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~ Stormy Meeting Ends Of Northwest Council.

NRC DISPLAY FOR NIAGARA FALLS.

State . Secretary LaMarsh views model of National. Re- search Council exhibit, .. which will go on display in the Sky-

lon building at Niagara Falls in April, The display con- sists of a 15-sphere molecular structure and each sphere will

be fitted with a vawine screen to allow’ the showing of films. Each sphere is 10 feet in dia- meter. ACP Wirephoto)

By BRENDA LARGE

OTTAWA (CP) — The North- west Territories Council has completed its strmiest essin after the nine councillors thrashed out a plan to turn the territories .into Canada’s 11th province by 1978. . : ;

They also set up a medicad care program for the territories, approved a plan for subsidizing electric power and debate aboli-

high Arctic.

of responsibility. to the elector- ate, to one which will have @ maximum responsibility in the future. We now are at the half-

4 | way point."’

LEGISLATION PLANNED The federal government ‘plans to introduce a’ bill in the Com-

the council to seven from four. Its passage would give elected members the majority on coun-

~ Many Construction Companies ~ |gnore Bankruptcy Safeguards

By WALTER HAYES ~~ VANCOUVER (CP) — Bank-- tuptcy inthe construction indus- try would not be the problem it is if contractors took advan-

‘tage of safeguards available to

them, the manager of the Con-

struction Industry Credit Bu- reu said here. . The construction industry

leads all other -Canddian - indus- tries in the number of bankrupt- cies, John F. Sadler of Toronto, said in an interview Wednesday.

In any given year the bank- rupteies result in liabilities _of

much -as, $40,000,000,

“I don’t feel sorry for con-

tractors. 1t=they--used- the tools:

available to them in credit re- porting they would not have the problems they do.”

He said many | contractors. ashe ennai small sub-contrac- tors. caught in a squeeze

by bankruptcy of firms on their

per cent of Canadian contrac-

tors: worked at a loss and “the | picture has. not improved much since then.”

He said the CICB offers con- tractors protection against the

prime cause of losses in the con- extremely economical “method” struction industry—the lack of |of spot checking payments from adequate credit information. owner to contractor and from - However, he said many Cana-jcontractor to sub contractors dian contractors were not tak-| and eventually to* suppliers. ‘ing. advantge of CICB files| Contractors could avoid prob- which contain information ./'lems with sub-contractors by credit ratings, court actions;|checking on the paying habits

cil_for_ the first time. The most significant work

to be pe eee

commission on oe government in Territories.

slightly more than Canada’s total land area.

tion of a game preserve in the

done by. the council was a brief |

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western provinces and could be achieved in gradual stages with full provincial status in about 10 or 12 years, of the capi- tal was left to the Carrothers commission for. recommenda- tion. Council did not discuss what* the province would -be

called. CONCERN LIVING At least two council ‘decisions

ti

ernment, was approved and is scheduled to go-into effect next year. It will be tax-supported | and wi" include all services | general pracfi-|

of-

voted to ask North | Minister Laing to | federal government a plan for subsidiz- lectric power. It would |

up 300 kilowatt morith of electricity in the: territories at

i

3 Z s

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| tence construction was

by the federal gov- |

The

| ~ Bagotville, .

COMMISSION CRITICIZED

OTTAWA (CP) s Gilles | Gregoire (Cred — Lapointe) | raked the Centennial Com- mission over the coals Mon- dav for sending an ungram-

matical circular to French-

' speaking university students in Quebec Mr. Gregoire, speaking dur- ing the Commons interim sup- ply debate, said the creme! from the commission’s youth travel office was in French. But such French. There were no .accents, words were misspelled, sen-

bad and genders juggled.

“This reflects on the Cana- dian government,’’ Mr. Gre- goire said. ‘One should really object to this behavior on the part of the centennial com- mision."* :

He also asked how, on the eve of Confederation, Defence ‘Minister Hellyer could justify a Montreal colonel ordering a

| Quebec dentist to report in | English.

The dentist, attached to the Que. RCAF ssta-

‘tion, had sent a letter in

| French to Montreal headquar-

ters.

The reply from Col. R. Jackson of Montreal said ai reports should ‘be written in English.

Mr. Gregoire didn't identify the dentist.

of 1% cents a kilowatt | The rate now. charged overnment = Spon-| power companies is gen- ally 12 cents a kilowatt hour. council got into its biggest ver the Arctic Islands Preserve, established in

gggges Hal

ity

STARFIGHTER CRASHES

liens and past performances of people companies with which they- are involved on. levery project.

