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t HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Sunday, January 3. 19R0 PAGE 3 A Income Tax Facts Editor'! Note: This is one in a series of articles on federal income tax filing. These articles are based on information provided by the American Institute of Certified Pub lic Accountants and the Southern Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service. Each exemption you can claim is worth between $120 and $546 in fed eral income tax dollar savings, dc pending on your income bracket With this thought in mind, you can look kindly at your live children when they jar you awake tomor row morning. Because for once ev try year, they are each worth StiOO of tax free income on your tax return. Five kids times $600 is $3,000, plus $000 each for you and your wife, amounts to $4,200 of tax free income. If your total in come is $4,200, you don't have a dime of tax to pay. You don't have any problems at all or hard ly any. The instruction booklet you re ceive from the Internal Revenue Service together with your tax Jorm gives a very clear explanation of the exemptions to which you , are entitled. Ten minutes spent reading the instructions will give ' you all the basic information on the requirements for claiming an . exemption for a dependent. ' Children Married or Single With so many tax dollars at slake, it is worth emphasizing some points about exemptions that may " otherwise be overlooked. For exam ' pie, if you claim an exemption '. for a dependent, then that depend ; ent must not file a joint return ' with someone else. Such a situa tion could arise, if you have a mar . ried daughter. Many parents today ; are finding that it costs them more when their offspring get married ;';than it does when they are single. tYoung couples often find it hard ;. to cope with the high cost of living. !.' Your daughter Alice may announce ' with pride that, "George and I are independent now. We don't ' want any handouts. We'll live in a . basement if need be, but we intend to struggle along on whatever we '. make." All this as she gracefully ' accepts your $500 check (a wed- ding gift), a refrigerator, washing '. machine and bedroom set Uo get ! them started), a weekly donation .of food (leftovers), and so on. The ! value of these gifts can be con ' sidered in determining whether - Alice was supported by you. If she receives more than half of her sup- port from you, does not have too 1 nreat an income, and meets the :. other requirements for a dependent " (see instruction booklet), you can i continue to claim a dependency ex- emption for her. However, if you do, then she must not file a joint 'return with her husband. You would ..probably talk over the situation 'with your daughter and son-in-law !''to find the method of handling :' which results in the greatest tax !" saving. Your biggest problem may be convincing your daughter that '.' she is still a "dependent." You mav even find that you would be '.. better off to forego the possible tax savings to maintain harmony : in the family by preserving your daushter's pride. I If you claim an exemption for a ' dependent, it does not necessarily ; follow that the dependent will not file a return. It may be that your 1 17-vear old son earned himself -about $1,200 from odd jobs and I summer work, most of which he ' nut in his savings account toward a college education. Since he earned " more than $(100 he must file a re- turn, and will claim an exemption : for himself. He may even get part I of any tax withheld back as a re- fund. However, if you provided ; more than half of his support, and '. he met the other requirements for : a dependent, you can claim an ex : err.ption for him also. If your son " had earned less than $600, but had income tax withheld from his in- come, then he would still file a T return in order to get a refund - of the tax withheld. Births and Marriages You can claim a dependency ex- 'emotion for each of your children regardless of when they are born " during the year. As long as the children are born before January 1 even one minute before you can claim them as dependency exemp tions for the entire year. - Whether you get married in Janu- : ary, June or December, you can file a joint tax return with your wife as though you were married ' for the entire year, and can ' most cases enjoy a tax-dollar sav :: ing from the income splitting bene- .; fits of a joint return. ' Multiple Support Agreements : If vou shared with others in the . support of a dependent, but none of : vou orovided more tnan nan me : support, you may still be able to I arrange among you for one of the croup to have tne swu exemption. ". You might agree, for example, to " take turns in having the exemption 1; from year to year. The one who claims the exemp ; tion must have contributed more ' than 10 per cent of the