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A doctor found Maurice, 42, was Allergic to the hair dye. His wife agreed she must go back to being a brunette. "There'll be no more hair dye for Pearl,' said Hect. "Just .the thought of it | | | makes 'me see red." NEWS IN BRIEF MAJORETTES KILLED MONTREAL (CP)--Two 15- year-old majorettes were killed Saturday when a towering elm tree, toppled by high winds, crashed across a Santa Claus parade route in suburban La- chine. Nine other girls who suf- fered minor injuries were re- leased from hospital after treat- ment. Police identified the vic- tims as Louise Giguere and Di- ane Bedarl, both of Montreal. SENTENCED TO DEATH DORCHESTER, N.B. (CP)-- Reginald John Colpitts, 18, of Moncton was sentenced Satur- day to be hanged March 3 after he was convicted of capital murder in the stabbing death of a guard at the federal pen- itentiary here. Colpitts was charged with the Sept. 23 death of E. J. Masterton, 49, of Monc- ton. Masterton died following a scuffle during a recreation pe- riod at the penitentiary. SHARP IN PARIS PARIS (Reuters) -- Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp of Can- ada arrived by air Sunday to take part in this week's meet- ings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De velopment (OECD). Sharp said he also has engagements for meetings next Friday with French Finance Minister Va! ery Giscard Destaing and. Agri culture Minister Edgar Pisani | | 6 ft. - 7 ft. - 8 ft. SPECIAL... 97c - 1.50 - 2.00 Sprayed any color For Nominal Charge. Oshawa Garden| Centre 1259 Simcoe St. N. 723-1161 OPEN EVENINGS GIVE DAD BLACK & DECKER UTILITY DRILL At $12.95 MILLWORK AND BUILDING SUPPLY 1279 Simcoe N. 728-6291} POOL TABLES 11 models From $139.50 MAJOR POOL EQUIPMENT CORP, CANADA LTD 690 Drake St., Oshawa 725-9151 Afer hours. 725-3661 $ SAVINGS $ on auto, repairs, accessories, speed custom equipment. towing HOC's" 1600 KING E. 728-7781 (10% off with this coupon) parts, and 24 hr. THIS YEAR GIVE HIM. 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Few here can recall such a long and highly complex piece of legislation, It ranks with the Criminal Code and the Income Tax Act. The pensions bill, C-136, is a half-pound package in four long parts comprising altogether 125 sections and nearly 600 clauses. Yet dollar amounts are searcely mentioned among its basic previsions. Instead, the whole scheme is a play of percentages so compli- cated and inter - related that they would stagger even the shrewdest bookie. The bill has been sent to a joint Commons-Senate commit- tee for detailed scrutiny before expert witnesses. But even at this stage one point is clear. It is impossible for anyone, except perhaps 'a divine pro- phet with access to an elec- tronic computer, to calculate what he will pay into the plan and what he will get out of it. Illustrations of contributions and benefiis are so bound up in economic guesswork as to make them almost meaning- less. Consider, for example the case of a working man now 30 years old, who will be contribu- ting to the plan when it starts in 1966 and will retire at age 65 in the year 1999. LOADED WITH UNKNOWNS To calcuiaie his contributions and benefits he 'would have to y\know, for every one of his 33 4 contributing years: the level of y| consumer prices, including everything from grocery bills to bus fares; his salary for month; future levels of junemployment, general income levels and so on. In addition, he would have to assume that no future Parlia- ment would ever change the contribution and benefit rates. ,|And, of course, the government already has said that the con- tribution rate likely will have to s!be raised in the 1980s or 1990s. The rates already have been s\widely published. Here they are lin brief: The contribution rate in the '\bill is 3.6 per cent of pension- 'lable earnings. Those contribu- '\tions are shared equally by em- ;|ployees and employers at 1.8 fiper cent apiece. ployed person pays the full 3.6 ¥\per cent. | A self - em How do you calculate pen- sionable earnings? It is the dif- y\ference between upper and j\lower income limits specified in |the bill. | Upper limit starts at $5,000 for 1966 and 1967, For the next jeight years it will rise in line jwith prices, thereafter in step ';with a moving eight-year aver- age of contributors' earnings. The lower limit is 12 per cent that ceiling. Thus at the start this lower limit, or ex- emption, is $600, leaving $4,400 as the maximum on which any- one can contribute. SPREAD CAN WIDEN But there is a