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City Press-Citizen-Tuesday, August 1, 1978 Tax revolt aftermath: maze of new fees, fines By JENNIFER KERR SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Because of Proposition 13, many Californians are paying more these days to buy drinks, go to the movies, 200 or race track, keep library books overdue, park their cars and poison porcupines. These fee increases and fines are among the many efforts of the state's 58 counties and 417 cities to make up for lost tax revenues following Proposition 13's requirement to cut property taxes by 57 percent. And if the tax cut initiative's aftereffects sweep eastward with the same force of the tax revolt that triggered it, other Americans may soon be paying for services that were once free or offered at lower costs. Among the specifics: in San Francisco and Sacramento, visitors to zoos and museums will get hit, in Oakland and Sacramento, moviegoers.

Admission at Santa Anita and Los Alamitos race tracks will go up. And in Santa Monica, the slow reader who gets his book from the library will pay more for keeping it overdue. A hotel room will cost more in dozens of cities with taxes going from around 6 percent to 8 percent to 10 percent of room charges. One city that raised hotel taxes is muchvisited San Francisco. Businessmen and builders will have to pay more for almost all the reams of permits necessary to start construction or do business.

The proposition, passed whelmingly on June 6, chopped local government revenues by $7 billion by cutting property taxes. Eastland deals blow to ERA proponents By CAROL R. RICHARDS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON The resolution to extend ratification time for the Equal Rights Amendment may have been seriously set back Monday when an opponent of extension was appointed to the subcommittee that will consider it. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman James O. Eastland, assigned his newest committee member, Sen.

Maryon Allen, to the crucial spot vacated by her late husband on the Subcommittee on Constitution. "Mrs. Allen is against the ERA extension," said her staff aide Fred Eiland. Until her appointment it appeared that the ERA extension would have clear sailing in the subcommittee; but her appointment brings the membership to six and the likely extension vote to a three-three tie. A tie in such circumstances is considered a defeat.

The subcommittee will hold hearings on the extension resolution Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Chairman Eastland, who is also opposed to ERA extension, named Mrs. Allen to all three of the subcommittee slots filled by her late husband James B. Allen, a common procedure when spouses inherit Senate seats. In addition to the Constitution subcommittee, she was named a member of the Anti-Trust Subcommitee and chairman of the Separate of Powers Subcommittee.

A three-year three-month ERA extension, which was recently reported out of House Judiciary Committee by a close vote, is expected to pass the House soon. After that, the next step will be Senate action. The Senate subcommittee is chaired by Sen. Birch Bayh, a sponsor of ERA extension. Siding with him are Sen.

Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, and Sen. James Abourezk, both cosponsors of the resolution. On the record as opposing ERA extension are Mrs. Allen whose late husband shared the same opinion and Sen. Orrin G.

Hatch, R-Utah. The sixth member, Sen. William L. Scott, is widely considered to be against the extension, but a staffer said Scott hasn't made up his mind for sure. The Senate version of the extension resolution would add seven more years to the period states have to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

The House version adds only three years and three months to the present deadline of March 22, 1979. Ratification by three more states is required to add these words to the Constititon: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." If the ERA extension dies in subcommittee, as appears likely thanks to the Allen appointment, it is not necessarily dead in the Senate. A seldom-used parliamentary procedure allows House-passed bills that died in Senate committee to be sent directly to the Senate floor from the House for debate. However, even i if that process were used, ERA faces a tough time on the Senate floor: It is almost certain to be the object of a filibuster. DeBruyn named director of Voss Recovery House William DeBruyn of 1224 Oakcrest Ave.

has been named director of Iowa City's Voss Recovery House for Alcoholics. DeBruyn succeeds previously appointed Voss House director Grover Deaths Dr. W.J. Neuzil CEDAR RAPIDS--Dr. W.J.

Neuzil, 92, brother of Mrs. Agnes Kasper, 425 Fairchild Iowa City, died Saturday at a Cedar Rapids hospital following a lengthy illness. Services were today at the Immaculate Conception Church in Cedar Rapids. Dr. Neuzil was born Feb.

