Page 2, The Herald. Wednesday, September 27, 1978

WEATHER

Cloudy skies today are
being caused by a low
pressure system thal moved
up the coast last night, A
series of these weak systems
will continue

to bring

generally cloudy weather
and uccasional showers to
the area for the next few
days. Temperalures today
should range between an
afternoon high of around 14

NOTICE.

Effective October 7, 1978, the
offices of JACOB J. TALSTRA, Esq,
Barrister and Solicitor, will be opan

Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. te

12:00 noon for the convenience of

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OVER LIBRARY

Controversy continues

Despite the fact that the contract for the ad-
dition to the Terrace Library has been awarded
fo Wirtl Construction, and work should begin
scon, council is still belng questioned regarding
fhe method used In awarding the contract.

In a letter to council, Guran Construction Co.
Ltd, complained that they had submitted the
lowest tender for the project and should have
been awarded the contract.

Also included was a copy of 2 letter’ from
Guran to the B.C. Construction sociation sent
in early August outlining how fhe contract was
awarded and asking for assistance to get council
to review the contract and glye It to Guran.

Alderman David Pease Suggested to council
that in future some ‘sort of, a letter should be
Included in requests far tendérs fo Indicate that If
a loca! bidder Is within a prescribed percentage
or dollar value, the contract will be awarded
locally.

pointed ovt that when the fenders were opened
July 14, his firm was the low bidder.

“Our representative, Ambrose Lecinnl was
present at tenger opening and very pleased that
he could see employment ahead for the next four
months, the prelect being very conveniently next
door to his own home.”

“On July 27 without further notice or con-
sultation our foreman, Lecinni, working on the
Terrace Airport extension, learned via: local

radio and through his union that the city had .

awarded the Terrace Library extension project
to Wirt] Construction (third bidder),”’ the letter
continues. .

Alderman Pease fold the Heraid that to the
best of his recollection the recreation committee
originally suggested that Guran be given the
contract. However, by the time the committee
report reached council some differences In the

_ tenders were discovered which meant the Wirtl

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Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine

VOTERS’ LIST
COURT OF REVISION

TAKE NOTICE that any person entitled to
be registered as an elector in the Reglonal
District of Kitimat-Stikine may make ob-
jection to the retention of any name ap-
pearing on the list of electors for the
Regional District, and the objection may be
made on any ground that would disquallfy
the elector or applicant from having his
name retained or registered as an elector on
the list of electors. This objection must be
filed at the Regional District Office, before
October 2, 1978.

A COURT OF REVISION has been ap-
pointed and will sit at the Regional District
Office, No. 9-4644 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace,
B.C. on October 2, 1978, between the hours of.
9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, and will continue
to sit if required, from time to time
thereafter until ail appleals have been
eard.

The Court of Revision shall hear all
complainis and correct and revise the list of
electors; and may a
(a) correct the names of electors in any wa
wrongly stated therein; or

(b) add the names of electors omitted from
the list; or ;
(c) strike oul the names of persons from the
list who are not entitled to vote or who are
disqualified from voting: or

(d) correct any other manifest error
therein,

and shail add to the list of electors the name
of any prson who was qualified to have his
name entered on the list of electors on the
thirty-first day of August.

He could not get a seconder for his motion, and

so it was not voted on.

In the letter to the Construction Association,
E.J. Guran, president of Guran Construction.

UIC FIGURES COOKED

Broadbent claims c

It is dated May 15, 1978,

OTTAWA (CP) Ed
Broadbent, New Democratic
Parly leader, released
ducuments Tuesday which
he said show that local and
regional Manpower officials

-have been ordered by Ot-

lawa to suppress. in-
formation and basic dala on
real unemployment rates.

Ala news conference,
Broadbent circulated an
employment department
memurandum in which a
senior official advises

regional officials lw keep
local unemployment and
labur surplus estimates
confidential or not to
produce them at all,

“As you know, these esti-
mates have beer a source of

* some embarrassment for the

minister (Employment
Minister Bud Cullen)
because uf their potential
conflict with the labor

sturplus rates in the Canada
Works program,” the
memorandum says.

bid was only some $1,600 more than Guran.

bid.

Council voted in favor of accepting the Wirtl

No further meetings have been held or are

and signed by Harry Hodder,
assistant deputy minister of
strategic pulicy and planning
in the employment depart-
ment,

“Since it is not clear to me

why youneed them, nor have’

any reasons per se been
given for their development,
I would suggest that we
avoid producing them,"

Hodder says in the
memorandum tv execuilve
directors' of regional
branches.

Not too much expected
from this conference

MONTREAL (CP} — A
federal-provincial
agreement for a suitable
framework in which to
produce a new constitution is
all the public can expect
from the Otlawa cun-
slitutional conference next
month, Ontario Attorney-
General Roy MeMurtry said
auesday.