support, and :' he must be a member of a group who together provided more than " half support. He must also meet the other requirements for claiming a dependency exemption (see in-- gtruction booklet). :' In order for one of the group 'to have the exemption, all other members of the group who contri- hutcd more than 10 per cent must , sign declarations that they will not claim the dependent. The Internal - Bevernn Service provides Form 2120 (Multiple Support Agreement) lor this purpose. The amount of support a person receives is not always in money. For example, say you are claim ing your widowed mother as a de pendent. She owns the house she lives in, and has a small income from investment. To determine how much of her own support she is providing, it is necessary to figure out the fair market value of the house in terms of rent. If the amount of support you are provid ing exceeds the income she is re ceiving and the rental value of the house for the year, then you can claim her as a dependent. f . ... Hint Of Red Disarmament May Force Hand Of Allies MOSCOW (AP) Nikita Khrush chev's hint that the Soviet Union might go it alone in cutting armed forces strength suggested Saturday the opening move in a new maneuver to force the West s hand on disarmament. The Soviet Premier told a New Year's reception "if the cold war exponents drag us into labyrinths of endless verbal discussions, should we adopt the way onto which they want to prod us? "Shouldn't we do some thinking for ourselves, reduce our armed forces unilaterally and entrust the Of Fatima To Be Told CLIFFORD G. SHANE Food Laws Talk Slated January 11 The recent cranberry condemna tion action may become the center of questions at a meeting of the Klamath Falls Library Club scheduled for Monday, January 11 at the lecture room of the city li brary. Clifford G. Shane, Portland resi dent inspector for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will speak to members of the club on 'The Food and Drug Administra tion What It Is And What It Does." Shane will speak on the back ground of history that led to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration and the rea son why we have food laws. He also will outline some general in formation about the administration and how it operates as well as numerous activities engaged in by the department. A native of Nebraska, Shane taught high school sciences for two years after graduation from the University of Nebraska, be fore entering work with the de partment as an inspector at Kan sas City, Missouri. He was transferred to Portland as the resident inspector last year. He is also attached to the Seat tle District and covers a territory that includes most of the state of Oregon. His job calls for numer ous inspections of foods and drugs and many special investigations of illegal sale of drugs and bogus devices including "quacks" who promote cure-alls. The meeting will be open to the public. VATICAN CITY (AP)-Still se cret prophecies of Fatima, as written by Sister Maria Dolores, are due to be disclosed this year. Speculation has been rife among Roman Ca'hohcs as to what tney may contain. Sister Maria, a 54-year-old clois tered nun at Coimbra's Carmelite convent in Portugal, is the sole survivor of three shepherd child en who said they saw visions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917. She wrote the prophecies years ago, sealed mem in an envelope and entrusted them to the bishop of Leiria, her ecclesiastical super ior, to be opened in V-XO or at her death if she died before then. Vatican sources said the disclo sure would be made by the bishop but they did not know when. They said it might be on the anniversa ry of the first vision May 13. It was on that day in 1917 that Lucia Dos Santos, now Sister Maria, and Giancina and Fran cesco Marto, saw what they de scribed as "a beautiful lady in white" on a grassy slope near Fatima. Since then, Fatima has become one of the greatest shrines to the Virgin Mary. Lucia became a nun after the death of the other two. Some of the prophecies she made have been made public They forecast World War II and told of a possible conversion of Soviet Russia to the Roman Catho lic faith. This conversion, how ever, was conditioned upon sincere return of humanity to Christian faith. "Otherwise," said Sister Maria' prophecy, "Russia will extend its errors throughout the world, pro moting war's and persecutions against the church." In recent years some here be lieved that the secret portion of the prophecies might relate to the late Pope Pius XII. Speculation about this increased after the late Federico Cardinal Tedeschini declared at Fatima s anniversary observance in 1951 that during the holy year the pon tiff had experienced solar visions similar to that observed at Fatima Oct. 13, 1917. defense of our borders to ockets?" Khrushchev's declaration, sound