4 ye ntaeemadiiatal BRARY, couP. 77/78 LEGISLATIVE LI PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, 8.C.» oh te VBV-LX4 ; ™ ) . RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. we buy an COPPER BRASS a ALL METALS & BATTERIES “ ‘ BON. baal SAT. Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5639 Volume 72 No. 232 Friday, December 1, 1973 qi olum 20¢ JL , Oil price delay stays OTTAWA (CP) — Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie said Thursday that the federal government will stick with its proposal to delay a Jan. 1 oil price in- crease of three cents a gallon. But final approval of what the minister calls ‘‘the (principles of an agreement” will await a new round of talks with Alberla, which could take “a couple of days," Gillespie emerged from a our cabinet meeting at which the oil issue was discussed to say that the government felt it would not be desirable to have an oil price increase Jan. 1. Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed already has said he is willing to accept the federal proposal of putting off a Jan. 1 increase of $1 a barrel—three cents a gallon—until July 1 and getting a further $10n Jan. 1, 1940 in return. However, Gillespie said Thursday that he wants a provision in any new deal to cancel any increase which would put domestic prices above those in the United States oA sithilar condition is:-in-- cluded in the current price pact with Alberta, which produces 85 per cent of the country’s off and natural Skagway pipeline approval sought WASHINGTON (CP) The U.S. and Canadian sponser, says it will file applications Dec. 8 with the U.S. interior department for the oil pipeline pian. _ The Canadian partners, Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. and Westcoast Tran- smission Co, Ltd, are ex- pected to file similar ap- plications with Canadian authorities. _ Early plans call for the oil pipeline to start at Skagway, & port on Alaka’s southeast coast. Surplus oil could be moved to Skagway from Valdez, the terminal for the existing transAlaskan oil} pipeline. West coast markets in the United States currently are buying only about one-half the oil now flowing through the transAlaska pipeline. Kitimat pipeline surfaces KITIMAT, B.C. (CP) ~ A spokesman for the Kitimat Pipeline Co. said Thursday that the proposal to build an oll port on the north coast of British Columbia and a line ng the port to Rberts will soon be in the spotlight again. George Wilkinson said in an interview he plans to tour northwestern B.C. and the Bulkley Valley to speak about the pipeline and tak with parties for and against the oi] port proposal. He will be in Prince Rupert Dec. 12. In early January, he is scheduled to be in Kitimat, Terrace. and the Bulkley Valley. The oil port proposal has been in limbo since the federal government said earlier this year that the port Is not needed at this lime. Wilkinson said there will soon be a need to import offshore oil Arts display here The Arts and Crafts Christmas Exhibition will be held in the Skeena Mall today from'3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday during the mall hours. Local arts and crafts people have been busy this week preparing for the beacee b tg exhibition. ‘lhe Terrace Art Association, with the cooperation of Lorne Dyck, the mail manager, has received over 33 entries for the exhibition. : The exhibition has been held in the library basement in previous years. yg. 9p; ida r: This year the artisans will be at the scene with their displays. It, will provide people with a good op-° portunity to meet them and discuss their work or pur- chase original paintings and handmade Christmas gifts directly from the makers. P.E.I. Liberal resigns SUMMERSIDE, P.E.. (CP) — Former Premier Alex Campbell has quit the Prince Edward Island legislature but says he won't leave the province he led for 12 years. ’ He declined, however, to speculate on his future plans. Campbell said Thursday he would rather have given his right arm than the resignation letter he handed la house speaker Russell Perry on Wednesday night. , His resignalion as Liberal member for the Fifth Prince seat he has held since Febru- ary, 1985, ended a legislative career that led tu the pre- miership in 1966, and culmi- nated ina narrow re-election toa fourth term as premier last April. i He _- resigned the preoiership in September, stating then that he also would he leaving the legislature. He didn't, however, resign officially. The letter he submitted Wednesday was dated Sept. 14 and yaid the resignation would be effective Sept. 18. Perry said it really bécomes official when il is handed to the speaker and then tran- smitted to the lieutenant governor. ‘The