B. C. has poner

VANCOUVER (CP) — Gas
“shortages which have appar-
ently discouraged many
Americans from visiting

. Canada this year do not
aeem to have hurt the in-
dustry in British Columbia.

Recent Statistics Canada
figures indicated: that -ietab.
visits’ by: Ariiericenastp" tli
country is doWii this yea roy
six per cent over a year-ago,
but June figures for B.C.
show a substantial increase
of five per cent over’ 1972's

record tally.
The reason might be that
B.C, tourism officials

stressed in advertising this
year that there is no shor-
tage of fuel in the province.

John Phu, director of the
B.C, tourist department,
said Sunday interviews with
2,000 tourists at the Blaine
border crossing south of
Vancouver revealed that
only 10 per cent of the via-
itors had trouble buying gas
on their way to Canada, ¢ |

The interviews also
showed that 25 per cent of the
visitors polled decided to
come to B.C. specifically
because they knew they
could get gas.

“There are problems
getting gas in the major

cities in the U.S., but people
have found that if they ayoid
those cities there is plenty

Gambling .
crackdown :

PRINCE GEORGE BC. »

(CP) — Two clubs, one
business and a home were
raided Friday in a province-
wide crackdown on legal
gambling involving millions
of dollars,

There were no arrests, but

11 persons will be summoned *

to provincial court Aug. 14 to
face charges of keeping a
common gaming house, said
& spokesman for the Co-
ordinated Law Enforcement
Unit.

The six-month joint effort
by the unit,
Vancouver: city police also
led to the raiding of six
Vancouver clubs, 14 homes
and one business Friday. No
arrests were made, but 50
peopie were expected to be
summoned this week,

Large amounts of gam-
bling paraphernalia and
records were seized in the
raids, police said.

RCMP and.

_ Canadian

available « fa “ie way up
here,” said P

"T think we ‘nay be betler
off than other parts of
Canada because as soon as
we heard about the gas
problem we began in-

ing our ad ertising ,.
creasing our adv “aMicPhergon _ he

“Tourism officials notified ”

effort.”

16,-000 travel agents in the
US. that gas was cheap and
plentiful in B.C, and Piul
went down.to deliver the
same message on 11 radio

- talk shows down the US,

Pacific coast,

On the other hand,
indicate that British
Columbians may be
discouraged from visiting
the U.S. this year because of
the gas shortages and higher
prices arising from the
devaluation of the Canadian
dollar. There has been a six-
per-cent decline in the
number of B.C. visitors to
the U.S. this year.

Because the U.S. gallon is
20 per cent smaller than the

Figures

imperial and there is a 15 to -

2% per cent discount on the
dollar, the
equivalent of an imperial
gallon bought in Seattle is

$1.40 compared with 93 cents -

in Vancouver.

TORONTO (CP) — Im-
migration Minister Ronald
Atkey says he will announce
a revised Canadian program
by next week to help
refugees in their Jifeand.
death bpat exodus from
Vietnam.

The promise was an-
nounced Sunday at a two-
hour rally for the refugees

_ where a telegram from

-Atkey was read by Ald. Ying
Hope of Toronto. -

Atkey, however, could not
be reached for comment to
explain what changes the
government has in mind for
its 1979 program for
Southeast Aslan refugees.

4

The Herald, Monday, July 16, 1978, Page 3.

FOR REFUGEES:
Atkey revises old program.

Among speakers who ad-
dressed the mainly Oriental
crowd of about 350 were To-

ronto Mayor John Sewell and

Michael Caasidy, leader of
the Cntario New Democratic
Party.

Margaret. Campbell,
Liberal member of the
Ontario legislature for the
Toronto riding of St, George,
said in an interview that she
wished more Torontonians

_ had attended the rally,

“T think ita sad,” she said.
"This is another Benocide
that’s going on.

“But perhaps the weather
was discouraging,” she said
of the intense heat. wT don’t
know.”

Tan Stanley,
munications director for
World Vision of Canada, said
that hundreds of the beat
people were drowning by the
hour in the South China Sea.

World Vision, which is
urging the federal govern-
ment to increase Canada’s
quola of 8,000 refugees,
operates a rescue ship in the
South China Sea,

Stanley said: ‘'There is no
quota, I understand, on what
the private sector can do In

‘order to bring refugees to

this country, and we could
bring upwards of 100,000 to
Canada this way in the next
six to nine months,”

com- .,

+B. C. BRIEFS

QUESNEL, B.C. (CP) ~—
Gregory Drost, 16, of Prince
George has been Identified
as the youth killed in a
single-vehicle accident
Saturday on Barkerville
Road, about 45 kilometres.
east of Quesnel,

RCMP said the car Drost
was driving left the road and

‘plunged into a ditch. Two

passengers, Randy. Unrah
and Carl Gilley, both 17 and
of Prince George, were
reported in satisfactory
candltion, .

Missing plane.

KAMLOOPS, B.C, (CP) —
Fifteen civilian and five

’ milltary aircraft took to the

air Sunday as the search
continued for ‘a light plane
missing since last Tuesday
with two people aboard.

A Cessna 172 carrying
John Wheeler, 67, of

Elliot

CRANBROOK, B.C, (CP)
— Donna Rose Elliot,.32, of
‘Cranbrook was _ killed
Saturday when the car she
was driving plunged over a
17-metre cliff on a back road
about 30 kilometres east of
the city,

Two othera in the car were
-injured. Tom Shiri Dutt, 21,
of Suva, Fifi, was tran-
sferred to Foothills Hospital
in Calgary, where he was to

ier as

killed

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
1)-year-old California. man
' was killed Saturday when he
lost his footing at Capilano
Canyon and fell 45 metres to
the rocks below.
The body of Glen G. Mc-
Pherson of Fresno was re-

covered Sunday from the .

bottom of the scenic canyon,
a Popular tourist attraction.

WEATHER

The skies are expected to
be mainly clear. today with a
few cloudy periods.

The expected high is. 28

degrees Celsius and the .

overnight low is-12 degrees.

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Williams Lake and his 63-
year-old wife, Atha, was last
heard ‘from after taking’ off

from Chilliwack in the lower

Fraser Valley on a flight to
Williams Lake,

The search planes are cov
ering more than 12,000.
square © kilometres
mountainous terrain, |

nett

undergo surgery. Peter,.

Prasad, 16, of New ‘West-° By

minster, B. c., was in satis-
factory condition in hospital
in Cranbrook.

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