hitch. That lower limit can only move in $100 steps. If 12 per cent of the upper limit is not a full multiple of $100, the lower limit remains at the next low- est $100 unit. This means that the upper limit can move up to $5,800 without moving the lower limit. Thus the spread has widened to $5,200. The employee's con- tribution rate is the same 1.8 per cent, But now it works out to $93.60 a year instead of the starting level of $79.20. The retirement benefit at age 65 is basically 25 per cent of average monthly earnings up to the income ceiling. But if « person has contri- buted for more than 10 years, he is allowed a deduction of 10 per cent of his contributing months, Naturally, the lowest 10 per cent would be snipped off to boost the average. In addition, everyone can de- duct one month for every month he goes on working after age 65. Thus there is a real in- centive to stay on the job un- ;+less it means a substantial pay yi cut. But that's not the end of the calculations. Next step is for the pension wizards, or their computers, to adjust the monthly average for each con- tributing year according to price increases between that year and the year of retire ment. Suppose the end result is $500. The retirement pension therefore is $125 a month. FINANCED BY TAXES Atop this will be the flat-rate monthly Old Age Security pay- ment. This now is $75 payable at age 70. Bill C-136 now makes it payable at $51 monthly start- ing at age 65, rising by 40 cents for every month that a person waits beyond age 65 be- fore claiming it. Although this payment' now becomes part of the Canada Pension Plan, it is not related in any way to contributions. It is financed by taxes and 'every- one can claim it, regardless of whether he hastever worked and paid taxes. But this payment, too, is ad- justed. for price increases be- 'tween 1967 and the time it is claimed. For example, if you claim the full $75 at age 70 in ¥}1980 and prices by then have | ES ROME BORLA AR increased 10 per cent, you sould get an extra $7.50 for a total of $82.50 Or, if under the same circum- stances you claim the $51 at age 65, the price increases will have boosted it by 10 per cent or $5.10 to produce a total pay- 'ment of $56.10 a month. The complexities deepen in calculating benefits payable to survivors and contributors who become disabled, unable to work. Another important feature is the 10-year transition period. Contributions begin in 1966 But benefits, aside from the Old Age Security payments, do not start until 1967 and even then are payable only for those who are at least 68, and at 10 per cent of the full benefit. BENEFITS RISE Each year after 1968 the pen sion-claiming age comes down by one year and the level of the benefit goes up 10 percen- tage points. Thus by 1970 a per son aged 65 will get a 40-per- cent pension and the full 100 per-cent level will be reached in 1976. There is yet another "'adjust- ment." ? Once a person between 65 and 70 starts drawing the contribu- tory pension, he or she will be allowed to earn in wages or salaries only 1.5 per cent of that year's income limit. Under the starting limit of $5,000 that would be $75 a month. For every dollar a person in this way over $75 monthly, his pension will be reduced by 50 cents a month, When earn- ings go over $125 monthly, the pension is reduced by $25--half the difference between $75 and $125. Howev: :, these amounts also are expressed in the bill as proportions of the income ceil- ing. Thus, the higher the in- come ceiling goes, the more a pensioner will be allowed to earn before having his pension reduced. Here are some of the other details of the plan: It is compulsory for almost all income-earners to contri- bute. That can be narrowed down to all the self-employed and all employers and their employees over 18, including company of- ficers, everywhere in Canada except in a province operating a plan that pays "comparable" retirement pensions. and survi- vors' benefits. RCMP EXEMPTED --Members of the armed forces and the RCMP, who have their own early-retire- ment pension plans. --Any self-employed person who makes less than 1 1-3 times the annual level of exempt earnings, which in turn is always 12 per cent of 'maximum annual pen- sionable earnings. That maximum starts at $5,000 so the basic exemption is $600 and 1 1-3 times that is $800. --Provincial government employees, unless their provinces enter an Ottawa agreement to bring them under the federal plan. --Those who are paid less than $250 cash for working less than 25 days a year for