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16 Tuesday, January 4, 1972. BIRTH CERTIFICATE INQUIRIES: Ontario Macdoiuld Block, Bay and Wtltalay Slrttti, Jaan-Marc Fradalta, Damographar, Ministry Buildings. Quebec City. Tna coat la J. The Ottawa Journal.

(g 1,81 IHmAMBbj Do you have a question? Dial BE HEARD (234-3273) from 3 -to 5 p.m.,. Monday through Friday. You need not Identify yourself. PLEASE BE BRIEF. Answers will be re- stritted to questions of the greatest significance, and community interest and to those calling attention to injustice oi hardship caused by neglect or indifference of public official.

If the line it busy, call again; Do not call any other Journal number as onfy questions put through the BE HEARD numhet can he Information often requested Ragistrar Ganaral, Toronto Si Quabac of Haaltlt, Parllamtnt CANADA MANPOWER CENTRE, 11S-USI. CIVIC COMPLAINTS BUREAU, 72S-M11. FEDERAL INCOME TAX INFORMATION, M-a3lf. LANDLORD-TENANT ADVISORY BUREAU, 7M-U51, OHSIP, M7 H00. OLD AGE SECURITY PENSION AND FAMILY ALLOWANCE, tt5-MS.

OTTAWA DISTRESS CENTRE, 231-1111. OTTAWA WELFARE DEPARTMEHT, 715-Ull. TAX REBATE OFFICE, 2J2-J77. Has Eddie MacCabe written any books besides "Profile of a Pro," the story of Russ Jackson? No. Is it true that in the new Children's Hospital being built in Ottawa there will be no provision for the deeply mentally retarded or the autistic or psychotic child? How couldsuch a thing have happened? The Children's Hospital for Eastern Ontario says the hos- nlnrl titlv rmoctlnn hna hnpn rnicpil -Thfi hnsnital smkes- man says of course there will be provision for the investigation and treatment of the children described.

The outpatient departments are especially geared to this investigation and treatment. A large psychiatric clinic, a clinic" for the assessment 6f "perceptual problems and clinics fofKhe investigation of hearing and visual problems are already planned in detail. Beds have already been planned in the hospital for psychiatric investigation and care, but, course, these can only be used on a relatively short term basis, e.g two to three weeks. Long-term inpatient facilities for the psychiatric care wll be developed the Royal Ottawa The decisions about inpatient psychiatric care have been agreed to by the department of health of the Province of Ontario and the Royal Ottawa Hospital. The hospital will co-operate in any way possible with government and the community.

The spokes- -t .1 I. YT I an -savs-tne-iinn-worKinR -ueparuiwrcH nuts pital is already in existence on King Edward Avenue. This is the Child Development Clinic which assesses problems of mental retardation and problems, of development. Are there any groups in Ottawa that band wild birds? Where could I get in touch with such a group? The Canadian Wildlife Service has a banding office and information is available by calling 995-6992. A spokesman for the service says to band birds a person must be 18 years of age or over, have a permit (federal and sometimes 'provincial also), have an approved project and the testimony of three qualified banders.

What jobs did Mr. Trudeau hold before he became prime minister? Also, could you tell me something of bis political background? He joined the Privy Council Ottawa as an economist and 'policy adviser in 1949. In 1951 he practised law, specializing in labor law and civil liberties cases in Quebec. He was one of the founders of "Cite Libre" which became the mainspring of reform in Quebec during the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time he co-foimded and co-directed the monthly publication of the review "Cite Libre." In 1961 he was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Montreal, where he taught constitutional law, civil liberties and carried out research.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1965 as the Liberal member for Mount Royal and re-elected in 1968. He was a delegate to the France-Canada Interparliamentary Association meetings in Paris, April 1966; represented Canada at me 21st session of the United Nations General Assembly from September to December to 1966; he made an official tour of the French-speaking African states in February 1967, to determine the role of Canada in the formation of an association of French-speaking states. He was appointed parliamentary secretary to Rt. Hon L. B.

Pearson in January, 1966 and re-appointed in 1967; he was appointed minister of justice and attorney-general on April 4, 1967; and was elected leader of the Liberal party in the House of Commons at the leadership convention on April 6, 1968. He was swom in as prime minister of Canada on April 20, 1968. The Canadian Parliamentary Guide contains further details regarding his former positions and information on his educational background. What happened to Montreal defenceman Serge Savard? Is he still injured or is he better The Journal sports department says he is skating again and expected back soon. Can an old age pensioner receive necessary nursing 'care in ber home free of charge from the government or any other source? Visiting nursing care is provided to anyone through the Victorian Order of Nurses.

