floored members of the
first Congress some 200 years ago. Congressional
committees discovered that the CIA plotted to
murder foreign leaders, the FBI conducted
illegal break-ins into American homes and of-

fices and both agencies meddled with citizem’
mail.

The real story of the Congressional session,
however, was perhaps the most intense conflict
ever between the executive and legislative
branches of government. President Ford vetoed
59 bills and the Congress rebounded to override a
modern record 12 of them.

Ford wanted to counter a faltering economy by
slowing inflation while the Congress cried the
tragedy of unemployment. The end result was
WIN buttons and a losing economy. -

From beginning to end of the session, th
Corgress and the president fought on the issue of
tax reform. Ford supported massive tax cuts but
somehow tried to justify tax breaks for cor-
porations. The Congress approved $19 billion in
tax cuts but still figures to wind up $50.6 billion in
the hole.

The final tax reform package produced by the
Congress was five inches thick. But the Wall
Street Joumal, a premiere financial publication,
foudn the document so confusing that it made no
sense.

When the Congress did make sense, Ford'
didn’t. He became known as Mr. Veto and the
nation was deprived important legislation. Ford,
the minority leaders and big business lobbyists
killed a clean air bill which would have limited
new industrial sites and held automobile
manufacturers to pollution standards set in 1970.

Ford foolishly vetoed comprehensive national
strip mine and energy bills. Conflict between the
Praident and Congress also precluded im-
pa-tant legislation to upgrade social programs
and enact national health insurance and welfare
programs. And, the President and Congress
Acquiesced to overgorwn oil companies by not
ordering divestiture of their holdings.

The 94th Congress was often confusing—it
made an unprecedented attempt to open its
meetings to the public, yet pursued newsman
Daniel Schorr for publishing information in the
public interest.

American congresses have traditionally been
unpredictable- no two are genuinely similar. In
overview of the 94th Congress, we can take
pleasure in this quirk of American history.

 

 

Use it once system depletes natural resources

In an historical sense, the United
States is rightly seen as a vast
storehouse of natural resources. In
ta irly recent times, settlers from the
small crowded European nations
were flocking to the huge new
continent, which was mostly
wilderness.

Our rapid industrial development
was due in large part to our natural
resources, not only to be used by
industry. but producible in such
excess that raw materials were
shipped to Europe in exchange for
capital to further our development

 

DR. WAYNE DAVIS

 

perspective

 

 

still faster. Balance of payment
problems for the U.S. are a recent
phenomenon.

Going into World War II with 140
million people, the U.S. was still
nearly self-sufficient in the
resources needed by our people and
industries. Pushed by the German U
boats’ threat to our shipping, we
strove for complete self-sufficiency:

' Our farmers planted sugar beets,"

our chemists developed synthetic
rubber, and rationing and careful
conservation of tin and other scarce
minerals allowed us to survive on
our own for several years.

Following the war, we were so
delighted to get rid of scarcity and
rationing (materials were diverted
from the war effort into domestic
products) that we went on a con-
sumer spree the likes of which the
world has never known. We in-
troduced the concept of use it once
and throw it away —a system
designed to sustain continuous
economic growth by turning our
resources into junk at an ever-
accelerating rate.

And our new disposable society
brought on Toffler’s Future Shock
and a generation of lost souls who
are today's young people searching
for identity and a sense of ac-
complishment amid the chaos and
ever—spreading wasteland that is the
affluent society.

We consume much more than we
produce, becoming more dependent
upon the nest of the world for raw
materials. And in the rest of the
world, demand for minerab is
escalating even more rapidly than in
the U.S. Since the earth and its
resources are not growing any these
days, we are rapidly approaching a
crucial resource squeeze.

What does this mean to you and
me? Well, the U.S. Geological
Survey reports that “Many
resources are being depleted to the
point where it will be difficult for
somejtorg many, of our industries to
continue. The extent of our depen-
dence on mineral resources places
in jeopardy not merely affluence,
but world civilization” (United
States Mineral Resources, USGS
1973, 722 pp).

