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Channel 9 To Broadcast Public Hearing On 1-64 On Tuesday evening, April 30 public television station, WSWP TV, Channel, 9, Beckley wil broadcast complete unabridgei coverage of the controversial I 64 and Corridor public hear ings. The hearings, to be held ai Shady Spring High School al 7 p.m., will be taped by the Methodists Give $11,619 To IVesfeyon Fund The Beckley district of the United Methodist Church and Virginia United Channel 9 staff and broadcast at 9 p.m. later that, same day. The public hearing, conducted by the West Virginia Department of Highways a moderated by Beckley Mayor John H. McCulloch, will provide an input from area residents regarding the routing of proposed interstate highway.

The hearing will also include discussion of the tentative schedules for right-of-way, acquisition, construction and relocation assistance. In addition to a McCulloch, scheduled guests the West Methodist Conference have donated $11,619 to West Virginia Wesleyan College for the school scholarship fund. Rev. Marvan Frame, district superintendent of the Beckley district, presented the college with a $10,000 scholarship en dowment gift, and Rev. Ross M.

Evans, president of the board of education of the West Virginia United Methodist Conference, forwarded a $1,619 check to the college to assist its scholarship program. Mr. Frame explained that the Beckley district received the $10,000 as reimbursement for land and church buildings condemned when additional water conservation projects were developed by the Corps of Engineers. There will be no restrictions on the annual scholarship, but preference will be given to a student from the Beckley Mr. Frame said.

The money should produce about S500 a year, he explained, adding that it is hoped other districts in the conference will establish similar funds for students from their district. Mr. Evans, who is pastor of the Beckley United Methodist Temple, said the $1,619 was received as the result of a sale of property belonging to the conference board of educatir.n. West Virginia Wesleyan College President John Rockefeller IV said the gift will be used to award three freshmen scholarships of $500 each as one-time awards. 78ffi PTA Sef In Texas units, who will 'have the said, and will emphasize that decide on new paths Army Expands Delay Program A policy recently adopted by tlie U.

S. Army will allow men and women to sign up for the school of their choice now, but delay departure for active duty for up to nine months. individuals Army could sign up under a six-month delay The three-month ex- REVIOUSLY, interested in the prog tension is expected to increase enlistments among those with high learning potential as well as using to its fullest advantage the automated school reservation system. School seat reservations are reserved through a computer system which has programmed with the qualifications for each Military Occupational Specialty and the number of vacancies in every offored by the Army. include Governor Arch Moore Department Highways i i William S.

Ritchie and from the Federal Highway lion, Design i i i Engineering Department, and Right-of-Way Division. The 1-64 hearing will be entitled "For the Record," and is the first in a series of upcoming public affairs specials to be televised by WSWP-TV. Rajgigh Register, Beckley, W. Monday Afternoon, April 29. 1974--8 Beckley Police Probe 417 Criminal Offenses During The Past Two Months The Beckley City Police Department received 417 complaints of crminal activity during February and March.

During the month of February, of the 154 actual offenses reported, 104 were cleared by. arrest or investigation, according to a police activities report. March figures indicate that 95 offenses were cleared by arrest or investigation of the actual 263 reported. BECKLEY police arrested 105 adults and 13 juveniles during February; while 111 adults and 21 juveniles were arrestec during March, according to the report. The following is a breakdown of the charges, disposition of and the number of adults and juveniles involved during the month of February.

AN ARREST for an offense during a month in which no such offense was reported indicates the clearing of an of- 'ense committed during a previous month. Murder and manslaughter by negligence, solved; 2 adults 1975 BCCA Attraction With the ancient city of The 45-member company a i background, the Hungarian Folk Ballet and Gypsy Orchestra perform in the sunshine. of dancers and musicians will make its first tour of the United States next spring and will appear in Beckley April 2, 197S. The ballet company is being sponsored by the Beckley Community Concert Association. The Convention Center in San Antonio, Tex.