one employer in farm- ing, logging or lumbering, fishing, trapping or .hunt- ing. --Those with jobs "of a casual nature otherwise than for the purpose of the employer's trade or busi- ness." --Employees of foreign gov- ernments or international organizations. --Those working in Canada for a foreign employer whose country has a reci- procal agreement with Can- ada for exempting such em- ployees. --Any woman employed by her husband, or vice-versa. --Members of a religious order who have taken vows of perpetual poverty and have their remuneration paid into their order. --Exchange teachers from other countries. --Any others who may be exempted by order-in-coun- cil. QUEBEC HAS OWN Excluded from coverage will be any province that says, be- fore the 30th day after the fed- eral plan gets Royal assent, that it will have a comparable plan operating by 1966 So far only Quebec has de- cided to have its own scheme. However, any other province would be able to set up its own plan, providing it: pays com- parable benefits, within four years after the federal plan gets Royal assent. In that case, the province would have to take over all responsibility for the. benefits its residents already had "bought" by paying into. the federal plan. Technically, federal civil ser- vants come under the federal plan. But in practice those working in Quebec will be in- cluded in the provincial plan. The bill provides for such agreements. What happens to existing pri- vate pension plans? An esti- mated 2,000,000 Canadians -- roughly one-third of the. non- farm labor force--now are con- tributed to these, in many cases jointly with employers. The federal legislation is nec- essarily silent on this score. Supervision of these plans is a constitutional . responsibility of the provinces, which recently J Canada Pension Plan Complex Legislation iy been aiming at uniform- ity. Thus it will be up to em- ployees and employers to de- cide, when they are forced to contribute to the federal plan, whether to revise existing pri- vate pension plans. MAY DRAW TWO PENSIONS The government white paper suggested these choices: --Leave the private plan alone; pay into both, draw benefits from both, --If the private-plan contri- bution rate is relatively high, reduce it by the amount of contributions to the federal plan, then ad- just the private-plan. bene- fits. accordingly. --Adopt a different private- plan benefit formula to make adjustments for earn- ings above and below the Canada Pension Plan ceil- ing. --Change the private plans to provide a_ retirement benefit at, say, age 60. Then reduce that benefit when the Canada Pension Plan benefit begins. Whatever happens, this much is clear: The federal plan does not re- move anyone's right to bene- fits already paid for by contri- butions to a private plan. The money paid into these plans will not be touched by the Can ada Pension Plan. What are the chances of this plan incurring a deficit that will have to be met from tax revenues? There is definitely a chance that this could happen. But the odds are stacked heavily against it. The plan creates a $4,900,000,- 000 estimated reserve by 1976, during the first 10 years when full benefits are not yet being paid. INVEST IN BONDS Most of that money will be in- vested in provincial and fed- eral bonds, drawing interest. The reserve itself will decline in later' years but there will be investment income flowing into the fumd for many years. This investment return will keep the plan solvent for sev- eral years after 1985, when the government estimates that con- tributions at the 3.6-per-cent rate will no longer be enough to pay all benefits. Hence the predictions that the rate will have to be increased in the late 1980s or 1990s. As a safeguard, the legisla- tion specifically forbids moving any general government reven- ues, including tax money, into the pension fund. In addition, the legislation creates an elaborate actuarial apparatus so that any potential shortfall in the pension fund should be spotted years before it occurs. It is this: Every five years, the chief actuary in the finance depart- ment must forecast the status of the pension plan for each of the 10 years following, as well as for every 'fifth year for 30 years ahead. If either the government or an opposition MP _ introduces any amendment to the legisla- tion, the chief actuary is re- quired by law to give his opin- ion immediately on how the amendment would affect his most- recent estimates. MUST ENSURE BALANCE If his forecasts indicate a shortfall in the pension