Fees are based on a person's ability to pay and, if necessary, the service is free. More information is available by callng 232-2661. A member of the VON stuff will discuss the matter, with the patient's doctor and an assessment of need will be made. How many provinces in Canada have provincial sales tax? Is it the same In all the provinces? Nine provinces levy a direct sales tax on goods sold, used nr rnnsnmwl within the nrnvinces as follows: New Brunswick and Quebec, eight per cent; Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, seven per cent; Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, five per cent. Is It true that emeralds have been found weighing over 100 pounds? How big can they be? The Guinness Book of World Records says emerald is green beryl and hexagonal prisms measuring up to lSt inches long and 9-y inches in diameter, and weighing up to 125 pounds have been recorded from the Ural mines in the USSR.

An emerald was. reported to have been found by Charles Kempt and J. Botes at Letnba, northern Transvaal, South Africa, on Oct. 16, 1956. largest cut green beryl crystal is the Austrian government's unguent jar carved by Dionysio Miscroni in the 17th century, Of gem quality emeralds, the largest known is the Devonshire stone of 1AM) carats from Muso, Colombia.

a Gatineau Council refuses to meet tenants' association By CLAUDE LEMIEUX Gatineau council Monday re fused to meet representatives ot the Outaouais Tenants' Associ ation to discuss rent control. i The issue steins from the pro- vtacial SUMTwhlch" extends the powers of the provincial- rem control board 'to include houses built between April, 1951, and May, 1968. The tenants' association was founded in Hull last June with financial help from the Com pany of Young Canadians, The CYC paying salaries ot three volunteers for one year to NEW YORK (CP) Critic dive Barnes of the New York Times wields his scalpel wijth surgical deftness in dissectftvg the Feydeau comedy, There's One in Every Marriage, end comes up with more bad things a sou it tnon good. The production is that of the Stratford National Theatre of Canada which opened Monday night at the Royale Theatre, TORONTO (CP) Use of a questionnaire that asks prospec tive doctors their attitudes on draft dodgers, civil disobedience and pollution was supported by spokesmen for medical stu dents," the Canadian Medical As sociation and medical" schools Monday. The 320-question psychological testis being given for the first fimeThiseaYtoWd(3iiispply ing for admission to the University of Toronto medical school.

Dr- J. W. Steiner, associate dean at the medical school, said Sunday the test has been admin- fronted a clerk at Paul's Confectionery, at 419 St. Patrick about 11.15 p.m. Police feaid no one was injured as the two unmasked men bun dled up in overcoats, ran out of the store with the loot.

First trip last for human cannonball LEICESTER, England (AP) Steve Smith made his first and last flight as a human cannonball Monday. He was too big'for the cannon. Showman Joe Weston had hired the 210-pound, 22-year-old stunt man to be shot from his new 16-foot cannon. Wear ing goggles and helmet, Smith climbed into the gun for try out in a gravel pit. A one- pound charge of gelignite was set off- Smith took off and so did half the cannon barrel.

Both landed 10 feet away in a pool of water. The other half of the gun backfired, wrecking the truck that was its launching pad. said Smith, wading ashore. "It's the. last time I travel that way." Weston, facing a J260 bill for cannon repairs, said, "We've sacked him.

He's too heavy-" get the association going. The agreement is renewable in June. Discussion of Bill 12 was struck off the agenda before the meeting but a letter from the association was read. The letter said the association wanted to meet with council to put some order In' the housing situation Gatineau "where disorder reigns." Aldermen did not take kindly to the suggestion their house was not in order and four at them spoke against any meeting with the 'association. "What is this association ot with Broadway producer David Merrick underwriting the cost of the New York showing.

It is an adaptation by Susanne Grossmaim and Paxton Whitehead of George Feydeaiu's Le Dindon, which translated means Th Turkey, a title Barnes notes mokes New- York producers blanch. While ft has fun in it, it has liitle Barnes Medical student A test is supported Armed men rob store of $500 Two armed men described to be in their 20s held up a Lower Town confectionery store Mon day and escaped with about $500. Police said the bandits con istered to medical students after admission for the last six years, but this year It was decided to give it before admission. Dr. J.

Douglas Wallace, gen eral manager of the Canadian Medical Association, saidstu dents should not be selected only on the basis of academic standing- He said it is "the pattern of answers, not individual an swers, that adds up to the type of person you're looking for." "Obviously, if we're going to have a close personal relation ship with patients, we have to have compassionate people in the profession," he said. The test asks applicants whether they have a violent temper, like to pull silly tricks on other people, or whether they like to keep up with the I Joneses, whether they agree with draft laws and whether they support stiffer pollution SCREENING NEEDED Brian a medical school representative on the University of Toronto Students Administrative Council, said he believes that "with such a large number of. applicants, some measures must be taken to screen students for admission." From the 1,500 applicants to the University of Toronto medical school this 224 first- year students will be selected for enrolment in September. Dr. D.

