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Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - March 23, 1982, Altoona, Pennsylvania Page 4 Altoona Mirror tuesday March 23, 1982 information system proves a accountants singing toll free irs tax assistance line blues by Tom Gibb staff writer All right music arrangers. It s time for the a toll free tax assistance line in the foreground we hear the sounds of telephones dealing Busy signals sounding and recorded voices asking that we a please in the background is the sound of an internal Revenue service spokesman promising that things Are getting better countered by the loud a Harrr Rump huhs Quot of disgruntled accountants and unconvinced taxpayers. You won t catch this Little performance playing the Mishler anytime soon but you will find it playing a lot of other places around town at this time of year. It centers around the 10-digit toll free number a 800 242-0250 a that the folks at the irs put into operation a few years Back to handle tax questions that poured into local irs offices. The tax people say it s a Blessing but the accountants who Deal with it regularly say it s a big bottleneck. When it placed the new number in the phone Book the irs plucked out the local office numbers. That meant that unless befuddled taxpayers and tax preparers were going to actually visit local irs offices like the one at 1601 Lith ave., they would have to take their questions to the toll free number. The problem critics complained is that rousing someone via the toll free number is Only slightly less difficult than trying to get hold of Caesars ghost. A we May have had some difficulties in the past Quot concedes irs spokesman Bernadine Bonessa Quot difficulties Quot May be a Little too mild a term for local accountant Eugene j. Duncan a former irs agent who two years ago publicly took the revenues to task complaining that the toll free information system proved just too. Well. Taxing. Complained or. Duncan a a they be taken the service out of internal Revenue but things Are getting better spokesman Bonessa contended in a recent interview. The irs has increased its toll free services hours and staffing she said. That the irs spokesman added Means that Between 95 and 97 percent of the Calls that get through Are being answered before the callers give up and hang up. Quot but this year in be heard no complaints. I get very few complaints about our toll free Telephone system Quot is. Bonessa said. Not everyone Sas cheerful. A a sometimes you get through sometimes you done to Quot Greg Rhoades District manager for a amp a Block said. A we Seldom have to Call the irs but we have a difficult time getting through when we a a you re either on hold or you can t get through Quot says Hollidaysburg accountant David e. Moses. Quot i Haven to got time to sit and hold the phone for 20 the two years since his first Harangue have not cooled or. Duncan s ire for the irs. He said he s Given up calling irs All together. Other accountants and tax preparers say they be Given up on the toll free number too a if not for the wait then because of the Quality of tax advice they can get Over the phone especially when it comes to answering More exotic tax questions. Quot i done to rely much on the irs for any kind of answer. I done to put too much Reliance on them at All Quot local accountant Patrick Fiore a former irs agent said. A people there go through cram courses before they re put on the phones. Some of them May just give answers out so that they can get on to the next not so says is. Bonessa. The question takers get a six week initial course usually during the summer she said. Then comes an end of year refresher course. And the Veteran staffers get regular updates the irs spokesman explained. Quot basically we Tell them what their limits Are to make sure they done to answer questions beyond their limits Quot is. Bonessa said. For those who choose to take their questions to the toll free number there s a method to getting through is. Bonessa said. The worst time to Call is midday on monday. From there things ease up. The lines get a Little less Busy Day by Day bottoming out on Friday. A the Best time to Call is the first thing in the morning around 8 45 . Or towards closing around 4 45 pm.,&Quot the Revenue service spokesman advised new tax Laws bring new possibilities for mistakes in Loving memory of Clayton Mattern who passed away one year ago today March 23. So Many thing have happened since you were called away so Many thing to Hare with you had god left you stay we cannot bring the old Days Back your