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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 7,19bb the stars and stripes Page 9 stamp buffs find tax deadline loophole Washington  a special service offered to stamp Roll trim Auk a malt1 i mossime fat late tax payers to mail their returns this Ripon la and still beat inc april 15 filing deadline Hul of in mint officials say the a Rafiee is nue tinn Ihle. I Engle using ii special first Day of Issue service can Mill Pel envelopes with postmarks dated in match Linn s stamp ny1-. A newspaper for collectors Points Ninlin 11% May 1 nil i inn. The nay in works is that the postal service allows a Tishu tors to Huj Mamps. Put them on envelopes Anil mail the envelopes in bulk in the Post alike where inc first Day ceremonies were he to. The first Day Caru Chali onsure Ihen affixed often As much As a month after the cd Cal and the envelopes returned to the collector. This is done for Skarop Rel lectors since Moh of them Are unable Lei travel to each City where new Stamps May be issued and the new Stamps cannot be purchased in other cities until he Day Alk Issue. Offering the Tim Day cancellations fur .1 1 Days or so likes pressure olt the issuing Nosi Tillice Anil gives collectors time to buy the new Stamps and Send Ihm in for the cancellations. Thus a collector could put the new i " Stamps on an envelope containing tax forms Send it 111 washing ton for the first Day cancellation and it would Ilien lie delivered with the Dale March 2 2 on i he envelope. The deadline Tor first Day cancellations of the a Stamps is May 21. Slightly longer than Normal because of the Short notice before the Stamps were put an Safe. The a Stamps Wen issued March 22 in anti Cipa lion of new postage rates which took effect april 3 technically then a taxpayer could Mill Seno in the forms on Lime under court decisions that have held a postmark ii evidence or filing. Bui Dick Ruskin manager of inc Post office s stamp information Branch says cancellations for the first Day of Issue look different and arc treated differently from regular Date cancellations affixed to mail. Regular Cancilla Vitins confirm the Dale some thing was mailed lit said. Hut. For those which sit first Day of Issue he said we would not verify unit inc mail entered the system on Lylial  generally collectors Send in envelopes addressed in themselves for these , he said. Rustin said postal officials Milf he raise a question Anil Contact a collector if it appeared obvious that their intent in gelling the special  was to defraud. Bui he added we re not a police male  tax forms arriving a month late with a March 21 cancellation might also raise questions at the irs said spokeswoman John Cluj Hunter. She said the Lai Agency might Cheek to Sec it he individual sending in the form had a history of being Laic. The irs says perhaps 3 million Taj forms Haie Yel to be Kwh in although Many of i Host Are for Ameri cans who live overseas and have More Ihan a left to file. I month Bank robber identified As elusive Dapper Bandit Dallas api a Hank rubber who Shol and wounded himself when police cornered him was  thursday As the courteous Dapper handily who baffled authorises fur a decade w Ith do ens of smoothly i Utu led Tai Kiup Marl Ervin i even. 3j, was held on  bail in a Ira ii Ali a Bohhen charge in a Holdun of n Hinl wednesday. P lice of up. Jolin i Hilt Saul. Be cacs. To Shol him la in Llic neck As police  his ear Ai a Slop Hughl a half hour after the robbery was in cry tical Chin Ditinno in  hos Pittil Melca c Ity f n Las spa Al Sunun Vinsn Henry said. Lol Sakl Vcci i s i ii Dapper Han dil. Inc will a Raed. Well Gnu Mcd Roh by r Wilh a Merit Ulous knowledge of Hanking procedures. The Dapper handily has been named for 25 robberies Mosi in inc Dallas fort Worth area. Oiher slate and Federal Charnel arc Heing considered against Reeves because of evidence incl Ilij surveillance Cam Cra  Lin Liing him to a num Ber of Oiher holdups. Holt said. We have Choli graphs from virtually All of those 25 robberies. Holt said. First of All he s very Good second of All he s very Lucky Holt said of the Dapper Lindil s ability to elude