Budget Would Hike Tax $75 to $115 Join a Food Co-Op
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3_.-. I , 24 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Fri„ March 19, 198Z Alternate sales routes Money New machine Food co-ops help all for sale Keeney students Baha' is: their |D/g£qsf7eam^ ... cheap converts trash help friend Jose faith is strong rise in NCAA NASHVILLE, Tenn. “ The co-op is not Uke the middle man, the bonds to expand the project to WHEATON, 111. (UPI) - A (UPI) — Street vendor going into a store,” Abdur- between the farmer and Knoxville this year. savings and loan association Yahya Abdur-Rahman Rahman says. "You have consumer will get “ I think it means there’s promoting a new branch office ... poge 3 ... page 13 ... page 15 frovTOS every time he sees to participate. You have to stronger. There will be less a potential for access to decided to go directly to its to petroleum people cramming fresh do some work.” waste,” says Abdur- big-scale markets and that customers and seil money at fruits and'vegetables into ’’They’ve been doing real Rahman. the farmers know there are cutrate prices. their shopping carts at the well,” Vlcek says. “ The incentives for producing Freedom Federal Savings & Wallace for Gulf Resources, Inc., in neighborhood grocery phones have been ringing ’The AM P’s latest project vegetables In the future,” Loan Association — in the heart CHICAGO (U P I) - A machine is Dallas, also disposes of scr^ store. off-the hook by others who is setting up wholesale Vlcek said. of conservative, Republican about to be marketed that can drive rubber, which cannot be incinerated He considers it a waste— are interested in joining or cooperatives. Farmers are “ And farmers can have DuPage County — Thursday sold up to a landfili full of garbage, gob under EnvironmenUl Protection for both the consumer and forming their own coops. organized to sell their some voice in what $1(KI bills for $80, $50 bills for $40, ble it up, spit it back out in the form Weekend cloudy $20 bills for $16 and $10 bills for Agency regulations. Manchester, Conn. the small farmer. Our role is to let people produce directly to happens to them.” of sjnithetlc fuel and do It all under possible snow Abdur-Rahman, 28, sells know that this kind of thing restaurants, grocery store The AMP says it can’t do $8, to its first 200 customers. its own power for $10 a barrel. Eutsler said the process is fueled Sat., March 20, 1982 jewelry and incense on the can happen.” warehouses, hospitals, day the job alone. Other states About 250 people were in line The portable synthetic fuel plants, by catalytic action — substances — See page 2 streets of Nashville to One reason for the direct care centers, and other are interested in the AMP when the savings and loan opened to be marketed nationwide by that react with the refuse to produce Single copy 25(C make a living. He is consumer-farmer link is to projects, but the organiza the doors of its ne\v branch at 9 Energy Waste & Management H p r a lb businesses that consume the synthetic petroleum products. responsible for putting reduce the amount of large quantities of food. tion doesn’t have the funds a.m. They had been lining up Corp., will convert organic wastes food on the table for his waste in the fields. Testing Nashville or the staff to expand since 6:30 a.m. into products including unleaded “ It’s really, as far as we have wife, his 5-year-old son, his The AM P estimates that markets, AM P organized a further. Harry and Jeanette Troy got up gasoline, diesel fuel and methane seen, the first synfuel process that is 3-year-old daughter and his 137 million tons of edible wholesale cooperative of 35 at 5 a.m. to be the first in line and gas, a spokesman said Thursday. affordable, consumes garbage and As federal grants dwin 2-month-old baby. food worth $31, billion is farmers who found they each walked away with a crisp The company, a subsidiary of does produce petroleum,” Eutsler dle in the age of The rising cost of living destroyed in the United could easily undercut $100 bill for their effort. Dallas-based Southwest Oilwell Ser said. Reaganomics, the AM P forced him to cut corners. States each year. Much of higher wholesale prices Even employees of competing vices Inc., said the hydrocarbon con .may be forced to cut back “ It is the first of its kind that is a But the most important it is left in the fields to rot traditionally quoted to savings and loans decided to cash version system can yield 2 barrels of its operations. portable system, that can be moved decision he made was to because it is either surplus, restaurants. With more in on the deal. fuel dally