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Uepends On Where You Live Will The IRS Seize Your Property For Late Payments? special To The Post Taxpayers who cannot Pay the Internal Revenue Service <IRS< in full this April should take heed. Your chances of getting your property or bank ac count grabbed may b$ up to six times higher than some one's else's, depending on where you live. An analysis of IRS sta tistics from 1979 and 1980, by the Church of Scientolo gy’s FREEDOM News Journal, shows that IRS use of confiscation methods to set^e overdue accounts varitw* so much that you can triple your chances of confiscation just by moving to a neighboring state. Your chances of losing property or funds if your payment is late, are 12.3 percent in West Vireinia. wnue in neighboring Vir ginia, me rate jumps to 31.4 percent, or over two and a half times as great. The difference is even more dramatic in Vermont where tardy taxpayers face seizures 46 7 percent of the time, while New Hampshire's rate is only 16.1 percent. The state of Maine has a national low of 9.3 percent rate, compared to Alaska with a whopping 60.2 per cent, over six times great er. If you move from Georgia to Alabama your chances double; from Ore gon to Nevada, they more than triple. “Statistics such as these show that drastic collection actions are governed mainlv bv the whim of IRS / o Meet Medical Needs North Carolina Urged To Cultivate Marijuana The Alliance for canna bis Therapeutics (ACT) has encouraged the state of North Carolina to initiate a legal program of cannabis cultivation. In a letter to North Caro lina Governor James Hunt, Robert Randall, President of the Alliance, called the federal government's existing marijuana cultiva tion facilities, “wholely in adequate to the nation’s needs,” and said, “There is an urgent need to expand the nation's production of medicinal quality mari juana.” Twenty-five states, en compassing three-fourths the national production, permit marijuana’s use in medicine, but federal agen cies have made no effort to increase the nation’s sup ply of medical quality marijuana. ACT estimates federal supplies of mari juana can only meet the medical needs of several hundred people. The nation's shortage of medicinal quality cannabis has already disrupted pa tient care programs in Mi chigan, California and Georgia. Other states, li censed to receive mari juana cannot obtain sup plies. SvW other states, like North Carolina, are being forced to accept a synthetic substitute for marijuana called delta-9-THC. Studies indicate THC is medically inferior to natural cannabis and more likely to cause adverse side effects. In his letter to Governor Hunt, Randall predicted, North Carolina and other states will continue to ex perience supply disrupt ions and shortages as long as federal agencies exer cise an absolute monopoly over the nation’s supply of legal, medicinal quality marijuana ” The National Institute on Drug Abuse <NIDA), the federal government’s marijuana supplier, has failed to grow enough marijuana to meet the nation's rapidly expanding demand for high quality cannabis. “As a result of bureaucratic mismanage ment,” Randall says, “thousands of seriously ill Americans are being denied the legal, medical access to marijuana pro mised them under state laws’’ In 1979, North Carolina recognized marijuana's medical value and sought to establish compassionate programs of patient care. Yet, more than a year later no North Carolina cancer or glaucoma patient is re cevir£the marijuana legally promised them for medical uses Randall gays, “The federal government operates a marijuana mo nopoly This monopolistic control over the nation's cannabis supply has made federal agencies arrogant, callous to the needs of patients and insensitive to the intent of state laws." The federal government now grows its marijuana on a small, five-acre lot of land at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The Mississippi “pot planta tion" once produced mart juank of up to 4 percent THfkotency. But in recent yeai^ Mississinni grown marijuana nas declined in quality and the highest po tency marijuana now avail able from the federal go vernment for medical ap plications is a mere 1.7 percent. North Carolina grew large amounts of mari juana for the federal go vernment during World War II. Currently, the fe deral government’s Miss issippi-grown marijuana is rolled into cigarettes at the Research Triangle In stitute (RTI) in Chapel Hill. But these cigarettes are exported to other states and are not yet available to North Carolina cancer and glaucom^atients^^^^^ officials and that seizures are being used as a harass ment technique," said Bar clay Bean, who compiled the analysis. “This tremen dous divergence in severe actions by IRS even be tween neighboring states, indicates that the local IRS officials are making their own rules It is time for Congress to step in anu take control over the IRS' use of levies and seizures. Only in this way can the citizen be sure that even handed justice will be ap plied.” FREEDOM News Jour nal drew its research from IRS statistics from the nine-month period from October, 1979 through June, 1980. The figures are based on the percentage of overdue accounts, called "taxpayer delinquent ac counts," resolved by the “levy" or "seizure" method. Levies are confis cations of usually liquid property such as bank ac counts or even your pay check held by a third party such as a bank or your employer Seizures involve the IRS actually taking possession of usually non liquid property like your home, office or business equipment. FRREDOM, which did a similar study of IRS levies and seizures last year based on 1976 IRS sta tistics, will be featuring the currrent analysis in an upcoming issue of the Journal. Copies of the ana lysis will be made avail able to private individuals, tax groups and concerned legislators upon request Write Barclay Bean, 2125 S Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, or call 202 797-9817. BETA OMICRON SIGMA CHAPTER SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY _T-' . -- * .