ee Poye 2, The Herald, Tuesday, June 39, 1982 Published every “weekday. at ‘owe ‘Kalua: ‘Street: errace, « -B.C., «BY: Storting.: ‘Publishers . aRy a ¥econd:. class 1 - Brlan Gregg | Advertising Sales: To "Terrace — David Hamiiton. staff Writers-Photographers: Sports: “Mike Howtet# - * Reception-Classified: _ Carelyn Gibson 7 Circylation: ~ "Maria Taylor ‘ . ‘NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT oo . The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright - Inany advertisement produced and-or any editorial of photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without. the written - Permission of the Publisher. Letters to the Editor ae To the Editor: Your co-operation is greatly appreciated. We are at- tempting to contact as many people as possible who have had tires with St. Stephen's Church, in the Parish of South Saanich, William Thomson, a ship's carpenter, sailed from ~ England for Victoria in the mid 1800’s. His ship was» wrecked on the West Coast of Vancouver Island and he was taken prisoner by a tribe of Nitinat Indlans. Six months . later he escaped to reach his original destination, where be began f. 7 The Parish of South ‘Saanich ‘began ‘as a result of * ‘Thomeon’s donation of land which was for the sole purpose ¢ ( puilding ce & shurch, Sith the help of several piher settlers, ~ and, based ona puddles surge of exportt whieh! wodld fottow” “such a .recovery,: Canada will; reverse ‘its: Plunge ‘Into taStephen’s Chure hh was. built. On: une 3, 1862 the first ewan RSH i he ddl Ghandi Bruise Coan still holding continuous services, The growth of the Parish - family has been such that the two Parish churches (St, Stephen's and'St. Mary's) no longer have the sphce to hold everyone. Consequently over 200 people meet every Sunday for an additional ‘service.in the Saanichton Elementary School, Because of this shortage of space, plans have begun “to expand the St. Stephen’s Memorial Hall for use in family worship and Christian Education. - Today’s Parish family has contributed a major portion of the funds necessary for the building congtruction by pur- chasing a piece of the expansion at $50 a square foot. We are appealing to those without current family ties here — those who were baptised, married or confirmed, have confirmed, Dan Schaffer 4 The year is 1957 andthis is the graduation class from Skeena, B.C. (Before Caledonia). You may, recognize Per Halvorsen of the fire “department or _ Gordon McConnell of Sight and Sound, ’ etc. The teacher Is Andrew Toews. The event is the Skeena High, School Reunion for the classes of 1954 to 1964, Just one month — “away organizers are _ Strongly Sa aa EECA EO AEC tat FA BIO AE aletta Gl mgt tat, Pang rena na ta a gtd a deen at eae e arta Taher ate at tah tam een eee at trl oe nT wana” ge” appealing to those who are @ planning to attend but have not sent in their registration forms. They must be in by Saturday, Juty'3. This Is a great op- portunity to meet and greet one another . _after so many years out of those school days. For further information cat Bea at 635-3258. tetera tt PASSA EOC RRA SARA ELEN NRO - Budget fi highlights gambling tables again. And again he's playing with chips that you're paying for. The big bet he made in his Monday night budget speech Is : that you’re ready to accept a voluntary drop in your living ._ Standards — as measured by the amount of money-you will have to spend — for two years in hopes of seeing Canada - climb out of the deep recession it now is experiencing. He made the same bet in his budget last November, when he expected that people were ready to accept wage or - “-salary-increasés that were well below the. rate of inflation. He lost that bet. . . There area couple af side bets riding on Monday’ 5 budget -as well. One is that the United States i is coming out of its recession " recession. _ The other is that investor confidence — national and: ” international — in Canada's immediate economic outlook... can berestored by short-term i measures which in effect say simply that things are going to get better. Similar bets were made last November, and lost. What are the prospects for his winning this time? Let’s look first at wages and salaries. : ; MacEachen said government employees — 500,000- of them, including the prime minister, other cabinet ministers and MPs — will beheld to slx-per-cént increases in the first year of his Program and