The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 May 1967 — Page 13

Wednesday, May 24, 1967

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IRS Questions And Answers

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Q—I own a an all business and had to file several tax returns. I just got a refund check and I’m not sure what it’s for. How can I find out? A—This year refund checks are identified by class and period of tax. For example, refunds on individual income tax are identified as TAX REF while corporation income tax refunds are identified as CORP REF.

TUs identification appears at the right of the check just under the amount Employment and excise taxes are also identified. Hie period covered by the check, either a year or quarter, is shown at the left of the check under the date the check was issued. A dose examination of your check, therefore, will show

:The Lighter Side

By DICK WEST WASHINGTON UPI — Not .Tong ago a veteran diplomat described the U.S. State Department as a “fudge factory.” If the meaning of that metaphor is not entirely clear to you, I recommend you obtain a copy of a volume of hearings released this week by a House appropriations subcommittee. On page 306, you will encoun- .. ter the testimony of Richard P. ' Scott, deputy assistant secretary of state for communications, who is explaining why his office needs more money. “There are two major ele- - ments involved In 'our request representing increases,” Scott reports. “The major one Is for $414,000. This represents, sir. the annualization of the computer base switch....” Now stop here for a moment and chew on that phrase “the annualization of the computer base switch.” Unless your taste buds are totally dead, you will find It has a distinct fudgy fla- ; vor. But hold: It turns out that although the computer base switch is being annualized, there also has been a "slippage in activation.” Fudge lovers will have no trouble recognizing the activation slippage as a delay in putting the computer program into operation. In that case, asks Rep. John J. Rooney, D-N.Y., how much of the unspent funds will be returned to the Treasury? ; “We have a rental slippage reserve of $273,000,” Scott replies. “You have apparently successfully evaded the question,” Rooney remarks. This Rooney, as you can tell, has had so many samples from the fudge factory forced upon him, he can no longer stand the stuff. Nevertheless, it is easy to see why Scott’s office needs more money. It has charge of the State Department’s message center. In other words, when someone at the department says “pass the fudge,’’ Scott is the man who does it. On Jan. 7 of this year, which we may assume was a typical day dqwn at the fudge factory,

Fern News Saturday and Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joy Cummings were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rockhill of Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Shinn of near Lena, Mr. and Mrs. Lawr- ' cnee Clifford of Belle Union, Mrs. Francis Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carman and family, Ricky, Randy and Joyce of Greencastle and Mrs. Geneva Rockhill and son, Carl, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Nadene Burks and family spent Sunday afternoon with Rev. and Mrs. Ellis Smiley and family of Mt. Olive. Mr. and Mts. William Perry and daughters, Ametra and Becky spent the weekend visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lee Perry and family at Rockville. Callers at the home of MT. and Mrs. Ernest Heber were Mrs. Geneva Rockhill and son, Carl of Indianapolis, Mrs. Dennis Raymer and daughter, Edna Mae Ross and Mr. and MTs. Don Heber and Miss Ametra ; PerryMr. and Mrs. James Clark and son, Paul, spent Wednesday and Thursday nights with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Cook and family at Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Higgins and daughters of Greencastle was out Sunday afternoon to their cottage at Fern. Joy Cummings spent Sunday evening visiting Mr. and Mrs. “ Ernest Heber.

his office made and distributed 97,469 copies of incoming messages. Fannie Farmer herself would have trouble matching that. This doesn’t mean, of course, that all of the messages coming into the department belong in the fudge box. Some of them are so important they carry a secrecy label and are marked “no distribution.” In the State Department, “no distribution” means only 10 copies are made. Let us hope, then, that the slippage activation has been overcome and that the subcommittee will provide funds for the computer annualization. Jones obviously is going to need a new fudge-making machine. TV . I In Review By RICK DU BROW HOLLYWOOD UPI—Would television’s daily news broadcasts be more enriching, more fulfilling, more in perspective, if they took the heroic step of risking dullness—on purpose— once in a while? Isn’t the balanced, informed mind of the mature news reporter—and its basic reliance on words—needed more often as an antidote for the visual oversimplification that frequently ocurs in coverage based mainly on film? These questions stem from a briliant article by British journalist Henry Fairile in the spring number of Horizon magazine. Mr. Fairile noted that even carefully chosen words by a video reporter are not able to properly qualify a spectacular picture. Yet his article still contends that words are the only immediate answer to most problems of television news. It adds that given the potent effect of the pictures, the “words covering them must provide the corretive. Most television reporting just describes the pictures, and by doing so, reinforces them. But the object of words in television news should be to distract from the pictures, to say: Tt was not quite so. This was not the whole story’.” The Horizon article points up properly that whereas pictures simplify, “the object of words should be to supply qualification and complication.” Fairlie contends that the vital role of video’s reporters or commentators is “to make watching as difficult as reading, to invite the viewer to make comparisons and judgments from his own experience ...” “Life is not made up of dramatic incidents—not even the life of a nation. It is made up of slowly evolving events and processes.” But television news, the article goes on, “jerks from incident to incident For the real world of patient and familiar arrangements, it substitutes an unreal world of constant activity ... It is almost impossible, these days, to consider any problem or any event except as a crisis; and, by this very way of looking at it it In feet becomes a crisis.” The Fairlie article ends with the provocative suggestion that many of our unnecessary anxieties might be allayed if, once in a while, television news began to say: ’Tt has been a dull day. But we have collected some rather interesting pictures for you, of no particular significance.” “Television news,” the essay ends, “has a deep responsibility to try to be dull, from time to time, and let the world go to sleep.” «

