The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 8

8 The Windsor Star, Saturday, July 10, 1971 a ni. j. nun mm tmmvKttwsrwm gmwq Windsor women Wh When 71 Whntnnt care wary of day By Jim.Cornett mmmi costs deductions Stories, gags and cartoons are legion about wives taking the family flivver to a service garage or body shop for repairs to dented fenders, crumpled hoods, to avoid confrontations with I-told-you-so husbands. Now comes a new version or twist involving a gal who drove into the Canadian Tire Corp. garage, on Pitt Street West Friday morning for car servicing.

Before she even made it inside, she flattened a tire after driving into a curb just outside the entrance. 'S'" ilfli i. V. -M Ever wonder why so many of our old age pensioners are in dire financial condition? According to one fellow who has been closely involved with senior citizens' work, it's because about 80 per cent of them were too proud to go on relief during the Great Depression. Rather than accept welfare, they borrowed money on their homes and insurance policies in the early 30s and when jobs were again available they began to repay the loans.

Many didn't pay them off until the 1950s, he says. By this time their children were ready to go to college and they had to borrow money to see them through. "Then when their kids were on their own, the folks were broke and 65 years old," he declares from his dealings with these people, most of whom decline to talk about it for publication. "The ones who didn't give a darn about accepting relief were much better off when the Depression was over." 4 1 A 'I If you have empty beer cans which you'd like to see serving -another purpose, members of Junior Achievement of Windsor Inc. will be happy to accommodate you.

They'll use them in manufacturing cigarette lighters as one of their summer employment projects. For pickup service, call Dan Danlyk at the JA centre, 254-6388, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. One of the benefits of belonging to a service club is being able to go on a glad-handing, back-slapping junket to partly compensate for the work done the rest of the year on behalf of the community For example, several Windsor area persons were among the 33,000 delegates and wives who invaded Las Vegas for the 54th annual convention of Lions International the largest convention ever to hit the Nevada city.

Attending as delegates from the Windsor Lions Club were Leo Mitchell, Bill Whelan, Ed Stedman, Jim Jack and Bill Band. Representing the South Windsor Lions Club were Larry Desjardin, Jack Ouellette, John Liscombe and Fred Pfeifer. Highlight was the election of John Balbo of Illinois as third vice-president, putting him in line for the presidency of the worldwide organization in three years, but of greater local interest was the installation of Bob Sloan of Sarnia as governor for Al District, comprising 40 clubs in Southwestern Ontario. By SANDRA PRECOP At first glance, the day care tax changes in the Benson budget seemed to be the answer to the demands of Canadian women. But now many see that while they might be able to deduct day care costs, the may lose their baby sitters.

If you deduct the $20 a week you pay Mrs. Smith down the street for taking care of Johnny while you are at the office, then Mrs. Smith is going to have to claim that amount as income. Under the present tax structure, Mrs. Smith is obligated to report that income, but she, like many, may have taken the attitude that nobody will ever know about the few dollars a week she is making.

Under the new system, if you ask for receipts, Mrs. Smith will have no choice but to report that income. The problem only arises in those situations where the child is being cared for in a private home. Commercial day care and municipal day care facilities have been supplying receipts all along. Commercial day care centres do not.

take children under three, and at best, those in Windsor can not accommodate more than several hundred children on a full day basis. Someone must be taking care of the thousands of ether children of one parent families, and families where both parents work. And there must be many thousands of these children. A study done by the Social Planning Division of the United Community Services in 1968 to be presented to city council during the discussions of the municipal day care centre, shows that in 1965 there were 43,730 pre-school children in Windsor. It would not be unreasonable to assume that the number has risen.

In Ontario in 1966, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, there were 745,744 children under the age of five. A research survey by the Bureau of Municipal Research says that 97,000 children five and under, require some sort of day care in 1967. That works out to about 13 per cent of the under five population needing day care. Transferring that estimate to the 43,730 pre-schoolers in Windsor, there are approximately 5,600 children in this city who need some kind of day care. Taking away the children in commercial day care centres, and the municipal day care centre, still leaves well over 5,000 children who need to be taken care of on a full day basis.

Many of these children would be taken care of by grandparents or other relatives in the home; but even eliminating them, leaves at least several thousand children in Windsor who are being cared for outside their homes, at a fee. Several Windsor women when asked who their baby sitter is, and whether they plan to deduct the cost, said point blank they simply want to leave well enough alone. Having a good baby sitter is worth more than the money saved on the income tax form. Although the tax change was intended to take the burden off working women, the effect may not only be insignificant, it might actually make life more difficult for the many Canadian families who need day care. Under the.

new tax plan, in many cases it will not be profitable for a woman to care for someone else's child in her home. Under the new budget, a married man whose wife is at home, may claim a personal exemption of $2,850. His wife may earn an additional $250 tax free dollars. But for every dollar she makes over that amount, a dollar is taken from her husband's personal exemption. For example, if she makes $500 and then declares that as income, her husband's exemption would drop to $2,500.

