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_ TSRRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C. ‘MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1971 a

“BY KAYCE WHITE

. "| Afriend of ours claimshecan [i
“spend only afew days in the jie
concrete: jungle. of downtown | -

-” Terrace before being overcome ;
“with an irresistible urge to get
back to nature and relax,

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OUR OPINION

A sad case

Free enterprise flourishes in
socialist Manitoba, but socialist
monopoly previals in free enterprise
British Columbia - in the marketplaces
of the provincial governments, that is;
in their respective liquor stores. Look
at the case of beer, ,

In Social Credit B.C. the price of beer
is fixed, inexorably, by cabinet and the
Liquor Control Board. The man who
knows’ this __ best is Gen
Ginter, the Prince George brewer. He
wanted to cut his prices in 1968, after
the LCB had arbitrarily decided to
raise them. Eventually, he was forced
to accept an extra profit he said he
didn’t need since the government was
pocketing the difference anyway. He
was not allowed to put dime-dividends
in his beer packages. He was not
nilowed to pay refunds until the
Hovernment saw a way lo further boost
the price of beer so that all brewers
could afford to make refunds.

The same Ben Ginter has a brewery
in Manitoba. He wanted to cut prices.
Bul the system is different there. The
liquor board is not a
dictatorship; pricing is also referred to
the Public Utilities Commission. Both
agencies heard Mr. Ginter’s request,
and approved his enterprise. The
result is a 15-cent reduction on a dozen
of Uncle Ben’s best.

The interesting rationale of the
Manitoba government was that Mr.
Ginter is prepared to risk capital on his
venture, so there’s no reason to deny |
him,

But such risks are inconsistent with
the brewery business in B.C. This was
made clear by William Bruce, the new

one-man liquor commission, when the

B.C. cabinet recently set a price-fixing.
formula, There will be no beer price
war in B.C., Mr. Bruce declared,

Theoretically this seemed possible
because the cabinet formula allegedly
made pricing automatic on the basis of
fixed markups. The markup on local
bottled beer, for example, was set at 26
percent of the retail selling price. This,
incidentally works out to about 35
percent, excluding sales tax, of the
wholesale price to the LCB, in terms of
real profit.

But there will be no free competition
in beer prices. Mr. Bruce explained
why. The wholesale price, he said,
will not necessarily be the only factor
in determining the retail price - despite
the apparent clarity of the cabinet
order. The other factor is
“government policy” which will be
followed ‘as in_the past.” Thus
bureaucracy triumphs anew over the
legislative process.

Go ahead, cry in it.

Uppory
te : . : remy

It's easy to see now why State
Secretary Gerard Pelletier has been
loath to give any information to
anybody on the fine points of his so-
called Opportunities for Youth
program. On the basis.of what’s heen
dragged out of this amazing minister
thus far, a boondoggle that would be
more aptly named -Opportunities for
Young Con Men is about to be foisted
on the taxpayers of this country.

. Mr. Pettetier’s achievement in
topping the profligate excesses of such
earlier Pelletier catastrophes as the
Company of Young Canadians and last
summer's youth hostel program, not to
mention the Canada Council in its more
whimsical moments, isn't the sort of
thing one brags about at the top of
one's voice.

~The scandal of so many of the
“‘projects”’ approved for southwestern
British Columbia is not only the
- wastage of money, nat only the
wastage of time and presumably
talent, but what is most appalling of
all, their corrupting influence.

By this, we don't mean subsidizing
pot farmers - anyhow, the Mounties
harvested that marijuana up in Prince
George before the first kids arrived at
the Pelletier-subsized ‘wilderness
project” - or communes, or videotapes

tunities fc

ny Dab stig EW BR ol

Nef apes dlr en ea :

of drug addicts or studies of “social :

isolation among teen-agers.’ It it is
accepted that Mr. Pelletier is
incapable of doing. good the way he
throws: money around, it follows that
he can hardly be more capable of doing
evil.

