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PRUSSELS POST, laUSSNIA, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MARCH 4th, 191i
How to Keep Your
Provincial Health-Care Insurance
Up-To-Date
WHEN YOU MARRY
Advise your group within 30 days or, if you
are not in a group, write "OHSC & OHSIP",
2195 Yonge Street, Toronto 7, give both pames,
your Ontario Hospital Insurance and 0.H.S.I.P.
numbers, and date of marriage.
WHEN YOU CHANGE JOBS
Follow carefully the instructions on the back
of the OHSC and OHSIP Certificates of Pay-
-ment which your group is required to give you.
WHEN YOU HAVE (OR ADOPT) A CHILD
Only OHSIP needs to be advised. If you are in,
Ontario Hospital
Services Commission
Ontario Health Services
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Insurance Plan
2195 Yonge St., Toronto 7, Ontario
Hon. Thomas L. Wells, Minister Telephone 482-1111
a group, tell the group; if you are not, write
OHSIP within 30 days.
IF YOUR CHILD TURNS 21
OR BECOMES SELF-SUPPORTING
He or she must now be enrolled separately
either through your child's group (if he or she
is working where there is one) or on a direct
basis. Pay Direct application lorms are ob-
tainable in banks and hospitals or from OHSC
and OHSIP. If your child marries refer to "When
You Marry" above.
GENTLEMEN'S CLUB
NEWS ITEMS
Quo hot, .day last. July My bitter
half was grumbling' and. growling
about thp heat but it really was
because I had overstayed a bit at..
the American Hotel, in the
giggle room, 1 says, just you wait
until next Febrpary .about the 10th
ur 11th lInd we will really get '
cooled off, cause that's the time of
the Tory convention in Toronto.
As usual was right. The worst.
blizzard since the TOINaS stone 'a
1$97, Not only that, but we got
tornados, earn quakes, floods,
fires etc.
The only thing that saved The
,Maple Leaf Gardens was there
was so much gas and hot air in-
side it offset the wind from the
outside. It was a motley crew.
rogues, rascals, villians, liars.
hums end bum pinchers. One
young lady, a charming co-ed, told
me in private that site dodged.
more passes than she bad receive
ed previously in her 'whole life.
There are different kinds: of of
posses or approaches, if you pre-.
• ler, but at this .convention, n. ltinclr.
was the most popular. Packed in
like sardines and over 1.700 asses
present. As for refreshments.
there was enough liquor to fill the
Grand Canyon.- Enough to float
the. Queen Elizabeth across the
Sarah Desert. John llobart, who
resigned as Premier, was by all
means the smartest Tory there.
He knew us N.D.P. (no depression
Party) would be the next elected
so he ups and quits. Bill Davis,
former Minister of Education, on
in a. sneaky way. When one of the
candidates dropped out on 3rd
ballot, this candidate sat clown
and put his arm. on Bill"s Should-
er. Just another way to tell his
suppOrters to vote Davis. Not one
rural vote should go Tory. Just
look what, has happened to our
education. system. Farmers paying
taxes to tear down schbols. buses
to take our kids to schools, that
cost millions, arid paying $20000
a year to people who should he
shovelling snow.
-Well,. they are tying to find out
why the computers didn't work.
11'hey'hinve already blamed it on
the Grits. I think' I know why,
simply because the d.elegates
wouldn't play fair,-trying to vote
two or three times for the same
man. So the good honest Grit.:
machines became disgusted and
simply quit. Now the Tories wont
Sates Service
installation
FREE ESTIMATES
• Bare Cleaners.
• a link Feeders
• Stabling
DONALD G. IVES
R. R. 2, !Myth
PhOns Broome, S87.9024
pay r1 ,, •1:00() for the use of these
machines and a law suit is
pending. What surprises me,
is why didn't the computers know
this and tell their owner. He
should know that dealing with a
Tory at any time is a gamble and
to try to deal with seventeen
hundred is impossible.
There no political battle in
this riding. Once we elect
er he is in there for life, .Toot as
safe as if he were in the senate.
Gaunt Toronto and McKinley at
Ottawa.
