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PAGE 6 TERRACE BAY NEWS SEPTEMBER 19, I973 $1,000 AWARD FOR STUDENT WRITER English teachers at the high school level across Canada don't anticipate much trouble getting students to submit compositions on time this year. The Canada Permanent $I,000 . Award for creative writing is being offered again, for the 7th consecutive year, for the best I,200-word short story in English or Fren- ch. The Canada Permanent Award is believed to be the highest cash award available to students for creative writing and is on a par with am- ounts earned by many professional writers. The company gives a total of over $6,000 in prize monies to the top three submissions in each province. Special certificate awards are also made to other outstanding entries. "The . contest, which is now part of the English curr- iculum in many- schools, began as a centennial project," said M.D. Sinclair, Manager, Public Relations. 'but when it was over we received letters from dozens of students and teachers asking us if we would consider making it a permanent project. Nothing like it had been done before and we understand that students and teachers both appear to prefer the open subject idea of our contest rather than the set essay-type theme that other companies have sponsored from time to time." Rules and regulations have been sent to the Heads of English Departments of all English speaking high schools (and to the quivalent department heads of French Schools). Copies are also available from Canada Permanent bran- ch offices across the country. Final date for submission of entires is December 3I, I973. Winners are advised by letter two months later. Canada Permanent publishes provincial first prize winners in book form, which is made available to high school libraries and is also used by teachers in classroom instruction on creative writing. TERRACE BAY TO GAIN FROM BELL CANADA TAXES Terrace Bay this year will receive a boost in the amount of gross receipts taxes paid by Bell Canada. : The change, legislated by the Ontario Gov- ernment, means Bell will pay $7,423. this year compared to $3,454. in I972, an increase of $3,970. Gross receipts taxes are a unique form of municipal tax levied against telephone and tel -egraph companies in Ontario communities. These utilities pay the tax in addition to real estate and business taxes paid by all businesses. Under the former system, Bell paid to each community in which it operated a tax calculat- ed by applying the local mill rate to the gro- ss receipts taken in by the company. The new legislation calls for the tax to be computed by calculating the number of phon- es Bell has in service in a community at each year's end, multiplying the total by five per- cent of the company's gross receipts in Ontar- io, and then dividing this by the total num- ber of phones Bell has in Ontario. The new formula will result in a 52 percent increase to 3I.6 million in Bell's gross re- .ceipts tax bill in Ontario this year. In a preliminary assessment, some 825 com- munities will receive increases in I973 as a result of the new formula and about 22 commun- ities will be adversely affected. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beaulieu and David have returned from Kapaskasing where they visited Roger's parents Mr. and Mrs. T. Beaulieu. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 18. Building TOPAY'S ANSWER 1. Indian 1. Novelist's or exten- - LLY Ee EB 2 n seaport journalist's sion 5. European dream 19. Stringed An 2 SEL i pn river (2 wds.) instru- [1[3 alam 3dIS 9. Trimmed, 2. Single ment YIAv ILO asa tree 3. Bind 21. Miss mils - SUE ys 11. Farm again Adams [SGHISES ZY measure 4. Goals 24. Pork- ASCE] WN 3 12. Pertain 5. Mineo er's RSL V3 13.-Take on 6. Wayneand parent OIVERAI INNIS freight Hawn got 26. Punish SH \ din 14. Iago's them the 31. Submarine wife (2 wds.) wrongdoer apparatus 15. Diamond 7. Alias "Miss 27. Last- 32. Fiend State Brooks" men- 34. Injure (abbr.) 8. Whirl tioned 36. Highland 16. Cambodia's 9. Ante-bellum 29. Singer, Scot Angkor 10. Constructed RR 38. Duffer's ------ once more Brewer gadget 17. Football : team 20. Cutting tool 22. Svelte 23. Shepherds' pipes 25. Faithful 28. Public disturbance 30. Volcanic emission 31. Exuded 33. Rainy 34. Biblical mountain 35. Eat one's words 37. Com- ponent 39. Appear 40. Demolish 41. Weld 42. Apple or cherry 43. Picnic nuisances