PAGE 2 Pesticides prime suspect in probe — of mass bird deaths A. press” release in the city: Our sulphite plant began operations in £951, and our kraft plant started im 1965. Our operaling procedures and our process are continually being considerable improvement has been made in our emissions. Bird life existed long before Colcel located on Watson Island and has not been affected by our operations. We hear that there have been deaths 50 miles away — while there haye been no dead birds improved upon; seen on Watson Island. Like all citizens we are very interested in learning what the _ eause of death is and un- derstand that this information will shortly be available to us all. VICTORIA — The deaths of hundreds of birds in the Prince Rupert area may have been caused by DDT or some other chemical, a provincial wildlife bialogist said Tuesday. Rory Finnegan said the birds’ behavior which included erratic lying prior to (heir deaths indicates a pesticide could well have been to blame. from Columbia Cellulose explaining their position on the possibility of air pollution that might have affected the recent bird deaths “They certainly did not die from exhaustion,” said Fin- hegan, “I have examined the birds and they all appear to be well fed.” He said he believed the herbicide 2,4-D had been used to kill alder growth on the Skeena River earlier in the year. - Graham Lea, Prince Rupert representative of the Society for Pollution and Environmental Contrel (SPEC) said the last known spraying operation in the Skeena area was conducted by the Canadian National Railways, “That was well over six months ago," said Lea. “A crew used a machine to spray tree growth on both sides of the iracks using (herbicide) 2,4,5-T in solution form. Residents last week reported seeing birds flying erratically, smashing into cars, windows and buildings. They lost their balance while perched on branches and wires and cropped dead. . Twenty-five specimens were flown to Victoria for cold storage, pending pesticide tests by biologists. Another 75 were sent lo Vancouver for tests. Finnegan said spraying programs invalving 2,4-D and associaled chemicals are “strictly controlled.” Heartwarm ing win ~once-cold EDMONTON (CP) — The Es- kimos finally won Wednesday night, as-Larry Lawrence ig- nited a fourth-quarter comeback that pushed Ed- monton past Montreal Alouettes 12-11 in a Canadian Football League interlocking game, Cold as the weather for three quarters, and down 8-0, the Es- kimos caught fire when Law- rence came on to relieve Bruce Lemmerman, Dave Cutler warmed the hearts of 13,346 fans who turned out in rain, snow, wind and tem- - peratures in tthe- 368 When: he . hicked a 52 -yatd dient goal sith = iptneak. . 10 seconds left to give Edmion- ton its second win of the season. The Eskimos have lost 10. Edmonton’s previous victory, - back on Aug, 4,- was also a heart-stopping affair. On that occasion, Cutler kicked a 39- © yard field goal with 35 seconds left to give the Eskimos: a 20-19 Eskimos win over British Columbia Lions. The long-haired Lawrence had muffed earlier op- portunities to become Ed- monton's first-string quar- ‘terback. But he got another chance after the Alouettes in- tercepted four of Lemmerman’s 20 pass attempts. THROWS TD PASS Lawrence promptly threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to George McGowan and the Eski- _mos were on their way to snap- pings ance eneame - losing, ae lee aE pi, Fhe PS * Bayne’ ee 's:. interception led to a 24-yard field goal by Cutler that put Edmonton ahead for the first time. -Montreal fought back on Sonny Wade's passing and kicked afield yoaltogo ahead again with one minute and 17 seconds left to play, ; AT THE ‘LOCAL CHURCHES - ae } Service Schedute - Sunday School = .10:00a.m. Sunday Evening ‘Bible Study , Wednesday 7:30 p.m. PENTEGOSTAL TABERNACLE ans 4647. Lazelle Ave, Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.. 7:15 p.m. You: th Night Thursday 7:30 The end of your search fora friendly church Phones: “Office 625-2434 Heme 635-5336 Pasior M. Kennedy # Captain Bill Young - 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship 7:30 Evening Services — SALVATION ARMY 4451 Greig 7:20 Thursday Night “Bible Sudy & Prayer Meeting’ . Lessons on taxes FLOAT- FREE FC FOR’ ‘DUT Equity versus economic. growth was not the real issue in the debate over tax reform, and it is nothing short of tragic that the debate got cast in this form, according to an expert whose study has just been published by. the. Private | Planning Association of Canada. We must clear up the misunderstanding, he stresses, before we can hope that any future tax reform will be properly handled. The study, Our Taxes: Lessons from Carter and Benson, is by Dean Howard Ross of McGill University’s Faculty of Management. The real point, Dean Ross contends, is that the Canadian tax system of the 1960s was a relatively good one by stan- dards of international com- parison and other criteria, and it certainly was working well enough not to warrant so Massive an examination and so comprehensive an