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PAGE 16 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1973 H,VC;.U0 •>sl r.hcrtaxab5d VoUfc December 31, *n\»a*V Todays Health News Published by the American Medical Association This column of questions and answers on federal tax matters is provided by the local office of the U.S. Interna^Revenue Service andJa. published as a public service to taxpayers. The column, answers questions most frequently asked by taxpayers. Q. My son is paying his own college tuition this year. Will this have any effect on whether or not I can claim him as a dependent? A. Yes. Tuition payments are counted in determining total support. If you and your son furnish his total sup­ port for the year, and your son spent more on support items, such as food, clothing, shelter, education, etc., than you spent for his support, you will not be able to claim him as a depend­ ent. Q. In return for organizing a group of tourists for a Euro­ pean trip, a travel agency is giving me a free tour with the group. First, is the trip taxable? Secondly, if the trip is taxable, can I deduct the expenses I incur as the lead­ er of the tourist group? A. The free tour is tax­ able. Thus, it must be in­ cluded in your income at the tour's fair market value. Sec­ ondly, your expenses are not deductible, even if you are serving as the leader of the tourist group without pay and at the group's request. Q. I just found out that the fee I paid an employment agency last year to get a job is de­ ductible. Is it too late for me to amend my 1972 return so that I can claim this deduc­ tion? A. No. Just prepare an amended income tax return, Form 1040X, which can be obtained at any IRS office. On this form, you simply re­ compute the portion that has changed from your original return and send it, along with any necessary related information to the address shown in your Form 1040X instructions. Q. Is it possible for me to re­ duce the amount of tax with­ held from my pay? A. Yes. This is done by filing a new W-4 form with your employer, claiming all the ex­ emptions to which you are entitled. In addition, you may also qualify to claim the spe­ cial withholding allowance. For details^ see your employer or call your local IRS office. EYE INJURIES American industry is plagued by one thousand £ye injuries every working day of the year, over 90 percent of which could be prevented if the victim wore protective eyewear on the job. Such injuries occur not only to the person involved in a par­ ticular operation, but to un­ suspecting passers-by as well, who are often struck by ricocheting fragments of tool or products. A drastic reduction in such injuries can be achieved, says the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, if 100 percent use of protective eyewear is required' while industrial employees are on the job or passing through work areas. The grave of Man O'War draws far more visitors an­ nually than does the tomb of Henry Clay -- and both are Kentucky products. Epidemics of childhood illnes­ ses may break out in the United; States this winter if the current low immunization levels are not reversed, says a leading immunol­ ogy expert. According to John J. Witte, M.D., of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, five million children were not inocu­ lated last year against childhood diseases. Of America's fourteen million children under five years of age, 37 percent went without polio, measles, or German measles protection; and 25 percent went without DTP (diphtheria-tetnus- pertussis or whooping cough) im­ munization. Why? Dr. Witte, head of the CDC Immunization Branch, blames parents and their doctors, too. Since the mass immunization campaigns of the 1960s', we have developed an attitude of: "We've done our job, it's not our prob-» lem anymore." To correct the situation, Dr. Witte and his staff will begin in October an "information blitz" to alert state and county medical so­ cieties, health departments, phy­ sicians, and the public about the threat. Furthermore, Dr. Witte advises parents to cart their offspring to doctors' offices or health clinics for the shots, and to keep their own records as to the date of the shots, and when the next doses and boosters are due. He cites these outbreaks in the past year as omens of what might occur nationwide, if the warning is not heeded: *A polio outbreak at a Connec­ ticut church school crippled 12 boys who either were not immu­ nized or had had incomplete dos­ ages. *A measles epidemic last spring afflicted scores of families in Tex- arkana on the Texas-Arkansas border Few on the Arkansas side became ill. They had held an im­ munization drive a year or two earlier. •German measles struck stu­ dents at the University of North Dakota. Grand Forks campus. Again it was the vaccinated per­ sons from an earlier immuniza­ tion drive who escaped the char­ acteristic rash, swollen glands, and fever. The last two examples illustrate the vaccines do work, 4f they are used. Figures show, however, that the vaccines haven't been taken enough to keep the number of caies and deaths down. Seventy- five thousand persons contracted measles in 1971, and 75 persons died -- three times the 1969 fig­ ures. From 1960 to 1968, 661 per­ sons died of whooping cough -- 467 of them infants in their first year of life. Cases of diphtheria rose to 435 in 1971 -- almost four times the number afflicted five years earlier. If your children aren't immu­ nized, now is the time to have it done . . . before the winter and spring epidemic seasons start. WANT MORE INFORMATION? Writ• Today't Health Magazine CF, 535 North Dearborn Str»»t Chicago, lllinoh 60610 khowj^" A ± /IMi, What is "football weath­ er?" Do people really feel better in the fall, when foot­ ball is played? There is such a thing as football weather, not be­ cause of football but be­ cause of the time of the year football is played in the United States. This sport comes when high pressure systems begin to push down from the north w i t h g r e a t e r r e g u l a r i t y . bringing with them cold, dry air. It's the beginning of the trend toward winter, and there is less rain in the fall than in summer. Since high pressure usual­ ly makes people feel good (low pressure sometimes has a depressing effect), this--combined with cooler weather, and resulting in- vigoration--combines to produce an energetic feel­ ing, or that "football weath­ er" in the fall when appetite and energy seem to return after a hot summer. Tiny as hummingbirds are, they still migrate some 2,000 miles, each way, to escape winter's cold. ENLISTMENT PROGRAM The Navy announces a new enlistment program. 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