Parliment Buildings Vietoria, B.C. VB8V-124 © Legislative sat Herald Staff Writor_ meeting ending at 12:17 a.m. ‘The censure came out of remarks made by. Giesbrecht: Included .In: the." - agenda package was an elght page transcript of comments ©. concerning a supposed conflict of interest. Giésbrecht.. during the council meeting of July. 11, Menged Alderman Chib Down had fy discussing a: zoning bylaw to establish a development permit area; °° ’- Down, who moved the censure motion, stated he was ouly ' concerned with about a page of the mayots remarks printed: co ? on the first two pages of the transcript. nae f Down stated that although he sat as a diréctor on ae company that may have had land effected by the bylaw, be individually did not own’ any property . then under ; discussion. "G@lesbrecht during the: July 11 debate withdrew. his’ - H objection to Down’s taking part In.the debate when-it was . pointed out Down: Derqbnally owned no and to be affected I. remarks an “seceptable mistake” because he said eal bylaw was very vague on the area being discussed. a! Alderman Alan Soutar said a- conflict of intorest is. . impossible to define, and should be left up to individual's *: Conaclences,’- | " ” Geisbrecht agreed each person has to decide tox himself’ - ’ but meted he could’ still fall attention to. such. possible 7 conflicts. ‘The motion. tocensure the mayar passed ona recorded 44 | vote with with Alderman Down, Soutar, Bob Cooper and Gordon Galbraith vating for censure und Aldermen Gellately and | Marguerite | Clarkson oppised. . _ After. the vate, Giesbrecht remarked, ‘1 shall’ consider mae censured by four People: ah Cooper rele, “Four?, _ ts, the’ be majority” wo ; —— be ‘RiinUT (AP) ~ — Kighting broke out ‘among Palestine _, Liberation. Organization . guerriliag. In. 8; refuges ‘camp *“Gutside’the sorthern Lebanese city of | ; today, ang Israel reported four of Its soldiers wounded in an explosion’. - opposite Syrian lines in the. Beka Valley of eastern Lebanon. ~ ; Gunmen fired at a ‘French peacekeeping patrol in Beirut early today, but no one was reported injured. ; In Tel Aviv, Israel Radio said Israeli’ troops will begin .-their controversial pullback from Lebanon’s war-scarred central mountains next, Sunday, Aug. 23,,:The. Israeli _ government said it could -not confirm the report. A ceasefire between warring Druse.. Moslenia and Christians ‘remained in effect.in the mountain area from which Israel intends to withdraw to southern Lebanon. The new ceasefire went into effect after a day of artillery and rocket duels Monday that police said killed six civilians and wounded: 50 others, . : The Israeli military command gave no explanation: for the explosion which wounded four Israeli soldiers some 18 kilometres from the. Syrian-Lebanese border. It said the men were on patrol wiien the roadside blast occurred. ‘Beirut radio stations reported fighting in Baddawi refugee camp. outaide Tripoli was raging-between loyalist - . PLO guetrillas of Capt. Ahmed Jibril’s Popular Front-for. thé Liberation of Palestine-General Command and sup- - _ porters of five front commanders who rebelled last week. against Jibril’s ledderghip.- But-an official of the Palestine Ciberation Organization reached by telephone at the camp described the clash as brief and said there were no casialties.' a ‘The Voice of Lebanon radio station said. Jibril's sup- porters ard opponents in the Baddawi canip, on Tripoli’a - northeastern outskirts, had been “engaged in iumning | battles with all types of weapons” -since mid-moralng, . : BECAME HEADQUARTERS: - = ’ Baddawi, with a UN registered population of 8,000, has become the headquarters of PLO chairman Yasser ‘Arafat's ~ military conimand since a mutiny within his. Fatal ’ guerrilla organization broke out May 7. But. there-was np ~ word of any involvement by. Fatah guerrillas in, the Bad- dawi fighting. — : The rebels ‘have pledged ‘allegiance: to “Arafat againit their radical, pro-Libyan leader. The PFLP-GC dissident afficérs have the support of abdut 180 O guerrillas froin. the group inside Badawi. . ; mo Local, world sports : pages. 