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By
way
of
comparison
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two-per-cent
extra
tax
on
per
personal
�
sonal
incomes
will
yieldabout
440000000
All
of
this
will
go
into
the
federal
treasury
for
general
spending
purposes
though
Mr
Benson
has
called
it
a
social
development
tax
The
new
personal
income
tax
will
add
about
13
per
cent
next
year
to
what
the
govern
government
�
ment
expects
to
collect
this
year
from
all
personal
in
income
�
come
taxes
3310000000
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93000000
to
be
drawn
from
the
insurance
companies
will
add
less
than
five
per
cent
next
year
to
this
years
total
receipts
from
corporation
taxes
2020000000
One
of
the
background
notes
to
Mr
Bensons
budget
shows
that
personal
income
taxes
this
year-
account
for
nearly
one
third
328
per
cent
of
all
budgetary
revenues
Corporation
income
taxes
ac
account
�
count
for
exactly
one
fifth
or
20
per
cent
A
finance
department
offi
c
ial
says
the
form
of
the
per
sonal
income
tax
is
truly
an
anti
inflationary
device
since
it
is
a
tax
on
spending
power
Payroll
deductions
will
start
for
all
salaried
and
wage
rated
workers
next
Jan
1
ensuring
the
money
gets
into
the
treasury
and
not
into
any
shoppers
purse
Moderates
Retain
IWA
Leadership
VANCOUVER
fCP
A
mili
militants
�
tants
wing
Wednesday
conceded
defeat
in
Its
attempt
to
oust
moderate
regional
leaders
of
the
International
Woodworkers
of
America
in
the
three
western
provinces
The
group
led
by
Syd
Thomp
Thompson
�
son
03
head
of
the
7000-mem-ber
Vancouver
local
said
it
is
disappointed
at
results
of
ballot
lng
but
said
union
members
will
benefit
from
the
changes
our
opposition
will
bring
Ballots
from
10
locals
all
but
three
In
British
Columbia
wont
be
officially
tabulated
until
next
week
but
the
outcome
had
been
apparent
since
ballots
came
into
the
IWA
office
here
Monday
Mr
Thompson
formerorganl
zer
for
the
Labor
Progressive
Communist
Party
opposed
moderate
Jack
Moore
for
the
regional
presidency
Mr
Moore
44
has
held
the
position
sinco
10C2
The
Thompson
group
narrowly
won
the
Vancouver
local
where
Mr
Thompson
polled
2587
votes
and
Mr
Moore
2430
Tho
Thompson
slate
also
won
in
tho
loggers
local
The
Thompson
candidates
said
in
a
statement
of
concession
that
the
Incumbent
officers
had
en
endorsed
�
dorsed
policies
and
programs
which
we
formulated
and
these
must
be
carried
out
by
the
IWA
Mr
Moore
said
hed
been
given
a
clear
mandate
But
ho
added
I
will
continue
to
oper
operate
�
ate
in
much
the
same
way
as
I
always
have
I
see
no
reason
to
change
just
because
I
have
far
more
support
now
Wednesday
was
the
deadline
for
returning
ballots
The
IW
1
has
38643
members
In
BC
Peace
Whispers
Sweep
Capitol
WASHINGTON
TCP-
Tresh
reports
of
an
impending
break
through
in
President
Johnsons
latest
Vietnam
peace
probe
swept
Washington
today
but
the
White
House
maintained
a
busl-ness-as-usual
attitude
Johnson
was
reported
to
haw
met
with
State
Secretary
Dean
Husk
Defence
Secretary
Clark
Clifford
and
Gen
Earle
Wheeler
chairman
of
the
Joint
Chiefs
of
staff
But
presidential
spokesman
Oeorge
Christian
refused
to
con
firm
the
meeting
took
place
Reports
sai
It
was
held
just
a
few
hours
after
a
North
Viet
Thp
Societv
of
Enelnecrln-
Technologists
Js
all
out
to
get
as
many
Prince
George
en
engineers
�
gineers
and
technicians
along
to
their
annual
meeting
at
the
BC
Tel
office
2100
Van
BJen
St
Friday
evening
The
brief
nw-t-Ing
scheduled
for
640
pm
will
be
followed
by
a
visit
to
Tartan
brewing
Ltd
g
Gaining
sponsors
loj
the
Walkathon
Satuiday
has
be
become
�
come
a
personal
competition
be
between
�
tween
city
residents
M
Mac
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j
and
r
rlc
Giaharn
Wth
Uickn
namese
spokesman
In
Paris
went
