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Show Tuesday, May Capitol Watch FOR MOTHER'S DA Y Utah Ranks Second Aid Federal Keeping - WASHINGTON Utah has lost less federal aid since 1981 than all other states except Texas according to a report released Sunday by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. AFSCME, the nation's largest public employee union with over one million members, said that despite the state's relatively good showing, the loss of federal aid amounted to a total of $382 million. That amount is equal to $246 per person in the state, and ranked Utah 51st out of all the states (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) in per capita losses. Nationally, cuts totalled $88 billion if the fiscal year 1985 budget submitted to Congress was included in cuts already enacted over the last three years of the Reagan Presidency, the report said. AFSCME noted that $59 billion in cuts have come from grants-in-ai- d to state and local government. Utah ranked 48th of all of the states in this category, sustaining cuts totalling $276 million, or $178 per person. The report analyzed four years of domestic budget cuts, and Other major findings are: program- state-by-stat- -by-program e. The deepest cuts for Utah in Handicapped Education, where the state ranked 2nd in losses, and in Work Incentives, with a 5th place ranking. The state ranked 5th in cuts in the Head Start program, the only program suffering real dollar losses amounting to $102,000 in were 1981. Other program cuts ranked Utah 7th in Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance Ad8th in Preventive ministration, Health Services, and 9th in both Health Resources and the Developmental Disabilities income pro- gram. Losses in payments to viduals, or entitlements, indi- were also lower in Utah than 50 other states. Cuts for the state totalled $106 million, or $68 per person. Nationally, the entitlement pro- - Give Your Mother the Best Gift Ever. A New Microwave From Duckett's is What Every Mom Deserves BE! m. The states suffering the highest per capita cuts in to state and local governments are Alaska, New York, d grants-in-ai- West Virginia, Vermont, Rhode Island, Michigan, Massachusetts and South Dakota. The states in which per capita losses in entitlement payments have been the highest are Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, West Virginia, Missouri and Maine. The pressing needs of citizens are no longer being met," said Gerald W. McEntee, President of AFSCME. The burden of the cuts on state and local governments is "impossible," he continued. "Already, as a result of this Administration's actions, 493,000 families have been dropped from the welfare program, 660.000 children have lost their Medicaid health coverage, one million participants have been terminated from the Food Stamps program, and 150,000 poor families have lost day care services," he said. important capital formation Herald Washington Bureau B. Cohen, an who sits on the SBU's tool," said Ronald - While batWASHINGTON deficit federal the budget tling was the number one priority for a coalition of small businessmen gathered on Capitol Hill last week, its members also are after various other reforms to keep small businesses alive and well. "If small business is to continue to lead the nation in productivity, job creation and innovation, the nation's 13 million small firms must be given access to an capadequate supply of long-terital at low rates," John C. Ren-nipresident of Small Business United, said during a legislative briefing on Capitol Hill. "We will be meeting with Congress to explain our priority issues, which include the enactment of a Small Business Participating Debenture bill, uniform product liability legislation, an Equal Access to Justice bill and an omnibus small business federal acquisition reform act," he said. The Small Business Participating Debenture (SBPD) is "an e, accountant legislative committee. "SBPD's can attract private investors back into the small business marketplace and provide incentives for investments in new ventures," he said. Cohen said the SBPD's are needed because outlets for money available to small businesses are drying up. "Not only is the small bank, which traditionally has helped small business, being gobbled up, but incredible amounts of funds are also being diverted into pension and insurance plans," Cohen said, "making less money available for smell businesses." Cohen said the SBPD's will make "desperately needed funds available for the enterpreneur and his ventures," and give the investor the "benefit of realizing the appreciation of his investment at capital gains rates without having to dispose of it." The SBU also is seeking uniform product liability reform to By DOUGLAS MURPHY Herald Washington Bureau - WASHINGTON House Republicans last week unveiled a plan to increase U.S. industrial competitiveness using high technology to rejuvinate waning industries. Members the Republican Task Force on of er High Technology recommended a series of tax credits, tax bills, research funding and streamlined export controls to entice industry to use high technology as a means to better compete in world markets. "Fostering American innova- tion must be a continuing process not just a passing fancy," said chairRep. Ed Zschau, man of the group. "This agenda describes what Congress can and should do this year, but it's just the beginning." NEA Cites By SUSAN SCHAUER Herald Washington Bureau - $5.7 credit; would permit enforcement of U.S. patent law when infringed on in a foreign country and then used in the U.S.; and would le- gally protect semiconductor chips. market opthe calls for plan portunities, streamlining export controls while still preventing transfer of militarily critical technologies to our adversaries; and it would seek the elimination of trade barriers overseas. "This is not just a 'Silicon Vallev' program," said Zschau, a To expand foreign gan Administrations' policies of big military spending, big tax n cuts and big budget deficits, said, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, .Health and Human Services, and Education. Despite congressional efforts to maintain federal support for education, the NEA director noted, the Reagan Administration has cut the federal share of the nation's total elementary and secondary education spending from 8.7 percent in fiscal 1981 to 6.4 the lowpercent in fiscal 1984 est in almost 20 years. To make substantial increases in education funding possible, she continued, "we are proposing that the indexing of the personal in- billion was enough to operate only the elementary and secondary public schools in the six New England states last year. But $5.7 billion is also the amount crucial federal education programs have lost to inflation and the budget axe since the Reagan Administration took office in 1981, Linda NEA government relations director, told a Senate subcommittee. While the nation cries out for education reform, critical education programs for minorities, dis- come tax and excessive tax advantaged, handicapped and fi- breaks for businesses and corponancial aid for college students rations be repealed." n said NEA "is not have been curtailed by the Rea Tarr-Whela- n, Tarr-Whela- m m m M k m mmk FREE COOKING SCHOOL WITH PURCHASE Hotpoint's Very Best Spacemaker Was $399.95 Was $499.95 Microwave NOW NOW LITTON LITTON SPECIALS oil J - v procurement 1 The American C ullnary Federation the cost of systems and spare has awarded Litton Generation II Countertop Microwave Ovena their lor both outstanding cooking performance and excellence In design and reliability Model 2090 SBU also wants reauthorization of the Equal Access to Justice bill, which reimbuses small businesses for legal fees incurred while litigating unfair complaints made by the federal government. Automatic deluxe touch control features Litton's and system, delay start and clock. 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"If they are the 'Atari Democrats' I guess you would have to call us the 'Apple Pie Republicans," Zschau said. Need for More Money Tarr-Whela- WASHINGTON How much education can $5.7 billion buy? The National Education Asso- ciation says risk-takin- g, iw sjl the same for everyone, he said, and the re must be a fault standard for pinpointing individual responsibility and identifying who is to blame. The cost factor, Hope said, involves getting the damages to the damaged party instead of having it all go to legal fees. An omnibus small business federal acquisition reform act, according to Rennie, would increase small business participating in House Republicans Make Push for High Tech Aid Plan The task force's plan includes a 5 percent increase for basic research; a 25 percent tax credit for corporate funding of basic research in colleges and universities; and would modify antitrust laws to encourage research and development joint ventures. 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