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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 12,1972
Page 26
This column of questions and answers on federal
tax matters is provided by the local office of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service and is published as a public
service to taxpayers. The column answers questions
most frequently asked by taxpayers.
Q) Since my son took a part
time job between school se
mesters, he has been paying
me $5 a week for room and
board. Does this count toward
support he furnished when I
figure out whether or not I can
claim him as a dependent?
A) Yes. Any amount your
son spends on such items as
food, shelter, clothing, educa
tion, medical and dt-ntal care,
etc., counts toward his sup
port. However, if the actual
amount spent by you for his
room and board exceeds $5 a
week, that excess counts as
support you furnished for
your son. For more informa
tion on dependency exemptions
write your IRS district office
for a free copy of Publication
501, “Your Exemptions and
Exemptions for Dependents.”
Q) Can I deduct the legal
expenses I incurred trying to
collect the alimony my ex-hus-
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Taxpayers Ask IRS
band owes me?
A) Yes. You may deduct as
an income-producing expense
attorney fees attributable to
the collection of alimony or
separate maintenance that is
includible in your income.
However, purely personal ex
penses, such as the expense of
property settlement in a di
vorce or defense of property
claims incident to a divorce
action, are not deductible.
Q) I had the IRS compute
my tax for me and received a
bill for the amount due. How
much time do I have to pay it?
A) The additional tax
should be paid within 30 days
of the date at the top of the
bill.
Q) I paid a tax preparer to
help me with my return for
last year. Can I deduct his fee
on my return for this year?
A) Yes. If you itemize de
ductions, you can deduct ex
penditures connected with the
determination, collection or re
fund of tax.
Q) Since all my kids have
grown up and moved out, I’d
like to sell my home and get
an apartment. Doesn’t the tax
law give persons 65 or older a
tax break when they sell their
home?
A) Yes. If you are 65 or
older and sell or exchange
your personal residence, you
Johnson walks
into hospital
By K. MACK SISK
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI) —
Former President Lyndon B.
Johnson, looking pale and
strained after a flight from
Virginia where he suffered a
heart attack five days ago,
walked into the Brooke VMY
Medical Center under his own
power today.
Johnson, 63, motioned away a
hospital attendant who ap
proached him with a wheelchair
and walked slowly and with a
noticeable stoop from his
station wagon into the hospital.
He had a portable electrocar
diogram unit taped to his chest
and was accompanied by three
men, two of them doctors.
Doctors did not explain how
Johnson was able to make the
1,500-mile trip less than five
days after suffering what had
may, under certain conditions,
elect to exclude from your re
turn all or part of any gain
realized from the transaction.
For details see IRS Publica
tion 523, Tax Information on
Selling Your Home. It’s avail
able free by mailing a post
card to your IRS district
office.
Q) I use my den to do work
I occasionally bring home from
the office. Can I deduct the
cost of maintaining this room
as a business expense?
A) The voluntary, occa
sional, or incidental use of a
part of your residence in con
nection with your employment
does not entitle you to a busi
ness expense deduction for
any portion of the deprecia
tion on, or expenses of main
taining, your home. However,
if, as a condition of your em
ployment, you are required to
provide your own space and
facilities for performing your
duties, and regularly use a
portion of your home for that
purpose, you may deduct a pro
rata portion of the mainte
nance and depreciation ex
pense on your home. For more
information, write your IRS
district office for a free copy
of Publication 530, Tax In
formation on Deductions for
Homeowners.
Q) My wife and I are filing
separate returns this year. I
want to itemize my deductions.
Can my wife take the standard
deduction?
A) No. If you and your
wife file separate returns and
one itemizes deductions, the
other must also itemize and
may not take the standard de
duction and may not use a tax
table.
been called a massive heart
attack. But hospital officials in
Charlottesville, Va., where
Johnson has been treated since
his attack, issued this state
ment an hour after he abruptly
left Tuesday night:
“After several days of steady
improvement from his heart
attack of last Friday, Mr.
Johnson flew to San Antonio
where he will finish recuperat
ing at Brooke Army Hospital.”
Johnson, wearing a dark blue
suit and a gray felt hat,
accepted the wheelchair once
inside the hospital and was then
taken to his private carpeted
suite on the seventh floor.
His wife Lady Bird, who also
looked weary and drained,
arrived seconds later and
hurried into the hospital with
two Secret Service agents.
The hospital, about 80 miles
south of the LBJ Ranch, is
where Johnson was treated two
years ago when he suffered
angina pectoris—a pain in the
chest caused by a reduced flow
of blood to the heart. He spent
12 days in the hospital.
The attack Friday was the
second heart attack Johnson
has suffered. His first came in
1955.
Woman
implicates
two more
By STEPHEN D. MORROW
WASHINGTON, Pa. (UPI)—
Promised her life in exchange
for cooperation with the prose
cutor, Annette L. Gilly, a
youthful looking 32, pleaded
guilty Tuesday to the murder of
mine union leader Joseph A.
Yablonski. Mrs. Gilly implicat
ed two new suspects in the
murder.
Mrs. Gilly, slim and blonde,
responding to the questions of
special prosecutor Richard A.
