Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 07, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1964 Page: 3 of 4
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Employee Relations A & B office.
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Standard Deduction Table
If you choose to itemize deductions on your income tax return,
rather than take the standard 10 per cent deduction, amounts paid
under Texas’ sales tax may be listed.
Printed below is a table of standard deductions put out by the
Internal Revenue Service to help solve this problem. The table
shows average sales lax expenditures for various adjusted gross
income levels, and for varying size families.
Deductions for sales lax larger than specified in the table may
be made, but the entire amount must be verified with substantiating
evidence as any other deduction.
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Note to Mr. "X": Please
call the Night Superintendent on
Extension 3393 and your com-
plaint will be handled through
the Health and Sanitation com-
mittee.
amount earned during the year,
the amount of income tax with-
held, and the amount of non-
taxable sick pay.
Statements have also been
mailed to members from the
Baytown Employees Credit
Union. These statements show
the amount of interest paid on
loans last year, and the amount
of Credit Union dividends paid
on shares. Dividends for 1962
shares, which were paid in 1963,
Q. Can our annuity pro-
grain be set up in such a
manner that an annuitant’s
widow would continue to re-
ceive payments as long as
she lives?
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Q. I lost my 10-year and
20-year emblems in Hurri-
cane Carla, and am quite
sure that other people have
lost them too. Would there
be any possible way of get-
ting some more emblems?
Would you please publish
this in the Briefs so we could
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Q. My question is this: I
am wondering why Process
operating personnel are not
allowed or sent to the safety
program meetings, as M &
C people are? I personally
think that they need it as
much as anyone, and I was
wondering if there were
some reason great enough to
have these Process operating
people eliminated from those
meetings. To my knowledge,
it has been several years
since the general operating
personnel—other than pos-
sibly the chief operators—
have been invited to attend
safety meetings. I would like,
if possible, to see an answer
in the Briefs on this.
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A. Safety programs similar
to the one you saw were made
available to employees’ families
at the Community Building dur-
ing the evening on two different
occasions. Attendance in both
cases was so poor that we could
not justify scheduling another
program of this type.
arc the ones to be reported on
last year's tax returns.
Employees are cautioned that
Credit Union dividends are to
be listed as “non-qualifying” on
the income tax returns, and
therefore are not eligible for the
$50 exclusion of dividends from
"qualifying" corporalions.
Deductions allowed for slate
sales and cigarelic taxes arc
shown in chart accompanying
this article.
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Adjusted Gross Income
(Income as shown on line
9, page 1, Form 1010)
Under $1,000...............
$1,000 under $1,500.........
$1,500 under $2,000.........
$2,000 under $2,500.........
$2,500 under $3,000.........
$3,000 under $3,500.........
$3,500 under ...............
$4,000 under $4,500.........
$4,500 under $5,000.........
$5,000 under $5,500.........
$5,500 under $6,000.........
$6,000 under $6,500.........
$6,500 under $7,000.........
$7,000 under $7,500.........
$7,500 under $8,000.........
$8,000 under $8,500.........
$8,500 under $9,000.........
$9,000 under $9,500.........
$9,500 under $10,000........
$10,000 under $11,000.......
$11,000 under $12,000.......
$12,000 under $13,000.......
$13,000 under $14,000.......
$14,000 under $15,000.......
$15,000 under $16,000.......
$16,000 under $17,000........
$17,000 under $18,000........
$18,000 under $19,000........
$19,000 under $20,000........
A. It is set up that way. An em-
ployee can select a type of an-
nuity that will provide payments
to the annuitant’s widow as long
as she lives. This type of annuity,
called a joint and survivor an-
nuity, has been available in our
annuity plan for many years.
Ninety days before an employee
reaches age 60 he is furnished
an estimate of his retirement in-
come on the basis of normal re-
tirement, as well as estimates of
the various types of joint and
survivor annuities tailored to his
individual situation. An example
of the joint and survivor type
of annuity and how it works is
set out on Page 44 of “A Guide
To Your Employee Benefits.”
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Figures in the table do not reflect payments of the special motor
vehicle retail tax which should be computed separately. The vehicle
tax applies to the net purchase price, and was 1.5 percent through
June 30,1963, and 2 percent after that date.
