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Page 8 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1957 INTERNAL REVENUE HEARS MANY STORIES Attempt to List Dead Mother-in-Law As Tax Deduction Thwarted by Agent By FRED ZIMMERMAN Capital Journal Writer You can't claim as a (ax ex emption a mothcr-in-law who has been dead three years. But that doesn't mean that it hasn't been tried. This Is just one of the unusual and quite often amusing incidents that occur almost daily in the lo cal United States Revenue offices located on the second floor of the post office building. All tend to keep the half dozen employes from brooding too much over the many and varied problems that arc presented during tho course of a lax-paying year. That mother-in law incident really happened, loo. Dependency Questioned The would-be taxpayer, after propounding several questions con- worth a few hundred dollars in the right column of the income report asked if his wife's mother could be declared a dependent. "Yes. If you pay more than half of her support, was the hearten ing reply. "How old is she "Oh, she's been dead three years. It developed the fellow Ihouaht he could take into account some of the money he expended on the lady during the few years she re sided with them. Another angle that kept Ihc agents in the office chuckling for several days was the man who presented a report that did not con tain much gross income. He had no withholding and it developed he owed Uncle bam nothing at all. Doctor fill! Refund Sought Somewhere in the fine print he had read something about taking Into account medical and hospital corning dependents who might be I expenses. It turned out that he Five Salem Residents Attend OSC Appraisal Short Course OREGON STATE COU-EGE , under the joint sponsorship of the (Special) Julia H. Cate, Harold college and the state tax enmmis. rrimus, Gerald 11. Kubin, Roy sion, is designed to improve prop- stitulc legitimate deductions. Sonjo had expended $100 In connection with an illness, ile insisted that the government owed him that much and felt right bad about it when he was convinced that the regulations aid noi cover sucn re funds. Then there Is the person who "shops around." One good example of this type of scheming took place recently. This man came in with his form made out. He conferred with an agent who figured the tax a fig ure that disturbed the taxpayer to some extent. It was more than he thought he owed. So he took his tax form and de parted. He returned the following day with a new set of figures and approached a different agent. Mir aculously enough it was deter mined that he owed nothing. Subsequently ihe two agents compared notes. They had no way of knowing which set of fig ures was correct. So there was nothing they could do about it. Nevertheless, it is more than prob able that a collection agent will wait on the man in due course when he will be asked to explain the situation. There is considerable confusion concerning Ihe items that con- Itabcncnw and It. V. Cooley, all of Salem, arc enrolled at Oregon Stale College this week for a spec' ial five-day appraisal short course. The course, started a year ago 6 Willamette Students Plan For Workshop Six Willamette University stu dents, representing the campus YWCA and YMCA organizations, will attend the Y-sponsorcd Pacific Northwest Workshop on world affairs Friday at . the Mcnuchn conference grounds near Multno mah Falls. Principal resource leaders and speakers at the workshop arc Dr. Theodore Shay, assistant professor of political science at Willamette: )r. Frank Munk, professor of political science at need College; and William Hanson, projects sec retary of the American Friends Service Committee in Seattle. Willamette students attending the conference arc Bob Taylor and Mary Swanson, Portland: Dick White, Solcm; Linda Berry, Bur llngamc, Cal.; Sherry Rutledge, Boise, Idaho; and Mary Lou Krause, Seattle, Wash. 2 From Salem Initiated to WU Forcnsics Unit Two Salem students at Willam ette University were recently in itiated into Tau Knppa Alpha, na tional forcnsics honorary frater nity. They arc Kay Rubcrg. sopho more, daughter of C. K. Rubcrg. and Pat Farley, son of Mrs. Anna V. I.nrgenl. Both arc members of Ihe debate squad. A third de bater, Lewis llricht of Medford, was initiated with the Salem stu dents. Membership In Tall Kappa Alpha Is based on scholarship and re ceiving honors in various forensic events for two years. crty appraisals throughout the I persons believe that social security state and to help bring greater I payments may be taken into ac uniformity in valuation of real count, although the instructions property. Both introductory and second- year courses arc being offered this year, me introductory course covers the basic principles of ap praisal and the second-year course covers special appraisal problems, including