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I I i READ THE CLASSIFIED SECTION The Ottawa Journal Realtor? V. FOR TODAYS TOP USTINGS IN REAL ESTATE AROUND OTTAWA Tuesday, July 4, 1972 37. A Apolitical' decision; Hfe I Ste. air Co billion patronage, for V. II -rV Scholastique port JL 3 'v 'ft AT TIIE SOCCER MATCH Iceland Borii Spassky, left, from Russia, and present world chess champion, strides towards Municipal in Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, on his way to watch a soccer match between Denmark and Iceland.

Spassky is awaiting the arrival of American Bobby Fischer to begin the World Chess Champion-: ships scheduled to start last Sunday. The match is scheduled to begin at noon on i Tuesday. Mf-Jownol WlrapMtfby caM from RykovMc) Adds 8125,000 to chess purse Banker's offer brings Fischer to Iceland i REYKJAVIK (AP) Ending bit hoyiout wtuch threatened to 1 wreck the world championship chess series, American grandmaster 'Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland today about 10 hours before he was scheduled to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for their first game. The 29-year-old American challenger flew from New York after accepting London banker i James D. Slater's offer to 'I match the $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federa-f- tion.

Now the winner of the 24-j game match will get SISSJSO 1 and the loser $93,750. Each will also get 30 per cent CBG radio plan not dead -Picard "MONTREAL (CP) Laurent Picard, who becomes president of the CBC Aug. 1, says the Crown corporation does not view as final a veto of plans to set up a two-headed broadcasting system. The Canadian Radio-Televi-s i iCommission announced Thursday it' had turned down a CBC bid to establish two different styles of programming Radio One and Radio Two. Mr.

Picard said in an interview Monday the corporation plans to re-open discussions soon with the CRTC about the proposal, probably in the early fall. "It is possible that we may present new proposals," he said, "but it is most possible1 1 V- By HENRY HEALD Journal Parliamentary Staff For the first time in its 22 years of operation, the Tax Appeal Board has not re-appointed a member to serve to normal retirement age. John O. Weldon, 64, was ap pointed to the Tax Appeal Board in March, 1962, for a 10-year term with the expectation that he would be re-appointed for a second 10-year Mandatory retirement age is 75. When the Tax Review Board was established to succeed the appeal board last Mr.

Weldon was appointed to of the $250,000 paid for the TV and movie rights to the match 175,000 each. The which could last! two months, had been scheduled to start Sunday afternoon, but Fischer stayed in New York, demanding a 30-per-cent cut of the gate receipts. The International Chess Fed eration postponed the first game 48 hours and told Fischer he had to be in Reykjavik by noon today or forfeit the match. He arrived about five hours before the deadline. A stewardess on the plane said Fischer appeared calm during the flight of four hours and 40 minutes from New York that we will discuss many other things.

He said the CRTC decision was "a blow disappointing certainly but not The CRTC turned down the programming changes because it said they moved the CBC "too close to the programming al ready available on many of the privately-owned radio stations. The: CBC had already started changing its AM, amplitude modulation, and FM, frequency modulation, networks into Radio One and Radio Two respec tively. The AM network was to carry brief news and information items and light music while the FM network was to carry longer documentaries, drama and serious music. the new board for the remaining portion of his original 10-year term. Retirement age for the new board is 70 so Mr.

Weldon assumed he would be re-appointed for a further five or six years. The termination date of his first term came and went with no word about bis future. Then two days later he received by hand a letter from Justice Minister Otto Lang saying that he would not be re-appointed. Mr. Weldon is convinced his dismissal is political.

He was appointed during the government of John. Diefenbaker by the then finance minister, Don Tax but slept for only a few minutes at a tune Another passenger on the flight, Benjamin Rauscbkolb of Long Beach. N.Y., angrily reported that his wife was told at the last minute she couldn't board the plane and he learned later she was bumped to make room for Fischer. "He's causing an awful lot of trouble, isn't he?" said Rauscb kolb. The Icelandic Chess Federation, after negotiating since last week with Fischer's lawyer, Andrew Davis, rejected Hbe demand for a cut' of the gate re ceipts.

But almost simultaneously Slater came forward with his offer to. put up 50,000, saying: "Fischer has said that money is the problem, well. here it is." "I like chess and have played it for years," said Slater. "Many want to see this match and everything has been ar ranged. If Fischer does not, go to Iceland, many will be disap pointed.

i Fischer was quoted by a rep resentative in New York as say ing "stupendous incredible and generous and brave." This spokesman, lawyer Paul Marshall, said Fischer's holdout had been a matter of principle: "He felt Iceland wasn't treating this match or his countrymen with the dignity that it and they deserved." also said that Fis cher, who abhors reporters and runs at the sight of them, "was furious about the press The Icelandic federation has restricted move-by-move and photo coverage of the match be cause of its sale of the TV and movie rights. aid Fleming. His work has' never been queestioned and there is no indication in the minister's letter that he was dismissed for unsatisfactory performance. Mr. Weldon was unable -to reach Mr.

