Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - April 12, 1976, Aiken, South Carolina Whats Going On Post Office 4A WASHINGTON leading congressional architects of the new Postal Service say the postal reorganization has been a disappointment The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 passed the House by 339 to 29 and the Senate by 57 to 6 and was signed into law by former President Richard M Nixon But many of those who voted for the changes are hav ing second thoughts were sold a of goods said Rep Charles H Wilson chairman of the House postal facilities subcommittee who voted for it in 1970 Georgia Merchants Have Advantage KEN COUNTY PObL LIBR 61975 435 N A I KEN S Sales Tax Change Prohibitive COUNTS Revenue Sharing Warning Given WASHINGTON l API Con gressional Democrats who op pose renewal of federal reve Warned they may hand President Ford a political plum this election year if they delay extending the program At the height of the 1972 pres campaign Richard M Nixon signed the federal reve law with an entour age of the nations mayors and governors looking on The cere mony in front of Independence Hall was hailed as a political triumph While little doubt that Congress will act this year to extend the program delays by its Democratic opponents could create a time schedule that would deliver the to President Fprd at the height of the election campaign in the autumn If I were President Ford Id be delighted to get this in September said John Gun ther executive director of the US Conference of Mayors Democratic mayors have been screaming to the Democratic leadership for one year pass it and get it out of the way Staff Reporter For the state not to tax the federal government would cost million in revenues according to an official of the SC Tax Commission This information was given to Rep Irene K Rudnick D who requested it on behalf of one of her constituents Margaret Holley Mrs Holley owner of Aiken Office Supply had complained that she has been losing bids to vendors competing for business at the Savannah River Plant Mrs Holley like other South Carolina merchants must figure in the four per cent sales tax while vendors do not She wanted to know why AT Clarkston Jr a research supervisor with the SC Tax Commission explained to Mrs Rudnick the reasons The SC Sales Tax is a vendor tax that is the liability for payment is with the vendor The vendor may pass the tax on to the purchaser in the form of added cost Therefore the US Government pays the vendor a price which includes the sales tax The SC Use Tax is a tax imposed upon the user or pur chaser Since the US Government is immune from direct taxation by the state it would not be liable for such taxes If the US Government was exempted from the sales tax there would be a loss in revenue to the state of approximately million This means that local merchants must tack on an extra four per cent when making a bid to DuPont at the Savannah River Plant But a merchant in Augusta Ga need not pay the Geor gia sales tax as no state can tax interstate trade If DuPont was not a agent of the federal government South Carolina could levy the four per cent use tax on items bought from Georgia or any other state Included in the reply from Clarkston are several pieces of correspondence some dating from 1964 relating to this is sue In a 1964 letter from JA Allen then director of the SC Sales and Use Tax Division to OW Livingston man of the SC Tax Commission the possibility of dropping the tax in regards to federal installations are discussed Allen writes This office possesses little documentary proof that the tax has attributed to the loss of a sale to the federal government by the SC seller We have however received many com plaints most by telephone wherein this allegation has been made the tax is dropped it would approximate million The advocates of the exemption allege that a substantial part of this loss would be replaced by additional taxes paid from profits realized by SC sellers from increased sales to the federal government Should the legislature exempt sales to the federal govern ment administrative problems will arise incident to the ex emption the would be offset to a degree by the elimination of existing difficulties by reason of distinguish ing between a sales tax and a use tax No recommendation is made concerning the proposal See SALES TAX Page 14 US Welfare Rises Again WASHINGTON AP The average family that went on the nations welfare rolls last year was smaller than in the past but the overall welfare rose 214 per cent the gov says About 266000 families with 479000 members were added to the Aid to Families with De pendent Children AFDC oro gram in 1975 That gave the program a total of nearly 35 million families and more than 113 million individuals The new welfare families av less than two recipients while families that joined in the past averaged more than three figures from the Department o Health Education and indicated Vol 