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LARGEST ENERGY PROJECT

AL Can line gets — Joint approval —

WASHINGTON President Carter announted Thursday his official ap- proval of another historic construction project, a si billion pipeline to ca Alaskan natural gas sou! through Canada along the Alaska Highway.

His decision in favor of the Alaska Highway route, which was proposed in Canada by Foothills .Pi Lines Yukon Ltd. and in ¢ U.S. by Alcan Pipeline Co., appeared to doom the rival Paso proposal.to move

_ the gas from Alaska by ship

without crossing Canadian terri

tory. Shortly after Carter’s announcement, a key congressional supporter ot

(CP)-.

the.E] Paso plan, Senator Mike Gravel Dem. Alaska indicated his belief that Congress accept the president's choice. With: Prime Minister drudeau standing beside him, Carter told reporters the 2,500 mile Alaska High- way pipeline, “the largest single private energy project.in history,” is fur- ther evidence of the spirit of co-operation between the two countries.

Trudeau compared the project with the building of the .St. Lawpence seaway, saying the pipeline will be even more important. He added that the two countries

in a “spirit of complete

cabinet

openness” on the pipeline

ue.

An agreement in principle was reached in Ottawa last Friday between U.S.

-Energy Secretary James

Schlesinger and Canadian House Leader Alian MacEachen. The Canadian approved = the

although their joint statement indicated that Canada had withdrawn- its proposal that the line take a more costly route, through Dawson City,. to. make. a possible future pipeline for. Canadian use less ex-

pensive, There war no immediate

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agreement Tuesday and Carter’s approval was announced just after his 5 minute discussion with Trudeau on Thursday. Neither leader gave details of the Canada U.S. agreement on the pipeline,

official confirmation of reports Canada also dropped proposals to have the pipeline carry the coat of a.$200 million Yukon socio- economic fund and to delay the construction start to 1981 from 1979.

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Letter carriers sign; sorters may follow |

OTTAWA (CP)- Post master-general . Jean- Jacques Blais signed a contract Thursday with the Letter: Carriere. Unionof Canada

een some encouraging

evelopments in the dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW.

“T hope that within a breif

period of time,.we'll be back at the bargaining table with CUPW,’’ Blais said.

But he said heis not going to elaborate until both sides are “ensconsed in com- fortable chairs with both feet firmly under the bargaining table.’”

Jean-Claude Parrot, president of the 22, 000 mem not think a detailed ¢om-

ment would “‘serve the best , interests of our members or

the public.” .

But he also expressed hope contract talks will resume shortly.

CUPW and the post office

attempted in May to start . negotiations for a new -

agreement, But those talks

- proke off after an hour and therehave been no meetings .

since then.

Old agreements. covering the letter .carriers’ an CUPW, which represents mail sorters and postal clerks, experied last June.

The one-year contract

signed Thursday by. the:

letter carriers was reached

without any slowdowns. or .

work stoppages. It provides

‘an eight percent salary

increase plus a cost of living adjustment clause that applies when the inflation rate is more than six per- cen

If approved b inflation board,

the anti-

~ Liberals will

‘and said there have ... carriers- ‘wold

will bring the top rate of for a carrier with two year's experience to $19,878.92 a year.. Toten president im in favor of the agreement. CUPW also has called for a -royal. commission of

inquiry into what it calls

incompetence and poor administration at the post office.

MeGrny: admitted ‘there he.”

has been a serious loss of public confidence in the post office, buthesaid there is no

need. for a royal com- mission.

The problems of the pos'

office and the unions should : worked: : out’:.. by

‘McGarry sai

NOBODY KNOWS

ber CUPW, said he did:

Arms dump in Interior?

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.. an Irish Republican Army

(CP)- RCMP. here said Thureday they know nothing In an “interview. from a hideout somewhere in

of an aleged Protestant Quebec, Kennedy told a

arms dump in the area. The charge ‘was made Vancouver reporter that he

Wednesday by James will disclose concrete Kennedy, a man im-- evidence of the existence of - migration authorities say is the arms dump

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_ Fame sought by gum chewer

. ESQUIMALT, B.C. (CP)- as there’s nothing listed in

Ricky. Mathison’s chewing the Guiness Book, but he

lose its flavor on. the bed- ‘thinks he’s set a new one. post overnight because he For now, he’s iust going to keeps it in his mouth. - ‘keep..on chewing with. no -He parks it on the roof of particular target in mind. his mouth or between his teeth and upper lip while he He only chews a small sleeps and 30 far, he hasn't ‘lump of gum, half a stick, chocked or four itin his hair and every three or four days in the morning. . he.adds another half stick The 12 year oldresident of because the gum seems to this Victoria suburb has had wear away. a. plece of gum on the ge ‘The grade 7 student says since June 7 because his teachers are sym- wants his name the pathetic ‘to his record- Guiness. Book of Racords ‘setting efforts, but then. he He said Thursday that he doesn’t chew ‘all the time isn’taure what,the record'is, either.

simultaneously in Canada and Ireland sometime in the future,

Kennedy, 37, said by police to be James McCann

. who is wanted for ettorist

activities in Europe, was released from the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre Oakalla near Vancouver on $5,000 bail while he appeals a July 14 deportation order

- Kennedy, a. declared member of the Sin Fein, the political wing. of the. IRA, said funrunsing activities were occurring on the West and East Coast of Canada.

“There is still a major arms dump near George and the RCMP in Mission east .of Vancouver Imow about it,” Kennnedy

. said,

“The RCMP sre pursuing this in Mission,” he said. .

Police spokesmen in Prince George and Mission denied knowledge of such an investigation Thursday.

