PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, November 21, 197) The first full-scale protable welding school in the province is near com- oe as pletion at Northwest Community Sollege. Welding instructor Ron Lowrie’s students in a 10-month welding course completely constructed the main frame of the unit which will travel to outlying communities such as Smithers, Houston and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The portable school has 12 are welding machines and t ee 2 oxygen and acetelene will provide theory and practice lessons to students who would otherwise not have access to this course. Peter High, an instructor at the college, will travel with the portable school te teach students in these areas. Trudeau RCMP not hurt him * By PAUL GESSELL OTTAWA (CP) — The Opposition says it smells @ cover-up but Prime Minister Trudeau maintains the RCMP controversy will not damage his govern- ment’s political future. ‘Trudeau says the op- osition can “drag the CMP in the dirt” and accuse the government of wrong-doing but he does not feel his or the govern- ment’s political future is jeopardized. am don’t know who you would suspect [’m_ in danger from,” he said at his weekly news con- ference Friday. ‘When the controversies first surfaced, the op- position parties attacked the RCMP, Trudeau said. Now they had changed tactics. “They're 5 ringing to the defence of the RCMP and saying i¢ must therefore be the govern- ment which did something wrong. “I just think they were on a poor wicket and I don't feel at all endangered by the fact the opposition has been dragging the RCMP in the dirt for the past couple of weeks.” Progressive Con- servative Leader Joe Clark disagrees with Trudeau's interpretation. WANTED NAMES Clark pleaded in the Commons this week to have Solicitor-General Con't from page | the Kitimat-Stikine regional board next year. Chen-Wing won with 160 votes, followed by Corbin King with 94 votes and Allan McColl with 60 votes. Council winners will be sworn in at the inaugural meeting in December, and school board and regional district representatives will take their seats in January. Briefs BORG WINS FIFTH WEMBLEY, England (AP) — Bjorn Borg of Sweden defeated John Lloyd of Britain 6-4, 6-4, 63 in the finals of the Grand Prix — tennis tournament Sunday and stretched his winning run to five tournaments and 28 matches—all in six weeks ‘a 21-year-old Sv. ! not lost a - shoulder ced fim to ; ui @ Us Open ouel * Dick akton at Forest Hills, ..Y. in September, Borg's le-est success earned him a first prize of $26,000, Francis Fox name the - individuals responsible for hiding covert RCMP security activities so the force in general will not be smeared. Fox de- clined. Trudeau also has tried to avoid general criticism of the RCMP. Both he and Fox praise the force as outstanding. Trudeau says senior officers were not in- structing personnel to carry out such activities as barn burning and dynamite stealing. These actions were carried out by junior personnel who did not tell their superiors, he says. When the superiors found out, the government was told. Another royal baby LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Gloucester gave birth Saturday to a seven-pound, _t1-ounce baby girl, a Kensington Palace spokesman an- nounced, It was Britain's second royal baby this week at St. Mary's Hospital in west London, the same hospital where Princess Anne gave birth -Jast Tuesday to the first grandchild of Queen Elizabeth. Unlike Princess Anne’s child, born a commoner, the duchess’ daughter takes the title Lady Windsor. The duchess is married to the queen’s first cousin, 33-year-old Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, ninth in line of succession to the throne. The duke, a trained architect, took on a more public tole when his rother, Prince William, was killed in a plane crash in 1972, He and the duchess live at Ken- sington Palace alongside London’s Hyde Park. Princess Margaret, the queen's sister, also lives ere, Originally from Odense, Denmark, the 31- year-old duchess was once a secretary at the Danish embassy in London. She met the duke while attending language school in Cambridge and they were married in 1972. They already have one son, the Earl of Ulster. The boy is 10th in line of succession, his sister llth. Princess Anne's baby, Master Phillips, is fifth. He was born without a title because “one and her hus vad, aay Capt, Mark : nilips, declined courtesy titles tu pass on to their children However, former solicitorgeneral Watren Allmand, has said ‘it seems they (RCMP) did withhold information from me and from other solicitorsgeneral.”’ Eldon Woolliams, Con- servative justice critic and member for Calgary North, blames _ the government for illegal RCMP activities. SEES PLOT Woolliams said in the Commons this week that cabinet ministers have been irresponsible and culpable in covering up wrongdonngs. There is a plot, he added. But Trudeau brushes aside such criticism and Says heavy press Yoverage of the RCMP controversies will not hurt the government. Like the opposition, the news media “does not appear to be so worried about civil liberties being endangered by the RCM- P," the prime minister said, He termed some press reports as garbage but admitted that some of the garbage has turned out to be true. Trudeau said he believes the general public supports some measures taken by the RCMP to = safeguard national security. No one could complain that the RCMP had tampered with the mail to cate a dangerous Japanese Red Army terrorist. Choice for offenders VICTORIA (CP) At- torneyGeneral Garde Gardom has asked for a study into a plan that would allow offenders to choose between doing community service work or paying a fine. Mark Krasnick, director of policy plan- ning for the altorney- general's department, said Friday that the program has been in operation in Saskat- chewan for three years and has cut the number of persons sent to jail by 10 per cent. He said B.C. already has a similar program under which judges may order, a5 a condition of probation, an offender to do community work in lieu of a fine or jail. The difference is that in Saskatchewan the of- fender has the choice of paying the fine or working. In B.C, the choice is up to the judge. The B.C. study should be take about six months, Krasnick said. Fort Nelson line needs money to lose money VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Railway's Fort Nelson extension needs as much as $34.3 million in im- provements so it can lose $19.7 million over the next five years, according toa company report released Thursday to the royal commission probing the railway's affairs. BCR officials testified that the 250 mile line, between Fort St. Hohn and Fort Nelson, urgently needs a reconstruction job which will take three years and cost a minimum of $29.3 million. The line’s present poor state means that trains are forced to run at low speeds while still facinga . high risk of derailment, the commission was told. But even if the line is brought up to its maximum practical effeiciency, a BCR expert predict it will lose $19.7 million on operations alone by 1982. If the expected capital costs and inflation are accounted for, the ex- tension will drain the railway of more than $50 million between now and then. Commission chairman Justice Lloyd McKenxie hinted Thursday that the recommendation might come before the remainder of the com- mission report. He told reproters during a break in the hearings that the com- mission is seriously considering issuing an interim report, probabl in January, dealing with the Fort Nelson esten- sion. The line must be upgr;aded to be con- sidered safe, A. G. Rich- mond, BCR chief engineer for maintenance of way, told the com- mission. ‘Rail movement is excessive, and track can buckle under trains at any time,’ he said. “This is because ‘rail anchors” which hold the rail to thge ground, were not installed when the line was first vuilt, he siad. English school restriction ’ OK’d in Quebec MONTREAL (CP) — A motion stating that ac- cess to English schools in Quebec should be restricted to members of the ‘‘anglophone com- munity” as a temporary measure was approved Sunday by the Quebec Liberals. The motion—amended by Jean-Francois Gar- neau, son of former Liberal finance minister Raymond Garneau—said enrolment in English schools should be limited to assure the survival of the French-speaking community and recommendedthat French-speaking Quebecers be taught English in French schools. * Garneau said a Liberal government should lift the restriction on enrolment in English schools oncé French is out of danger in Quebec. Only a handful of delegates at the weekend policy meeting voted against the resolution. Michel Robert, chairman of party’s policy committee and organizer of the weekend convention, said the motion reconciles the division between those in the party who want freedom of choice and those who want to limit enrolment in English schools. Bryce Mackasey, who resigned from the federal Parliament last year and waselected to the Quebec national assembly as a Liberal, said that he was voting for the motion, but he wondered how lung the temporary period would Donat Taddeo, a teacher who ran un- successfully as a Liberal in 1976 provincial elec- tion, said French- speaking and immigrant parents would stop calling for access to English schools if the quality of English- teaching in French schools was improved. On Saturday the party called for anew Canadian constitution, saying the present constitution is ‘aggravating tensions” between the French and English communities in Canada. The part also affirmed its faith in federalism and said a new constitution should be approved by a majority vote in each province. other policy resolutions, delegates voted for removal of abortion from the Criminal Code of Canada Hijack OTTAWA (CP) Solicitor-General Francis Fox denied to day a report that RCMP agents were involved in a scheme to hijack an Air Canada jet in 1972 in an effort to affect the out- come of the federal election won by lthe Liberal party. Fox told reporters the reprot is ‘completly false.” In Montreal, a spokesman for the Quebec commission of inquiry into illegal polic: activities said th: commission knew nothing about the report. Fox said the way criticism of the RCMP has been going, the force is going to be blamed for killing Pierre Laporte and kidnapping James and said a new abortion law should force Quebec hospitals to set up thera- peutic abortion com- mittees. Liberals also renewed their commitment to the | free enterprise system and said state in- tervention in business should be limited, The party approved the principle of a guaranteed annual income to replace existing welfare programs. . It voted its confidence in