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CN's TURBO BACK IN SERVICE
Canadian National's Turbo, back in service this month. provides downtown - to downtown
service between Toronto and Montreal in less than lour hours. The :;00-scat, seven car trains
have been completely renovated to meet the rigors of Canadian weat her, Turbochth passengers
arc served Meals at their seats by hostesses: Tit rholuNe Iravonvt's may purchase meals at the
cafe and also eat at fold-down trays at their seats.
Computer checking tax return
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Home and Garden
105th YA.Fi No. 29 CLINTON ..f\JFINSH13.0013.0., THURSPAY, JULY 19., 1970 SFPONO $QT.ION
diking for fashion
If the cloth is ironed and
stiffly starched before batiking,
sharp images are created. To
protect, tables and furniture
from hot wax, the cloth should
be placed on a table covered
with newspapers and wax paper
or stretched on a wooden frame
sold in art shops,
Floral geometric or rainbow
configurations can be made this
way but for circular patterns,
tie,dyeing is the best bet.
Wrap the fabric around a
round object and tie string
tightly below it. Then tie string
around the fabric at chosen
intervals below the object, Dip
the fabric in a dye bath. The
string protects the material from
the dye, creating a circular
pattern.
The batik technique of
dyeing, which- is in the midst of
a revival in Canada, is actually a
centuries-old art form which
' spread across south-east Asia in
400 A.D.
The process down through
the years was long and complex,
involving azoic dyes and
chemical baths.
Today, however, modern
chemistry has come up with
"Procion" dyes as dazzling and
vivid as dyes of old but with the
modern advantages of
lightfastness and washfastness.
They are reactive dyes which
combine with the fabric through
a chemical process whereas
regular dyes merely adhere
physically to the surface of the
fibres.
"Procion" dyes, developed in
the dyestuffs laboratories of
Imperial Chemical Industries
Limited in England in 1956 and
marketed in Canada by Canadian
Industries Limited, are primarily
responsible for the revival of
batik in Canada and in other
western countries,
Miss Post, who discovered the
Some good kinds are yellow
Midwest Star; the orange Golden
Hours; Bess Ross and Alan with
red flowers; the pink Frances
Fay, Lyric and Neyron Rose; the
lavender Luxury Lace; purple
Mabel Fuller; Colonial Dame and
Nantahalla both with banded or
distinctive eye markings and the
maroon and yellow Marse
Connell.
The monkshood (Aconitum
ssp.) is a very useful plant for
late bloom. It has upright habits
and tall flower spikes composed
of little monkshood-like florets.
It grows best in dark shady
locations, but will withstand
some sun.
Excellent types to try are
Aconitum bicolor, white edged
blue flowers; Sparks variety, a
cultiVar growing up to six feet
with deep blue flowers; Blue
Sceptre with blue and white
blooms and Kelmscot Glory
with three feet spikes of dark
blue. All bloom in July and
August.
The chamomiles or golden
availability of "Procion" dyes in
1966, is now a retail distributor
for the dyes in all of Canada
Intricate geometric patterns can be created by means of batik dyeing and circular patterns splashed
on cloth in tie-dyeing, Model above wears a tie-dyed sari in orange and yellow. Draped beside her is
a length of fabric, also tie-dyed in crimson, green and yellow. Popular dyes for the art are
"Procion" dyes.
marguerites are very rugged.
They do well under adverse
growing conditions and thrive on
little care, Many of these bloom
in July and August. They are
specially suited for hot dry
borders and slopes. Some good
cultivars are Grallagh Gold,
bright yellow; Kelwayi, deep
yellow; Golden Dawn, a double
flowering cultivar that requires
annual division for survival and
Perry's variety, a very old yellow
selection, but still rated quite
highly.
The well known shasta daisies
(Chrysanthemum maximum) are
excellent summer flowering
perennials and may be obtained
in new forms and shapes that
almost resemble the hardy
border chrysanthemum. Some
good ones are King Edward VII,
with very large single blooms;
Max Reigel, with large four or
five inch flowers and two rows
of petals; Aglaia, a large frilly
double; Chobham Gold, creamy
white; Esther Reid, free
flowering double white; Thomas
Killeen, large anemone centered
white; Wirral Pride, semi-double,
pure white 'and Wirral Supreme,
a strong growing double with
iricurving petals. All are
extremely useful for cutting and
great for mixing with late
flowering cutback delphiniums.
The heleniums are all North
American plants that flower in
Midsummer and will last until
September, They are
characterized by the very
prominent central disks to larger
daisy-like flowers of yellow
orange and reddish orange. They
survive most of the time on the
milder prairie provinces, but
may be winter killed during an
Unusually severe winter.
