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Show YJg WESTERN AMERICANA See new GS pay charts, fs Page 10 fiSh grflKjw .. '.'' iY.W' ll N N II i" ii H M W rfl-f- i i . T OGDEN. UTAH Vol. 29 No. 39 October 8, 1976 President signs 4.83 pay boost President Ford has signed a pay increase for military members and civilian general schedule employes to be effective Oct. 1. The pay boost averages 4.83 per cent for both GS civilians and the military here at Hill AFB. Some higher level general schedule grades will receive a higher percentage and the military raise will affect basic pay and certain allowances. Increase for GS grades will be 4.24 per cent at the GS-- 5 level to 7.92 per cent in the A lower step rates of GS-1schedule of the new civilian rates are printed on page 10. The exact allocation to be applied to military basic pay and allowances had not been determined at press time. Increases for both civilian and military personnel will be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after Oct. 1. About 1.4 million civilians and about 2 million military people are affected by the raise. 5. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has announced that the President will exercise his authority under the Fiscal Year DoD 1977 appropriation authorization act to reallocate 25 per cent of the Oct. 1, 1976, military basic pay increase to the basic allowance for quarters (BAQ). He will also direct payment of a partial BAQ, equal to the amount reallocated to the quarters allowance from the basic pay increases, to those members of the Armed Forces without dependents, who are on sea or field duty, or who reside in military bachelor quarters. The military pay raise this year is 4.83 per cent when applied equally to basic pay, BAQ and the subsistence allowance (BAS). Under the reallocation, the basic pay increase will be 3.62 per cent. However, the BAQ increase will be from 9.64 per cent to 16.33 per cent, depending on grade. BAS will increase 4.83 per cent. The DoD appropriation authorization act, 1977, was signed into law by President Ford on July 14, 1976, as Public Law Section 303 of the law gives the President descretionary 94-36- 1. THE BALLOTS AE&gVilNG! authority to reallocate up to 25 per cent of military basic pay increases to the nontaxable basic allowances for quarters subsistence (BAQ) and (BAS). few,- X - . It also allows the President, whenever he reallocates a portion of the basic pay increase to the quarters allowance, to pay a partial BAQ, equal to the amount to bachelors reallocated, i living in government quarters and on field or sea duty. The President has elected this year to reallocate the full 25 per cent allowable under the law, by grade, all to the basic allowance for quarters, and to pay the partial BAQ to bachelors. Thus a portion of the BAQ," "i . ' lx'k not previously Ogden ALC will observe holiday military pay raises are Ogden Program Coordinator, states that plans are now complete for the forthcoming Federal Women's Conference to be held at Weber State College next Thursday and Friday. Key speakers at this year's seminar are Mary Jo Bender, Dalley, league of women voters. Money Matters, moderated by Pat Braun. Panel members will include Vee Carlisle, vice president, Tracy Collins Bank and Trust; Mary Ann Dodd, Colorado Department; insurance h and agent; I , Margaret relations AFB. Woods, specialist employe at Hill "How To" Politics for Women will feature Jean Westwood, past chairman, Democratic National Party. Sexism in Textbooks will r ''W,.n.....MU i . Economics ) J Beth Jarman, Representative Utah State Legislature and Carol Lynn Pearson, author and poet of "Women in History." Vote! Vote! Vole! Gaye Littleton, League of Women Voters; Lynn VanDam, president, ER Coalition board member; Christine Durham, Salt Lake City attorney and Beverly The Hill Top Times is an unofficial newspaper published every Friday in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, of Air Force Logistics Command. It h published by Mor Media Sales, Inc., a private firm, in no may connected with the Department of the Air Force, Opinions expressed by publisher and writers are their own and are not to be considered an Education. Sexism in Utah Law will Beth feature Jarman, Utah House of legislator, Representative Women in the Media will feature Flora Ogan, City Editor, Ogden Standard Examiner; JoAnn Thomas, Communicaster, KSXX Radio and Carolyn Young, reporter for KUTV Channel 2. Women in Literature and Art will feature Dr. LaVcn Carroll, Weber State College. Economics workshop will Economics chairwoman, Department, University of Colorado Title IX will be narrated by Grace staffed members feature Dianne Thomas. State College, department of Continuing Weber feature Dr. Doris Drury, In addition, workshops will be held each day of the conference. These will be with panels of professional women who will be able to talk on the subjects and will include Equal Hights Amendment (KHA). This workshop will be moderated by Diane Pallet, NOW organization with panel ' iommcimam federal women's program coordinator with the Treasury Department; Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock," Dr. Doris Drury, University of v holiday for all Federal employes. Only those employes in security or critical functions as notified by their supervisors will be required to work. Administrative officials wish everyone a "safe and enjoyable" holiday weekend. Federal Women's conference Jo Scott, I Monday, Oct. 11, Columbus Day, is a legal distributed in order to attempt (Continued on Page 22) Air v Louise Leake (I) processes Coleman and Heather Cornell for assignment in the Directorate of Distribution. The husband and wife are handicapped, but will become part of the Ogden ALC work force. Handicapped personnel comprise 11 per cent of the base working population! See story on page 19. (U.S. Air Force Photo) received by bachelors, will be paid to them in recognition of the lower value of the quarters provided on sea and field duty, and of military bachelor quarters. The Department of Defense has been seeking changes in the law to give the President more flexibility in the way Women's Have you registered to vote? Have you received your absentee ballot? If not, time is running out! November 2 is election day. A day when each of us can use our vote to elect the nation's leaders. Don't wait too late. If you don't receive your ballot soon, write your home stale. See your voting officer. He can assist you in filling out your FICA card and also has the proper address of voting officials in every stale. Do your thing! . m Logistics Center Federal HAVE YOUR SAY f vl Federal Women's Sally Grant and Thora Phillips (seated Leona brief Coordinators Wigness (back row I) and Program on Donahoe the workshops being offered in the Jeanne forthcoming Federal Womens Conference at Weber State College on Oct. 11, 13. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Biff l-- Bergstrom) r) Burton, associate director of General Assistance Center, Region VIII Members, Leagues of Women Voters. All workshops will be repeated both days of the conference to allow everyone an opportunity to attend. Each will last one hour. Inasmuch as parking facilities at Weber State College are extremely limited, attendees from Hill AFB are encouraged to utilize buses or (Continued on Page 221 official expression by the Department of the Air Force. The appearance of advertisements including supplements and inserts, in this publication does not constitute an endorsement bv the Department of the Air Force of products or services advertised. |