ed before foreign diplomats among the 1,500 guests at the Kremlin reception, was greeted cautiously in Washington. But an initial reaction was that lie Soviet leader's words may rep- csent the opening move in an attempt to marshal world opinion and pressure the Western powers into accepting his pet disarma ment proposal at the East-West talks opening in Geneva March 15. The proposal, submitted to the United Nations by Khrushchev during his U.S. visit last year. calls for total disarmament within four years. Khrushchev said in his New Year's Eve statement that "if our proposals are accepted we are ready to dissolve our army any time and all our military will wel come this decision." Western leaders go along with Khrushchev's proposal in principle but maintain it is too vague on the crucial issue of controls. They insi.st that any arms re ductions must be guaranteed through a workable control and inspection system. The Soviet line at past disarm- ment discussions has called for reductions first, then considera tion of controls. Both the United Slates and Bri tain are drafting their own pro posals to lay before the 10-nation Geneva disarmament committee on which Communist nations will have numerical equality for the first time. Khrushchev made no actual commitment the Soviet Union would cut its armies. The Kremlin has announced re ductions since World War II but never said' how many men still are under arms. Some Western military experts believe these reductions probably affected mainly service troops. Some estimates place total Soviet forces at 3',i million. Herald And News Scribe Tells Thrill Of Jef Trip Membership Status Quo There are approximately the same number of members in Sitz- mark Ski Club at Crater Lake National Park this year as last according to Slim Mabery, park ranger who is club director. There will be 13 or 14 school age .youngsters receiving Instruc tion when classes start on Friday of this week, he indicated. There will be transportation furnished to collect the youngsters as school is dismissed to take them to the ski run in the Munson Valley area near park headquarters. There are some 18 adults in terested in skiing at the park. Mabery said. The rope tow will operate at the club ski slope and more than three feet of snow makes a good snowpack for the run. A ski jamboree with competi tive events for the youngsters Is planned for the end of the season. There will be prizes, awards and certificates for winners again this year. U.S. Chief (tacks ROKs SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The top U.S. commander in South Korea Saturday backed up South Korea's denial that one of its war ships attacked a Soviet survey vessel Dec. 28. 'Information available to the U.N. command confirms the state ment of the republic of Korea government that no naval craft of the republic was involved, Gen. Carter B. Magruder said in a statement issued by his U.N headquarters. Magruder s command oversees South Korean naval operations. The Soviets said Thursday I South Korean submarine chaser attacked the survey ship Ungo about 30 miles off the North Ko rean coast and 36 miles northeast of the South Korean border. Moscow said the warship made three runs on the Ungo and killed a helmsman and wounded four sailors with a direct hit on the bridge. Soroptimists Slate Meet The first meeting of the Klam ath Falls Soroptimist Club in the new year will be a special lunch eon on Thursday, starting at noon according to program chairman Alma Mullis. . Through arrangements made with the Wine Advisory 'Board and (jeDastiam wineries ot sonoma California, it will be an official wine-tasting session followed by luncheon. Members are urged to call Mrs. Thomas (Beth) Griggs, of the at tendance committee, TU 4-7536, Monday to report the number of guests they will bring. It is im perative that the Wincma Hotel knows in advance the number of places to be set for the luncheon. The wine-tasting will be con ducted by Carl Werner of Port land, Oregon representative of the Wine Advisory Board whose head quarters are in San Francisco. Two panels of four Soroptimists each will take part in "What's My Wine" competition during the tast ing. The eight panel members se lected are Crystal Cloake, Kath leen Thompson, Faye Drew, Mar garet Larkin, Mary Bothwell (club president), Ida Lamb, Alice Lamm and Dena Backes. The program will be held in the Empire Room of the Winema Hotel with luncheon in the Camas Room starting about 12:40 p.m. EXTENSION UNIT MEET The Altamont Extension Unit will meet Monday at 10 a.m. at the fairgrounds. There will be a dem onstration of soup making. Mem bers are asked to bring their own table service and an extra soup bowl and cup. By FLOYD L. WYNNE A first-hand view of the rigors and the pleasures of flying jet planes was given Thursday to Bob Most, president of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, and