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Q. I paid $200.00 toward the
support of my father in 1900.
Each of my two brothers also paid
$200.00 toward his support. My
father earned $500.00 during the
year. May I claim him as a de
pendent on my return?
A. Yes, under a mdltiple
agreement. Normally, you must
furnish over half of the total
support of a dependent during
the calendar year in order to
claim him as an exemption.'
However, if no one person con
tributes more than half the
supnort of an individual, but
only one, of such persons who
furnished over 10 percent of the
support may claim an exemp
tion for the individual. In such
a case, each such person, ex
cept the person claiming the ex
emption, must file a written
statement that he will not claim
the individual as a dependent for
that year. Accordingly, you may
claim an exemption for your
ther provided your brothers
complete the necessary state
ments. Statement forms. Form
2120, may be obtained for this
purpose from your local Inter
nal Revenue office and should
be filed with your return.
Q., During 1960, I paid $900.00
medical expenses for my mother
•who is 78 years old. May I deduct
these expenses on my return?
A. Yes, provided you furnish
ed over half of her support or
are considered to have furnish
ed over half of her support un
der a multiple support agree
ment. It is not necessary to re
duce the expense by 3 percent
of your adjusted gross income
by reason erf the fact that your
mother is 65 or over. This spec
ial provision, regarding medical
expenses paid for parents over
65, is effective only for the year
1960 and subsequent years.
Q. I paid a premium of $120.00
on a combination life, accident and
hospitalization policy in 1960. Can
this be deducted on my return?
A. Part of it may be deduct
ed provided you itemize your
deductions. An individual may
* claim as medical expenses, pre
miums paid on accident and in
surance policies which provide
reimbursement for hospitaliza-
V tion, surgical fees, and other
medical expenses. Premiums
paid on policies providing for
reimbursement for loss of earn
ings or for the loss of a limb,
sight, etc., are not deductible.
Premiums paid on life insur
ance policies are not deductible.
Consequently, you may deduct
as a- medical expense only that
portion of the $120.00 which is
attributable to coverage for
Of all things, Skunks!
They frequently come too close
to my house—and at the most in
opportune times.
Just plan to have guests, and as
if by magic they take their noc
turnal walk over on the winward
side.
I asked W. C. Nettles of Clem-
son if the skunk was becoming
more of a pest. I found out I did
n’t know when I was well-off.
“Many skunks,” he said, “get
under residences or outbuildings
near the house. There, they may
make a den to keep warm—or they
sometimes raise a litter of small
skunks!
We then got into a three-way
conversation with L. G. Webb, pro
ject wildlife leader with Clemson’s
entomology and zoology depart
ment.
“If you have a skunk, you have
a formidable problem,” Mr. Webb
stated solemnly.
Skunks may be caught in Num
ber 1 or 1 1-2 steel traps, or in
animal traps such as the old “rab
bit box.” They are caught rather
easily in this manner, particularly
if you use a piece of fetid meat,
such as an old chicken head, as
bait.
But it’s like catching a Tartar!
What do you do with it then?
“There’s a legal problem involv
ed,” Dr. Webb said, “it would be
best to contact your game warden
before killing skunks—at least
promiscuous killing.”
The thought occurred to me that
I’d not only ask the game warden
for permission to kill the' skunk—
I’d ask him to kill it.
Once the warden’s permission
is granted, the real problem
starts.
Unless you can kill him with
one shot from fifty paces, you’d
better not try the shotgun meth
od. Maiming the skunk could foul
up the atmosphere for hours—
even days.
Nettles suggested catching the
skunk in a “rabbit box”. After
the skunk is caught, completely
cover the l ox with a plastic sheet
medical expenses by the insur
ance company.
Q. During 1960 I discovered that
my house was infested with ter
mites and I paid an exterminator
to rid my house of them. May I
deduct this cost as a casualty loss?
A. Termite damage normally t
occurs over a fairly long period
of time and will not generally >
be regarded as a casualty loss.
