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State Officials Shun Effort To Repeal Tax Hike COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Republican legislators, who voted as a block against recently approved tax increases, are keeping some distance between themselves and moves to repeal the 90 percent boost in the state income tax. A committee was formed last week to spearhead the repeal drive, and its members are mostly private citizens no state lawmakers or prominent officials. It is headed by Thomas Zuber, a Columbus attorney and one-time Democrat who mnre nvnanllv has leaned toward thp ran Under the measure, all tax increases enacted in 1983 would be repealed. Also, any future increases would have to be approved by either three-fifths or two-thirds majorities of the House and Senate. That option, though, is still being discussed by the coalition.

Currently, only a bare majority is required to enact a tax increase. Republicans, now in the minority of both houses, claim the 90 percent income tax boost was excessive and should not have been made permanent. -t a single COP legislator voted for the measure as submitted by Democratic Gov. Richard Celeste, since they advocated a scaled down, temporary increase to deal with current budget problems. Celeste and the Democratic majority moved quickly to pass the bill, pointing to earlier stopgap Republican budget bills that failed to balance the state budget and created a $511 milium deficit in the cur rent fiscal year.

Senate Minority Leader Paul E. Gillmor, R-Port Clinton, is among those ho said the repeal movement is spontaneous. "It's not a partisan thing, he said. Rep. David Johnson, R-Canton, minority whip in the House, said, "I've received thousands of letters and hundreds of phone calls from taxpayers who are really angry aout this tax increase." Johnson, too, painted a picture of non- partisanship, saying he offers his "wholehearted support to Tom Zuber and SET." Although some (IOP money may find its way into funding of the repeal campaign, some Republicans have said privately they don't want it seen as a party project.

For one thing, the issue could be defeated by voters, as a similar OOP-repealer was in 1972 following enactment of the original income tax. dictates and issues supported by the Libertarian Party, GOP sources said. The stop Excessive Taxation coalition AP Analysis although still working on proposed ballot language, hopes to collect more than voter signatures to place the repeal proposal on the November ballot. 1 oil rTTTZ3 Edward A "I Jo" CfUJ Er Co. tie Lost! octon COSHOCTON, OHIO 43813 MONO AY EVENING, Copyright Coshocton Tribune 1983 Tornado Can Hit At Anytime 1 (USPS 133-700) 4 ft i Si j-f it" mile wide, and they may travel less than five miles or up to 30 miles, leaving destruction behind.

Tornadoes can occur in outbreaks with several tornadoes causing damage over a large area in a short time The tornado which hit Xenia in 1974 was one of 148 occurring in 13 states between the afternoon of April 3 and the morning of April 4 Tornadws move across (he earth at an average of 30 miles per hour. They may. however, stand still or move up to 7(1 miles an hour. Atmospheric pressure drop, a phenomenon of tornadoes once thought to cause major damage, now is known to be of minor importance. Opening a window on the north side of the house is discouraged by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Tornado damage to See TORNADOES, P'igp 2 State EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles in conjunction with Tor nado Safety Week in Ohio. The series will focus on efforts of local and state officials in safety and educational programs for preparedness in the event of tornadoes. hy KATHY AULT Tribune Staff Writer Tornadoes are deadly storms. Each year they kill and injure thousands of people and cause millions of dollars in damage across the United States. In Ohio last year, 10 tornadoes caused damage to homes and businesses.

Two people were killed in spring storms and floods in 1982, as the state benefited from a very mild spring weatherwise. None of the substantial destruction of a community, such as that which occurred in the Morrow County town of Cardington in 1981 or in Xenia in 1974, happened last year. However, the calm weather in Ohio over the past winter increases the chances of tornadoes and similar storms with high winds this spring, Robert L. Martin, Coshocton County disaster services coordinator, said. Weather forecasters, tornado spotters and other community agencies are gearing up to give citizens as much 1 I'M Experimental Watershed, near equipment is left to right: a rain gauge; a hygrutlier-mograph.

measures humidity and a sling psyrronieler, which relative humidity; and an wind gauge. (Tribune Photo by WEATHER EYED Sluilenls in Darlcnc Rnnta's i til uradc (lass at Initial Elementary have been studying severe weather and weather forecasting. Here sluilenls Shelley Chancy anil Kcanan l.illihridgc demonstrate weather inn-casting equipment Hie class burrowed from the IS Department of Agriculture Research Service, North Ai- U.S. And Soviets Swap Charges On New Missile Defense System If MARCH 28, 1 983 I fcwu '13 that the Soviets, with all the work they have done and are doing in this held, would develop at about the same time we did the same kind of efleclive defense," Weinberger said, 'wliieli would then have the cf leet ill totally and completely lemoviiig these missiles from tin- Km lb In bis Reagan asked the American public to lobby for his delense program. "Tell vour senators and con- Facing Utilities bills in many regions.