‘Vancouver spokesman:

would only say that the

police force strongly denies that it is turning a blind eye to ony gun-running ac-

It.takes more than rain to sour Dawn. Coxford’s en- thusiasm for softhall. The Royal Bank pitcher threw the first ball in this weekend’s scrub tourney, but her

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Overwailtea In six innings. Before the game, home plate had to be excavated from the mud. Games schedule for the weekend tourney Is on page 5.

Coping with instant fame is nothing to Channel swimmer

FOLKESTONE, England, (CP) — Cindy Nicholas, 20, of Toronto, spent nearly. 20 hours conquering the frigid waters of the -English

Channel — then fainted and.

sprained her right wrist in the warmth of her bathroom.

She swarm round trip, not- stop from Dover to Cap Fria Nez and back, something no other woman has ever.done. She slashed an incredible 10 hours, five minutes off the men's record.

-“T was in control all the time,” she.said.

She admitted: “It hurt; it hurt a lot, but that’s something you learn to live

Cindy had been without sleep for. 40 hours as she

A spoke with reporters and

coped with phone calls from news organizations in North America and England. She walked into the water at Dover just about dawn on Wednesday. Nearly.20 hours

later, cut and bruised, she “crawled out” back up the same beach.

Her two-way swim gave:

her a total of five Channel crossings, equalling the récord set in the 1960's by Greta Anderson, a Dane from the U.S.

“Pm coming back next year,’ Cindy said. “Definitely.

She wants the title. Queen

of the Channel, which she shares with Anderson. She also want the England-to- France record — eight hours and 56 minutes, held by Wendy Brooke of England,

Cindy set out for that record — she already holds the France'to’England mark’on the first leg of her swim.

The worst part of her swim came as she ap- proached France, where waves hattered her against the rocks.

SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS AT PICNIC

Under new regulations, a swimmer must walk clear of the water to qualify,

“I had trouble. getting. out and getting back in," Cindy said.

Her parents — Jim and Vicky Nicholas — were with her all the way in the ac- companying pilot’ boat.

"It was like Highway 40! out there at night,” her mother said.

Cindy. said “some. very large ships came very close. Some of the ferries seemed to want to give their passengers a close look.”

Eight hours of. her swim was. accomplished in darkness and Mrs. Nicholas said: “It’s a : garbage dump out there, with ships, boxes, bottles and seaweed.

“And it wascold, The air temperature was 57 and the water temperature was 62."

Cindy's feat — the record she broke, 80 hours even,

was set two years ago by

Jon Erikson of Chicago —

made. her an_ instant celebrity.

One of the telephone calls she received was from Paul Martin, Canada's High Commissioner to Britain, inviting her.to dinner,

Late editions of London afternoon newspapers ran her picture on the front

page.

Cindy, at. five-foot-five, normally weighs 135 pounds but she put one 12 pounds before. her .swom as protection against the chill water..

During her nearly 206 hours, she ‘'put on another five pounds" by snacking on chocolate bars, grapes, soft drinks and sausages.

In addition te her deter- mination to return next year | she has another goal in mind — swimming the turbulent Strait of Jaun de Fuca in British Columbia, but that’s somewhere in the future.

. OTTAWA (CP)- Finance depart- ment. officials continued work Thursday on a new federal make- work program while Liberal MPs ended what one said were “bloddy serious discussions” on the economy with a picnic in the nearby Gatineau

ae realize we're going to have to take.some lumps this winter,” British Columbia MP Jack Pearsall

' L-Const Chilcotin as Liberal MPs _ completed morning talks on

aemployment and other economic concerns. ‘‘There are just 1 no easy solutions.” : oe :

said

The Liberal meetings, part of a

two-day private planning session. . prior to a mid-October. opening of.

Parliament, .ended with an. af-

ternoon picnic at Prime Minister

Trudeau’s Harrington Lake, Que., summer retreat in the Gatineau Hills about 20 miles north of Ottawa.

Asit ended, Employment Minister Bud Cullen said cabinet would sound out several job creation options on Liberal MPs before adding to current federal plans to sink $458 million into make-work projects

‘take some lumps’ this winter ©

before the accunting year ends next March 31, . Meanwhile,

senior finance

‘ department officials, who drafted

employment plans that . were rejected by.cabinet earlier thisyear, were working on new proposals ordered by the govenrment. .

They plan to.spend the weekend at another Gatineau Hills retreat drawing up a job program that will likely form part of the government's pelicy-previewing throne speech address read perhaps by the Queen - when Parliament resumes in Oc-

r.

Cullen said any new program would have to get the blessing of the finance minister who replaces Donald Macdonald, the 45 year old MP for the Toronto riding of Rosedale who announced his resignation from cabinet earlier this weelt,

‘Trudeau is said to have put a higher priority on plans to offset the steadily rising unemployment rate - it stood at 9.1 percent of the work force in July, or 878,000 workers - than on the struggle to keep the country together in the face of

threats. from Ren Levesque’s separatist government in Quebec.

prime minister may give some indication of his government’s plans for the unemployed at a news conference today. He returned to Ottawa on. Thursdey from an

overnight visit to. Washington to —

witness the signing of new Panama canal treaties and a meeting with

_ President Carter.

NDP Leader Ed Broadbent: has scheduled a meeting with reporters shortly before Trudeau’s news conference, and officials in

Broadbent's office say the NDP leader plana to launch another assault on the government’s han- dling of the jobless situation.

Labor and business leaders,’ however, were cool to federal plans for a consultative forum that might have developed ways to reduce unemployinent.

Government has become in- creasingly upset with business reluctance to use tax cuts offered in the last federal budget- Macdonald 8 an incentive to expand operations and create jobs,