hand we cannot touch but we still have precious memories of the one we All loved so much we expect to meet you again we re told in that land where you never grow old. Sadly missed by wife Betty a children Donald Linda Allen a Ken grandchildren a great grandchildren. Money Money everywhere. By a want and. Let your share of in memorial by Tom Gibb staff writer new tax Laws bring with them new ways for unfamiliar taxpayers to make mistakes. And this year the nation s taxpayers seem to be Messing up most often when figuring dividend and interest exclusions and when totalling exemptions. According to internal Revenue service officials. In the Case of the dividend and interest exclusions taxpayers could unwittingly overpay and the irs might not catch the mistake Revenue service spokesman Bernadine Bonessa said. The dividend and interest exclusions allow single taxpayers to exclude $200 and married taxpayers $400 from the interest and dividend payments on which they pay tax. Until this year the tax allowed single taxpayers to slice away Only $100 and married taxpayers Only $200 from their taxable income. And what could be pared away was Only dividend income not interest. A a lot of people did no to have dividends a says is. Bonessa a and so they re not picking up on the interest exclusion taxpayers Are also fouling up this year in figuring their exemptions. Last year taxpayers simply went to the tax tables where everything was figured out for them. But this year they have to compute their own exemptions taking $1,000 times the number of exemptions. The computation is included on line la of the tax form 1040-a and line 33 of the form 1040. Quot if you make a mistake on that item the irs computer will catch it a is. Bonessa said. Rounding out the list of most commonly made mistakes Are the usual math errors failure by taxpayers to sign and Date their tax forms and failure to attach the necessary documents to the tax forms. Botching up a tax return in t rare. The irs estimates that a full to percent of the legions of taxpayers will make some sort of mistake this year. But the Federal tax service allows taxpayers to redeem themselves if they discover they be erred after dropping the completed return into a mail Slot. Amendments to an original tax return can be made on a form 1040-x and filed anytime within three years after the due Dale or two years from when the tax was paid whichever is later. If there s some Good news to be had around tax time ifs probably that average refunds Are a Little larger this year. Through mid february the refunds were averaging $679, up $50 from last year. A a it a probably the result of people taking advantage of the interest exclusion a Richard Catina local group manager for the irs said. By the time april 15 Rolls around and most of the due tax returns Are filed the average refund will probably dip. Taxpayers expecting big refunds tend to file first is. Bonessa said. Another big change in the tax system this year is seeing about a million More taxpayers eligible to use the so called Quot Short form a the form 1040-a. It used to be that taxpayers were forced to use the longer Standard 1040 if they made More than $400 in interest. That ceiling has been dropped and any taxpayers can use the 1040-a if he makes less than $50,000 a year. La Loving memory of Thomas a. Loudon who boxed away five year ago yesterday March 23, 1177. Please god hold your arms around him keep him in your Loving care make up to him All a suffered and everything that was unfair. To All of you who have someone dear. Cherish them with Loving care for you la never know the heartache till you find he in t there. Sadly missed by wife Shirlynn daughters Helen Dorily Judy Nebelski Karen Civile Joan Higdon sons in a grandchildren. Beasom trial continues by Phil Ray staff writer Hollidaysburg a sheriff s Deputy for Blair county this morning described How James Beasom 30, of Altoona slipped out of his leg Irons on july 17, 1980, and tried to get away by running to downtown Hollidaysburg. Beasom. Who is in jail presently facing burglary charges on july 17 was brought to Blair county As a witness for Ronald Noyer who was asking the court to throw out a conviction against him. Beasom at the time was a prisoner at the Huntingdon correctional institution. Deputy Dennis p. Myers said that on july 17, Beasom seemed to trip or stumble As he got out the right rear door of the sheriffs car at the rear of the courthouse. Quot i did observe Beasom reach Down to his ankle. I did observe the leg Iron that had him secured were in an open position a the Deputy told the