No, what is really corrupting about
the state secretary’
their invitation to what, in the moral if
not the legal sense of the word is fraud,
not just barefaced but gleeful. Mr,

Pelletier has created a pork barrel for

the young, and that, rather more than .

any bias toward what Welfare Minister
Phil Gaglardi calls the “‘left of left,” is
_ his cardinal sin,

That Mr, Pelletier is left looking like

a fool - a $5,000-plus grant to study the :

problems of bicyclists commuting to
UBC indeed! -'is of no concern.:

§ crazy criteria is-

‘That .

the federal government is: left looking,

like‘a fool, gulled by any young'ma
with the gall. to push a worthiéss' idea,

isa testament to.bureaueracy: at its

WOrst::

Not even‘a Pelletier can throw away

> $25 million ‘or whatever: it-.is'+: the

_ amount Keeps changing - without dome"

“ever seen.'” Some of the kids are bound
to make some contribution, in Spite of.
n: Gerard Pelletier.and his disastrous::.
+ project-selection. But if itis too late:to
- introduce realism, and it undoubtedly.
. is, itign’t too late for Commons to.put-a :

~ Watchdog «on :this : program’ :to' keep’.
‘damage to-a minmum, 7

ha t?
Pe cet isda
of it sticking to some project that seeks —
to do something for someone. And, like
littie flickering lights under the bushel
of insulting nonsense that passes for
the opportunities program in
soulhwestern B.C., there are indeed
some ideas that deserve better
company. These are not overlapping
studies of studies but actual work with
handicapped children, actual
programs for parks, actual English
lessons for new Canadians, actual
litter cleanups and actual footpath
clearing. How did they get in there
with the ‘Legal Front Commune
feneral store and funny food farm"?
Some maverick underling - Mr.
Pelletier doesn’t personally concern
himself with grants under $50,000 -
must have slipped them in while the
swingers were earmarking more than
$4,000 ‘‘to identify the special needs of
Richmond youth.” ,

In between the worthy and the
absurd, of course, there’s a whole
clutch of projects that are, at best:
harmless. It will be a rare park bush
this summer that doesn't bloom with
subsidized troupes doing nlime. And if
research into ‘‘the effect of a new -—
educational technique of meditation”
doesn’t benefit the community, maybe
tumbling on Lower Lonsdale will.

Fortunately, perhaps, British
Columbia received only the scraps

‘from Quebee’s table in Mr. Pelletier’s

apportioning of opportunity funds. If
this province had received, instead of
$2.4 million to be shared with the
Yukon, Quebec’s $9 million, or even
Ontario’s $5 million, the buffoonery.
would have been on astill larger scale,

Such as the $167,800 garbage-studying
project approved for some students at
Queen’s; that’s what it is costing the

' taxpayer to poll some 300 Kingston

residents and “classify their rubbish
into categories according to. socio-
economic class’’. .
It is little short of a crime that what
was supposed to engage young people
in. bettering’ the quality of Canadian ..
life should have descended ‘to what one
Conservative critic called “the
greatest political sham that I have

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“To Filbert Phelps, Esquire
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~ the woods. with

Apparently he goes out into
with @ knife and
‘captures hig-dinner.on-the hoof,
-.. Another friend insists that the
ultimate high in camping out is
to register in a- suite at

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Vancouver's Bayshore Inn and -:

~ leave the rest to room service,

-, Other people have in-between Jey

ideas-of what constitutes
“roughing it”. oe
The average news reporter,

_ for example, is. accustomed to
- an!

_using weapons ne more lethal
than a-pen and an electric can-
opener; if left alone in the

- woods for more than two days

Opportanities
mi...”

Bill Smiley

The old junk man

There's a lot of talk about
recycling these days, That does
net mean that great numbers of
middle-aged people are going
back to the bicycle in despair
over traffic and their own
wretched physical condition,
although this is also happening,
and & good thing too,

Recycling is basically the
smashing up of such things as
paper and tin and turning them
back into more paper and tin,
instead of the polluting of our

countryside with such garbage, _

It is common practice in
many of the countries of the
world which are out-stripping
Canada and the U.S.
internationally, It alsomakes a
great deal of common sense.

It boggles one's raind.to,think.’.,

of the millions of tons ofspaper.é

cans bottles. and other
reclaimable materials which
head each week for the garbage
dump.

There are several reasons for
‘this vast wastage, One of them
is that we have tremendous
natural resources and we throw
them away with a lavish hand.
It’s like living on one’s capital.
A second reason, obviously, is
that industry is not geared for
reclaiming waste. In many
cases it’s probably cheaper to
produce new tins than to recycle
tin,

Neither of these reasons is a
valid one. In the first place,
those inexhaustible.

resources”’ or raw material
could be exhausted in a few

other kinds of paper,

decades. In the second,
industry should, and must, find
cheap means of recycling
manufactured materials into
raw materials,

But of course it’s much
simpler ta look at the
immediate buck. [t's much
simpler just to raise the price of
the product than ‘to find
methods of using disposable
items over and over again.

