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OTTAWA (CP) — A fake
memo that suggests. that-
police are’ golng to disarm
the . population — after
Tuesday's. general slectlon
has. been malled; from ‘Ot.
tawa to guii clubs from coast
to ccast, the’ Canadian

Wildlife Fedéfation sald

Thursday.

“The majority are taking |
it seriously," Ken Brynaert,
executive director. of the
federation, sald In an in:
terview.: “It's turning: u
from Vancouver to Halifax.’

The three-paragraph
memo is dated Jan. 22, 1976,
and bears the signature of.

‘ Pollce Chief Thomas Welsh.

‘But the - slgnature

* evidently was taken from
another document and glued
. on, and the letterhead, algo
cllpped and pasted on, is one
that ‘hasn't been used by the
police chief's office for
several years. -
Gun laws are ranked by
politicians with capital
Punishment, abortion and
obscenity as emotional
issues. In a letter to the
_ National Firearms
Association at the outast of
the election campaign,
Conservative Leader Joe
Clark said that it was his
party that forced
modification: of .a bill that
becanie law this year, Clark
‘promised.a thorough review
‘of, gun laws if Conservative
government Is electad.. .
_ Welsh, who terms’ the
‘Thesio a’ fraud, has ordered
. an: itivestigation. It came to
hid attention. a week’ ago
-'whén the Ontario Federation
of Anglers and Hunters sent
the police force a copy.

Fraud charge nets:
a three-year term

” SURREY, B.C. (CP) —
Land developer Walter Link

‘was sentenced In provincial —

-court Thursday to three
years in prison after he
admitted conspiring with a
former Surrey mayor on a
‘land deal and other charges
of fraud and possession .af
stolen. property.-  - .
‘Provincial court Judge

iKim Husband also told Link, -:
Who pleaded: guilty.to the ~

‘four charges, that he had
little hope he would reform
and said Link had criminal
connections of some
magnitude.

Link was also sentenced to
two terms of three years to
Tun concurrent after ad-
mitting to possessing. bet-
ween $20,000 and $30,000 in
stolen property including a
$6,000 watch and a ring
stolen in Paris.

. In‘addition, Link was sen-
“enced to a concurrent two-

year term after pleading

guilty to defrauding a Surrey
businessman in the sale of
the Thompson Valley hotel in

Yale, B.C,

"The judge said Link had
-taken advantage of in-
‘formation about a land deal

_ leaked to him by Ed

‘McKitka, a former mayor of
- this semi-rural municipality
south and east of Vancouver.

He said Link used the
information to try and buy
property in advance of a

-related... ta...the

Photostata mailed to fish

and game clubs, skeet clubs, _
gun*collectors and outdoors -
groups across Canada’ ap

parently are calculated to
throw suspicion on’ gun laws
that came into effect Jan, 1
and that require anyone

buying a gun to get a.

firearms acquisition cer:
tifleate from police, Police
can turn down an applicant
who hasa history of criminal
or pathological violence. :
The. Natiohal Firearms

Association, a gun lobby.

group that opposed the new
lawa, last year circulated a
document suggesting that
police, under the new: lawa,
would effectively disarm the
population within flve yeara.
- Welsh may have: been
singled out to become the
author because he has been
known as an anti-gun chief
since, after’a high school
shooting, he held an amnesty
program in which citizens
turned in -hundreds of fire-
arms for destruction. by
police.

The federal government
copied the amnesty program
last fall, when .47,390
weapons ranging from rifles

and shotguns to grenades .

and pistols were turned over
to police across the country
for destruction.
In Ottawa, police say the
maw laws’ would - have
prevented a 16-year-old from
buying a cheap shotgun in
1975, tating it to school the
next day, and shooting
several teachers and sti-
cents before Killing himself.:
A similar incident occurred

the same year at a high -

school in Brampton, Ont.

road extension In Surrey in
1977. Earller testimony
showed that Link intended to

build a sawmill on the site. -

Crown prosecutor. John
Hall earlier told court that
Link stood to gain hundreds

-of thousands of dollars from |

the altempted conspiracy.
McKitka is facing trial on
16 charges, some of them
charges

against Link... 4
The judge noted in the
other fraud charge that Link

had already repaid Edward .-

Ponsart $35,000 in the hotel
transaction and that Link
and his wife Pat owed $1.5
million In land assessments.

The charges followed a
lengthy investigation and
RCMP raids on Vancouver
area homes and businesses.

