HERALD AND VEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
Monday. January M. 13
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Storm Damage Tax 'Windfall' Just
Headache For Claimants, Officials
PORTLAND (1'PH - The
"windfall" Oregonians hoped for
in income tax refunds because of
trees blown down last Oct. 12
isn't the breeze many expected.
"It's toupher than most people
think." said a federal tax man.
The tree situation is causing tax
nflicials and taxpayers more
headaches than any ether item.
Don't get them wrong the
loss is deductible. But figuring the
loss to the satisfaction of the
tax people takes a bit of doing.
An Internal Revenue Service
1 1 RSi spokesman said there
probably was a little "too much
optimistic material" put out right
alter the big blow.
State and federal officials said
many persons were under one big
misapprehension. It is this:
That they could report a loss,
for example, of a couple of 10
year old apple trees, get a nur
seryman to say how much they
were worth, and then deduct that
amount as loss.
No can do. say the lax men.
"Entitled to Deduct"
But the IHS says "if your un
insured trees or shrubs were dam
aged or destroyed, you are en
titled to deduct the amount that
damage reduced the fair market
value of your residential property
as a whole."
That's a big mouthful, but the
lax people tried to simplify it.
First, in most cases, deduction
should be itemized on the tax
form. Then the IRS lists two
methods which apply to non-com
mercial tree losses.
One The amount ou spent to
remove destroyed trees or shrubs,
prune or otherwise repair dam
aged trees or shrubs, and to re
plant the lost trees or shrubs will
serve as a measure of this loss of
value.
Two A competent real estate
appraisal of the loss of value of
the property as a whole because of
storm damage. Any such ap
praisals should be in writing and
should "be the work of a qualified
appraiser who has made a per
sonal inspection of the property."
Loss determined bv this method
must also be reduced by insur
ance, salvage, or other recovery
(o determine the deductible loss.
If you claim a casualty loss de
duction a copv of the deduction
computation should be attached to
the return. You don't have to send
in documents evidencing t h c
repair expenditures .or copies of
the appraisals with the return.
But, the HIS warns, you'd bet
ter be prepared to present them
upon request.
Examples Given
Here are a couple of examples
listed by the IRA for method
one:
Amount spent removing trees
Sfi.1.
Men Marry Despite
Girls' Wacky Wails
111 dlnOiiii
By ANN LANDERS
Dear Ann Landers: That let
ter from the woman who yelled
bloody murder because her
husband leaned
on the wallpaper
and left grease
spots was t h e
last straw. Are
! the females in
I America having
mass nervous
! breakdown? It's
no wonder the
divorce rate is going through the
roof.
A wife in Philadelphia can't
stand her husband because he
squeezes the toothpaste tube in
the middle. A woman in Cali
fornia doesn't want to iron bed
sheets. A loon in Kentucky won't
let her husband smoke a cigar
in the house. Another crazy dame
wants to sttap a bicycle horn
on her husband's head at night so
it will wake him up when he
snores. Still another nut wants to
know what to wear to her hus
band's funeral and he Isn't
even dead yet.
I'm convinced that the real
trouble-makers in this world are
the wacky women. All person
has to do is read your column for
a week and he can get plenty of
evidence R.D.
Dear R.D.: Men have been com.
plaining about women from the
beginning of time and they con
tinue to marry them. If you ran
think of a better combination I'll
buv it.
cruel and full of inequities. Young
sters should not carry this burden.
Am I right?-FRANCINE
Dear Krancine: You're wrong.
Where did you ever get the no
tion that it's harmful for children
to hear the words "No, we can'
afford it." If more people used
this phrase instead of hocking
their eyeballs to please their
kids, they'd be better off. Par.
rnts who spend time with their
children and give them love and
attention needn't be concerned
about the youngsters feeling "un
derprivileged." Theirs are I h c
lucky ones who grow up straight
and strong.
