PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, June 29, 1978

David Thomson

| Hello, Broadway

Terrace just might have a budding star walking its streets. Twenty year old David Thomson, of Terrace, has recently been ac- cepted by the National Theatre School in Mon- treal for a three year course in drama and drama production.

David is a graduate of the University of Vic- toria where he studied stagecraft and theatre history to come out with background and no job until he came back to Terrace working in other ends of the career spectrum being a restraun-

er.

_ During "77 David auditioned for the National Theatre School and had no word on his per- formance for two months. Then word came back positive - he was accepted in one of Canada’s top theatre schools where only 15 French and 15 English speaking students will spend the ’78-'79 calendar year.

Basically the course will have David studying acting the first year, design and technical in- formation the second, and production during the third and final year. :

For eight hours a day David will be adding AikKedo, fencing and history to his curriculum of

- theatrical training.

_ Out of this school has come some great Canadian performers - David could be one of the future stage persons as he has proven himself in ‘several Terrace productions.

Among these were: “Macbeth”, in which he performed at the Northwest College Summer Theatre School; ‘“‘Arsenic and Old Lace’, in Little Theatre, Terrace; “Hisses and’ Kisses” and “Leaving Home’’. Recently, David put on “Herringbone”, written by Tom : Cone, which he entered in the Skeena Drama Festival. A one man show, “Herringbone” requires the sole performer to play 14 different characters, and was his most challenging performance.

David is the son of Donna Thomson, of Terrace, and Jim Thomson.

National Theatre School is a non-profit in- stitution, partly supported by the Government of

nada.

BRIEFLY STATED

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal health department has proposed safety standards to reduce public exposure to microwave radiation by 90 percent.

The Canadian Press reported erroneously Tuesday that the department has proposed safely standards on microwave devices to reduce current public exposure standars.

In fact, federal safety emission standards have éxisted since 1974 on microwave devices such as ovens,

HULL, Que. (CP) - Jean-Luc Pepinsays his Task Force on Canadian Unity has not been undermined by constitutional- amendment proposals introduced in Parllament.

Pepin, co-chairman of the study group, said at the Richelieu Club on Tuesday that “there are aspects of the federal system not included in the government bill such as the redistribution of powers between federal and provincial governments and other political subjects relevant to unity.”

National unity is more than a political question, Pepin said.

It encompasses social and economic aspects that will be dealt with in the group's reports.

The first report ia due in September,

The government's constitutional reform package includes proposals to replace th Senate witha House of Federation, its

. members appointed by federal and provincial governments. The federal government appoints Senators under the current system,

The government also proposes reform of the Supreme Court and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms which would Include guarantees for the English and French languages.

LONDON (CP) - Response to the Canadian Automobile Association's CAA Open Road tour, a program which began last fall, has been slow amd the program:“will require careful analysis,’” Robert Erb, executive vice-president, told a CAA board of directors meeting Tuesday. The program, which got financial support from the federal office of tourlam, sells planned tours for families travelling by car.

OTTAWA (CP) - Anew 14-cent stamp will be issued Aug. 17 in honor of the centennial of the Canadian National Exhibition, in Toronto, the post office announced Wednesday.

The stamp shows the allhouette of the Prince's Gate, the main entrance to the exhibition grounds, and was designed by. Theo Dimon of Toranto.

KILLARNEY, Ireland (AP - Sean MacBride, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Irish Republican Army chief, has appealed for a cease-fire in the Northern Lreland conflict to end the ‘savage and relentless” violence. He sald Tuesday the confllt between Protestants and Catholics has reached a stalemate after nine years and no one can win. MacBride, 74, was speaking 900 Americans at a five-day convention of the Ancleat Order of Hibernlans AOH, an organization of Irish-

erleans, .

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PROVINCE HOT PAYING ENOUGH. SO

PROPERTY TAXES INGREASE

VANCOUVER (CP) Municipal governments, regional districts and authoritles funded through

taxes was n«ressary because the provincial government's contribution is not sufficient.

The Greater Vancouver

off,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

“But then it dropped its contributions to school boards and everything else

to increase its property tax . levy by 22.5 per cent because the provincial government’s annual grant to the authority is frozen at too low a level.

property taxes are blaming the provincial government for huge property tax in- creases which have sparked mass opposition throughout the province.

