European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 1, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 formula for Federal pay ignored for 8th year Washington of president Reagan s refusal o impose a formula align ing salaries of Federal and private workers which would have produced a i percent raise for civil servants Marks the eighth straight year the pay comparability act has been ignored officials say. The administration and a Union rep resenting government workers said Friday that the now routine overruling of the fed eral pay comparability act is a reason the Law setting Federal salaries should be altered or scrapped. There s fairly Broad agreement that the formula is flawed said de Dale spokes Man for the White House s office of management and budget. There s no agreement on what to replace it  that Law established a formula for com paring the pay of private workers with fed eral government White Collar workers. This year the formula showed private workers earn 19.1 percent More than their Federal counterparts. The theory of comparability came about As method of removing political considerations from setting Federal pay said Loretta Uccelli spokeswoman for the Amer ican federation of government employees a Union representing 700,000 Federal work ers. And every year we arc Back in the Polit ical Arena she said. Reagan on thursday formally overruled the Legal formula which would have automatically instituted a raise for Federal workers at a Cost of some $20 billion a year had be act Salt a. Is action ft35 expected because a pay free a is figured in the budget passed by Congress for fiscal year i9s6. Reagan had recommended a s percent pay Cut. The 1970 Law jetting up the comparability formula established that the Secretary of labor and the Heads of bomb and the office of personnel management should use the formula to recommend to the president a salary increase for Federal workers. The formula has been overridden every year of the Reagan administration and the last three years of the Carter administration. Dale said. The number 19.1 percent this year is As Large As it is because for the seven pre Vious years Carter and Reagan have prix posed and Congress has accepted raises less than the formula. So it s accumulated to 19 percent he said. / he said hat by Law the formula ails to take into account the pay of stale a id local government employees and also he pen Sion and fringe benefits of Fec Crar workers which if counted would tend to make Feder Al compensation look More favourable. The formula is based on figures a by the Bureau of lab a statistics which last year surveyed 44,5to business or local offices of big corporations. The pay comparison and freeze affects 2.3 million Federal a yorkers in go crr Irnel said de Shell spa Tresman for the of fice of personnel management. Union spokeswoman Uccelli Slid a 1984 study conducted for Congress by a private consultant concluded Federal workers receive an average 7.2 percent less than Pri vate counterparts when pensions and other benefits Are included. The head of the National Treasury employees Union called Reagan s move an other Petty pickpocket ploy. To again fix blame on Federal employees for Reagan s skyrocketing  All right if you insist it s Lough to nuke Ted v. Kennedy right of Petaluma calif., Kepi � gift. Kennedy won $20,000 Worth of us free print a contest sponsored by nation wide printing. He ignored letter and three phones Nib before finally Beliet ing ii was on the or lab wife. Donna and son Larry Are in the background. University administrator guilty of strangling wife Leesburg a. A after five Days of deliberations a Loudoun county jury has found american University administrator William Evans Smith guilty of Sec Ond degree murder in the strangling of his wife last april. The circuit court jury Friday returned the verdict with a recommendation that the 65-year-old Evans Smith be sentenced to five years in prison. Judge Canton Penn cannot impose a sen tence longer than the jury recommended but he can hand Down a Shorter term. Evans Smith a retired army colonel and head of the foreign studies program at the Washington . University expressed no emotion As the verdict was read. Prosecutor William Burch reacting to the verdict said the difference Between first degree and second degree is whether it was premeditated. I assume the jury thought he killed her but it was t premeditated Burch said he was satisfied with the ver dict. You never get All of what you wanted he said. But the defense was that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. The jury found that he did in fact murder his  after a 10-Day trial that included Testi Mony from 100 witnesses the Case went to the jury of eight nun and four women on monday afternoon. Evans Smith was accused of killing his wife of 43 years and then trying to cover up the crime by making it appear As though she had been raped and murdered during a burglary. Barbara Evans Smith 64, was found strangled on april is at the couple s 80 acre crooked run farm in the Rural Vir Ginia horse country 45 Miles from