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El Paso Herald HOME MID-DAY STOCKS PRICE 15 CENTS IN EL PASO The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers El PASO TEXAS MONDAY DECEMBER 20 1976 VOl XCVI Ns 303 Social Security you can smile or frown In beneflta for every 32 earned in out-aide Income One piece o( bad newa ia that al- By ROBERT DIETSCH krtpse-HeeiN luff ttrtur WASHINGTON There'l good news and bad news to report at far aa Social Security goea next year: The good newa la that more than SO million retiree will enjoy a booat In benefit! beginning in mid-year Also on the good newa aide Social Security retireea beginning Jan 1 will be able to earn up to 13000 a year without loaing any beneflta The ceiling ia now 32760 A retiree earning more than $3000 next year will lose $1 atop the announcement last October that beginning Jan 1 Medicare recipients will have to pay the first $124 of a hospital bill for any stay of less than 0 days the current charge is $104 The Social Security tax rate stays the same 313 per cent on both worker and employer It is scheduled to rise to 603 per cent on each beginning Jan 1 1178 But the wage base in 1077 goes up from $15300 to $16500 Therefore workers earning or more who paid $60303 in taxes this year will be crease next April Benefits then will go up in June At present monthly benefits for a couple both over 63 range from $16165 to $58090 Benefits for a male over 63 range from $10790 to $387 JO Benefits for a woman over 65 range from $10790 to The difference between the male and female maximum ia linked to different computations of years' employment upon which benefits are calculated It's expected that political and economic debate will resume early next Bell criticized Carter names three more to Cabinet year on several facets of the Social Security system It is beginning to pay out more than it takes In and fears have been expressed that the system going However exaggerated such fears may be the fact is that an Social Security experts see the need for some change President Ford unsuccessfully asked Congress early this year to boost the Social Security tax rate ahead of schedule Incoming Presi- (Ooafinned on Page A-6) EP Weather Service Forecast: Fair windy (Details on Page E-2) Solar pact The industrialised nations signed an agreement today to pool solar energy knowledge in order to help save oil Page A-8 Welcome visitors Easy to spot in any crowd Mr and Mrs Santa Claus were visitors to El Paso recently bringing with them their ability to delight children from 1 to 92 years old Page C-l Consumer test How does your knowledge of your rights as a consumer compare with the knowledge of college seniors and professors? Sylvia Porter Page B-3 Oil slick A 65-mile-long oil slick threatens important fishing grounds on Georges Bank on the East Coast Page A-4 Bowl parade The football parade continues tonight when Alabama meets UCLA in the Liberty Bowl game in Memphis Tenn Sports World Page D-L Risky work Job hunters balk at opportunities with convenience stores because of frequent robberies during the Christmas season Page B-l Nh Iwuhhit The sun shone today tor the 37th consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only two days so tar this year The sun has tailed to shine only 24 days of the past 3443 (Dm IDS) Inside The Herald-Post moat 20 million workers will have to pay more into the system because the wage base on which Social Security taxes are paid goes up Jan 1 Another bit of bad news is that the 23 million elderly or disabled Medicare beneficiaries will have to pay more in monthly premiums How much more still isn't determined according to Social Security Administration officials This bad news comes The three selections brought to seven the total number of Cabinet seats filled by Carter to date He told reporters he expects to name the other four by week's end THE NAACP issued a statement in New York criticising BeU 58 who is an Atlanta attorney close friend of Carter and a former US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Carter quickly defended his choice for attorney general and also answered criticism of the fact that he has now named only one woman (Mrs Kreps) and one black (UN ambassador-designate Andrew Young) to Cabinet-level posts think Griffin BeU has a superb record on dvU rights" said Carter "I tMnk there would be no justifiable criticism of him It is accurate to point out that we have not had an attorney general from the South since the war between the states more than 100 Mrs Kreps S3 is a vice president of Duke University in Durham NC She ia a labor economist a member of the New York Stock Exchange and serves on several corporate boards including JC Penney snd Eastman Kodak AS FOR APPOINTMENTS of minorities to the Cabinet Carter said: would not be fair to minority members and women to give them special consideration just to include