European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 9, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Long seeks Large Cut in taxes Washington a the chairman of the Senate finance committee said thurs Day he favors an individual tax Cut Large enough to offset increased social Security taxes and some of the effects of inflation. We ought to try to make the taxpayers whole said sen. Russell b. Long d-la., As his committee began writing its version of tax Cut legislation. The panel made no decisions thursday. A $16.3 billion tax Bill passed by the House last month includes income tax cuts of $10.4 billion for individuals with the remainder going to business and to those tax payers reporting capital gains. Economists estimate that this year s expected inflation rate of 7 percent will Cost individuals an extra $8 billion next year by pushing them into higher income tax brackets. In addition the first step of a so Cial Security tax increase approved last december will take effect next january costing individuals by latest estimates about $3.2 billion More. Higher individual taxes those two factors would result in higher individual Federal taxes of $11.2 billion or $800 million More than the tax Cut in the House Bill. Neither Long nor other members of the finance committee indicated How they would like to tailor the across the Board individual tax cuts. But the Carter administration wants to tilt cuts More toward Low and Middle income individuals than would the House measure. Long said he will ask the committee Fri Day to approve an amendment that would give More tax Relief to the working poor. His amendment would expand the cur rent work Bonus or earned income cred it which provides a tax Cut of up to $400 a year for families earning under $8,000. The idea is to Reward such families for working and staying off the welfare Rolls. Long wants to raise the credit to 10 per cent of the first $6,000 of earned income or a maximum Benefit of $600. However his amendment would bar any welfare recipient from taking advantage of the credit. The earned income credit first enacted in 1975, is unique in Federal tax Law in that it is available even to those who owe no taxes. For example a family of four earn ing $3,000 a year would owe no tax and could receive a Check from the govern ment for up to $300 10 percent of $3,000. Long s amendment would carry that a step further with what he Calls a negative  taxes now Are withheld each payday from a worker s Check. But under Long s amendment the person who qualifies for the earned income credit would no longer have to wait until tax filing time to collect it. Instead it would be paid to him in each paycheck. For example the worker qualifying for a $300 credit who is paid every two weeks would find the biweekly paycheck in creased by about $11.50. Judges let five families found own Borough in a. Washington a. A a panel of Washington county judges has authorized five families to secede from South Frank Lin township and establish their own 600 acre Borough. The judges overruled objections raised by township officials and the woman s Christian Temperance Union who claimed Vernon c. Neal 54, and his neighbors want to incorporate Green Hills Borough so Neal can get a liquor License for the country club he operates. Liquor sales Are banned in the township. Green Hills would encompass the coun try club and the club s Golf course a Lake a horse farm and five houses. Its Popula Tion would be about 20. Mcgovern proposes literacy commission Washington up claiming millions of american High school graduates Lack a working knowledge of Reading writing and math sen. George Mcgovern Friday proposed creation of a National commission on literacy. Every High school graduate in this country should have at least a Basic knowledge of the three is Mcgovern said. Sadly this is not the Case. The problem is chronic and getting worse and if this trend continues. An Al ready deteriorating situation will be come an educational disaster and a National  the South Dakota Democrat said the commission would be Independent of the current educational establish ment and would define the scope of the problem set National criteria for competency testing and consider ways to improve Reading skills both inside and outside the classroom. Mcgovern cited studies showing thirty million americans Are functionally incompetent meaning they cannot effectively read a want and fill out a Job application or perform simple computational tasks. The . Illiteracy rate in 1970 was three times As High As in the soviet Union and in recent years american students scored 21.7 percent lower in math than German youth 25.5 percent below students in Japan and 31 percent below their British counterparts on achievement tests. One third of applicants for teach ing jobs in Florida in 1976 failed an eighth Grade general knowledge test. In letter to paper e sex Fri agent Calls for Patty Hearst s release san Francisco up the Fri agent who for 19 months led the Hunt across the . For Patricia Hearst has asked . Attorney general Griffin Bell to release her from prison. The san Francisco chronicle said Charles Bates an executive with Burns International Security services after 36 years with the Fri made the request in a letter. It was released at a Washington . News conference thursday by rep. Leo j. Ryan d-calif., who represents the District of Randolph a. Hearst Hearst s father and president of the san Francisco examiner. Bates wrote that he Felt Hearst imprisoned at the Federal correctional facility in Pleasanton calif., had served Long enough on her armed Bank robbery conviction. From my experience in hundreds of Bank robbery cases and considering the circumstances which could be mitigating i am definitely of the feeling that she has served sufficient time and that the sen tence should be mitigated he said. Bates also told reporters he thought a five year rather than a seven year sen tence was More appropriate in the Case of a first time offender. Patty got a Little tougher sentence than most Bank robbers get who have Long rap sheets. The fact that she s Patricia Hearst should  bearing on the kind of treat ment she  Bates said he Felt the guilty verdict in the celebrated trial was proper and added i Don t feel she should have a Pardon. That s saying you did t do  fire chiefs Are fined for sick out Manchester . A a judge fined six top fire officials on contempt of court charges thursday hours after Hopes for negotiations Between the City and its firefighters Union collapsed in the latest at tempt to end a six Day sick out. Hillsboro Superior court judge Arthur bean fined five District chiefs and a communication supervisor $50 a Day until they returned to duty. He said they violated a court injunction issued last saturday. Strikes by Public employees Are illegal under state Law. Two other District chiefs told the judge they planned to return to work immediate  City asked bean to order the District chiefs and the fire department s communications supervisor Back to work because of what the City called a desperate need for supervision of four dozen National guard Smen called in to staff four of the City s seven fire stations. The other three were closed. Earlier thursday Federal mediator Thomas Mcnally said after several hours of talks that there was no Progress. All sides refused to speculate when bargaining might resume. The City of 96,000 new Hampshire s largest reported no major fires since the sick out began on a Small scale wednesday and increased with each shift. Guardsmen responded to several alarms for minor problems including Small fires. Ronald Philibert president of local 856 of the International association of fire lighters said the Union is standing firm on demands that firefighters obtain wage in creases for the two year period a reduction in weekly working hours from 48 to 42. And improved medical insurance benefits. The Union has asked for a 6v2 percent raise this year and a 7 percent raise next year. The base pay for an experienced firefighter is about $220 a week. The City s last offer to the Union gave firefighters a 4va percent salary increase this year and a 7.3 percent increase next Vear. Mcneal Watt looks at his automobile Athis Home in Joliet 111. Watt who says just the thing for a junket he spent four years and $50 building Theca from pieces of junk he collected claims he s turned Down several offers to buy the vehicle. A photo