a deppesiion but they have noticed a deop | in busines compared to-previous years. f.- 22 Johiv CH; whorhas. been: in ' ‘business in ‘Terrace’ slice 159, says.this isthe third tlme' he has ex: perienced adownturn in the economy, “There seamis -. » and we'can do it again - we Just have to merchandize _ better,” he says, u, Chub Down at the West End chriplex says business ae is good compared to other parts of the country, -"We ° ‘merchants are not making the Profits we might have made, but allowance's should have been made," he + ‘says. Down plana to: hire 14 students for the five companies he operates, . ‘Al Purschke says the poor business is the reaction people-are-hearing in the news media but he doesn’t ” think government knows anything about business at rao Prive eee TT eee Tt ORE . - wae it-went somewhere besides paying interest on ama foolishness,” he says. Mm - Thomas Maxwell, vice-president and’ chief economist of the Conference Board of Canada agrees with him, according to Canadian Press. Econemic forces dictate that our dollar should be worth abouteo er Serving the Progressive Northwest TERRACE—~} Loca merchants are e fot ling tom.” tobea five year ‘cytle...we have survived this béfore “ . all. “T hate like hell to pay taxes .;. wouldn't mind if ~~ : a 1 " LRGTSLaTIVE LIBRARY PARLIMENT BUILDINGS .. Vietorla, BoC. |. yeu ize | | 7 Herald Edlior ‘haye faker qvet the market. . dépredsion.. to-slx per cent declines in growth. _ Maxwell says he wouldn't, be surprised to se - ~ Finance’ Minister : Allan MacEachen, impose some - ~ form of public-sector wage controls. That would at. least indicate that the government is trying'to match the restraints the private sector has already placed on itself, "Rick Forward, presidéatof the Kitlmat Chamber of . ‘. Commerce, says that high interest rates are what is realy hurting businesses in the area but Maxwell ~- ‘warns that any arbitrary move by Ottawa to lower interest rates’ could backfire. A drop of three percentage points in » tha Bank of Canada rate would probably meani our dollar. would fall another six cents from. current levels. below 77 cents U.8., he sald. But even that cheap dollar might not be enough to - ays buk “payehological forces" “ - :., Despite -allthe’ bad* ‘econoniic ‘news, ‘Maxwell Fo “doésn't buy the theory that-we're on the verge ‘of al “The signpdsts just- aren't there,”’. he’. noo . Says: Depressions happen after several years of five. “HimulateU. s. Femand foe our products. Demand for ~ Caindian goods depends’ entirely on’ the'timing of a, “U.S, rebovery, Maxwell says, and American demand -" for our products won't pick up until that ‘country's ee high interdst- rates fall.” aod ' . Tomake matters worse, he anid, the sharp drop in ~ ‘the value of the Canadian dollar could scuttle hopes of taming the country’s inflation rate.’ For each cent the ~~ dollar falls against its U.S: currency in the past ° month, Canada's inflation rate has already jumpeda:: - full percentage point. | ‘The Canadian dollar's collapse i ‘the reault of a “straight speculative run an the dollar. Qnce that © starts nobody knows where it will stop,” Maxwell SAYS. Afew Terrace businessmen have complained about _ tax increases, Bill Young of the Tidicum Theater says the taxes.on his parking lot increased by 100 per cent. The increase is based om the sale of & piece of property down the street, an assessment whieh Young says. is. unfair. Like thé car dealers-and recreation-hobby shops ~ money they: pay. re : 7 ': + He says. he is not pleased: that teachers a are re getting. “More money, afother cause of the tax increases, ie _ Reum says businessmen are forced to pay the higher’ ** > taxes because if they don't teir licenses will be taken :.. away from them. _Reum, a car. dealer, says the main reason ; business ‘is down. is because of “those damn interest “Garry Reum saye he | has tect at by $8,000. “ increases atid. calls the increases. tnlai’ ‘becanise rates. they are up to 25 per cent at the bank and 30 - per cent at finance companies. It’s bad and it's one to get worse before it gets better,” says Reum, who - “has been in business in Terrace for 22 years. as | guess people are buying food instead of plane ; tickets,” aays Cecil Moore. There has been a bit of a _ : drop in the travel industry but it is not sérious yet, Matt Ehees of Northern Lights Studio says business has dropped to one-third of last year's business. “The tourist: traffic is down," he says. But most businesses say they are ‘amazed at how well we are still doing.” — . ' Thursday, June 24, 1982 - Budget fights unemployment? _ OTTAWA (CP) -- Key unemployment-fighting measures rm the Monday night budget include about. $500-millien of direct job creation plus a separate program to stimulate the housing industry, Liberal sources said today. ‘Fhey said the federal cabinet was: persuaded under "pressure from