y- Northern Gas is now entering iis fourth month with no apparent ysolution in sight. Friday afternoon, representatives of both the union and management, were called Info fhe Ministry of Labor offices in Vancouver. Both parties were asked if they would accept binding arbitration. ‘Union representatives agreed. Company negotiators refused. Despite the pleas of several members of parliament there is currently no action planned by the provincial government to legislate the workers back to their jobs. The union has refused a request by the cam. - pany to cut the gas line which runs up Kalum LEGISLATLYS LISHARL. COeF. 77/78 PaRLIAMENY sULLDINGS, VICLURIA, .C., VeV-1%4 sol No settlement in sight in dispute The strike of IBEW workers against Pacific Street so as to allow city workers to finish work on the diversion of Deep Creek. An injunction against the picketing of Gim’s Restaurant has not been granted and will not be, unless it is done as a result of a separate court action. No word has been received as yet regarding the tests conducted on the equipment used to [A volume 72 No. us ( TERRACE-KITIMAT dail 20c aid Monday, September 25, 3978 ,, ~ COPPER ALL METALS Location Seal Cove (RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LID. we buy MON. = OPEK TIL 5 p.m. BRASS & BATTERIES . SAT. Phone 624-5639) Afireat31M srnokehouse. He got a allard St. In Kitimat attracted a lot Saturday evening but did relatively "ttle damage, Graham ore smoke ae Bogle ed . ap ARE ETRE of attention . barg * for when the side of his house caught fire men from the Kitimat Fire Department responded to the -,,AAiIne. was burning out, an, old, refrige ior. tO o.make a...callforhelp andthe. orablamwas quickly dealtwith, . ffl little m Conan @ aaned — , fire. Two fire trucks and Vance finds Arabs holding back support. DAMASCUS (AP) — US. State Secretary Cyrus Vance completed his five-day Mi East tour Sunday by meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad and flew home without gaining the Arab support he sought for the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords reached at Camp David, Md. In a brief airport statement before departing, Vance said his five-hour meeting with Assadhad been “frank and exhaustive.” He said he agreed with Assad that dialogue between Syria and the United States should continue because ‘of the shared hope of accom- Pushing a just peace in the area it ' . Speaking privately, US. officials said Vance had Haugland turns sod Sod turning ceremonies are planned this afternoon al 2 p.m. at 3226 Kalum St., the site of the new B.C.0.A, P.O. Drop-in-Centre. Emil Haugland will Aurn the first sod as many dignitaries including Iona Campagnolo, Mayor Dave Maroney, members of municipal council, Cyril Shelford and Jane Crevelling look on. ‘The ceremony Will be followed by a reception in the arena banquel room. Baby born after mother a was killed CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — A baby was delivered by caesarean section a hali- hour after the death of her mother in a road accident in the Welsh capital, doctors, reported Sunday. A spokesman for Cardiff Royal Infirmary sald Mrs. Karen Brown, 19, was eight months regnant when she was filled Saturday when her bicycle collided with a truck. The baby weighed four pounds 5% ounces. . " hoped only to persuade Assad to soften his op- position to the Camp David agreements so other Arab governments might find it: easier to accept them. But senior Syrian sources said Assad told Vance it was impossible for Syria to change its position. The meeting originally had been set for Saturday but was put off because a meeting of Assad and other hard-line Arab leaders op- posed to the current U.S. peace initiative lasted longer than expected. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, the Israeli cabinet approved the Camp David accords, which are to be submitted to parliament for ratification later this week. _In Kuwait, the newspaper AlQabas reported that Assad and Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), plan to go to Saudi Arabia to brief Saudi leaders on last week's anli-Camp David summit in Damascus. Arafat and Libyan strongman Moam- mar Khadafy had flown to Jordan from Damascus on Friday’ to enlist King Hussein’s support, but he turned them down. - In a speech ending the meeting of the Arab “rejectionists" Saturday, Assad called Camp David “the summit of surrender" and urged all Arab countries “not to adopt this Lreagonous line." Syria leads the Arab oppo- nents to the peace