OTTAWA (UPC) - Canadians paid higher prices for food, housing and transportation in July as the consumer price index pushed up 0.8 percentage points, maintaining the annuai inflation rate at 10.1 per cent, Statistics Candada reported Friday. It was the second consecutive month that the country experienced doubie-digit inflation, the federal agency said. Last month, Canadians saw prices rise to 10.1 per cent after costs rose by a fall 1.1. per cent in June. NEW DELHI, India (UPD - Monsoon flooding from the Holy Ganges River and its tributaries has devastated northern India from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, bringing the national death toll to more than 730 and ruming millions of dollars worth of crops, reports said Fiiday. The Press Trust of India reported 150 people, most of them children, have died of cholera and = gastroen- teritis in Bahia district of NEW YORK (UPI) - President Carter, who now trails in every nationwide political poll, Friday predicted a “tremendous victory” over Republican Ronald Reagan in November. In a traditional pcptalk that the presidential nomance gives to the Democratic National Committcc, Carter warned voters the 1980 clectton would sect a LOS ANGELES (UPT) Playboy magazine's 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratton of Vancouver, was shotgunaned to death hatc Vharsday, apparcaily by her estranged husband who then commiaticd sumide police = sand Finday The husband, Paal : Inflation rate still over 10% PAORE WORLD NEWS BEGINS PAGE Alé In Toronto, New Democrati¢ Party MP Bob Rae immediatedly demanded the govern- ment introduce “selective” price controls to combat inflation. He said he was concerned the government = and consumers may now consider high inflation “acceptable.” ; Former Conservative Industry Minister Robert de Cotret, now vice- president of the National Bank of Canada based in Montreal, predicted that Canada has not seen the end of tflation nearing double digit levels. Ganges flooding kills over 750 the nation’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks. The PTI also reported 180 deaths, including 55 children, from deadly King Cobra snakebites, in areas where the flooding has mixed sewage and drinking water and driven thousands of poisonous reptiles from their usual habitats. The national death toll is believed to be more than 750, and more heavy rains over the weekend are expected to make the situation worse. Carter predicts ‘tremendous’ win course for the United States for the next 20 years. When Americans understand that fact, he said, “I have no doubt on Nov 4 we will celebrate a tremendous victory ” Working to patch up rifts in the party Icading into the general clection, the president also met briefly today with black leaders before flying back to Camp David, Md . for an citended = vacation Playboy playmate shot to death Sneider, 29, was ap parcatly despondént over het decision to pose nudc for the magazine — a cording to fmends Ihe couple had manmicd = fort been two years when they scparated a few months ago had Stratten apparently gone to has bome to discass the scparahon FROM PAGE At Green argued that the two counts should be dismissed because they “do not disclose an offence known to law.” He said that City council did not have the power “to prosecute someone in these courts for having a dog without a licence.” Green argued that the Municipal Act enables a municipality to govern the issuing of licenses but does not give municipalities the power to prosecute someone for failing to have a licence. Also, Green said that the section that deals with regulation in the Municipal Act does not include the regulation of licenses. At that time Judge Paradis Beer sales The Ambleside Brownies Athletic Club will be able to sell beer at their mixed slow- pitch tournament in Myrtle Park, August 16 and 17 — if they can find any to sell. North Van _ District council approved their application Monday night — . lice nce charges asked both sides to submit written arguments and Thursday the judge handed down his written decision in North Vancouver Provincial Court. “l am satisfied that By- Law 4745 (the dog bylaw) of the City of North Vancouver. as it purports to require the licensing of all dogs and kennels within the City and further permits prosecution for failure to license, is ultra vires (beyond the power of) the Council of the City of North Vancouver,” Judge Paradis said. “Is there ... any part of the Municipal Act which specifically or by necessary implication allows municipalities to require the licensing of all dogs within their boundaries?” Paradis asks. approved and received a briefing on this modified game of baseball from the club's president Peter Therrieu. Therrieu said the club derived its name from a nickname his father had given him -— and assured council they were old enough to drink. 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