Like everything else, the
recycling business seems
complicated. . A Joeal
organization is raising money
for a worthy cause, It is
collecting newspapers. But
they must be bundled and tied
just so, And they don’t want any
In the
meantime, I throw out five
hupded paunds.of books, which...
haye.a‘higher rag content than.
the newsprint which is being
picked up. Seems silly,

What ever became of the ald
junk-man? There was the ideal
catalyst between the consumer
and the recycler, The perfect
middie-man.

Most small towns had a junk-
man, He usually had a big yard .
with a fence around it, and
inside the fence was an exotic
jungle of junk.

When ] was a kid the junk-
man was my chief source of:
income. A vast, genial Jew with
a benign twinkle, he treated us
as one businessman to another.
There was little haggling.on our
Fart, because it was the only
game in town, but on the other
hand, he didn’t try to beat us.

down.

Prices were established. Pint
beer bottles were worth a cent,
quarts two cents. He'd double
his money on them. Old car
tires were a nickel apiece.

Paper and scrap iron were .

carefully weighed, and after a
judicious pause, beard cocked
to one side, he’s day, “T gif you
twelf cents.”

An enterprising kid could pick
himself up forty or fifty cents a
week, big money in those days.
And if we caught a nice pike in
the canal (this was before
people worried about sewage
and such) it was a bonanza,
worth a dime or fifteen cents.
But a meal for ‘his family.

He prospered. And many of
the big fortunes in Canada
today started out.in the junk
yard. The junk, zhan was an

unrecognized benefdctar to “

society, . ;

During the war, there were
tremendous drives for scrap
metal and newsprint. It must
have been used for something.
Pig farmers picked up the food
garbage from big military
kitchens. ;

Why couldn’t we do the same
today? It would provide
employment, stop wasting
resources, and do a lot to clean
up our environment.

I'd be perfectly. willing to
sort my garbage into waste
food, bottles and cans, and
newspapers. Hew about you?
We could all be our own junk-
men, and do a lot for our
country.

_ better position, to
~spublie interesfyin-ask

Farmers and capital gains —

From the B.C. Federation of
Agriculture newsletter

Beginning January 1st, 1972, a
Capital Gains Tax will apply in

Canada.

There area few points to keep
in mind when evaluating the
effects of this Capifal Gains
Tax, First, is the fact that only
one-half of the capital gain will
be taxed, and the tax will apply
at personal rates. Apparently
the taxable portion of a capital
gain may be averaged ‘over
several years to lessen the tatal
tax otherwise payable:

Secondly, the Capital Gains
Tax will not be retroactive,
There will be an evaluation day
sometime before January 1st,

1972, and only gains that °

accumulate beyond that date
will be subject to the tax. For

example, if a farmer purchased |

land in 1950 for $10,000, valued it

_ at $50,000 on evaluation day,

then subsequently sold it in 1973
for say $55,000 only the Jast
$5,000 would be subject to the
provisions of the Capital Gains
Tax. Of this $5,000 only one half
would-actualiy be taxable,

- Thirdly, homes on a lot of one -

acre or less will be completely ,

"exempt from the gains tax,

Farmers will be given the
option of (a) splitting off their
home and one acre from the rest
of the farm. for’ evaluation.

- purposes, or: (b) deducting a .
- Standard $1,000 per yéar from

the’ cpaltal gain, inorder to
exempt the increasing value of

-_the-house’and lof from the tax,
‘One, of: the more” difficult. .

‘provisions of. the tax is what is |

‘called ‘deemed realization on:

‘degth'\,. This-means that, when’
a darm is passed fram. ‘one
individual toanother (excluding .

-the spouse), there is-deemed to.
be'a sale at fair market value, :
“. ‘and: the * provisions

of the

Taken together with succession
duties, this deemed realization
will create a very substantial
cash requirement in any
instance where a farm passes
from one generation to another
upon death,

‘There are many more points
which require further
information and clarification,
but there is no question that the
imposition of a capital gains tax
will take many dollars from
farmers. We are especially
alarmed that no provision is
made ta compensate for the
inflationary increase in land
prices, :

Estate Tax

The Federal Government .
intends to vacate the Estate Tax
field completely, on December
31, 1971. | ;

Existing arrangements vary
from Province to Province, but
generally speaking, the Estate,
Tax field is shared between the
Federal and Provincial
Gavernments, with the Federal
share being 25 percent and the
Provincial share being 75
percent. In mast provinces, the
Federal Government’ collects: .-
the entire tax, then; in turn, ,

