The Michigan Daily-Sunday, October 23, 1977- YCOJ SEE t&S PP1DI CO liZ y - Happenngs .., are so sparse today that you might as well study for your mid- term ... they start at 7:30 tonight with a meeting of the Citizens for Gay Human Rights at Canterbury House, corner of Catherine and Division ...;at 8 p.m., un-married adults are invited to join a discussion-social session on "Comrmunication - Overcoming Barriers to Effective In- teraction," in the Fitst Methodist Church Green Rm. (State & Huron Sts.), including refreshments for a donation of 50 cents ... and, also at 8, there's a session on "A World Hungry," examining the problem and its causes, at St. Mary's Student Chapel, corner of Thompson. & Williai Sts.... things pick up on MONDAY, beginning at noon in 2009 Museum of Anthropology with a lecture by Dr. Dwight.Read of UCLA on "Quantitative analysis in Archeology: Implications for Theories .. from 4-6 p.m. Sir Eric Ashby will lecture on "The Student: Partner, Customer or Ward?", in Rm. 131 of the School of Business Administra- tion ... at 7 p.m., East Quad sets off its free African Film Series with a showing of the first two segments of the TV saga "Roots" in the EdukCation School's Whitney Aud. ... from 7 to 9:30 p.m., the Washte- naw Council of Women's Organizations will have its first organiza- tional meeting at the Ann Arbor Public Librry ... local filmmakers can show their experimental films at Canterbury House, corner of Catherine and Division, beginning at 8 p.m. ... from 7-9 p.m., visit the weekly group session by the Child and Family Service of Washtenaw County on "Environmental Modifications and Safety," at the Ser- vice's 2301 Platt Rd. offices ... and over in Ypsilanti there's a program on "The Subculture of the Mental Institution," with a lecture by Ar- thur Boyd, Community Services Director at Ypsilanti State Hospital, in the Center for Social Concerns (511 W. Forest Ave.)... th-that's all, folks. An attractive character; Roy Sullivan pays his bills, loves his'family and goes to church on Sundays. But people avoid him, and one mountain restaurant won't let him in on overcast days, he says. Sullivan, a resident of Dooms, Va., has a tendency to get hit by lightning. "I don't believe God is after me. If he was, the first bolt would have been enough. I don't believe that business about when you're born, either. Other folks born on February 7, 1912 haven't been struck by lightning seven times," he says. The seven bolts left him with a devoted family and a lot of "fair weather" friends. "Naturally, people avoid me," he says. "I was walking with the chief ranger (at Shenandoah Park) one day, and lightning struck a long way off, and he said, 'I'll see you later, Roy'," Six of the seven jolts hit him in that park, where he retired from his position as ranger last year. Roy's misadventures have knocked him unconscious, bur- ned off his hair, torn off his shoe, damaged his hearing, ripped off his toenail, hurled him in the air, and left him with a drawerful of woeful relics, such as a melted pocket watch, and the like. And despite the in- stallation of 12 lightning rods in his new trailer, Sullivan thinks he will get hit again. Don't know if it's clear to him, but it's obvious to us that someone up there likes to burn him now and then. Rara avis in terror Inter-departmental feathers are flying in San Diego this week over the fate of 10 rare birds allegedly smuggled into the U.S. The Department of Agriculture claims that since the birds, Tahiti blue lories, were smuggled into the country, they must by law by either killed and frozen or returned to their South Pacific home to prevent the chance of spreading disease. The Department of Justice, however, wants to use the birds as evidence in prosecuting the smuggling culprits, who were arrested on Oct. 7. And Curator James Dolan of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, where the colorful group is being quarantined, hopes wistfully to breed the bunch. "There is a very real' threat they will be extinct in a few years," he said. Meanwhile, the 'lories, valued by collectors at $5,000 each, are being kept in guarded cages at a cost of over $120,000., On the outside . .. .things will remain pretty much the same. Both today and tomorrow will be partly cloudy to overcast. Tonight's high will be 55 ,with an overnight low of 43, and winds from the southeast at 8-15 m.p.h. Tomorrow the high will touch 600 and then dip to the mid-40s at night., . W_........ ........... .... .. """ ........ .. ... , Daily Official Bulletin r ::..... . ... .... ....:...::..:.: :..::......... . ..