Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 2

1 BENSON BUDGET 2 Nanais Doily Fre Press, Thursday, 3ue 3, 1971 RCROSS THE PROVINCE 1 Tax, Spending Plans Of Primary Concern Fire A Few Mayor Urges OTTAWA (CP) Finance! A new report on consumer prices will be released Monday, Minister Edgar Benson will present his 1971 spring budget June 14, covering the situation CONSULTANT OUT KAMLOOPS CP Th future and bis long-awaited sweeping revision of the Income Tax Act on the over-all health of the economy. Revision of the Income Tax Act has been in the planning stage for years. It reached a high point of interest in November, 1969, when Mr. Benson tabled a white paper on proposals for tax law revision, includ of an evaluation of civic govern "a it' to the Commons on Friday, June 18. at tha beginning of May.

The April price index had shown an increase of only 1.9 per cent over a year earlier. While this showed a distinct ment here is up in me air again following the withdrawal of a consultant's offer to conduct a it Making the announcement In -J kH study. Barry Cope said in a let ing the introduction of a capital the Commons Wednesday, he reiterated his expectation that unemployment will show a con 5 gains tax, tax relief for low-income families, scaling down tax rates on the highest brackets. and a form of dovetailing per sonal income and corporation tinuing decline in the months ahead. Tackling unemployment is the biggest problem now facing the government in its short-term economic planning.

New figures on unemployment profits taxes on dividends paid to investors. The white paper proposals ran ter to city council that ne witn-drew his offer because of the political controversy surrounding it. PLAN OPPOSED DELTA 'CP) A special meeting of municipal council rejected a proposal by Ramage Developments Ltd. to build a 120-unit condominium in North Delta. The council meeting followed a public hearing at which opposition to the development was expressed by many of the 150 people in attendance.

INDIAN ARTIST DIES ALERT BAY (CP) Indian into heavy criticism In Com slowing down of inflation from a year ago, when pricei were running 4.5 to five per cent ahead of 12 months earlier, there were signs that inflation might be picking up steam again. There was an increase of 1.8 per cent in consumer prices in the last four months. SPENDLNG BIG FACTOR For the short-term the next six to nine months the June 18 budge! will be primarily concerned with the government's taxing and spending policies. Apart from paying its normal bills, the trend of government has a major influence mons and Senate commutes. While the House finance com are scheduled to be announced Thursday, June 17, for the month of May.

At mid-April there were 659.000 jobless, an increase of 9,000 from the previous month. mittee suggested modest amendments, the Senate bank 3 ''IS ing and commerce committee Although there are danger- was highly critical, virtually signs that inflation may be flar recommending that the white ing again, the government is PRINCE GEORGE CP -Mayor Harold Moffat of Prince George said Wednesday that municipal admins-tratori should fire a few employees every so to keep them alert. a few of em, it's a great morale booster," be declared. Speak-in? to the annual B.C. Municipal Officers' conference, he also threatened to put a radio in every vehicle to check if employee are working.

POOR WILL TRAVEL PRINCE GEORGE CP -The co-ordinators of the Poor Peoples Action Committee in Prince George hope to send a busload of poor people to Van-derhoof Sunday to greet Rehabilitation Minister Phil Gaglardi when he attends the Vanderhoof Air Show. "We will take people to Vanderhoof and let Gaglardi know they are not all happy," said Kevin Rhodes, one of the co-ordinators. TL'G-OF-WAR SET PRINCE GEORGE (CP)-The White Spruce Winter Carnival Society ha agreed to represent Prince George in a tug-of-war contest with Kamloops representatives July 3 at the Mount Rob-son lookout on the Yellowhead Highway in eastern B.C. The society took up a challenge from Kamloops after Prince George mayor Harold Moffat dismissed it as a "triviality." MAN KILLED HOPE (CP) Thomas E. Strangef 29, of Castlegar was killed Tuesday when the bulldozer he was operating rolled over on a steep hill and crushed him.