‘

tebates 75 percent to the

Provincial Government, In
British Columbia, Ontario, and
Quebec,. however,
Provincial Governments collect

. their own. share through the.
imposition of Succession Duties.-

When Federal’ Estate Tax no
longer: ‘is’ payable, then
residents ‘of B.C, will still pay

‘the three-quarter portion levied. -
Under the B.C. Succession Duty :.
“ACh... It-ca’ be’ réadily “seen”.
- therefore, ‘that the elimination.; -
‘of Estate Taxes will tbe ofsfar= ° ~

_ Greater: benefit to ‘the. Prairles.,

and the Maritimes, than it.is:to.

"B,C, Ontario, and’ Quebee,’
‘Capital Gains Tax law applies, “On: top: of this, Premier °.

: fa
"OR

life-and. breath, ace

Bennett announced, after the
release of the Federal Budget,
that this Province probably will
increase its Succession Duties
by the amount of the Federal
reduction. If this happens, the
elimination of Federal Estate
Taxes’ will mean virtually no
change for B.C. farmers,

YOUR
OPINION

Dear Editor:

The B.C: Tuberculosis-
Christmas Seal Society.
‘approves and éndorses recent
Legislation by the Government

‘' ‘to, curb — cigarette

- advertising and the recent Bill
introduced in the Federal House -

to restrict it on the national
level, - ane

. It is our sincere wish ‘that
Legislation will be brought in at’
an early date to make the

Federal Bill a reality,.

-. Among alms and objectives of |

this Society is ‘control “of
“tuberculosis. and. seeking | out
‘causes.and cures of respiratory
_ diseases.

he would starve to death unless
something came by in a tin.
Other people simply kid

‘themselves when they drive an -

ultra-modern camper equipped
with television, electric heater,
Thosquito screens and enough
food for a hatallion into the

woods and ‘set up temporary (iEa™

housekeeping...
Today, the family that sets

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‘out with a camper in hopes of

“getting away from it all is apt to
find that il’s gone along with

. D istributor. $s * them. The problem, once the

power curbed .

TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL

An editorial in a politically
independent daily,

Magazine and paperback
distributors offer a package
service. They do not supply
publications, they set up
displays and, in the case of
paperback books, choose the
titles. In faet, “many
distributors go beyond merely
offering these services; they
insist on providing them as a
condition of supply.

So when you browse through

-the paperbacks on, the rack at .

the corner store, what you're

. flipping through is.not the store

owner’s choice of books, it’s the |
distributor's. :

This in itself need not bé
particularly disconcerting.
Distributors are often in a
Bauge the

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It's when selection! become
arbitrarily limited 1Hat concéfn®
arises, en a

The worst threat of al! would

» - be to have that kind of contral
_ exist in foreign hands. Yet we

are told this is exactly what is
about to happen.

To the Ontario government's
credit, it has acted quickly and
decisively. It received the
interim report June 10; on June
14 Financial and Commercial
Affairs Minister Arthur Wishart
introduced legislation that
thereafter will require at least
75 percent Canadian ownership
in distribution companies,

- Statistics are ©

-conclusive.-that.cigarette

smoking .is.a factor. in. their
the .* yee

‘ rapid increase. 71.
Legislation ‘against; tobacco.
advertising will be a big step
forward. To.us it is a-matter of

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Yours slitcerely,
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wandering camper-outer gets
on the open read, is how to get
off, -

There are nearly four, million §

recreation vehicles in use in
North America today. They are
accomodated in almost a
Million campsites operated by
federal] and provincial
governments and private
citizens.

In the USA, franchised
commerica! campgrounds are
popping up everywhere, many
of them graced with the same
luxuries that go with modern
hotels. ,

It won't be long before the
poor fellow who drives 500 miles
to the tall timber will find a ‘‘No
Vacancy” sign flashing where
the lonely campfire ance
flickered.

‘My next trick

ME What can you say about a'66-

year old bishop who eats grags?
In London the Rt, Reverend
_ Kenneth Sansbury, an Anglican
bishop, chewed and swallowed
some freshly mown grass.
Seems, let's faceit, kind of silly.
But when you learn- the
reverend did it ta protest
poverty, doesn’t it begin to
make sense? Praying is a touch
old fashioned; collecting
money might do seme good but
it’s sodull, Eating grass has to
be the answer. ~

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OK, Your Grace, that was.

easy. Now do something about
pollution.

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