EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Husband or Wife Allowed to File
Joint or Separate Income Tax Return
v Editor's not: Following is the
mnd of five rlitpatrhrs giving
detailed explanation about filling
out and filing the 1358 income tax
forms. The series was written es
pecially for United Press by Rus
sell c. Harrington, commissioner of
internal revenue.
By RUSSELL C.
HARRINGTON
Commissioner of Internal
Revenue
"Written for United Press
Washington W Being
married may save you money
on your income tax.
The government allows you
and your wife or husband to
file a joint return instead of
two separate returns. Very of
ten you pay less tax this way
but not always. The only
sure way to tell which method
costs less is to figure the tax
both ways.
Even if you filed separately
last year you may file jointly
for your 1957 income. It's up
to you.
Whether you file jointly or
separately you use the same
forms. Generally, if a cou
ple's combined income was
less than 55,000 either Form
1040 or the short card Form
1040A may be used. If the in
come to be reported was
$5,000 or more, Form 1040 is
required.
Forbidden in Some Cases
In some situations joint fil
ing is forbidden. These cases
are relatively infrequent but
should be remembered. They
are: if you were divorced or
legally separated on or before
Dec. 31, 1957; if you are mar
ried to a non-citizen who does
not live in this country; if
TRUCKS OF MANY TALENTS -how
a more efficient job in bringing you good
Behind your phone calls roll a host of
trucks. Special telephone tracks. Their job:
To save phone men valuable working hours
as they expand and improve your service. In
the top picture are two of the dozens of dif
ferent kinds of phone trucks you might see any
day in your town. A ladder truck, front, easily
helps a phone man Eke Jim O'Neill pat the
Working together
to serve you better
I you and your wife report
your income on the basis ot
different tax years (for exam
ple, you report your income
for a 12-month period ending
June 30 and your wife uses
the regular calendar year).
Even if your wife had no
income at all, you may file a
INCOME TAX TIPS
Washington (01 Tax
payers often get a bill for
additional taxes because of:
Failure to report all com
pensation for services, es
pecially where no tax was
withheld. Common exam
ples are tips, money for odd
jobs.
Omission from the return
of such taxable income as
interest on bank accounts,
stock dividends, rents, prof
it on property sales.
Claiming exemptions for
persons who don't qualify
as dependents.
Taking deductions not le
gally deductible, such as
federal excise taxes, educa
tional expenses, gifts to
needy friends and relatives,
cost of traveling to and
from work.
Claiming excessive de
ductions for interest paid,
taxes, contributions and
medical expenses.
joint return. And if you didn't
marry her until New Year's
Eve before midnight, of
course you may still file a
joint return.
If your wife worked a lit
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finishing touches on a new overhead cable. Or
the huge straddle truck behind k helps us
shift heavy cable" reels as if they were dough
nuts. These trucks of many talents do big jobs
faster than ever before. They do them better
than ever before. AM told, they help us do a
more efficient job in bringing you the good
phone service yoa've come to expect.
Th
e men
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Tuesday. February 18, 1958
tle during the year and. earn
ed less than S600; it will prob
ably be to your advantage to
file a joint return, rather
than letting her file separate
ly. She might get a refund by
filing separately in this case,
but you could not file a joint
return and you would lose
her as an exemption. (More
about exemptions in the third
dispatch.
If your wife or husband
died during the year and you
did not remarry before the
end of the year; you may file
a joint return for the full
year. And under certain cir
cumstances the surviving
spouse may claim the same
income-splitting benefits of a
joint return for the two years
following. .
Both Must Sign
When husband and wife
file a joint return, both must
sign the return and both be
come liable for any amount
of tax owed. (
In filing a joint return you
add both the husband's and
the wife's income (if any) and
list the exemptions and de
ductions (standard or item
ized) to which both are enti
tled. Special tax rates are
provided for calculating the
tax you owe, if you file joint
ly. The rates are figured as if
your joint income were split
in half and you each paid the
tax on one half.
