European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 26, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 5 f refund on cons is Windfall Phoenix. Ariz. A the govern ment is offering a Nickel for each Beer and soda can returned to officials at the Puma Marine carps air station it. Hua Chuca and eight other military installations around the country. Each can sold on the bases involved in the program to Recycle aluminium ordered by the defense department and the environmental Protection Agency is marked with a sticker. Government Sale five cent Deposit the reaction of the customers has Bee anything but negative said capt. Jim Hilchie. In charge of the recycling pro Gram that began at the Yuma base May 13. We were used to it when we were kids and not too terribly Long ago. This was a Way of s too soon to Tell. Ritchie said but he estimated 90 per cent of All beverage cans sold on the base Are being returned. The enthusiasm apparently is not shared by distributors. So far we be experienced a loss of can sales i d say a so per cent loss said Jack Fritz jr., owner of Fritz bottling Yuma which distributes soft drinks to the base. We saw a lot of people going into town to buy their George Akcam. Who runs the recycling project at it. Hua Chuca said most of the comments have been Why Haven t you done this before " but he acknowledged some negative comments like hell. I la go downtown. I Don t want to fool with it " a six pack costs .10 cents More on base than in town but the Deposit is reimbursed with return of the cans. Gene Carrillo Beer sales manager for Arizona distributing co. Of Tucson said no Money figures were available yet for the it. Hua Chuca program begun May 23. But he said he has Felt the Impact. It s caused a hell of a lot of work for us he said. The department of defense says we have to do it As a test program Sowe have to go along with Ahearn said distributors have the responsibility for collecting the cans and paying the deposits. Carillo said it s too much trouble to count each can but drive two of the first women Ever assigned to sea duty aboard an armed l a. Military vessel Are shown a Model in washing sea duty soon ton of the Type of coast guard Cutter on which they will serve. Pointing out some of the features of the ship to ens. Beverly Kelley left and po.3c Dehra Wilson is Secretary of transportation Broek Adams. Up photo Genera expenses of the government Carter s $6,000 goes into fund Washington a president car Ter s 6.000 gift to the government will go into the same Treasury funds that were built up by patriotic contributors and members of Congress who have refused pay Carter did not owe the $6.000 to the internal Revenue sen ice the Secre tary of the Treasury must accept the Money to meet the general expenses of the a Treasury spokesman said last year $751.500 was contributed to the government in this Way. A separate fund of $210.600 came from people who earmarked their contribution to reduce the National debt. Some $66.000 went to a conscience fund from people who Felt they owed the government Money but remained anon Treasury department has said that while it is pleased to receive donations from Public spirited individuals desiring to rive an extra measure we make it Clear that we in no Way encourage the Treasury contends that an individual fulfils his or her financial obligation by Humph in with the tax Laws and it does nut want to make people think they Are obligated to contribute. In past administrations Many taxpayers have returned tax rebates to the gov Ermont As gifts Simc members of Congress said this year they would contrib Ute their pay raises to the Treasury but the Treasury had no figures on How Many had donated their to reuses one of the most noteworthy contrib Lions was $1 million willed to the govern ment in 1973 by a Man who said he wanted to show my appreciation to my Kobert Hunter Mclntosh of Winter Park Fla. Had amassed Mast of the Money in securities hut spent the last few years of his life in a Niar Dinah a f. Treasury regulations would Perm Tcarter to set the Money aside to reduce the National debt but otherwise the Money goes to the general fund with no strings attached. Cars will spot Check sacks of them to Sec that they contain the required 240 each. Ritchie said tie program takes 10 to 25 per cent of his time and two other captains at the Yuma base Are involved Aswell. Commissary and Post Exchange employees at both installations handle the de posits at the Cash Register and sort and store the cans he military will gel the Windfall profit the difference Between the deposits charged and the amount paid out for re Fritz said. But the consumer ends up paying the extra in Yuma. A private firm recycles the aluminium cans Ritchie said at some installations. The recycling is done on the base he said. Other installations participating in the year Long program Are it. Knox. By it. Hilcy. Kan naval support activity. Phil Adelphia Chidboy Island naval air Sta Tion. Wash China Lake naval weapons Center. Calif Laughlin air Force base. Tex. Malmstrom air Force base. Mont., and Patrick air Force base. Fla. Experts differ on funding social Security Washington i Dpi i three experts Friday gave Congress three different proposals for making the social Security system financially sound All agreed i hat the system is paying out More than it takes in. That its i rust funds will be depleted around 1081 and that con Gress must raise additional Money o avoid cutting benefits. All also agreed there Are three Basic ways to do this by raising the wage base on which social Security taxes Are collected from employers and employees by raising the social Security lax Rale or busing Money from general revenues. In testimony to a Senate finance sub committee each stressed a different one of those. William c. Husino. Harvard professor Anil head of a panel of consultants commissioned by the Senate finance c Ommittee and House ways aril Means committee. And his pane Lavord a Parka a including raising the earnings base to s2u.uoo in iu7tt. Instead of the il7,7uo exp civil under pre sent Law lie said thai using general revenues would change the mining related nature of social be aunty and weaken worker con argument that general taxes Are More progressive than payroll taxes is false. Hsiao said pointing out that social Security is a progressive system in which lower paid workers receive proportionately higher benefits than those with High in comes in relation to what they contributed. Hsiao also proposed a 03 per cent pay Roll tax increase for employers and employees. J Hobert Myers. Temple University professor and former social Security chief actuary presented a plan stressing an immediate 0 5 per Cin payroll tax rate in cause i said raising the base is not As Cost effective Over the Long run and that using general taxes hides the program s Cost from Public View and make people incur Reethy think someone Ese is paying Lorther retirement. Elvis "willing7 to take on attackers Madison wis in Pil that was . No doubt about the Young serv ice station attendant said. He was Over weight and had Jet Black two youths were ganging up on the attendant. Keith u wry or. About 1 am Friday when Rock Star Elvis Presley strode up to the service station As if it were a Hollywood set Alln it. I la Lake you Presley told i me of Lowry s attackers Presley 42. Finished a concert in Desmoines thursday night and Lew to Madi son for a show Friday night. His limousine was in route from the Airport to a hotel when he saw the fistfight Presley surprised his parents Man agers and three bodyguards when he sprang from the limousine. The swivel hipped Singer was still wearing the Blue jumpsuit from the l is mines concert. Though it has been said he is skilled in martial arts the 42-year-old Presley never threw u punch the fight broke up when everybody recognized Presley he was willing to said Thomas Mccarthy one of several police officers providing Presley with Security that site bad Mccarthy said Presley Shook hands posed for several pictures and seemed amused by the whole episode As he Gorback into the limousine
