PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, December 1, 1977 TERRACE daily herald Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 635-6357 Circulation + 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE EDITOR... JULIETTE PROOM Published evary weekday at 3212 Kalum 5t., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varlfled Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement praduced and-or any editorial. or photographic content published in the Heratd. Reproduction is act permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Image deteriorated . By VIC PARSONS _ OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s friendly and hospitable image, once cited by Americans as the country's biggest single tourist attraction, has deteriorated in recent years, a federal tourism official sald Tuesday. Roland Boire, general director of marketing for the Canadian government office of tourism, said latest surveys in the U.S, show that Americans feel Canada is less attractive as a vacation spot because of a “perceived anti-Americanism.” “Our people were once our biggest attraction,” Boire told a Commons trade committee examining spending by the tourism office. ‘But most recent surveys show we are less attractive.” Boire blamed the scant attention the U.S. press pays to Canada for part of the problem. Whenever U.S. reporters do come here, they are focussing on negative events, he said. : But he added: ‘Americans are enthralled with the idea that they can leave their hotels in the evening and walk about the streets in safety. That is impossible in almost every major U.S, city.” For the first nine months of 1977, the number of foreign visitors entering Canada fell by 2.2 per cent to 27.7 million. More than 90 per cent of the foreign visitors were Americans. FACES A DEFICIT Because of the decline in visits to Canada and an increase in Canadian travel abroad, the country faces a deficit in its travel account approaching $2 billion this year. The travel account measures spending by foreigners in Canada and Canadians abroad. The,committee was meeting to discuss an addition to thé tourism ‘office’s budget of $1 million for promotional purposes. Tom Fletcher, assistant deputy minister for tourism, said rising costs of advertising abroad, partly in response to the devaluation of the Canadian dollar, had taken a large bite out of the office's $24-million budget. Progressive Conservative John Crosbie (St. John’s West) criticized the government for reducing the office’s staff two years ago as part of an austerity program and also criticized the absent trade minister, Jack Homer, for a blast at the travel industry. Horner said in a recent speech that rudeness, slack service, poor quality and rundown quarters are damaging the industry. ‘How are we going to attract tourists if the minister .- Bays we have a bad product?” Crosbie asked. etcher replied that Horner was saying industry and government should work together toward im- provements. The government was concerned that the urism industry was losing its share of the market. MAY CHANGE LAW Fletcher also said he is cautiously optimistic that a U.S. tax law restricting expenses ericans can deduct while attending foreign conventions would be amended early in 1978 to exclude Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. He said 100 U.S. associations cancelled conventions scheduled in Canada this year because of the law. This had cost Canada $35 million. Another 100 associations considering having con- ventions here had not confirmed them, at a potential loss of $35 million more, he said. Fletcher said the government is examining a for- mula under which tips would be considered part of hourly income of travel industry employees. Canadian minimum wages are higher than those in the U.S., with the result that the cost structure of the tourism industry here is higher. About 14 of the 50 U.S. states have introduced a similar formula. HERMAN aft 31577 Yolversst Press duggiate, "Can‘t you get on with your work without watching me all the time?” Russians explain presence OTTAWA (CP) — Pravda, a sincerely grateful for this,’’ said Moscow daily newspaper, has the article. published an article explaining what the Soviet Union is doing at its ice floe research station the Canadian Arctic. ASKED QUESTIONS The CBC crew dropped in unannounced in January and asked questions about what the Russians The article, translated and were doing. They were greeted distributed here by the Soviet news agency, Novosti, appears to be a response to news reports that have hinted that the ice station, North Pole-22, is a spy base. . Pravda's article said the 21 researchers at the base are con- ducting scientific observations on the atmosphere, ocea and ice. Day- to-day information is being relayed to the world weather watch for use by any nation. It also mentions the visit earlier this year of a CBC television crew to the ice floe and Defence Minister Barney Danson's Sept. 27 message to the researchers. Danson flew over the ice station OTTAWA (CP) — Allowable exports of light crude oii to the United States will be cut by nearly 60 per cent next It estimates that the amount of high-sulphur, heavy oil that mig available for shipment in 1978 at up ta 140,000 barrels a day. Heavy oil exports now are running cordially and their questions were answered by station commander N.V. Vinogradov. “So far as we know, the