Their taxes would then increase, and the net value of the money she earns would be effectively reduced. The tax deductible day care costs have been presented as outlined in the White Paper on Taxation in. 1968. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women rejected the proposed plan. The objections, according to the report, were two-fold.

The report says the deduction of actual expenses would tend to be more profitable to taxpayers in the higher income brackets and the deduction Is contingent on the mother being in the labor force. The commission suggested, instead of deductions, tax credits of $500 per dependent child under 12 for all families, whether or not the mother works. The commission also suggested an annual taxable allowance of $500 for each child under 16. Although the tax change will not really effect the obligation of the private child care homes, since the income should have been reported all along, it may make many reluctant to continue in child care when they are obligated to give receipts and report the income. One working mother of one summed up her-feelings saying, "We are not going to ask for any receipts; our babysitter is too good to lose." AnSS DOMINION OF CANADA LANA DROUILLARD sincerity and taking time to care Miss Dominion of Canada Secret was to be herself Erection of a caution light over the intersection of Huron Church Road and Third Concession Road should go a long way in cutting down on confusion that confronted many a motorist at that spot With driveways to service stations to the north and south of Third Concession, it had been difficult to spot the thoroughfare.

Fast-moving Huron Church Road traffic giving drivers little time to decide didn't help matters. The light has. inanks. Case of the pot calling the kettle black cropped up at the city's social services building where welfare cheques have been issued despite the city workers strike. A chap who lives on welfare in lieu of having a job commented to the pickets as he left with his cheque: "I wish you fellows would get back to work." Members of the University Players of the University of Windsor must be an overiy-dedicated lot to stage two performances each Saturday nieht din-in? their summer season- By ANN BENETEAU Be sincere, be yourself and take the time to care for people Lana Drouillard did and became the first Windsor girl in 17 years to be crowned Miss Dominion of Canada.

A pretty, 20-year-o 1 business teacher, Miss Drouillard won the honor last Saturday in Niagara Falls at the climax of a week-long pageant. She will now go on Miami to compete against representatives from 60 other countries of the world for the title of Miss Universe. Miss Drouillard believes the chances are pretty slim of her walking away with this title, but admits, "I didn't really think I'd be chosen for Miss Dominion of Canada, either. "The other contestants were so beautiful and they all had wonderful personalities. You could kid around with them and joke about the pageant.

You could be yourself." This, she feels, is what the judges were looking 'for, and understandably so. "Miss Dominion of Canada has to represent Canada in countries all over the world," she explained, "and there is no way she could do it if she wasn't being Miss Drouillard feels it is an honor to represent her country and hopes she will "be able to do a good job. "I hope to be able to show people that Canadians are sincere people who care for those around them. Time is so important. should take the time to listen to people of all ages especially the youth of today." Her father, Leonard Drouillard, explained this has always been one of Lana's traits.

"Finding the time to say 'hello' to her next door neighbor, no matter how young or old he is." Miss Drouillard will be put to the test many times during the next six months, when she will be fulfilling commitments in countries around the world. She admitted this can be quite a strain, as she had experienced in the pageant. "I thought the pageant would be so relaxing," she recalls, "but they kept us busy every minute we were in Niagara Falls with things like tours of the city, fashion shows. And we didn't know it, but we were being judged all the time, fte of the judges turned out to be the umpire at a baseball game we had." Miss Drouillard has taken a leave of absence from the teaching profession (she had taught typing and shorthand) and is not sure if she will ever return to it. "I really love teaching," she said.

"Because I enjoy working with people, but I'm not even going to think about going back. I know that whatever is meant to happen will happen. If I'm meant to be a teacher, I'll be a teacher. If I'm meant to win tljg Miss Universe pageant well She remembers being just as philosophical about winning the Miss Windsor Jaycee title, the one which qualified her for competition in the Miss Dominion of Canada pageant 5 "I wasn't even going to enter it," she said, "until I talked to my parents and thought it over. Then I realized it would be worth it, just for the experience and the new people I would meet." When she won and was asked to represent this area in the Miss Dominion pageant, she was again hesitant about entering.

"Lana waited up until the last hour to make the decision to go," her mother, Mrs. Laura Drouillard, recalled. particularly when one of the plays is the rollicking, fast-paced Charley's Aunt. They're trying 6 and 9 p.m. performances then go out for a late dinner and a night on the town; while others would rather have a casual evening meal with more time to get to the theatre for a later curtain, they declare.

By the way, don't get the idea that all 1971 university students consider the 1892 play about Charley and his friends on the square side because of its old-fashioned morals. If you take it in, pay attention, as well, to the way it's received by the young in the audience. Casting has just passed the halfway point for the University Players production of Benjamin Britten's Noah's Flood to be presented Aug. 20, 21 and 22. Of the 100 positions available, 56 have been filled.

