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Detailed Information
On Expense Accounts
Due on New Tax Forms
Filitor'i note: There have been
conflicting rtports for a week about
a new question on income tax forms
dealing with expense accounts. The
United Press has Investigated the
situation and interviewed top offi
cials of the Internal Revenue Service.
The facts are contained in the fol
lowing dispatch.
By JAMES BAAR
United Press Correspondent
Washington IP The Inter
nal Revenue Service said today
a new expense account question
on income tax forms is a warn
ing to all taxpayers fat cats
and tin.
It amounts to this: The gov
ernment wants without fail de
tailed information on all ex
pense accounts.
The Internal Revenue dis
closed last week it has inserted
the expense account item line
6A in the 1957 personal in
come tax blanks the ones that
are due by next April 15.
It calls for stating on the
front of the blank the size of
any taxpayer's expense account
the amount if any he received
from Oris employer for such di
verse items as taxi fares and
convention trips. A full itemized
explanation must be attached as
(! separate sheet.
Earlier Forms Confusing
Confusion resulted from
early interpretations. Whom
does line 6A effect? Is the gov
(grnment opening an attack on
(Xpense accounts considered
by some as an escape loophole
frohigh income taxes?
Here, from top revenue offi
cials, is the meaning of 6A:
Internal -Revenue is tight
ening its standing regulation
that expense accounts must be
declared.
Line 6A is ajrned primarily
at taxpayers with bulgingly
suspicious expense accounts.
But it also is aimed at the little
guy with a $200 annual expense
account that he never bothered
to report.
Everyone receiving an ex
pense account, no matter how
small, will have to keep a rec
ord of it and report it as they
should have in the past.
Revenue officials said failure
of many taxpayers to comply
with standing regulations on ex
pense accounts brought on line
6A.
Instructions for old tax forms
(id: Expense accounts receipts
from employers should be added
to wages; legitimate expenses
for which the payments were
made should be subtracted
from wages; and the result
should be entered as the tax
payers income.
Some Didn't Bother
Revenue officials said many
taxpayers whose receipts and
allowable expenses cancelled
, each other simply skipped the
whole thing.
Other taxpayers omitted the
"detailed statements" or sub
mitted sketchy ones.
Now at line 6A there is a
blank space for entering allow
able expenses. A "detailed ex
planation" must be attached.
Money from expense accounts as
usual is to be added to wages.
They said the average tax
payer has nothing to worry
about, it is the man with the
yacht for his personal use on
his expense account that has to
do the worrying.
Mastermind of
Czech Coup Dies
Vienna W President An
tonin Zapotocky of Czechoslo
vakia, who masterminded the
Communist coup of his country
in 1948, died today of a heart at
tack.; He was 73.
Prague Radio made the an
nouncement on a broadcast and
then followed it with funeral
music. The broadcast said Zapo
tocky died two hours earlier fol
lowing another heart attack.
Zapotocky, who led a charmed
life amidst purges behind the
Iron Curtain, died in the Prague
State Sanatorium. He was taken
there seriously ill Nov. 4. He had
suffered his first attack two
years ago.
Zapotocky was one of the Reds
that engineered the Communist
takeover of Czechoslovakia in
1948 and promptly became pre
mier. He rose to the presidency
on the death of Klement Gott
wald in March, 1953.
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consist of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not give
advice; it merely reports on problems that have een dealt with by
responsible agencies and counselors
Sherry Fong Trial
Recessed To Thursday
Portland (W The second
degree murder trial of Sherry
Fong was recessed until Thurs
day after a doctor's report that
the defendant needs more time
to recover from a throat ail
ment. The trial was recessed last
Thursday after Mrs. Fong be
came too ill to testify in her
own behalf. She is accused of
the 1954 slaying of 16-year-old
Diane Hank.
'ENOUGH'S ENOUGH'
Chicago API A destroyer sea
man of cockleshell proportions
is getting his steam up over be
ing arrested by the shore patrol.
John Kennelly, who's only 5 feet
2 inches tall, has been arrested
by authorities 14 times on
charges of impersonating a
sailor.
Carol F. My brother and
sister won't share responsibility
with me.
Daiel F. We must think of
our families first.
Carol F. I am an unmar
ried woman of 40 and I have a
problem which seems to get
worse as the years go on.
I have a younger sister whom
I love dearly and who has been
in a mental institution on and
off for the past 12 years. The
doctors seem to feel she is cured,
and then she breaks down again
and again under the strain of
life outside the hospital.