Dear Ann Landers: I'm a high
school senior who wants to ask
a question that has been bugging
me. Why do teens who were go
ing steady write after they break
up and ask how to get back into
circulation?
In our high school, and it's a
pretty big one. everyone knows
within the hour who the break
ups are. The news spreads like a
forest lire and both kids are auto
matically back in circulation. So
what's the problem? DEEDKE
Dear Deedee: I don't know what
goes on in your school. Butter
cup, but most teen-agers who
write alter the Big Breakup do
want to know how to get back
Into circulation. These kids long
to be part of the group, which
they have ignored, and they don't
know bow In manage it. So thry
write to Mother Landers.
Amount spent replanting trees
H3.
Amount spent repairing roof
S24.
Cost of replacing window $4.
Total restoration cost $134.
Amount paid by insurance 0
Amount deductible $134.
Or:
Amount spent removing trees
$63,
Amount spent replanting trees
$43.
Amount spent repairing roof
$!I8.
Amount spent repairing window
$7.
Total restoration cost $211.
Amount paid by insurance
$53.
Amount deductible $156.
State Rules Similar
A spokesman for the State Tax
Commission said its rules general
ly follow those of the IRS though
the state holds more to the real
estate appraisal of the property.
A lot of people might be dis
couraged, unless losses were ex
tremely heavy, because the cost
of the appraisal could be more
than they would get in rebates.
And getting comparative apprais
als before and after the loss is
another headache.
It isn't so bad on oilier prop
erty. For damage to houses, fen
ces, garages or other residential
buildings, the actual amount spent
to repair the storm damage, mi
nus any reimbursement by insur
ance, will be accepted as evidence
of the deductible loss for that
damage, the IRS said.
But its the trees that are caus
ing the confusion. Tax people say
there's never been anything quite
like it before because Oregon
never had such a windstorm before.
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Unified, Modern Image For Voters
Asked Of California Republicans
SAN FRANCISCO tUPI Cali
fornia's Republican party was
asked by its leadership Saturday
to present a uniiied. modern
the voters in future
image to
v J 'elections.
' : . f I I'.S. Sen,
J
Thomas Kuchel. R-
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Reds Claim
Concessions
Cnnfidrntial tn Below Zero: Six
months is a long time for a girl
to use a cold as an excuse for
no goodnight kiss. Considering
are both in your middle
girl
who is in better health.
Dear Ann Landers: When my
husband and I arc with adults he
speaks openly about how much 1 1,0
il,,. rm anil ic not Hip least :'nu
bit reluctant to admit we can t I suggest you look for
afford certain things. I feci this
is perfectly all right as most of
our friends are in the same boat
and we share similar economic
problems.
I believe, however, that my
husband should not make our
children feel underprivileged by
telling them we can't allord to
buy them tilings which their
friends have Isn't it belter to
try tn interest them in substitute
toys? Or perhaps get them two
inexpensive items in the place of
one which is costly?
I keep telling him they will
find out soon enough that life is
; FPC Blamed
By Morgan
WASHINGTON iUPH - Feder
al Power Commissioner Howard
Morgan will leave when his term
runs out because of FPC decisions
which he felt were more in the
interest of private industry than
the public.
Morgan, in an unusual letter to
P-esident Kennedy, said "ordinary
men cannot withstand the "pi es
surcs generated by huge indus
tries focused with great skill on
and against the sensitive areas of
government."
He urged Kennedy to appoint
exceptional men to trie federal
regulatory agencies and warned
against the danger of "abandon
ment of tiie public interest."
Several of his reasons for leav
ing, he said in the letter to Ken
nedy, were "clearly visible" in
his frequent dissenting opinions
on FPC decisions.
Morgan, vice chairman of the
agency, said he will not seek an
other term after his present one
expires June 22. He w as named to
the commission in March, lafil.
A native of Tillamook, Ore
Morgan is a former chairman of of
the Oregon Democratic party and
for two years was Oregon public
utility commissioner.
