Page 2, The Herald, Wednesday, August 1, 1979

EEDERAL BUDGET |
Deficit size unknown

OTTAWA (CP) — What's a
deficit? The dictionary
defines it as the amount by
which a sum of money is too
gmail.

In Ottawa it means that

amount that it spends, Like
any individual who speads
more than. he earns, the
government has to borrow
money to pay ita bills.

Ni questions: ail that.
But ask what is theaize of the
fedoral = deficit and
disagreement starta.

For the size can vary

are and. what

the figures are what
political Point is bein being made.
three «weeks,

ectimuten of the tise of the

deficit for this fiscal year
have changed three times
because of updating of
forecasta. But the size of the
deficit for the fiscal year that
. ended last March 31 won't be

known until the public ac:

counts listing government
spending are published this

There are two numbers
commonly used to define the
size of the federal govern-
ment’s annual spending
deficit.

One is the so-called
budgetary deficit, the
amount by which govern-
ment spending exceeds tax
revenue.

Figures. ‘released by
Finance Minister John
Crosbie last week estimate

in tax revenue, ‘It geta this
money from Canadians
through Canada Savings
Bonds and by. borrowing in
the big tmarkets,

But the cash requirement
is lower than the buigetary
deficit because the govera-

‘ment has ‘other ways. of

getting money to “pay ‘its
bills, Fo one thing). the
government spenda money
its employees contribute to
ime needed to oy pension

' pay Li
benefits.

wie 2a
was §11.
billion, the cash requirment
yea, tho oath Foxremett
6 en
van be about $10 billion,
com, with a budgetary
deficit of $11.3 billion.

Air fa
Yr cares
_ @
to rise |
MONTREAL (CP) — Air
Canada fares for in-
ternational flights are to rise
ae ee as: 19 per
eent, follo agreement
reached this week in Geneva
by members of the In-
ternational Air Tr.
Association (IATA).

Air Canada spokesman
Barrie Wall said Tuesday

‘that the national alrline’s

pricing committee was
meeting to determine the
exact fare increases and the
projected date of in-
troduction. ©

spent by

Former, Liberal finance

minister Jean Chretien.

usually referred to the lower
number, the cash
requirement, when de-

seribing the sire of the

deficit.
The Conservatives, who

say the deficit is too big,

refer to the higher number.
The debate over the size of
the deficit certres on the
growing proportion of the
federal budget that- is
required to pay the interest
ali the borrowing of
previous years, which is the
public debt.
Treasury Board President
Sinclair Stevens said two
weeks ago that the net public.
delt will more than double

over the next four years to":

about “$104 billion unless
spending is cut.

Thar would mean that

about 20 cents of every dollar
the government
would be needed just to pay
the interest on the public
debt, tt com with:
about 36 cents today and

about 12 cents 25 years ago.

Put another way, the net
public debt over the next
four years would grow to
$4,250 for every man, woman
and child in the country,

compared with about $2,175 .

today,

Stevens calied it
“borrowing to pay for last
week's groceries,”’ .

But the former - Liberal

‘government put the numbers

in a different perspective.

WOMEN
REIECT

Where have all the
children gone In this
International Year of the
Calld?

A graduate student in
sociology at in Kingston
University in ton,
‘Ont., has found that many
more Canadian couples
are choosing childless
-] marriages for economic
reasons and the desire for
self-fulfiiment.

Bill Halkiw, 22, said
|| that in 1981 elght per cent
of married women bet-
ween 25 and 29
they had chosen not to

have children.
| But by the 1971 census
that figure rose to 15 per
cent and Halkiw says the
trend is likely to peak at
about 20 per cent,

Halkiw's statistics take
into account. that an
‘average five per cent of
Canadian couples are
naturally aterile, -

“Right now, with a
fertillty - rate: of 1.8
children a couple, Canada
has less than vero-popu-
‘Hation growth.

The population is in:
creasing through im-
migration, Halkiw sald.

an the. Prot renla roi
couples are not re
‘themselves and he said

” Halkiw interviewed 26

TORONTO (CP) —|-

-keyboard, th
” of three Winnipeg men,

Robert Holte, Peter Bubr -
and Art Quanbury have built .