108No 7214 Pages Aiken South Carolina Monday April 12 1976 lOc Per Single Copy Telephone 6482311 Jackson Seeking Support Reagan Critical Of Ford Americans On Intercepted Plane TEL AVIV Israel jet fighters intercepted a Saudi Arabian military trans port with three Americans among its crew and forced it to land at Inter national Airport near Tel Aviv the Israeli military command The communique said the Hercules was intercepted in Israeli air space near the Lebanese bor der The plane was carrying 23 ci and Saudi Arabian sol diers the announcement said The senior pilot was a Saudi Arabian it added As far as we know there were no problems said a spokesman and the fighters did not fire on the Saudi plane Hijackers Head Toward Libya A Philippine jetliner carrying three Filipino Moslem hijackers and 10 hostages refueled at Ka rachi airport today after a flight from Bangkok and then headed west Middle East and North Africa The hijackers were bound for Libya but there was no assur ance they would be welcome there Karachi airport authorities at first refused permission or the but later reversed their decision and allowed it to refuel The hijacking began last Wednesday morning in the southern Philippines and is now in its sixth day making it the longest on record The pre vious record was four days Fighting Marring CeaseFire BEIRUT Lebanon AP More fierce fighting in Leba nons civil war was reported to day with 49 persons killed and 97 wounded despite extension of the ceasefire until the end of A said the bodies of 26 killed earlier were also discovered Clashes were reported around the edges of the Christian rec tangle of mountainous land along the coast north of Beirut This indicated leftist Moslem leader Kamal forces were putting new pressure on their rightwing Christian foes in an attempt to force the elec tion of a Christian president sympathetic to polit ical demands While agreeing to extension of the 10day ceasefire which was to have expired at noon to day Jumblatt warned that his forces would press on to mili victory unless President Suleiman successor was elected soon Primary Battles Set In Pa Texas By The Associated Press Sen Henry M Jackson says he wants support April 27 presidential primary from Derrio crats who favor Minnesota Sen Hubert H Humphrey a noncandidate who has said he would accept a draft from a deadlocked nominating convention Meanwhile former California Gov Ronald Reagan continuing his criticism of President Fords foreign policy promised over the weekend that exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn could eat dinner at the Reagan White House anytime Reagan the challenger for the GOP nomination whose next major battle with Ford is in the May 1 Texas pri mary referred to reports of several months ago that Ford decided not to invite Solzhenitsyn to the White House because it might sour US Soviet relations Ford later issued an open invitation to Solzhenitsyn but the Nobel Prize winner declined A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL Stephen McEwen 15 battles for his life after being attacked by a giant python at a reptile park at Gosford New South Wales Eric Worrell who owns the park rescued the youth from the grip of the 15footlong reptile AP Frost Warnings Issued For Tonight Its going to be a Dr Jek yll and Mr Hyde type day Todays sunny and mild weather will be capped to night by cold temperatures and frost warnings Lows to night are expected to dip al least into the mid 30s Tomorrow will again be warm with highs in the up per 60s No rain is in sight through Wednesday Palestinian Arabs Flock To Vote JERUSALEM AP Pale Arabs flocked into the streets of occupied West Jordan in a festive atmosphere today to vote in local elections that are expected to increase resist ance to the Israeli occupation Despite a heavy rain the streets were crowded with vot ers Groups of Arab children paraded through the streets chanting the names of candi dates passing cars with election posters and pictures of candidates were voting for the first time and al one high school polling station in Nablus hundreds of women stood in the rain waiting to cast their bal lots Aid To China Is A Possibility WASHINGTON lAP For mer Defense Secretary James R Schlesinger says US mili tary aid to China should not be rejected out of hand and that China is a of the United Slates Schlesinger revealed Sunday that while he was in office American officials speculated about giving arms to China But it was only speculation he stressed Map Shows New Districts Since there appears to be some confusion over what areas make up the new dis for the Aiken County Board of Commissioners the Aiken Standard is print ing a map on Page 2 of to days newspaper of the new districts Dr Shealy Is Upset With Probe Of Case BY ERIC HIGGS Staff Reporter An Aiken County Board of Education member is upset because the Aiken County Sheriffs Department took two days before ing a marijuana case at Bel vedere Elementary