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PAGE TEN SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1971 ADVANCE-JMEWS

F A I R A N D W A R M — U.S. aetre«« Barra Grantstrolls In London where she works in a BBC television series.

Taxpayers Ask IRSThis column of questions anc

answers on federal tax mattersis provided by tie local officeof the F.S. Internal RevenueService and is published as apublic service to taxpayers.The column answers questionsmost frequentlytaxpayers.

asked by

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Q) My employer is withhold-ing less income tax from mypaycheck this year. Does thismean that I might owe taxnext year?

A) It could. Income tax with-holding rates are lower in 1971mainly because the standarddeduction was increased. With-holding is also lower for singlepersons because tax rates for.this group were reduced.

But "won'tbility; and underwithholdingcould result for those earningover $11,500.

If your present withholdingwon't cover this year's liability,you can avoid owing moneynext April- by dropping exemp-tions now or, if you are al-ready claiming no exemptions,by asking your employer towithhold an additional amount.

Q) My income is low, and I=never pay any tax although Ifile every year to obtain a re-fund. Is there anything that Ican do to stop my employerfrom withholding taxes?

Eastern StarsHost CanadianGrand Officers

Tuesday night Grand Officersfrom the Province of Ontariowere welcomed and honored atthe Masonic Temple by MapleCity Chapter 71, Eastern Stars.

The Ass. Grand Matron Peg-gy Murphy, Assc, Grand Patron.George Pike and Grand Electa,Verna Young, were escorted tothe East and presented GrandHonors. Also seated in t h eEast were M.W. Nellie Ruther-ford, R.W. Alta Davis D.D.-G.M., R.W. Glenn RiekettD.G.L. and R.W. Sarah Smith,Grand Rep. of the Province ofOntario to the U.S. GrandChapter,.from the Valley of theThousand Isles Chapter, Mor-ristown.

W. Irene Feld, representingthe Matron and the Chapter,spoke words of greeting to theAssc. Grand Matron and Assc.Grand Patron. The Wothy R.W.Helen Jackson added an ex-tra greeting entitled "A GiftFriendship."

R.W, Peggy Murphy spoke,thanking the Matron and Chap-ter for all the courtesies of theevening and gave a Version ofthe "Lords Prayer" which hadbeen sent by her a friend fromCalifornia, and also gave anappropiate verse on "Mother'sDay."

R.W. Verna Young in her re-marks said, 'Life is just whatyou make i t ' R.W. Sarah Smithresponded with a verse "As weserve".; Gifts were presented theseGrand Officers, for which theythanked the Chapter and saidthey would be a remembranceof the evening.

The Worthy Matron announc-ed the Official Visit and Home-coming of R.W. Alta Davis,May 11th. at the Temple, witha Smorgasbord Dinner at 6:30,reservations requested. Shealso announced an Officers re-hearsal May 8 at 7 p.m. at theTemple.

Many members from Ontarioattended the meeting, accom-panying their Grand Officers.As the meeting drew to a close,ene couldn't help but noticethat the Tone of the Eveninghad been "Friendship."

The meeting was preceded bya'covered dish dinner, with the"co-chairman W. Nan Phillips•and Laura Cutway, assisted byt h e co-chairman from theMarch Committee, W. IreneFeld and R-W. Edna Mix.

A) Yes. You should file aForm W-4E With your employ-er. This is a."Withholding Ex-emption Certificate" in whichyou can certify that you didnot have any tax -liability lastyear. Your employer must thenstop withholding taxes.

Q) How long must I keepmy records for income taxpurposes?

A) You must keep your rec-ords as long as their contentsmay be material in administer-ing any Internal Revenue law.The Internal Revenue Servicecannot suggest a specific time,but certainly all records shouldbe kept for at least three year:a n d many records, such asstock and property •transac-

withholding tions, even longer.year's lia- Q) I am retired with a com-

pany pension and an annuity.Can I have tax withheld onthese payments?

A) Yes. You may use FormW-4P to request ^ie payer towithhold any whole dollar a-mount. However, the amount tobe withheld must be at least$5 a month and must not re-duce the net pension or annuitypayment to less than $10 amonth.

Q) I have received a giftfrom the bank because I madea long - term deposit. Must Ipay taxes on this gift?

A) Yes. In general, the fairmarket value.of property re-ceived for making a deposit oropening an account in a savings.institution is income and mustbe reported as interest incomein the year received.

Q) My employer withholdst a x from my regular salary.But I occasionally do, outsidework which is not subject towithholding. Must I file a Dec-laration of Estimated Tax?

