European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 traffic citations Are driving him out of his mind West Palm Beach Fla. A for an innocent Man William Chinn spends a lot of time in court. The West Palm Beach Carpenter keeps getting stopped for driving on a suspended License be cause that s what the Florida state police com Puter says. I m going nuts. I can t take this any More Chinn said. A state official promised tuesday to help him All we can and she said she hoped to get the mistake corrected soon. David Wayne Whitehead a 27-year-old Driver with a Long record used Chinn s stolen License when he was stopped for Drunken driving in october and Chinn s License was suspended be cause Whitehead refused a blood alcohol test. As a result Chinn was cited last month for driving on a suspended License and spent Valen Tine s Day in court explaining to a judge who dismissed the charge after being shown a court order expunging Chinn s record. On saturday Chinn 24, was stopped in South Palm Beach for driving with a broken taillight and a computer Check revealed the Drunken driving conviction. Chinn showed newspaper articles about his plight to the police officer but Chinn got a Cita Tion anyway. Ill have to take off from work again to appear in court and my Boss will Proba Bly fire me he said. Police were not helpful. There s nothing we can do on our end said Stan Morse South Palm Beach police chief. We put it the License in the computer and it came Back suspended. It s up to Tallahassee to straighten it  Eloise Krell staff assistant to the chief of the Bureau of records in the state department of Highway safety and motor vehicles said she has received the court order. She said she was having problems with a new computer system but added i am determined to Clear this before i leave  As for Whitehead he was sentenced Jan. 26 to 7 /2 years in prison after his 10th Drunken driving conviction. Irs proposes overhauling crazy quilt penalty system Washington a experts inside the internal Revenue service Are recommending a thorough Over haul of the 150 separate civil penalties that can be imposed on people who make tax mistakes. Although the proposals have not been approved by the irs or higher Federal agencies most of the suggestions have been endorsed by irs commissioner Lawrence Gibbs. He says the present crazy quilt penalty system is difficult for taxpayers to understand and the irs to enforce. While the Merit of each individual penalty can be defended when taken together they sometimes pro Duce unintended results and have a combined Impact that can be too severe Gibbs said tuesday in present ing an irs task Force report on penalties to a House ways and Means subcommittee. If taxpayers do not understand Why they Are being penalized he said compliance with the tax Laws can suffer. When the 1954 tax overhaul was enacted there were Only 14 civil penalties. Most taxpayers will never encounter the bulk of today s 150 penalties which Are used to punish behaviour ranging from defacing a stamp on a liquor bottle to fraudulently failing to report income. The american Institute of certified Public accountants recommended that Congress streamline irs penalty proce dures but take its time creating new penalties. Now that the interest paid by individual taxpayers is no longer fully deductible while the interest received from the government is fully taxable it does not seem that this differential is necessary logical or fair said Arthur s. Hoffman chairman of the organization s tax division. It is a major irritant to Many taxpayers and is generally perceived As patently  a typical Low or Middle income taxpayer is Likely to encounter Only three or four of the 150 penalties. For exam ple failing to file a return or to pay taxes owed can result in a penalty. A filing error caused by negligence can bring another. Fraud can mean still another. In 1986, the irs imposed 22.9 million penalties for $6.9 billion but 49 percent of the Dollar amount was wiped out usually As a result of negotiations with taxpayers. For the irs the biggest problem is with informational returns such As the requirement that employers and financial institutions file reports of wages or inter est paid. About 6 million payers Send the irs some 1 billion documents. Failing to include the Correct social Security number or filing the documents late can result in a penalty on the payer of $50 per document. The group also proposed that a person who is entitled to a refund be subject to a $100 penalty for failing to file a return. Apparently Many taxpayers in that category now do not file. Gibbs said the absence of a penalty results in expenditure of irs resources to secure a return. Robin Williams passes a patriotic pot Cambridge mass. A comedian Robin Williams found a new use for the brass pudding pot traditionally Given to the Hasty pudding theatricals Man of the year. The country s Only a trillion dollars in debt. Please help the 1989 award recipient said As he passed the pot around at a Harvard University news conference tuesday. Williams wore a Rainbow coloured brassiere and wig and shared a stage with female impersonators tuesday As he accepted the prize which recognizes a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of  ill put it on the shelf he promised. Hasty pudding the nation s oldest undergraduate dramatic organization gave an identical brass pot and its woman of the year award to actress Kathleen Turner last week. Williams received his award before the curtain went up on the Hasty pudding s 141 St annual musical farce a spoof on prohibition called whiskey  As always the show has an All male cast including Man students dressed As women. Since gaining Fame As Mork in the television series Mork & Mindy Williams has gone on to Success in films that include the world according to Garp and Moscow on the  his portrayal of Adri an Cronauer the comic disc jockey in Good morn ing Vietnam earned him a Golden Globe Best actor award and an Academy award nomination in 1987. His latest movie the dead poets society is scheduled for release in june. Williams said he por trays a teacher of English literature in a private boys school in 1959, a role with some humor  seniors want 7th-graders to pack in backpacks by John Millar Wurzburg Bureau Wurzburg West Germany upperclassmen at Wurzburg High school Are getting tired of taking their lumps. Especially since those lumps not to mention bruises Bangs and assorted bumps come from pint sized seventh graders wielding Mammoth Book filled backpacks. Yeah you run into them and get bruises All Over. It s terrible said 17 year old senior Tricia Embro. Adds Mindy Higgins a 17-year-old Junior if you Don t move out of their Way you re a  at the Root of the problem Are narrow hallways and a student population of 1,100 that includes grades seven through 12. And of course the killer backpacks which seniors claim often seem to be larger than the students who carry them. The Halls Aren t real big to begin with said 18-year-old senior Tom Hammann assistant editor of the school paper. They seventh graders Don t use their lockers so they carry everything with them. They seem to be Able to carry quite a  seventh grader Terrance Adams says his Backpack weighs about 10 pounds. The 13-year-old said he carries every Book for every class he attends plus pencils papers and sometimes gym shirts and snorts. Is John Millar Wurzburg High school seventh graders from left Terrance Adams Cassie Borel Andronika Barto Wield their Book filled backpacks. He admits to bruising older students maybe once or  Cassie Borel totes a Mammoth Back pack because he wants to take Homework and other stuff from one Point to an other neatly. The 12-year-old seventh grader Rea soned that using his locker after one class would cause him to be late for the next. Another seventh grader Monika Barto said she has gone through two backpacks and still carries one. Barto 12, openly boasts of her attacks on upperclassmen. On behalf of All other seventh graders we re proud of our backpacks Barto said. To address the Backpack attacks Hammann began drawing editorial car Toons in the school s paper that depicted seemingly vicious or Imp like seventh graders and their Behemoth bags. Also spearheading the Backpack Resis Tance is . Students against big backpacks. The organization a Takeoff on students against drunk driving has pupils signing their names to contract for Protection forms and agreeing to scream for help when confronted by four or More seventh graders armed  the contract also reads i understand that a Backpack attack can cause severe injuries and be fatal. If and when i sur Vive an attack i will seek counselling with my understanding  enrolment in . Is at 50 an growing Hammann claims. Rather than deterring the Duffel desperadoes the controversy has served to give the school s lower grades a Little notoriety. Barto noted that it is getting More popular to be a seventh Grade pack car Rier. Another seventh grader Stacey for rest said the Rucksack ruckus gets us attention. It gets us  we were thinking about starting . Students against stupid seniors Barto added. But we decided not to. They might Hurt  not if you have a Backpack bore noted