486 icomiee; 5 norosoope _“page'10 Ae cues "pages: 1284 3 1a : wieBuyNew? .. WHEN USEDWILL 00! ' Doyou want parts to fix up your car ‘but your budget - ‘won't allow it? Beat the high cost of new parts with quality. used parts from | : 4 K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 1635-2333 or 635-9095 " 3490 Duhan diviton Hwy. 1 ey Ae ee > gennace_nast Helmut Giesbrecht «is officially censured by the majority of Terrace aldermen in the very“ . first motion of Monday night's nearly five. hour long Fighting breaks out ‘among PL patrol overnight Aldermen Chub’ Down ‘and Alan Souta silently. and Bob Cooper reads .a:- newspaper while Mayor Helmut Giesbrecht reads into.the . record a letter critizing the three resignations: of the -Select Committee regarding. the Halliwell reservoir which, along with alt. Alderman Gordon Galbraith, they themselves . voted on.. Those who resigned say they did so “because of the mayor's breach of confidentiality. . Giesbrecht says the _ resignations were politically motivated. The PLO ott whe! declined to be identifi said: 1h thal offices. The Votce ‘of Lebancn satel tretisSibtdl “forces éverran‘a’ PFLP-GC ‘training camp ‘in. Baddawi-an " hour after the.fighting brake out. : we Arafat has- accused ‘Jibril. as well as syria. of actively backing the Fatah mutirigers in. the Bekaa. The charge " prompted Syrian President Hatez’ ‘Assad to ‘expell ‘Apaiat from Damascus on June 24. ~~ The PLO's. executive committee has been: riveting in Tunis, Arafat's new political headquarters,’ for the‘ last three. days: to explore ways of healing. the. Fatah rift and - patching up Arafat's quarrel with ‘Sytlaz:: ¢..- Maj. Alain de Lestrad, spokesman for France's '2,000-man contingent of the multinational peacekeeping force,.anid a. gunman who was later joined by another fired at a French to _ “De Lestrad said-the shooting: occurred at 1:18 am. ‘at. Bishara El-Khoury street, which forms part of the Be-Called - green line that -has ‘divided. Beirut ‘into Christian and . Moslem sectors during the, ast eight years of civil warfare. ‘The gunmen fired from behind at the French patrol Jeep, -and another-French Jeep rustied to the scene:'The gunman _ was joined by another and both fited on the second Jeep and then escaped in a car. without injuring any Frenctr ‘soldiers, Another French: spgtisman who déclined ® aie: his - ~ Charter. of. R OTTAWA (cP) ‘ Legislation ‘establlohing’ a civilian security agency fs seriously flawed and may violate the Charter’ of Rights, Ontario Attorney. General Roy MeMurtry said today. --MeMurtry said he recognizes the need for_a national -seeurity agency, : but wonlers what: ‘evidence exists to support creation of a new ‘organization with an. “unlimited mandate.” ‘ Several federal laws, including the Criminal: ‘Code, _ Official Secrets Act and War Measures Act,. include the powers for seatches, arrests and wiretaps needed to deal with threats to national security, he sald. “Hf these existing powers are hot in fact adequate, then the solicitor general should tell us why,” McMurtry. sald in a brief prepared for delivery to a special Senate committee. ” “Should he not be simply considering amendiventa to the ||). code'or to the Official Secrets Act to‘provitie whatever _ Specie additional powers are necessary? ' ; - MeMurtry. said the new agency's wide range of intrusive " powers, coupled with a lack of ‘appropriate safeguards, could viotate the Charters protection against unreasonable Monaghan appointed Herald Staff Writer. - KITIMAT—Joanne Monaghan, Kitimat alderman and ‘former Skeetia Social Credit MLA candidate, has been appointed by Provincial Secretary Jim Chabot tothe board - of directors of the B.C. Heritage Trust. Chabot quoted Monaghan’ “many years of experience as a volunteer regional heritage advisor” asa prime factor in her appointment. The B.C. Heritage Trust is a provincial government _, agency’ which provides funding assistarice to community ’ heritage projects. The boatd meets regularly throughout _ the province aid the’ next meeting is ‘planned for the spring of 1964 in' Smithers. Projects currently supported in the northwest region of B.C, are the Central Park building restoratton in Smithers, the Kalum Lake:Hotel and histori¢ site: ‘project in Terrace ‘ “and a {maior inventory, of heritage. resources in Prince . ae! ‘ es sera fire, ~, Saudi Arabia's King: Fa Ttoday’ ‘te ‘Lebanon's 8. warrpg factions to- ‘stop. the “war of - ‘attrition that has ‘exhausted all the (country’s) human arid eednomic resources” and open the way for Arab mediation ,.. efforts to “salvage Lébanon." : " DISCUSSED” FIGHTING *' Saudi ‘Information Minister Gen. Ali El-Shaer issued the staternent on the monarch’s behalf alter a late night’ cabinet session to discuss the latest outbreak of Christian-Druse - fighting. - The statement surged the warring Christian and Druse factions to “open the way for Arab efforts to play and ef- fective role to salvage Lebanon.” = * ‘Terael Radio, quoting winamed sources in Beirut, sald a plained partial withdrawal by Israeli: troops from the . central mountails would begin next Sunday’ and be com- “pleted by Sept. 7, the éve of the Jewish New Year. "The radio said special U.S. envoy Robert McFarlane, now in ‘Beirut, was making “feverish, efforts” to enable ‘the Lebanese.army to take over Israeli-vacated areas in the Aley and Chouf mountains. -But Premier Menachem Begin’s ‘spokeamian Uri Porat told The Associated Press he could not confirm the radio ' report, saying only. the government intended to carry out the pullback in “the near future.” ” ights violated search, and gelzures. _ It's “unlimited” mandate to place groups and individuals ' " ander surveillance could violate guarantees that freedom of conscience, thought, ‘religion, peaceful assembly and .