26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9, 1972 Health-Safety Act Places Heavy Burden on Business “The first year of the Occu pational Safety and Health Act corroborates the fact that it has had a tremendous im pact on industry operations and has been burdensome in many respects,” L. Glenn Dewberry, Jr., chairman, Em ploye Health/Safety Com mittee of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, told the House Select Com mittee on Small Business. "While this was antici pated,” he observed, “and is true of all companies, it is particularly true of the smaller business organiza tions ” Mr Dewberry stated that small businesses are more susceptible to the costly and time-consuming burden of complying with the massive regulations and bringing work-sites into compliance. He explained that the small employer in many instances hicks the staff capability for analyzing, interpreting and implementing the thousands of standards promulgated since the measure became effective Technical Aid Urged The National Association of Manufacturers believes that some way must be found to assure the continued pro tection of employees but at the same time insure that the bm den imposed by the Fed eral go\ eminent does not place the employers’ business or the employee’s iob in jeopardy One of the obvious aids which could be employed is that of amending the Occupa tional Safety and Health Act to pnnide technical assist ance and consultative services to an emplmer at the work site without the peril of a mandatory citation and pen- alty for a discovered hazard, Mr. Dewberry suggested. “In addition,” he recom mended, “some way should be found to enable an employer to remedy violations without imposing a financial obliga tion which would jeopardize his ability to continue in busi ness and provide sustained employment." The NAM also recom mended that a method be found to acquaint employers, particularly the smaller ones, with the obligations and re sponsibilities the measure imposes. He said that there should be a simplified appeal procedure which is capable of being understood and pur sued by a layman rather than requiring the expense of em ploying an attorney. Microfilm to Speed Olympics Information The newsmen covering the summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, will have one of the fastest information filing and retrieval systems known today. The 4,000 sportswriters will have nearly 200,000 doc uments on microfilm that will supplement the information services of the press informa tion center’s electronic data processing system. The Eastman Kodak Com pany will provide facsimiles from the images appearing on the screen for immediate scrutiny and future refer ence. Since early this year cen ter workers have been gath ering the needed documents and microfilming them to be ready to answer the report ers’ questions. by MARY LEE THOMPSON In this time of political oratory and financial prob lems tax reform has become a major topic of discussion. No doubt changes should be made in our tax system, but we need to make calm, objec tive appraisals of the revi sions being suggested. Too often people take one small part of our complicated tax laws and either blow it up out of proportion to the ac tual data or distort it en tirely. So it’s wise to check facts carefuly. For example, some politi cians are charging that tax laws and regulations since 1969 have favored the rich, that our whole tax system is unfair, and that wealthy peo ple just don’t pay taxes. Much of this talk grew out of a re port that 100 high-income people did not pay any fed eral income tax in 1970. Here are the real facts from the U.S. Treasury De partment. Its statistics show that in 1970 there were 15,300 persons with adjusted gross incomes over $200,000. All but 106 of them did in deed pay individual federal income taxes averaging out to $177,000 each, or a total of $2 7 billion. This, according to tite Treasury, is an effec tive rate of 44.1 per cent of their adjusted gross income. As for the 100 who did not pay an income tax, this is ac counted for by deductions for foreign, state and local taxes they did pay, charitable con tributions they made, inter est payments, etc. FREE SAMPLE COPIES Copies of LANCASTER FARMING ore not always easy to find they are not sold on newsstands and perhaps some of your friends may not be acquainted with our weekly service. We'll be glad to send, without charge, several copies of LAN CASTER FARMING to your friends or business associates. Just write their names and addresses below (You'll be doing both them and us a favor!) Street Address & R. D. City, State and Zip Code ( are not limited to two names. 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