The Aurora Borealis, also ‘ called the Northern Lights, is a broad display of rather faint light in the northern skies at night.

The first book registered for copyright in the United States was The Philadelphia Spelling Book, by John Barry. It was registered on June 9, 1790.

which tax It covers and the period involved. Q—I am planning to set up a neighborhood service business during school vacation this summer. I will mow lawns, wash windows, etc. Will I be taxed on what I make? A—You will have to file an income tax return if your earnings are $600 or more for the year. You also may be liable for self-employment tax if your net earnings from the jobs, you do are $400 or more. Keep a record of what you are paid and your expenses for equipment, supplies and so forth. This will help you determine whether you earned enough from this and other sources to be required to pay taxes. Q—^Whenever there’s a big daily double payoff at the track you read stories in the paper about the IRS wanting the winner’s Social Security number. Could you explain this to me ? A— Information r e q u e s ted from winners at the race track is the same as that asked for by payers of dividends and interest. The winner is required to properly identify himself so that the track can file an information return showing the amount paid and the name and the Social Security number of the taxpayer. This information can then be compared with what the taxpayer reports on his return. Q—In a divorce, does it make

any difference whether payments a man makes to his former wife are considered alimony or child support? A—Yes it does from a tax standpoint. If the payments qualify as alimony they will be deductible to the payer and taxable to the recipient If the payments are considered child support they will not be deductible by the payer and will not be counted as taxable income to his former wife. However, they will count as support in determining who may claim the children as dependents. Q—Both of my kids need dental work this year and I’m sure the expense will put my deductions way above what they were last year. Considering these expenses, can I have my withholding reduced? A—If you have increased your withholding in the past by not claiming all of the exemptions to which you’re entitled or by having additional amounts withheld, you can reduce your withholding to the legal minimum. File another Form W-4 with your employer claiming all of your exemptions and dropping any additional amounts that had been withheld. You may apply for additional withholding allowances based only on the amount of your itemized deductions last year and your estimate that they will be at least that much this year.

Communists Disregard Combat Truce In Viet

SAIGON UPI — American troops and planes returned to the attack today after the end of a troubled Buddha birthday truce in the Vietnam war. But Communist forces opened fire before the end of the combat pause, allied spokesmen said. They said U.S. Air Force B52 Stratofortresses dumped scores of tons of high explosives on Communist troop concentration areas within 12 miles of Saigon after the 24-hour truce ended. But the spokesmen said North Vietnamese units in the Central Highlands 220 miles northeast of Saigon began lobbing mortar shells at allied positions minutes before the agreed end of fee 24-hour pause for fee anniversary of Buddha’s birth. Four U.S. Infantrymen were wounded in fee first round of mortar shells, spokesmen said. UP? staff correspondent Tom Corpora reported a second barrage hit a Vietnamese village just outside a nearby U.S. Special Forces camp. It killed

six civilians and wounded five, he said. U.S. commanders sent helicopter gunships and puff the magic dragon gunships after the Communist mortar crews. The guerrillas fled. Military officials said the Communists violated fee truce 71 times. They said 32 of fee violations were “significant” The violations took fee lives of 12 allies and wounded 60 more, they said. Fighting back, allied troops killed 51 Communists, they said. One of fee most serious violations erupted on fee coast about 325 miles northeast of Saigon Tuesday when an estimated north Vietnamese company attacked a U.S. platoon, spokesman said. The Communists used grenades, small arms and claymore mines-which spit thousands of lethal pellets. Spokesmen said they killed six Americans and a Vietnamese village chief.

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Archie

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Buz Sawyer ® By Roy Crane |

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BARNEY GOOGLE and SNUFFY SMITH ® By Fred Lasswell

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