Special Aid To Economy OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Minister Jean Chretien an- nounced Thursday night a three-cent cut in the excise tax on gasoline, a means- tested $20 monthly increase in the guaranteed income supplement for oldage pensioners and a refundable tax credit for low and middle-income recipients of family allowance payments. The cut to seven cents from 10 cents in the excise tax levied in 1975 effectively éliminates the impact of an oil price increase that would have hit consumers early next week. Chretien said the $20 monthly increase for pen- sioners ‘would apply to a couple now receiving the $199.04 maximum. About 55 per cent of old age pen- siqners— those over 65—now receive all or part of the income supplement. The supplement is available to those now receiving the basic old age security pension of $159.79 a month who have little or no other income, The monthly family allowance for each child will be reduced to $20 from the current $25.68. But those earning less than $18,000 a year will get a refundable tax credit of $200 a year for each child under the age of 18. : . As a family's income rises | above $18,000 the amount of tax credit will be reduced by $5 for every $100 in earnings. in a separate release, Monique Begin, minister of health and welfare, said that a one-child family would receive a §200 credit at $16,000, a $100 credit at $21,000 and would cease to receive the credit as the family income rose above $21,000. . She said that more than 2.4 million families with more than five million children would receive the benefit. ‘a = cf RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. ) { | we buy & ee COPPER : BRASS ALL METALS . & BATTERIES | I TERRACE-KITIMAT MON. = SAT. _— OPER TIL 5 p.m. (Location Seal Gove Phone 624-5638) \ Friday, August 25, 1978 _ Begin said the reductions in the monthly family allowance payments would meana saving of $690 million in federal expenditures. But $800 million would be channeled into the hand's of Canada's working poor by the refundable tax credit. _ She said the increase in the income supplement for pensioners -would pay another $360 million to the low-income elderly. "This money will.go to those Canadians most likely to provide a direct stimulus to the economy by spending it on the necessities of life and least likely to put it ito savings or the purchase of luxury or foreign goods,” she said. MORE CHANGES PLAN- NED Chretien also said he would announce unspecified changes in the unem- ployment insurance program in the next few weeks as well as programs 20c VOLUME 72 NO. 165 for job creation, capital investment and unem- ployment insurance. Monique Begin, minister of health and weifare, said in a separate release thal it would be reduced te $20 for all families at the beginning of the year, But families with income of up to $18,000 a year will get a refundable tax credit of $200 a year for each child under the age of 16. . Chretien’s tax and spen- ding changes, announced at a hastily-arranged news conference, included a range of programssome needing parliamentary approval and someinvolving arrangements with the prov- inces. They would normally be given in a_ budget presented to Parliament. He acknowledged that there were at least as many propsoed changes as there were in his jast formal budget April 10.° i Premier W.R. Bennett is being introduced by PNE President Erwin Swangard to declare the 64th annual fair officially open. Provincial Secretary, the Hon. Grace McCarthy, the Discovery Fair Parade Mar- shall waits for introduction before leading the 80 unit parade through 2 miles of downtown Vancouver Streets. Bulkley Valley Exhibition Grace McCarthy will be attending the at Smithers this weekend along with the Hon. Iona Campagnolo. As mentioned in Thursda Rupert was the winner at : a ’s HERALD, Miss Prince e PNE Pageant, Can you pick her out of all the lovely contestants assembled back row left to right Miss Merritt Miss Carol Heyworth ; Miss Enderby Miss Linda Wooldridge Miss Nanaimo Miss Stephanie Samarin Miss Abbotsford Miss Cariboo Miss Langley Miss Parksville Miss Ladysmith Miss Vernon Miss Quesnel Miss Kelowna Miss North Shore Miss Mission Miss Chilliwack Miss Hazelton eentre row I-r Miss Shelley Griffiths Miss Kim Metchette Miss Arlene Smysniuk Miss Patti Stahley . Miss Laura Mottishaw Miss Melanie Munk Miss Tammy Zadorozny Miss Terry-Lee McKinnon Miss Cindy Ott Miss Patricia Fell _ Miss Laurie Edwards Miss Tina Hamill Miss Christine Hanlon Miss Peggy Cattanach Miss Janet Ringheim Miss Melanie Mahlman below? She is in the dark jacket eleventh from the right in the middle row, next to Miss Prince George. Miss Cowichan Lake Miss Nelson Miss Salmon Arm Miss Kamloops Miss Penticton Miss Squamish Miss Prince Rupert Miss Prince George Miss Victoria Miss Grand Forks Miss White