VANCOUVER (CP) — The Leta provincial government's wel- pr-bohg E fare cuts outlined in Mon- umbia's! poor and ‘ et OS arene ‘4 ® J @ 3 i j wy eee ee! ee forced to do so by Ottawa, but HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE: Tues. - Sat., 9:30 - 5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” OFFICE “= LUELLA ANDREASHUK 218-11th Avenue, Castlegar, B Ph. 365-6658 Bookkeeping Income Tox Preparation Independent NEC Authorized Dealer RRSP’s: Payments Jan. 1 - Feb. 29/84 deductible for 1983 or 1984. Investigate the regulations . . . you may save tax dollars. the Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of B.C. Jill Weiss, chairman of the B.C. Coalition of the . Dis- abled, described the tighten- ing of welfare policy as cruel and said the new policies will encourage people to stay on welfare. As part of its budget pack- age, Victoria said it wants to discourage the unemployed from coming to B.C. The new rates vary de- pending on age, marital stat- us and length of time on wel- fare, while the cuts range from $25 to $80 a month, with the $25 figure applying in most cases. Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy announced the government will save $31 million in Guaranteed Annual Income for Need (GAIN) programs through the $25 reductions and through changes in eligibility and earning exemptions for peo- ple on welfare. affects 4,400 recipients has a month and ‘will save $4.3 million. training. The ineentive al- for program, which involves par- in in Canada? That's idiotic.” Reforestation increases VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia will in- crease spending on refore- station by about $9 million this year, despite a cut in total spending in the Forests Ministry and most other ministries. Total commitment to for- est renewal, according to es- timates made by,-the’Asso- ciation of B.C. Professional Foresters, is more than $100 million in 1984. ‘That includes a 16-per-cent Increase — to $57.2 million from $49.4 million — in spending by the Forests Ministry itself on replanting areas that are being current: ly logged. As well, it includes a $1 million inerease (to $11 mil- lion) in backlog planting un. der a federal-provincial pro- gram, and maintenance of in dustry payments of about $40 million for reforestation. Backlog areas are lands that were logged decades ago and are still idle. The spending estimates were welcomed by profes- sional foresters as a positive step, albeit a small one. “It's still not enough to completely cover the current logging activiites, but we're heartened by the fact that spending has been increased at a time when other areas are being cut,” said Bill Dumont, newly-elected resi- dent of the Association of B.C. Professional Foresters. His comments were echoed by Tony Sherbeare, a spokes- man for the B.C. Council of Forest Industries. ‘The Canadian Press Avhome computer can have many practical uses, but just playing with the machine's sheer power can be fas- cinating entertainment. The feeling is akin to the”pleasure of driving 4 high-performance car, which responds immediately as you touch the accelerator. The computer keyboard offers the thrill of being master of immense power. The fact that computers have tremendous capabil- ities isn't news. They're known as “number crunchers,” able to process long calculations in the blink of an eye. Large computers can contain the financial accounts of corporations, process millions of tax returns for gov- ernments, and hold vast amounts of information in data bases. But even that little home machine selling for less than $500 at the local department store works in much the same way as its big brothers. The technology has} been sealed down to produce a machine suitable for} smallere jobs and for use by one person, but in its own way its abilities are no less impressive. Consider a simple program that calculates the balance in a bank account. Say you want to find out how much $5,000 would be worth in one year if left in a daily interest account bearing six per cent. And for the sake of simplifying the | This is one in a series of advertisements designed to explain how CP Rail is working today to meet Canada’s transportation needs of the future. “OUR WHEELS HELP KEEP CANADA'S ECONOMY ON THE MOVE? George W. Bartley is assistant chief mechanical officer for CP? Rail, with engineering responsibility for the railway’s fleet 0f 1200 locomotives and 65 000 freight cars-& professional pincer, he joined CP Rail in 1976 after working in the mining Fs in Britain and Canada The wheel has come a long way since it was invented more than 5,000 years ago. At CP Rail, keeping the wheels rolling around the clock is a first priority. After all, a railway's job is moving gs... getting what Cana make or mine or grow from where it is to where it is wanted. What a railway does is put things in boxes, tubs, tanks or on flatcars, then rolls the cargo on sets of wheels along two ribbons of steel rail. WHEELS CARRY WEIGHT OF CANADA'S GOODS That's what our wheels are doing all the time. Carrying the weight of a freight car and its payload through curves, up hills, over mountains, on bridges across rivers. Moving manufactured goods from industrial plants to ocean ports. Hauling ores and concentrates from mines to smelters. Transporting grain from prairie elevators to marine shipping terminals. If there was an average railway wheel, it would roll about 180,000 miles during its working life. Mike M Turko checks a stockpile of wheels at Calgary's Ogden Shops. CP Rail spends more than $20 million annually on purchasing