19, 1886, in Iowa City, a son of Frank and Teresa Neuzil. On June 14, 1916, he married Alice Debry in Cedar Rapids. He was a 1907 graduate of the University of Iowa medical school. Mildred F. Crist CLEAR LAKE Mildred F.

Crist, 69, of Clear Lake, whose son, Louis is an administrative assistant at University of Iowa's College of Medicine, died Monday evening at a Mason City hospital. Services are pending at the HoganBremer Chapel in Clear Lake. Survivors also include a son, Lyndon of Tipton; and two grandsons. IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN Established 1841 319 E. Washington St.

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137, No. 204 vices such as sewers, street cleaning and recreation. Raising fees for services is in keeping with the Jarvis philosophy of having users pay for specific things, rather than property owners in general. Naturally, those using such services are not happy with fee increases. Raising construction permit fees "has kicked the average price of a home up $1,000 to $2,000," said Robert Rivinius of the California Building Industry Association.

He said 40 to 50 governments raised fees, some up to 2,500 percent, and noted a California home already includes $2,500 to $9,000 in permit fees. The state Chamber of Commerce thinks some 30 percent of cities and counties raised business permits anywhere from 15 percent to 100 per- cent, though many changed their minds later. "This inhibits growth and does not make a whole lot of sense because these people can provide jobs," the chamber's John Dehoney said. Not every city had a load of complaints. Orange County doubled park and beach fees, most from $1 a person to $2, with a new $1 charge for a pet, and county spokesman John Bushman noted: "We haven't had too many complaints.

They kind of expected the fees would go up. Most people are more surprised about the animal fee." Shasta County raised fees for almost its entire list of services. A smallpox shot went from $2 to $5, a venereal disease exam from nothing to $16.50, and poisoned porcupine bait from $1 to $2. The Inglewood City Council passed a 10 percent "tipplers tax" on drinks today's topic After the vote, and until the state bail-out law was signed June 24, local governments scrambled to trim budgets and find more money by July 1, when Proposition 13 took effect. One reason for haste was because the Jarvis amendment also requires two-thirds approval by voters to create or raise taxes.

Some cities passed increases but kept them inactive until and if needed. Fees and taxes most commonly raised, says Suzanne Foucault of the League of California Cities, were business and construction permits, hotel-motel taxes and fees for ser- KENNETH JERNIGAN Jernigan says bribe charge 'not the truth' DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Kenneth Jernigan, former director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind, says it is "not the truth at all" that he and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roger Jepsen arranged a loan for a former commission employee to buy his silence. "I tried to help him," Jernigan told the Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday. "I have helped many people in a similar way." The former commission employee, Ray Raymond, 46, of St.

Charles, charged in an affidavit that Jernigan had an arsenal of automatic weapons at the commission and tried to "shut up" Raymond about them by getting Jepsen to co-sign a bank loan for him. Jepsen confirmed he co-signed the loan to buy Raymond a truck at Jernigan's request and put up as security a $5,000 certificate of deposit supplied by Jernigan. He said he forgot to report the transaction in his financial disclosure statement as a Senate candidate because it was Jernigan's money. Jernigan, who resigned from the commission earlier this year, now is president of the National Federation of the Blind and lives in Baltimore, Md. In his first interview with a newsman since Raymond released his affidavit, Jernigan denied any automatic weapons ever were in the commission or that the loan was arranged to buy Raymond's silence.

"I never saw nor ever handled an automatic weapon of any kind," Jernigan said. Bids opened on bridge near Oxford A Des Moines firm was the apparent low bidder today on replacement of a bridge along the JohnsonIowa county line. Arthur W. Nelson submitted the bid of $53,070 for replacing an aging wooden truss bridge west of Oxford on what is known as the County Line Road with a new concrete slab bridge. The only other bidder was Hanson Concrete of Washington, Iowa.

