European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Shamrock works twice in lottery Sacramento Calif. Up a supermarket employee with a Lucky rhinestone Shamrock in i pocket wons6.3 million saturday in the California lottery then passed the Charm to stranger who won $ i million. Eric daily 24, an assistant pro Duce manager at a supermarket in Camarillo North of los Angeles waste first to win the progressive Jack pot which had risen to $6,315,000.daily, who lives in thousand Oaks carried the Shamrock in the pocket of his Slacks. After he won he handed it to Samuel Heath 25, of Paradise i Northern California. Heath then spun the wheel and won $1 million. The two had not met before. The Charm was Given to daily by his Mother Colette Simpson who said a co worker of hers asked her to pass Iton to daily for Good Luck. Simpson is a bookkeeper for Ventura county. Joined on stage by his family after his winning turn of the wheel in the big spin to taping daily Shook his Bead no when asked if he planned to return to his Job at the said he had worked for the supermarket for six Long years an would resign. I plan on buying a House and Acar and giving my folks some Money he also said he plans to invest his yearly $252,600 Check so that Uncle sum won t take a big chunk out of internal Revenue service will take 20 percent for taxes and Theresa will be paid to daily in annual instalments Over the next 20 Winner said he has been buy ing about six lottery tickets a week atthe store where he works. Army rejects 400 recruits after test for aids antibody by Norman Blac Washington a the army has so far rejected roughly 400 recruit from entering Active service because they tested positively for exposure to an antibody associated with aids an army officer said. It. Col. Gary Quay assigned to oversee the new aids blood screening program for the army said the 400 recruits had been rejected out of roughly 270,000 recruits tested Between oct. 15 and Jan. 17. Quay disclosed the latest test figures for recruits As the army became the first service to detail its plans for the Start of wide scale testing of All Active duty and Reserve soldiers for the disease aids. All three services have been testing recruits since october. But they Are Only now completing their plans for testing Active duty and Reserve personnel As or dered by defense Secretary Caspar . The army recruit figures released by Quay Are much More recent than those reported for All the services by the Penta gon. The most recent Pentagon report was released Jan. 21 and found that As of Las nov. 30, 51 recruits out of 84,168 exam ined had tested positively and thus Bee denied entry. Age blamed for higher rat based on the initial three months of testing. Quay said the army was experiencing a positive test rate of about 1.5 per 1,000. That is higher than the rate being reported by civilian blood agencies but Quay stressed it is impossible to compare the two groups because of such differences As he declined to provide figures Quay also disclosed a Small percentage of the recruits rejected by the army were women. The vast majority of aids cases reported across the country have involved to Quay the army plans to aids in . 1960 81 82 83 84 deaths any time among All cases diagnosed in Given year Congo Tribune Oku source onto a Lor control Start testing Active duty soldiers. This month initially at the rate of about 25,000 soldiers per month. By july however the service expects to be testing 65,000 Active duty soldiers and 32,000 reservists Ever month. At that rate he continued the army now expects it will take until june or july of 1987 to Complete the initial screening fall Active duty soldiers and half of the reservists. The remainder of the reservist should be screened by the end of 1987 or Early 1988, he screening program will begin this month by focusing on soldiers in High priority line units such As the 82nd air borne within the United states Quay soon As the program is expanded in july it will immediately be extended to soldiers posted overseas. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a fatal disease that attacks the body s immune system. Ii has been confined primarily to homosexuals Intra venous drug users and individuals who received tainted blood transfusions although there is some evidence the disease i spreading to the general population. The blood screen employed by the Pentagon can do no More than indicate a per son has been exposed to a virus associate with the disease not whether the person actually will contract it. Nonetheless the screen has been embraced by the defense department As the Only tool now available to Chart the course of the disease. There currently arc 2.1 million Active duty personnel of whom roughly 783,000 Are in the army. There Are also about Active reservists or National guard members who must be tested unde Weinberger s directive including More than 700,000 in the army Reserve an army National guard. Limited Navy testing under Way following disclosure of the army s test ing schedule the Navy confirmed it had already started limited aids testing among units of its Pacific Fleet stationed in Japan the Philippines and on Navy refused to release any results or to discuss its plans for the Start of service wide testing. A Pentagon official who asked not to renamed said however the Navy had so far tested Only about 10,000 sailors and begin service wide testing before the end of february at the earliest. The air Force meantime said it had yet to Complete its testing policy statement or schedule and could not predict when testing would begin. Laggards Rush new York offices to pay Back taxes new York a delinquent tax payers lined up outside state offices and tied up telephones in the Hist hours of the slate s tax amnesty program which officials said should bring in a record $200million from procrastinators. It was a Little bit crazy Karl Felsen spokesman for the state department of taxation and finance said re confident we hit our $200 million goal but they just stopped trying to keep track of what was coming in it was coming so fast and deadline to pay delinquent taxes without civil or criminal penalties was mid night Friday. State officials said the $200 million Goa would set a National record for any tax am Nesty program. Such programs have in Illinois California and department spokeswoman Madeline Lewis in Albany said the state received More than 18,000 Calls in the last hours As the phones were ringing off the York s amnesty program began the same Day Tough new Laws against tax cheats went into effect. People who cheat on in come taxes can be imprisoned for up to fou years or fined up to $50,000. I know it s my duty to pay taxes said Vera Walker 59, a retired Federal employee from Brooklyn who turned out i did t feel guilty i would t be she was prepared to pay five years of Back taxes ignored because of Large medical expenses and limited disability payments. She said once the few Hundred dollars was paid she would sleep better at night one Man a corporate tax lawyer paying delinquent taxes on 1984 income of $100,000, declined to give his name so his clients know he was a delinquent taxpayer. Procrastination was his excuse he said. I figured i d pay while there was amnesty and save the penalty charges. Know it s Only a matter of time til they catch up with said it could be several Days be fore final figures Are available. By thurs Day $180 million had been raised since nov. 1 through 85,000 written application Sand More than 100,000 phone Calls to a special hot line. Jake Butcher s lawyer kills himself in Tennessee Jellico Tenn. A an attorney shot and killed himself saturday the Day he a to report to a Federal prison to begin Irving a 20-year sentence for tax fraud. George w. Ridenour jr., who Wai convicted banker Jake Butcher s lawyer shot himself in the head with a Shotgun a Hiscar on interstate 75 North of Knoxville said Tommy Day a dispatcher for the Campbel county sheriffs department Ridenour left one suicide note atop a Brief Case and another under a Box of Shotgun Incus a of front seat of his car he said. One of the notes asked that Hii brother Cleaton attorney Roger
