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14 the examiner Wodnosday May am Gift for the mayor Ontarios minister of intergovernmental affairs the Hon Thomas Wells presents Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco with replica Old Fort Henry cannon Wells headed group of Ontario officials visiting San Fran cisco and spoke to gathering of l80 California travel agents and wholesalers Tuesday night at travel seminar sponsored by the Ontario ministry of Industry and tourism AP Photo Unusual survey launched TORONTO Cl The ministry of the solicitor general has announced an unusual survey for this month attempting to determine the proportion of night drivers who drink In statement Tuesday the ministry said police will select drivers at random to talk to staff of the ministry of transportation and communica tions conducting the survey at roadside sites During the survey transpor tation ministry staff will ask questions about motorists journey and driving patterns before inviting the driver to voluntarily provide breath sample The driver will be told results of the breath test The statement said that while the surveys main aim is statistical any driver who is found to have bloodalcohol levc over the legal limit will be asked to not continue driving Alternate transportation can be arranged The survey which will be conducted in 15 unidentified communities four nights week from pm to3 am will be us ed to measure possible effects of any future programs which may be introduced to help comv bat drinking drivers Not ideal golfing weather Cec Ferguson club pro at the Regina Golf and Country Club is little miffed at the weather these days Fergusons club opened April poor weather has kept even the duffers away May Regina received light snowfall and Ferguson debated exchanging his driver for snowshovel to clear around this pin Dull wet weather has been the order of the day here most days CP Photo The Sturgeon River has stop ped rising giving the town to Field Ont town respite but flooding problems have on ly moved downstream The Sturgeon which drains watershed as far north as Lake Timagami about 160 kilometres north of North Bay empties into Lake Nipissing TEllltAN AP One of the religious leaders of the revolu tion in Iran died from an assassins bullet early today telephone caller claiming to represent the killers said the victim Ayatollah Morteza Motahari was the head of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinis secret ruling politburo Motahari reputed to be among the 20 most influential of Irans 100 Shiite Moslem ayatollahs was shot in the head as he left dinner party in Tehran The assassin apparently escaped An anonymous telephone caller told the newspaper Ayendegan the assassination was the work of Forghan the secret organization which claimed to have killed Gen Mohammad Vali Gharani the first postrevolution army chief of staff on April 23 The caller said Motahari was head of the secret Islamic Revolutionary Council which Khomeini the leader of the revolution set up as the supreme power in the country REMAINSSECRET Membership of the council has been closely guarded secret and neither confirmation nor denial of the callers iden tification of Motahari as its head was immediately available The council supervises the Islamic revolutionary courts that have ordered the execu tions of 164 persons after speedy trials in which the rights of defendants have been minimal Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan who heads the provi sional government appointed by Khomeini has threatened several times to resign because of the committees power claiming that its activities are combined cent 12month period recent they can provide ding profile MOST OWN ARS CHI families 25 per cent was 455 $20767 in Ottawa during 1976 Torontos 693 per cent Relations Families spent more on taxes OTTAWA CP The average family spent more paying personal taxes in 1976 than it did on food and medical care That is one of the findings in Statistics Canadas most re cent profile released Tuesday of family spending patterns The federal agency discovered by the average family used 187 per cent of its budget to pay personal taxes In 1976 this amounted to $3356 out of $17908 average total spending Food expenditure by comparison accounted for 16 per cent shelter 157 per cent clothing seven per cent transpor tation 123 per cent and medical and health services tWo per The survey was based on questioning of 3681 families over Government statisticians acknowledge that the profile is already out of date but say it takes so long to compile and process the figures that 1976 spending patterns are the most The main reason for the survey is because the findings are crucial to costofliving calculations Each month when Statistics Canada publishes latest figures on consumer prices it bases its survey on the spending patterns of typical household The agencys basket of typical goods and services bought by families is reflection of the 1976 spen The survey also showed that 497 per cent of families own ed their own homes