three field trips for prac tice apraisals of farm, urban resi dential, urban commercial prop erties. Miss Cate and Primus arc taking the first-year training and Kubin, Rabeneaw and Cooley arc takinc the second-year course. The average housewife will, In her lifetime, wash enough cooking and eating utensils to make about 70 stacks as high as the Empire State Building (102 stories high) in New York. ore very plain in this connection. Excise taxes prove troublesome, too. It takes a lot of explaining at times to convince the taxpayer mat taxes paid on luxury items as fur coats, jewelry and cosmetics are not dcducible. Deductions For Pets Sought (Hen there are those persons i usually women) who claim house hold pets, such as cats as ex emptions. One individual couldn't" sec whv her pet cat couldn't properly be claimed as an exemption. "He costs as much to keep as one of the children," she protested. Broken homes quite frequently get into more difficulties when tax paying time comes than were en countered trying to settle their marital troubles. Each side claims the offspring as an exemption. Naturally the federal agent who is trying to reach an equable settle ment in such cases asks for the figures. In one such instance the amount of money spent on such dependents totaled more than the combined incomes of the former husband and wife. When this was pointed outfaces grew red. Try to Help All in all, the federal agents who make a real effort to lead the be fuddled citizens through Ihe in-, tricacics of an income tax form. say the vast majority of their clients arc cooperative and un derstand the business of making a return to a greater extent than was the case of a few years ago. The first three months of the calendar year arc divided into three categories insofar as tax- papers are concerned. In January come those folks who feel sure they have a refund due and they arc prompt in making application. February is known as farmers' month when the agriculturists have tneir innings. Then in March, oersons who know they have a tax appear. Many of them are grim faced, de termined to make the best of a situation that is not to their liking. Usually they are no hannier when they depart than when they have arnvca. UN Chapter Sets Election, TalkforMeet Election of new officers and a talk by Mrs. Jenele Moorhenrl will feature the meeting of the Salem chapter of the Oregon united nations Assn., which is to ne neia at the YMCA at 8 p.m Friday. Mrs. Moorhcad, a former Salem resident, is a member of the UiS. Commission of UNESCO and will show pictures which she took on a world tour. She is presently on the faculty at the University of Oregon and is a past president of the Oregon Parent-Teacher Congress. The public is invited tn attend the session. There will be a social nour following Mrs. Moorhead talk. Starting Date Revealed for Water Line Contractors will start building the new water supply line from Stayton Island to Salem some time in June, according to John Gcrcn, manager of the Salem Water De partment. Manufacture of the pipe is to begin about June 1, Gercn has been informed. Completion of the first section of the project, from Stayton Island to John H. Franzen Reservoir at Turner, will be about July 1, 1958, and the remainder will be com pleted the following year. Library Unit Sponsors UW O 1 1 ' 1 dciioiarsiiip me Marcia M. Hill scholarship to assist a candidate for the degree of Master of Librarianship at the university o( Washington School of Librarianship will again be awarded mis spring by the Ore gon Library Assn. Application forms may be ob tained from the chairman of the committee on scholarship and re cruitment, Dr. Jean P. Black. Li brarian, Portland State College, and are to be sent to Miss Eleanor Stephens, State Librarian, Salem, not later than (April 15. The amount of the award this year is $200. The successful ap plicant must have completed four years of college and be accepted by Ihe School of Librarianship as a candidate for the Master's degree. The recipient has to indicate his intention both to complete the work unaortaKen and to accept a library position in Oregon for one year after receiving his degree. The horseshoe crab is the only known creature that chews 'with its legs, says the National Geo graphic Society. Its legs grind the tood into a pulp before it is swallowed. To Travel Mrs. Mabel Sumptcr, above, will attend a school meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, next week. Mrs. Sumpter Set for Trip To Cincinnati Mrs. Mabel Sumptcr, principal of Hoover School, will be attending the National Elementary School Principals Convention in Cincin nati, Ohio, next week, thanks to the school's Parent-Teacher Assn. Officials of the Hoover PTA be lieve that it is the first such group in the state to provide funds to send a school principal to such a meeting. Money to enable