The man was employed on a pipeline construction project. confident it has weathered the paper proposals be scrapped. MAY MAKE REVISIONS worst of rising prices. i Mr. Benson now is expected to make some modifications painter and carver Henry Speck Chief Ozitles of the Kwakiutl nation died suddenly here after returning home from Victoria, feeling ill.

Mr. Speck suffered from a heart condition. He was buried with traditional Indian ceremony here and is survived by his widow, five sons, six from the original proposals, but to carry out the white paper Fischer Sets Sights On World Chess Title plan in principle. He originally hoped to have the revised tax law come into effect last Jan. l.

With the budget now scheduled for June 18 and Parliament daughters and 25 grandchildren. He was 62. PEDICABS APPROVED (Fre Presa Suff photo) VANCOUVER (CP) Bobbv expected to adjourn for tht Danish grandmaster defeated grandmaster Wolfgang Uhl- Fischer, fresh from a one-sided summer a week later, It will be VICTORIA (CP) Tourists HONORARY KAMLOOPS COWBOY mann of East Germany. 5'i-3'4 victory here over Soviet grand touch and go whether the plan here this summer will be able to ride rickshaw fashion around The other semi-final starts master Mark laimanov, saia Wednesday he is confident he July 4 in Moscow between Ti- the city's Beacon Hill park, in gram Petrosian and Viktor will go on to win the world chess title. Korchnoi.

both of the U.S.S.R Corrigan, left, of Kamloops Branch, Royal Canadian Legion, and Don Jensen, Kamloops Branch president, acted on behalf of Kamloops Mayor Peter Wing. two-passenger pedicabs pulled by pedalling students. A trades licence to operate two pedicabs It was turnabout at city hall this week where Mayor Frank Ney, centre, usually presents other people with bathtub race hats. Now it was his turn to receive a stetson and a centennial medallion from Kamloops. Keith can be enacted by next Jan.

1. It will be the first Friday night presentation of the budget in many years. The hourichosen for the presentation 2 PDT was selected to ensure that ftll financial markets would be closed for the weekend before news of it reaches The Russian resizned Wednes Petrosian defeated Robert Heubner of West Germany 4-3 was approved Tuesday for Wil day without further play in the adiourned sixth eame of their and Korchnoi beat fellow Rus sian Yefim Geller yk-2M. quarter-final elimination match liam Brown, who told the council's traffic committee his service would provide a pleasant The winner of the challenger to seek a challenger tor tne round will meet Spassky in 1972. world crown, giving Fischer a method of sightseeing without 6-0 sweep of the adding to the pollution problem.

Taimanov, 46, said Wednesday that Fischer undoubtedly is the best non-Soviet player he "The Soviets have been put Man Seized In Bomb Hoax ttHTM has met in his 19 years of inter national competition as a grand master. Bennett Lifts Curtain On Annual Trade Fair Taimanov, who had a high ting up road blocks for me for years, but I know I'm the best," said the 28-year-old Fischer, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. "I should have been world champion 10 years ago." He said he stands to make "easily $100,000 a year as a pro blood pressure condition that caused one game in the series here to be postponed on doctors orders, blamed his poor showing against Fischer on ill health. He said he also had violent head ache attacks during several fessional if he wins the world title, now held by Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. He received $1,250 in prize money for his win here while i 1 I ft MELBOURNE (Reuter) -Australian police detained a man today in connection with a case in which a man was paid $560,000 May 26 in an airline bomb hoax.

The unidentified man was seized when he stepped off a plane from Sydney. Six police, acting on a tin from Sydney, games here. "If it had not been for these Taimanov got $750. circumstances, I would have won games one and three and Though B.C.'s history is short, the opportunities presented by the oceanic theatre have long been recognized, the premier said. Lumber was shipped to Australia and spars were exported to another Pacific Rim partner, Peru, before B.C.

entered the Canadian Confederation 100 years ago. Mr. Bennett said that in the last 10 years, B.C. has enjoyed the most widespread industrial VANCOUVER (CP) -Premier W. A.