- association be protected, he.said. — - -MeMurtry said one of the most dangerous features of the | legislation {g ite defintions of what constitutes a threat ‘to tiational security and what can be investigated by the -— Service. “The definition sections are not only. sloppy, vague and unreasonable, they are also extremely dangerous for they targel,.as so-called threats to natlonal- security, a vast range of lawful and legitimate activities." : McMurtry, many senators and ‘elvil ‘liberties groups wonder how broadly the Canadian Security Intelligence - Service will interpret a section which says activities almed "at overthrowing or ‘destroying the constitutionally . established system of government pose a threat to natlonal ” security. ' Solicitor General Robert Kaplan says, ‘the definitions of Security threats are balanced by a provision’ that the ser- vice cannot spy on those parttelpating in lawful protest or. dissent: Muy says that’ 5a “nice sentiment,” but has no legal wBeryone would agree that espionage or sabotage directed against Canada is a threat to the security of Canada, But this bill makes it a threat to security of Cariada to spy on the Soviet Union and thatils a somewhat im | us tion." "cseuey Lae objects to a provision giving the federal attorney general exclusive res natlonal-security offences when the administration of justice, inclisding most prosecutions, is a _ provincial _Tesponsibility.under the Constitution. MeMurtry sald he is not reassured by- atatements by. Kaplan and Ted Finn, the designated-head of the new agency, about the legislation’s intentions. . «The bill should be so precise that there is no real dowbt ‘or argument about the legal powers of the service.” ., Most of the agency’s activities will be conducted in seeret, meaning the agents, not the courts, will be ithe final” ‘biter of its jurisdictions and powers, he sald. ° | continue at y Municipal Act; forced council: to reconsider the original : 7 “motion as moved by Alderman Chub Down, Clarkson sald-she: abstained’ (an abstention counts asa. - . positive voteat council unless the alderman formally leaves, » Days celebration, but Down said there were probably as _ for the Winter Games. . . that the disposition of funds be made on a project by: project "street and asking how council can talk about restraint and ‘in. consultation with the Riverboat Days Committee be _ that: these funds be allocated. from. the 1983 : industrial , development. account." ' against it,” and added the Riverboat Days testivittes had | _ fallen on “troubled times” in the past and it waa “of ‘prime = ' Riverboat Daye:y _ was opposed. ‘to 5.8 per cent in July, down from 56 per. cent in. June} ‘jowest'In more than 10 years. The federal governmerit ‘for pork cuts, chicken, fresh milk and sugar were largely ponsibility to prosecute - - “hy KEITHALFORD L. oo? Herald Staff Welter = 2° “TERRACE—The’ question .of the Riverboat Day “ doimmittee | gétting $10,000, from Terrace council , by thé ext council meeting,’ but the motion Hat: . fh "originated the. offer at the Previous council meetinghag mee : . been‘ removed,’ cee Mayor Helmut Gietbrecht, acting under sedtion 240 of the: Both Down and Alerman.Gordon Galbraith stated . tha oe motion has passed unanimously, but Alderman Marguerite the table) and Alderman David Gellately noted he was — acting mayor that night and therefore, could not vote on the : matter, Down said Gleabrecht wasn't in town for the. Riverboat many people in town for those celebrations as there. were Giesbrecht proposed an “altemate “motion reading ; “gouncil set aside $10,000 from the industrial development _ account for the purpose of hosting functions which enhance | a community spirit in Terrace such as Riverboat Days and. -basis and after an application is received: and before an event takes place.” The mayor sald that way some of the money cotld be used to.support the Thorzhill firefighters Halloween fireworks display if that was thé only display happening in the area, Earlier in the