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We ask that letters be typed and double spaced. The light side of this world MIDDLETOWN, Ohio {AP) — Conrail, don’t blow your train whistles” in Middletown! atop the mast of Levis’ schooner, Samarang, and the radiologist said the dubious honor was costing enforce its anti-whistle or- dinance, since the Ohio Supreme Court decided not to review Conrail’s appeal. The ordinance provides a $50 penalty for engineers out for a sail," he said. He also had to pay a fee for a mooring he no needed, another fee for a shoreside slip he couldn't use “Inflation’s getting so bad, the politicians don’t pass the buck anymore — they pass the two-callar bill!” longer, - ‘THE SAME TO LEVESQUE Sovereignty -independenice difference between “‘sovereignty’—the term preferred by the Partl Quebecois to describe what it wants for Que- negotiate independence. Although the PQ parly program calls for such unilateral action as a last resort, Levesque has Quebec, while still cling- ing tathe party's ullimate goal of independence. Levesque says in “the book lhat time is on the Despile his faith in political sovereignty, the premier concedes thal some francophones will leave Quebec if the prav- pansion,. and Jean-Pierre Goyer who, to give him his due, is colorful in his own peculiar way. But then there are the stars: ‘Trudeau, deify or detest him, he still glitters. Marc Lalonde, his shadow and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relalions. Finance Minisler Jean Chretien, likable, earnest, hard-struggling optimist in the economic gloom rot of his making. Welfare Minister Monique Begin, with guts cnough to stand off Cabinet efforls to include pensioners in the current mood of “restraint”, and to ask Trudeau, straight out, if now, after Li years, he was still the man to lead the Liberals. handsome, talented "Mr. Fix-it” in the broken-down Trudeau ministry. | oo. Postmaster General Gilles Lamontagne, former mayor a self-made cipher. ; Hugh Faulkner, Minister of Indian Affairs and Nor- thern Development, -:is another of the nonentities so undistinguished as to be almost faceless. ‘ . National Defence Minister Barney:* Danson, busy “modernizing” the critically undermanned and = un- derequipped Forces, not by beefing up weakened fighting units and acquiring nev weaponry but by opening Royal Military College and perhaps some front line battle posts to women. Judd Buchanan, Public Works Minister from Lon- don, Ontario, insurance capital of Canada, and front man fot those interests pushing for a means test for ; . . TREAL (CP) -- 4 bec might interpreted this us an gneaphone and Que- inis : i Sheldon Strand, city law him about $1,500 a month. MONTRE saying that Quebec mig B l irancaphong and Que Andre Quellet, Minister of pensioners. J director, says the city wil “With the nest there I | Premier Rene Levesque — be forced to act unilate- —_atternpt to win over non- ——becais —thruugli his irhan Affairs and Acting John Roberts, Secretary of couldn't even take the boat says there is 10 essential rally if Ottawa refuses to Separatist support within father." Minister of Labor, the State from foronto where Liberals have become an endangered species and as the Conservatives kid him, even the game laws won't save him on the killing who ‘blow their whistles. and his monthly payments bee's, future and ae lately been hesitant t0 side of |= the = Parti = ince hecomes = > of Quebec City, first PMG to ground of the next election. unless there is an on the boat. hoe aan ddelined , state the: case’ in those Quebecois, because the dependent—juslas dare face up to hooligan — Anthony Chisholm Abbott, emergency.: - Absent at Monday's | TAS Tecently deciin terms, younger generation is |-oyalists left the United } control of the Post Office. Minister of Small Business, proceedings was the bird, | “S* He has told the national © ‘more committed to _Stales to seltie in Canada Solicitor General Jean so inactive as to be all but a WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) and biologist Paul Kelly said In La Passion du assembly repeatedly that sovereigniy than the after the = American Jacque Blais, who, where stranger to the House of — Wilmington College will “all wecando is wait and see Quebec, a book published his government will seek older generation. Revolution, others gave up, still hangs on Commons. observe the Sdthanniversary if she accepts the nest in its | in Paris this month and = only a “mandate to And, he says, the people A Quebec edition of the toa semblance of control of = Jack Horner, Trade - Saturday of Mickey Mouse. new location.” based on a series of in. —_ negoliale’’ with Ottawa in who were committed to baok is tobe released nexl the ever-convulsive crime Minister, turncoat Tory who, Crackers and cheese will terviews with journalist the independence Quebec independence ‘eek by Les Editions and punishment and in- his..fellow-Albertans swear, . .be served free of charge, but mo JeanRobert Leselbaum, referendum expected in when they were young are Quebec-Amerique, telligenceand..esplonage outranks. Trudeau on” their LONDON (AP) — Illtyd . company president... situa haicid -one to approve the main at- Mickey would not have been cries of “at your service” and “see how he flushes” when he rose in the Greater traction at the college theatre. It is Agatha Harrington was greeted with - the premier says use of one word or the other is - simply a matter of taste. He reiterates that any , late 1979-or early 1980..