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WHAT | PLAN TO DO WITH $7 MILLION

By KEN SMITH CP ECONOMICS WRITER

Dear Boss:

I know that when you and I discussed this column and how it should be handled, you suggested I stay clear of using the first person.

‘The way you put it, as I recall, was that people don't care what I think — they want something from a voice of authority. Not the most tactful way of putting it, boss, but I got the point.

And for a couple of centuries I've done it. It hasn't always been easy, especially when I've had to watch the

blings of guys like MacEachen and Lalonde, Reagan and Andropov, when a few brisk and clear lines from my typewriter would have settled all their problems.

But now, respected leader, all is changed.

Because this weekend I'm going to win about $6 million in the Lotto 6-49 draw.

Is it going to change me? Of course not.

I'll remain the amiable, bfilliant and humble guy I've always been. Though, frankly, it would be nice if you'd address me as “Sir” from now on, instead of “Hey you.”

If you get the impression that I don't plan to quit my job immediately — as most big lottery winners say they'll do — you're right.

IT’S CHICKENFEED -

After all, sociologists say that boredom is the curse of the middle class. And let's face it, $6 million today doesn’t put you in the big leagues financially — even if it should win you some respect from the Visa people (and personally, k wowldn's.et,on that)...

So it, will be useful to have a regular annual income, such as it is, when the $6 million runs out.

What, then, will happen to all those bucks?

I'm something of a humanitarian, as well as amiable, etc., so I thought of handing it over to Victor Rice, your counterpart as what we usually call the fi ial

DRUNK DRIVERS

Tougher penalties sought

VANCOUVER (CP) — Af- ter a series of initial victories that reduced the number of drunk drivers hy 10 per cent, the incidence of drunk driv. ing on British Columbia roads hasn't changed in more than three years.

There are fewer drunk driving offences during the festive season, when drivers fear a police roadblock lurks around every corner. But af- ter January, statistically the safest driving month of the year, traffic accidents in- volving alcohol increase to a high point every spring and summer.

“My personal opinion is, we have to have very serious penalties for people who

A ow CASTLEGAR PD,

Bourne, deputy minister for

FIRST BABY .. . Helen Nielsen (right), service commit- tee coordinator for Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, hands gif- ts to Carol Haines and New Year baby Casey. Gifts are

donated each year by Castlegar businesses to the first baby of the new year. The B.C. Medical Association

also gave a gift this year of a car seat.

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police services in the Min- istry of the Attorney Gener- al, said.

Rita Askelrod, spokesman

for Mothers Against Drunk

troubled Massey-Ferguson company. That way, he could hire back some of those thousands of laid-off workers.

But then I saw the company lost $11.9 million in the three months ended last Oct. 3), so my contribution wouldn’t really help that much. $0 much for charity.

I thought of kids and animajs but, frankly, they don't like me, so why should I do anything for them?

That leaves my family. Six million wouldn't even whet their appetite.

WIFE HELPFUL

Boss, I told my wife I was going to win the big one and she said: “I hope you buy yourself some underwear. Now, I want...”

She was up to $14 million when I stopped counting.

And that’s before two daughters got their talons into the remains.

So that leaves it up to me.

Naturally, the first thing I did was check one of my usually reliable sources.

“Take some and spend it for fun,” he said.

That, I told myself, is why he’s a usually reliable source.

But he added:

“Invest the rest wisely.”

Now, that’s good advice, but to the wrong person.

I'm the guy. whose first car was a Studebaker, and I traded up to an Edsel.

In 1953, the year after Toronto Argog won the Grey Cup, I started betting on them to repeat. I stopped after they blew the big one in 1982. So what happened in 1983? They won, of course.

A GOOD DEAL

I did get a good deal recently on some South American bonds, though I can't find a market for them now and I don't know what they're worth.

And there's a great-looking gold mine in the middle

of Lake Witunipeg in which I'm-the majority — in fact,

only —

the orebody..

Maybe I should wait until next week, when it's going to be worth a couple.of million more.

Regards, Ken Smith.