Theevolution of a new con-
stitution will almost cer-
tainly require more
meetings belween Ottawa
and the provinces alter next
munth's conference, Mc-
Murtry told reporters during
a break in a federal-
provincial conference on the
constitution.

The one-day meeting,
another slep in the process
fur drafting a’ new con-
stitution, was chaired by
Mare Lalonde. federal

minister fur  federal-
provincial relations, and
atiended by provincial
ministers responsible for the
constitution. . ‘

MeMuriry alsu. said the
federal guvernment appears
lu be “coming around a bit,”
meaniig:Qltawal- seems
prepared te abandon the
larget dale of July 1, 1979, for
the first phase of im-
plementation of  con-
stitutional reform.

“I believe they know they
wun't meet that date, but
they aren't prepared to

cuncede that yet," Mc-
Murtry said.
_ Lalonde told reporters the

federal government is going
out of ils way to seek
provincial consensus on.
constitutional changes.

‘But the authority of the
federal government to

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legislaie in this matter
withuul provincial accord
must be recognized, he said.

Lalonde said an agenda
was approved today for the
Ocl. 30-Nuy. 1 meeling in
Ottawa. He said = the
delegates would alse discuss
duplication ui services. by
federal. and provincial gov-
evpmenis.

On Monday. provincial .

ministersufin-
terguvernmental affairs met
in a clused session to discuss
constilutiunal reform, and
there appeared tu be a cun-
tinued reluctance gn their
part Ww accept federal
prapogals for change. ©

In a communique, the
ministers said the main
provincial cuncerns remain
the process uf constitutional
refurm, the need fur federal-
provincial consensus on
propused major changes.
and the need to resolve ques-
tions involving (he
distribution of powers.

Russian
leader
collapses

UNITED NATIONS (AP)
— Soviel Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko became ill
and slumped against the
speaker's desk Tuesday
while addressing the United
Nations General Assembly.

He was helped from the
podium, but relurned 55
minutes later to complete his
speech.

Gromyke, 69, had been

talking for about an hour’

when he broke off his speech.
He was pressing fur a Soviet-
proposed treaty committing
nuclear powers not (o allack
non-nuclear countries.

- anticipated with Guran Construction.

overup

However, Hodder says re-
gional officials can make
lucal estimates of the
number of unemployed or
employed. persons—if they
want to—on the basis of
occupation or industry,
adding that they should be
kept confidential.

Broadbent has often
eriticized the government's
methods of calculating
unemployment, saying the
official figures under-

- estimate the actual number

of jubless Canadians.

“This is official con-
firmation for the first time
that what we have. been.

wsaying is true," Broadbent *

said al Munday's. news.
conference. .

"I have been
some lime that the real level
of unemployment in this
country far exceeds the
official figures which are
published each munth. If this
isn’t Su, as the government
has always argued, then why
is il now mecessary lo Sup-
press data from officials in
the -field?”*.,
as official estimates
issued by Statistics, Canad:
say the ‘sas vnally-8 Hite
unemployment rate in
August was 8.5 per cenl, The
actual number of persons vlll
of work was 892,000, the
agency says.

Broadbent said if the
hidden unemployed are
counted, the unemployment
rate would be about three
per cent higher.

He said the hidden unem-
ployed include, fur example,
persons who have stupped
locking for work in cases
where there just are no jubs
to take,

The memorandum also
refers ty confusion about
regional officials’
relationships with the media,
saying the matter is in lucal
hands, but warning of the
potential for prublems.

Broadbent interpreted
uther references. to mean
local officials have been
ordered nul to discuss local
unemployment figures with
(he media unless approval
has been given by regional or
head office direclurs.

Attached lo the
memorandum is a
ducument, titled "“inlerim
publication policy,’ which

says care must be taken by
senior offielals to avuid

publicizing short-term
projections, especialiy
unemployment rates or

unempluymen! —s insurance.

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt
launched a diplomatic cam-
paign Tuesday to try to win
Arab backing for the Camp
David agreements with
Israel, telling Arab am-
bassadurs here that the
accords are only a slep to-
ward a comprehensive
Middle East
Ulement.

Most Arab countries, In-:.

cluding Saudi Arabia and

Jourdan, have. announced...

reservations about the
agreements signed in Camp
David, Md., by Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
and Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat on the grounds
it does not specificaly

peace sel- .

provide for the return of
East Jerugalem to the
Arabs.

‘The A! Aqsa mosque, one
of Istam’s most holy shrines,
ia in East Jerusalem. .

In Amman, — Jordan,
President Hafez Assad of
Syria ended talks with King
‘Hussein and flew to Riyadh, °
‘Saugi-Axabla, for a meeting

“with .Ceown Prince Fahd bin ~

Abdul Aziz. .
Though Jordan and Saudi

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Sadat.