more of them in my he said But he said a special effort would be made to recruit minorities and women for deputy and undersecretary positions Bergland 48 is a farmer himself He operates a 600 acre farm and has been an adviser on farm policy Issues for Vice President-elect Walter Mondale Bell thanked Carter for his confidence in making the appointment and noted an inscription over the Justice Department building says place of justice is a hallowed place" He said as we will run the Department of Among those mentioned for the remaining posts were Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson a black to be secretary of housing and urban development Joseph Califano to be secretary of health education and welfare and Dr Harold Brown president oLCall-fornia Institute of Technology to be secretary of defense By HELEN THOMAS UFI WMte Hmm IwMtor PLAINS Ga Jimmy Carter today selected Juaniti Kreps to be his first female Cabinet member as commerce secretary and tapped former federal judge Griffin BeU of Georgia for attorney general despite NAACP protests The President-elect also announced at i news conference the selection of Minnesota congressman Bob Berg-land 48 to become agriculture secretary Cocoa tea join coffee in price rise WASHINGTON (UP1) Shoppers who have watched coffee prices soar to new records this year can expect even higher prices in 1977 Agriculture Department economists said today Switching to tea or cocoa wont help the budget much they said Experts said relief is a long way off In a report published today they said world coffee production is not likely to return to normal until the 1979-80 marketing season although output could improve earlier than that MEANWHILE analyst! William Bowser and Rex ET Dull said supplies continue tight and prices will remain relatively At the same time Bowser and Dull noted that tea prices on London markets have also risen to new record highs recently snd in a separate report Dull said prices for cocoa also have risen to new records this year because of poor crop prospects in West Africa this means consumers will be paying higher prices for cocoa and chocolate products in the coming months he said Contributions mount Contributions to The Herald-Post's Needy Family Fund are off to a brisk start with $112350 sent in the first week For a list of contributors see Page B-l Missed the game The wreckage of a single-engine airplane standi and Pittsburgh Steelers in their AFC playoff as testimony to 'what could have been in Bal- game Kroner of Baltimore the pilot tlmore'i Memorial Stadium yesterday The was admitted to a hospital with cuts but there plane crashed into the upper level minutes after were no serious injuries (Story on Page D-2) thousands of fans watched the Baltimore Colts endorsements nicked for $963 23 in 1977 Under preaent law benefits go up annually if consumer prices measured by the government's Consumer Price Index (CIP) rise more than 3 per cent between the first quarter of one year and the first quarter of the next year Projections put the CPI rise between early 1676 and early 1977 at between 3 per cent and 6 per cent The Social Security Administration will announce the official benefit in COMMISSIONER Richard Telles startled the court but drew hearty applause from the audience when he made an impassioned plea for the program know in my heart I have broken the law many Telles declared "But I was not indicted and I was not indicted because I had money or some good angel friends that's the ugly word we are ignoring I had a child who made a mistake He did not go to jail but he made a mistake But that child Is not a criminal "Jails were created and built for the poor You aee any wealthy people up there in that jail You don't see any of the organized crime heads up in that Jail The only people up program full recognition that most valuable asset with Marsh In April 1974 EPPTF announced that John Walton Jr then president of Walton Enterprises and owner of KELP-TV now KVIA had offered to provide a tower site at no charge On Aug 18 1973 EPPTF announced a swap was being sought with KELP-TV to give It Channel 13 instead of 7 with EPPTF to get $41300 from KELP when the FCC ap- A Yes All lo use Public tor everyone the role of the strong instructional serve the needs County agrees to fund By JANE PEMBERTON But two County Court-at-Law Project PIVOT the second-chance judges Jack Ferguson and Robert Galvan provided strong program for youthful offenders will PIVOT there are poor people why 1 am for Project PIVOT This court has a chance to keep some 14-year-old some 16 or 17-year-old from becoming a criminal" PIVOT IS a pre-trial diversion program taking first offenders out of the mainstream of the criminal justice system and putting them into the program for six months to a year If they successfully complete the program they are not required to go into court and enter a plea They