‘ micro-computer,

Hands are not
needed to type

WINNIPEG (CP) —
Students with limited or no
use of thelr hands may soon
be able to type withott a
to the work

& prototype of a com-
munication ald that allows
letters, numbers, words end
mathematical symbols to be
selected in an average of two
motions.

Holte and Buhr are

’ graduate students in com-
* puter science, and Quanbury
- fs head of biomedical ser-

vices at the University of

Manitoba children’s

rehabilitation centre. —
"Tt was done more as a

special project than
” says Quanbury,
“They didn't recelve any

-money or credit from the

univeralty.”

Tt took three months to
plan the micro-computer and
one month to b It, Buhr

sald, and a lot of time’

“waiting for the 8 to

arrive,” paris
Its slower. than a

typewriter, but faster than

many communication aids .
which require an average of

five or six motions to print
out or display one letter.
To control printing, a

* small “joystick” similar to a

in a car, is pushed

gearshift
in one of four directions. The -

Joystick is connected to the

which

stores the .itformation and

feeds it back through a small
m screen,

Letters and commands are

’ displayed on the sereen and

the student selects those he
wants by moving the joystick

‘ words on the:
' Holte programmed the

\

.

The machine can also be
fitted with a tube and used
with a “slp-and-puff" action

_ by'severely disabled people.

The cost of the prototype,
approximately 4,400, was
covered’ by a charitable -
organization in’ Winnipeg.

All of its parta were bought .
through local computer

. a eone of its biggest advan-
tages is that Ls ls both eanily”
affordable and accessible,"
sald Buhr. “The price Is .

constantly dropping as home.

computers become more and
more popular,”

The device has been tested
in a special class for han-
dicapped students at a local
school, which Quanbury sald
‘may buy it, “but so far
there's nothing definite,”

“One atudent with
cerebral palsy picked up the
technique in about - 30
seconis,” said Bubr. “He

- didn’t make a single mis- |

take, and he was averaging
about one mistake in tive
typewriter,”’

computer, basing the
location of the letters on the

screen on the frequency of .

occurrence of each Jetter in

the English language. He.

included an additional $20
commonly used, words to

' save students time.

Each computer program Is
stored on a five-inch square
ecard called a floppy record.

-The card has grooves similar

to those on a phonograph
record,

“Tt's actually like typing,”
Buhr said of the device. “The

- more you do it the more

proficient: you become
because you learn the
location of the letters,”

NEWS BRIEFS

the government. spent. 646.9 .- Fares for. transatlantic :
billion last year’ but only ” inereaged by _ Former treasury board |eieoor ded thet
collected $35.2 billion in 413 per cent while flights to Presi . c ans 40 per cent’of them chose
taxes. The budgetary deficit the Caribbean will cost 10 hebeus ‘the sizeof the abe to be childless for reasons
was $11.7 billion, per cent more, Wall said. aa Loreonte e of the |! ambition, money,
This year, it is estimated A Montreal-Paris one-way P total are had |travel, personal.
the budgetary deficit’ will ticket currently costs $501, COMDETY'S, tote’ MEAN 80 | fulfilment.
decline slightly because of while a Toronto-Nassau $ctually dropped in the Thirty per cent gave
higher revenues to $11.3 flight costs $174. The new ™ YeArs. economic reasons for not
billion, fares would increase to $566 Hesaidthe publicdebt this [ioying chitdren, saying
The second deficit number and $191 respectively. year would be about 2 per linet children are too
used’ is the cash Wall said the fare hikes cent of the country's gross expensive ot they would
requirement, the amount the must be submitted to the national product (GNP) — fiower the couple's
vernment actually has to Canadian transport com- the value of all goods and of Ii .
rrow to cover the shortfall mission for approval, services produced.
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STOCKS |

‘VANCOUVER (CP)Prices were mixed in heavy trading
Tueaday on the Vancouver Stock Exchange witha volume of
4,798,843 shares ‘at the close.

