YOUR INCOME TAX
50 MILLION AMERICANS
MUST PAY INCOME TAXES
(First of six articles on How to
Make Out Your Federal Income
Tax Return.)
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
AP Newsfealure Writer
WASHINGTON — Everybody
from baby to grandpa who has
an income of $600 or more a year
must file a federal income tax
return.
Those 50 million persons have
one consolation this year — the
government hasn’t changed the
rules.
: Since Nov. 1, 1951, individual
income tax rates have neither
gone up nor (alas) down. The
same exemptions and deductions
you used last March apply when
figuring the tax on your 1952
income.
The rate increase Nov. 1, 1951
averaged about 11 per cent for
most taxpayers. But since the
boost was effective for only one
sixth of that year taxpayers will
Teel its full impact for the first
time when paying their 1952
taxes. :
Returns are due on or before
'March 15, which means you have
just eight weeks to brush up on
your arithmetic and dig out any
speeded receipts or cancelled
'Checks.'
How to Figure Deductions
H If your allowable deductions
amount to more than 10 per cent
J)f your income it will pay you
to itemize them. Otherwise, use
the standard 10 per cent formula.
This gives a single person, or a
married couple filing a joint re
turn, a lump deduction of $600
on a $6,000, $850 on $8,500, and
so on, up to a maximum of $1,000
on $10,000 income. Married per
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ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
GE Vacuum Sweeper - GE Washing Machine
GE Automatic Roaster - GE Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
iNortliern Light & Power Co.
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sons filing separately are allowed
a $500 deduction.
It is wise to make calculations
both ways if you have had large
medical expenses or have been
making heavy interest payments
on a mortgage.
Married couples must decide
whether to make separate or joint
returns. In most cases, joint re
turns are advantageous because
the “income splitting” provision
of the present law often results
in a smaller tax than would be
due on separate returns.
\yhen you make out your re
turn keep an exact copy for your
self. This will save you time and
trouble if you later want to make
a change or correction in the re
turn.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Leaves
Million and Half Dollar Estate
NEW YORK, ’(#> — Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, society leader
who died a week ago, left most of
her estate, estimated at $1V£ mil
lion, in trust for her son and
daughter.
Thursday is Adult's Day iiv Japan
TOKYO, (/R) — Thurday is
Adult’s Day, a holiday for 1,702,
000 men and women who became
20 the past year. The national
holiday was created five years
ago as a substitute for military
conscription of 20-year-olds.
589 Boys Make Medical History
Wearing an expression that we all know well, a Boys
Town youngster awaits his turn in the dental chair.
BOYS TOWN, NEB.-Boys like
to brush their teeth ... if they get
new toothbrushes when they need
them. Interest in toothbrushing
lags when the toothbrush is worn
out. That’s the latest finding at
Father Flanagan’s Boys Home at
Boys Town, Nebraska.
Hope for the prevention of acute
gingivitis came from the famed
Boys Home where the story of
how 589 youngsters from Boys
Town volunteered to aid their fel
low children suffering from the ill
effects of gingivitis was drama
tically revealed when the results
of the first scientific group study
George C. Folger, 65,
Dies In Bellingham
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Iff! —
George C. Folger, 65, retired elec
trical superintendent and busi
nessman in Bellingham, Seattle,
and Alaska, died Monday.
Folger came to the Seattle area
in the early 1900s. During the
1930s he went to Alaska for the
Lomen Corp., living at Teller,
Nome, Candle and Golovin.
During World War II he served
as electrical superintendent for
the Northwestern Shipbuilding
Co. in Bellingham. After the war,
of its kind on the disease in the
history of oral hygiene were made
known.
These tests proved that chloro
phyll toothpaste was twice as ef
fective for quickly reducing acute
gingivitis—compared with brush
ing teeth with a white toothpaste.
The independent project, which
was made possible by the coopera
tion of Msgr. Nicholas H. Wegner,
director of Boys Town, and his
staff, was co-sponsored by Lever
Brothers Chlorodent toothpaste
and the Rystan Company, licens*
ers of chlorophyll.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: James Whitaker
Carlson of White Mountain and
Theresa Noyukuk of Lost River.
Discharged: Howard Konokah,
Mark Nupcrwhatuk of Gambell
and Marie Wall.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Killens, for
merly stationed here with C.A.A.
and now at Juneau, are the par
ents of a daughter, Patricia Kay,
born early the morning of Janu
uary 13 weighing 9 lb.,14 oz.
he became electrical supervisor
for 13 canneries in Alaska.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
SCORCHY SMITH ACE OF THE AIR STRIPS
RIGHT 1 TW^S ONE W J Y SHE'S RUNNING FOR 1
REASON IM SURE THE .Afl/X * . I THE FRONT PORTAL J
BIG RUBS IS STILL ^ N STOP Hg%J
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Clear tonight with increasing
cloudiness Thursday. Gentle
northerly winds increasing to 15
to 20 mph Thursday. Low temper
ature expected tonight 5, high
tomorrow 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: High temperature
11, low 3. Maximum wind 27 mph
from the N.E. Sunrise 9:33 a.m.,
sunset 2:47 p.m.
A year ago today: High tem
perature 26, low 14.
Extremes this date since 1907;
high 35 in 1930, low -35 in 1947.
High School Girls Complain
Of Having to Wear Nylons
LOS ANGELES, UB—1The girls
of Washington Irving Junior High
School have written the Board of
Education, asking reconsideration
of a rule that prohibits them from
going bare-legged.
“After great thought and con
sideration,” read the letter, “we
wish to inform you that our
school is about the only one in
which there is- a rule that all girl
students must wear socks or ny
lons. We do not feel that this is
right. We would appreciate it if
you would go into this matter a
little deeper.”
Ellis A. Jarvis, assistant super
intendent for junior high schools,
promised to investigate.
NOTICE
All ladies are invited to attend
the ladies' meeting Wednesday
night, 7:30 p.m., at the Covenant
Social Hall. Mrs. Luther D. Chas
tain will be the speaker and her
subject will be "Homes and Hos
pitals."
Refreshments will be served by
the committee: Mrs. Helen Carl
son, Mrs. Tommy Tungwenuk, and
Mrs. Jennie Ohsuhlauk.
There will be a special unan
nounced feature.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
POLAR CURIO SHOP