The National Academy of Science
releaseda report stating “Man faces
the prospect of a series of shocks of
varying severity as shortages occur
in one material after another...”,
and the Federation of American
Scientists says that the shortages
represent a lowering of the standard
of living in America.

Actually our loss in real income
has been rather mild, with the
average American losing slightly in
purchasing power in four of the past
six years. In 1973, when “For almost
every commodity world production
is falling behind ravenous demand,
and hectic bidding for supplies is
rocketing prices” (Time), things
looked bleak. We were temporarily
saved by the world wide recession
which slackened demand and

knocked the props from under the
bargaining position of the OPEC
nations and other suppliers of raw
materials. But the problem will
return.

There are several lessons to be
learned from the realities of
population, resources and industrial
demand in today’s world:

—The days of business as usual
are over. Earth does not have the
resources for industrial growth to
continue.

——Any real effort to recover from
the recession will lead to disaster,
for the industrial nations as costs of
materials soar beyond our ability to
buy enough to maintain rising
production.

—We are entering one of the most
fundamental social revolutions in
the history of mankind. From the
beginnings of the industrial
revolution until 1973, the industrial
nations were the wealthy elite, our
wealth based in large part upon our
exclusive education, science and
technology, whereas the nations
supplying the cheap abundant raw
materials were poor. Today anyone
can learn industrial technology,
whereas those nations with mineral
wealth will be the new elite.

—Our political parties and
leaders, including honest Jerry and
evangelical Jimmy, are no more
willing to face the realities of today’s
world than were our discredited
leaders of the recent past.

 

Dr. Wayne Davis is a UK zoology
professor.

Rose St. control

Don’t ask me why UK doesn’t
think of it. I mean, after all, the
parking lots have guards and UK
police ride around the campus all
day. Are these jobs more necessary
than, say, two of them directing
traffic —-cars and pedestrian —at
two busy intersections on Rose
Street? (“Busy” must be the un-
derstatement of the year.)

The value system is awry. People
getting hurt seems, at least to me,
'more‘ important than‘keeping cars
parked properly.

No, I didn’t say this is a per-
manent solution. No, I didn’t even
say it would work. But, replacing
traffic signals with humans seems to
have its advantages, like holding
traffic while masses of students can
walk across the street and
discouraging incessant jay-walking.

This idea would at least be a
control which could be quickly put
into effect while the officials bicker
about who is responsible.
”Pedestrian crossing,” “Traffic
police ahead" signs, along with
broadly painted crosswalks and stop
lines wouldn’t hurt.

The number of people crossing
Rose Street must exceed 15,000 per
day. Come on, UK, don‘t wait until
someone else gets hurt to do
anything. The odds are not waiting,
too.

'Ihanks to Jo Lux for making us
aware again of this tired problem.

A similar situation exists at

Letters

Avenue of Champions by the Student

Center.
David Boone

Agriculture senior

Open forum

The Young Socialist Alliance
invites everyone to attend the
Student Government presidential
candidates forum Thursday, Oct. 7,
at 7 pm. in the Student Center
Grand Ballroom. The forum will
give students a chance to examine
the platforms of all parties on the
ballot in Kentucky

Betsy Soares will be representing
the Socialist Workers campaign of
Peter Camejo and Willie Mae Reid.
This will give UK voters a chance to
see a program sensitive to the needs
of working people, students, women,
and black people, stacked up against
the big bminess parties of the
Democrats and Republicans. Unlike
the “Great Debates,” all views have
been solicited.

Betsy Soares is touring the mid-
west as National Youth Coordinator
fot the Socialist Workers Campaign
to build support for Camejo and
Reid. She helped form the statewide
coalition, Georgians for the ERA,
and as coordinator of the Illinois
Campus Task Force, was a major
builder of the national rally of 10,000
for the ERA in Springfield, III.

For a chance to talk to an activist
in the women’s and socialist
movement, come to room 309 next to
the Grand Ballroom after the
forum.