Good selections are Bruno,
mahogany red; Butterpat, warm
rich yellow; Coppelia with
Coppery red blooms on a dwarf
two and a half foot plant; July
Sun, orange; Riverton Beauty,
an old popular yellow; Spatrot,
bronzy red and The Bishop,
brilliant yellow with a darker
center,
There are many other
perennials that blOorn in
midsummer, A trip to the ideal
park, garden Or the perennial
borders at the Plant Research
Institute is worthwhile at this
time of the year, for then you
can ellOOSe the color to match
the color scheme you have in
mind, the heights for the
location they are to occupy and
companion plants that are part
of the flower border, Let the
notes given here be a guide to
your selection.
A brilliant explosion of color
on cloth has been de rigueur in
high fashion circles for some
time now and promiaes to be
even more so thanks to the latest
rend in art — batik dyeing and
tie-dyeing,
According to Estelle Post,
well-known Toronto batik
craftsman, many girls are now
using batik-designed material as
dress lengths even though batik
is essentially an art form,
The dyeing, an art which had
its origin many years ago in Java,
is done in four steps. The artist
first draws a pattern on the cloth
with charcoal then paints hot
wax on the patter with a paint
brush or tjanting, an Indonesian
pen-like instrument with a cup
for hot wax. (The waxed areas
retain the original color of the
abric and the delicacy of the
attern determines the size of
he brush.) In the third step, the
raftsman dips the cloth in
`Procion" cold water dyes then,
4 hours later, places the cloth
n boiling water to remove the
ax.
For a crackle effect, the artist
an crumple the cloth to crack
he hardened wax.
The wax can be heated in an
ectric frying pan, a glue pot, a
ouble boiler or any similar
tensil. Miss Post herself uses a
0-watt electric bulb partially
ubmerged in a can of wax. The
ulb is hot enough to melt the
ax without scorching it.
She has found the
ornbination of one-third
eeswax and two-third paraffin
ax most satisfactory.
The wax can be removed
ither by boiling or by placing
he material between two sheets
f newspaper and ironing —
Ithough this method never
ompletely removes all the wax
nd the material becomes a little
tiff.
arden notes
BY A. R. BUCKLEY
Hardy herbaceous perennials
at bloom in July and August
re especially useful for planting
the gardens of summer
ottages, resort areas or homes
here it is desirable to maintain
e continuity of bloom in the
order.
For color, over-all garden
ffect and reliability, nothing
urpasses,the tall perennial phlox
or this purpose. To call it
olorful is an understatement —
tire snowy. whites, brilliant
eds, flaming scariets, blues,
urples, solft pinks, lavenders
d everything between. All
hese, and more are now
vailable,
Among the older better
nown varieties are the three
oot fiery scarlet Leo Schlageter;
uminous salmon, Sir John
aistaff; Prince of Orange;
nowball, soft pink with a
rimson eye; Rosa Spier, a
trong grower; Amethyst; Red
Augusta; Vintage Wine, cameo
pink; Dresden China and Orange
Vancouver. Much credit must go
to her for stimulating the batik
revival on the Prairies and in
eastern Canada.
She also reaches markets in
Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
s Maine, Washington D.C.. and
Texas,
Miss Post sells the dyes in
bulk to artists, with instructions
on how to mix the dye.
One ounce of dye costs
between 90 cents and $1.35 and
a teaspoon of dye makes one
pint of solution.
Miss Post is also providing
complete mixtures of the dyes in
one and a quarter ounce
packages for about 39 cents a
package.
Mixtures are particularly
good for school children or
beginners who don't want to
buy in quantity lust yet.
Selling under the name ESPO
cold water dyes, they can be
obtained from her at her
boutique at 17 13almuto Street,
Toronto or through Domus
Craft Shop in Kingston or Helga
Palke in Ottawa.
"The dye is safe for pure silk,
pure linen, pure cotton, cotton
or silk velvet and even wool,"
she said.
"The exceptions are acetate
rayons and nylons," she added.
Carpeting keeps
school kids quiet
Carpeting has beeome a
noise-subduing boon for the new
"open space" schools of the
`70's, Sherwood Forest junior
elementary school in London,
Ontario, and Greendale Public
Sehool, Dollard-des-Ormeaux,
Quebec, are two notable
examples where interior walls
between classrooms are virtually
rion,existant. Each school, in
effect, is one big classroom with
the children moving about with
considerable freedom.
The solution to a potential
problem Of distracting noises has
been found by covering the
floors arid stairs completely with
carpeting,
Children seem to be quieter
and feel the different
atmosphere created by the
carpeting. Noise distractions,
such as dropping books, are
minimized, Tetichera agree, too,
on the pleasures of teaching in a
carpeted room In terms of quiet
and underfoot comfort. In
particular, the fatigue of
standing during most of the day
is greatly reduced.
In regular schools With
carpeted' classrooms, teachers
find they can leave doors" open
Without bothering neighbouring
roping, In fact, one teadher said
that Sounds are so subdued,
there is an ever-present risk of a
child walking out of the class
Walled beirig ribtieed, ,
So April 30 has passed, again.
