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Show Page 4 Wednesday, July 19,1978 INTERNATIONAL Bonn, West Germany A rise in employment and a reduction of U.S. oil consumption were two of the consensus goals established during an economic summit conference which concluded Monday. Leaders from seven non-communist industrial nations, including President Carter, formulated worldwide strategy designed to increase economic growth rates in Japan and West Germany and to slow the U.S. growth rate to four percent due to concerns over inflation. Carter pledged to increase oil prices in the United States and to reduce oil imports. A joint declaration called on countries with large trade deficits, including the U.S. to increase exports and urged countries with balance of trade surpluses (Japan and West Germany) to increase imports. n Calling the commitments made by the seven , nations "substansive," Carter said each leader was "cautious not to promise things we could not subsequently deliver." Cairo, Egypt At least 56 passengers were killed early Monday when a packed city bus ..careened off a truck and plunged into the Nile River. Police reported that most of the dead drowned when trapped in the bus as it sank into 25 feet of water. Many of the victims were young soldiers. : Lisbon, Portugal More than half of the inmates at a maximum security prison escaped early Monday morning through a 25-yard long tunnel. According to officials, 125 prisoners, some described as "very dangerous," fled from the Alcoentre prison 50 miles north of Lisbon. Seven of the inmates were captured in neighboring villages. Moscow Two Soviet dissidents were sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison and hard labor camp last week. On Thursday,. Alexander Ginzburg was convicted of anti-Soviet activities and sentenced to eight years in prison. The following day Anatoly Shcharansky was found guilty of spying for the United States and given 13 years in prison and hard labor camp. Before his sentence was announced, Ginzburg said, "I don't consider myself guilty and I am not asking for leniency." He was accused of anti-Soviet anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Sheharansky's sentence calls for three years in a close confinement prison, followed by 10 years in a strict regime labor camp. President Carter has called the spying charges against the dissident "patently false" and Shcharansky said the treason charges were concocted because he was a Jew who wanted to leave Russia for Israel. ; Both Ginzburg and Shcharansky were members of the "Helsinki watch group" which . monitored Soviet breaches of the human rights " provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accord. Salisbury, Rhodesia Black Nationalists burned a tribal village to the ground Friday and killed 17 of the 22 residents, including three babies, according to a Rhodesian military communique. Officials said an average of 20 blacks die in terrorist massacres each day. San Carlos de la Rapita, Spain Officials nrpdirtpd fhp dpafh tnll wnnlH rpnh inn in the , gas tanker truck explosion that razed a - campground last week. About 700 people were at ; the campground when a truck filled with liquid ' oroDvlene eas left the road and olunsed into their . midst. ' NATIONAL Oklahoma City Six steakhouse employees were forced into a walk-in freezer and shot through the head Monday in what was called "the most horrendous crime in the Oklahoma Citvarea." : Police were searching for at least two gunmen who held up the restaurant and then executed the employees, four of whom were teenagers. - Indianapolis Telling the State Supreme Court .separate prison facilities for men and women constitute sexual discrimination and hnv nricnnnrc fho rinkf in p. iKiiio ugm lu 1UUUUII3 VV 1 LI J I. ' UUII UI1 members of the opposite sex.Rakh Dodson requested that he be transferred to the Indiana III 1 ' r women Sanson. : Dodson, found guilty of a 197(1 shooting death, also asked that his conviction be reversed. ' "It's cruel and unusual punishment to impose a lifetime of celibacy contrary to an inmate's natural biological drives." the prisoner Contended. : The court ruled against Dodson. sa.-ing .1 man entering prison forfeits the right ;io' pursue -lis amorous pleasures." i mm. ,,itU ,. ,. i:, TI10UT1HERI Washington American Indians marching on Capitol Hill Monday demanded the federal government cease what they called apolicy of genocide against native Americans. Claiming that more than 14 million Indians have been killed in the past 500 years, Larry Red Shirt presented a position paper stating that nearly one-fourth of all Indian women were forcibly sterilized from 1971 through 1975. The paper also said one-third of the Indian children are being placed in non-Indian foster homes. Hundreds of Indians, joined by thousands of supporters, finished a five-month cross-country journey Saturday to protest proposed legislation they believe threatens their survival. "We travel thousands of miles only to learn the president is in Germany talking about human rights," Red Shirt said. "It shows he doesn't care. It shows people don't care." New York A daring daylight robbery netted two gunmen an estimated $5 million in stocks and negotiable bonds Thursday. Police said the robbers used precision timing and a clever getaway plan to pull off the heist of an armored car in the Wall Street area. Approximately half of the stolen securities were readily negotiable bonds in denominations of $10,000 that are easily cashed with any banker or broker under normal circumstances, officials said. Chicago The Nine Lives Catfood company announced Wednesday