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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan will hold a prime-time
news conference next Tuesday in
Chicago, the White House said.
Parched Southeast reports
first drought-related layoffsWI
In an unusual presidential news
conference away from the White
House, Reagan will select questions
from members of the traveling
White House press corps and from
Chicago-area reporters, spokesman
Larry Speakes said Tuesday.
The news conference will be held
at 8 p.m. EDT.
Reagan’s news conference will
come at the end of a day in which he
will speak at the Illinois State Fair in
Springfield and then travel to Chi
cago to appear at fund-raising
events on behalf of Republican Gov.
Jim Thompson and Judy Koehler,
the COP candidate for the Senate.
Low water in the drought-seared
Southeast is forcing a slowdown in
papermill production, killing thou
sands of pine tree seedlings and cut
ting into the Tennessee Valley Au
thority’s hydroelectric generation.
A 71-car train with 1,440 tons of
hay donated by Vermont farmers
for cattle in dusty pastures arrived in
Georgia on fuesday, with distribu
tion planned on Wednesday, and a
94-car train of fodder from Wiscon
sin and Minnesota arrived at Bir
mingham, Ala.
But in the drought region one en
terprising Georgia town is selling
hay irrigated with water from its
waste treatment plant.
Agricultural losses are estimated
at $2.3 billion from the Mason-
Dixon line to northern Florida.
Heat-related deaths have mounted
to 104.
Champion International said
Monday that 25 employees at its pa
per mill in Canton, N.C., took un
paid leaves or vacations and 4 1 were
shifted to maintenance.
Up to 100 or more could be laid
off out of a work force of 1,983 once
the maintenance work is finished,
said plant Manager J. Oliver Blac k-
well.
The plant is reducing pulp pro
duction by half and papermaking by
35 percent.
Blackwell said Champion’s water
shortage became critical when a lake
on plant property droppedi®VUS'l II
to use to supplement intakefijjjhite, gan
Pigeon River, which is at hall, urc three
mal flow. , A Hi, on W
In South Carolina, Bowaitthture for
the nation’s largest prodistHirease tc
newsprint, is avoiding pi(.;.bi|ion bud
cuts at its Catawba plantbyhHSome ;
a 1.4 billion-gallon holding! fobs — am
wastewater at a cost ofSTr/fitt day <
fhe Wateree River is tool jion “I kn
lute the waste to waterquafcwlen leal
dards, said public relationsmjHHoweve
Kdward Haws. Hential s
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fhe I VA, which operate many cot
and dams for flood control Jtht v prefe
tion and hvdroelectricity,ha:H’lt’s no
lowed the drought to affeti lqlestion c
tion on the Tennessee Rivei mi st do <
Hxas —
Taxes take $22 of every $100 earned
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S 3 5.000 - S 3 9,999 house |atically «
dropped from 22.2 percent: of the sta
percent. > || Htcycle.
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for households earning j; rate from
524,999, tax share fell fncRnt. The
WASHINGTON (AP) — For ev
ery $100 earned by an American
family, the four largest taxes gobble
up $21.90, according to a new gov
ernment study.
And while that’s only a dime more
than a year earlier, the report on
taxes and income for 1984, the last
year for which such a detailed analy
sis has been made, found the bite ris
ing for those least able to pay, while
upper-income Americans had fall
ing tax rates.
The Census Bureau study of af
ter-tax income found that 92.4 per
cent of all U.S. households paid at
least one of the four major taxes —
federal income, state income, Social
Security and real estate.
That was up from 92.1 percent
who paid at least one of those taxes
in 1983.
And while most of those taxes are
progressive — meaning they in
crease according to rising income —
Americans at the lowest end of the
income scale found their tax burden
rising while those earning more paid
a smaller share, the study disclosed.
For example, for those house
holds earning under $10,000 that
paid any taxes at all, the share was
9.8 percent of income in 1984, up
from 9.3 percent a year earlier:
Households in the $10,000 to
$14,999 income bracket saw their
tax burden rise from 1 1.5 percent to
11.6 percent over the year. Those
earning $ 15,000 to S19,999 were un
changed, paying 14.5 percent each
year.
From $20,000 on up, however,
the tax burden declined.