Twenty two slides have moratoriums most imposed by law. some hy the utilities themselves on the cutoff of service lo delinquent customers during the winter, the AP survey found. The nioraloniims already have expired in live slides, and are scheduled to end this month or next in the 17 others. Most utilities said they intended lo cut off service to customers who do not make arrangements to pay at least pari ol llieu hill now Olficials also stressed, however. Hint 111 most cases they would prefer avoiding culolls "Thiit's like shutting off the cash register," said Ken lledr-11k ol lieyenne 1 Wyo Light, Fuel and Power Co.

As utilities struggle to collect overdue bills, many have experimented with funds designed to assist their neediest customers palueliia Fresno. The weighing bucket which temperature; measures anemometer or Kathv Ault) Hearing Is Sought On Watt Appointees The Coshocton urea (oromst rails for cloudy skies tonight with a low of 30-35. Mostly sunny skies are expected Tuesday. Details on Page 3. THIRTY CENTS Celeste To Show Tax Pla COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Gov.

Richard Celeste is to submit his two year budget bill Wednesday and his tax proposals are expected to soften the effect of a reconl 90 percent increase in the slide income tax The package also is expected to include recommendations requiring businesses to absorb a bigger share of the slate tax burden. Although the Legislature except lor leaders and some committee memliers is away on an Easter break, the Democratic governor is scheduled to submit his two year budget bill Wednesday morning One provision in Ins budget plan, officials said, will increase the personal exemption in the income lax from $fiTit to $1,000 a year Also expected is an effort to increase credits thiil may be ('1111111111 by married couples When the Legislature enacted the permanent increase in the individual income lax, which look effect March 1, Celeste promised tax changes in the budget document, which lays out state spending for the bienmum lieginnmg July 1. The governor indicated thai his proposals generally will follow the recommendations of a Tax Advisory Commission he named shortly after taking oltice.lan. 10 And he indicated it will include some recommendations Irom a joint legislative committee that studied the tax structure in late 1982. Among those are proposals that would extend the sales lax lo cover some services that businesses must buy, for ex ample legal, architectural and data procession Htatrs with moratoriums hut the day of reckoning is near.

Ohio's moratorium ends on April I. (AP) report "an early draft paper" that may be "heavily adjusted'' More reaching the exec utive committee of the advisory group President Ronald Reagan created the advisory panel last June as part of a drive to bring businesslike management to the federal government. The VA report was written by William C. Douce of Phillips Petroleum Hans Wanders of Wachovia Bank Trust Co and William L. Weurly ol Ingersoll Rand Co.

The rcort suggests all VA programs except its hospitals could le divided among the departments of Defense, Education and Housing and Urban Development and the Social Security Administration The agency's $6 7 billion Gl insurance program would be turned over to private firms. The proposal was also Immediately criticized by spokesmen for the nation's two largest veterans' groups, who noted that the VA provides service to veterans. is one of II ART AMUNDSEN Reg. Rep. 132 S.

3rd St. 6238084 VOL.73 NO. 21 1 At Glance Local LEADERS TAPPED Three area residents have been named by the Central Ohio Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to lead bike-a-thons in their communities. Jack Patterson of West Lafayette, John Boatman of Coshocton and Robert Buxton of Warsaw will lead the bike-a-thons to raise money to fund cystic fibrosis care, teaching and resource center at Children's Hospital in Columbus. Prizes and refreshments for the fund-raisers are to be donated by local merchants Slate NITRO SOUGHT A police bomb squad begins digging this week for about 20 ounces of nitroglycerin a FBI informant said was buried 10 years ago near a neighborhood by Lake Erie.

The informant, who remains unidentified by police officials, told agents earlier this month the highly explosive substance was buried alorg the lake; a shoreline residents said has eroded at least 10 feet during the past 10 years. No evacuation of the neighborhood is planned. National MEMBERS WAIT Striking United Auto workers members were awaitihg a response from Caterpillar Tractor Co. on a counterproposal the union made in an effort to end the longest strike in UAW history. The strike by 20,400 UAW employees at 18 Caterpillar plants in six states began 178 days ago.

