Deor Ann Landers: | have decided to turn to you for help after dropping my third girlfriend within four months, 'm o 19-year-old college freshman. Maybe my Catholic upbringing has Isolated me from the moral decay of the real world, but | can't figure out what girls want out of a relationship anymore, | always thought sex belonged inside marriage. My first girlfriend gave me a hickey on the neck on our second date, | didn’t even know what she was doing. She said She had never met anybody so square in her whole life. | could write a book about my second girlfriend but I'd better go on to the third, because that's when t really became concern: On our first date she outlined her "social philo- sophy.” According to her, sex is a natural port of every male-female relationship, When | told her 1 wasn't brought up that way, she said, "You must be gay.” 1 would ordinarily ignore such a remark, but the very next doy 9 guy made a poss at me. | almost died. it was the second time this semester that 1 have been Propositicned like that. The thought of two guys together Is revolting to me. am embarrassed and puzzled because | do nothing to invite such offers. I duscussed this with two - of my pals, and neither of them has ever been ap- proached by a guy. What bothers me most is that mayb e 1 AM gay because | really don't want to have sex with any of the girls 1 have taken out. All| want is toen- joy their company and have them énjoy mine. ‘need help before I crack up. — Agonized Student At The U of X Dear X: Stop worrying. If you were gay you would not be revolted by the aronasitions — wou would he fighting the desire to accept them. There aren't many men Ground these days who asplre to save themselves for marria ogo: If you do, more power fo you. But stay away from giris who put hickeys on your neck. . a ee? Dear Ann Land: with the daugt who refuses to go to her tomes 's home now that he has .a new wife because memories of her mother in that jhouse are too hard to handle. My problem is similar, ‘only my mother is not dead, She and my father divorced ‘after many years of marriage. y father is a very weal man. Mom left the mornnae with barely eneueh to get by on. My father has the family home and business. He has his lady friend at our house most of the time. Whenever | go there |. am uncomfortable because |, too, resent sooing another woman in my mother’s home. Many of her things are still there, and seeing them used by this per- son angers me terribly. My sister refuses to go there at all. Should | tell my father how | feel, or is it none of my business what he does with his house? — Extremely Anonymous Deor Ex: {tis jour father's business what he does ‘in his house, but you fee! about it is very much your business. You are olish to subject yourself to so ‘much misery. Stop going over there ond teit him why. CONFIDENTIAL to What Is ‘inedern Man?: | like Woody Allen's definition be: erson born after Nietsche's edict, ‘God is dead, efore the recor: ding, ‘| Wanna Hold Your Hand,’ Satisfied. 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Victorin, Be Cs, VeV 1X4: VOL. 34, NO. 20 It. won't be: hard to spot Mike Thomson at this year’s West Kootenay Trade Fair. He'll be the only: person with a hot air balloon and will « be on hand to add a colorful dimension to this year’s the Okanagan, and the. only * person with a balloon in that ’ Thomson said the pro heaters used to keep the ber ~~ joun air-burne act as a iarge lamp to light up the entire Since Thomson purchased’ i the ballcon in June, he-bas c s use been hired to attend several : sost of his’ hobby. 1: , Although | ballooning: is a, new sport to Thomson and is not too well known in B.C,, it is the latest craze in'Alberta. It is tiot uncommon to see .one of the free flowing ob- “fects floating “across the prairies, ‘ : ‘Thomson said it will only , - bea matter: of time before ballooning : becomes more popular here,» -.> ‘In Kelowns, Thomson said he has. had: several people approach him and question him ‘about the sport. He said he is not consid- VICTORIA (cP) — Shop- . pers, -smokers, ’ drinkers and some business men will bear the brunt of major tax incredses aimed at raising $625 million an- nounced Monday in the Brit- ish Columbia ‘budget. Hugh Curtis's second budget, outlining spending ~ plans totalling $6.636 billion. ”, The ‘major increases are: — an increase in the retail sales tax to six cents on the gasoline taxes to 5.92 cents a litre from, 3.74 cents a litre. 25-gram pack of ‘tobaccs goes to14 cents from 10 cents. The _ tax will ‘also be adjusted to * fnflation: every six months with the first, tise coming next Sept..1. 