A6 - Sunday, April 4, 1982 - North Shore News EEE editorial page QA Who’s next on the hit list? One community? The uneasy nine-month truce reached last week between North Vancouver District and City over the funding of their jointly ad- ministered North Van Recreation Centre turns the spotlight once more on the whole thorny question of amalgamation. The respective contributions to the Centre by District and City, two-thirds and one- third, are presently based on population. But the City feels it’s paying too much because, it claims, District residents use the Centre 10 times more than City residents. The District, which also feels its share of the tab is too big, has threatened to pull out and run its own recreation organization. How, in practice, it would then prevent City residents from using District facilities is far from clear. This: is really the nub of the whole amalgamation issue. How can thousands of residents living only a block or half a streetwidth from the municipal boundary, on either side, be prohibited from enjoying the best of both worlds? Why should they be? Where, incidentally, would City merchants be without their thousands of District customers?And vice versa? The compact nature of the already highly developed City, with its concentrated in- dustry, puts it in a considerably more favorable tax situation per capita than the sprawling District, with its smaller industrial component and large residential tracts still undeveloped. Hence the strong trend in the City to oppose amalgamation. Nevertheless, a mere glance at the map of North Vancouver suggests’ that amalgamation may eventually be dictated by geography alone. The Rec Centre hassle certainly points that way. Game plan Premier Bennett's brilliant pre-election game plan for financing Expo and the Pier B- C convention centre with a lottery -- at no cost to taxpayers who don’t choose to play -- opens up exciting possibilities. Why not fund the schools from a lottery? Or hospitals? Or welfare? Or, indeed, the whole B.C. budget, thus eliminating provincial taxes entirely? As Mr. Bennett well knows, life itself is a gamble! Leet VOOLE GF MOTTO AreD ER! vas OVER sunday news Display Advertising 980-0511 north shore Classified Advertising 986-6222 a ews Bf Nowsroom 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 1139 Lonsdale Ave . North Vancouver BC V/7M 2H4 Publtaher Peters oper bk Associate Publisher Edito: -in-Chiet Advertising Director Robert Graharn Nowt Wright bre Clan cfwell General Manage Creative Administration & Personne! Director Mis Bern Hilhard Tins Bete Circulation Director Production Director Bian AF ths PR mR Sater se North Shore News founded COU as a dependent omen, Herweapreagperr mpd cpsaalifiecd canter oC tectide UH bat Hh bane agape Wt the tacme Tan Act os pubtahed each Wednesday and Ssumlay bry Noo tt Shore Free Breas Ct amd fstetated to every hoe on the Nortt Shore Second Clans Matt Mergent atone Nuaritoe: Tee? Subecriptions $20 per year Entire contonts 4OR?2 North Shore free Prege (td All rights reserved Na Hsp pc nergeeDoait y acc opted decry ade de hater thee Wade, Come veatee CODEN GT pote Pes er wl Penh eer ated ee owe epee Tey a a baerag ree abd easad eonvobage VERIO CULATION 63,096 Wedneeday 63 464 Sunday Sh. THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE By W. ROGER WORTH Ottawa's propaganda machine is working overtime as the budget makers in the Finance Department at- tempt to prove black is really white. While half-truths have become works of art in the hands of the _ federal propagandists, the latest attempt to save Finance Minister Alan MacEachen’'s skin is remarkable. , This tame, MacEachen and his gang of bureaucrats have twisted arms in the Revenue Department, getting income-tax em- ployees to send brochures to 200,000 small businesses, at a reported cost of $67,000. The message from the Finance Minister: the budget is a top-notch document, and that's particularly true of the measures for smaller firms. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Indeed, the budget measures were devastating for the entrepreneurs, who. it should be noted, are creating a majority of the CUTTING EDGE: The old saying that the best news in the paper are the ads was never truer than in today's tough times when the first thing everyone wants (& know i “How much does it cost?” So browse through the pages of last) Wednesday's News for a new North Shore hair stylist who has finally broken ranks to let) you know In deference to the competition well leave you to seck him out for yourself The point however being this Barbers and hair stylists resemble in one respect lawyers, doctors and dentists they belong to an association which forbids the advertising of prices But our latest tonsoral artist ob viously doesnt give a hoot for the association So hes come right out at dast of fering “quality haircuts for $6 OO plus a whole range of clearly priced ophonal ranging from $2 shampoos toa $2) acid wave pe)m Just like your Enendly specials neighborhood