“Job Program > Promised by " ’ Chretien By [JULIET O'NEILL - (OTTAWA (CP) ~ — ‘Finance : Minister’ Jean Chré..en said Tuesday he’ hopes to announce before the end of the month de- tails of-u promised $100 — ttillion subsidy program uimed at getting private business to create new jobs. x In the © Commons, Chretien blamed delay in getting the program rolling on opposition MPs for allegedly stalling current debate on legislation containing personal and corporate income tax cuts, among other proposals. “Unfortunately, it has teen difficult for me to work on that prograx- secnuse I have had to be in the House for the- last four weeks on a daily basis” to particip te in the debate, Chretien said. Chretien made - the statement as opposition MPs demand fresh initiatives to create em- ployment after Statistics ‘anad = Figures showed the unemployment rate increased in November to 84 per cent, the highest since 1940. The actual number of unemployed leaped to 840,000 last month, 53,000 higher than in October. ‘Like the income tax proposals before . Parliament, the new em- ployment subsidy program was mong roposals Chretien made in October. - INCLUDES SUBSIDIES Oificials say the program would provide subsidies called em- ployment credits to com- panies that hire ad- ditional workers. It would be aimed at such labor- intensive work as wharf construction or railway maintenance. Urging opposition MPs to start approving claugesunof; thew tax legislation: tquickly, Chretien sai the business community is getting discoura by the slow pace and ‘if we proceed at this rate, the i] will not be passed for two years.” - By the end of Tuesday's debate, MPs had passed 13 of 116 clauses in the bill. Because of a overnment motion imiting debate, the whole bill should be approved next week. Ed Eroadbent, New Democratic Party : leader, told Chretien during question period the bill should be scrapped because ii contains incentives for business to expand when business cannot even fill its current production capacity. “The minister is proposing the wrong incentives at the wrong” time because we aré op- erating at only 83-per- cent capacity,” Broad- hent said. But the — minister’ replied that if there is no incentive, private in- dustry will invest less. MPa WILL HAVE SAY Later, Chretien promised to give MPs, on un experimental basis, a higger-say-in what might gf inte government budg- tla, generally composed by public servants in were, He said he would refer iuur or five areas of tax problems to a Commons cecammittee for comment and recommendations, “haut J weuld not be bound by those recom- mendations because 1 would nat want lo reveal measures before an- nouncing a hudget.” Ht the .system, to be sturted after Christmas, works out, “I will try to persuade the government to change the system we have had over.100 years.” Progressive Con- servative Finance critic Sinclair Stevens ‘(York Simcoe) said he does not object to a “‘little kite- flying in the future” but wants more thorough debate of tax proposals after they are decided by the government. The minister has ruthlessly gagged this Parliament” by limiting debate, Stevens said. John Hipp ‘from Nai is le ae an ee on uae aa wemee™ vat Lo tenes mp, B.C., above left (stan group of field officers form the federal fisheries organization atte: course held at the Federal Study Centre, Arnprior, Ont. last month. The g). seen with a nding a course, which ran from November 13 to £8 dealt with the operations of th fishing industry in a national emergency. Photo courtesy of the | and Environment Canada, Emergency Planning Branch. More Young People And Single Women Buying Homes As Inflation Safeguard ByJUDY — CREIGHTON CP Family Editor With mortgage. money easier to get from banks or other lending in- stitutions and as a secur- ity hedge against in- flation, many young people and single women n Canada are purchasing eir own homes, .,.. Ua cebecanancsiey by The Canadi'n. Press shows that the trend is not wide-spread, but is more regional jn intensity due to the countrywide spread in incomes. Joseph Zidner, director of ‘Ontario real estate services for Nation, 1 Trust, said in an inter- view that there is a “significant increase” in the number: of young people in the 25-to-35 age category buying homes. ‘He said the amount of down payments varies from area to area. “Ottawasor example, has a 1] rge percentage of the population working for .the government and wages are high and in- come is stable,” he said. “A city like Windsor, however, generally has less stable personal in- eomes and down payments tend to he lower,” MORTGAGES EASIER Venetta Evans, president of the Regina Real Estate Association, said there has been an in- crease in house buying by young people and single women, “especially since mortgage funds became more readily available.” She said that.. with today's good salaries, single parents and career girls can more readily Christ afford to purchase homes. “The registered home ownership program, whereby a tax break is given those faving for own payments, has been heavily used.” She recalled situations of three a : home, either. three girls or a . ie BOXES... -ansett both partners.” —. The country is noticing the effects of the post-war baby boom and young people now make up a larger percentage of the population, said Blair Jackson, executive vice- president of the Canadian Re | Estate Association. He said a higher per- centage of young people now, as compared to 10 years ago, are buying homes. ; NO NEW TREND Fr nk Johns, executive secretary of the Calgary Real Estate Board said no néw trend is being established in his area. But, he said, “historically, Canadians have preferred to own their own homes. I'd say about 65 per cent of Canadians own their own homes.” Max Kaplan, an official with the