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Show 1 4 IVhait happened to my phone bill? March 28, 2001 - The Springville Herald - Page Eleven The Sage Creek Team placed third b the Destination Imagina tion Contest on Sat., Mar. 24, b Salt Lake City. Team members are, back: Ashley Jorensen, McKensie Schaefer and Dani Francis. Front: Witney Wilson, Gabi Petro, Brandi Hillock and Katie Felix. f 4 V Hogi Yogi students at Mapleton School for March 21 are, front row, left to right: Alec Murray, Matthew Comer, Mitch Hawkins, Haw-kins, Katherine Wilkins, Katie Pugh and Brianna Larsen. Row 2: Mallory Bond, Chelsea Scutt, Mariah Dawe, Sara Cox, Tamerah Taylor and Christopher Johnson. Row 3: Chris Clark, Jesse Martin, Caleb Christen, Jordan Clements, Michael Ith, Jake Petersen and Carson Jorgensen. Row 4: Conner Snyder, Karlie Taylor, Adri Slade, Kendrick May, Joseph Udall, Jeffrey Boyd and Brandon Miller. , Ask a Specialist Extensions available Answer by: Karen Biers, Utah State University Extension Clothing Cloth-ing and Textiles Specialist. Now is a good time to go through your closets and put winter items in storage. Keep the following tips in mind as you store your clothing. - Make sure clothing items are clean before storing. Stains, perfumes, hair care products or body oils left in the clothing fibers can intensify during storage stor-age and can permanently iamage the clothing. - - - Dirt .on the clothing or crumbs or tissue in the pockets can attract insects. Prior to cleaning clean-ing the entire garment, turn any pockets wrong side out and use a brush to remove any debris. - Vacuum the storage area well to remove any crumbs, dust, hair or lint that might attract insects. Regularly vacuum the rugs when they fit close to the , baseboard. Good housekeeping is critical for preventing or controlling control-ling clothes moth damage. - Storage temperature should be moderate-in the 60s or low 70s-and should not be in an area with excess moisture or strong sunlight. Use closets with tight fitting doors. Try suspending wall to floor cotton drapes in front of clothing to keep dust and moths away. Wash the cotton fabric to remove any sizing and do not use perfumed fabric softener in the final rinse or dryer. - Cedar-lined chests and closets clos-ets are not 100 percent effective in preventing insect damage. The natural cedar oil evaporates and a fresh treatment of cedar oil should be applied every two years. - Storing garments in plastic cleaner bags can cause damage to the fibers. - For clothes moth control, a new "bio-repellent" has been developed as an alternative to mothballs. Besides being toxic, mothballs leave an unpleasant odor in clothing and can cause fabric to discolor if it comes in contact with the garment. The new product uses a highly effective effec-tive formulation of lavandin oil and is available in a lavender scented sachet that can be placed inside drawers and storage boxes, or hung in closets without damaging damag-ing clothing. The lavandin oil is in gel form and turns to a powder when the sachet needs to be replaced. In an average size storage area one of the units should protect clothing for one season. Larger closets and those b daily use many require two or more units. The product should be available b stores b the insect repellent sections. Be sure to read the label prior to use. Direct column topic questions to: Donna Falkenborg, Utah State University Extension, 0500 Old Mab Hill, -Logan UT 84322-. C500. Phone: 435-797-1363; fax: 435-797-7873; e-mail: donnafe-xt.usu.edu. People who need more time to complete their tax forms will find it easy to extend their filing deadline-they don't need an excuse, or even a stamp. Automatic Auto-matic four-month extensions are now available by phone or by computer, as well as through the paper Form 4868. .Those getting . extensions may also pay projected tax due electronically; although payment is not required to obtain an extension. Taxpayers must make their requests by the normal filing deadline. The IRS expects eight million extension requests this year. The IRS will open a special toll-free phone line for extension requests on April 1. The number byNorleyHall While going through some old records I happened to find a telephone bill dated some ten years ago. Out of curiosity I compared it with a current phone bill. For the same service and a similar amount of long distance calls, I found my present bill to be just slightly over double what it was ten years ago. It was bteresting also to find an information infor-mation sheet from the AARP warning of a practice called "telephone cramming." It warned us that if you see a charge on your phone