A casualty loss is the complete
or partial destruction of prop
erty resulting from an identifi
able event of a sudden, unex
pected or unusual nature. How
ever, termite damage may be de
ductible if it is established that
the loss was sudden.
or several burlap bags.
Arrange beforehand to have a
bottle of carbon disulphode or
chloroform on hand. Punch a small
hole in the cover over the box
and pour in a sufficient amount
to kill the skunk. This method is
painless—to the skunk—Mr. Net
tles said.
The best preventative method of
keeping skunks from under the
house is to close off all possible
entrances. But close them up af
ter the skunk has left the den.
Sprinkling flour outside the ent
rance will show his tracks. Norm
ally they leave the den shortly af
ter dark.
I won’t complain again about
my skunk—as long as he keeps
his distance. It could be worse.
Dewberries are among the ear
liest fruits to bear in the spring.
Clemson recommends the Boy-
sen and the Young for the home
garden. Lucrecia is recommended
for market gardening.
You have perhaps heard com
plaints that dewberries “take the
place” and eventually become a
noxious weed.
This need not be the case. Hor
ticulturists advise cutting off all
the canes at the ground line im
mediately after the fruit is picked.
Then roll the vines up, and burn
them.
New vines group out from the
crown during the summer. Culti
vate to keep down the weeds. Af
ter growth starts in the spring
use heavy gloves to bundle up
the vines around each crown and
tie them to a long stake or to a
single wire trellis.
After picking, the cycle starts
over again.
It had to come.
D. C. Wylie, Clemson’s county
agent in Chester county, says that
a grape grower with 5 acres of
grapes is building a, pond to irri
gate.
Irrigation has meant the differ
ence between profit and loss for
many other crops. It could well be
thi t way with grapes.
.iinnual rainfall in South Caro-
lim would at first glance seem to
be sufficient for crops. But the
water holding capacity of our soils
is generally low. You know how
dry it can get about three days
above 95 degrees.
It boils down to this. Our
droughts can start 2 or 3 days af
ter a rain. After that, crops suf
fer. ir
H. P. Lynn, extension agricul
tural engineer at Clemson, has
aided many farmers in planning
irrigation systems. They are tech
nical, to say the least. Good plan
ning is esstential if the system is
to work properly.
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Eleven of 18 farmers in a corn
contest in Marion county produc
ed more than 100 bushels an acre.
J. L. King, the county agent,
said that two farmers made more
VA Hospital
Rules Cited
Emergency treatment of veter
ans in private hospitals may be
paid for by Veterans Administra
tion only if the disability needing
emergency care is service-con
nected, Dr. R. K. Myers, Director,
Outpatient Clinic, of the Colum
bia VA Regional Office, said to
day- .
The emergency must have been
such that an attempt to secure ad
mission to a Veterans Administra
tion hospital would have resulted
in a delay hazardous to the vet
eran, he added. In addition, the
Veterans Administration may as
sume full medical responsibility
in such cases only if the emergen
cy treatment is reported to the
Veterans Administrat n within 72
hours after veteran’s admissior to
the private hospital. The Veterans
Administration cannot pay hospi
tal bills for veteran who elect to
receive treatment in non-Veterans
Administration facilities as a
matter of choice rather than nec
essity, Di. Myers explained.
A veteran who has paid his pri
vate hospital bill for emergency
treatment of a service-connected
condition may file a claim for re
imbursement by the Veterans Ad
ministration, he added. These
claims may be approved if the
veteran submits ‘ proof that the
condition which resulted in his ad
mission to a private hospital was
so grave that he could not have
safely been transported and ad
mitted to a Veterans Administra
tion hospital.
Veterans in training under the
Vocational Rehabilitation and
Education program of the Admini
stration are generally entitled to
private hospitalization under the
same emergency conditions as
listed for the service-connected
veteran. Spanish-American veter
ans are not entitled to private
hospitalization unless they need
emergency care for a service-con
nected condition, under the re
strictions as outlined above.
