¥ od 3 # ‘ments, office build - Consolida pe ets Radie Shaek . ) AUTHORISED BALES. CENTHS . The Right Sound At The Af- fordable Price Sony ‘Precision . Beif Driven Turntable $159.95 4607 LAKELSE AVENUE, Aq PHONE 635-5810 J By GLENN SOMMERVILLE. “OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition MPs demanded a program of “economic ' reconstruction” for the country Wednesday because of current hig inflation and unemployment rates. * The opposition attack came ‘following publication of Statistics Canada figures earlier in the day that showed a 7.8 percent, inflation rate in June, the largest 12-month increasein - consumer prices in a year. This followed the release of jobless figures on Tuesday that showed eight cent of the nation’s work force unemployed a total of 814,000— e during June. ; James. Gillies (PC—Don Valley) “charged: that the government has. allowed the country to fall into NEW YORK — Lights’ are out . elareg dehe ud read electric er failure threw millions of New Yorkers into darkness Wednesday night. Power went off at 9:35 m. EDT, sending housands of persons streaming from apart: ngs, theatres and restaurants into the darkened streets that were clogged with cars. A&A spokesman _ for Coy Ae ier plants |. small power plan around the New. York area: had been. hit:.by lig tring facilities Efforts to limit the blackout failed. Officials ’ tried to: get the huge Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to make up for the power shortage but all efforts failed, and the power plants ~ shut down, The spokesman said Manhattan and Queens were affected first, with the rest of the city and parts of Westchester County darkened in the succeeding. minutes. ‘The crippling blackout was similar to the one on Noy. 9, (1965, when the ' demanded. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass , VOLUME 71 NO. 51 Price: 20 cents. |, , THURSDAY, JULY'14, 1977 J iv F Pe en , ealsbrt Bere! Par \ (rl (ele ’ Wie TP R16 .Weather . 629 $25 Wednesday: High i" st 3 Thursday’s foreca st : n20 29-36829 $100,000 —— Lowitt S56 $106 Cloudy skies in the 43996 $1,000 morning with sunny] 20-43996 $100,000 periods in the afternoon.] 99 $25 2030 $100 “economic disarray”, and called for measures including a new budget, lower federal sales taxes and direct job creation programs to stimulate activity. .° Ed Broadbent, New Democratic Party leader, pushed the government for .an explanation about. remarks” made in Toronto Tuesday by Robert Andras, treasury board president. If plans to create jobs are being worked out, as Andras suggested, why have they not been announced, he Allan MacEachen, minister, said that if further direct job-creation programs are _ implemented, that will be “taken care ‘of in’ due course’’’ by Minister Bud Cullen, Manpower acting prime , ~ COST OF LIVING UP 7.8% _ Sudden price increase _ Questioned by Broadbent about the liming of any new programs, Cullen said the government does not need the catalyst of higher: unemployment _ rates to stimulate it to act, A total of $458 million had already been allocated for job creation programs in ‘the current financial year en ‘March. 31. '. So far, the distribution of that spending has been announced only for - e period up to Oct. 31. MPs will find out “probably this week” how much money their ridings will gét for the period from Oct. 31 to the end of March next year, Cullen said. . Neither Finance Minister Donald “Macdonald nor Prime Minister Trudeau were in the Commons for ig next ; . WINSDAY WINNERS _ 42030 $1,000 04-12030 $100,000 213 ; % - 9913 $100 08-922123 $100,000 04 $35 4904 $100 $4904 $1,000 28-4904 is highest in 12 months question period. Macdonald-was in that predicts the unemployment rate Toronto for talks with Ontario will worsen this winter for men and Treasurer Darcy McKeough about women in the prime 25-tos4 age group. ending the anti-inflation program and early six per cent of the le in’ Trudeau was having his annual this age group were jobless in June. medical examination. The rate was much higher for _ But Robert Kaplan, Macdonald’s younger workers. parliamentary secretary, said outside e Commons that the government is only talking about contingency plans _ for more job creation. If the private sector fails to act to create more employment, the government may move in with additional programs that it now is working on, “but we don’t want to implement them,” EMPLOYERS HAVE ROLE Replying that his practice is to respect the confidentiality of such information, Cullen said it is not the government's responsibility to take up all the slack in the job market. Private employers also have a role to throu Mar increasing job | private sector of government is still trying to deter- mine the success of those measures, high jobless rates