1978 FORMULA STARTS IN MARCH
Paycheque lower? Your tax holiday is over
  OTTAWA (CF) — Most of the country’s wage and salary earners will find their pay packets lighter beginning this week as the impact of the government's temporary $100 tax cut announced last October wears off.
  Personal income taxes will revert in March to the originally-planned formula for the year, meaning workers earning the average industrial wage of about $254 a week will find their take-home weekly pay about $12.50 less than it has been for the past two months.
  The cuts in take-home pay will hit 7.5 million of the country’s estimated 9.5 million employees in varying amounts.
  The $100 tax reduction, announced by Finance Minister Jean Chretien in his Oct. 20 “mini-budget,” was geared by the government to cut taxes— and increase consumer spending—during the high unemployment months of January and February.
  By giving the spur to consumer spending, the government hoped to boost job creation. In January, the country had fin all-time high of 991,000 unemployed.
  Chretien said the $100 cut would cost the government more than $700 million. But the reduction helped run the govern-
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 ment's estimated dcficit for this financial year to a record $9.2 billion.
 During January and February, take-home pay for millions of taxpayers rose by $50 a month because of the tax cut. About six million employees gained full benefit of the reduction and another 1,500,000 received lesser amounts.
 But the changes in taxation which begin in March and extend throughout the year mean those temporary benefits will be eliminated.
Some examples of tax increases starting this month follow. They are based on Ontario tables. Figures may differ because of variations in provincial tax rates:
—A worker earning average industrial pay of $254.06 weekly, with a non-working spouse and two children under 16. will feel a weekly tax bite of $30.45. This is an increase from $18. or a net loss each week of $12.45.
—Single workers at the same pay level with no dependents
will find their income tax increase to $48.15 from $35.70 a week, also up $12.45 weekly.
—	Employees making $200 a week, witn non-working spouses and two children, will see their income tax jump to $15.10 from $6.65, an increase of $8.45 weekly in taxes.
—Single employees with no dependents earning $200 weekly will see their income tax rise to $31.35 a week from $19.85, for a difference of $ 11.50.
—Employees making $400 weekly with non-working spouses and two children will see their income taxes increase to $76.50 from $72 20, up $4.30 weekly.
Most employees will be held to pay increases of six per cent this year because the government amended its own formula when inflation proved higher than expected last year. Under the old formula, workers would have been allowed raises of about eight per cent in 1978.
The $100 special tax cut was in addition to a reduction throughout the year equal to 7.2 per cent of personal taxes. That reduction in taxes was designed to take into account inflation during the 1977 tax year.
Inland Gas bills hiked 11 per cent
    About 12.300 Inland Natural Gas customers in Prince George will have to pay an average $33 more a year for natural gas beginning Wednesday.
    The approximately 11-per-cent increase is the result of an increase in the wholesale price of natural gas approved by the provincial government in October, says Reg Buchignani, Inland spokesman in Prince George.
     He says the average annual bill in the city will rise to $344.69 from $309.20.
    The increase reflects a wholesale price increase recommended by the British Columbia Energy Commission of 21 cents a 1,000 cubic feet. Buchignani says the average homeowner uses 169,000 cubic feet of gas a year.
    Inland president R.E. Kadlec said the new rates were designed to recover the increase in wholesale costs. He said the company regretted any adverse effect on retail prices but that the increase in the price paid to producers had already resulted in a record level of drilling in B.C.
     Kadlec also said the company has served notice of intervention with the National Energy Board on a Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. application for a major increase in the rates it charges its domestic customers, including Inland.
'VIEWPOINT' MISSING
Valemount parents rap 'health' books
GRIT CONVENTION
Trudeau hints at spring vote
       Hy BILL FOX And DON SKLLAH Southam News Services OTTAWA — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s bare-knuckles attack on his political foes Friday fed speculation a spring election is in the works.
   The prime minister turned an accountability session at the federal Liberal convention here into a dress rehearsal for a gloves-off campaign against Tory leader Joe Clark and NDP chief Ed Broadbent.