He told a new conference Fri
day lie had advised western sena
tors of his decision before inform
ing Kennedy. By tradition, he said
he would be succeeded by a west
erner, and bv law his successor
PATIENTLY WAITING Four-year-old Lourdes Jimenez
waits patiently in the hold of the SS Shirley Lykes Fri
day on her way to the United States from Cuba. She and
her mother were reunited with the father, a Bay of
Pigs invader, when they landed in Miami. U PI Telephoto
Refugees Bring Stories
Of Bitterness In Cuba
Dues almost everyone have a I will he a Democrat or an inde
good time but you? If so. send' pendent.
lor Ann lenders' booklet. "Howj Morgan said his remarks were
To Be Well-Liked," enclosing with not intended to "depict or de
vour request 20 cents in coin ami scribe" any individual, including
a long, self - addressed, stamped! the other four FPC members.
envelope.
Ann lenders will lie glad to
help you uith your problems.
Send them lo her in care of tins
newspaper enclosing a stamHd.
solf-addrcssod envelope.
MIAMI (UPI Nearly 1.300 Cu
ban refugees arrived here by ship
and plane Friday bringing stories
of open sabotage and grow ing bit
terness against the Communist re
gime of Fidel Castro.
'I am free at last." screamed
a woman as she stepped into the
arms of her husband.
The oldest refugee. 93-year-old
Balderno Beloso Acoslo, who ar
rived with his 75-ycar-old wife,
said "they took away my eight
cows, my two teams of oxen and
my horse. I had nothing."
The refugees told of terror in
Cuba of disappearing friends, ex
ecutions without trial, corrupt of
ficials, disintegrating support for
the government and open sabotage
by peasants who once formed the
backbone of Castro's support.
"Everybody fears the police,"
said Aurora Margarita Piedia
Vasquez, "and you must be care
ful you don't make enemies. For
talking against the regime they
throw you in jail.
"The sabotage and the turning
of sugar cane fields around my
town of Jovellanos (Matanzas
Province) is terrible," said Jose
Paz, a 29-year-old cane worker.
"It has reached the point where
there simply won't be any sugar
harvest worth anything."
He said authorities fight sabot
age by executing suspects without
trial.
"Four days before I left Ha
vana to get on the boat they shot
three sugar workers accused of
abotage." Paz said. "There was
no trial."
Vincent Meneses, who brought
his wife and young son with him,
said. "The secret police took two
mv neighbors eight months
ago. That's the last their families
or anybody else ever saw of
them."
Meneses said the only way to
get enough food was tn bribe
neighborhood "defense commit
tees." "If you don't bribe Ihcm they
simply take it all for themselves,"
he said.
Several refugees said Castro was
losing support daily. They said the
people would revolt if tlicy could
be sure of success.
"Thev fear if they revolt and
lose they will be massacred just
like the Hungarian freedom fight
ers, one said.
Many of the refugees said the
government "invited" them to
cave simply because government
or military officials wanted their
property.
The $10 million freighter Shirley
Lvkes brought 1.170 of the shab
bily dressed refugees to Port1
Everglades, 20 miles north of
here. Later in the day a char
tcrd airliner brought 10!l refugees
on the return trip of a flight that
took more ransom goods to Cas
tro for his release last month of
the 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners.
MOSCOW (I'Pl'-The Commu
nist Party newspaper Pravda
said today the Soviet Union has
made "important concessions'
for a nuclear test ban treaty and
urged the West to do the same
Commentator Viktor Maycvsky
wrote that Premier Nikita Khru
shchev's proposal for three on-site
inspections annually to police the
treaty was a "New peace initia
tive" by Russia which the West
should find "necessary to grasp."
Pravda accused U.S. congres
sional circles and some Ameri
can newspapers of trying to "tor
pedo" an agreement by insisting
more inspections were needed
The Americans should not he "so
naive as to Believe concessions
w ill come only from one side. The
U.S.S.R. proposes quite a suffi
cient number of inspections."