Mrs. Sumpter to make the trip was raised through a carnival held at the school last fall. Also present will be Miss Ma thilda Gilles, Richmond School principal, who is national prcsi Advance Seen Chief Problem Of Automation The principal issue at stake in the case of automation is not whether it is good or bad, but will it advance fast enough to keep pace with the industrial and economic development of t h e country. This was the expressed belief of Graham Covington, electronic data processing representative, Portland, of a manufacturer of calculating machines while ad dressing the Salem Rotary club Wednesday noon at the Marion. More Jobs Furnished While automation will reduce the number of "pick and shovel' workers in the offices of many of the large industrial concerns, nev crthclesS the machine will provide more jobs for the skilled, said Covington. There will be a general upgrading all along the personnel line, the speaker asserted. Covington produced statistics showing that there has been a 79 per cent increase in the number of telephone operators during re cent years in spite of many ex changes being converted to dial systems. Few Metal Jobs Change It is estimated that but 16 per cent of all metal working opera tions can be converted to automa tion, Covington said. The speaker was introduced by Del Milne. Ellis Von Eschen Introduced Willard Marshall, proprietor of beverage firm as the newest Ro-tarian. New Option Given Young man in the 17 to 18 year old age bracket may partici pate in ready reserve training for only three years after completing six months active duty training with Army. Previously the requirement was a total of five years of active duty In Army Reserves and ready reserve training. The new option also allows high school men a one year deferment after enlistment before taking the six month active duty training. There are 2,150,000 members of the 4-If Club in the United States. dent of the Elementary School Di vision of the National Education Assn., and Mrs. Alice Yoshikai, also of Richmond School. A century ago 400 vessels with 13,000 men sailed from Newfound land to hunt seals. This season only three Newfoundland seal ves sels sailed. Bids Sought for River Bank Work Bids were asked Thursday by the Portland District, Corps of En gineers for spraying woody growth on bank protection works at various locations along the Wil lamette, McKenzie, Santiam, Cal apooya, Clackamas and Molalla Rivers. Bids will be opened April 4 at 2 p.m. at the office of the Portland district engineer. AH of the work must be completed in 40 calendar days. MEIER & FRANK'S DIAL REFINISH SPECIAL 6 DAYS ONLY M CCS. XI Reg. '3.95 $ 2.25 Our watch face refinishing experts will renew the fad ed face of your watch . . . Bring back its original , beauty or choose a modern style at this low price. GUARANTEED CRYSTAL regularly $2.50 . $2 Electrically lid , . . will not break, tomt out, lefk or discolor. Bring in your ftwtlry for an titlmitt. Repair, art dent quickly, txptrlly. WATCH REPAIR MEZZANINE 0 ABLOOM. M 25 1 We're remodeling our warehouse . . Installing new, modern equipment to serve you better, faster . . . and we must have working space! All odd rolls, short rolls, discontinued patterns In broadloom must move out fast! Actually, the money you save on these special values will amply pay for Ihe padding and in stallation labor. sale price sq. yd. all rolls subject to prior sal shop early 9, 12 and 15-foot widths-h partial listing ere's a Gcrcn Talks at Walcr Works Short School .lohn (iercn, manager of the Salem Water Department, as n speaker on "Meter Selection" Wednesday at a water works oper ators short school at Oregon Slate College. The annual course is sponsored ly the Stale Hoard of llcillli lii'rrn is a member of Ihe mi usury committee to trie ttcanl. Three other men from the li water department attended tho three-day course. They wvvv James II. (inrdnvr, superintend. enl; J. X. Wilson. criKinecr; and Howard Hire, serviceman. Science Fair Conincliliou Attracts 1,000 Competition in the ann1i.1l Sulrm School Srienre Fair, scheduled Inr March 25-28 at North Salem Ilich. lias attracted some l.ooo pupils in 21 schools. The lield will be narrowed to about 400 entrants, based on tier ieclion and acceptability as science exhibits. Displays arc currently in place in the various buildings where the judging will take place. The exhibits, which pass Ihe elimination tests, will go on dis play at North Salem High March S3. Approximately 50 or more of those deemed to he outstanding will be sent to Cnrfallls for display ii Ihc Northwest Science Kxposl t.'i.i. April 13-20. "lie North Salem llish display V il be opened or public Inspoc- I "i from f to II p m. Wednesday of next week. Clisses will view the exhibition from fta.m. In nn and from 1 in 5 p.m. Tlnr.-Wkr . . 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