non hetsed ihe
Mas banned. the: “import ofa.

- U.8:-spaile yldeo game and ordered that all,
-adilt-type video games bé sent to Ottawa:
for inspection rather than being handled

by Custome officials...

The. Jurisdictional. move - Ig. needed a
“because this Ind new area, (anid) we Wane:
to monitor. the sltuation and take pains.to
ensure our classifications are defenslble;"”

offical Said Monday.

Alan” Morley, a as —

He. fatd Customs: officlals use recent
court déclalons as a gulde in Setermining .

what Jf a¢ceptable.
The |

onto: women below. --

Glroux'sald a’ game’ éalled ‘Bachelor -
Party wasn't judged Imimoral or indecent. |
and wilt’be allowed: into the country. ©."

It features a ‘man. “running: after’
statloniry:’ ‘women targets on the: sereen.

e Heat'em and: Eat'em, which a
was Gpptoyed for entry’ into Canada: by
Customs officials last fall, was barined for .
import ‘Jast-week after’ being vlewad_ by >”
Robert’ ‘Giroux, deputy revenue ‘minister o
forscustomd and exclses:; . ,
The game cartridge, made by American i
‘Multiple’ Industries Inc. of Northridge,” >
Cailf.,*featiires what is described ai-an
exhibitionist standing. ona roof ejaculating ;

a month, : :

When: the mai makes contact, the: women
disappear’ ‘and A Roint is acored..

The. game’, is ‘also, made by: Multiple
Industfes, the aame company. that made‘
* Custer’s Revenge, which was banned last ©

“ The® three games were: approved by

- Customs officlais ‘In the fall. but public».

uproar over Custer’s “Revenge prompted:
Government. officials to ban the game.

‘ Players in that game win ‘polnts by:

-.. coupling Custer, who wears only boots and!

“arrow. .

direction.”

_ banned,

ahat, witha naked Indian maldenas. many ©
* thmies | as possible without being hit by an

_- Pat Hacker, spokesman for the National:
~_ Action Committee on the Status of Women;
2 applauded. the ban. - aa ;
“Every. time wa . tome to: the “un-
derstanding that this kind of agonizing and
~.cruel-humor ia humiliating and degrading
_to women, we're moving in ‘the Tight

‘Meanwhile, Stuart Kesten: president of
. ‘Multiple Industries, sald Monday he hasn't
“i. yet received word from the Canadian
“government that either. game ‘has been "

“~The company hasn’t decided whether to
appeal the decision to ban ther games to.
_ Ganndian courts, he sald. -

~

“Alberta collects millions”

EDMONTON ( (CP) ~The :

Alberta. government, made

following” stock market
rallies last week.

- teh by: the oll industry, has... The government movedat .

made $14 tnillion in one year
on the stock-matket,
Year-end stock quotations
indicate the government,
throat . the
‘Her tage Savings Trust
“Fund; saw its - §65-milllon

investment rise in value to |

approximately. $97 -million.

Tresurer Lou Hyndman
said Monday. the, paper
profit: “Is. “still roving

; “fejects:
‘increase:

VANCOUVER (CP) —Ed
Peck, commissioner of the

Compensation Stabilizatlon
Program, ° rejected an In- -
teriga/: elght-per-cent in _

ps

Employees Uniotictnembats-"
" and, that 20,000 of the
unfon! other ; members.

should, receive a three-per-,
cent, Increase for 1902,

Peck rejected-an Interim

eight-per-cent increase won
by: the 60 hospital unidn
employees. at Edith Cavell

Hospital, a long-term care

facility in Vancouver, ina a
day; - ,
. He said the-pay. inerease
--contravehed the program's
- guidelines; which he said,
_ appear to allow & settlement
of about three per cent, .
‘The guidelines permit a
basic increase ‘of six per
cent, but. that may be
reduced ‘by as: much. ag

three. per cent. because of

earlier settlements.’:
‘Arbitrator Don | Munroe

has; yét“to" hand down hia

‘final award covering 20,000
members of the hospital
unlgn at 119, public hospitals
in-the province.

CONTRACTS SIMILAR |

The Edith Cavell contact —

* Ig modelled on: the unlon’s
province-wide. master,
an ent. Both - -contracta
expired Dec. 31, 1981.

Jack: Gerow, - ‘the union's ;

secretary-business. man-
ager, refused to speculate
‘what: impact the Edith

Cavell ruling will: have on’

Peck's eventual decision on

the. unton’s: ‘master
agreement.

Saying he was shocked by

Peck'stteciaion, Gerow said

- the union is publicizing the

‘Edith Cavell decision to lta .

‘Membership "so that they
can fully understand ‘the

implication of Premier Bill -
Bennett’s wage restraint .

program. ”
He said the union believes
it was Improper for Peck to

rule on’ the Edith Cavell
Contract since it was only an
interim ééttlement, pending |
the fing?: redoliition of the
master‘agreement..-,, ©, .
foe's binding’ award

Mun
is expected to’ if ‘handed
down some time Is month.