Liberal back-benchers during the last. two weeks to more than-double ‘the amount~of. direct ‘job- - = money originally intended: te be a unced in the / et. : 7 hy “Federat tabthel has aisg decided: dit abana eit restraint program that will pul 4 Hmit of about seven per | cent on wage increases of more than 200,000 federal public “servants and freeze the salaries of members of Parliament and senators. © =". . Pay cuts for cabinet ministers’ have been ruled out. Money for jobs and housing stimulation will come from ‘wage savings, from fimds that were going to be spent on ~-investments in major industrial: projects that have fallen through and ‘from cost-cutting: in some departments. ‘While the job-creation measures are seen as a victory for the left-wing of cabinet, they can put only a small dent in the * country's unemployinent which reached a record 1,241;000 . persons last month, not counting tens of thousands more - Statistics Canada says have-given up looking for work. Hoax mysterious | " VANCOUVER (CP) — He's about 40-years-ald, balding and well-tanned —and he’ 8 gol police on both sides of the- international: border flummoxed. — Using the name Richard Andersen, he broezed into town ’ three weeks ago; ‘offering a well-paid public Telations job: with the Boeing Co. in Seattle, ~~ He interviewed dozens of people who ‘answered his ad- ~vertisement in The Vancouver Province May 30:and told them to apply in writing to the personnel ofiles of the large jet manufacturer; Then he checked out of his hotel - _ - and disappeared. . _ About a dozen People wrote for the job, only to be told this week that it didn't exist," Richard Andersen didn't exist either, as far as Boting was concerned. He didn't ask tor money and paid for his. room Bs well a as ‘the newspaper advertisement... _~- a Peter Adler answerdd the advertisement and dropped: in - "unexpectedly at the hotel to see the man.who- called hitnself - _. Andersen.- foe Og. : “He was just wearing, blue jeans;"’ eaid ‘Adler, a North Vancouver. freelance journalist. He said his company had ...beoked him into the wrong, hotel andihig luggage had bee lost.” ; : = . “TL cannot underitand it,” sald- ‘Adleg, 39 99. “He told me.I: .. would be first in ling, because I cathe ofer ta see him. Iwas ~ | very disappointed" when 1 found‘out it was.a hoax.” . - Boeing.realized something was-up'when- about ‘a‘dozen ~ applications came in for.the non -Bush, ‘public: relations. director. . 3 “This sort: of thing dacs ® good ta: i — It's just an * elaborate hoax of some: we aby ‘said‘Bush, adding that . . Boeing's plant security. pliee ‘hal to}ft Nancouver police. _ “There are some stray Re. pe, ple’ abaid these days." : tt a “‘hundreds"* of phone galls’ he recelved., Do you want parts ta fix up Your ‘car ‘but your budget: : " won't allow It7-Beat the high cos? of new parts with quality used parts trom : 8, K. B. ‘AUTO SALVAGE ‘= 636-2333 or 635-9095 “aes Buhan (just off Hwy. 3 4 : pen stent ob, said Peter a .because® the: front, ‘éak- coun heey up. With all the. “daily Young has: noticed adecline in business. “Movies are herald 25 cents eohede VANCOUVER (CP) _ Unless- the . parents of a six-year-old -boy begin to ° ” pealize they have abused their son, there is - -, little idpe the prablem will be overcome, a. . : pediatrician’ testified In ‘Vaneouver family court. Wednesdays = 8 <2 -- De, William: “Kepler, a member’ of. the’ | “Maui, ‘Hawaii,: child abuse team, isa witness forthe superintendent of family and child service, which is seeking a‘court..” - ‘order: for permanent custody of the boy. —_ ‘The boy. was appreliended by Maui child - : Protection agency staff'in April; 1981, while .on vacation with his parents, and was taken back to B.C. by a B.C. Ministry - of Human Resources official. The family is fromthe Vancouver area, but-cannot- be fiamed. because the law prohibits the identification.by_. the _news.. media _of. |. children involved-in guardianship cases. Kepler, who examined the boy and found ' “Parents need help. fast. abused’ Sheir-son... totd, the court that despite a “massive denial’’’ f abuse by the parents, he believes they. withheld food as a way of “Controlling a ‘difticult. child.” Under. ross ‘examination - Wednesday, a “Kepler ‘gald the denial is unconscious and | ‘the parents’ probably believe they have not - - Established 1908 _ Valley meeting — : : draws residents by MICHAEL HOWLETT Herald Staff Writer ’ TERRACE Despite a lack of publicity, close to 80 people showed up in Terrace — : Wednesday to listen to presentations and. ‘voice’ -thelr. ‘discontent With the- way. in .. which: the. future of-the Terrace-Kitimat _ “Valley is belng decided. . -Twenty-seven people attended a public , meeting at’ the Terrace arena banquet. room sponsored by the Regional District of ~ Kitimat-Stikine which was designed to. allow the public some say in the study being carried