initiative that began last November when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat flew to Jerusalem for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Neither Jordan nor Saudi Arabia, the other countries - Vance visited on the tour, moved any closer to ac- ceptance of the accords, although neither rejected them outright. - Hussein told a news conference Saturday he will not join (the Mideast peace process unless the terms of the agreements reached at Camp David are modified to take care of the Arab desire for a guarantee that Israel withdraw eventually from ihe West Bank of the Jordan River, including Arab East Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia issued a statement Sunday repeating & number: of reservations about the accords, including © their failure to allow a role for the guerrilla PLO, which the Arabs contend is the sole legal representative of the Palestinian people. Both Jerdanian and Saudi cooperation are considered vital if the Camp David process is io succeed: The framework calls for Jordan to enter the negotiations and | to help police the West Bank area during a fiveyear transition period, The Saudis are important because of their status as religious and financial leaders in the Arab world, . ; The - Camp - David ‘ agreements spell aut terms for an over-all Mideast peace and a separate pact between, Egypt and Israel. Opponents claim the agreements do nol go far enough. Israeli cabinet okays deal JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli cabinet voted Sunday to evacuate Jewish set- tlements on the Sinai Peninsula in return for a peace treaty with Egypt and gave Prime Minister Men- achem Begin a strong show of support for the agreements he brought back from the summit meeting at Camp David, Md. The cabinet decision authorized Begin to present the agreements lo the Knesset (parliament) for their final test. The proposed Egyptian-Israeli peace trealy is conditional on agreement by the Knesset to dismantle the Sinai set- tlements. Begin said the Knesset will convene today but that a vole will be delayed until Wed- nesday tu allow all party faclions time to speak. Several parties planned tu convene their top pulicy- making bodies Tuesday, CROFTON, B.C. (CP) — Municipal authorities have advised residents of this Yancuuver Island community, about 60 kilometres north of Victoria, that drinking water should’ be boiled before use, In a letter sent residenis Friday, municipal clerk Jean MacLeod says “we have been advised by the ministry of health thal we have a ‘possible preblem’ with the Croflon water supply.” “The health depart- ment will be continually taking tests for your protection. In the mean- time, we suggest that you boil all drinking water as. a caulionary measure." to TOWN ADVISED TO BOIL WATER The letter also says the municipality is working lo disinfect its water system and warns residents that during this process, they ‘may at _ times notice increases of chlorine in smell and - taste,” North’ Cowichan engineering assistant Bob Hardy said Saturday that the municipality's water supply is drawn from Crofton Lake. Lake water, he said, does nol have as consistent quality as water drawn from a well. The municipality has been unsuccessful tn attempts to find a better water supply. ees ec here install the gas Into Gim’s. The union claims the connection is unsafe. The Investigations section of the Energy Board-is conducting tests to determine if instaflations made by management personnel are up to standard. No further talks are scheduled between the union and management. Clarkson tosses hat into civic ring here A new bonnet has been tossed into the ring of Terrace politics with the announcement teday by Marguerite Clarkson that she intends to seek a seat on council at the coming election. — UNION CLAIMS - Posties used Clarkson is the program administrator of the Jobs Creation Branch here in - Terrace, She is, according to her own reports particularly interested in health care and the young people of Terrace. as example OTTAWA (CP) — The gov- ernment is Lrylng to make an example of the striking letter carriers So that other public service wnicns will be re- strained in future contract demands, Robert McGarry, president of the Letter Carriers Union of Canada, has charged. : His comments came asthe rotating strikes entered their fourth day with no sign of a seltlement in sight. About 5,900 of the coun- try’s 19,000 letter carriers are scheduled to remain off the job today at the same 25 locations across the country