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SURREY, B.C, (CP) — British Columbians will spend about $30 million— more than §13 for every man, woman and child in the province—this year to en-

= sure there's a sharp crease fin their pants or a well

ironed pleat in their skirts. “There are about 375 dry cleaning stores in B.C., employing about 2,000 clerks, operators, pressers and dirt spotters, says John Veer, president of the B.C. Fabricare Association.

"It's a growing business,” said Veer. ‘People seem more and more conscious of being well turned-out these days.”

As the man behind the counter of his own dry cleaning store in this com- munity south of Vancouver, Yeer has observed present trends in the public’s clothing needs.

“Natural fabrics are

"+ making a comeback,” he

said. “Men are rebelling against being encased in shirts comprised of 65 per cent polyester and 35 per

g cent cotton.

“The polyester doesn't breathe as does natural cotton, and the wearer becomes uncomfortable. The trend is toa reverse of these percentage figures,”

Natural fabrics last longer than synthetic fibres, he said, and © wool suit “looks smarter and better than a synthetic fibre garment."

“When synthetics took hold in Canada around 1968, there were a host of com-

plaints from customers,-

especially over dripand-dry garments," said Veer. “They dried all right, but the finish was bad.”

Veer said the mast frequent customer com- plaint is “puckering or blistering of men's suits in the inner facing seams areas,"

The problem is caused by garment manufacturers using a chemical bonding agent instead of stitching when assembling synthetic clothes, During the dry cleaning process, the bond- ing causes the seams to pucker.

Veer sald hig major business headache is rising costs. Taxes on his store have more than doubled in four years to $3,200 annually, while wages and other overhead have also risen dramatically, And, he said, store operators have raised their prices accordingly.

“Yet today it's harder to make a buck,” he said, estimating that a small store has a turnover of about $50,000 a year, of which between 10 and 15 per cent is net profit.

“A big operation would have a yearly turnover of

. $150,000,” he said.

Many dry cleaning stores advertise one-hour service, but Veer smiled when asked what would happen if a customer demanded it.

“We'd be in real trouble. Fortunately, less than 10 per cent of the customers ask for it.”

Gov’t misleading

on letter opening

OTTAWA (CP) — Speaker James Jerome ruled Wed- nesday that Progressive Conservative MP Allan Lawrence was deliberately misled by the Liberal government in a 1873 letier about RCMP mail-opening practices.

Jerome ruled in favor of |

arguments by Lawrence, a

former Ontario: attorney-;,

general, that his ability ‘to ask questions had been

a damaged because of a false

government statement, The Commons im-

m mediately began debate of

Lawrence's motion urging that an all-party committee Jook into details of the letter he received from then solicitor-general Warren Al-

and, That letter said in part: “I have been assured by the

has

RCMP that it is not their practice to intercept the private mail of anyone.” It subsequently been revealed Mounties opened mail.

The motion must be passed by the Commons and it was not immediately clear when a recorded vote would be held -

_ Lawrence appealed to the

igeverhments:.to. ‘refer. the.

matter to the committee and therefore avoid “all kinds of conclusions that could be reached if it was nol allowed to proceed.”

New Democrat Stuart Leggett said considering that Jerome has found there has been a contempt of Parliament, the Speaker would have to consider resigning if the Libera} majority rejected the motion.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

VANCOUVER (CP) — Most basic assistance payments should be in- creased by at leas: 35 per cent to provide }"oper shelter, utilities, find, clothing and transportatian, says a report by the Wnitec Way: social planning aud research committee.

The report, released Wednesday, said there is a wide gap between the basic needs of welfare recipients and the basic benefit payments they receive.

“In spite of sporadic in- creases in the dollar amount of income assistance benefits, the level of recipients’ income remains too law to adequately meet

their basic needs," the committee said.

