Grit spending
said shocking
by Tory critic

OTTAWA (CP) —
Treasury Board President

Sinclair Stevens told public

service money managers
Wednesday that he will not
tolerate what he called the
shocking cost overruns that
occurred under the former
Liberal government.
Tn a speech to about 400

7 members of the Financlal
Management Institute,

Stevens sald the coat
overruns are ‘'a horror story

" in themselvea”’ and part of
’ the problem of getting gov-

ernment spending under

- contro.
“tam absolutely shocked

at the overruna that we at
treasury board are asked to
approve,” Stevens told the
members, most of whom are
financlal adminstrators of

‘the federal public service.

"That type of thing just

. does not‘oceur in the private

* gactor,”

The treasury board con-
trols government spending.
Stevens said that under the
Liberal goverment, there
were many improper
estimates of the costs of

, government projects. He

gave one example:
In May, 1977, approval was
piven for a grain drying
facility at the port of Prince

- Rupert, B.C. The estimated

cost was $705,000.
Under the Liberals, two
cost increases’ were ap-

_ proved for the facility,

_. Falsing the cost to §3.1
milli

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|

on,
Now the treasury board is
being asked to approve 4a.
third increase — this one for
$791,000. It would bring the
coat of the facility to about
$9.8 milllon.
Stevens said he asked the
minister to. explain

de
i aby there should be another

* Increase.

“He said: ‘Mr, Stevens
that's what we're trying to
figure out, what happened."

“When other departmental
offlclais were questioned, it
appeared the error was
result of

of what kind of facility was.

wanted,

Stevens said the govert-
ment and the financial ad-
minlstratora of the public
service have a responsibility
to the public to ensure that
no more overruns occur,

Overruns, hesald, are part
of the problem of eliminating
the federal budget deficits
that are becoming a -huge
public debt costing billlons of
dollars in interest charges
each year,

Stevens said some difficult
choices will have to be made
in reviewing all government
apending if the budgetary
deficit — forecast at $11.3
billion this year — is to be
eliminated by the mid-1980s

as the Clark government has ©

promised.

Hesald that deficit and the
$7-billion annual deficit
being created in in:
ternational trade in goods
and services has to be
eliminated.

“Those deficits are
disrupting our econom
beyond belief,” Stevens said,

Money borrowed to cover

evious budget delle haa

create a lon

pub debt, he said. The
terest payments on the
public debt were the fastest-
growing part of federal

gz.
Ayhen the Clark inner
cabinet met in Jasper. two
weeks ago to discuss
spending limits for next
year, It was faced with an in-
crease of $1.6 billion in px
ments on the public debt,
Stevens said,

That left the government
little chance to increase
spending in other programs,
hesald,

Life term for
‘brutal beating

VANCOUVER (CP) — One
man was sentenced to life
imprisonment and two
others to lesser terms
Wednesday for: torturing a

. Young Canadian soldier and
. dumping him over a railway
” overpass last year.

Andrew (Gipsy) Higgins,

HprtBin SHEE Bullf$
court Judge T., K. Fisher
after belng found gullty in
June of attempted murder,
confinement, wounding and
two counts of indecent as-

sault.
Victor Rudy (Buck)

- Sharma, 20, was sentenced

to 15 years-on the same
while Stewart

finement, w
counts of indecent assault.
The three men, all from
the Vancouverx area, were
charged after a brutal attack
last year on Private Jacques
Lionel Groulx, a 20-year-old
native of Hull, Que., on Jw
30, 1978, .

Higgins and Sharma sat
talking and amiling Tuesday
as-Crown Prosecutor Elaine
Firby demanded that they
both be locked away for life
to protect society.

“tt would be difficult for
any human being (to
imagine) a crime carried out
in a more brutal and ex-
treme fashion that was
carried out in this particular
case,” she said.

“Tt ia a wonder that
Jacques Groulx is atill allve.
‘The fact that he is alive is
ertainly not due to any
action on Higgins’ and
Sharma's part.”

She said Higgins took

‘Groulx to a room where

Sharma and Grant were

"Bresent, ordered him to

robe and “kicked him
between the legs and when
Groulx doubled over with

pain, kicked him In the

a
Higgs made 15 incisions
In body with a razor.

Groulx was then forced to

rform fellatio on Higgins
ind Sharma.

Alter torturing Groulx for
several hours, Sharma end
Higgina attempted to
murder him cal g
thelr unconscious victim to a
railway overpass where they
“dumped his bedy like 8
plece of garbage onto the
railroad tracks §0 feet

low,

“Then, Higgins and
Sharma left him for dead,
confident that the fall or a
train passing over him would
have caused his death.”

Ms. Firby said that
although two trains passed
over Groulx, he was lying
between the tracks and

The ancient Greeks
believed that red coral was a
protector against gout,
poisons and spells.

survived. He spent seven
hours in surgery, and now
has a limp, scarred body,
back injuries and a logs of.
feeling in his upper.chest. «

Sitting on
seat belts
common

NANAIMO, B.C, (CP) —
An increasing number af
British Columbia motorists,

fer to sit on their seat-
lta rather than buckle up,
says a survey released

Tuesday.

John Phillips, a
spokesman for the motor
yehicles branch here, said
the month-long study
completed in May was not
released earlier because
officials feared “they would
influence people not to wear
seathelts.

The survey, comlucted by
Western Analysis of Van-
couver, found that only 54
per cent of drivers and 43 per
cent of their passengers
were wearing thelr seat-.
belts.

This represented a drap of
19 pet cent and 15 per cent
respectively since March
1978 when the last survey
was conducted.

A total of 3,100 drivers and

ssengera were observed in

fancouver, Kelowna, Vic-
torla, Penticton and Cour-

tenay, vs
The refusal by passengers
to buckle up has brought the
latest findings closer to that
found in the survey done
lor to the introduction of

legislation In Ocober, 1877, ©

which made wearing seat-
belts mandatory for moet
motoriats.

The 1977 survey, while
using a smaller sample,
found that 93 per cent of
those spotted were ualng
belts and shoulder straps.
When usage became man-

datory, the figures jumped to

per cent.

Phillips said the legislation
has been difficult to enforce
although convictions have
doubled over last year's
figures with a few months
still remalning in the year.

“it's one law that le
can get away with,” he said.
“Nabody's going to say

anything. oo

‘a said the $120,000 spent
annually on government
campaigns urging residents
to obey the Jaw have not been
wasted and the survey only
proves ‘'that we have ta have
something in front of the
public all the time.”

He blamed the lack of a
continuous media campaign
a5 one reason motorists
Ignore the law.

Phillips said a renewed
effort will be made this year
to ralse seatbelt usage by 80
per cent by next spring.

Kitimat firemen battle to save Ray McRae’s car in the
Ann Dunsmulr photo. The car, which burned J}. the
Nechako parking lot Tuesday, apparently caught ifre

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BCGEU

serves

strike notice

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
British Columbia Govern-
ment Employees Union has
served 72-hour strike notice
on one of two government
corporations where the unton
is attempting to renew
contracts,

The notice went to the B.C,
Buildings Corp., which the
union plans to start picketing
at midnight Monday night
unless it gets a settlemen
similar to the one the
BCGEU recently negotlated

the government on
If of 40,000 civil” ser-
vants,

Under that settlement,
which has yet to be ratifled,
government employees
would get increases in wages
in benefits averaging about
10 per cent over three years,

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workers yidings compare or
cent in favor of strike action.

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