more than 70,000 new wheels. at Weston Shops in Winni Machinist Ron Cowan operates'a car wheel mounting /innipeg. of pressure as it presses wheels onto the ends © (30 tons an ate ress exerts uy ON THE LEADING EDGE we'll assume the interest is paid daily. WRITE PROGRAM To get a computer to figure this out, you must write a program, which is a set of instructions the machine can understand and that makes it perform a particular task. The program for this simple example could be written by a novice in a few minutes after reading the introductory chapters of a programming manual. But first consider how you'd figure this out without a computer. One way would be to multiply the daily interest rate — six per cent divided by 365 — times $5,000 to find out how much you earned the first day, then add the interest to the balance. Day 2 is the same: multiply the rate by the new balance, and add to the balance. After 730 calculations you'd have the answer. This would be, to say the least, a tedious job with a calculator, and an unendurable one with pencil and paper. For a computer it’s a breeze. My machine took two seconds to perform the calculations and display the answer, $5,309.16. With the computer you can explore endless pos- sibilities. What would be the net result if the interest rate was one-quarter of a percentage point higher? Change the instruction in the program that specifies the interest rate, “run” the program and two seconds later you have the answer ($5,322.45). START PLAYING But CP Rail doesn't have any average wheels. Wheels come in different sizes, weights, chemical composition and metallurgical structure. They are designed and manufactured to do particular kinds of jobs. Such as the 36-inch steel wheel with extra thick rims for moving a 100-ton coal car from southeastern B.C. to Roberts Bank near Vancouver Or the half-ton steel wheels that translate the pulling power of a 3,000-horsepower diesel locomotive into tractive effort at tlie head-end of a mile-long grain train to Th . Wheels are so important to CP it has four wheel shops - at Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and Coquitlam, B.C. — just to install them, check them, replace them and keep them in top running order. 30,000 RAILWAY MEN AND WOMEN ON THE JOB We've got 65,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Many of CP Rail’'s 30,000 railway men and women spend their working hours . loading freight, fueling up locomotives, mar- shalling trains and running them across the country, keeping the track and equipment in first-class shape. In 1983, CP Rail moved 88 million tons of freight in hundreds of trains. We move potash from Saskatchewan, refrigerators from Ontario, frozen foods from the Atlantic provinces, lumber from Bnitish Columbia — and lots more. And we do it all on steel wheels. CP Rail {« OF TECHNOLOGY Behind all this activity is a technology and know-how that adds value to Canada’s economy and helps our country grow. When someone on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean first used a log as a wheel around 3,500 B.C, he never realized that modern man would use ultrasonic waves and magnetic fields to see inside a steel railway wheel or lasér beams to check its alignment on a railway curve. Modern laser technology is the performance of different designs of wheel sets on y Beight cars er they travel around a curve in the railway track The results help CP Rail researchers reduce wheel and rail wear ’ Using leading-edge technology is part of running a modern railway and keeping it efficient Computers, fibre optics, solar energy, satellite relays are part of today’s railway, and we're always looking for new ways to do a better job. In fact, we will use any state-of-the- art technology to make CP Rail a more efficient twanaporiation lem. lway efficiency pays off for Canada - and for all of us — in getting the best possible rail service at the most economical cost. It keeps those wheels rolling and Canada's economy on the move. HELPING CANADA MOVE FORWARD v Playing with variations becomes fun. How much would you have if you left the money untouched for two years, or 10 years, assuming the rate was constant? Change one instruction and find out. For the 10-year variation, I timed my computer at 16 seconds to perform the 7,300 calculations and give me the answer, $9,340.73. Another variation makes you better appreciate the abilities of this electronic brain. Add one instruction to the program and it will display on the screen with blurring speed the updated balance for each day. How does the machine perform such feats? Infor- mation is moved around the computer's circuits in the form of electric pulses at an incredible speed. With each pulse, one step of the computer's task is performed. With a typical rate of four millions pulses a second — known as the computer's “clock rate” — it’s easy to see how a lot of work gets done quickly. HUGH CURTIS . pay more for less BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS VICTORIA (CP) — Highlights of the British Columbia budget Monday: e Surcharge of four per cent in 1984 and eight per cent in 1985 to be imposed on provincial personal income tax to assist health-care funding. ¢ Various safety equipment including infant car seats to be exempt from seven-per-cent provincial sales tax ef- fective immediately. e Hotel room tax to be flat seven per cent March 1 instead of six per cent for less than $50 and eight per cent for $50 and over. Minimum 1985 property tax after home owner grant to increase to $175 from $150 in 1985, except for seniors and