L.T. BUICK, FISHER. MONDAY JUNE 21 1 1962 GOOD IVElfIMl EVERYBODY: President Johnson today signed into law -- that lour-Point - Seven-Billi . on-Dollar cut ln excise taxes. Whlch means lower prices on a wide range of consumer goods -- effective tonight at midnight. In signing the tax cut -- the President added that he will ltudy the effect or lower levies on autoaoblle sales. Vlth a vlew toward the posslbllity -- or a further general tax cut. The President gave no speclflcs. Except to say that he hoped -- ·· to provide further tax relief to those in our nation who need it most -- those taxpayers wno now live in the shadow ot' poverty." UNl'l'BD NATIONS In New York -- Britain today pledged ten million dollars in voluntary contributions -- to the United 1at1on1. The Br1ti1h pledge -- said to be the start ot a u.1. triple pl•~ ~ d at solving the financial deadlock -- that hae gripped the world body tor almost a year. we•re told that step~ calla tor the United stat11 -- to relax 1te past etand ln the U.lf. The U.S. contention that Rueeia, Prance and other nation■ -- muat pay their peace-keeping debts -- or 1011 their vote. Step three -- 1t 1t - all c0111s otr -- eald to be voluntary contribution■ by thl United statee and the Soviet Union) ..ilf't;ching thoee ot Britain and others -- to wipe out the u.x.•e existing Bundred-Nlllion- Dollar deficit. CCIIJO Another tale or terror -- reported today from the Congo. Rebel forces said to have ela1n all police -- in tbl village or Nioki -- about t•o hundred m1lee northia1t ot x.opoldville • Thirty European, -- •n, •011tn and children -- eaid to have been lett unprotected by the attac~_)ffian laet heard h'Oll .--,._ wre holed up in a tactory -- under rebel 1iege. Their rate -- u · yet unlmOlffl. Vm' IAJI Co•unlst North Viet Nam today Joined Red China ln rejecting out-or-hand -- that proposed British Coamnonwealth peace ■laaion. Radio Hanoi calling the Connonwealth peace 1110ve -- "an lntrque e approved by Washington. " IS Aimed at carry1ng out -- "a · peaceful negotiation swindle." Meanwhile, ground fighting ln the south -- centered today around that big air atrlp at Da wans. U.S. Mrlnea battllng Cotmmlat guerrillas -- abo11t tea, allea weet ot Da lang. While Soath Vletna•ae Rangers battled a second torce -- abo11t ten ■ilea to the e011th. I a AJDD&, Rioting Algerians today battled police tor the second straight day -- in downtown Algiers. Chanting 1t\ldent1 and veiled Mo1lem •0111n -- Joining 1n a torty-tive-■lnute prot11t. Against the ouster -- or deposed Prteident Ahald Ben a11a. 'l'b8 rioters d11per1ed -- only llhen police began tiring over the 1r bead■ • Colonel Bouarl Bouaedienne -- the ne• Alp:1an '-aaid to be atrongaan -~•intainlng 1trong police patrol■ tonlpt -- to guard agaln■t~ turthlr outbreak ot violence. Bven 10 -- tbl riot, have a1read1 dealt a death blOII -- to planl tor that Atro-blan 1U1111it ••ting. A1na111 1et tor next - k -- I in ll.gltr1. A• tor Ben Billa -- bl 1 l •• charged bJ tbl ne• ~ rest• -- •1th high trea1on) . . h11 •hlr1about1 l 1 n• • mystery. Another violent demonstration today tn Seoul -- ~~ - ap1n■t"""propoeed fr 1endehlp treaty bet•en South Jtorea and Japan. S0111 eeven thoueand rock-throwing etudente -- raging tbrough downtom Seoul. Before they •re brought under control bJ riot police -- ueing tear gae llnd blllJ clube. About e ix hundred 1twlt1nt1 -- eald to have been united during the de■onetratlon. 11 a reeult -- eleven ooll•P• and un1ver11t1e1 1n seoull -- 1-dlatelJ IUlplnded all oluNI. Olten■ lbly tor -- "•--•r vacatlone." 1e"rthele11, ano,111, •••lve student rally 11 11et tor t011orr011 -- lfflln the tr1endlb1p pact it ottic tally to t,e e ignld. 