film about the North Pole-22 shown on Canadian television has been received with goodwill and great interest by Canadians,” said the story. TP adds that North Pole-22 was established Sept. 13, 1973, and has drifted 7,532 kilometres in four years, “and now is in the area of Canadian-Alaska sector of the Arctic.” Canadian Forces reconnaissance aircraft and fighter jets have been keeping track of the floating station, A defence department spokesman said Tuesday that it hos been photographed several mes, He added that it now is roughly 220 kilometres west of Prince Patrick Island, in an area ap- proximately 900 kilometres north of Inuvik, N.W.T. NOT RECOGNIZED The Russians do not consider North Pole-22 to be in Canadian waters. Canada has drawn its boundaries to the North Pole but these are not respected in- ternationally. Last June, three French newspapers said the Soviet Union is using the ice floe as a floating Py base, One, France Soir, sai e Pentagon has urged Canada to use discretion in monitoring the base because Washington also uses ice floes for surveillance. . Canadian Forces photographs have shown that the floe, about 5.6 kilometres long and 3.2 kilometres wide, contains several huts, many tents, more than 12 vehicles and five helicopters. | — The base is Supplied by transport aireraft that land on a long snow- packed airstrip. ; Allowable oil exports cut hearing t t be Last spring, after a at delved into oil reserves, the board announced it intended to cut light oil shipments to about 64,000 barrels in © A 1978, 20,-000 barrels in heavy oil shipments to 110,000 barrels in 1978, 99,000 in 1979, $8,000 in 1980 and 77,000 in 1981. board spokesman said those estimates had year, the National Energy Board said Tuesday. The board, reaffirming a decision it took last, spring, said the maximum amount of the low-sulphur content oil it will allow to be shipped starting Jan. 1 will drop to about 55,000 barrels a day from current levels of about 137,000, at about 130,000 barrels. It was the latest in a continuing series of cuts in oi] exports since 1973 when they peaked at 1,5- million barrels a day. The change to a policy of reducing exports came shortly after in the wake of pessimistic studies by the board of:domestic oil reserves, 1979 and 1,000 barrels in 1980. No shipments are expected after that date. MORE OPTIMISTIC But the latest statement from the board indicates that it now is more optimistic about re- serves of heavy oil. In the spring report, the board expected to cut Hard to drum up interest TORONTO (CP) — Lockheed Corp., under contract with the federal government to provide a long-range patrol aircraft fleet for Canada, says it is hard to get Canadian businessmen interested in the project. In addition to building the CP-140 Aurora aircraft, Lockheed is com- mitted to placing more than $900- million worth of associated business in Canada by 1995. Tev Gray, a manager with Lockheed Aircraft of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the California-based firm, said Monday that Canadian businessmen have been reluctant to get involved. "I have just been amazed that I haven't had more response,” said Gray, resident manager for industrial benefits in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. “T think there’s a reluctance on the part of many Canadian manufac- turers to come forward, to tell us what they can do.” Herrmann, deputy manager of the CP-140 program, said Lockheed has placed about $125-million worth of business with about 200 Canadian companies but said the companies have shown little interest. “Why? 1 don’t really know,’ Herrmann said. Since coming to Canada a year ago, Gray said he has visited nearly 250 companies, assessing their products, trying to line them up _ with Lockheed’s suppliers in the United ates. But less than 10 per cent of those companies followed through with proposals, Gray said. | Gray has a counterpart coverin Alberta and British Columbia an another handling Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. Together they have visited nearly 500 Canadian companies but the negative attitude has been the same across the country, he said. Herrmann said Canadian com- panies do not appear to have the ‘aggressive marketing organization we have in the United States.” “Maybe marketing should be en- couraged.” been changed after heavy oil production increased morethan expected while domestic demand fell slightly. That left more for export. Although the board set the general figures in its statement, it also said the actual daily levels of exports will be set each month on the basis of production forecasts and domestic demand for the uel. Not included: in the figures for export are oil exchanges now = in operation between companies operating in the two countries, They currently amount to about 60,000 barrels a day. Under such swap arrangements, oil is- provided to refiners in the northern portions of the mid-western states. In exchange, the U.S, companies have to return an equal amount of oil to Canadian refiners in the eastern provinces. The government says that under this arrangement, can help maintain sup- plies to the northern refiners, historically dependent on Alberta erude, while at the same time reducing net ex- | ports. Canada. Not enough care in home shopping . HAMILTON (CF) — Jeff Davies, who spends most of his time climbing ladders to inspect roofs, shingles and gutters, says