PAGE 12 THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, Jurie 0, 1977, ' CONSUMERS’ GROUP OPPOSES Something-for-nothing coupons MONTREAL (CP) — Al- though the number of some- thing-for-nothing coupons use hy Canadian consumers in an effort to reduce their food bills is soaring, the Quebec branch of the Consumers Association of Canada (CAC) wants them out- lawed. The Quebec CAC recently saving Steamex way. Rent the pro Clean both your carpets and ) upholstery with Steamex: Do It Yourself and Save! Steamex Carpet Cleaner Rental machine, with six power jets, gets the dirt others don't. And now we've added a new upholstery altachment and ils own specially-formulated solution...so you can clean your carpets and upholstery the easy, money- STEAMEX Ja a company BME S Hees rites be Crane HATS Rath 0 ONe HOUR SLEMIMTEWTG THE UTMOST IN ORY CLEANING S38-9119 3223 Emerson recommended that all coupons, and premiums be banned in forthcoming provineial consumer protection legislation. The consumer group says ‘such promotions cost consumers money because manufacturers must include their expense in grocery prices. “Collectively, we are ail losers,’’ said Lise Poirier, CAC director and Universit of Montreal social wor. studen€ who conducted .a _ two-year study on the subject. Her organization identified nine different types of coupons or premiums it wants banned, To date only ‘gift!’ premiums contained in packages or cereal and other products have been outlawed. This type of offer constitutes only 14 per cent of the total premiums now in circulation, Mrs, Poirier said in an interview. The CAC also condemns lucky draws which are coupons in a product offering cents off the purchase price of a subsequent purchase; trial offers which are refunds offered upon receipt of a label; combined product selling which is one ckaged with another at a igher price than for the original alone; and service ng buy the earpet and Et ul free installation. The Quebec VALU recommendation is bein esented to the nation ‘AC annual meeting this month in Guelph, Ont. Meanwhile, an increasing number of manufacturers are using coupons to promote their products. A otal of 2380 Canadian grocery firms issued cou- pons last year, compared with 150 a decade ago. More than 1,2 billion coupons were distributed in Canada last year—an increase of 20 per cent from _ TRIPLE PRODUCTION Irrigation plans by Jordan AMMAN (Reuter) Jordan plans ta triple the amount of. irrigated farmland in the Jordan valley over the next five years. One aim is to help com- nsate the kingdom for the oss of a quarter of its cerealgrowing area and four-fifths of its fruit orchards in the 1967 Arab- Israeli war. Another aim is to attract people back to the land from the towns of Amman, Irbid and Zarga. The plans fall short of the old Yarhouk River scheme, which was dashed by the 1967 war when Israel occupied the west bank of the Jordan River and the Syrian Golan Heights. The main rt of the scheme is to build a dam farther up the Yarmouk River, away from the Golan Heights and Israeli lines. In 1967 work already had begun on the Mukhziba Dam, which was part of a project to irrigate 200,000 acres on both banks of the Jordan. But when the Israelis cap- tured the heights on the ian side of the frontier ver in 1967, construction on. the dam stopped. - WANTS ANOTHER DAM Now Jordan wants to build ~ the upper dam ‘at Magarin. - When it is completed the planners are optimistic that 89,-000 acres of rich Jordan Valiey earth will be irrigated by 1982, more than three times the present area. The Magarin project still is in its infancy, and e say they have not finished the $1-million feasibility study on it, which is being financed | by the Unite States, 4606 LAZELLE AVE. CLOSED MONDAYS 635-6576 mye Gordon & Anderson Ltd. |