The union made its offer Saturday. World HORSES HIT A deadly herpes virus has invaded the stud farm for Austria's famed dancing Lippizaner stallions, killing 30 mares and foals and threatening about 200 other horses. Government veterinarian Othmar Schmchlik said from the Austrian town of Piber five brood mares and 25 foals have died since the beginning of March from rhinopneumonitis, a disease caused by a strain of herpes virus. Inside A FORMER U.S. Army sergeant says agents drew straws after World War II to see ho would kill Nazi Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie Page 3.

A BOY kidnapped in Venezuela last month outsmarted his captors and escaped to return home. Page 9 TAX TIME is upon us, and a little organization could save taxpayers a lot of money in various deductions Page 9. THE FINAL FOUR is set for the NCAA college basketball championships next weekend in Albuquerque, N.M. Page 10. Calendar TODAY Coshocton Cilv Council 7:30 City flail Council Chambers.

West Lafayette Village Council 7 110 N. Kirk St Index Area Briefs Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Market Updates Ohio New Public Notice Legate sport Today Reports Weather warning as possible before a severe storm hits. In Ohio, the season when most tornadoes occur is April through mid-July, although they may occur at any time of the year. June is the most active month for tornadoes in the state. Spring and early summer are the most likely times for tornadoes to occur because the storms are generated when warm, moist air drifts north and encounters cool, dry air.

A tornacjo is easy to recognize. It is a funnel-shaped cloud extending from the base of a thunderstorm. When it touches earth, it twists and swirls, throwing debris in all directions. Tornadoes usually occur after violent thunderstorms, especially those with hail The noise of a tornado has been likened to a freight train or a jet airplane and can be loud enough to cover the noise of crashing trees and buildings. Although a tornado can come from any direction, in Ohio 90 percent come from the southwest.

Nearly all come from the back part of a thunderstorm. Tornadoes range in wind speed in the central core from less than 100 miles an hour to nearly 300 miles an hour. Their path of destruction can range from a few yards to nearly a entists." Watt, appearing on the CBS interview program "Face The Nation," said he chose scientific advisers based on expertise, but he also defended his right to change board members. "You don't have a birthright," Watt said. "Once you've been appointed to a committee doesn't mean you have a right to be their forever.

"Let's change it over," Watt said. "Let's get new blood in there and Republicans are qualified contrary to what you might believe." Watt denied the changes amounted to a purge. "We don't use that word, and we don't carry on those activities," Watt said. "We believe there ought to be input from all segments of society." According to news reports, the secretary's office sent the GOP national committee a memo last year entitled "Appointment Clearance Request." The memo contained the names of 14 scientists being considered for appointment to the department's nonpartisan advisory committee on offshore oil leasing. The committee returned the memo with four names marked "yes" and 10 marked "no." Wfm, Air AlW ji2XL Moratoriums- Red Tape WASHINGTON (AP) -President Reagan's call for a new missile delense system has touched off a verbal exchange between the two super-powers, with Soviet leader Yuri V.

Andropov accusing Reagan of lying and the United States charging that Moscow is distorting the truth. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger entered the fray Sunday, calling Andropov's attack "the simple standard So viet disinformation that has been poured out for years "We regret the tone and content of Soviet Communist Par ty Leader Andropov's response to the president's speech on defense policy," the State Department said over the weekend. Andropov, in an interview for the Communist newspaper Pravda published Sunday, said Reagan told a "deliberate lie" in asserting that the Soviets have not kept to a moratorium on deploying medium-range nuclear missiles. The Soviet leader also said Reagan's proposed missile defense was part of an "extremely perilous" strategy that laymen migbl find "attractive as the president speaks about what seem to be defensive measures." "In fact, the strategic offensive forces of the United States will continue to be developed and upgraded at full lilt and along quite a definite line at acquiring a first nuclear strike capability," Andropov said Reagan outlined his missile defense strategy, and defended his proposed $1.7 trillion defense budget, in a nationally televised address last Wednesday. J'" 9p ii! 0 WW'" i Show Takes Weinberger defended the proposals in an appeal anco on NBC's "Meet the Press'' Sunday.