'l'he rain-swollen Arkansas River -- today sw,pt on through 11nal•Y, Kansas ; caus 1ng w 1despread da•ge -- but no losa or llte . . ' 11n11e1 tonight a ghoat town. All of lts twent1-f'lve hundred realdenta -- evacuated to higher grqiund. Dolllletream -- at Great South Be1nd and at Lamed, l&Uu -- IIIOUaer twenty-tlve hundred realdent;a torced to tlee their hoae• liodaJ -- 1n the race or the raglag t 1 orrent. farther an -- t'arillara ...__ reverlshly to harveat their ~lh9•t cropa -- before the n.- are s ~ by •ter. Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown today announced hie compl• withdrawal -- from any future duty 1n connection with tbl caee ot Jack Ruby. lo reaeon given -- for thl dec111on. But Judp Bl'Olffl hi.I been under 1ncreae1ng cr1t1c11■ ot late -- blcaua• Ill 1 1 w1t1ng a book about the Ruby CUI. For llhich hi bu alre reoel"d an advance -- or five tbouaand dollar■• Ruby 1 1 next court appearance -- nt tor ■GIii tllll 1n .iui,. Vbln a dlcl1lon will be ■ade -- on lll'llthlr or not hi 1boul.4 be granted a 1anlty trial. That dec111on nae appanntlJ •111 tall -- to Judll LOu11 Bolland or llontap, ten,. Ibo ■at 1n briefly tor Judge Brown -- at a prellllliarJ blaring lul ■ontb. The House today approved a bill -- that would alee 111111ination or the President a federal crille -- pun11hable bJ c11atb. Thi bill -- recommended by the warren c0111111lon. 1110 to cover the vice preaident -- or t : he next tederal ot~lal ln 11111 tor tbl pre11dency. It goes now -- to the senate. BARUCH Funeral arrangements were completed today in Mew York -- tor t1nanc1er-ph1lanthropiet Bernard Baruc~/or 110re than thirty yeare -- - . adviser to President~ .,Jl,re recently renowned -- ae a park bench philo1opher. Bernard Baruch -- 1 I 1f •ts••••••~ -- at the age ot ninety-tour. bong the many tributes to hie meaory -- that ot tor•r Pr•■ ldent B11enh0111r perhape beet eume it up. "He ••"-- Niel Ik9 -- "a great triend or ■1ne -- and hie death will be a bll 1011 to the nation." In Moscow, the Young Co11111unist League charged today -- that Russian artists ~e choking on SMOO. Not the Los Ang~les klnd 0 ; sq -- but rather a R11Sslan artists • society; with initials that stand ror the Russian equivalent of -- Boldness, T'Aought, Image and Depth. The new society ls said to be fed up -- with contlllll)oraey Rua1lan clllture. "National art is dead", saya SNOO. It has blOolll nothing but a cheap i■itatlon. .. So SNOO has adopted aa lt ldol1 -- Spanish painter Pablo Picasso -- Awstrian writer Pranz latka -- and Itallan IIC>Vie producer Frederico l'elllni. Bllt according to the Party line -- SIIIO ls merely a socletJ or aecond-rate artists. The tJPlcal SNOO sculptor -- !"or •Dllll• •· aald to be the kind of aan who speclallzes in doing busts ot the wives of prominent officlala. 'l'here are lots of these now -- 1a,1 Noscow -- but the !'aces or the w0119n all come out the same - Dick -- a cross between the martyred Russian Saint Barbara -- and Prench rtlm star Brigitte Hardot. SOI - le you know -- today 1a the first day or a . . . r. 1110 -- the longest day of the year. So long, 1n tact, that in ,at.rbankl, llaeka -- the sun won•t set until t011orr011 night./ To co.1110rate the occasion -- the Ala1ka Ooldpann1r1 will •et the University ot Southern Calitornia 1n a ba1eball . . - } ,Mt to etart precisely at ■idnlght -- in the land ot thl ■ldnlgbt eun. And to be played to 1te concluelon -- without thl 1111 ot art1t1c1al light. f t U ' ~ a a k a -- on . _ one daJ st U • -- c-~ " t iibln a aother ""1!' te 1f her youngetere to -- c0111 hOIII be ore - . - .. it pt1 dark."