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Not so idyllic

In the Baliem valley of New Guinea lives a tribe of people ‘who, according to an AP story, live peacefully on sweet potatoes and pork; experience no crime, no pollution, no ulcers, no poverty, and who control their population by ‘“‘abstinence.’’ The government of Indonesia hopes to ‘civilize’ them. A recent letter to the editor echoed the oral opinion ex- pressed by many: “Who needs it?”

Glossed over was a ‘‘sleeper”’ in the piece: “There is no money. Goods are bartered for items of value such as pigs or women.” Also, ‘Fingers’ of little girls and women and sometimes men are chopped off during funerals as a sign of mourning for dead members of the family.”

No crime? By what name do they call it?

One thing the Indonesians want to do is introduce them to a money economy. Bartering pigs may be un- complicated. Pigs can be traded in whole according to age and weight or cut up and bartered piece by piece.

What’s a woman worth? How many pigs equal one woman? Or how many women equal one pig? Is she worth her weight in sweet potatoes?

An average adult sow weighs more than 450 pounds. How does the average adult woman in the Baliem valley measure up against their average adult sow?

Who needs civilization in the Baliem valley? The women and young girls victimized by adult males. That’s who.

—The Oregorian

The midi is back!

racks, All over the Eastern Seaboard & .

Everyone, including the wizards of the American mercantile establish- ment, is baffled by the sudden changes in fashion that seem to operate as if a mysterious virus had been let loose.

Last year, the high arbiters of fashion decreed that skirts should be at mid-calf. Stores stocked up, but the women didn’t buy. Men cheered.

But just as the fashion world had about given up on the midi, women in late 1971 started grabbing them n off the

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stores are running out of their midi stocks.

It ean’t be blamed on the climate, because the east has enjoyed an unusually warm Indian Summer. Retailers, who are often bad at guessing such quixotic changes, credit not a virus, but slits added to the 1971 skirts. The slits go up the sides, hooked with buttons and zippers. ‘It’s sexy,” a woman buyer explained

THE HERALD, TERRACE — KITIMAT, B.C.

TRANQUILITY

The Editor, The Daily News

You have in the past given us very much appreciated help and I wonder if yeu might find space for a write up concerning our project; it was started a couple of years ago and has been receiving increasing support.

This year we want par-

Leaders say “governmenis should ‘co-operate.

VICTORIA — A delegation of British Columbia’s municipal leaders told the provincial government the

people of this province would | be better served if a greater .

degree of cooperation were achieved between their two levels of government. Leading the Union of B.C, Municipalities executive in its

presentation cf a brief to the .

cabinet, UBCM president Alderman Ernie Broome of Vancouver said in recent years the role of local government has become more difficult and infinitely more complex.

“Relying as we do not real property taxes to provide the

Noting that one municipality has been required by a recent court ruling to pay retroactive rate increases for welfare cases imposed by private hospitals and rest homes, the brief said the care of sick ‘people ‘is rightfully a health matter, not welfare, and should be covered by the B.C, Hospital Insurance Scheme.

The delegation said that several municipalities may be financially hard hit by rulings in a number of similar cases now before the courts.

This ‘could result in those municipalities being required now to pay hundreds of thousandsof dollars to private

creases which were above the limit designated as shareable by the government under the social assistance cost-sharing formula, which stipulates a 15 per cent local government share and 85 per cent paid by the senior governments. BRIEF URGES ‘

The brief therefore urged the government for a com- mitment to increase its ac- ceptable par diem limit correspondingly, pending a shifting of responsibility, and to reimburse the affected municipalities for the senior governments’ share of the awarded judgments.

For the third time since 1969 the UBCM made a strong

: which

bulk of our income,’’ Broome said, “we find this limited tax basis unable te keep pace with the escalation in costs of services — including those costs imposed on us by senior government.”’

