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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1967
Page
3
A tax column explains dependency rules and five tests for claiming exemptions. It notes only your daughter qualifies in the example, with details on income, support, and joint return limitations plus rules about full year student status and relatives living in the home.
Police chase a bold female bandit nicknamed Penelope who robs a Fifth Avenue bank for the second time in a week. Detectives say the daring thief remains elusive as bank officials and authorities puzzle over the pattern and motive.
The article explains employers must issue Form W-2 by January end but often earlier. It notes 1040 instruction figures for state gasoline tax deductions are a convenience for itemizers and can replace manual calculations. It covers status for married filing separately, standard deduction choices, phone tax help, and possible IRS service center filing not required in 1966, with state options to mail refunds to speed processing.
Raleigh County Sheriff Okey Mills asked the county court for a full time tax collector and 10 additional deputies plus salary increases for female employees. He argued the tax position would be self supporting and needed to meet state minimum wage and five day work week requirements. He cited pay disparity for women in the office.
Sheriff Mills asks for ten additional deputies and pay raises for election workers as the county plans for the 1967 68 budget. The court also weighs consolidating 105 precincts and sending objections to proposed election law changes. An April regional folk talent contest in Beckley leads to a Cedar Lakes final with prizes up to 700 dollars.
Treatment of alcoholic patients at Pinecrest Sanitarium will begin Thursday through cooperation of sanitarium officials and Raleigh County Alcoholism Information Center. Four sessions, one a week, will be held for each of the three shifts. Rev. Carl W. Gray will speak on spiritual problems, a physician and nurse on physical aspects, a welfare worker on social problems, and a Department of Vocational Rehabilitation representative on returning to work. Films will be shown. A screening committee will be appointed to recommend a new president for the Richmond District Better Citizens Club. Chester Workman has served three years. The meeting will start at 7 p.m.
Military men in the news from Beckley to Vietnam include Army staff sergeant Mervic Moats 26 guardian Rev Wylie E Favors Route 3 Beckley assigned to Company D 5th Special Forces Group 1st Special Forces Vietnam. Awards flow to Private First Class Robert L Ross for the Combat Infantryman's Badge and Airman First Class Joseph Pilato named outstanding airman. Several local transfers of property and staff moves are noted including SSHS and Shady Spring High School staffing changes and real estate transfers in Trap Hill and Slab Fork districts.
Real estate records show Marvin M. Maloney and Thelma Maloney transferring Lot 30 in the Subdivision of Surface Tracts Section 8 at Eccles Trap Hill District to William M. Maloney for 500 dollars. Sunset Mausoleum Inc transfers crypts 769 and 770 in Sunset Memorial Park to Ray B and Sally Bailey for 81 60.
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