will be the location for the 78th annual convention of the multi-million member National a Teacher Association May 19-22. The convention is expected to draw more than 1,000 delegates, organization's delermination toivolvement," Mrs. Herndon ad- bring together all the millionslded, "and needs the strength focus on such vital issues as of individuals belonging to PTA as a unified force to meet the neds of every child everywhere." THIS CONVENTION will introduce several a i a representing some 35,000 local priority areas, Mrs. Herndon opportunity to participate in the the work of the individual PTA 'ormulation of National PTA member, the local unit, the priorities for the coming year, and the state PTA can, The theme for this meeting: through follow-up and extension will be "Every Child Needs of these aims, profoundly You," which, explains National PTA President Mrs. Lillie E.

rlerndon, "underlines 1 influence the life of every child in every community. "Every child needs our in- we provide as members of the aren tal involvement in the schools, financing i THE CONVENTION program educatiolli young people and the this year has been designed to stimulate and motivate this involvement as PTA delegates listen, learn, deliberate, and law, the fine art of parenting, and meeting educational needs of children with learning disabilities. for the welfare of children and youth. Topics for workshops range from what's happening in Washington to the problem of school absenteeism. popular sessions, featuring nationally known educators as So You're Being Your federal individual income tax return Form 1040 has been selected for audit, md you're wondering why.

Ac- to the Internal Revenue Service, the most likely reason return and many others lave been chosen for a further is simply that they ap- iear to contain errors. All individual and small corporation income tax returns go hrough a sophisticated processing system a 'Discriminant Function" (DIF) as they pass through the IRS view them to double check the'Whether or not items reported are higher or lower than reasons for the selection. THE USE OF the computers was soon found to be a step in the right direction, since it saved time and provided greater uniformity in the initial selection of returns for audit. However, this initial system of criteria developed from examiner experience still did not ensure that IRS audit manpower was being spent on those returns with the greatest need for examination based on the probability of change in the tax well as PTA leaders, will also reported. After considerable research computers.

DIF HASN'T always been a part of Ihe IRS processing system. In fact, it has been mine the relative importance of the IRS found it could deter use at the service centers only since 1969. At one time the Internal Revenue Service relied on the 'eyeball" method to pick out returns for audit. Large num- ers of examining officers scanned and selected returns on he basis of their content and officers' experience in spotting those needing a closer Later the IRS enlisted the aid of computers, programming hem with criteria based on past experience of examining officers. Under this method the THE NEW system is referred to as REQUEST and is the most rapid means for obtaining the school which best conforms to the needs and interests of all Army applicants.

To be eligible for the 270-day delay program, an applicant must be either a high school graduate or the equivalent or may be a high school senior who will have graduated by the time he's scheduled for active duty. In addition, the anplicant. must enlist for a skill which rcauires a formal course of instruction at either an Armv training center or an Army service school and meet all requirements prior to departure that would make him eligible for training and duty in that skill. course i computers returns for would sort out each significant return characteristic as it related to the fre- ouency of tax error. Eventually, this study led to assigning weights to these return items and their interrelationships.

That is the basis for DIF. The DIF system today weighs the relationships of all of the key return items and produces a score for each taxpayer's return. Those returns having a high score are identified as having the fn-eatest probability of tax errors. IN OTHER WORDS, under DIF, relationships between return characteristics and past possible audit and results of ai'dits of similar then the examiners would re-ltypes of returns are what count. Auto Insurance In New Jersey Husband Kills Wile; Survives Suicide Try TITUSV1LLE, Fla.

Patrick W. Spicer of Titusville remained hosmt'ilbH 'n serious condition Saturday with what police say is an apparently self-inflicted bullet wound in the head. Spicer, 54, wounded last Tuesday, the same day his wife, Audele Wilson Spicer. ,52, was killed with a bullet in the head, police said. Brevard County officers said Spicer apparently shot his wife and then turned his pistol on himself.

