AB Back taxes

CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 3, 1982

Charges upped

OTTAWA (CP) — Tardy taxpayers have been bitten by Finance. Minister, Allan MacEachen's revenue-hung- ry Nov. 12 budget.

The interest charged on back taxes has been-upped by one-third, to 16 per cent from 12 per cent, the Tax Depart- ment said.

And tardy taxpayers can blame the Bank of Canada as well as MacEachen for the increase.

Under a new formula in- troduced in the budget, the rate of interest charged on back taxes is set every three months, rather than annual- ly, and is set in a: manner similar to the Bank of Canada rate.

The rate will be based on the average yield on 90-day treasury bills auctioned weekly during the first month of the previous quar- ter. The bank rate is set each week at a quarter of a percentage point above the average yield on the 90-day treasury bills.

Because of its influence in the market, the Bank of Canada can set the rate on treasury bills virtually any- where it wants.

Under the new formula, the interest rate charged on

back taxes should have been *

19 per cent based on the yield of treasury bills during Octo-

ber. But the Tax Department |

said the. rate:'has been -lowered to 16° per ‘cent to reflect the drop in rates since then. ‘

The 16-per-cent rate which took effect Jan. 1 will con- tinue until. March 31. The rate for the following three

months ‘will be based on the:

average - yield of ‘treasury

bills’ this month’ — likely, about 14.6 per cent. :

The new rulo will probably wipe out any advantage in not paying taxes when due. for example, when, money earlier this year could be invested at rates higher than the 12 per cent charged on back taxes, it often mado sense not to pay taxes on time.

Interest’ applies on all overdue taxes, including in- sufficient instalment pay- ments, unpaid employee tax deductions, Canada Pension Plan contributions and Un- employment Insurance prem-* iums.

Those who overpay will gain under the new formula, since interest will be added torefundsat the same rate as the one fixed for back taxes. But any refund is itself subject to taxation.

Money for winter jobs

More winter Jobs will be created in Kootenay : West with ; another’ $100,000. ob- tained | from. Ottawa} Lyle Kristionsen’’sald from’ the capital this week. ''

‘“The money is in addition to. $105,000 ‘allo-

$36,828 to bring its ~duca- tional displays to ondlying ‘areas as well as to iciprove

tits continuing art and baer

geo

Kaslo’s Langham Cultural Centre, will have another $9,444 to add to its inital grant of almost $12,000, The extra money |\-will expand cultural at the’ '§

Db. “Hiner, |; Bocloty, housed the

cated to the federal riding for. winter works projects,” said” the Kootenay-West MP. | “With a ‘total: of manna federal I ‘mone;

Centre, Gesived $23,600 for building repairs and to build ‘access facilities for the han- f pped i ie. prance

in the riding combined with matching funds * worth $10,000 ‘or $16,000 more which I arranged for.two of the projects, I'm sure this is a record for the riding,” he said.

The extra money ‘will be used to’ expand three. pro- jects already under way, and’ to start three that had not received an allocation under

initial funding. °

New projects include Cas-

The third w new be Say tobe funded is Nelson's Main- street program, which al- ready has offices partially funded by, the Heritage Can- ada Foundation.

A grant of $16,340 will see people hired to work with downtown merchants in their growing efforts to promote the historic town centre and its commercial attractions.

Window ‘display ‘seminars

tlegar's National Centre, which will receive

Fertilizer used to de-ice pavement

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A form of pollution that dis- appeared from most streets after the car made its appear- ance is coming back as a means of melting snow.

Syracuse University is us- ing fertilizer to de-ice the pavement on campus. .

However, it is not the organic fertilizer of ‘old, but the synthetic type. “The fer- tilizer melts the ice, and it’s even ‘pretty good for the grass,” said John Sala, the physical plant director. ~

He said the ‘university would use between 17 and 34 tons of fertilizer mixed with

sand to replace rock salt this winter. The salt was cracking steps and walkways. which would cost hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to replace, he said.

The fertilizer has not shown equal melting ability with the more-expensive salt, but it’s a pretty good sub- stitute, Sala said. .

