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& "posed to be good eating. . ers, we placed the coffee can on top of the red Ever pull hot chestnuts out of “a hotel boiler? coals. The paint curled and blackened immedi- + Don’t do it. ree : , ately, We waited two minutes and pulled the can I bought a pound of chestnuts at the City out. The chestnuts hadn't changed color and Market to roast. There were no directions on the looked as' if they were on their way to being package and the man didn't roasted. Back they went, know anything except . the : Ns Pr ist roast them, that's all d WEL. sive thew Avother charges ks ” id *Vante iscusse e colo : ses . Janice mu, Sore utes. When we peeked the inide of the cofee can out of a fire, haven't you?” was blazing and it wasn't the tin. The fire angle presented a “If we don't have some luck pretty soon, the ‘problem. The only fire where chestnuts will be all gone. Why not try covering my hat and coat hang, the Col- them with sand in the can?’ I hate to see money ronnade Hotel, is ih the hoiler being burned. in the basement. Hot plates “You've hit it. The sand will serve as.an inaren't allowed. . For five sec- ... sulator_and the heat will be distributed evenly. onds I considered going out in : I'll turn the stoker on to make sure we get the woods and huilding a fire. Seemed like a lot enough heat,” Gene said. “We don't want to of trouble. mess up again.” No. o on “so I WAS licking my thumb and forefinger and EXCITEMENT 4ran high when the can was thinking of suing when Gene Gilliatt, as fine a pulled out. The sand was hotter than mv landlord*as you would want, came into the boiler thumb and forefinger. No smoke rose over the room. ! ~ sand. We dug out one .nut. It was black. Clear ve doors on ihe Doiler fre hot, Jub iced through it was black and out in the air it smoked. are you doing down here?” Gene asked, “Last batch. I've got another idea. We'll put So letely *Unconcerned about the smoking he Tet the Chestnuts on this heny Jid and “ ’ - , wate em carefully, e minute ey begin : intr CUBht Td roast some chestnuts... Fine 015 amore TI jerk the lid-ont- Gee es ‘ ustom. : : : WA over, Well, it was his boiler. ; GENE examined the-sack of nuts. He asked We watched. ‘In about two minutes, right how they were roasted. Don’t know. The. fire before our eyes, one chestnut exploded and dismight be too hot. There's only one way to find 2Ppeared. iene hastily lifted the lid out with 4 out. ¥ the poker. I stepped behind the hot water heater. “Let's see what happens,” Gene said. For a 2% aS . i starter we threw three beauties into the red coals. WHAM. Another chestnut disintegrated. Gene i “Watch where they land so we can pull them jumped behind the stoker. Two more popped. 3 out.” The words of caution were useless, The: The situation was becoming dangerous, i chestnuts were burning before we stepped away “What do we do now?” Gene called. a from the heat. 0 “I'm staying behind the water heater.” 4 "That won't work,” decided Gene. Astute oh- When the explosions ceased, three black chest4 servation. “Let's put them on a shovel.” nuts remained on the ‘lid. The meat was a dari : oN + brown color and tasted like cinders. Gene burned A SHOVEL HANDLE, strange as it may. his tongue. He announced he was through with ¢ seem, will burn as readily as a chestnut. The sec- chestnuts. ond-sample-went-up-im smoke. “We were still deep “You KHOW, We SHould Have asked fomeone in the experimental stage. how you roast chestnuts.’ Gene went along with “Why wouldn't it be a good idea to put them that. in an empty coffee can?” I'm asking now. Does anvone know how “Excellent.” Our noses were only half roasted chestnuts are roasted and how they taste? Gene by that time, . and I are curious. ; v It Happened Last Night Smellovision ? By Earl Wilson By “86. Maybe NEW YORK, Jan. 9 Now that my son Slugger IT WAS important in the last war and will | is 9, I've been wondering what kind of a Jet Age be more important in the one that apparently ! he will be an adult in. must come. : I like to sit here in our streamlined. super-super Mr. Musser sadly foresees the possibility of apartment with both hot and cold television sets Poison warfare doing the most damage. He is and peer into tomorrow when Slugger, a man of mysterious about the secret weapons he is work35 or so, will reminisce about his ‘old-fashioned ing on now. father” who used to need three or four hours to “By the way,” I said, timidly, “you've been i fly to Chicago. £ talking about many great and brave projects. For then—in 1986 -it shouldn't take more What .about the greatest invention of all time than 30 minutes, by jet. that everybody's waiting for , . . growing hair What a time that'll be. No hangovers. No on bald-headed men?” tooth decay. No polio. Nobody'll die of cancer. “Who cares about having hair?” smi as that'll have been cured a long time ago, say inv i i ; APY Smile the ‘way, 'way back in 1960. 8 8 S. JAVeHOr + 1a rubbing his own Shiny pate, Television? Say, we may have smellovision yr» hy then. THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Judy Garland & Kidding? Not at all. Co. may move into the Philharmonic Theater in For what is strange about a =et that can L. A. after she leaves the Palace (probably) in | broadcast aromas and perfumes right into vour late February. Judy's answer to _twa doctors ilving room? ’ who wanted to attach her salary for about $6500 & nn is that their fees were pretty steep. L C. WALTON MUSSER, who is now working Billy Rose, who's heen holion secret government projects at the Philadelphia daying in Hollywood, was out ’ Arsenal, was talking to me about the future the with tall actress Dorothy Ford- -

