Governor Quinn asked the Territorial Legislature today to adopt a record-smashing, $191.5 million budget for the next two years — and cut taxes at the same time.

The Governor’s budget calls for $21.7 million worth of expanded services, new programs and salary raises for Territorial employes — coupled with a $5.2 million tax cut.

The massive new budget defies comparison with predecessors in a seven-year period of deficit financing.

It is $40 million higher than ex-Governor Samuel W. King’s 1957 budget. It is $27.5 million more than the Territory is spending during the current biennium.

It would add nearly 1,000 new employes to the Territorial payroll, about 800 of them being teachers in the public schools and at the University of Hawaii.

By far the biggest single item is education, for which the Governor allocated $75.6 million — 39.5 per cent of the total budget — exclusive of a recommended pay raise for teachers.

He called attention to "major deficiencies" in Hawaii’s public school system, and asked $63.8 million for the Department of Public Instruction alone — including $2 million more for supplies, equipment and books that the D.P.I. itself requested.

In proposing tax reductions, the Governor departed radically from his own Republican Party platform, which calls for elimination of the sales tax on basic foods, hiking of personal net income tax exemptions and deduction of Federal income taxes.