’ OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Minister Jean Chretien an- nounced Thursday night 2 three-cent cut"in the excise tax on gasoline, a means- tested $20 monthly increase in the guaranteed income supplement for oldage pensioners and a refundable tax credit for low and middle-income recipients of family allowance payments. The cut to seven cents from 10 cents in the excise tax levied in 1975 effectively, éliminates the impact of an oil price increase that would have hit consumers early next week. Chretien said the $20 monthly increase for pen- sioners -would apply to a couple now receiving the $199.04 maximum. About 55 per cent of old age pen- sioners— those over 65—now receive all or part of the income supplement. The supplement is available to those now receiving the basic old age security pension of $159.79 a month who have little or no ather income. The monthly family allowance for each child will be reduced to $20 from the current $25.69. But those earning less than $18,-000 a year will get a refundable tax credit of $200 a year for each child under the age of 18. ‘ . As a family's income rises above $18,000 the amount of tax credit will be reduced by $5 for every $100 in earnings. In a separate release, Monique Begin, minister of health and welfare, said that a one-child family would receive a $200 credit at $18,000, a $100 credit at $21,000 and would cease to receive the credit as the family income rose above $21,000. She said that more than 2.4 milllon families with more than five million children would receive the benefit. r , a ‘RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. ) { } ; we buy OQ . COPPER BRASS ALL METALS - & BATTERIES | | TERRACE-KITIMAT MON, - SAT. : ; OPEN TIL 5 p.m. > ¢ Location Seal Gove Phone 624-5639) | Sor 7 Friday, August 25, 1978 id To Economy Begin said the reductions in the monthly family allowance payments would mean a saving of $690 million in federal expenditures, But $800 million would be channeled into the hand's of Canada’s working poor by the refundable tax credit. She said the increase in the income supplement for pensioners would pay another $360 million to the low-income elderly. “This money will.go to those Canadians most likely to provide a direct stimulus to the economy by spending it on the necessities of life and least likely to put it ito savings or the purchase of luxury or foreign goods," she said. MORE CHANGES PLAN- NED Chretien also said he would anounce unspecified changes in the unem- ployment insurance program in the next few weeks as well as programs 20c VOLUME 72 NO. 165 for job creation, capital invesiment and unem- ployment insurance, Monique Begin, minister of health and welfare, saidin * a separate release that it would be reduced to $20 for § all families at the beginning of the year. But families with } income of up to $18,000 a year will get a refundable tax credit of $200 a year for each child under the age of 18. . Chretien’s tax and spen- ding changes, announced at a hastily-arranged news conference, included a range of programssome needing parliamentary approval and - someinvolving . arrangements with the prov- inces. They would normally be given in a budget presented to Parliament. He acknowledged that there were at least as many propsoed changes as there were in his last formal budget April 10. ° HTL tE: ea Premier W.R. Ben ~~ nett is being introduced by PNE President Erwin Swangard to declare the 64th annual fair officially open. Provincial Secretary, the Hon. Grace McCarthy, the Discovery Fair Parade Mar- shall waits for introduction before leading the 80 unit parade through 2 miles of downtown Vancouver Streets. Grace McCarthy will be attending the Bulkley Valley Exhibition at Smithers this weekend along with the Hon. Iona Campagnolo. Ru pic back row left to right rt was the winner at As mentioned in Thursday’s HERALD, Miss Prince oe a e PNE Pageant. Can you her out of all the lovely contestants assembled Miss Merritt Miss Carol Heyworth Miss ienderby Miss Nanaimo Miss Abbotsford Miss Cariboo Miss Langley Miss Parksville Miss Ladysmith Miss Vernon Miss Quesnel Miss Kelowna . Miss North Shore Miss Mission ‘Miss Chilliwack Miss Hazelton centre row l-r Miss Trail Miss Powell River Miss Creston Miss Gibsons Miss Miss Stephanie Miss Shelley Griffiths Miss Kim Metchette Miss Arlene Smysniuk Miss Patti Stahley . Miss Laura Mottishaw Miss Melanie Munk Miss Tammy Zadorozny Miss Terry-Lee McKinnon Miss Cindy Ott Miss Patricia Fell _ Miss Laurie Edwards Miss Tina Hamill Linda Wooldridge Samarin Miss Christine Hanlon Miss Peggy Cattanach Miss Janet Ringheim Miss Melanie Mahlman ted y im tem bach baer ne ~AnRY, COMP eta ve bushy Ings . Viz ‘URIS, an v, ’ av-1X4 #6l as fe cas ye below? She is in the dark jacket eleventh from the right in the middle row, next to Miss Prince George. Miss Cowichan Lake