parent from the experience. We're employees at the airport only.

# Delinquent Taxpayers Have Day

RITTMAN — Twenty-two Rittman residents were called to appear in Wayne County Municipal Court in Rittman Wednesday on charges of failure to pay city taxes.

Charges were filed after the residents failed to take advantage of a month-long amnesty program enacted by city council Aug. 24, 1987.

A cash balance of $5,814.94 in unpaid taxes from 1984-86 was outstanding when the cases were brought before Judge D. William Evans Jr.

THE LARGEST single amount of tax owed by an individual was $1,210.96 according to Oscar Kniceley, income tax consultant for the City of Rittman.

Notices were sent April 13 informing the delinquent taxpayers of their day in court. Eight residents responded by paying back

## City Planting 1st Tree In Memorial Grove

City of Wooster officials will commemorate Arbor Day Friday with the planting of a red oak tree at Memorial Grove at 11 a.m.

Jean Baird, the city's director of community services, said the celebration will consist of honoring the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance.

"It is our intent that the tree will be a living legacy to the Constitution and stand as a memorial of this occasion for the next bicen-

taxes amounting to $2,848.30.

Four of the defendants asked for their cases to be continued until they consulted an attorney and one defendant did not appear in court. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of that individual.

The other defendants pleaded no contest and agreed to pay the tax. The defendants were charged a $50 fine plus $29 court costs.

Those with excessive delinquent accounts were fined equal to the amount of taxes they owed. Evans reduced the fine if the taxes are paid by a date set by the court.

City council enacted mandatory filing for all residents 18 and older in an ordinance passed in July of 1987. The ordinance also set forth penalties for not filing or paying taxes due.

THE AMNESTY program was enacted Aug. 24, 1987 giving taxpayers until Sept. 30, 1987 to pay back taxes. Under the program any taxpayer coming forth voluntarily would be allowed to pay just the tax due and no penalty would be charged.

Kniceley said he heard none of

the defendants in court say they were uninformed about owing the tax. He said one individual commented he didn't intend to be delinquent but just kept letting the taxes go, until finally he was unable to pay.

According to Kniceley, this if the first time the city has taken action against delinquent taxpayers.

"I really don't think the city will have a problem collecting taxes after this," said Kniceley. "(Residents) will know the tax administrator will expect them to file a return and pay the tax," he added.

CHRIS GABBARD

AMY LANIER

ANNE SHRINER

BRENT STEINER

JULIE GAISER

NORWAYNE PROM ROYALTY CANDIDATES — Candidates for the Norwayne High School prom queen include Julie Gaiser, Anne Shriner and Amy Lanier, while candidates for king are Chris Gabbard, Brent Steiner and Reed Fetzer. The prom will be held Saturday at Fisher Auditorium at the OARDC. The grand march, to which parents are invited, will begin at 7 p.m., followed by the crowning of the new king and queen at 7:30. Post-prom activities will take place at Jackie Lee's in Akron.

Gaiser, the daughter of Greg and Connie Gaiser, Wooster, is active in sports and was the winter homecoming princess. Shriner, who is the daughter of Fred and Karen Shriner, is senior class president and a member of National Honor Society. Lanier is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lanier of

What he said

On Gorbachev:

"He's got two problems. The political system isn't working and the economic system isn't working. Otherwise, things are in pretty good shape."

On the Soviets:

"In my view the most successful American president in dealing with them was Richard Nixon. . . . He was not about to trust any Russian . . . and that was a style that they understood."

On the Nicaraguan cease-fire accord:

"What it amounts to as it is written now is a mere surrender of the contras, and leaving the future of Nicaragua to promises by a communist government . . . to have a political process that no communist government has ever in the past granted. . . . I don't consider this agreement a great achievement. . . .

"How many friends of the United States can we abandon?"

On presidential candidates:

"One of the problems in selecting candidates is that for an extended period of time, they really have no opportunity for consecutive thinking. They are driven into gimmicks and the stuff that makes headlines. And therefore, you cannot be sure of what they're going to do when they get into office."