‘At the’ game time, the
4 500 members of the Health
Sciences Association,
representing . hospital
tebhmicians
Broféasfilinls, ere due to
Vote shortly on a tentative
tworvear agreement,
providliig’ a wage Increase
- of eight per cent lh the firat
year and a wage re-opéner.
for the second year.

. Alberta.

the- right time when it
decided to buy a wide -
Vvarlety of stocks early in.
1982, Hyndman said. -
Beer and distillery stocks,
‘with recorded gains of more. .

than 42 million, were just’

one of the: government's |

profitable ventures.
Criticleni_ from religious

leaders regarding the

morality. of- purchasing —
shares in- the alcohol in-
_ dustry has not bothered the.
government, Hyndman said:

the province has purchased

additional shares dn the |

‘industry.

The provines:- iso earned |
a ‘profit-frony’ its In-

‘It suffered © a a, 2-million
paper losa

on Dome .

Petrolaum—shares,—-the—|-— |

province recorded a $900,000
profit on Its total oll and gas
investments...

When . the: ‘government -
firat released its List of stock
purchases’ in July, -the:

‘stocks had ‘plummeted in —

value-by #11:milllon. ©
Garry Perron of the In-
-veatment house Burns Fry
said Alberta bought into the .
market at the rght time —
when ‘things were bad.
”“T think you'll see bigger
numbers “and © gains,"
Perron sald. “The province
should’ do really : well.
although there will ba some -
ups and downs.”

“ His only. criticism . WAS

The Heraid. Tuesday, Januar

19/190, Page 9

. minerals, consumer goods =

- LOST ON DOME Although :

and

that: the government has
’ Invested go little of Its $12.5-_
billion trust fund in the
market.

veatmenta in-- metal: and

and services.

es amet

rawdey un Puget

«PEOPLE.

‘About

Growing older has meant growing up for Montreal-born
dancer Margie Gillis,”

. Maturity, Gillls says, has made her more disciplined: "I
leave most of my lunacy — that is, the dangerous things: —
for the stage." :

But Gillis, who. is performing this week in Edmonton,
warned of a new direction in her dances, which traditionally

have depicted a tortured and-emotional soul.

. “Vm dolng humor now,” she: sald. “Watch out." ~~
She said her attempt at humor {san indication her life in

: Beneral has ‘taken. a torn:for the better.

ma took Ife 50 seriously before:”

Prince Charles and his wife, Diana, have gone.to Malbun,

. Liechtenstein, for a skiing holiday, but are facing the same

problem as less royal visitors — ‘lack of snow,
: The tiny. European principality, like most other alpine
regions, has had‘a mostly snowless winter. But conditions

- on the slopes above Malbun were described as a tourist

official as better than in some ‘Swiss resorts,
The couple, vacationing without their aix-month-old son

Prine. William, arrived Sunday and: are: staying at the
Vaduz castle, the residence of Liechtenstein raler Prince

‘Frans. Joneph | Se

The Chinese air force 2 pilot who defected to Taiwan three
months ago with Kis Sovlet-built jet fighter plane says he

- only regrets he didn’t do It sooner so he could have gene to ;
college,

"Ty mainiand China, many young ‘people have very Little
chance of -attending schools because of the limited

taellities,?" Wu Yung-ken, 25, sald in an interview Monday, ye
_ Wu, who got more than $2 million’in gold for delivering

the jet and was made a major In Taiwan's air force; paid life
in. Talwan is better than he expacted.
“I may-enjoy thé material life In Taiwan," he sald, “but

the most important of all is that-I can live ‘like a. human —

being in contrast te-my life prior’ to defection.'”.-

Aa for girls, “I have no time. at present to discuss this |

-problein,' There are a lot of things for me to do. "

It's his first steady gig’ on the tube since the toyearold
comedian left network TV: in 1971,

He recalled in an interview that CBS sald ay was np

longer relevant to what.was going on today; that I wouldn't
appeal to they under aulience, That's why I layed the”

colleen he =

' “The nétworks ‘are ving
that’s the er
sare: about: entertainment,” ae ve

han

In the'1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records,

the one-legged runner has been listed as the. world’s: top .

charity fundraiser.
The book saya that “the ‘greatest amount ‘raised by: A

- charity walk or run” was $24.7 million by Fox when he ran .