fund, he is required to estimate the con- tribution' rate that would be needed to continue paying bene- fits and leave the fund in bal- ance. Every year, the government must report on the status of the fund at year-end--what was paid in, paid out, and admin- istrative costs, In addition, the bill calls for government appointment of a 16-member advisory committee "representative of employees, employers, self - employed per- sons and the public' to review "as it deems appropriate" the operation of the act, the state of the fund, and "the adequacy of coverage and benefits." It won't be easy for any gov- ernment in future to change the act. While it is a long-standing constitutional principle that one Parliament cannot bind an- other, the current Parliament will be asked to write these pro- visions into the act: Any future change in the act's provisions on the general level of benefits and contribu- tions cannot take effect until the first day of the third year after Parliament gets notice of the intention to move an amend- ment. Even more important is the virtual veto power of the prov- inces. As soon as the Commons gets any notice of amendment, it must be sent to the provinces. ONTARIO HAS VETO Any such intended amend- ment affecting contributions or benefits' the operation of the fund or the work of the advis ory committee, must be ap- proved by two-thirds of the provinces with two-thirds of the country's population as calcu- lated on June 1 of that year. The effect of this is that, on the basis of population esti- mates at June 1 this year, On- tario would have a veto with 34.2 per cent of the population. Quebec with 28.8 per cent could block any amendment with backing from any one Western When 33 - year - old Robert Fisher began making his bed a refer to it as a 'death bed.'" was made on snow 20 inches deep. The temperature was upper Michigan's Houghto County woods. Fisher vanished from seven hunting companions a little after 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, when he -set out tracking a deer. d On Monday, Fisher stumbled into a lumber camp outside Toi- vola. He had been missing more than 72 hours in near-bliz- zard weather and Houghton County sheriff's men had begun to "fear the worst" for him. Shortly after he set out Fri- day morning, Fisher, a hunter for 14 years, found a north wind blowing 'his tracks away almost before he stepped out of them CHECKS SUPPLIES By his own estimate when he liost the deer, Fisher was some five miles fram his camp. He sat down on a Iog and checked n province and any two Atlantic provinces except P.E.I. The legislation is specific on how the money in the fund is to be managed. It contains these provisions: The fund must always have a three-month cash cushion, That is, the finance minister every month must estimate how much money is needed to pay bene- fits in the coming three months, That much money must be kept in cash. After that amount is deducted from the operating balance of the fund, the rest is available for buying federal and provincial bonds, Interest earned on these is. paid back into the fund. Provincial direct or guaran- teed bonds have priority. They can be bought, however, only in an amount proportionate to the pension contributions made by people in that province. Thus Quebec at least is automatic- ally excluded. It will have its own plan, its own fund, PROVINCE'S BONDS FIRST. With Quebec out, Ontario {s left with about 48 per cent of the remaining Canadian popula- tion, Since Ontario incomes are probably higher than the aver- age of the nine remaining prov- inces, its contributions may be over half the total. That would mean Ontario would have first call on more than 50 per cent of the reserve in the federal fund, providing it enters the plan. In any event, the procedure is this: The. finance minister must strike an amount. avail- able for buying the securities of each contributing province at each month-end, If no. provin- cial securities are offered within 10 days, he can invest the money in federal bonds. The minister can cash the federal bonds whenever he pleases, no matter how long to maturity. He can redeem any of the provincial securities on six months' notice. : The interest rate will be fixed by the minister, in line with the average yield on federal: securities. For example the provinces would be able to bor- row for 10 years at an interest rate that would be equal to the yield on federal outstanding bonds with about 10 years to maturity. There are dozens of other im- portant provisions in the