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fo ftiE Shbevepobt Times Friday, March 6, 1970 7.B PONYTAIL Payroll Tax Hike Seen By Lee Holley Astronauts Of Apollo 11 To Be Feted Congress Aims to Trim Doctor, Hospital Costs WASHINGTON (AP) The oppee WASHINGTON (AP) cials have estimated it could National Space Club named the Apollo 11 astronauts first team Spurred by soaring medicare soar to $12 billion by 1975. In VACATION, 3 Days, 2 Nights X-Y $45.00 per person, double occuv II Lounge Show Deluxe Brunch Midnight Show at the Sands, tht Landmark, the Frontier, or the Silver costs, Congress is about to see if to achieve a landing on the moon as winner as of its Goddard creased coverage as well as ris ing costs are factors. The committee is still await pancy, Sunday thru Thursday, i Deluxe Room Drinks 'Dinner Slipper Swimming Sunbathing memorial trophy 'Thursday. ing- administration recommen Tennis Special golt option Utie trophy will be presented to dations, but there have been Show at the new hit musical superspectacular "PZAZZ '70" some informal soundings. Nfcil A.

Armstrong, Edwin E. there is any way it can clamp a lid on hospital and doctor charges. One safe bet: the payroll tax for Social Security is almost sure to be raised. Most speculation is that the wage base on which the payroll taxes are levied will be raised from $7,800 to $9,000 a year. At present rates, this would boost Aldrin, and Michael Collins One possibility being discussed is for a fixed scale of by Mrs.

Robert Goddard, widow fees for physicians' services, based on prevailing charges of the pioneer rocket scientist, at the annual Goddard memorial during some recent period plus a factor for increased cost of dinner here March 18. the maximum tax from $374.40 The club also selected George a year to $432. W. Low, deputy administrator of living. Under consideration for hospitals is a ceiling on charges, coupled with incentives for hospi The House Ways and Means Committee completed work on a welfare reform bill Thursday tals 4 to reduce their costs by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to receive its astronautics engineer award.

Low assumed the No. 2 NASA post here Dec. 3 after having served as Apollo spacecraft more efficient methods. and began preparing for a study of the Social Security and related programs, including medi Some committee members are insisting that federal policy care and must nudge hospitals into such Tmtmm W. W7S, WeiM iWti ri.

program manager at Houston, for the first five manned flights in the Apollo program, The committee plans to start work on its new project in about economizing practices as setting up joint bookkeeping and administrative facilities, service including the Apollo 11 mission of "Daddy, Donald got me home all right, but his motor fell out in the driveway!" 10 days. LAS VEGAS A Hughes Raort Hofct For reservations see your travel agent. Cost reports for medicare, the federal health program for the last July 15-24. The Goddard trophy is awarded annually for great achievement in the space flight elderly, have been running $3 pressure to increase again benefits for retirees and others, which it is levied. Medicare costs alone appear to require this.

billion a year higher than origi nally estimated, according to which were raised 15 per cent at the beginning of this year. Other the Health, Education and Wei- Social Security changes sure to facilities such as laundries, and avoiding duplication in the same community of expensive equipment that could be shared. The committee is expected to try to find a formula for encouraging hospitals to reduce their costs below the ceilings. The committee also has on its list of possibilities extending medicare, now limited to people 65 or older, to persons retired under the disability provisions fare Department. The cost is expected to rise from an estimat be considered are an increase in the payment to widows and an occ increase in the amount retired ed $7.2 billion this year to $3.4 billion in the fiscal year beginning July persons may earn without having Social Security benefits reduced.

Shortage Checked WARSAW (AP). Letter writers to Warsaw newspapers have complained about being unable to buy toilet seats so one paper, Zycie Warszawy, sent a reporter out to check the shortage. He visited half a dozen department stores before he found one. The federal share of medi Whatever else is done, the caid, the federal-state program for low income persons, is run committee is deemed certain, to of Social Security. Cost factors, increase the payroll tax for ning $800 million a year above the maker ot America number Social Security, in all probability however, could block this development.

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