European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and Stripe monday january 7, 1991 Indiana flooding recedes residents starting cleanup Indianapolis apr disaster management officials said sunday the flooding emergency in Southwest pm Indiana had lessened As the cleanup was under Way following flooding statewide that drove thousands from their Homes. Levees at Vincennes and Hazleton appeared Able to safely contain rising water. The Wabash River was at 26 feet at Vincennes 10.3 feet above Hood stage and expected to Crest slightly higher during the night. A everything is holding steady. The levees Are looking really Good. We re waiting for the water to recede a said Steve Dillon director of the Knox county emergency management Agency a was far As the water rising that. Story is  a a. About 15 Miles South of Vincennes Quot the White River was at 27.5 feet 11.5 feet above flood stage in  could Rise another foot before cresting during the night or Early monday said a Den Taylor spokesman for the state emergency management Agency. A a we re just in a monitoring position. There a no threat toy any residences or Public safety a said Steve Schulz Semans chief of Field operations . Was in Hazleton. Amp a a we be comic earned about the River staying up for Crest for two to three Days and the Impact the Crest could have on the levee Quot he said. Dillon said he did no to want to minimize the flooding emergency but he said the worst appeared to be Over. A now the heartache is for the residents getting Back in their Homes a he said. A that part of it is just begins  y about 54 families remained out of their Homes Sun Day across southwestern Indiana officials said. One death and one presumed death have been blamed on the flooding and about 2,000 families have been evacuated since the flooding began dec. 29. Elsewhere a part of Arkansas also has had flooding since the end of december. It has affected mainly the town of Grubbs where the Cache River has been slow to recede. About 20 Homes in the Community of 560 and 30 Homes out of town have been flooded since the weekend of heavy rain. Grubbs got More heavy rain this weekend and some parts of Arkansas got More than 8 inches of rain from saturday night into sunday morning. A a we be already had at least three inches maybe More and its raining right now a Grubbs mayor Jack crib Char said sunday afternoon. A i just came from the River. Its now at least three or four inches higher than it was the other Day when it was  the Whites East Fork in Southern Indiana had fallen 2vi feet at Williams and nearly 1 foot at Shoals since a saturday morning the weather service said. Upstream in Bartholomew county the River had returned to nor Midi at Columbus and continued to fall at Seymour. About 1 Inch of rain fell in Martin and Lawrence counties saturday night leaving River roads in both counties flooded through monday. Eleven Indiana counties including Indianapolis were declared a disaster area by president Bush on saturday. More counties probably will be added As applications reach the White House officials said. The declaration makes residents in the counties Clingi ble for temporary housing Low interest Loans for businesses and Grants for individuals and  victim this is a 1990 picture of 14-year-old Robyn Dabrowski who was killed saturday by a snipers Bullet that hit the school bus she was Riding in near Bourne mass. Dabrowski 13 when this photo was taken was with teammates on the new Bedford High school girls freshman basketball  says new York up the internal Revenue service found that 7 million fewer american children were claimed on tax returns in 1987, data that shows Many taxpayers claimed children who did not exist a published report said sunday. In addition evidence shows americans have been claiming child care credits for baby Sitters who Are paid Cash under the table the new York times reported. In 1987, when the irs required that social Security numbers of All dependents Over age 5 be listed on tax returns 7 million american children a who had been listed in 1986 a were not claimed on annual tax statements the times said the tax collecting Agency said the 7 million figure represented a 9 percent drop in a a the 77 million dependents claimed on 1986 returns and $2.9 billion More in yearly tax revenues the paper said. Those statistics show that Many Ameri cans had been claiming deductions for children who did not exist or who were actually living with another Parent in cases of divorce the irs said. Eighty percent of the children who were not claimed in 1987 probably never existed said John Szilagyi an irs researcher who designed the proposal to require social Security numbers for dependents and baby Sitters. About 2ft percent of the vanished dependents were children who had been claimed by both parents after a divorce he said. Under the Law Only one Parent May claim the child As a deduction. A child was Worth a deduction of $1,080 in 1986 and $1,900 in 1987,.the tax Agency said. About 66,000 taxpayers who claimed four or More dependents in .1986, claimed