Miss Nelson Miss Salmon Arm Miss Kamloops Miss Penticton Miss Squamish Miss Prince Rupert Miss Prince George Miss Victoria Miss Grand Forks Miss White Rock MISS PNE PICTURE front row lr Miss New Westminster Miss Cranbrook Miss Revelstoke Miss Vancouver Miss Burnaby Miss Surrey Miss Ridge-Meadows Miss Richmond Miss Kelly Peterson Miss Holly McDonald Miss Trixie Thorpe Miss Carla Girbav Miss Cheryl Mustard ‘Miss Marlan den Dekker Miss Gloria Macarenko Miss Jo-Anne Bennison Miss Susan Mair Miss Heather Peterson Miss Faye Oshowy =~ Miss Donna Tays Miss Delayne Morris Miss Shirley Hood Miss Patricia Morle Miss Heidi Grathwo Miss Nicole Bedard Miss Cindy Hudson Miss Kim Dilworth “ni aniewly:kéléased report: - VANCOUVER (CP). A controversial Japanese film fas been [ound to be in violation of the Criminal Code and likely will not be shown here again. Crown prosecutor Richard Israels made the decision Thursday after consulting with the RCMP and Van- couver police vice squad, ‘who viewed In the Realm of the Senses Wednesday at the offices of Mary-Lou Me- Caustand, the provincial film classification officer. McCausland Initially ap- proved the movie for screening at the current international film festival here, where it was shown Monday. Israels said that both the sex and violence in the film contravened the Criminal Code. : It was to have been shown again tonight. McCausland said the film was approved by a con- census of her film classifiers because “it seemed ap- propriate for an in ternational film festival” al- though it did not have ap- proval for general distribution. She said the film was first classified last year but was not shown in B.C. because the distributors refused - to make the cuts requested by her agency. In the interim, it played in Quebec and Mc- Clausland decided to allow it into the film festival for two screenings. “It's nat one of your regular skinflicks that end up in movie houses specializing in that kind of movie," McCausland said. “Tt's a serious work that calers to a very different kind of audience.” Provincial Secretary and 1878 Parade Marshall, the Hon. Grace McCarthy waves to PNE crowd as she rides in a replica of a 1930 “EXCALIBUR" Touring Car -- the B0unit parade, lhe kick-off event for the 1978 PNE ‘'Discovery Fair’. Unemployment at 13 per cent EDMONTON (CP) — Unemployment in Canada is upwards of 13 per cent—far greater than figures reported by Statistics Canada—the National Council of Welfare says... Working Together, the council says ; labor-force statistics collected each month hy federal govern- nient fail to count among the jobless those who, though willing and able to work, have become discouraged and stopped job-hunting. The “hidden unem- ployed”, many of them poor, unskilled and uneducated, swell the ranks of the jobless to one-and-a-half times the federally-published average of 8.6 per cent for the first six months of 1978, the council says. The council is a Canada- wide citizens’ body formed to advise health and welfare officials. Ken Battle, assistant director, said the report has been sent to Monique Begin, federal] minister of health and welfare, and all mem- - bers of parliament. It stresses the need for im- mediate government help far the unemployed. Toothpaste Examination VICTORIA (CP} — The British Columbia govern- ment has terminated the contract of a medical doctor for mistreating women at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in Burnaby, a spokesman said Thursday. . Corrections commissioner Bernard Robinson said the doctor was dismissed for using an improper lubricant during an internal examination. He said toothpaste was used instead of surgical jelly. The firing followed com- plaints by five Doukhobor earlier this summer that they had been held in austere surroundings, had their clothes taken away from them, had been denied visiting rights and received improper medical treat- ment, BURNABY, B.C. (CP) -~ Seven guards at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre were charged with assault causing bodily harm after a former prisoner complained he was beaten while in the prison awaiting senlence. Russell James Elliott, 24, who made the complaint, now is serving a six-year sentence for drug traf- ficking. Race te Save Men Trapped LE HAVRE, France (AP) — Divers worked frantically Thursday to rescue four British seamen trapped underwater when their vessel capsized in a collision with a cargo ship, but. of- - ‘| ficials ‘said there was--little | = hope of finding them alive. Thecaptain of the capsized ship, thrown overboard by the collision, also was missing. Unable to penetrate the Last Minule News hull or lift the 850-ton Mary Weston from the ocean floor, the rescuers waited for the tide to ebb, but said it would be a miracle if the men were stillalive. .. . A'-150-ton_ crane falled to bed. of the Seine River " estuary