School It distresses me that this sort of thing happens and that the law enforcement agencies took so long to re spond said Dr Carl J Shealy member of the board Its upset me con and 1 intend to get to the bottom of it Heres what happened On Wednesday March 17 five students of Paul Knox Junior High were waiting for a bus at the Belvedere Ele mentary campus Apparent ly an unusual situation prin cipal Nancy Smith investi gated The students were lean ing against the library and from the library window Mrs Smith could see two of the students handling what appeared to be a bag of mar She seized it The names of the offend See Page 2 Health Systems Board To Meet Tonight AUGUSTA Ga The Board of Directors of the East Cen tral Georgia Health Systems Agency Inc will meet tonight at 6 oclock in the Civic Room of the Georgia Railroad Bank 699 Broad St In a Saturday appearance in Texas Ford defended his for eign policy and said his cam is growing stronger in the state Jackson on ABC News Is sues and Answers program Sunday said Pennsylvania is the strongest of al 50 states for Humphrey A number of people here have Hubert Humphrey as their preference but they are going to vote for me Im not asking rny supporters to take a loyalty oath that theyre for Jackson all the way The Washington senator said his hold on such delegates would depend on the total number of delegates I have and their direct unequivocal sup port Whether we can hold off raids depends on our overall strength Jackson and Arizona Rep Morris Udall plan to campaign in Pennyslvania today while i the leader in the Democratic delegate race so far former i Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter was to spend another day at home in Plains Ga He is due in Agenda items include val of staff positions selec tion of office space for agency headquarters and a discussion of changes The states primary offers 178 delegates Reagan who spoke Saturday in Seattle took Sunday off President and Mrs Ford were at home Sunday The President scheduled a reception for this afternoon for his elec Aiken County along with 22 j tion committee Georgia counties is a part of j Jackson was scheduled to vis the Health Systems Have You Heard that one woman was overheard complaining at the Mas ters that nobody was staying across the street from her this vear It was only former Washington Redskins quarterback Sonny jurgenson renting the house across from her this year whereas Joe Namath and Clint Eastwood had stayed there last year that Jerry Colvard was last seen dashing down Church Street No hes not a jobber A dog came along and snatched UD his golf ball while Jerry was out practicing in a neighbor hood field Unfortunately the dog was a faster runner than Do vou suppose Raymond Floyd ever had problems like that Mrs Woodring Files For Board Mim Woodring has filed as a GOP candidate for the District No Four seat on the county commission District four consists of four North Augusta precincts Carolina Heights No 10 No 16 and Belvedere No 45 Mrs Woodring is so far the only Republican to file for this seat The Democrat who has filed is incumbent Cleve Fd munds Filing for GOP candi dates ends tomorrow at noon Candidates may file with LW Vamer of Aiken Mrs Woodring is associate editor of the North Augusta Star a weekly newspaper and has lived in North Augusta since 1951 See Editorial Page t A native of Fayetteville Pa Mrs has a BS in Home Economics from Juanita College Huntington Pa She is the secretary of the Augusta See FILES Page 2 MIM WOODRING Announces Forest Fires Are On Upswing Staff Reporter Woods and brush fires are on the upswing in Aiken County and fire fighters are issuing warnings against any type of burning until dry conditions improve substantially Volunteer fire departments around the county answered ov er a dozen woods and brush calls in the past period City fire departments in Aiken and North Augusta answered five small ones combined No estimate of acreage loss was available Conditions are similar or worse in some areas to those that existed in February when forest and woods fires consumed over 220 acres in the county With the largest fire in modern South Carolina history still burning out of control in Horry County a ban has been issued See BURNING Page 141 i it Pittsburgh in the afternoon i and WilkesBarre in the eve ning Udall planned to go after i votes in Philadelphia with a factory tour handshaking and I a meeting with newspaper edi tors and students before flying to Pittsburgh on his agenda I Udall over the weekend an the appointment of a new campaign director but de meet that any shakeup was in i Humphrey reiterating that 1 he is not a candidate but would 1 accept the nomination if ihe convention deadlocks predicted he would win the general elec tion if nominated He said he wont try to dis suade uncommitted delegates i from supporting him and j wouldnt rule out appearances that might conflict with the campaigns of the announced candidates f