C. Bennett Wednesday said British Columbia is Canada's direct representative in the Pacific Basin which today commands the interest of all. The premier spoke as he officially opened ImpoExpo '71, an international trade fair set up by the provincial government with a grant of $200,000 as a centennial project. Although most of the 18 countries represented at the 10-day fair are European, Mr. Bennett concentrated on B.C.'s place on the Pacific shore.

changed the complexion of the CAN TAKE ALL KINDS OF WEATHER East Vancouver Island regfcmi: Friday: Ctoudy, a few sunny periods in the afternoon. High Friday 68, low tonight, 45. Yesterday's Temperature! min. max. precip-Thunder Bay 74 44 Winnipeg 81 54 Regina 78 47 Pr.

Albert 77 44 Swift Current 75 48 Medicine Hat 75 41 Calgary 71 43 questioned him at Melbourne match, he said through an In terpreter. "But as it was, NOW MEETS LARSEN Fischer, a grandmaster since he was 15, next meets Bent Lar-sen of Denmark in a semi-final scheduled to start July 4 at a site yet to be determined. The made mistakes that I never Gerrity with some fast explaining to do. Gerrity. a 26-year-old from Saskatoon, bears a striking resemblance to the description and a dummy made by police of the "Mr.

Brown" who obtained $560,000 from Australia's international airline Qantas after saying there was a bomb on one of its aircraft. Getrity said he has become accustomed to people giving him a startled look and then heading for the nearest phone to call the police. He told a newspaper photographer at Canberra airport Wednesday that he had been followed for more than a mile by policemen. "But they obviously weren't interested enough to stop me," he said. Gerrity is studying experimental pathology at the Australian National University here.

made before, even as a small boy." GAINS DEGREE and social development of any Thomas Robert Mayes, above, eldest son of Robert E. Mayes province in Canada. One measure of its advance was the fact that the population airporc. Police sources said the man was wearing a false beard and wig and was carrying an overseas airline bag. Qantas Airlines paid $560,000 to a man in Sydney May 26 who warned that there was a bomb aboard a Hong Kong-bound airliner with 128 persons aboard.

The plane returned to Sydney but no bomb was found on it. CANBERRA Reuter) Australia's bomb-in-a-plane hoax has left Canadian student Ross Quebec Labor Leader Acquitted Of Contempt of 280 Juniper Street, Nanaimo i en i i i ii i .71 .11 has received his bachelor of is growing at twice the rate of science (zoology) degree from the rest of Canada. The province's economic well University of Victoria. A grad uate of Nanaimo District Senior being is founded on foreign Trade Unions, sat at his table he plans a trade, said Mr. Bennett.

Al PARKS VILLE THURS. FRL SAT. "CARRY ON CAMPING" Shows 8 p.m. Friday, 7 and 9 p.m. Secondary School, career in teaching.

filling out his census form. MONTREAL (CP) A 12-man jury Wednesday acquitted labor leader Michel Cbartrand of contempt of court charges Penticton 76 53 Castlegar 61 48 Pr. Rupert 54 37 Pr. George 78 42 Mackenzie 80 39 Victoria 58 51 Nanaimo 64 52 Revelstoke 80 52 Fort Nelson 76 50 Peace River .82 49 Whitehorse 53 27 Fort St. John 81 53 Los Angeles 68 57 St.

John's 52 36 The charges were based on though B.C.. is primarily an exporter of raw materials there is a growing sale of products Mariner IX trom secondary industry. alleged derogatory remarks he made at a Montreal news con-erence Nov. 11, 1969 which implied collusion between the judi stemming from remarks made at a news conference in 1969. When the jury returned with Canadian Postal Workers Douses Strike Threat Fire its verdict after deliberating ciary and the underworld.

At that time, he was free on .01 245-3141 Gates 8 p.m. Cartoon at Dusk bail pending hearing of seditious conspiracy charges on the con Facts Of Life Are Stranger dition he not make any public statements other than those con Than Fiction! if nected with his work in the labor union. Halifax 73 48 Montreal 73 35 Ottawa 69 58 Toronto 61 52 North Bay 60 49 Churchill 50 30 The Pas 79 50 Chicago 75 58 New York 71 61 Brought to you by EMBASSY On Target CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) The Mariner IX spacecraft was half a million miles from earth Wednesday and operating perfectly as it sped toward the planet Mars. Officials at the United States space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, which is tracking the craft, reported at midday that Mariner IX was 470,000 miles out, moving at 6,846 miles an hour.

