European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday october 22, 1977 Senate panel oks Energy Bill minus Carter s taxes Washington a the Senate finance committee gave final approval Friday to an Energy Bill stripped of Virtu ally every tax proposed by president measure instead would rely on $40 billion in tax Breaks to encourage Energy conservation and increased fuel product 13-5 vote sent the measure to the full Senate for de Bate starting tuesday. What Ever Bill the Senate passes will have to be compromised in a conference committee with the version approved by the House which included most of the president s $40-billion, eight year Price tag of the finance committee Bill is 25 per cent above the figure estimated by the panel s staff when the measure was tentatively approved a week a 12-3 vote the committee rejected an Effort to eliminate a tax credit totalling about $3 billion designed to provide incentives for Oil and natural Gas production from such sources As shale Rock and Ocean biggest item in the Bill would allow the Federal government to pay half the Cost of new boilers and other equipment the purpose of which is intended for convert ing industries and businesses from Oil and Gas to Coal. Like the House Bill the Senate version includes a tax credit of up to $400 for Home owners and apartment dwellers to offset the Cost of insulation storm windows and other weatherization devices. Sen. Russell b. Long chairman of the finance committee is trying to get the Bill into conference committee with As few restrictions from the Senate As Possi ble. He will urge the Senate next week to pass the Bill just As it comes from the finance committee. N. Y appeals to Congress curb on butt bootleggers sought Washington up the new York tax commissioner whose state loses an estimated $100 million to cigarette smugglers each year asked Congress Friday to make cigarette bootlegging a Federal York will not surrender to the mob said James h. Tully jr., state com Texas oilman cleared in death of son in Law Houston Tex. A a state District court jury Friday cleared Oil millionaire Ash Robinson of civil charges that he had conspired to have his son in Law or. John Hill jury of seven men and five women agreed that relatives of the slain doctor including Robinson s grandson deserved several Hundred thousand dollars in compensation for their mental anguish but it did not specify that Robinson should pro vide the jury had deliberated since tuesday afternoon after nearly two months of Testi Mony in the $7.6-million wrongful death suit brought against the 79-year-old millionaire. Two weeks ago the oilman took the stand and addressed his 17-year-old grand son Robert Boot Hill saying Boot i had no More to do with your father s death than you did. Death murder does not solve any problem on the face of the was sued by Hill s third wife and other relatives. Hill a Houston plastic surgeon was shot to death at his fashionable River Oaks Home in 1972. The Hill family claimed Robinson arranged the slaying to avenge the death of Robinson Sonly daughter Joan Robinson Hill the Doc Tor s first wife. When he was shot to death by a masked gunman Hill was awaiting a second trial on a charge he killed his first wife through medical neglect in 1969. His first trial ended in a criminal charges have been filed against Robinson. The Hill slaying and the death of Joan Robinson Hill were the basis for the Best Selling Book blood and soviet Star to dance Chekov Moscow up soviet Star Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya will dance the main role in the new Ballet the Seagull which she will also choreograph the news Agency Tass said. The Ballet based on Chekov splay will premiere at the Bolshoi theater next year. Missioner of taxation and finance in Testi Mony prepared for a Senate judiciary subcommittee. He said evidence is Clear that the smug gling of Low taxed cigarettes from North Carolina Virginia and Kentucky to High tax states such As new York is done Pri Marily by organized crime. The Only sensible alternative is enforcement of the tax Laws in All the states Tully said and to accomplish that we need a Bill before the committee would make it a Federal crime to ship or sell More than 100 Cartons of cigarettes across state lines without paying state taxes. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., said our immediate concern is not with the person who purchases two or three Cartons for himself but the problem is organized crime s takeover of the cigarette Black cited previous narcotics gambling and weapons charges against some of those accused of cigarette smuggling and told the panel these Are not your unemployed factory worker trying to hold his family together nor some hard working fellow trying to earn a Little extra Money. This is big Busi Ness and it tries to protect the advisory commission on intergovernmental relations estimated states will lose More than $400 million this year in cig Arette taxes due to bootlegging most of it in the northeastern states. Rep. Ned Pattison d-n.y., introduced a Bill Friday that would replace state taxes with a Federal tax that would be the same in each state. Federal revenues would then be distributed to the states in proportion to their cigarette consumption. Unit votes pension tax hikes Washington a the Senate finance committee voted Friday to raise social Security taxes by $285 billion Over the next 10. Years with the heaviest increases hitting employers and Middle Ana upper income workers. When tax increases already written into Law Are included the Bill would mean the maximum yearly payroll tax on employees would Rise from the current $965 to $1,1% in 1979, $1,525 in 1981 and $2,380 in 1987. The tax increase would be considerably less for those workers earning under $16, 500 a year. A person who now earns $10,000 pays a tax of $585. By 1987 the $10,000-a year worker would pay a tax of $705. For employers the tax increases could be far higher. Under current Law employ ers pay the same $965 maximum As work ers do. But the Bill would end that parity by raising an employer s share to As much As $5,288 by 1985 More than twice the maximum that would be owed by the High est paid worker. Subject to final vote the proposed tax increase part of a Bill subject to a final committee vote is the finance committee s answer to social Secu Rity s financing problems. It remains to be seen whether sen. Gay lord Nelson d-wis., chief author of the tax increase can Muster enough votes to get the Bill out of committee and onto the Senate floor for debate. The Nelson provisions were approved 16-1 but Only after the committee had failed on a 9-9 vote to reject or accept a substitute by sen. Carl t. Curtis a neb. The Curtis plan is designed to keep the traditional 50-50 split Between employers and employees. President and mrs. Carter drop in today hello As daughter Amy and some of Happy birthday Amy her friends steal a March on halloween by carving pumpkins at Amy s 10th birthday party in the White House. Am is seated second from left. A
