Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 25, 1963, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text0 THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Many To Trip in Income Tax Evasion Try Br JOSEPH D. HUTNYAN Uited Pru International Washington - dlrD - For a minority of taxpayers, the April 15 federal income tax deadline was the start of the waiting period - the sitting back and contemplating the chances of getting caught. Some will be tripped up be cause of misguided notions about the foolish sport of jousting with the tax collect or. The person who has talked himself into cheating usually has pacified his conscience with one of these three argu ments: -"They won't fool around with piddling, little me. They're after the big boys." -"It isn't like I went whole hog for a big chunk of cash. I just kinda stretched things a bit here and there." -"My return is such a work of art that I'm starting to be lieve it myself." The man who thinks his tax return has to look like it was drafted by an Inept embezzler before the government gets auspicious Is in for a sad rev elation. Si Factor And the sire of a person s income isn't necessarily the factor that will decide wheth er the internal revenue serv ice (IRS) is going to take that fatal second look. The aovernment usually gives a good going over only to about 5 per cent of the returns, although it checks every return to maxe sure mc arithmetic is correct. The IRS uses a variety of standards that change irom year to year in selecting the 5 per cent sample. Chances are that most re turns reporting an Income of more than $30,000 will get a pretty close look. About 25 per cent of those between $10,000 and $30,000 receive similar treatment. Other samples may be se lected because of some suspi cion that, there is a soft spot In enforcement policy in a certain occupation or section of the nation. Chacks Tips For Instance, IRS sleuths may suspect that waiters in a southern resort belt are fudg ing on reporting their tips. They will then pull a large chunk of returns from this batch and include them with the sample. Tax detectives searching for that little flicker of irregular ity look for different things In different income classes. Take the case of the man in a comparatively low income group who uses the standard form. The IKS knows irom experience that If there is go ing to be some cheating here, ft probably will be in ex emption claims. The taxpayer's information is recorded on cards and fed Into a computer, the comput er is set to kick out any card where the exemption looks suspicious - or as the IRS puts It - "where It is not a usual family relationship." For Instance, if you arc claiming an exemption for your aunt Mable and she is living at another address, the machine will spot this unusual situation and out comes your card. Aunt Mable may turn out to be a perfectly legitimate exemption but you may have to prove it by providing some additional information which the IRS will request by mail. In the upper bracket tax payers, the IRS searches lor inflated deductions and unre ported Income. It has records showing the average deduct ions for medical expenses, In terest, charity and local tax es in each income class. If a return shows a loosided claim, the IRS may ask the taxpayer to show his can celled checks. Just because a person makes less than $5,000, it doesn't mean he's gone free. Hie IRS will look at other things before they decide to okay the return. For example, agents will be a little skeptical if n man re ports that he made $4,500 and claims a $1,000 deduction for charitable donations. That's Four Men Appear In Circuit Court James Kenton Young. 