European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 financing a Home for the navys ships some cities having problems finding funds Dallas a at least two of the nine Gulf cities that will become hosts for a spread out Fleet of Navy ships Are having trouble coming up with the Money they pledged in a bidding War to win the Job producing Home port Over the past a Navy team has visited six of the nine cities that won in the 19city Competition to Host the reactivated battleship Wisconsin and its companion reminding them that commitments on the millions of Dol Lars they pledged to spend Are due the Money the cities Are to spend will go for construction of such Public facilities As roads and sewers and Utility connections in some dredging of in the 29 ships mean millions of dollars in jobs and economic development for the Host cities in a Region hard hit by stagnation in the Oil but officials in Galveston have sent an urgent plea for help in coming up with the million the Navy wants and officials say they dont yet know if have the million they and both say have the Corpus which won the wisc on will have the million it and key will receive Only Small ships at existing facilities and will not be asked to make Large financial plan to help Cut Federal deficit and and Lake say not Only come through on their but also will take any ships other cities cant All of this was in the initial said Navy Max All the Navy is asking them to do even though they didst get the we still need support offered for these other Galveston mayor Jan Coggeshall said her Island City counted on million offered by the state legislature and included no local Bond Money when its proposal was but that state Money was intended to attract the Wisconsin and its support and the Wisconsin and the million went to Corpus Galveston was awarded five smaller combat ships and the Navy expects the City to pay for improvements to handle eight million dollars is a lot of Money for a City of that is already near its Legal taxing Cogge shall spokesmen for Mark White and mayor Kathy Whitmire of neighbouring Houston say they Are studying the Corpus Christi mayor Luther Jones said his City got the major part of the Fleet because voters agreed to tax them selves million on top of the state the Navy estimated the City will gain military and civil Ian personnel and an annual payroll of million to Pascagoula officials Are still negotiating with the said City manager Charles Fulghum would not say if Pascagoula could meet the million that what we arc trying to work on now to come up with the Means of satisfying the navys lie Fulghum said the City is considering All we intend to get our he Pensacola mayor Vince Whibbs has offered the Navy his port for any ships that or any other cant Whibbs said the City will be equipped to handle More ships because it is already planning to spend an estimated million dredging the port to accommodate the aircraft Carrier Kitty Pensacola is a very responsible and responsive Whibbs the economic Benefit is but the Bottom line is the defences of the United states of Ameri James port director for Lake said his port also can take on any vessels that other cities cant he said the Navy is asking for 30 acres of free million for construction and free providing the land is no problem because port officials originally offered the Navy 200 acres during the Battle for the he the Fleet will begin arriving at its new bases in tax could hike Gas prices 12 c to 36 Washington a gasoline prices could Rise 12 to 36 cents a gallon if Congress enacts a tax on imported Oil to help Cut Federal budget the assessment comes from two groups normally at loggerheads with each other the Oil Industry american Petroleum Institute and the Liberal consumerist citizen labor Energy even supporters say the proposed barrel tax on imported crude Oil and a per barrel tax on gasoline and other refined Petroleum product imports would cause higher prices for most goods and proponents see it As a Way to avoid a repeat of the Oil crises of the higher fuel prices resulting from the they would reignite Energy conservation that has waned the past two years at the same give a fresh boost to the depressed drilling and refining there is nothing wrong in using the tax code to encourage the accomplishment of worthwhile says David d chief architect of the proposed it is absolutely vital to our National Security that we should encourage Energy Boren proposed the import fees on july 17 As an alternative to provisions in president reagans tax Reform package that would erase some of the deductions and incentives now enjoyed by Domestic within a Republican senators adopted the proposal As part of a sweeping new plan to reduce next years Federal Bud get deficit by More than though they treated it As a deficit reduce not an Energy and reluctantly Back into the Senate budget committee has provided a much needed push to the stalled National drive for Energy said Elihu Bergman of americans for Energy ind Epen a Washington based policy imports of crude Oil and gasoline now provide about on third of the fuel used each Day in the according to figures supplied by taxing them would pro vide billion in direct fee revenues to the Federal because producers and refiners could theoretically raise their prices by like new Domestic drilling spurred by the import fees could yield another billion in income taxes plus billion More in revenues from the Windfall profit tax on according to Borens if it All gets passed through to consume and some of it might not because of Market that a 36 cents in open exports in millions of barrels per Day 1978 15 official Price per barrel note prices Are open Benchmark for saudi arabian Light crude Nono Pec countries have indicated plans to sell Oil for As Little As a barrel current Chicago Tribune graphic sources Royal International Energy department of Energy 15 10 5 0 1978 79808182 anchors awry for army officials at fort Carson Colorado a the army Post at fort Carson thought it was ordering a headlight from a califor Nia army but somehow it received a seven ton Navy Anchor Worth All because of a on digit error in a Supply officials didst want to pay to store the said fort Carson spokeswoman Elaine we decided to wait until somebody needed it and ship it to she that was four months 1 dont think we realized what Little Call the Rcd be for an item like she so tired of months of needling jokes about the weighty sent the Anchor into storage at the Pueblo army depot about 20 Miles Down the crease in the Price of says de Rothschild of the Citize labor Energy which is lobbying against the while raising tax revenues by Bil Rothschild said the higher prices would create an billion annual Drain on the Economy and set Back the growth that has occurred Over the past two Well be right Back where we started before Oil prices started he Congress will have succeeded in doing what open has failed to do for the past two years prop up world Oil the american Petroleum which represents most of the Nijor and Large inde pendent Oil estimated the gasoline Price increase at Only 12 cents a but even that according to api president Charles would have serious negative consequences for the Energy dependent industries As Agri aluminium and steel would be placed at a competitive disadvantage with foreign firms both in overseas markets and Here in the United Dibona said in a letter Friday to the congressional budget despite support among some hard pressed drillers in Oklahoma and other parts of the Oil most Independent oilmen also Are reluctant to impose an import fee on their foreign we dont favor an import fee because it would require a Large John Rex president of the inde pendent Petroleum association of told the Senate finance Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today july 1945 japans Premier Kan Taro Suzuki officially snubbed the surren Der or die ultimatum issued from Potsdam by the United Britain and 30 years ago today july 1955 president Eisenhower approved plans for construction of a satellite to Circle the Globe for scientific the Small artificial Moon is expected to be built and launched by 20 years ago today july 1965 space scientists showed president Johnson and the nation fantastically Clear photographs of Mars that revealed the presence of Moo like they revealed that the planet is As is the 70 years ago today july 1975 turkish officers took command of All american bases in Turkey and turkish cypriots ordered three communications installations in Northern Cyprus shut according to officials in