O. Waugh, dean of the medical school at Queen's Uni versity in Kingston, said he was reluctant to use the question tenants?" asked Alderman Raymond Montpetit. "Is it financed by the government to cause trouble?" Michel Aube, one of the three volunteers from the CYC, said last-Jmveria letter -to-tewirts, the association was being founded to re-group tenants and give them more power in the face of their inability to act against building end rent moguls. Its territory covers the coun ties of Hull, Papineau, Pontiac and Gatineau as far a Mont-La Mr. Aube believes rent in Hull and Gatineau to be the highest in Quebec end he wants to do something about it.

"We now, have 11 prganiza-tlons behind us," he said recently, "and it's only the start." Most of the organization that back the association ere citizens' committees, and union locals. Mayor, John Luck said he didn't see what advantage can come of a' meeting of council and the association but he will be glad to answer, its ouestions at the next meeting of council; "With 75 per cent of our population as home he said, "the new bill may be to their disadvantage." Alderman Bernard Bordeleau said he had found Bill 12 con-fusingr'TTfead understand it," he said. "When are they going to stop pestering us with this business?" he asked. Mr. Montpetit told Mr.

Aube it he could send him copies ot complaints by Gatineau tenants, he would support him at the next council meeing. Mr, Aube said he didn't have any complaints from Gatineau tenants but he had added two and two when citizens' groups and unions supported the associate. "Some of these union mem-' I i i- I irvii? iitv in vim uiuiij ii "and some of them ere tenants." Alderman Robert Labine was the only member of council who agreed partly with' the association's letter. "I agree with them-that we shouldn't delay indefinitely," he said, "so let's vote against their request and settle the matter now." Times critic carves up Stratford Theatre's Turkey Referee is killed by fighting cock MANILA (AP) A fighting wounded the referee during a match in southern Mindanao province, the Philippine news service reported Tuesday. The bird's opponent ran to a comer at the beginning oi the match and referee Sever-ino Redulla, 43, picked up the reluctant warrior.

The rooster slashed 1 1 a 's arm and stomach with his razor-shairp metal spurs. Redulla died from I loss of blood. GIVEN LONG TERM OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A J0-year-ld' man was given a maximum 20-year sentence In court Monday for selling mari-junrva the first such conviction under a stiff new drug code. It was the first conviction for James Patrick Wright, accused of selling one bag of marijuana to police undercover officers at his home-Sept. 197J naire at least for now, because it still Is being applied on an ex perimental basis- "1 think with this sort of thing applicants like to.

learn the kind of answers people want to hear," he said. He said there also is evidence that students' attitudes change during medical training, so they should not be judged only 'on their views as applicants. Michael Ginsberg, vice-presi dent of the University of Toronto Medical Society and a member of the faculty council, said that "the more they can find out about the applicants, the better they ore." Dr- Douglas dean of the medical school at the University of Western Ontario in London, said nis school now uses in tervi ews to determine student attitudes, but would use questionnaires if such expert ments proved effective. says. "There are some good performances here, but anyone who has seen the play with the Comedie Francaise with Rob ert.

Harsh as Roubiilon Is un-Bkly to be completely entranced. Yet virtually no Feydeau farce can be completely lost and there is genuine merriment here." LAUGHS AT PARIS Feydeau wrote 39 farces and in them people rarely go to bed as laughed at a turn- of-he-century Paris end its middle class. Coquettish wives, faithless husbands, comic suitors and absurd servants, Feydeau's cast list is invariable and yet somehow always charming. This play is about the double standard that Parisian society tjhen placed upon men end women. A wife is resolved not be revenged upon her husband's and it is dear that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander; Bail reform act helps local men The Bail Reform Act was put to its first test Monday; the same day it became law, in pro- vncial criminal court as Judge Thomas Swabey released two men on.

their own recognizance under terms of the new act. A Cowley Street man, charged with common assault, was released from bail on the condition that he abstain from drinking or buying alcoholic beverages. The man is alleged to have a drink ing problem. The second man, of Belgrave Avenue, is charged with three counts of possession of stolen property and three counts theft under $50. He was released on his own recognizance with no conditions attached to' his re lease.

He must appear in court in two weeks. For the first time in many years the bail hearings were held in open court. Normally the hearings are held in the judge's chambers Belgrade bid highest forchcss match NEW YORK (AP) The Yu goslavian capital of Belgrade has offered high bid ot $152,000 to be the site, of next June's world championship chess match between Boris Spassky an4 Bobby Fischer, Ca nada bid slightly less than half that sum. The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that 10 nations and five cities had com peted in the bidding that pro duced the largest cash prize of fers in the of tourna ment chess.

