MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1963
County Office Making Change In Handling Legal Instruments (Mother, Son Hurt in Medford kcldenl
B
A. change in handling in
struments relating to personal
property is now under way in
the recording department, ac
cording to Jackson County
Clerk Marvin Madden.
On Sept. 1, chattel mort
gages can no longer be filed
as such in the clerk's office
because of the Uniform Com
mercial code of Oregon which
j A new instrument called a
; financing statement will be
! fi.'ed. This will include the
secured party's name and ad
dress, the debtor's name and
address, a brief and general
description of property used
for collateral, the instrument
number and maturity date.
The statement will serve as
Your Money's
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD EMPLOYEE
It is possible that more than half the millions of employ
ers of household workers in this country are not contributing
the social security taxes they owe on cash wages paid to
these employees. If you owe these taxes and you almost
surely do if you employ even a part-time cleaning woman
or a once-a-week gardener or a baby sitter fairly regularly
and if you are a delinquent, this report is of direct importance
to you.
The Census Bureau is now making an extensive survey
of household employers and employees to find out who should
come under social security reporting provisions. It is being
aided by a mass of statistical material from other govern
ment agencies.
While the Census study won't be completed until laic
autumn and neither the Census Bureau nor the Social Se
curity Administration will make "preliminary" guesses,
spokesmen admit their earlier confidence on compliance with
the law has been shattered.
The estimate has been that 75 per cent of household
employers are paying taxes due. "It now appears," says
a Social Security spokesman, "that the 75 per cent figure
is no longer true." Instead of 75 per cent paying, it could
be that 50 per cent or more are not paying.
You, the employer, must contribute this tax if you pay
any household employee S50 or more in cash wages in any
calendar quarter. That means you are over the minimum and
you owe the tax if you pay a household employee only $5
a week and who gets by with S5 a week these days?
You owe 7U cents on every dollar paid 3:'a cents
representing your employee's tax. If your employee won't
pay his or her tax, you're still responsible for the full 7'.i
per cent on wages of S50 or more per quarter and you are
supposed to send it in a form-envelope (form S42) to the
director of the Internal Revenue Service in your district
every three months.
If you fail to file a return and pay taxes due, you can
be hit hard when and as you are caught, for the Government
can collect all back taxes due plus interest and penalties.
Social Security benefits are based not on actual tax reports
but on wages earned. Thus, even if an employe! does not
report wages and pay taxes, an employee can report to In
ternal Revenue what he has really earned and collect full
benefits on that basis.
The IRS will then go to the delinquent employer, collect
back taxes, interest and penalties. Each year, the IRS traces
about 21.000 delinquents, from each collects taxes and penal
ties on an average of si. 000 in wages.
You also hurt your employee by not reporting, for many
do not follow through and collect benefits to which they are
entitled by law. In the words of Social Security Commis
sioner Robert Ball, "The failure to report results not only
In a revenue loss but also in a loss of benefits to your em
ployee whose earnings are not on record."
The last lime the Social Security Administration check
ed these records was in the final auarter of 1961. II found
935,000 employers reporting and paying taxes on 940,000
household workers. As of today, about 2,245,000 women
and a relatively few men are household workers. The num
ber reporting and paying taxes hasn't doubled in less than
two years. Yet. it is probable that most of these workers
are covered. "Rising wages and working hours have brought
many new people under the Social Security laws," com
ments a government official.
Assuming the survey docs turn tip the anticipated evi
dence of widespread delinquency, it would he logical for the
Social Security Administration and the IRS to launch a drive
to force compliance.
If you are in doubt about your status, eo to nr write at
once to your local Social Security office for a copy of the
free booklet "Social Security and Your Household Employee."
It will give you the facts you need. If your employee has no
social security card, tell him or her to get one immediately
from the nearest Social Security district office.
notice that certain personal
property has been committed
as collateral. Madden noted.
Covered on List
The Oregon State Bar as
sociation's list show: that such
financing statements will cov
er accounts receivable, gener
ally; farmer's accounts re
ceivable on sa'e of produce,
business and professional
equipment, chattel paper,
generally; consumer goods,
generally; contract rights, gen
erally; farm products, crops,
livestock, fixtures, general in
tangibles, inventory and tim
ber to be cut.
