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
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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.
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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?
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• 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.
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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.
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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.
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