5 — a jump inthe corpor- . to eight per cent from 10) per" cent. — commercial ene ‘using fuel of] will also have to pay. sales tax on the fuel {or the first time. eet — the Liquor. “Branch will miark up’ liquor, prices’ to raise. $28- million. The sane, cigarette. He also ‘unwrapped a sonal income tax credit while ill equal three | cent of ; personal income tax. exerip. : tons less'1.5 per cent of tax: sable income. aeat step would © 40 per cent of .C. families.and jiare ters .of: the elderly ‘in ‘the rovitice, he said, The income’ tax: measures are effective in the 1981 tax year. ‘ A Dave Btupich, finance eritic .for the’ New. Demo- cratic Party opposition, said csthe ‘tax oaeue were .de- ‘Veigned, to ment of B.C.'s northeast coal * fields,‘ a major” government nee’ develop- Project. ‘. “By choosing.to wallop the taxpayer at the same time as - it has launched the northeast. coal deal, the Social Credit :» government has. given us taxos up 10 cents on ‘a pack of 26.: corporation ix on small businesses Reduced to eight. per. cent from.10‘per e pasoline taxes inereauead to 5.52 cents a litre om 374 cents, or.20 per cent-of retail price. ‘ itablis! eo fuel oll used in commer ation income tax.on’ larger “ta fees, to 16 per cent from” 16 Says lacks areal Guat VANCOUVER (CP) — activist for the disabled sald : Monday the provincial bud- get is well intentioned, but lacks real thought. _ ‘Tim Louis, president of the B.C. Coalition for the ,Dis- abled, concentrated on two tax changes aimed at recog- nizing the special transpor- tation needs of the disabled. Transportation aids for the disabled: now sre | exempt from social service tax and eligible disabled people will ‘receive a-full-rebate of pro- vinelal fuel tax. Louis, whose’ group has: : accessible to the disabled. been fighting for improved transportation for the. dis- abled, said he is glad to'see the tax: lifted ‘from" trans. ~ ~ all .disabled » people - in portation: to pay for these aids — such as expensive devices on cars for paraplegic drivers — as is done in some other countries, “It's really just a small move toward a more equit- able system,” he said, .CCESS While praising the fuel re- ‘pate, “Louis sald “it would have been better to make the i transportation system acces- sible to the disabled — that is the heart of the-problem.” - He pointed out U.S. law makes it mandatory that all transportation systems be. The budget also extends the $680 homeowner grant to the . province, The. maximum grant was available only to handicapped people who re- ceive ‘income assistance or war veteran's disability al- lowance,” Paul Nowell, a relocation: officer at the Handicap, Resource Centre, which is’ trying to find homes for a. growing list of dissbled peo-_ ple,. said extension “of the grant will not help the cen-" tre's clients, who are unable to find. rental accommo-; dation, «2: He said a majority of the clients receive. assis. tance of about $871 a month and can't afford to buy a house. taste. of things. to Stupich said: +The budget. million’: to bring 3 come,’ tted $48 oo gear t five public'meetings The tn igs: Bap ig i aad uring meetings with taft, tho ROMP, 800-block. of Columbia Ave. a being modified, but. the Seeiataee ‘Susiness” ‘peo “yas! the’. main’: downt “tintersection “was- congested with traffic ‘when. the: after-: noon shifts at'local ‘mills problems, they ea can, nd.‘ fied, he continued. : “mately ..6:16: p.m. on where there is evidence’ of water Road3km sespeee and $6,600 to install’ . Castlegar Ferry.’ jtorm ‘drainage along: Ninth Two other occupants, Pant + William : Churchill, Ave! near Cone Hill. Aldermen ceasad at’ ae has meeting: Tuesday “agreed'to’ spend-approximately $28,600 n thé projects — $20,000.to ately,’ explained “Ald.: Len Stofoniuk 7, both’of Castle- Embree, ‘chairman ‘of. the. ‘gar, are to havé're-__ works” and services: commit: ceived: moderate injuries. ; aPolies report’ the: vehicle it extra inde tes balance . his budget ‘Hee etd he opted for higher - taxes so that essential. gov- ernment services could be continued. qi “although controls must . bein place to prevent waste in the public sector, the gov- ernment is not prepared to dilute — in any way — the-. high standard - of services delivered to the people of our rovinee,” Curtis said. The option of a deficit . Budget was ruled out, Curtis ‘added, because: the govern: . Ment: was not Laas to , Sonal borrowing to Bartle | ‘coupled his defenes of the tax increases ‘with an. attack. on the ‘federal. gov- ernment, saying energy taxes in the October federal budget directly reduced pro- . i vincial revenues. =~ *> “Over the period 1980-81 te 1983-1984, federal taxes have the very real potential of re-:: ducing provincial revenue 1 by over $1 billion,” Curtis sai PICKETS ;set up: thelr line ‘at. the West . Kootenay Power and Light on Columbia Ave. this week as the Nelson, Trall ‘Sr ‘a, vA . . called by the East Kootenay Lobe: Coun- eit. fe thew rt fo 5 aah Sues March: 20. z The :Nelacn, Trall and Bast at paeecie de Ta F e aay strike. ‘was es, ‘eile ‘to'show support for.}' striking' telephone work- 7 ers. Batween, 16,000 and 20,000: ‘workers: in) the }- Kootenay “area are ex-]’ pected to stay. home, in- cluding those represented by United Steelworkers of America, \ International | Woodworkers‘ of America | - and B.C. Government Em- ployees Union. The strike will involve all unionized workers in the East and ‘West’ Kootenays.’’ é Last ‘week about, 6,000 union members ' ‘stayed home for one day in. the Nanaimo ‘and Cowichan Valley areas of southeast- ern Vancouver Island-at the ‘request of the B.C. Labor: Minister Jack Heinrich has : said the strikes are illegal, but feels §: employers rather than the government should take +] Federation of Labor. District Labor Council decide Monday toke part In the March 20 general arike ac tion’is necessary. +