co Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, March 8, 1984 daily! herald - Published every weekday at 3010 Kalum Street, Terrace, 8.C. by Steriing Publishers Ltd. Authorized as second class mail, Registration Number 1201. Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed Terrace: “Circulation: 65-6057 - | 54000 Publisher - David Hamilton’ - | Editor: Advertising Sales: BrianGregg Nick Walton | Staff Writers-Photographer Sports: - Ralph Reschke Holly Olson ~ Reception-Classified: - Circulation: Claire Wadley ’ Sue Booten ' NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic. content published In the Herald.. Reproduction is not. permitted without the written. permission of the Publisher. The Terrace-Kitimat Datty Herald Newspaper is _ politically independent and a member of the British Columbia Press Council. Prospectors dying TORONTO (CP) — Independent. prospectors. consider themselves a dying breed, an opinion apparently confirmed . by their advanced ages and small numbers at a gathering in in Toronto this week, The prospectors are vastly outnumbered by mining company representatives, government officials, geologists and university and trade school students at the 52nd annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association. Among the few independents are such veterans 98 Stanley Farquarson, 75, who still combs’ the Northern Ontario bush searching for gold, and Detfel (Davey) Lowe, 83, who started prospecting in the late 19394 and still chases “his dream, of the big strike. | do all right, can’t complain,” says Lowe, who lives in | a motel room in Larder Lake, Ont. “T make a little money with it, just enough to make a living.” ’ However, the stars of the convention are two men who | -have become’ legends ‘in the profession. Donald McKinnon and John Larche are the independents who struck gold at Hemlo, Ont., and, after being rejected by mining companies and expert opinion, staked claim to the largest gold deposit discovered in North America in the last. . el ba vey Eo ¢ 45 years: “ tyreiet worTH BILLIONS The find has been valued at $3 billion. : The Hemlo find, about 200 kilometres east of Thunder Bay, has generated a minor gold rush, with independents flocking to the area to stake claims, But McKinnon; 54, who, along with Larche, will receive about 15 per cent of the net’ profits from Hemio, lamented the demise of his profession in a epeéch to the convention. He pointed out that although “everything in mining starts with the prospector, even a youngster such as myself will | have to.step aside some day, but when'we leok over our shoulders out on the trail, there won't be anyone there.” Many of the propectors at the convention are well beyond what most businesses consider retirement age. Rodney Knappet, who has beén prospecting for 25 years, considers himself a relative newcomer, =e 1T TAKES YEARS “It takes 10 years just to get to know the | business," said Knappett, who didn't give his age. Unlike most of the veterans, Knappett started prospec- - ting after graduating from mining school. “The oldtimers would get a bug for gold and join a staking tush," he said. “Nowadays, there's s0 much good education . available that it pays to go to a technical school or university.” : While some prospectors try to develop their finds, it is more common to offer the claim to a mining company in return for a percentage of the take. . Ina case like the Hemlo find, that can amount to a sub- stantial sum, But despite the success of McKinnon and Larche, prospectors fee] they normally don’t receive a reasonable share of the reward, although taking most of the riska, because of what they consider unfair tax laws. “There’s nothing in it for prospectors now," said Lowe, “The big companies don't give the prospectors nothing.” in ie , wee eto 1 ‘The: Cénadian: dollar lost. more ground on foreign. & ex- _ change markets Wednesday, - prospects for the country's exporters, but fanning, concern. about a renewed bout of inflation.” |. - The dollar closed down 2-5 of a cent at 79.19 cents U. S. its lowest level since July’ 20, 1982: ‘Money traders said it was dragged down by a sliding U.S. dollar and rising American interest rates that are luring’ away J investors. re Importers warned that unless the dollar: regains some’ _~ strength soon, the extra costa they must pay to purchase’ the same goods abroad with a weaker Canadian, dollar. walt be. ’ _ passed on to the consumer, we by “It's very serious,” said Keith. Dixon, ‘prenident of the Canadian Importers Association Inc. “Once it the, alae) goes below 8 cents, I don’t sleep. a Dixon said. Canadian importers: have been hit ‘with as’ double blow in recent weeks, ag.not only has the: ‘Canadian, . dollar weakened against the American currency, but the | American dollar has lost ground againat other. eurrencles. WORRIES HIM — “Every cent it goes down, it’s, cause for concern: for ‘the . Canadian consumer” as the extra costs borne by ‘importers, will be passed down to:the wholezaler, retailer and finally, os the shopper, he said in a telephone interview. -.