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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-01-09, Page 10Logan council appoints Father Coughlin, Kintora, in the abscence of Monsignor Adams of Kennicott who was ill, opened the Logan Township's ' inaugural council meeting on Friday. In his remarks 'Father Coughlin encouraged them to call on God for help, he- felt sure He would guide them in die affairs of the Township for 1975 as He had in the yast ' Reeve Nicholson welcomed 'Father Coughlin and the Council, especially the new councillor Kenneth L. Siemon. He asked for their support and in turn assured them of his. He referred to the retirement of Gordon Mogk who would be missed after 17 years on council. Deputy-Reeve Carl Vock told council this was a new venture for him and that he would work to the best of his -ability with the Reeve and Councillors. Councillors Laverne Gordner, Edwin Illman and Kenneth L. Siemon -all expressed the desire to work well together for the good of the Township. The Council decided to hold their meetings the first Monday in the month, May to November inclusive in the evening starting at 8:00 p.m. December to April in the afternoon at 1:00 p.m. The following appointments were' made: Upper Thames Conser vation- Authority Laverne Gordner; Maitland Authority - Edwin Illman; -Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority - Gordon Mogk. Mitchell & District Planning. Board - Dan Connolly (2 years) Robt. Davey (1 year); Perth County Safety Council - Kenneth L. Siemon; Monkton 'Fire Area - -Tim Nicholson; Mitchell & District Fire Area - Laverne Gordner; Mitchell Agricultural Society - Carl_ Vock; Mohkton Community Centre Board - Edwin Illman; Mitchell & District Community Centre Board - Ralph Wietersen (1 year); Kenneth Rolph (2 years); Committee of Adjustment - Joe Vandenberk; Logan Township Recreation Committee- Warren McDougall; David Linton; Ken Smith; John VanHerk; Barry McEwen; Edwin Illman, Joe Vandenbark and Carl Vock; Logan Township Library Board Members - Tim Nicholson, k Mrs. Keith 14. RL.4449,,,A4p•tt-F,Vt Oppenhauser, Mrs. Edwin'Illman Mrs. Ken Reaney. t..ouncii is concerned With the disappearance of "No Snow Removal" signs, resulting in persons getting stuck on roads that are not ploughed. Road accounts amounting to $8,048.62 {which includes-the purchase of a new pick-up truck) and general accounts totalling $2,020.67 were ordered paid. 's one hundre5:1 need to replace the original signs first issued in 1967. as well as from interested farmers whose homestea'd have since reached that cen- tennial age. The signs, which designate farms that have been operated by the same. family for 100 years or more, will be available to qualifying farms on a cost basis through local Junior Farmers. (Photograph by Ontario Min- 'stry of Agriculture and Food) Directors and' djusters Wm. Alexander, Seaforth , Phone 5274831 - Robt. Archibaidj, R.R.4, Seaforth . 527-1817 Ken Carnochak R111,4, Seaforth 527.1545 Ross Leonhardt, R.R.1, Bornholm 345.2234 John McEwing, R.R.1, Blyth • 523.9390 • Donald McKercher, R.R.1, Dublin 527-1837 Stanley Mcllwain, R.R.2, GoderIch 524-7051 Wm. Pepper, Brucefield ,_ ' 482-7534 J,N.Trewartha, Box 661, Clinton 482-7593 Agents: James Keys, R.R.1, Seaforth Leiper, Londesborp Steve J. Murray, R .R.$, Seaforth K. J. Etue, Seaforth U Happy Citizens of Seaforth met Thursday afternoon in the Legion Roortis for euchre. Winners were High. Mrs, James Souter and Ephriam Clarke. Lone hands were Mrs. Marion Rutledge and Wilbur Godkin. Low - Mrs. David •Papple and John Taylor. Lunch was served by the social Happy Citizens win at euchre We are once again on the threshold of a new year and I would like to take this opportunity to extend to you my very best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous Year. It is also that time of year when we have to square accounts with the Tax Department and because of the numerous enquiries I have received. I thought a few explanatory notes on the Ontario - Tax Credit System would be in order. The Ontario Tax Credit System which incorporates