March 30, 1986 BUSINESS EXPO STRIKES UNLIKELY By GREG JOYCE VANCOUVER (CP) — Expo 86-bound visitors familiar with British Columbia's notorious labor climate can put their travelling minds at ease — unions will steer clear of the world fair site. The province's affinity for prompting well-publicized f between and labor worries investors and provokes bad headlines. Much of that has changed, however, in the last few years as the conservative Social Credit government tightened the screws in the name of restraint. Legislation to curb wage demands and « recession that hit British Columbia as hard as any provinee except Newfoundland combined to put unions, particularly publie sector ones, on the defensive. Job security considerations have overtaken wage concerns, which have stayed well below five per cent in contracts in the last four years. The government now says the recession is ending, and that Expo and other major projects are stimulating growth. Growth not only brings hope of better things for Even the fear of increased use of lockouts by contractors as negotiations with building trades get under way isn't going to help those unions because Expo now is virtually built. Some civic unions could be on strike this year. A worst case scenario might have some off-site Expo events, perhaps segments of the World Festival enter- eorebenneis ah che fy waltag wary of iS say they're feeling the symp lead from biting the bullet for so long. Despite the fact many large unions are negotiating contracts in the year of Expo, using the fair as a strike lever is not feasible for at least a couple of reasons. Firstly, few of the 15,000 people that will be employed during the fair are unionized. Secondly, unions often get their share, deservedly or otherwise, of the public's wrath over their contract Obvi no union wel the burden of being responsible for even temporarily disrupting Expo. SOME FEARS SUBSIDE Members of the dozens of building trades unions, which have benefitted greatly during Expo while doing the brunt of the construction, will be off the site once it's opened. because of striking civie em ees. It's possible, but not likely, that garbage ran ges up during Expo because those civic employees could be without a contract. But hotel workers appear set for the duration of Expo and city buses will be riser ~ running without Workers on SkyTrain, the new rapid transit s: c ystem, were talking strike in March but it's highly unlikely they will be striking when Expo opens May 2. At any rate, and given the B.C. government's track record, any disruption on the Expo site will bring swift back-to-work legislation. The B.C. Federation of Labor knows that, and leader Art Kube acknowledges there could be labor strife during Expo, but the site itself appears safe from pickets and work stoppages. HOMEGOODS 5 FURNITEe% r-t--Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” om Retirees have more deductions By EUGENE ELLMEN The Canadian Press Retired people have a couple more opportunities for deductions on their income tax returns than most other taxpayers. These deductions can pay off in immediate tax savings First, the age exemption permits people 65 or older to deduct $2,590 from their net income. A spouse's age exemption can also be transferred to the person with the higher income and tax rate. As well, the pension income deduction permits you to deduct the first $1,000 in pension income from your net income. At a tax rate of 35 per cent, this deduction can save you $350 in taxes. But not all pension income qualifies for this deduction. The income must be from a private pension plan, annuity payments under a registered retirentent savings plan, payments from a registered retirement income fund, retirement payments from a deferred profit-sharing plan, interest payments from an annuity or accrued interest on annuity contracts and life insurance policies. WHAT'S EXCLUDED Specifically excluded are government pension payments and some other types of retirement income. These include payments under the Old Age Security Act, payments under the Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan, special retiring allowances such as severance pay or voluntary resignation bonuses and death benefits, For payments received from regi reti including the old age security pension and Canada and Quebee pension plan benefits. They must also report fi ll income funds, RRSP funds or profit-sharing plans, you have to be 65 or older to qualify for the deduction. People younger than 65 can claim the pension income deduction for payments from a private pension, but the payments must come from a life annuity. Life annuities, available from insurance companies, provide “pay cheques” for the rest of your life and are bought using funds accumulated in a pension plan. There are a couple of wrinkles in the pension income deduction that tax experts say you should watch for. WAY TO QUALIFY Laventhol and Horwath, a Toronto chartered account ing firm, points out in its annual tax booklet that you can still qualify for the pension deduction even if you haven't contributed to an RRSP or other qualifying pension plan. How? By buying an annuity from your savings and treating the