European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1958 the stars and stripes Here is How the armed forces pay increase works by Bubett staff writer Germany that whopping big pay raise con gave the military bears its first fruits and thousands of servicemen Are looking Forward to the pleasures of picking up a Fetter pay Check dont spend it before you on account of some of Yafo wont get and for a lot of the increase is going to be Slimmer than figures by and the average serv iceman is going to got a pay but and this is a big there Are some extra bites coming out this and its just As Well to be prepared for them and not be disappointed when that envelope turns out to be a Little lighter than you for theres the social Security of you pay it but dont forget that when your base pay roes up so does social figure it out for its 2i per cent of your base it will Only amount to a few cents More a but it will help make your take Home pay ions than you another item this is a big one is the Federal withholding or income when your pay floes so dues the and the higher your pay die higher is the amount taken out of Vojir Tea pay the number of withholding exemptions less 7 8 9 amount of tax to be withheld shall be pay Jojo 0 j 8 04 72 00 72 70 i i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 60 02 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i i j i i j 1 f c i j i f 1 r c i i t s r i c r fo4 Tot 100 112 110 0 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 m 20 124 128 120 132 130 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 of is 140 162 160 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 on 35 Tea 160 172 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 104 tit 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 air 204 2o8 2os 212 210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 220 232 226 232 236 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 240 280 204 286 264 272 3680 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53 55 56 200 200 3o4 3o4 312 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 330 344 336 344 362 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 300 370 304 376 384 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 420 440 400 44o 46o 460 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i 07 020 640 600 640 66o 68o 0 0 040 00o 720 68o 720 760 to 80 w 84 85 b 040 000 02o 000 880 620 960 percent of the excess Over pay on to percentage for take a Serviceman base pay has lets a maybe the new pay scale him a take a look the withholding tax table on this and do some assuming he himself As the t Only he has been paying a now he is to Lay out a jump in his taxes of a other a Little More i Purint on the sann1 pay rate Oil rat to be our who has been to jetting a month has been pay ing a month for social secur Ity tax per cent of his and monthly in income for a of which taken from his has left him with a net pay of i How does he fare under the new scale of to which his raise of i a month has projected Himi we have the per j which becomes for social be and then we add Tho his new and find we have to deduct a total of this gives him a net pay of his former net before i raise of was so Actu instead of fretting a month he finds his pay envelope Only theres something this pay for the month of and in nil regular army warrant was and enlisted men have their annual contribution of taken out of their for the soldiers Home that another the regular army service Are going to find missing from their Many old time army officers j and pm wont get any pay raise at All under the new be cause the new pay schedules taper off rho old system whereby a Man or officer received periodic pay in two or four under the new after an average Sirmin Grade without pro pay boosts figuring out the new pay Scales is a complicated procedure because it involve years in length of skills and extra responsibility but any Man who knows what his new rate of pay is going to can figure out from the accompanying withholding table How much More he is going to have withheld from his for income then add to this the social Security tax of 2i per cent based on your base and you can figure More closely How much of your raise is going to get into your pay m i 1 i t n r y officials admit that Many men Are going to be disappointed when they receive their pay and find the increase is smaller than they had How the new pay it was pointed Are intended to make in the armed forces More attractive As a career Over ton period of As a mans seniority piles up and his skills Advance him to higher his pay is in creased in the career Man will find an in creasing Reward in his pay Enas the years go of to higher taxes for every pay increase something that a to every whatever his Job or Decker sees troops in Korea for Lon time by Jirma Hartt american Seoul Gen George commanding the 8th army and All United nations forces in said americans May expect to keep troops on the truce line Here for possibly As Long As a it he entirely upon Elf political and military end result is the he c hanged the requirements for ground at present the 7th div and the 1st Cav div located on the traditional Northern approaches to the capital of the missile is just another Way of putting Power up a target the at we must took Forward to being Here a Decker said the Advent of atomic weapons and missiles has not adding in not sure that they the North korean and chinese communist forces have speculation Decker speculated the russians might turn such new weapons of mass destruction Over to the North koreans and chinese if it were an fallout War the russians in Case of renewed hostilities on a local scale in he indicated doubts the russians would part with their secrets and i technology to the Oriental Satel american destroyer of 12tn de Stroyer donated 20 pints of sailors it Lood to Ai kill Germany Jupi Twenty Crew members of the an 1 blood for underprivileged residents j of this North German port City in need of medical the blood was taken at Kiel University medical Institute under supervision of German physicians and the davis1 doctor la William the american destroyer is on an official visit to Headquarters of the West German i medical care program Cost million so far Washington special according to a department of de sense report on the dependents medical care disburse ments to contractors paying physicians totalled covering claims for care from civil Ian sources Senci the plan began Dee through last persons eligible for care under terms of the Law Are dependent spouses and children of service members of the air Marine coast coast and geodetic and the Public health despite he our plans visualize the possibility atomic weapons might be used even in a strictly Peninsular Brush and said his 8th army is ready to Al fit an atomic War if forced into double troubles at base in England special for a Elmo Tow postal at wether fiem air base  believe it when they found it they Nook their Heads in dismay and Howd for the it happens that for the Pant two yearn the sch bomber Wing Haa bad 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