8,973 kHometres-from St. John’! 3,-Nild,, to Thunder Bay,
Ont., in 143 days from April 12 to Sept. 2, 1960. | ao
Fox, who died from cancer in 1901, was ln the track and
fleld section of an earlier edition of the book for the longest
run: ‘But ‘a Gulnness spokeaman sald note of his ac-
complisiment in raising money for cancer research was
moved to the fundraising section because hls feat far out-

atrips other * fundraising records,

2 cities of 10,000 people or:
- Mioveri:during “1962 . werd. 2gheh
104,264;"down 27, per cent

Red Skelton will return to series television this fall in 3
minute, “comedy only’. syndicated ‘versions of his old,
“hour-long shows; -

to che group of people; and
ine cae " hess sald. hey, dont ae

erty Fox has another pouihisincus horior to ‘hls erat a

~ Light shadow and trees turn the top of f Copper Mountain into a a ‘winter wonderland, = |

~ Canada’ Ss home building picks up

Home-bullding - activity.
continued ito: plek .up laat

~month but the increase -

wasn't enough to make 1862
@ goodyear for most con-
tractors. -

Canada. Mortgage’ and
- Housing Corp. reported that: ;

y December “housing . starts”.
seasonaliy-—

rose to” a
adjusted ‘annual “rate of..
445,000 units
Noveniber’s rate of 133,000
unite: | However, . other: -
figures . from the ° federal’
agency: indicated the year.
asa whole will be very poor.

Actual: ‘housing starts in’

Irom’ the comparable 1981. -
figure, -
‘The last time urban starts

were 60,.weak was 1062,"

‘ “ WEN 5

Shirts

Sweaters: oes
_ Sport Jackets ©
Met all items are  avallable fi in ‘overy ‘elze and colour but ore are + sti lots of.

"fabulous. winter fashions to cheese from. Murry In befere.the selection starts: | a :
‘to narrow down and take advantage of our January: Clearance Values, :

“ from: ,

“when only 102,008 homes

* were begun.

statistics. from”

“a week, -

.. Most expert predict: that:

‘ starts in both | rural and
Urban, areas- will be about
130,000 for 1982 "although

they now: are looking fora
_ improvement’

substantial-
‘this year if- mortgage rates
‘ remain reasonable,

‘own aU. » facilities.” .

a | Winter ei:

‘, The December housing .
towns,
- villages and rural areas are.
* “still belng compiled and.
_ Won't be available for about

selling rear-wheel-drive ‘
cars at the Brampton, Ont.,
- plant of a competing
‘automa er or at one of, its

Skeena Mall
TERRACE
. 635-5345 *

City Centre Mall
KITIMAT -
632-3176 |

Phe third. -biggest U.S.
carmaker ‘said Monday it

must decide “fairly. soon” |
on the ‘plant location to -

provide enough time to
convert the chosen site to
rear-wheel-drive preduction
for the. 1984 model year.
‘Chrysler has been looking
for ‘another assembly site
for’ thé rear-drive cars now
-made .in Windsor, Ont,,
since its decision to Invest

: $350 milllon to: convert the 7

‘Windsor’ plant - to . produce
ffont-wheel-drive: “vans,
 That-plant; which, builds all

‘of “Chrysler's. rear-drive
1 care, will close this spring to

“Chrysler spokesman Britt
Temby sald the company Ia
near a decision where to
locate the ‘plant, but
- declined ~ to

LADIES’

‘Winter Jaokets

‘speculate’ ~

whether it would be made
“in a-week, two: weeks. or

‘another: month,”

"We have to make a:
decision. fairly soon for:
production —purposes,'! he
said in a telephone. in-
terview from Detroit. “We.

-need. a certaln- amount, of~
lead time to retool the plant -

to produce the 49849 and we.

. can’t wait too. long. ;

In’ other ‘business news

Monday: i.

~— Greymac Credit Corp. .
sald it has withdrawn’ its
follow-up offer forall the.
common shares of Crown °
Trust Co. The offer wap to:

‘Co.,. Crown. ‘Trust. and
” Seaway: ‘Trust Co. an
'. Friday.

_ The Toronto stock:

‘market rang up “another -
huge gain in frantic trading,
- continuing Last week's surge

that sent stocks to’ thelr

DEON ete

Tarn:

- highest levels in'more than’.

a year. Big advances in gold

and energy. shares pushed: _
; the TSE300 composite index.” a

Up 37. .64 points to 2110.88.
~ A study by the federal’
Consumer. Affairs Depart"

ment’s bureau of. com! ;

‘petition policy comparing ;
=the — performance | ‘of:
Canadian: and American.

expire Jan. 31. The move-...alline
comes. because of the
upheaval in both com- .
panies’ affairs. after the.
. Ontario. government séized
the assetsof Greymac Trust

9:30-6:00, Mon. Wed, & Sat
eS 9:30. 9:00 Thurs. & Fri.

9: 2. 6:00 Men. Thurs. &. Sat. -

9:30 9:00 Fel. .

said” less . government.
regulation of airlines would

produce lower ticket prices .

‘and more’ flights ‘for,

‘passengers. So

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