ednesday, March 15, 1967 CASSIE HALI. SCHOOL choir, attired in Centennial costume, performed Jast Friday night when. the pag- eant “A Journey for Two of the school Guditorium. , was enacted on the stage (Gauthreau photo} i Home For. Seniors - I Gets Approval The regular monthly meeting fof the Old Age Pensioners As- ee sociation was held March 4 in m Terrace Community Centre| s with 32 members in altendance. me Two new members, Mrs. C, ze J. Fowler, and Mr. W. K. Best & were welcomed to the group. Mrs. Amdam reported the OL E Provincia, aovernment has giv- Zen final approval to plans for ; the Senior Citizens Home and B that it is now going out to ten. der. Mr. Griffiths gave'a very in- teresting report on his recent me holiday in Nassau. f Plans for the forthcoming tea } and bazaar to be held April, 29 ‘in ‘the Community Centre were discussed. Al! members: are @ busy preparing for this event. Tickets arc now on sale for the fem raffle and many kind people s have donated in varlous ways Stor the project. Members celebrating ‘Mareh | ‘birthdays were’ Mrs.":G.- - Skog. |_ lund, Mr..G,-Hifp, Mrs. G. Lit!}: 4 fe and Mrs, M, Kirby. The Skeena Secondary school girls choir, under the direction me of Mr, Andrew Brodie, enter- Me tained the meeting at’ the. con- Se clusion of the business session. Hostesses for {he meeting 4 were Mrs. BR. - Skoglund, who ; sent’ a. beautifuliy ‘decorated birthday cake in honour of Mrs. G. Skoglund. Other hostesses were Mrs. W. Thain, Mrs. H. me. K. C.Smith and Mrs.V. Mock: : ford. mm. COUNT SCOOTER TOLL ‘WINNIPEG (CP).,— Motor scapter operators were respan- | sible for 89 of 203 accidents a involvigg scooters in Manitoba in the first nine months of 1966. There were five deaths in all the accidents. CLOSED ON GOOD FRIDAY THIS WEEKEND The Chordities - Mar, 25 THE CHIEFTAINS - with " FELIX GRANT Mar, 31, Apr. ] CHORIDITTES AND 7 ‘PANTOMANIACS No cover charge for: couples or groups having dinner at the Red D'Or between 8 and 10 p.m. Regular cover charge after 10 p.m. ‘Laurent’s government, “What's well mannered. cain, ‘the. Oppo- sition: scolds the’Cabinet, the | : Ottawa Offb by RICHARD JACKSON OTTAWA. — Two not-so- funny things happened the other day on Parliament Hill. And happened coincidentally — which gave them ‘all that much more impact. Happening No. 1: ‘The Com. mons was told — with the wide- ly-recognized and well-establish- ed authority of Auditor Gener- al Maxwell. Henderson — that government waste and extra- vaganee is. costirig Canadians annually additional millions of tax dollars. Happening No. 2: The Com- mons-Senate Committee on Con- sumer Casts was told — with the similarly widely-recognized and, well established authority “Phe: ” Canadian’ E¢onomict" Foiitdallél— that ‘govetnment}|" taxes ‘are largely. to blame for the cver-rapid rise in prices. So the poor, patient taxpayer is getting it both ways, coming and going... with the gov. ernment wasting his tax dollars while driving up prices © with those same taxes, ; After 26 years of continuous Pariiament-watching’ From a daily front row Commons Gal- lery pew, you begin: to get the idea “that Auditors General come and Auditors General go, but the’ big bureaucratic spend. ers: go on forever. OLD FASHIONED: - Economy in government — especially the high tax federal administration —- long has been out of style. Perhaps it never really was “in” politically, « But it became autlandishly unfashionable soon after John Dicfenbaker in 1957 awakened the Conservatives. from their| 22-year out -of-power sleep, and the great- promise anything give away race for the Welfare State got started for real between the Grils and the Tories.: Think for a minute — ean you remember any recent Fed- eral election in. which ‘there was even a hint of ecanomy