Alabama Journal du lieu suivant : Montgomery, Alabama • 2

I ALABAMA JOURNAL, Montgomery, Ala. Monday, June 30, 1980 Taxes Going Up Even Faster Than Prices By LOUISE COOK base to 1979, taxes more than tripled, Associated Press Writer about 226 percent. During the same period, prices index confirms what many people have as measured by an indicator called the Gross new suspected for years: taxes are rising faster than just tional Product price deflator just about doubled, about anything else including prices. increasing by 109 percent. (The GNP price deflator different from the Consumer Price index, partly The index released at a time when a growing because it takes into account some of the changes number of politicians are talking about a tax cut buying habits that occur during periods of inflation.

was developed by the Tax Foundation, a non- While the deflator went from 100 in 1967 to about profit research group based in Washington, D.C. The in 1979, the Consumer Price Index went from 100 foundation staff also created "'Tax Freedom Day" about 230.) the theoretical date each year on which a typical Looking at productivity, the foundation American will 1 finally have earned enough to pay his searchers found that the real output of the private or her taxes. This year, in case you missed it, business sector, in constant dollars, went up only came on May 11. percent in the 13-year period that ended in 1979. To calculate the tax index, the foundation looked A look at per capita personal income figures the Commerce Department shows that income at average federal, state and local levies over the It the increases in taxes with the kept pace with taxes.

In 1967, per capita personal years. compared income was $3,153. It rose 176 percent to $8,706 increase in prices and in the real output of the private 1979. business sector. The index shows that from 1967 the year used as The rise in taxes has been particularly sharp U.S.

Court Vacates Penalty By KENDAL WEAVER Associated Press Writer The, U.S. Supreme Court today vacated the death sentences of nine condemned inmates in Alabama, Alabamians cases back to the Alabama Court for further action, stems last week's ruling against capital punishment statute. State's attorney Ed Carnes Bribery Charge Dismissals Sought For 3 Defendants By MARY REEVES Advertiser Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM Defense attorneys in the federal coal fraud trial here are attempting to have bribery charges against two former state senators and a member of the House of Representatives thrown out. U.S. District Judge Frank McFadden recessed the trial Monday morning to allow federal prosecutors time to prepare arguments against the motion.

Paul Curran, attorney for defendant Larry Drummond, said in his motion that the bribery charges should be dropped because defendant former state Sen. Joe Fine was not in office at the time he took a free junket to Of 9 decision that throws into doubt convictions of all 45 prisoners tenced under Alabama's 1975 penalty law. a The decision, which sends 1 the the post-season Sugar Bowl in 1978-79. The attorney also said the charges against former state Sen. Eddie Hubert Gilmore and state Rep.

Jack Biddle III should be dropped because they did not attend the bowl game at Drummond's expense that year. The defense claims Fine left office in November 1978 and could not be bribed for votes after leaving office. Opening testimony in the ninth week of the trial presented evidence Fine, Gilmore, Biddle and former Alabama Power Co. vice president Walter Johnsey were treated to a Sugar Bowl junket in 1977-78. Unindicted co-conspirator former state Sen.

Bob Wilson of Jasper also attended the 1977 Bowl game at Drum- (Continued From Page 1) (Continued Heat shattered a 56-year-old record by six degrees. The mercury soared to 108 degrees at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, 106 at El Paso. 104 in Lubbock and Abilene and 103 in Waco. Texas medical examiners say heat stroke has claimed 10 victims and the deaths of 34 other people may be related to the heat. In the Texas heat wave of July 1978, 24 people died of heat-related causes.

In Arkansas and Oklahoma, at least four people died in each state over the weekend because of the heat. The hellish temperatures pose the greatest threat to the elderly and poor, health officials say. But in Dallas County, a 6-month-old child was among those who fell victim to the heat. Texans were urged to stay out of the blazing sun and keep their air conditioners or fans going. And Dallas Power Light Co.

said people who need air conditioning to stay healthy should not turn off the cooling units to save on electric bills. Spokeswoman Joan Hunter said the company wasn't encouraging "an but would work out special payment plans. Three "heat centers that had been opened for elderly people without air conditioning were closed because few people showed up. Texans were advised to curb outdoor activities. and officials in Wichita Falls were considering calling off a summertime boys' baseball program because of the heat.