Court was told there was
avidence ta connect Link and
Surrey businessman Steven
McGuire with the estimated
$1 million robbery of Van-
couver Safety Deposit Vaults
in January, 1977... -

RCMP said transcripts of
tapped telephone calls
between the two men show
they
disposition sf goods from
that robbery. ‘

Five men were later
arrested at Vancouver In-
ternational Airport and
convicted of possession of
stolen praperty.

‘Trudeau is backing
SALT negotiations

- OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau has
congratulated Presidents
Carter and Brezhnev for
finishing the once-dead-
locked’ Strategic Arins
- Limitations Talks (SALT)
-“and said be hopes they will
~eontinue the process with
more negotiations.
The ietters, made public
_» today but sent from Van-
-eouver Tuesday, are iden-
> Heal {n content but have

different salutations.

Food
‘prices
up little

VICTORIA (CP) — Food

prices in British Columbia

- Increased marginally during

April, the

‘ ministry says. :

. ‘The ministry’s monthly

survey found there war an

over-all increase of 0,16 per

: gent during the four-week

pariad which ended May 6

with increases In poultry and

’ yegetables offset by declines
in beef and pork.

_ Prices currently are 4.7

per cent higher than .one

ear ago and 23.72 per cent

gher thant two years ago.

agriculture

maw tt

. negatlations

Trudeau refers to the United
States president as ‘Dear
Jimmy” and the Russian
leader as “President Brezh-
nev.”

Hecalled completion of the
second-round of SALT
negotiations an important
atep but sald that even more
significant is “the
recognition that the strategic
dialogue between the two
major nuclear powers la to
be a continuing process."

“In the further round of
which is
planned, SALT II, 1 know
you will carry forward the
search for agreed reductions
... on nuclear weapons,” he
wrote. ‘'The goal must be to
end the competition for even
more efficient means of
destruction.”

_ Although the first SALT
agreement limiting strategic
weapons, signed by former
president Richard Nixon and
Brezhnev In 1872, was due to
expire in 1877,
framework for more
negotiations was created by
Brezhnev and Nixon's
successox Gerald Ford at
Vladivostok, U.S.S.R., in

1974.

Each side will police the
other by usitig apy satellites
and electronic eavesdrop:
ping stations to ensure
compllance with the treaty.

_. CREDITCARDS

HAVE BECOME A REALITY |

‘TORONTO (CP) — ~~

Now that credit cards are

a fact of life, kids are

being introduced to them
along with ‘the birds and
the bees,

wre right — plastic
lor teeny-boppers.

More and more of the
skateboard set are get-
ting credit carda on thelr
parents’ .accounts or
carrying around their
parents' cards, Some
even have thelr own
charge accounts, say
spokesmen for eredit
companies.

And what ia the verdict
on the new young set of
plastic money users?
Credit managers say
most of the teens wie
credit well.

Charge accounts, -.

But they can get a card
to.uga on someone else's
account. .

- Moat adulla with a | Recovery Service, Inc.

decent credit rating can Often the kids who get"

get charge: cards for © cards on thelr parents

person under 18, even if accounts don't keep up

that person lan't a son < the. payments they —
' promise to v-ake, he sald,

daugnier. .
The adult just has to be The

arents, mean:
willing to foot the bills, A while, “Just aren’t aware
lot of ita get these of it."
ecards for children away’ “They think the son or
at school. . . daughter has kept it up to
‘The credit card com- — date. They're very sur-
_ panies, department d. .
stores and oi) companies Tony Cerqua, collection
say they donyt have large manager of Allied
numbers of young card- Collection Agencies, Ltd.,
holders, but the numbers agreed.
‘are growing. “The kids abuse it to a
And they claim they've degree. They con't really
had little abuse from know how to handle it.”
junior consumers. He said some kids go

“hog wild’ with their
cards, especially when
buying clothes,

“When the time comes
for the bill, it's gotten out

“Thera haven't been
Many problems,"'. sald
Leslie Burns, credit office
manager at Eaton's, “In
my time in this position I

have only run across. of hand, It gets. to the
baa collection stage where they’ve

finished thelr line of
credit.

“The father will

probably pound his son

. out and pay the bill, with

usdragging it all the
_ way.” ,

. agencies, however, have
had a different ex-
perience. \

“Wa find there’s quite a-
few problems," ‘said
Charlie Gilbert, credit
manager of Credit Card

KELOWNA, B.C. (CF) —
A city application to remove
1,230 acres from the
provinclal agricultural land
reserve met stiff opposition
at a public hearing Wed-
nesday from the Britlah Co-
lumbla Fruit Growers
Association (BCFGA) and
environmental groups.