Hanson's bid was $59,865. County Engineer 0.J. Gode will present the bids to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors Wednesday for approval of a contract. Construction is scheduled to begin by midSeptember. Smile Awhile with 8 Refrigeration and Appliance, Inc Stubee of North Liberty, who died last month.

His appointment was announced today by Allen Colston, executive director of the Mid-Eastern Communities Council on Alcoholism (MECCA), which operates the facility. DeBruyn has operated a brokerage and insurance business in Iowa City for the past 20 years, and for more than four years has been active in volunteer work with alcoholics. In January, he was elected to the 15-member MECCA board of directors, from which he is resigning. The Voss Recovery House at 611 S. Clinton is a residential rehabilitation facility for alcoholics.

home serves a maximum of 20 residents at a time. Fort Dodge woman, niece killed in crash FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) A Fort Dodge woman and her niece were killed in a car-truck crash on a blacktop county road near Fort Dodge late Monday. The Iowa State Patrol said Sangien Lanevongsa, 27, and her 7-year-old niece, Boonkhan Lanevongsa, were killed when the car the woman was driving ran a stop sign and was hit broadside by a semi-trailer truck driven by Martin Drenkham, 26, also of Fort Dodge. Authorities said the truck pushed the car into a ditch and rolled onto it. They said the car then burst into flames.

EVERY ONE ELSE SEEMS I'M NOT LAZY LIKE DEM FOR EFFICIENCY IN TO BE CARRYING MORE PUNKS I TAKES LOTS SERVICE AND TOPS THAN ONE BOX- WHO- MORE TRIPS TO DO DE IN QUALITY, IT'S WHY CAN'T YOU? ME? SAME AMOUNT OF WORK DEY DO. REFRIGERATION LOCAL TRADEMARKS, Inc. FAIR SALE EXTRA OFF ON DISPLAY MODELS in bars, which public information officer Dick Taylor said could bring in $1.5 million a year. A state law prohibits such taxes, but a bill to allow them has been introduced in the State Assembly. Inglewood also is trying a fires service fee, which Taylor believes is among the nation's first.

The city provides basic fire protection and a property owner pays for any extra needed because his building is wooden, has a flammable roof or does not have a smoke detector. Inglewood will charge for sidewalk maintenance, tree-trimming and traffic signals, too. Home owners will pay 32 cents a front foot and businesses 90 cents a front foot, Taylor said. Vance to visit Middle East despite Sadat's new demands WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance still plans a weekend trip to the Mideast despite strong U.S.

displeasure with Anwar Sadat's new demand that Israel as the price for resuming stalled peace talks return all captured Arab lands. One official, speaking privately, said consideration was given to canceling the visit because of Sadat's statement. Vance decided to go, another official said, because of the realization that the visit might be the only way to get the two sides talking again and to salvage the glimmering hopes for a peaceful settlement. The State Department announced on Monday that the Vance trip to Jerusalem and Cairo would go ahead as planned. What Vance will say to Egyptian President and Israeli Prime Minister Menachern Begin has not been decided.

But Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said, "We expect that the United States will tell Sadat he has to sit with us for talks under the chairmanship of the secretary of state. "It is the policy of the United States to have the parties meet, and I do not believe the United States will neglect its effort." In Tel Aviv, an Israeli government spokesman said that Begin expressed "satisfaction" with U.S. criticism of Sadat's demand and said that Sadat's recent move "proves that the obstacle to peace is the unreasonable extremism reigning in Egypt." Sudat, meanwhile, has called for a broader American role in the peace process, hinting that it is time for the United States to put forward a comprehensive peace proposal as a basis renewed negotiations. But the Carter administration has shied away from pressure to suggest a Mideast blueprint, and administration officials, speaking privately, said they did not think that reluctance was likely to change. "This problem can't be solved unless the parties (Egypt and Israel) solve it," said one official, indicating that the American role would likely continue to be limited to offering suggestions for compromises on specific problems that arise in negotiations.