or tax trimming amid all the big- ger and better spending prom- ises? So? As old C. D. “Trader” Howe was quoted as saying back in the mid-50s when he was run- ning Prime Minister Louis St, a million?” You've been getting the play. back on that’ ‘one ever since from the Federal government: “Nothing, really.” -. _ Except that every year the Auditor General: raises. a ‘little Commons Public Accounts Com: mittee investigates a few of the more bizarre cases of waste,|: eveybody happy-go-lucky. - for- gets all about. it, the big bur-} eaucratic spenders romp on|: with their adventures in extra. 7 vagance, and up go the taxes taking prices with them. You know the kind of stuff the Auditor General digs up: * The CBC paying out het- ter than half a million for work NOT performed. * The: Public Works Depatt- ment generously leasing at $1 a year government property NOT declared surplus. HEADING FOR HALF: * The Industries Department paying $103,000 for 42,064 hours NOT worked: by compos- iters at the Queen's Printers. * The Public Works Depart- ment paying $39,182 in penal- ties for a $604,782. building penalties for a $604,782: build- ing contract NOT let, on time..: *.The,.Publie Accounts Com; mittee letting ‘more tax, millions |. -: be wasted by NOT - probing three-quarters of the cases of waste and extravagance expos- ed-two years ago by the Audit- or Generel = Big waste, little waste, a hun- dred dollars here, a hundred | ‘thousand there .; , who eares? Obviously not enough — ex- cept for a ‘fleeting moment of irritation at Federal ‘Income Tax time — that anything much is ever done about it. . But look at it. this. way: the. way Big Government works, the more it spends, the more it wastes, the more it taxes. REV. FLOYD BOWMAN The minjstry of Rev. Floyd Bowman reaches from Ohio * to Timbuktu. From his child. hood home in Ohio he went to -Fort Wayne, * Indiana, Average . 5 attr tas Angome up- eat... And mull over these financial home-truths spelled out by the Canadian Economie Foundation: to the Commons-Senate Con- sumer Costs Committee which has been travelling the nation investigating the upwhirling price spiral: — * Twenty years ago the gov- ernment — all levels of public administration —- took 20 tax cents out o fevery one of your income dollars. -* Currently - governinent —_ and the Federal administration gets the biggest grab — takes ‘37.2 tax cents out of each of your ineome dollars. * While the government's tax, share of national income soared those 17.2 percentage points, verept LA-points.. ye ui. By far the biggest part of the price inereace is the built in rising fost of taxes, where he began his prepara. | & tion for the ministry. in the > Fort Wayne -Bible , College. Having --finished the course. |. there, he’ went'for- a further year of traitiiivg’ to the Nyaek Missionary College, Nyack, N.Y. £ , Rev. ‘Bowman will. sneak at the Alliance Gospel Chap- "el at 5010 Age Ave, ‘from: Wednesday Sunda ye “ Mareh 13 lo ae ‘Mr. Bowman s with ‘hinv slides, - curios | ; and a costime,-The pastor, Rev. E. Thiessen. and . the " gangregation cordially invite “you to hear: Mr, Bowman: : ——. PORK: STILL RISKY. | QUEBEC (CP) — "Pork inust | be .-caoked. “lang ; enough: « reach. ‘150: ‘degrees Fahienhelt warns’ Dr. Ferdinand, Trudel- of | “de: 4 partment, Every year, a number. " Of people still’, ‘contract ° ‘trich: the Quebec agricultu nosis. from undercooked pork _TERRACE “Omineca’’ HERALD, TERRACE, BL. f Expansion Band x. \: Guarantee R. TOYNBEE . President Mainspring Yallow Case ' ‘ &-Year . you PAY Perrerrerterry HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY Thornhill: Realty Lid. LARRY CLAY | . . Insurance Manager Several years experience in all types of insurance. 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