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Terrace council was presented with a medal scupture of a depicting the Kermode bear which has become the symbol

Kermode bear by Alcan at their special commemorative for the town’s anniversary. Both pieces were designed by

social evening held last month on Terrace 50th anniversary.

Also presented to each alderman individuaily was cast dishes

’ PNWHLaction over the
weekend: ;

‘|. Prince George

_| Mohawks and Quesnel
Kangaroos in the
Cariboo League took two
games each over the
weekend from PNWHL
opposition .

“Tt was the Mohawks
over, the Houston Luckies
5-4 Saturday. night: and
:| theytheatithe Burns Lake
Raiders 9 to 4 on Sunday
afternoon.

Quesnel led the
Houston Luckies 7 to 6 in
a Sunday. game and the
Kangaroos had . beaten

Houston 9 to 2 on.
Saturday night. Smithers
Totemsmeanwhile
managed to beat the
Terrace Reds twice this
weekend in a narrow 7 to
6 win on Saturday and 9 to
7 on Sunday.

One other Saturday
game saw Prince Rupert

own Kitimat 8 to.8,..
.(Prince.Rupert's Man’s
invitational ;; Basketbal)
tournament ended *”
Sunday night with the
Burnaby Bullets . as
champion The Bullets
defeated the Prince
Rupert Crests all-star

Terrace Weekend Sports

team 99 to 72.

Smithers won the
zone’s Six Mens and the
Smithers School boys
curling finals respect-
fully during weekend
playdowns at the Terrace
Curling club,

In the Fraser fer the
Stony ay
choolhoy and , Rupert...
beat Smale 5-2 in 11 ends...
This,..was,.in the. North
west’ ‘Schoolh ae
blaydowns,

e Royal Canadian
Legion zone 6 playdowns
will be held this weekend
the 27th, 28th and 29th.

Treasure hunting is non-deductible

By STUART LAKE
OTTAWA (CP) —
Looking for treasure that
Captain Kidd may have
buried on Oak Island off
‘Nova Scotia is a business
venture and not a hobby

orninfatuation, the
Federal Court of Canada

. has ruled,
Mr. Justice Alex

Cattanach said in a
recent judgment that
Montreal lisinessman
David Tobias is entitled
to claim as income tax
expenses the $101,518 he
spent in the 1960s in an

unsuccessful attempt to

find buried treasure on
Oak Island. =

Judge Cattanach also
sadly reflected that -the
“romantic aspects of the
case ... reminiscent of.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s
book Treasure Island be-
came subservient and

secondary to the more:-

mundane considerations
of assumptions.made by
the minister of national
revenue.” *

Aiter almost nine years
of searching for Cap-
tainnKidd’s treasure,
Tobias ran out of money
and. enticed friends. to
joinnwith him informing
Trition Alliance ‘Ltd. to
continue the hunt. n

REFUSED DEDUC-
TIONS.

_ But federal revenue
officers refused to allow
him to deduct the $101,518
he has expended from
taxes during the years he
alone sought the buried

_ treasure.

The revenue depart-
ment argued that Tobias
“in. searching for
treasure was not
carrying on a business or
venture in the nature of
trade, but was merely
engaged in a hobby.’

It also argued that
Toblas was not equipped
with. any special
knowledge to find any
treasure. and that his
chances of so doing were

. quite unlikely.

The evidence was that
Tobias first became
acquainted with the
possibility of treasure

ing buried on Oak
Island when he was
stationed in Nova Scotia
with the Royal Canadian
Air Force.

'. Judge Cattanach said
Tobias’s reading made
him aware that piracy
was rampant prior to 1700
under the ise of
privateering. When peace
came in 1706, the warring
countries of Spain,
France and England
agreed that citizens who
had turned to piracy
should be required to
surrender themselves
and their plunder in
excmange for a pardon.

