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.ada geese which cleaned out
scores of corn fields through:

“eating the outer leaves as.:

fast as they form.
“The department of agric-

out the Lower Fraser Valleys: jopaeg pit in a few test plots

last spring have developed a
taate for spring tovloped a |
sugar beet seed, clover and 5
«green beans,

Robert Reynolds and Joha
Zellweger, who have farms:
on Westham Island, near
Ladner, say that have suff-
ered thousands of dollar’ ‘in
crop damage this winter and
have been unable to control’
the waterfowl that ayer :
down in Hock of 500.

fewer and this also
= hab'beon badly damaged,” he’
“ sald id fa an ‘interview.

Reynolds said the «only °

Stlective control of the geese.
is longer hunting seasons and
bigger bag limits.

“Ones thes got thto your’

figids it is ‘almost ithpossible

He said they ate $3,600 of
‘lover hay last year.

swith five aires of asprin;
cauliflower and the geese are

: $200 fine
for ‘freezing
the'slaves’
= PETERBOROUGH, ONT.
{CP) — Abe Lincoln won a
place in history- books for
setting free the slaves, but a
Peterborough actor's at-
, tempt to publicize - subtle
* discrimination by — stealing
lawn ornaments earned him a

ger has had 12 acres

of sugar beet wiped out at a
loss. of about $12,000. © >

“I have a contract to grow

seed for sugar beet produc- .

ers in Alberta and Manitoba

and it is more than embar-
assing when I let ‘them
down”

He said another field has
been badly damaged by wid-
geon,

“In past years these birds
only came into our fields
after a hard winter when
“there was nothing else to eat,
Now they are developing a
taste for our crops.”

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Castlegar —
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Henry John, 8. Sc., C. AS
* Resident Partner.

Gordon Staines of the Can-.

Service said

ada. Wilts”
ing a

* 86, was
convicted of possession of

. stolen property following the.
theft last April of 87 lawn
ornaments,

Ramsden said‘ he and a
group of friends formed the
Committee “Against Racism

~- and -Teckiness after an even-
ing of drinking‘and ‘set out
“to free the slaves” by col-
lecting statues of binck stable
boys from city lawns.

The group expanded their
operation to include skunks,
squirrels, flamingos and a
complete set of Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs,

Ramsden turned himself in,
to police after the collection
was found in his parents’
“garage.”

; Credit cards

24 hour-aday problem in
many parts of the country.
“We are providing farmers
with carbide guns and per-
mits to scare the birds off or
shoot them if necessary,” he
. said, . epee
“We have planted our own
areas on Westham Island and
are keeping about 90 per cent
of the flocks in check. Itis the
birds that spill out of the
refuges that are causing the
problem.”

-Tom Burgess of the fish * -
and game branch said there -

is- no easy answer to the
problem but there will prob-,
ably be an extension to the
goose season next year and a
bigger bag limit.

_ Thief's ‘paradise

TORONTO (CP) ~ Pilfer-
ing “plastic money” =- credit
éards — has become a growth
{industry in North America...

Last. year, : Sraudulent use
of credit cards in
fesulted in business losses’ of
about $36 million, In the U.S.,_
the amount was. about $410°
inillion,

3 r the ‘Soe, that’s big :
buses,

but for credit-card
j.companies and banks, with
- annual credit business of
_ $186 billion, it’s small change.
*_ = ‘The frauds are written off
as the cost of doing busi

volve: — Stolen’ cards.

*Prostitutes: steal “cards *

from businessmen, then sell
them -for “up ‘to $100 to
thieves. The eards arc. then
flown to cities thousands of
kilometres. away.

“The farther away, the less

chance a stolen card will be .

noticed,” said Nilson. .
= Counterfeit cards.

“If the industry is really
interested in stopping fraud,
they should make it. much
tougher to duplicate. cards.
Right now its too easy.”

and ultimately ist the honest
éard-users who pay for the
losses with higher interest
charges.

’ Spencer Nilson, publisher
6f a credit-card - newsletter,
says he knows enough about
credit-card fraud that he
could. get away witty fraud

is forever. 7

* “The true extent of the
problem worldwide isn’t
known because credit-card
issuers don't always tell the
truth,” Nilson said’ in a

telephone interview from Los .

Angeles. “They don’t want
the numbers to get out.
“There are 500 credit-card
cases pending in Los Angeles
alone. It's big business for
the thieves, but the industry
doesn't get too upset beraue
the fraud to only

1

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“You get merchants who

probably wouldn’t cheat on
their income taxes teaming
up .with crooks for .phoney
purchases. They split .the
take. They probably - figure
stealing from the bank isn't

stealing.”

— Phoney mail orders,

' . “Ads that allow buyers to
use their, credit-card, num-
bers are easy targets, All it
takes is a phoney post office
box.”

— False credit card appli.
cations.

“Once you get. one “fake
card in the mail, you can
apply for dozens of others.
Pretty soci you've ane 50
* cards to play with.”

— Found credit’ cards, ©
finds a card in

uarters of one per
cent of their total volume.”
: CARDS STOLEN
* The most common credit-
card scams, Nilson said, in-

a men’s room and goes on a
spree. Usually; ‘they. get
away with it for a while
unless the card company gets
lucky.” .

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