Daon Development led trading on the industrials, "down %
at $16 on 5,700 shares. Pagurian was up .05 at $4.45'on 5,200,
Taro Industries was up .05 at $3.45 on 4,200 and Austin In-

. Vestment was up .15 at .95 on 3,700. Grouse Mountain wast -

changed at .70 and Hal Roach Studios was unchanged at

‘On the resource and development board, Saxton waa un-
_ Changed at $2.65 on 695,958. Andey Minds was dowii 02 ab ai
‘ po 17,000, , Cream Silver was up .05 at .75 dn 87,000 htt No

Resources was down .02 at .82 on 62,700. ‘Tintina Silver
was down .20 at $2.50 and Amber Resources was up .06 al
$1.75.

On the curb exchange, March Resources was up .08 at .47 ,

on 63,000, Burlington Gold was up .06 at 46 on ‘56,700, Nor-
thern Horizon was unchanged at .00 on 54,000 and Canzona’
Minerals was down .04 at .60 on 51,500. Ascot Petroleum was
up .16 at $1.43. and Ranrico Exploration was up .15 at $1.40.

TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock market was sharply

Tower at the close of active trading Tuesday.

The TSE 30 index dropped -10.00 ‘to 1,558.10.

‘The general market was litte changed but gold and oil and
gas issues fell sharply.

Volume was 4.49 million compared with 412 million
Monday.

Among industrials, Falconbridge Nickel A fell 2% to $52%,
Alberta Energy % to $323, Imperial Oil A% to $34%, North-
ern Telecom % to $44 and Noranda Mines % to $43". .

Asbestes Corp. rose 244 to $44%, Canron Inc, A 1% to $30,
Nu-West Developments 1% to $23%, Cominco 5% to $40 and

’ Canadian Pacific 44 to $32%.

Dome Mines was down 2% to $41, McIntyre Mines 1 to $48
and Denison Mines 4 to $28, Campbell Red Lake Mines was
up % to $22% and Teck Corp. B 4s to$13%.

Mountain States Resources declined 1% to $13%, Canadian
Homestead Oils 1% to $22 and Canadian Reserve Oil and Gas
-1to$lT%: a Resources advanced 14 to 0% ar and Merland

| Explorations % to $14%4.

Baico Industries Lid., six months ended May 31: 1979, $4,-
244,120, $1.22 4 share; 1978, $1,-017;587, $1. 81,

Bethlehem Copper Corp., 8lx months ended June 90: 1979,
$4,-457,000, 70.5cente.a share: 1978, $798,000, 15.8 cents,

Bralorne Resources Ltd., six months ended June 3: 1979, .

" $4,501,000, 67 centaa share: 1978, $2,829,000, 45 cents.

Black Fhoto Crop. Lid., year ended March 21: 1979, $2,585,-
432, $2.40 a share; 1978, $1,967,-171, $1.82,

Cadiline Fairview Corp, three months ended May 31: 1979,
#4,-H47 000, 8.2 cents a share; 1978, $4,411,000, 17.4 cents.

Central and Eastern Trust Co., six months ended June 30;
1978, $2,787 000, 52 cents a share; 1978, $3,526,000, 66 centa.

Crown Zellerbach Canada Ld., six months ended June 30:
1979, $26,738,000, $5.25 a share; 1978, $16,598,000, $2.03,

Dominion Foundries and Steel Lid., six months ended June
30: 1979, $65.7-million, $3.78. share; 1978, $41.1-milllon, $2.32.

Dover Industries Ltd., aix months ended June 30: 1979,
$072,784, $1.10 a share; 1978, §602,010, # cents,

D.H. Howden and Co. Lid., six months ended June 30: 1978,
$502,480, 81 cente a shmre; 1078, $572,212, $1.04,

Husky Oil Ltd., six months ended June 30: 1979, $22.6-mil-
lion, $2.03 a share; 1978, $22.5smilllon, $2.09,

Mitel Corp., 13 weeks ended May 25: 1970, $622,000, seven
centa a share: 1978, $4,411,000, 17.4 cents.