Lang on the telephone when he tried to find out what was the government's intention prior to the end of his term, and he said he found the deputy minister elusive and unsatisfactory to deal with. Three of the six members of the Tax Appeal Board were caught by the new retirement age at the time the Tax Review Board was formed and retired. By VICTOR MACKIE Journal Parliamentary Bureau A five-vear 'feasibility study carried out by the federal trans-1 port departmentmat indicated. large new international air port be. Uocated near Kingston, was 'abandoned when the government made a "politi decision to bujld a multi- dollar, airport ate.

Scholastique near Montreal. The study proposed Kingston as the most logical site for a major new international airport to meet Canadian requirements for the next 25 years or more. It would have been linked to To ronto, Montreal and- Ottawa by rapid transit rail and short take off landing it was learned from informed sources. The decision to build a new airport at Ste. Scholastique, dis regarding the transport study, was described as a "major scandal," by George Hees PC Prince Edward Hastings in an interview He was appointed minister of transport in 1957 and held that post for three years in the Diefenbaker cabinet When Ottawa began spending millions on the' development of the second airport for Montreal pressure went on the Liberals from Toronto that it too should get a huge new air port.

Bowing to this pressure the government authorized plans for a second airport to supply Toronto to be located in Pickering township. Both these new airports will cost close to a billion dollars each before they are completed, said Mr. Hees. Many millions were being spent "unnecessar ily," he charged. The need for more air travel accommodation could have been met by additional terminal acuities at To ronto and in Montreal, he said.

Mr. Hees said he bad heard of the feasibility study being con ducted by his former depart ment Ha knew from the many contacts he still in that department mat many of the pub lic servants there are "just sick" oyer the government's decision to disregard the long- range study and establish a huge new airport at Ste. Scho- "That new airport is nt needed. I classify Ste. Scholas tique as a 100 per -cent make-work and patronage program for the province of Quebec that will cost around a billion dollars before it is finished," he said.

Even on 'its busiest days the present Montreal airport at Dor- val has never been used to more than 80 pec cent of its capacity, he claimed. Mr. Hees compared this to the Toronto airport. Its first terminal building was designed to ac commodate 3,500,000 passengers and actually was handling 000,000 a year, double its capac ity. The plans for the Toronto air port at Malton, drawn up and approved by the transport department, when- Mr.

Hees was minister, called for three terminal buildings to handle the growing air, traffic. The first terminal had been used longer than originally contemplated and only last month was a second terminal completed and opened for traffic. The tird terminal and a new second north-south runway, as called for in the original plans, have been apparently scrapped. Mr. Hees said if the plans for A.

J. Frost, appointed to the appeal board less than a year before the new board was established, was re-appointed to the Tax Review Board to serve until his 70th birthday. He is the same age as Mr. Weldon. Roland St Onge, appointed the same year as Mr.

Weldon, has also been re-appointed to serve until his 70th birthday. Throughout the lifetime of the Tax Appeal Board it was often argued by the Canadian Bar Association and, the. Canadian Tax "Foundation that appointments should be made for life up to the mandatory retirement board dismissal Malton had "been carried for ward as. originally approved the second airport, at Pickering would not be required. Eighty per cent of the over seas originates jd the weater loronto area, saia Mr.

Hees. vt In ther light of this it. was "nonsense" to establish a huge new airport at Ste. scholastique It will cover 88,000 acres when finished compared to the acres on which Malton airport is located he said. Twenty-two times larger.

Two years ago Chicago's Hare airport conducted a study to see what could be done about providing another airport for that city in the centre of the continent Its passenger traffic is many times that of Montreal, said Mr. Hees. i After its study Chicago, de cided to continue with the O'Hare airport and expand it by extending terminal facilities. It covers 7,000 acres. Ste.

Scholas tique will be 12 times greater than the busier Chicago airport. The former transport minister said that when be assumed of fice the Montreal airport plans were far advanced and the Die fenbaker government went' ahead and' finished it. He sug gested to make it capable of handling all the extra traffic it will get in the next 25 years all that was. required was a second terminal Building two new airports, one near Montreal and one-near To ronto is going to make for confusion and inconvenience for the travelling public in the future he warned. A passenger landing at Malton may find he has to take a departing flight out of the pro posed airport at Pickering and will have to grab a cab and get over to the other airport The same applied to Dorval and Ste.

Scholastique. The, increasing air traffic is now being taken up by larger planes such as the Boeing 747 and the Concorde in me rurure. The 747 takes off and lands with no more space than was; required for a fully loaded North Star. The great need tooay is for more terminal space to handle passengers and baggage, said Mr. Hees.