the Property Tax Credit, the Sales Tax Credit and the Pensioner Tax Credit will provide tax • credit benefits in excess of p75 million for the 1974 taxation year and will distribute these • benefits , among Ontario residents on a broad and equitable basis.' To ensure that, the benefits of these credits are distributed to those most in need of tax relief, the total tax credit entitlement is reduced by 2% of taxable income. Thus the amount of tax credit aVailable to any taxpayer depends on family circumstances, age, income and the property tax or rent he or she pays, subject to an overall maximum of $500. Pensioners may be eligible for all three .tax credits. The Ontario Tax Credit System is part of the personal income tax system administered by • the Federal Government. In order to obtain the various tax credits you must fill out the special purple coloured tax credit form included With the income tax schedules and file it and an income tax return, even if you have no taxable income. The tax credits will be applied to reduce any outstanding liability for income tax, Canada Pension Plan and unemployment insurance' Contributions. Where the value of Ontario tax credits exceeds these liabilities, the Department„ofNational Revenue will send out one refund cheque will which include whatever Federal refunds are Payithle and,the r•ax dreclits paid ou behalf of Ontario. To be eligible to participate in the Ontario Tax Credit System, the claimant must be a resident of Ontario on' the last day' of the taxation year. If he was not an Ontario resident on--that date, he is not eligible: Thus anyone who 'moved out 'of Ontario to another part of Canada during 1973 is not eligible for any tax credits unless he moved back to Ontario on or before December 31, 1973. Where, on ,December 31 ' an individual is temporarily absent from - Ontario, he may be considered an Ontario resident on the last day -of the taxation year, unless he files an income tax return as a resident of another province at the end of the taxation year. For individuals who left Ontario and Canada during the taxation year, the last day of the taxation year is the day on which they ceased to reside in Ontario and their eligibility for tax credits must be determined as of that date. No individual under age 16 on December 31, 1973 is eligible to claim any tax credit. Other criteria for eligibility relate specifically to the individual tax credits. PROPERTY TAX CREDIT The Ontario Property Tax Credit may be claimed by all individuals resident in Ontario on December 31. 1974, except persons under age sixteen at the end of 1974, and persons under age 21 at the end of 1974 who live at home and are claimed as a dependant. The property tax credit must be claimed by the spouse having the higher taxable income. Only th'e property tax or rent paid in respect of your principal residence may be included in determining occupancy cost. Property tax or rent paid in respect of a second residence or cottage may not be included in occnpanq cost. The property tax credit formula for 1974 is the lesser of $180 or occupancy cost. plus 10% of occupancy cost. For horneoWners, occupancy cost is property tax paid in 1974. For those who rent. occupancy cost is 20% of rent paid in 1974. For college, university anti nursing students living in "prescribed" student residences. occupancy cost is $25.00. Residents of institutions opera ted under the Homes for the. Aged and Rest Homes Act, the Homes for Special Care Act, the Nursing Homes Act and The Charitable Institutions Act are ineligible to claim as occupancy cost any portion of payments made to these institutions if such institutions do not pay property ' tax. Whereig, uch institutions do'' pay prope ty tax, residents may 'include a s rent for the purpose of calculating , occupancy cost., • payments actually made over 'and above amounts subsidized under health care programs. Individuals occupying public housing units or senior citizens' housing knits (such as the low rental housing owned Or operated by the ,Ontario Housing Corporation) are eligible for the Property Tax Credit using the rent they actually pay in calculating their occupancy cost. A roomer is eligible to calculate his occupancy cost based upon the rent he pays for his room, which is his principal residence. A Principal Taxpayer who paid property tax or rent for a farm property which includes his principal residence may be eligib' to calculate occupancy cost and claim a Property Tax Credif. Rent or property tax paid in respect - of farm land that is separately assessed for municipal tax purposes from the land .on.