But many pirates,
including Captain Kidd,
decided to abandon the
sunny Caribbeannand
take their plunder to
North America. There
they buried their treasure
with the plan to return
later an
lives in comfort.”
EVIDENCE FOUND

Many never returned
and there was reputed
evidence found in 1795 of
buried treasure on Oak
Island.

Judge Cattanach: said
to embark upon a search

for buried treasure “a .

person needs only to have
a reasonable expectation
that it is likely to be inna
certain
fitted the case of Tobias.

He also observed that if ©

Tobias had been suc-
cessful, he had no doubt
the revenue department
would have sought to tax
any treasure found.

The judge said no
special skills were
required in seeking

treasures buried in the

earth,

"He is searching for
treasure secreted’ by
human cngenuity and to

find the likely hiding -

place does not require the
professional attributes of

a mining engineer,’’ said

spend their .

area.’ '’nThij ©

the judge.

A message about those who think they can cheat UI:

Hoselton Studies in Ontario.

Love Strong
For daughter

PARIS (AP) — A
Frenchman yearning to
see his five-year-old
daughter left today for
Montreal even though he
faces charges of kid-
napping in Canada.

“YT have great con-

fidence. in Canadian

justice,” said Andre.
Dulong” -before’ leaving. th

_ “It is imptasible: that
authorities will impose a
rison sentence on a
ather who has for three
years suffered the ab-
sence of his daughter.’

Dulong said he married
a Canadian woman in
France in 1972 and then
moved with his wife and
daughter, Lucienne, to
Vancouver.

Tme' marriage broke

up, and Dulong said that
with his wife’s approval

he took his daughter back
to France.
But Mrs. Dulong

charged her estranged
husband in a Canadian
court with criminal
abduction, saying she did

not grant him custody of

fe child... 9...
Dulong, who told a
news conference earlier
this month he. was
“desperate” to see his
daughter, said he expecis
to be arrested upon
arrival in Montreal,

Dulong, who was ac-
companied to Canada by
his lawyer, said he faces
up to 15 years in prison if
convicted of the abduc-
tion charge. n

“Igotcaught —

with

myhandin

your pocket?”

What a shame.

He thought it was some sort ofa
_pame to claim a little more Unemploy-
ment Insurance than the law allowed.

Now he’s in trouble. He didn’t
-report-earnings and work while —

petting UI,

“I mean, it was only afew
bucks. You've got millions.”

. We don’t have any money.
. It all belongs to the people of.
~ Canada. And when you deliberately.
- claim more than you're allowed by law,
you're stealing from your neighbours,
friends, fellow employees, employers
and the Government of Canada.
It’s our job to pay UI benefits
fairly, efficiently and according to law.
. It’s also our,job to make sure the pro-
gram is not abused by those who have
little concern for their fellow citizens

or the law of the land.

Getting UI when you're not
available for work is abuse, pure and

are completely honest. They use UI as

it was intended—as a financial bridge
between jobs. ig.
And no one’s picking aa you.
Anyone we find abusing Unemploy-
ment Insurance will be dedft with
under the law.» ” oN
If you’re caught, money improper- .
ly claimed must be-paid back in full. It
_ could mean you pay an administrative
- penalty. Or you could face prosecution
_ under the Unemployment Insurance
- Act, or the Criminal Code of Canada,
Conviction means a criminal record.
UI employs almost 500 full-time
trained claims investigators and, like
any modern organization, we use new
data-handling techniques to their best
advantage, We match up Recprds of
Employment with claim recoyds
‘to find the cheaters who don’y7eport
earnings while they'reon Ula: ~

r]

We don’t like to prosecute. We'd

rather avoid that painful process by
telling people that if they cheat,

“I never really believed

Some people's attitudes toward

simple. they'll probably be caught.
“Lots of people rip off UI.
Why are you picking on me, and it was criminal.”
how'd you find out?”
Not so fast.

* Unemployment Insurance have been
’ The vast majority of our claimants hard to explain. .