-- When ‘pressed to say what would happen if English Canada refused remaining :toyal to -the ideas SS Levesque argues thal Prime Minister Pierre af dacqites -;Fortin | paid: ‘Tuesday. He said there would be major differences bet- Communications, at least a physical adornment in an uninspired Parliament. ~ypeolid Wrovitiee-wide kéberal ate tate. So who among the English Liberal ministers command some respect? Christie's ‘The Mousetrap. don C 1 type of self-government to negotiate, the premier Trudeau was never really ween the two editions But th English: ' London Council to propose & . io hs I wes 7, re nS. Li ase nglish- Treasury Board President NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. memorial to victorian for Quebec should be has been evasive, reaflir- rooted’ in Quebec's — with the Quebee version speaking members of Robert A iva still fighting (AP) — The bird's nest plumber Thomas Crapper, accompanied by some ming his faith in Canada's culture because one of his containing 240 pages Cabinet. Ugh. a gutsy rear-guard action needed tobe moved about 20 inventor of the toilet. sort of + economie “democratic principles parents was English: instead of the 300 tn the Otlo ‘Granay'’ Lang, against the spineless “Big metres, but it took local, Harrington told council | #88ociation with Canada. and _ telling questioners Speaking. European edition. Much Minister of Transporl, of Spenders” of the ministry. state and federal officials, 2 Crapper had helped put millions of Londoners at Bul in one section sure to raise controversy, that Ottawa would surely negotiate. “He was half Scottish and anglophone through of the background in- cluded for a European Justice, Attorney General and = would-be Prime And Filness Minister Iona Campagnolo, ‘‘The Iron telephone company, an . : . , : electric utility and a their ease and his deeds Levesque is quoted as Most observers have his mother, and half audience will be deleted. Minister, star free-loader of Lady”, commanding of both ferryboat operator to do it. should be commemorated. Cabinet -- Hansard appearance and presence. .to be the first one built in The Crapper flush water closet, perfected in 1885 and blessed by the Royal Family when one was installed for Queen Victoria, is the model for almost all later models. The inventor was a York- shireman who walked from Doncaster to London in 1848 The nest of an osprey, or fish hawk, and was beieved Southern California in 45 years. After obtaining clearance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the California Coastal Commission, the PETROCANADA_DEAL Takeover is intervention THINK BY JIM SMITH SMALL county Harbor Patrol and to peddle his invention. By CALGARY (CP) — federal government Une industry “Nobody is being s A long. long time ago -- ically ad d prod 1 i , 2 stung y advanced products. “4 the city of Newport Beach, 1685 he had invented the first PetroCanada’s proposed would approve, par- spokesman described the on this eal.” so long ago that there was uo The Canadian public | the 10-pound nest was moved = U-bend pipe and awall-hung | takeover of Pacific ticularly at this time, an transaction as a Even before Pacific's uch creature as income tax . ; Monday, lo a 25-metre pole lavatory which flushed by | Ppetroleums Lid. is in- — investment in the private “tragedy.” oil discoveries in the west and the mail did go through mat in sened we teen : : donate Southern wh d remot i i “ . hy the : . saat , 45 if happened, we began ; y So at he calle € | tervention by the federal sector of the Canadian — I don't know why the = Pembina area of west- (honest) - the men whoran to believe Fat Canadien control, Hartington’s problem in having a plaque erected is his inability to find the King’s Road shop where Crapper set up business. The area was bombed out in the California Edison Co. Watching with interest was Dr. Robert Levis, the female osprey's reluctant host until the mave. The osprey, with a wingspan of about 1% government in the petroleum industry's affairs, say some in- dustry critics. “This purchase by Petro-Canada will not add any new reserves of oil or resource industry."' Coleman said Petro- Canada's action also may have adverse effects on the Canadian dollar in foreign exchange markets since it involves government feels it has to pump money inlo something that should, and could adequately be handled by private en- terprise,"" he said. “T think we can all look central Alberta last year, the industry felt the market price was not reflecting the assel value of Pacific shares, he said, Blair said = Petro- Canada’s bid is a positive a younger version of this country recognized that very little industry was being cre- ated here. After considering matters, they discovered that most items were being manu: owned companies are less in- novative than foreign-owned firms. ; Bul, at last, a reputable organization has investigated the real story about research metres, first built her nest Second World War. : a United States for some fur to fly bet- ‘ i E . eee 5 een shareholder. ween the feds and Blair ‘faelor, in strengthening factured abroad and import. and development as affected Coleman president of the Pacific directors and on this one,” he said, Canadian era n the ed into Canada, So they set by ownership and demon- Independent Petroteum oflicials will meet here referring to Robert Biair, PY takeover would add up tariffs to hurt imparts. strated thar Canadian-owned HERMAN Association of Canada (IPAC). He questioned the benefit to Canada of the stimulation of frontier exploration, oi] sands development or heavy oil projects. “PAC is both surprised and concerned that the Thursday to consider a Petro-Canada offer for the remaining 52 per'cent of Pacific shares. However, Petro- Pacific, which has 428 service stations from Manitoba to British Columbia, wuless the move is supported by Pacific directors. president of Alberta Gas Trunk Line Ltd. Alberta Gas — suc- cessfully blocked Petro- Canada's bid to take over and vice-president of Gordon Securities Ltd., said the Petro-Canada purchase price of $05.02 a share is a sound in- vestment for both sides. ta the number of jornt ventures Alberta Gas has with Petro-Canada. While he was concerned “wha is calling the shots,” Blair said be is not apprehensive that the projects would be in- terrupted by Fetro- Canada’s moves, The foreign manufactur. ers then found that they could no tepaer ea port their goods inte Canada as cheaply Canadian industries and set ip operations within Cana- dian borders. these spin-offs from the {oreign companies existed firms are more active in R&D (han are their branch plant competitors. The study ». enudueted by $1.4 billion (ransaction | Canada said it would not Husky Uil Ltd. earlier this about the calibre of the as they could be produced in the federal Ministry of State and’ suggested it would proceed witha merger or ear. aanagement of the Canada. So these foreign for Science and Technology have been better spent on amalgamation with Ed Zederayko, director partner ‘companies ond imantifacturers bought out —- compared the R&D acti- vity, industry by industry, with the market share of the industry claimed by beth do- mesticaily- and foreign-own- ed firms. ln all cases, it found for only ane reason: to set- vice the Canadian market. Alnrost without exception, they worked from product designs submitted by the for- cign head office and sold all of theirinput within Canada, that domestically-owned firms devoted more toR&D. For example, although Cana- dian firms (those with more than 50% of their shares in Canadian hands) hold only 54.7°% of the paper and alfled ACID IN THE AIR . OP tw TH “Whaddyer mean, it’s only a model? How much igger d’you wanna build it?” ‘it’s a WASHINGTON CAPS — Scientists say man’s appetite for fossil fuels has spawned a new menace to the = an- vironment-- acid rain. Rain bearing nitric and sulfuric acids is killing fish, eating away at buildings and (threatening io destroy the delicale balance of nature in lish forests, some scientists say. “From what we know, it's cerlainiy a very serious problem in sen- sitive areas,” said Car! hard rain a falling’ Schofield, a Cornell Uni- versity biotogist. Norman Giass, 4 research scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, be- lieves the threat will worsen as the United States shifts more to coal tor its power plants. Coal exhausts include sulfur oxides, which along with nitrogen oxidesé is believed to be lhe cause of acid rain. Nu one seems to know why. but the problem of acid rain is especially acute in the teatnda- navian countries, and increasingly so in the northeastern U.S. Some scientists speculate these regions are lhe hapless victims of global atmospheric wind currenls dumping the acidic fallout of potlution spewed into the skies from industrialized and populated areas hundreds of kilometres away. Schofield, Glass and ather scientists say acid rain begins with fossil- fueled power plants, smalters and automobiles discharging — hiltrogen oxides ard sulfur oxides into (he sir. Through complex chemical re.’ actions in. the = al- mosphere, the exides are changed into .nilrie and sulfurie acids which then fall fo carth in rain, snow and dine debris. Lille is known ab the magmilide of the threat to man and bis) surrot- (ings. The effects of acid rain are not easily de tected, Had it not been for the tariff walls, these firms would not have heen producing in Canada. Gradually these finns - which were only reluctant Canadian citizens - began to spread a peculiay ideology. Specifically, they claimed that foreign-awned branch plants — themselves —- were guod for Canada becatse they were part of the world’s most innovative corporations Because of these branch the branch plants ~ Canadians could plants cLamed buy the world’s most tech products manufacturing in- dustry, they spend 67.2% of the R&D dollars in that in: dustry. World-wide, multi-national firms may be highly innava- tive, However, their research is conducted in the head of. fice rather than the branches and the benefits remain with the head office country ra- ther than flowing naturally to the branch plant nations, The Ministry study’ conclu sitely demonstrates that, in Canada, Canadian ownership is the vital element in R&D « activity,