social service programs established by the previous Liberal government, while saying that problems within the, medicare program and community Pine should be eliminated and stressed the value of community service projects spon- sored by private citizens. denied Cross next. He was referring to terrorist actts in Quebec in Oc- tober, 1970. Fox confirmed the RCMP has been involved in counter-terrorist ac- tivities in Quebec and said he hopes to force was aware of any jijacking plan. Fox said if the RCMP has been infiltrated in FLQ cell they should be ‘congratulated, He refused to discuss the matter in any detail. The Tornnto Star says the Keable commission will be told today that one or more of the five men who planned to hijacking werre RCMP - agents- provacateur or informers whe had infoltrated a cell of the Front du Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). bought VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Hydro. took delivery of 50 new railcars manufacutred in a Washington state plat only a few weeks after the BC. Rail’s Railwest manufacturing plant in uamish was closed for lack of orders, a Hydro spokesman said Thur- sday. The delivery of the cars, leased -through an Ontario firm, drew angry charges from the New Democratic Party of incompetence on the part of the provincial governemnt. Dennis Cocke (NDP- New Westminster) said the provincial cabinet or Transport and Com- munications Minister Jac Davis whi is also a B.C. Hydro director,should have stepped in to bolster the faltering Railwest plant and prompted Hydro to obtain the cars from Railwest. Cocke noted that Economic Development Minister Don Phillips, also a B.C. Rail direc- tor,k made an effort to find new orders for Railwest before the last car rolled off the rpoduction line Aug. 29. “Couldn’t he lean over his desk and talk to Jack Davis,’* Cocke asked. Phillips said in Victoria that he was not aware of the order for the 50 cars but it would in any case have been tro small to make much difference to Railwest’s future. He also noted that Hydro was interested in leasing rather than purchasing cars which it could not have done through Railwest. “The point is that there were a number of small Tourism bi B.C. Hydro cars as Railwest folded orders we could have got for Railwest but the decision to cose was made on the basis of the long term future,” hie said. “It is taking a Hydro order would only . have _, Prolonged ‘ony. A .Hydro spokesman said Hydro snapped up the lease offer made by Procor Ltd. of Oakville Ont. because the cor- poration cohuld actually made a profit on the cars, aside from paying the cost of the lease, b charging other railroa for their use. BacauseHydro's railroad is a short one rahter than one with long national trackage, its cars are heavily used on the long runs of other railroads. Transferring shipments to different raifroad cars would cost too much. The spokesman did not © disclose thee terms of the lease byt admitted that leasing cars on a long- term basis rahter than buying them is common practice. He said the cars were not leased to cope with a sudden burst in need, Asked if Hydro should not have considered Railwest’s needs, he said it ig not the corporation’s job to ‘play the Good Samaritan in a situation over which we have no control.” “The government has ot responsibility overall or the provincial economy,” he said. “Should they instruct a crown corporation to operate in a particular way for all of the rovince’s economy, ine.” Prone sa 8 business Tourism will be Canada’s biggest in- dustry by the turn of the century according to Provincial Tourism Minister Grace Mac- Carthy who spoke to a gathering of service club members at the Arena banquet room Thursday ght now tourism is B.C.’s third largest in- dustry exceeding fishing as a money generator said MacCarthy. , Forestry and mining ramain the largest in- dustries in the province. “Citizens may not realize the benefits of tourism” said Mac- Carthy. “It is the key to a stronger province and country. What better way to bind the country together than through the great mixing bowl of tourism.” There are also far reaching menetary genefits to tourism. In 1976, $70 million tourist dollars were spent in B.C. MacCarthy pointed out that hotels and restaurants did not get all of this money. She calculated that if every tourist visiting the High- way 16 area ate two eggs a day during his stay, it would result in a $2 million gain for local egg producers. After waming the audience to be nice to visitors, MacCarthy outlined the tourist campaign for 1978. She would like to see aranteed exchange for merican dollars in stores. . “One irritation people encountered ting year was not ge roper. exchange ~~ money that they were entitled to anyway.’’ she said. The provincial government has collaborated with ski resorts to set up a Watts number for Americans to obtain information on slope conditions and cupancies at resorts. By dialing a dingle toll- free number, Viaitors can out about any place in the province. yP The big thrust for the coming year is on the Captain Cook Bicen- tennial. The government will give 20 per cent grants to municipalities or related activites. After MacCarthy. spoke, the audience was treated to a slide-tape show which expounded upon most of the points covered b: MacCarthy in the spec . . Later in the evening, she casually chatted wit people in attendance.