on private industry. - But if, as Andras suggested, federal austerity must be. abandoned to create jobs, what other federal spending Stevens as Hans might be reduced, MacEachen said the government had tried to stimulate industry concessions made in the 31 budget, with the objective of opportunities in the economy, The - Kaplan said. . play, he said. ; he said, and has not yet made any ullen became angry when Sinclair Stevens .PC-York-Simeoe shift in its spending plans in questioned by Broadbent about an said the government seems to be. preparation for more direct internal manpower department study trying to pin all the blame for current government spending for jobs. i * we tab ~: Premier says he ICBC INTERVENTION — Bennett defends » _ Kerster’s action ‘does it every day VICTORIA CP - Premier Bill Bennett defended Wednesday the actions of MLAs who intervene with Crown corporations on behalf of their constituents, pointing out that he does it every day. ‘ “ployees.... of Crown, “water, corporations, intimidated ‘by the MLAs to the point where they are not doing their job properly, should be ed. Bennett said that Kerster was merely “working actively for many of his constituents; I do it for mine.” dock anda shi EUROCAN MISHAP CLAIMS STUDENT Herald Staff Writer Flags outside Eurocan’s Kitimat pulpmill were at half mast Wednesday following the old summer student in an industrial accident. . Harry Rosberger of Montreal died when he fell off ipralao-said em... intervened in two unsettled. |_..the company’s feading.vlork, crowning in.50 feet of J. “Police say Rosberger was attempting to remove a load of lumber from a forklift truck, using a baling hook, when he slipped and fell backward between the He apparently struck a consciousness before f into eath of a 19-year- bumper log and lost the water. , . should “An ‘MLA cannot play God, it is not up to him to decide what is is not a legitimate complaint, but he find out the circumstances. It is an ex- _ tension of the MLA’s job,” To a suggestion that requests from the premier or MLAs might: intimidate the: Crown corporation “On any complaint that I get, I always write a letter asking for clarification whether it’s to ICBC, B.C. Hydro or any other Crown corporation. “As an MLA, I am the advocate. of: my constituents, and as such I ask, I demand, clarification where they feel they have been hard done by govern- ° ment bureaucracy.” Fellow workers immediately threw lifesavers into the water, some even plunged in themselves but they could not find the youth. Rosberger’s body was recovered by RCMP divers about one hour after the morning mishap - ‘The university student’s body was be: Montreal for burial there. Eurocan officials took personal charge of insuring the body was quickly returned there. The coroner had inspected the body and determined drowning as the cause of death. flown to - failure of a small relay triggered a blackout across the Northeast. : SYSTEM PRAISED _Just hours before the blackout, Charles Frank Luce, Con Ed chairman, said, “The Con Ed system is in the best shape in 15 years and there’s no pro lem ahout the summer.” . New York Mayor Beame emergency shortly after the ‘blackout ‘struck. He said there had been some looting, . but that the situation was: under control, — Officials said there had been 10 arrests. Within minutes, Kennedy and LaGuardia airports were closed to all flight operations, with incoming liners diverted to Boston and Newark, across the Hudson River from the darkened city, . ‘Power was cut off in Shea Stadium where thousands of fans were watching a contest between New York Mets and Chicago Cubs. National League - baseball Abe . ; 7 declared anh -& Anniversary .. There is an anniversary party coming up, Seana Gregg reminds people in the northwest. Plans are ‘now being finalized for Terrace’s 50th Anniversary _ Celebrations which being July 30. ’ - Monday when it was learned employees, Bennett replied that “the only one who could be at fault would be the person who bends the. rules-—-not the MLA.”. . “If a person bends’'the | rules, he should be fired.” Education Minister Pat McGeer said Wednesday -that the Insurance Corp. of British’ Columbia gets an average of 300 interventions a month from MLAs. © McGeer, minister responsible for ICBC, was commenting on a controversy which - erupted Quadrant rovinci that Secial . Credit backbencher George Kerster (Coquitlam) had Herald Staff Writer Residents north of Terrace are yelling, “rats” but district council won't give them LIBERALS ‘POLLING STRONG ‘TORONTO (CP) — For the first time since its - landslide victory’ in the . 