   But he brought the over-flow crowd to its feet with his slinging attacks on Clark and Broadbent.
 His reference to “doom-savers” prompted one delegate to shout “Joe Clark.” Turning to the delegate, Trudeau said: “the ene you’re
GUIDE-OUTF/TTER
Fines total $1,935
Citizen photo by Tim Swanky
Kub Kars
 Looking for a straight start, wolf cub Murray Hampson of llth Fort George (Willow River) Cub pack lines up his car in the Kub Kar Rally which climaxed Saturday at Parkwood Shopping Centre. The cubs’ cars ran soap box derby-style down a ramp and along a straight stretch to decide the winner.
LIQUID GAS MISHAPS
Train crashes leave 20 dead
by JOHN POPE Citizen Staff Reporter
   VALEMOUNT - About 50 parents here want the schools to ban several public health books for what they say is their failure to establish a moral view point in sexual activities.
    Some of the parents, who are actively involved in a study group on the books, would also like to discuss the way other
  VICTORIA (CP) — Robbie Sherrell, the American who was appointed to the $80,000-a-year job us president of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, has been denied permission by Ottawa to enter Canada and take up the job, a government spokes-man said today.
   In a letter today to Premier Bill Bennett, federal Immigration Minister Hud Cullen says on the basis of the information available he has concluded that ICBC "did not conduct an adequate search of the Canadian labor market, including failure 10 consult with or seek the assistance of the employment and immigration commission.”
   The refusal of the immigrant status comes two days before Sherrell, 42, was to take up his duties.
  His appointment was announced on Jan. 25 by Education Minister Pat McGeer, minister responsible for ICBC, who was not immediately avuilable for comment today.
 works of fiction are being taught in the schools.
   “We believe schools should be a place for ideal teaching," explained Lois Smith, a former teacher involved in the study group."
   “Youcanget any kindof literature in a store or watch it on television but where else can we get what’s healthy and good morals if not in the schools?"
   “We don’t deny the need for sex education or birth control but it’s the way it’s taught."
   The group has expressed its concern to the principal and the books will be evaluated by a special committee in Prince George.
   This committee will then make a recommendation to the superintendent of schools on how the books should be treated
   Conversations with other members of the group show the public health book, Rhythm and Blues, which is given to the schools, is the one of most concern.
   The book is attractively-illustrated in a comic book format and discusses birth control as well as venereal diseases and the way to get rid of them.
   “Even this book cannot be condemned 100 per cent," says Terry Stewart, "because some of it is good for the kids."
    “But let’s have the alternatives. There is pro-life. You don’t just go out and have an abortion."
   Another book objected to by the group is The Population Bomb by Dr. Paul Ehrlich.
   This book, which is required
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  NASHVILLE, Term. (AP)-At least 20 persons were dead and more than 3,000 driven from their homes by three freight train derailments in the southern states, two of which came just 14 hours apart.
   First came the derailment of a Louisville and Nashville train in Waverly, Term., 96 kilometres west of Nashville
 last Wednesday. As workers were preparing to pump out a propane tank car Friday, it burst open and the liquid propane vaporized and exploded in a firpball. Twelve persons died and scores were injured
   Early Sunday, a freight train derailed near the Florida town of Youngstown, rupturing a tanker carrying liquid
 chlorine, which vaporized and spread in a green cloud across a nearby highway. Eight persons died and 67 were sent to hospital.
  The third derailment occurred near the town of Cades, Tenn., about 88 kilometres west of Waverly, when a tank car carrying sodium hydroxide began leaking and an Illinois Centra) Gulf
 train went off the tracks. Officers said 100 to 150 persons were evacuated from their homes •
 The NationalTransportation Safety Board (NTSB) already is looking into the hazards of transporting dangerous materials such as liquid gas over U.S. highways and railways.
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   And the 3,000 delegates and alternates who caught the prime ministerial performances live or in color on closed-circuit television loved it. 1 “This, perhaps, is the last great political gathering before the next general election ... whenever it comes,” Trudeau said, in tones that suggested a federal election will be held sooner than later.