five per cent in the second. He is betting that will induce peopte outside the govern- or have loved ones buried in St, Stephen's cementery, Your — ment to accept similar increases. This would, be said, be a contributions will enable the Parish of South Saanich to continue its growth in this area of the Peninsula that was - started by the Thomsons’ and their friends many years ago. - Yours very truly, . ’ Eileen M. Daoust Fund Raising Committee To the Editor, . AN - ‘The illegal spraying of Tordon ow ‘the Kispiox Rodeo grounds (where the thistle could have been manually controlled) incenses me to the point that I think Marty Allen should resign aa Regional District Director for the Kiepiox area. ” Lask myself, could this have happened anywhere in the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District? And it ls some relief to me to know that there are a few directors on the board wha" would not allow such a thing to happen under such cone - troversial circumstances. Unfortunately, ‘Mr: “Allen is no one'of them. - fhe pleads ignorance of the: law: that a permit is needed to spray aby land controlled or- owned by the crown, then I thik he js not. in a position to represent the people. If-he knew, or-suspected that permit was needed, but railroaded the: ‘spraying through late in the meeting, off the agenda, then his resignation is the very least that should happen. He andthe committee who decided quickly to spray parts at the. ‘fodeo grounds without further investigation - or. contemplation: not, only inconvenienced the women of the northwest’ ‘who. were scheduled to use the grounds 10 days _aftet the spraying. He has deepened the wound in a com- * munity already severely split oyer the use ofthis con- troversial: schemical, an insidious, malicious move by all involved; “It is a pity to think that these people are our leaders. As far as I am concerned, none of these people - Just what path are ‘they intent upon. leading us down and - _ why do they think: they are going to escape the .con- sequences? It 1s about time that they realized that the quick and the enay are decisions that will enst us all dearly in the ‘future. : . . { 4 a ~Bwy Hamilton, © “Tettew Welcome” The Herald welcomes Its readers comments. ‘Ail letters to. the editor of general public Interest Will be printed. They should be submitied 48 hours in: advance of desired publication date. We do, however, retain the right to refuse — to print letters on grounds of possible |Ibel or. bad taste. We may alto edit lstters for style and length. All fetters to be. coniidered for publication must be signed, itis impossible — to print a letter submitted within 24 hours of dasired publication date. ; . Of $10.5 billion, major factor in reducing the ‘inflation rate which stood at » 11.8 per cent last month. Wage increases, meanwhile, have been running about 12 per cent, For the last four years, wages have lagged behind | inflation and unions have vowed they would catch up this -. year. Will ‘wage restraint .for government employees be ‘an Influential factor in the economy? There are about 12 - million workers in Canada so the best MacEachen canhope for with controls for 500,000 is some kind of moral suasion. The best bet MacEachen has riding is that the U.S. is coming out of its recession. There are increasing signs this is happening. and, If so, it offers hope for a tot of. ‘Canadian - - OTTAWA (CP) — - Economic recovery is imminent but ~ Canada will still turn in the worst performance of major. - Western industrial countries this year, the federal govern- ” iment ‘said Monday in its new budget. woe - ‘ The budget forecasts that the economy, once’ inflation is taken into account, will actually shrink by two per cent. Not only is that worse than ‘the 2.2 per cent Increase , predicted less than eight months ago, it is-worse than the - - expected performances. in the’ United States, | Japan, _ Britain, France, West Germany and Italy. - And the budget’s optimism about a recovery is nat shared a by the government's major economic ‘monitoring agency, Statistics Canada.. "+ ‘The federal agency has yet to see any bottom to the current. recession, let alone any imminent recovery, ~ _Which begins Thursday, ° His officials said the prediation that | a recovery is im- - minent is based on indications. that: the: U. 8. recession has. - already hit bottom.” MacEachen avoided putting exact. numbers on “fature ‘Inflation and unemployment, but: did “admit the govern— “ment’s deficit will Ilkely teap to $19. 