P,S. — Just in ‘case I don't win, boss, I just want to say how much I admire. your sense of humor. You do have one, don't you, boss? Boss?

shareholder. Some‘@ay Tl figure a way to drain'the lake and get at

Cocaine seized

VANCOUVER (CP): — Twelye kilograms of high- grade cocaine with an esti- mated street_value of $5 million’ were seized and four South Anjiericans were ar- rested by police Friday at Vancouver International Air’

port.

RCMP said that Jose Hum- bérto Valdez, 40, of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and Zaida Es-

pindza Prudent, 25, of Par- aguay, were charged with one count of importing a nar- cotic. *

Max Cabrera Santivanex, 4,,0f Santa Cruz, Bolilvia, and. Sergio Jimeny Augilar, 28, of Brazil, were charged with,one count of posaessing a narcotic for the purpose of

$9.4 BILLION IN 1982

Drugs big business

OTTAWA (CP) — The RCMP seized more than 13 tonnes of marijuana and 13 tonnes of hashish in 1982 in jarring assaults on an underground drug trade that had an estimated street-level value of $5.3 billion for cannabis products alone.

The figures are contained in the RCMP’s National Drug Intelligence Estimate 1982, which says retail sales of heroin, cocaine, chemical drugs like LSD and cannabis drugs — marijuana and hashish — were probably worth $9.4 billion in 1982.

RCMP seizures of marijuana rose 150 per cent in 1982 and probably accounted for shortages across the country. The biggest haul was a shipment of 7.3 tonnes of Colombian marijuana taken off the Nova Scotia coast. Police also seized 1.3 tonnes of Jamaican marijuana in Toronto and one tonne of Jamaican in Montreal.

The number of people charged by the RCMP with possession of marijuana or hashish fell to 11,549 in 1982 from 18,208 as the federal police force concentrated its attention on importers. There were 128 importing charges, compared to 85 in 1981.

Citing a health study, the RCMP said the number of Canadians estimated to have used marijuana by 1981 was 4.75 million.

Colombia was the source of 55 per cent of marijuana sold in Canada in 1982, another 25 per cent came from Jamaica and the rest from Mexico, the United States or

Feds after

HALIFAX (CP) — The RCMP will concentrate on catching the big guys in the underground drug trade as the federa] government steps up its attack on an industry whose profits dwarf those of Bell Canada, Solicitor General Robert Kaplan said Friday.

“It's a change from our practice of having the RCMP respond evenly to all levels of drug-related criminal activity,” Kaplan told a service club.

The same day, an annual RCMP drug report released in Ottawa said street sales of heroin, cocaine, chemical drugs such as LSD, and cannabis were probably worth more than $9.4 billion in 1982.

Kaplan said the amount Canadians spend on illicit drugs is equivalent to the annual operating budget of General Motors If the industry were a single ‘corporation, he said, it would be the third largest in the country.

While the government cannot stop the flow of illicit drugs into Canada, the RCMP will be going after the importers and confiscating their profits, he said.

“They will be tending more and more from now on to focus at the top end, at the major drug trafficking con- spirators.” t

Canada. Marijuana is increasingly being cultivated in Canada as imported supplies become scarcer.

Lebanon and Pakistan accounted for most of the hashish sold in Canada.

The RCMP predicted cannabis drugs “will continue to be the most readily available and widely used illicit drugs of abuse in Canada through 1985.”

Forecasts for other drugs:

Heroin: Heroin will remain available in Canada at high purities, meaning increased dependency and more overdoses among users, for several years.

Cocaine: Enormous quantities of high-quality cocaine have produced “the opportunity for enormous profits to be made at a time when the economy is low,” the RCMP says. Use of the drug is increasing, although the RCMP say the dangers of cocaine use “have been seriously underrated.” Street-level purity averaged 49 per cent in 1982, but RCMP said it can range from practically zero to 99 per cent.

Chemicals: The United States will remain the major supplier of LSD while. domestic laboratories in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia will continue to produce chemical drugs such as PCP, also known as “angel dust,” and MDA. Prescribed drugs such as Valium and Ritalin will continue to be diverted from legitimate use to street sales. Motorcycle gangs will continue to dominate production and distribution of chemical drugs.