Keep in mind however that
if you file separate returns
and one of you itemizes his
or her deductions the other
must also itemize them.
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telephone service
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Pacific Telephone
in Med ford
N. Bartlett St, Tel. SP 2-6101
Whether filing jointly or
separately if you compute
your tax and find you still
owe something you must send
in with the return a check or
money order for the full
amount due.
When you file jointly you
attach both the husband's and
the wife's Forms W-2 to the
joint return. If you send in
separate returns attach the
right form to the right return.
One tax item which affects
couples more often than it af
fects individuals is buying or
selling a house.
Pay Tax on Profit
As a general rule, if you
sell your home or any other
personal property, such as
stocks or bonds, you must pay
a tax on the profit you make.
There is an exception which
applies in certain cases where
you sell your residence.
If you sold your home dur
ing 1957 for a higher price
than you paid in buying it
and making permanent im
provements on it you need
not pay tax on the profit if
you buy another home with
in 12 months and pay as much
or more for the new one as
you got for the one you sold.
If you sold your home and
built a new one instead of
buying an existing house-
you have 18 months instead
of 12. That is, you must move
in within 18 months.
If you buy or build a new
house for less than you sold
the old one, you must pay tax
on part, or all, of the profit
from selling the old. If you
owned the old house for more
than six months, the tax may
be at lower rates.
Report all of this in detail
on a separate tax form, called
Schedule D, and summarize
it on page 3 of Form 1040.
Later 1 will discuss deduct
ing interest payments on the
mortgage on your house.
Jackson County Visitors
View Library
Jackson County visitors to
"B-58,'? the first bookmobile
for Oregon to be purchased
with state and federal funds,
during its Medford and Ash
land exhibits Friday and Sat
urday were very much inter
ested in the potentialities of
traveling library service, ac
cording to Miss Rose David
son, bookmobile librarian.
Miss Davidson observed
that many city residents liv
ing near a public library re
marked wistfully how much
they would have enjoyed
bookmobile service when
they lived out of reach of city
libraries. They were glad to
know that rural readers could
have books brought nearer
their homes.
! The exhibit bookmobile is
one of the smallest units now
in use, it was explained. It
has a capacity of only 1800
volumes.
Some bookmobiles have
Mon Desir Inn Selected
For Tribe of Will Feast
Ashland Julie Tummers,
proprietor of the Mon Desir
dining inn in Central Point
has been selected by the Ore
gon Shakespearean festival
board of directors to provide
the Elizabethan repast for
the 1958 "Feasting of the
Tribe of Will", according to
Manager Bill Patton.
The traditional opening
night banquet, is annually
staged in Ashland's Lithia
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CLUB
-Ml NEWS
Thimble Thumbs Sewing Club
The Thimble Thumbs sew
ing club meeting was held at
Ti,rl-r Snrft'e hmisp TVTarV
1 Anne Carnegie led the pledge
to the flag and Michelle Ely
led the 4-H pledge. Ann Par
son was a guest. Mary Ann
and Linda Metg gave demon
strations on how to stitch a
corner of material on the sew
ing machine. We practiced
threading and using the ma
chine. The next meeting will
be held at the home of Mi
chelle on March 1.
Martha Merriman,
Reporter
Chowder Chix Cooking Club
The third meeting- of the
Chowder Chix cooking club
was held Saturday, Feb. 8, at
the home of Joan Dobrot,
Central Point. Members filled
out their enrollment cards
and discussed plans for a cake
sale. The cake sale is being
held in Faber's Market on
Saturday, Feb. 22, at 10 ajn.
The next meeting will be held
on March 8 at Joan's home.
Nancy Inman,
Reporter
Resolution Passed
Favoring Hospital
A resolution favoring in
stallation of a veterans hos
pital at Camp White was pas
sed during the business ses-
! sion of District 5, Disabled
(American Veterans here Sun
day.
The district includes DAV
chapters from Klamath Falls,
Grants Pass, Roseburg, and
Oakland, Ore.