other day-—-and while he mentioned smellovision, he made very clear he didn't want to be associated with it. ; Maybe you'd like the smell of hot coffee, warm bread, cigaret smoke, and exotic perfumes, whooshing through the screen at you. Suppose you dialed off the smell, I mean the program. “This really stinks,” might be your exact words. Oh Boy, and think of the question arising every night-—should I turn on the garlic and onions smell? We'd have to have a smell censor, naturally. ow oe oe

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IF SMELLOVISION ever is developed, maybe restaurants would toss a luscious smell out into the street to make the mouths of passersby water. ’ Then they will troop into the same restaurant and order. Imagine their consternation when they get a very bad-meal, and find that the smell that has been smellovised to them on the street was concocted by chemists in a laboratory ... or even stolen from another restaurant. Mr. Musser, who imagined much of this, is the inventor of many great things, including the socalled “kickless rifle,”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan, 9-Sometime within the next couple of weeks some top-lofty sailors in the Navy will sit down to decide whether “The Caine Mutiny.”-a novel, will be made into a mov-ing-picture with Navy approval and co-operation. The approval is not necessary but the co-operation is. Hollywood has nearly al- ___. ways received eager assistance j from the taxpayer (in the form of Navy, Army, Air Force or 5 Marines) when it decided to film an extravagant glorifica- 2 tion of any particular military arm. . It has long been my belief A that no branch of the military = has any legal business to pro-£ vide free stage properties or free location to any private in- & dustry, including the moviemakers. . Planes and battleships and a. . IS come high, and so do the salaries of the men and the costs of the fuel that runs the ships and the planes. The taxpayer is in the position of involuntary financial contribution to the private efforts of producers,

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BRUT A PASSION for publicity has always resulted in headlong “co-operation” hy the competing services whenever Hollywood suggests that a fresh epic on the doughfeet or the leathernecks or the flyboys is in the works. Unpaid extras by the thousands and masses of vehicles of war are placed at the beck of the cameramen and director. Technical advisers are generally shifted from E general duty to keep the basic facts straight, Until “Caine Mutiny.” “Caine Mutiny” has already been rejected by the Navy as a suitable vehicle for “co-operation.”

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Producer Stanley Kramer, Several studios submitted sample scripts to Navy censorship, and were turned down cold. Navy objected to the presentation of one of the main characters, Capt. Queeg, as an incompetent and psychopath. Navy also objected to the word “mutiny” as its part in the plot. And I presume, as an old reserve officer, _that Navy deeply deplored the tacit triumph of .the.raw reservist over the ring-wearer. ' : oe

ALL OF which is complete nonsense, of course, } - but typical of the professional military mind . . . .1 .° The kind of short-hauled public-relations that anhounced the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis on V-E Day, in order to mask the fact that over ] 800 mens had lost their lives through negligence : Which was the responsibility of high-ranking .regu3 lars! This was finally the type of thinking that gi imported the Jap submariner who sank. the In- : dianapolis to testify against the skipper of an ill-

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i simple stupidity. They didn't even know she was : lost until a Marine flyer spotted her survivors by < g aceident. :

i “Caine Mutiny,” by Herman Wouk, iz one qf § the fine books of war, very possibly the finest hy & an American writing of World War IL It is ‘4.] written from the standpoint of a’ reserve who: . was weaned through awkwardness and tempered

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. . « Eddie Foy makes his TV debut on the Ezio Pinza show Friday ... The Lambs Club breaking its ancient “nowoman” rule, had a “ladies night’’ Sunday, Jan. 6 «++. NBC will undertake a “comedy -half hour” probably m.c.d by Fred Allen when the present Sunday night “Sound Off” TV show folds. Joe Bigelow will produce . , . Mary Sullivan, Village Barn singer, was signed and summoned by 20th Century Fox . . . Jane Meadows is seen in “David & Bathsheba.” Ex - Ambassador Wm. D. Pawley may succeed Anna Rosenberg as asst. to Defense Sec. Lovett. Milton Berle's tiff with ‘his sponsor is over the booking of a minor act and isn't regarded as serious . . . Jackie Gleason'll probably do a movie with Frank Sinatra. Jackie confessed’ at Toots Shor’'s that Toots paid his hospital bills when he was ill.