- -"--"--- Payroll WASHINGTON (AP)-iPayroll taxes for most workers and all employers are likely to go up next year in an effort by Congress to rescue the financially troubled SocialrSecurity system. The Senate Finance Committee is on the verge of approving a bill that by 1987 would mean taxes of $120 a year above current levels for a worker ear- ning $10,000. Dor a person earning $20,000, the payroll tax would rise by $445 a year. UNDER THE BILL approved by the committee Friday, the maximum tax an employer pays for each worker could rise by as much as $4,323. Meanwhile; the House plans to begin debate nett week on a plan that would mean $105 more in taxes for the $10,000 worker by 1987 and $415 more for the $20,000 employe. Unlike the Senate version, the House keeps the employer's tax at the same level as the worker's. UNDER EITHER bill, taxes on mid- dle- and upper-income Americans would increase at a greater rate than those paid by low-wage earners. taxes may rise next yea Democratic leaders in both houses have made passage of Social Security legislation a priority before Congress adjourns for the year. Even if Congress takes no action this year, Social Security taxes on all covered workers and employers will go up next year because of existing law. But experts say the increased money will not be enough to keep the pension system solvent for more than six or seven years. WHEN ADDED to the tax increases scheduled under current law, backers say, the plan approved Friday by the Senate committee would raise Social Security taxes enough to keep the system solvent for 75 years. Social Security is in trouble because the declining birth rate and high unem- ployment have resulted in fewer workers contributing to the system, while inflation has forced benefit in- creases beyond what was expected. The plan accepted by the Senate committee would end the tradition of employers and employes paying equal amounts into the pension system. That change would have the greatest impact on colleges, hospitals, research :facilities and other organizations with a large number of high-paid workers. PRESENT law requires that a worker covered by Social Security con- tribute 5.85 per cent of his first $16,500 of annual wages to the system. That results in a maximum tax of $965, a figure that is matched by the employer. The maximum will rise to $1,071 next year., Under the Senate bill, the maximum employe tax would climb to $1,196 in 1979, $1288 in 1980 and to $2,390 by 987. The last figure is for a worker earning $33,900 or more annually. THE TOP TAX paid by an employer would go to $5,288 in 1985-but tltit would be paid only for a worker earninig $75,000 or more. The tax paid by a worker earniirg $10,000 a year would rise from the current $585 to $605 next year, $614 tn 1979, $660 in 1981, $700 in 1985 and $705 n 1987. The House bill would have about tle same effect on the $10,000 worker. Bt the maximum tax would be higher u4- der the House provisions, rising to $1,385 in 1979, $1,567 in 1980, $2,390 by 1985 and $2,732 by 1987. The maximum tax on the employer would be the same as paid by the worker. Byrd: Energy plan stalls South Korean gov t unaware of payoffs WASHINGTON (UPI) - A South Korean spokesman said yesterday' his government was unaware, of any alleged payoffs to members of Con- gress by its agents, and said a House probe into those charges was based largely on "hearsay." Reacting to statements by House investigators that they can prove Korean officials conspired to buy in- fluence on Capitol Hill, Su-doc Kim, a spokesman for the Korean Embassy in Washington, said "We are greatly disturbed by the allegations that have been made in congressional hearings. "MOST OF the testimony given during the course of the hearings has been based on hearsay." Kim said his government "does not condone illegal acts by any of its citizens. "Any wrongdoing that is said to have beensdone was not done with the knowledge, approval or cooperation of our government," he said in a statement released early yesterday. KIM SAID, "It is one thing to accept the word of the witnesses about what they sa w and did them- selves, and quite another to link the Korean government to the alleged il- legal activities, as some of the witnesses have done." But on Friday, at the conclusion of three days of hearings by the House Ethics Committee, Peter White, an aide to chief committee counsel Leon Jaworski asserted, "The question of whether these things took place is very simply a dead issue." ' The evidence showed there was "an official plan" that "was execut- ed" and "that tremendous sums of money were provided to Korean agents . . . to exert influence on American officials," White said. IN HIS STATEMENT today, Kim said the Seoul government had sought to cooperate with U.S. author- ities "to settle the so-called Tongsun Park affair amicably within the framework of international prac- tices." But Jaworski said on Friday that Korea's ground rules permitting his interrogation of Park were too restrictive to be productive. He said he was disappointed by the Korean attitude. While investigators indicated the Korean involvement was clear, they said it will take time to find if congressmen acted improperly. One witness, Jay Shin Ryu, admit- ted delivering cash or gifts for Park, the rice dealer alleged to have run the clandestine lobbying operations. But Ryu, a long-time associate of Park testifying under immunity, disclosed few details of the activities undertaken by Park, now in Seoul and out of reach of investigators. