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2 The Daily Tar Heel Monday, April 14, 1986 A cerftsmtty off Iff; the I Oy USA ALLEN Staff Writer When T. S. Eliot wrote that April was the cruelest month, he might have thought he was talking about the weather. Those of us who are frantically turning desk drawers upside down and sifting through piles of receipts with only hours left before tax forms are due know better. The good part about filing an income tax return is the refund, which most college students who worked last summer will be getting eventually. The bad part about getting the refund is having to file for it. Unfortunately, the filing deadline for taxes is April 15. Jim Cooke, an employee in the North Carolina State Revenue Department's Income Tax Division, said 919,000 refund checks have already been written by his department from the completed forms already received. "We wrote 2,008,000 checks total last year," Cooke said, "so we're about half done." Cooke said 2.6 million people paid out additional income taxes last year in North Carolina. "We're expecting some increase this year since the economy is doing so well," he said. Tom Grobleski, postmaster at the post office on Estes Drive, said there hadn't been a noticeable increase in mail despite the April 15th deadline for filing income tax forms. "There has been a general increase in mail this year," Grobleski said, "but hopefully people haven't procrastinated in filing their tax forms." Grobleski said there might be an increase in mail at the mail processing facility in Raleigh, because most of the state's mail is filtered through there, but the volume of mail is nothing like the increase a major holiday brings. "Every year around this time on Channel 3 out of Charlotte, they show people driving up to the local post office." he said, "and letters are hanging out the windows of their cars. That's never the case here." Betty Francisco, a manager at H&R Block in the Glen Lennox Shopping Center, said her company, which does tax returns for individuals and businesses, had experienced a definite increase in the volume of business since last year. Among this year's differences in the tax law is a change in the method of reporting auto expenses that requires more detailed information on the form, according to Francisco. Anne Lobe, owner and sole employee of Compu Count, another income tax preparation company, said another change in the law allowed separated couples to file as singles after only six months of separation, instead of the year-long wait previously required. The law also raised the amount of exemption money that can be claimed when using a car for charitable purposes from 9 cents a mile to 12 cents, according to Lobe. Lobe said more people started doing their taxes later this yeai because of some delays in getting out tax formSi For those of you who plan on being late this year, getting an extension on filing your tax forms won't difficult, according to Lobe. An extension on both state and federal taxes can be obtained by sending in a request, along with an estimate of how much tax money is owed to the IRS. Without an estimate, interest must be paid on the late taxes. The extension is until Aug. 15. Betty White, a partner in Blackman and Sloop, another firm that aids in tax preparations, said people seem to follow a pattern in tax filing. "The laws get more complicated every year," White said, "but it hasn't changed the speed at which people file." Lobe said she has requested extensions for filing her taxes for the past four years. "IVe been so busy doing other peoples' taxes, 1 haven't had time to do my own." lieges across coiaetey pmslii for divesttmeet Associated Press Protesters at Yale University vowed to defend their anti-apartheid shanties after meetings with school officials ended in an impasse Saturday, and students and alumni blockaded a building at Wesleyan University to protest South African-related investments. Students at the University of Illinois tore down their shantytown Saturday but vowed to erect the shacks again if the school does not end its investment in companies doing business in South Africa. The University of Connecticut's trustees votedunanimously to divest, while the University of Pennsylvania's board decided to keep an 18-month moratorium on such action. In New Haven, Conn., Yale students said they would occupy the shacks, built more than a week ago to 'symbolize shantytowns in black South Africa, until the school agrees to sell its more than $350 million investments in companies that do business with South Africa. ooocooooooooo n RESUME u SERVICES Copy 50 resumes on specialty paper get 10 resumes copied FREE U fJt!lS 967-0790 0 Expires: 41586 la d I I T7 pro y ITZA $1.50 OFF COUPON! Present this coupon from 6:00 pm-12:00 pm on any pizza delivery or in-house purchase. ITZA $1.00 OFF Any Small Pizza or SI. 50 OFF Any Large Pizza Only one purchase per coupon, please ITZA $1.00 OFF Any Small Pizza or $1.50 OFF Any Large Pizza Good from 6:00 pm-12:00 pm on All Pizza Deliveries and In-House Purchases One coupon per purchase, please ITZA Pizza, located in the ' Commons of Lenoir Hall . Offer expires April 25th, 1986 (nit ! ACKETTY YACK SENIOR IPOOTESAI1TS This Week Only! It's your last chance to get your picture in the yearbook. 