Rock MESS PNE PICTURE front row Lr Miss New Westminster Miss Cranbrook Miss Revelstoke Miss Vancouver Miss Burnaby Miss Surrey Miss Ridge-Meadows Miss Richmond Miss Kelly Peterson Miss Holly McDonald Miss Trixie Thorpe Miss Carla Girbav Miss Cheryl Mustard Miss Marian den Dekker Miss Gloria Macarenka Miss Jo-Anne Bennison Miss Susan Mair Miss Heather Peterson Miss Faye Oshowy ; Miss Donna Tays Miss Delayne Morris Miss Shirley Hood Miss Patricia Morle Miss Heidi Grathwo Miss Nicole Bedard Miss Cindy Hudson Miss Kim Dilworth Canada—the nia dewly released | report, the]. : - B.C. Bans ‘In Realm of Senses’ “VANCOUVER (CP) — A controversial Japanese film fias been. found to be in violation of the Criminal Code and likely will not be shown here again. Crown prosecutor Richard Israels made the decision Thursday after consulting with the RCMP and Van- couver police vice squad, ‘who viewed In the Realm of the Senses Wednesday at the offices of . Mary-Lou Mc- Causland, the provincial film classification officer. McCausland initially ap- proved the movie for screening at the current international film festival here, where it was shown Monday. Israels said that both the sex and violence in the film contravened the Criminal Code. It was to have been shown again tonight. McCausland said the film was approved by a con- census of her film classifiers because ‘‘it seemed ap- propriate for an_ in- ternational film festival" al- though it did not have ap- proval for general distribution. She said the film was first classified last year but was not shown in B.C. because the distributors refused: to make the cuts requested by her agency. In the interim, it played in Quebec and Me- Clausland decided to allow it into the film festival for two screenings, “It's not one of your regular skinflicks that end up in movie houses specializing in that kind of movie," McCausland said, “It's a serious work that caters to a very different kind of audience," attain ‘Provincial Secretary and 1978 Parade Marshall, the lion. Grace MeCarthy waves {9 PNE crowd as she ides in a replica of a 1930 “EXCALIBUR” Touring Car -- the 80 unit parade, the kick-off event for the 1978 PNE "Discovery Fair'’. Miss Trail Miss Powell River Miss Creston Miss Gibsons Unemployment at 13 per cent EDMONTON <‘(CP) — Unemployment in Canada is upwards of 13 per cent—far greater than figures reported by Statistics ep National Council of Welfare says... Working Together, council says -jabor-force statistics collected each month by federal govern- ment fail to count among the jobless those who, though willing and able to work, have become discouraged and stopped job-hunting. The “hidden unem- ployed”, many of them poor, unskilled and uneducated, swell the ranks of the jobless to one-and-a-half times the federally-published average of 8.6 per cent for the first six months of 1978, the council SAYS. The council is a Canada- wide citizens’ body formed to advise health and welfare officials, Ken Battle, assistant director, said the report has been sent to Monique Begin, federal minister of health and welfare, and all mem- bers of parliament. It stresses the need for im- mediate government help for the unemployed. Toothpaste VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment has terminated the contract of a medical doctor for mistreating women at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in Burnaby, a spokesman said Thursday. . Corrections commissioner Bernard Robinson said the doctor was dismissed for using an improper lubricant during an internal examination. He said toothpaste was used instead of surgical jelly. The firing followed com- plaints by five Doukhobor earlier this summer that they had been held in austere surroundings, had their clothes taken away from them, had been denied visiting rights and received improper medica] treat- ment. Gons Beaten BURNABY, B.C. (CP) -- Seven guards at the Lower Mainland = Hegional Correctional Centre were charged with assault causing bodily harm after a former prisoner complained he was aten while in the prison awaiting sentence. Russell James Elliott, 24, who made ihe complaint, now is serving a six-year sentence: for drug traf- ficking. Race to Save Men Trapped LE HAVRE, France (AP) — Divers worked frantically Thursday to rescue four British seamen trapped underwater when their vessel capsized in a collision with a cargo ship, but, of- hope of finding thei alive. The captain of the capsized ship, thrown overboard by the collision, also was missing. Unable to penetrate the Last Minute News r “fictals’ said“there was--little . - hull or lift the 650-ton Mary Weston from the ocean floor, the rescuers waited for the tide to ebb, but said it would be a miracle if the men were slill alive. .- cs A'.150-ton rane failed to Ahoist“the.