You filed your income tax
return on time and that's that for
another year. Right?
Wrong. April 30 may be the
end of the year for most
taxpayers but to National
Revenue, Taxation, it heralds
the beginning of a surnmer4ong
program designed to verify the
accuracy of the taxpayer's
reporting,
It's time once again for MAT
4 . . the code ,name for an
operation carried on by
computer which among other
thing's, matches the millions of
T4 slips issued by employers
against information reported by
the taxpayers in their income
tax returns,
As you may suspect, the T4s
don't always Match up, and the
taxmen face weeks and even
months of searching for the
reason. Where they find a lapse
of memory, a revised assessment
notice is issued. Where fraud IS
suspected, the case is tttrned
over to the Special Investigations
Branch,
One way or another,
matching helps keep the
taxpayer honest.
The employer creates the
basic ingredients a the matching
program When he Al§ out T4
8110 fOr all employees before the
end of each Vebrtiary. He is
obliged to give 'P4 slips to
everyone to whom he pays a
salary's Wages- 6OrnmissiOn or
other eonaideration whieh
constitutes income for the
recipient. He sends one copy to
National Revenue, Taxation and
gives two copies to the
employee, one of which the
employee must attach to his
annual income tax return,
Canada's self-assessment
income tax system boasts a
voluntary compliance rate of
approximately 97 percent. In
other words most taxpayers
report their incomes and
calculate their taxes in
actordance with the law,
But there are some
income,,earners who through
error, oversight or deliberate
evasion, don't report all their
earnings. This is where the
computer matching program
comes into play, The computer
quickly identifies employees
who haven't tent in all their T4
slips and those who may have
altered their slips with the
intention of paying less tax.
Not long ago the matching Of
T4 slips to make sure all Income
Was reported and to detect
faiSifications was done by hand.
It was a slow, laborious
Undertaking and sometimes
taxpayers took chances,
knowing it was actually
impossible to check everyone.
The computer matching
program changed all that
Overnight. The computer swiftly
and efficiently matches all
ineonle- reported by employers-
with thatrepotted by
employees. This year 070)
Mere than T4 slips
will be matched,
Preparation of the data for
the computer is a large job
which is carried out at several
regional keypunch centers.
TheSe centres send the
information to the Data Centre
in Ottawa in the form of
magnetic tape, ready for
computer use,
In addition, a number of large
employers in Canada, who keep
employee payroll information in
their own computers, send the
Department copies of magnetic
tape and so reduce the volume
of paper work and the cost of
converting records to tape,
The computer data obtained
for T4 slips is also used to create
a record, in tape form, of all
earnings and contributions to
the Canada Pension Plan. This
goes tO the Department of
National Health and Welfare tO
form the basis for CPP pensions
and benefits Which are
calculated on the basis of a
person's income and
contributions over a number of
years.
The final result of the
Matching program, in addition
to keeping taxpayers honest, is
to bring into revenue all proper
taxes,
Reas.sessmentS resulting from
computer thatching actions in
1468-80 program year resulted in
increased tax revenue of
$4,882,03.
Of that total; $112,932 Owed
by Kitchener district taxpayers
was turned up by Matching,
Perfection.
Added to these are many
newer and still better ones. For
palest of pinks one should try
Mother of Pearl, and for a deep
rose, July flowering cultivar, you
cannot do better than grow July
Glow and for a deep color plant
rose pink B. Symons-Jeune.
Look at them in catalogues or
visit the collection right now in
flower at the Plant Research
Institute's ornamental grounds.
For striking July blooms
daylilies are hard to beat. The
modern types have now
advanced from purely orange
and yellow colors to warm
shades of red, pastel pinks,
bronze, light cream and almost
white. Although the individual
flowers only last a day, careful
study of catalogues will' show
flowers that extend their peak of
bloom into the evening hours.
Next day new flowers take the
place of faded ones both outside
in the border or if they are
picked and placed in a vase
indoors.
except British Columbia, where
the market is - handled by
Behnsen Silk Screens of
Some good flowering perennials
NEW HOUSE DESIGN — In
this 3-bedroom bungalow designed
by Architect HENRY FLIESS of
Toronto there is a good separation
between the living and sleeping
areas thus ensuring privacy and
the isolation of noise.
The kitchen overlooks the street
and is easily accessible from both
front and side doors. The living-
dining room has a sloped ceiling
and large windows opening onto
the garden. The front door is inset
thereby giving protection from the
weather. The side door leads di-
rectly down to an ample basement
which, in addition to providing the
normal utility and heating facili-
ties, has room for the development
of a recreation room or workshop.
The front door of the house should
face north,
The floor area is 1,160 square
feet; the exterior dimensions are
39 feet six inches by 32 feet, Work-
ing drawings of this house, known
as Design 218, are available from
Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation at minimum cost,