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li44442AGOPE RICH S1GNAL-STAR, TklURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1977
A way with words
Jubilee Three committee member Elliott Rivett checks over an essay written about the
Goderich's 150 years as a municipality. The committee sponsored an essay contest and
here the two whiners look on as Rivett reads one of the winning pieces. The subject of the
essay was Goderich - 150 Years - How much Progress and the two winning authors were
Paula Butler and Dean Black. (staff -photo)
Special mention
Jubilee Three committee member Ralph Smith looks over a Tri -Jubilee poster submitted
by Randy Dumont (right) for the town's poster contest. The poster received a special
mention in the contest and while it wasn't selected in the top three spots Smith reported
that the, committee had hoped to make a print of it for hanging in the Jubilee'
headquarters in the Court House Park. (staff -photo)
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Budget balanced
by year 1980
By Murray Gaunt
The big news this week was
the budget brought down by
Treasurer Darcy McKeough.
Governnient spending has
increased to $I3.6 billion, up 9
per cent over last year.
The deficit is expected to
hit 1.077 billion but the
Treasurer said the object is
to..balance the budget by 1980.
The Treasurer's tax in-
creases will total 209 million;
tax cuts, 201 million.
The budget promised 3,356
new jobs in the construction
industry and 25,000 more
summer jobs for young
people, but even with this new
initiative this will provide
jobs for only a fraction of the
300,000 unemployed in the
Province.
The Government is in-
creasing its tobacco tax,
raising it by 5 cents on a pack
of 20 cigarettes. It will also
raise registration fees for,all
motor vehicles in Southern
Ontario - eight cylinder goes
from $40 to $60; a six frarn $32
to $45; and a four from $23 to
$30 - and slash them back to a
flat $10 in the north, to help
pay for its job creating
measures.
The Treasurer also will
slap a 5 cent -a -can en-
vironmental tax on all canned
soft drinks, effective June Ist.
Can tax
litter
licence
The Ontario Government's
proposed 5 cent -a -can tax on
canned pop is a "license to
litter", Liberal resources
critic Murray Gaunt (Huron -
Bruce) said last week.
Mr. Gaunt said the tax,
proposed by the Treasurer in
his budget Tuesday night,
may be a revenue earner but
"it does absolutely nothing to
really solve the problem of
littering".
"We need a five cent
deposit instead of a five cent
tax", Mr. Gaunt said.
"A deposit would en-
courage people to return
empty cans for re -cycling.
When you consider that
collection is the major- cost
involved in fecycling, a
healthy deposit is the best and
cheapest way to ensure
return of empties," he added.
Some estimates have
placed the ccdection cost as
high as 70 percent of total
recycling expenses. '
Mr. Gaunt said that the five
cent tax on canned pop will
hit children the hardest. But a
five cent deposit on the other
hand would encourage
children to make money by
collecting empties.
"The Treasurer's proposal
to levy a tax to be turned over
for environmental use isn't
nearly as efficient. The
'oney will ' be filtered
through the bureaucracy; the
cans will be left on the ground
and recycling will be exactly
where it is today.
"A five cent deposit would
encourage collection of,
empties, provide children
with income and complete the
first and most expensive part
of recycling costs," Mr.
Gaunt said.
FOOT
PROBLEMS?
Comh in and see
Mr. William F. Parsons,
a foot specialist from London
Mr. Parsons will be at
ROSS SHOE SHOP
on
Tuesday, May 10
1:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
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Other provisions in the
budget include:
1) Raising of the sales tax
exemption on restaurant
meals from $5 to $6.
2) Exemption of all thermal
insulation materials from the
7 per cent sales tax, including
heat pumps, wood stoves,
solar energy systems and
windmills.
3) Modification of tbe
controversial 20 per cent land
foreigners.transfer tax against
4) Cutting by half, to five
years, the time a purchaser
must wait to avoid payment
of the land speculation tax on
an investment property.
5) Raising from $250,000 to
$300,000 the level at which
death taxes are payable.
6) Amendment of the gift
tax to double present
allowances, permitting gifts
up to $10,000 , a year and
.$50,000 for a donor to be
exempt from gift tax.
7) Incentives to small
business, through increased
compensation for tax
collection, a simplified
capital tax charge and
reintroduction of last year's
Venture Investment Cor-
porations legislation.
An act allowing weekly
newspapers greater leeway
in accepting election ad- .,
vertising has become the first
private member's bill to be.
passed in the Ontario
Legislature in 25 years. The
bill was given second and
third reading, and it allows
weeklies to accept election
ads for the issue that will be
distributed the day before
polling day.
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FOR MOTHER'S DAY -
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FLOWER SHOP
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