that Morris the cat has used up his quota. The picky eater who promoted cat food on television died of a heart attack at 17. Nine Lives advertising executives said a look-alike look-alike understudy would assume both Morris' name and position. Philadelphia The city's latest contract offer was rejected by 20,000 striking municipal workers Monday. The strike has halted trash collection and crippled other city services. Meanwhile, four other American cities were plagued by strikes, protests and threats by civil servants. Firefighters are on strike in Louisville; police in Cleveland walked out last week, protesting the firing of 13 officers who refused to patrol high-risk areas alone; and police in New York and Memphis warned of possible walkouts. Mrs. Moulton Dies At Age 88 Margaret Lillian Cum-mings Cum-mings Moulton, 88 years of age, from Salt Lake City, died July 13, 1978 at the home of her daughter Deann Weed. She was born February 2, 1890 in Heber City, daughter of Elisha Jones and Hannah Mary Clegg Cummings. Mrs. Moulton married H. Chase Moulton on September 27, 1911 in Heber City and the marriage was later solomnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Mr. Moulton died October 2, 1958. Margaret was a member of the LDS church, an accomplished aeeompianist. and lived and raised her child WM Claimjumper 7 Days a Week 6-10 Weekdays 6-11 Weekends Main Street ren in Park City. Survivors include her sons and daughters: Mrs. Floyd (Deann) Weed, Salt Lake City; Mrs. James (Maxine) Owen, Leeds, Utah; Floyd C. Moulton, Denver, Colo.; E. Jay "Eddie" Moulton, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Ronald (Mardene) Foldersen, Salt Lake City; Duane Moulton and Dale Moulton. She was preceeded in death by Mrs. Neal (Norma) Montgomery and Mrs. Marden (Fern) Chapman. Funeral services were held Monday, July 17 at the Granite Stake Center in Salt Lake City. Restaurant - 649-8051 Utah Foundation Utah's individual income tax appears to be somwhat higher that that of most other states. This conclusion was reached by Utah Foundation, Found-ation, the private tax research re-search organization, in an analysis of the state's individual indivi-dual income tax. The state individual income tax along with the corporate income tax help support the state minimum school program. According to the Foundation Founda-tion study, state income tax collections in Utah last year were equal to 2.41 percent of total personal income payments pay-ments to all individuals in the state. This percentage compares with 1.87 percent for the entire United States and 1.63 percent for the eight Mountain States. Utah ranked 14th among all of the states in the percentage of personal income going for payment of state individual income taxes. The study notes that the state income tax burden in Utah is relatively high at gross income levels up to $30,000 per year. 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While there have been some proposals to continue the present progression of rates beyond the top bracket of $7,500 and the top tax rate of 7:i4 percent, the Foundation analysis indicates that such a change would not produce substantial amounts of added add-ed revenue. If the present graduation were continued to 10:i4 percent, state income tax revenue in Utah would be increased by only 9 percent. Even if the graduated rates were extended all the way to 15:i4 percent (more than doubling the present maximum maxi-mum rate), the added revenue reve-nue would amount to only about 16 percent. Foundation analysts explain ex-plain that Utah basically has a middle-income economy, without the drastic extremes found in many of the other states. Thus, high progressive progres-sive income tax rates on upper income brackets will not produce the same tax yield as the same tax system would in a stale with large ITALIA RESTAURANT OPEN 6 TO 10:30 P.M. MIDDLE OF MAIN STREET losed Monday income extremes. Utah's progressive state income tax more than offsets the regressive state and local sales tax. A Foundation analysis of taxes paid by typical Utah families reveals that combined income and sales taxes in Utah amount to 3.6 percent of gross income for the poverty-level family, 4.2 percent for the low-income family, 5.1 percent per-cent for the middle-income family, and 5.5 percent for the high-income family. When Federal income and payroll taxes are included, the progressive relationship becomes even greater 9.7 percent of gross income for the poverty-level family, 15.3 percent for the low-income family, 21.9 percent for the middle-income family, and 25.4 percent for the high-income high-income family. These comparisons, com-parisons, however, do not include property taxes, sales taxes paid on large or unusual purchases, and ' CLEANING I Homes - Condos I J. 1 N other direct and indirect taxes imposed by Federal, State and local government units. The study observes that Utah's state individual income in-come tax, which originally was enacted in 1931, was not considered a good revenue producer in the early depression depres-sion days. During the more recent high-inflation period, however, it has become a major revenue producer and now ranks behind only the sales tax and the property tax as a source of state and local tax revenue in Utah. Since its enactment in 1931, the cumulative yield from the individual income tax in Utah has amounted to $1,355,000,000, with more than half this total, or $683 million, being realized within with-in the past five years. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1978, individual income tax receipts totaled nearly $189 million. My mom is COokinnl 7 |