- Dixon said people holidaying abroad and buyers-of. nigh priced electronic equipment like televisions, stereo systems and video recorders will be particularly hard hit... But the dollar’s fall is not worrying federal. Finance Minister Mare Lalonde whe said earlier this week it makes Canadian goods more attractive abroad and thereby. helps to create jobs at home. However, the currency’ 8 decline has. given’ the Bank of ’ Canada a problem it is all too familiar with as it: ‘Prepares to set its trend-setting rate teday. - - Money traders expect the rate to edge up slightly’ to about 10,15 per cent from last week’s 10.07 per cent in an effort to - _protect the Canadian dollar while leaving short-term: rates” on consumer or busizess loans unchanged. bees If the bank pushes the rates too high in its 5 torts’ to at- tract funds into the country, it runs the’ Tisk: of hurting the Soviet Union honors women ~ MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union honored its 143. 6 million women and girls with flowers and banner headlines today, and the Kremlin lauded women as. “champions of peace. 1 International Women’s Day is one e of the biggest annual: rites in the Soviet Union. Each March.8, women — and men — are given a rare day off work, and men ‘eaditionally take over the house work. . Theholiday is marked by. an 1 outpouring of pralie for the covered the front pages of most newspapers. - “Happy holiday, glorious ‘daughters. of the motherland" ‘was the Breeting printed in’ the Communist ‘party daily. “Pravda, * "Peace and happiness. ‘to you, female “friends, " proclaimed the youth paper Komsomolskaya Pravda.. The party Central Committee, in a message read at the ** meeting and printed in all newspapers today, lauded Soviet - women as ‘champions of peace." si festive greetlngyr:: «04208 ‘RADIO GREETINGS - The three mate cosmonauts in space for the. Inst rhonth radioed greetings to women all over the world from the - Salyut-7 space station, the offitial Tass news: agency said. “If flowers grow and bloom in space weightlessness; the * cosmonauts will present them to our dear women,” Tass . ‘quoted commiander. Leonid Kizim as well as colleagues Viadimir Solovyov.and Oleg Atkov as saying. a Flowers are the traditional gift on women's day, and they >. . rocket in price during the pre-holiday Spending binge with: vendors in Moscow's matkets asking up to seven rubles - ®. 60 — for three red tulips. . . Women’s Day festivities officially began Wednesday with" ‘a Bolshoi Theatre gala in ‘honor of Soviet women. It was’ Sha o4 #L38 attended this year by the new Soviet leader Koristantin’ . Chernenko and eight other members of the ruling Politburo. - promising ~. ‘improved. the market. - the Canadian industry's. prod ~ country’s women, and banner. headline saluting . women — Only Krasnaya :fezda, daily newspaper. af. the armed: . : ~ #forees arid tha Sdviel ‘Defend’ Ministry, failed to print ats (Soviet Russia))she reminded Soviet meh ‘that: worn recovery, whieh ieee owing ti 6 _ Instead, traders. said'the ‘bank: ‘will try to. (pratect- ‘the’ currency as long ag possible by buying Canadian dollars in They also. ald tha central bank rate ‘would have to reach ‘at least 10,25 per cent before chartered barks would raise the prime’ rate of 11 per cent they. have been charging best Corporate customers.ainee Aprity.::: Meanwhile, ; the: ‘Toronto Dominion Bank anaouneed it is joining several “other. financlal: tiatitutions in: ralelrig ‘mortgage ratex,.. 7) 2: TD, Canada's fiftitargest chartered ‘bank,’ ‘said ‘that ‘effective today, two-to five-year rates. will.increase by & 2-2 - “quarter. of a percentage point, while the one-year rate. will rise, by. half. a point.” The new one-year rate becomes. 