But there may not be negotiations, however. Sadat said on Sunday that he will not talk to Israel any more unless Israel first agrees to give up all of the territory captured from the Arabs in 1967. The administration responded with its sharpest criticism of Sadat since Gold quoted at dollar-yen rate declines LONDON (AP) The price of gold jumped more than $7 an ounce on the London bullion market today, soaring to a new all-time high as the dollar continued to slide. The morning price for gold was fixed in London at $207.50 an ounce, $6.20 above the previous high of $201.30 last Friday and $7.15 above Monday's closing price of $200.35. Europe's other major bullion market, in Zurich, was closed for a national holiday.

Gold closed there at $200.125 on Monday. The dollar dropped to another low on the Tokyo foreign exchange, closing at 187.95 yen, nearly three yen lower than Monday's closing rate of 190.80. After the Tokyo market closed, there was wild trading on other Asian markets, and the rate dropped to 186.35 yen. The dollar also opened lower on European markets. These were the morning rates: Frankfurt 2.0350 marks, down from 2.0430 at the close of trading Monday.

Paris 4.35525 French francs, down from 4.3693. Milan 840.25 lire, down from 842.00. Amsterdam 2.1960 guilders, down from 2.2030. The Zurich market was closed. In London, the pound sold for $1.9355, up from $1.9287.

Investors and speculators traditionally turn to gold in times of monetary instablity, and the steady decline of the dollar has given the metal an impetus that pushed it over $200 an ounce for the first time in history last Friday. The price has risen from $184.375 a month ago, a low for the year of $166.125. Market analysts have predicted that the price will dip soon, rally in September and peak out between November and next March. But some predict it will rise to in two or three years. Expansion of two plants on planning, zoning agenda The Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled Thursday to consider plans for additions to two industrial plants.

The meeting is scheduled Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Civic Center. On the agenda is a preliminary and final "large-scale non-residential development plan" for the Procter Gamble Mfg. Co. plant at 2200 Lower Muscatine Road.

The firm is planning a combustible storage and dispensing building, a motor control center and an additional 186-space parking area. Also to be considered is a plan by Sheller-Globe Corp. for a warehouse addition on a 21-acre tract at 2500 Highway 6 east. The addition, which would be built this year, would be built over a rail spur near the southwest corner of the main building. Prompt Courteous Service Family Prescription Record System Receipts for Taxes Insurance Family Health Free Parking Service Personal Contact with You, the patient Bank Cards We Honor Pre-Paid PresWelcome cription Cards PEARSON DRUG STORE Towncrest Medical Complex Linn Market Sts.

his trip to Jerusalem last November, calling his demand "very Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd has embarked on a tour of Arab capitals, apparently seeking to arrange an Arab summit that would produce a new, unified Arab line on the question of Israel. Fahd saw Sadat on Monday in Cairo, then went to Damascus for talks with Syrian leaders. Sadat, after seeing Fahd, told reporters that they were free to speculate about the possibility of an Arab summit. Tropical storm sper ds self; three rescued BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) Tropical storm Amelia spent itself on sparse rangeland Monday after barreling along the Texas coast with 50- mile-an-hour winds and sinking at least six boats. Three persons were rescued from the hull of a beached pleasure boat.

No serious injuries were reported, and although five persons were unaccounted for, officials said all were probably safe. A Coast Guard crew waded to the 34-foot pleasure boat, "Miss Laurie Ann," about five miles from South Padre Island and rescued John and Roy Wagner and John's son, Johnny. The rescuers had heard voices inside the craft and hacked open the hull where the three had been riding out the storm. They were taken to a local hospital for observation. An ambulance attendant said they were suffering from exposure, but otherwise unhurt.

The howling storm drenched South Padre Island, a resort just off the coast, with up to 4 inches of rain. There were no reports of injuries or serious damage, but some power outages occurred. Amelia sank at least five shrimp boats, and there were five persons officially unaccounted for. 25th Wedding Anniversary Dance Of Paul and JoAnne Neuzil August 4, 1978 At Knights of Columbus Hall 9:00 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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