Looking A. bead
...by Or. G«org*S. Benson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
SMrqr, AriuMM
A -'DAY IN SEOUL, KOREA
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Korea is second only to Japan
in its high rate of literacy. Every
school boy can name with pride
the first capital of Korea (Pyong-
ang) and tell that it was founded
in 2224 B. C. He can also tell you
that Korea built the first astro
nomical observatory in the world,
and had movable type in use be
fore the days of Gutenberg. School
children look smart in their well-
tailored uniforms. The govern
ment provides practically free
schooling through the 6th grade.
Hampton’s proud of her new
crop, soybeans.
County Agent Thompson says
the county planted 45,000 acres
last year. The yield was 25 bush
els an acre—above the national
average.
He valued the crop at about 2%
million dollars.
Permits To Build
Jan. 30: Charles Chappell, one
six-room brick veneer dwelling on
Springdale Dr., $8000.
Jan. 31: Central Methodist
Church, repairs to church on Cald
well St., $6000; Shannon Suber,
repairs to garage, 1524 Martin
St., $125; Newberry County, re
roof Community Hall, $2250; Belk-
Beard Co., repairs to store front
on Main St., $18,000.
Clearance Sale Continues!
Gigantic Savings
More Closeout Florsheitns will
be offered Friday and Saturday
for $10.00
summer
°y
The Young Man's Shop
than 120 bushels an acre. One. , ,
used the variety Dixie 18, and the' that ' students must pay, ev-
other planted Coker 67. en A ln government schools. .
A tremendous amount of new
building is going on. The Republic
of Korea was never before so
prosperous. Yet every Korean is
living in fear. The history of the
nation is a history of invasions
and of oppression. But never be
fore were the threats of invasion
daily dinned into their ears. The
radio now clearly booms in con
stant propaganda from Peking
and North Korea—in English,
Chinese, and Korean—all daily.
The “Hate America” programs
never cease, and the assurance
that the Communists will some
day control South Korea is confi
dently confirmed daily. Appeals
are also made for cultural ex
changes and various other inter
communication. Special propa
gandists (conspirators) are also
constantly infiltrating Korea.
Missionary Finds Truth
A missionary who has been
several years in Korea said to me:
“Before coming to Korea I assum
ed that the talk against Commun
ism was political propaganda. I
considered myself intelligent and
open-minded. I decided to wait and
finally judge the merits of Com
munism when I was sure it had
been fairly represented. I thought
nothing could be so bad as Com
munism was said to be. But after
listening to the programs in Eng
lish from Radio Peking, I have
radically changed. I never heard
such bold lying in my life.”
When I asked for some in
stances, he continued: “In the
news it may be said, “Yesterday
three American soldiers in Tai
wan raped a 12 year old Chinese
girl. Snake Eisenhower approves,
and refuses to allow the soldiers
to be punished’.”
Constant Propaganda
The missionary said: “Then
when Eisenhower was in Korea
last spring, I personally witnessed
the reception. It was spontaneous
and marvelous. No man could
have received a warmer welcome.
I was among the common people.
They were all his friends. But Ra
dio Peking reported it as though
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the crowds were unfriendly, and
that if ‘Old Ike, the Warmonger’
had remained another day, the
crowd would likely have broken
through the defenses to get at
him.”
No one knows how much the
public is being affected with this
constant barrage of propaganda-
representing the nations of the
free world as warmongers, and
conspirators against the well-be
ing of mankind; and representing
the Comxnynists peace-loving
souls, and the world’s only real
benefactors.
Reds Reaching Youth
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I talked with men in the U. S.
Armed Forces, with men in the
U. S. Point Four Program, with
Korean leaders, including the
President of Chungang Univer
sity (with 7,000 students, a part
of whom I addressed), with the
political attache of the American
embassy, with American mission
aries, and with the average Kor
ean in his home. They all say
there is no danger of the older
generation of Koreans, who wit
nessed the Communist invasion of
Korea, being influenced by the
propogandists. But they are less
certain about the youthful gen
eration, which is inclined to think
there must be “Some truth” in
the Commie propaganda, and who
can’t believe any people are mean
enough to have the ambitions th^
Commies really have.