When she is well, Sylvia
comes to live with me and when
she is sick, I am the only one
who goes to visit her. Our par
ents are not living and my mar
ried brother and sister will have
nothing to do with her. I myself
am not very well physically and
it is a great strain for me to
undertake all the responsibili
ty for Sylvia.
I only ask that my brother
and sister go to see her occas
ionally and take her into their
homes at times when she is
feeling better. Is this too much
to ask?
Daniel F. Carol makes out
she is asking only a trifle, yet
she understands how big that
"trifle" is.
My sister Helen and I are
married and have families. We
can't keep Sylvia in our homes
with the children when we don't
know what can happen. The
children now know nothing
about the whole thing except
Aunt Sylvia is ill and in a hos
pital. Carol seems to feel we are
monsters and have no feeling at
all for our unfortunate sister.
That isn't true, but we must
think of our own families first.
We want our children to marry
and live normal lives without
having the stigma of mental ill
ness attached to them.
As far as we know there have
been no other instances of in
sanity in the family and it is
unfair the children should suffer
because of this.
The Council: No, it is not a
"trifle" that Carol asks. It is
a big and difficult thing to do
and Daniel and Helen are not
justified in evading that big and
difficult thing.
Morally, they are wrong to
abandon their mentally ill sister
and they are equally at fault in
foisting the entire responsibility
on Carol. The fact she is single
is not quite enough justification
for their using her as a kind of
dumping ground for the family
skeleton.
From a practical point of
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view, Daniel and Helen are
equally wrong. Family secrets
like these seldom remain hid
den. Skeletons choose difficult
moments to pop out of the closet
and frequently create havoc
when they emerge. Daniel and
Helen owe it to themselves and
their family to face the problem
courageously.
They should find out from
Sylvia's doctor all that can be
learned about her illness and the
possibility of hereditary mental
disease in the family. They may
find there is less to worry about
than they believe. But if they
find there is much to worry
about, their children should
know when the jjroper time
comes. They may be able to
avert tragedy in their own lives
if they know the facts!
Daniel and Helen should also
discuss with the doctors the
problem of taking Sylvia into
their homt, for occasional visits.
Here again, they may find there
is little to worry about.
Whatever answers they get,
however, they should remember
their attitude toward the situa
tion will leave the most lasting
irp w
SORROWFUL VIGIL Mrs.
Faye Cordoza maintains a
sorrowful vigil in Honolulu
for word of her brother,
Louis Rodrigues of San
Francisco, one of 44 persons
missing on Pan American
Stratocruiser downed in the
Pacific
impression on their children.
They should try to display cour
age and loyalty, rather than fear
and selfishness.
(Copyright 1957,
General Features Corp.)
Wednesday, November 13, 19S7
MEDFOSD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHS ftff)
Magazines Face
Obscenity Count
Hollywood (TP) Confiden
tial and Whisper magazines face
a new trial on charges of con
spiracy to commit obscenity but
there will be no new testimony.
Superior Judge H. Burton
Noble agreed Tuesday to drop
criminal libel charges and to
try the publications on the les
ser obscenity count.
Despite the new trial, prose
cutors appeared to have won
their effort to "clean up" the
scandal magazines.
An advertisement signed by
Confidential Inc., and Whisper
Inc., and Publisher Robert Har
rison appeared in Los Angeles
and San Francisco newspapers,
declaring the magazines would
change their format "so as to
eliminate expose stories on the
private lives of celebrities."
"While we have never felt
that such stories violated any
laws," the advertisement said,
"in a spirit of cooperation with
Edmund G. Brown, attorney
general of the state of California,
and William B. McKesson, dist
rict attorney of Los Angeles
county, we have agreed with
them to so change our format."'
TALKS PROGRESSING
Cairo HP) Anglo-Egyptian
financial negotiations in Rome
are progressing "although differ
ences of viewpoints still exist,"
the Egyptian Finance Ministry
said today. A ministry spokes
man said Hassan Zaki, chief of
the Egyptian delegation, receiv
ed fresh instructions Tuesday
from Finance Minister Abdel
Kaysouni. The negotiations deal
with financial problems result
ing from the Suez crisis last
year.
FIVE DIE IN FIRE
Milan, Italy (IP) Five per
sons burned to death TufSdSy
night at nearby Melegnano whein
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house. Authorities said the bLs$
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Agazzi, 41, used a lighted candlft
to look into the engine of his
cycle. The explosion ignited the
house which was gutted, ftre
men found five charred bodie
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