Edmonton Real Estate Board said that if anything, it is probably more difficult for young single people to buy a house because of rising prices. But Don Oxford, a mortgage officer with Weber Bros. Associates in Edmonton said there tmas Seal are probably more op- portunities for house . ‘manager of the mortgage uying than most young people realize. “If two single people pool their incomes, they can easily qualify for assistafke from Central Mortgage nd Housing Corp. (CMH- Cc) ’ buy a house,’’ he SINGLE; WOMEN ‘BUY A change in attitudes towards single women borrowing money to buy homes has paved the way for an increase in pur- chases by members of that group, said George Hough of Vancouver CH- MC branch. Hough said changes in attitudes towards lending have been brought about mainly because of the women's rights movement. . “Women are more able on a professional basis to make the same kind of * money and have the same opportunities a mah has,”’ he said. He said because women are able and can cquire education and jobs more easily, the lending in- stitutions are interested in their. money. n Peter: Watkinson of the Vancouver Real Estate Boare said people are buying houses at a younger age basically because the philosophy af people has changed. ‘“The save first before you commit yourself approach has gone by the way and young single people are making more use of credit facilities nowadays,” he said. “There is more of the ‘I want to h ve it now’ type of ttitude.’’ Sales” Reach Two Third Mark | Contributions to the 1977 “Christmas Seal Campaign have reached the two-thirds mark of the $600,000 target, said Ken Dobell, President of the B.C. Tubercuiosis- Christmas Seal Sccigty, in Vancouver on Friday. ' Dohell said public response to this year's Christmas. Seal .Cam- paign seems, at this time, to be the best ever, and he expressed confidence ‘that the target would be met before year’s end. He cited an increase in the number of Christmas Seal community programs throughout the rovince as a reason, for, e greater than usual . ublic interest in the hristmas Seal Cam- paign, but added that a large portion of con- tributions = are —s ac companied by requests that the funds br used specifically for medical research projects. He sald several such projects are now in progress in British Columbia, the most recent to be undertaken being an asthma research project at St, Paul's Hospital in Vancouver towards which the Christmas SEal Society contributed $75,000. Funds gathered by the annual Christmas Seal Campaign are used in many important ways to : fight respiratory disease, | said Dobell, including Providing © financial assistance towards the construction costs of health facilities, finan- cing medical research, programs of public and professional education, offering social and financial support to people suffering from ‘respiratory disease; and support of tuberculosis contro] programs. He added that more than 1000 people are currently registered inthe Christmas Seal Society’s free quit smoking program, Operation Kick Contributions to the Christmas SEal Cam- paign may be mailed to Christmas Seals, 906 West Broadway, Van- couver, B.C. V5Z 1K7. DIVORCES IN MARKET Doug Anderson, department of Shipman Real Estate Ltd., in Ottawa, said that in the last five months he has dealt with half a dozen divorced or separated women who bought homes, ’ He said he helped them get mortgages and, “I still think there is discrimination against women in getting financing for a house.’ Paul Lavoie of CMHC in Moncton, N.B., said it is “almost impossible” for a divorced woman to pet amortgage unless she as a very good job. Spokesmen for financi 1 institutions such as Royal Trust and Central and Eastern Trust, a major Atlantic-area firm, sin- gles and young people are treated like everyone else and must meet two qualifications: sufficient credit and money to secure and pay off the mortgage. SINGLES BAND TOGETHER A Halifax real estate dealer said that singles whe group together to purchase housing often go for houses with asement apartments or have flats which they can rent to help meet the mortgage payments. cet agian Aohars iy Odd "a" shortage’ of “Apart- ments in Charlottetown has forced some youn people to buy houses, sai one real estate spokesman. THE BOOK CORNER By MARTHA COHN The Canadian Press If you have read a few books Ernest Hemingway and decided Spain is a_ poverty- stricken, violent land where people kill friends and neighbors at the drop of a hat during civil wars and where bulls are routinely and mercilessly killed in bullfights, think again. If you know, love and respect Spain, rejoice. Images of Spain by Canadians Mordecai Richler and Peter Christopher gives the in- adequ tely informed a splendid . chance to reassess and the Spainomaniac something to crow with delight about. Christopher, whose photographs appeared in Between Friends, Canada’s: _ bicentennial gift to the United States, lesigned the large book and illustra it with superb photographs. Richler, author of The Apprenticeship’ Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain’s Horseman, wroté‘some of the text and the in- . troduction, in which he gives his reasons for undertaking the book and tries to explain his fascination with Spain. The book is organized into chapters, each dealing with a separate facet of the country. The chapters begin with num- bered photographs and endwiththe corresponding text. TEXT IS UNUSUAL The text is wnusual because it consists of informative captions to the pictures and quotes from many sources, ranging from an excerpt from the diary of an 1ith- century traveller to com- ments made by more recent visitors, including Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Richler. The _ book's problems are only minor ones: Photographic