Department C o m m ander
William Manley, Eugene, was
reported to agree that a hos
pital should be installed at
Camp White. This concurs
with the opinions expressed
by department commanders
of other major veterans organ
izations of the state as well
as the . Oregon state Grange.
The district also approved the
resolution originated by the
Medford DAV chapter oppos
ing installation of paid TV.
This would interfere with
free viewing privileges of hos
pitalized veterans or other un
able to pay for worthwhile
programs, the resolution stat
ed. June 11 through June 14
were, set as the dates for the
state convention scheduled for
Medford. The next meeting of
District 5 will be held in
Grants Pass during May.
Local Salesman
Receives Award
Philadelphia, Pa. Sam T.
Richardson, Home Appliance
company, Medford, won an
award in the Major appliance
division under the Creative
Retail Salesman of the Year
contest for 1957 in the Ap
pliance - Radio - TV industry
contest.
Richardson was presented
$125 and a bronze plaque for
submitting the best selling
idea in his division. The
award was presented at the
National Appliance Retailer
Dealers association convention
banquet on Jan. 13.
The grand prize of the $500
and a silver plaque went to
Tom Sanders of Innes, Wichi
ta, Kans. for submitting the
best selling idea of the year.
Bookmobile
shelves for as many as 3000
volumes and working space
for a staff of three a driver,
a clerk,' and a librarian The
books with which the "B-58"
is stocked are for exhibit only
but will later be awarded to
an Oregon library by the
state library board.
Following its Jackson
County showing the mobile
library will tour a number of
routes in Josephine ' County
Feb. 17 to 20. Donald Bunse,
driver, and Miss Davidson
will then return the vehicle
to the Oregon State library,
which has arranged the ex
hibit tour with the hope of
demonstrating to rural resi
dents of the state the advan
tages of traveling library
service. Upon completion of
its tour the "B-58" will be
awarded on a loan basis to
Astoria for inauguration of a
bookmobile service project.
park prior to the season's pre
miere performance. This
year's fete is slated for the
evening of July 28 in line
with the theatre's newly ex
panded season. The four-play
schedule opens that night
with "Much Ado About Noth
ing." Following will be
"King Lear," "The Merchant
of Venice," and "Troilus and
Cressida." This group of
plays will rotate through
Sept. 4. v
Mrs. Tummers said the
menu will be in the Mon
Desir manner and will in
clude hot roasted meats, sal
ads of garden greens, fresh
breads, and the rare herbs
and spices that characterize
the event. '
Special dignitaries and
guests, representatives from
press, radio and television
and the playgoing public will
be invited. Brightly costumed
madrigal singers will per
form. Other entertainers now
scheduled include the festival
dancers and the popular Ash
land Kilty band.
Tickets v for the banquet
may be ordered at any time
with the deadline set for
July 15 for mail orders. Gen
eral manager William Patton
urged all reservations be
made as early as possible.
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Free Election Scheduled
For All Argentinians
Buenos Aires (IP) More
than 10 millibn Argentine
men and women go to the
polls a week-from Sunday to
vote in this country's first
really free election in 30
years.
The only notable restric
tion affecting this year's vot
ing is the ban on the Peronist
Party formed by ex-President
Juan D. Peron and its 1,
500,000 to 2,000,000 members
Chrome
Tonnage
Listing Ready '
Information as to tonnage
which remains to be purchas
ed under the Domestic
Chrome program will be
made available on a weekly
basis, it was announced by
R. E. Reno Jr., regional direct
or of the Defense Materials
service.
This will be done so ship
pers in this program may be
fully aware of the pending
termination of both the
Grants Pass and the carload
program, he explained.
Beginning immediately a
phone call to the Grants Pass
depot (GReenwood 6-5098) or
to San Francisco, Calif., (YU-
kon 6-3500, Ext. 453 or 452)
will be given latest informa
tion. This report will be avail
able Tuesday afternoon and
will include shipments re
ceived as of the close of busi
es the previous Friday.
