European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 27, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 pomp and circumstance four year old in Cap and gown Short mined until meals at a graduation Cere Mony in san Anglo Texas. They were among 140 preschoolers receiving diplomas signifying completion of the head Start program. Peace activists plan hike in soviet Union Newport Beach Calif. A peace activists who trekked across the nation last year in the 2,500-mile great peace March Are tearing up again this time for a hike in the soviet Union participants in a planned 450-mile walk along the Leningrad Moscow High Way will gather in Washington d.c., for orientation june 3 and begin the Jaunt june 14, resuming to Washington on july 7, organizers said. The idea was born during last year s March from California to Washington. But to avoid the financial problems that threatened to end that March pre maturely the 420 walkers including 200 soviets will pay their own expenses about 13,000, including airfare for americans. In the great peace March we had to Panhandle our Way across the country Allan Affell who has organized the March out of a storefront office in new port Beach said. You can t do that in the soviet Union the common people of this country want peace said Jim Potter 72, a new port Beach writer who participated in last year s March and who plans to go to the soviet Union. I think the people of Russia want peace too. It s the governments that gel in the  of Tell said he Learned Tome lesson about organization from last year s March. Instead of allowing just anyone to come the International March leaders screened participants carefully. We did t want people going Over there with their own agendas whether it s arguing with the soviets Over Afghanistan or trying to gel their jewish Cousin out of Moscow he said. We wanted this to is a positive  Lynda Strong of Orange one of the 500 people who completed the Greal peace March said she does not expect to see soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and president Reagan declaring an end to the arms race when she arrives in Moscow. But you be got to Start somewhere she said irs says millions ignoring june i w-4 filing Date Washington a it s one of those once a lifetime otters from the internal Revenue service that nobody can refuse. But millions arc refusing and the offer is about to expire. The Bottom line is this the Law requires every wage earner to file a 1987 w-4 tax withholding form by oct. I. If you file before Midnight june i the irs has volunteered it will waive any penalty you might incur for having Loo Linle tax withheld from wages this year. If you let he june 1 deadline pass you still will a within the Law by filing by oct. 1. But by waiting you run the risk of being penalized unless your withholding covers at least 90 percent of your 1987 Tan liability. Millions of people Are wailing in a Survey commissioned by the irs the Roper polling organization concluded in March that just about half of the 100 Mil lion plus wage earners had filed a new w-4. The elderly lower income earners and those in the West Are even slower than most in filing. Although the figures obviously have risen somewhat Over the last two months the response has been disappointing to the irs. The Survey showed that some of the people who he been slowest to file Are those that Are most Likely to be under withheld said irs spokesman Wilson Fadly. He referred specifically to higher income Cou Ples who Are accustomed to itemizing deductions in vesting in a fully deductible individual retirement account and claiming the special write off for two earner couples. The new Las overhaul Law most of which went into effect on ten. I Cut tax rates boosted personal exemptions repealed the two earner write off sharply reduced the number of workers eligible for fully deductible Ikas and scaled Back or eliminated some itemized deductions. Especially noticeable Lomi Lions of it Miz ers when they file next year for 1987 will be loss of the sales tax deduction and die gradual ending of tile write off for credit cards and other consumer interest. Any person who used those targeted deductions to reduce lax withheld from pre-1987 paychecks stands a Good Chance of being under withheld this year. And even if a new w-4 is filed to reflect the loss of those deductions this year s withholding could still be out of killer depending on when the new form is turned Over to the employer. That is because the new form can affect Only wages paid in the future it has no retroactive effect. That is another reason for filing a w-4 or the simpler w-4a As soon As possible. Take the Case of a taxpayer whose tax liability for the year is expected to be . Because he or she has not filed a w-4 this year the withholding is based Florida has no. 1 syphilis rate in . Fort Lauderdale Fla. Not Florida now has More cases of syphilis than any other state and health officials attribute the disease s Swift spread to the practice of exchanging sex for drugs. In Atlanta the Federal centers for Dis ease control reported