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Orono Weekly ••times,' Wednesday, December 8th, 1976-3 „ O.P.P. News During the past week the Ontario Provincial Police at Newcastle investigated 23 motor vehicle collisions'and , 72 general occurrences. . Of the 23 accidents 5 involved personal injury to 7 persons and the remaining 18 resulted in property damage. The cause in the majority of the collisions was the speed of the vehicle being too fast for the slippery road conditions. Investigations have led to the charging of' 4 persons with offences contrary ' to the Highway Traffic Act, The general occurrences requiring investigations this week included complaints of wilful damage, fraud, thefts, and break, enter and theft. Five persons have been charged following investigations investigations into thefts occurring with in the area. Also this week 4 persons were charged with impaired driving and 9 persons have been charged with offences contrary to the Liquor Licence',-Act. Licence',-Act. ÆHBXunited church Orono Pastoral Charge yVAWB Minister Rev. B.E. Long B. Th. Üq^PoRGANIST CHOIR DIRECTOR Douglas Dewell SUNDAY, DEC. 12th, 1976 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School 10a.m. Morning Worship 11:15a.m. White Gift Sunday - Envelopes Envelopes will be placed in the Pews for World Relief. The Official Board will meet on Dec. 14th at 8 p.m.,in' the 'lower C.E. Hall. KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Morning Worship 9:45 à. m. Sunday Church School 11 a m. Dial-A-Thought 983-9151 Sue Holmes was a" busy afternoon at the Rebekah young lady last Saturday Bazaar and Tea writing out "Beyond the usual comedy of errors, states Lawrence draw tickets for an Owl Macramé hanging and a hand-made mat. Both items were quite eye-catching and tickets sold well. Results of draws next week. // The report of the Auditor General, which normally documents documents how federal bureaucrats bureaucrats misallocate the taxpayers' taxpayers' money, has this year reached beyond thp usual comedy of errors to reveal an international drama that at times seems shadowy and sinister. .The actors in this are two of Canada's major Crown Corporations, Corporations, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., (AECL) and Polysar (formerly Polymer) Corporation. The AECL "connection" concerned a $15.3 million "commission" payment made to a Panamanian-basec company called United Development Development Inc., which had 'acted in negotiating the récent Candu nuclear reactor sale to South Korea. Of this payment, $5.1 million was the commission on the massive 1 ! -r $500 million) sale, and v million was billed in. expenses for which the accounting accounting was in the restrained Dave's Plumbing Heating Electric Industrial-Commercial Residential 786-2471 R.R.l Orono Building a House? or remodelling your , present brn- ,' Then contact: Floyd Nicholson Orono 983-5049 prose of the Auditor General - inadequate. In addition to these nebulous nebulous expenses, which included 2,5 million to "consultants", there was included a $2 million advance payment on a post services contract which calls for minimum payments by AECL of $175,000 every three months for what could well be the next eight years. AECL also made a $2.4 million payment to its Argentinian Argentinian sales agent hiréd by AECL's Italian partner in this deal,*Italimpianti of Genoa, Italy. Not even AECL knows that real identities of the shadowy figures who actedf»s sales agents. But despite this fact, it made a payment of $2.5 million jn U.S. funds to the Liechtenstein bank account account of the Intercontinental General Trading Establishment, Establishment, a dummy company reported to have Argentine interests behind it. '. Further revelations were, made by the former Auditor General, Mr. Maxwell Henderson, Henderson, on Friday, November 26th, to the effect that the crown-owned Polymer Corporation Corporation ,(now Polysar) had made financial rebates - a form of corporate kickback - to its customers to aid them in evading the taxes of their home countries. Mr. Henderson Henderson referred to a letter written three years ago to the Prime Minister, detailing practices which involved Pol- sar's Swiss subsidiary charging charging customers inflated prices for goods, the difference between these prices arid the real prices being deposited in the customers' numbered Swiss bank accounts, far from the eyes of local tax officials. ** The Prime Minister responded responded by producing the letter and copies of a letter sent to C M. "Bud" Drury, who was then the minister responsible, detailing him to investigate the matter and report back. Mr. Drury not only never reported back to the Prime Minister, but neglected to advise the Auditor General of his personal investigation which, in fact, consisted of one telephone call to the Chairman of the Canada Development Corporation, the government corporation that owns Polymer. The Auditor General's Report Report was referred to the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons, of which I have the honour to be Chairman.. The committee was first empowered on November 22nd to inquire only into matters relating to 1 the 1976 Report of the Auditor General. The public outcry over the Polymer rebate scheme subsequently motivated motivated the government to broaden broaden the Committee's terms of reference to include this matter as well. The government contends that both the activities of AECL and of Polymar constitute constitute 'acceptable business practice. practice. If this is so, then the Committee should encountèr little resistance in obtaining all relevant information. However it is clear thht it will f be a long and arduous task for the Committee to get to the bottom of these matters. 1.5 million members of credit unions To the Electors of WARD 3 To All who supported me in the recent election May I express my sincere thanks Wm. H. Carman SEASON'S GREETINGS Just under 1.5 million people in Ontario are shareholders shareholders in the province's 1,251 credit unions whose total assets are $2.2 billion, according according to the ninth annual review of credit unions and caisses ' populaires published this week. The 56-page report, compiled compiled by Central Statistical Services, shows a continuing trend, to fewer but larger credit unions, down 242 in number since 1969 when credit union statistics were first compiled, and with a drop of 35 in the last year. Twelve of the largest credit- unions, .with assets of more than $20 million each, are concentrated in the Ottawa region, Toronto, Hamilton and the Niagara area, with another in Algoma. During I97t> Ontario credit unions paid (". J $502,000 in property taxes, $667,000 in rent, $466,000 on postage, and $20 million in salaries and honoraria honoraria for their 2,407 full-time and 1,329 part-time employees. employees. 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