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February 9,1983
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TO ROLL THROUGH THE CAMPUS
everyday that risk derailment:
Gov’t workers to be included
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United Press International
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — A mid
night fire at a downtown nurs
ing home killed six elderly resi
dents. Five others were led to
safety by two young women staff
members. Lives may have been
lost because the alarm was
sounded late, officials said
Tuesday.
Social Security plan given
Flames were shooting out the
windows at the Silver Leaves
Home when Firefighters arrived
shortly before midnight Mon
day, Fire Chief Kenneth
Mikesell said. The death toll was
the highest for a Fire in the city’s
history.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Federal
orkers and postal service em-
loyees adamantly oppose a
lan to include new government
|mployees in the Social Security
ystem, arguing it will bankrupt
aeir own civil service retire-
lient funds.
Kenneth Blaylock, president
f the American Federation of
iovernment Employees, told
ae House Social Security sub-
ommittee Monday that federal
workers are “justifiably para-
loid” Congress will not protect
heir pension plan.
Representatives of several
kher federal employee and
Yostal worker unions were tes-
ifying Tuesday before the sub-
ommittee, in its second week of
iearings on the Financial prob
lems of the Social Security
jystem.
Most of the union leaders be-
ieve the National Commission
in Social Security Reform,
al $20 billion through 1989 by
requiring the new federal work
ers and employees of nonprofit
businesses to contribute to the
Vhich submitted its short-range
Jure package last month, was far
•oo optimistic in its estimate of
low much money could be
aved by including new federal
.vorkers in the system.
‘ The commission estimated
he Social Security retirement
und would pick up an addition-
system.
But the National Association
of Retired Federal Employees
said, in a testimony prepared for
Tuesday’s hearing, although the
commission estimates $13 bil
lion of that will come from fed
eral workers, newer numbers
will be in the $8 billion to $10
billion range.
The American Federation of
Government Employees says the
figure for federal and postal ser
vice employees alone is closer to
$3 billion, largely due to the
Reagan administration’s reduc
tion in the federal work force.
Blaylock said federal em
ployees believe they “have been
used as scapegoats by the Con
gress and the administration.
He said the employees have seen
benefit after benefit cut.
Now Congress is saying we
want to use your retirement sys
tem to bail out Social Security,”
Blaylock said.
The core of the commission’s
proposal, endorsed by President
Reagan, House Speaker Tho
mas O’Neill and most congres
sional leaders, would provide
$168 billion in payroll tax. in
creases, a six-month freeze on
benefits and new taxes on high-
income pensioners, in addition
to including newly hired federal
employees in the Social Security
system.
A majority of the Republican-
controlled National Commis
sion on Social Security Reform
recommended in a supplemen
tal report the retirement age be
increased gradually to 66, after
the turn of the century, to help
solve the system’s long-range
financial problems.
O’Neill, Monday, rejected
raising the 65-year retirement
age to finance the ailing Social
Security system.
The stand by the powerful
Massachusetts Democrat makes
it unlikely that the option could
be approved in the House, but
the proposal has strong support
in the Senate.
Meanwhile, a panel of senior
citizen representatives, told the
Social Security subcommittee
they vehemently opposed any
reduction in benefits, including
raising the retirement age and
freezing the annual cost-of-
living adjustment for six
months.
But subcommittee Chairman
JJ- Pickle argued: “We simply
have to consider the years
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Fire officials said the deaths
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quicker or if the home had been
equipped with an automatic
alarm system.
Staff members Sabrina Thor-
son, 19, and Cindy Wold, 21,
went back into the burning
building to get people out,
Mikesell said. Thorson was hos
pitalized for smoke inhalation.
The victims, all victims of
smoke inhalation, were identi
fied as Ludwig Falkner, 80; Don
White, Lester Stelter, Rose
Mitchell, Margaret Schmidlin
and Frank Devney.
One of the staff members
came downstairs about mid
night and saw flames in a waste
basket. She ran back upstairs to
call the owner of the building
before sounding the alarm, the
chief said.
The home did have smoke
alarms which alerted the staff
'he
members, officials said.
“When we got there, thefe
residents and the two
women were outside,” Mild
said. “I guess they wokeupps
pie to get them out."
One body was found near
front door of the two-stop
frame building, which housj j
1 1 elderly residents. Upstaia t ° p( !
two bodies were found in each
two beds and one in a hallw
the chief said.
“The fire was confinedteL, ,
the living room area,
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mg
morning
smoke and water damagetoij
remainder of the
Mikesell said. He estima
damage at $25,000 to I
but no cause was determinecl
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