"The defensive systems the president is talking about are not designed to be partial. What we want In try to gel is a system thai ill develop a delense that is thoroughly reliable and lot a Weinberger said "I would hope and assume a By otis Loss Of By ROBERT BURNS AP Business iter For neai ly I nullum customers who are behind on their utility bills, the start of spring could bring end In the comforts of home heal and lighting In Ohio, utility oil i.ds estimate as many as 300,000 ens turners could lose service Thursday, when a slide law that prevents utilities from eultiiig oil service to delinquent customers during the inter expn es In New Yoik. the day of reckoning lor past due customers is April 1T An Associated Press survey shows nearly 2 million people in 17 slides lace such a threat The problem could have been bigger il not for the unusually mild inter in much ol tlie nation The weather, coupled with ii recent slowing of the escalation 111 utility rates, has meant smaller tlian-expeeted electricity and gas Jf Tiiim 1 r.n If Off gressmen that you know we must cool nine to restore our military strength," the president urged viewers. His apM'iil was too late in the House A half hour before I he speech, the House approved a fiscal 1984 budget blueprint that calls for boosting Pent agon spending by 4 percent alter inflation, compared with the 10 percent in crease Reagan had sought. asm CUTTING DIE This graphic shows the breakdown nl states according to iitility-sliutiiff moratorium laws.

Ohio to eliminate the VA There is no chance it will be done Shortly alter Applegate made the recommendation public, a spokesman lor I he private seelor advisory group downplayed its significance The spokesman (ailed the DDI dl.AS APPLEGATE Against Proposal 7 Slates No Moratoriums But Extensive Red Tape On Cutoffs Moratoriums No I No I -I I' I 1 5 r- I WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Dale Bumpers is seeking a congressional investigation of reports that the Interior Department dropped 10 scientists from a non-partisan advisory board after the Republian National Committee objected to their appointment. Interior Secretary James G. Watt on Sunday denied any effort to purge the scientific advisory boards of Democrats, but said he sought advice on selecting their members from a wide range of sources including, "1 would hope," the Republican Party. Bumpers, who obtained a copy of an Interior Department memorandum on the subject, said Sunday in Little Rock that he has asked for a congressional hearing.

He said he asked Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn chairman of the subcommittee on energy conservation and supply of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to conduct the hearing. "What it is is a blatant effort on the part of the Department of Interior to make sure the scientists put on that committee make some kind of ideological test," the Arkansas Democrat said. "When you do this, you're guaranteeing that you're not getting the best sci- Jury To Probe Attach On Cops In Montgomery MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A grand jury will hear evidence today against 11 blacks from Michigan and Ohio who were accused of beating up two hite policemen.

A judge recommended last week that the Montgomery County grand jury consider attempted-murder charges against only four of the defendants, and that charges against the others be dropped. But Ellen Brooks, an assistant district attorney, said she would give all the evidence to the grand jury. She said she also would present claims from some of the defendants that they were beaten during questioning at police headquarters. The all from either Pon-tiac, or Warren, Ohio, were arrested after one policeman was beaten and shot and another beaten and knifed in a Feb. 27 melee at a house on a dead-end dirt road.

The 11, all members of the Taylor family, had gathered with other relatives at the home after a funeral. Some were still wearing choir robes. Applegate Against Plan To End Veterans Ageney By KM. I. STERNBERG Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Rep.

Douglas Applegate, I) Sleiilienville, is considering holding bearings on a suggestion lo abolish the Veterans Administration A task lone of the president's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control made the abolition suggestion on the premise that VA unctions could be transferred to 'her government agencies. Applegate, Subcommilt on Veterans' f'ompcnsation. Pension and Insurance chair ian, predicted the suggestion would run into opposition Irom veterans' groups and members ol Congress. An aide said Applegate will to see the administration position before deciding whether to hold hearings "I boX' the president will realize the sensitivity of the issue and reject this proposal belore it gets off the ground," the 18th District congressman said "The president should reahe immediately that Congress is not going to allow him air show at Fisher Big Wheel 111 the Down Towner Plaza this weekend, displaying model planes. Benjamin's craft won the best of show at the exhibit.

(Tribune Photo by Steve Carpenter) Tom Benjamin of Neweomerstown, a member of the Coshodon County Cloud Climbers club, begins to dismantle a model of the first practical helicopter. The original craft was flown In the 1930s in Germany. The club had its annual.