The newspaper reiterated the
Soviet view that France must
participate in a test ban. Fiance
has boycotted disarmament talks
in Geneva.
Pravda warned that the U. S.
proposal for a multi-national nu
clear force for the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATOI "is
fraught w ith deadly danger "
Khrushchev continued his visit
in Byelorussia, a Soviet republic,
cn route home from the East Ger
many party congress in East Ber
lin where he rallied support for
the Kremlin's ideological dispute
with ( ommumst ( hina
Calif., keynoling the party's first
statewide Central Committee
meeting since the November gen
eral election, warned that "there
is no inexorable law of history
requiring a political party to survive.
He who survives must deserve
to survive," said Kuchel. "A po-
itical party, to survive, must
keep the faith of tin; people, the
faith of the many and not of the
selhsh few.
Kuchel, who won ic-clcction by
700.000 votes last November, said
it was vital to the nation and the
Republican party "that we demon
strate that we arc not going to
walk away from the unsolved
problems of the 10's." Among
these he named the education of
youth and medical tare (or
aged.
Progressive GOP
"There is a glorious opportunity
to demonstrate to the people of
America that we represent pro
gressive, forward-looking doctrine
and that we wish to guide our
nation into belter times lor our
lieople," he said.
The senator, considered by
many as the parly's titular head
in California, promised that he
was ready to assist the GOP to
become an "effective instrument"
in government.
But he warned: "We continue
to lose too many elections."
The party's national committee
man, Joseph W. Ma' tin Jr., told
the delegates that the GOP should
"concentrate on the issues" and
not attempt to wear splinter
labels.
"If the party is noi big enough
I he for any Republican, no matter
what the shade of his opinion,"
said Martin, "it's too small to get
anyone elected."
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Martin, speaking at the com
mittee's opening session, bitterly
assailed Democratic Gov. Edmund
G. Brown. He described the gover
nor as "Little Boy Brown" and
said he was "being bounced back
and forth hetween (State Controll
er AIai; Cranston and (Assembly
Speaker Jesse .M.) Unruh.
Governor Criticized
"He no longer puts only one foot
in his mouth," said Martin. "He
now must put in both to try to
serve the interests o the party's
political spectrum.
Dr. Gaylor Parkinson of San
Diego, the party's vice chairman,
warned the Republicans that they
must organize well for coming
elections.
"We are up against a machine
the likes of which we have not
seen in California for many
years," he said.
San Francisco Mayor (leorge
Christopher, the party's unsuccess
ful candidate for lieutenant gover
nor in 1!X12, said in a welcoming
address that it was time for the
party "to join hand?."
State Sen. John K. McCarthy,
R-San Rafael, charged that Gov.
Brown voiced a "ba.d-faced lie"
when he said in his inaugural
address earlier this month that he
would propose no new or increased
laNcs during the current legis
lative session.
Members of the stale legislature
indicated they wanted a stronger
voice in the party's future. At a
morning caucus they approved a
resolution asking the delegates to
place all Republican legislators on'
the party's 65-member executive
committee as non-voting participants.
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OltOVlLLK. Calif. 1UPI1 - A
two-day old baby, found aband
oned in a house trailer closet, was
clinging to her life in Butte County
Hospital Saturday.
The babv girl was louncl
wrapped in a blanket Friday by
her grandparents, who went to
investigate when they thought tlicy
heard a kitten crying in the
trailer.
The mother, Mrs. Ksthcr Dillon. I
2.1. had gone lo Butte County
Hospital Thursday, asking treat
ment (or a miscarriage. Hospital
spokesmen said the baby may not
have been full term.
The Butte County sheriffs office
said that if the baby dies. Mrs.
Dillon could be charged with man
slaughter. Deputies said she may
be transferred lo DcWitt State
Hospital at Auburn for a psychi
atric examination.
Mrs. Dillon, the mother of two
otlwr children, is separated from
her husband. She rents the trailer
from the grandparents.
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