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Jesse Jackson aids strikers Associated Press AUSTIN, Minn. The Rev. Jesse Jackson met Sunday with protesters arrested in a violent demonstration during the nearly 8-month-old strike against Hormel.and said his meeting with a company official earlier in the day was fruitful. "The issue is not about jobs, confron tation and tear gas,"the civil rights leader told reporters after his jail visit with the protesters arrested Friday. "It's about getting towork." Jackson, who had offered to mediate the contract dispute, saidhis meeting with Hormel Vice President Charles Nyberg earlierwas fruitful. But he said he did not get any promise from thecompany for renewed negotiations with Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Nyberg had said Saturday of Jack son's visit: "His suggestions, any suggestions, would be most welcome. Apure mediation role, we don't think, would be positive." Jackson also met with law enforce ment officials and Mayor Tom Kough and planned to meet, with leaders and members of Local P-9. "Ultimately I would like to see all forces back to the bargaining table," Jackson said earlier. "Only by workers standing up can we do it." "Our concern is very basic here," he said. "We want workers out of jail and on the job." Friday's clash between police and demonstrators erupted when more than 300 demonstrators attempted to shut the plant down by blocking the entry gates and roads leading to the gates. zffzi 74, 15, 16 OUfidcMiE, JVC 27514 Q2g-g5S4 1986 Hallmark Cards. Inc. w w W W A 1 A 11 W A It W A 1 W A 7 wy ww A T WJLjV A it w w w 0 To cnj cn-taQ-ga In tho vvsnn clr! Buy a Chicken Sandwich, Regular Fries, and a Medium Soda for only . . . How about a V lb. Cheeseburger, Onion Rings, and a Medium Soda for only . . da m And for breakfast . . . 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Stockman dreams of job in defense WASHINGTON A biography of David Stockman, to be published on the heels of Stockman's hard hitting memoirs, says the former budget director has told friends his dream job, if he ever returns to Washington, would be secretary of defense. But Stockman's prospects for the Pentagon seem dim, according to the biography written by Owen Ullmann::-.'.;-:;;--.,: Stockman managed to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. And after his former colleagues read the blunt criticism of them in his memoirs, many may agree with wone of his most antagonistic rivals," quoted anonymously by Ullmann, Zlzlo Ci r's'.lonal who told the author, I say he's finished here." Ullmann's book, uStockman: The Man, The Myth, The Future," recounts that Stockman signed a Students for a Democratic Society ad at Michigan State University in 1967 vowing to resist the draft and signed up for Harvard Divinity School, a move that allowed him to avoid induction. XVi fcrvol' ovc uCava-o1 trn White House officials . . . recalled hearing Defense Secretary Caspar Wein berger refer to (Stockman) when he was not present as 'the little draft dodger' or the blow-dried draft dodger."' Weinberger denied it. Springsteen sues pub's owners SEATTLE Rock star Bruce Springsteen has sued a pub's owners for copyright infringement, alleging his hit song "Cover Me" was played in their tavern without permission. Springsteen, the Poors Music Co., and T.B. Harms Co. filed a joint suit Friday in U.S. District Court against Terry Griffin and his wife, Kathleen, owners of the Islander Pub on Bainbridge Island, west of Seattle. The pub had public performances of Springsteen's song and others that were covered by copyright, the suit alleged. The Griffins violated the copyright because they don't have a license from the American Society of Com posers, Authors and Publishers, the suit charged. 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John Berault, a representative of for the Seventh Ward Hospital, said a 45- year-old man was killed, but would not release his name. The injuries ranged from minor abrasions to one fatality," he said. "The total of injuries was somewhere around 50." One person was listed in critical condition at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Neumeyer said, adding that his service had eight ambulances and three helicopters at the scene. For ho He cord The Daily Tar Heel erroneously repqie two ,ojuotef hi the, April 8 r .edition's article Lecturer calls teaching i his greatest joj&fv ,Xc- . I S l Ben Cameron actually said that the person in his class who suggested that his topic be sex had a "short-lived 'tragedy." In the same article, Cameron actually said, "Life is too short to be serious, but too serious to be frivolous." The Daily Tar Heel regrets these reporting errors. Soft Contact Lensey N Includes a corf examinatir' soft copx . -disio' I 1 f rCY' I Kfonlng8r, Optometrist I 121 S. 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