cee, EL ato Public LEGISLATIVE Ltr any, PARLIAMENT BUiLULBGG, OTTAWA (CP)- Mounting concern for public safety has become a strong bargaining tool for striking airport radio operators across Canada as servjecs are disrupted and Teports of unsafe flying ‘ conditions § —s multiply, Pressure applied to the government Wednesday to re-open talks with about 1,200 siriking marine and alr operators prompted Transport Minister Don Mazankowskl io tell MPs all reports of dangerous incidents are being investigated by VICTORIA, eCay VBV-1%4 - Sate gol ty us CoM. TITIES ed in strike bargaining The RCMP in Peace River, Alta., is investigating Suspected sabotage after damage to weather observation equipment set up to replace the striking operators. , Unsafe conditions such as runway clearance foul-vps and loaa of runway lights were reported Wednesday in the House of Commons and by the Public Service Alliance of, Canada which represents the operators, ; . Operators diarupting air traffic at the official opening could add to already widespread shut-dewns and work slowdowns. A hydroapokesman said Wednesday plans are ready to bus journalists and about 200 guests 190 kilometres to the project site from a private air strip should area airports be shut down CP Air has suspended flights Into Prince Rupert and Terrace, B.C., and Pacific Western Airlines Wednesday service into Northern Saskatchewan from Saskatoon. Some Edmonten operators were fulfilling designated duties ‘Wednesday bul all aperators in Calgary walked off the job, The union, without a contract since July, 1979, seeks a 15 per cent wage increase in the first year and a coal of living increase in the second year of a iwo-year contract, Treasury board has offered a seven per cent increase in each year of the department, ” _ Saturday of Quebec’sJames Bay hydro-electric project halted service to Quesnel, B.C. 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Meat analysts expect the latest Increases Will push the rate past the 14 per cent level, As. expected, Canadian ' chartered banks started raising their basic minimum lending rate — the. one charged to their moat credit- worthy customers, usually corporations — following the move by the Bank of Canada to raise the prime toa record 14 per cent. Two of the big banks, the Bank of Montreal and Continental Bank of Canada, immediately hiked thelr rate to.45 per cent from 18% per ‘ant; However, the - - the country, raised its prime rate to only 1434 per cent, All rates are effective Friday, The Royal ralsed its savings account rates to 1134 from 10% per cent while the’ Bank of Montreal raised theirs to 12% per cent. - “Qur savings rate is higher than the Royal's," a Bank of Montreal apokeaman sald. "It shows we really mean it when we say we want people to save.” The spokesman said the bank's latest incresse was an “effort to keep the prime rate rising in relation to the money market rates.'’ “and the money market rates have ripen significantly in North America andat a more rapid pace than administered . rates.” While bank interest rates are abnormally high, it must be kept in mind that con- sumer ratea — for such iterns as bank credit cards, car loans, appliance loans — are much higher, usually three to five per cent above the prime rates. Forest Rogers, senior economist with the Bank of Nova Scotia, suggest that lending institutions may hold olf for a while before in- creasing some borrowing rates in hopes of staving off a. credit boycott. How about a trade TORONTO (CP) — The game of big-city politics took on major-league status Wednesday night when Toronto Mayor John Sewell was asked If he was willing to be traded to Montreal for Mayor Jean Drapesu. “Hockey clubs and baseball clubs and football teams often trade their star players,’ Martin Borner, president of a Montreal real estate firm, told Sewell after the mayor delivered a speech to 250 membera of the Society of Industrial Realtors. “Our mayor in Montreal seems to be constantly spending more than we can afford. In view that you are running a pretty tight financial ship, I wonder if you might be available for a trade,"’ Borner was referring’ to Drapeau's§ grandiose projects, such as the 1978 Olympic Games, ATER a RTREEEURE ocr 7 ipenemer en erinrearnO An Skoglund Hotsprings resort sits in ruin proto by crea Middleton HOTSPRINGS DEVELOPMENT By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer The provincial government will go ahead with the development of the Skoglund Hotsprings ‘Sometime in 1980 it was revealed Wednesday by Jim Chabot, provincial minister ‘of lands and rks. Chabot wouldn't reveal the exact nature of the development pending the clearing of “‘certain approvals”. “The study of my senior assistant deputy minister is in my hands,” he commented. “But the development couldn't possibly start this year.” - Chabot will be in Terrace this coming OVER THE RCMP | - Provinces want more control OTTAWA (CP) Provincial attorneys-general met behind closed doora today with federal ministers to press demands for greater control over the RCMP. In the eight provinces where the RCMP acta as the provincial police, attorneya- general said they think the police should report to them Feelings mixed ~ father than to headquarters in Ottawa, Roy McMurtry, attorney- general of Ontario, said Ontario and Quebec will be looking for more federal money to finance thelr provincial police forces. McMurtry ‘has said he wante the federal royal commission inveatigaing allegations of. RCMP about the shah | NEW YORK (AP) —Some followers are praying for the. deposed shah of Iran's recovery from cancer and gallbladder surgery, but others say they hope he will survive only to meet a violent death, Four Iranian women con- ducted a prayer vigil Wednesday inside New York Hospital for Shah Moham- mad Reza Pahlavi as surgeons removed his allbladder. Outside, émonstrators chanted “Death to the shah!" The shah, whose six-year battle with cancer of the lymph system was an- nounced following the operation, was described as resting comfortably. — During the procedure, doctora sought to determine the extent of the lymphoma, which a team of French. specialists has been secretly treating, said the shaoh's spokesman, Robert Armao, A‘spokeaman for the hospital, where the ahah is in a $300-aday room surrounded by bodyguards and private security agents, declined Wednesday to give any further cluea to his condition. But Armao, said “recovery without com- lications is anticipated’? rom the gallbladder surgery. He sald the shah, who celebrates his 60th birthday Friday, will be in hospital for two to three weeks, Armao said the shah, deposed in January by the revolutionary government of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomelni, had not wanted his long battle with cancer to be known because it would not be “in the best interest of his country."”” : During the 24-hour operation, about 150 demonstratora outside the hospital shouted anti-shah alogans and waved a banner reading ‘A peaceful death is too good for the shah!" The shah was irled in ab- sentia and sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Iran. A $131,000 reward and free trip to Mecca have been promised to any person who as- sessinates him. The U.S, state department has assured the Iranian government the shah's visa is only Cor medical treatment and not asylum. Monday to reveal further details of the develop- ment of the hotsprings. “IT would give a program as I see it as to what should take place at the Skoglund Hot- springs,” he added. The hotsprings, located off Highway 25 was privately owned at one time, but the facility was allowed to gradually wrongdoing to hand over information to him go he can prosecute Mounties who broke the law in Ontario. Federal Soiicitor-General Allan Lawrence said he ts looking for ways to provide provincial attorneys-general with such Information, but added that the issue probably will not be solved at this two-day conference. * Provincial ‘attorneys- general are especially concerned that information the RCMP gathers in ita capacity as provincial police could become public under the government's freedom- of-information bill in- troduced Wednesday in the Commons. Lawrence said most provinces do not share his government’s view that government ahould be more open, “including matters pertaining to the pollee,”’ “ft hope I can make them see the light on more open procedure,” he added, The provinces want ta establish the principle that they should control this information, but the courta have ruled that the RCMP is accountabie only to the federal solicitor-general. “Fve got the big lever behind'me,”’ Lawrence said. “T could take the position that what happens ia what I say is going to happen, but I don't want to take that at- titude."’ However, he aaid, it is important for the RCMP 9 remain a national police force. ‘Law enforcement standards should be the same from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland,” he said, Quebec Justice Minister Marc-Andre Bedard said the provinces are concerned about overlapping federal “3 ---Gov't to-go ahead in 1980 Bank of Canada, largest in deteriorate, until health department officials closed the pools. The resort closed shortly after last November's floods, The property was purchased by the province on March 30 through the efforts of Cyril Shelford, former Skeena MLA _ and agriculture minister in the Bennett government. and provincial jurisdictions which he sald make the criminal justice system slow and expensive, Other topies on the agenda include Justice Minlater Jacques Flyan's plans to modernize the Criminal Code and his more im- mediate proposals to rewrite the laws on rape and sexual offences. Burglar trapped VANCOUVER (CP) — A bungling burglar who got trappe in a downtown tore’s ventilating shaft will be sentenced Nov. 34 on charge of breaking and entering. Albert Alexander Bay, 22, of Vancouver was convicted Wednesday in provincial court, Bay was discovered early Sept. 5 when an employee of the Army and Navy department store heard a person shouting for help and knocking on the inside of an unlsed ventilator shaft at the mezzanine level. Police and flremen with ropes and pulleys hauled Bay, who was unhurt, 18 metres back up the shaft. FRANK HOWARD An inguiry ealled for By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer ‘Frank Howard, the MLA for Skeena, has urged Health Minister Bob McClelland te conduct a full scale in- vestigation into the ad- ministrative operations of Mills Memorial Hospital. Howard says ‘such an investigation should also examine the level of health care in the Terrace-Kitimat Area. Howard's request comes on the heels of a disclosure that John Allen, the former ad- ministrator of Mills Memorial, has been charged with 13 counts of fraud in connection with his expense accounts, “I’m asking Mc- Gelland simply to in- volve himself in an ith care available, not only in Mills Memorial but in the area in general, primarily because of the turmel] that has been going on amongst the