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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1959)
3—THE MH L (Tn' FNTFRPRISK THURSDAY, JANUARY 15. New Transf ormer To Be Installed January 15th Estimated Tax Filing Data The deadline for payin : tr four* • and last installment on esrimat.'si Fed eral income tax returns for tie yea 1958 is Thursday, January 15, R C Granquist, District Direct r of Inter nal Revenue for the Portland District said today. Taxpayers who filed an estimated return and have a p^ytr mt due wi January 15 should have received no tice by mail, he said. “If you have previously filed an estimated return and events »ccurring in the last quarter of 1958 indicate that your income will be substantial ly more or less than your original es timate, ycu should file an amended declaration on January 15, he sail. This declaration, he added. .1 ■J,l be marked “amended” and filed with the same District Director of ’■it''rr.- al Revenue who received the original declaration. A blank.form for use as an amended declaration is printed on the back of the notice of payment due which the taxpayer received. Mr. Granquist said an original _____ declaration of estimated tax for ___ the A huge 40,000-kva power transformer, largest unit is part of a $1,000.000 service improvement year 1958 should be filed by January in Pacific Power & Light company’s Willam- and expansion program being carried out by 15 on Form 1040ES by taxpayers who ette Valley service area, is shown being in- PP&L to meet the area’s growing use of elect first become liable for filing an esti-1 gtalled at the company's Hazelwood substation mate during the fourth quarter of west of Albany. Installation of the big power ricity. 1958. I------------------------- - . He pointed out that a taxpayer is liable for filing an estimated return under these circumstances: If the taxpayer had more than $100 of taxable income which was not sub ject to withholding (dividends, inter est, etc.) and his total income was Power available to provide for | more than $600 multiplied by the the increasing electrical require Willamette Valley service area, Mc number of exemptions to which he is ments of Albany and the surround Farland said. It will raise the maxi entitled, plus $400. For example, if ing area will be more than doubled mum capacity of the substation to a the taxpayer received more than $100 when Pacific Power 4 Light com top-rated load of 119,000-kva. in dividends (or the like) and is en pany completes installation of a McFarland pointed out that the titled to three (3) exemptions, he j large 40.000-kva transformer at the transformer is more than 15 feet high, must file an estimated return if his . , The total acreage burned during Hazelwood subsution west of Albany, • approximately o 8 feet wide and 15Vi gross income was more than $2300 ' the 1958 f re season on forest land according to R. G. McFarland, PF&L|fpt.t lon(J Morp than l0000 ganons of ($600 x 3 plus $400 equals $2,200). I oniing under the jurisdiction of the district manager. oil weighing 73,000 pounds will go in If the taxpayer did not receive' state forestry department was held The 50-ton power unit will be the to the power unit ____ ’« — tank for cooling more than $100 income which v as not ■ to a low of 12,376 acres, according largest transformer in the company's ^nd msulaTing'purpo^'s" The big in- subject to withholding, he need not' to a statement issued by State For stallation complete with all equipment file an estimated return unless his I ester D. L. Phipps 978 on its concrete foundation Will weigh 873 414 459 total income exceeds the following He pointed out that this compare» 2,2:¡1 nearly 100 tons. 628 701 172 amounts, depending on his marital ; vary favorably with the average an 71ti 25,687 487 229 The transformer was shipped liens status: nual acreage burned for the past 6«7 491 1,158 12,705 early in 1957 and, because of its Amount seven years and i* also below the goal Status 788 9,679 enormous size, required special rail 967 201 Single ......................................... $ 5,000 set up for the maxiniumaeres that 1,106 12,376 road routing from the General Elect 65« 450 Married (not entitled to file can be burned and a progressive for ric plant in Pittsfield, Mass., to avoid 5,000 estry program maintained. This has jointly) ........... .............. «36 932 12,127 low tunnels and other tight clear Average 384 Married (entitled to file been set at one-tenth of one per ances. jointly) ............... w ....... cent of the total acreage protected. McFarland said $166.000 is being Surviving spouse The most serious difficulties en I spent by Pacific Power A Light on Head of houshold countered during the year occurred the expansion of its Hazelwood in Mr. Granquist said there are two in the latter part of September and stallation to increase the substation’s exceptions to these rules. First, if a early October when slashings and By John B. Bonneth I output to meet the area's fa*t-grow- taxpayer other than a farmer finds it other fires escaped in Curry and Nation’s forest industries, which necessary to file an amended declara southern Coos counties, the forester i have already gone beyond managing I ing use of electricity. The Hazelwood substation ties into tion on January 15, or if he becomes saij Temperatures ran consistently i their Tree Farm lands for timber liable for filing a declaration for the in the 90's with east winds up to 30 production and also come to grips the Bonneville administration's 115,- first time on January 15, he need not and 40 miles per hour. Humidities of with problems in managing forest 000-volt transmission lines and then file or pay on that date if he files his 15 to 20 per cent persisted with lit ’land for watershed protection, re re- steps down the high voltage current final income tax return for 1958 on tle recovery during the nights. ation and wildlife habitat, have had to 69,000 volts for distribution to Form 1040 and pays in full the bal “Cooperation of the operators who still another responsibility dropped in other PP&>L substations in the area. The Hazelwood