this writer at Kingsley Held. As part of a community orienta tion program, we were given an aerial trip in a T-33 jet trainer. Clearance for such a flight must be made a number of weeks in advance, and after that approval is received from headquarters, the preparation necessary before the jet actually leaves the ground is! considerable. Capt. Howard L. Douthit and Capt. Quitman C. Zeagler were the two pilots. I Preparation included fitting for1 helmets and flying gear as well as a briefing on the use of parachutes in the event of difficulties neces sitating bail-out from the jet. It also included another phase which is necessary to relieve the United States government of any responsibility in the event of acci dent. Both of us signed a state ment that absolved the govern ment of any liability arising from the flight. It still wasn't a case of merely climbing into one of the jet's cock pit seats and taking off. Flying with Captain Douthit, I found that it took about a 10 or 15 minute check of the plane. This began with an inspection of the maintenance book, checking out any deficiencies that might have been noted in the book and making certain the plane had been prop erly serviced. Then came a physical check of the plane. All tanks, and there were six including two wingtip tanks, were actually opened and inspected to make certain fuel was available. All exterior surfaces were checked manually, landing gear was also inspected. The in take and exhaust chambers of the jet engine were carefully checked for loose articles which might be pulled into the engine and materi ally damage it. AH armament doors are also cheeked to make certain they are properly locked. After all this careful preparation then comes time to climb in. Preparations here are almost as elaborate and certainly as care fully executed. Oxygen masks are checked out, hooked up, parachute straps clipped into place and ra dio contact executed. . Here also come a careful brief ing on the purpose of two handles, one on each side of the seat. These are only for absolute emergency in the event bail-out is necessary. In briefing, Captain Douthit emphatically held both my hands on the handles, pushing them down and preventing me from pulling up even if I wanted to. These handles will eject the scat from the cock pit and automatically pull the chute into action. At one point in the flight, he explained, "You pull those handles and you'll be on your own, out there," motioning to the cloudy blue outside. As we warmed up the engine and rolled down the taxi strip toward the main runway, Captain Douthit attempted to ex plain each of the many gauges and instruments on the confusing panel before me. Somehow as he explained them it all seemed simple and easy to digest, but it would take a great deal of training and methodical routine before one felt familiar in the cockpit. Actual take-off is smoothly ex ecuted with one remarkable differ ence between my experience in prop driven planes and jets. The sensation in propeller planes is of being pulled into the air, with jets it's a sensation of being pushed with a smooth, swift acceleration Once in the air the rate of climb is terrific. Through hydraulic as sist, controls of the jot are easily executed. Captain Douthit ex plained that it can and must be flown carefully. "Two fingers are all you need," he explained. Later, he let me handle the con trols for a while to see for myself how easily the plane responded.' However, I suspect that his hands were never more than an inch or two away from the controls, which I did not regret. The landing was executed as smoothly as the take off, and after we finally taxied to a slop adja cent to the hangars it still took some time lo untangle the maze thai was holding me to the rear cockpit, I found myself with several dis tinct impressions. One, that flying jets was an exciting experience; two, that extreme care was the watchword with jet planes, and three, the jet plane was a simple yet extremely complicated piece of (lying machinery. Upon questioning, Captain Dou thit explained that he had about 3,000 hours in the air and had been iiying since he was 16, a pe riod of about 15 years. "Airplanes have changed a great deal in that short 15 years, haven't they?" I inquired. "They certainly have," was his reply. Taking one last look at that jet trainer and humping my way, parachute and all back to the op erations room, I certainly had to agree. HBMWflll Oil Chas. J. Cizek TAILOR Suits & Slacks Mod to Ordr Perfect Fit Guaranteed 119 SOUTH 7th Jesse Z. Smith REALTOR . with offices formerly of Tower Theatre Bldg. Announces the Removal of his offices to 1035 Main Formerly Offices of Burton E. Grey, Realtor Salesmen: Gene Williams, George Overmire, Sally Comstock, Mrs. Buff Jones end Jesse Z. Smith, . . 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