Bronson Rozier
YSA organizer

American Party, free enterprise candidates get this vote in ‘76

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With the approach of an election,
both Republicans and Democrats
veer opportunistically toward
conservatism. if only by straddling
many issues. The rest of the time,
they sidle toward a welfare state
socialism that a majority of voters
disapprove of and which com-
promises their collective credibility.
Tom Anderson and the American
Party ticket which he heads offers a
genuine alternative to this politics-
as-usual con game.

 

commentary

Consider some of the specific
issues. Carter supports the absurd
and dangerous Humphrey-Hawkins
bill. Ford gives implicit assent to
existing government interventions,
and “McCarthy proposes
redistributing the work week, with
wage and price controls, which
would quickly guarantee full em-
ployment.“ (To call McCarthy “an
econanist" after such a proposal is
to dov iolence to the mother tongue.)

Anderson favors curtailing or
abolishing all federal regulatory
agencies not specifically addressed
to the prevention of violence or
fraud. The free market can set
freight rates, milk prices, oil prices,
wage rates and interest rates more
fairly and more productively than
all the government bureaucrats
since the beginning of time. The only
result the other schemes could
guarantee would be a lower stan-
ard of living.

Ford. Carter and McCarthy all
favor the socalled Equal Rights
Amendment. Anderson opposes the
amendment on the grounds that it
would take from women some of the
privileges accorded them over the
centuries, such as exemption from
combat duty in the armed forces, as
well as more recent privileges such
as exemption from Soviet-style
heavy labor.

McCarthy supports amnesty,
Carter tries to weasel-word by
calling it a pardon, and Ford op-
poses both. Anderson goes beyond
them all by getting to the root of the
problem, calling for an amendment

which would prevent undeclared
wars and would equate a no-win
policy with treason, as defined in the
Constitution.

More important, however. than a
recital of all the particulars of dif-
ferences between Anderson and his
opponents, is a recognition of the
philosophical chasm which
separates Anderson's American
Party from the rest. Ford, Carter,
McCarthy and their political legions
are undeclared socialists. They
favor mandatory government.
controlled health insurance, ‘man-
datory govemment social security,
government control of the postal
service. government housing,
federal welfare, control of the
railroads. the airlines, the farmers,
the businessmen, the schools, and a
host of other aspects of society.

The American Party and all its
candidates know that free enterprise
can provide better health insurance
and medical care, better retirement
programs, better postal service,
better housing, more effective
welfare. better transportation
services, more efficient farming,

better education, etc. The American
Party and its candidates seek to
dismantle the bungling, inefficient,
costly, self~serving, self-
perpetuating, counter-productive
government bureaucracy whose
heavy hand is stifling the free en-
terprise system, eroding the per-
sonal freedoms of American
citizens, and levying intolerable
taxes upon productive middle class
citizens.

Ford and Carter talk of balancing
the budget by increasing efficiency
of government; only bumpkins in
orange shoes fall for that. Ford and
Carter make no mention of cuts —
the only known method of actually
balancing today's bloated budgets.
The American Party would start
with the immediate cessation of
foreign aid. It would phase out
subsidies to farmers, businessmen
and art commissions; open the
postal service to competitive free
enterprise; divest the government of
busineses such as TVA and Am-
trak.

Tom Anderson and the American
Party think those who receive the

benefits of any program should be
those who pay the cost; taxing un-
willing citizens to provide services
they do not want enough to pay for is
tyranny, even if practiced by a
majority. Tom Anderson and the
American Party are the only ones
who think the national debt should
be retired, not repudiated by the
device of galloping inflation.

The American Party alone is
concerned about this nation's being
strong enough to forestall either
military conquest or internal sub-
version by aggressive Communist
totalitarianism. The price is
military strength second to none and
a foreign policy which actively
promotes freedom throughout the
world, on both sides of the Iron and
Bamboo Curtains.