Mr- Sadler said since. its in- ception-in 1964, the CICB, a di- \vision of the Construction Indus- try Credit Men’s Association, has proved its worth to contrac- tors although it. was difficult to | estimate’ the actual

\savings to contractors Mr. Sadler said CICB infor- | {mation on firms at all levels of contractor with. a measure of

\vided a certain measure of pro-

itection for everybody from the lowaer. ots peniest to the mack ies

itrades they intend using.

“dollar |the . project. by. a supplier _ who | .

ithe construction industry pro- |protection against speculative

and past performance of the

At the same time, they would be kept abreast of pending court actions which could adversely affect their project. They could also check to see if their pay- iments: to sub contractors are | penetrating to sub trades and} lavoid having a lien slapped on

has not: been paid. The CICB provided. the sub (

lcontractors who may go bank- rupt before the project is com-

ted : Mr. Sadler said the CICB op-

money. He said the owner could check through. CICB on the past per-, formance. records and_ _eredit istandings — of - the prospective contractor before awarding the contract. Architects were afforded’ “an

Tax Incentive For Research

Too Limited, Committee Says;

OTTAWA (CP)—-A. committee of the Economic Council of Can- ada has told the government its new tax incentive for industrial research and development is too limited and should be revised. --The new tax incentive is. to be fully effective next year but

ican be employed this year as ‘an option to present incentives.

in effect since 1962.

Under the new plan the treas- ury- will pay a grant or allow a tax-eredit amounting to one quarter of business expendi- tures on scientific research and development. T h-e—_ incentive would be freely available for

‘ capital expenditure on plant and

equipment, but only, on. current expenditures. on supplies and payrolls in excess of a th

- yeer average.

&

thar bio projects for

opt st

. The incentive also would be available to al! businesses which nd less than $50,000 a yaaa r companies wanting to

nefit from the incentive on $50,000 a year or more, prior approval would have to be ob- tained from the industry depart- ment on grounds that the re- search and development pro- oa would ‘‘be likely to bene-

-Canada’’ if successful. Od committee report, ‘nade public’ Thursday. by the Eco- nomic Council, found four main faults with the government’s

Bg ot requirement that ma- expenditures be approved by

the government in advance: lack of recognition that there is international trade in new scien- tific and technical information; pegging current expenditures to a base period; and failure to relate benefits to improvements in a oe tivity and efficiency.

“No government official, how- ever. h‘ghly qualified, can fore- ¢ast the degree of success which a articular project will have

for--a° particular company, and

‘no oceeae scientist or engi- heer can ‘ certain that any preiect vil” cover the. precise iground set down in a document ~before—the-—work—be- gins,” the. report said. . It said commercial companies do not undertake research and for frivol- ‘or = irre: le reasons. ote ae this: field are as een Cre in ad-

erated on a non-profit basis and could provide this information to. various’ firms at a fraction of the amount it would cost them to dé the necessary check- ing themselves.

He said one architectural firm |. in Toronto was paying about $8,000 a year to spot check proj- lect _payments. He estimated that the CICB could provide the same information at a saving

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MOSCOW (AP)—Pictures of Josef Stalin appeared on Mos-. lcow television Monday in a chil- dren’s program about the pe- niod between the overthrow of

Czar*=Nicholas® II «in February | -

1917 and the Bolshevik Revolu- tion Nov. 7,..1917. In the last few months, ‘there has been @ movement back: toward historic accuracy ‘that: Stalin’s existence. |

JJ. troit, a former generat man- ~ ager of the Detroit Red Wings, gestures like the figure in the Lester Patrick Trophy award-

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(Jack) Adams of De-

and commemorates Lester Patrick, longtime coach und general manager of the New York Rangers.

(AP Wirephote)

ed him Monday night at the National Hockey fteague din- ner in New York. The award

honors Adams for service to hockey in the United -Statea

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“The company itself is there: fore.in_the best position to make | the critical judgment on whether or not the expenditures

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on a_ particular commercial or industrial ‘project are justified “The function of government- administration in relation to any. general incentive program for research and development in industry should be solely to judge whether or not the pro jects meet the published def- inition when claims are made for__benefits- under _the pro gram: 7 = ame The report said the objective should,enot be simply to sub- | stitute Canadian research work | ae “erk done abroad and made | pleble to Canadian com- nanine: It should be to encour- age Canadian firms to increse

On Electors right to vote'in Ward Six The following indicates the rights of each Elector qualified to vote in the Ward to.

‘mark his or her ballot for candidates.

their participation in the dis covery of new technical know- whether or not this

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