bill you don't understand, under-stand, it is possible you have Pruning demo There will be a fruit tree pruning demonstration on Tue.. Apr. 3, at 5:30 p.m. at the home of Jack Clark, 884 S. 1000 West, Payson. is 1-888-796-1074. Callers should use Form 4868 as a worksheet to prepare for the call and have a copy of their 1999 tax return. They will need to enter the adjusted ad-justed gross income and total tax amounts from that return to verify their identity. The system gives the caller a confirmation number to signify that the extension request has been accepted. Users should put this confirmation number on their cop of Form 4868 and keep it for their records. They should not send the form to the IRS. Taxpayers Tax-payers calling the extension line can choose to pay an expected . balance due by authorizing an automatic withdrawal from a checking or savings account. . Taxpayers may also e-file an extension request using their own preparation software or by going to a tax preparer. As with the phone system, computer filers must provide two figures from the previous year's tax return to verify identity. The third way to get a filing extension is to charge an exten sion-related payment to an American Amer-ican Express, Discover Card or. been "crammed." Cramming is a term used to describe the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charges on consumers telephone bills. It is one of the fastest growing sources of consumer con-sumer complaints in connection with telephone services. Phone bills have been more and more confusing in the past few years. Phone bills can legitimately contain charges for many things in addition to local and long distance phone calls. Charges for phone related services like voice mail, paging, call waiting, call forwarding, calling cards and many other optional services may appear on your monthly phone bill.' Some club memberships can also be charged to your phone bill. Those charges are all right-IF YOU AUTHORIZED THEM! Cramming . happens when charges appear on your bill that you never ordered, authorized, received or used. Some companies compa-nies take advantage of general confusion about phone bills to add unauthorized charges or services to an otherwise legitimate legiti-mate phone bill. There is hope. Steps are being ' taken to make telephone bills less confusing and more easily understood. under-stood. The Federal Communications Communica-tions Commission (FCC) has issued "truth-in-billing" guidelines guide-lines that require phone bills to be clearly organized, to highlight new charges, to contain full and non-misleading descriptions of all charges and to specify who to contact with questions about charges on phone bills. These guidelines are now being implemented by telephone companies to make it easer for you to read your phone bill and to spot unauthorized charges. Don't wait or depend on the telephone company however. Right now you can review your telephone bill carefully every month just as you do your monthly month-ly credit card and banking statements. state-ments. You should ask yourself the following questions: Do I recog- rize? Are the rates charged by each company consistent with the rates that the company quoted me? If you have questions about any of the charges on your phone bill ask the company that charged you to explain the charge and make an adjustment to your bill. You can call your local telephone company for an explanation of how to remove incorrect charges. If your concerns cannot be resolved, re-solved, file a complaint with the appropriate regulatory agency. For non-telephone services (such as charges for "psychic hotline"), contact the Federal Trade Commission Com-mission (FTC). For in-state phone services, contact your state regulatory commission. You can find that information on line at http:ww-wTcc.govccbconsumernewsst-atepuc.html. Information for this article was furaisned by the AARP. Other AARP related articles and information may be viewed online on-line at www.thefamily.comsenio-rsindexhtml.com www.thefamily.comsenio-rsindexhtml.com and at www.a-arp.org MP rS) ) niL 'rr!T' """" any ' MasterCard account. The IRS has , nF mcs ol ttU d" J . ' miap 1irt0sl An mr Kill What -utfionzed two companies to ? . "3lvu u" : " "press credit card charges for ; services were provided by the federal taxes. These processors lsted companies? Does my Ml offer the option of extension- mclude charges for calls I did not related payments through their place or services I did not audio- phone and Web site systems. They also accept credit card charges for the taxes due for 2000 or for estimated taxes for 2001. 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