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OTTAWA - The third
earthquake in three days -
measuring 5.5 on the
Richter scale - jolted
rural New Brunswick
Monday but caused little
damage, scientists at the
Department of Energy
reported.

Goetz Buchbinder, a
government seismologist,
said the epicenter of the
quake, was 80 kilometres
northwest of Newcastle,
N.B. But tremors were

reportedly felt as far away
as New England and
Quebec City.

It was the third quake

WASHINGTON -
President Reagan plans to
cut about $15 billion from
major entitlement
programs such as
Medicare and Medicaid
next fiscal year while

increasing defense
spending by the same
amount, a Republican

congressman says.

Rep. Silvio Conte, R-
Mass., outlined Reagan’s
fiscal 1983 budget shortly
after he and other House
GOP leaders met
Monday with the

MOSCOW .- The forcign
ministers of Poland and
the Soviet Union have

rejected the NATO
statement on Polish
affairs as gross in-
terference in) domesuc
affairs

“Everything taking
place in Poland, 1n-

cluding the imposition of
martial law, is a purely
internal, national affair of
the Poles.” a joint
communique quoted
Pohsh Foreign Minister
Jozef Czyrek as saying
“No one clse has the

OTTAWA Industry.
Trade and Commerce
Miatster Herb Gray and
Minister of State for
Trade Ed Lumley were
given new roles Tucsday
by Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau, in a

“minor

adjustment” of cabinet
responsibilities designed
to enhance the govern

ment’s cconomi per
formance

During a bnicf unan
nounced) mecting with

Governor General

Third quake
in three days

to strike the region since
Saturday. RCMP in
Moncton, 160 kilometres
southeast of Newcastle,
said they had received
several phone calls
inquiring about the quake
but reported little known
damage.

Almost 100 aftershocks
from the earthquakes on
a fault line inactive for a
million years had been
recorded Monday,
Buchbinder said, and
scientists had been trying

to determine if they
signal the start of an
extended period of

seismic activity.

Reagan cuts aid,
_ups defense

president to discuss the
budget proposal Reagan
plans to send Congress
Feb. 8.

“There will be $30 to
$40 billion in spending
cuts, half from
discretionary programs
and half from en-
titements - Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps,”
Conte said.

“Il have no doubt that
defense spending is going
to be raised $15 billion,
well, anywhere from $12
to $15 billion,” he said.

‘Interference’
say Communists

right to, and must sot
intervene in their
decisions and actions,” he
said.

The communique was
released after Czyrek
completed his second day
of talks with Soviet) of-
ficials and flew home He
placed wreaths at Lenin's
Tomb and at the
memonal to the Soviet
war dead

Eastern kuropean
sources said he met with
party tdeologist Mikhail
Suslov as well as Soviet
Foreign Minister Andres
Gromyko

Minor cabinet
adjustments

f-dward Schreyer cartict
Tuesday. Gray was sworn
in as minister responsible
for Uhe ministry of State
for Feoonomic
Regional

and
Development
sources said

Lumiecy meanwhile
was appointed to oa new
trade section of a revised
kxaternal Affairs
Department ino a move
intendcd to “aggressively
pursuc international
ca port markets

for
C anodian produc ts ,

Schools levy due to rise to $1.25m

FROM PAGE At

Last year West Van
taxpayers were hit with the
highest net school. taxes in
the province — an average
of $819 per single-family
home. The corresponding
figure for the Greater
Vancouver Regional! District
overall was $293. For school
districts in the B.C. Interior
the average was as low as
$15.

A significant proportion of
the West. Van burden was
due to # $400,000 levy which
the school district was
forced to hand over to
Victoria to subsidize schools
in the Interior under the
present Education Ministry
financing formula.

This year, as noted in the

WV brewery
meeting set

A PUBLIC meeting will be
held Februrary 2 to give
eveyrone a chance to
respond to the possibility of
having a cottage brewery in
West Vancouver, the first
such brewery in B.C.
Council’s decision,
Monday, came after the
Advisory Pianning Com-
mission had recommended
the brewery for the Troller
Pub in Horseshoe Bay
“provided there is no ob-
yectionable dust, odour, gas,
smoke, vibration, noise, or

Pay-Less will
cost parkers less

CONSOLATION for
motorists who have their
cars towed away in North
Vancouver this year is the
news that the charge for
return of vehicles will be
closer to $17 than the $37
figure given in Sunday's
edition of the News.
Pay-Less has towed away
vehicles for the City and the

POR ALIMITED TIME ONL y
Cover the years Nord Oown Comtortens Nave
estabbohed a reputation tor aac atlence

Now foot the

Call for more information
or ash tor a FREE BROCHURE

oroic ‘DOWN COMFORTERS

1676 W. 2nd Ave., at Fir Street, Vancouver

frst torres

overstocked and have to «tea
stoch at greatly reduced prices

telegram to Williams, that
levy is estimated to rise to at
least $1.25 million — more
than treble last year’s figure
— unless the formula can be
amended.

The amount of the levy
under the existing formula is
determined by the con-
tinuing high assessments on
West Van properties caused
by last year’s runaway real
estate market.

Council and school board
representatives have
repeatedly pointed out that
these inflated real estate
values bear no relation to
ability to pay — particularly
in the case of the many West
Van homeowners in or
approaching the senior
citizen age bracket with
limited incomes.

In an interview following

effluent” that the space was
restncted and that storage
was properly screened and
protected.

The Liquor Control and
Licensing Branch in Victoria
also gave conditional OK.

A letter from the pub
owners promises nodust, gas,
smoke or vibration, only
“slight odour’ during two
hours of brewing per week,
very little noise, and only ten
gallons of yeast per week to
be flushed down the sewer.

RCMP for the past three
years and has just been
awarded another two-year
contract.

The firm's standard charge
is $11 plus $1.50 per mile for
towing. The average (owing
distance in North Van City is
estimated at four miles,
which puts the total cost to
the vehicle owner at $17.

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731-0713

Monday night's council
meeting, which unanimously
endorsed the telegram to
Williams, Mayor Humphreys
also criticized the
assessment method used by
the Provincial Assessment
Authority.

There are some 13,500
assessed properties in West
Vancouver, he said, and
total sales to October 1981
were less than 350. “For the
assessment authority to base
their assessed actual values
of all the properties in West
Vancouver on the sales of
some two and a half per cent
of the properties is
questionable.”

“For these, figures to be
used for school board tax
calculations is horrendous,”

he declared.

It meant, Humphreys said,
that West Van taxpayers
would be taxed, under the
provincial school financing
formula, “a sum of one and a
quarter million over that
which is budgeted to operate
our local schools. This sum
goes into the general
education pot of the
province towards areas up
country which pay as little as
$10 or $15 a year (average

single-family home taxes)
towards their education
costs.”

Even if West Van school
expenditures were reduced,
he noted, “this million and a
quarter would still be paid
out to other areas because of
the unjust provincial school
financing formula based on
property assessments.”

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