-.., which the principal residence is located, must be excluded in the calculation of occupancy cost. The total rent.or property tax paid for farm land, 'farm buildings, and residence assessed together for municipal tax purposes, may be included in calculating occupancy, cost. If there is more than one residence on the farm, the owner or renter must exclude from the calculation of occupancy cost all property tax or rent applying to' the other residences! A farm owner or tenant is not required to reduce the calculation of occupancy cost by any amount of -property tax slaimed i. as a, for income tax from income come tax purposes, or any amount paid to him under the Ontario Farm -Tax Reduction Program. SALES TAX CREDIT / Most Ontario residents who file an income tax return are 1 eligible to claim pis ta.?i,.,cre:lit except persons under the a e of g 16 at the end of 1974 and persons claimed as a dependent for income tax purposes,by any other person. in Ontario: The Sales Tax Credit Formula for 1974 is the same as 1973, that is, 1% of personal exemptions. The Sales Tax Credit may be claimed in the income tax return ,- filed for a deceased person with respect to the,part of the year that he was alive. The surviving sp'olise may claim a separate Sales Tax Credit if he or she was not claimed as a dependant on the income tax return, filed for the deceased in that year. 'PENSIONER TAX CREDIT The Ontario Pensioner Tax Credit may be claimed by individuals resident in Ontario on December 31, 1974, who are' age 65 br over at the end of 1974,- except for a married couple, both of whottrare.age 65 or over at the end of that year living in the same principal residence.; in which case, only the spouse with the higher taxable income is entitled to claim this credit-. Where both spouses are 65 or over and neither spouse has a taxable income, the' Pensioner Tax -Credit must be claimed by the same spouse, who is claiming the Property, Tax Credit, except when no Property Tax Credit is being claimed, in which case either spouse, but not both, may claim the Pensioner Tax Credit. The Pensioner Tax Credit may be claimed in• the income tax return filed for a deceased person if the deceased was 65 years of age or over at his death and was, himself, a principal taxpayer or the spouse of a principal taxpayer who was under age 65 at the death of the deceased. The surviving spouse may then be able to claim a separate Pensioner Tax Credit without reference to any tax credit that was claimed for the deceased spouse. The, surviving spouse must be age 65 or over to claim the Pensioner Tax Credit. The Ontario Ministry of Revenue is preparing a booklet which will explain the,, Ontario Credit System in greater detail than I have been able to do here. This booklet "The Ontario .Tax Credit Guide" will be available January. 15. 1975 from: Ontario Tdx Credit Systeni Ministry of Revenue. 801 Bay Street, 10th Floor, TORONTO. Ontario. Mw7A1..1 10,X118,:en quirk's should alai, be dirEcted to this address. Residents of the Metropolitan Toronto local calling area may J in on Mr. Eric Toll on their way back to Brussells on the weekend. YigitOrs with Mr. & . Mrs. Darwin Bannerman on Sunday were Mr. & Mrs. Eric Hokansson and family of London, neighbours of the Bannermans when they lived in London. Visitors with Mr. & Mrs. Ken Smith over the holidays were Peter and Karen Smith son and daughter of Mr. Don Smith of Huntsvilfe, Ontario and Barbie Boyd of London, Ontario, daughter of Mrs. Marie Boyd. --comsnittee. NON SMOKERS BILL OF RIGHTS.