Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 96, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 December 1979 — Page 4

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The Putnam County BannerGraphie, December 26,1979

It's tax refund time

Filing returns early important this year, Hoosier taxpayers warned

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More taxpayers will get state tax refunds this year, thanks to two tax credits approved by the 1979 Indiana Legislature, a top state tax official says. But the 15 percent income tax credit and a renter’s credit proved by the lawmakers also mean it will take Revenue De-

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partment more time to get refund checks in the mail, said Deputy Revenue Commissioner Glenna P. Dudley. “For that reason, we are urging as loudly as we can that people file very early,” she said. The deadline for filing income tax is April 15.*

Mrs. Dudley said the Revenue Department this year processed 2.2 million tax returns, of which 1.5 million qualified for a refund. She said the department expects to receive 2.3 million returns in early 1980, and expects to write as many as 1.9 million refund checks. She said taxpayers will calcu-

late the tax credit after they figure their total tax under the state’s 2 percent tax rate. For example, she said, a taxpayer with a SIO,OOO state taxable income would owe S2OO in state income taxes. But the credit would reduce that tax liability by S3O to $l7O. Because the state income tax

withholding tables don’t reflect the credit, that means more taxpayers will get refunds. The renter’s credit applies to Hoosiers renting apartments from landlords other than close relatives. Mrs. Dudley said it allows renters to deduct the amount of their rent, up to a maximum of

$1,500, from their taxable income. Because most landlords charge more than $1,500 annually in rent, that means most renters will qualify for the maximum tax reduction of S3O. Mrs. Dudley said the renter’s credit is designed to remain in effect permanently.

Angry grand jurors urge new jail in Daviess County

WASHINGTON, Ind. (AP) Daviess County commissioners, responding to an angry report from a grand jury, promised to “start the ball rolling” on plans to replace the antiquated county jail. The six jury members, after an annual inspection of the facility, asked county officials to take immediate steps toward building a new jail. The officials set Jan. 14 as the date for a public hearing on the matter. During their report on the jail conditions, the members were “as angry as I’ve ever seen a jury,” said Prosecutor Brayton Smoot. Deficiencies listed by a state jail inspector in October included overcrowding and shortages of fire escapes and extinguishers. The county jail also is plagued by lack of segregation of prisoners and antiquated furnace, plumbing and wiring, the inspector said. County commissioners say the jail building fund is expected to total about $150,000 by

City zoo doubles as Evansville classroom

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - If elephants believed in the tooth fairy, they’d put her out of business. That’s one of the fun facts some fifth-graders learned at an unusual classroom the Mesker Park Zoo here. The children were told that the elephants’ teeth wear down and are continuously replaced, coming in successively from the back. When elephants get old, they run out of teeth and can no longer chew their food. As a result, > many die- of malnutrition, zoo personnel explained. The students also learned that a hippopotamus spends threefourth of its life in water, that leopards are the most aggressive of the big cats, and that lions rub each other’s necks to be friendly. The lessons are part of a federally funded pilot program called Project ZEBRA, which stands for Zoological, Ecological and Biological Research through Awareness. Funds for the $28,000 grant that pay for the program come from the innovative education programs sections of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Recently fifth-graders from St. Agnes School visited the zoo

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January, adding that a bond is-' sue will probably be necessary if construction is to begin within, a year. j Meanwhile, Sheriff Dqd, Chestnut said he would be hap?, py to provide the public with; tours of the jail. “Just let n?e know when they want to come,’A, he said. , Smoot said the problem Of overcrowding came up recentlyi when two women were arrested, on felony charges. „ He said the women “should, have been put in jail-, but these was no place to put them. I re-< leased them on their own recognizance.” Chestnut said he agrees that anew jail is needed. i;» He said the jail kitchen, whidh' serves as a dining room for his family of four children, is the’ only place where lawyers can' confer with their prison clients.* vJ* “If they come after regular' office hours, we’ve had to wait’ to have our supper until the: lawyer’s visit was over,” the’ sheriff said.

and were invited to feed pea* nuts to Bunny the elephant. Some of them cringed as she reached down with her trunk t» accept them. How did it feel? “Yech,” one student replied. Project ZEBRA involves stydents in the second, fifth and eighth grades at four schools located near the zoo. Each grade level is given six weeks of instruction about the zoo’s inhabitants, including an educational tour of the zoo and classroom visits by curators who bring animals with them. -. • The pupils also visited several behind-the-scenes areas of the zoo includng the kitchen; where they learned that mon* keys dine on bananas, apples; grapes and commercially mam ufactured monkey chow. A The zoo has been a favorite for student field trips for years, but Project ZEBRA is designed to provide more scientific i£ struction. The program will be evaluated in February, and schort officials plan to apply for r£ newal when the one-year grant expires. Eventually, they hope to expand the program to dll local schools.

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