Orchardists who farm the
area north of this Okanagan
elty, told the hearing that the
land has little agricultural
value, while the assoclation
and environmentalists said
the exciusion threatens
viable land.

The city's application to
the B.C, Land Commission
calls for the exclusion of five

* pareels of land ranging in

size from 27 acres to 692
acres, At least 50 per cent of
it now Is being farmed.
Removal of the Jand from
the reserve is part of the
city's proposed long-range
development plan aimed at
laying down guidelines for
the location of future urban
growth within the city.

The main area disputed is

‘& 692-acre block in the

Glenmore . Valley and
several Glenmore or-
chardists told the hearing
the land should be removed
becawe it lies in a frost

_ Pocket, making much of it

poor for agriculture.

The Herald, Friday, May 18, 1979, Page 17

some stiff oppositiog.

But a BCFGA spokeaman
sald producing land would be
loat If the exemption, wes
granted, He also sald the
fruit industry and the
financial future of the fruit
packing houses would be’ ad-
versely affected.

Glenmore orchardist Joe
Bulach sald the BCFGA's
reasoning for opposing the
application was prompted by

greed,

“We- have frost out there
every year — even cro
insurance doesn't help. All
we're doing la subsidizing
the better fruit growing
arene,

Another Glenmore or-
chardiat said he has become
so discouraged’ by loss of
fruit to frost that he has often
contemplated cutting his
trees down, a view
frequently expressed by
other farmers at. the
meeting. .

Environmental groups
said the city and the
province cannot afford to
lose any more valuable food-
producing land and that It
would lead te higher food
prices.

Peter Chataway,

. Environmental

‘Farm land cuts have:

Fate,
wean

spokesman for the Canadiat
Selentifie Pollutloriz
Con
Society (SPEC), sald—hie
method of drawing w= Ge
plan by seeking exert
‘rom the. agriculturalsifdd
Peete owe of the Kelonayx
Rowe, of t :
Inter-Church committee,
said he questioned: the
wisdom of the appeal not
only because It means the
leas of productive land but
because the whole de-
velopment plan seems based
on taking the cheapest route
for the city.
"Fifteen years ago the cily
thought it was cheap to dump |
the sewage Into the lake;'” he
said, “But now wa see that
wasn't so cheap after all,”
Geoff Paynter, a Central
Okanagan regional district
director, sald the city's
appeal represents short-
term economics it should be
reconsidered,
Kelowna alderman Bill
Kane said the city’s appeal ls
one part of a planning
exercise and the land
commission — nat the city —
will make the final decision
on the exemption.

friends for life djs.

The Canadian Red Cross Society ~

discussed the -

t .

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“Ibis the nature of the forest industry that,
‘tod darge extent, we live where we work. -
At MB we believe that as good citizens we

should belp enbance the quality of life in

the. province, MB Place, our forest

 ° information centre at VanDusen Garden.
in Vancouver is our gift to the people of
+ °B.C., our contribution to a better
_, .. understanding of be Forest resource.

MB Place attracts thousands of
people every year. Many

schools use it as a teaching facility.
Other visitors find it a source of
delight, mystery' and information.
The centre is one example of our
commitment to British Columbia,
but there are others. The company
contributes to education, through
bursaries and scholarships, helps the
atts, sports, and charitable organiza-
tions. At MB we have a simple
philosophy that helps guide us
in assisting a variety of causes:

“Will this improve the well- . “Ha
being of people in the community, °°. Be
: . ” - ' - Been
in the province?” It is a philosophy 38
you can expect from this independent apd
B.C. enterprise. We are committed , at
particularly to.che communities in Sollee
which we operate. Our people who |?
live there devote a lot of time. to — see
community affairs. The company =... Bee
helps too, by providing funds for ss ss
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local projects. a ae
MB operations in the Lower Main- . ti
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land and Vancouver. Island are eH
tangible evidence of the company’s | sete
presence in British Columbia, buc | “a
there's more to a company than mills, ce
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plants and logging shows. There are
the people, and from their skills and
efforts flow many benefits, including
thriving communities, social set-
vices, taxes and purchasing power.
When all of these are combined with
MB's commitment to worthy causes
ic strengthens and enhances the
quality of life in the province.
MacMillan Bloedel has a place in
B.C., and our roots are right here. ©

If you would like more information about
MacMillan Bloedel, we'll be happy to
send you some material, Write to MB
‘REPORTS, 1075 West Georgia
Street, Vancouver, B,C. VGE 3R9.
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