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Dillon Discloses Examples of Items Deducted on Taxes Washington -0JPD- A cor poration president has been taking friends on a hunting trip to Wyoming every year, A manufacturer has been pay ing $1,800 a month rent for a hunting lodge. A beverage maker spent more than $10,- 000 entertaining customers and their wives at the Ken tucky Derby. There is a businessman's club in which every member is subposed to' give a big party once a year for the others. A dairy owner took his wife with him on an Afri can hunting safari. An under taker bought a yacht on which he entertained visiting cler gymen and other undertakers. It cost a manufacturing firm $127,067 a year to main tain a private club house and entertain customers there. A corporation executive spent $1,500 for a 12-day vacation trip to Las Vegas for himself, his wife, a customer and the customer's wife. Tax-dtductible Expanses All of this "luxury spend ing" had at least two things in common: -In each case the federal Treasury "subsidized" the cost, lnder existing law the taxpayer-or his employer if he footed the bill-was al lowed to deduct all, or most, of the expense from taxable income. A dollar of "deducti ble" entertainment costs a corporation 48 cents and the Treasury 52 cents. -In each case such deduc tions for "luxury spending" would be barred or sharply curtailed by changes Presi dent Kennedy wants Congress to make in tax rules govern- 1 n g business entertainment and expense account spend ing. No longer could taxpay ers charge off on their tax re turns - the cost of buying yachts. Without naming names, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon presented about 50 ex amples of taxdeductible "lux ury spending" to the House Ways and Means committee Wednesday and outlined the administration's plan for put ting an arbitrary stop to it. Part of in Tax Program The plan is just one part of a seven-point tax revision program the administration is trying to push through Con gress. The overall proposal would grant $1.7 billion a year in tax relief to business to encourage economic ex pansion and impose a slightly heavier tax burden on other taxpayers. The administration's tough rules on business expense, if enacted, would bring an es timated $250 million into the treasury, and force some change in the American way of business. Yacht Costs Out Businessmen would be barred from taking any tax deductions for the cost of buy ing or maintaining yachts, hunting lodges or swimming pools, or for the cost of enter taining at parties, night clubs, theatres, country clubs and fishing trips. Deductions for country club dues would be barred. Tax deductions would be limited to $10 a year for gifts to any one individual and to $30 a day for food and lodg ing expenses on business trips. A business couldn't deduct a food and drink check totaling more than $7 a day for any one customer or business associate. JUST IN TIME Philadelphia (UPD Mrs. Dorothy Woods, a juror in a civil case, leaped to her feet in court Thursday and an nounced that her roast pork was still cooking. Court Tip staff Louis Levens went to the Woods' home and turned the oven off. f COMPETITIVE IT ( P plus- I our Jlfp"" J QUALITY V lmM Um J The R. A. Holmes Agency SINCE 1909 - -..-r'-w Medical Center Bldg. Phone SP 2-4444 MedfordSIWTribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1961 PAGES 1 to CHECKS SYSTEM Western Electric In- ford telephone users will "talk through" staller Dick Gallant checks the heart of these switches on any calls to new Ashland Ashland's new dial telephone system, the numbers after 11 p.m. Saturday, May 6. gleaming banks of crossbar switches. Med- i iff "In " ' '" w UU ' in. CAPTURED - James Scott Stephens, 16, above, was cap tured as he hitchhiked near Kadoka, S. D., and confessed he shot and killed two young girls on a flower-picking out ing near Holland, Mich. (UPI Telephoto) VARIETY OF CROPS Washington A m e r 1 c a n farmers grow about 200 kinds of plants while farmers around the world raise 2,000 species. 70 Attend Special IRL Reception for Foreign Students About 70 persons particl pated in the special Interna tional Relations league's re ception for foreign students and installation of 1961-62 officers this week at Medford High school. The event, the first of its kind held by the high school organization, drew interna tionally-minded students from Hedrick and McLoughlin Ju nior High schools, Medford High school, and representa tives of local civic groups. Represented at the reception were local chapters of the American Field service, the American Association for the United Nations, Rotary Inter national, and Altrusa club. President Diane Lewis wel comed guests, and John Alan- sky outlined the goals and objectives of the IRL. . Dur. ing the ceremonies, Alansky presented the local club pres ident with several books the Medford club earned by plac ing third in state-wide com' BABYWEAR BY Give them the tender loving wear of Hanes Soft as a mother's touch . , .'our babywear by Hanes. Beautifully made, Hanesknit of pure combed cotton. Shrink . resistant, colorfast, no ironing needed. Sized by weight and years. Choose now at thrifty prices. Print Sacqim. Gay prints to choose from, daintily imocked. beautifully trimmed. Raglan sleeves, bow snap fasteners. Pink, blua or yellow. Infant ,iM $1.00 BIGY Print Gowns. Charming, cory. Tie bottom, cuffs double as mittens. Snap-open neckline. Can't-bind underarms. Pink, blue or yellow Infant size. $1.49 Print Kimonos. Raglan sleeves, ribbon-bow snap-fasteners. Infant size. $li49 Shert-siteve Shirt. Self-closing neck, can't-bind underarms. Dry shirt diaper tapes. Sizes 3 mos. to Jvr. 2 for $1.19 Training Pants. Double panel front and back. Sizes 1 to 4 yrs 2 f or $1 .19 Snap-side Shirt. Short sleeves, can't bind underarms, no side seams, dry shirt diaper tapes. Whiter-thin-white. Sizes 3 mos. to Vh yrs. 