Of interest to cigarette smokers is the fact that the Internal
Revenue Sendee allows the state cigarette tax of eight cents a pack
as a deduction for 1963. This deduction is limited to one pack a
day per person and amounts to $29.20 a year for one person. If
both husband and wife smoke, the deduction would be $58.40.
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A. Process men cannot be re-
leased from duty; their jobs
must be manned 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. In our opin-
ion, they are not being neglected
or left out but are being reached
in a manner that best suits their
work situation. It has never been
our practice to have group meet-
ings of Process operating people
on safety matters on a regular
basis because of the difficulty
of scheduling these kinds of ses-
sions for employees who work
shifts.
The Process safety program
. . . your direct line
to management
is geared to meet the special
needs of the group, and works
in several different ways. A
monthly highlight topic is de-
veloped and is carried through-
out the operating organization
by the supervisors. Various
kinds of material are prepared
for use in these on-the-job safety
meetings. We also have portable,
continuous film projectors which
are used in control rooms at var-
ious limes to carry safety movies
on different topics. We do have
special meetings of operating
groups to cover items of partic-
ular interest from time to time.
A good example of this was the
program put on by the Ethyl
Corporation for the operating
people of the Oil Movements
Department recently. The oper-
ating groups will be an integral
part of the “Safety and Me”
program that is presently being
developed.
In summary, we are quite
proud of the safety programs we
have developed for the operat-
ing groups, but we are still work-
ing to make them even belter.
Any suggestions that you or
others may have to offer con-
cerning the safety program will
be appreciated.
Q. This message, or com-
ment, concerns the parking
facilities across from the
Finishing Building at the
Rubber Plant. I think in the
interest of good depart-
mental procedure it would
be helpful to the men that
park there if there were
some system laid out whereby
the management would sup-
ply, or furnish, or put down,
some kind of these hoses
that are available—old fire
hoses—to lay out the area
so there wouldn’t be so much
of the bumper-to-bumper
parking so a man wouldn’t
have a hard time getting in
and out. There seems to be
some helter-skelter parking
sometimes—at various times
—and I think it would be
conducive to good parking
if management would take it
upon themselves to space it
out, lay it out properly.
More cars could park better,
and I think it would be a
help to all that use the lot.
All the information you need
lo complete your income tax
return for 1963 should have
reached you by now. The return
must be filed by April 15.
Information needed from the
Company to complete lax returns
has been mailed to employees’
homes. This includes Thrift fund
statements, showing the amount
of interest paid on thrift loans
in 1963, and W-2 statements.
The W-2 statements show the
A. Apparently, your order was
misplaced, as all orders on rec-
ord have been filled. If you will
replace your order, your hat
will be delivered promptly.
It seems you have not tried
very hard. It is your responsibil-
ity to follow through on such
matters as this.
Q. This is an employee
who has had the fortune to
see the exhibits of the safety
program sponsored by the
Ethyl Corporation. Would it
be possible for the Company
to arrange to have this per-
formance, so that our im-
mediate family may have the
same fortune of seeing this
great safety program?
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Sharing-Size Radish
Fred Pope, operator at the Filterhouse, brought a radish out on the
job last week that was so big he shared it with his fellow employees, had
plenty for himself, and still had some left for the next shift. Fred is
pictured above as he slices off a chunk for J. C. Mayfield who has a salt
shaker ready to use on his share. Helping Fred hold the overgrown root
while he carves is H. J. Borovec.
The big radish was one of five that continued to grow in Pope’s back
yard garden after he plowed over them last summer. They were part
of a crop he had planted in the spring, but never did develop fully. This
past fall, the five radishes started on a growing spree that has more than
made up for the summer failure. And strangely enough, instead of being
pithy as would be expected, the new growth of the one brought out by
Pope was crisp and juicy.
Comment: Five weeks now
—and still no safely hat.
One has been ordered from
795.
A. When plans were made to
enlarge and improve the park-
ing lot near the Finishing Build-
ing, the installation of bumper
rails were also included. As
soon as work priority permits,
the bumper rails will be in-
stalled.
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 07, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1964, newspaper, February 14, 1964; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417951/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.