A) You must file a Declara-tion of Estimated Tax if yourestimated tax due at the timeyour return is filed is $40 ormore and if your estimatedgross income for 1971 includesmore than $200 in income notsubject to withholding. How-ever, instead of filing a dec-laration you may increase with-holding by dropping exemptionsseing claimed or having addi-tional sums withheld.

"Estimated tax" is theamount by which the total ofyour estimated income tax andestimated self-employment taxexceeds the expected withhold-ing from your pay. The Dec-laration of Estimated Tax for1971 and the first payment aredue on April 15, the same datethat your 1970 income taxreturn is due. Publication 505,"Tax Withholding and Declara-tion of Estimated Tax," con-tains additional information andis available at Internal Reve-nue Offices.

Guantanamo Bay: U.S. Stronghold In CubaBy BEN FUNK

Associated Press WriterGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba |

(AP) — In the spooky darkness jof the Cuban hills, a flare stabsinto the night, a dog rages, agunshot cracks—and a U.S. Ma-rine standing guard on a lonelyoutpost tightens the grin on hisrifle.

Was it only a training exer-cise by Fidel Castor's militiamanning the heights surround-ing this U.S. Navy base? Did itmean that another Cuban refu-gee had died in a dash for free-dom.?

Or could it mean the start ofan incursion against a hatedYankee base that Castro calls

a dagger driven into the heartof Cuban territory?"

From the tumbled brown foot-hills of the Sierra Maestra,frowning down on this isolatedbase from three sides, thenoises are heard often in thenight, firing the imaginations ofyoung troopers. On the fourthside, Russian military shipsprowl the Caribbean with in-creasing boldness.

It is an eerie, almost unreallife—a life of constant waitingfor an enemy who never comesbut who is always out there andwho might, in some angry, emo-tional moment, decide to risk astrike.

'It's weird at first, lookingacross the fence and knowingthey're over there," says NancyConway, secretary to the basecommander, Rear Adm. BrianMcCauley. "But in time you getused to it."

Inside the 14-mile fence cor-doning off the base from Castroland, a community of 9,050 mili-tary and civilian residents bus-tles with normal activity. Chil-dren go to school and play LittleLeague baseball. Wives shop atfihs commissaries and visit hair-dressers. Marines and sailorsswim in the blue Caribbean,fish, play golf, ride horsebacktrails and play football, base-

N O S P R I N G F E V E R — This Is no optical JHusion, just a pair of single-humped ,camels passing each other in the spring sunshine during exercise at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. J

•ball, basketball and soccer. Ev-ery night, a dozen movies playaround the base.

But it is not a normal life. Itis a never-ceasing vigil by rifle-armed Marines, fighter and hel-icopter pilots, artillery gunners,warships and tanks.

"So long as he remains ration-al, I don't feel there is anychance that Castro will attack,"said McCauley, the base com-mander since June 23, 1970."But when you have dependentsin a hostile country, you do allyou can to guarantee their safe-ty."

There i£ always concern thatCastro might stage a diversion-ary assault to take the minds ofhis people off a staggering econ-

omy in which food shortageshave become a way of life.

To be ready for instant actionin any contingency, defense ex-ercises are staged every six.weeks. These are the only, exer-cises by any U.S. military postin which women and- childrenparticipate.

At the sound of a siren, barsand commissaries close. Wivesrush to their homes where bagsare kept packed and ready forimmediate evacuation. Childrenare sped homeward in a fleet ofschool buses. In case of actualattack, the buses would takethem directly to the pier toboard ships standing by in theharbor.'

Troops man foxholes, trench-

Movie Themes Need Big Movies.. By MARY CAMPBELL ... AP Newsfeatures Writer .

The only movie music whichsells records is music from suc-cessful movies, says HenryMancini.

"You never get anythinggoing anywhere from an unsuc-cessful picture. It could be thegreatest music in the world andnothing would happen.

:I don't think either thetheme from 'Love Story' (Man-cini's latest hit record) or thetheme from Romeo and Julieta recent giant hit) would have

had a breath of a chance with-out the films that go with them.The melodies are very pretty,classically oriented, but withoutthat ear and eye matching up, I

•H Will HoldCounty LivestockJudging Contest

The St. Lawrence County 4-Hivestoek Judging Contest wille held on May 1, 10 a. m., at

the Donald Merkley Farm lo-ated near Flackvnle on thegdensburg - Canton Road.4-H Members from all over

he County will judge classesif hogs and sheep. Each 4-HMember will also have to ans-ver questions about the classes;hey have judged without view-ing the animals as well as giveral reasons as to why theyilaced the class.The top members from this

udging contest will be invitedparticipate in other livestock

ontests this summer and fi-•ally, the top four membersrill be selected to represent St.awrence County at the Newrork State Fair.

don't think they would havebeen successful.

