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Enjoying Your Parakeet
In many homes today is found
the perky, talkative, and friend
ly little bird known as the para
keet.
This special species of the bird
kingdom can bring a lot of fun
into your home and will give the
children a pastime that will lead
to an accomplishment to be en
joyed for many years.
When you purchase your para
keet you will want to consider a
few basic facts. First of all you
should be sure you are getting
a young bird, for an older one
is not as easily tamed nor taught.
A choice may be made between
a male or female and you should
consider the fact that a female
parakeet has the tendency to be
more aggressive than the male.
The color variations play no spe
cific part in the characteristic
of the bird, this will simply be
a matter of preference.
Upon deciding on the particu
lar bird you will need a cage
that will allow the bird to have
ample room to hop and climb
about. A cage that is too small
will cramp your bird and cause
shreaded feathers.
Traveling home with the bird
will be a frightening experience
to him so don’t be alarmed when
he flutters frantically. When you
get him home put him where he
will not be disturbed for about 24
hours. Allow him to become acus-
tomed to his environment before
becoming acustomed to you.
At first when you aproach his
cage he will respond with fright
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After you have had him for
several days put your hand in
the cage encouraging him to step
onto your finger. This won’t be an
easy task but time and patience
will be the determining factor in
accomplishing this feat. Try not
to frighten him and don’t tire him
for he will learn faster if you
spend several short intervals ra
ther than one long period.
Be prepared to get bitten, and
you are entitled to one good
scream but please don’t yell so
loudly that you frighten the poor
bird to death. Keep in mind that
the second time he bites you isn’t
nearly as bad as the first be
cause now you know it doesn’t
hurt as much as you thought it
would.
After you have him stepping
onto your finger without hesi
tation remove him from his cage.
He will fly around and perch him
self upon the drapes, or a lamp
shade or possibly even the top of
your head. If by chance you are
bald you are entitled to duck but
if not please remain still. When
he lights encourage him to step
onto your finger. Repeat this
process talking to him all the
while and you will soon find that
this little bitty monster that bit
you so hard is quite lovable after
all.
Little Theatre
Production Set
The Young People’s Theatre
Workshop, sponsored by the
Greenville Little Theatre, will
present “Aesop’s Fables", a folk
rock musical based on Aesop's
Fables, April 3,4,5 and 10, 11, 12
at the Little Theatre, 444 Col
lege Street. It has been hailed
as one of the cleverest and most
original productions for young
people in years.
Tickets are $2.50 and go on
sale March 25 at the theatre
box office 10-4 or by mail to
Box 962
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Hardest Wood
The hardest wood is that
of the desert ironwood of the
Southwest. The tree has
wood as heavy as stone; it
blunts tools and can hardly
be cut with a saw.
Minding Your Business
Income
Averaging
’We Hcve To Run
Fast To Keep Up*
BY JOHN J. SUTHERLAND
Certified Public Accountant
If your income has increased
substantially this year you may be
even luckier than you think be
cause of a tax break known as
income averaging. The basic
principle of income averaging is
to adjust your taxes to what they
would have been if you had ear
ned the income eve:i!y over the
last 5 years instead of in one
year. This applies to most kinds
of income from nearly all sour
ces except those noted below. The
mathematics involve short-cut
principles of arithmetic which I
will not attempt to explain here
but will stick to the underlying
principles in showing the effects
of certain situations.
You are eligible for income
averaging if you are a citizen
and a resident of the UnitedStates
and if you have been supporting
yourself for the last 5 years. If
you have been a full-time stu
dent during any of the last 5 years
you are not eligible.
You have ave rage able income
if the income this year exceeds
one-third of the total taxable in
come for the years 1965, 1966,
1967, and 1968, by $3,000.
Certain types of income cannot
be averaged and must be excluded
in determining the average.
These include long-term capital
gains, income received on pro
perty which was given to you,
and income from wagering or ot
her items. Certain of these other
items will be discussed in a later
column. Accordingly, it is appa
rent that the basic spirit of the
law is to give the taxpayer a
break if his usual income is from
sources which fluctuate greatly
from year to year. People most
apt to benefit from income ave
raging might be authors, inven
tors, artists, businessmen, far
mers, and other people who may
suffer bleak income years and
then suddenly one year have an
enormous amount of taxable in
come. Without income averaging
this person would not get much
tax benefit in the bleak years
but in the profitable year would
be in a high tax bracket and
would pay most of his income out
in taxes.
After you have determined your
averageable income, divide this
amount by 5 and compute taxes
on this small amount as though
it were your only income, in
cluding, of course, surtax. Mul
tiply this result again by 5. This
will be your tax on averageable
income. If you then compute your
tax without averaging, you will
find that you have saved money
because none of your income was
taxed in the high bracket. You
must then compute the income
tax on all your nonaverageable
income according to the tax rules
in effect including alternate tax
advantages on capital gains, if
available, and add this to the tax
on averageable income. This will
be your total income tax which
is carried to your tax return.
Be sure, then, to make an “X"
mark in the block indicating you
used Schedule G.
As usual, iiyoufollowSchedule
G carefully, much of what seems
complicated will be worked out
for you on the form itself.
“We have to run pretty fast
to keep from getting farther be
hind,” the state’s Deputy Super
intendent of Education told Clin
ton Rotarians Tuesday.
Deputy Superintendent Ralph
A Durham of Columbia said,
“The money we spend on educa
tion in this state has increased
in recent years but we’re still
behind our neighboring states of
Georgia and North Carolina. We
spend about $550 per child on
education in South Carolina and
the other two states spend $600
or better per child. We were so
far behind for such a long, long
time that we have to run pretty
fast now to keep from getting
farther behind.”
Durham pointed out that over
$200 million in state funds is
budgeted for education this year
and the state also receives a-
bout $50 million in federal funds
for education. He also noted that
School District 56’s budget is
over $1 million with over $800,-
000 coming from the state.
Mr. Durham also said, “We
hear a great deal about pollu
tion these days and I’m con
cerned about the pollution of
our air and water. But pollu-
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me more. You can clean up the
streams and the air, at great
expense, but cleaning up the
minds of men is pretty diffi
cult. They hear so many half-
truths and, too often, they listen
to emotion rather than to
reason.”
Concerning the integration of
schools, Mr. Durham said that
court decisions have shown that
total integration can be ordered
in a school system regardless
of whether the system receives
federal funds.
Mr. Durham said, “We’ve got to
keep our cool. We’ve got to build
on the image of South Carolina.
Are we going to have anarchy
or are we eoine to be law-abid
ing citizens. We need to
trate on what we can do tor
our students and tor education.
We must do what we can through
education. We can't be neutral
any longer about government, law
and order and education. Through
education, we most fight the
pollution of men’s minds.*
Ballard Accepted
By Honor Society
William B. Ballard, a Clem-
son University graduate stu
dent from Clinton, has been ac
cepted for membership in Gamma
Sigma Delta, an honor society of
agriculture.
He is among 27 Clemson stu
dents who will be initiated into
the fraternity at a banquet
April 8.
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A horticulture major, Ballard
is the sot of Mr. and Mrs. B. B.
Ballard of 404 West Maple St.
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