washing ton. During the trial the prosecution tried to portray Evans Smith As having been upset about the end of an ii year extramarital affair with University co worker Frederica Bungin 1984. We have the defendant with a year s pressure built up on him Burch said in his closing arguments and something  Burch conceding that much of the Evi Dence was circumstantial held up the pantyhose that were twisted three times around the victim s neck and asked the jury who in this Case would have the rage to do that evidence presented during the trial included the victim s Robe with traces of her husband s blood on it. Prosecution witnesses also testified that they had overheard casual remarks Evans Smith made about killing his wife. Evans Smith claimed he saw his wife alive on the morning of the Day she died As he left for his University Job. Wildfires raging in Washington Tonasket Wash. A a rapidly spreading wildfire threatened Rural communities in North Central Washington scorching at least 30,000 acres and forcing 125 families to flee while More than 100 other fires burned across he  40 and 60 fires were burning in the Okanogan National  than 4,500 firefighters including prison inmates and Cheyenne and Crow Indian Crews were recruited Friday from As far away As Colorado and Alaska to Battle the blazes. There Are fires burning which we Haven t manned said Rob Harper a spokesman for the state department of Natu ral resources in Olympia. The situation is very  the largest Blaze the Barker Mountain fire was a combination of two fires the original Barker Mountain fire which grew from about 4,000 acres to 14,000 acres overnight and the Tonasket fire which spread from five acres to 800 acres in a matter of hours. The fire forced the evacuation of at least 125 families from the outskirts of Tonasket and the Small town of Havillah 12 Miles Northeast of Tonasket. The red Cross set up a shelter a Tonasket High school to House the evacuees. About 20 buildings including some houses had been consumed by the names. Earlier the Tonasket fire crept within 200 Yards of Tonasket before being turned Back by firefighters who built a firebreak on a Hill overlooking the High school and set a massive backfire. Tonasket s i 500 residents remained on Alert for Possi ble evacuations and Crews were building wide firebreaks around the town. Some residents on the outskirts of town were evacuated. Some residents packed their belongings in pickup trucks and fled under an Early morning sky tinted red from the flames. Neighbors helped each other prepare for the worst and the smell of smoke filled the air. Blind Faith comes easy in a Rural area said resident Sarah Kaiser. You live that  about 45 people in the Siwash Creek area about two Miles Southwest of Havillah refused to leave and were reported surrounded by fire although they were in no immediate danger and could make a dash Down the Creek bed to safety if needed said Dan Pugmire a department of natural resources spokesman. You either fight or lose it All said Norm Oburg a Farmer who Sui cd. Neighbors helped him build firebreaks As the Blaze crept within a Quarter mile of his farm he said. Officials also were concerned about the 300 to 500 acre Gold Hill fire burning out of control near the town of Loomis about 20 Miles from Tonasket. Loy Jones a Der spokesman said if that fire took off it would make the Barker Mountain fire look like a  Southwest of Tonasket near Twisp the Minnie fire was still out of control Friday having consumed 2,000 acres. Firefighters had established firebreaks around about 30 percent of that Blaze. Officials of the Federal aviation administration mean while travelled to Omak Airport to set up an emergency control Tower to handle firc fighting aircraft. Dozens of planes and helicopters were using the Airport with the scene described As chaotic. State and Federal officials had no estimate when any of the fires would be contained. Ohio parolee accused of attacking 5 women Cincinnati a a 21-year-old Man accused of attacking five women is a convicted robber freed from prison under an Early release program less than six weeks ago police said. Jeffery Woods 21, of Walnut Hills was indicted thursday on rape attempted rape and robbery charges. Woods was released from the Ohio reformatory in Mansfield on july 22 and assigned to the teen Challenge Halfway House for drug abusers. He was convicted of three counts of aggravated robbery . 4 and sentenced to two consecutive 5 to 25 year prison terms. Any time a person is charged and convicted of aggravated robberies you Don t expect. Proba Tion right off the Bat said detective Thomas Cam Eron. The statistics Are pretty High As far As these people being arrested again on the same  specialist Rick Burger of the police major of fender squad said his department wrote to the Ohio parole Board on feb. 12, recommending that Woods serve the maximum sentence. He used a knife in two aggravated robberies Bur Ger said. Cameron who is investigating the latest charges against Woods said he did not believe the Man should have been placed in the teen Challenge program