staff there and the resignations and current vacancies,'’ commented Howard. He pointed out that taxpayers fund about 9 per cent of the hospital's activities and it should be insured that “health care is delivered in an efficient way.” “Obviously there is something at the operational level that needs to be examined and would seem beyond the purview of the beard of directors to look at,’ he added. ; The chairman of the hospital board, Wayne Epp, denied Howard's charges that there had been any effect on health care, “The only thing af- fecting the health care in this) area is the irresponsible reporting you people (The Daily Herald) have done,” Epp said. Epp said that four years ago when John Allen, the hospital ad- ministrator who resigned Oct. 10,-was hired the hospital was $400,000 in debt. -, “Currently we are running a surplus in the neighborhood of over $500,000," Epp said. ‘If that’s poor ad- ministration I'd like more of it.” Epp went on to say the Herald articles and a column by Herald Editor Greg Middleton have affected staff morale and “set back health care in this area about three years.” accounts. - Association. for four years. | ALLEN FACES FRAUD CHARGES ii John 4 Allen, the former head of Mills Memorial the . | diospilal, was charged with, 13. counts. of fraud | | examination of_the level... ait tate Pg Matta te a EE The charges, laid as the result of a more than two-month investigation by the Terrace RCMP, _(nelude 12 counts involving sums under $200 and 1 count over $200. The information alleges the - fraud was committed in connection with expense In the period between January, 1978, and April, 1979, Allen is alleged to have obtained duplicate *ebates on air fares from both the Terrace and 1Jistrict Hospital Association and the B.C, Health Allen resigned as administrator of the hospital Oct. 10, citing poor health as the reason. Nursing Supervisor Shirley: Bently is acting administrator and a former accountant who resigned in the summer, Graham Palmer, has returned to take over the accounting at the hospital and act as business manager. Allen is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 5 to face the charges, Allen has been at the hospital Hearings called farce VANCOUVER (CP) — A United Fishermen and Allied Workers official’ says 4 Nea mnerey Board ering on plans to transport Alaskan oll to the United States is a farce — but it's not the board's fault, “The NEB ahould have a responsibility to inquire inte the marine environment impact of an oil spill, but cannot dose under the terms of the act that created it 2 years ago,"’ Arnie Thomlinson said Wednesday in an interview. ‘Its hands are tied, and that’s a han: dicap, “The fact that the NEB Is powerless to ask questions on the impact of an all tanker spill on the B.C. marine environment makes the hearing a farce indeed." The board is hearing Trans Mountain Pipe Line Co.'s Plan to build an oi] part at Low Point, Wash. The company wants to bring Alaskan oll by tanker to the proposed port, then ship it to Edmonton in a planned pipeline, then to Chicago by pipeline. Trans Mountain estimates the project will coat $600 million. Thomiinson said the board’s limited terms of reference ia the reason the West Const oil ports inquiry was set up two years ago to look inte the question of oil spills when Kitimat Oil Pipe Line Co. proposed an oll port at Kitimat, B.C., to recelve Alaskan oll, Dr. Andrew Thompson, who headed the West Coast inquiry, ls one of a number of Intervenors against Trans Mountain's proposal. "I suggest that the act creating the -NEB_ be amended right away,’’ Thomlinson said. “Tt would require only a minor amendment to compel Trans Mountain to produce all the needed studies on the effect of an oll spill on the marine environment right out to the 20¢-mile territorial Iimit.”’ Since the hearings began Oct, 15, Trans Mountain has said little in response to environmentallsts and Foothills Oi! Pipe Line Co. about the effects of an oil spill on the Canadian marine environment, Foothills has a compating $1.6 billion plan to build an all-land plpeline from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Ed- monton for pumping to Chicago, Decision on water within the week VANCOUVER (CP) — The Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd, will learn within a week whether a 1950 water Ilcence allows it ta cut trees without permission from the forest service, The licence allows the company to expand its Kemano hydroelectric power plant and and a planned dam will flood thousands of acres in north- central British Columbia. Bilckert said a decision is expected within a week, Kemano workers back exec Members of the Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers, local 1, at Kemano have voted overwhelmingly to support the stand taken by the union executive. CASAW broke off negotiations for a revised contract with Alcan Smelter and Chemicals Ltd. when the company refused to withdraw disciplinary action against two Kemano employees for refusing to work scheduled overtime. The union executive has taken the stand that Alean’s latest offer, circulated by the company to all em- ployees, has not been negotlated. CASAW members at Kemano voted 94 per cent in favour of the stand taken by their execulive at a. meeting Tuesda CASAW members in Kitimat will decide today whether or not to support the position taken by their executive at meetings scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Legion Hall and 7:30 p.m. at Mount Elizabeth Senior Secondary.