Households with incomes of
$50,000 and over fared best in year-
to-year terms, even though they also
paid the most.
That group paid 28.1 percent of
income in taxes in 1984, down from
29 percent a year earlier.
Households earning $30,000 to
$34,999 also did well, with their tax
share falling from 21 percent to 20.4
percent to 17.2 percent; LHu. sa 'J
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pet e ent; S40,000-SH999, HCalling
23.1 percent to 22.7 percen:|
545,000-$49,999, f rom 24.1 pi
to 23.6 percent.
fhe main culprit in theiiij
seems to have been Social Sftl
Not only is the tax rate higheil
in past years, it is being apptl
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commission showed traces of PCBs,
benzene, toluene, lead and four
types of phenol compounds in water
samples taken from various spots at
the school including the top of the
landfill.
Low levels of PCBs were found in
each of three samples but in concen-
trations well below the 50 parts per
million the EPA allows.
Investigators were unable to re
move the cap of the monitoring well
at the landfill and they were unable
to find a port in the 25,000 gallon
tank filled with contaminated soils
dredged from the ponds in 1981.
The investigators recommended
that the EPA conduct further inves
tigations of the site by specifically
testing soil around the toxic waste
landfill and testing soil and water at
the drainage ponds and landfill.
Brown said the EPA contracted
another Dallas firm to perfom addi
tional tests. Samples were made at
the school in January and the results
will be issued within a month.
Brown says that the large demand
for environmental testing, coupled
with the limited number of firms ca
pable of performing such tests, ac
counts for the two- year gap between
the vyater commission’s request for
an EPA investigation and the issu
ance of the EPA report.
The hazardous chemicals buried
in the landfill were contained in
waste oils donated by various Gulf
Coast refineries and chemical plants.
Throughout the 1970s, donated
waste oils were used to fuel training
fires at the school.
Department of Water Resources
officials said in 1979 that the refine
ries may have illegally donated the
oils to avoid paying waste disposal
fees.
A&M now purchases commercial-
grade fuels from regular distribu
tors, Charles Page, head of the fire
man’s school says.
As a result of the investigation,
the state required A&M in 1981 to
dredge 9,000 cubic yards of contam
inated soil from one of three drain
age ponds and bury it in a landfill.
A&M received special permission
to build the landfill at the site be
cause ground tests at the school de
termined its clay base would prevent
seepage. Water resources officials
now say they’re not sure if the clay
base is enough to prevent chemicals
from leaking into the soil.
The water commission recently
named the fire school as one of 14
state Superfund clean-up sites. The
school was also recognized in No
vember 1985 as one of the ten worst
polluters in the state.
The state Superfund was initiated
in 1985 and investigations into possi
ble clean-up sites began in January
1986.
A hearing will be held in Austin
Aug. 28 to determine if the A&M
site should be placed on the final Su
perfund list. Radke said the school
does not belong on the list and in
tends to challenge the proposal at
the hearing.
But regardless of the results of the
hearing, there may not be enough
Superfund money to initiate clean
up operations.
In a letter dated July 9, 1986, the
water commission informed the
training school it may have to pay
for cleaning up the landfill.
The letter says, “Based on an in
vestigation of the site, the TWC has
information which indicates that
(the training) school may be a re
sponsible party. . . . Responsible par
ties may be responsible for all mon
ies expended by the state should the
state take corrective action at the si
te.”
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Oil prices rise after OPEC cutbacks
NEW YORK (AP) —Crude oil.
gasoline and heating oil prices
moved sharply higher on world
markets Tuesday in reaction to
OPEC’s endorsement of its pro
duction cutback agreement.
Trading was volatile, however,
reflecting questions over how
long the Organization of Petro
leum Exporting Countries woiii
be able to keep the proms I
made in Geneva, analysts said
Other analysts attriM
swings in Tuesday’s marker
profit-taking, but predicted J
cartel’s action had stopped::
crash in oil prices. They saidc
agreement would hold becaust|
is in OPEC’s self-interest.
Tisch named new Postmaster General
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hotel
magnate Preston Robert Tisch
was selected on Tuesday as the
next Postmaster General, sources
said.