6 billion for the 1982-83 fiseal year — ‘almost double his 2 November budget forecsat The: ‘budget argues that: the sharp: fiquldation of in- ventories by business in the first quarter of the year Is an important signal that economic recovery is imminent. The recent rise {nj the cavings rate and the decline in - outstanding consumer-credit suggest a hasis for increased consumer spénding, it says. That flys in.the face of a report last week by the Con- ference Board of, Canada that most economic projections indicate things will get worse before they get better. - . Interms of unemployment, the budget: doesn t expect | the MacEachen’ 's budget swallows. hard ~ Finance Minister Allan MacEachen has gone back to the - businesses which Jook south of the border for- sales, Perhaps the mast obvious one is the forest: industry. A US. Tecovery will see a spurt in housing, for example, which will produce an immediate demand for Canadians . products in that field, _What about investor confidence? ‘MacEachen tried to help there nationally by. providing some tax incentives, and internationally by easing restrictions imposed by the Foreign Investment Review Act .. and by assurances ‘that the so-called Canadlanizatlon -” program for energy will be eased off. It's going to take time to see. how that bet goes. - On some. other aspects of Monday's budget, the odds ' appears stacked against the government, ate Proposed, » for example, § #750, million J for ib r _ ‘That sounds:like a’good' bet, But ‘ecohwitties’ ‘eaummate it takes $1 billion to lower the unemployment rate by one “percentage point. a Unemployment now sta ds at 10,2 per cent — —LH million Canadians — so there's 4 long way.to go. Many economists also argue that the best hope for a quick " recovery from the current recession is a burst of consumer spending. But there is nothing i in the budget to encourage you to open your wallet. in fact, with a cut in the next two years of _ indexing of personal iricome taxes costing $1.3 billion, the ‘opposite would appear to be the case. Stacking the odds againat MacKachen is the shocking size of the government's deficit — almost $20 billion against the $10.5 billion’ he forecast in last -November's | ‘budget . presentation. oo ' The reasons for, the shortfall are ¢lear — - because of ‘the recession, the government's income through taxes has ‘dropped off while its spending on such things ‘as unem- - ployment insurance benefits and interest ¢ on its huge debts ~ ., has grown. | -* This is certain to affect confidence i in 1 Canada’ 'S economy, “and to keep interest rates high because of government . , demands on what money is available for investment: So whether you cover MacEachen’s bets depends on your faith on how he rolls the dice. He suggested he may want: - another roll when he offered ‘the Prospect « of still another budget i in the fall. Is our future really brighter? current record. jobless level to improve: substantially this year. . ‘For this reason, . “urgent. job creation. measures,” worth” "$500 ‘Ihillion, were initiated, ‘the budget says.- The deficit increase was blamed on the recession, which: , “has bloated spending and stripped: the government of corporate and personal tax revenues. - 3 - The budget shows the current unemployment rate of 10.2 per cent is the second worst of the major industrlal coun- ‘And the current, inflation rate of 11.8 per cent is the third worst af, the seven major industrial states, budgét + Names show.. a ws ~ by uim HULTON “4 made two dozen choclate chip. bookies. Can ‘you eat all of them?” ' oS Skeena me the Trudeau ‘government? - when this samé government is raising the price of ail shy $2,235 a barrel on July 1, Liberal government and the Alberta. Conseryative: ‘government - will cost Candian consimers $1.25 pillign in "ane year. The huge alice of what would otherwise be, fon. sumer spending is being gobbled up by gover treasuriés at the worst possible time. Consumer’ is down because of high interest rates and high unem- ployment. In turn, this is reflected in the record number ol small businesses going bankrupt. One can only guess how many more businesses will close because of the loss of this additional $1.25 billion from the pockets of consumers. unemployment. World oil prices are going down. Canadian. industries, who