Children and youths, particularly boys, from 12 to 20 who are interested in taking part in the first opera to be staged using local talent have been asked to contact Robert Johnson, business manager and publicity director, at the Essex Hall Theatre, 253-4565. Sen. T. Casgrain retires No rocker for her Ills 4 I Print t2 f'l I "A vV 4 yfl i 1 st-x 0 x- 's7'' x' "JrST1 'V "iy, v. rT Ladies movement changes methods By GLENNIS ZILM EDMONTON (CP) Waving reports at governments rather than bars at politicians is the way the International Federation of Business and Professional Women prefers to air its views.

Much of the debate at this week's congress of the IFBPW has been on issues championed by the women's liberation movement, but the method has been changed. The 1,400 delegates whose average age is closer to 50 than 20 as in women's lib, have presented reports that show the group is interested in forcing governments to look into matters dealing with the status of woman and into education and training of women. Elena Mederos de Gonzales, United Nations Children's Fund consultant at the United Nations headquarters in New York, told delegates education and training is the key to development, both for women and for the betterment of the world. "Education is a means of promoting understanding in the cause of world peace," she said. "The difference between the status of women in the developed countries and the status of women in the developing countries is a challenge which must be met." The federation has a role of leadership, she told delegates, urging them to "do as much as you can for education and training in all parts of the world." The close relationship between the federation and the UN also was stressed Friday in the reports of UN representatives.

The federation has permanent observers at both Geneva and New York and has Non-Governmental Organizations status as well as being represented on several committees. "The advancement of women, through the work of various UN bodies and programs, continues to be the chief responsibility Of your representative," Esther Hymer, one of the federation's UN representatives, said in her report. The federation was founded 40 years ago and now represents 250,000 women in 49 countries. Decisions made at the congress are referred back to the member federations for implementation within their countries as far as possible. she added: "I told Pierre, you know I won't be in the Senate long and I don't always agree with you and if I go I'll sit as an independent." The Pierre is Prime Minister Trudeau, whose autographed picture expressing his admiration for her hung in her fifth-floor office next to one of her late husband.

He was another Pierre, who was a Commons Speaker and later a justice of the Quebec Superior Court Mme. Casgrain, who did agree with the prime minister's invoking the War Measures Act to combat Quebec terrorism last fall, said she has known him since he was a young man when he used "to go out in the same circles" as her children. He had spoken of her when she was campaigning against nuclear disarmament for the NDP in the 1963 federal general election. Although she was at one time vice-chairman of the National Federation of Liberal Women, she now says that one of the reasons she switched to the CCF party in 1948 was that she believed women in politics should not be separated into their own party associations. Yet this determined woman, whose manner of speaking reveals warmth and feeling as well as spirit, says a woman's greatest strength is to be feminine "but very clever and very objective." She is not against the Women's Liberation movement.

She favors many of its principles but not its way of doing things. And she thinks more concern should be given important women's rights issues. "For me, a woman in taverns well, if they want to go it's all right but I think equal pay for equal work is more important. We have a long way to go." In the last two years, Mme. Casgrain has pretty well faded out of partisan politics, wanting simply to follow the dictates of her own convictions.

She is finishing a book on the last SO years in Canada, By SUSAN BECKER OTTAWA (CP) There won't be any rocking chairs waiting for Therese Casgrain although today officially marks both her 75th birthday and retirement from a brief Senate career. "I love my country and my province so that's why I'm still out in the fields," says the woman who has fought the establishment including prime ministers over the years for reforms and campaigned with the old CCF and then later theNDP. "Can you picture me in a rocking chair?" she asked, busy moving from her Parliament Hill office. Not likely. Her life has been drenched in politics and although her Senate appointment lasted only nine months a 1965 rule ends appointments at age 75 she left her mark in the red chamber which, incidentally, she thinks could stand a little reform.

She says the upper house can have a more objective approach than the Commons since senators don't have to face an electorate. But it should have a broader base of representatives. From, her seat near the Speaker on the opposition side, Mme. Casgrain spoke out on unemployment, the so-called, chicken-and-egg war raging among the provinces and a lot of other things. Mrs.

Casgrain is known as a tireless fighter for women's rights. In the Senate she argued that provincial requirements for jury duty all ought to be the same for women as for men and advocated more day care services for working mothers. "It's not a question of the length of time a person has in the Senate but of the work they do," she said. "I have been working like a Trojan since I came here." She is vexed, however, that some persons may have thought she took the job to get a pension. She doesn't.

"I took the appointment because I wanted to work for Canada and Quebec," she said. Later THEY'RE FIGHTING FLAB Exercising Hollywood. Miss Bennstrom is the founder isn't quite so much drudgery for actor-writer and boss of the health spa, part of a lively Fredd Wayne when it's done in the company industry in Hollywood devoted to flab fight- of Anne-Marie Bennstrom, a dynamic Swedish- ing and muscle toning, born blonde in hot pants, at the Sanctuary in ap wirephoto).