the average person spends more time buying a shirt than in checking for defects when buying a tse, “Often, they’re in and out of the houge in about 10 or 15 minutes.” Davies said a problem can often be camouflaged without the buyer being aware of it. Davies is the general manager of Home In- spection Consultants of Ontario, a Torontobased firm started a year ago. One of his recent clients was Richard . O’Connor, 35, who works in Hamilton but bought a house in nearby Grimsby. - He paid Davies firm a fee of $180 to check out his $63,000 nine-year-ol house. “They recommended putting double panes in the basement windows and more ventilation in the roof,”’ O’Connor said. “It means I knew exactly what had to be fixed before I bought. “Purchasing a house is probably the biggest investment I'll ever make," he said. “And the inspection fee was only about two per cent of the total cost.’ He made his offer to purchase conditional on a satisfactory inspection of the house, done by Davies. OTTAWA (CP Stanley Knowles, 69-year- old New Democratic Party MP, was preaching social gospel in Winnipeg churches during the De- pression when the political instinct that first got him elected 35 years ago today crept up on im Born in California, he had gone to school, returned to his father’s home in Nova Scotia, travelled Canada by train, worked in the rinting trade, tried arming and settled, tem- porarily, as a United Church minister preaching in country churches and later in the poor side of Winnipeg. “The people I was preaching to were unemployed, on relief, hard up,” he recalled in an interview on the eve of the 35th anniversary of his election to Parliament. The man who will be honored by his fellow MPs today continued: *In the midst of this, in 1932, my father was fired because of the Depression, just like ) _— that— no pension, no- nothing, just out. This hit me pretty hard.” FATHER DIED His father, a machinist, died about three years later, still out of work and Knowles said it struck him that church sermons were inadequate to fight social and economic devils that robbed a man of his work and life. “This happened to a freat many people, Their ves were broken. Their hearts were broken.” He had joined the Co- operative Com- monwealth Federation, (CCF), forerunner of the New Democratic Party, and decided in 1935 to run in the federal election in Winnipeg South Centre. He lest. After another un- successful try five years later, he sattled for a seat on Winnipag city council. By JULIET O’NEILL Davies is a former municipal building in- spector whose staff in- cludes a professional engineer and a building contractor. His firm assesses the structural and physical conditions of houses. DETAILED _ IN- SPECTION Davies uaid the most common problems are insulation and ventilation in roofs, which can add to heating fuel costs. Both the exterior and interior of the house is examined, everything from eaves, doors an screens to floor joists and support columns. When Davies found dry rot in one house, the entire main floor had to be replaced, The electrical, plumbing and heating system are also exam- ined. d With new technology, people are adding more appliances to their houses which the existing system often can't support. " Some of the houses he examined were 50 years old. “Tf you don’t know how the house has been maintained, it’s difficult for an inexperienced person to assess it.”’ Q’Connor agreed, saying there are many things that could be wrong in a house. “Someone could paint or wallpaper a crack and, uniess you know what you’re looking for, you might never see it until you ran inlo problems.” Knowles in politics for 35 years except for the 1958-1962 years of Progressive Conservative govern- ment which had reduced the CCF to eight from oi seats, spurring a y reorganization which Ted to the creation of the NDP in 191. Knowles is a gaunt man, Parliament’s ex- pert on Commons rules and procedure. He has been known as the con- science of the Commons, ““‘Tombstone,’’ and “Standing Orders Knowles.” A relentless crusader for higher pensions for the elderly, war veterans, widows and disabled, Knowles recalls how the wealthy former Liberal prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, impressed him - by applying for a $20-a- month pension when pen- sions first became available for 70-year- alds. SHOWED NO STIGMA “Rich man though he was, he did catch on to some of the social needs. He took the pension to show it was universal, that no stigma was at- tached to it.” During St. Laurent’s rule from 1948 to 1957, Knowles had one of his greatest challenges as a procedural tactician during the famous pipeline debate which created the political cli- mate that many say resultedin the downfall of the Liberal government. But Knowles said if a man. like St. Laurent ruled today, the country's unity would not be threatened to the extent it now Is, Still, he does not believe Quebec will separate “but 1 think we're going to have to live through a few dif- ficult years, maybe a decade,” Knowles |s rarely out of a, ‘codsworth, th t founder and first national rests ods leader of the CCF, diedih debates and makes his 1942 and Knowles wonhis h Winnipeg North Centre seat in a byelection, BEEN THERE SINCE He has represented the constituency since then ome with a retired couple he has Lived with — since 1944, after his wife Vida returned to Winni- peg where she has lived since, . ren enru