No charges had been filed by Into Saturday. Spicer was at Wucsthoff Hospital in Rockcdge, south of Titusville on the Florida Coast. East The first high school in Pennsylvania was Central High School in Philadelphia, established by nn act of Assembly on June 13, 18.16. By ALEXANDER MILCH paying all medical expenses (C) Newhousc News Service NEWARK, N. i vidence of how no'fault auto nsurance is working in New ersey shows that accident vic- ms are filing more claims and ollecting them faster, ac- ording to State Insurance heeran.

But because James "pain and suf- ering," the classic claim in uto suits, is no longer con- idered in the no-fault system, i average payment has fallen 6 per cent from S77S to $340, said. The analysis compared the irst six months of 1973 with he same period in 1972, new ersey's no-fault system took Jan. 1, 1973. "The statistics support the onclusion that 1 the no-lault ystem has accomplished its wo prime objectives of iringing recovery for economic oss to more accident victims nd doing it faster than the For example, a nationwide take into ac- ild system," Sheeran said. Personal injury protection PIP), the heart of no-fault in Vew Jersey, insures that lost vages and medical expenses of iccident victims are paid im- ucdiately.

without regard to for the accident or the type of injury. Court suits are not necessary or PIP under the new law is compulsory endorsement to bodily injury linbility (BIL), the ong-cstablishcd form of auto coverage. Under BIL, lawsuits can be filed and payment is made after fault for the ncci dent is established or admitted Because pip removed Ihe in regardless of fault, suits under BIL are now usually filed to recover for pain and suffering only. Such suits are still allowed if the injuries are other than what are known as "soft-tissue" injuries--and involves broken bones, disfigurement, death, if medical bills, other than hospital and diagnostic costs, exceed $200. In the first half of 1972, when only BIL claims were possible 21,102 claims were filed in New Jersey for a total of $43,232,298 By September of that year.

10,052, of the claims had been iaid off, resulting in payment $7.797,772. During the same period under o-fault in 1973, PIP and BIL. laims combined totaled 37,645 or 839,214,353. By September, 4,057 (63 per cent) of the laims had been paid off, and ccident victims had received 8,265,250 (21 per cent) of the money they had claimed. Local Auto Salesmen Honored Three area men, a father and lis two sons, have been honored by the Ford Motor Co.

district average amounts is of no consequence. How the items go together to make up the over-all picture and whether that composite tax return image looks jrror prone are what tips the scales. Screening by IRS classifiers determines whether returns selected by the computer really need auditing. DIF, which is system, cannot count- unique local conditions Screeners can identify loca variations such as when a state's real estate taxes are high. Returns found to need andr by both the computer am humans are ultimately selected for examination.

IN ADIDTION, returns no selected for audit by DIF may be selected at random, as a means of checking the system Or returns may be examinee because they are related to returns already undergoing examination, such as those oi partners in a business. Some returns are identified for audi' when IRS matches associatec documents, such as Forms W-2 and 1099 with information reported on the 1040. But whatever the means for selecting your return for audit the purpose remains the same to correct those returns with apparent errors so that only the tax due is paid the government. year, according to the IRS, 1.8-million audits endec with SS.l-billion in additional revenue for the government and S275.7-milIion in reduced taxes or increased refunds for taxpayers. jects which has gained national recognition is its National Project on Smoking and Alcoho' Education.

In addition to examining this concern in the workshop, "New Hopes for Healthier Living," PTA delegates will hear Dr. Morris Chafetz, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, discuss the latest facts and present information about what PTA's can do to ielp fight alcohol abuse. Snofc Clearance Safe The Raleigh County Public Library will sponsor clearance sale today of all the books which were left over fron last week's used books sale hel in conjunction with Nationa Library Week. The remaining books at the Lewis Chevrolet showroom, the ocation for the sale, will be un until business hours an iver this evening. Including S48 from Saturday Wary Louise Graham said wil toward new equipment.

office mtstanding ,973. The Cincinnati for truck sales during three, Kenneth, Joseph C. and Joseph E. Holley are all employes of Grady Whitlock Ford, 'Ins. Joseph E.