further
than
ever
befori
toward
meeting
the
American
requirement
of
reciprocity
for
a
total
halt
to
bombing
The
North
Vietnamese
spokes
man
told
a
news
conference
aftei
the
27th
meeting
of
the
peace
talks
Let
the
Inited
States
stop
the
bombing
Then
there
will
bo
something
new
Immediately
Johnson
Is
reported
to
have
offered
a
package
deal
to
Hanoi
promising
a
complete
bombing
halt
In
return
f
i
a
trustworthy
uKih
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that
Ham
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will
not
take
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f
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now
totalling
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first
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the
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telephone
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NCOME
TAX
HIKE
Post
Budget
Blues
A
typical
reaction
of
the
already
well
taxed
man
in
the
street
is
portrayed
here
by
Jack
Morrison
to
whom
higher
taxes
and
threatened
higher
insurance
premiums
mean
less
money
in
the
pocket
Duffy
photo
TIE
We
Want
Peace
LBJ
WASHINGTON
AP
President
Johnson
said
Thurs
Thursday
�
day
-we
want
jieace
very
much
in
Vietnam
but
there
is
no
breakthrough
toward
a
settlement
yet
Johnson
said
he
also
is
pleased
with
lower
casualties
reported
from
Vietnam
for
last
week
in
what
some
had
described
as
a
lull
in
the
fighting
Hellyer
Admits
Loan
OTTAWA
CP
Transport
Minister
Hellyer
Wed
Wednesday
�
nesday
night
confirmed
a
report
that
he
borrowed
television
equipment
from
broadcasting
executive
Geoffrey
Stir
Stirling
�
ling
to
help
him
in
the
Liberal
leadership
campaign
but
added
It
didnt
have
very
productive
results
The
minister
was
asked
to
comment
on
a
news
report
by
Ron
Wood
of
CJOH
TV
here
concerning
the
equipment
loan
Mr
Hellyer
lost
out
in
his
leadership
bid
to
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
Teachers
Still
Refuse
NCW
YORK
AP
-
Striking
teachers
have
rejected
a
new
peace
proposal
from
the
Ocean
Hill
Brownsville
local
school
district
aimed
at
ending
the
paralysing
tie
up
pf
the
1100000
pupil
public
school
stystem
Albert
Sanker
president
of
the
55000
member
United
Federation
of
Teachers
denounced
the
proposal
Wednes
Wednesday
�
day
as
-a
public
relations
gimmick
and
drew
foot
stomping
cheers
from
3500
union
delegates
Defence
Clerk
Hunted
BONN
AP
Police
spread
a
dragnet
Wednesday
for
Gei
hard
Boehni
an
obscure
defence
department
clerk
whose
disappearance
and
possible
suicide
sharpened
a
secur
lt
scandal
emerging
from
the
recent
mysterious
deaths
of
four
high
West
German
officials
Newspapers
denounced
tho
government
s
handling
of
the
apparent
suicides
of
three
senior
military
officers
and
an
economics
ministn
ojflclal
Kennedy
Slams
Wallace
NEW
BEDFORD
Mass
AP
Senator
Edward
M
Kennedy
Invoked
the
names
of
his
lato
brothers
Thursday
In
calling
for
repudiation
of
George
C
Wal
Wallaces
�
laces
third
party
candidacy
in
the
United
States
presidential
election
for
the
health
of
our
country
and
our
future
as
a
na
nation
�
tion
He
said
he
was
addressing
his
plea
to
voters
drawn
toward
the
former
Alabama
governor
after
supporting
President
John
r
Kennedy
and
Senator
Robeit
r
Kennedy
both
of
whom
were
assassinated
President
Kennedy
defended
America
against
the
extrem
Ists
the
Massachusetts
Demo
crat
said
George
Wallace
is
In
league
with
them
Robert
Kennedy
stood
for
r
conciliation
between
the
races
he
continued
George
Wallace
stands
for
division
and
suppres
suppression
�
sion
Kennedy
commented
in
a
speech
prepared
for
a
luncheon
of
the
New
Bedford
Service
Clubs
and
Area
Labor
Council
A
large
number
of
the
par
partys
�
tys
presidential
electors
are
members
of
the
Ku
Klux
Klan
the
armed