Montreal Trust Co., aix months ended June 30: 1979, $3,-
878,000, $150 a share; 1978,  $3,-759,000, $1.45.

- PCL industries Lid., six months ended June 30: 1079,
~$417,0 0,35 cents a share; 1978, $300,000, 28 cents.

Riverside Yarns Ltd., ‘six months ended June 20: 1978,
$183,000, 90 cents a share; 1973, $133,000, 61 cents.

Slater Steel Industries Lid, three months ended Sune 30;
1978, $2,520,000, 95 cents a share; 1978, $2,187,000, 51 cents.

Standard Trust Co., elx months ended June 30: 1979,
$555,616, $122 6 share; 1978, $336,065, 9 - cents,

Steel Co, of Canada Ltd., six months ended June 30; 1979,

. $75,004,000, $2.79 a share; 1978, $58,271,000, $2, 14,

arth

‘DAYTONA BEACH, Fis.
(AP) Five-year-old
Caroline’ Thompson,
reunited with her joyful
parents, said Tuesday that.
the man who abducted her
was “mean and yelled,” but
did not mistreat her or her

together, .

“We ate hamburgers and
french fries at McDonald's
and he let me go swimming

myself in the motél pool,”
the blonde, blue-eyed
youngster said after being
reunited with her parents in
Myrtle Beach, §.C.; and-
Teturning to . the Daytona
Beach motel where the or-
deal began, ;
While har father was
checking Into the motel
Saturday, Caroline -was
sleeping in the back of tle.
family station wagon when a
man leaped into the driver's
seat. He shoved « Mra.

Thompson, who was in the pool,

front seat reading a
magazine, out of the car, and
sped away as she tried to get
"her daughter, police said,

A manhunt by the FBI and
state and local police
resulted in the arrest late
Monday of James Tucker,
18, in Myrtle Beach, §.C.

Tuckef, a paroled auto
thief, was charged with.
kidnapping. A federal judge .

in Florence, 8.C., set bail at .

$250,000. !
: Rumell Thompeon and his
wife, Rachel, of Dunwoody, sal.

- Ga, were starting a vacation
in Daytona Beach when"
Caroline was abducted. -
Both Thompsons ‘spoke
gratefully’ about - thelr
daughter's kidnapper:'

“He took good ‘care’ “of -

ber,” said Mrs, Thompson.
“Wetre so grateful t him.
He didn’t hurt her in’ ary
way. Hered concn Mr

oe enh

"arta (CP) — Eni
‘is the * raw tem “on the
. agenda of the annual
-meeting Aug. 9-16 ° of
Canadian and American
members of Parliament and
Congress, with visits
planned. to the Alberta oil
sands and the Alaskan off-
‘shore oil fields.

The Canada-U.s. inter-

parliamentary “group is
Hpeeting ia Calearpaug oa Sou

‘cand themis:-scheduledito' vikits" Heartland Molson, Quebeer-J:m

. theoil sands project Aug. 13.

Members will be at White-
horse, Y.T., Aug. 15, the.
Alaskan cil-shipping port of

ed
RD ing

energy on topic.

“T think it certainly should
be taken into account that he
did not mean to hurt the
child, Obviously, he has
aome' mental or emotional

blem. To punish him ‘for ©
am be didn’t mean to

S cananpie wouldn't be
2% days < °
two dogs in their 2% va ight. ie he

Mrs:
Thompson described: :.as-
“very smart and
dependent,” sat cross-le
on her rumpled bed

Tucker evidently drove

straight through to Myrtle |

Beach, stopping to sleep io -
Sr
early ye
and the girl checked into a
motel and ‘stayed, until,
Monday afternoon whet a,
guest recognized them from -
news descriptions.

