ies Castlegar News June 12, 1985

Handwriting tests point to Mengele

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (AP) — Police handwriting experts said today they found “15 points of similarity” between notes seized from a house where Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele allegedly hid out in Brazil and Mengele's purported application to join the SS, the Nazi elite guard.

“The texts were written by the same person, but at different periods,” said Decio Mota, an investigator for the Criminal Research Institute of Minas Gerais state.

The application document was provided by a survivor of the Second World War Auschwitz concen. tration camp in Poland, but the Sao Paulo police chief said it is a copy of a document that officials have received from official government agencies.

Police are trying to determine whether a man who drowned six years ago on a Brazilian beach was Mengele, as his son, Rolf Mengele, said Tuesday in West Germany.

Door-to-door mail too costly

OTTAWA (CP) —Universal door-to-door mail service is a thing of the past, Michael Warren, president of Canada Post, said Tuesday.

It costs the post office $113 a year to deliver mail daily to a private home but only $28 to deliver it to community group boxes, he told the Commons transport committee.

As a result, Warren said, Canada Post plans to announce next week that home mail delivery for everyone will be impossible if postal deficits are to be wiped out by 1987 as ordered by Parliament.

No one now receiving home delivery will lose it, he said, and a few can even look forward to receiving such “Cadillac. service” if they live in areas surrounded by others receiving mail at the door.

But for Canadians in newer suburbs where door-to-door delivery does not exist, their “Volkswagen service” of group boxes was likely to become permanent.

“We're not rolling anything back,” Warren said. “But those are the kinds of choices we have to look at.”

He declined to give further details, saying complete

plans would be revealed next week when Canada Post

released its annual statement of service plans.

The timing of Warren's announcement was surprising, coming when he was already under the gun defending unpopular post office plans for a general rate increase June 24.

He said the increases, which will hit virtually all postal services unless cabinet steps in to block them, are necessary because rates have been frozen since February 1983 while operating costs have continued to go up.

The increases include stiff rises in business rates and a two-cent-jump to 34 cents from 32 cents in the cost of a first-class stamp.

“We are now at a critical stage,” Warren said of the campaign Canada Post has waged since it was created in 1981 to replace the former post office department and wipe out chronic postal deficits.

The Crown agency inherited an annual deficit of nearly $1 billion. The rate is expected to be down to $150 million by the end of the current fiscal year — if the $173 million rate increase is approved — and to disappear by the end of the following fiscal year.

REGRETS TIMING Warren apologized for asking for a rate increase at a

The volume of mail delivered on time, as charted by data supplied by postal customers, had declined to about 80 per cent during the winter when Canada Post was on the verge of several strikes and Canadians had flooded the system with mail.

But he said the rate has since recovered to about 85 per cent and should be back by September, or the end of the year at the latest, to the 90-per-cent rate that existed previously.

The post office, despite close calls, had managed to avert strikes by its unions for the last four years without making large concessions in wages and benefits. This was the longest period of postal labor peace in the last 20 years.

While labor i had imp d, major pr remained, including a costly and chronic problem of absen- teeism among employees.

Industrial employees are absent from work about eight days a year on average, he said. But absenteeism among postal workers was approximately 17 days a year per employee — and had been as high as 19 days.

He blamed the problem on long-standing attitudinal problems among postal unions but told MPs that post office management plans to bring down the estimated $100 million

WASHINGTON (CP) — Congressman Sam Gibbons said Tuesday he plans to press ahead with legislation that threatens Canadian lum- ber sales in the U.S. market but is open to rewording the bill to ensure fairness.

Gibbons, a key player on trade issues in the House of Representatives, insisted ac- tion needs to be taken to counter the devastating ef- fect subsidies have on the in- ternational trading system.

“I make no apologies for being an enemy of subsidies,” said Gibbons. “I don't care who is involved, even if it is my best friends.”

Gibbons (D-Fla), chairman of the House ways and means subcommittee on trade and

considered a friend of Canada on trade matters, has prop- osed legislation that would broaden the definition of a subsidy that should be sub- ject to penalty import duties under U.S. trade law.

He said he wants to ensure that foreign suppliers of everything from manufactur. ed goods to raw materials do not enjoy an unfair com. petitive advantage because their governments provide subsidies that allow them to charge lower than fair prices for their final product.

The U.S. lumber industry, supported by several mem- bers of Congress, charges that Canadian lumber firms pay less than fair value for timber-cutting rights on gov-

ernment-owned land.

The Canadian industry re- jects the charge and cites the powerful U.S. dollar as the major reason the U.S. indus-

Lumber laws planned

tirhe of declining reliability for mail delivery.

drain that absenteeism is costing.

MAJOR BUSINESS GROUPS

Gibbons said he has some concerns about the language of his legislation and is

try is competing ‘with foreign sup- pliers.

They point to a two-year- old Commerce Department ruling that no significant subsidy existed on Canadian lumber exports, which ac- count for about 30 per cent of the U.S. market and are valued at $2 billion a year.

I do have a reasonable doubt as to whether or not Cina ized.”

to consider chang- ing “it. But he suggested his proposed remedy is much fairer than other lumber- related legislation before Congress, none of which he supports.

The bill essentially des- cribes fair market value as the price charged United States for comparable timber cut from comparable terrain.

Gibbons, whose legislation

are Gibbons said in his Capitol Hill office. “I don't have all the facts on this. My respon-

is the "s top prior- ity, said he hopes it will be approved by the trade sub- committee.