and 715 per cent had either truck or Spending on smoking and alcoholic beverages as percentage of total expenditures was highest among families in the $10000to$12000 income group at 44 per cent The poorest families used 33 per cent and the richest Rich families tended to be headed by younger people than poor ones In the lowest income group the average age of the family head was 624 In the richest group the average Rich families also tended to be larger In the highest in come category the average family had 41 members In the lowest classification average membership was 12 persons During the reference year the typical family budget in cluded $2869 year for food $2810 for shelter $856 for fur niture and appliances $1254 for clothing $351 for medical and health care $585 for smoking and alcoholic beverages $2198 for transportation including car ownership Family spending varied from $14994 in Winnipeg to Home ownership varied from 758 per cent of the families surveyed in St Johns Nfld ar ownership ranged from Vancouvers 794 per cent to and on Tuesday ministry of natural resources officials took action to keep the lake from flooding Ministry officials said the Sturgeon was dumping water into the lake three times as fast as the water was leaving so they opened two dams along the French River which drains MORTEZA MOTHARI shot in head hampering his cabinets efforts to get the government and the economy working again Forghan is reported to have been formed about 18 months ago and little is known about it The name can mean either holy book or distinction between truth and falsehood Apparently it is opposed to the religious domination of the revolution After Gen to 373 per cent in Montreal cordial with RCMP Goyer testifies OTTAWA Pi Jean Pierre layer the third former solicitorgeneral to testify dur ing the federal election cam paign told royal commiSSion Tuesday of two initial tests of strength with the RCMP after he took his cabinet post Dec 22 1970 Goyer who resigned late last year after more than 13 years as an MP now practises law in Montreal He was solicitor general for two stormy years in the early 1970s Testifying before royal commission which is trying to determine whether he and other solicitorsgeneral covered up for the RCMP or whether the force misled them Goyer said he had cordial and at times close relations with the force Initially however he found the Mounties reticent And when he brought deputy minister Ernest Cote to his third meeting with then RCMP commissioner Wl Iliggitt Higgitt reluctant to discuss anything in the deputys presence had to be invited by Goyer to do so Goyer said he insisted Cote as his main adviser be present at the weekly meetings Hig gitt he said replied that he would have to get used to this Sturgeon River stops rising Town gets respite from flooding Nipissing Gordon Simpson department project supervisor said the ministry was also concerned it might be liable for damages to property along the lake if flooding was caused by the dams Were changing our opera tion from one of control to Iranian religious leader assassinated leaving party Gharanis assassination it charged him with cooperating with the mullahs dictator ship disarming civilians and plotting proAmerican coup Motahari who was reported to be in his 605 was professor of theology and prolific author At the time he was shot Radio Tehran was reading selections from one of his books about the Prophet Mohammed entitled The Story of the TrUe One natural flow In that way we wont be liable for any damages In North Bay city council held an emergency meeting and allocated $100000 to pay for efforts to keep the water out of thecity REACHING FLOOI LEVEL Lake Nipissing is about Gen Gharani the revolutionary figure to be assassinated was appointed chief of staff two days after the revolutionary forces took over the government mobs looted the armys bases and arsenals of an estimated 300000 weapons and many of the troops deserted iharani was replaced after six weeks because it was reported he had been unable to convince the deserters to return to duty first onethird of metre below flood level and is expected to reach flood level by Friday In the city sand bag dikes will be built along two kilometres of lakeshore to pro tect about 100 homes in the greatest danger of flooding Premier William Davis visited the area Tuesday flying into isolated Field by helicopter He told residents that the government will consider disaster relief at cabinet meeting and said he will sug gest interestfree loans to help tourist operators recover In Sturgeon Falls the premier met with area municipal leaders who urged him to consider helping relocate about 75 homes in Field Water about five metres deep has forced more than 300 of the towns 500 residents to flee The water level finally stop ped rising Tuesday but officials said there is still snow further north which must flow through the area once it melts TOURS TOWN Mayor Michel DeCaen of Sturgeon Falls declared state of emergency in the town 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