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Carter upset
by Congress

Interpreting The News

By CATHY McKERCHER

WASHINGTON (CP) — President Carter’s decision to
postpone a nine-country trip scheduled for late this month

dicatss how deeply he has been disturbed by Congress’s
treatment of his energy program.

He had hoped that a committee of senators and members
of the House of Representatives would reach a compromie
on energy legislation in time for him to set out on his trip

OV .2z.

But with conference work on the package expected to con-
tinue at least until mid-December, and perhaps into next
year, he apparently feels he cannot afford to leave the U.S.
now,

Instead, he plans to redouble efforts for approval of the
controversial energy meaaures, starting with an ap for
public support to be made in his first televised speech to the
country in sixmonths. .

The major question about Carter's decision to postpone
the trip until some unspecified future date, however, is what
he will be able to accomplish by staying home.

APPROVE ONE TAX

Only one of the energy taxes he proposed in his original
energy package has been approved by both the House and
Senate, insslightly different forms. But neither version of
the proposed tax on industrial use of natural gas and oil is as
tough as that supported by the president.

Other major parts of the program, including raising
crude oj] taxes, maintaining a ceiling on natural gas prices,
forcing utilities to change their rate structures and im-
posing a pasoline tax if consumption conttinues to incraase
rapidly, have been mangled by either or both houses on
their way through Congress.

Carter apparently hopes to exert pressure on members of
a conference coomittee to approve most of the measures,
but whatever compromises are reached likely will be less
stringent than the prsident proposed, leaving him with the
choice of approving a watereddown version of his program
or of vetoing the bill Congress eventually sends to him.

In any event, he is unlikely to get the energy program he
wants. ;

SHOWS COMMITMENT

What staying home does do for the president, however, is
to demonstrate his prior commitment to solving the
domestic problems of the U.S.

_ That commitment had been questioned recently by dis-
illusioned groups of Carter supporters who charged that the
president reneged on campaign promises to combat
unemployment, change the welfare system and promote
speedy improvements in the economy,

But the last-minute change of heart is diplomatically
embarrassing for the president and raises some questions
about the managerial capabilities of hus administration.

In discussing the trip to Venezuela, Brazil, France,
Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, Poland and Belgijm
with reporters, the president’s national security adviser,
ZBigniew Brzezinski, termed it ‘‘part of a systematic effort
to give America foreign policy a wider focus, to engage it
more with the emerging powjrs in the world,” and part of
an eventual goal of “renovating the international system.”

Although the postponement dees not mean Carter has
turned away from those goals, the wisdom of promoting the
trip grandly, then cancelling it a few weeks later, may be
questioned.

fiCRMAN

P97? Universal Peasy Syndicate

“If you're coming ashore buddy, | wanna see
your passport.”

Manitoba Tories out to attract business

Business spotlight

WINNIPEG (CP) — Manitoba’s
new finance minister wants to see
the government trim spending and
reduce its deficit, but will sacrifice
that goal if necessary to induce in-

vestors into the province.

The imperative is to attract in-
dustry and jobs, says Don Craik,
veteran MLA for Riel and No.2 man
in the Progressive Conservative
cabinet of Premier Sterling Lyon.

“Short-term loss of tax revenue to
the province is worth the long-term

gain.”

That might mean further deficit
financing to make Manitoba's tax
structure comatitive with those
elsewherein Canada from the
Standpoint of potential investors,

Before the Tory victory over the

N rovincial elec- -
tion, Lyon promised a reduction in
personal and corporate taxes,
mining taxes designed to encourage
exploration, and elimination of -
succession duties and the gift tax.

NDP in the Octll

WILL ACT QUICKLY

Craik says it is too soon to be
Specific about planned spending

plemented imm

opment project.

cutbacks, but a committee headed
by Sidney Spivak is reporting to
cabinet weekly. Where operations
can be streamlined and economies
achieved quickly they will be im-

ne ately, rather than
awaiting a comprehensive report in
about four months.

Plans for tax reductions will be
affected because federal revenues
are smalier thananticipated and:
Manitoba will receive $50million less
than had been expected. In addition,
estimates of this year’s provincial
deficit have grown from $4 million
when a budget was presented last
April to as much as $71million.

Craik, a professional engineer,
also is responsible for Manitoba
Hydro and the Manitoba Energy
Council. The Conservatives have
_promised an inquiry into the affairs
of Manitoba Hydro and its massive

Nelson River hydroelectric devel-

The new minister says he plans a-
one-man inquiry, and while he and
Hydro chairman Len Bateman have
disagreed on many issues, “I’m not
going to pre-judge him ... or others
who were in advisory capacities to

- Hydro decisions.’

Of all his duiies, Craik believes
energy planning as chairman of the
energy council will provide him with
the widest’ scope for innovation.

