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Tie Newmarke Era and Express Newmarket Will Send Four iwanis Music Festival I J I Music festivals not only raise the general standard of music but also serve as an incentive to make profitable use of leisure time The trend toward Do it hobbies must extend to art istic pursuits if people expect to In our IS previous festivals upwards of 180000 competitors have appeared before audiences in excess of Many contest ants have on to great thing in the world of music but we as remember men the get the most out of life In this thousands of other who have made music together and shared the experience of a task well age of readymade entertainment is an important considerat ion That the vie of Brian Boydell done Tor adjudicators who will be Dublin Ireland one of six lead- judging this years Toronto ing Kingdom and and the other competitions musicians who will be ad- cross Canada some of the the Annual Kibest available Canada and the wants Music Festival in Toronto United Kingdom February to March one of the The Canadians are J largest music competitions in Toronto and Cyril world shire Hamilton The adjudicator Competitors from Newmarket from overseas in addition to Mr and district in the Kiwanis Music are Leonard Isaacs Festival are don John Churchill London and Newmarket Robert in a native of Dublin Kevin Robert now living in London John Sweezie and J To years vast Keswick Koraleers and Jim- field of entries there will be my Sharon Edward Reeve Tottenham Murray Mount Albert Roberta Bone In all more than from centres throughout On- church end Evangel tario and elsewhere in Canada pie There will also be regular ev- and the United States will con- sessions at Eaton verge on Toronto to take part in ium a wide variety of competitions A- the groups coming from points are the High the festival is School Band the scheduled for March and 6 when Choir from New Liskeard the concerts featuring Stars of Sudbury High School Band and Festival are scheduled for the Amherst Central High School Hall Band from Snyder New York The Kiwanis Music Festival of This year they will be compel- Greater Toronto was first for in music scholar- under as as a number of cash of the citys five Kiwanis Clubs Today it draws its support mornin and afternoon sessions throughout the twoweek festival periods at the Eaton Auditorium the Canadian Legions two down town halls Sherbourne Street Worit Of Muscular Dystrophy Association Helped By Contributions Gus Ryder honorary chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy campaign for funds has announc ed that more money was contribu ted last year than in While final figures are not yet available it is certain that the total will be greater than the 215000 donated by the Canadian people in the second appeal of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Funds collected since the Ass ociation was organized in are being used to finance research projects at Universities and hos pitals from coast to coast and three have been establish ed in larger population centres The Medical Advisory Board is satisfied that these projects are peine ahead as satisfactorily as can be expected in a comparative ly unexplored field such as mus cle research The work must continue and be increased until a cure for this Reduction of cigarette taxes by six cents per package of cigar ettes in the forthcoming federal budget was requested by the tax ation committee of the FlueCur ed Tobacco Marketing Association of Ontario at a meeting with Fin ance Minister E Harris last week The association represents growers of 93 per cent of all tob acco used in Canada A 20page printed proposal based on an economic study of the effects of tax changes on tob acco sales and federal revenue in Canada was prepared for the committee by Professor David Slater of the department of political and economic science Queens University Kingston The taxation committee pre sented a comparison of commod ity taxes to show that tobacco taxes bear the highest rate of commodity taxation imposed by crippling and fatal disease can be 177 cents per pack of 20 which is 54 per cent of the ordinary re- Claims Tobacco Taxes Of Selling Price Ask Reduction This Year removal of glaring inequities In the tax structure are desirable ob jectives of taxation policy it seems to follow that tobacco has a very special claim in a year when the money is available for this purpose The basic objective Of the work of the- taxation committee which has won two tax reductions in six years of effort three cents in and cents in was stated as equality of Canadian and US federal cigarette taxes eight cents per and a 25 cent package for the consumer The tax reduct ion asked would come fairly close to achieving these objectives The Committee referred to what it called the galloping nat ure of present federal tobacco re venues pointing out that this was in part due to the tax cuts made bv former Finance Minister Abb ott in and Before those the federal government namely j reductions the feder al yield from tobacco exclusive War Amps Key Tags To Be Sent To Owners Of Autos This Month This month Ontario car owners will receive two miniature car license key tags bearing the tame numbers as their own car The key tags will come from the War Amps Key Tag Service manufacturered by war amputat ions cases whose work not keeps them gainfully employed but raises fund for the benevol ent work of the War Amputations Association of Canada Designed mainly so that car owners might recover lost keys the War Amps Key Tag Service has now been serving Canadian motorists for years Twentyfour war veteran are steadily employed in a cheery Toronto workshop where all the employees are amputation cases and the boss Allan David Piper wears two iron hooks in place of the hands he tost in a grenade ex plosion in Last year the Tag Service Point Out Marketing Schemes Are Now Clearly Legalized Our present provincial mar- other province or export and Bill of these board and levies are fully the Dominion government now I legalized right now the by the recent Supreme J Government atuier Court decision legalize lent Mr the present Operation our Pro- Marketing Board Lloyd Jasper President of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture recently j Mr made report r the present statu of marketing hoard to a regular meeting Ontario Federation members in Toronto Thursday January His statement followed a confer- jencc in Toronto between the St tario Federation of solicitor Harris Catharines and ft Because