A6 - Sanday, March 14, 1982 - North Shore News BEE editorial page Sigg CHRISTIAN ANGLE ‘Incest’ is not always physical Paying the piper The Little Red School House will never be quite the same again under the B.C. government's new school financing formula. In future Victoria will pay 75% of the operating costs of the public school system, compared to about 36% hitherto. In return, the province will levy school taxes directly on commercial and industrial property -- thereby taking over a vital revenue source of the school districts up to now. The homeowner grant will remain. And henceforth no school district will have to hand over any of its tax dollars to Victoria to subsidize poorer rural districts -- as hap- pened last year with West Vancouver. It’s good news for North Shore and other Lower Mainland homeowners who may actually pay less in net school taxes this year than in 1981. But school districts -- now to be dependent on Victoria for 60% to 95% of their basic operating funds -- stand even- tually to lose many of their present powers. The avowed aim of the new formula is “a slowdown im rapidly escalating educational costs”. During the next two years Victoria also plans to “redefine” the decision-making roles of the province and the school districts. In short, he who pays the piper calls the tune. The original theory behind the Little Red School House concept was that locally elected trustees could best respond to local school needs and aspirations. Declining enrolments, an aging population § and remorseless inflation have made that theory increasingly difficult to translate into practice. So Big Brother, faced this year with taxpayer revolts, is now stepping into the classroom. Calculator im hand. 70 years young A hale and hearty new seventy-year-old will be celebrating quietly on the North Shore tomorrow -- born in those happy days when quarter-acre lots on Marine Drive in Ambleside were listed at $1,000 (one-fifth down) and two-acre waterfront blocks were going for $2,500 apiece. Happy birthday Monday to the Manicipality of West Van- couver, incorporated March 15, 1912. news narth shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver BC V7TM 2H4 (604) 985-2131 AlusVt HIDING NEWS 9680-0511 CLASSI IE L 9865 2131 9806-6222 CIRC OL A TON 986-1337 vr wtstisher Veoten oye. t Asavitetle FoUttesver Editor in Chtef Ad san. thatig UH se Potent Car atasr Noel Wright five Clan dwoll Gene al Manayo: Ss wathvo Administ: etion Otrv ec tor Born dil ster bet emtae aoadase Ubases Ute on 0. ach thane, Late bite bh otc pe ert wate ttrvear Ab dhe Dee Meme . - bo Ree aoe ree yr ee ar a Se ete ae EWM ee see art Cedar 0g tee tt wheat ' ee Prey ved ae? Bett Ver cot . . Rowe ” ate Pao TF wens par eS Var Meath FAL pet ate Fhe tee veya? Sesto etythane BL0 por you: tthe camtontes TPO) Matt: Shine fF ee Press t td All cighte ase ved . sate 4 weet te ~t vo “bie ' yee ‘ a - = nw s o , ‘ a Ne ae A a . _ TRUS PAPE. ore Ye LAB. . By JAMES A. TAYLOR In almost every civiliza- tion today, incest 15s prohibited. Certainly in Canada, while we may tolerate quite a vanety of sexual practices, we will not allow a father to impregnate his daughter, a son to have intercourse with his mother, a brother and sister to marry. Indeed, for fear of genetic disasters, we rarely even permit first cousins to marry. The rules have not always been this way. For centunes among European royalty, first cousins were wedded until their family trees began to look as tangled as Peter Rabbit's briar patch. Hawauan nobility practiced incest as a deliberate genetic policy. Just as in-breeding dogs and horses today, it was a matter of protecting blood- lines. Among dog and horse breeders, the same outstand- ing stud may be used to sire offspring from _ several generations of descendants, to produce bigger, better looking, and sometimes brighter animals. In the same way, in-breed- POSITIVE THINKING at the Vancouver immigration centre this Tuesday could provide jobs next month for 25° or more unemployed young Canadians and home improvement work at a bargain pnce for several hundred West Van residents. Bul the signs, alas. are not encouraging Tuesday is the heanng date on the case of Ricardo Zehle-Gonzales, 21.) from Mexico City who has out stayed his visitor permit: He has commited the additional cnme of working here onan enterprise that is taking others of his generation off the UIC them to rolls and cnabling earn thei own liveltheowd Ricardo has organized an oufit called Alhancc of Youth for Progress Cor poration tAYPC) frou huis pad tn Lions Bay AY PO undertakes all types of home tmainlenanece and iat) provement Jootys lard scaping house patatiap carpentiy window ole anngp Yoh Phab anne it Tt canipeloys vertnerg oamrean tte ther carly (weoltes a siuatiber of then ve trol Ver grabs and charges vdhe ts tee twee ca SAN aid BU awa teva feoe theear Mervde es No teotay Sable stan wth mee cee tabode 0 cornet anne crf Boapbesth Bea ech oo bats ital thie senna lies boo bias take ait feos rreeotn a thayy, Phas ty gre written be tte ats. adh teres Deeere