Mlnutemen
and
tho
White
Citizens
Councils
he
said
Tories
Ask
Dumping
Probe
OTTAWA
CP
-
Conserva
tlve
MPs
said
Thursday
they
want
a
full
airing
of
the
wide
poweis
of
regulation
the
govern
government
�
ment
will
retain
under
its
pro
proposed
�
posed
new
anti
dumping
legisla
legislation
�
tion
Study
of
the
draft
bill
opened
before
the
Commons
finance
committee
with
the
regulations
still
unfinished
and
unavailable
although
Canada
is
committed
to
put
the
legislation
Into
effect
by
Jan
1
Rod
Grey
assistant
deputy
minister
of
finance
said
the
key
regulations
should
bc
available
soon
Delays
In
completing
the
reg
regulations
�
ulations
have
been
necessary
to
permit
study
of
commercial
practices
In
other
countries
and
to
prepare
formulas
for
es
establishing
�
tablishing
dumping
margins
The
bill
is
based
on
an
inter
international
�
national
code
negotiated
during
the
Kennedy
Round
tariff
talks
It
will
replace
a
54-year-old
Ca
Canadian
�
nadian
statute
that
has
been
de
described
�
scribed
as
stringent
and
inflexi
inflexible
�
ble
Dumping
is
the
practice
of
selling
goods
abroad
at
prices
below
levels
in
their
country
of
origin
In
the
past
Canada
has
often
levied
duties
automatically
when
goods
were
dumped
The
new
legislation
requires
that
a
five
man
tribunal
establish
that
dumping
has
occurred
and
that
material
Injury
to
domestic
pro
producers
�
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results
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Complain
Will
Prices
Coof
Down
OTTAWA
CP
One
of
the
arguments
prompted
by
Fi
Finance
�
nance
Minister
Bensons
bud
budget
�
get
is
whether
it
is
infla
inflationary
�
tionary
or
a
nti
inflationary
He
says
its
over
all
effect
will
be
to
dampen
unwarranted
price
increases
One
of
the
complaints
voiced
by
interested
parties
has
come
from
the
life
insurance
com
companies
�
panies
They
say
the
new
tax
on
much
of
their
investment
income
will
mean
higher
pre
premiums
�
miums
on
new
policies
and
somewhat
lower
returns
in
the
long
run
for
investors
and
pol
icy
holders
sharing
in
com
company
�
pany
profits
One
insurance
executive
said
Wednesday
the
tax
will
add
to
a
familys
cost
of
liv
living
�
ing
and
that
it
is
therefore
inflationary
He
said
that
to
stem
inflation
the
govern
government
�
ment
should
tax
spending
pow
power
�
er
rather
than
the
tilings
on
which
a
family
must
spend
its
money
The
tax
on
insurance
com
companies
�
panies
is
expected
to
yield
about
05000000
in
the
fis
fiscal
�
cal
year
starting
April
1
Of
this
about
10000000
will
be
turned
over
to
the
provinces
R
X
Prairies
Pleading
Fight
er
Plane
Plan
Lost
in
First
Chop
OTTAWA
CP
-
The
government
wielded
its
economy
axe
on
a
warplane
project
Wednesday
before
a
Commons
already
pondering
Tuesdays
tough
budget
and
debating
financing
for
prairie
farmers
and
the
post
office
department
Defence
Minister
Leo
Carieux
announced
Canada
will
not
join
an
international
consortium
to
design
and
build
an
all
purpose
military
plane
because
of
the
cost
R
e
p
1
y
1
n
g
to
Conservative
Douglas
Harkness
former
de
fence
minister
Mr
Cadieux
said
budjet
restrictions
and
the
high
risk
in
developing
a
combi-
nation
bomber-fighter-support
plane
for
the
1970s
forced
the
government
to
withdraw
Outside
the
House
he
said
first
stages
of
development
In
consort
with
Britain
West
Ger
manv
Italy
Belgium
and
The
Netherlands
would
have
cost
Canada
about
10000000
However
Canada
would
have
been
required
to
buy
planes
and
the
cost
for
an
estimated
250
would
have
been
at
least
1
200000000
and
possibly
as
much
as
2000000000
spread
over
seven
or
eight
years
Before
and
after
the
Cadieux
announcement
Prairie
Conserv
Conservatives
�
atives
and
New
Democrats
fought
vain
battles
to
initiate
emergency
debate
on
the
sltua
tlon
variously
described
as
dis
disaster
