A4-Wednesday, October 29, 1980 - North Shore News tside... BUDGET FEARS PROVE FALSE Most of the ordinary taxpayer's fears proved unfounded im the federal budget brought down Tuesday night by Finance Minister Allan Mac- Eachen. There is no increase in personal or corporate income tax, and the indexing of personal income taxes will be continued through 1981. MacEachea_ also refrained from imposing a natural gas export tax, the threat of which had met with vociferous opposition from Alberta and B.C. Instead, however, he is in- troducing a sales tax on natural gas for both domestic and export sales — initially 30 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. Unemployment in- surance premiums will be increased by 33 per cent. There is no immediate increases im taxes on alcohol and tobacco (the tax on fortified wines has actually been reduced by more than half), but taxes on these items will be reviewed every three months. The “energy package” which formed an integral part of the budget, provides for a new tax of eight per cent on net revenues from the production of off and gas im Canada; new in- centives to Canadian companies for ex- pioration, particularily in the far north; grants to encourage homeowners to switch to natural gas; and an increased role for Petro Canada, with possible takeover of foreign-owned oil and gas companies. Tax incentives to construct maltiple residential buildings (MURBs) wil be re- introduced and continued through 1981. MacEachen’ atso pledged to reduce the current $14.2 billion deficit to $11.8 billion in three years. U.S. ‘committed’ to gas pipeline VANCOUVER (UPC) - The United States must maintain its commitment to build the Alaska Highway gas pipeline or “seriously jeopardize” its relationship with Canada, federal Energy Minister Marc LaLonde has warned. “We can see. that progress has been madc .. This is good, but activity must be = in- creased,” Lalande said Monday. “There has already been too much delay.” The minister, in a speech to the annual convention of the American Gas Association, said Canada expected the US. to fulfill ats) carlier com- mitments. “For the government of the U.S. to not live up to its obligations and commitments would seriously jeopardize our relationship for years to come,” he said. “The schedule must be maintained.” Canada approved coastruction of the prebuild sections of the pipeline over strong Opposition objections last summer, even though financing for the entire project had not been guaranteed. “What really swayed me was the firm cx- pression of political commitment to the project's completion by the U.S. administration and Congress,” he said. New faces of Saturn now visible WASHINGTON (UPT) Voyager 1 tis) racing toward a Nov 12) ren desvous with Satum = and the ypace agency reported today the space probes preliminary poctures already are Showing more of the giant cnped planet than covet before seen The instrument packed spa coraftis 12 86 million miles from Satur and 49 4 unthon males from arth It has travelled ‘balli no mtles since its »ooeh from Cape Canaveral, Fla, three ycars ago Voyager | began its television observations of Saturn on Aug 22) and produced images — that quickly surpassed the best taken from Earth bascd telescopes Proyect offecrals said the tesolution oof Voyager s photos now has caceeded those taken by the trail blazing Pionece 11 spacccraflea year age Voyager |oots taking several photographs of Saturn and tts rings daily ‘Mohawk ‘spill’ ‘was venting By CHRIS LLOYD Chemist John Walkely was quick to call North Vancouver District Fire Depart- ment when the foul smelling odor drifted across to his home at 351 Seymour’ River Place around noon on Saturday. Sunday the fire depart- ment received another call complaining about the smell from the Mohawk Oil recycling plant. The smell was ascertained to be butyl mercaptan, a solvent containing sulphur, which is an additive used in the purification of oil. What people like chemist Walkeley, a member of the local Chemical Hazards Alert Committee, wanted to know, was why there ap- Youths’ firecracker haul West Vancouver police are investigating the case of two 18-year-old North Vancouver youths who were stopped in the 1500 block Queens Avenue Friday afternoon and found to be in possession of 132 packages of firecrackers. Possession of fireworks is illegal in West Vancouver and police believe the youths were planning to sell the firecrackers to youths in the area. Police are concerned because they say fireworks Hallowe’en fireworks North Vancouver fire fighters are going to set fireworks displays on Halloween. The firemen will spark the action at 7:30 p.m. in the following parks: Panorama, Sey-Lynon, Lynn Valley, Eldon, Norgate, Mahon and Boulevard. nt