'for JJJ 39 Pacific Telephone To Use New Ashland Equipment Saturday Pacific Telephone North' west's $730,000 telephone im provement project for Ash land will start serving custom ers at 11 p.m. tomorrow. For Medford telephone users calling Ashland it will mean: 1) Checking the telephone directory for new Ashland listings, since every telephone there has a new seven-digit number beginning with 482. The last four digits are also petition at the state IRL con ference earlier this year. Alansky was elected presi dent of all Oregon IRL's at the annual meeting at the University of Oregon. Introduced at Reception Introduced at the reception were Don Kondo and Jill Du- Croz, AFS foreign exchange students from Japan and Eng land, who are now complet ing their school at Medford High. During the evening the two students answered ques tions and visited those attending. Installed as Medford IRL officers for 1961-62 were Carl Washburn, president: Joel Gregory; first vice pres ident; Jim Albright, second vice president; Ruth Milligan, secretary; Jim Tungate, treas urer; ana jui Barnes, histor ian. Club member Marsha Bel knap presented corsages to the club 5 advisers, Mrs. Jus tin Smith and Miss Dee Bar rel!. President Diane Lewis ex plained that the evening re ception was designed to both honor the foreign students and to introduce the Interna tional Relations league to the public, as well as install the newly-elected officers. Additional foreign students from Southern Oregon col lege, Ashland, had been in vited, but were unable to at tend because of campus con flicts. Junior high school freshmen were Invited to ac quaint them with the IRL at the high school as prospective members. Sponsors Activities Throughout the year, the Medford High IRL sponsors school and community proj ects concerned with interna tional affairs. Programs dur ing the past few years have included cooperation with the American Field Service pro gram, holding magazine, book and clothing drives for persons abroad, encouraging pen pals with foreign stu dents, providing a scholarship for the AFS summer-exchange student, sponsoring special films, lectures, and panel discussions on foreign affairs, helping to create IRL's in other southern Oregon high schools, and playing a lead ing role in extra-curricular activities at MHS. Funds To Beat Russia To Moon Nearly Tripled Washlneton-OIPU-The House Space Committee has added $126.6 million to President Kennedy's space budget and nearly tripled funds for America's attempt to beat Russian cosmonauts to the moon. The committee Thursday formally increased by $37.9 million the $88.7 million in crease in the space budget that it had tentatively ap proved Wednesday. The largest boost - $50.2 million - was for the Apollo spacecraft. Apollo is designed to carry three U.S. astronauts around the moon. The trip, now scheduled for 1967, would have to precede an ac tual landing of the moon's sur face. Booster Research The committee also granted $38.5 million more for re search on two space boosters powered by nuclear fuel and solid propellants. Kennedy in dicated at a recent news con ference that those'' boosters might offer America's best chance to surpass Russia in the space race. Chairman. Overton Brooks (D-La.) said the money hikes were designed to instill a sense of urgency into the U.S. space program. The increases were part of a bill raising the money au thorized for the National Aer onautics and Space Adminis tration for the fiscal year starting July 1 from the $1.23 billion Kennedy requested to $1.36 billion. The actual money would have to be ap proved in a separate appro priations measure. new. A typical number will be 482-0010. 2) A different set of sounds will be heard while dialing Ashland numbers. After dial tone and the click of the first digit (4), the next sound will be that of the Ashiand phone ringing. This "silent" dialing is the result of the new cross bar switching equipment in the Ashland central office. . Take Couple of Minutes The actual change from the old to the new phone equip ment will take a couple of minutes. But preparations and final tests will be in progress all day Saturday. Protective fuses will be pulled in the old central office building at 111 Oak st. which will "kill" the service from that location. At the same time, techni cians In the new building at East Main and Sixth sts. will pull blocking devices out of the dial switches and the gleaming banks of equipment will "click to life" in tune with the dialing habits of Ash land telephone users. Call Emergency Agencies As soon as the new dial system is activated, calls will be made to all emergency agencies to make sure their phones are operating. Tests will also be made in the cen tral office to see that all sub scriber lines are working. - It will take only a few minutes to accomplish the changeover. But it has taken several years of planning and work to bring the improve ment into being. After the Saturday switch over. Western Electric em ployees will start removing the equipment from the old central office building. This should be accomplished with in a month, according to Dave Rittenhouse, Western Electric supervisor for the Ashland project. Domestic Farm Food Prices Rise Washington -(UPI)- The Agri culture Department said to day retail prices of domestic farm foods during January March were 4 per cent higher than during the same period a year ago. The department said the In crease resulted from a 6 per cent rise in farmers' prices for these food products and a 3 per cent rise in charges for marketing them. A moderate rise in market ing charges is likely in the months ai.ead, the department said in its publication, "The Marketing and Transportation Situation." The marketing charges in the first three months of this year averaged about the same as in the last quarter of 1960. Bob c Taylor v'. T. ,-xf f Castro Said To See Revolution in West Washington - IUPI) - Premier Fidel Castro looks on his suc cess In turning Cuba into a Communist camp as the be ginning of a Red revolution in the entire Western Hemis phere, the National Press Club was told Thursday. United Press International correspondent Henry Ray- mont, who recently returned from six days in a Cuban prison, said Castro Is con vinced that "there will be Communist revolution in the United States before he is ousted from the Caribbean Raymont, speaking before about 400 persons at a lunch eon, also said Castro was not taking orders from Moscow on how to run things in this hemisphere. He said Castro now was advising Russia on how to spread Communism in the Americas. St. Helens Fisherman Drowns in Columbia St. Helens -(UPD- Bill Hawk ins', 24, St. Helens, drowned in a Columbia river slough in a fishing accident about five miles south of here Thursday. Hawkins fell Into the water when a 14-foot boat capsized and drowned as he attempted to swl mto shore. His body was not recovered. Gary Cooler Enjoys Hearing Messages Hollywood - (UPD - "I know that what is happening is God's will. I am not afraid of the future. Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages have meant." 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