Coming
Events
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
League of Women Voters in
Reward, program oxi boroughs,
• ntire Peninsula invited, to be
held in state building, Fifth and
Adams streets, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
Soldotna Bill's Club, initiation
7:.‘10 p.m.. Village Shopping
enter, followed by St. Patrick's
1 »ay Dance, Soldotna Theatre,
, p.m.
Clam G-ulch St. Patrick's Day
■ ./tv and dance benefit for
A CCA, Community hall, 7:30 p.m.
Spanish Club Spanish dinner,
profits to buy tape recorder for
school, at Kenai high school, 5
• p.m. to 8 p.m,
“Funds for Festival’' bake sale,
by Kenhi Homemakers, Seaman’s
Furniture Store, Kenai, begins 11
a.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
Peninsula Sportsmeii’s Assoc.,
Soldotna <3taut .Sloloan Ski Race,
Soldotna Ski Hall, begins 12 noon.
Father-Daughter banquet of
Civ! Scouts, Riverside House, Soi
• *.>tna, 7:S0 p.m,
MONDAY, MARCH 19
Central Peninsula Democratic
Club, guest speakers, Sokiotna
Community Club maiding, 8 pan.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20
Catholic Ladies Altar Society
enefit card party, Village Shop
ping Center, Soldotna, '8 p.m.
Kenai Homemakers, Civic Cen
ter, Kenan Talk on “Wills'’ by
James E. Fisher, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
Kenai Chamber of Commerce,
luncheon at Western Corral. 12
noon.
Kenai City Council, City Ad
ministration building, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY. MARCH 22
W.S.C.S. of Kenai Methodist
Church, call Mrs. Chester Cone as
to location and time.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
Parish-wide School of Mission,
panel discussion follows potluek
dinner, Kenai Methodist Church,
6 pan.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
Greater Soldotna Chamber of
Commerce, luncheon meeting,
Riverside House, 12 noon.
District Congress of Parents
and Teachers, biennial meeting.
Workshop, Sokiotna School, 2
p m.; dinner meeting, Riverside
House, 6 p.m.
COMMERCIAL PRINTING AT CHEECHAKO NEWS
CALL 262-4624 AND ASK FOR JOE JOHNSTON
WHEN CAROL MACK (Mrs. John Mack) and her daughter vis
ited the t’heechako News last weekend, the Cheechako photo
grapher couldn’t resist snapping this photo.
Social Security
Questions Answered
Question: As a self-employed
individual operating a restaurant,
must I pay my social security
taxes each quarter 7
Answer: No, A self-employed
individual pays his social security
tax once a yearn He files it with
his income tax return on or be
fore April 15 and uses Schedule
C to report his self-employment
income,
Question: My employer told me
I have to pay all of the social
security taxes on my -wages as a
household employee. Is this cor
rect ?
Answer: No, it is not. The «m
On Dean’s List
Lance Petersen, Kertai, was one
of 100 students at Alaska Meth
odist University, Anchorage, who
merited academic recognition for
performance in their studies dur
ing the ft) st semester of the
11*61-82 school yew.
Students so named included 41
honor -scholar scholars, 29 merit
scholars and 80 other students
on the dean's list, according to
Dr. Herbert L. Heller, dean ai
the university.
Petersen, was listed among the
AMU merit scholars, qualifica
tion for which is based on an
accumulative average of 3.00 to
3.40 points. A semester grade of
“A” is equal to 4.00 points, a “B’’
3.00 and a *’C" equals 2.00,
ploy or is responsible for filing1
the returns. However, he deducts
,'i per cent from your wages and
contributes an equal amount him
self. For 1961, the total contribu
tion amounted to 6- per cent of
your wages. Commencing l&ffii,
the tax rate is S's per cent each
from employer and employee.
Question: I am a self-employed
trapper who has never filed tax
returns. I just found out recently
that I’m required to do so. Is
there any way I can go about
getting social security credit for
my earnings in previous years?
Answer: Yes. If you file tax
returns no later than April 15,
1962, you may get social security
credit for years as fan- back as
1958, but not any further. Tins is
your last chance to report your
1958 earnings for social security
purposes.
