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Tuesday, April 15, 1986ATie Battalion Page 3 State and Local Provost approves student publication editors, producer Dr. Gordon P. Eaton, provost and vice president for academic affairs, recently approved the nominations for The Battalion summer and fall Witors, the 1987 Aggieland editor land the 1986-87 video yearbook jproducer. The four were nominated April 4 ray the Student Publications Board, l Michelle Powe, the current Battal- Iwion editor, will continue to serve as BfcOeditor for the summer. She has jliprked on The Battalion for three Pars and has been a staff writer, se nior staff writer, assistant city editor, Assistant news editor, opinion page :ditor and managing editor. Cathie Anderson, who will be The Battalion’s first black editor, has worked on the paper for 1 '/a years. This semester she serves as news edi tor. She also has been a staff writer, copy editor and assistant news edi tor. , Molly Pepper, the 1987 Aggieland editor, has worked on the yearbook for two years. She has been an assis tant in the Aggieland's organization section and editor of the classes sec tion. Ricky Telg will produce Texas A&M’s first video yearbook, one of the few in the United States. A se nior journalism major, he has worked at KBTX-TV in Bryan since August 1983. Michelle Powe The Battalion summer editor Cathie Anderson The Battalion fal 1 editor Molly Pepper 1986-87 Aggieland editor Ricky Telg 1986-87 video yearbook editor Restaurant Report mid be! tractor .. Thau a comaiii here's ik iou shall: nmie-ssB “Robert'! imerica:' Id lead!* afy is the kin; inds By Brian Pearson Senior Stall Writer ■ The restaurants listed below were inspected April 7 through April 9 by the Brazos County Health Department. The infor- Ration is based on food service establishment inspection reports. ■ SCORED 95 OR ABOVE: L • Ramada Inn at 410 Texas Ave. S. in College Station was in spected by David Pickens. Score ■- 96. The report showed a two- point violation because water and Bod needed to be cleaned off the bottom of the reach-in boxes. A one-point violation in the report |was given because walls and tiles R kitchen areas needed re- Bairing. Another one-point viola tion was given for trash under and behind kitchen appliances. The report said a follow-up in spection will be made in 30 days lue to repeat violations. lege Station was inspected by Mike Lester. Score — 95. Two points were subtracted in the re port for food items stored on the floor of some coolers. Three one- point violations in the report were given for a scoop handle touching some food, a dirty shelf and table shelf and a floor tile needed, repairing. SCORED BETWEEN 90 AND 94: • Aggieland Inn at 1502 Texas Ave. S. in College Station was inspected by David Pickens. Score — 92. The report showed a four-point violation because some fly-proof screens needed to be in stalled. Two points in the report were subtracted for food stored in an “area subject to flooding.” The report said a one-point viola tion was given because a hot wa ter heater room needed cleaning. Another point in the report was subtracted for a wall that needed repairing. Texans 'feist/ tax bafflers, officials say IRS: Southwest has most fraud cases DALLAS (AP) — The rugged, lawless heritage of frontier days lives on in spirited battles between Tex ans and the Internal Revenue Serv ice, giving the region some colorful tax evasion and fraud cases. The IRS’s eight-state Southwest region, including Texas, had the na tion’s highest ratio of tax trial convic tions to guilty pleas, indicating peo ple here are more willing to fight their case before a jury, federal offi cials say. Last year, about 14 percent of the nation’s 6,000 tax cases were ini tiated by prosecutors in this region. According to Bob Davis, a promi nent Dallas tax defense lawyer who worked as a tax prosecutor with the Justice Department in 1982 and 1983,“The people in Texas, espe cially North Texas, are more confi dent, more assertive and more will ing to do battle with the government than any other part of the country.” He said it’s no accident Dallas has the nation’s only regional office of the Justice Department tax division. “The people like to fight. It’s the Wild West spirit. It’s still here to some extent. ” — Bob Davis, Dallas tax defense lawyer who worked as a tax prosecutor with the Justice Department in 1982 and 1983. “T he people like to fight,” he said. “It’s the Wild West spirit. It’s still here to some extent.” Tax battles in Dallas have in cluded high-profile trials and, in some cases, spinoff charges of extor tion and bribery. Dallas-based Zale Corp., the world’s largest retail jeweler, agreed to pay the government $20.8 million in 1982 to settle a six-year investiga tion into what federal authorities first said was a $78 million tax-avoi dance scheme. Zale acknowledged it owed some back taxes when it fired its treasurer, Sol Shearn Robinsky, in 1976, after accusing him of misappropriating $600,000. But Rovinsky, a former IRS inves tigator, testified during his trial that the money he was accused of stealing was actually secret compensation for carrying out a series of tax-evasion schemes. He was acquitted. Another notable Dallas-area case, concluded in 1983, was the longest criminal tax trial on record. After 20 weeks of testimony, a federal jury found that seven former Braniff In ternational pilots, led by a national tax protest movement leader, had avoided paying taxes on about $1 million in income from 1976 to 1979. Prosecutors said the protest leader, Jerome Daly of Blooming ton, Minn., convinced the pilots they could turn their salaries over to the Basic Bible Church of America, of which Daly was “pope and arch bishop,” and then exercise total exemption from federal taxes. Daly was sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined $95,000. The pilots received penalties ranging from 24 to 30 months in prison and fines of $5,000. Other notable Dallas cases include Lester Irvin Reeves, a member of the tax protest group Posse Comita- tus, who filed a $250,000 common law lien against the Denton County home of an IRS investigator in 1983. In another case, John Murfin of Richardson argued in a 1979 trial that the IRS could not require him to report his income because paper dol lars are not legal tender. Murfin based his claim on the fact the bills cannot be redeemed for gold or sil ver. He was found guilty and received a 2'/2-year prison sentence. II Graduating Aggies! No Down Payment Car Loans!: ! 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