In Wichita County, sizzling temperatures were wilting crops in the field. "Rain and irrigation is the only thing that will save us now," said county agent Don Decker. "Fruit crops are severely damaged and peaches especially are turning into little knots." In Arkansas, more than 2.2 million broilers and 185,000 breeder hens had died, and as many as 5 million broilers and 500,000 hens could succumb, said Don Allen, executive vice president of the Arkansa Poultry Federation. Allen said the industry had lost $2.5 million and poultry farmer Hillman Koen predicted those damages could double. In Oklahoma, where weekend temperatures climbed as high as 111 degrees, the concrete-slab rising Na- is in 209 to re- 44 from hasn't in in Supreme from Alabama's said that mond's expense, according to testimony.

Jerry Byars, chief lobbyist for Drummond, testified about hotel invoices that charged Drummond Coal Co. for room and expenses for the men and their wives. Byars estimated the total cost of the 1977-78 junket to the company at between $80,000 to $100,000. That figure included $95-per-night rooms, air fare, game tickets, parties, riverboat rides and meals for some 100 guests. The 1978-79 junket cost the company from $100,000 to $115,000 according to Byars' "best guess." According to the hotel bills, room and charges for Fine, Gilmore and Wilson totaled $304, while Biddle's room charges were $288 and Johnsey's were $192.

Byars said the company reserved suites at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street. Agencies Get No Spending Memorandums sought any lesser verdict. MARKETS Last-minute shopping splurges by state agency heads to spend every penny left in their budgets for the last quarter of the fiscal year is expected to be deterred by a memorandum from the state Finance Director's Office. Last week, state Finance Director Sid McDonald sent a memorandum to all state agency heads mandating that any future purchase orders will be scrutinized by his agency, which controls state spending. James Raiford, state budget officer, said the order is not unusual.

"It's an old thing in bureaucracy to try and spend up the money left in your budget before the end of the year so no one thinks you asked for too much money and then tries to cut you next year," he said. Raiford said the memorandum is issued at this time annually in an effort to curtail the large purchases of agencies trying to spend their budget balances. "We figure if they haven't made their big purchases by the last quarter of the fiscal year, then maybe they really didn't need it," he said. "We're just trying to hold down the purchases that are rather large." NEW YORK (AP) -Midday High AbbtLab Akzona Allis Chaim 26 Alcoa 59 Am Airlin 8 Am Brands Amer Can Am Cyan AmFamily Am Motors Am Stand 58 Amer Beat Food Beth Steel Boeing Boise Cased Borden Buringt Ind 19 CannonMills CaroPwLt Celanese Cent Soya 12 Champ Int Chessie Sys Chrysler CocaCola Palm 14 Colg Comw Edis ConAgra 20 Conti Group 31 Delta AirL DowChem duPont 42 Duke Pow EastnAirL East Kodak EatonCp Esmark Exxon Firestone FlaPowLt FlaPow recent years, the foundation said. From for example, the tax index went up 65 than twice the 30 percent rise in the index and more than three times increase in the output index.

The foundation is conducting more out what types of taxes at each level federal, state a and local are Preliminary studies indicate that the taxes increased much more rapidly levies during the late 1960s and early that, the foundation says, the trend From 1975 to 1979, the index of federal 74 percent while the index of state rose about 50 percent. An earlier foundation study, that the heaviest federal tax burden of big cities and the surrounding suburbs. tion calculated that the federal, burden for the nation as a whole was Death by vacating the sentences, rather than by totally reversing, them, the U.S. Supreme Court left it up to the Alabama Supreme Court to either restore the convictions or possibly call for new trials. But John Carroll, an attorney representing death row inmates, said the U.S.