MUST UNIONIZE ALGIERS (Reuter) The Al. gerion government has ordered workers in private factories end businesses with more than nine permanent employees to form labor union branches, it was an nounced Monday. WAREHOUSE Barnes says the Stratfrd-pro duction of Marriage often seems a fittie coarse, a little lacblmr in style and plumage. ''Yet the situations are still hilariously there." 'Clumsy is probably the ap- test 'word for Jean Gascon's Barnes, says. "It never glitters or swings, and despite Alan Barlow's cheerfully atmospheric1 designing of the scenery' and costumes, wej al ways fat; nearer French Canada than to par the most pert the actors are not (By The CP) Personal in come tax torms are being mailed week to approxi mately nine "million taxpayers, on which, they to report their income and! tax positions for 1971, the revenue depart- ment-eaid-todayT-- The returns, to be filed by April 30, are based on tax law as it stood before Finance Min ister E.

J. Benson's sweeping tax law revision took effect Jan. 1. Most taxpayers' won't feci the full effect of the new tax law un- really up to' this quality of play. You, can play Shakespeare aver-agely well' to excellent effect, but will be nothing if not brilliant." 1 But Barnes say's there are a few exceptions in the Stratford production.

"Roberta' Maxwell's sense of wifely (grace (and strangled outrage is most convincing as Lu-oienne, Tony Yo Bridge bumbled happily i the', military doctor and Joseph Maher had the right slggard dignity as th old servatit who- knows- his mas Brown divorced CLEVELAND, Ohio. (AP) -The wife of Jim Brown, former professional football player, who turned movie actor; was granted a divorce Monday. Sue, Brown had sued for di ver in August, 1968, on grounds of extreme neglect of duty. The suit, was not contested by 39-year-old former fullback for Cleveland Browns The two were married 1959. ygiiHrxr Simpsons Sear ter's place.

Peter Donat as the feverish would-be wife-stealer and Jack Creley as the eager bachelor' also had their moments, but the farce never caught fire. seemed like a mipor conspiracy among the, actors, the director and the adaptors to sell the play' slightly yet fatally aw, wia 10 muKe -a-tupiey ow of The Turkey." Other New York rifles generally gave fyarm reviews to the play. Personal iriebme tax forms being mailed this week Casanova A turns on bedridden DURHAM, England (Reuter) Bedridden patients at a hospital here began-to get active when British Broadcasting Corp. television started a sexy series on the great Italian Lover Casanova, who previously stayed in bed rather than take exercise suddenly find the energy at the start. of every epl-j sode t- in which Casanova is seen with a succession of naked girls.

Hospital secretary Alan Wilson said: "Before the show starts there is a procession of men in wheelchairs or on crutches making their way to the ward with the best television Set. "The series has worked far better than any physiotherapist." til they report an iheir 1972 re- ums in the spring of 1973,.. revenue department has sent the 1971 returns to district posHi offices and expects them to be delivered to taxpayers within the next 10 days, The mailed forms carry the name and address of; each taxpayer as recorded in' the revenue department's computers, together with their file number. Taxpayers who do not receive the -so-called "personalized" forms will be able to obtain copies at post offices across the country. 1 taxpayers and others whose income taxes are deducted at the source will receive in come and deduction reporting slips from their employers by tne end ot whose deductions or other payments during the year exceeded their actual tax liabilities-will bo able to obtain refunds from the department.

Two tax rate reductions were made during 1971, and the reve- mue department believes this will result in a larger number oi refunds than usual. Meanwhile, the department said, work is beinc nushed faiv warn hi nnnr Ann mm planatory memoranda to taxpayers about the new tax plan now in effect, including the tax- aion of capital (jams. The first omtiese-pampmets should be available about the end of next week, a spokesman said. Dies after eating at own cafe LONDON (Reuter) -Wealthy restaurant owner Nicholas Tarayan died mysteriously Monday after eating at one of his own' restaurants. The 50-year-old Armenian-born businessman collapsed in the back seat of hislimousine on the way home from his fashionable Omar Khayyam-restaurant in the City of Scotland Yard said Tarayan showed symptoms of food poisoning while driving back to-his home in' West London, but it had not yet been established that this was the cause of death.

Tarayan's adopted daughter, Lise Chamlain, 25, who dined with Tarayan and was' with him when- he died, was taken to hospital with suspected food poisoning. A hospital spokesman said Miss Chamlian was not seriously ill. 1 I laT MPaiaW, ikkk. At BOTH Carlingvvood and St. Laurent Featuring Sensational Savings, outstanding Values Special purchases, oneof-a-kind Watch for the special section in all Wednesday night papers 77 77.