On Honduras:

"I think we were justified in sending troops. In fact, I'm very uneasy when we send troops and immediately announce on the same day that we have no intention of using them. I'm not saying that we should have used them, but I'm saying, when you send troops, you should let your opponent worry what you might do."

On Americans:

"We have a notion of peace which has never really existed anywhere in the world."

Fort Worth Star Telegram

4/1/88

# Fort Worth welcome includes pomp, protest

BY JULIE GILBERTO
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Lyndon LaRouche supporters waved placards outside Texas Christian University's Ed Landreth Auditorium, but Henry Kissinger was drawing a feisty bunch who were not in a mood to be hassled.

"He's a good man," one Kissinger supporter informed them.

"Yeah, good for Russia," a LaRouche supporter countered.

"I'm not listening to you," a lone woman said briskly.

"Don't listen to him," a LaRouche supporter flung back. "Spit on him."

While 1,200 people, some huddled under umbrellas, hustled into the auditorium, three LaRouche supporters stood unprotected in the drizzle, waving placards.

Among the messages on the signs: "Kissinger is a one-world slime mold," "Do a mitzvah, jail Kissinger" — mitzvah, from Hebrew, means an act of charity — and "LaRouche will put Kissinger on the stand in the Boston trial."

"We're trying to make everyone have a miserable time," said LaRouche backer Debra Jambor.

Shielded from the protesters by his two-limousine entourage, Kissinger

raced through a hectic evening yesterday during which the people he did meet addressed him with respect and with no signs of antagonism.

He arrived aboard a private plane at Fort Worth Meacham Field about 4:30 p.m. and spent most of the next two hours in his room in the Worthington Hotel. His first public appearance was a news conference that was delayed two hours to 6:30 p.m., forcing the television networks to miss the story for the local news broadcasts.

Dressed in a white shirt with cuff links, a blue pinstriped suit with cuffed trousers and a blue-and-white tie, Kissinger swept into the room with a brief smile — his only levity during the 15-minute session.

In their rush to question Kissinger, eager reporters cut off the ends of his longer answers and spoke over each other, even throwing out more questions as sponsors of his visit tried to usher him from the room.

His 7:30 p.m. speech at TCU was a bit more relaxed as he opened his remarks with a joke about a past social encounter with a woman who told him: "I understand you are a fascinating man. Fascinate me."

"It turned into one of the most disastrous conversations I ever had," Kissinger recalled.

As he scanned the crowd, discussing the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Iran, Israel and other hot spots in the news, Kissinger lightened his serious topics with strategically placed jokes, always drawing a huge laugh from the crowd.

And when it was over, he took the time to fascinate the people who had come to be fascinated.

Nina Alford traveled from Houston to attend the speech with her son who is a student at TCU. She also brought a copy of Kissinger's memoirs, *The White House Years*, for an autograph.

The autographed copy will go to the library of the high school where she teaches in Houston.

"He's impacted world history," Alford said. "I really did this because I try to teach my students that history is living."

In his determination for an autograph, Bob Archenhold slung his two hefty volumes in a white plastic sack over his shoulder and carried them into the formal reception at the Colonial Country Club after the speech.

Archenhold got an autograph on only one volume and was surprised there was no line of people with the same idea.

"Two things about him brought me out," Archenhold said. "One, a normal human desire simply to be close even a short time to a prime mover in world history."

"Two, he represents a minority viewpoint in American society today. That's a viewpoint that advocates a strong national defense, to resist Soviet aggression. Those views are in decline, but he has them, and so do I. So it's a comfort to come and be near him even if it is a short time."

Being near Kissinger was a thrill that touched one group unexpectedly.

Seventeen members of the TCU Forums committee — who helped distribute the tickets in a lottery to TCU students and who were the ushers at the session — were at the last minute given a small audience with Kissinger after his speech.

In return, they presented him with an extra-large white sweatshirt with "TCU" in purple lettering, said Karen Casper, chairwoman of the Forums committee.

"He talked to everyone, all the students," Casper said. "He asked where we were from. He asked us why we came to TCU. He was asking us so many questions we couldn't get a word in edgewise. It was neat."