Supreme Court's action is a "strong, strong indication" that new trials may be required for all of Alabama's condemned inmates. Last week, in striking down a critical portion of Alabama's 1975 death penalty law, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Gilbert Beck and sent his case back to the Alabama Supreme Court for further dispostion. Today's action is a procedural move requiring the Alabama Supreme Court to review all nine cases-and by extension all 45 death penalty cases -in light of the Beck decision. The nine affected by today's action were death row inmates Billy Ray Williamson, Thomas Milton Wilson, Edward Horsley, Clyde Cade, Brian keith Baldwin, Wayne Eugene Ritter, Willie Louis Mack, Roger Stewart Thomas and Timothy Dale Crawford.

Those were the only Alabama death penalty cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Carnes said a tenth case, involving death row inmate Huey Coon, recently reached the Supreme Court and is expected to be sent back in a similar fashion. The other 33 death penalty cases are on appeal at the state court level or before lower federal courts. It's expected that they, too, will be reviewed in light of the Beck decision or will be directly affected by whatever action the Alabama Supreme Court takes.

The state's high court has not officially received the Supreme Court's order. In the meantime, however, both Carnes and Carroll plan to seek a full hearing before the Alabama Supreme Court to debate what action should be taken in light of the Beck decision. In the Beck ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the "mandatory" provision of the 1975 law which gives juries only two optionsa death verdict or an innocent verdict -in capital murder trials. Carroll, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends the Beck ruling is an "almost fatal" blow to the entire 1975 statute.

Carnes, an assistant to Attorney General Charles Graddick, contends that the law is still valid even if the mandatory provision is not. And he says the Alabama Supreme Court can review each case individually to determiine if a new trial is necessary. He said, for example, that the Beck decision shouldn't affect the conviction of Ritter, who demanded a death sentence during his trial and never FordMot 24. PepsiCo For McKess 27 PhilipMorr 41 Fuqua Ind PhillpsPet 46 46 GenDynam 67 Polaroid 23 Gen Elec Proct Gamb Gen Food Quaker Oat Gen Mills RCA Gen Motors 47 RalstnPur 28 Republic Stl Gen Tire Revlon 46 GaPacif 28 ReynidInd Goodrich RockwellInt Goodyear RoyCrown Grace Co StRegis Pap GiNor Nek Scott Paper Greyhound SeabCst Lin 38 Gulf Oil SearsRoeb Herculesine Skyline Cp Honeywell Sony Corp Ing Rand 58 58 58 Southern Co IBM 59 South Ry 64 64 Intl Harv Sperry Cp Int Paper Std Brands Int Rectif 20 20 20 StdOil Cal Int StdOilInd 58 mart 23 Std0ilOh 52 KaisrAlum Stevens JP Kane Mill 9 9 9 TRW Inc 39 39 KraftInc 46 Texaco Inc KrogerCo TexEastn Ligget Grp Texasgulf Lockheed UMC Ind Loews Corp Un Camp Masonite Un Carbide 44 McDermott 29 29 UnOilCal 53 53 Mead Corp Uniroyal MinnMM US Steel 19 19 Mobil Wachov Cp Monsanto WestPtPep NCNB Cp Westgh El 23 Nabisco Weyerhsr Nat Distill WinnDix 29 29 29 OlinCp Woolworth 26 26 OwensIll Wrigley Penney JC 25 Xerox Cp 1975 to 1979, percent more price deflator the 21 percent research to find of government rising fastest. state and local than federal 1970s.

After was reversed. taxes went up and local taxes meanwhile, showed falls on residents The foundaper-capita tax $1,599 in 1977, the latest year for which complete statistics were available. Residents of the 266 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas the country's biggest 1 population centers had a per-capita tax burden of $1,728. People living outside the statistical areas had a burden of only $1,244 per person. Here is the foundation's list of the 10 most-heavily taxed areas and the per capita burden in each place: Anchorage, Alaska $2,689.

Bridgeport, Conn. $2,472. San Francisco-Oakland, Calif. $2,256. Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia $2,245.

Newark, N.J. $2,146. Reno, Nev. $2,134. N.Y.

$2,110. Midland, Texas $2,087. Sarasota, Fla. $2,064. Seattle-Everett, Wash.