Application rejected

OTTAWA (CP) — An
application by Quebec air
controllers to form their own
bargaining unit was rejected
today in a decision by the

bite service staif relations

ard,

The board noted however
that the real issue behind
Quebec controllers wanting
to break away from the
Canadian Air Traffic Control
Assoclation—the use of both
French and English in alr-
ground communications— is
beyond its authority to sulve,

“Whether one looks at the
issue from the aspect of
language rights or from the
aspect of safety, it is up to
the government, in the
exercise of its judgment, to
establish and implement @

policy and to bear the
respons[bility for it,” said .
ie «

the board.

The decision also noted _

that. a commission of inquiry”
into bilingual air traffic *

services in Quebec is ex:
pecled to re, soon and

would provide the basisfor a,

comprehensive policy on
bilingualism in air traffic
control.

Quebec air controllers
have been at odds with the
national group for several
years over language.

The Quebec controllers ar-
gued befure the board that

the nalional group was op- <=

posed to extending the use of
the French language in
Quebec and also o} nosed to
bilingual bonuses.

~ . Bank index up

MONTREAL (CP) — The
Royal Bank of Canada
repuried Tuesday that the
bank's composite index uf 11
indicators moved up at an
jannual rate of:1.8-per cent in

*“the' second quaTiér.- 5... |,
”. Seiiior “ecunumist Robert

Baguley said in a statement
the -upturn in the index,
called Trendicator, was goud
news, but cautioned “the
laiest climb dues nut
necessarily mean that a new
upward trend has been
established,

“The index has,-in fact,

bounced up and down since:

Mate!1975 with no clear trend -
ip either direction," Baguley
said.

Given the accuracy of the
index in the past, “it is
difficult to expect much, if
any, improvement — in
econumic perfurmance in
1979,” he added.

‘An encouraging aspect of
the uplurn, however, is that

it is broadly based. Ten of
the ll. components
strengthened in the second
quarter from their first
quarter values. Only urban
housing starts declined.

The number of residential
building permits issued and
the deflated value of total
building permits registered
below-average increases.

Below-average increases
were also seen in primary
steel production, real cor-
porate pre-tax profits, real
muney supply, the deflated
Value ,of . liabilities’ of
basinedé “failures and the
ratio‘of price to unit. labor
Custsit- ne

Abuve-average increases .

were posted by the Toronto
Stock Exchange  price-
earnings ralio, the average
length of the work week in
manufacturing and the
Investors’ Index of 134
common slocks.

“US. rail rolls to stop

WASHINGTON (AP) —.
Freight and cummuter rail
service rolled to at least a
lemporary halt across most
of the United States on
Tuesday as a clerks’ union
on sirike against a Virginia-
based rallway expanded its
picketing to 43 other lines.

The striking Brotherhood
uf Railway and Airline
Clerks said picketing shut
down or curtailed operations
al two-thirds of the major
railways, affecting every
pari of Ihe country except
the heavily-ravelled Nor-
theast corridur where ser-
vice was reported normal.

The union estimated that
more than 330,000 of the half-
million U.S. railway workers
slayed aff the jub, leaving
commuters stranded and

“making idle millions of tons
of freight.

Amtrak, the national rail
passenger line, said: about
half of its 52,000 daily riders
were denied service.

Conrail, the largest freight
carrier, was not picketed,
apparently because it had
obtained a temporary courl
injunction banning such
activity last week. Conrail,
which is concentrated in the
Northeast, also operates a

, few commuter lines.

The union said the
pickeling was. aimed at
companies that had been
lending equipment and
persunnel to the strikebuund
Norfolk
Railway, based in Roanoke,
Va.

Hazard study planned

VANCOUVER (CP)
Mayor Jack Volrich an-
nounced Tuesday a study
group will be established ty
draw up regulations tu deal
with the transporlation of
dangerous materials un city
streets.

The announcement
followed a meeling with
Vancouver police and fire
chiefs after a chlurine gas
spill Monday injured at least
47 persons and forced the
evacuation of mure than 200
residents in a 25-block
residential-industrial sectlon
of the cily.

The deadly gas came from
a 4S-hectolitre (100-gallon)

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canister which rupturea
when six canisters fell from
a truck. The evacuees were
allowed to: return to their
homes Tuesday.

Mayor Volrich said the
regulations should involve
the Issuing of permits
stipulating the kind of
materials to be transpurted,
the degree of danger and the
rouling and timing of the
cargo. .

Earlier Tuesday, Alder-
man Don Bellamy called on
cily council to “avert a
catastrophe" by prohibiting
ihe transportation of toxic

and Western —

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