The only drawback is ‘one he's’ conscientiously pointed out to: interested officials from other institutions. After the high-nitrogen chemical fertilizer. is tracked into warm buildings and thaws,’ its smell is strongly remin-. iscent of natural fertilizers.

be staged.

will be held, and Promotions will

Langham with ‘an eye to enticing’: tourists to stay longer in. the area. ,

At Silverton the Slocan Lake Gallery Society gets . another. $9,356 to add to its’ $16,200 project already under way. The new funds will see more building: inn, provements made.

Finally, the Nelson Family : Day Care Society receives $9,590 in addition, to its original grant of $16,800, with which it is providing more imaginative day care for working parents in the Nelson area, i

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QUEBEC (CP) — Miroslav Frycer scored three goals but it was Real Cloutier’s goal at 18:08 of the third period that lifted Quebec -Nordiques to an 8-7 triumph over Colorado Rockies in National Hockey League play Tuesday night.

The Nordiques trailed 5-2 after two periods but ex- ploded for six goals in the final frame to down the Rockies. Cloutier's score came less than two minutes after Steve Tambellini had lifted the Rockies back into

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Fight refusal bri

TORONTO (CP) — The National Hockey _ League Players’ Association is pre- pared ‘to fight even. if ‘Paul Mulvey isn't.

‘ ‘Mulvey, a left cigee for’ Los Anjeles, was: plated bt” Sunday bythe Kings ° eFefised toe engage in .. a fight in'a-game:Jans 24 at %

Vancouver against the Can- ticks. * * During the second period

- of the Canucks game, Mulvey

was asked by Los. Angeles coach Don Perry to leave the bench and fight. Mulvey re- fused and subsequently was placed'on waivers...

‘The incident has angered Alan Eagleson, executive dir- ector of the NHLPA. B

“We have not received a

NEW YORK (AP) — high can man soar? eae the moon, if he’s an astronaut,

maybe some.day to 20 feet if he's "s a pole vaulter and would you believe eight feet on-a running high jump?

“Why not?” surmises John Thomas, the. first to break the seven-foot barrier. “It has been shown that a man can goover a bar a foot above his’ height.

“Athletes are getting tal- ler, faster, more agile, more mobile. “A guy will come along, like Wilt Chamberlain, and go over eight feet. The ultimate height? ‘There's no such thing as long as the physical assets change in hu- man, beings.”

Thomas was a 17-year-old

grievances ine . writing from Paul -Mulvey but we have spoken: to ‘his. ip .egent Peter

ngs suspension

°T'm not going to be'a des- ignated assassin who (just: pe!

comes off the bench to fight,”

said the 6-foot-4, 220-pound

- winger. “If that's the only

thing I can do inthe NHL —

J. Wanted

couldn't let that, go on hap- you just

Peter Stastny scored twice for Quebec while Jacques

: Richard and Michel Goulet

added singles.

Joel Quenneville, Veli-Pek- ka Ketola, Dwight Fester, Mike Kitchen, Merlin Mal- inowski, Aaron Broten and Steve Tambellini scored for Colorado.

John Garrett faced just 16 shots in goal for Quebec while his teammates bom- barded Phil Myre with 89 shots in goal for the Rockies before 15,117 fans at the Colisee.

Quebec is in fourth place in the Adams division with 60 points and a 26-20-8 won-

lost-tied record. The Rockies -

are in last place in the Smythe Division. with 80 points and an 11-85-8 won- lost-tied mark.

Despite being outplayed and outshot 18-4 in the first period the Rockies managed

to lead 91, Quenneville opened the scoring for Col- orado at 6:53. Malinowski

-won the faceoff and slid the

puck to Quenneville who fired a low shot past Myre.

Ketola put the Rockies ahead 2-0 with an unassisted goal at 7:86 when he broke in from the left side and pulled Garrett out of position, Just 54 seconds later, Fostér beat: Garrett with a weak shot from the left circle.

Peter Stastny put the,, board’ each had three assists for the

Nordiques on the score!

for St. Louis, with Turnbull establishing a 6-4 St, Louis lead 34 seconds before the period concluded.

(MacLean scored eight seconds into the final period to make it 6-5, but Brian Sutter scored 12 seconds

-later for the Blues, Shortly

afterwards, Tony Currie combined with Dunlop and Mullen to offset Thomas Steen’s second goal of the night for the Jets. Pettersson and Mullen

at 10:21 ona br after taking a pass from his brother Anton.