17B A St., Ashland, pleaded guilty in Jackson county circuit court this week to uttering and publishing a false check. A pre-sentence report was or dered. Young was charged with Is suing a false check on Dec. 2!) to the Oregon Food Stores, Inc. for $30. John Chaney was appointed attorney for George Brainard oaoin, wen Creek, Ashland, charged with rape. Karl Clin kinbeard was appointed to represent James Albert West. Lincoln, Neb., and Ashland, who is charged with burglary not in a dwelling. West is ac cused of breaking into the Phoenix Hardware store, 114 South Main at, Phoenix. Raymond Ernest Maddox Phoenix, pleaded innocent to charge of concealing stolen property a lot of money for charity for a person in this income group. Sometimes the source -rather than the size - of the Income decides how much at tention the return gets. The auditors may pass without question a $100,000 return from a man who works for an employer. That's because it can be verified easily by checking his employer's tax return. On the other hand, the gov ernment may pull out a $12, 000 return from a taxpayer who claims he got the money from several sources associ ated with his business. If. the sources just don't look right, more information will be requested. A lot of taxpayers purpose ly limit their fraud to little nibbles. The idea is that even If caught, the IRS won't pros ecute. The taxpayer will just have to pay up and the whole matter will be forgotten . It's true that the justice de partment usually is reluctant to tie up its legal talent just to collect a few hundred dol lars from a handful of cheat ers. However, the 1Kb nas gone after violators where the cheating was small but will ful and where it extended over a number of years. Or it may crack down on some one who has influenced oth ers - perhaps a tax advisor who helped his clients hedge a little bit on their tax bills. Circumstances Count Again, it depends on the circumstances .The amount of the cash involved is not nec essarily decisive. This also is true in the case of refunds. Many a taxpayer who is expecting a $1,000 re fund also is just as sure that he will get a letter from the IRS. This is not necessarily so. It depends on the size of the refund compared to' the tax payer's income. The IRS has plenty of help outside of its regular investi gative precedures in the wr against tax violators. Some of it comes from the most un likely sources - such as neigh bors or your home town news paper. Last year, tax agents re ived 125,000 tips. Some of them were in the form of an onymous letters or phone calls. Quite a few were picked up by regional IRS staff mem bers. For instance, the IRS will read with interest a news item about Mr. so-and-so win ning a house, two compact cars and a pony in a soap jin gle contest. Odds Stacked The item will be carefully The taxpayer who is con templating fraud might change his mind just by reading some of the statutes dealing with the subject. The odds are stacked against him. The law allows the IRS to go back three years in check ing income tax forms, and the taxpayer can be prosecuted for fraud committed as long as six year ago. And at the end of the six- year period, he still hasn't es clipped and filed for refer-1 raped. The government at any ence when income tax report-1 time can bring him into court ing time comes around. I and sue him for the back tax es and penalties unaer ravu laws. Statistics on tax cheating generally are encouraging. In fact, IRS Commissioner Mor timer M. Caplin frequently cites them in his speeches to emphasize his feeling that the U.S. taxpayer is basically hon est. The IRS anual report for 1962 showed out of 97 million tax returns, only 13,698 re quired a total investigation by agents. And of this number, prosecution was recommend ed in only 2,128 cases. New Cemetery For Ashland Area Ashland-New cemetery fa cilities soon will be available in Ashland with the formation of a new corporation. The cemetery will eventu ally provide all types of me morial services and will have space for grave plots covering at least 100 years. C. M. Lit wilier, an Ashland funeral di rector, is one of the incorpor ators. Negotiations on property for the cemetery are still un der way and the proposed lo cation will be announced lat er, Gerald J. Scannell, corpor ation lawyer, said. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON TUfftiefl ntiT. iu. Million Said Using Fluoridated Drinking Water One-Legged Skiers Receive Respect on Slopes of Mr. Hood Washington - HOT - More , February at ..... I -. , ......... .... JT eTw" w" A 7 than 43 million Americans in 2,302 communities are now drinking fluoridated water, it has been disclosed. Officials of the U.S. Public Health Service reported that about 100 additional com munities fluoridated their water supplies in 1962. The agency said the trend of adverse feeling toward fluoridating drinking water supplies "has at last been re versed." But a PHS spokes man said "A great deal re mains to be done." The statistics on the num ber of persons drinking fluor idated water were disclosed in February at a closed session of a House appropriations sub committee. The testimony was mace public Wednesday. Source oi Controversy Fluoridation of dri n k i n g water has been a source of controversy since it was in troduced on a wide scale after the war. Many communities vited against fluoridation pro posals following bitterly con tested campaigns. Government agencies and most scientists encourage the fluoridation of water as a means to protect the teeth of children. Studies have indi cated a lower percentage of cavities among youngsters living in fluoridated commu nities than in those living in communities where the water is not treated. The American Dental As sociation strongly supports fluoridation. Some opopnents charge that fluoridating amounts to tam pering with water and can lead to harmful effects for those who drink it. Others claim that fluoridation is an abridgement of a citizen's rights. Immense rocks imbedded with dinosaur tracks flank Dinosaur canyon, 60 miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz. By ANN H. PEARSON i United Press International Mt. Hood - IVJPB - Nine one 1 legged skiers skim down the I snowy slopes of Mt. Hood ! these days, and nobody bats ! an eye. They've proved that skiing is the sport for amputees. I Using a single foot ski and j a pair of outrigger arm skis, they keep pace with the more experienced skiers as they ! ride the tows up and then come weaving and plummet ; ing down the steeper slopes. They are graduates of a spe cial, perhaps unique, class. At first apprehensive, they now want lo tell amputees around the nation why they should take up skiing. In fact, amputees start out with some skiing advantages. It's great," says Jerry Hen dricks. 22. "It's the orte area where you can really com pete on equal terms." "I'm able to get out with my boys again. It's brought us closer together," says Cal An drews, 32. The group's instructor is Dick Martin, a former skier. The class of eight ranges from 9-year-old Richard Lange to 45-year-old John Blaine. It includes one girl, Kay Hick man, 20. Blaine is from Se attle, the rest from Portland. Five never skiied before The idea started when Mar tin lost his leg and heard of two Cleveland amputees who had learned one-legged skiing as practiced in Austria. Martin learned the technique, and improved on it, on Mt. Hood. Real Force The real force behind the class is not an amputee. He is skier Lee Perry, a member of the Portland Jaycces, who one day saw Martin skiing. The Portland Jaycees spon sored the project and supplied the special equipment: A sin gle ski plus two 22-inch skis fastened to arm crutches in place of ski poles. Perry rounded up the class. Using films of Martin, he con vinced them to give skiing a try. Since the one-legged skier has all his body weight on one ski, the friction is greater. Thus he needs a steeper slope. His outrigger arm skis auto matically put him in the for ward position that other skiers must learn. He doesn't have to learn many of the control movements needed for two skis. And he starts out with "exceptional balance" and "more guts than average." "We eliminate the first two years of skiing," says Martin. Tricked Into Skiing The first day Martin took his class up the chair tow. "We tricked them," he laughs. "We said, here's where we ski. They didn't know any Deiicr. rney skiied. Amazing as it sounds, some were accomplished skiers aft er one day. Others have taken up to four full days to feel comfortable about it. As for the steeper slopes, one says, "when it comes right down to it, we're so good that's all we want to ski on." Some of the nine are think ing about entering competi tions. A new class is being lined up. Perry is preparing How To Play Ask for your FREE spell C-A-S-H card each time you visit Safeway. No purchase is necessary. Take your card home, and moisten the black circle. Gently rub the circle until a letter appears. When you have collected four letter which spell CASH, you have won the game. Return the cards to Safeway, and you will re ceive $100 prize. All winning cards must be verified before pay ment. Only bona fide Spell C-A-S-H Cards will be honored. Play Mill r. 1 1 a.'