1974 federal election, the Liberal party has edged: past the 50-per-cent mark in» popularity * among Canadian volers, says a Gallup poll released today. The poll, taken in early, . June, shows the Liberals are favored by 51 per cent: of the voters, a four-point increase over the May poll. Progressive Conservative support dropped for the sixth . month in a row and now is at 27 per cent, down from 32 in may, while the NDP is up one per cent to 18, Four per cent support other parties. ' Thirty-one per cent. of those polled either refused to answer or said they were undecided. | Interviews were conducted with 1,035 adults’ . over 18 years Of age. The question asked was: If a federal election were held today, which party's candidate do you think you would favor. A sample of this size is accurate within, four percentage points,-19 in 20 mes: Speculation about a fall election has increased in lead ‘seryatives. . ‘the last few months with successive polls showing the Liberals widening their over: the Con- Further evidence © of Liberal strength was the rty’s winning of a Prince edward Island seat from the Conservatives in May byeléctions in which the Liberals also held on to four in Quebec despite intensive Conservative campaigning. ; But Prime Minister Trudeau. has said repeatedly in the last few months he has no intention of calling an election this fall, The last general - election was July, 1974. the direct help they've sought. Rodents from the municipal dump four miles north of town ve infested neighbouring homes, residents are complaining. The rats’ food supplies have apparently dwindled since the city converted from a garbage dump to a sanitary landfill system, in compliance with provincial pollution contro) regulations. ; When people complained to the city about the problem this change had created, the wre told that responsibility for the landf site itself was the district's but that only the regional district could handle indiv: ent control problem. So homeowners’ requests to be provided with rat poison were denied, —. Acting-mayor Vic Jolliffe said the district of Terrace has an on-going rodent control program which involves the setting of traps and placement of poison. A full- time employee based at the dump is now Archie York, president of Transportation Ltd., say his newly formed tug and barge service is being ignored by government and e is being excluded from negotiations for a marine freight subsidy on the north coast, . York said that he was told by Skeena MP Iona | WHO'S LISTENING? | Residents yell “rats” -costs annually but this dual * ~ COASTAL BARGES Campagnolo a week ago that the provincial government was negotiating with private freight carriers to the north coast to establish a subsidized service sometime in the fall. “ pparently there is a deal being cooked between the province and RivTow Straits Ltd. and our company isn’t being the working exclusively on this problem, Jolliffe said, indicating the district's concern. Jolliffe said that sanitary landfill would add $30,000 to the city’s garbage disposal “a legitimate cost, when considering the total health care needs of the community at large.” “It is the intention of the District of Terrace to continue to use the landfill system in its present location, contracts have been let for a five-year period in this connection,’' he explained. “Tt Is not the intention of the District of Terrace to move its present dump.” Ald, Jolliffe said that the rodent control program would be limited strictly to property under Terrace's control. “Residents in the North Kalum area would be advised to contact their regional district representative, Mr. Les Watmough, as an aid In finding a solution to their rodent control problem,” he added. “The District of Terrace does not have the authority to undertake rodent control rograms on land not within its urisdiction,” ~ Tugmen accuse B.C. of ignoring new firm considered at all,” he said. AS a result ‘of conversations: with Campagnolo, York prepared a brief outlining is company’s ideas on how government should get invelved in marine transportation. York-said the brief was to force the province to recognize the fact there is another viable transportation service operating to the north coast. . Since the province refuses to take us seriously, we're taking the ball into our court and making this public.” He said a meeting with transport minister Jack Davis' transportation consultant was arranged for last Thursday but that the consultant didn’t show up. Another ‘ was scheduled this weelk. x As of June 30 RivTow Straits Ltd. terminated its tug and barge service to the Portland Canal communities but has maintained its services between Vancouver and Prince Rupert. A week prior to RivTow stopping northern service, Quadrant began moving, freight with a tub and barge unit from Vancouver Prince Rupert and points. north, Davis' transportation consultant wasn’t available for comment,