~have: forced: Canada into its: first. mid-winter

- election since 1878. without even having: an

_ acceptable - alternative to offer as “prime
minister. ee

- The badget which brought down the Clark |
~ government was moderately: tough — though

_even ‘its heaviest burden, the gasoline price
, hiker. would have cost the. average family

member only. about $1.25 a:week. For the |

_ first time in. years it'was a bu ‘Penk
"bale a heats slide towards nation .

last May — and whether the Liberal Party or
the people should decide: what is best for
(Canada.

ot
‘

Governments in | the movie. ‘business?
| ‘Maybe the idea isn’t so crazy as it sounds.

“Star Trek,”. the new Paramount space
epic, has just broken all previous industry
records by grossing over $11.8 million in its
first three days of showing. If the $42 million
filmkeeps right on going, it will be paid for
.in a month or less..

With revenues coming in at that rate Ot-
tawa would only need to produce eight or
nine such epics to wipe out Canada’s present
$12 billion budget deficit completely.

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Hungry specail power at ae a ‘ney. 3

society,

from. the Commodore's pro-

-parade-

- This tones tog February it will be for - the
electorate. to say: whether it spoke in earnest

|.. glory, ~ the ~

, ‘Sailings’ with the Carol Sane

but. only West Van council

a result, ;

‘the J
maké~‘a~~spe

front next. ‘Sunday evening
(Dec. 23) — breaking away’

turns :

Mr. Burnett, a former

merchant seaman and” now —
‘mate of the “Master,”
me the proud-old ship is the

tells

last .of over 500 steam tugs

built on the Pacific: coast. It’s
‘80 ft..long and was retired
‘from active service in 1969

to Pitt River. Now
resplendent in its former

near New Brighton Park
north of the PNE aiid will be
joining the two other Carol
Ship parades — Friday, Dec.
21 to-Kitsilano-Point, Grey
and Saturday, Dec. 22 to
Deep Cove and North
Vancouver. Turn out and
give this Grand Old Man of
the Sea a special salute.

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North Van District's new
top-of-the-poll Alderman
Ernie Crist is still wondering
what hit him the weck before

last when he collapsed at’

work and was whisked to
Lions Gate Hospital with an
alarmingly slow pulse. He

Fightine

By JEAN LACHANCE

The world is changing so
fast, it’s hard to come to
grips with it on a day to day
basis.

Besides, what can you and

I do about inflation, high -
interest rates, and chronic.

unemployment? Not
much.

I suppose we can listen to
the government when it tells
us to “Buy Canadian” to help
keep jobs for Canadians, Or

can listen to: the
Governor of the Bank of
Canada when he tells us that
high interest rates are
necessary to “wrestle in-
flation to the ground.”

So we listen. But who is
the government listening
to? Where do the mandarins
take their advice from to
draft our overall economic

very

rns back . at
~ Caulfeiid Cove about 9 p.m.
and continuing alone with its
‘carol singers .to. Horseshoe
Bay, which it should reach
_ about 10 p. m.

“™“Mastér” ~ “is” ”
berthed at Terminal Wharf.

petra

- Meanwhile, Gerry Milter,

‘the tireless chairman of the

North Van Christmas
Bureau, is keeping an
anxious-eye on the calendar

‘with only eight days left to

Christmas Day. There’s been

a good ‘supply” “Of toys for ~
little ones via the North Van"
.firehalls, but: more are still

needed for the older: teen
set. Money donations for the
400 needy applicants on the
Bureau’s list to date are also
coming in rather slowly. You
can make a contribution by
mailing a cheque or money
order to” The North

couver Christmas Bureau,
P.O. Box 86081, North
Vancouver V7L 435 or at any
of the five branches of the
North Shore Community
Credit Union (which also
accept gifts of toys and non-
perishable foods for ham-
pers). All money donations
are tax-deductible. And a
big hand, while we're on the
subject, to the students of

‘policies?

Take job creation for
instance. According to a
study conducted by the
Canadian Federation of
Independent Business, ‘small
and medium-sized
businesses with fewer than
20 employees created an
astounding 59 per cent of all
new jobs in the country
between 1971) and = 1977,
while accounting for only 30
pe cent of total, em-
ployment.

In the U_S., a recent study
by the prestigious Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology
conforms with the Canadian
experience: 66 per cent of
new jobs created between
1969 and 1976 were
generated by firms with

- fewer than 20cmoployces.

_.Japan,the economic and

“SAN ITY: :

B.C.. HISTORY AFLOAT- -~the “Master”, , our. last remaining steam tugboat. es oe

North. Van: reports that road
signs there now show the
‘speed limit i in miles-per-hour

‘as well as kilometres-per-.

hour. Commonsense as well
as common courtesy to a

valued non-metric neighbor ~

with lots of tourist dollars in
his pocketbook, | but
‘presumably either quality is
too much to expect of B. C..’s
highways ministry ... which
reminds me (for some
reason) of the following
verse submitted by an

anonymous senior citizen in —

North Van's Twin Towers: |

can live with\my dentures,
To my arthritis I'm resigned,
I can manage my bifocals,

But Lord, I miss my mind!”

Pop singing fans won't
want to miss Channel 10 at 9
p.m. this Tuesday (Dec. 18)
when Nanci Davis hosts a
four-piece. band and singers,

‘industrial miracle, has
released authoritative
statistics showing that

between 1970 and 1977 firms
with fewer than 30 em-
ployces accounted for 58 per
cent of new jobs in the
country although this sector
represented only 38 per cent
of all jobs in the country,

Yet, our governments
seem to cling to the basic
tenets of neo-olassical
economic theories of
“economies of scale"-on the
basis that productivity is a
direct function of size.

In the light of staggering
increases in transportation
and energy costs, how long
will it be before the.cohcen-
tration of business activity in
larger and larger units
becomes counter productive
in economic terms? How

Just :
“back froma trip to Mexico,
: Mn.. Madge ‘Hammersley: of: -

“WELL DONE, ‘Allan:
Maclean, life member of the:
West’ Van Legion, ‘who
topped the’ list’ in last’
month's poppy “drive with”
$260 in his: collecting. can.

He appeared in last Wed-".

nesday's North ‘Shore News’
pic of the plinth-unveiling”™
ceremony at. West Van war
memorial. Mr. Maclean is
only 86 ... The same to
Sirlant Fernando, head of.
West Van Library children’s ©
department, chosen for: the.’
committee to select” the
“Canadian Children’s Book
of the Year” And to
Virginia Muraro of West
Van on gaining her degree
from the University of
Victoria.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG:
It isn’t that you can’t have it
all ways. The more usual
problem is that you can’t.
have it anyway.

g the wrong war?

long before it creates captive |

markets, restricts com-
petition and consumer —
choice? ,

There are some fun-

damental shifts occurring in
the world which will
eventually mean the creation
of more community and
regional enterprises to serve
local markets.

Could it be that the
economic wizards our
governments are listening to
arc, like most generals in
war, one theory behind?

As far as our job-hungry
world is concerned, ane
thing appears certain: bigger
is not necessarily better.

Jean Lachance Is Public
Alfaira Offlceer for the
Canadian Federation of
Independent Business