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Page 6 Page 8 THE BATTALION N| National F 16G Oil severance taxes may cause interstate war United Press International WASHINGTON — A new study warns that a growing disparity in energy resources between the “haves” and the “have nots” of the 50 states is leading to “one of the largest capital transfers in our nation’s history.” al system, the Northeast-Midwest Insti tute said Sunday. “In G< TOKir carry , The unequal distribution of re- 'sources, coupled with high severance taxes imposed by producing states on importing states, threatens to create “superstates” that could harm the feder- The study said state earnings from the production of oil and natural gas will reach $220 billion in the 1980s and “pre cipitate one of the largest capital trans fers in our nation’s history.” The result, the study said, will be to “accelerate the decline of energy-poor regions and thwart efforts to revitalize the troubled economic structure of the older industrial states.” The recent Supreme Court decision upholding Montana’s 30 percent sever ance tax on coal will only make the prob lem worse, two members of the North east-Midwest Congressional Coalition said. Reps. Claudine Schneider, R-R.I., and Howard Wolpe, D-Mich., recom mended a national summit meeting on severance taxes to “study proposals for legislation that will respect the rights of producing states without causing econo mic disruptions in energy-consuming states.” The study said state severance tax revenues tripled from $710 million in 1972 to more than $2 billion in 1978. “However, the increases expected between 1980 and 1990 — the era of domestic decontrol — will dwarf any thing we have seen so far, it said. Some states, the study said, already depend on severance taxes — mostly paid by energy consumers — for almost one-fourth of their revenue, allowing them to sharply reduce business taxes. Texas, where severance taxes provide almost 18 percent of all state revenues, has no corporate or personal income tax, the study said. At the same time, the study said the crisis is not simply a Sun Belt-Frost Belt problem because 20 states generally thought of as in the Sun Belt also are energy-dependent. Without reform of the severance tax system, the study warned “there is a strong possibility that a dangerously di visive tax warfare will break each state striving to tax a precis modity just to preserve its com position. ” “In any such warfare, the M and Midwest will be heavylosen] so, ultimately, will be the entireui said the study, “as its states, an(j|e its local governments, impose) new tax burdens on certain sect:; become dangerously reliant otj narrow and probably regress* bases.” 1 Has Alton tonio photo Conti and hi Tin dea der — South T( : li MANOR EAST 3 823-8300 From the makers of JAWS and Star Wars RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 2:35 4:55 7:20 9:40 Burt Reynolds in Canonball Run 2:45 5:05 7:25 9:45 DRAGONSLAYER 2:30 4:50 7:15 9:35 Air traffic controllers consider leaving E4 ball p United Press International WASHINGTON — Some air traffic controllers are thinking about setting up their own private company to lease their services to the Federal Aviation Administration and win contract demands denied them as government employees. Articles of incorporation may be filed within the next few days in the District of Columbia for “Air Traffic Con trol, Inc.,” or a similarly named company, according to one controller who asked not to be identified. The idea of forming a private company for the nation’s 17,000 controllers was advanced after the government and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization agreed to a tentative pact June 22, averting a threatened walkout that would have defied a law prohibiting strikes by federal employees. The agreement now is before the controllers, who are expected to reject it by an overwhelming margin on grounds it does not address their main concerns — a shor ter work week and better retirement benefits. “I know it (the proposal for the private firm) is starting to raise itself again,” said John Thornton, head of the PATCO local at Washington’s National Airport. “The problem is, the FAA would never cut us loose. ” One plan originating in the Leesburg, Va., air route traffic control center would call for a mass resignation of controllers from the FAA to join ATC, Inc. after it is incorporated. Under the plan, ATC, Inc. then would negotiate with PATCO, the controllers’ bargaining agent, a contract pro viding virtually all of the benefits unsuccessfully sought by the union from the FAA. “At such a date as is determined by ATC, Inc., these men would legally walk off the job because they won’t be employed by the FAA any more, one controller said. “They wouldn t be strikers, they’d be bona fide employees of ATC, Inc.” given tnera: drug-1 lucky light a feasible in Boston, it would be two or three yearsd was a roac b smugj ' The biggest concern the controllers face isai%,, pj between themselves and their employer,” hesaic guild; don’t feel they have anywhere to turn — nobod; stands what their concerns are. What this would ; s up a vehicle that would be responsive to control i^wf Fermon said he fully supports current efforts union leadership to obtain an acceptable contrac a pp r0 i "It is safe to assume the tentative agreemen! wassh rejected by the membership, he said. “I’m i®BP e J devote all our efforts to obtaining a new contr mon! ‘ realistically we cannot rule out the possibility of as this plan doesn’t fit in at all under the presentd Officials at union headquarters and in several regional offices said the union leadership has not been involved in the plan. Eastern region Vice President Michael Fermon, a chief promoter of the private company idea when it was first considered some years ago, said even if such a plan was An FAA spokesman and does not favor it. "The FAA would lik control and ont I Th namec the gr slayinj monui i „ , Issued to keep responsibility tor ai'Mg r _ 0 reason is the controllers have! said the agency is aware of W fabulously good job, the spokesman said. 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Class will begin with the very basics and will advance as the ability of the class progresses. A variety of spins, turns, pretzel, aerials (if class desires), and much, much more! Classes will meet Sunday nights from 6:00 to 7:15 on July 19, 26, August 2 & 9. Instructors: Mike McCarley and Sheri Cobb Cost: $7 Registration will be held Thursday, July 16 in the Free U Cubicle (216 MSC) from 2-5 p.m. v Get ACTION wkh MUTT ADS Advertise an item in the Battalion. striking workers picketed outside the institutions or stayed home to protest the political impasse over a fiscal 1982 state budget that has frozen their paychecks since July 1. The other 2,000 guardsmen were on standby status. The job action, which began Friday, bas been confined so far to mental health facilities. But work ers at sewage treatment plants and prisons were considering joining the strike, union officials said. A legislative conference com mittee approved a compromise $6.3 billion spending plan for fis cal 1982 shortly after midnight Sunday, hut the breakthrough did not alter the strike plans. State Mental Health Secretary Mark J. Mills said 2,000 guard reinforcements were activated, but were held on standby until state officials could assess the ex tent of the walkout at hospitals Monday. At the mental facilities. Mills said only 40 percent of the regular workers showed up Sunday where 920 guardsmen were on duty. The guardsmen joined supervisory personnel and workers at the faci lities doing cooking, washing clothes, changing linen and pro viding security. Col. William Gormley, Nation- have al Guard operations of enforc M assachusetts, said tw 'saklfn police units comprising S akl, ‘ were also ready for actio: agent situation warrants. someb They’re doing ven punity Gormley said. "Thetaskiif “T bit foreign to them in tb' hiind not specifically trained by th type of activity, (but) anothe amazingly adaptable.’ ter am “Today (we) will be c sion o percent, and that presenl about problem for patients andti ^“Th Mills said. date t “Anything that disniptit’s a c vices has the potential for let, an danger. ” that lii The union, the Ana Na Federation of State, Coe prosec Municipal Employees, hi oppon sis meeting” Sundayofun: Texas ers throughout the difficu AFSCME, the largest stMagnii ployee union, represents S'“Tl of the states’ 80,000 work mate John Harvey, an 1 easily spokesman, said the strik Assists spread to other state a; ,Speck, possibly including the illegal ment of Corrections witlRtonc prison guards, state urfTexas. campuses and the MetrtOT Mai District Commission, wii drug i spread jurisdiction overpr and I\ creational facilities, reser cornel: its own police patrol. period tion pi land, < Call 845-2611 Now Better Than Ever. 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