- , ' I I 1 1 fflS mm Rules of the Game . . . Anyone 18 years of age and over is eligible to win except Safeway employees and members of their immediate family. Ask for your FREE spell CASH card each time you visit Safeway. DISFIGURED CARDS ARE VOID All winning cards must be verified before pay ment. Only bonafide spell CASH cards will be honored. LARGE RIPE CALIFORNIA BEAUTIES Juicy plump California berries. Firm fleshed with luscious sweetness. Here's a real treat. 4$l Cups I For I RUSSET POTATOES LETTUCE Butter, Red Romaine-Head BANANAS 20-lb bag Golden ripe beauties. A real health fruit Time to plant now for many months of blooms GERANIUMS Plus a Large Selection of Bedding Plants 69 2 , 25' 6 -1 Each 10 COFFEE Mountain Grown 2-lb., 97c Mb. Can c 49 EDWARDS BL1 Robust Mb. 93c can 47c POSTS TOASTIES,. Bran Flakes ,6... Raisin Bran . 39 c PREVIOUS $100 WINNERS Mrs. June Peterson-1724 Stratford, Medford Mrs. Mike Ricks-232 Gibson, Medford Thelma Howard-Rt. 1, Box 704M, Eagle Point Theresia Steel 1669 Roberts Rd., Medford Mrs. Norman Spitz-540 Eastwood Dr., Medford LOW LOW PRICES PLUS GOLD BOND STAMPS BEANS TBNA TOWELS Saracen, green No. 303 can White Star, chunk No. Vi can 10" I B'l Zee brand, paper. Giant rolls 41 Zee Napkins APkBor,:? 8ohi,e 2 29c Toilet Tissue StTStf 39c Dinner Napkins TX 2 53c Facial Tissue 29c Plastic Wrap Sandwich Bags White and Pastels Chiffon Tissue febtr 2 for 27c Crown Flour XTC flour 99c Bisquick ZtfSfiL. 39c Jell-0 Gelatins IMti; 3 35c Instant Coffee Felgtr'l 6-oi. 99c.10-oi. usiaiii UWIICC 6-oi. 75c. 10- Zee. Transparent QQ wrap. 100 ft. roll VuG Zee. Perfect for 00a lunch boxes. Pkg. 75 aCOC Barbecue Chips Graham Crackers it Liquid Trend Powdered Trend M lh Friskies Cubes Friskies Mix I $2.89 $2.89 51.19 $1.19 56.49 1 55.49 Sunshine oi. pkg. New pink lotion 32-oi. siie es & fine 33-oz. 1 nmt Lam. ;5?I (fCl Wax Paper Zee, double waxed. 100 ft. roll 2 fw 47c Thill Cra"ny Pirl( detergent I Hill for dishes. 32-oz 39c 39c 69c 49c 99c Nalley's IXL Chili with beans 40-oi cm IXL Lasagne IXL Chicken Raviola with beef 40-oi. cm 69c 65c 59c HAIR SPRAY GLOVES Clothes Pins FLOOR CARE Suave, for all hair types. Garden gloves for ladies Diamond spring. Pkg. of Armstrong One-Step. 50. Qt. $1.29 - 99c - 69c . 49c ".. 98e r K) COPYRIGHT, 1962 SAFEWAY STOKES, INCORPORATED Prices effective Thursday, April 25 through Sunday, April 28 at Safewjy in Medford. We reserve the right to limit. Gold Bond Stamps J important gradua 0DH0 COLDBROOK Here's a real buy! LIMIT 6 LBS. PLEASE lb. ROYAL SATIN Save with SAFEWAY Reg. 77 3-lb. can 003 Waldorf Regular 39c. SAVE A DIME 4-ROLL PACK 29 Willer's Model Bakery Old-Fashioned Cinnamon Rolls 50c doz. Crispies 3 for 27c (Take home a chocolate champagne cake this week.) Frozen Dessert Lucerne, Vanilla or Triple Treat Vi Gal. 49c MORTON'S FROZEN PIES lemon cream and coconut cream. DINNERS Chicken, turkey, si. beef and chopped steak. Reg. package. 3 for $1 SHASTA PURE Preserves Apricot, apricot pineapple, grape, strawberry, peach and delicious grape jelly. a manual for other amputees. It all the other skiers who flock to Mt. Hood's resorts had sympathy at first for the the amputees, it has changed to solid respect. Court Records JUSTICE COURT Gold Hill District) Jean Moore Goff. Dwuc rule, sio, iuspended """ifi i-ioeriy of violation 'nded. McCarty, no truck abloom, violation of Decker, no muffler, 44-0Z. jar 79 trnller license. S3. Joseph Otii Adklnson, peed na. Sin. Billy Charlei Edward Newman, four In driver's seat. $10, sus pended. Clarence Buiter Burget, disobey ed stop algn. $10. John Clyde Anderson, obstruct ed vision. $13. Vickl Kay Miller, violation of basic rule, $13. Howard Bruce Smith, violation of basic rule, $10. Lee Roy Hanscom, disobeyed stop sign, $10. LeHoy Glenn Porleous, no opera tor's license. $3. Richard Gano Scurry Jr., viola tion of basic rule, $10. Merlyn Glenn Johnson, violation of basic rule, $1,1. Donald Thad Stewart, no opera tor's license, $3. Gerald Yawn, disobeyed stop sign, $10. r James Herbert Cummings, no fixed load license, $3. b.rfnrkuE',foErvln' v"""'n chain"." ,I0Y"brOU,h' n "'lir g'llon Eugene Scritchdald, Theodore GoldMoc bailc rule, sin Naney Chrltlne Mlkenu. viola tion of baric rule. S25. William Betty Lane. vloiaUon ol bailc rule, .10. Donald Eugene Roll, violation Guy Albert De $10. John Glenn Ermold. improper muffler, 5. iuspended. Mavis Ladeane Tidwell, viola tion of baiic rule. $10. Donald Jamei Roblnion, viola tion of basic rule, $15. llcense$aCl N,nce' n0 Pewter's Leo Was'tley rosbu:i. atooeyed stop sign, $10. u. , ed, Charryholmes rrost. no ve hicle license. $3. Jlmmle Nell Grtner, violation ot basic rule. $10. Huh Clay Combeat, disobeyed btop sign, $3. .lonrrb,Vic0yrul.Ar$T5,r0, V'"- ho?;,rig.!l;y,iund)''""ui"m Robert William Knight, violation of basic rule. $20, David Lee Ferguson, violation of basic rule, sio Jesse Lee Starns, no vehicle license, $3, Jack David McLaughlin, viola tion of basic rule, $20. Lester Eugene Mosley. violation of basic rule, $23. Donald Michael Doran, violation of basic rule, $10. Mildred Alberta Modahl. viola tion of basic rule, $23. Rohcrt Hamsun Mayfleld, truck speeding, $10. rmi np Leavitt Yoland, no ve hicle license. $10. Robert Wtlford Berthiaume. truck speeding. $10. Butler Bruce Copley, four in driver's seat, $s. Dayle B Wheeler, violation of basic rule, $10, Ruben Gary Strong, excessive noise, tlO. James Ernest Turner, truck speeding. $10. , Marvin Duane Lee, no vehicle license. $3. Patte Llenc Hopkins, violation of baste rule. $10. Joseph Alexander DeLorme. vio lation of basic rule, $50, Carl Edward Borg, disobeyed stop rifgn. $3. Lawrence Howard Mattingiy, truck speeding, $10. Donald Lesfer Baldwin, no red flag on extended Joarf, $10. William Rabiinn Hall etimnhmv-M stop gifn. is, ' Edawrd Louis Mlnoggle, failure to dim headlights. $13. David Lawrence Riirna in lo tion of basic rule. $10. najpn Huptrt Rjoxal, disobeyed np slim. $13. John Mum Cushman, obstrucled vision, $3. suspended. Marlene Essie Pearson, disobey ed slop sign, $10, RIB ROAST USDA Choice grade Stand ing Rib Roast, the "King" of oven roasts. Aged and trim med to rigid Safeway standards. Note the Trim! atfiastaSr Fresh Spareribs Sliced Bacon Rib Steaks Sliced Liver Spencer Steaks Sliced Bologna Small, lean, and mealy rib from young porkers. Safeway or Armour Star (Safeway thick sliced, 2 lbs. $1.09). USDA Choice beef only Aged and tender. Tender, young beef livers. Skinned, de-veined Bonelest, waste free. The "heart" of the rib. lb. Saran wrapped, full one-pound package. lb 55e 79c 49- $139 ib. I 49c Fresh Frozen Cut-Up FRYERS Travel-Talk Given At VA Domiciliary The seventh In a series of Travel-Talks sponsored by the American Red Cross at the Veterans Administration dom iciliary, White City, was given on Monday afternoon in the Domiciliary theater by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wend.. It was one of the events of the Domlciliary's program for National Library Week. The subject of the talk was the trip taken last summer by the Wcndts with 72 other county officials from other parts of the United Slates to meet and talk with their counterparts in European countries. With Wenclt projecting the color slides on the screen, Mrs. Wendt began her lecture with their arrival by jet in Hol land. From Holland, the Wendts made a special trip lo the birthplace of Mrs. Wendt's father, a 300 year old farmhouse near Bielefeld, Germany. The party's itinerary also included France. Following the talk there were refreshments. Among those who helped in the serv ing were Mrs. Leatha Jones of the American Red Cross, Mrs. Elizabeth Shea, Medford, and Miss Enid A. Holmes, chief librarian at the domiciliary. Manor House None Better UMT K5W Lb. 35 Draperies, Home , Should Harmonize Ithaca, N.Y. - lUPH - From the outside, curtains and I draperies should harmonize ; with the architecture and col or of the house - not attract 1 undue attention because of conspicuous color, pattern, or the way Uiey are hung. Ruth B. Comstock, of New York State college of home economics, makes that point in a primer for drapery and curtain buyers, "The windows seen, as you pass by should appear to be treated alike," she added. NO DIET New York - IUPI1 - Soldiers in U.S. Army training campi consume an everagc of 4,200 calories a day caeto, accord ing to Science digtist.