For more information about
your social security write: Social
Security Administration, P. O,
Box 1331, Juneau. Alaska,
I.O.O.F. Proposed
All persons interested in form
ing a lodge of the I. O, G. F. (In
dependent Older ef Odd Fellows)
are advised to contact Howard M.
Guyton, 1012 86th Place, Spenard.
If enough interest is shown in
the area members of Anchorage
Lodge A-8 will assist with the
organization, Guyton said.
FIRST FISH OF SEASON
SBLDOVIA—A 70-pound king
salmon, reportedly the first catch
of the season at Seldovia, was
landed toy R, L. Runnels on March
3 with light tackle.
Read the Classified ads—it pays ■
HAPPY
* PAY I
Famous Annual
IRISH
SMORGASBORD
AT THE
BEAR DEN
Ail Day and All Nile the 17th of March
FOOD ON DECK AT 9:00 P.M.
Live Music!
By that internationally famous Irish musician—
Juan Pietro Fernando Jose “Lee” MC'Redding” on the guitar.
Borough Group Hears
Summary ©f Education
Costs on Peninsula
"Total cost of education on the
Kentij Peninsula, excluding trans
portation. in 1900-61 was $983,
62(1:TO. For the 1961-62 fiscal
year, the estimated total cost of
education on the Peninsula will
be $1,062,310.85.”
These were figures listed by
Charles Griffin, chairman of the
school comma.tee. when he pre
sented the complete report of his
committee Saturday at a meeting
of the Kentii Peninsula Borough
Study Group.
Griffin's committee was the
only one presenting a complete
report, although preliminary re
{KHts were given by chairmen of
several other committees.
‘'Transportation cost in 1960-61
was $161.805,:f9 and estimated
cost of school transportation in
1961-62 will be $174,749,82,” Grif
fin continued.
Griffin, school superintendent
of Soldotna school, and Ed Hol
der, president; erf the board of
education at Kenai, urged support
of HB 420 now pending in the
Legislature. They pointed out
that IIB 420, with its -.-mill levy
on real and taxable property, will
provide more money to operate
schools than they receive at the
present time. The Borough Study
Group passed a motion to endorse
the bill.
‘'If we were under a borough
system at present, the state’s
-hare of this year’s budget of
$1,062,310.35 would be $902,963.80
and our local share $159,346.55,
It is reasonable to assume the
State will pay. all transportation
costs even though we -are under
a borough system of govern
ment,” the chairman pointed out.
Griffin added that a 0.2-raill
tax on a tax digest of $26,000,000
(an experimental figure being
used as an appioximuie valuation
of taxable property in the pro
posed borough! would raise $161,
200, which is a fraction more
than the figure listed for the
local share of school taxation.
Griffin's figures were based
upon a formula which involved
number of 'teachers on the Penin
sula (125) times average yearly
salary per teacher over the past
two-year -period ($6,627); aver
age daily membership (2,272)
times South Cent,- a! allotment
per pupil ($150), and number of
units on the Peninsula (10) mul
tiplied by unit allotment ($10,
(M)0); the sum of which amounted
to $ l,(Hi2,300 —- total estimated
cost of education for 19G1-S2.
Total allocation, based on IIR
420 would be $1,204,175, or a net
profit to the district of $71,00(1
This does not include a building
program but it does include a|
transportation, Griffin added,
SEE NEW PAINTINGS,
KASILOF.Mrs. Gt-m ge Don*.
son, Ridgeway, and, Mrs. Holland
V. Thomas, Kenai, were visitors
in the home of Mr, and Mrs,
A - hie Ale Lam on March 0. The
Me Lanes are pioneer homestead
ers in the Kadiof area and Mr#,
Me Lane taught in Alaskan
schools many years before her
retirement. She has now turned
to art and treated her guests
with a private showing of some
of her more recent painting*,
mostly of scenes around her
homestead home.
In Alaska, business firms pay
a little over one-fourth of the
taxes, while individuals pay over
one-half.
Limousine
Service
Night and Day
Phone 262-4461
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