— A bill of rights giving non-smokers "the right to breathe clean air, to speak out and to act" to discourage smoking in public places has been signed by Hon. Frank Miller, Ontario's Minister of Health, W.E.Mighton r • President of the Ontario TB and Respiratory Disease Asspciatioh and Dr.' A.A.Scott,, president of the Ontario Thoracic Society. The Huron Perth TB and .Association has circulated the bill of rights to county and municipal councils in the area and has asked them to ratify it. Agri-notes Adrian Vos) The worldwide poor crops problem is not over yet. Argentine wheat exports will be only 351.million bushels this year as against 100 million bushels last year. There is one ray of hope. In North America the winter wheat 0, crop looks good. If we don't get too -much winter kill and if we get adequate moisture and if we get no flooding in critical times and if not too many snowmobilers drive over packing the snow and killing the wheat, we may come up with a good crop. *,* * * * * If there arc still some people left who think that the farmer is getting rich at the expense of . the, other 'consumer, here --is something to think about. Last August 14 ounces of canned peas cost 29c. The farmers share was 372 --Fourteen ounces of tomatoes were 31c farmer' got 2,6c. Kernel corn was 36 Vic, farmers share 2.1,c . Carrots. 25c. for the farmer 0.8c. How's that grab you? * * * * * * • The inflation. It hits us all, A new edition of the,",Century Farm" sign is appearing on ferns' across Ontario, thanks to the efforts of the Junior Farmers' Association of On- tario. Revival of the "Century Farm" project grew from the News .of igG MONDVILLE Mr. & Mrs. John Watt and Jennifer have ,returned from Perth Scotland were they spent C)tiristtttas with John's parents Mr. & Mrs, John Watt and Waiting with his brother, Mr. & Mfg. Watt ;and sister, Mr. & . Mrs, Pat Gavin ,and family. ' 14r: Sc. Mrs, Ron McAllister and & M,rs. Jim Mcllwain spent titeirtiOlidays motoring to Nash- ville When they had a very good tine. ' Mr, & Mrs. Bedford Davey and Bonnie of Sarnia, Ontario called !NW Costs A Little To Be Safe obtain additional information by Falling 965-8470. • Residents elsewhere in Ontario ,may call the Ministry • of Revenue's information centre free of char ge by asking, the operator to connect you with Zenith 8-2000. USE EXPOSITOR WANT-ADS Phone 527-.0240 • ....._ • , ,. . NI . . SEAFO RTH • , . ,.. SPECIAL LEitivi et ,. ...- A060004 • PRICE „„movie • ' ' Winter , jAcKETs Ladies, Mens, Boys, Girls 20 % , , . OFF • Christmas ” LIGHTS, Figures, Garlands, icicles, Tags, Wrap, Bows 30 -50 ° OFF. Snowmobile SUITS 20 °- OFF • ipAATERIA, By the Yard 11,. CRIMP, FLANNELETTE 10 ') OFF . . , LACE By the Yard • 10_4 20z OFF . .PA wry HosE u , , Reg. 99c NOW $.. 1/2 price 2 Fo r CH IP F 0 AM One Lb. Bag Reg. 89c NOW .69 C ...A Plastic DRAPES Floral and Modern Designs - Size 72” by 84" Reg. $1.19 87 Now Stedmans •• Seaforth it hit some more than it does others. I think everyone agrees that people on small fixed incomes are hardest hit. The average consumer price index rose last year ab out 12%. This includes such' luxuries as soft drinks which are classified as foods. However the average farm input rose by 18%. So, if you read that farm income last year soared ..for the Canadian farmer, and you will, remember that his outlay soared even more. So, his net income will be lower. No tying of the cost of living for the farmer's income. * * * * * * You may have read in the daily papers that airc2Olugon.' from cars and from factories causes white bean crops severe losses. (Up to 60%). Now it has come to my attention that nearly all crops suffer from this cause, including 'rhubarb, corn, onion, .potato, radish, spinach, tobacco and tomato. As, we can't move the land, isn't it time that we at least stop industry from moving on the land?,,There's lots of room on poor or no-food producing land. RE from oueens Pork $stablished 1876 ..«,.. ,..A. • HEAD OFFICE: Seaforth, Ontario Vo• Mrs. Margaret Sharp, Sec.-Treas., Phone 527,0400 c It Only , u. V 1 Fire, Extended Coverage, Windstorm, Theft Property Damage, Liability, 'Etc. • 4. a Ito t eft