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Criticize cuts for aged

By The Canadian Press

Business — “the major beneficiary and most solid supporter of the federal bud- get — has joined in the na- tional outcry against the proposal to reduce inflation protection for the elderly

in the poor.

Spokesmen for three of the country’s major business lobby groups — the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Business Council on National Issues and the Canadian Or- ganization of Small Business — said Tuesday that pensions for the elderly poor should be fully protected from inflation and that the government can find the money to reduce its deficit elsewhere.

John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federation of, Independent Business, didn't go as far, but said he hopes the government can an- nounce further government spending cuts later this year and “use some of those re- sources to soften the impact of the budget on the aged.”

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limit indexation of old-age security payments to infla- tion above three per cent starting next year has ig- nited criticism from opposi- tion politicians, social groups, groups representing seniors and consumers, labor organ- izations, several provincial governments, and even some Tory back-benchers.

But until Tuesday, the business community, which had pushed for an attack on the federal deficit in the ‘budget, had steered clear of the issue.

Spokesmen for the busi ness groups said they still strongly endorse the budget and the need to cut the deficit but disagree with the one measure.

Big business is more opti- mistie about its capital in- vestment than it was six months ago and may increase real capital spending in 1985 by 13 per cent over the 1984 level, says a survey released Tuesday by the Regional Industrial Expansion Depart- ment.

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A similar survey done last October indicated only about six per cent were considering higher capital spending.

But the survey of 278 large companies, done im April, does not reflect the impact of the May 23 federal budget and does not necessarily re- flect the spending patterns of small businesses, the survey cautions.

Many oil and gas com- panies said their plans did not take into account the positive aspects of the accord

recently signed by Energy Minister Pat Carney and the western producing prov- inces.

The non-manufacturing sector was especially optim- istic, with respondents say- ing they expect an eight-per- cent'real growth in spending compared with the 0.2 per cent anticipated last October.

Spending in the manu- facturing sector continues to show strength with 34 per cent expecting higher spend- ing.

Government may

de-index

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his ministers hinted Tuesday they would reconsider plans to partially de-index old age

pensions

us to ensure economic re- newal and will allow us to improve social programs in Canada.”

Wilson, meanwhile, said he

if ic growth is maintained.

Opposition MPs, mean while, said Finance Minister Wilson's plan to index gov ernment bonds to the infla tion rate indicates the gov: ernment is setting a double standard that rewards the rich at the expense of the poor.

Wilson, however, said he would index bonds only if it saves the government money.

Mulroney, again facing op- position criticism over plans to for

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pensioners against the first three per cent of inflation, told the Commons for the first time since the Con servatives took office the economy is showing signs of growth.

Citing recent figures in dicating unemployment and interest rates are down and investment and automobile sales are up, he said: “If this is maintained, this will allow

is the y will continue to progress. If it did, he would look at social pro- grams and “do what the country can afford.”

He said the government had to try to reduce the fed- eral debt — his standard de- fence against attacks over pension de-indexation — add. ing: “There is no one on this side of the House who is happy doing what we have been doing.”

DEPENDS ON ECONOMY

Asked Tuesday whether the government's decision on indexing pensions depends on whether the economy meets specific targets, Wil son replied: “Certainly, in the broad sense, yes.”

New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent, how. ever, said the government does not need a monitoring program to know the elderly will suffer if their pensions are partly de-indexed.

He also attacked Wilson's suggestion the government may consider indexing inter.

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But Wilson said indexing bonds would save the gov ernment money at current rates of inflation, while guar anteeing security for people and organizations that seek stable investments.

He said interest payments would fall from about 10 to 11 per cent to about seven or eight per cent, saving $30 million to $40 million for each $1 billion worth of bonds is. sued.

The government usually issues several billion dollars worth of bonds each year.

PAULA PRYCE . World Youth

Paula Pryce is one of 40 British Columbian young peo- ple recently selected to par- ticipate in the 1985-86 Can- ada World Youth program. Pryce, daughter of Colin and Margaret Pryce of Castlegar, has been a student of theatre at the University of Victoria for the past two years.

Now in its 14th year of operation, Canada World Youth is a Canadian non- profit organization which sponsors youth exchanges between Canada and Third World countries.

The program's objectives are educational and parti- cipants are expected to enter into the exchange with an open mind and a willingness to learn.

According to a news re- lease Canada World Youth believes that, given the op- portunity to live with people from both domestic and for- eign cultures, Canadians can develop tolerance and open- ness to different value sys- tems.

“In this way, Canada World Youth actively prom- otes between the peoples of different coun- tries,” says the release.

Similar to the India youth exchange that took place in Castlegar last year, Pryce's exchange will be with Boli- via. Along with 27 Canadians and 28 Bolivians, she will work and live in local com- munities first in Nova Scotia for 3 months and then in Bolivia for the same amount of time.

“Canada World Youth is a program structured to en- hance an individual's under standing of the world and self,” says the news release. “It is available to young people ages 17-20 and appli: cations are accepted during the months of December, January and February of each year with a deadline date in mid-February.

For further information contact the Canada World Youth B.C. Regional Office at 2524 Cypress Street, Van- couver, B.C. V6J 3N2.

Holliday guest speaker

Chico Holliday of Medford, Ore. will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Full Gospel Business. men's banquet.

He was a performer in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno for many years and was for merly called “Entertainer to the Stars.”

Holliday has entered into a full-time ministry of travell ing and singing, and has spoken at many conventions, banquets and churches.

He was a former assistant pastor at Melody Land, and had a radio program reaching into 500 stations with the gospel message. He will be at the Fireside Inn Thursday.

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