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10 B FRIDAY. FEBRUARY IS. 1967 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON PLANNING FOR ASSAULT The first American assault on Ml. Everest will be made by a group sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The bulk o the parly departed Irom San Francisco en route to Nepal. Here leaders of the group pose be fore takeoff. From left, they are Dr. Gilbert Roberts, official physician; Dr. William E. Siri, medical physicist at the University of California at Berkeley, deputy leader of the team, and Dr. James T. Lester, clinical psychologist. (LTD Salinger's Feat Decision Not To Take Long Hike Classic News Management Example By DICK WEST : Washington -HOT- The Ken. nedy administration has on occasion been accused of seeking to manage the news. I am s n o t equipped to discuss the broader a s -peels of these a 1 1 cgations, but there is a narrow field in which I west can recognize news managing when I see it. Based on what I have seen thus far in 1963, my nomina tion for "news manager of (he year" would go to White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger for the handling of his on-again, off-again walk athon. In order that everyone might appreciate the finer nuances of Salinger's feat, or feet, I shall get technical for a moment to explain that news management in ils sim ple, classical form shapes up as follow: (A) Someone announces that something is going to happen. (B) Something happens. The advantages offered by this method are imme diately apparent. In effect, you get two for the price of one. That is, you get twice the amount of coverage that would be produced by B alone. Suppose, for example, (hat Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman decided lo drama tize a new farm program by polo vaulting over a mound of surplus bullcr. His news manager would announce the decision, which would be duly reported by us correspondents. Then, when Freeman actually performed the slunt, we would report il again. Many limes, of course, Ihc build-up makes a belter story than the actual event.' Salinger, whose reputa tion for creative thinking is Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. justly deserved, took this basic exercise in news man agement and added a refills ment that may change the pattern completely. What he did was: (A) Announce that he was going to lead a hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Barge Canal towpath. (B) Announce that he was not going to lead a hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Barge Canal towpath. Thus did lie twice manage lo plug President Kennedy's physical fitness program while actually doing nothing. Furthermore, a good case can be made for an assump tion (hat his decision nol to go on the hike made a belter story than the hike itself would have. Salinger, I submit, has pro vided the art of news man agement with one of ils finest hours. Who was il that said you can't have your cake and eat it, (no? Certainly nol plucky Picric. HOW TO SAVE ON TAXES . X Divorced Husbands end Wives If you are a divorced or legally separated husband or wife, or if you are planning a divorce, or legal scparalion, check the following developments which occurred in 1962. They may affect your tax burden for belter or for worse. (1) Say you, as a husband, paid your wile's lawyer fur giving her tax advice in connection with your divorce and property settlement in ISti'l. Last year, the Supreme Court held that, while you can deduct (he fees you paid lo your own lawyer for lax advice, you cannot deduct the legal fees you paid to your wife's lawyer. (2) Or say you're considering a divorce arrangement un der which you, the husband, will turn over certain property to your wife in return for her releasing you from an obliga tion to support her. This is a common agreement. In lflli'J, the Supreme Court made il more costly in tonus of taxes for you to enter into this type of divorce settlement, (or it held that if the properly is worth more when given lo Ihc wife than it originally tost the husband, the husband must pay a capital gains tax on the difference. For instance, assume that in connection with a di vorce last year, Mr. Smith gave his wile slock worth $50,000 in exchange lor which she gavo up her claim (or support and any other marital rights. Assume also that Smith had originally bought that slock lor only $30,000. Smith now has to report and pay tax on a $20,000 capital gain just as he would havo to do il ho had sold lho stock on the market (or SS0.000 instead ol giving it lo his wito as a property settlement. (li) Or &ay under your limited divorce, your former wife is given the right lo live in the house which was, and con tinues under your state law to lie, owned by both n you in n legal form technically known as "leniimy liy the entirely." Check Willi your lawyer on whetlier tins is so. If it is. your divorce decree well may require you, the husband, to pay your former wife a specified sum lo cover mortgage interest and principal, property taxes and insurance. Measures Given legislative OK Salem - mm - These meas ures were approved Thurs day. By the Scnalc: SB14!) Relating lo public parks and recrealional areas. SB178 Relating lo the di sease of phenylketonuria. Bv the House: ll'Bl()ti8 (i!) Relating lo writs ol habeas corpus. i 11BI 1311- Relating to high way use tax assessment. 11B1131 Relating to reg ulatory fees collected from railroads by the public utility commissioner. 1 113 1 134 Relating lo extra- dilion. II.IM7 Memorializing the President regarding the elim ination of an airline service. I1.IM13 - Memorializing Congress in protest of freight rate discrimination which is detrimental to Oregon ami culture. SCRti - Providing (or a joint session to hear a report on the progress of the Board man project by Sen. Wayne Morse and Gov. Mark llat- 1 liokl. Old Timers Plan i Tour on Sunday 1 The Old Timers Car rluli Until 1362, a husband treated the payment allocated for of the Rogue valley will hold the property taxes and insurance as an alimony deduction, j n (our Sunday. Feb. 17. Tour while the wife included it in income as alimony and took a ; I'hau inan Riiy Krickson has deduction for paying the property taxes if she itemized her reminded members, and is personal deductions. But (lie payment to the w ife covering ' ,,ned an invitation lo all in mortgage interest and principal, w as not alimony at all, (crested persons to join the neither deductible by the husband nor income to the wile. I inup The husband could deduct the mortgage interest payments Callahan's Siskivnu Lodge II lie itemized ins personal noouciions In 1962. the Treasury changed the rulo lor the portion of the money allocable to property taxes and insurance so that it is now treated like the money allocable (or mortgage interest and principal. It is not alimony and the portion allocable lo property taxes may be deducted by you, the husband, il you itemize your personal deduc tions. If you, as a divorced husband or divorced wife, have been reporting these payments in the past under the old rule, check with care to see that your 1962 re turns properly treat the portion ol (lie payment allocable to property taxes and insurance under the changed Treasury rule. (4) Or say, under your divorce your (orniri wife is cien (he righi (o live in lho house which is owned by both of you in n legal form technically known as ' tenants in common" rather than as tenants by entirely. i.M.my couples also own their home in this particular legal (mm: so ac.am. ask your lawyer whether this applies to you ) Now in tins case, assume your divorce decree orders you, the husband, to pay your former wife an amount covering mortgage interest and prin cipal and property insurance and taxes Here is the tax setup on tills now. One-half of all these payments is alimony included in the wife's income and deduc tible by Ihc husband (assuming the payments are to continue for more than 10 years or otherwise quality as periodic pay ments). On this half the wile can deduct the portions lor interest and taxes if she itemizes her personal deductions. The other half of the payments isn't alimony at all. but the husband can deduct (he portion of this halt which is for taxes and interest if he itemizes Ins personal deductions. Next: Deductions lor an employee's of (ice-at home. i t on Highway Oil, south of Ash land, will be destination of the tour and luncheon w ill lie served there. Medford members of the club are asked to meet at Cubby's Drive In at 111 15 a, in. At 111:30 a ni. they w ill leave fur Stan's A and W in Ash land, w hero the Ashland mem bers will assemble. The two groups are scheduled to leave at 1 1 25 a in for Callahan lodco. The tour will return by way of Hie old llighw.iv !);) and Knngianl lake, Krickson said The Old Timers Car club has approximately 411 mem bers, .nut Krickson said he hoped all wouht be present Sunday for the February tour. "OIL TO BURN" Mobilheil S & H Cieen Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-21 1 1 ansnM.!..-. f 'I"''1 BUY WITH CARE... 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