out by -the provincial - ministry of industry and small business into the possible“ industrial uses of the “‘Terrace-Kitimat corridor. Vie Jolliffe, a Terrace alderman and. chairman of the meeting, said the meeting had been called to listen to the concerns of those people who had not had had a chance ta contribute to the’ provincially-sponsored F _ Study. “Phe consultants may not have covered all the concerns of the public,” Jolliffe sald. “Sowe've given them an opportunity to air those concerns.” - Members of the’ provincial government and the consultant firm chose not to attend the meeting, es did any representative of the District of Kitimat, leaving Jolliffe and regional directors Jim Culp and Earl - Hamilton to hear five briefs from in- dividuals representing. agricultural, forestry, fisheries and native ‘groups af- fected by the study. Several presentations included eriticism ; of the reglonai board’ and the ministry of | industry and small business for failing-to advertise the public meeting and refusing to take the concerns ot the. public into . account, " .with our concerns,” Kozler said. Haisla people for their views on future ‘industrial development in-the area, and. said the band would probably be making a submission to the study in the near future. ~~ A nuniber of the speakers said the study. . had, evidenced -a- very. one— deyelppment and had concentrated solely on industrial development issubs: The consultant was not at all concerned “our meeting. was futile, frustrating and possibly useless.” '- Although members of the consulting ; firm and the ministry of industry - and - Small business chose not to attend the meeting, regional district borad member Earl Hamilton said the results of the meeting would be made available to them. Hamilton said although there was no indication the results of the meeting would be accented by the consultants the regional district would include them as part of their presentation. “Terrace representative Vic Jolliffe said the board was not happy with the way the study was being carried out. - “It's fair to say the regional board isnot | - happy with the terms of reference of the . “consultants,” Jolliffe said. As well as with ‘the way they have “éartied out the operation and the direction in which they are going, Lt] Thestudy was undertaken at the request ‘of the provincial government which was urged to do so by the previous. regional board, The provincial cabinet decided -ta delay the implementation of a provincial forest Len Kazier, speaking: on- behalf -of-tha™~ ‘designation “over” the “area’. despite” the~ Kitsumkalum Farmers Institute, said he had bad only been. made aware of the -“It is most inappropriate for any level of government to encourage industry in. Asolation,"! Kozier said. "This. can only decrease and possibly destroy the ‘other’. = Tesources of the valley." Those ‘resources | ‘included ‘agriculture, — forestry and the fishery, Kozler said, His demand for a multiple resource study of owt @. ee ot. the. valley was. echoed by Area - (TSA) ‘public advieory committee. ’_] share the concern.iHat the terms. of.- reference of the study did not look into. - Support shown for sucha” proposal at: . _ public _ hearings... ‘held in Kitimat. last _ meeting through the local. newspapers. Kozier blasted Acres Consultants for... failing to address the overall issie of + ~ multiple resource development in -in-- _. vestigating the fate of the valley, summer, “Editorial Comment. | _ Page 2 MacEachen & Socreds ASL FNL PANT re ata ae Te jootieacede oe mara lt : Viewpoint to’ the “‘questlon of development of the corridor. . _. Koster said the consultants had failed to | address the question of multiple resource - Page's 3. tte League, wes), But until the parents start to overcome | ~ their denial and show they are willing té be opén and cooperative, they will not benefit - , their resource yalues such as forestry and wildlife," Greive said. “It seems obvious, t-in the. Terrace vicinity. trees can: only from:therapy;-he said.-““Whether they.can-— come from areas &: long ways.away-.or do that is a very important question.” "Lawyer “Robert Bellows, representing “the: parents, suggested to’ Kepler that the _ boy. was-laking his food into the bathroom . and flushing it down. the toilet, Kepler replied it was unlikely a child of . five would do this consistently and normal | him Suffering from severe starvation, had “ee Parents would be aware of it... from those areas close-by where we had sufficient foresight to develop them way in- advance.” . Dave Catmur;: an “advisory : to. the Kitamaat Village band, noted that part of the area. involved in the study fell within the Halsla nation_land claims, -Hesaidhe “wes notaware’’ of anyattem- | ~ pt by the study consultants to approach the : ‘Classifieds ~ 7 Page + “More local sports a ~ Page 5 nen Pages 687 Comics, horoscope - Page 8