After the initial filing of a
financing statement other in
struments mey be filed mod
ifying the original statement.
These include a continuation,
release, amendment, assign
ment or termination, Madden
said. '
Filing fees will bc SI in-
Local Girl Cited
Following Mishap
A 14-ycar-old Medford girl
was cited by city police Mon
day after she drove her car
into a lire hydrant at 11th and
Newtown sts., according to po
lice. The girl, Linda Darlene
Wyatt, 630 South Holly St.,
was cited for failure to obtain
an Oregon operator's license.
Her mother, Darlcne I v a
Wyatt, a passenger in the car,
was cited for permitting an
unlicensed driver to operate a
motor vehicle,
Neither person was injured
in the mishap, according to
police. The accident occurred
about 7:35 p.m.
Vehicles operated by
Wayne Richard Dahl. 19, of
route 3, box 185. and Leila
Jane Eisenstcin, 30, of 1216
Lcland rd.. collided about 2:20
p.m. Monday at 12th st. and
Riverside ave. No injuries
were reported, and no cita
tions were issued, officers
said.
Biologist Leaves
For Norway Study
Eugene - Dr. Richard W.
Castenholz, assistant professor
of biology at the University of
Oregon, has left for Norway
where he will spend a year's
sabbatical leave at the Uni
versity of Bergen's marine
biology station.
He will be joined in August
by Algernon C. Churchill, Eu
gene, research fellow in bi
ology al the university.
Dr. Castenholz will study
the growth of marine littoral
diatomas, microscopic algae
growing in the intcrtidal zone.
A recent two-year grant of
S18.500 from the National
Science Foundation will fi
nance the study.
During the past few years.
Dr. Castenholz has been
making a seasonal study of
diatoms at the Institute of
Marine Biology al Charleston.
Purpose of the Norwegian
project is to continue this
study, using a different geo
graphical location.
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a. I on t
itially and for altering the
document. Lien searches Willi
continue in the usual manner
with a minimum fee of $1 and I
a charge of 10 i-ents for each
entry over five. A new search
is now pcrmi"ed under the
code for financing statements
alone.
Minimum Fee
The minimum fee for such
a search will be SI and 50
cents for each entry made on
the affidavit.
"It is anticipated the chat
tel mortgage files will be
'washed out' eventually
through releasing and expira
tion and the financing state
ment will entirely replace the
old system,' Madden ex
plained.
Chattoi mortgegs now will
be handled in two ways: if it
meets certain information re
quirements it may be treated
as a financing statement and
filed as such. Otherwise, it
may be recorded in miscellan
eous instruments although it
will not be subject to search
on requested lien for financ
ing statement searches if filed
in this category, Madden said.
A standard form prescribed
by the secretary of state's of
fice must be used. An addi
tional fee of 50 cents is per
mitted for processing non
standard forms.
Automatic maturity date of
financing statements is five
years. A 60-day renewal per
iod is provided after five
years. If the statement Is not
continued it may be taken
from the file and destroyed.
The clerk's office will not
advise those filing the new in
strument whether the financ
ing statement should be filed
both with the clerk and the
secretary of state. People are
urged to get legal advice on
this point, Madden said. Fil
ing may occur in some in
stances only with the secre
tary of state and in other
cases only with the county
clerk.
A mother and her two-year
old son were reported in good
condition in Sacred Heart hos
jPital yesterday where they
were taken for treatment of
I injuries they suffered In a
tour-car accmcni about 8 a.m.
Tuesday.
Hurt were Glcna Lee Ras
mussen. 24, of 1201 Siskiyou
blvri., and her son, Kelly Ray
Rasmussen.
Other drivers Involved in
the rear-end accident were
George Peter Mayo, 64, Port
land, Daniel David Walker,
16, of 535 Charlotte Anne rd.,
and Jerry Clifford Iverson,
18, of 115 South Kennedy st.
The accident occurred as
Mayo attempted (o turn left
from Stewart ave. onto Beck
man extension. The Walker
and Iverson vehicles behind
Mayo stopped, but the Ras
mussen vehicle crashed into
the rear of the Iverson car,
causing the chain reaction
collision, according to police.
Mrs. Rasmussen was cited
by investigating officers for
violation of basic rule.
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