European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 09, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Social Security the stars and stripes Poge 7 Carter wants to raise the payroll tax and use general funds of boost system Washington a the Carter administration seeking to bolster the financially troubled social Security system will urge higher social Security taxes and an unprecedented use of general tax funds administration sources said saturday. Sources said the administration will recommend major changes in the social Secu Rity taxing system including making employers pay taxes on the full amount of each worker s wages rather than Only on an initial portion. Raising by the mid-1980s, the level of that initial portion on which workers pay social Security taxes beyond the automatic increases already scheduled. Diverting general income tax reve Nues to pay social Security benefits when the National unemployment rate exceeds 6 percent. Accelerating scheduled automatic in Dino lunges at his Trainer Chuck Pankow left and his assistant who were trying to unchain the 4,500-Pound no trumped up charge pachyderm in his new surroundings at the Brookfield zoo in Chicago. Dino recently arrived on i Long truck ride from Dover del., and upset by his new environment was kept from reaching themen by chains. A photo no fraces after hits report says mafia is now publicity conscious Sacramento up the mafia of the 1970s is sensitive about its Public image and carefully weighs beforehand the Public relations aspects of a contract murder a confidential report by California atty. Gen. Evelle younger says. For example such grotesque symbolism As leaving a dead Canary stuffed in the Mouth of a slain mafia informer is passe the report  the document the stale s department of Justice asserts that hit killings by organized crime Are necessary for internal Security and discipline bul there exists a dropped bottle causes Pompeii bomb scare Naples up the resounding crash of a dropped soft drink bottle created panic among 3,000 italians americans and australians attending a prayer Vigil at a Pompeii  least 10 persons most of them women were injured in the Rush for the exit As people jumped from the Pew screaming bomb  Church officials said the italians and foreigners were taking part in a 12-hour prayer Vigil at sacred Mary of the Rosary Basilica when an elderly Man dropped a bottle of coca cola he had brought along in Case of thirst. Fair amount of Public relations associated with  stamped  the 126-Page report was compiled by the department s organized crime and criminal Intelli gence Bureau which examined mob activities in 1976 and Early 1977. The report was obtained by up from a legislative source. Mob figures from All Over the country Are coming to California in increasing numbers because of the absence of organized crime controls and because of Good weather and recreational opportunities and the state s vast wealth the report said. It said gangsters from new York. Arizona. Michigan. Pennsylvania Ohio and Ixia Wisiana have either regularly visited or moved to California in the last year. Executioners no longer blast away in a shopping Center parking lot and leave a gory Corpse the document says mafia Vic Tims often simply vanish without a Trace no visible gunplay blood body violence and most importantly no Public  the disappearance of an underworld figure is always More punishment for the family and friends than an open murder and since there is no body the victim cannot be declared legally dead for seven years the report said in Many cases when the victim disappears his family does not even report him missing. However when they do. A miss ing person does not rate the same police at Tention As  but the report said that when the mafia or other crime organizations want to Dis courage the activities of informers and rebel they stage a murder so it will receive maximum publicity. Creases in the social Security tax rate. The Carter administration is expected to give its views monday on How to bail out the social secant Trust funds that other Wise will go broke about the time Carter s term  Trust funds presently financed by that deduction marked "f1ca" on nearly every wage earner s paycheck Are the sole source of Money paid out monthly to Many of the nation s retirees widows and disabled pensioners. If these Trust funds give out the Benefit checks Stop. Of course no one seriously believes the administration or Congress would let that happen but Congress twice rejected former president Gerald r. Ford s propos Al to Shore up the endangered funds by in creasing the fica tax rates. Fica stands for Federal insurance contributions act the original social Security Law administration sources said the Transfer of general Revenue funds to the social Security system would come into play Only when unemployment is Over 6 per cent. Such a Transfer was said to represent social Security taxes lost because of thigh joblessness. For example when the jobless rate is 7 per cent As it is currently the Transfer of Money would involve the difference be tween the amount of fica taxes that would have been generated if unemployment was 6 per cent and the revenues produced when joblessness is 7 per cent. The social Security payroll tax rate is currently 11.7 per cent half of it paid by the worker and the other half the employer. The amount of a worker s annual earn Ings subject to this payroll lax reached $16. 500 this year under an automatic adjustment mechanism in the Law. Thus for a worker at the upper limit of this $16,500 so called wage base it Means a tax payment of s%5 25 by the worker while the Bass pays a mulching $905 25 sources said the administration will pro pose that Congress make employers pay social Security taxes on the full amount of each worker s wages rather than Joist the first la .500. With the existing ceiling being removed in stages Over a three Yea period while the wage base level automatically is set to Rise in the coming years reaching an expected $17,700 in 1978 when the rate is due to go to 12.1 per cent the sources said the administration will Call for four More base hikes of $600 each by 1985 on top the already scheduled annual  sources said the administration also will recommend other changes involving he rates including bringing a further future scheduled increase into effect sooner and diverting part of the Money raised by next year s rate hike from medi care to the retirement and disability pro Gram. Other changes involve correcting a major mistake in the Law involving an in Fla lion adjustment mechanism. This correction is called  boy in . Says he s ugandan stowaway new York a a boy found wan Dering the streets of Manhattan startled authorities saturday by claiming he was a 14-year-old orphan from Uganda who had stowed away on a ship. Police were sceptical Al first when the boy who spoke very Little English told them his parents had been killed by the British and he had arrived in new York on a ship thursday Uganda a former British protectorate received its Independence in 1962 before the boy was born and the african nation is almost 1,000 Miles from the nearest Ocean. However after extensive interrogation and contacts with ugandans Here in an Effort to determine what language he spoke police were convinced he was from Uganda. They later turned him Over to a . Immigration official. The boy came to the attention of authorities thursday when he turned up at Belle vue Hospital and was sent to a children s shelter. Police said he left the shelter the next Day and was brought into a station House Friday night by a Man who found him walking along 8th Avenue. The boy was crying when he was found. The boy also indicated he was consider ing suicide saying me kill me authorities declared