European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july8, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 tax Bill could boost state treasuries 26 Legislatures anticipating windfalls Washington api Federal tax Reform could result in higher state income axes in More than hair the states unless they Tower i hair lax Rales to match expected changes in he Federal tax code. Bolh the House and Senate have approved lower tas rates and a conference committee will meet later this month to forge a Compromise that is Likely to eliminator reduce Many a deduction. The Senate Bill for in Arnople. Sharply limits deductions Tor charitable donation and interest payments and Eliot Naif the break Tor capita gains income an reduces the value of some tax shelters. These changes would raise a family s taxable in come but Mosi u payers would Ihen Benefit from lower tax rates. Bui if state Rales remain the same while the taxable income rises the results will be higher lax Bills from state governments. An associated press Survey shows that Federal Tan overhaul proposals if enacted by Congress As Espic cd this fall would result in higher state taxes in at least 2ft slates regardless of whether individuals would be helped or Hurt on their Federal returns. The result could be disputes in state Legislatures Over whether to Roll bark taxes or Lake adv anlage of whal amounts to automatic lax increases. Tax policy will be one of the major issues for state Legislatures in 1987." said Gerald Miller director of the National association of stale budget officers. The increase in stale tax could be As much As 12 billion in new York according to a mow Republican Steefer Mefer forecasts bites Ames Iowa up first in was the wind chill Index and Ihen inc Comfort Index for heal and humidity but now comes a Mosquito bile Index called the Skeeter  former Iowa slate University student Robert Finger developed the Index to predict the average number of Mosquito Biles a person can expect on a Given Day. Each Day is rated on a scale of i to 100 with 100 being a Good Day 10 stay inside. Finger uses the past five Days Bug count humidity wind and temperature to arrive Ai the Index now an enter zoology professor Al Ball state univer sity in Muncie ind., Finger started working on the Mosquito Index 10 help Pel owners avoid diseases such As heartworm. Party estimate. Other annual increases estimated by stale officials include $250 million in Missouri $120 million in Kansas. $130 million or More in Michigan up to $200 million in Colorado. $123 million in Illi Nois and at cast $200 million in Ohio. Minnesota expects an culpa $360 million Over two Yean. In Virginia a $130 million Windfall is expected from the tax Bill passed by the House and he Senate version would produce even More though stale officials Don t have an estimate yet. Al Iasi 17 More states Sec lesser increases. Already some states have begun planning their own tax changes even though House and Senate differences have not yet been reconciled. In new York. Gov Mario Cuomo directed his advisers to propose changes in the stale s tax code to prevent automatic slate increases. My Strong support Tor Federal tax Reform is coupled Wilh a determination not to allow changes in the Feder Al lax code to trigger an automatic increase in stale taxes he said. To Michigan democratic gov. James Blanchard and the majority republicans in the stale Senate have reached rare agreement thai a tax Cut is needed. Some Sipics though Are welcoming the Windfall. In Virginia officials Are looking for Money for roads and have no plans to Roll Back taxes. In Illinois Senate Revenue chairman Dawn Clark Netsch said the wind fall will barely make up for the erosion of state Money thai resulted from the 1981 Federal tax cuts. It s possible we might need thai Money just to maintain the status quo said Kansas gov John car Lin. Iowa House speaker Don Avenson said the Windfall May be used to offset what he figures is � loss of 1150 million to $250 million a year through Federal budget cuts. In Colorado state officials said the Windfall could offer a Chance to overhaul state lax perhaps less ening property taxes. A handful of states have an even Hornier problem. They calculate personal income taxes As a percentage of Federal lax liability and so the Federal changes with reduce revenues if officials do not act among the states that would lose revenues to lax overhaul Vermont officials expect individual taxes will decline $ 14 million or about 20 percent. Anticipating the move the legislature gave the state lax commissioner authority to adjust stale rates to offset the cull. In Nebraska Revenue official estimate a decline of�27 million to $33 million in personal income taxes. One. Legislative tax Leader has called for a special legislative session but gov. Bob Kerrey says it s too Early. I Don t like Reading to Washington especially if i Don l know what the Impact with be. Be said. Officials in Rhode Island anticipating a $29 million annual loss Are considering changing their tax Law to quit relying on the Federal code. We catch the full Impact of the Federal changes said state budget officer Lee Grossi. Most Stales Don  Hopes Rule Navajo land no one forced to relocate