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Show Chatter Box j Dear Suzy, . The basketball fans got a lucky break this year when the state tournament came after their last ! day for filing income taxes. In i the past many of them had to sit ; in the stands figuring their taxes between halves and may of them got mixed up and listed players as dependents. The government : should allow most of the fans to list at leat one team as dependents because the fans pay enough out following them around the country ; and making wagers to be classi fied as supporting them, i Delta is either deserted at this ; time with most of the people at ; I the games, and those who are left around here are huddled up close to a radio waiting for the Delta game to come on at noon. Next ; Monday things will settle down a little with only the drug store ; coaches holding forth replaying the games. The school board is still trying to figure out a way to build a new school in Delta. I think they are making a mistake having it built here. They should build it between Delta and Hinckley some place and then combine the two schools and have one real good basketball team. They could pay for the building out of the proceeds pro-ceeds from the games within a short time, provided they first built the gym and made it big enough to hold the crowds that always want to get in. A place like Nick's Nook would be ideal for it and that would be about half way between the two towns. They could also include boating 'and fishing teams in the curriculum, and by having classes like that and specializing in basketball, bask-etball, the other classwork, just as it is now, would be only incidental in-cidental to attendin gschool. When they got a good player they could retain him in school until old age crept up on him, or until his whiskers whis-kers got too tough and gave him away. I don't see why the board of education can't see it that way, because it would solve all their problems. Getting back to the income tax and its usual March headache we have men about town who specialize special-ize in filing out the forms for ot hers, at a small fee, and these men are swamped during March and spend many late hours figuring fig-uring out the taxes for their clients Among these men who make a good living filling out the foms is Judge Chesley, who handles a mean pencil when it comes to dop- , ing out the taxes. He has spent many late hours filling out forms for others, and these late hours he has been keeping caught up , with him the other night, much to his embarrassment. It seems the Judge had been working night after night on these forms, and getting tired and want- some nourishment, went up to the Gem Cafe. He ordered an oyster stew and then went into the rest room to wash his hnds free from all the ink and lint on the paper the government sends out. Finishing Finish-ing washing his hands he was tired, tir-ed, and knowing that the Gem would be quite slow with his oysters, oys-ters, the Judge sat down on the handy contrivance that is always found in a rest room. The oyster stew was finally ready and brought out, but no one could remember who ordered it and nobady seemed to want the stew. The standing practice around ar-ound the Gem is that if anyone doesn't want or isn"t there when the food is brought out one of the staff there sits down and eats it. So that was done and all was forgotten for-gotten about the Judge and the oyster stew. Came one o'clock and it was time to close the joint. All the customers were gone and it was then time to clean up the- place ready for the next morning. One of the girls went in to sweep and clean the rest room and on looking at the floor, where she would naturally look, if she was going to clean it, saw two large feet sticking out from under the door that opens into the handy contrivance contri-vance I spoke of earlier. She became be-came alarmed and hurried outside to get a man to investigate. The man is unknown, but he was brave and up to his task. He entered the rest room, opened the door and stared down at the Judge, who was sound asleep, muttering to himself "7 from 9 leaves 4; take off $16 for oyster stew. . . . dependents must be proved and not just claimed." claim-ed." And other mutterings that were uninteligible to the man. The Judge was awakened and told of the hour, and he got up and left the place, forgetting his oyster stew and forgetting to remember re-member what he originally came for. Up to the present writing the Judge has stayed away from the Gem and says he will until Eldon upholsters the seat in the rest room, because he says he was mighty stiff and sore from sitting and sleeping in such a cramped position. Eldon doesn't want to upholster the seat, because he says people will spend too much time in the rest room and not enough time at the counter eating. And so the problem is not as yet solved. I think it is a mean trick on the part of the government to send out so many forms to fill out that the guy that fills them out is forced to catch his sleep in a rest room. The government could put a stop to this by forgetting income tax entirely en-tirely and just asking the people to send in what money they had left over from the last year. In these kinds of times the government gov-ernment would maybe go broke mighty fast, because it is rare when anyone has any money left over. Toots. i |