The British Columbia School ‘Trustees Association says the 15.5-per-cent in- crease in budget funds from province-wide property

Regional Hospital District says it was forced to ask for a 36-percent increase in property taxes this year because the provincial government's share in hospital construction is rot sufficient to meet the district's commitments:

The B.C. Assessment Authority says it was forced

*And it’s the - municipalities who are getting all the blame," sald George Ferguson, first vice- president of the B.C. Union of Municipalities,

“The province brought in the new assessment formula this year and told everyone the municipalities are better

dependent on property taxes, forcing them to raise their levies.”* ; SHARE INCREASED B.C. municipalities in- creased their share of property taxes by 7.7 per cent this year to $379 million from $352 million. ; . Meanwhile, B.C. schoo

_ share by 16.1 per cent to $19.5

Since California voters passed a referendum reducing taxes, B.C, tax- payers have been in an uproar over their property taxes. B.C. Progressive Con- servative leader Vic Stephens has called on B.C. ratepayers to revolt against the provincial government's formula for municipal and school financing and com- munity meetings have been held throughout the province to protest the increases.

boards increased their share of 1978 taxes by 15.5 per cent to $498 million from $431 million in 1977; regional districts increased their

million from $16.8 million; the hospital districts in- creased their share by 23.4 per cent to $17.4 million from $14.1 million and the B.C, Assessment Authority in- creased its share by 22.5 per cent to $13.7 million from $11.1 million.

B.C. - Alta. gas find could meet Canada’s gas needs for one hundred years — If the price is right!

CALGARY (CP) - A scientific paper which its author says might lead to a fundamental change in the energy supply situation in North America was presented to an international

’ petroleum geclogy conference

y.

John Masters, president of Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd, of Calgary, said undreamed of quantities of natural gas may be found in the so-called Deep Basin of Alberta and British Columbia. .

Canadian.Hunter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Noranda Mines Ltd, of Toronto, discovered the Elmworth, with at

least six trillion cubic feet of proved, probable and possible reserves likely to be found. 26,000 square miles iying immediately east of the Racky Mountains in north-western Alberta and north-eastern B.C.

Masters told the conference, held in conjunction with the 50th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, that the Deep Basin may have a resource base in excess of 400 trillion cubic feet, split about equally between Alberta and B.C,

The basin has a total area-of

In Vancouver

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Albert now has about 60 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves

Cops still don’t know how to pick up a prostitute? —

VANCOUVER (CP) — Police Chief Don Winterton said he and Justice Minister Ron Basford have failed to agree on whether uniformed or undercover patrol officers should be empowered to arrest prostitutes soliciting on city streets. .

Winterton told a news conference following a meeting Tuesday with Basford that police are not completely satisfied with Criminal Code ammend- ments introduced May 1 giving power only to un- dercover officers to arrest prostitutes.

Under the amendments, he said, police are forced to “masquerade as a trick” (customer) to make a

In brief coremony

arrest, .a unnecessary practice degrading to offi- cers,

While he didn’t say he sup- ported return of vagrancy laws removed from the Criminal Code in 1972, Winterton said he agreed with laws forbidding loi- tering for the purpose of prostitution.

Basford said the vagrancy section was removed with approval from all political parties because it was a throwback from medieval times.

He said the government resists vagrancy laws because it attacks peaple for what they are, not for what they do. : :

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AMENDMENTS PLANNED

Basford said he ap preciated the growing prostitution problems in major Canadian cities, and that he hopes the amend- ments are passed by Parlia- ment this fall,

The amendments coun- teract a Supreme Court of Canada decision Feb. 7 that prostitutes must vigorously harass clients before they can be convicted of soliciting. The court aiso in- dicated an unmarked car is not a public place and therefore prostitutes can not be convicted for soliciting undercover officers in cars.

Basford said he is also planning amendments which would cover men who ap- proach women while looking

Princess Caroline becomes Mrs.

MONTE CARLO (AP) — Princess Caroline of Monaco married Paris financier Philippe Junot in a 15-minute civil, service in the royal palace today,

Princess Caroline's hand shook a little as she signed the register, said ‘Louis Roman, president of Monaco’s state council, who performed the ceremony.