that were first struck Friday. . McGarry repeated in an interview Sunday that he is ready to resume the stalled contract talks at any time should the government in- dicate it is willing to move from its last offer. Money is the only unresolved issue in the dispute, Treasury board president Robert Andras told a news conference Saturday there Is _ ha. more money-available-to. the: “““wat-on thebargaining. table:-“Dimmncté Matin indicates a: Asked if he accepted Andras’ ‘statement, McGarry replied: “I don’t think that's the case so much for us but rather for those coming behind us. [ think they're trying to make an ex- ample of us." The generally-moderate letter carriers have agreed ta a sixper-cent increase in basic salary. However, government and union negotiators disagree on the amount of a cost-of-living formula oyer a proposed 18- month contract, ‘ " “Certainly, the. govern: ment is going to lose far mure money in the long run than if they settle with us now,” McGarry said. “T really have no idea of where we go from here.” Andras warned Saturday that unless the union accepts the government’s offer, they may face a legislated set- tlement by Parliament. Legislation would require an early recall — of Parliament, now scheduled to return Oct. £0. Andras said the cabinet is monitoring the effects of the strike on a day- to-day basis. Theunion says it is entitled to an additional 19 cents an hour in a cost-of-living formula that was negotiated in the last contract but was later rolled back by the anti- inflation board. The government says it will not allow publie service unions to recover what was lost during the wage controls period and that, in any event, settlements must be com- parable to those in the private sector. A letter carrier with three years experience earned $6.65 an hour plus a 46-cent cost-ofliving adjustment under the contract that expired June 30. The union has twice rejected the government's propesal to implement an interim settlement based on the last offer while the entire contract goes to binding arbitration. McGarry said he is ready to bargajn but that to date there has been no indication the government is willing to move. . Inside postal workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, may be in a legal strike position early next month. There have been no ‘negotiations in that dispute for several months. Quebekers unhappy or so survey states ‘ MONTREAL (CP) — A survey published Sunday in. - Weelly.. newspaper majority of Quebecers are satisfied with their federal and provincial governments. “The survey, conducted by. the Quebec Institute of Public Opinion Inc. Sept, 7- 12, showed that 57.5 per cent of respondents are satisfied with the Trudeau gov- ernment, while 53.4 per cent are satisfied with the Parti Quebecois government. The survey showed that in a federal election, 53.5 per cent of respondents would vote Liberal, 10.8 per cent Progressive Conservative and 6.9 per cent for the New Democratic Party. The rest were undecided, ‘ The survey also indicated 45.4 per cent of Quebecers think of themselves of Canadians first, while 36.3 per cent think of themselves as Quebecers first. English-speaking Quebecers replied they are Canadians first by a majority of 78.8 per cent, while 41.0 per cent of .Frenchspeaking Quebecers put themselves’ in this category compared with 39.7 per cent who thought of jemselves as Quebecers irst. On the question of con- stitutional options, of these who said they would vote Liberal, 83.7 per cent were opposed to the separation of Quebec from Canada, 46.4 per cent were for the maintenance of the present federal system, and 45.6 were opposed to the status quo. The same group said they were 61.7-per-cent in favor of a renewed federalism, and 24.3-per-cent opposed, while 21.8 per cent were favorable toward sovereignty asssocialion, 47.9 per cent opposed to it and 30.3 per cent had no opinion on this question. - Independence with an eco- nomic unien with Canada only appealed to 27.2 per cent of these respondents, while 60.6 per cent were opposed to this option. NDP candidate in the next federal election Jim Fulton is seen discussing varlous Skeena problems with a group of local residents. Following a speech he delivered to the annual meeting of the B.C. Telephone Workers Union, Fulton went evening. “gladhanding” on Lakelse Avenue, where he drew a small crowd of curious spectators. Fulton only spent one day in Terrace as he had to address a meeting In Hazelton Saturday Brrr: SET +e PiideP cote beget ko nt se ' tay