"I think the day of the sound•track for the sake of a soundtrack is gone. Pve had severalscores I felt have been some ofmy best work, in the last yeareven. The 'Molly McGuires,' Iwas proud of that, and 'Sunflow-er.' But because of the moviesnot catching on, it is nothing. Inthis business we say we have toeat them.

"I use the principal theme inan album, instead of making asound track album. In the LP,rTheme from "Love Story,'"we have the 'Sunflower' themeand 'The Night Visitor' themeand 'Wait until Dark.'

"My latest score is 'The NightVisitor' and I'll be doing thenew Paul Newman picture,'Sometimes a Strong Notion.'

Mancini says what he does islimited by time—writing about•three movie scores a year, cut-ting three albums for RCA Vic-tor, and making guest conduct-

Wood RefinishLesson Slated

Canton — Cooperative Exten-sion, Home Economics Divisionis sponsoring a one evening les-son on refinishing wood furni-ture. The lesson will be held at7:30 p. m., May 5, at the Can-ton Presbyterian Church.

Clark Garner from CornellUniversity will be teaching the'lesson and will cover suchpoints as refinishing products,refinishing tools and equipment,when and how to stain wood,whether or not to bleach wood,and techniques involved in re-finishing.

The meeting is open to thepublic and is free of charge.]ome and bring a friend. •

D E E I f S L O O K I N G A T Y O B — This ywmg wiM deer pauses for a portraitand .» look -at the gtotogEapiw' a* bi» wide-open home near Charoa, Mew Mexico, recently.

ing appearances at concerts."I'll be doing two weeks with

Jack Benny in August, at theGarden State Arts Center inNew Jersey arid the MeriwetherPost Pavilion near WashingtonD.C. We haven't worked outwhat we're going to do, but healways has fun and alwaysworks. I have concerts in Ger-many and England right afterthat and maybe Japan in Sep-tember. Then a few albums, afew pictures, all that stuff. I'llkeep, off the streets, I think."

Mancini is proud that of the 35albums he has made for RCA inthe last ten years, all but five orsix are still available. "Normal-ly an album gets cut out one ortwo or three years after it'smade. 'Peter Gunn' has been inthe catalog 11 years. It stillsells. It's old enough, it maycome back."

Mancini got a gold record forthe single "Love Theme from'Romeo and Juliet,'" and alsofor the LP which featured thattheme. "A Warm Shade of Ivo-ry," and on which he playedpiano.

He says, "Recording 'Romeo'was an accident. I hadn't evenseen the inovie. I just liked thetune. The A side of the recordwas 'The Windows of YourMind.' Someone turned it overand played it and someoneheard it and another guy playedit. We pinned this one down to afellow in Orlando, Fla., on a top40 station. For some reason heplayed it, and got so many callson it, he kept playing it.

"The movie had been cut al-most a year. No one hadthought to record the theme. Allthe smart guys completely over-looked it. I overlooked it too,really."

Mancini didnft wait a year torecord the theme from "LoveStory."

es and bunkers. Tanks rumble

• I against the Cubans."; But, Castro added, "We are'not going to take it away by! force." McCauley agreed:"We're not about to leave it.

"It's the Russian Navy sailingall around that bothers us, notCastro," McCauley said. "In thecurrent Russian maneuvers,this base is a very important en-clave in Cuba. The people of the

K-1 United States need to realize^ I that we still have a stronghold

-*f*>. in this very strategic spot."**•*•" I Before Castro, duty at Gitmo

•|«*rvf • | was widely sought by sailors.*v*\\ The gates were wide open to the' * v i happy island of Cuba. Men on

, leave flocked to Pepe's Place innearby Caimanera and the Ari-zona Bar in' Guantanamo City.

i, Friendly Cuban girls came toi the Saturday night dances onthe base.

But in November 1958, as theCastro revolution against Ful-gencio Batista flared, Cubanterritory was declared offJimitsto military personnel and the

i gates closed.The last physical connection

between the base and Cubatwo pipelines delivering waterdaily from the Yateras River toGuantanamo—was severed in1964 by orders from Rear AdieuJohn Di Bulkeley.,

over brush-hiddenstaging area for

trails to adeployment,

tCombat ships steam out to seaand stand, by to lend fire sup-port. Planes take to the air.

"If Castro does come," saysMarine Col. Van D. Bell Jr., "heknows he will have to come insuperior numbers. We can holdthis base as long as we desire."

"Gitmo," as the base hasbeen known to generations of

seawater desalting planthastily assembled and in

sailors since it was wrestedfrom the Spanish in 1898, is amajor strategic asset control-ling the Caribbean and theWindward and Mona passagesto the Panama Canal.