Sprague in monosyllables, im
plicated both her father and her
husband in the Dec. 31, 1969
murder of Yablonski, his wife
and daughter in their farm
house near here.
Sprague said Mrs. Gilly had
been given only two promises,
that the prosecution would not
seek the death penalty for first
degree murder and that rela
tively minor federal charges
would be dropped. However, it
was reported Mrs. Gilly would
be permitted to plead guilty to
second degree murder charges.
A 22-page statement signed
by Mrs. Gilly was introduced in
evidence by an FBI agent who
interrogated her in Philadelphia
April 4. Its contents were not
disclosed in court.
But sources in Washington,
Pa., and Washington, D.C., said
the statement says that two
officials of United Mine Work
ers (UMW) District 19, which
covers eastern Kentucky and
eastern Tennessee, paid Mrs.
Gilly, her father and her
husband to organize the mur
ders.
It was learned that Mrs.
Gilly’s statement would be
brought before a federal grand
jury today or Thursday and
indictments would be issued.
The indictments probably would
be on similar federal “holding
charges” under which the FBI
arrested the original five
suspects in Cleveland.
They were accused of strip
ping Yablonski of his rights as
a union member under the
Landrum-Griffith Act by killing
him.
Mrs. Gilly agreed to testify
against her father, Sillous
Huddleston, 62, president of a
small UMW local in LaFollette,
Tenn., at his murder trial next
week, Sprague said.
Huddleston, Mrs. Gilly, her
husband Paul, a Cleveland
house painter; Aubran Martin,
23, and Claude E. Vealey, 28,
alleged triggermen in the
murder, were arrested in
Cleveland in early 1970. Vealey
confessed and testified at the
trials of Martin and Gilly, who
were sentenced to death.
Quake toll mounts
By GERARD LOUGHRAN
SHIRAZ, Iran (UPl)—Every
where there is dust, rubble, the
sound of wailing and tears.
The valley of Ghir, 100 miles
from here, until early Monday
was a rich farming area in
southern Iran full of wheat,
oranges and melons. Today it is
a valley of anguished, bewil
dered men and a few lucky
women and children.
Most of the victims of
Monday’s devastating earth
quake, which rescue officials
said may have killed as many
as 4,000 persons, were women
and children.
The men already had left
home for the fields when the
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Conference of Bishops in Atlanta. (tJPI)
Catholic bishops stand
firm on abortion issue
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Na
tional Conference of Catholic
Bishops has been urged to
strongly oppose any leniency in
its opposition to abortion, but to
give some thought to more co
operation with Protestant sects.
Meeting here for their annual
conference, the bishops Tuesday
also voted emphatically in favor
of lowering from 35 to 30 the
age of its ordained deacons, in
an effort to get more minority
groups in the church leadership.
Cardinal Terrence Cooke of
New York City said a commit
tee he headed that studied the
report of a Presidential com
mission advocating more liberal
abortion laws said his group
took “serious exception” to the
report.
“The commission recom
mends nationwide abortion on
demand as a means of elimin
ating the unwanted child, par
ticularly when the child’s pros
pects for a life of dignity and
self - fulfillment are limited,”
Cardinal Cooke said.
But then he queried the bish
ops: “How does one arrive at
the conclusion that another per
son’s prospects for a life of
dignity and self-fulfillment are
in fact limited?”
Cooke said experience has
taught that social problems, in
justice, proverty and violence
are not solved “merely by pop
ulation decrease, but require a
change of heart and a reorder
ing of priorities for the entire
tremor, Iran’s worst since 1968
when 10,000 died, struck at 5:38
a.m.
Among the survivors was
Saltanant Haskari, 45, the
mother of six. Four of her
children died in the disaster.
“I was saying my morning
prayers and my daughter was
preparing breakfast when I felt
a shock under my feet,” said
Mrs. Haskari, her tear
streaked, unwashed face cov
ered with cuts.
“I screamed ‘Earthquake!
Earthquake! Earthquake! ’
Everything fell around me. It
was horrible. It was so dusty it
was impossible to see.”
nation.”
Bishop Charles Helmsing of
Kansas City, Mo., outlined a
recommendation calling for pos
sible Roman Catholic member
ship in the National Council of
Churches, but said “the plan
needs more deep study.”
Helmsing said there are many
dialogues to be conducted be
fore deciding on joining the
council, including discussing the
matter with Southern Baptists,
who are not members of the
council either.
He said the national church
organization is also considering
some changes for itself, includ
ing making a place for Roman
Catholics.
In its first of three days of
work, the bishops voted 182-44
to lower the age of ordained
deacons, who though they can
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perform all the duties of priests
except saying mass and hear
ing confession, are only part
time workers.
The church now has only 60
deacons, 10 of whom are black
and none Spanish - American.
They carry on normal outside
business activity, but are not
required to be celibant.
Bishop Walter Schoenherr of
Detroit, a member of the com
mittee that handles deacon mat
ters, said the fact deacons have
had to be over 35 has hurt ef
forts to try to bring blacks into
the church leadership.
The bishops defeated a pro
posal to lower the limit to 25,
with opponents saying that dea
cons of that age would pose a
potential lure to students of the
priesthood since they can
marry.
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