The Region - News from April 16, 1985

A Glendora man who refused to pay state income taxes because he claimed that the money Americans use is not legal tender was sentenced in Citrus Municipal Court to two years in Los Angeles County Jail. Janie Cordray, a public affairs officer for the state Franchise Tax Board, said William Barclay, 46, had been found guilty of failing to pay state taxes for 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. He was sentenced to one year in jail for each of the four counts, but the sentence was stayed for counts three and four. He was also placed on formal probation for three years and ordered to file income tax returns for each of the four years plus 1978 and 1983. Barclay had been a member of the Your Heritage Protection Assn. Cordray said the organization claimed American money has not been truly legal tender since the government stopped backing it with precious metals.