capture. He planned Well Fie executed Well and he was Well disguised with wigs an false . We and inc Fri naturally Are cry relic to he added. Officers who searched Reeves expensive Apan men found weapons taken front Bank Security guards. The Dapper Vandil s method was always to disarm any guards before robbing the Bank police said. The Dalias morning news quoted1 an unidentified woman thursday who said she had a Ned Reeves Tor iwo years. She described him As a gun voting cocaine Ihu scr who ii cd like a Playboy and had no apparent source of income he raced cars professionally in inc Southwest and. Maintained an apartment in a Dallas Complex police caught up with Reeves at an Ilir Section wednesday  his car Asma idling the one ust a in other Dapper crimes. Holt hid. Reeves shot himself As police shouted at him to amp the gun witnesses said Blaze damages . Office of House speaker Wright Washington a fire Brake out late thursday in the Capitol fill of fice of House speaker Jim Wright d Texas and Llic Blae based unimpeded for 10 Minics because of a Lack of fire Hosei and alarms says a congressman who was one of the firs a inc scene. Two police officers were treated for smoke inhalation Al the scene Hul they did not require further medical alien lion said officer in Nichols. The fire in Wright s Kund floor Cor Ner office of the Lou Worth building. Across the spreut from inc Capitol was caused by an electrical problem said Jamelia Jackson District of Columbia Dep Uty fire chief. He estimated the damages at $120,000 and said the offices will need extensive res oration. Rep. Curl Weldon r-pa., whose offices Are next door to Wrights said the fire was Able to spread for at least 10 minutes after i brain out a Hority after 6 . Because fire hoses which arc sup posed to be in emergency cabinets through jul the building were missing. Help for alcoholics two Spicl Ako Hillbun spent Dislo learn new american to regiment technique Dur ing a visit in Dartmouth College in i Lan for  i. From i Art Dartmouth specialist Kuhn Fleming or. Mikhail Murmann of Morariu Anvar Mukhin Maullin in wow director fifth Tum per Tare i Nim Tion Soch la arid or. Juhn Turco Alliv Conr of the Dartmouth la Gullli Vertlee. The Blindfold a excise in up wed to help reciter in Alehn lick Hail ii it sense Tif Trust in others. Pittsburgh mayor Caliguiri Dies of heart attack plots Burgil a mayor Richard s. Calf Girj who helped Transfer to Pittsburgh from a sickly steel town to a vital Mino Raic cell or. Died Friday of a rare heart disease after More than a decade in office. He was 56. The popular major was stricken at Home by a Hean Aii Ark and died it l 3 . In Shait Side Hospital according to the Allegheny county Coroner s office and Hospital spokesman Scott Meyers City Council president Sophie Masloff 70. Was sworn in As the 54itt mayor of Pittsburgh in inc May or s ref Lac about seven hours after Caliguiri died. Miss Griir a Democrat and the City s first Wimunc mayor May serve As the City s chief Eneau Ive unit Caliguiri s term expires in january 1990 and will keep her count seat officials Sal this is such a sad personal occasion for me Mas lot said. To become mayor As a Rchull of his tragedy causes me great sorrow. Dick Caliguiri brought great dignity to the office of  Caliguiri serving his third term As mayor of this City of 400,000, suffered from cardiac amyloid Sis which deposits dangerous amounts of protein in the Hean kidneys and other major organs and which caused the heart attack Meyers said. Caliguiri. A Democrat grew up it a working class neighbourhood. He worked for 15 years in in flu Parks department eventually us a director. In 1971, he won a City Council seat As an Independent defeating endorsed democratic candidates in this overwhelmingly democratic City. As Cornei presi Dent in 1977. He took Over As interim mayor when Ihnn mayor Pic Flaherty joined Prei Idem Jimmy Carter s administration. Caliguiri ran for Flaherty s empty Post in no Ember 1977, and was sworn in april 10, 1977, As the i3rd Mayorov Pillsburg. In addition to his wife Jeanne Cah Usiri r survived by iwo sons Gregg and David  
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