European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday november 8, 19b7 states want tax paid on mail orders Washington a re Prenta of the nation s governors 2nd by Isydor asked Congress Friday Tor authority to re quire mail order Sellers in collect sales taxes on purchases by out of state customers. On of Maic businesses threaten the future of the Sak s lax which is she second most important state Revenue source accounting for one of every Ihrcke male lax dollars gov. George sinner of North a Kola Lold the Senate finance subcommittee on Laxalt n. The increasing popularity of direct mar. Feelers and Border Sellers is coding the Yalcs lax sinner said. He noted thai under a 1967 supreme coun decision mail order operators have no obligation to collect a is when they flip gins out Oft Jie. Cathy Reynolds a Denver Council to Mon speaking for the National league of cities said legislation to overturn thai Deci Sion is necessary in i ight of the Steep cuts in Federal funding for municipalities inc and verse Impact of tax Reform on inc ability of cities to raise revenues and he growing Cost of meeting Federal the finance Commilles is considering Hills that would overturn the ruling and give the Stales authority to require television shopping clubs Catalon retailers and similar operator to collect tax when icy ship out of state. A Bill applying thai Rule to mail older Elm with annual sales Over si2.5 million was approved thursday by a House ways and Means subcommittee. J. Con Paloncy of Jackson mi., chair Man of an appliance Chain noted that a Mississippi buyer can save j60on a $1,000 video camera by purchasing from a mail order company and avoiding inc sales lax. We lose sales because customers can avoid sales taxes by buying from an oui of slate Vendor said Paloncy speaking for the National association of retail dealers of America. Second if the product needs service we arc called upon to repair an item a hich we did no sell often having to accept inc ices than Markt Rale reimbursement provided by some manufacturers for m warranty repair he added Joseph a. Connolly chief financial offi cer of Home shopping network. Inc giant television shopping club denied that operations like his drive customers away from main Street stores Hon s programming provides the Impe i us for Consumers to comparison shop in retail a lords he said adding that television clubs cannot provide the selection available in a department store or satisfy a customer s need to exam int an item before buying. The network contends in should not be required to collect taxes for Stales in which it has no offices or employees because those suits provide no services to the company. Sex Mississippi gov. Bornett Dies Jackson miss. A former gov. Ross bar Nett. Who refused 25 years ago to Lei a Black Man at tend the University of Mississippi died knowing that history had passed him by and sided Wilh those forces he had so defiantly opposed. Barnett 89, died Friday. He had been in failing he ally for some years and just quit breathing said his son Ross bar Natl or. Funeral arrangements were incomplete i son said. Barren heralded the last major Defiance of Federal supremacy in civil rights when he denied James merc dish admission to Ole miss for the 1962-63 school year pledging that no school will be integrated while i am your riots in which to people died and hundreds were injured erupted Al the Oxford Campus on sept. 30, 1962, after Meredith became the first Black to enrol. The 5lh . Circuit court of appeals cited Barrett for contempt of court for his role and he was penalized 110,000 a Day Wilh Jai Lime. However he never served the Lime or paid inc Fine and the charges were dropped in 1965. Barred by Law from running for a second consecutive term in 1963, bar Natl in 1967 ran a poor fourth in the democratic primary in a bid to regain the Gover Norship. In later years a melt was reluctant to discuss the Federal Szalc confrontation because he said he did t want to open up old wounds he said. Generally speaking i d do the same things former Mississippi goes. Bill Waller and William Winicar said Banc to also worked to expand the slate s Economy. He led Mississippi Down a Blind said former . Rep. Frank Smith of Jackson who served in con Gress during Barnett s term As governor. It was a time when Mississippi politics were dictated by emotions rather than anything else. He should have seen the dangers Hill Ion la Foo Mong a surgeon is inspected if str being it moved from the Lake near Al Rutland Wash monster found dead in Lake Bellevue Wash. A an 11-foot Sturgeon weighing nearly a half ton has been found dead in Lake Washington where tales have Long persisted of a huge Duck eating police found the fish floating at the North end of the Lake on thursday said officer Roger health of King county s Marine patrol unit in suburban Kiri Dand. Matt Kramer who operates underwater specialists inc., hauled the fish Oul of the Lake with his 50-foot dive boat. State fisheries officials determined in weighed dose to 900 pounds and estimated it was born somewhere around the turn of the Century said stale department of fisheries spokesman Tony floor. Among the largest Freshwater fish in the world sturgeons Are suction feeders that scoop up snails and Small fish. They can grow to More than 1,000 pounds and 20 feel bul their Mouths arc not structured to cat ducks officials said. The state Sturgeon specialist Gail Krc Ilman said she doubts if there Are Many More like it left in the Lake. The cause of death is under investigation but it could be old age. Kreitman said sturgeons can live to be 100 years old. Stateside time s editor nominated to become Austria envoy Washington a president Reagan announced Friday thai he is nominating Henry Grunwald editor in chief of time Magazine id become ambassador to Austria. Grunwald 64, was bom in Vienna. He has been editor in chief of time since 1979 and has been with the Magazine since 1945. If confirmed by these Nate he would succeed Ronald Lauder in the Vienna Post. The while House also said Reagan is nominating Richard Melton director of the office of Central american and panamanian affair in the slate department As ambassador to Nicara Gua. Melton 52, has served in Lisbon Montevideo and London As Well As Wash Melon in a foreign service career that began in 1961. In Managua he would succeed Harry Bergold or. 2 minor earthquakes Jolt Southern California areas Pasadena Calif. A two Small Earth quakes one an aftershock of last month s big Hillier area temblor rattled areas of Southern California Early Friday but there were no re ports of injury or damage. The 1 27 . Aftershock measured on the Richter scale and was entered nine Miles South Southeast of Pasadena the same area As the 5.9 main Shock on oct. I that caused extensive dam age in Whittier. Said California Institute of technology spokeswoman Jacquelyn Archer. At 4 59 . A quake measuring 3.1 occurred near Dvore about 45 Miles cast of Pasadena and 12 Miles Northwest of san Bernardino she said. Pilot passengers unhurt As seaplane flips Over new Bedford mass. A a commuter seaplane flipped Over in new Bedford Harbor shortly after Takeoff Friday but the Pilot and four passengers including a 47i-Monh-old boy escaped unharmed. The Cessna 206, bound for Cuttyhunk Island off Cape cod went Down near Shore in a gust of wind Pilot Gid Fisher said. The five aboard were Able to get to land without trouble. Woman whose twins died in car gets 4-yea/ term Santa Ana Calif. A a woman a sentenced Friday to four years in prison for Leav ing her a Moth old twins unattended in a car where they died of heatstroke. Beverly Jean Ernst 26, was convicted of child endangerment in april. Orange county Superior court judge Jean Rhein Heimur said she imposed the prison sen tence because of the seriousness of the offence and the vulnerability of the victims. According to testimony Ernst left Adam and Ashley in her car about 7 . On july 20, 1986, when she went into a shop where her Boyfriend lived and she. I us cup with him. According to autopsy reports the twins were dead by 10 30