“He left. me alone '
sometimes, but I had my
own key when I went to.the
* Caroline said. = /
He had told the, child he
‘waa taking | her home to her
mommy and daddy,” Mra.
Thompson said:

Caroline was asked what

she thought when she awoke -

in the car and saw a strange -

man forcing her mother out: |

and aeiving oft. She. ae
at ber mother

4 was, scaréd. when sands

‘peloton bout

cried “fast | a little... ‘and 7
told him to take me back, He

sald: ‘No.’. He said: ‘Shut a

The youngster “yal the
thought her abduct a
hurt her. He told he rie had
been in jail and
to go back, ao ee! a

He appeared to havé a lot.
of money in a billfold and.
“sometimes we went: out to”
eat at McDonald’s and once’.

Deliberations are private.

and the communique issued
after the meetings is by
tradition a general

statement of topics dis- ;
The Canadian delegation is ©

headed by New Brunswick. :
‘Herb: ‘Breau’. “(et

independent. The U.S.
leaders are Senator Edward

(Dem. Neb.) and
Dante Fascell (Dem. Fla.).

Men called criminal

-MONTREAL (CP) — A
~ coroner's inquest has found
two men criminally
responsible for the deaths of
two teen-agers from nearby
Longueuil who were
strangled and thrown from a
bridge into the St. Lawrence
River & month ago.

Normand Guerin, 26, and
Gilles Pimpare, 25, are to be

arraigned today on charges .

‘of murder and rape, said
Crown Prosecitor Jean-
Pierre Bonin after Coroner
Maurice Laniel rendered his
verdict.

Laniel also sentenced
Guerin and Pimpare to one
year in prison, for contempt
after they refused to testify
at the inquest.

The two victims, Chantale
Dupont, 15, and Maurice
Marcil, 14, disappeared July
a after they set off acrosa

Jacques Carter bridge twelf ; »

home from an evening
concert at the Man and His
World exhibition site.

Thelr bodies
retrieved from the river
several days later.

In the police statements,
Guerin and Pimpare said
they went to Man and His

ine...
‘old © :
of her adventure,

were .

!
{
1
r

_fo @ real nice Testaurant.\! moe

cebter) iand.lenator:. ir

World with the intention of ©

robbing samebody. They saw

é young couple on ‘the: .
belie and followed them, *

the statements said.

The statement attributed
ito Pimpare said that after
the two men had taken $2
from the boy, he took the girl
down a ladder on the bri
and ra her. Then’ he

he watched the ‘while

Guerin went down the lad-
Guerin ' ' e lad-

Bunday sentenced to chair

MIAMI (AP) — Theodore
Bundy, tearfully insisting he
is innocent of murdering two
Borerity sisters, was sen-
tenced Tuesday to dle in the
electric chair, The judge
sald the former law student
would have made “a fine
lawyer” and told Bundy he
bore him no animosity.

Agreeing with the
recommendation of a jury,
Judge Edward Cowart told
Bundy: “‘It is ... ordered that

you be put to death by a
current of electricity ... that
the current be passed

wed unt you

Bundy, 92, was convicted
July 24 in the Jan, 18, 1978

deatha of Lisa Levy, 2, and-

Margaret Bowman, 21, They
were clubbed and strangled
as they slept at the Chi
Omega sorority house near .
Florida State pniveraity in
Tallahassee, Fla, ;

Synthetic fuels studied

WASHINGTON (CP) —
The Canadian government
haa gent two Progressive
Conservative MPs to
Washington this week to
determine how and when the
United States expects to
achieve energy self-reliance
by feveloping synthetic

ave want to know who is

golng to develop it, how and
powntich it's going to coat,”
‘Bill Yurko, member for
Edmonton East, said
Tuesday,
The two-day visit by Yurko
and Ronald Ritchie, MP for
“Toronto's York East riding,
was prompled by President
Carter’s natlonally televised
energy address July 15,

Carter proposed speni

$88-hillion over the ain C)

years for devel

to the bridge where .

thetic fuels to replace conly pe

Imported oil,
"Ritchie and Yurko “met

‘Monday with senior energy -
department officiala for

talka about the U.S. desire
for better energy relations
with Catiaday Although
several U.S, politicians are
promoting a common energy
market for U.S,, Canada and
Mexico, Yurko eald the issue
wasn’t discussed,

The Canadian g
has sald it n't Interested in

& common en market,
‘hich x would mainly bee benefit :

f-