$2,043. A look at the 50 biggest metropolitan areas showed the lightest per capita tax burden $1,327 fell on residents of San Antonio, Texas. Rollin' Own To Cost More A new state tax 25 cents on gummed cigarette rolling papers will go into effect Tuesday. State officials have been unable to determine how many packs of gummed cigarette rolling papers are sold in the state and how much revenue the new tax will reap. It has been estimated 4 million packages of rolling papers are sold annually in Alabama, but there is no breakdown on which are gummed and ungummed papers.

The Legislature approved the tax during its 1980 legislative session, which ended May 19. The tax will go on at the wholesale level, but is expected to be reflected in a price increase at the retail level. Ex-B'ham Mayor Green's Rites Tuesday BIRMINGHAM (AP) Graveside services are scheduled for Tuesday for former Mayor W. Cooper Green, 79, who died Sunday. Green? served Birmingham as a state legislator, postmaster and president of the city and county commissions.

He was ill for several years with diabetes and heart ailments. He died in a nursing home Sunday. Green's father, Charles Martin Green, was a real estate promoter who developed much of North Birmingham and nearby Tarrant City. Green was elected to the Legislature in 1930. In 1933, he was appointed Birmingham's postmaster by President Franklin Roosevelt.

He served for seven years. He was elected mayor and president of the city commission in 1940 to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Jimmy Jones, who died in office. He was reelected in 1941, 1945 and 1949. CLASSIFIED. A ADS IN YOUR (Continued From Page Storm 1 the sendeath nine but several birds were killed when a tree fell on top of them.

Hospitals in Baltimore reported at least 22 injured, including eight hit by debris from an overturned stage at a German festival in the city's waterfront area. Also on the waterfront, high winds toppled a large crane at the Dundalk Marine Terminal, but no injuries were reported. About 50 miles north of Baltimore, 10 people were injured when a tornado lashed through a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Ground, a government installation, according to state police. On Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Marine Police searched for the missing on Sunday. Police said two of the missing were occupants of a rubber raft which capsized near Fort Smallwood in Baltimore County.

William Clark, state police spokesman, said three tornadoes reportedly touched down in St. Marys County in the southern part of the state. No injuries were reported, but police said there was heavy structural damage and scattered power outages. Clark also said a tornado struck a farm in Bushwood, scattering "tobacco and barns over 500 feet." In addition, the state police spokesman said damage was estimated at $200,000 at a marina in Chestertown where another tornado touched down. Baltimore Gas Electric Co.

spokesman Charles Franklin said 52,000 customers were without power late Sunday and employees worked through the night until power was restored. roadway on a portion of Interstate 40 "blew up' as searing temperatures caused it to expand. And a motor home burst into flames when 105-degree heat ignited propane from a storage tank beneath the vehicle. The two Wichita, families inside escaped uninjured. In Virginia, a fast-movin blast of cold air sent temperatures in the high 90s and low 100s plummetingabout 20 degrees late Sunday, and the storms spawed by the front injured several and left thousands to be without power.

Five people were struck by lightning in Roanoke on Sunday and a man was injured in Lynchburg when a tree branch fell on him. Rain The National Weather Service at Dannelly Field received a report of a funnel cloud between Autaugaville and Prattville about 8 p.m., shortly before it appeared on the weather service radar. State troopers reported sighting a funnel at 8:10 p.m. about 5 miles northwest of Dannelly Field. The Montgomery Fire Department reported one at 8:15 on Highland Avenue.

Montgomery police reported another in east Montgomery about 8:30 and a resident reported sighting another on East South Boulevard about the same time. There were no reports of touchdowns. Dannelly Field recorded .13 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour. The brunt of the storm lasted about a half an hour in Montgomery and traveled through the state at about 40 to 45 mph, acording to David Wilfing of the weather service. Alabama Power Co.

spokesman Bryant Allen said the company, while experiencing scattered spot outages, suffered no "major stuff." He said there were "three or four" feeder line outages on Mitchell and Pike roads, caused either by blown fuses or downed tree limbs, that affected about 150 customers each. Other outages affected individual households or small groups of customers, Allen said. "We got most everybody back on by he said. More than half of Alabama, mainly the central section, was under a severe thunderstorm watch for some four hours. Tot Falls To Death BALTIMORE (AP) A 22-monthold boy climbed to his bedroom window while his mother thought he was napping and plunged 11 stories to his death, police said.

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