Coping With Your Income Tax This Year's Form Break
This AP piece previews a five part series on preparing 1978 income tax returns. It notes minimal form changes from 1977, with identical colors and formats for 1040 and 1040A, plus three changes affecting many taxpayers including energy credits and capital gains exclusions.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Robert Brauer
IRS
Congress
Brauer
Travel through the seasons pattern 7570 listing details
An Ottawa Herald needlecraft notice invites readers to mail $1.80 per pattern plus 35 cents for first class and special handling to Alice Brooks in New York for Pattern 7570. It specifies sizes 8 to 14 and describes a spring cloche and side-slit jacket in a textured shell stitch crochet using synthetic worsted. Include NAME ADDRESS ZIP SIZE STYLE NUMBER.
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Alice Brooks
Ottawa Herald
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Dear Ann Landers on a Skunk and a Careless Suitor
A widow recalls a two year lapse since her husband’s death and a man named Harry who moved in after his mother’s death. He offers little financial help, issues odd commands, hinted at marriage, and recently struck her with a lunch bucket over cheese sandwiches. The letter opens with a second topic about a skunk named Alfredo living nearby.
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Ann
Harry
Betty
Berkeley
P.S
Readers vent in letters to the paper
A batch of reader notes ranges from pet care and humane options for a skunk named Alfredo under a porch to marriage advice and venting at Ann Landers. Betty and Berkeley letters advise leaving a freeloading spouse and ending nagging, while Anonymous criticizes the columnist. The exchange ends with a playful note of mutual insult and gratitude for the dialogue.
Springtime Blooms Indoors From Forced Branches
EARL ARONSON outlines how to force early spring blooms by cutting healthy branches from shrubs or trees that flower early, pruning, and placing them in water with fresh cuts. Select branches with many flower buds, protect against freezing, and use hot water and fertilizer to encourage bud opening.
Thayer appointed HP design engineer at Fort Collins
Gordon W. Thayer son of Mrs. Lillian Thayer of 1034 S Hickory has been named design engineer for Hewlett Packard's Desktop Computer Division in Fort Collins Colorado He is a December 1978 Kansas State University electrical engineering graduate and member of Tau Beta Pi Phi Kappa Phi and Eta Kappa Nu at K State He is a Ottawa High School alum and resides locally.
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Gordon W. Thayer
Lillian Thayer
S. Hickory
Hewlett-Packard
Fort Collins
Colo
Thayer
Kansas State University
Manhattan
K-State
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Eta Kappa Nu
Ottawa High School
Club Forecast Entries for Ottawa Community Calendar
The notice lists weekly events across Ottawa including Memorial VFW Post 5901 and Auxiliary at 8 p.m. and TOPS group meetings at multiple locations and times. Additional gatherings include CHAPTERS AU and GL PEO for Founders Day, prayer groups, Rebekah Lodge, Skilton Music Club, and City Teachers Wives meeting with various church venues and times.
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Job’s
Ottawa Memorial
VFW
Trinity United Methodist Church
Elliott Hall
First United Methodist Church
Delbert Campbell
Westminster United Presbyterian Church
Hazel
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Black Rock
SPCA
America
Sioux Falls College
Sioux Falls
S.D
Ottawa
Mexico
First Baptist Church
Pam Moor
Ben Moor
Becky Shaw
Robert Shaw
Jcpenney
S. Main
Earl Aronson
Edison
Main
Beneficial
Beneficial Finance System
Beneficial Finance Co. of
Kansas, Inc
S. Main Paola — 2S
Silver St
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