departure leaves the Liberal gevermment in GOV'T IN PERIL jeopardy. The new premier, Bennett Camphell, only has a one-seal majority in the 32 seat house-— 16 seals com- pared to 15 for the oppusition Progressive Conservatives. - Time ran out LONDON (CP) — Officials of the London Times, an in- stitution of British life and journalism, announced Thursday lhe newspaper is suspending publication in a showdown with labor unions. The suspension was an- nounced at a news con- ference by the newspaper's managing director, Mar- maduke James Hussey. He said there will be no edition loday of the 193-year- old newspaper and that the suspension will continue indefinitely. “Time Huns Out at the Times,’ headlined The Evening Standard which, with the rest of Fleet Street, warmly praised The Times fighting the test battle over new technology and union discipline. Talks had continued Thursday with some of the 64 labor groups representing Times employees. Hut the National Graphical Association (NGA:, one of nine mujor Unions al the newspaper, remained adamant thal it would not dicker under threat of shut- down. The Tames management was not backing down on opposing wildcat strikes that Lord Thomson of Fleet, Toronte-based president of Times Newspapers, says are hecessury to keep the newspaper and its sister pub‘ications from being “sloy ly bled to death.”. The lusor editor estimated in a front-page story that the suspension would last ‘two to three months.’’ And true to form, small temporary slowdown actions by a few mechanical employees lust 68,000 copies of the “last” Times in the morning. The management claims a plague of such small-scale slowdown, many of them Unauthorized by parent unions, have cost The Times, The Sunday Times and its three supplements mare - than 1) million copies this year. The only vacancy is Alex Campbell's Fifth Prince seal, With speaker Russell Perry in the chair, the Liberal majority would be wiped out in house voles and would be re-asserled only when Perry exercises the speaker's right to break tie votes. To turther complicate the matter, Perry suffered a heart uttack this fall and spent time in a coronary care unit in (harlattetown, Telethon to be allowed The Canadian Radio television and Telecom- munications Commission agreed Thursday to allow 12 cable television stations in British Columbia to replace the signal of a Seattle public broadcasting service with a 21 hour telethon to raise funds for crippled children. Fred Weber, manager of CFTK, said he received official notification on Thursday that (CRTC) has approved applications from interior cable companies to hold the Lions Christmas Telethon over channel 9 beginning on Saturday, Dee.2. Weber said there were several conditions attached to the decision. One of those conditions is that CKVU-13 in Vancouver, a_ private Telethon. The commission said it approved the arrangement because of the charitable purpose being served. The telethon will be seen in Hope, Merritt, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, 1 Mile. House, Williams Lake, Quesnel, Prince George, Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert. Lions Clubs in the Terrace: ° Kitimat-Prince Rupert viewing area are ail set for the Telethon, says Frank Donahue, president of the Terrace Centennial Lions. He said Lions from the northwest zone will be making a cheque presen- tation to the Telethon on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. The Lions hope to have Dana Penner, age 2, who is a eancer victim from Terrace, make the presentation. Darth Vader, the popular villain from Star Wars, will be seen during the Telethon, Della Reese, Shari Lews, Jesse Jones, Ken Delo and Gall Farrell from the Lawrence Welk Show, Werner Klemperer who played Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, ihe Rhythm Pals, Bobby Gimby and Elmer Tippe and group will also bee seen. Donahue says two telephone lines for the Lions Telethon, which is set to begin at 8:30 p.m. on Dec.2, will be installed at the Terrace Bowling Lanes to receive pledges. The Telethon will run for 20% hours “We will be hold the local Bowlathon there to collect money to by hampers for the needy at Christmas,” he said, He sald people can either support the Bowlathon or the Telethon or both by calling 635-7297 in Terrace and 632- 7687 in Kitimat. The local CB radio club will collect the money’ 4] FROM CR TC | Lions get go ahead Mechanics liens amounting to $232,000 have been placed on the property under development at the Kitimat City Centre shopping plaza. The lien includes $196,000 placed by Dorann. Contracting Ltd. and $36,000 placed by sub- contractors, The District of Kitimat agreed to prepare the site for