The report said that a, single person, aged 45 to 55, on welfare for Jess than four months, needs at least $126. more than the basic monthly allowance of $175 to provide essential goods and services,

A two-parent family with three children, and on welfare for more than four

months, requires: a minimum of $251 extra. Even with these increases,

the committee said, the majority of welfare recipients in the Vancouver area would still be exlating below recognized poverty nes,

Old Stock gets okay

VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Labatt Breweries of B.C. Ltd. can sell its new malt liquor in the province under the label Old Stock.

Carling O'Keefe Breweries had requested an order pre- venting the sale because the name resembles Carling’s Extra Old Stock label.

Mr, Justice Henry Hut- cheon said he would give his

reasons for dismissing the request at a later date.

Labatt argued that* the words extra and stock were generally assoclated with a type of stronger, heavier- tasting beer and that Carling O'Keefe could not claim a trademark infringement. .

A Labatt spokesman said the company expects to have. 40,000 cases of the new beer on sale by Friday.

Decision upheld

VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld a B.C. Supreme Court decision to reject an appeal by the B.C. Teachers Federstion of a wage roll-back {ci teachers in nearby Burnaby.

A contract was reached in 1976 under binding ar- bitration that granted the

teachers an 11.6-per-cent salary increase, However, the anti-inflation board ordered the increase cut back to 9.5 per cent.

The Supreme Court rejected the teachers appeal of the roliback, and today the three-judge panel of the Appeal Court upheld tha decision, .

Notice not required

OTTAWA (CP) — The Su- preme Court of Canada has ruled that governments as employers do not have to give employees eight days’ notice of intent to lock them oul,

The high court overturned a Quebec Appeals Court decision that said the city of Hull, Que., illegally lockad

out 150 blue-collar-workers in.

1974, The provincial Sppeals court had ordered the city to pay full salary lost by the workers during the lockout and $2,600 in compensation to the union.

The employees, members of the Confederation of National Trade - Unions

{CNTU), had claimed that the city could nat lock them out until the union was in a legal strike position. The legal strike position is 60 days after a conciliation report has been handed down and a further eight days after a unon has filed offical -notice of intention to strike.

The same rules applied to the employer, argued the CNTU. :

However, the high court said Tuesday the Canada Labor Code does not apply’ the eightday notice rule to public-sector employees. The rule does apply to em- ployers in private business.

Trudeau sees Queen

LONDON (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau will meet privately with the Queen today and sides said he likely will discuss the ap- pointment of a new gover- nor-general to replace the retiring Jules Leger.

He later will confer with Prime Minister James Callaghan at 10 Downing St. to discuss Anglo-Canadian economic issues,

A highlight of his one-day trip to London will be a meeting with the Queen Mother. Sources close to Trudeau indleated the prime minister requested a

meeting with the 78-year-old mother of the Queen because of a special fondness and respect for the widow of King George VI.

Trudeau's lunch with the Queen, his first official function here, will be private. No other member of the Royal Family or Trudeau's party will be present, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said Wednesday.

On Friday Trudeau boards a French military aircraft for Paris to open economic talks with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

Meeting arranged

CAIRO (Reuter) — Egyptian Prime Minister Mustapha Khalil was to meet Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defence

Minister Ezer Weizman in London or Bonn Wednesday night, the official Egyptian Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

The agency, in a dispatch from London, said arrange- ments for the meeting were made when Welzman tele- phoned Khalil earlier this week in Washington.

Dayan had said earlier in Tel Aviv that he was leaving for Europe on business not connected with Middle East peace talks,

Government

reluctant

VANCOUVER (CP) — Provincial court Judge Les Bewley said Wednesday the federal government is determined not to contribute financially to British Columbia's compulsory her- cin treatment program, scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.

Last year Ron Basford, then federal justice minister, promised federal funding for the program, but Ottawa >75 since withdrawn that offer.

Judge Bewley, who was In Ottawa this week, said Justice Minister Mare Lalonde told him it 1a unlikely the federal govert- ment will provide funding.