^wuii^ciu^ is pinned oy Mrs. Geraldine Michelle, Basilus of Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gam ma Rho Sorority during an impressive, traditional ceremony held on Saturday, January 31, at the home of Mrs. Lavenia Young, 1700 Patton Ave Mrs NGong gang, a graduate of Mars College received her Master's degree from In diana University. She is employed in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Sehooi System and is presently serving as the Chair person of the Science Department at Olympic High School She (s also a member of the Community Council of Women's Enrichment, member of the National Science Council. National Bio logy Teachers' Association and has taught at the Governors' Schools, Win ston-Salem. N'.C and Laurinburg. S.C. "We are committed to the well being of all mankind, stated Mrs. NGanggong when asked for an overall viewpoint on ideals and goals of the Sororitv -- J Jim Martin To Serve On Budget Committee Special To The Post WASHINGTON - Repre sentative Jim Martin <R N.C.) has been selected tc serve on the House Com mittee on the Budget, which is responsible for setting target figures for appropriations, total fe deral spending and appro priate tax and debt levels. The Budget Committee was formed in 1974 in an effort for Congress to gain more control over the federal budget process, as part of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act The committee consists of 25 members: five from the Ways and Means Com mittee, five from the Ap propriations Committee, thirteen from other stand mg committees of the House and one member each from the majority and minority leadership in the House. Representative Martin, beginning his fifth term in the Congress, w ill serve as one of two Republicans from the Ways and Means Committee, and will be the sixth ranking Republican on the Budget Committee. Representative Martin, who represents Iredell, Lincoln and Mecklenburg counties, said, 'The House Budget Committee's re sponsibilities will never be more important than they are today With govern ment spending exceeding our ability to pay and the nation s economy unable to bear the strain of that spending, the Budget Com mittee has a vital role in helping President Reagan and the Congress in stabil izing the country's economy " Martin said. “A major challenge for the Budget Committee will be to get a grip on backdoor spending programs by the federal government, making de partments. agencies and congressional committees responsive to the desires of the taxpayers The vital challenge of curbing infla tion depends upon bringing spending under control ' l nited Oslomv United Ostomy Asso ciation. Charlotte Chap ter. will meet on Wed nesday. February 11. 7:30p.m. at Mutual Sav ings and Loan Bank. 4735 Sharon Hoad i near SouthPark >. Biff Shrub Slav Need Pruning Or Removal snruD tnat nas been allowed to grow too large detracts from the beauty of the landscape and should be pruned, if possible, or replaced with a smaller growing plant Shrubs that are out of prpportion are often eye sores and detract from the over-aII-landscape picture. -S.Uggesj^North Carolina State University agr-nuk tural extension specialists The shrubs may get out of proportion in their rela tionship to walls, flower beds, buildings or other features Many of the best foliage shrubbery grows rapidly and should not be used in restricted places Pruning and removal are the two alternatives Not all plants lend themselves to severe pruning Severe pruning isn't going to help the beauty of the plant if it leaves sheared masses The only solution in these I cases is removal, substitut ing low growing plants /if ( kn > .1 > .. become too large, and they include some of the most popular landscape plants used around North Caro lina homes and buildings one 01 these is Pvra cantha. a showy shrub w ith the bright clusters of ber ries in fall and winter Photinia is another. This is the popular hedge plant and is frequently used near the corners of large build ings. One form, called red top. makes masses of red leaves at the ends of stems Another good example of plants that could easih become too large in re stricted places is the Cher ry Laurel - also called Carolina Cherry Laurel The Eleagnus. Ligustrum and Pittosporum fall into the same category. In the areas of the state where it grows. the-Loquat Japanese Plum ■ grows well and often becomes a size problem Buford and Chinese hoi lies are other widely used plants that need plenty of space and need to be trained by pruning Shrubs to be considered for planting in confined areas, such as beneath windows, at intersections of walks and so forth, in clude Hetzi and Helleri HrrlK— iiuluilda._ Hnlfy' _ Dwarf \ a upon and Dwarf Burford Holly These are possible replacements for the more massive shrubs. Other useful low -grow ing shrubs are Dwarf Aucuba. 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