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Everyone Who FnDes Returns deceives Pedifction; Glaums May Be Dtemnzed By EDWARD COWAN United Press International Washington-(UP&-Deductions lor certain types of expenses may be subtracted from your income m figuring up the "taxable income" on which you owe Federal taxes. Everyone who files a re turn automatically gets a de duction of 10 per cent un less he claims a larger deduc tion and itemizes the claim on his return. For example, if you report wages of $4,700 and rental in come of $520 and you had no Deductible Items On Income Noted Washington -m- If you take itemized deductions, you may deduct such items as: Retail sales taxes; medic al expenses, including eye glasses and dentures, above 3 per cent of your income; interest on a home mort gage; and special schooling for the mentally or physic ally handicapped. Also, dues paid to unions and professional societies; contributions to charities, non-profit schools, hospit als, churches (including as sessments) and veterans or ganisations. You may not deduct such things as: t Expenses for social clubs; hunting or fishing licenses; auto inspection fees; trips ordered or suggestion for changes of environment by your doctor; water taxes; accidental loss of cash or personal property (except in cases of natural calamity or theft); damage by rust or gradual erosion; loss on auto trade-in; travel to and from work; legal penalties or fines; rent paid for your house or apartment. other earnings, your income was $5,220 and you may take a standard deduction of $522, regardless of wether your de ductable expenses actually totaled that much. But suppose you spent more than $522 say $600 for things which Uncle Sam lets you deduct from your in come tax. Then, instead of taking the standard deduction of 10 per cent, you would want to itemize your deduc tions, which means listing your allowable expenses in detail. , Limitation Noted There is a limitation on taking the standard deduc tion: You can't claim more than $1,000 that way. If your allowable expenses exceed $1,000, you may claim them in full by listing them in itemized form. take itemized deduc you must use Form To tions 1040W or Form 1040. If you file on Form 1040A, the card form, you may take only the standard deduction. In deciding whether to take a standard deduction or item ized deductions, the best pro cedure is to list the latter on a piece of paper and com pare the total with 10 per cent of your income. What is deductible? The following major run down should answer most of your questions about your own expenses. If it does not, you can telephone or visit your local Internal Revenue Service office. Contributions Deductible if they go to religious, chant-. able, educational, scientific or literary organizations. How ever, the organizations must not be operated for personal profit nor carry on propa ganda nor engage in lobbying in Congress or other law making bodies. Political con tributions, whether to parties or individual candidates, may not be deducted. In general, the deduction for contributions may not ex ceed 20 per cent of income. But the limit may be as high as 30 per cent if the extra 10 per cent covers donations to churches and certain tax exempt organizations. Medical Expenses M e d i- cal and dental payments gen erally are partly deductible. If you were under 65 at the end of the tax year you may deduct any medical and den tal expenses which exceed 3 per cent of your -income. If either you or your wife were 65 or over before the end of the year, you may claim ALL medical expenses incurred by both of you. The list of deductible items includes payments to physi cians, surgeons, dentists, op tometrists, qualified psycholo gists and Christian Science practitioners. Also deductible are expens es for diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease; hospi tal bills, nursing, laboratory services; eye-glasses, hearing aids, artificial limbs, ambul ance charges; payments for drugs which exceed 1 per cent of your income. You may also deduct pay ments for hospital and medi cal care plans. But your de ductions must be reduced by reimbursements you got from death insurance or similar sources during the year. Taxes Most state and lo cal taxes directly levied on you may be deducted. These include state income, real estate, personal property and sales taxes. You may not de duct Federal excise, social se curity or income taxes; hunt ing or dog license fees; wat er assessments or automobile inspection fees. Child Care Deductible only if paid for care while the mother is working or ac tively looking for a job, or by men who are divorced, legally separated 'or widow ers. The child need not be the taxpayer's own but must be a dependent under 12 years of age. Also eligible is care for any other dependent physically or mentally unable to care for himself. Child care deductions are limited to $600, regardless of how many dependents you have. You may not deduct payments for baby-s i 1 1 e r s when you go out socially or money paid to your children or other dependents for baby sitting. If vou have a maid who does general housework as well as care for your chil dren, you may deduct only the part of her pay that rep resents the time spent look ine after the youngsters. If you claim a child care deduc tion, you must submit details either on Form 2441 or m a separate statement So Youthful 9474 f SIZES V 1 1 BUTTE FALLS Mothers March Tonight By MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls-The March of Dimes Mothers March will get underway here tonight at 7 p.m. Mothers will stop, at every door asking for contri butions, which will go into a fund to be used for victims of arthritis, birth defects and polio. Local residents are asked to turn on their porch lights and to please tie up their dogs. Local chairman is Mrs. Randall Perkins. The Brownie and Girl Scout investure will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday Feb. 3 at the high school auditorium. Parents and friends are in vited. Girl Scout leader is Mrs. Don Strong. Brownie leader is Mrs. Virgil Conley and assistant is Mrs. Wm. Har ris. Also assisting the Brownie leaders is Mrs. Richard Pep ple. The executive committee of the PTA will met Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 3 at the grade school. The February meet ing of the PTA will be held Monday evening, Feb. 8 at the high school auditorium. The Founders Day program will be featured and a silver offering will be taken. ing a recent game. Mrs. Glen Cathey was re cently hospitalized for several days at the Sacred Heart hos pital where she underwent treatment. Mrs. Cathy is con valescing