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Show Pay Proposals Now Before Congress The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Aug. 14, 1970 Prospects for an eight per cent basic pay hike next Januanary plus nual raises thereafter brightened this week as the Civil Service Commission submitted its new federal pay plan. If the Administration and Congress put the money on the table along with the talk. Hang Up On Harassment semi-automat- ic EDITOR'S NOTE: Designed with you and your family in mind, this Fact Sheet is filled with dos and donts for the family that receives crank, obscene or threatening phone calls. All the knowledge you need to handle unwanted phone calls is here. Three days after Sergeant Tom Hoffman left for Vietnam, his wife Sally and their daughter were their in a apartment. Sally was finspending quiet evening the second one shed written him ishing a letter to Tom that day when the telephone rang. Hello. THERE WAS no response, but she heard heavy breathing at the other end of the line. Hello, Sally repeated. Ill bet youre sort of lonely now that Tom is in Vietnam, a mans deep voice responded. WHO IS this? Animal-lik- e breathing followed. Tensed, Sally again asked the caller to identify himself. HIS RESPONSE was a flood of lewd words and threats to harm her daughter if Mrs. Hoffman hung up. and then raced to the living But Sally did hang up room to check on her young daughter who was playing quietly on the floor. The same caller repeated his telephone threats and barrage of obscenities the next night. He also told Sally that the war in Vietnam was immoral and that her husband was killing innocent children and women there. SHE HUNG up agin. But the unidentified caller persisted; he phoned Sally five times during the next week. When die pleaded with him to stop calling he only laughed. Sally Hoffman's case is but one of about 60,000 abusive phone calls reported to telephone companies each month. They range from unsolicited business calls to threats ol death, kidnapping or property destruction. Families of servicemen on oversea tours proliably receive the bulk of crank calls concerning U.S. involvement in Vietnam and their loved ones service there. ARE SALLY Hoffman and other recipients of abusive or threatening phone calls at the mercy of these callers? Absolutely not, says the American Telephone and Telegraph Company which, through its subsidiary companies, maintains about 84 percent of the Nation's telephone communications. In fact, since 1966 when abusive phone calls began increasing telephone companies have developed some very sophisticated techniques to track down the unsupervised youngsters or misguided, frustrated or mentally ill persons who place such calls. The telephone no longer offers the mask of anonymity. Telephone companies categorize annoying calls as (1) excessive sales or survey calls, (2) nuisance calls designed to irritate, or (3) abusive, harassing or obscene calls. HERE ARE some general tips which should be used in the event one is bothered by annoying phone calls: . . . Use your telephone on your own terms, not those of the caller. In short, dont talk to anyone unless you want to. . . . Ask the caller to identify himself. When the voice asks, Who is this? dont tell him; instead, ask What number did you call? or Whom do you want? If the call isnt legitimate, that very likely will end it never to . . . TELL YOUR children and their baby-sitte- r talk mi the telephone to anyone they dont positively recognize. An innocent comment like Daddys in Vietnam could be helpful to a burglar. ... If its the kind of caller who remains silent after you answer, hang up immediately. Some want to listen just to hear what youll say particularly to learn if youll lie fun or no to listen to a dead line. Its angry frightened. calls are easily handled. Remember Sales or survey type conthat a telephone call is just as personal as versation. Dont feel obligated to answer questions just the questioner sounds official. And dont answer questions on the phone you wouldnt answer if they were asked by a stranger on the street. Ask for the name of the person calling and the company he or she represents; if the caller is a salesman and youre not interested, say so. If you dont recognize the name of the company conducting the survey, offer to call back or ask the caller to contact you again after you have time to check the reputation of his firm. Remember, its your telephone and your time. If youre face-to-fa- it could not only mean an eight percent pay raise across the board, but a 20 percent additional hike for enlisted men with fewer than two years service, plus $2 billion more for pay and benefits workers about government an average six percent pay HEARINGS BEGAN this hike January 1. This would week before a subcommittee bring a nearly eight percent hike for military at the same time because of the formula used in setting such raises. There are so many pay figures being tossed around in Washington that it is difficult to keep them straight. Just last week Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said