in which the ship’s _masts were embedded. The Mary Weston collided with the 16,000-ton Ivory Coast freighter Yakasse and ‘hoist “the:-coabter-from thet Underwater a witness Said: "In five seconds it had gone under.” The Mary Weston's cap- tain, Kenneth Sheate, 50, was thrown from the ship by the impact. The French harbor ~ pilot who also went over- hospital in a state of shock. Soon after the collision, the divers made contact with one of the trapped men who communicated to them; “I am alone, in the engines, and I am not wounded.” OTTAWA ON THE PHONE By the Editor Rumours were rife in Canada's capital city on the telephone Thursday mor- ning, as Lo what bombshells Canada's Minister of Finance would be dropping at ¥ p.m. Jean Chretien had promised to make known, at that time, what and where further cuts would be made, and approximately another billion dollars or more were expected to be lopped from the budget. ..@ne speculation was a rollback of announced in- creases of a dollar a barrel on domestic oll prices would be revealed. Also five cents a gallon would be dropped from home fuel prices, and seven or eigh! cents a gallon on gasoline prices. By the time this item appears in Friday morning’s paper, however, the (ruth will have “outed and the Canadian public will be no longer in suspense. ..Paul Johnson, special correspondent and Free lance journalist with the Ed- monton JOURNAL and the Calgary HERALD returned to Ottawa following a three weeks tour with Con- servative leader Joe Clark through Ontario and also the Maritimes, . Johnson is said to be convinced that Joe Clark's popularity is on the upswing. regardless of Gallup polls to the contrary. He feels now thal Clark will not only hold his own in the Maritimes but will get in inthe next election - with a majority. , Also seen in Ottawa, this week, was Frank Howard. Frank, tanned and healthy looking, was said to be en- joying living in Ottawa, after years in the B.C. "outback". He now has a job selling stocks and bonds for Richardson Securities and although he was quoted as describing himself to be “ao slar salesman” had yet to sight the wolf on the familly threshold. .. When Frank lost his seat in Skeena riding to lona Campagnolo, he had ac- cumulated sufficient years service to quallfy him for a parliamentary pension, which, if f am correct, is tied into a cost of living clause and no doubt is enough to keep him off the welfare rolls of Bill VanderZaim, .. Speaking of Ottawa and Skeena Riding... Tonight, at 7:30, Skeena's M.P. fona will be par- ticipating Ia the opening of the Bulkley Valley Exhibition in Smithers, alter officially opeulng a Keep Fit and Nature Trail in Granisle, earlier this afternoon. . Saturday morning, the Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport will be participa-acting in the Bulkley Valley Parade, and, Saturday afternoon, meeting with constituents there, , Sunday morning, she will he in Rupert to officially open the Prince Rupert Fishing Exhibition in the Pride of the North Mall Gladys Blyth, well known photographer and author of a history of Port Edward - where she lives -is in charge of the exhibit, which is sponsored by the Prince Rupert Visitor's Bureau. Gladys hopes for a full fledged Marine Museum to become a reality for Rupert in the next couple of years. ..During Saturday and Sunday, lona will be drop- ping in on the Horticultural and Homecraft show at the Prince Rupert Civic Centre. This will probably bring back memorles to her of the days when she used to be president of the same Horllcultural Society, judge exhibits, exhibit, her own prize winning plants, and participate in flower arranging classes and displays. : Forestry Manager Appointed VICTORIA, B.C. -- Deputy Minister of Forests, T.M. Apsey, announced today the appointment of J.A.D. (Denny) McDonald as regional manager of the Cariboo region with headquarters at Williams Lake. Mr. McDonald, who has served with the ministry of forests for the past 24 years, has been assistanl regional manager of the Kamloops region since 1976. lle was born and schooled in Magnel, Manitoba, served for 5) years with the Lord Stratheona 2nd) Armoured Regiment, and graduated from Sandhurst Military College, England, in Hd. Returning to Canada in 1946, Mr. McDonald attended’ the University of British Columbia and worked for the forest service during the summer months. Following university graduation in 1951, he was employed by H.C. Forests Products Lid., before joing the forest service in 1954 Holding. a variety of positions in Victoria and Prince Rupert, Mr. Me- Donald was appointed in- charge of protection for the Prince George forest district in 1958. Four years later he was transferred to Kamloops where he held the same position until 1972, when he was uppointed assistant distriet forester for Nelson. - board was* rescued and in - eee beara ; { }