none in 1987, after the social Security Rule went into effect. And More than. 11,000 families claimed seven or More de Pendents in 1986 but none in 1987, the Agency said. A in any individual family you might imagine that one or two children might legitimately have stopped being dependents in 1987, Burt its hard to imagine a legitimate situation in which a taxpayer had seven dependents one year and none the next a Szilagyi said. In 1989, taxpayers taking the dependent care credit were required to identify the care Giyer they were paying. In that year 2.6 million baby Sitters effectively vanished with the number of taxpayers claiming the credit dropping by 30 percent the newspaper said a under the requirement taxpayers had to provide the name address and social Security number of the baby Sitter or daycare Center they paid. It was established to Force child care providers to report their income traditionally an under the table women a business a whether the care giver reports to the Home or has the children travel to her Home. According to one irs study 80 percent of such family Day care providers did not report their income the times said. A the family had to choose Between finding a new baby Sitter or giving up the tax credit a Szilagyi said. The irs collected an additional $1.2 billion from the 2,6 million families who stopped taking the dependent care credit in 1989, Szilagyi told the times. Only 6.1 million taxpayers claimed a dependent care credit in 1989, compared to 8.7 million in 1988, the a per said. The dependent care credit is claimed for a dependent child or disabled adult. The number of child care businesses reporting income to the irs Rose to 429,569 in 1989, up from 261,372 in 1988, an crease of 64 percent the irs  it pays to keep spare Hemet Calif. Apr a Domino s pizza manager who was handcuffed inside a Freezer during a robbery unlocked himself with a key he had saved from a pair of Handcuffs he had bought on a High school Field trip. _. Quot Quot Kenneth Jutland 21, was alone and closing the restaurant Early saturday morning when a robber carrying a gun walked in and demanded Cash sgt. Suzie Hyatt said. After outland gave the robber $ 1,701 from the stores Register the assailant ordered him inside a walk in Freezer tossed him a pair of Handcuffs and told him to put them on i Wyatt said. Jutland said the manacles w Ere a cheap pair of Novelty cuffs of the same kind he Hail bought five years ago while on a High school Field trip for his Spanish class in Tijuana Mexico. Jutland said he had kept the key on his key Chain. 1 a once he threw me the Handcuffs i knew what kind they were and that i had a  he said. Seen in Atlanta up a researchers studying an abrupt slowdown in the rate of increase of aids cases believe medical therapy and fewer cases among homosexual and bisexual men May explain the phenomenon. Whatever the reason the decrease in the rate at which new aids infections Are occurring Hait forced Federal health officials to revise downward their estimates of future cases. While the number of aids infections continues to increase the graphs at. The Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta show a slackening in the upward. Curve of cases. In its latest projections of aids cases and prevalence estimates of the human immunodeficiency virus his the organism that causes aids the cd do reported a 15 percent decline in projected cases for 1990, a 16 percent decline in estimated cases for 1991 and another 17 percent drop in Case projections for 1992. These projections of the aids epidemic in the United states Are contained in a  report a Shiv i prevalence estimates and aids Case projections for the United states report based upon a  a slowing of the rapid upward trend in aids incidence that occupied in 1987 has  current ulv prevalence estimates and tons Quot the cd said. Aids cases project the number of aids cases diagnosed per month continued to increase in 1987, but the rate of increase declined in the Middle of that year particularly among homosexual and bisexual men who did not use intravenous drugs a the report stated. The drug at slows the replication of the aids virus. Another drug Del has been found to be helpful in treating the major killer of an aids infection parasitic pneumonia. Researchers noting a lengthening life expectancy for his infected people said this change in survival a corresponds to assumptions that patients taking zidovudine at have a 35 percent reduction in the risk of death and that 40 percent to 75 percent of people with aids Are being  the cd said the number of aids cases will continue to increase Over the next four years. It projected 52,000 to 57.000 cases to be diagnosed in 1990, but the latest weekly report from the cd listed Only 41,129 cases. The number of cases projected for 1991 was 56,000 to 71.000 and for 1992 the figure was 58,000 to 85,000. Health optic gals now estimate that about 1 million people in the United states Are infected with his previously the Public health service had placed that estimate As High As 1.5 million