have had the advantage of comparatively. low oil pri , will loge at least a part of that ‘comparative ~ edge w prices here goup. = - the trudeau government is bound to argue that they could not have foreseen the present situation when they signed the deal with Alberta, But the current glut of oll: qn the international market and the weakening of the OPEC cartel . “were already apparent and reported widely when the deal was made, The federal government ignored that warning, and now say they cannot change the deal. a ’ ‘Yet, they. were able to make changes that helpeitite multinational oil companies just a few weeks ago. | guess ‘this isn’t so strange in a country governed by political ‘ex- pediency and corporate patronage. By altering their own taxation schedules, they allowed a-multi-billion give-away to these all companies, The New Democratic Party has called fora can of the July 1 increase in the price of oll, We claim that " give conmimners a price break to match the tax break given the comnpanies, iis will provide the shot in the arm the ‘To that arguinent, both. Liberal and: Conservatlves, - mindful only of the campaign support they receive from the oil companies - have tuned a deaf ear. Can they dare af- ford to he 80 ingonsitive to their voters? dpe. _ YICTORIA ~ REPORT : by FRAN ik HOWARD Skeena MLA 1 was reading the Vancouver Province a few.days ago and, much to my surprise, saw advertised therein a por- nographic movie; Now, Idon’t mean the near-pornographic ‘stuff with suggestive scenes that are fairly common in the average family theatre, No! I mean the hard-core, explicit "detailed, porsographle. movie. . The name of ‘that movie was Deep Throat and it was This tax increase - part of the deal: between the federal: The high oll price will, in addition, lead to -furtiien © the fight alnat inflaton really t the highest priority of - a rf i : ‘Finance’ Minister Allan - MacEachen repeatediy telia us 90 but we have to. w vee a “advertised as showing at the Haida Theatre.on Kingsway...» ' Deep! Throat is apparently the pornograptiic movie, made i- in the United States, which helped to catapult pornograpiy into a billion dollar industry. Ae Upan checking the situation: out I had confirmed to me that Deep Throat and a number of other pornographic ‘movies are shown from time to time in Britigh Columbia -because the provincial government Maines it is okay. and approves of it, We do not hive. movie censoring’ in the gaveincmbst “structire as censoring. is usually understood. We have’ a * gystent of catagorizing movies and a right to prohibit them ‘from being shown. The B.C, government categorized Déesp / Throat With. a disclaimer in the advertisemeiit ‘saying, ~. “Warning: Completely concerned with sex.” Ti also - ~ ‘Identified the film as being a “Reconstructive Version.” cog Upon inquiring: further ‘Tdiscovered that pornographit movies are shown from Ume to time in Victoria. 1 mean _ ‘right here in the Capital, in staid, quiet,-reserved Victoria: - ‘Two of the recent titles of such movies, so T am told, wert . Insatiable and The Devil in Miss Jones, : a : under the office of the Attorney General and is governed by. the Motion Picture Act. _ “Ee ’ The film classification section tries to assess the level, of. . : ~ community acceptance of. filma, and would: probably riot . ‘allow a: show like Deep Throgt to be shown. in, sayy. _ Seihers, Kitimat.or Terrace at this time, I would think - -Conv Ys ‘woul | Sas tine tom : province, “ts move ‘ormographic movies being shown... “After all, we' are still very’ highly’ influenced’ 7 tat” - comes out of Hollywood and what is shown oni television. iwe are. also highly influenced by. explicit sex scenes In’. -magazines which are openly -displayéed in drug : ‘atores, © cornerstones and the like and available to all ages. Thode are the factors which desensitize us and move or mea standards lower and lower. . ‘Doyon want todo something aout it befor it's to att. * Write. to the Attorney General and send me.a copy-it ae don’t the Attorney General won't budge and Deep ' or something like it, will be in the your local theatre b you know it. ah The film classification section’ of government operates ; nk “i publie opinton oad _ u shown anywhere in, the When ‘a government operates on the. basis of So » a8.does this governipent, then populist opinita: | wll away’ ‘government ‘opinion, Relative’ wanes § ill reswt