DOUBLE JEOPARDY faced Don Wilkinson, 47," of: ‘cule - 506-2025 Bellevue; whe lives several doors from the fifth ficor.* suite which suffered heavy damage in a fire Thureday. . _ society, a no-win situation Wilkinson Is recuperating from a leg injury, bat was able to unhart in the fire by crawling from his reom.to aveld | the “‘dense”’ smoke. “I kept as close to the floor as possible,” he sald. Below is the apartment complex which received heavy smoke and water damege, according to ‘W.V. fire reform and for a healthy department (G. ‘Lam photos] Bigger CPP B.C. @ British Columbians are forced to live in a ‘*Catch 22° where. they siniply keep going back and fotth bet-— ween Socreds an NDP. That’s the message Liberal leader Gordon Gibson, MLA for North Vancouver - Capi- lano, delivered. to the Ki- wanis Club of Vancouver last “week. “Why... must our party — . System force us to choose “one or the other?*’ Gibson -asked: his audience, as he developed a particularly ‘strong attack on the NDP. Declaring that, as a Liberal, he stood for social economy to pay for it, he maintained there was no way the. NDP could be an adequate alternative for Bri- tish Columbia. ‘Where social reform is concerned, ** said Gibson, **for all their good intentions, ‘they have shown themselves to be more the problem than _ the solution. **Their hearts were in the right place after 20 years of Socred neglect." But be- _cause of their economic ‘policies they ‘‘blew it’ and _ “*betrayed the cause of social reform by leading directly to : the election of the very ‘opposite of social - reform, “which i is Social Credit."” The NDP undermined in- .+centives ‘by giving people a ‘something-for-nothing _ feel- ing. charged the . Liberal leader. They ‘Systematically . distorted- economic -facts,. he said, and: fostered a philo- 7 ‘sophy of: “Us. ag. ‘ainst enefits in'77 Health and Welfare Mini-- there » are “some “12, 000. receipt | of a retirement. ster Marc Lalonde has - combined benefits, such as - announced that the 865,000 for a Surviving ‘Spouse jin Canada Pension Plan bene- _ ficiaries will receive increas- es of 8.2 per cent starting in _. January 1977. . The increase, “calculated, on the past year’s rise in the cost of living as.measured by | the Consumer’ Price Index,’ ' will apply to all -persons in receipt of Canada® Pension ~ Plan benefits as of December 31, 1976. The increases will be reflected in the January cheques. The maximum retirement pension effective January, 1977, will be $373.61° per | . month. The maximum disa- -. - bility. pension . ‘payable in . 1977 will’ be | $175.05. ‘per month, whilé . benefits for disabled contributors’. child- “pension..as well as a survivor's benefit, - ren and orphans of deceased | Yamaha. G40A- contributors will be $44.84 . per - month. Maximum” monthly surviving -s uses’ |. _ pensions will be $109.94 for reg. price _ persons under age 65 and $104.17 for Spouses ‘65 or was $550 . older. ' Of the estimated: 865,000 te the guitar most recommenced by guitar | toachors for children under 10 | - . full warranty in our own : rsons_ who ‘will -be | in “teceipt. ‘of Canada Pension ‘Plan benefits at the end of December, some 539,100 will ' be retirement - pensioners; ., 135,000 will be surviving % classical ul guitar: : only: » $36°° oon ‘ “spouses, and: 61,200 will be . : , ; Rye ‘J O \ ; Workshop for one year ‘disability pensioners. ‘Another’ 117,700. benefits relate: 'to children who are - feceiving benefits i as orphans children. \ of ...disabled ‘contributors. ‘In’ addition, ee een nen een in eet aot enn tok aaa Ne pat EN RR RNS 8 Ne Ey Seemann 8 AEE RENEE EN A NOI TOT REL me arm aripeerim sone te “Catch 22" so ciety es _ for years. -- false fire alarm. according to — Them", just “as former Premier W.A.C. Bennett did _ “The answer,"’ Gibson concluded, ‘“‘is neither NDP nor anti-NDP. 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