; to i
W. H. PYLE, Commercial Agent
Room 5, D'Anjou Bldg., Medford, Ore. SPring 3-561 6
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These two eseaped-but 70 million others re
main captive behind the Iron Curtain. And these
are tie people at whom Radio Free Europe beams
its daily broadcasts. Escape is not its aim. Radio
Free Europe penetrates the Iron Curtain to spread
truth ... to strengthen hope and resistance.
Said the youths above, "It ( Radio Free Europe )
added courage and strength to strained nerves."
"It offered us ... a hope for a better future,
said a young nurse who fled to the West
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are free to vote as individu
als.
There are 13 candidates for
president, although only two
Ricardo Balbin and Arturo
Frondizi, nominees of rival
factions of the Radical Party
are really conceded a
chance to win.
Thousands of other candi
dates seek election as nation
al senators or congressmen,
provincial governors and leg
islators and local councilmen.
The campaigning has been
orderly, with no major vio
lence reported anywhere in
the country, although recur
rent strikes and sabotage have
Changes Slated
For Photo Contest
Important changes in the
Kodak high school photo con
test more than double the
cash prizes offered students,
according to Brainerd's Stu
dio and Camera shop.
The local store has provid
ed entry blanks and give in
formation to the local high
school.
New rules call for elimina
tion of competition between
grades and will mean more
entrants, it was explained.
National cash prizes rang
ing up to $300 will be award
ed in the four classes of entry
for each of the four high
school grades plus $10 in cash
prizes for runners-up, com
pany officials said.
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
created some tension in the
political atmosphere.
Despite a 40-day ban on
strikes, decreed by the gov
ernment on Jan. 28 in an ef
fort to prevent labor trouble
from interfering with the
campaign, a walkout by 65,
000 bank clerks is now in its
fourth week. '
Provisional President Pe
dro E. Aramburu is a regular
army general whose path to
the Argentine "white house"
was paved by a revolution
and a coup de-etat.
Aramburu has been de
nounced as a "tyrant" by the
Peronists, but in fact he has
been bending over backward
to insure a free election.
Neither he nor any member
of the Cabinet through which
he has governed Argentina
since 1955 is a candidate in
next Sunday's election. A
score of Peronist political
weeklies, on open sale on
Buenos Aires newsstands, reg
ularly assail the Aramburu
"dictatorship."
Every party contesting the
election has been given free
radio time to state its case,
and the larger parties have
been able to get free tele
vision time as well.
Argentines have seen noth
ing like it since 1928, when
Gen. Jose F. Uriburu over
threw Radical President Hip-
olito Irigoyen. No election
here since that time has been
entirely free of restraint.
Edmund
Vice-Presideiir
Heme Northwest
Sine 1913
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Machilner, 19, and Karel Kucera, 20, tied up a Czech guard and
wobbled to the safety of West Germany in a stolen plana.
"Everybody is listening even the Communists,"
said an escaped Czech skating champion.
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Medford Student 1
Gets Scholarship j
Cambridge, Mass. William
Howard Frake, 22 Richmond
st., Medford, and freshman at
Harvard university, has bee
named as one of the 14 under
graduates at the university
awarded scholarship this year,
according to the university
news office. C
Frake received annual
scholarship donated in thp
memory of Richmond Talbot,
class of 1835. ' ' -
Harvard's most prized
award, the competitive Na
tional scholarship, was given
to three upperclassmen. All
scholarships other than the
National scholarships are Har
vard college scholarships. .:'
Many Oregon undergradu
ates also receive aid in meet
ing educational costs through,
long-term loans and part-time
employment at the university.
Exams Announced
By Civil Service :
Examinations ; have been
announced by the U. S. Civil
Service commission for .agri
cultural marketing specialist,
1 fishery marketing specialist.
and agricultural market re
porter. The positions will be
filled in the department of
agriculture, U. S. fish and
wildlife service and other fed
eral agencies throughout the
country.
For information contact
Chester W. Silliman at the
post office building in Med
ford. ...
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