have no conviction on their records Launched In El Paso as an experiment the program was fended through federal and state funds which are being cut off in a dispute over felony cases Judge Ferguson said he hoped the court would give favorable consideration to PIVOT WILL PUBLIC TELEVISION HELP TO EDUCATE AND INFORM PEOPLE IN EL PASO? continue next year as a full-fledged operation fended by the county County commissioners today unanimously approved picking up the funding for PIVOT The courtroom packed supporters of the program broke into wild applause and cheers Mrs Elayne Brown PIVOT director was surrounded with well-wishers Tears rolled down her cheeks but her smile was a big one THE MOTION to pick up the funding was made by County Commissioner Clyde Anderson and seconded by-Judge Udell Moore Before the vote the court had heard both pros and cons on the value of PIVOT but the majority of speakers were in support of it District judges some of them reportedly opposing the program did not appear a continuing education El Paso's children are its Public TV backers running out of time WHY IS THE a PASO BOARD OF EDOCATIOH IHTERESTED IH PUBLIC TELEYMOHT WHO WILL OWN PUBUG TELEVISION IN EL PASO? Telephones News 747-6700 Want Ads 747-6800 Circulation 747-6900 I money i in the process of drawing up the contract as to the tower site location" Roy said "It's an expensive location We lease the site from Mortgage Investment Co and under the contract the foundation would share the payment of the lease The use of our antenna is also involved in this sit uation and have to go up there with a new building and transmitter look forward to supporting it (public Roy said "but we can't commit ourselves to anything and then find out we produce what we A CHANNEL CHANGE is also being contemplated with KVIA-TV under the contract negotiations If both parties agree to this change the FCC would have to give its approval Whether EPPTF would receive any money from KVIA-TV for the channel change as would hsve been the ease with KELP-TV was not disclosed Roy noted KVIA-TV's change' to Channel 7 la a tie-in preferred hy KVIA-TV since most American (Oonttnued on Page A-l) By MANNY ONTIVEROS Time and money are running short for the El Paso Public Television Foundation (EPPTF) in its long struggle to bring public television programming to El Paso January 16 1977 is the deadline set by the Federal Communications Commission by which EPPTF must have a broadcasting station ready for operation A request for an extension of this deadline is being prepared for submission to the FCC according to EPPTF Chairman Mrs Elaine Rosen How much of an extension is granted will depend on a ruling by an FCC review board educational institution are encouraged Television to sponsor extensive studies The Carnegie Commission who studies Public Television in a community emphasized fact the Public Television should include interests otherwise it does not of the people A Public Television can advance education on all levels: strengthen relationships between 'Anglo' and Mexican-American students supplement not replace the classroom teacher- illustrate expensive equipment making it unnecessary to stock costly laboratory materials In the classroom assist the 'drop-out' with A It will be owned by all the people of El Paso Is a non-profit organization A charter has been granted by the Texas Secretary of State for He operation under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act El Pfiso Public Television Foundation raised some questions and answered them in fund-raising attempt MONEY IS another of the foundi- struggled toward the goal of having tioa's shortcomings its own public TV station The FCC de- still lack over $80000 to cover ignited Channel 7 for use by public expenses for getting the station on the tv or educational TV as it waa EPTF treasurer Col (ret) Wil- known then on April 14 1932 to Proliant Rand said "We'll also need vide El Paso community service pro-funds to pay salaries for some 12 to 14 grams without commercials and at no people make up the staff Our C0lt to viewers The station has been power bill alone we estimate could be designated KCOS about $17000 a For more than 24 years El Paso has THE BIGGEST esuse of delay in proved the change THE SITE donation and $41300 deal fell through when Walton sold his enterprise to Marsh Media which exercised its option to buy Channel 13 on OcL 28 1975 and then actually bought the station on April 14 1978 Wayne Roy KVIA-TV's general manager now says both parties getting down to the language of the EPPTF's effort to provide such programming has been the securing of a transmitting tower site EPPTF is presently conducting contract negotiations with KVIA-TV to lease space on Channel 13's tower site atop ML Franklin Channel 13 sold out to Stanley Marsh (Marsh Media Limited of Mrs Rosen said had to renegotiate the entire contract.