   Scheduled to speak for 20 minutes, the nation’s first minister held forth for three-quarters of an hour. He opened with a balance sheet-style defence of his government's economic performance, denouncing his political adversaries as “doomsayers.” Trudeau’s claim that the average Canadian is one and onehalf times richer than he or she was 10 years ago drew predictable applause, as did his spirited defence of finance minister Jean Chretien's economic policies.
 FORT ST. JOHN (Staff) -Frank Cook, a guide and outfitter from Dawson Creek, has been fined $1,935 in provincial court here for violations of the Wildlife Act.
  Cook, 50, was originally charged with 60 violations of the Wildlife Act. He pleaded guilty to 22, and was found guilty of eight additional charges.
   He was found not guilty of about 14 charges, during the four-day trial, halfof which was held in Fort Nelson Feb. 6-7, and half in Fort St. John Thursday and Friday. The remainder of the charges were withdrawn by the Crown.
  Cook was also found not guilty of threatening an enforcement officer. The charges arose from incidents during the 1976 hunting season.
   Cook was fined $35 on each of 21 counts of failing to submit a signed report upon completion of a kill.
   Oiji six counts of having possession of parts of big game animals without possession of the appropriate cancelled species licence, he was fined $100 each.
TRUDEAU
 talking about is the one who tells Chretien he (Clark) can run the economy better. Yet he can’t even count the delegates in Bow River.”
  The prime minister was referring to Clark’s decision not to contest the Bow River nomination against fellow Tory caucus member Stan Schumacher. Ironically, Schumacher himself was defeated at the subsequent nominating convention by former Alberta Social Credit cabinet minister Gordon Taylor.
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    He was fined $100 for unlawfully having possession of parts of a stone sheep not legally killed.
    And on two counts of acting as a guide for someone not licensed to hunt, he was fined §250 each.
   Prince George provincial court Judge J.H. Kenney heard the case.
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Walkout here prompts talks
    Talks are held in Vancouver today to settle complaints by members of Local 6, Canadian Union of Transportation Employees working for B.C. Railway in Prince George.
   The workers are employed in the BCR maintenance department in Prince George and left their jobs Friday afternoon charging the company was not living up to the collective agreement pertaining to apprenticeships in the shop.
   The 35 workers returned to work today after the talks in Vancouver were agreed on by union and railway.
TODAY
‘Oh, for the good old peaceful days before the Watergate book craze!'	*
FEATURED INSIDE
 • The Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association have been sold to a group of businessmen who are going to keep Swedish scoring stars Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson with the team. Page 13.
 4 The Prince George Mohawks and Vancouver Canucks oldtimer hockey teams put on an enteitaining display of hockey without slapshots or fighting during the weekend. Page 13.
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THE WEATHER
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    A ridge of high pressure, over western B.C. is expected to bring Prince George mainly sunny skies .with some cloudy periods today. Tuesday's forecast is mainly cloudy skies w ith a chance of snow flurries. Both days are expected to be cold.
    The forecast high today is 1, the low -15. The high Sunday was 0, the low -15, v ith no precipitation. On this date last year the high was 7. the low -2
NOW HEAR THIS
 t It's questionable how much impact Economic Development Minister Don Phillips had at a Rotary-Quesnel Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday. Not a sound was heard during a question period after the address. When asked by a reporter why 120Quesnel residentshad no questions about economic development, one industry spokesman confided “there’s no point asking questions when a gentleman’s so out of touch he doesn’t have answers.”
 #	Ataleoftwoextremesemergedtoday at the Blackburn Elementary School with a happy ending. Although one classroom was like a sauna due to a broken hot water pipe, the others were ice cold from two circulating fans which refused to circulate the heat But it was alright with about 380 kids who got a day off from school The school is expected to open again Tuesday.
 •	Spring has mixed blessings. A local man was marvelling to his wife how cute it was to see the first robin of spring. The sentiments changed as the family cat leapt from behind a corner, and. . .