effort to transform it, We would have been far better off, he believes, had there been early agreement that tax reform ought to proceed slowly, through small changes, and with due appreciation of the tremendous costs of distur- bance, uncertainty, and complexity. The Carter Commission should properly have had either of two possible ob- jectives: to design a simple and workable plan that could be produced and implemented in short order — say in a couple of years — or to design an ideal long-range pattern towards which to work gradually, as economic and ether conditions gave us. op- portunities to make orderly changes, However, according to Dean Rss, it was never quite clear which job the government expected the — Commission to accomplish, or which job the government expected the Commission to accomplish, or which the Commission throught it was accomplishing, and it ac- eompiished neither. — It produced what was, in fact, a ‘highly theoretical document, yet one which it seemed to regard as implementable and workable, Meanwhile, we had nearly a decade of avoidable uncertainty. The author does not reject or . downgrade the ideal of “equity as a fundamental goal . * hr tax-reform:But “he:con “eludés “ that * equity: ‘can: “he acceptable only as a long-run target, towards which to steer. Although equity is ex- ceedingly difficult to establish, Dean Ross em- phasizes that “it of course does not follow that we must ‘give up the pursuit of equity. We do not even have to invent a new approach. We have simply to return to what [ would like to christen the Eaton Theory,” The late Dr. Kenneth Eaton was an assistant deputy ‘minister of finance who masterminded tax changes for successive ministers over many: years, Dr, Eaton died before completing a definitive work he was preparing on , Canadian taxation. But from Seniors. killed More often. OTTAWA (CP) — Almost 23 * monoxide ‘from vehicles in TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, BC... his fragmentary writings and by observing the way. he — operated in Ottawa, Dean Ross deduces : of taxation: 1. Thereis a tremendously - strong natural tendency for the effect of any tax levy to spread out from the taxpayer. son whom. it is imposed. This’ tendency operates in an uneven, unpredictable, and usually untraceable manner, ©. 2. When the pressures set ‘up by a tax change eventually spend themselves, our wage- price-profits complex. moves into a new equilibrium. 3. Competition is one of the most significant forces in preventing the tax incidence from being passed on disproportionately to someone else. ; ‘4, But if the weight of tax . can be readily and smoothly - spread, it tends to be less disruptive than if it lands on one group and stays there. The smooth spreading of a tax change is therefore a benevolent factor, and the encouragement of it should be one of the important con- siderations in a tax program, 5. A fair variety of taxes is needed so that adjustment can occur at many points in the’ system. 6. Because a minimum of disruption should be an im- portant goal, the questions of timing of tax changes is ab- ‘solutely crucial. And if rates are edged up gradually, percentage point by. per- centage point over a period of _ years, taxpayers get a better chance to adjust. Towards the end of his commentary, Dean Ross offers a number of suggestions concerning tax research, certain. - essentials of a general theory: WASHINGTON. (CP) —.The - 10-per-cent -special United States import.duty ‘will. be “ removed when other. countries _ let thelr currencies fioat freely in international _ Oxehange - Arthur - Farwell Arthur Stanhope Farwell was justly famed for his ac- _complishments as a surveyer of British Columbia but waited ‘too long to wed the lady his _ heart desired. ; . His father was a Devonshire . clergyman: Farwell moved, to: Victoria in 1864, at the age of 23, and became celebrated for his caustic tongue. He was well-liked and generally regarded as a woman hater __. but. kept a romance hidden from his. friends and associates. until after his death. When Yarwell’s will was read, to the surprise of everyone, it left his entire estate to a Nelson lady, He had - courted her years before unsuccessfully and when the lady became a widow renewed his suit. This time she ac- cepted but Farwell postponed his marriage until he could afford a home worthy of her. While waiting for his fortunes to improve he died in his sleep ~ one night of heart failure, Farwell carried out major Survey’ explorations on Vaneouver island, the Fraser River and the Queen Charlotte .- Islands. But he is best knawn for his work in laying out the town of Revelstoke (which was originally named Far- well) and the first eight blocks of the city of Nelson. , B.C. vehicles to have exhaust emmission tests Attorney-General Peterson has announced that the Motor- Vehicle Branch of his — Department has obtained ‘an exhaust emission monitoring instrument for tests to be carried out‘ in the Victoria inspection station, He said “this is an im- portant step Inthe Provincial Government’s program of