European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes May 1985 robbers posing As irs officials say up that Man at your door in the three piece suit who says Hes from the internal Revenue service May not be a tax collector after authorities warned taxpayers to be Ware of men who travel door to door pre tending to work for the they say the men May be part of an interstate crime network in which robbers get into Peoples Homes by pretending to be agents of the tax Agency or Law according to two men in three piece suits rapped on the door at the Home of Jerry Looney of identified them selves As irs agents while flashing badges and entered the Looney and his wife were handcuffed and their two children taken to a bed where they were bound with Strong the impostors ransacked the House and took a savings guns and police Roger of and Charles of were held without Bond tuesday in connection with the after the police said they received dozens of phone Calls from other Law officers in the Region who noted Simi Lar crimes in their similar operations have been reported in Tennessee and officials in those states the suspects reportedly posed As Federal drug local police and postal single family Home sales at 4year High in april by the associated press sales of existing single family Homes Rose in april to their highest level in almost 4vi a real estate Trade association said the increase was attributed to declining mortgage interest rates and Strong in a separate report a business information concern said the value of contracts for new construction slipped 1 percent in despite the the Marc april performance was the strongest two month stretch on Accord ing to Dodge division of Mcgraw Hill information systems optimism about the Outlook for further declines in interest Rales on mortgage Loans should support a High level of construction of single family Homes and condominiums into said George chief economist for interest rates Slid As the prices of some Lon term government Bonds Rose As much As for every in face yields on Short term Treasury securities fell in the weekly auction to their lowest Levels in almost five the Treasury department sold billion in three month Bills at an average discount rate of Down from percent last another billion was sold in six month Bills at an average rate of Down from the rates were the lowest since june when three month Bills averaged percent and six week Bills sold for in its report on housing the National association of realtors said previously owned Homes were sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of million units in the fastest Pace since november based on sales in the first four months of the the association estimated that million existing single family Homes would be sold this making 1985 the Best year for Home resale since million Homes were sold in recent declines in mortgage interest rates Are help ing an increasing number of families achieve the Ameri can dream of Home said David president of the the april sales Pace represented a slight percent increase Over the March rate of million but was 9 percent above the level of last when interest rates reached their 1984 at that conventional fixed rate mortgages hit various analysts say such mortgages have now dropped to around 13 percent and could go As Low As percent in coming the housing report also said the median Price for a single family Home Rose to in a increase Over the March the median Price Means that half the Homes sold for less and half for the Dodge report on construction said contracts for new construction were valued at an annual rate of against the billion Pace of the previous the construction sector is in top form right now As it concludes its third year of cyclical taken March and april added up to the Best two month stretch of contracting on Christie in another economic a steel Trade group said steel production Rose to million tons in the week ended May up percent from the previous weeks million the american Iron and steel Institute said the Indus try production amounted to percent of capacity during the compared with percent in the previous Man who refused medical treatment Dies a a 491pound Man who had refused medical treatment for months died of cardiac arrest despite the efforts of firefighters and paramedics who spent four hours moving him to an officials Ralph Ronald died shortly after his arrival at greater Baltimore medi Cal Hospital spokeswoman Karen Helsly to carry Monger from his second floor bedroom to an ambulance during a heavy workers had to dismantle a rail ing and a partition and use a 14foot ladder As a makeshift Baltimore county police spokesman Jay Miller police and Hospital officials had originally said Monger weighed about 600 but the body weighed 49114 pounds when it was examined by Margarita Korrell of the state medical examiners the family said he weighed about 300 pounds in Miller he had a medical and he kept gaining this and he go to the he get Miller said police arrived at mongers Home outside Towson to execute a court order which had been obtained by mongers Diane to have him hos because of his size and weakened Condi police called in fire equipment and fire department personnel dismantled a railing at the head of the stairs on the Sec Ond floor and removed a Wall partition on the stairwell on the first floor while paramedics worked on him Miller he was going into various stages of cardiac the ladder was used to carry Monger because the Stretcher want big they just kind of Jerry rigged every Miller 5 vex remedy dangerous escaped convicts sought up five extremely dangerous convicts fled a maximum Security prison and May have broken into a House wednesday to get civilian clothes to replace their prison officials Law officers from several agencies hunted for the group of which includes a murderer serving a life term in prison and a Man awaiting trial on first degree murder we dont know yet if they got any Oklahoma Highway patrol dispatcher Janis Turner said Early wednesday after a burglary was reported at a House in a Rural Northwest of the states largest and oldest penal the House was pretty Well torn up and there were a lot of clothes lying Turner they May have changed we just dont know the burglary at the unoccupied House was reported about four hours after the inmates fled from behind the Walls of the Turner said roadblocks around the Eastern Oklahoma town of Mcalester were taken Down at Dawn and that the area was being patrolled by Highway patrol department of corrections a special tactical unit from another prison and local Law enforce ment All five Are considered extremely Turner in a Case like we will go to All lengths to get them manufacturers to warn parents of crib peril Washington a nine makers of infant furniture Are launching a Campaign to warn parents that using mesh sided cribs and playpens with the Side Down can Lead to fatal the consumer product safety commission the commission said it has received re ports of the deaths of is Young children who suffocated in the cribs or playpens when the sides were left the infants were aged from two weeks to six leaving one Side of these cribs and play pens tilted Down is sometimes done As a convenience in tending a the soft mesh then forms a pocket at the Side of the unit and the fatalities occurred award winning producer Harold Hecht Dies at 77 Beverly a movie producer Harold who won an Academy award for Best picture for the 1955 movie died of cancer at his a family Friend he was who died also produced Vera Birdman of Alca the Way West and cat in he went into partnership with Burt Lancaster to form the Hech Lancas Ter one of the first Independent production companies in an Era during which major studios dominated said David a longtime to children who crawled to the Edge and fell into this commission officials the nine companies signed a consent agreement with the commission agreeing to launch the including mailing warning letters to All households in the country known to have children under the age of nine the firms also will Send warning posters to state health armed forces installations and in a second round of warnings will be sent out after one and that will include advertising in parents Magazine and other publications aimed at families with Young the commission firms taking part in the program Are Bil trite juvenile Century Collie Keyworth Graco Metal Prid Trimble Spalding even Flo Stolee of and Welsch Austin politician Dies Texas a former City councilman Mark who recently filed for divorce from actress Amanda has died of he was who cited his illness in declining earlier this year to seek a second Council died at Brackenridge a hos Pital spokesman he filed for divorce in late april from Best known for her role As miss Kitty on they were married in
