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CANANDAIGUA, N. ?. MESSENGER (ROCHESTER MARKET AREA) D. 6.000 FEB 1 1 1976 Lower Tax Urged On Higher Income I By PHILIP H. DIXON ALBANY, N Y. (UP1) Style Commerce Commisaioasr John S. Dyeon ioy> the upper breckeu of the otele'i income Ux should be lowered e bit to moke the otete more ettrective to top-levet bueineoe leeder*. "I believe In a progreeeive income tax," Dyaon told a Senate Labor Committee hear ing Tuaaday. "I don't think It ihould be more progreaaive than the loderal tax." Dyaon alao told the commit tee he would wage an ali-oi* battle to atom the flow ol induatry from the elate and attacked the loderal govern ment for short-changing New York financially. Dyaon said that whan a corporation, prompted by high income taxae on top execiglvoe, leavee the state, 'the or 10 people we think we're taxing \wlll move anyway." At the name time, he aald, the yhumeroua lower-echelon office personnel, imable to move, will be thrown ott of work. He aald he had discussed the matter with Qov. Hugh L. Carey. A spokesman tor Carey said the Democratic governor has taken no position on the Dyson look over In December t as heed of the Commerce I Department, which had been without a permanent commis sioner for 11 months. He said he has ordered his staff within the next two months to "visit each one" of tho 2,>00 firms in the state with more than 100 persons, to offer assistance with information or red-tape cutting. TheSi-year-old commissioner asked the legtelators for aid in restoring deputy commissioner SBillons eliminated by the itsleture. He said his was the "only department that the legislature want through" lest year Itemby-item,trimmingpositions and cutting salaries. "I think in a sense they merited It," Dyson said. , I don't think in recent memory they've been nearly a* aggres sive aa they ought to have *Tfe said that in the past there has "been a tendency to view the Commerce Department aa a place to put politicians. It has darnagedthe credibility of the <*T2wever, Dyaon said, "1 Juat need the flexibility" to create more deputy com- miaaionerships and tocrjjae their salaries to attract Aral* . rote" aides. I He said that In selecting ` aasistanti. "1 will insist that I they be knowledgeable, compe tent people ol the first orderAithotHh they Will be political second, they will be flret-cate first." Dyson, formerly agriculture commissioner, alio called for i coordination byj New York a ; congressional delegation to obtain a larger share of federal spending for the state. "New York la severely short changed in the oiXlay of federal ftmda, particularly in functional areas related either directly or indirectly to economic oeveiop- , ment." Dyson said. , He said that while the state contributes U per cent of federal tax receipts, U gets back only about i.J per cent of federal outlays. Dyson praised the report by an Environmental Conservation Department hearing officer Monday which said the General Electric Co. has violated state laws by discharging chemical PCB'sinto the Hudson River. "I think it was a vary fair report," aald the commissioner, who had earlier urged that En Con compromise rather than attempt to force GE to end all ppB emission from its plants at Fort Edward and Hudson Falla. Dyson praised En Con Com missioner Ogdon R. Reid for agreeing to work with GE officials to attempt to And a voltmtary solution to the emissions. Dyson urged such a course to prevent the company from possibly dosing the plants. _ HONS 033058