Congress must raise the defense budget 4.5 to $5 billion to get an force by the end of 1972. He said this would have to be on top of regular increases. Independent of these suggestions is a bill by a group of congressmen which would bring huge pay hikes to the military, if passed. ALL OF these proposals appear to be running on sep- arate tracks. Here is the lay- out on the administration pro- in fiscal 72. The Civil missi AMC SAFETY AWARD Major James II. Roscoe (R), Chief Army Aviation Division is congratulated by Colonel Max Etkin, DTC Commander on the Divisions receiving tlie AMC Safety Award. The award was in recognition of the Division flying 3,092 accident free hours from the period Jan. 28, 1967 to June 30, 1970. Also shown is Otto Trapp, civilian pilot. as well as law pleted each month, telephone companies have developed some pretty exotic enforcement agencies means of identifying annoyance callers. Such new terms as Voice Print, Trap Circuit Pen Register and Polarity Trap have entered the vocabularies of annoyance call tracers. And telephone companies arent talking aliout all the devices theyve designed to search out crank phone callers. HERE ARE A few tips to help Army families thwart .the efforts of crank callers: . . . Dont list military rank in the telephone book. . . . Avoid excessive publicity about a family memlier who is going overseas without his family. . . . GET AN UNLISTED telephone, and give the numlier only to members of your family and close friends. . . . Train your children not to talk with strangers on the telephone, and under no circumstances to tell unidentified callers that their father is overseas. But if annoying calls are received, follow these four simple rules: . DONT TALK HANGUP NOTIFY THE PHONE COMPANY IF CALLS PERSIST CALL THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY IF A CALL IS THREATENING For more information aliout the dos and donts of crank telephone calls, ask your local phone company for a pamphlet on the subject. It will rpobably include an Annoyance Call Log to keep near the telephone to record vital information authorities would need aliout anonymous callers. ce . Service g Com- - of up a committee on federal pay. It would determine from Bureau of Labor Statistics sur- what the pay rates should be and make such recommenda- to the president. He then order the new into effect unless he determines because of na- tional emergency or economic conditions that he shoidd not do so. Congress could override the President and force the raise anyway. The Administration pro- says that the following the present BLS survey time- table, federal salary adjust- ments would be made in January of 1971 and 1972. AFTER THAT the pay raises would come in October each year, beginning in so that year there could be two raises. The second proposal is a bill submitted by the Adminis- tration several months ago that would give a 20 percent pay hike to enlisted men with less than two years ser- vice. This would be in ad-dition to the eight percent basic pay raise across the board next January. President Nixon introduced the third proposal April Mr. J. Fred Owing!, Chief, Requirement Analysis Division reSERVICE ceives congratulations and best wishes from Col. Max Etkin, DTC Commander upon his retirement after 294 years of federal service. 2914 YEARS LoW-PollutlO- Engine . Developed by Army II - - WASHINGTON (ANF) To combat automotive air pollu- nk tion the u s Automotive Command (TACOM) has developed the HYBRID en-ve- gine. The new engine controls com-tiobustion within the cylinder If d uses no addon tion control devices. . Unlike the conventional spark ignition engine which uses a carburetor to deliver the proper fuel mixture t0 the cylin- den, HYBRID features a feel injection system similar to that used on a diesel engine. Fuel injectors at each cylin-posder inject precisely the amount fuel needed to operate the B"' at W Bven horsepower tPuf requirement. This results ns pollu-salari- es al ,n. 1 jmbustl(f1 mixture and lower exhaust emis- sions at low and intermediate engine loads than can be achiev-o- f ed by the same engine equip-197ped with a carburetor, Army laboratory engineers Pinl out that the HYBRID concePt ako cuts fuel costs 20 to 40 percent. 2, saying billion he would include 2 COMMENDATION MEDAL Chief Warrant Officer Delbert M. West is congratulated by Col Charles M. Shadle, DPG commanding officer, following the presentation of the Army Commendation Medal to CWO West for meritorious achievement in the Republic of Vietnam. . 