: BLUES 10 JETS6

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blake Dunlop’and Perry Turnbull combined for five goals and two assists to lead St. Louis Blues to'a 10-6 victory over ‘Winnipeg Jets in a National Hockey League game Tues- day night.

The 10-goal outburst was a club record and the victory solidified St. Louis’ grip on second place in the Norris Division. The Blues, who trail Minnesota North Stars by three points, now lead Win- nipeg by five.

Dunlop accounted for three St. Louis goals, helping the Blues rally from a 4-2 deficit in the final two periods.

Jorgen Pettersson, Dunlop and Mike Crombeen scored goals in a second-period.span of a minute and 54 seconds

1B. have to have equal people out there to stop it. “When I told him to go out there and not dance, I: just dae ‘Wal

‘. goiag on.”

Perry,

diffe

player can be suspend

not jumping off the beach to get involved in a fight, it is a sad day for, hockey and the

“T just cant’ understand it — ite unbelievable. It just sounds like something out of

“I told him to ‘Go out there and don’t dance,” Perry said from Los. Angeles. “There's was a ‘fight involving Jay Wells (Los Angeles) and Ron Delorme (Vancouver).

“Wells was being held by

the. 1950s. It goes to show + an official and Delorme went

that the players are a lot smarter than some of the coaches.”

The incident has also an- gered Mulvey.

to the penalty box. But Dave Williams was going along the boards taking shots at our players. Then Delorme came back out of the box and I

First to set Z -ft. record

_ Sky's s the limit says jumper

suing 10 years, he was to at- tain and-exceed that mark 191 times . while’ winning medals in two Olympics and building on his series of world records.

HAD KNEE TROUBLE

Thomas, who retired in 1968 after knee trouble kept him off his third. U.S. Olym- pic team, is now a successful 40-year-old Boston business- man. There are light specks of white in his hair. His once stringbean frame has filled out to a robust 6-feet-6, 235 pounds,

Thomas is returning to the scene of some of his greatest triumphs Feb./'12 when the Wanamaker-Millrose Games will bestow on him the high- est honor in its history by

Bostén C

when he sailed over the bar,

at seven feet on Jan, 31,1959, in, the Millrose Games, es- tablishing a new standard for all high Jumpers. I In the en-

citing. his seven-foot leap 23 years ago as the event's Most Memorable Moment. _ H

“When I jumped seven

feet, I thought that would be

the highlight of ny:€ career,”

Thomas said. “Then ¥ began. be! to set other world records. - “I twice made the Olympic team. Then, more recently, I was sure that J: had hit the peak when Boston, celobrat- ing its 850th anniversary, ineluded me. among the 27 athletes cited for. contribu- tions to the city’ over that long ‘period. . “Now comes this. There is great satisfaction: and pride in knowing that only one man has this honor — and it’s me.” There was-a time when it appeared this ‘career would never reach; full fruition. INJURED His FOOT A month and a half after his: sensational seven-foot jump, Thomas got his left foot caught in an elevator shaft and the first prognosis

was that he may never be:

able to jump again, “The operation and recov- period lasted close to a,

‘year. It" was. _cight months

however, has a’:

Mulvey has not ‘practised with-the club since the 'inci-

dent and has not been.

claimed by any of the other 20-NHL clubs. The’ 72-hour waiver period expired’ yes- terday.

In New York, NHL presi- dent John ‘Ziegler is conduct- ing an inquiry into the: incidents.

“There are some discrep- ancies and conflicts in the re- ports about the incident,” said an assistant to Ziegler.

before I could walk and 10 months before I was able to run again.”

However, Thomas made the 1960 U.S. Olympic team,

winning the bronze medal in ;

Rome. Four years later,. he gained a silver medal at Tokyo, both times tying with Valery Brumel, his longtime Russian rival. - :

“We both cleared the same height (7-4 and 7-2', res- pectively) but Valery beat me out because I had the greater number of misses.”

Thomas, who high-jumped TA before finally jretiring, said his feuds with Brumel were: a concoction of. the media. *

“We became very close friends. When Brumel came _ to this country, I would en-” tertain him. When I went to Moscow, he did the same | for me.

“That's what's so- great about the Olympics.”

Women need proof for Games

EDMONTON (CP) — Is she or isn’t she? Only her femininity tester knows! for sure. —

“In the arena of inter- national athletic competition, anything is possible, includ- ing women who aren't wom-

"Testing female athletes competing in the 1983 World University Games, in Ed-

monton will be part of the duties of Bob. Day,. medical operations. manager.