He called for a reassessment and realign- ment of beth provincial and local government respon- sibilities “to more closely

. Felate to -fiscal capacities,” . and added:

"T feel that we should try to go a little farther along the road of cooperation. I feel that the people of British Columbia, whom we both represent,; can be better served if we more effectively - pool our efforts on their behalf.”

ASK CABINET ; In respect of pollution "* eontrol, “the -brief asked the | . cabinet: to recognize that the task represents for. local and ' regional~’ governments: financially ‘and technologically impossible . situation which is ‘quite beyond our means.” |

The province was asked to ~ set firm standards and a time framework.’ within ‘which’ all

‘-types..of pollution contrel ‘problems: must be met; to ~ share -in-. the - financing _necessary,, and to provide penalties and enforcement, as : -well as the required technical... design assistance, 8 - “We believe: one- agency ~ must be established and given ~ power to regulate, plan and :+ @ontrol the attack on pollution -” through eaten authorities,” a the brief sald... a And .‘bec

institutions to cover rate in-

appeal for some form of

@ First Features.

property tax relief for needy senior citizens, But the brief noted that senior citizen organizations dislike a proposal from another source that this relief be a sort of increasing tax deferral recoverable through sale of the property on the owner's death.

Another solution, the delegation said, would be a substantial increase in the provincial home owner grant for those in realneed.

The government ‘was asked to recognize that. mobile homes have become, and are increasing as, a permanent way of life, the owners of enjoy the

municipal services as con- °

ventional home owners but at far less cost.

- There are more than 10,00 |

mobile homes on fixed foundations in B.C. and a

. recent government survey

indicates 94 per cent are

“owner-occupied and 72 per

cent have no intention to sell

or move. ‘Many mobile homes are as

big as conventional homes but

pay only a.flat fee in lieu of

“property tax, including school | tax, to a maximum of $6 a4 © year, the brief noted, By

comparison, the average B.C.

- property .tax. on a’ typical |

NHA-finanéed bungalow in 1970 was $380.'

Theréfore, the brief urged, ‘mobile homes’: on ' fixed.

foundations should be subject. -to the same assessment and property-tax rates, arid should _ beentitled to vote and receive | - -~ the homeowner grant’ the

same as other owner- electors, MORE STUDY. -

The delegation . ‘also. asked ‘ _ the government to undertake |: - ggtudy of the effectiveness of

using provincially -:based

“sweepstakes to: help ‘finance

health care and hdéspital services in B.C, . -- Tt has long been the: con:

tention of many B.C. citizens . .. ~ that a substantial amount of .

" money _. doriated toward these services - "\ by ladividuais if the incentive: ~ of a-chance to win a sizeable 4 oi spool ‘of money were. added to:

aa age for funds, :the. brie

‘would. be’. willingly:

newest .

{Al Price photo) eee

ticularly to use the funds raised through this ‘Donation in lien of Christmas Gift" project for our work among children in refugee camps in India and Jordan.

Tam enclosing a copy of the

card which we send cut to the recipients of the “gifts” for your information. Many thanks for your help, (Mrs.) J.F, Dewhurst, Executive Secretary,

2 Save the Children-Fund, ...: wots 119 WestPenderSts,:

Vancouver 3, B.C.

- Genius perfects: rickion patterns.

CALGARY. (GP) — With an:

wnique idea and $10,000, bor-° rowed money, Evan Bodrug set out five years ago to capitalize:

on erratic weather conditions in - - North America... °

As president of Canadian Hid- Togas Resources Ltd., the Al-

only propane and butane whole-

saler in Canada, The company .

estimates sales of $6 million this year—more than . double the

- 4976 sales revenue of $2.9

million. .

He conceived the idea during

a stint as manager of the gas

division at Dome Petroleum.

Ltd. in Calgary. :

The former Saskatchewan :

resident said he was intrigued by the unpredictable supplies of propane and uncertain markets

governed mainly by. the conti- _nental weather. patterns.