The ‘civil ceremony took

place in the palace’s small

chapel. Caroline and Junot will return there Thursday moming for a Roman Catholic nuptial mass at- tended by 100 guests, in- cluding members of Parisian society, the international jet set, ex-royalty and movie stars. :

The press was barred from

Study shows

both ceremonies ‘as well as from the pre-nuptial ball at

palace Tuesday night.

ie i brevity of the guest list, the absence of members of reigning royal houses and the privacy surrounding the wedding were in contrast to the 2,000-guest extravaganza Caroline’s .father,. Prince Rainier ITE, staged on April 18, 1956, when he married

her mother, American movie .

star Grace Kelly. OUTFITS BY DIOR

Dior, the Paris fashion house, designed the wedding outfits for beth Caroline and her mother. Designer Marc Bohan outfitted. the bride in blue crepe georgette for the civil ceremony traditional white for the reli- gious rite while Princess

and .

Grace was wearing apricot chiffon today and will wear yellow crepe georgette Thursday.

The palace refused to say where Caroline, 21, and Junot, 38, were honeyniooning or what gifts thelr parents were giving them. .

It has been common knowledge that the rulers of this 370-acre principality on the French Riviera were unhappy about their daughter’s insistence on marrying 4 commoner 17. years older than she with a reputation as a playboy.

. This disapproval has: melted recently, judging from Grace’s remarks to friends. She told one friend her daughter was happy

for prostitutes.

The change was not in- cluded, he said, because his advisers misjudged a ruling April 18 by. the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

The court unanimously upheld a county court acquittal of Anthony Dudak, charged with soliciting an undercover policewoman on a West End street.

The court ruled a man does not engage in the act for money and therefore could not be convicted of soliciting.

Winterton said Vancouver citizens are not prepared to have prostitutes on city streets disrupting traffic. Police are trying to deal with the problem but effective legislation is the only proper method of control, he said.

Junot |

“and it’s her happiness that eounts.”*

Monaco’s police foree of 300 and the 90-man: palace guard maintained tight security around the palace to keep gate crashere out of the royal ball Tuesday night.

Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos's Bentley limousine almost crashed into one of the police barricades when photographers’ flashbulbs blinded the chauffeur.

The guests included ex- King Umberto of Italy, Egyptian Prince Fuad, Frank Sinatra, David Niven, Ava Gardner and Cary Grant, Princess Grace met Rainier when she and Grant filmed To Catch a Thief in Monte Carlo.

Bad vibes at work can harm your Health

Recent work of experts in the field has cleared the way for a greater understanding of how vibration affects the human body. In a society which brings man into daily contact with machinery of all kinds it is important to

Hartley Bay

It was announced today on ’ behalf of the Honorable Judd Buchanan, Minister of Public Works, that J.A. Stewart Construction Ltd. has been awarded a contract for $79,630 to expand the existing power system‘ at

Hartley Bay, British ‘Columbia. The successful firm

submitted the lowest of five bids received in response to public advertisement, The ‘high bid was $130,000, Specifications for the contract, which calls for the

explore the implications of prolonged exposure to vibration.

Nearly fifteen years of research intu the dangers of vibration to the human body has resulted in the publication by the In-

power boost

work to be completed by the end of December, were prepared for the Department of Indian Affairs and, Nor- thern Development by Public Works Canada.

The contract calls for the expansion of the existing power system by the in- Stallation of two new generators and 3-phasing of a portich of the power line.

The project manager is ° by

MLM. Lambert of the Public

Works Canada’ office in”

Vancouyer.

More missionaries murdered

SALISBURY (AP). — Milltary officials reported today that two Roman Catholic missionairies have been murdered at a remote hospital in central Rhodesia.

The report did not say when the missionaries, both Germans, were killed. Last Friday, 12 Britons, missionairies and members

of their ‘families, were hacked and clubbed to death near Rhodesia’s eastern

rder.

The killings of the German missionaries were reported by the military and Roman Catholic authoritles. Names of the victims were not released pending notification of next of kin, .

ternational Organization for Standardization (ISQ) of International Standard 2631 - Guide for the evaluation of human exposure to whole- body vibration.