interest portion as pension income for the deduction. Also keep in mind that the pension income deduction, like the age deduction, can be transferred from your spouse. Now for the bad news. While retired people can benefit from these extra deductions, there are also special sources of income that they must declare. They must declare government pension payments, or other pension plans. Finally, they must also declare retiring allowances, such as gifts for long service or severance payments SWITCH TO RRSP Laventhol and Horwath note that retiring allowances can be transferred to an RRSP, which would permit you to sock them away tax-free until you turn 71, the age at which RRSPs must be closed. You might also talk to your employer about paying the allowance in gradual amounts over a number of years, which would spread the tax burden out over time. Also note that you can declare earnings from an annuity in one of two ways on the tax form: as either pension income or as interest and investment ineome. Declaring the money as interest income will allow you to claim the $1,000 interest deduction available to all taxpayers. 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Darte, third Kathy Me Edwards, second Chris Jur- genson (the skip's sister) and lead Jan Augustyn were al- most perfect in the final, putting losing skip Andrea Schop of Garmisch-Parten- kirchen in a hole during most world women's event when they stole four in the sixth end to take a 9-2 lead. After that, it was just a question of before the Germans eighth and once in the ninth, then the West Germans shook hands. Darte, 31, who won the NHL LAST NIGHT Habs trim The victory, Montreal's first in eight starts helped the Canadiens maintain a two-point lead over Boston in the race for second place in the Adams Division. Boston won their game against Buffalo. For Pittsburgh, the defeat cost them a chance to take advantage of New York loss to Philadelphia and move into the fourth and final Patrick Division playoff spot. MePhee helped Montreal open the scoring when he set up Brian Skrudiand’s shorthanded tally early in the first period. The Canadiens also got goats from Mats Naslund and Stephane Richer. Dave Hannan, Ville Siren and Norm Schmidt replied for Pittsburgh. OILERS 4 ISLANDERS 4 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jari Kurri's second goal of the game and 64th of the season with 7:08 remaining in the third period gave Edmonton Oilers a 4-4 NHL overtime tie with New York, a deadlock that enabled the Islanders to clinch third place in the Patrick Division. Kurri directed Dave Hunter's pass behind goalie Kelly Hrudey after a snappy cross-ice series of passes with Wayne Gretzky. It marked the third time in the game that the defending Stanley Cup ions erased a one-goal deficit. Bryan Trottier’s disputed goal had given the Islanders a 4-3 lead at 13:10 of the second period. Trottier fired his 35th goal of the season between the legs of Edmonton goalie Andy Moog and a replay showed that New York's Greg Gilbert had hooked Moog’s skate with his stick. 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DEVILS 3 BLACKHAWKS 2 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Rich Preston and John MacLean scored in the second period to break a 1-1 tie and lead New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 upset of Chicago Blackhawks. The Devils won the season series 2-1 and extended a franchise record by winning their 26th game this season. Behn Wilson opened the scoring for the Blackhawks at 1:49 of the first period when he fired a 30-foot shot from the slot, beating Devils rookie goalie Sam St. Laurent to the stickside. Aaron Broten tied the score at 17:25 when he fired a backhand shot of MacLean’s rebound high over sprawled Blackhawk goalie Murray Bannerman. The Devils took the lead at 4:23 of the second period when Preston put a backhand shot under Bannerman’s glove for his 19th goal of the season. MacLean widened the lead to 3-1 when he poked the puck past Bannerman at 10:08. BRUINS 2 SABRES 1 BOSTON (AP) — Goals by Gord Kluzak and Geoff Courtnall backed the outstanding goaltending of Bill Last the WORKING OUT . . . 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Soa'Kevin LaVallee was the only St. Louis shooter to get the puck past Leaf goaltender Ken Wregget, who made 27 saves in one of his best performances of the season. Greg Millen stopped 37 for the Blues. The Leafs, fourth in the Norris Division, improved to 24-46-6 in their final home game of the schedule. The Blues, third in the Norris, slipped to 36-33-8. ‘FLYERS 8 RANGERS 2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tim Kerry scored twice in a edged Buffalo Sabres 2-1 in a critical Adams Division contest. Ranford, a native of Brandon, Man., who joined the Bruins last Wednesday after compiling a 17-29-1 junior hockey record this season with New Westminster of the Western Hockey League, stopped 25 shots. The victory moved Boston into a tie for second place with Montrel with 81 points, pending the Canadiens’ game Saturday night against Pittsburgh Penguins. Buffalo remained in fourth place with 78. Hartford Whalers, with 77, played host Saturday night to Washington