The American Party scorns both
Ford’s snub of Solzhenitsyn and
Mondale’s cold-shouldering of the
Russian dissidents during his visit to
Moscow. Free men of high principle
do not ingratiate themselves with or
fawn upon tyrants — whether Hitler,
Brezhnev, or Mac.

The differences between Tom

Anderson and the American Party
on the one hand and the two major
parties (with Gene McCarthy
thrown in for good measure) on the
other, ca n be summed up by pointing
to their platforms. The Democratic
platform —-Jimmy Carter’s plat-
form — is a leap into the Dark Ages,
and Jimmy Carter could be ex-
pected to work for its im-
plementation. It contains every
quack remedy known to economics
and sociology.

The Republican platform —
Ronald Reagan’s platform —though
much superior, is a meaningless
document. Veep Rockefeller
himself says “I don’t think the
platform...reflects the President’s
basic philosophy or belief...and it
doesn't reflect mine.” A vote for
Carter, McCarthy or Ford will get
you the Democrats’ program, just as
Nixm and Ford gave us Humphrey’s
and McGovern’s. The only alter-
native is Tom Anderson and the
American Party.

 

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Butz

Agriculture secretary resigns

over flack from racist remark

(AP) — Prsident Ford to-
day accepted the resignation
of Secretary of Agriculture
Earl Butz, who said he had
made the decision “in the
best interests of the President
and his election campaign.”

Meeting reporters in the
White House press room after

conferring with Ford, Butz
gave out copies of a letter of
resignation in which he offer-
ed Ford his apology for a
racial slur against blacks that
had become an overnight
campaign issue, and said,
“This is the price I pay for a
gross indiscretion in a private

 

The infamous quote...

Your attention is called to the fact that the Butz com-
ments may be considered highly objectionable to many

readers.

Following are the Butz remarks as quoted in Rolling

Stone and New Times:

“I’ll tell you why you can’t attract coloreds. Because
coloredsonly want three things: You know what they want?
I’ll tell you what they want. It’s three things: first, a tight
pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.

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UAW strike settlement expected soon

DETROIT [AP] —
Announcement of a tentative
contract settlement was
expected shortly as
bargainers for the striking
United Auto Workers and
Ford Motor Co. met on
Monday. the 20th day of the
nationwide walkout.

Sources close to the talks
told reporters that the final
unresolved economic
provisions of the pact were
put into place during lengthy
weekend bargaining. All that
remained, the sources said,

Ford signs

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Ford signed a wide-
ranging tax revision bill yes-
terday that eases the tax
burden for individuals and
businesses across America.

Ford signed the measure at
a White House ceremony,
commenting that the legisla-
tion is “sound, positive and
long overdue.”

Most of the tax changes will
take effect this year or next,
but some will not be phased in
until later. Five years from
now the bill will produce a net
federal revenue increase of
about $984 million over the
present law.

Here are the major provi-
sions of the new law:

INDIVIDUAL CREDIT —
Each taxpayer will be allow-
ed to subtract $35 for himself
and for each dependent from
the total tax he owes. Or, he
can subtract 2 per cent of his
first $9,000 of taxable income,
up to a maximum credit of

  

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was tying together loose ends
on non-economic matters.

Negotiators for the UAW
and the nation’s No. 2
automaker resumed talks
Monday after meeting until
past midnight Sunday.
Spokesmen for the two sides
would only say that meetings
were going on.

If a settlement were an-
nounced Monday, as several
sources saidappeared almost
certain, it would still take at
least . another .week before

new comprehensive tax bill

$180. This will continue
through Dec. 31, 1977.

STANDARD DEDUCTION
— Used by people who do not
itemize their deductions, this
is made permanent at exist-
ing rates, which were raised
last year to a minimum of
$1,700 for single persons and
$2,100 for joint returns and a
maximum of 16 per cent of
taxable income, up to $2,400
for single persons and $2,800
for joint returns.

CHILD CARE — A new
deduction for child-care ex-
penses is introduced under
which up to $400-a-year can
be subtracted from taxes
owed for expenses of caring
for one child, up to $800 for
two or more.

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