“Every female athlete who is competing in the Games must have proof in the form ofa valid certificate that they have been’ tested and have been proven to be a female,” he said.

A cell sample from a fe- male athlete.is examined un-

der | a microscope to identify the ‘sex: of the competitor,

: Day explained: ‘AY medical

te ‘the re-

most female athletes will al- ready possess . certificates confirming ‘their sex from

certiffeat sults:is given to each com- petitor.

MINOR CONCERN -

Dr: Keith Walker, who will be responsible for the drug testing ‘centre during the Games, said sex tests will be a minor concern because

Testing for drugs used by.

athletes to improve: a per- formance will be more time consuming.

The need for costly ace testing was created by the emphasis on winning. -

Spokane re-joins. WIHL -next season:

Western. - International Hockey League fans can look

“forward toa Spokane team in

the league next season. Spokane has been awarded a franchise in the league for the regular season, it was confirmed Sunday in Creston at the WIHL's

after a two-year absence, were taken care of;

The first concern,. playing dates, was: taken care of when Bouton obtained dates at the Coliseum Jan. 11 from Spokane City Council.

The second concern, the

Blues, whi

43-33. David paren Steen, Morris Lukowich and Larry Hopkins scored first-period goals for the Jeis around St. Louis tallies by Dunlop ‘and

‘Turnbull.

CANADIENS 5 FLAMES 3

* CALGARY (CP) — Pierre Mondou scored two first- period goals Tuesday night to lead Montreal Canadiens to a * &S. victory over Calgary Flames in a National Hockey league game before a crowd of 7,234.

The goals increased Mon- dou’s season total to 24. He also picked up an assist in the first period when the Cana- diens skated into a 3-0 lead.

The other goal in the early eruption was by Mario Trem- blay, the right winger on the Mondou line. - Tremblay added two assists and the third member of the line, left winger Regean Houle, also had an assist.

ISLANDERS 7 CAPITALS 6

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — -Rookie Brent Sutter scored three times and Bryan Trottier added two goals as‘ New York Islanders out- last -Washington Capitals 7-6 in a wild National Hockey League shootout Tuesday night.

In winning their sixth straight game, the Islanders gave Al Arbour his 400th

victory as an NHL coach, 357

with New York.

Stefan Persson and Mike Bossy also scored for the Is- landers:

RANGERS 4 CANUCKS 3

Mike Rogers’ third goal of the game at 16:28 of the third

period’ gave the Rangers Their fourth straight triumph on the'road. :

Robbie Ftorek scored New York's other goal, while the Canucks got goals from Stan Smy]l, Ivan Boloirvu and Curt Fraser. ;

WHALEBS 5 KINGS 3

In Los Angeles, Rick Mea- cher with ‘his second of the night, and Pierre Lansucke struck for goals in the final 43 seconds to give Hartford the two points and a five win two-tie mark in its last seven games. -

Warren Miller also scored for the Whalers. Marcel Dionne, Jimmy Fox and Dave Taylor scored for the Kings, who had a 15-27 edge in shots on goal.

‘Windsor looking at CFL franchise.

TORONTO (CP) — Add

Windsor, Ont., to the list.of |

potential . Canadian ‘Football League. franchises.

CFL commissioner Jake Gaudaur confirmed Tuesday he had talked with a Windsor newspaper man who had at- tended a meeting. of pros-.

meeting.

This brings the total num- ber of teams in the league to six. The yet unnamed Spo-

‘kane team joins Trail, Nel-

son, Elk Valley (Fernie), and Kimberley in the senior hockey league.

.Gus Bouton, a . Spokane businessman, applied for a

franchise last fall. He was ad:

present Sunday when a mo-

.tion ‘to accept. Spokane re-

ceived a majority vote. Two barriers which may

have prevented Spokane

from re-entering the WIHL

of an

based team to compete for the Allen Cup, was cleared when Art O'Bryan, a B.C. Amateur Hockey Association representative, reported at the meeting that the BCAHA is unopposed to Spokane competing for the: trophy, which represents.the senior hockey champions in Canada. Be

The organization will now make a recommendation to the Canadian Amateur Hoc- Aey Association's annual meeting, where granting of final permission is expected.