per ton of garbage, at a to the raw material,” he said. “ It’s Budget would hike tax $75 to $115 join a food co-op. unmarketable or just persistence, the farmers "Like other non-profit “ A lot of people at work razzed cost of about $10 a barrel. a self-contained machine which A member for only two passed over by mechanical broke into the grocery organizations, we're facing me about it when I told them I In addition, the garbage-gobbling means the pollution from the months. Abdur-Rahman reapers, the AMP says. store warehouse markets. a critical situation,” Vlcek was coming here,” admitted Len fuel plant could reduce bulk in city machine is almost nonexistent. By Paul Hendrie assessed value, not the 80 percent it which Weiss said would bring in $9,- Rising costs of Social Security and says he has realized “ Farmers, when they The wholesale co-op sold says. “ We need a lot more Hall, who works for a competing landfill sites by as much as 95 per officer later in the year would be at that (6 percent) figure,” Weiss Herald Reporter was taxed on last year. 100: 'current pension benefits, as well as savings of 50 to 65 percent overproduce, destroy $30,000 to $40,000 worth of support from farmerk'and institution. cent, said Jerry Eutsler, president “ The unit produces its own gases dropped, Weiss said. conceded. Weiss said he was confident the Restaurant fees were proposed cost-of-living raises for pensioners. by buyiTrg fruits, foods. With the rise of co proiduce last year — enough more cooperation in of Gulf Resources. and runs on itself. Once the machine Town spending will rise 10.33 per Changes in the organization of the t He said there are contingency taxpayers would understand why last summer, but restaurateurs and improvements to the program vegetables and dry goods ops. and the elimination of to encourage participants Tennessee.” starts up, it runs on its own energy.” cent and property tax increases will public works department, suggested funds, totalling some $150,000, which The process, developed by Floyd taxes would go up. objlected and the Board of Directors from the neighborhood co average $75 to $115 in the coming which are now being negotiated with by its Director George Kandra, could be tapped to make up the “ I have yet to find anyone who did not adopt the fees. op based in his year, if the budget proposed Friday ’ town.employra unions, will drive up would require personnel shuffling, difference between the 6 percent says, ‘Oh toy, my taxes are going Wess’ budget also anticipates a government-subsidized by General Manager Robert B. pension costs 30 percent, Weiss said. but no extra employees, Weiss said. raise and a larger wage increase. up,” ’ said Weiss. “ But I think you tax; collection rate of 98.5 percent— housing project. Weiss is approved. He said inflation is the cause of However, he declined to say how may have a reaction from the public nol the current 99 percent — the proposed 43 percent jump in debt Weiss proposed other public “ It's best for consump However, Weiss described his much of that fund could be that, in view of inflation, the cost of meaning the town expects that works related economy moves, sucb tion and best for the IliDur Comecficul Chevy Dealers proposal as conservative and said it service allocations, to $1.6 million. channeled toward salaries and government goes up, too. The alterr tough economic times will make it as less extensive snow plowing and pocketbook,” he says. “ It’s would maintain current services, In fact, Weiss said that allocation threatened layoffs if salaries are in native is a decreas in services. harder to collect razes. sanding and a decrease in the costing us less and there’s not provide for many new ones. ■ would be $450,000 higher, were it not creased too much. There are so many fixed costs We Weiss said it would have been number of street lights. more available.” No layoffs of town personnel — for pending state legislation to allow can’t control.” possible to prepare a budget Costs for the personnel are still up. Weiss also recommended a $206,- For his’ first $5 co-op which were feared earlier — were municipalities to float short-term recjuiring no tax hike, but he said in the air, Weiss said, because the 000 Appropriation to implement the “ share,” he took home proposed by Weiss, although one ac Weiss also proposed other new or notes with lower interest rates $500or ^50 Cash Bonus that would have forced him to drop longer. town is now negotiating with four of paramedics plan proposed by three bags of fruits and tivity specialist position at the expanded revenue sources, in proposals for $488,740 in capital im the five employee unions.