WORK PROGRESSES The Unisphere, center foreground,
global symbol of next year's New York World's Fair, seems
to have all of its continents now as work progresses at the
Flushing Meadows site. (UPI)
Gold Fever Hiis Workers on Dam
Oroville, Calif. HIPP Con
struction crews on northern
California's Oroville dam
project can't wait to get their
eight hours of dam building
in these days so they can
really go to work.
The workers are spending
lunch hours, evenings and
week ends digging through
the area with everything
from picks and knives to
tweezers, spoons and stones.
Gold fever has returned to
the Sierra, which in the mid
1800s had one of the greatest
epidemics of all time.
The latest strike occurred
when the Oroville river was
turned from its old channel
into a man-made one several
weeks ago, and crews started
clearing gravel from the nat
ural river bed in order to
pour concrete onto the bed
rock beneath.
Bits of gold were discov
ered in the river bed, and off
duty workers now are com
ing away with as much as a
few ounces a man (at $35 an
ounce) in gold dust, chips and
tiny nuggest.
The construction company,
Oro Dam Constructors, and
the state of California, which
owns the mineral rights,
frown on the mining activity.
But. a spokesman for the
company said, "You can't
stop 'em."
Death Takes Grandson
Of Meier-frank founder
Portland - TO - Frank E.
Meier, 52, a grandson of the
founder of Meier and Frank
store here died Wednesday in
Ireland, according to word re
ceived here.
He was a son of the late
Abe Meier.
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate. Inc.
COMBINED BUSINESS-PLEASURE TRIPS IV
(This is ihe fourth in 8 series of nine articlea.)
For all of you who combine a vacation with your business
trips, the Treasury expense account regulations bring good
news, for they undercut a tough law change that would have
reduced your deductions for such trips. Here's why:
Before the 1962 Tax Law, a businessman who made a
trip, say to London, primarily for business, and then tossed
in a pleasure visit to Paris before coming home, could never
theless deduct his full New York-London round trip fare as
a business expense.
Beginning in 1963, though, the law was changed. If the
total trip lasts more than one week and 25 per cent or more
of the total trip time is for personal activities, then the trav
eler's expense deduction for his travel costs is limited in pro
portion to the time spent on business. For instance, suppose
you flew to London, spend half of your trip time on business
there and half in Paris relaxing. Under the new law if the
trip lasted more than a week, you could theoretically deduct
nnlv half vour round trin Diane fare instead of the full
amount as before. I
But the Treasury has adopted such liberal rules for apply- j
ing me law cnange inai mosi oi me Dusiness travelers de
scribed above will still get a deduction for the full fare
instead of only half.
This is became the Treasury iayt it will let you. a
business traveler, deduct your entire transportation ex
pense even if your trip lasts more than a week and 25 per
cent or more is for personal reasons if either (1) you didn't
have substantial control over arranging the business trip or
(2) getting a chance at a personal vacation wasn't a major
consideration in your decision to make the trip. Either
one is enough to get the full deduction.
To make this rule even more liberal, the Treasury will
automatically consider you to lack substantial control over
your business trip if you travel for your employer under a
reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement.
There's just one limit on this very favorable automatic
consideration. It doesn't apply to employees owning over
10 per cent of their employer corporation's stock, or who
are otherwise related to the employer or who are "managing
executives" of their employer firms. For this purpose a "man-1
aging executive" is an employee who can decide whether he
needs to make a business trip without anyone else in the
firm really able to say "no'' to him.
If you are a managing executive or an over 10 per cent ;
stockholder or an employee otherwise related to your em- j
ployer, you don't necessarily have to shave down youT travel
deduction under the one week-25 per cent rule. The Treasury
simply says that you aren't automatically entitled to the full :
deductions when your employer reimburses you for a busi-'
ness trip, as other employees would be. But if you can prove
that you cither didn't have the substantial control or that
enjoying a vacation wasn't a major consideration in deciding
on the trip, you too can deduct your entire round-trip trans
portation costs, even if you are away more than one week
and spend 25 per cent or more of the time on vacation.
For those of you who are stuck under the new rule I
because you have both substantial control over your busi-
ness trip and a major consideration is taking a vacation, I
here's an example of how you would have to chop down
your transportation costs. i
Suppose John Smith flew from New York to San Fran-
Cisco for two days of business. He then flew to Seattle for a
nine-day vacation, after which he flew back to New York.
The entire trip, including two days spent traveling en route,
took 13 days. Smith wouldn't have made the trip at all had it
not been for his San Francisco business. The total trip ex
ceeded a week and wasn't limited to less than 25 per cent of
personal activities.
Smith can't show cither lack of substantial control over
the trip or that a vacation wasn't a major consideration in
deciding on the trip. Since he devoted nine days of the total
13-day trip to personal activities, 913 of the cost of trans
portation and food in traveling to and from San Francisco
to New York is non-deductible and he can deduct only '13
of the cost.
Next: Business Gifts.
Las Vegas Lumber Yard Destroyed Graham Retained as
Officer in Group
Las Vegas, Nev. - IOTP -Flames
swept one of Las
Vegas' largest lumber yards
today, leveling five ware
houses and gutting a half
block long office building.
Six firemen were hospital
ized with burns or for treat
ment of smoke inhalation.
The fire broke out at 3:25
a.m. in a small shed where
power saws and other eauin-
ment were stored. Cause of
the fire was undetermined.
An adjacent soft drink hnt.
tling plant was singed.
Five citv fire unite rnnnH.
ed to the alarm and later two
Clark county DuniDers were
summoned. It took about two
hours to control the blaze.
Lumber stacked in a near
by open yard was destroyed,
but 3.5 million board feet of
lumber, stored across nearby
railroad tracks, was not dam
aged. Traffic was blocked off for
a radius of about 10 city
blocks. The Bonanza st. un
derpass was filled with water.
W. P. LaGrange, manager
of Home Lumber Co., said the
safe and all records were
saved. It was about the only
item firemen were- able to
pull from the office building
before it was gutted.
Three firemen suffered
smoke inhalation and three
others were burned on the
feet or hands.
Robert . Finton. Klamath
Falls, was retained as golden
rodent, or commander, and
Pat Graham, Medford, as red
eyed gnawer, or adjutant, un
til the next meeting of the
Southern Oregon dugout. Na
tional Order of Trench Rats,
when elections will be held.
The next meeting of the
dugout will be Sunday, Sept.
8, in Klamath Falls.
A donation to the rehabili
tation fund of Disabled Amer
ican Veterans was approved
at a recent meeting of the
local unit.
The Trench Rats are the
honor degree of Disabled
American Veterans.
Civil Service Lists
Exams for Positions
The U.S. civil service com
mission has announced exam
inations for recreation re
source specialists and pub
lic health educators for work
in Washington, D.C. , and
through out the United States.
Applications for both po
sitions should be filed with
the board of U.S. civil serv
ice examiners, U.S. public
health service, department of
health, education and welfare
in Washington, D.C. Applica
tion forms can be obtained
from L. B. Nelson of the Med
ford civil service commission
in the post office.
Most public booth tele
phone calls as early as 1900
cost a dime.
MedfordSwribune
MJCilON C MEDFURD. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 PAGES 1 to 8
Japan To Invade '
Aircraft Market
New York - IUPl - Japan is
about to invade the U. S.
civil aircraft market with the
light twin - engine Mitsubishi
monoplane.
It is to be handled in this
country by Mooney Aircraft
company of Kerrville, Tex.,
and to be offered with a
choice of Canadian Pratt and
Whitney PT-6 engines or
French Turbomeca Astazous
engines. I
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