“You never really know how ..

much propane will be available

from the gas producers, andyou .

never know: for. sure who: is going to buy it. ™ :

Later, he studied te: situation -

‘WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1971

and discovered interesting exe amples.

One, he sald, waa a metal - manufacturer near Omaha, Neb., who had an arrangement ~ with a natural gas distributor for a good supply of propane during the warm mon ths. berta rancher says he: ig the *

HAD 10 APOLOGIZE | company had to apologize be-

cause all available natural gas

was reserved for residential users, -

A perfect chance to ship pror

pane by the fank-car load dur- ine the winter, thought Mr. Bod- rug, a former southern Alberta

cow-puncher and now owner of 150 Limousin cattle on a ranch o

near Cal

Igary. The venture had its beginning .

when Mr. Bodrug leased eight tank cars and purchased pro-

pane and butane from gas pro- |

ducers willing to sell surpluses

‘ at a slightly reduced price.

He then dispatched a supply

- toa customer by rail tanker at a

modest premium. “The concept was to be a

“wholesaler : _ anybody's marketer,” he sald, 2

and”: “not”

“Basically, we live and thrive - | ona smail percentage of pro- duction from “Alberta’s gaa plants, and we deal with a large: number of customers. ©“. “There will always be a seat: 19 tered demand which no pipeline

Can serve—that ds where we fit In winter, however, the ufllty o

in. tt on

Hidrogas ‘has a. fleet of 180 | tank cars ‘and - arrangements have been made to acquire stor- .

» age capacity in Regina. Under- | a ground caverns will be used to |B

store two million gallons of pro-

pane so a. supply is always i available.

WENT PUBLIC -The

erties in Montana and southern ; Alberta, It. became a’ public. company in, 1960 when it took over Stikine River Mines Ltd.

Mr. Bodrug, who graduated |i from the University of Saskat- | ig

chewan with a degree in engi- neering, also tried his luck as a

s BS

WHAT’S 80 HOT?

The recovery rate. You get lots of hot water (75 gallons an hour) when you need it. And that’s what a hot water heater is for, isn’t it? To prove our point, we'll provide you with one

rent-free for three months.

WHAT DO 1 DO TO KEEP IT?

Just: tell us after the three months and you can ‘arrange to lease or buy. Leasing works

“miner at Flin Flon, Man..

outas little aa $4.13 a month, including inatal-

lation of up to $80, or you can buy it over a

. period of ten years. But first, get one for your frea trial. No catches, just one condition, that you buy top quality Chevron Heating Fuel for your oil-fired furnace.

Call your nearest Chevron Housewarmer teday for further details and get your family into lots of hot water. (Offer expires December 31,1971).

same’

WA

1SSUE OF: '

foe rakes $350,000,000 _ fe | GOVERNMENT OF HMDA a BONDS o

7 Baik of Canada is authorized by the Ministei of Finance to receive, subseiias for ¢ a oan, °

to be issued for. cash as follows:

| | “2 year Te month 44% bonds due December A, i974 ; as “Issue price: 99.70% oo

Yielding about 4.36% ae maturity. |

Lo ‘Interest payable June 1-and December 1 ; a -Five: and one half months” interest payable June ‘1 1972. ne Denominations: $1 2000, $5,000, $25, 000, S100.0 000 and $1,000,000

‘and :

8 year’ 58% bonds due December 15,1 1979 ‘Issue price: 99.25% | oo -- Yielding about : 5.87% ‘to ma

“cAnterest payable: yi Denominations: $

15. and December “15

‘the sitet wil. ‘be ‘used to.redee ‘$285, 000, 600 ‘bonds maturing : December 15, 1971, te 1 will ‘be.applied to: advan a “Rail “in $178,443,500-of the:

5000, $25,000, $1000 and $1

company now is diver- a : sifying and has taken an inter: [3m est in oll and natural gas prop- /#ae