GMVegas recalled TORONTO (CP) About 23.000 Canadian owners of Chev rolet Vegas will receive letters from General Motors of Canada Ltd. shortly warning them of the possibility of a defective fear axle in the cars. "Of the 23,000 there may be a dozen which could be defec tive." a General Motors spokes man said in an interview Mon day. He said a computer check revealed that a defect of the rear axle in a few cars "would cause a disengaging of the assembly resulting a 25-per-cent loss of breaking power." He said owners of 1971 and 1972 will be urged to take their cars to dealers for a check of the rear axles at company expense. The spokesman said a number of Vegas in the United States estimated at 500,000 would be recalled for the same reason.

age. In every case except Mr. Weldon's, that is what in fact happened. And the system has been formalized in the regu-lations governing the new board. Mr.

Weldon was a Toronto "tax lawyer with 19 years' service with National Trust Co. when he accepted the appointment to the Tax Appeal Board. He says he -would never have given up that post if he had thought he would be retired at the end of his first term. "It seemed to me that I was entitled to rely on, the federal government treating me fairly, political, i. -) RETURNING TO HOSPITAL SILVER SPRING, MD Alabama Gov.

George Wallace is wheeled by security agents back to his Holy Cross hospital room in Silver Spring Monday after a our-hour outing at his physician's home in nearby Bethesde. Md. ISnlpoWieHon tops red-circle list By HENRY HEALD Journal Parliamentary Staff There are still 595 red-circled employees in the public service, some of them with more than 40 years service. Information tabled in the Commons in reply to questions asked by Alt Hales, Con servative MP for Wellington, shows the transport department with 83 red-circled positions the most for any department. The statement gives the num ber of frozen positions in 28 gov- ernment departments and agencies and the years of ser vice of the employee in each.

Mr. Hales asked how many public servants were red-circled as of Jan. 1, 1972, how many years' service each had and what effect the red circling would have on their pensions at retirement. A position is red-circled when the treasury board's bureau of classification review, decides that the work involved warrants a lower classification. The employee in that position is not demoted, but his salary is' frozen until the rate for the lower classification catches up to where he is.

There d-circled positions range from none in treasury board, finance, justice, manpower, urban affairs and sci ence and technology, to 83 in provided that I performed my work in a diligient and satisfactory manner," Mr. Weldon said. The new board will have eight members, two more than the appeal board, and will be spared the -task of giving written judgments. Keith Flanigan, an Ottawa lawyer, has been appointed chairman. Vice-chairman is Lucien Cardin, former Liberal justice minister.

There are still two vacancies to.be filled. During the 22-year operation of the appeal board, the written judgments of the members built up a substantial volume of tax says transport. External affairs and the labor department have just one each. But others have quite a number: consumer affairs, 50: public works, 58; veterans af faires, 47; and defence, 39. Na tional revenue has 39 red-circled positions, in its customs and ex cise branch but only seven in the taxation division.

Under the superannuation act, Track fans robbed after bus-hijacked BALTIMORE (AP)' "Two armed men commandeered a busload of race track fans Monday and forced the driver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers. The two men, one armed with a shotgun, fled the bus with $3,413 an hour later in Balethorpe, a small suburban community 10 miles south of here, police said. No one was hurt. Thomas. M.

Manning, manager of the Baltimore Motor Coach said the bus carried 46 passengers, and was en route to Delaware Park Race Course at Stanton, Del. He said the driver Was forced to drive completely around the city on an expressway while thlie gunmen went jurisprudence providing lawyers a background of precedents for preparing their cases. That will disappear under the new board whose decisions on the interpretation of the new act will be verbal only. Mr. Weldon says the review board is a distortion of a recommendation in the Carter royal commission on taxation.

The commission suggested a number of tax review boards across the country to bring more local knowledge to bear on tax disputes. Mr. Weldon feels the late Kenneth Carter nevter intended to dispense with the Tax Appeal Board. Weldon pensions are established on a formula that takes account of years. of years of service and the average salary over the highest six consecutive Red-circling has no effect on the years of service.

The reply by the treasury board states that the effect on" salary would Only be known at the time of retirement. from passenger to passenger, taking valuables. Forty-three of the 46 passengers told police they had been robbed. George Dotson, tfie bus driver, said the bandits ordered him to stop in Hale-thorpe and that both fled on foot over an embankment and across the busy highway No getaway car was seen, Dotson said. The three passengers who were not robbed said they merely told the gunmen they had no money.

Manning said one passenger scribbled a note calling for help and dropped it from the bus as the robbery was in progress, but it was lost in the traffic. confusion surrounding Mr. Weldon's dismissal supports his contention that it was a po litical decision, he believes. The letter saying he would not be re appointed arrived two days late and apparently caught the board's administrative staff by surprise as Weldon will have to wait several weeks for his severance pay to be pro cessed. He even got a raise shortly before.be was fired.

When Mr. Weldon reported that he had several judgments under way and suggested he complete them, he was told to forget them, he said..