'the next euchre, Diggion vers-
us Gentlemen will be held, Mond,
ay. March 15 at nine o'clock in the:
Legion Hall, The last game. 70
games to be exact. the Legion won
by four points. They won because
they had five or six of our best
players on their side. Please keep
this date in mind. It will probably
be the last, for the' season. not
more than one other anyway, ac-
cording to the weather, Another
Tory convention• and we wont get
any summer at all.
Len Latnont attended the. pan-
cake slipper at the AngliCan
Church last Tnesday. After sev-
en helpings, a total of 21 pancakes
(:onnie MeWhirter a pretty
waitress, asked Dial if he Weald
like another order. Len refused
saying he wished to leave room
for a few sandwiches and a
couple pieces of pie.
Bee you next weer. Tenle?mber
the Euchre, March 15.
Truthfully Yours,
T.K.F.
P.S. Lonis Evil of Ingersol spent
a very pleasant Saturday at the
Canadian Legion sampling' the
different kinds of 'beverages. ,He
also played a few rounds of
cards, li you ever play against
Louie Evil, reillentber you have
three people to 'lick. He, his, partn-
er, and the deVil who must prompt
him. No one could be so lucky
otherwise, -
INCOME TAX TIPS
Q. 1 am a student at UniVer-
Pity and I 'have a part-tittle job
which becomes a. full-time job
during the summer months. My
income is over $950 a year and
therefore my father cannot claim
me on his incdme tax form as a
dependant. T pay fOr '111y own
tuition fees out of my earnings
and initterstand,that I can deduct
these fees from my income for
taxation purposes. If do this MY
income Will be reduced to under
$950. Does this Mean that my
father can then claim me as a de-
pendant?
A. 'Yes. If your father support-
ed you daring the year and your
income after deducting your till-
tion fees was less than $950, he
would he entitled to claim you as
a dependant,
Wheti, 11)1 p010.0to fii?(I
went to live With all aunt. I was
not legally adopted by my aunt
but, she paid for my 'education.
She is now ORB elderly and I
give her a small allowance. Am
allowed to claim her on my in-
come tax form as a dependant?
A. If your aunt has no income
of less than $950„ you can claim
her as, a dependant, as it' she were
'your mother.
Q. I was transferred to another
city in 1370 and we decided to
rent our house rather than sell it.
1. understand 1 can deduct capital
cost allowance from my rental
income but what do I use for a.
capital cost figure? We lived in
the house for year's and, with the
improvements we made, it's worth
a lot more than we paid for it
originally.
• A: You are entitled to claim
capital cost. allowance on the
amount you, could have sold your
house. for .when you started to
/ rent in • .niinus the, value of the
I laud.
Q. My wife died a year ago
and. I have to retain a housekeep-
to core for the children and do
domestic chores. Can I claim an
incothe tax deduction, • exemp,
tion. for her?
A. You may not claim any
deduction or exemption for your
housekeeper , a.s such, bat be-
cause you are a widower and need
to employ a housekeeper to 'care
for for yOur children, you are
entitled to claim, the $1,000 eq-
uivolent married exemption for
one of your children, and also
claim the usual $300 or. $550. ex-
emptiorn for. that sante child. De-
intls of how you make this .elairn
are shown on the Income Tax
*Return.
Q. My house is in my wife's
name. Recently we moved into an
apartment and rented the (rouse.
Doconsider that the rent. 'is her
income for income tax prposes?
A. ii you provided the funds to
buy the house, the rent from the
house is your income and should
he be reported by you. If how-
ever the house was purchased with
funds provided by your wife, the
rent 'would be your wife's income
and should be reported on her
income tax return. If you both
provided the funds, the income
should be split beweeen ',MI for
tax purposes.
Q.. I receive as part of my in-
comp the United States Social
Security Pension. DO' to
include this .of, my tax-
able income, in Canada?.
A. Yes, The . TThited. States.
Social Security. Pension: forniS
part • of your ta.xable' Artecinie tri
Canada.
position. sir."
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1308s : "What Kind of position
would yeti prefer?"
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