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Page Two FOREST PARK REVIEW Thursday, March 15, 1951. Your Income Tax by John T. Jarecki, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Illinois Exemplions new Revenue Act of 1950 has not changed the exemption of $600.00 allowed to each taxpayer nor the additional exemption of $600.00 allowed for the taxpayer's spouse, if the spouse has no gross income, is not claimed as the dependent of another person, or does not file a separate return. Even though the spouse's income may be less than and a separate return filed to recover the tux withheld, that spouse may not be claimed as an exemption It is usually advantageous to file jointly and report both incomes. The exemption allowed for each dependent remains $600.00, and the tests for dependency is listed below are the same as they were when you filed your return for 1949.

He or she received over onehalf of his or her entire support from you in 1950. 2. He or she was closely related to you. 3. He or she did not have $500.00 or more gross income of his or her own in 1950.

(Although the exemption allowance is $600.00, no one qualifies as a dependent who has more than $500.00 income). 4. He or she, if married, did not file a joint return with his ol' her spouse. 5. He or she was a citizen of the U.

or a resident of the Canada or Mexico. Each taxpayer who has attained the age of 65 years before the end of the year will be allowed an additional of $600.00 when he files. The allowance for the additional old age exemption is limited in the same manner as for the ordinary exemption. A married taxpayer can claim old age exemption for his spouse on his. separate return, if she has no gross income and is not claimed as a dependent of another taxpayer.

A further exemption of $600.00 is allowed to cach taxpayer who is blind at the close of the taxable year and files a return. A married taxpayer may also claim an additional exemption of $600.00 for a blind spouse if she does not file separately. The same rules govern the allowance of the blind exemption for a spouse as govern the allowance of the ordinary and old age exemption for a spouse. It is to be noted that neither the old age blind exemption may be claimed for dependenst, but may be deducted by a husband or wife only. Thus a taxpayer who is supporting a relative who is over 65 years old or blind is still entitled to one $600.00 exemption only for the dependent relative.

While the exemption for each dependent is $600.00, the test for dependency remains at and no exemption may be claimed for a dependent whose gross income for the year is $500.00 or more. You are cautioned against claiming dependents whose support you cannot substantiate by proper evidence. The mere act of writing the names and addresses of those for whom you claim dependency on the tax return does not mean such exemptions will be allowed: When the audit of your return is made, the exemptions deducted on your 1950 return for unqualified dependents will be disallowed as well as those disqualified persons claimed on prior year returns. Interest charges will be added on all additional assessments. Assistance in preparing your income tax return will be given in Room 1-U.

S. CourthouseDearborn and Adams Streets, Chicago (Dearborn Street Entrance) and any of the Division offices. Be sure to bring your papers and necessary informalion. Please do not come to 22 West Madison Street for assistance in preparing your returns. Please do not forget that you must attach to your tax return the forms W-2 that you received from your employers for 1950 salaries or wages.

To prevent the loss of these forms you should pin or staple them to your return. The next. article explains the income splitting method of computing your Even it the dollar is worth only fifty cents, its value will never be as low as people stoop to get it. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? have to have their marriage blessed? K.D. A.

The expression, "having a marriage blessed," is very misleading. It would seem to indicate that a true marriage has been entered into, and now the Church bestows her blessing upon the marital contract. Whereas, in reality, according to the legislation of the Church and its teaching, a true marriage, has never existed. In other words, in the sight of God a Catholic so married is not married, but merely living with the party of the legal cureniony, What a Catholic SO united actually does is to have the union made valid before God. Why dues the Church Have: a right to declare such a union sinfut and not a real marriage? According to her claims the Cathone Church has jurisdiction over all the Sacraments insututed by Christ.

Among these is the contract of marriage. In her code of Jaws under Canon 1012, part 1 the Church stules: Our Lord raised to the dignity of a sacrament the marriage contract itself between baptized persons. The essence of any contract is the consent of the parties of the contract IS the consent of the parties of the contract to the terms therein. The conditions under which that consent is to be given are what are determined by Church law. For Catholics, therefore, the form or required conditions under which to enter the marital contract validiy is that the consent be given before an authorized priest and two witnesseg.

The claim of the Catholic Q. Why do Catholics who are married by a Justice of the Peace MADISONSUPER FOOD MART Open Sunday 7208 St. FO 6-4730 Church to jurisdiction over things spiritual follows logically from her stand that she is the Church founded by Jesus Christ. A person who believes and accepts the dogmas of the Catholic obey her laws to remain a memChurch is normally obliged to obey her laws to remain a member in good standing. If, therefore, a Catholic puts out of the Church by not marrying according to the laws of the Church, to become a Catholic in good standing, he must rectify the invalid marital union, This column is conducted by St.

Bernardine's Church. Send all questions to Rev. E. Schreiber, 7246 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois. Match Stand-In A vexing problem for the head of the household is the filling-in of worn-out screw holes.

A wooden. match hammered will do into the the trick, ofallowing, with case, a re-use of fending hole, the same spot. Also saves ternpers! Subscribe, to the REVIEW. Spread Easter. aSTER There are many wa' ings but the mo with flowers.

We corsages, potted ple Easter Lilies baskets and bouque Azaleas "Happy Easter?" Tulips Hyacinths everyone dear to Hydrangeas choice flowers. Cut Flowers Carnations Roses FORES Snapdragons Stocks Iris Gladiolus We deliver--Flower Gardenia Corsages Please place your KLIMMER'S GREENI 812 DUNLOP AVENUE AT DESPLAINES FELLOW CITIZENS OF FOREST PARK During these next few weeks, rather than try your patience relating to you the story of "Who is the best man for Commissioner and Why am I believe it would be both constructive and informative to give you some early historical facts concerning this town of ours we are all so mighty proud of: In the year 1831 the territory where the villages of Forest Park, Oak Park, River Forest and much of Berwyn and Cicero now stand, was known as Oak Ridge. It was virgin land with not a sign of civilization visible. Chicago itself, at this time, was just an outpost village with very few settlers. There were no roads in Oak Ridge, in fact the territory was not yet opened by the Government for settlement.

The land was swampy for the most part and wild ducks and geese abounded in the sloughs and marshes which centered around what is now Elgin A Avenue and Franklin Streets. HENRY C. (HANK) MEYER It was in this year of 1831 on the Aux Plaines River (Desplaines River) that a saw-mill was started by an Englishman named Geo. Bickerdike. In 1935 when the land was proclaimed open for settlement Bickerdike's partner, Joseph Kettlestrings purchased a quarter section of the Oak Ridge because "it was the.

driest land between Chicago and the Aux Plaines and not very dry at that." In about 1848 a Mr. J. H. Quick of Harlem, N. Y.

acquired enough of the Oak Ridge land to start a town which he promptly named Harlem (a name which was not changed to Forest Park until 1911)..