Tisch was picked by the Postal
Board of Governors. Sources as
sociated with Congress, the postal
board and a postal employees
union identified Tisch to The.l|
sociated Press, on the condiw
they not he identified.
Tisch, 60, is president oft
Loews Corp. which, besides!
tels, owns the Lorillard cigarci
business, most of theGNAFin
rial insurance company and!
lova watchmakers.
Near miss in shuttle launch revealed
WASHINGTON (AP) —
NASA came within 3 1 seconds of
launching the shuttle Columbia
last January without enough fuel
to reach its intended orbit be
cause of human error caused
partly by overwork and fatigue,
the Rogers Commission disclosed
Tuesday. .
The incident occurred on|
6, just 22 days before the:
Challenger exploded 73 seconl
after launch, killing its sevencif
members.
Th
Scott
proje<
Columbia was successful
launched on Jan. 12, after a J
cord seven delays.
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Oil issues raise Dow Jones slightly
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market closed higher Tuesday in
active trading, buoyed by the
strength of oil issues, but worries
over a sagging bond market kept
prices from surging ahead.
The Dow Jones average-of 30
industrials, up 18.84 points at its
midsession high, closed with a
7.03 gain at 1,777.00.
Traders said oil issues
stocks of banks thait have deb:
cured by energy collateral
the most after the Organizai
of Petroleum Exporting Con I
tries on Tuesday endorsedai"
month plan to cut product
thus lifting sagging oil prices.
U.S., Soviets announce exchange agreement
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet Union
on Tuesday announced the signing
of 13 exchange agreements that offi
cials said could restore cultural,
health and educational contacts be
tween the two nations to the levels of
the 1970s.
Under the agreements, worked
out during a one-week visit by a So
viet delegation, Soviet and American
art exhibits will be exchanged, more
students will study in each other’s
countries, and joint research and
programs will be undertaken.
“This is just the beginning,” said
Stephen H. Rhinesmith, coordinator
11 S. exchange initiative.
President Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed at.
their summit meeting in Geneva last
year to renew cultural exchanges,
which had proliferated during the
days of detente in the 1970s but had
been cut drastically after the SoTviet
invasion of Afghanistan in Decem
ber 1979.
Though the United States has
continuously condemned the inva
sion and supported rebels fighting
the Soviet-backed government in Af
ghanistan, Reagan said in proposing
the renewal of the exchanges last
year that they would help “promote
openness, honest communications
and opportunities for the two peo
ples to get to know each other di
rectly.”
Rhinesmith told a news i
ence that in addition to ilj
agreements signed during tb(|
week, both sides identified 1
tional areas for continued
opment.
He said he envisioned anM
the number of performing
exchanges compared to the II
roughly the same level ofeduj
nal exchanges and perhaps nf'J
tiatives not undertaken in tb 2 |
riod.
Reagan agrees to release Rehnquist memo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Reagan administration agreed late
Tuesday to show the Senate Judi
ciary Committee memos dealing
with William H. Rehnquist’s role in
controversial Nixon administration
policies from 1969 to 1971.
Senate Democrats said the
agreement would head off a consti
tutional confrontation that threat
ened to delay action on President
Reagan's nomination of Supreme
Court Justice Rehnquist to be chief
justice.
“We are getting access to all we
asked for,” said Sen. Joseph Biden
of Delaware, the ranking Democrat
on the Judiciary Committee.
The eight Democrats on the 18-
member panel were joined by two
Republicans in requesting the docu
ments.
The memoranda were written by
Rehnquist when he was chief legal
adviser to then-Attorney General
John Mitchell under President Rich
ard Nixon. They involve domestic
wiretapping and the administra
tion’s plans for dealing with Vietnam
war protesters.
fhe White House and Justice De
partment balked last week at provid
ing the memos.
But Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., a
Judiciary Committee member and a
close friend of Reagan, helped work
out the compromise.
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only a matter of agreeing on which
documents would be provided.
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But Democrats said theyaro
l ied they will he able to exani^l
relevant documents.
Sen. Edward M. Kenned'
Mass., said he was happy thattlf
ministration no longer is “ston* 1
fing.”
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scheduled to vote Aug. 14 an(
full Senate on Sept. Son thej Bp F° 11
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