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by. practice until he achieved hard professional competence. It does not slur the professional Navy as a whole; it does not even slur the pathetic regular who was a member of the small minority of Annapolis graduates who were unfit for command. ‘It pities Capt. Queeg, rather. ow oo 2 BY REFUSING to co-operate, I do not think that the Navy can keep "Caine Mutiny” irom the public. It has already sold 225,000 copies to the trade, phenomenal in a time when a hook that sells 25,000 copies is a smash best-seller. It was _the alternate. choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. It is this month's alternate for the Literary Guild. It is the Dollar Club's choice for next month. During the next three months, $450,000 will be spent to advertise it. SB the author and the would-be producer will sit-down soon and attempt to persuade Navy that “Mutiny” will be a good and honest movie, which will not hurt the service but. possibly shed credit on professionals wha can take .a bunch of raw civilians and weld them into such functional tools that they are able to win a war or replace a professional if the pro falls down. Statistics in point: Out of seme 350,000 naval officers in World War II, only 13,000-plus were regulars, We won the war at sea, despite the prevalence of amateurs. In the case of ‘‘Cainé Mutiny” versus Navy approval, I believe that the Navy should be forced to provide complete “co-operation” in the way of ships and men and technical assistance, or be forevermore prevented from helping Hollywood on scripts that tend to present the service in a flagrantly favorahle light. The armed forces are not in the picture business, but when they step out of character they should at least bestow their favors impartially, . i

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Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I have a number of young fruit trees— plums, pears, apples, etc. also grapes and other small_fruits—all of bearing age now. I need to know about sprays and pruning so I don't prune off fruit buds. What department of Purdue will send me complete information on these subjects, for all these different kinds of fruits? Mrs. John Bersanger, 1012 S. Worth St. A—Call the county ‘agent's office first (this advice for readers in other counties as well as in Marion County). They stock most of the Purdue

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Columa in The Sunday Times :

“leaflets, will suggest which ones you need, and will send them out immediately to you, Then if you need any the office doesn't have in -you may if you wish write to Purdue University, Agricultural Extension Service, Lafayette, Ind. As for sprays the general-purpose sprays nowy put out under a variety of trade-names will be satisfactory for both your trees and small fruits so long as you don't have an epidemic of some one .

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PRODUCTION—

Charles Montgomery, a character actor,

OPERA, long recognized as one of the great arts, is receiving its due attention among students of Butler University's opera workshop.

The Jordan workshop annually presents scenes from the world's foremost operas with students singing the lead roles.

Activities will be climaxed Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p. m. in the Jordan Auditorium, 106 E. North. St.

% "CARMEN"—Jordan students like plenty of action. Singing lead roles in the Bizet's production are (left to right) Bob McClure as Don Cairo; Bob Biship as Zuniga; Beth Hilton as Carmen; and

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Outstanding singers in the College of Music will take parts which have been sung by leading artists in scenes from “Carmen,” “La Boheme” and “The Barber of Seville.” Director and producer is Julius Huehn, head of the voice department. Director of the workshop is Mrs. Maryjane Warner, also a member of the Jordan faculty. Tickets are on sale on the Jordan campus, 1204 N. Delaware St. and at Butler in the John Whistler Atherton Center.

CLEAN-UP—Bettye Brown, soprano, who sings the role of Rosina in "The Barber of Seville," makes a few-last minute changes in her makeup, while Julius Huehn, director, irons out details for

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John Rooney (center) as Don Jose and Glenna McElwain (right) sings the part

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"THE BARBER OF SEVILLE"—In the finale to Act I, Claudette Hadden (seated) as Rosina, Ida Mae Miller (standing) as Berta, Joseph .Ecktman (crouching) as Bartolo, recoil from the drunken Count Almiviva, played by John Newman,

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SCENERY—Mrs. Maryjane Warner, workshop director, makes a last minute check on the scenery for “The Barber of Seville." Gene Vickery, a.graduate ‘composition student of the music school, painted most of the sets for the three scenes.