The Korean government is so
close to powerful Communist coun
tries that it must be realistic in
its opposition to infiltration. When
infiltrators are found to actually
be agents of the Commies, the
government quickly jails them,
as conspirators. In this, I think
they are wiser than most free
countries. In America we brand
them as “conspirators” but we
seldom jail them. To the Com
munists this is a real war right
now. We will keep on losing it
in America until we take much
more positive steps in dealing
with the conspirators in our
midst and working for our des
truction. They should be treated
as in war, for we are in war—a
war aimed at our conquest.
VA Says Pension
May Be Stopped
The Veterans Administration
today warned some 6,000 South
Carolina disabled veterans, and
widows and children of deceased
veterans, who have not reported
their annual income by February
1 that their monthly nonservice-
connected pension payments will
have to.be stopped.
Veterans and dependents receiv
ing service-connected compensa
tion payments are NOT required to
report income, T. 5. McConnell,
Adjudication Officer, VA Regional
Office, Columbia, pointed out.
Prior to January 1, the Colum
bia VA Regional Office mailed
out cords to 23,000 veterans and
veterans’ dependents receiving
non service-connected pension pay
ments and advised that they must
be returned with full income infor
mation by the close of January
1961 or the pension payments
would be stopped.
To date, only 17,000 cards have
been returned, Mr. McConnell said
tod ay.
Since eligibility for pension pay
ments is partially based on cer
tain annual income limitations,
that information must be a matter
of record with the VA or pay
ments discontinued.
Mr. McConnell reported that
last year, some 2,000 VA pension
ers in South. Carolina had their
pensions cut off because of fail
ure to return the questionnaires
by the deadline, or because the
cards had to be returned because
they were not filled out complete
ly and. or, had not been signed.
Many of these were later restored
to the pension rolls after complete
information was supplied.
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Seedlings Are
Still Available
Orders for loblolly and white
pine seedlings are still being tak
en by the S. C. State Commission
of Forestry, according to State
Forester Chas. H. Flory.
Approximately 3 million trees
are available from the total crop
ofl56 million trees which were
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Winthrop Receives Portrait—Senator J. Strom inurmona ^
(D-SC), left, and Winthrop College President Charles S.
Davis, right, stand before the portrait of the late Jean
Crouch Thurmond. Senator Thurmond presented the por
trait to Winthrop in a simple ceremony on Saturday (Jan.
28). Mrs. Thurmond graduated from Winthrop with the
class of 1947 of which she was president. She was a mem
ber of the Alumnae Association Executive Board at the
time of her death last January. (Winthrop News Service
photo.) ■
grown in. the Forestry Commis
sion’s four forest tree nurseries.
Orders are being accepted for
loblolly and white pine only. The
supply of other types of trees, as
well as red cedar and yellow pop-
lay, has already been exhausted.
Loblolly pine seedlings are be
ing sold for $3.50 per thousand
and white pine coet $7 per thou
sand trees fcOib. nursery. An
additional 50 cents per thousand
ia charged if the seedlings are
shipped to the landowner, the an
nouncement stated.
By law, trots grown in the For-
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estry Commission’s nurseries are
available for forest plantings
and no trees can be
for ornamental planting,
Flory said. &4 : -
Orders can be placed with
ty agents, county
foresters, SCS
fices, teachers of 1
culture, or
Statq Commission
P. O. Box 367, Columbia. S. <
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Mr. and Mrs. George H.
eon are now residing at
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The Federal Savings and Loan System is only 27 years old, yet
has met the challenge of the American people in affording them a safe
place for their savings with a maximum return for the use of their money.
Federal Savings and Loan Associations, also, offer the best home loan
plan available at the lowest possible rate.
This is the fastest growing industry of its type in America today.
We at Newberry Federal are happy that we are a part of it.
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Directors
J. F. CLARKSON
M. O. SUMMER
G. K. DOMINICK
J. K. WILLINGHAM
E. B. PURCELL
W. C. HUFFMAN
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