evening, the majotity of council rejected such, a request from the Thornhill fire department because their proposed event was to be ‘held outside the. municipal. boundries. It was a Thornhill fire truck that filled the leaking rear of a dump truck at this year’s Riverboat Days belly flap event. _ Giesbrecht sald people have been stopping him on the yet pass a motion giving: away $10,000 to: an organization that didn't even ask for it; : The original motion reads, “Tertace and District Council prepared at this time to express ‘an inital $10,000 for the purpose of that committee setting up a permanent office, possibly in conjunction with the Chmber of Commerce, and Galbriath said; ‘you can’t say you favor tourism and the community’ and say notothis (Down’s motion).” Alderman Alan Soutar commented, “you're either for the town or importance” ‘it continue. . Down's original motion was defeated ona 43 vote. Down, 7 Soutar, Bob Cooper and Galbraith voting for it, Giesbrecht, " Gellately and Clarkson voting against it. It was ruled the : motion required a two-thirds majority to pass. : Acting Clerk-Administrator Kelth Norman ruled ‘Giesbrecht’s wording only required .a simple majority to pass since it did call for the actual expenditure of funds at this time. Down remarked that neither did his since the "word “express” was ped cone remarked it was obvious fora. proper organization. - . Amotion by Cooper to table further discussion on the question until the next council meeting. Only Clarkson Later, under new business, council agreed to explore the ~ possibility of having either a clty float or the winning float from the Riverboat Days parade travel to Kitimat and Prince Rupert and perhaps other towns for parades: there to promote Terrace's festivities. : Galbraith said- the cost might be $500 to $00" te " accomplish this, while Down suggested to do It H properly would it would cost about $100,000. _ Inflation eases” OTTAWA (CP) —The annual inflation rate eased alightly 7 Statistics Canada sald today. - ‘The agency said food, housing, transportation ‘and recreation costs contributed almost equally to the month-to* month Increase of 0.4 per cent in the consumer ‘Brice index over June figures. -.. The annual inflation rate now Is leas thon halt the 109 pe cent recorded in July, 1962. However, the rate is up from 54 per “cent: in. ‘May — — thé jumped | on that statistic as proof its sixand- five restraint program was working. - _ Food prices rose 0.6.per cent in July, compared with an increase of 0.2 per cent between May and dune, eng them two per cent higher than a year eariler. Non-lood prices moderated significantly, rising by 0.4 per . cent in July after climbing by 1:4 per cent in June, - Excluding food, prices were 6.6 per cent higher than they ; were a year earlier. Higher fresh frult prices, coupled with: increased prices responsible for the rise in food prices. . Lower prices for some beef cuts and fresh vegetables dampened the Lmpact of-the other price increases.:. |. A further breakdown shows food bought in restaurants increased 0.7 per cent between June and July, and stood 4. 4 per cent abdve the level a year earlier. « Pushing up non-food prices in July were higher travel and holiday costs; increased gasoline prices, increased sheltet costs.and higher utility rates in some provinces. - The increases in holiday and travel. coats largely reflected higher hotel and motel] rates during the summer season; gasoline price increases atemmed primarily. from : “hikes at the wholesale level. Electricity charges climbed in Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia; both electricity and natural gee rates rosé in Saskatchewan. Higher telephone rates: ‘were reported in Manitoba and British Columbia. Charges for cablevision also increased as a result -o boosts to the basic monthly charges and imposition of _ federal sales tax of six per cent. In British Columbia, the effects of Premier Bill Bennett’ Rohit wwsnredoaent rari beara services subject to the social services tax was raised to seven per cent and extended to more items, However, seasonal salea of clothing across the country helped offset price increases in the non-food category. ° Statistics Canada's consumer price index, the most widely used measure of inflation, -ahows price changes exch month from a fixed shopping lst of hundreds of goods and wets lnde, based on average pricee i 1981 equalling. ipo points, stood at 117.9in July, vp from. 117.4 ja June and 111, a in July, ie3, In other words, the purchasing power of the dollar had i kiran ayers ieee faa aa nd | beets tat June snd 904 centa in July, 1909. Y f ' aye , * x