the handicapped. e Pharmacare deductibility to be increased to $175 from $125 in 1984 tax year except for seniors, long-term care residents and the needy. Expenditures for 1984-85, excluding $470 million payment for B.C. Rail debt retirement, to be $7.9 billion, down 5.8 per cent from current year. e Real growth in gross provincial product forecast at three per cent for 1984 compared with two per cent in 1983. Licensing rapped VANCOUVER (CP) — to regulate their own ac- Putting the licensing of real estate agents, travel agents, insurance salesmen and in- vestment dealers in the hands of their respective in dustries, as promised in Monday's provincial budget, will erode consumer protec- tion, the British Columbia division of the Consumers Association of Canada says. Association spokesman Carolyn Halfhide said she fears allowing the industries RENO! tivities will result in con- sumers being left out in the cold with complaints about procedures. “The trouble is, when the industry regulates itself it doesn’t always recognize that a problem exists,” she said. 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This brings his total budget to $8.3 billion, or seven-tenths of a percentage point lower than that presented last summer. ~ on family size. ‘The minister said the reduced budget, which was cut back $500 million across the board, demonstrated the snecess of the restraint program and associated policies imposed by the government si He said that except for heal dropped from the current year's budget. In other minor tax or deductibility rises to $175 from property tax next year to $175 from $150, with for senlors and the needy. Specified safety equipment. is ht ly from the Deficit for the fiscal year that begins April 1 will total $671 million. It would have stood at $201 million had the government decided not to pay off the debt of its wholly owned railway. Curtis said the defieit for the current fiscal year, ending March 31, would total $1.3 billion, down considerably from the $1.6 billion he figured it would be in July. The finance minister said he is prepared to drop hospital hotel room rates will be taxed a! 1 instead of six per cent for rdoms costing less than $50 and eight per cent for those over Most property owners, however, should escape any ince 1982. Ith, all ministry budgets had ‘That was in announcing that the labor ministry will fund student employment program and a new student venture Universities got a boost when they were told their budgets would be chopped by only five per cent instead of six'per cent. They were asked to use any savings to curb the inerease in tuition fees. Colleges had their budgets cut only 3.5 per cent oriented because, said Curtis, these institutions are “closely toward preparing students for the job market and I expect that they will be able to absorb students affected by any rate changes, ph $125 this year and minimum on university ‘The finance minister announced that welfare rates and seven-per-cent sales tax, and t a flat seven per cent March criteria for getting benefits and restrict the eligiblity of out-of-province recipients. will be revised to cut down the number “By limiting payments to certain types of clients, the government will reduce the chances of creating a permanent $50. group of unemployed persons and of attracting potential property tax increases. Curtis said school budget levels and grants had been set to ensure and most municipal budgets increase in 1984. And, while unemployment in British Columbia during there would be no increase, are expected to show no recipients from outside the province,” he said. Curtis announced that even more government opera- tions will be transferred to the private sector. These include most of the functions performed by the superintendent of brokers including the regulation of real estate, insurance 1983 was 13.8 per cent, and expected to drop only marginally to 13.6 per cent in 1984, C reference to unemployment in his 18-page speech. urtis only made a passing Legal aid funding chopped VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment’s budget handed down Monday makes a mockery of provincial Attorney General Brian Smith's study of the province's legal aid system, say members of the legal community. Smith's study group began public hearings on legal aid policies and financing just three days ago and is due to report to the government at the end of June. But the budget showed that the government has de- cided to keep on cutting legal aid no matter what the study group finds, the critics said. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis chopped the Legal Services Society's budget to $12 million and reiterated that the Legal Services So- ciety Act will be amended. The society runs the prov- ince’s legal aid system. Last year, it got $13.4 million from the provincial treasury, down from $15.7 million the year before. Since last November, the society has also been getting up to $250,000 a month via special warrants to provide services — mainly legal aid for people in danger of going to jail — that had been elim. inated in previous budget cuts. The extra services were required by a court inter pretation of the Legal Ser vices Society Act. But Smith has said the government will change the act to get around that decision. In his budget speech, Cur- tis reiterated: “Measures will be implemented to permit the Legal Services Society to set priorities for providing legal aid within a limited bud get.” That “somewhat emascu- lates” the study group, said L.M. 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