1T i A. i LoilIlSClor. lYVI Oil ilPGCl Debt DO for pay and other At one time or another we eliminate the pressure of benefits in the fiscal all faced with bills. - tors in waiting? fmebudget. Defense planners say times ONE COURSE of action is they may seem more insur- this could be spread among lnountal)1' , the bilk This is not .1- t0 items such as quarters allow- - Ae case Wiiy7 questfon js; easy as it may sound . ances, subsistance increases, What course of action educational benefits and other debtor avail himself to liquidate his trills, items. The Results ARE IN lie-cau- se simply not interested, say so, and if the caller is rude enough not to let you go graciously, hang up. NUISANCE CALLS can come from anyone, not just from strangers, but from close acquaintances, neighbors or even fellow employees. They dont come from these latter sources often, however. Generally, these calls are placed at random. If you get such a call and give the caller no satisfaction, he or die will usually give up after one or two attempts and try someone else. If nuisance calls persist, however, contact your local telephone business office for assistance. Abusive, harassing or olwcene calls are far worse than sales or nuisance calls. Their purpose is to infuriate and terrify. Don't let the caller succeed. As with the milder nuisance calls, this caller might remain silent for a while. By hanging up you dont give him a chance to get started; neither will he have a change to make obscene and suggestive remarks. Hed like nothing 1 letter than for you to demand to know who he is or to ask repeatedly what he wants. Threatening calls include bomb threats, threat to life and property, and threats of kidnapping, robbery or bodily injury to memliers of the family. Sometimes these calls are repeated over an extended period of time to harass and frighten a family. If you are thr victim of such a threat campaign, call the police and your local telephone company immediately. Proliably the crudest crank caller is someone who notifies the family of a serviceman serving overseas that he has been killed, wounded or is sick or seriously wounded. The only defense against such a warped caller is for servicemens families to know the facts aliout the Armys casualty notification system. And here they are: NOTICE OF DEATH or missing in action. The official notification that an Army member is dead or missing in n action always reaches the primary by means of a personal visit by an officer or senior noncommissioned officer who is prepared to present' proof of his n (such as parents of a identity. The secondary married son) of a service memlier killed in a hostile environment are also notified by a personal visit. This personalized notification is followed shortly thereafter by a Western Union telegram from The Adjutant General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., verifying of the House Civil Service Commission on the Administration bill as well as a similar one offered by Rep. Morris Udall (D., Ariz.). The Udall bill would give civilian ! ! ! And Here Are The Winners of BROWNS Gigantic 1st Liquidation Sale Contest Margaret Laursen v m 2nd Ruby Remington 5th Dorothy Waldrop next-of-ki- 6th Francis Redding feas-I- n may a and in most cases just not ilile without help. Other means or at least include refinancing which ex tends the payments, but at the same time increases the cost of the loan with additional interest; debt consolidation by means of one loan to pay off existing debts which creates a situation of paying interest cm interest; and seeking the help of a credit counselor. It is this latter course of action which a debtor should he cautioned about. The function of a debt- - adjusting agency is to help financially distressed debtors to settle their obligations. This is done by modification of the indebtedness through services of an intermediary known as a debt adjuster or credit counselor who collects certain sums of money from the debtor and distributes the same among his various creditors according to an agreed plan of modification or extension entered into between the adjuster and credit counselors perform a valuable service, others commit frauds and aliases and add little to the attempts to liquidate pre- - existing obligations of a debtor. It should further lie noted that not all creditors will accept partial payments which the credit counselor sets up. Unless the creditor agrees, he Is not obligated to accept anything less than the full agreed payments. FURTHERMORE, a creditor is not likely to accept a partial payment where he knows that the intermediary credit counselor is making a profit by districting partial payments. Withour proper agreement a debtor and creditor to make and receive partial payments, the creditor may rightfully refuse the partial payment caasing the debtor to lie in default. This may then give rise to a of in order repossession, next-of-ki- foreclosure or oth- er legal action taken against the debtor without regard to the credit counselor. (AFPS) (Reprinted from The Bayonet, Ft. Renning, Ga.) the information. Notice of serious wound or illness. The initial notification of serious wound or illness is normally delivered to the next-of-kby telegram. Department of the Army never makes such notifications by telephone. Are there laws which deal with abusive callers? Yes. The States have statutes which outlaw allusive telephoning, and in May of 1968 it became a Federal crime to make threatening calls across State lines. While abusive calls constitute a very small numlier of the billions of telephone calls com- - ffrtufi in 8th Lorna Solberg 9th i Mary Norris 10th Carolyn Aldous $ |