supermarket Interesting tloosee how many of bis Competitors mow break manks tow in order too save the msclyes fiom being A breath of fresh hate so to speak orn trade undereul thats been too secretive fer too dong aboutaty charges Phat cnterprising Meairean Ricardo whey young busxtnevssmau Jechle Gonzales organized ao yanitloral Mainstream Canada nation’s new jobs. While the silly spending of taxpayers’ dollars on such recycled government propaganda that is four months old is important, the fact that secretive income tax records were culled to prepare mailing lists is inexcusable. Traditionally, the relationship between tax- payer and tax collector has been a trusting one, with both sides understanding the information sent to Ottawa cannot be used for purposes other than taxation. With all its faults, the system has worked tolerably well. But now the long-standing secrecy principle has been violated, with Ottawa using the information to mail brochures to small businesses, telling en- trepreneurs the budget is good when it’s really bad. The question is, who's next on the hit list? Will it be people who reported con- tributions to the New Democratic or Conservative Parties, with MacEachen indicating to them the error of their ways? Will other political parties have the same opportunity to reach Liberal supporters? The point, of course, is that income tax information should remain sacrosanct. If MacEachen and _ his propagandists really want to waste taxpayers’ money sunday brunch by Noel Wright service in West Van em- ploying jobless young Cana- dians, has been ordered out of Canada this coming Tuesday on a “departure notice” — which means he can return legally for a further three months as® a visitor af only he can per suade the U.S. consulate to Jet him hop over the border to Blaine for a few hours Once back in Mexico, he would be drafted into the army for a year But he’s determined, somehow, to keep his Alhance of Youth for Progress organization here going With over a millon Canadians jobless, the bureaucrats at Employ ment & Immigration should be helping him. not hinder ing If you've any ideas on the subject. call them at 666 2) 7!oor give Racardo himsctf a ding before G71 4) Tuesday at eae Tory leadership hopetal Brian Mulroney of Mon treal whose ambition to replace Joe Clark is an open secret, will address a $100 0 plate fund cotsing = dinne: here neat month which may tc you something about the man whos pro moting has visit North Van Burnaby s Tory MP Chack ( ook A community spirited tra (ition started three years age wilh be continued Good Mriday at Dundarave Pier when Peppfs Restaurant POM Fe RE ten ME In 8h once again serves free coffee for spectators watching the start of the West Van Yacht Club’ Easter sailing race The starting gun is at 10 30 a.m. and Peppi’s Joe Ver- dicchio says the urns will be perking there from 9 30 a m onward oon Stal on Easter, there ll be treats fer the kids too next Saturday when Park Royal's famous “bears” will = be tounng the malls, handing ouleggs (candy, nothen') eee AROUND AND ABOUT: Proud moments last Wed nesday inp West) Van for Westcot Flementary students Tracy Stone and Angela Morflee when Licutcnant-G,overnor Henry Bell -Irvimg visited = their school to honor the two eleven year olds with medals and a S1OO) boad for their winning pocm nD the National Poster and bssay Contest for the International Year of Disabled Persons ln BC winners were sclected from over 1 O00 entries from youngsicrs aged cight te J? Sall on the school beat North Vans Sutherland Stage Band (Mike Canning ham, Aaron Doyle, Robyn Johnston, Betsy Kowan, Ian Oostindle, Gordon Porth, Jackic Van Hoven, David Wilson and Fraser Warne) placed first in last months Greater Victoria Stage Band disseminating misleading information, they should use normal channels, such as advertising in the country's community newspapers. (Roger Worth is a feature writer for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.) Festival. They'll now com- pete at the Canadian Festiva! May 11-15 in Hamilton Also eastbound is Suther- land Student Council presi- dent Marna Shipley, chosen by the North Shore Rotary Club to attend the Canadian “Adventures in Citizenship” conference later this spring in Ottawa Noted North Shore artist Rath Meek opens her month-long show of watercolors, ous and acrylics Wednesday (Apmnil 7) TaX) to 9.30 p.m. in the North Van City Hall gallery you're invited to the viewing “over a glass of wine” Delayed opening ol Frank Baker's new Home Restaurant ("l always cat at Home”) at the entrance gateway to West Van finally took place Friday And North Van Chamber of Commerce director Franco Cecconl got absolutely no where last week with his brilhant suggestion to local merchants for celebrating North Van Citys upcoming "Sth anniversary sell goods during the festivities next month af 1907 prices WRIGHT OR WRONG, If you don't learn to laugh at trouble you wont have any thing at all to laugh at when you grow old The Canadian Aed Cross Soctety