Mariner IX is to fire into Martian orbit Nov. 14 and is to transmit pictures and scientific data. EX-Tt IDCC iv i wnbd The seditious conspiracy charge, later dropped, stemmed from a speech in Quebec City the previous October. The contempt case was post only rn hour, Chartrand leaped from his seat and hurried to the back of the courtroom to shake hands with each juror. He then gave an impromptu news conference in which he told reporters.

"The case shows that the people and I are always in complete agreement. Well, perhaps not always. "A case based on traces of garbage, whether the traces are tapes, films or documents, is nothing but garbage and does not serve the ends of justice and public order." RELAXED IN COURT Earlier, as Mr. Justice Maurice Cousineau of Court of Queen's Bench read his charge to the jury, Mr. Chartrand, president of the central council of the Confederation of National heaven poned several times until last policy on the handling of hot mail will have been thwarted.

Union President William Houle of Ottawa said the original motion or the amended version may not appear on the floor egain. Most Montreal and Quebec City delegates were not against the first motion, proposed by 20 western locals of the organization, but sought clarification. When it passed, Andre Mar-ceau, president of the Quebec City local, said the convention had voted national strike action. He said if the 450 LaPalme workers picketed Montreal post offices, union members would strike in compliance with the resolution. week when the 54-year-old labor CALGARY (CP) The Canadian Union of Postal Workers cooled off a situation Wednesday which many members thought would precipitate a walkout by inside postal workers in Montreal.

It all started at the Tuesday session of the union's annual meeting when a resolution barring handling of mail "emanating from behind picket lines," was approved. Montreal delegates said the resolution would be authority for a strike if employees of G. LaPalme who were put out of work when the mail delivery company lost a federal contract earlier this year, picketed Montreal post offices. Wednesday, a clarifying resolution saying that inside postal workers "will not be required to leader requested a trial by jury, unusual in contempt of court IN COLOR $2.00 Carload Both Restricted cases. WETTEST SPOT Mt.

Waialeale, on Kauai, Hawaii, with its 486 inches of rain a year, is the wettest spot in the worW. FIRST SETTLEMENT The first permanent settlement in Delaware was made by Swedes in 1638 at what now is Wilmington.s NOW SHOWING it 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Northbrook Mall Telephone 758-9533 Carina handle mail originating from a strike-bound plant or business firm," was put to the membership. It was tabled indefinitely after more than one hour of debate, but at the end of the day striks talk for Montreal had dis anfltba appeared. George Segal Panavisian Color Wirntaff! Marh 8wrin and Con Lanrutr R.

W. McDonald. B.C. Director CAPITOL 753-3571 A member of the union executive said following the session that unless a delegate specifi cally raises tne question before Friday, when the week-long convention ends, and attempt to set Plu iqw Randa IimMi Bml taWrter MatinM, Ml "Jaaaa i Arronaat MOVIE GUIDE Starts Friday For Four Days "MACHINE-GUN McCAINE" John 'CaisavettM Jean Rowlands ADCLT ENTERTAINMENT "GETTING STRAIGHT" Elliott Gould Candle Bergman B.C. Expands Boarding Home Program VICTORIA (CP) The British Columbia government is taking steps to expand its boarding home program for mental patients who no longer require intensive institutional care.

Health Minister Ralph Lnff-mark announced Wednesday approval has been given for the appointment of 14 psychiatric social workers, holding masters degrees, to act as developers and co-ordinatori of the boarding home program on a regional basis. "An important aspect of the ro-ordinatnr's function will be to assist regions in extending the utilization of their community care facilities," said Mr. Loff-mark. Thr niw are about nno beds in supervised boarding homel and private inmiutionn throughout thi provinc. ENDS TONIGHT: "PINK FISST" "LOVE HUNGER" I ti BREWED IN THE HEART OF THE KOOTENAYS aiL) I Sa Aaatttaara ta iinm II STARLTTE Drive fn Opa p.m.

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