installation is Pacif ance of tax he owes on or before Jan- used their bulldozer equipped cater their lap. ic’s main supply point for the Albany- Wendell T. Robie, chairman of the ' uary 31, 1959. pillars in fire line construction and Corvallis area and valley points to the The second exception relates to provided personnel and equipment California State Board of Forestry, south and east. farmers who have until Thursday, for snag falling and fire line con- says the nation’s forests are fast be January 15. to file their estimated -truction was a contributing factor in coming vitally important as vast Federal income tax return for the holding the fires to a relatives small I “oxygen factories” to renew continu- year 1958, unless they plan to file acreage,” Phipps stated. “The state l ous supplies of pure air for our ex their final return on or before Feb forestry department also sent ex- ploding populations. A giant layer of carbon dioxide and ' verienced men to aid in directing the ruary 15, 1959. Mr. Granquist pointed out that fire fighting forces. other contaminants is forming over farmers who file an estimated return “Because of the highly hazardous this continent, much of it caused by on January 15 and pay the tax due conditions which were peculiar to the gasoline combustion engines In the have until April 15 to file a final re coastal area of southern Oregon, the nation’s millions of motorcars, and in turn and pay any balance of tax due. Coos protective unit headed the list time it could become smothering, says Otherwise, he said, the law requires in acreage burned with a total of Robie, A recent conference of some they file their final return and pay the 6221 acres during the season. Other 900 scientists called by the U. S. Pub full amount of the tax by February units, including Douglas and North lic Health Service concluded that the state best weapon to fight thia air pollu 15. This option is available to farm east and Southwest Oregon ~ ers only. The tax law defines a farm units, had difficulties with acreage tion is plant cover, which regenerates er as one who deserves two-thirds or burned in each running to more than oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. more of his gross income from farm- 1000 acres.” It was suggested that 10 trees be The record for the 1958 season planted for every automobile exhaust advised farmers that if they gives the following for the number to capture the deadly carbon mono filed a Federal income tax return last o fires and acreage burned by dis- xide. Evergreen forest« were called year, the necessary forms for 1958 tricts: for so that they may work through A-reage winter as well as summer. No. will be mailed to them. For those who did not file, or for some other season District of Fires burned Recognition of ths problem still do not receive forms in the mail, Clackamas-Marion 39 26 another dimension to the job of for «,221 esters and tree farmers who are man blank forms may be obtained from the Coos 91 108 nearest Internal Revenue Service of Douglas 1,575 aging their timberLands to maintain 38 205 a continuous cover crop of growing fice or from local post offices or Eastern Lane 103 trees. banks. 31 Lincoln 104 Taxpayers who have any questions Linn 19 on this subject may get Document No. Northwest Oregon 133 99 22 425 5111, “Declaration of Estimated Tax." Polk-Benton 273 1,283 by calling at or writing to their local Southwest Oregon Don't be shock«« if you should meet Internal Revenue office. 70 a loaded log track oa the highway 11 Western Lane If yon have any other questions Central Oregon 122 433 j sometime and see a women driver in 10 J 98 about your Federal income tax re K'.ammath the cab. 433 I Jack Curtis of Oregon Timber 122 turn, telephone your local Revenue Northeast Oregon 98 10 office. The number in Portland is Klamath Transport Operator», whose organi 1,456 zation conducts safety programs for 73 Northeast Oregon BElmont 4-8211. 24 00 forest industry dnvors, says that Walker Range 58 335 while lady log-track drivers are ad North Central Oregon mittedly a rarity, they are by no 12376 means non -existent, Jack even recalls Totals 1,106 YOU ARI Phipps pointed out that not since a safety meeting be held for log 1951. when 132,907 acres of forest truck driver» once ia Pilot Rock in DRIVING BUNDI land was burned over, has the state which he had three weasen drivers in i suffered a serious fire season. Dur the audience. ing that year early spring fires oc tracker» com- How do the lady curred in the Tillamook bum and 1 pare with men in aeadea* frequency? again in the fall. The Sardine Creek, "They _ ______ ’ _ re generally better" say* I fire also broke out during the fall < ur tis,; “That ’s beeai teee the average ___ __________ season. man figures he already knows all the “This was the last of the so- ailed answers ahont driving bat the women “jinx” years which had occurred at knows they re starting with two six-year intervals, beginning with the strikes against then and they're Tillamook fire of 1933," he said. r<-ady to >arn defensive driving prin “Successive fires occurred in 1939, ciples." 1945 and 1951.” ... When you fail tn observe far The records for the past seven enough a heed to avoid snv type years show the following informa When in Need of Printing of accident aituation which de tion a* to number of lightn'ng and mands immediate defensive driv Buy it in MiM Cftv from the acreage man-caused fires and ing tactic». burned: MILL CITY ENTERPRISE 1952 513 < 44 1,257 21331 Fire Loss in Forest Not Bad During Year New 40J KVA Tranformer Being Installed At Substation West of Albany by P P & L TIMBERLINE 1959 Great Decisions Program Plans Given; Oregon Issues Slated A century of statehood will wet the theme of Oregon’s 1969 Great Deci- leveral Oregon cities in 1965, es one program for neighborhood tablishing Oregon as “pilot state” in “study groups” to discuss state and a program aimed at building inform world affairs. The 10-week program ed public opinion on world affair». The program has since extended *> will start January 25. 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