development as one of the conditions.in the sale of property to Haisla Investments for $650,000. The city cancelled its contract for grading with KITIMAT FACES ‘LEGAL BATTLE _ said on Thursday that Dorann Contracting when the company failed to complete the works by the agreed date of Oct.30. Mayor George Thom “the city is legally holding back ceratin funds because Dorann did not fulfill its obligations," The district —_—will prepare the site in order to meet its contractual obligations with the developer. The work will be financed by $350,000 already paid by Haisla Investments for land and site preparation. What’s Premier Peter Lougheed stands apart from the other - provincial leaders with his declaration that he sees nothing wrong in senior politicians accepting free trips from national airlines. Asurvey by The Canadian Press shows that eight of the nine other provinces enforce either formal or informal ‘rules against acceptance of "freebies.’’ No comment was available from the office of New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield. Lougheed, who admitted this week that he flew to Hawali for two weeks in early November courtesy of CP Air, says he has accepted free rides from both CP Air Bennett wrong and Air Canada since becoming premier. . ‘Lougheed said he does not consider the practice wrong and added that he would not be against his cabinet members doing the same “If it was with an airline with which we had no par- tleular business activity or any possible way in which we could affect their position, then sure, if it was offered to them I wouldn't have any objection,” the Alberta premier said All opposition leaders con- tacted in the other provinces said they did not condone politicians accepting free trips from airlines. against freebie flights VICTORIA (CP) Premier Bill Bennett has decreed that no one in his office is to accept free trips on airlines but one of his cabinet ministers said she took a free flight to Hawaii two years ago, Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy said she represented the government on the inaugural flight by Pacific Western Airlines to Honolulu and did not see anything wrong with a politician taking that type of p. Opposition leader Dave Barrett said that when the New Democratic Party was in power Dave Stupich (NDP-Nanaimo) represented the B.C. govern- ment on a Japan Air Lines inaugural flight. Environment Minister Jim Nielsen said earlier the government does not have any rules against accepting free trips on airlines. The issue was raised after Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed says he accepted free trips from CP Air, a private airline. A spokesman in Premier Bill Bennett's office said today the premier ruled ‘from day one that nobody in his office, Including himself, was to accept free tran- sportation.”’ Thieves hit cars Terrace RCMP are in- vestigating three incidences of car break-ins and thefts from cars. Stolen Wed- nesday overnight were tape decks, tapes, camera and gear and some tools, One tool box has been recovered. Kilimat RCMP had no news to report. Novel protest action OTTAWA (CP( — The Commons saw an unusual protest in the spectators Rallery Thursday when 23 women—each wearing a white T-shirt with a large black letter—sat in far- mation to spell the message: Fund Women's Employment jects. The silent demonstration by a group called the Ottawa Women’s Lobby was a protest against federal government plans to remove women as a target group under the Outreac program, which provides funds for agencies aimed at helping disadvantaged groups find work. The matler was raised in the Commons by Stanley Knowles (NDP—Winnipeg North Centre}, who said women are particularly hard-hit by unemployment. Employment Minister Bub Cullen said women will not be cut from the Outreach program, since its services are available to men and women. He said his officials are re- viewing the program to see whether it is necessary to fi- hance agencies specifically concerned with finding .jobs for women. Justice Minister Mare La- londe, the minister responsible for the status of women, said the government would like to do more for women, but when unem- ployment is 8.2 per cent of the work force ‘‘we have to look after all the unem- ployed." At that point, the women in the gallery took off their sweaters and jackets to expose their T-shirt message. A number of MPs noticed the women, but did not comment. One group that has received funds under the Outreach program is the Women’s Career Counselling rvice, In a telegram to Cullen, women termed ridiculous Cullen's statement last month that existing affirmative action programs are enough to replace these agencies. “eo 4