European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 irs begins paying interest on late refunds Washington a the internal Revenue serv which is sending out tax refunds at the rate of 3 million a is about to Start including a few extra dollars in Many of those any refund that resulted from a tax return filed before the april 15 deadline began drawing interest if the Check was not written before May interest is at a 13 percent annual rate retroactive to april on a for interest would total through May 31 and 24 cents a Day irs spokesman Wilson Fadely the irs has not estimated How Many refunds will be paid interest this year or How much that will Cost the in interest on late refunds totalled this years interest Bill is Likely to be larger because of problems with a new computer system that disrupted the 10 regional processing centers for nearly four at one Point the irs was 60 percent behind the 1984 Pace in processing for the first time this the Agency is ahead of last year percent to be through May the latest figures the irs had received million individual returns and processed at the same time a year million of million returns received had been the number of refunds certified is still behind last years those refunds total compared with billion last the average refund this year is up nearly the irs advises taxpayers who have waited 10 weeks and still not received a refund to Call the Agency to Check on the status of the if 16 weeks have passed since the taxpayer would be better off to file a duplicate marking it As a the irs the Agency will try to mail a refund four to six weeks after it receives a duplicate said Ellen Murphy of the filing a second form is strictly voluntary on the part of the Many of the returns that have not been processed have been put aside because of erroneous social Security num Bers or names that do not match those in the Agency she when All problem free returns arc Murphy the irs will handle those that have been put processors will notify the taxpayer that additional or Cor rect information is if a person filed on time and submits a duplicate the irs will pay interest As if the return had been filed by the april 15 she capsized Crane a photo a 40ton Crane sits on the Wall of a construction site after it capsized in Midtown Manhattan the be carrying a Load of Over turned at 63rd Street and third crushing a woman pedestrians legs and pinning her for nearly six rescuers lifted the 70foot machine with a larger police said the Crane oper Ator was arrested on charges of the woman was taken to a officials said she might lose her California Bay mined to protest policy san Francisco a a Navy bomb squad and the coast guard were Dis patched when fake mines made of Beach balls and Coffee cups were planted in san Francisco Bay in an apparent protest of the Reagan administrations Trade embargo on the military Crews spent 26 hours thursday delicately collecting the Black Beach balls with yellow styrofoam cups at treating each As a potentially live said coast guard Petty officer Gail its funny in one but its not funny when you consider the number of people that have to go out there to take care of these things that they put in the said coast guard Petty officer Ken two women were arrested after they pos Ted fliers that proclaimed the devices symbolized Cia mines put in the nicaraguan Harbor of Corinto in police the handbills were headed warning the port of san Francisco has been they the mines in san unlike those off the shores of Are representations Only and pose no threat to the nautical Fri spokesman Frank Daniels said the fliers statement that the mines were not phony probably will Rule out any investigation by the the situation resulted in minor delays of commuter ferry service Between san fran Sausalito and according to Howard supervisor for the Golden Gate transit District arrested in the cites financial District were Claire Obrien and Vicki both 27 and residents of san police witnesses reported the women were Post ing fliers in violation of a City ordinance prohibiting such activity by anyone but Public police Obrien was booked for investigation of violating the or giving false information about her identity to police and Possession of a White powder police suspected to be a Rowe was booked Only on the Misdemeanour ordinance bail was set at for Rowe and for according to unemployed Man returns found along Road Texas a an unemployed Man who supports his wife and 3month old daughter by Selling cans to recycling centers found while scavenging along the Roadside but returned it because it want authorities Donald was awarded a citation for Good citizenship wednesday by Marshall police chief Chuck for whatever because of what has been instilled in Yeager Felt the need to be Williams he had enough self respect to do what is i know the Money could have come in Yeager but it want ours and we  keep my father always told me never to take anything that didst belong to he found the which had been stolen from a lumber in a discarded Cash Register drawer lying by a Road while he was on a can Hunting expedition May i didst touch i jumped Back on my Bike and headed Back to the House and called Yeager Pyle lumber which lost the Money in a May 21 gave Yeager a City regrets sending sex offender to Miami Miami mayor of Santa Mon has apologized to Miami for sending a convicted sex offender to Florida in retaliation for an incident two years ago in which a Florida prostitute was sent to convicted rapist Weston Hill was flown from California to Miami two months ago on a ticket purchased by Santa Monica police chief James Keane was upset that mental hospitals kept releasing Hill later was arrested in Miami for inde cent exposure and malicious and is being examined by court appointed pay Miami commissioners threatened to sue Santa Monica when they discovered How Hill had arrived in the charging the califor Nia City was dumping criminals in but last week the City commission agreed not to pursue the suit in Exchange for a formal apology offered by Santa Mon Ica City attorney Robert Myers in a letter to the City i certainly regret any problems or inconvenience caused by the transport of Weston Hill to your wrote Santa Monica mayor Christine Reed in the letter of which was released in i can assure you Santa Monica will not Send you any More mental health cases or criminal she in an accompanying who bought Hills one Way ticket with City joined Myers and City manager John Jalili in expressing regret for the Inci Keane had said he sent Hill in Retalia Tion for an incident in which a fort Lauder Dale judge offered a prostitute the option of jail or going to los she accepted the one Way