second Mesa Ariz a hopi indians took jurisdiction sunday Over land still occupied by Navajo who have lived there for generations. The hopi chairman said some of his tribe s members were ready to move onto the land but would not evict any  tribal Leaden gathered at a sunday prayer breakfast to Call for peace. Sunday originally was the deadline set by Congress for hundreds of navajos to move off the land the tribes formerly shared in North Eastern  Hummel a spokesman for the . Bureau of Indian affairs said sunday thai officials had received no reports of violence or Otner  s deadline was no longer an official one. Congress decided in december that no More navajos could be moved until the government found new Homes for them which could take Yean. No Hopes remained on Navajo tand. Hopi Leader Ivan Sidney said it a news conference that hopi police would use Ihei authority against any navajos who iry los lop Hopes from moving onto the land. Sidney said there would be no eviction of navajos or of the activists on big Mountain on land that now belongs to the Hopes. The movement of the navajos was ordered by con Gress in 1974 to resolve the Long standing land dispute Between the Large and growing Navajo tribe and the smaller hopi tribe. The Hopes sued and in 1962 a court ruled that each tribe had a valid claim to 1.8 million acres of Rocky sparsely vegetated land that became known As the joint use area. Twelve years later. Congress divided that land and ordered member of each tribe to leave the other tribe s land. Army psychiatrist facing sex charges Sands of time Washington up an army psychiatrist is being investigated on allegations he had sexual relations with a married woman patient he counselled Al Walter Reed army medical Center be tween 1983 and 1985, an army spokes Man said. On june 17, the army ordered an investigation of charges that or. Col Rafael Rivera committed sodomy indecent acts adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer army spokesman i. Col. John Ooley said last week. The commander of fort Belvoir a. Will decide on the basis of the findings of the article 32 investigation thu equiv Alent of a grand jury inquiry whet Herlo order a court martial of Rivera Ooley said in response to a query. The charges filed by fort Belvoir s Hospital commander allege Rivera engaged in sex while serving As a Psychia Trist at Waller Reed the army s leading medical Center and As command sur Geon at the . Southern Corad in pan Ama spokeswoman Maril Trainor said. The woman patient claims Tiv cd had Intercourse and sodomy with her be tween july 1983 and March 198s while treating her for depression in his Walter six rescued after two weeks at sea in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 8, 1946 in Frankfurt Ameri cans who want to marry German women Are wearing wedding rings As a protest against army directive Banning marriage Between . Soldiers and German citizens. 30 years ago today. July 8, 1956 australian Lew ices at do Watt army Community Hospi Hoad Defeated countryman Ken rate Lal in suburban Washington since leaving Wall for the men s championship at Waller Reed in july 1985. Wimbledon. The Victory gives Hoad three of the world s four major 1956 ten Nis titles and moves him a item nearer to Matching Don Budge s sweep of 18 year ago. Reed office. The woman said Rivera met her clandestinely Al holds in the Washington area an Anonymous source re ported. The source said the patient filed a administrative claim with the army in february accusing Rivera of medical malpractice and seeking $1 million in damages for psychological and emotional injuries. Rivera 51, is married and has been if Deputy commander for clinical serv Honolulu up six Crew Mem Bers of i sunken m processing ship res cued after Drifting in the Pacific Ocean for two weeks were brought into Pearl Harbor sunday aboard a Navy ship. They called their Rescue a  men one woman and a Small log were picked up Early saturday morning after the surveillance ship indomitable spotted Tares sent up by the Drifting Crew. They were suffering from exposure but otherwise were in Good condition a Navy spokesman said. The Crew of the West 1, a converted Navy tug based in Seattle had been adrift in two life rafts for two weeks since their boat Sank about 380 Miles off the Island of Hawaii coast guard spokes Man Scott Hart Iascu said. The boat s Captain Enrique caldron 59, is missing and presumed dead. First mate Thomas Jacobson set off on a 16 foot sailing Skiff to find help after the tug went Down on june 21, also is missing. The survivors were identified As  of Lake Oswego Ore George Thomas of Seattle Tomas do Vine of South san Francisco Calif. Ann me Ouire of Minnesota Ronald Meyer of Clinton wash., and Douglas Hamilton Forwand Calif. In a prepared statement the survivors thanked the Navy and the Crew of the indomitable who in fact saved our lives a Miracle to say the  20 years ago today. July 8, 1966 a lag in army enlist ments prompted the defense depart ment to boost draft Calls for july and August. 10 years ago today. July 3, 1976 four women terrorists three of them being held in connection with last year s kidnapping of wot Berlin politician Peter Lorenz escaped from a West Berlin prison