last week that Florida had 2,377 cases of syphilis Cali fornia was second with 2,372 cases. Furthermore the number of cases in Florida is growing rapidly up 97 percent for the first five months of 1987 compared to the same period last year California syphilis cases were up 38 percent in the same period. New York stale with l,49i cases and Texas with 1,072, ranked third and fourth. In Florida syphilis is spreading most rapidly among Young White heterosexuals Blacks hispanics and homosexuals have not been As severely affected. We re seeing  than not girls who Are identity themselves As prostitutes and drug men or their boy friends Are said Jayson Trussel District manager of health services for Palm Beach county which saw a 144 percent increase in the number of syphilis cases through May 15 of this year As against the same period of 19b6. The average a Middle class guv who slops to pick up one of these prostitutes is putting himself at High risk of contracting syphilis Trussel said. Syphilis is Art infectious venereal Dis ease that can be transmitted by sexual Intercourse or acquired Conge tally. It May be either latent or marked by the presence of lesions in affected people. While in can be treated with penicillin if untreated syphilis can Lead to the degeneration of Bones the heart and nerve tis sue. Or. Consuelo Beck Sague a researcher with the centers for disease control confirmed that the increase in syphilis cases was occurring mainly among heterosexual men and prostitutes based on information from interviews taken when those with the disease come in for treat ment. From san Francisco where the num Ber of cases is Down substantially to new York and Miami homosexual and bisexual men Are reporting fewer syphilis cases even in areas where the disease is noted to be on the Rise. Possibly or probably those men Are Noi transmitting syphilis because of the change in sexual practices possibly inst Lule to reduce the risk of acquiring acquired immune deficiency syndrome Buck Sague said. She said the Center was studying the relationship Between sexually transmitted disease and drug use but so far there is no really hard evidence linking the two. Meanwhile some parts of Florida including Broward county showed a slight decrease in reported syphilis cases. Bro Ward was Down 3 percent in the number of cases reported through the first five months of 1937. However in Broward which was the subject of a special report by the disease Center syphilis cases peaked there in 1986, surpassing the number in More populous Dado county altogether ii Florida counties including Dade Hills Borough Orange and Pinellas were responsible for the state s dramatic in crease in syphilis cases this year. A penicillin resistant Strain of Gonor Rhea has also been plaguing Florida and the nation bul the rapid increase of the disease appears to have slowed officials said. On deductions to which the taxpayer is no longer entitled meaning Here is a Good Chance of having too Little withheld. If the taxpayer Waits until sept. 15 to file a w-4, his or her employer probably will not put it into effect before oct. 1. That Means this worker could be under withheld for nine full months. The taxpayer could make up the difference by boost ing withholding considerably for the last three months of 1987. Or they could avoid that trauma and the Chance of being hit with a Penally by making an honest Effort to accurately Complete a new w-4 and filing it Wilh their employer by june i. Even though the taxpayer still could be under with held for the full year they should t worry the irs says. If you gel the w-4 in on time and make a Good Faith Effort to get the number of allowances Correct we would not penalize you if because you Are dealing with Only the last half of the year you Are still under withheld said irs spokesman Rod Young. But what if you Are one of the 80 percent of us pay cars accustomed to a tax refund even if you Don t have to worry about a penalty for under withholding you need to file a revised w-4 by june 1," said irs spokesman Fadely. Otherwise you May not Only lose our refund but there s a Good Chance you will owe us Money next  horses freed briefly by liberation group Litchfield Calif. A Mem Bers of an animal liberation group dam aged a Federal Agency Corral where wild horses Are held and released is of the animals officials said. Fences were Cut at the Bureau of land management Corral about 20 Miles Northeast of Susanville Friday night in what the Lassen county sheriff termed an act of vandalism. The horses were rounded up and re turned to the Corral. Sunday night an Anonymous caller claiming to represent the animal liberation front read a statement to Margo Tannenbaum president of action for animals in san Bernardino. This action is meant to focus Atten Tion on the plight of 10,000 to 20,000 wild horses incarcerated in government holding pens and experiencing concentration Camp conditions in various states in the West the statement said. The Federal government under pres sure from ranchers began taking wild horses off Public lands 14 years ago