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12 the examiner my Fob 10 1919 Betty Leadbeater pets her seeingeye dog Roz at Toronto hospital Friday Mrs Leadbeater blind Now for 30 years is able to see again after cornea transplant operation restored her vision CP Smaller airline his competitor Lowerthanhis fares upset Laker TORONTO CP It has one jet five flight crews and an in ternational competitor who is complaining to the Canadian government Ontario World Airlines also has the lowest fares for charter flights to London from Toronto Those fares are upsetting Sir Freddie Laker owner of Laker Airways of Britain who has complained to the Canadian transport commission that the Torontobased airline is charg ing too little for its flights to London Sir Freddie said the rates were too low for the airline to break even which means they violate federal regulations and harm his similar service But Jim Mulrooney vice president of marketing and cus tomer service for Ontario World Airlines says Sir Freddie was wrong In an interview Friday he said the airlines fares are Get to work on food prices not ice palaces says MP OTTAWA tCPi The gov ernment is plowing millions of dollars into ice palaces and pulp mills when it should be trying to slow down rapidlyris ing food prices New Democrat MP Lorne Nystrom said Fri day Food prices rose it per cent last year and show no signs of slowing said Nystroin York tonMelville Saskl Yet instead of acting to con trol the increases the govern ment is offering to spend Slit million making our hockey rinks suitable for the National Hockey League and more than $200 million to help the forest products industry he said in thctomnions Nystrom said onsunier il fairs Minister Warren Allinand has been promising Since last June to bring in measures to tard tood price increases but so lainothinghasbeendonc And Finance Minister lcaii FIVEYEAR GUARANTEED INTEREST PAio ANNUALLY Trust Company Certificates hretien told the Commons Thursday that Tanadians have to accept current food prices as the cost of revitalizing thcecon oiny through the devalued lol lar The declining dollar now under 84 cents liS means inr ported fruits and vegetables as well as domesticallyproducerl meats cost more Allinand has promised series of iioiiiiiagical meas tires to restrain the rate of food price increases But goverir merit sources say his depart merit has discovered little can be done because of the dollar and world pressures on food prices ItlllIISSttiV Allniand says the gtwlllh incnts policies will be an nounced as soon as they are ready But his sources in dicated they will he glorified tinkering coated with ten sweeteners Nystroni called for reinstate ment of government subsidies to hold down the prices of bread powdered and fluid milk and dairy products all cut in the last 12 months Chrctien said in the Com mons the government wants out of subsidies because they in crease government spending and do not help just the low iiicome groups Government was trying to help those groups through taxrrelief measures study by the US agricul ture department shows Ottawa has the lowest food prices more than enough to cover costs And were not trying to beat Laker Were trying to be in novative Nevertheless the airlines fares are lower than Lakers return charter flight to London from Toronto is $269 on Ontario World Airways and $300 on Laker Airways Air Canada Wardair and British Airways have an nounced new charter fares to London of $299 Mulrooney says his airline can offer the lower rates be cause it carries more passen gers than Laker Airways It has three flights week to London compared with Lakers one The airline also offers some thing else that Laker does not7 flights to Manchester Birming ham Preswick and Cardiff lot of people in Canada have friends and relatives out side the major centres tin Brit ain said Mulrooney Rather than flying to London and then having to go from there we fly directly to the othercitics He said the airline offers one direct flight week to the four All RSPS are not alike RSP OPTIONS cities which were chosen on the basis of population The IGyearold airline began offering flights to Britain three weeks ago SURGE 0F BOOKINGS Since then theres been very strong surge of bookings Mulrooney estimated that the jet has been about half full and said the flights to cities other than London are the most popu lar The jet is Boeing 707 that can carry 185 passengers and is leased from ltel lntemational Inc of San Francisco The airline has no plans to of fer flights to more cities at this time but the possibility has not been ruled out he said Well evaluate that as we go along He said the airline also will wait to see how successful its British flights are before decid ing whether to expand services into other areas of Canada It did however recently hire 40 more people to deal with the new service bringing the total number of employees to 70 in cluding its pilots who have worked for airlines such as Wardair and Air Canada AT CANADA TRUST Photo Betty can see again after 30 years in dark TORONTO lPl Sunnybrook Medical Centre Mrs Leadbeater who said she is as old as look so leK just leave it at that had been certified blind tor almost th rec eca des Push dollar up Stevens urges TIA WA itl Progressive onsery atix finance critic Sinclair Stevens said Friday government policies should be aimed at pushing the diving dollar back up tow cents Stevens leading contender for the post of finance minister if his party is elected made llll remarks in an lnltrtlt after be strongly criticized Finance Minister Jean hretien In the Commons for lack of concern about the impact of the dollar slide Stevens acknowledged it is the first time he has stated preferred range for the value oi the dollar which has plum meted to as low as 8333 cents in the last week Stevens said the dollars re duced purchasing power abroad is driving up the cost of imports of food and other items to Canadian consumers and is contributing to overall in flation He stressed he was not saying the dollar would be officially pegged at liticents but said that as finance minister he would structure government financial policies with that target in mind FINDING OWN LEVEL Chretien has refused to state preferred level for the value of the dollar and has insisted continually that the dollxr is floating finding its own level on international markets Gerald Bouty governor of the Bank of Tanada told the Commons finance committee this week he was surprised the dollar had dropped so low but he expected it to recover He would not give what he consid ered an acceptable value for the dollar The dollar was briet ly pegged at 92 cents 18 by the liicr fenbaker government in the early 196 At that time the dollar had been trading at higher levels and the move was made to boost exports Since then most Western cur rencies have been floating that is their value is deter milled by laws of supply and demand Stevens said his dollarrle fence strategy would include more responsible measure ment of growth in the money suppy the amount of cash on deposit with banks and other in stittitions as well in circula tion He said he would also con fill After lo years lit the dark Betty litad beater could bear the pain of watching lridays brilliant golden sunrise from her hospital room She could see again And you have no idea what its like to see snowflakes again and the trees the speech therapist said it had liltll four weeks since she had cornea transplant operation at When was losing my sight had just llllltll into lloii Mills part ot the Metropolitan loioiiro borough or oitli York and there utisnl tree llI lLlll cyciything is grouii solush liut think its the laces you miss so ltiiltll the pressions she said as she smiled at her husband Ito lit year old stipcryisor for iiitaiio llydro ly husband illfl didii stop staring ll hiiii toi too or lhieedays llccaiiic lll tora lot ot scrutim In those to years Mrs Letidlictilers daughter Illillli has Lilrmtl Into llittll and not seeing her 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