loca- tions are pinpointed on a map in the back of the book, which causes in- convenient flipping back- ward and forward, and the map does not identif, some regions mentioned, does not name many cities and does not have an index, requiring the reader to pore over it every time. Otherwise, Images of Spain is a beautiful book everyone will enjoy. Images of Spain, Mordecai Richler and Peter Christopher; 191 pages; $27.50; Me- Clelland and Stew rt. By MARLENE ORTON The Canadian Press. Like a pair of eager little boys who have just won their first baseball game, the two Toronto authors take turns inter- rupting each other while telling of their new book. Artist Harold Town and David Silcox say they are especially pleased with Tom Thomson, The Silence and The Storm because they were warned their project would be a failure. The Thomson book, published this fall, has already sold more than 40,000 copies. “We've stuffed success up the nose of the Canadian public,” said Town in an interview. “There is some kind of death wish in Canada. Two weeks ago, the National Gallery of Canada bookstore didn't even have the book in stock and they probably still don't.” WORKED SEVEN YEARS Town began work on the book in 1971 when the famed Canadian painter of the Group of Seven, the late A. Y. Jackson, suggested the need for a comprehensive study of Thomson's career, Town later turned to Sileox, an art historian, for help. “We got together over 500 of Thomson's works, many of which had not been cat logued or documented and we reproduced 148 works which have never been put out—never even been photographed ~ before,” said Sileox who § is municipal director- of cultural affairs in To- ronto. “art books don’t sell well usually because there is a_ limited market,’’ Town said. “They are generally expensive and there is not enough in them to make wem worthwhile.” ON BEST-SELLER LIST But, said Sileox, the Thomson book contains a ‘foolishly fantastic and stupidly excessive number of art reproductions and the result is an art book, a Canadian art book, on the bestseller list. “We suspected we'd be selling the book to people who knew about Thomson,” Town said. “But we've discovered that those we didn't expect to buy are buying. The conductor on our train from Winnipe bought one, The ca driver who took us from the train bought one.” The book is a visual and prosaic biography of the Group of Seven painter. The authors have traced his career, takin Thomson from penci sketches and amateur photographs to the magnificent Algonquin Park oil panels for which he is best remembered. Tom: Thomson, The Silence and’ the Storm, Harold Town and David Sileox; $29.95; 240 pages; McClelland and Stewart. Seal Hunt Quota Up OTTAWA - Following national and . —in- ternational consultations. on the status of- seals, Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc recentl: announced the 19 quotas for the east coast seal hunt, amid loud: outcries of protest from Greenpeace and other environmental protection organizations. : The Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the entire northwest Atlantic has been set at 190,000 harp seals (includ ng 10,000 for Greenland, the Canadian Aretic and Labrador). The total fer the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Front will be 170,000 compared with 160,100 in 1977. These quotas will. include, for the first time, those seale taken as scientific samples {2,400: in 1978). In announcing: this six percent increase in the TAC, the Minister noted that the scientists have advised that the current population” af. harp seals could sustain a catch of 227,000 ta. ‘245,000. The Canadian Government’s strategy is. to allow the current population increase to continue by permitting. no more than three of the sustainable yleld to be taken in 1978. ; Canada’s share of the catch will be inc ; ‘from 125,000 in 1077 tt 135,000 in 1978, while . Norway’s share remains the same at 35,000. The allocation to Canadian. large vessels at the Front ill not exceed that of last year - 62,000. ., The official opening. and closing dates have been set for March 10 and April 24 but the Minister indicated that — the opening date could -be varied slightly depen upon conditions at the me. : 7 . SANTA MONICA, Callf, (AP) — Television executive Sheldon . Salman has sued daredevil Eve] Knievel: for hitting him with a. baseb Il b t. The sult-does, not specify damages for’ the injuries he said he received. wot Saltman’s suit, filed Monday in lor Court, says he suffered’ a broken wrist and arm in. the Sept. 21 incident. Knieve) has said-he hit the television executive because a book Saltman had written about him insulted Knievel’s family, The stuntman was sen tenced to 180 days in jai. and = three”~—s - years! probation after pleading Builty to the assault. LAS VEGAS, Nev. {AP) — The federal drug trial of comedian: impressionist George. Kirby has been rescheduled for Dec. 1%, He is charged with selling heroin to an undercover investigator. Kirby, 52, was arrested last May after allegedly attempting to sell about $26,000 worth of heroin te an undercover agent. - He has pleaded not: guilty to the charges. LOS ANGELES (AP) r — Comedian Bob . Newhart and his wife Ginny are the p rents of a- or daughter, Courin uinn, we A family spokesman said Tuesday that the child was born last Friday at Ced rs-Sinal MedicawsCentre and weighed six pounds, -20 ounces, ; SAN JUAN (AP). Actress Elizabeth Taylor, . accepting a “Great Award’’ from Variety: Club International, told _ crowd of 900 that she: came here to help the club—not to sign autographs, give in- terviews or “he weighed.” Commentators here have noted Miss Taylor's plum figure criticized her refusal to grant interviews since ghe arrived Sunday with.. her husband, former navy secretary John W. mer. dy.