1078 per: ent; ‘two-year UN .25 per cent, three-year'12 per cént; four year 12. Bper cent ; and five-year.12.75 percent. _ The moves follow similar chang afinomeed last week by No.2 Canadian: Imperial of. Commerce, Canada — Trustco Mortgage Co. of ‘London, Ont: sOttawachesed Royal ” Trustco Ltd. and’ Credit Foncler of: Montreal. LC “In other business news Wednesday; - ae oe Four: “major: mining companies have formed, a ‘joint _thining’ research and developm mont corporation to step Up. . tivity. Falconbridge Ltd, Inco Ltd., Kidd Creek Mines Lid; and Noranda. Mines Ltd., all of Toronto, have formied HDRK: Mining Research Ltd: to - conduct research and development in mining 1 methods and technology. a Lo — National ‘Trust Co. Lid. “ald its 1984 first } was down 40 per cent from the first three. months ‘of last. -year, mainly because of lower Investment: Income: ‘The Toronto-based trust company sald earnings for the quarter ended Jan. ‘31: totalled $4.3 million or 94 cents a. share, ” compared. with 72 million or hae 83 a share in the. 993 petiod: ° : ~, Méciid Expioralicne Lid. of of Calgary recorded on- Soviet women rarely. gets £0 much attention. There a are few. women in the upper echelons of. Soviet officialdom, . although they can rise to prominence in the arts a and in sports. Among the ‘iio’ most feted Soviet women are the cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana. Savit: skaya. a Ree, SPEAKS. OF PEACE : Terechkova, whoin 1963 was the first woman nini space eand is one of only 18 women oh the’30¢-plus member Centra] Committee, reflécted the traditional line’ linking women a ‘with peace, in an interview with Tass. . “In the heart of every Soviet woman, wherever she lives and works and whatever the generation she belongs to, ° there is yearning to do everything to uphold life on n Earth “and prevent a nuclear disaster,”: she said. Savitskaya, who travelled to the Saly ti? space station in 1992, took a less traditional tack. Tran: interview: with the newspa per Sovielakiaya Rossa . “tahould alway’ be treated as’ eau ‘mbt full ‘put Ora: i ' pedestal one day a year. © She told women textile workers if the’ town of Ivanovo, 320 kilometres east of, Moscow, that she. hopes “the men . working, with you in the. plants do not remember you just on the 8th of March, but also on the Sth and 10th, ‘that women -are working alongside them and accomplishing. the same’ complicated tasks.” The newspaper Sovletskaya Kultura ‘Goviet ‘Culture) used the occasion to compare the situation of Soviet women with women, in the West, attacking the’ women's Tights record of the Reagan administration, °° Under Reagan, it said, less women had been appointed to ’ key official’ posts and” a “feminization et poverty" had occurred. ° The Equal Rights Amendment to. ‘the: ui. s, Constitution _ has been “buried,” it continued. “ Revenue officials: moonlighted 2 OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government today 1 won its; case that it owns'the oil resources of the Hibernia: field off” Newfoundland. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a 6-0 decision that Newfoundland, which has waged a long and bitter battle ~ aver its claim of ownership; had no rights to the offshore. - The verdict came quickly and with little drama as.Jusilce Brian Dickson read the judgment of the court. Although | Chief Justice Bora Laskin heard the case when jt was‘ argued last year, he did not participate in the Judgment, because of iliness. The case was presented to the court in 1982 by the federal , i government which asked the court to rule on the ownership ° question as it related solely to the Hibernia field where oll- and exploration has been concentrated, ca . The court still has before it a Newfoundland ease which . Covers the entire seabed off the Newfoundland coast, That case hag not yet been heard. But the court indicated that it would handle the second case in exactly the same way. ; . “It ts not suggested,” the written judgment states, ‘that i the legal issues are any different in respect of Hibernia thanj. ‘in'respect of any other portion of the continental s shelf off’. Newfoundland.” © » Newfoundland Premier Brian: Peckford; in Ottawa to * attend the first ministers’ mecting’ on aboriginal rights, ‘Immediately cloistered in his hotel room with his closest " advisers to ponder the judgment. Peckford and federal Mines Minister William Rompkey of Newfoundland were to: meet later in the day to discuss the decision. ro ‘In its only previous ruling on offshore-ownerahip, the _ court ruled in 1967 that the federal government controlled . the continental shelf off British Columbia, * vent position because unlike British Columbia, it Wad been an independent country before it joined Confederation in . 