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd said yesterday's efforts to amend.a Senate Finance Committee energy tax bill calling for tax credits rather than taxes could lead to the loss of President Car- ter's entire energy package. The West Virginia Democrat said he would urge opponents not to try to amend the bill, but to let it go to a con- ference called to work out differences between House and Senate bills. SENATE LIBERALS have vowed to fight the committee bill, which would, provide $40 billion in tax credits and in- centives but does not include taxes on crude oil and other energy taxes requested by Carter and passed by the House. Byrd told reporters he fears an /ex- tended Senate battle over the measure, -which was approved this week by the committee on a 13 to 5 vote, could result in its defeat and possible loss of the en- tire energy package. "I favor a crude oil tax," Byrd said, "but I would vote against an amen- dment to add it if I felt the result would THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVIII, No. 40 Sunday. October 23, 1977 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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MONDAYS at the UNION LANES open 10 a.m. - TODAY AT 3-5-7-9 'ouLig YP ~VW~s n'b', n;*0 e . 1', 1 TODAY AT 1-3-5-7 Congress gets fake letters ii :1 ~r 1 The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN FORM to 409 E. Jefferson, be- fore 2 p.m. of the day preceeding publication and by 2 p .m. Friday for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Items appear once only. Student organization notices are not accepted for publication. For more informa- tion, phone 764-9270. Sunday, October 23, 1977 DAY CALENDAR WUOM: Options in Education, "Portrait of American Adolescence, part II, a look at some of the problems facing your people - sexuality, teenage pregnancy, alcohol use and abuse, 1 p.m. Music Society: Philharmonic Hungarica, Hill Aud., 8:30.p.m. Monday, October 24, 1977 DAY"CALENI)AK CEW: Life Planning: An Integration of Family 'and Work/School. 328-3:3C Thompson, noon. Physics/Astronomy: W. 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Also, SUMMER intern program for 2nd year law students. Register in person or by phone 763-4117. WASHINGTON (AP) - Letters with forged signature are being sent to some congressional offices in an effort to in- fluence lawmakers on the Panama Canal issue, a Kentucky congressman says. At least 20 congressional offices have reported receiving the letters with forged signatures, said Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, D-Ky. He said he has asked postal inspectors to investigate. MOST CONGRESSIONAL offices have reported a heavy flow of mail on the Panama Canal. A proposed treaty, which would transfer control of the canal to Panama in the year 2000, is awaiting ratification in the Senate. House members also have been flooded with mail on the subject. Mazzoli did not identify the other con- gressmen who have discovered bogus letters. He said he first came across the problem while answering letters from his constituents who oppose the canal treaty. ds He said two of his. constituents wrote back and a third called to say they had never sent the original letters to Maz- zoli:x "MY CONSTITUENTS stated that they had not contacted me on the sub- ject and were offended at having re- ceived an answer to a communication they had never sent," Mazzoli said. He wrote a letter to his House colleagues to advise them of his discovery. "I'm beginning to wonder how many of my constituents actually sign, au- thorize or even know anything about the communications arriving in my office over their names," he said. Receive 3free lessons on our Call i74310 Peak indoor Ski Deck. Plus a free lift ticket at Mt. or stop byThe Peak Brighton and Sugarloaf. There's no obligation. _ 3150 The free skiing Carpenter is yours... on us. Ann Arbor Angell Hall Aud. A TODAY AT 3-5-7-9 LI I. wEIMED'S 114 E. 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