European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. December 27, 1990 the stars and stripes delayed irs tax packets to bring few changes Washington Cap something was missing when americans opened their mailboxes wednesday. The annual greeting from the internal Revenue service was not included in the Post Holiday deluge of Lute Christmas cards. The irs did not forget. It s simply that the Agency no longer wants to be the Grinch who stole Christmas. Irs commissioner Ted t. Goldberg or. Decreed of 108 million tax packages should take place Friday not on the Day after Christmas As it has for More than a decade. Quot we wanted to move it away from the Christmas Holiday to allow folks to enjoy that period of the year As Long As they possibly can before we throw a wet Blanket on them Quot said Arthur Altman director of the irs tax forms division. The reprieve is Brief. The irs still seeks to get the forms delivered by the first week in january to insure plenty of preparation time before the april 15 filing deadline. The mailing is the biggest and most expensive the government does each year costing $29 million for printing and. Postage. Tor the second scar in a Row americans will find be w changes. The amounts for the Standard deduction and personal exemption have been adjusted to reflect the effects of inflation the self employed will find a new deduction replacing the self employment tax credit. Otherwise the forms look much like fast Cai s. A major difference is not in the forms the twelves but in lire Type of form each taxpayer receives. Some. 4.5 million elderly Tav pans used to getting form 104 1 will get the Shorter form 1040a, the change was made possible when the irs added lines allowing the elderly to report retirement income that previously could be reported Only on the longer 1040. Among other changes front last year a the. Personal exemption the amount Vou May exempt from taxation for yourself your spouse and each dependent increases from $2,000 to $2,050. A. The Standard deduction claimed by people who do not items cubes to $5,250 for a single person tip from $5,100. The Exen option for a couple increases to $5,450, up from $5,200. A families with income As High As $20,264 May qualify Lor an earned in come credit up from a limit of $ 10,540. I he maximum credit available is $055. A the Basic tax rates remain at 15 percent 28 percent and 55 percent but the lax brackets Hase been widened so that More income will be taxed at a lower rate thus compensating Tor the effects of inflation. Once again this year the irs is encouraging people to file their returns 4 million taxpayers did it last year. ,. Stockbridge mass. A he a famous for his Homespun eloquence and the puckish Charm of his portraits of Young americans making their Way in the 20th Century. But even Norman Rockwell occasionally goofed. A from an unflattering portrait of a cows posterior to a baseball study with the Umpire looking the wrong Way works that Rockwell banished to a drawer Are getting a second look in a new exhibit at the Norman Rockwell museum. A Quot. Its called a flops Quot a it was sort of As a joke the idea started a said curator Maureen Hart Hennessey. But after it began to take shape organizers realized the exhibit which takes its title from a chapter in Rockwell a autobiography showed a new Side of the Illustrator and Shook up the museum s routine the one room exhibit opened in november and runs through january 1992. A a a a a a a. Of his own work that sometimes he found a a in be been molding a handful of but some of the pictures hardly seem to Merit Rockwell s scorn. One piece dominates the exhibit a Large panoramic mural of the soviet British and . Ambassadors sitting at a session of the . Security Council. Behind them crowd about 70 figures representing everyone from a typical american family to starving children of the world. In his autobiography a my adventures As an Illustrator a Rockwell tells of his travails with the work he said he could not persuade . Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to smile and Stop soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky from eventually wrote Rockwell the work seemed a empty and pretentious a a for another a Flop a Rockwell went to the trouble of staging baseball players Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola a for. A picture of a Burly Umpire daintily sweeping Home plate All went Well until Rockwell realized that a real Umpire would never face the Pitcher turning his backside to the his seven decade career Rockwell produced More n Christi Fry of Franklin tenn., views a 1953 illustration at the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge mass. Than 3,000,works. He spent the last 25 years of his life in Stockbridge immortal izing the towns picturesque new England setting and several of its residents. A the says in his autobiography that he was More comfortable staying in his own Back Yard and painting his neighbors a she said perhaps the funniest picture in the room is a Calendar Sands of time illustration called mrs. Of Leary a cow. The infamous cow is craning its neck to peer at a lighted lamp within striking distance of her left Hind Hoof. A turned out to be my worst failure a Rockwell observed in his Book. A not that it was a bad painting. But who wants to look at the rear end of a cow for twelve months a. ,.i. In the stars and stripes Quincy muss. A this cry s newly passed ban on profanity Drew a warning from the american civil liberties Union a Good Luck in making it stick. A a they re flirting with danger a state Acle executive director John Roberts said of the ordinance approved on dec. 17, the ordinance forbids obscene or profane language in any Public place and outlaws loitering. Violators could be fined $100. A fall i can say is with the language people Usei today they belter be ready to fill their jails up a Roberts said. That does no to deter mayor James sheets. 7 a a a i come out of Litis building after work every night and i have to listen to this profanity and vulgarity being screamed from one Side of Hancock Street to the other a sheets said. A people in the City have a right to expect that they can bring their families downtown and not be subjected to the kind of profanity in be been Council president Theodore Decristo Faro an ordinance supporter said most reactions he a heard have been favourable. A yes this Wil be difficult to enforce but its Worth it a he said. Sheets said the ordinance is part of his program to revitalize Quincy Square. Asked if the ordinance violates the first amendment sheets invited a Chal 40 years ago \ dec. 27, 1950 a the . Army a x corps redeployed from its beachhead at Mung Nam combined with the 8lh army to forge a Casho coast defensive line under a new unified command to meet the chinese communist drive on Seoul South Korea. 30 years ago today ,. Dec. 27, i960 a the French government was studying various schemes to enable warring moslem and european populations in Algeria to live together peacefully government sources said. /. 1. Roberts said the Acle had no immediate plans to do so. 20 years ago dec. 27, 1970 British track Star Lillian Hoard died in Munich of stomach cancer at the age of 22. Board won the Silver medal in the 400 meters at the Mexico City games of. 1968. A. A 7 0 years ago today. Dec. 27, 1.980 a adm. Karl Poenitz who commanded hitlers submarine Fleet and ruled a crumbling nazi government for the final 23 Days of the third Reich died at 89 in Hamburg Germany. Doenitz had lived in relative obscurity since his release from West Berlin s Spandau prison in 1956. A