‘big guys’

This trend was already reflected in the 1982 report, which showed the number of people charged by the RCMP with possession of marijuana or hashish fell to 11,549. in 1982 from 18,209 im 1981, while the number of importing charges rose to 128 from 85.

Kaplan said the RCMP. plans to set up a force to work on proving a drug dealer’s assets were realized from illegal drug trading. The assets could then be seized.

NOTES PLANS

Measures planned by the federal government include increasing the co-operation between RCMP and munici- pal police forces to prevent duplication of services and

that want “to get at drug traffickers and the profits they have been able to shield in offshore havens.” Z

The attack on the drug trade will be sided by planned legislation that will make it easier for police and the courts to identify, trace and seize the’ proceeds of crime, Kaplan said.

Drivers, whose only daugh- ter was killed by a drunk driver on Boxing Day, 1979, said enforcement doesn't go far enough.

“I don't believe in doing enforcement action for two weeks and then dropping it,” said police traffic Supt. Stan Ziola. “It has to be part of a general enforcement pro gram.”

“We're looking at some- thing that can be reduced, but there is nothing that can reduce it to zero,” said Bill Mercer, psychologist and re- searcher for Counterattack, a police services program to counter drunk driving.

Officials credit roadblocks and Breath Alcohol Testing Mobile Units (Batmobiles), plus saturation advertising, with cutting by half the ‘num- ber of drinking drivers on Vancouver city streets dur- ing the holidays.

But roadblock checks are too costly to maintain year

cause traffic deaths,” Robi

round because they tie up nearly half the city’s traffic enforcement police, Ziola said.

Ziola said the two Bat mobiles used between Dec. 6 and Jan. 1 on city streets tied up 20 police officers, nearly half the 42-member city po- lice traffic enforcement crew.

As of Jan. 1 this year, Vancouver police in two Bat- mobile crews had stopped 40,050 vehicles, charged 125 persons with impaired driv ing and issued 282 roadside suspensions.

During the 1982 holiday season, police in one Batmo- bile checked 20,375 vehicles, charges 46 persons with inr< paived-driving and issues 382 readside suspensions.

Ziola said throughout the year, enforcement is carried on by mini-squads of four or five officers with the same equipment, stationed at pre- dictable trouble spots such as parking lots of licensed pre- mises.

B.C’s Continuing Commit- tee on Traffic Safety, an um- brella group of medical, edu- cation, insurance and police representatives, is concerned with consistent enforcement throughout the year, director Bourne said.

The high visibility of Bat- mobiles has shown a good deterrent effect, he said.

But one problem is that the 14 vehicles owned by the province and used by police in various regions, are get- ting old and there are no plans to buy any more.

Askelrod believes all drunk drivers who cause ac- cidents should be made to pay for their crimes.

Her daughter Sherry, 24, a child care worker with the human resources ministry, died four years ago after a drunk rear-ended her car.

Murders

TORONTO (CP) — The number of murders in most

increase

major Canadian cities showed only slight increases or decreases last year compared with 1982, a survey of police departments indicates.

Homicide detectives said that in most cases victim and killer knew each other and alcohol was often a contributing factor, but few trends exist beyond this.

“It is impossible to chart a trend of the murders in Toronto,” said Staff Sgt. Ronald Dick of the Mi Toronto Police homicide squad, which handled 48 killings in 1983.

“No two years are the same. In one year we had seven or eight homosexual murders, the next year these were down to four . . .”

And if a poor economy creates more property crime, he said, it has no effect on murder.

“We are still faced with the love triangle and fits of passion.”

Montreal had 86 murders last year, more than any other Canadian city and an increase of two from 1982.

Const. Mario D’Ercy said that in Montreal, as else- where, most murders involve family disputes but he attributed some to organized crime.

Calgary had 18 homicides last year, five more than 1982, and there were 24 in Edmonton, an increase of two.

An exception to the trend was Vancouver, where the number dropped to 23 last year from 41 in 1982 — a de- crease of almost 50 per cent.

“It's difficult to explain this drop,”*said Sgt. Robert Desmarais of Vancouver City Police.