the meeting was presentation of a formal statement cm the Federation Jasper r- groups lO poo held he not might be uteri n for if o he used my hoard in he viu from ii- The for Mr mid present n found and as has been found so often in medical inquiries much of the basic research will be of general value for medical pur poses and in other fields in add ition to those strictly limited to muscular dystrophy Mr Ryder paid tribute to the pre radio and television for of the tail price per cent of the re tail price less taxes and per cent of the manufacturers selling price Professor Slaters report was quoted to show that federal revenue from tobacco taxes is more than the gross receipts of all I resources materials manufactur ing and distribution used in the their unpaid support of cam- producls and particularly to I Canada thousands of volunteer workers whose efforts made it possible ollect the money The firefighters J burdn of of sales tax was 207500000 while this- year it will be about With sales tax added total tobacco tax revenues for are estimated to 286000- more than four times the gross farm value of the entire Canadian crop The specific request o the min ister was for a reduction of the excise duty which is levied only on tobacco and distilled spirits Among the reasons urged on Jn present tax setup the duty of Canada have been of primary importance to the success of the three Muscular Dystrophy cam paigns This year firemen in over awards and taxes on low income groups the discriminatory penalty against Canadas 5000000 cigarette smok ers limitation of the use of land Object Not Prizes And while the prospect of re ward for effort is a spur Toronto Kiwanians endorse the view of the eminent British musician Sir Davies that music from the clubs in existence in the Metropolitan area To date some in schol arships and cash prizes have been awarded to competitors Thii in addition to the administrative costs of the festival is subscribed festivals the object is not to gain mainly througk prize or defeat a rival but to pace one another on the road to from being a money raijnr excellence project the festival is viewed by Tudor Harries President of the Toronto Music Kiwannns as one of their service in an undertaking for Festival Association feels The an- there is no other competitive in which groups and s an annus one s als to strive for and give their sponsoring best Kiwani lubs 200 localities have given freely of suitable lobaccQ their time and many other organ- 2M0W acres and service clubs have as- 515ted suit from a tax cut One of the difficulties facing Tobacco tax reductions would the doctors and scientists working less inflationary than most on Muscular Dystrophy is to likely cuts the committee told its victims In the past so lit- j the minister because a large part tie was known about it that it has of the apparent loss to the treas- hard to diagnose For this f would be recovered in other reason clinics have already been forms of taxes In addition a at Hamilton London tax cut would not place any and Toronto and others will be extra strain on credit or on scarce set up this year Anyone desiring resources On the contrary the further information is asked to presentation stated it will these clinics or write to unproductive resources into The Muscular Dystrophy of Canada Wellington Assuming as we must the St Toronto Ontario committee continued that the reduction this cenls 2 which is added the sales tax of cents per cent because it is a and then an ad ditional excise tax of eight cents totalling cents The duty said the Committee is a relic of days long past when tobacco was an imported lux ury Today Canadian cigarettes are per cent Canadian tobacco in content and there is ample evi dence in the Governments own consumer expenditure survey and elsewhere that it is a normal part of the common way of life of more than half of all Canadian adults More than 1300 fires occur in an average week across Canada according to the AllCanada In surance federation Total annual of such fires is more than returned one set of lost car keys of the to their owner every minutes Court decision county During the past five years of secretaries and operation Key Tag Service has were transferred an average of in attendance Some 130 annually to the Benevolent of agricultural jrx Committee across Ontario wenre pre- If you Mr or Mrs Motorist J making one of the lose your car keys tomorrow of this lost keys are mailed to the War rronths Amps Office where quickly the I Supreme Court name and address of the car own- Jasper is discovered and the of the province Ontario mailed to their rightful owner In years over million miniature car key tags have been made by the War Amps This year key tags will be mailed out The decision to mail out duplicate key tags resulted from the enormous number of re quests by subscribers for a sec ond tag The innovation of mailing duplicate key tags in paying real keys right of the province to enact the lection the Ontario Farm Mark eting Act and to let up hoi peach and vegetable approved the and fees by these organiz ations provided that men due to nC ana e connection with within the province As ft e transactors dividends Allan Piper said today as In so many Canadian homes there are two cars In most homes the husband and wife both have car keys Key tags are sent out is The recipient is expected to mail back 35 cents for one key tag and cents more for the sec ond key tag The money is sent to the War HOPE HOBBY CLUB The Club will hold its the home of Mrs C i roll call will be answered wills item groceries for the euchre lucky draw Amps Key Tag Service Bay Street Toronto Col The Rev Mrs and Mrs E Lambert is Domin- Lunch committee Mr J ion President of the War Amps Mrs Crone Mrs J and Association Hubert Baxter is Mrs A A bus will Honorary Secretary be planned at this When it her o cs rm v us I as a hi mi Actually rcrs ay ct but t co it better fed KRUSCHEN AT When the index of textile in dustry wages is adjusted to the index of retail prices it shows that Canadian textile workers now en- joy per cent more buying now than in Introducing Tip for Canada The American Automobile Association 1 Renting United States motorists has called for higher taxes on heavy commercial trucks to re duce the portion of highway costs borne by motorists fat 1 Everyone knows thai women are keen shop- and that they are aways on the look- lout or a real bargain That Is why so many bus passengers are t women travel bargain they see one 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