�
aster
and
devastation
caused
by
wet
harvest
weather
and
un
sold
grain
stocks
Speaker
Lucien
Lamoureux
ruled
against
their
motion
Alf
Gleave
NDP
Saskatoon
Biggar
said
the
bad
harvest
and
slow
sales
of
wheat
would
have
disastrous
conse
consequences
�
quences
first
for
the
Prairies
and
ultimately
for
the
national
economy
F
3
r
m
e
r
Opposition
leader
John
Diefenbaker
described
the
problem
as
dangerous
John
Burton
NDP
Regina
East
said
40
per
cent
of
the
Saskatchewans
wheat
crop
re
remained
�
mained
unharvested
and
much
of
that
gathered
was
wet
and
tough
Otto
Lang
minister
without
portfolio
and
member
for
Saska
Saskatoon
�
toon
promised
that
the
Cana
Canadian
�
dian
wheat
board
will
see
that
the
greatest
possible
favor
is
given
to
handling
damp
grain
Trade
Minister
Jean
Luc
Pepin
said
the
board
is
suspend
suspending
�
ing
delivery
of
dry
grain
while
a
study
is
under
way
on
how
much
damp
wheat
needs
treat
treatment
�
ment
In
an
outside
statement
Agri
Agriculture
�
culture
Minister
II
A
Olson
as
assured
�
sured
farmers
sufficient
funds
are
available
to
cover
claims
under
federal
assisted
crop
In
surance
In
which
43000
western
grain
farmers
are
covered
for
127000000
During
part
of
the
debate
about
Prairie
farms
a
delega
delegation
�
tion
of
Prince
Edward
Islanders
led
by
Premier
Alex
Campbell
looked
on
from
the
Speakers
gallery
Mr
Campbell
was
on
hand
to
plead
with
the
government
to
pare
from
the
federal
economy
drive
a
project
to
link
his
Island
with
the
mainland
by
causeway
INSIDE
TODAY
Comics
16
Stocks
Coming
Events
23
Salmo
Crossword
7
TV
Horoscope
16
Social
Sports
11
12
Classified
4
9
15
22
23
17
20
BC
Team
Performs
Transplant
VANCOUVER
Special
A
surgical
team
at
Vancouver
General
Hospital
today
com
completed
�
pleted
its
first
kidney
trans
transplant
�
plant
in
an
operation
which
gives
new
hope
to
British
Col
Columbians
�
umbians
with
chronic
renal
disease
The
procedure
took
three
and
one
half
hours
and
in
involved
�
volved
exchanging
a
kidney
between
Linda
Scott
21
and
Stevan
Noha
41
who
was
the
recipient
The
surgical
team
had
been
rehearsing
for
almost
one
year
Until
now
BC
people
suf
suffering
�
fering
irreversible
and
Irre
Irreparable
�
parable
kidney
disease
gener
generally
�
ally
spent
a
lifetime
con
connecting
�
necting
themselves
to
a
machine
that
cleanses
blood
of
Its
impurities
Loffmark
Ready
For
Fight
VICTORIA
CP
Health
Mln
ister
Loffmark
indicated
Wed
Wednesday
�
nesday
that
the
next
major
clash
on
sewage
treatment
regu
regulations
�
lations
will
be
between
his
de
department
�
partment
and
Greater
Victoria
The
eight
member
delegation
expressed
concern
that
the
pol
policy
�
icy
of
refusing
to
grant
health
department
certificates
for
new
sewer
Installations
without
an
undertaking
to
provide
treat
treatment
�
ment
as
well
would
bring
con
construction
�
struction
to
a
halt
Mr
Loffmark
said
he
remain
remained
�
ed
adamant
on
this
stand
but
added
that
Richmond
munici
municipality
�
pality
turned
down
two
weeks
ago
when
it
applied
for
a
certifi
certificate
�
cate
to
embark
on
a
20000000
sewer
project
had
since
made
bona
fide
efforts
to
provide
a
solution
to
the
problem
Richmond
reapplied
and
sub
mitted
evidence
now
being
stud
led
by
health
department
officials
that
it
would
supply
sewage
treatment
within
a
rea
reasonable
�
sonable
length
of
time
The
minister
said
the
certifi
certificate
�
cate
may
be
granted
in
view
of
this
co
operation
Lake
at
Damsite
Claims
Worker
MACKENZIE
A
man
drowned
and
another
narrowly
escaped
death
when
their
tugboat
sank
on
the
treacherous
Ray
Williston
Lake
Tuesday
Dead
is
Alan
B
Wallace
20
of
Egmont
BC
who
was
run
ning
the
tug
MV
Leona
III
for
Cattermole
Timber
Ltd
Mackenzie
RCMP
said
the
tug
was
picking
up
a
set
of
boom
logs
on
the
lakes
when
it
turned
side
on
