Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 10, 1994                   TAG: 9408100078
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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IN VIRGINIA

RICHMOND - Misinformation about the income of about 80,000 military retirees has caused a glitch in Virginia's program to rebate to federal pensioners taxes illegally collected from them, state officials said.

But the mistake will not jeopardize the program for returning $340 million to federal civilian and military retirees during the next five years, Tax Commissioner Danny Payne said Monday.

The military retirees got tax overpayment notices from the state government telling them there was some misinformation about what they earned for the disputed tax period of 1985-88.

Mark Miner, chief spokesman for Attorney General Jim Gilmore, said the Defense Department provided the state ``incorrect data on annuities paid to federal military retirees.''

- Associated Press

Children's charity president to retire

RICHMOND - The impending retirement of the president of an international children's charity represents a first step toward resolving mismanagement of the organization, critics said.

Paul F. McCleary announced Tuesday that he is retiring as president of the Richmond-based Christian Children's Fund, which has been beset by controversy over its money and management.

CCF's chairman, however, said any attmept to link McCleary's decision to retire and the allegations against the charity were ludicrous.

"It was not unexpected," said Graham B. Spanier, board chairman and chacellor of the University of Nebrask at Lincoln. "He had spoken that he would likely retire when he turned 65."

-Associated Press