1949; - , .. The Supreme Court justices didnat buy the argument and added that even were that Atue; it. would ‘have made no difference. ; _ 7 Its decision will give faint heart to other provinces with unresolved claims. to the offshore. and. will strengthen Ottawa’s hand in negotiating offshore agreements, Lawyers seprésenting Alberta, British Columnia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince’. Edward Island and Manitoba had all supported’ Newfoundland’s case, © | Rights” to the offshore ‘arise from international law, the equrt said, and are extensions of external sovereignty. Put “simply, that means provincial governments, which under the Constitution have no right to handle external relations ~ _ of any form, have no rights to the offshore. Federal government wins case. HAMILTON (CP) — : Federal Revenue Department of-: ficiale In Toronto moonlighted as tax accouitants and promised taxpayers they would never be audited if they - took their tax business to the officials, a: Progressive Conservative task force was told Wednesday.":. —. Jobn Ross, a Niagara Falls, Ont., travel agent,"made the. statement to the five-member patel on the third day of its 23-city tour te hear frustrated taxpayers’ complaints about ~ ~ the practices of the Revenue Department." -: Ross, a former Niagara Region police officer, saidhe had a meeting with tax officials in Toronto and the auditors, - whom he refused to name, told him they also worked privately as accountants. He sald he was told taxpayers ° who took their business to.them would never be audited. ' we Rosa said he has had an ongoing dispute with the Revenue . ‘ ge t, _ "Thank you, Burrows, for that | Zinn werent ce il el ed descriptive insight into He added hé has beer threatened with further audits In the nuclear arms race.” the future. . 1 The task force was set up by, the Conseivatives after the i a nie federal government refused to establish a parliamentary , committee to study tax collection practices of the ‘Revenue Department. The move followed numerous complaints about the practices, . Roas complained a tax offictal had threatesied his mothe: that. Ross could be sent to jail after he wad accused by | department of sending post-dated cheques. whieh were: ii: to have bounced. Ross, who 1s ingle, sald the otticlal tates sald he thought he was talking to Ross's wife. . “When Ross told officials he planned to protest the threat - to the minister of evens he sald he was threatened with Bn audit every year, . He said officials tied up his books 20 he was ‘unable. to prepare a necessary report for the Ontario Tourism Ministry and they tried to embarrass him by making inquiries at other firiis with. which he wasn't connected. -Ross was dismissed from the Niagara police force in 1978 after being convicted of discredilable conduct because ‘he . had opened the travel agency. - ticipated in the drilling of 159 wells suid the conatruction’of ‘ major “gas. pl . shortage of splice... “However-we want British Columbia. :* "gantrol and water righia of what fs probably the finest solidated net t earnings of $4, 668, 000, or 10 cents a. share,’ for. - - already developed-and belongs to the: people of British -” -jaews on TV would believe that the. current. senale reform _ mW obligation to represent the votera in their region. What is “the year 1 exding. Dec. ' a: “8 : $20,085,000, or $1.12. a share, In 1982, The: company: Da processing and_ oil. production - facili in: = Alberta | and: Saskatchewan during the: year: “Totter t to. the Editor : 7 ‘the itor,” iat _ ps ‘wraser ‘Lake - and. District. itistortcad cl "recently been suictesaful in obtaining a New Horizon's gr to compile a history-of the Fraser: ‘Lake, I Fort F Endatfo area of north-central B.C: *." wot “ “We would like to invite residents and former rea ie participate i in our. project: by: ‘submitting farnily’ hij photographs, etc, to Mrs. Beth Woolzey, - Asecrelary Box 438; Fraser Lake, B. C,'V0J:180 )Phohe 699-8769) + : : Please Indicate what, matetial. ig to be returned, ‘and: “edit wepitings’ for. brevity IF: it; beeames ‘necessary’ de families ad oafible! in, our’ ‘book: 0 the - Bibi ; "The cellizens: of: fatehwioatin ‘Beith * atin -auickly becoming “ttie ‘victims: of another, Alcan trap “namely, ‘allowing ‘Aléan to “‘steal’’ ane of our moat precious nub Sin the: rights to our water power in: north em “Alcan is’at-present | in the’ tloal. stages. of al ‘System in the western hemisphere, namely the. k Skeena River watertheds.:°".