Capitals. Boston, 4-1-4 in its last nine games, plays tonight at Buffalo, which had a two-game winning streak broken. NORTH STARS 5 RED WINGS 4 DETROIT (AP) — Dino Ciccarelli scored three goals as aerobic stations to help keep one’s heart rate up for jio-vaseular endurance. classes offered Monday and Wednesdays from 9-10 a.m. (with Variety House if needed) and 6:30-7:30 p.m. Oxford domination ends LONDON (AP) — The Light Blues of Cambridge braved appalling weather conditions and the wrath of the watching judge as they ended a decade of Oxford four-goal second period as Philadelphia Flyers New York Rangers 82 and moved into a first-place tie with Washington in the Patrick Division. Washington, which began play one point ahead of Philadelphia, tied Hartford 6-6. Both the Capitals and Flyers have four regular-season games left. Philadelphia took a 1-0 lead against the Rangers when Tikka Sinisalo backhanded the puck through his legs from 10 feet out past New York goaltender Glen Hanlon at 9:23 of the first period. The Flyers went up 2-0 when Dave Poulin rebounded Brad Marsh's shot past Hanlon just 43 seconds into the second period. Less than a minute later, Pierre Larouche's breakaway was stopped by Philadelphia goalie Bob Froese but the puck came out to Tomas Sandstrom who banged it into the open net with Froese out of position at 1:11. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — 40-foot slap shot with 2:06 remaining to help Washington Capitals salvage a 66 tie in a shootout with Hartford Whalers. The tie allowed the Capitals to hang on to a piece of first to win the 132nd i North Stars d their chall for the Norris Division title with a 5-4 NHL victory over Detroit Red Wings. The North Stars moved within one point of division-leading Chicago, which dropped a 3-2 decision Saturday at New Jersey. Ciccarelli connected for a power-play goal in the first period and two more in the second as Minnesota built a 5-2 lead. After being blanked in the season's first 17 games, the veteran right winger has scored 44 goals, including 19 on the power play. Neal Broten netted his 28th to open the scoring four minutes into the game and Keith Acton added his 25th for the North Stars. The Red Wings made a comeback bid in the third period when Claude Loiselle and Adam Oates scored 6:03 apart to eut the lead to 54. Detroit, threatening to equal a club record for least points in a season, also got goals from Doug Shedden and Steve Richmond. If the Red Wings fail to gain four points in their final four games, they will finish with fewer than 41 points, the club low set in 1976-77. university boat race Satur day. Rowing through the choppy waves of the River Thames, Cambridge won the historic race for the first time since 1975. Bat the petite cox of the outweighed Cambridge eight, Carole Burton, was warned three times by the judge for encroaching on Ox ford’s path early in the race as the two crews came close to clashing oars. “We knew that the judge was very strict and he gave us a warning right away.” said Burton after the 6.8 kilometre race. “We pulled away because we didn’t have any desire to clash. “That's not what rowing is about.” The Light Blues’ seven. length victory was a tribute to its technical superiority in atrocious conditions that could have led to the sixth sinking in the long history of the race. Driving rain, a gusting wind and a background of thunder and lightning, turn ed the event into a test of will as well as stamina and rhy thm. COACHED BY CANADIAN Cambridge, coached by Neil Campbell of Ridley Col lege in St. Catharines, Ont., and with two Olympic fin alists in its line-up — Ted Gibson of Toronto and Briton John Pritchard — hit the front almost from the first stroke and stayed there to end Oxford's 10-year winning streak in devastating style. Having won the toss, Ox ford had the advantage of choosing the starting pos. ition. But the fast-starting Cambridge crew opened up a 1%a-length lead after 1' kilometres and, despite the judge's warnings, decided it had enough of a lead to cross the Dark Blues’ path Once there Cambridge had the advantage of the inside position. Byt he time the crews reached the rough water at the halfway stage. Cambridge had established a three-length lead and the Oxford crew appeared to be laboring. As Cambridge pulled away, Oxford saw its winning streak disappearing, and Cambridge rowed on to in. crease its overall lead in th history of the race to 69-62 with one dead-heat The 10-year-old Ladbroke Trophy was presented for the first time to the Light Blues by Prince Edward, a Cambridge student. Pritchard, No. 1 oarsman of the victorious crew, said the triumph was dedicated to Cambridge boatman John Allen. “He's been very ill and we wanted to do it for him,” said Pritchard, who won a silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympics with the British eight. “All the way down the course I was telling Carole ‘do it for John. ~ Grinning broadly and hug. ging his fellow crew-mem- bers, Pritchard said, “I knew they were good, these guys, and today they were just magnificent. “I just sat there and steer. ed the team. It was just a case of putting the foot on to the throttle. It felt so good.”