bill. MUST HAVE CARD Many of them deal with the revenue department contribu- tion-collection system, basically the same as for tax collections. Several clauses deal with the requirement that every contrib- utor must have a Social Insur- ance Number card. By quoting that number, each contributor can demand once a year to see his earnings record. There are lengthy provisions on keeping records, confiden- tially as with tax information. Wide ministerial powers are in- cluded in the bill, along with elaborate provisions for appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada, There is no way of knowing how long the pensions bill will remain before the joint parlia- mentary committee. But it cer- } Man Makes ' When Lost In Bush GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP)|his supplies--a skinning knife, W.|six shells in his gun, a pack of week ago tonight, "I began tojwatch. Death Bed' matches, a compass and a He started back, but his com- The bed was of boughs. It)pass didn't lead him to camp. As darkness began falling, Fisher gathered up boughs and somewhere below 15 degrees. It/built a fire. He drank from a was Fisher's third night, lost in|nearby stream and ate newly fallen snow, e Trundling through streams, gullies and ravines Satur- day, Fisher soaked through his three pairs of socks and wet his precious matches. Also, he fired the fifth of his shells, Again he made a bed of s "in eerie, terrible, lonely quietness."' Laying awake, looking up at the sky, Fisher remembers: "I thought of little incidents: Did I snap too briskly at the grocery man? But mostly, [ thought of what I had left only a week before--my wife, Bon- nie, the children, my mother and dad and my brothers. HOW SHORT IT IS "I think I realized then, to the very fullest, how short life re- ally is, and how the smailest in- cidents collectively can loom large in your re-living them." Sunday's fruitless tramping ended with Fisher's preparing what "for the first: time I be- gan to refer to. . , as 'death bed,'" "It was so strangely quiet at daybreak Monday that I thought, 'Oh, my God, every- one's given up and gone home. It's Monday and they've all had to go back to work,'"' It was some two hours later that Fisher heard the drone of what sounded to him like an en- gine. At about 10:40 that morn- ing, unshaven, exhausted and with frostbitten feet he stumbled into a lumber camp. A surprised lumberjack gave Fisher his whole bunch and cof- fee jug when he asked for something to eat. US. Soldiers Former Reds WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two European - born U.S. soldiers who defected to the Russians more than four years ago were disclosed today to have . had prior connections with the So- viet secret police. The two, both Second World War displaced. persons, were stationed in West Germany with U.S. Army units when they crossed over to the Russians separately in the summer of 1960, Their defection and iden- tifies were disclosed then, but not their prior. connection with the Soviet secret police. One was Vladimir Sloboda, a native of the Ukraine, who now is 37. The other was Joseph Dutkanicz, a native 'of Poland who died a year ago today at the age of 37. Their defection was men- tioned two months ago in the Warren commission's report on the assassination of President John F, Kennedy, QUOTES CIA In discussing Soviet defection procedures -- Lee Harvey Os- wald, Kennedy's assassin, had defected to the Soviet Union after leaving the U.S. Marine Corps -- the commission report avoted the Central Intelligence Agency: . "Two defectors from U.S. Army intelligence units in West Germany appeared to have been given citizenship immedi- ately, but both had prior KGB (Russian secret police) connec- tions and fled as a result of army security checks." The CIA did not identify the two defectors in the Warren re- rt. The Associated Press asked the army for their names and records. Now, two months later, the army, after consulting with the CIA, reports the defectors referred to by the CIA and the two who crossed over in the summer of 1960 are the same. Sloboda has made broadcasts denouncing the U nited States and "has also written articles for the Soviet press which fol- low the Soviet propaganda line," the army said. i The army supplied no details on how, where or when the two | men had had connections with tainly won't be a quick process. the Russian secret police. Next tim e, try... PRODUCED BY 7.6. BRIGHT & CO., LIMITED * NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA CANADIAN SHERRY