Blair county criminal court jury this morning. According to or. Myers within a a split second a a Beasom shoved another prisoner into officer Meyers and ran from the county parking lot victim of shooting a serious improving9 the Cresson service station attendant who was shot March 5 while tending gasoline pumps at the Cresson Gulf station remains in Quot serious but improving condition Quot at mercy Hospital. Broad Avenue pharmacy 2329 Broad Ava. Phone 943-1310 offering you a computer izod prescription service patient profile medical bps ass records tax records a Complete dreg end sundry items a convalescent aide a equipment if Pill All 3rd party prescriptions if prescription discounts a an Ages if generic medications a upon request with my approval if convenient hours a a . To 9 . A free a Cumbry a Pree parking Jerry Clerc of St. Louis mo., does a Victory dance As he follows part of the route of 306,500 dominoes toppled sunday to break the worlds record of 255,389 set by the japanese. Or. Clerc the organizer of the event which was held to raise Money for Charity and 150 volunteers spent four Days setting up the dominoes. Up death record across Wayne Street. The officer said he began persuit and saw Beasom turn left into the Back Yard of 319 Allegheny Street. The officer said the prisoner tripped and fell and Cut his head on some chunks of Concrete in the rear Yard. Quot he fell. I came upon or. Beasom and i placed or. Beasom under arrest a said. Deputy Meyers. The victim Gregory Mcmullen 17, was first confined to the intensive care unit at the local Hospital and has since been removed from that unit. State police say the Case is under Active investigation. No suspects have been taken into custody and police reportedly Are still considering whether the gunshot came from a passing car or was fired from a fixed position. No firm link has been established Between that shooting and an incident March 7 in which a Farmer was fired on while walking near his barn along route 869 in Summerhill township Cambria county. The Farmer was not hit by the gunfire which apparently came from a passing car. Township patrolman David Sanders said today he has talked to a number of nearby ii residents but has yet to get a break in the Case. Emmerson Arthur formerly of Altoona. Lingenfelter John r., Bechtelsville. Mccoy a Ashley my a Loretto re. Shiber a Robert Portage re i. Thompson maj. Gen. Robert c., formerly of Altoona. Arthur f. Emmerson or. Emmerson 69, of 539 Walnut ave., Euclid Ohio formerly of Altoona died monday March 22, 1982, in Richmond Heights Ohio general Hospital after an extended illness. Or. Emmerson retired As research manager from Penn Central. He was born March 13, 1912, in Indiana the son of Harry and Nellie Bloemker Emmerson and married Olga m. Roesch. Surviving Are his wife two children Nancy l. Lombardo of Lynnhurst Ohio and Suzanne e. Nelson of Euclid and three grandchildren. Also surviving is a brother Leslie h. Of fort Wayne ind. Or. Emmerson was a member of Logan Lodge. Of amp am friends will be received from 7 to 9 . Today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 . Wednesday in the Crobaugh funeral Home Euclid. Robert Shiber or. Shiber 81, of Portage re i died monday March 22, 1982, at Lee Hospital Johnstown following an extended illness. Or. Shiber retired As coalmine. He was born May 6, 1900, in Cresson the son of Francis p. And Eva Luther Shiber and married Clothilda Willebran. Surviving Are six children mrs. Lucille Whiteford of Patton Robert Eileen mrs. Lavern Conrad and Francis of Portage and Eugene of East Brunswick no. 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Also surviving Are two Sisters mrs. Evelyn Templen of Cresson and mrs. Othella Cadow of Detroit Mich. Or. Shiber was a member of St. Michael a Catholic Church Loretto and the ump. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 . Today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 . Wednesday in the Charles m. Kennedy funeral Home Cresson. Shiber the funeral of Robert Shiber of Portage re i will be held with a mass of Christian burial at la . Thursday in St. Michael a Catholic Church Loretto by father Joseph Weidman celebrant. Interment in Church cemetery. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 . Today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 . Wednesday in the Charles m. Kennedy funeral Home Cresson where a Wake service will be held at 8 . Wednesday. Sex postal worker Ernest o. Cerullo of 2711 Fairway drive who died March 20, 1982, retired from the postal service in 1973, after 29 years service. He was a 1939 graduate of Altoona High school. Major general Dies maj. Gen. Robert Thompson 61. Of Washington dc., formerly of Altoona died Friday March 19, 1982, in Malcom grow Hospital Andrews fab my. Gen. Thompson retired As director of engineering and services Deputy chief of staff programs and resources Headquarters . Air Force Washington d c., on june 30, 1978. Prior to that he had served at Headquarters United states air Force in Europe at Wiesbaden Germany rams Tein air base Germany Headquarters 2d air Force at Barksdale air Force base la., and 8th air Force Headquarters at Westover air Force base. Mass. In december 1966, he served As chief of the programs division in the office of the Deputy chief of staff civil engineering at Tan son Nhut Airfield Vietnam. He had also served As Post Engineer and Headquarters commandant for the army quartermaster group on Okinawa and chief of programs and operations at Vandenberg air Force base Calif. He was promoted to the Grade of major general effective june i 1975. He was born july 3, 1920, in Tyrone the son of or. And mrs. Ashley Marie Mccoy infant daughter of Gerard and Loretta Keefe Mccoy of Loretto re was dead at birth at 5 . Sunday March 21, 1982, in Altoona Hospital. Surviving Are her parents grandparents or. And mrs. Charles Mccoy of Chest Springs and or. And mrs. Charles Keefe of St. Benedict and great grandparents mrs. Frances Little of Chest Springs and or. Keefe of Hastings. Interment was made today in Chest Springs. Arrangements by Donald j. Gibbons funeral Home Ashville. Harold a. Thompson and married Mary Belle Kreps. Surviving Are his wife and three children Robert Linda and Cheri. Also surviving Are his father of Tyrone and a brother Donald of Denver Colo. Gen. Thompsons awards include the distinguished service medal legion of Merit Bronze Star medal meritorious service medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster air Force commendation medal and Republic of Vietnam gallantry Cross with Palm. He was a graduate of Altoona High school and received his Bachelor of science and master of arts degrees from the University of Maryland. In 1960, he graduated from the air command and staff College Maxwell air Force base Ala. John Lingenfelter or. Lingenfelter 61, of Bechtelsville died at 9 10 . Monday March 22, 1982, in Pottstown memorial medical Center where he was admitted March 12. Or. Lingenfelter retired As a Crane operator from Bethlehem steel Pottstown Plant in 1976. He was born feb. 3, 1921, in Frank town township the son of Benjamin and Rose Manning Lingenfelter and married Ida g. Hearn. Surviving Are his wife three sons Thomas a. Of Lansdale Robert w. Of Columbia s.c., and William Of port Deposit md., and three grandchildren. Also surviving Are four Sisters mrs. Marie Douglas and mrs. Ethel Wingard of Hollidaysburg re mrs. Helen Tipton of East Freedom and mrs. Nancy Mayers of Abbington and a half sister mrs. Evelyn Moses of Martinsburg. Or. Lingenfelter was a member of the Trinity lutheran Church Bechtelsville. Friends will be received from 7 to 8 30 . Thursday in the . Ott funeral Home Boyertown. In Loving memory of Philip d. Yeager who passed away one year ago March 23. Its been a year Ainee you went away we Mist you More with each passing Day. Our thoughts return to scenes now passed. Time Rolls on bul our memories last. Your Loving smile your gentle face no one could Ever take your place. Your time with us your death did a Ever. But in our heart you la live forever. You May be gone bul you la never be forgotten. Loving wife and son in Loving memory of m. Wilma Parsons who passed away 7 years ago today March 23, 1975. This Date recalls sad memories seems twice As Long to us. Only god knows How much we miss you you meant so much to us. To your grave we often wander Flowers we place with tender care. We feel your presence near us As we sadly linger there. Please forgive the silent tear the constant wish that you were Here. Many have lost this we know but you were ours we loved you so. Sadly missed by husband children and grandchildren. If you arc paying More than our prices for paper products you Are a Vino too much our Prier these Are our prices Bounty towels.�?84 scotto wels.�?81 eco paper towels.2�?�?~i0 scottissue.-42 puffs facial tissue.�.�?z83 Viva napkins.82 Saran wrap.-.1�?� Dixie bathroom cups. 97 Dixie Kitchen cups. Weis Quality dispenser cups Heck that other charge 88 19 f Al ii As lets j everyday prices plus double savings on manufacturers coupons Logan Valley mall 601 pleasant Valley blvd

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