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February 12, 198t oN ; CALGARY (CP) — A ail revenues. “University of Calgary Brown, a studesl of economist says that while federalprevincial revenue ‘Albertans complain about equalization programs, ‘étondmic exphitation by said the existence of such Céitral Camada, their massive revenues drives provinceisfailing ta pay its up average provincial fair share of the costs of income and forces Ottawa Confederation. to pay more to those --Ata panel discussion on = provinces with below- ; separatism this average per-capita r and-in a later in- Tevenues. ‘ texxiew, Malcolm Brown “charged that Alberta ‘‘is beébming, to some degree, ‘te ixee rider," making : like Ontario bear extra financial burdens. “ “The source of this ity, Brown said, is a More importantly, Ot- tawa cannot tax Alberta oil revenues to fund the growing equalization payments. means the burden of 2 gigantic tax loophole” financing equalization falls Leregted by the con- “disproportionately on Sstitdtional tradition of not Ontario’ as does the burden of funding all national programs and services. “allowing Ottawa to tax “provincial gavernments’ incomes. + From that loophole has Scone something which the ‘ceonstitution makers of 1867 Snever envisaged — a province that is amassing “massive and untouchable ment's position, he said, amounts to denial of the principle that Canadians everywhere should be And that, Brown said, : _ to use tax loopholes as ‘does ~The “Alberia govern-— taxed equally by Ottawa. Albertans, he argued, should not collectively escape federal taxes because their income hap- pens to come from resources instead of manufacturing. And it goes to the Heritage Fund in- stead of to them directly. But what abdut the in-. comes of Crown cor- perations like Ontario Hydro that also escape tax? Or the billions of dollars Alberta says it has lost by not getting world oil _prices? Other provinces’ resources aré similarly exempt from federal tax, Brown agreed — just as a low-income secretary has. the same theoretical right a rich executive, In practice, however, “there is nothing near the magnitude” of Alberta’s benefits from the loophole. po STACKED DECK FEARED OTTAWA (CP) — Progressive Conservative that one-third of the delegates chosen so far officials began an in- from Quebec do not live in vestigation Wednesday into the ridings they represent. the credentials of delegates Some Conservatives who will vote on Joe pressing for a leadership Clark's continued review suggest Quebec leadership at the party’s national convention later this month. ‘Party president Robert Coates told a news ‘con- ° ference the investigation was prompted by reports party officials might be ‘trying to ‘stack the provincial delegation by parachuting Clark sup- porters into ridings where enough Jocal delegates _ could not be found. cy ° tala AUT “Serving Fine Foods? days a week" Break fas}, lunch and dinner 635-62 SLUMBER LODGE ‘THURSDAY | 5 p.m. to midnight MING [bc] CETK (CHC) BCTy (ctl RCTS (Pes) COMET 0 [earot MASH, [Se ; ; +3 [Burnett AALS Ht. hore * Rover Pierratey x KING § TK Startky & an New News News Hutch Contect w Zoo oo] Nec Love News Over Jamais x few Boat Hour Easy Jarees pea beta Love News Olek Boag he Boat Hour Cavett Wong he 'a7 00 Seartie Fortasy = [ati Machel '$ | Tenignt alan Alice Lehrer Tae. etc Toe Fontesy | Littieat Doctor in [am as gh Island Hobe me House | Commm 60) The Mork tBuck Sneak Les 'Sicanoater = | Mindy Rogers Previews [Greacs | Chronicies |Fleppers [Buck 8 2 zl 5 Stepping Films OO) Gangster | Thurs. 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Coates said some of the 7 Tidings in Quebec might be unable to send delegates because there were not proper constituency Tory MP Bert Hargrave, - cochairman of. the | con- yention credentials commiltee, said there could be “a significant number” of Quebec ridings which are not qualified to send delegates. Clark sald Wednesday he supports moves to ensure good representation at the convention from Quebec. Coates said an in- ’ Clark's “A giant tax loophole’ - Brown saki that while federation, that is not enough to make up for the loophale. “It certainly completely, as Alberta outside Confederation. An independent Alberta could get higher oil revenues — but it would also lose its ‘“‘free rider” status, pay more for -- Bational services, lose the benefits of Canada-wide economies of scale in government activity and probably pay ‘massive amounts in subsidies to develop local industries. Tory delegates investigated vestigation is necessary to ensure there are no doubts raised about the results of the leadership review . question or election of Hargrave, convention floor. - The first question subject fo a vote when the con- vention opess on Feb. 27 in Ottawa is whether the party should hold a lead- ership review. Peter. partial list of Quebec showed at least - 120 OF S90 delegates in 55 ridings represented riding associations in which they were not members, ac- published cording to reports. John Gamble, MP for York North and a backer of the group pressing for a leadership review, said sounds earlier that suspicious. Gamble said two party _ development minister - in short-lived government, and Marcel Danis, president of the Quebec Progressive Conservative Association — are Clark supporters. ". One and Fireplace in every unit. 