Charles BARBER, New
Demecrat MLA for
Victoria, Tuesday
released the text of a
confindential telegram
sent by the provincial
health department to
private hospital
operators showing the
Social Credit government
“allowed the public to be
deceived’' in thinkin
extended care hospita
coverage would only cost
$6.50 a day.

The telegram, dated
January)5 )3 e,if they
opt in to the province's
new long-term care
program, theymay
charge patients ad-
ditional fees for
“superior rooms.”

These extra charges
range from $3 to$9a day,
over the above the

reviously announced

60 a day.

There are some 23,000
beds to be covered by the
new program. Nine
thousands of these area in
privately-owned nursing
facilities.

“Two weeks a go, I
disclosed that the
government had failed to
reachagreement with the
private operators. i
telegram now makes it
clear what the new
agreement is to be,”
Barber said.

“There are to be four
levels of approved extra
charges. e average
monthly charge--$6.50
times 30 days-was to
have been $195, Now, for
some people, it may be
$285,3330,$375 or $465 a
month, .

He noted: “In Premier
Bennett’s statement of
April 29,1977 and in
(Health MInister Robert)

McLelland's statements

of November 8 and

Decmember 29, 1977, the .

only charge ever men-
tioned was $6.50 a day.
Period. Nothing More.
Nothing extra.”’

“The people were led to
believe that the an-
nouncement of Bennett
and McLelland

honest'and complete,” he |

said. “‘Now it turns ‘out
that 1$95 a month is only a
base rate. Some people
may pay as much as $465
a month.” a
"I am angry that the
people were deceived into
inking that $6.50 a day
was tobe the only charge.
Iam concerned about the
underhanded way these
new cha
_put into effect.”

People who would never consider
shoplifting or outright robbery have
been willing to hide earnings from us
to get more UI benefits than the law
allows. Almost as if it were socially

acceptable or even fun,

Everyone knows this goes on.
No one knows better than we do.

Suppose you loge your job. If
you’ve been paying into Unemploy-
ment Insurance and you qualify, you
~ have a right to benefits. And we
will respect that right as long as you
remember your obligations,

Your obligation is to play it
straight with us, And as long as you
do that, we're proud to help you.

were ae : a wae te . toon
crt SF 3 Guaranty Trust RSP’s now available *”

es are being.

THE HERAL D, Tuesday, January 24, 1978, PAGE 3

NDP Leader charges B.C.
Hospital plan deceptive

“Long term care is an

excellent program. It's
success is bein un-
derstood by Socre
deception about the
actual cost to the

patient's family.”

“It was billed by the
Premier as a generous
program. This telegram
makes it clear that some
of the 9,000 who pay won't
agree,”

“It’s typical. What the
Socred’s giveth, the
Socreds taketh away.”

Facilities opting into
long term car will be
permitted to continue to
charge a room dif-
ferential to residents who
request and py reffered
accommondation stop
rooms that were designed
for single or double oc-
cupancy when licensed
an dhave been subject to
a higher rate are eligible
provided —_ they are
demonstrably superior

and are no less than 110
(one hundred ten) square
feet (single) and 200 (two
hundred square — feet
double) exclusive closets
and have priavte
washroom and toilet stop
will depend on the quality
fo the accommodation
but a day for each person
in double occupancy (six
dollars, fifty cents) a day
stop residents requesting
and occupying superior
rooms that meet the
requirements but do not
;have private washrooms
toilets may be charged a

maximum of $4.50 (four
dollars fifty cents) a day
for single rooms and $3.00
(three dollars) a day
each in double room.
$6.50 plus $4.50 equals
$11.00

Executive director long
term care
Ministry of _ health
Parliament buildings.

A Guaranty Trust
GIC RSP
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*Rotes subject tr change teuthiut anine,

Now iavest in a GIC RSP for a fixed term up
to5 years with a guaranteed interest tate and no
fees. This gives you the best of both worlds:

teed good return! —

the tax deferral of a regular RSP plus a guaran-

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