he se catee So thts woth Crews ay vonage cechadts Cah bony rT) vlege teowareds teeeabefaan, ae tee ther Ltastuane fet thee arsve bee aie four (lee vt soobnatevsraly " Rhee vol vorue uae adaalis ad Vee lhe ves Ubeat try Core bebe tae pe (hoe te tobe, a sr er re Nye UNG they away precre dele a obese ten o “ ‘ crvecottnbe ab veg hei Ve 1 “” h wi ing in Polynesia produced some of the most magn ficent human beings known in the world. Of course, there were some mistakes. Mosi were hidden wm back bedrooms. A few, like mad Ladwig of Bavana, made it to the throne — briefly. Poly- nesians incest worked because they elimimated their mistakes with the callous cracity of in- fanticide. Perhaps that accounts for our revulsion against incest. Whatever the reason, it 1s disappearing, ¢ven among peoples where Biblical laws against incest have no tn- fluence. Strangely. the only place we tolerate incest is in church. When, for example, was the last time you went to hear a sermon from someone “Whai a coimcideace. Pm a Pisces too!” sunday brunch by Noel Wnght News photographer Elsworth Dickson by last week, he found Ricardo directing four of brs crew busy on a mayor land scaping asSigument at a Lions Bay home (see pac. ture). Last year Recardo says he had a total of 75 customers and he has a fistful of wntien recom mendabons from them to prove he dehvers wha he promises Thus year he has planned a tng cxpanson program with a target of 800 customers over the next anc months between Liom Bay and = Amblesdcec Ai the moment he claums already to have 25° fonmer customers wailing for hm window cleaning “special” and sui more who have placed landscaping orden By (Chr beginning of Apmnl be ca pects to have full tune wort for a minimum vo! phoyces 2\ cm ENTREPRENEUR RIC ARDO (cntreemc beta) lov the foteicea teagates bor boancowncrs If he’s still around, that is. Shght and slim, Ricardo apparently ran away from an unhappy home background, with parents constantly teetemng on the edge of divorce, and says he's fended for himself since the age of 14. He has two brothers back ww Mexico but has virtually fost touch with his family He came to Canada four years ago with visitor status Fell in love with us) Hopped over the border every three months in order to re enter Then, just a vear ago, he decided to try to slay per mancotly and ignored the three month visitor limit, moving in with a fmend at laons Bay and spending his remaining $45 on advertising Uhe services he has expanded into started at SS an recalls now AYPC "1 hour ” he “then rated it to $/ after a couple of weeks” Kecping a low profile be work you were sure you would disagree with? How Many theological liberals go to evangelical = reallies. How often does the United Church call a Pentecostal minister, the Baptists call a Unitanan, or the Presby- terians call a Catholic. Instead of Cross-breeding and cross-fertilizing, we huddle together in denominations and sects. We set up barriers, such as creeds and doctrines and conditions of membership, to avoid being contaminated by outsiders, to protect our bloodlines. Nothing delights us more than that one of our spiritual sons or daughters should rise up as a new leader for the family. In fact, most of us don't belong to a church to be enriched by new strains, new ideas, new patterns. We just want to have what we already know and think affirmed for us. That's spiritual Watch out for it. (James A. Taylor is a Syndicated columnist with The United Church Ob- serverin Toronto). incest. might have continued un- detected indefinitely. But Ricardo isn't a low-profile type. He wanted to launch his “volume” operation, creating work for con- temporanes along the way, so he took a chance. After nearly a year “underground” he phoned the RCMP and reported himself. His passport was confiscated and the crunch comes at Tuesday's hearing The Vancouver im- migration centre could grant him — without reference to Ottawa — a Mumister’s Permit allowing him to live and work here while ap plying for landed immigrant status But centre manager David Marsh thinks that “highly ounhkely’ = Marsh guesses the outcome of the heanng wil! be a Departure Order which would permi Ricardo to re enter Canada once he'd left, hough again only as a non working ICs more lemeot than which would shut him out for life He'll lakely carn good marks for visitor deportation surrendenng voluntanly and for the “Canadian interest of his techmecally wtlegal yob cecation achievements Hut ocven a Departure Order wont help Ricardo He cant come bach after a might on Blaine because the US wont det tin in Hell have te return te Menico where he cant work because he Goecsnt have a Meatan Graft card Wothin a day of two AVEC will fold Atleast twenty five North Shore yobs will be lost And a bot of wotthw tale hoane mm pPreovement pooper ty may be shelyed Pdic re rrenay bee tee ther ways of fiplting the ree ssnoo neal wee h Chea hee Wbrey Noa ardo crane Whaiceter O8 WRONG: Keeping up - th che Joneses wohl tee anaes t casel il Utne y cb comby show down ther presen vant cof tTee ‘veunetls