Selkirk Saints

win one,

By CasNews Staff

Selkirk Saints women's basketball team took a win anda loss against: Capilano College of North Vancouver over the weekend.

The Saints, beat Capilano 66-64 Friday’ in the - first game, The' loss was Capi- lano’s first of the-season.

- Capilano’ then came back Saturday to defeat Selkirk 71-68. *

Top Selkirk scorers in the Friday game were ‘Destanne Norris with 28 points and

{iret Hanlon ‘ with af

Pome the second game Nors

lose one

had 20 points while Hanlon had 16.

The men’s team wasn't so fortunate, losing both games to Capilano.

‘The men lost 84-58 Friday

_in the first game and 90-70 in

the Saturday game.

Selkirk scorers in the first game were David Cristofoli with 16 points and Chad Couland with.14 points.

In Saturday's game, Cris- tofoli, playing his best game ‘all season, had 31 points and 17 rebounds,

The teams travel to Nan- aimo this weekend to take on Malaspina College.

Leafs douse Rebel

winning streak

Castlegar ‘Rebels broke # me winning streak Tuesday night in Nelson as the Jr. Maple Leafs beat the team 8-4 in Kootenay Inter- national Junior Hockey League action. The Rebels had a 2-0 lead

in the first period with goals by Jim Smith, his 38th of the season, and Perry Horning, but the Leafs stormed back to win the game.

Other goal scorers for the Rebels were Blaine Rahier and Mike Nevakshonoff.

pective p' of a fifth

Eastern Division franchise. But Gaudaur denied re-

ports implying Windsor | of-

fered.a more attractive situ-

ation to the CFL than did.

similar earlier proposals from groups in London, Ont., and Halifax.

“T would encourage any-

body from Windsor to apply for a franchise, as I would with anybody who has a po- tentially' viable proposal,” Gaudaur’ said. “The CFL position is the.same as it's always been. . “Weare very serious about -any application from an area with a reasonable opportun- ity for success.

“Certainly the population demographics from the point

> million

peta

of .view of Windsor’ are fa- vorable. If you take: in. the Detroit area, there are four je close to Wind- sor on the other side of the border.” : Gaudaur admitted the po- tential of drawing fans on the Canadian side from as far | away.as Chatham and Lon- don’ also lend credence to suggestions it would Be a more attractive’ area for expansion. 4 But, as has been the case in earlier talks, the bottom line singles out the availability of a suitable stadium with seat- ing for about 3,000 between the goallines. : “"T don’tiknow .just how serious these” people from Windsor are, since’ the only reason I was aware of their interest was after. talking with a media man who had attended a\meeting there,” Gaudaur said. s He added that he's had a more ‘recent. communication with a Halifax group inter- ested in-establishing a fran- chise on the East Coast.

Bowlen hesistant about Alouettes deal

MONTREAL (CP) — ure to attract any Mon- treal-based partners has all but convinced Edmonton bus- inessman Pat Bowlen not to exercise his option to pur- chase 51 per'cent of Montreal Alouettes from Nelson Skal- bania, owner of the Canadian Football League club.

“That was one of the main criteria I established in ag- reeing to buy 51 per cent of the team last November,” Bowlen said in a telephone interview from Hawail.

If Bowlen does back out of the deal, it would probably leave Skalbania in control of the financially moribund team for another year. The

based busi

“T had an inkling he wasn't _ going to exercise it but it still kind of bothers me.” ;

Bowlen, however, who said his friendship for Skalbania was the main reason he be-. came interested in buying the team, ssid he hasn't reached a final decision yet.

Bowlen, who loaned Skal- bania $1.5 million last year, said he talked with as many as 60 prospective partners in Montreal and arranged sev- eral-meetings, all of which. were cancelled.

“But I think Nelson prob- ably scared a few people off the way he operated the team last season.”

Ibania signed high-

man, in Montreal for meet- ings with Alouettes direc- tors, seemed certain Bowlen would not change his mind.

“Bowlen is not going to ex- ercise his option,” he said. “I talked to him by phone last (Sunday) night.

priced stars such as Vince

Ferragamo, and Billy (White

Shoes) Johnson but the

Alouettes struggled to a 3-13

regular season won-lost rec- . ord and suffered financial

losses of as much as $2.6

million.