at home. Mr. and Mrs. William Har ris and family recently spent a weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vera Helbig, Grants Pass. Mrs. Helbig is the moth er of Mrs. Harris. Also visit ing at the Helbig home were Mrs. Helbig's son Donny and Mr. Helbig's son Jim. Donny is undergoing treatment for a very serious ear condition and Jim and Marine has just re turned from Guam and Ja pan. Butte Falls PTA will hold a spaghetti dinner and auc tion Friday evening, March 11 as their major money-making project of the year. Hopes are high for the be ginning of a Mothers Singers group in the Butte Falls area. Everyone is welcome and there are no requirements that those interested be mem bers of the PTA. Anyone in terested is asked to contact Mrs. Russell Ragsdale, Mrs. Don Strong or Mrs. William Harris. Narrow lines topped by a marvelous cape collar - sure formula for flattery for short, fuller figures. Sew it for spring-sleeveless, short or 34 sleeves. Printed Pattern 9474: Half Sizes 14U, I6V2, I8V2, 2OV2, 221$, 241&. Size I6V2 requires 4 yards 35-inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern-add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUM BER. JUST OUT! Big, neW1960 Spring and Summer Pattern Catalog in vivid, full-color. Over 100 smart styles ... all sizes ... all occasions. Send now! Pnly 25c. , t The February meeting of the Butte Falls Lion Auxil iary will be held Tuesday evening, Feb. 2 at the home of Mrs. 'Randall Perkins. Re freshments will be served fol lowing the business meeting. At the January meeting, '"sec ret pals" were disclosed and names drawn again. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Harris received word Sunday of a new grandson, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tracy of John Day, Oregon. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces. Mrs. Tracy is a daughter of the Harris' and the Tracys are former residents of Butte Falls. The Butte Falle Lions met the, Prospect Lions at Pros pect recently in a donkey bas ketball game. The Butte Falls Lions came out on top, and another game is scheduled at Butte Falls Feb. 10. Players from Butte Falls included Al lan Pingle, Bruce Pingle Jr., Duane Smeltzer, Bill Harris, "Corky" McCorkindale, Andy Hamstra, Mike Estes, Dar win Moore and Bill Irwin. Several basketball casual ties have been reported from Butte Falls High school re cently. Injured in practice were William Hunter, supt. of schools, and Darrell Hawkins. senior and student body presi dent. Hunter broke two bones in his foot and Darrell broke his ankle. Doug Fisher also suffered a sprained ankle dur- Quick-Thaw Method Urged for Frostbite Chicago - IUPD - Police and other first-aid groups which deal with winter emergencies have been urged to adopt the so-called, quick-thaw method of treating frostbite. Writinz in the Journal of the International College of Surgeons, Dr. John T. Phelan said current methods are in adequate and that "a quick thaw at approximately 110 degrees Fahrenheit is the best first-aid treatment because it shortens the time the frost bitten tissue is exposed to cold." Dr. Phelan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin medical school, warned that time is crucial in frostbite cases. "Depending on the person and which partof the body is affected," he said, "there is a point at which part of the body is affectable, irrespec tive of the treatment afford ed." Dr. Phelan said that too often both the patient and the physician fail to take frost bite seriously until gangrene sets in. Bed rest should be prescribed immediately, h e said, particularly when the feet are involved. Once the frostbitten limb is thawed, he added, don't warm it any further, but maintain blood circulation and prevent further injury with bandages and antibiotics. Married women whose hus bands are capable of self-support must file joint returns with their husbands to claim child care deductions. Such expenses must be reduced by the amount, if any, by which their combined adjusted gross income exceeds $4,500. This does not apply if a husband is incapable of self-support because of physical or men tal disability. Interest-Your interest pay ments on a mortgage, person al loan, installment purchase or back taxes may be deduct ed. Installment purchase car rying charges may be de ducted according to the fol lowing formula: determine how much you owed on the purchase at the beginning of each month in the tax year; add these amounts, divide by 12 and compute 6 per cent of that figure. The final answer is what you may deduct, pro vided it is not more than the total carrying charge for the year. 1 9 MAIL TRIBUTE, Medford, Or. lhd A Thurediy, Jan. 28, 1968 LEADER - Shown above is Pierre LaGaillarde, 26, one of the two leaders of insurgent settlers entrenched in Algiers. He was reported to be seek ing an interview with the commander of the French Ar my in Algeria. With him was Joseph Ortiz, the other lead er of the settlers. (UPI Telephoto) Nicaragua Has First J-Graduates Managua, Nicaragua - (0PD -Nicaragua has graduated its first class of professional newspapermen from a new journalism school run by the United States Information Agency. v Thirty-five newsmen, repre senting every paper in Nicar agua, attended the 19 weeks of classes taught by two U.S. professors and leading Nicar agua n educators. Nicaraguan President Luis Somoza said he hopes U.S. journalistic guidance will be reflected in the newsmen's attitude toward their profes sion, and that as the number of the school's graduates in creases, Nicaraguan newspa pers will more and more re semble those of the United States. Somoza said that newspa pers in Nicaragua, as well as those in other "south of the border" lands, should strive for the high standards of journalism which he has seen practiced in the U.S. Famous Boston Writer Was Small Boston - (0PD - Oliver Wen dell Holmes, Boston's famed physician-author of the 19th century, was small in stature. Once, at a meeting of physi cians, he found himself with a group of doctors who tower ed over him. "You must have felt very small among those tall men," a friend remarked later. "Yes," said Holmes. "I felt like a dime among a bushel of pennies." TIMELY TUNE Leicester, England-DPD-The tune being played on the juke box in a Lancaster cafe was "Dynamite" when an . explo sion, apparently caused by a faulty gas range, rocked the cafe. Firemen had to be called to douse the flames. AMERICAS FINEST BOURBON! AMERICAS FAIREST PRICE! $ nn 2L60 I (45 quart) (pint) KENTUCKY STB A 1 6H T BOUBBON WHISKEY. 86 PROOF CANADA DRY 0ISTIUM8 CO., KICHOUSVIILE. JESSAMINE COUITY. 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