-coaster -from’ the ' . bed. of the Seine River ’ estuary in which, the ship's _Masts were embedded. The Mary Weston collided with the 16,000-ton Ivory Coast freighter Yakasse and Underwater a witness said: “In five seconds it had gone under.” The Mary Weston’s cap- tain, Kenneth Sheate, 50, was thrown from the ship by the impact. The ‘French harbor ilot who also went over- board “was: rescued ‘and: in. hospital in a state of shock. : Soon after the collision, the divers made contact with one of the trapped men who communicated to them: “1 am alone, in the engines, and T am not wounded.” OTTAWA ON THE PHONE By the Editor Rumours were rife in Canada's capital city on the felephone Thursday mor- ning, as lo what bombshells Canada's Minister of Finance would be dropping at 9 p.m. Jean Chretien had promised to make known, at that time, what aiid where further cuis would be made, and approximately another billion dollars or more were expected to be lopped from the budget. ..One speculation was a roliback of announced in- creases of a dollar a barrel on domestic oil prices would be revealed. Also five cents a galton would be dropped from home fuel prices, and seven or eight cents a gallon on gasoline prices, By the time this em appears in Friday morning's paper, however, the truth will have “outed'"' and the Canadian public will be no longer in suspense. ..Paul Johnson, special correspondent and free lance journalist with the Ed- monton JOURNAL and the Calgary HERALD returned to Ottawa following a three weeks tour with Con- servative leader Joe Clark through (nitario and also the Maritimes. . dohnson Forestry is said to be convinced that Joe Clark's popularity is on the upswing, regardless of Gallup polls to the contrary. He feels now that Clark will not only hold his own in the Maritimes but will get in in the next election - with a majority. . Also seen in Ottawa, this week, was Frank Howard. Frank, tanned and healthy looking, was said to be en- joy ing living in Ottawa, after years in the B.C. “outback", He now has a job selling stocks and bonds for Richardson Securities and although he was quoted as deseribing himself to be “no star salesman" had yet to sight the wolf on the family threshold. ..When Frank lost his seat In Skeena riding to leona Campagnolo, he had ac- cumulated safficient years service to qualify him for a parliamentary pension, which, if Lam correct, is tled into a cost of Ilving clause and no doubt is enough to keep him off the welfare rolls of Bill VanderZaim. J Speaking of Ottawa and Skeena Riding... Tonight, at 7:30, Skeena's M.P, lona will be par- tcipating In the opening of the Bulkley Valley Exhibition in Smithers, after officially opening a Keep Fit and Nature Trail in Granisle, earlier this afternoon. .. Saturday morning, the Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport will be participa-acting in the Bulkley Valley Parade, and, Saturday afternoon, meeting with constituents there. © . Sunday morning, she will be in Rupert to officially open the Prince Rupert Fishing Exhibition in the Pride of the North Mall. Gladys Blyth, well known photographer and author of a history of Port Edward - where she lives - isin charge of the exhibit, which is sponsored by the Prince Rupert Visitor's Bureau. Gladys hopes for a full Medged Marine Museum to become a reality for Rupert in the next couple of years. ..During Saturday and Sunday, Jana will be drop- ping In on the Horticultural and Homecrafi show at the Prince Rupert Civie Centre. This will probably bring back memories to her of the days when she used to be president of the same Horticultural Society, Judge exhibits, exhibit, her own prize winning plants, and participate in flower arranging classes and displays. : Manager Appointed VICTORIA, B.C. -- Deputy Minister of Forests, T.M. Apsey, announced today the appointment of J,A.D. (Denny) McDonald as regional manager of the Cariboo region with headquarters at Williams Lake. Mr. McDonald, who has served with the minisIry of forests for the past 24 years. has been assislant rogional manager of the Kamloops region since 1976. He was born and schooled in Magtiel. Manitoba, served for 4'y years with the Lord Strathcona 2nd Armoured Regiment, and graduated from Sandhurst) Military Collope, England, in 144. Returning to Canada in 1946, Mr. McDonald attended’ the University of British Columbia and worked for the forest service during the summer months. Following university graduation in 1951, he was employed by B.C. Forests Products Ltd., before joing the foresl service in 1954 Holding. a. variety of positions in Victoria and Prince Hupert, Mr. Mc- Donald was appointed in- charge of protection for the Prince George fores! district in 1058. Four years later he was transferred to Kamlidops where he held the same position until 1972, when he was appointed assistant district forester Cor Nelson, -