tp
the
wind
and
was
swamped
by
the
three
foot
waves
which
were
sweeping
across
the
lake
at
the
time
Wallace
apparently
failed
to
escape
from
the
cabin
as
it
sank
Elvin
Slater
34
a
Cattermole
tug
operator
who
was
acting
as
deckhand
managed
to
make
it
to
the
surface
as
the
steel
hulled
tug
about
a
20
footer
went
to
the
bottom
He
swam
to
the
fastened
boom
sticks
and
managed
to
release
them
and
float
to
a
point
where
he
could
make
it
to
shore
He
is
lucky
to
be
alive
said
the
RCMP
spokesman
explaining
that
Slater
spent
about
25
minutes
in
the
icy
water
He
went
through
quite
an
ordeal
The
Prince
George
Subdivision
Headquarters
hoped
to
getdivers
into
the
area
today
to
search
for
Wallaces
body
US
Moon
Team
Given
Briefing
CAPE
KENNEDY
Ha
AP
The
Apollo
7
astronauts
back
from
11
days
in
orbit
continue
meetings
with
project
officials
here
today
and
confer
with
three
other
spacemen
who
may
fly
around
the
moon
In
Decern
ber
Discussions
between
technical
experts
and
Apollo
7
pilots
Wal
ter
M
Schlrra
Jr
Donn
F
El
sele
and
Walter
Cunningham
will
have
a
bearing
on
whether
the
Apollo
8
astronauts
get
a
go
ahead
to
rocket
moonward
or
make
another
vouge
around
the
earth
The
Apollo
8pilots
Col
Frank
Borman
C
apt
James
A
Loell
Jr
and
Maj
William
A
Anders
also
were
at
Cape
Ken
Kennedy
�
nedy
today
after
rehearsing
Wednesday
how
to
escape
-from
launch
pad
emergencies
Space
agency
spokesmen
said
they
ex
expected
�
pected
both
crews
to
get
togeth
er
Schlrra
Elsele
and
Cunning
Cunningham
�
ham
were
described
In
gener
generally
�
ally
excellent
health
after
completing
a
physical
examlna
tlon
Wednesday
However
more
medical
tests
were
planned
today
HAVE
BRITISH
SOLD
OUT
LONDON
CP
-
Britain
will
bo
pressed
by
the
Com
Commonwealth
�
monwealth
to
disclose
secret
plans
011
further
RhodesLin
negotiations
at
a
meeting
of
the
sanctions
committee
to
bo
held
next
Monday
It
was
learned
today
A
number
of
Common
wealth
countries
Including
Zambia
have
exprossed
con
concern
�
cern
that
Britain
may
bo
pre
preparing
�
paring
a
sell
out
to
Rho
deslan
leader
Ian
Smith
who
has
made
new
counter-suggestions
after
rejecting
Prime
Minister
Wilsons
settlement
demands
Wilson
has
declined
to
dis
disclose
�
close
Smiths
latest
tonus
though
Smith
has
stated
pub
publicly
�
licly
he
rejects
external
guar
guarantees
�
antees
of
African
political
rights
including
pi
oposed
ap
appeals
�
peals
to
the
judicial
commit
teo
of
tho
Privy
Council
Wilson
advised
parliament
last
Tuesday
that
he
Is
pre
prepared
�
pared
t
conslderalternatlvos
including
a
Judicial
commltte
of
chief
Justices
of
let
us
say
Britain
Rhodesia
Aus
trajla
Now
Zealand
South
Afi
lea
Malawi
or
other
Af
African
�
rican
countries
or
their
al
alternatives
�
ternatives
Britain
also
was
prepared
to
consider
a
tribunal
nomin
nominated
�
ated
by
prime
ministers
of
tho
countries
he
named
or
of
other
Commonwealth
coun
countries
�
tries
to
bo
picked
through
agreement
Britain
might
even
have
been
prepared
to
study
the
Idea
of
dispensing
with
an
exter
external
�
nal
appeals
body
altogether
If
Smith
was
prejiaieil
to
pledge
that
there
would
bo
110
major
changos
in
an
accepted
consti
constitution
�
tution
for
15
yeais
though
Wilson
said
ho
would
not
have
bot
n
entirely
happy
with
such
a
pioposal
Tho
need
was
to
ensurothat
tho
minority
whites
once
they
got
legal
Independence
for
Rhodesia
did
not
try
to
tako
away
pledged
voting
and
other
rights
granted
to
tho
majority
Afilcan
natlvps
as
patt
of
an
Anglo
Rhodoslan
settlement
Willie
Wilson
has
declined
to
disclose
Smiths
counter
suggestions
there
has
been
much
speculation
that
ho
soon
would
dispatch
George
Thomson
former
Common
Commonwealth
�
wealth
sccretai
y
ami
now
min
minister
�
ister
without
portfolio
to
Salisbury
to
continue
ho
dia
dialogue
�
logue
with
Smith