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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"
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