° * -For allowing Alcan ‘to. tape” our country’ we ‘will be- given the hig thrill of having another aluminum ‘amelter, with a few jobs, to soe ‘yet nnchdsen site:: _Do.we: really ~ need another small aluminum smelter..in northwestern : B.C., when we already have one-of the largest-smelters:in: * - the: ‘world at Kitimat, and especially in a worldwhich :: already has an over ‘abundance of aluminum productign?: _ Gone will be the commercial salmon industry. with It’s. ‘aver 7,000 jobs.: Gone will be the sportsfishing Industry in both the rivers and seaways. Gone will bea large portionof our tourist industry which depends so much upon our rivers: and beautiful recreation areas, Gone will be much of‘odr / agriculture which depends so much upon these rivera. Gone | will be-anything worth living-for in British Columbla ‘if 7 Alcan is allowed to “rape” our Provinee aa they did & so forty 7 years ago. — : ‘If Alean requires. extra power for its present or future " _developments we’ have lots of it to sell:them which‘ls * Columbia. No doubtB. c: ‘Hydro would be only too happy:to provide Alcan ‘from power which is already developedarid: is greatiy. under utilized from: the: Peace River and other a B.C, Hydro power. systems.. - All of the Phony. jamal town politicians throughout: tor ee * thw B,C, mys ir be blind, stupid, or mad, or ia m eS ei Bouatt ote In, onder. weragy scheme, th ia quite ‘conspicuous! that there.are ne degli -or heavy protests coming from our tin horn politicians, who | “are so afraid of speaking out publicly against this. atrocity - for fear of losing a few votes. We, as electors, may as well elect a flock of sheep who would. do about the aame kind of ome Joo ve Maybe some of the interlor communities who are 30 ‘be enthuslastically supporting this “Pape of our province’: will a ‘have second thoughts when they walk along the bed of, ‘what + . used to be a river, or when they have no more water to aes drink,.or no more nothing. Almast every area ‘throughout . the world would dearly love to have this great sgset of our, . ° to, upport ; suchaioon "| Please, people of the northwest, come to your ‘senses and - vigeurmusly stop this “MAD" scheme, Howard Melo ‘Prince Rupert, B. C, In To the Editor, , The talk coming from Ottawa these days about senate reform and changes to the way federal elections are‘run signifies that the federal government is finally admitting that western alienation is a reality; s I am sure no one will disagree that the present: senate “ system is nothing more than a way of rewarding the loyal: supporters of the party in power. A perfect example is the!” “appointment of four good ol "' Liberals to the senate by: the ue present Prime Minister. - For over. 100 years western Canadians have been asking OE: for senatereform, A properly structured senate Would give equal representation to all of the provinces, regardless,of . -- population, by directly electing the same: number; of | senators from each province. Only those people whose sole: source of information comes from watching the national... _ proposal will. accomplish this. end, . . This proposal recommends “proportionate” represen- oo tation. political ‘party to appoint ‘senators, the number . being. : decided by the perceritage of the popular vote recelved in.a......' “Proportionate” ‘representation will: allow each, rot federal election. Therefore, it is the oulcome.of the election’ an for the House of Commons seats that dictates who chooses . how many senators...“ sant This’ system would change nothing, The senate _ Depresentatives still would not be elected. ‘They would feel oe _ More, Ontarié and Quebec would still have more Senators than all of the four western provinces, . . This’ id certainly not regional representation! It. is. however a good example of the camouflage techniques carried on by the powers-that-be and those who hope someday to be the “powers-that-be to maintaln’ their stranglehold on that power. It is Ilke the guy who “fixes” bia pore ateps by,, spiving. them a coat of paint instead, oi ‘the rotteti boards,’ ne . ae aire ‘dom jolt, complaint of western ‘Canadians is, “My vote doesn't count.” ” Referring to the fact that the patty,wht°Wwins the iajority of ‘eeats in the House of Commons from Ontario and Quebec wins the election no ~ matter -who. gets elected west of. the - Qntario-Manitoba boarder. In reality the eléction is:over long before the polls ~ in Flin Flon, Regina; Lethbridge’ or Vanderhoof are closed, The proposed prescriptinn for this ailment that is being . ’ Buggested Is to not count tlie Hillcis from Ontario or Quebec until all the polls in Western Canada are closed. It-is hard to belfeve that the central Canadian power lords really really think that even the dumbest among us would swallow: that medication, . The problem that Central Canada is finally admitting to: by the above ludicrous measures is event now being solved by the “colonies” themselves, ; : _’ The. movement for ‘western. ‘separation is gaining © momentum as more and more westem Canadians reallza that independence is the e only real solution. . Oe ; J. Yours truly Clyde Nunn or ae Vite eee ame?