Protected from the elements,navigable by the biggest shipsof the fleet, and with a 14,000-square mile area of deep Carib-bean waters free of major seaand air traffic, GuantanamoBay is considered the best na-tural location for shipboardtraining in the world.

But, perhaps most of all, it isa psychological emblem of U.S.power and prestige thrust intothe hide of the Sierras-^thesame mountains that shelteredCastro as he goaded Cubans intothe rebellion that was to leadthem behind the Iron Curtain.

Last Feb. 16, on the anniver-sary of a treaty giving the Unit-ed States perpetual claim to thebase, Castro was quoted by Ha-vana Radio: "We will never dis-claim that piece of land, and wewill never cease claiming it un-til it is returned to • our coun-try."

He -called the base a center ofcorruption and sinister plotting,a refuge for criminals, a centerfor counterrevolutionaries, and"the only remaining symbol of

Awassix months Gitmo was a self-sufficient operation. But whathad been a great duty base wasenow a hardship post for the sin-gle man.

For men with wives, a tourstill can be rewarding. Thereare no expensive restaurants orjewelry and clothing stores.They can save money.

On leaves, sailors and Ma-rines take rest and recreation innearby Jamaica, Haiti andPuerto Rico, and in the Stateswhen transport is available.

After 1964, tight security .;asclamped on the base. Newsmenwere not encouraged to visitand those who came were close-ly restricted in their move-ments. For four years, Gitmowas almost a forgotten base.

Now the bars are down. Reporters tour the perimeters byjeep and helicopter and are giv-en access to all areas.

Forty-five posts ring the fenceon the U.S. side, some mannedby day, some by night, andsome around the clock. Steeland concrete bunkers are sur-rounded by the largest knownmine fields in the world. In theiVent of a filtration attempt,

floodlights can illuminate keyareas of the fence like YankeeStadium.

The 45-square-mile area of thebase consists of one-third water,one-third salt marshes and one-third highlands. K attacked,Bell said the 1,400-man Marinedetachment would pull back intorugged hills in the southeastsorner, giving the enemy theiwamps. "We'll still be there,"

he said, "when help, comes."Last year, when Castro failed

goal of 10 million tons of sugar,Bell expected a rush of sugarcane cutters trying to get into,the base from fields to thenorth.

At the height of last year'sharvest, the Cubans starte'dbuilding a new fence barrier-around the base, with watchtowers like those between East'and West Germany. Thert is atriple fence in the center of300-yard wide strip cleared otall vegetation. The op— are"agives militiamen clear shots a£fleeing refugees.

"Fewer Cubans get in each-year," one Marine said. "Castrois getting better at catchingthem. Only the most desperatetry it now."

Under orders from the Statqdepartment, nobody talks offi*ciaMy about the refugee prob-lem. Reports from Cubansources, however, indicate thaffewer than 400 reached this ha-ven last year, about half of the1969 total. And a majority ofthese came by water r-athegthan through the Cuban fences^land mines and border guards.

These sources estimate tha.t4,000 Cubans have reached th§States through Gifrno and thaiat least as many have beenkilled in the attempt.

Only 360 Cuban workmen stillcommute from jobs on the baseto homes outside. Some havedied or are believed. to havebeen imprisoned at home. Astheir ranks thin, more than l,00l)Jamaicans have been brought hi"to replace them.

In the early days of the Castro'regime, the commuters werethreatened and bullied by Cas-tro militiamen in sight of the'gate as they were forced to ex-change their U.S. dollars for Cu-ban pesos. Now the "searchhouse" is hidden behind a hillvTo reach it, the aging workmeamust climb more than a mile up"a steep slope through a fenced"cattle chute."

The pesos are virtually worth-;less because there is little tos •buy in Cuba. The workers try tcrsave enough of them to buy tick-

for loved ones on flights toMexico.

Merchant ships, includingth f US lRussians and those of U.S. al-

lies, are allowed to enter thebay, passing through a water:fate to the sugar-loading port of

Boqueron under escort.Just over the fsnee, Caima-.

nera sits like a ghost town. Cas-tro had trumpeted that he wouldturn it into a showplace but the.,project soon bogged down. A'large, Russiamtype apartmentbuilding stands like a gauntskeleton, abandoned with wallsin place. The harbor is silted upand useless.

An evil-looking 16-foot sharklurks at the water gate and allaround the mist-shrouded peaks'of the Sierras glower down 09.this democratic bastion in aCommunist land.

"When *ebase," says

Yankee rapacity and aggression in a frenzied effort to achieve a

first built this1

Marine Capt,George Kiesel, looking ruefullyup. at the hiHs, "those wertMendlies over thee."

i WHO'S TO DOUBT that spring is here when teen-agers get so literally all woundj up? The double flip was snapped by the cameraman in. Omaha, Neb.

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