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Smaller papers needing
supplements to survive

OTTAWA (CP) — The suffer a serious competitive i
federal government was told disadvantage." m Se Oante to tone neee not, whether supplied by

mparable to television." another party or not, are
Monday that Canada’s small The brief said even large “ i ion of ad- ”
newspapers would suffer a newspapers would find it vertiser genes sup: part of the package,” the

serious competitive difficult, if notimpossible, to plements onabled the na rieeSald.

hs : , pa “This is consistent with
disadvantage if a proposed justify the cost of obtaining Sertiser to control the ourhistory, with our present

federal sales tax on news- all the different kinds of Quality of roduction, the operations and with the
ber supplements becomes equipment needed to serve pe et paper tobe used and evolutionary changes that

aw. all its printing needs, ‘the number of markets the ‘will inevitab take place in’ :
In a Stpage brief, the — .“If we move from major advertiser desired to buy.” the future."’

Canadian Daily Newspaper newspapers in Toronto, The brief alsoclaimed that Any decisionon such a tax,

Publishers Association Montreal and Vancouver out the federal court has several the Wier said, should be

argued that supplements to other smaller newspapers times held that advertising is. made by Parliament,

have been anintegralpartof across the country, an integral part ofa rews- The brief included

newspapersinceatleast 1774 ultimately to weekly paper, just as the news it- examples of supplements

and should be exempt from heen we would find self; that the fact that a found in Canadian
© tax. cir very existence supplement may be printed newspapers, such as the
The association, headed by — would not only be threatened by a printer who is not weekly The Canadian,

- general manager John E. but in fact they would not be related to the publisher in Weekend and Perspectives.
. Foy, presented the brisé to able to exist at all.” =» whose newspaper the sup- However, it said a supple-
Revenue Minister Anthony = [t said the capital in- plement appears forms no ment toa newspaper with a
Abbott. 7 vestment required by the basis for concluding that the broad range of readers may
Under the proposa me newspaper would be greater supplement is nat partofthe constitute a separate
newspapers able to pr than the capacity of the jewspaper; and that ad- newspaper or magazine
supplements for th f nn marketplace to generate, vertising supplements have appealing to readers with
newspapers wou e Purchase from outside become increasingly popular limited interests such ag TV

exempt from the tax. printerswhohave the typeof in recent years with both Guide, the comics and The
However, supplements they equipment required is a advertisers and readers. Bargain Hunter Press,
sell for insertion in necessity.”

: “A news r, then, is a The brief also claimed that
newspapers published by . Supplements were vital to. daily information package the tax, if imposed, could nat
others would be taxable. Newspapers who regard itas’ and all elements, whether be applied equitably because

Only _ the major a means of regaining a sequentially numbered or of the differing production
cost ot scquiring the advertising market lest to 0% whether produced inthe capability of the large and
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equipment required to pro- television. publisher's printing plant or small newspapers.
duce high-quality sup- In order to purchase
Plemenis,” the association national newspaper ad-%
said. vertising, an advertiser had

“In the result, Canada’s to contact up to 120
small newspapers would organizations to achieve I

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Salmonella threat

: OTTAWA (CP) — dling foods properly, Whelan
: Agriculture Minister Eugene told Progressive Con-
Whelan Monday played servative Paul Yewchuk in
down reporis that as many the Commons,
as 83 per cent of turkeys sald ;
in Toronto are contaminated © Yewchuk said about 5,000
with salmonella, bacteria cases of salmonella
which can cause feed poi- poisoning are reported in
soning. this country every year, and
Salmonella is presentinall the largest percentage of
meat and fish, but can be these is from chicken or
killed by cooking and han- turkey.

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