The problems of vibration are. the concern of ISO Technical Committee 109 devoted to ‘the study of mechanical vibration and shock, Even & quick look around us suggests that these problems may be more common and more severe than mast of us are likely to think,

For example, can an airplane pilot read his in- struments accurately when heis subject to vibration and‘ buffeting in turbulent weather? Is the farmer in danger of unnecessary fatigue or of injuring himself continuous exposure to the vibration of his tractor?

‘Do vibrations from elevators

or air conditloning equip- ment do more than annoy guests in a hotel and cause the stress of the office worker?

The ISO guide applies to whole-body vibration as it occurs In the transportation industry (aircraft, boats, railway trains, autos, .sub-

ways and so forth), the’

manufacturing industry (floor vibration in heavy industry), the agricultiwe and buildings industries

promoting

(tractors, earth-maving equipment), and homes (vibration resulting fram street traffic, for example).

The data contained in the ISO guide applies chiefly. to vibrations that are tran- smitted to the body thraugha

supporting surface: the feet’

of a standing person, the buttocks of a seated person or the supporting area of a relining person. This kind of vibration is common in vehicles, in vibrating buildings and in-the vicinity of working machinery,

-The guide is proving &x- tremely useful in assessing environments in which vibration is a major element, and is stimulating the reporting and critical evaluation of new findings about the effects of vibration on humans. -

The ISO is the specialized international agency for standardization. Canada parliclpates In the work of ISO Technical Committee 103 and other committees through the sponsorship of the Standards Council of Canada, the national agency responsible for fostering and voluntary standardization in Canada and ensuring offective Canadian participation in international stan- dardization work.

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and B.C, about eight trillion cubic feet.

He said at today’s prices, 50 trillion cubic feet of the Deep Basin resources may be economically recoverable. The price of gas exported to the United States now is $2.16 a thousand cubic feet and the Alberta border price $1.35 - in both cases returnitig about $1 to producers after royalties and

daxes.

He said if the new price received by producers were in- creased to $2 a thousand cubic feet, recoverable reserves in the basin might reach 150trillion cubic feet, making it the largest gas accumulation in North America. ;

North America’s largest field now 1s the Milk River field in southern Alberta with nine trillion cubic feet. ;

Masters said Canada now uses about 1.5 trillion cubic feet a year, meaning the Deep Basin reserves represent a potential 100-year supply at current consumption rates. .

In the paper and at a news conference at the second day of the three-day conference, attended by more than 2,00 petroleum geologists from around the world, Masters em- phasized that these were conservative estimates based on limited data.

Masters, a petroleum geologist himself, said the Deep Basin was discovered by applying an unconventional petroleum geology thesis that the largest gas accumulations in the Rocky Mountain provinces and states exist in largely- ignored areas. ;

These areas are known to petroleum geologists as low- porosity, low-permeabllity sands, usually between 3,000 and 15,000 feet below the surface. Because of these reservoir characteristles, they are more costly to produce than con- ventional reserves.

Consequently, only when gas prices have reached a certain level do these reserves become economically feasible.

- Before the energy crisis in 1973, the price paid to Western Canadian natural gas producers was as low ag 12 cents a thousand cubic feet.

Masters said the Deep Basin thesis has already been proved in developing the San Juan Basin in New Mexico, which has 25 trillion cubic feet of reserves and whose petroleum geology is analogous to that of the Milk River and Deep Basin.

“I¢is not generally appreciated that Weatern Canada is one of the great hydrocarbon areas of the world,” he said.

Deep Basin could “‘change our total concept of gas supply, ange the Canadian oil industry, change the energy supply situation in North America, and improve the economic

, Situation i Caniada;!?

Masters said Canadian Hunter is the largest lease-holder in the basin with 1.2 million net acres, including 700,000 acres in Alberts. and 500,000 acres inB.C. Other companies with large

. holdings include Amoco and Texaco. Masters said the Deep Basin resources have not been in-

cluded in Canadian government reserve estimates and, as a result, Canada's energy policy, especially relating to natural gas exports, should be reviewed.

Masters said he hopes the federal government will approve additional gas exports to the United States as soon as possible to provide producers with cash flow necessary to develop

Deep Basin and other gas reserves.

OTTAWA (CP) - Bruce Yemen has been appointed associate editor and Sandy Gardiner managing editor of The Jourtal, publisher and president L.A. Lalonde announced Wednesday. Both appointments are effective immediately.

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