Holley is the father of the two younger icn. There are 165 Ford dealerships in the Cincinnati division area--in Ohio, parts of Indiana, West Virginia, Virgi- book sale netted $562 foi library which Librari: Classes Postponed Frankie Wheeler, instructo it the Beckley Art Center, an lounced today that classes wil not be held today or Tuesday. Mrs. Wheeler explained th cancellation is due to the ar show being held at the cente his week. ducomcnt for most lawsuits by'nia, and Kentucky.

asssss BUYING SILVER COINS Dim.i $.24 Quarttn $.60 Fifty-cent $1.20 Silver $3.75 CAROLINA SUPER MARKET SOPHIA MADllY ond JOHNSTOWN ROAD STOMS Career Specialists To Attend Workshop Two members of the Raleigh County Career Education Pro- lect staff will be traveling to Davis for the first Regional Career Education Curriculum Implementation Workshop to be held May 1-2 at the Blackwater Falls Lodge. Mrs. June Mabe, career awareness coordinator Raleigh County together with career orientation coordinator, Larry Anderson, will be featured on both days of the program presenting curriculum units developed in the school system here. The Davis workshop is one of three scheduled across Wesl Virginia for elementary anc secondary curriculum spe- ONE OF PTA'S priority pro- cialists who will learn about implementing career educatior in the classroom. Others will be held May 7-8 at Cedar Lakes near Ripley and at the Ramada Inn in Beckley May 22-23.

Joseph Freund, assistan director of instructional services for the Bureau of Voca tional-Technical and A Education in the West Virgini! Department of Education wil preside over the a i workshop which is expected to draw 30 to 40 persons. counterfeiting, solved; .2 uveniles; fraud, solved; .2 adults; vandalism, 27 solved; and 1 juvenile; narcotic drug aws, solved; 2 juveniles; gambling, solved; 2 adults; runken driving, 18; solved; 17 adults; drunkenness, 68; solved; 7 adults; 1 juvenile; Missing persons, 1 solved; unaways, solved; 2 juveniles md all other offenses, 11; 5 solved; 7 adults. arrested; forcible rape, none; 1 adult; robbery, 1 case; not solved; Assault, solved; 7 adults and 1 juvenile arrested; burglary of homes, 2 solved; 3 adults and 2 juveniles; jurglary of business buildings, 7 solved; 2 adults. GRAND larceny, 12, 1 solved, 2 adults; petit larceny, 17; 11 solved; 9 adults and 3 juveniles auto theft, 2, both solved; adults and 2 juveniles; Arson, neither solved; forgery and counterfeiting, 5 solved; 2 adults fraud, 15; 13 solved; 2 adults; vandalism destruction of property, 14; 1 solved; 1 adult; weapons, not solved; 1 adult; narcotic drug laws, solved; 1 adult; Gambling, 2 solved; adults; drunken driving, solved; 8 adults and 1 juvenile drunkeness, 60; solved; adults and 3 juveniles; disorderly conuct, solved; miss ing persons, runaways, 1, solved; ALL OTHER offenses excepl traffic, 7 solved; 3 adults and 1 juvenile. The breakdown for March as follows: Assault, 2 solved; 5 adult and 1 juvenile; burglary homes, not solved; burglary of business buildings, solved 1 adult; grand larceny, 16; 3 solved; 2 adults; petit larceny 22; 14 colved; 5 adults and 11 juveniles; Auto theft, none solra tampering with an auto, 1 solved; 1 juvenile; forgery ant Nixon Signs Benefits Bill WASHINGTON I) President Nixon has signed a jill putting the minimum civil i retirement annuity jenefit on a par with the minimum social security bene- of $90.50 a month, the White House said Saturday.

The minimum will rise to $93.80 in June 1974 and will be lutomatically linked with any future cost of living increases under the social security system. Another major feature of the bill provides an annual increase of $240 in annuities for employes who retired or separated from government service prior to October 20, 1969. Surviving spouses of such former employes will get an additional $132 annually. FIRESTONE BOYS AND GIRLS 16" 10 SPEED BICYCLES CLOSE-OUT PRICES Beckley Tire Rubber Co. S04S.

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