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The notion that the average Canadian is only as fit as a 60-year- =f old Swede is no longer true, says Sport Minister Ger-ald Regan. In 1972, Canadians were taunted by a catchy, olten-irritgting federal campaign about fitness calling Canada “the true north soft and free” and telling commuters to jog to the back of the bus because that was - probably the only exercise they would re- ceive that day. But times international confer- ence on winter recreation Wednesday in Ottawa. “Fitness has arrived in Canada,” he sail, adding there is a strong ' surge of interest in jog- ging, tennis, squash, racquetball, soft ball and broombail. Clothing desi Bill Blass says he still has hopes for Ron-ald Reagan's fashion sense, despite the new president's bumpy start. “I saw some wild plaid pants going up to Camp David last week," Blass told an audience of Yale University . students Tuesday. “The Reagans have not spent much time on the East Coast and it will take them a little while to get used to the style. " The 59-year-old president of Bill Blass Ltd. said he expects the - firat family to raise the nation’s clothing con- SCAOUSTIESS. LOS ANGELES (AP) ' — Eighteen years after Marilyn - Monroe's death, the widely-held belief that the blonde - - sex symbol was born ” Martin Edward Mortenser, 45, collapsed at the wheel of his automobile Tuesday in nearby Riverside and ded of an apparent heart attack, Riverside County coroner's in- yestigator Lisle Ford gid in a telephone in- terview. Monrce’s mother has been in. mental in- 1988, ‘had told = co- workers and his advertising | § . we A u ABOUT : _PEOPLE » GERALD REGAN «times have changed “The Carters had no Francis Coppola, interest in or knowledge whose Qnancially- of fashion. The: troubled movie studio is Reagans, on the other — threatening to cause his hand, like to have own personal parties and dress up,” be said. The glances directed at an Olfawa teen-age . beauty pageant con- testant were normal for such an affair, but they would have become surprised stares if onlookers had realized the object of their ap preciation was Gov.- Gen, Ed Schreyer's 17- year-old daughter. Karme! Schreyer has been trying to keey her participation In the event low key and ap peared flustered when cornered by curious TS, About all the Lisgar Collegiate student would say was; “I’m in this because I want to be. ~ “No, T can’t talk tp * you ‘cause I have to go ’ right home as soon as this is over. Olay?" Judges will choose among the pageant's 30 contestants Sunday. boteee physician he was the late film star's father, giving details of his marriage to her mother that contradict the biographical accounts. At the modest apartment where Mortensen lived alone in Mira Loma, 96 kilometres east of Los Angeles, Ford gaid he found copies of Monroe's birth cer. tificate as well as marriage and divorce pepers for Mortensen and Gladys Baker, Mou- ree’a mother, The birth certificate states Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. 1 apocalypse, has been - saved, at least tem- porarily. . Paramount Pictures of Hollywood has turned over $1 million to Coppola and movie fans have mailed cash donations in hopes of keeping Zoetrope Studios alive. Paramount pur- chased a $500,000 in- terest in an upcoming Zoetrope film, In- terface, and extended a $500,000 personal Ivan to rea officials said Tuesday, Staff .and union workers on Zoetrope's latest epic, the $23- million Oné From The Heart, agreed to work for no pay last week when Coppola couldn't meet their payroll. “The money lets us shoot a couple more weeks, It rids us of the heavy burden of the payroll for a couple weeks," said Anne Sch- webel, a Zoetrope spokesman. Her father is listed as ‘Edward Mortensen, address unknown, age 2. The marriage cer- tificate is dated Oct. 11, 1924; the final Los Angeles Superior Court divorce decree is dated Aug. 15, 1928. Monroe, whose cooing . voice, voluptuous figure and platinum hair set male pulses racing with such 1950s films as Some Like It HotrThe Seven-Year [ich and | Gentlemen. Prefer Blondes, died in Lee | Angeles at’ age 36 on Aug. 5, 1982, of: an - overdose of sleeping pills; Authorities ruled her death an apparent suicide. WINS JUDGMENT _NANCHUVER (> — Te BE Sgr cat againat John Meier, former side Howard Hughes, to biliionafre The jujgment gives Suma Corp., successor to Hughes Tool Co., the right to seize any assets and property Meter has in B.C. Meier now lives in nearby Tsawwassen, B.C. 7 “people have matled Sed in money,” she added. “actual money has Declaring "I feel great,”’ Cynthia Dwyer Pturned to the United States and her family's embraces Wednesday, after nine months im- prisonment in Tehran’ that she said made her unsympathetic toward the Iranian revolution. Dwyer, flanked by ber husband, John, and their three children, said at a mews CON ference in New Youk that she changed ber views toward Iran after being accused of spying “because they put me in a position t see the worst aspect that they are doing.” =. * “T need time to sort It. out," the Ambérat, N.Y, free-lance writer said when aeked about leaving her family to go to Iran last April to write about - that country’s revolution. “Captivity makes me feel like a trained seal or something.”’ Meanwhile, the . returned American hostages aren’t the only “heroes” being offered free gifts. Duke King, manager of Honolula’s Scuba Shop, has announced a program to provide free scuba courses to Vietnam veterans. . “We're as happy and relieved as everyone else that the hostages . have been safely re- turned,’’ King sald. “But I was in the ser- vice during Vietnam and witnessed the lack of gratitude and ac- ceptance our boys ‘received when they returned from the war. J think it’s time we rectified that wrong. Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in some James Bond films, can't - seem foescape the Bond» ~ eoonection. Now a Toronto. newspaper columnist, Maxwell recently pur-| chased a raffie ticket . and the first three numbers were 007 — the . -bumerals used by the fictitious detective. : Bond's Lack didn’t rub if on ber, however, She didn’t win. : Marilyn really had a father _- Details of her” childhood were always ~ cloudy, and a publicist — said Monroe wanted the © studio biographies to ~ say her father had died.” But Mortensen told ~ con ceenialon Thomas Burns about his marriage and’ his.” daughter's birth. “They were seperated when she was born," welfare - authorities - subpoenaed him. Mortensen - disputed stories that he had ted Monrve ~ when she tried to reach - him as an aduh, Burnt ‘ said. : “He told me she told - him she didn't want to have abything to do with — him when she became a — movie star. He sald: ‘T © never bothered her.’”