Your Income Tax Primer—No. 9

Want to Know How to Figure Whether to Itemize Deductions?

By RICHARD A. MULLENS

Times Special Writer

ONE question every taxpayer must answer carefully is this—should I itemize my deductions or should I use the deduction of about 10 per cent of my income which Uncle Sam offers to those who do not itemize deductions?

Once you know what your legal deductions are, your answer to the ahove question is simplé. Use whichever choice ‘gives , you the greater deduction. This and the

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How CANYOU DEDUCT j GASOLINE TAX 2 YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU

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‘next article A tell what items ° can be deducted if you choose. Read them carefully so that you will know what your deductions are. ; Remember, if you itemize deductions you must use Long Form 1040. If you file on Form 1040A or Short Form 1040, the tax

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You a deduction of about 10 per cent of your income regardless of what your legal deductions are. Contributions can be itemized in the first schedule~on page 3 of Form 1040.. You can claim as a you actually gave in 1951 to recognized, nonprofit religious charitable, educational and scientific. organiza-

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LJ n o YOU CANNOT deduct dues paid to social organizations even though they have charitable or welfare subsidiaries to which gifts are deductible. You cannot deduct gifts to indivividuals no matter how needy they may be. Contributions to political parties or any organization which uses the money to influence legislation or for fhe benefit of any particular ing dividual are not deductible. Any contribution claimed must have beén actually paid in cash in 1951. A pledge to pay money in some future year is not deductible in 1951. . There is a check list: of some common organizations to which taxpayers’ gifts are deductible printed with this article. There are many’ other organtzations on the approved list. If you are in doubt, ask your Collector.

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be discussed. Many taxpayers have large enough interest deductions to make it worthwhile to itemize all deductions on page J of Form 1040,

» un ” FOR example, those of you who are purchasing a home by monthly payments are undoubtedly paying a ‘considerable amount of interest each month. Interest payments on all personal indebtedness except indehtedness incurred to purchase single premium life insurance policies, endowments, and taxexempt securities .can be deducted on page 3.. = Usually when a loan is repaid, Aa certain amount each month goes to .interest’ whiler the- rest ir either applied on the principal or for insurance, service charges and the like, If you.

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don't know how much of your monthly payment is for interest, ask where you make the payment for a statement showing the interest payments you made in 1951. _ Do not deduct as interest any financing fee or other mon-in-terest amount included in your payments. If you are buying on the installment plan, your sales contract must stipulate that interest. is being “paid or You cannot deduct any interest. Many of the taxes you paid in 1951 can be deducted on page 3 of Form 1040 if vou choose to itemize your deductions. deductible the, tax must be imposed on you and paid by ‘you. That means you cannot deduct taxes you pay on your mother’s

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5 ” n PAGES 13 and 14 of the official instructions list taxes which you can and cannot deduct; ' Most taxpayers do not have receipts or do not keep a record of small payments for deduc~ tionslike gasoline tax and sales’ tax. The Bureau of Internal

Revenue will allow an estimated .

deduction provided it is reasonable. i IRIE The gasoline tax can be estimated by dividing the total number of rpiles driven in 1951 by the average number of miles your car operates on a gallon of gas. Then multiply by the state and local tax per gallon: Your filling station operator can tell vou what the state and local tax, if any, is. ‘Do not include ‘the federal gasoline tax. . “The following plan will give

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the sales tax. There is generally no sales tax on food, rent, in surance or savings. If you will add about what you spent on these things, and subtract it from your total expenses, the remainder will be about what was subject to sales tax, To this remainder add anvthing you bought out of save Ings. or installments, that would be subject to sales tax. Multiply the sum of these by your sales tax rate. This will give you the amount to: deduct as sales tax.

Tax Primer Q. & A,

Q. I gave $100 to a needy friend during 1951. Can I deduct this as a contribution® A. No, Contributions to indie viduals, no matter how needy, are not deductible.

Q. We bought a house, payIng $2500 cash and have monthly payments of $100 per month for 20 years. Are any of Hee monthly payments dedueti. e? ’ A. If you itemize your deductions, find out how much of your monthly payments in 1951 was for-interest and how much was for taxes. These amounts can be deducted. .

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dinner party was $60. This included $10 for entertainment’ tax. Can I deduct the $10 as a tax? - : : ~ A. Federal entertainment tax . is not deductible as a tax, Howe ever, if the party was necessary and ordinary in your business, - you could deduct the entire $60 n ent deduction in the miscellaneous schedule,

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