MANITOBA VULNERABLE

“Manitoba is pretty vulnerable in
terms of energy costs, technological
development and utilization of
renewable resources.” —- ,

Since ‘only 20 per- cent of the
province’s energy requirements are
‘produced in the province, he says
the government will fulfil its pledge
to establish an energy planning
authority authorized to deal with
nuclear power and other questions.

Craik, an MLA since 1966, served

_ 4S mines and resources minister and
in the youth and education ministry
before the Tories were votted out of
power in 1969.

_ He says his health is fully restored
since his heart attack Aprili. -

“I feel better thanever before. I’ve

lest 20 pounds, quit smoking,

changed my diet,

my blood

cholesterol level has done down
markedly, my blood pressursis
below normal for myuage. I do
‘calisthenics daily, and I run three
miles a day three days a week at the
University of Manitoba.”

ona

“Thousands of people idle in this country .. . and most of them in the civil service.”

No-one wants whale oil

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
Japanese tanker left
Vancouver Sunday night
loaded with rapeseed oil,
leaving behind about 360,000

gallons of sperm whale oil
that it had originally been
expected to pick up.

_Meanwhile, Canadian
fisheries management of-

Cant stop spraying

By ALAN FREEMAN

QUEBEC (CP) — Yves
Berube, Quebec lands and
forests minister,.says he
would like to stop con-
troversial chemical
Spraying against spruce
budworm, but too many jobs
are at stake. —

In a letter to Dr. P. D.
McTaggart-Cowan,
chairman of a National
Research Council com-
mittee on the problem, Ber-
ube defended Quebec's
continued use of
fenitrothion, an insecticide
used against the budworm
outbreak.

The ‘spraying has been
linked by a Nova Scotia
medical researcher to a

fatal children's disease,

Reye’s syndrome, and has
been criticized for possible
damage to wildlife.

Berube said long-term
effects of the spray still are
unknown, but added that the
committee’s members
seemed to agree that the
insectlcide ‘‘is now the most
efficient praduct in the fight
against spruce budworm
and one of the least
dangerous pesticides when
used properly."

Berube says he would

prefer halting the spraying.

program -and allowing
nature to follow its course,
but he must face economic

reality ‘‘which dictates

saving jobs in a population ©

already hard hit by

unemployment.”
JOB LOSS HEAVY

If spraying did not con-
tinue in the Gaspe and
Lower St. Lawrence
regions, where the in-
festation is most serious,
6,480 jobs and $24 million in
salary would be lost; an-
nually for 50 years, he gaid.

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The New Brunswick
government has contijued
spraying despite piblic
ressure to stop it. Nova

otia suspended planned
spraying this year after
Premier Gerald Regan said
there were possible health
hazards.

Berube noted that Quebec
does not use the emulsifier
cited by a Dalhousie
University medical
researcher as having
possible links with Reye's
syndrome.

In’ 1976, the Quebec
government sprayed nine
million acres of forests at a
cost of $11.6 million but this
year the program was
reduced to cover 3.4 million
acres at a cost of $65
million,

A spokesman for Berube
said only the most seriously
affected forests were
sprayed. No decision had
been taken on the 1978 plan.

ficials said Sunday there are
no legal barriers preventin
removal of the whale oi
from Vancouver,

Members of the Van-
couverbased Greenpeace
Foundation, which has

- opposed shipment of the oil,

had found what they con-
sidered to be a legal techni-
cality in the Whaling Con-
vention Act which forbids
any ship in territorial
waters to possess whaling
roducts unless it obtains a
icence as a factory ship.
Such licences are no longer
available.

However, R. A. Crouter of
the federal environment
department said the

regulation is intended for

the orderly management of
the whaling industry and
has nothing to do with the
commercial end of it.

“We don’t agree with the
Greenpeace interpretation
(of the act),"’ Crouter said.
“The regulations don’t
cover commerce which is
the point of the issue here.
So We're not involved at

STORES OIL

Jack Diamond, president
of West Coast Reduction
Ltd. where the estimated
$1.2 million worth of whale
oil is stored, said the search
is on to find another tanker
to temove the oil.

Crouter said he had been
told the Japanese vessel
Fujiyashi aru would
remove the oil.

“But three hours before
they're supposed to go, they
informed me they were
filled with rapeseed oil from
San Francisco and from

here, and couldn’t take the
whale oil.”

Crouter said he was

originally told the oil was .

fish oil.

Another spokesman for
West Coast Reduction said a
Norwegian shipping firm
has asked that the storage
period at West Coast
extended until Nov. 15,

REFUSE RESPON-
SIBILITY

All parties involved with
the oil have refused to claim
responsibility for it,

Michael Ridley, general
manager of Burmah Castro
Oil in Liverpool, England,
which plans to purchase the
oil and use it in the
manufacture of lubricating
material, has said his firm

- will not claim responsibility

until the shipment arrives at
a United Kingdom port.

John Saleeba, executive
director of Cheynes Beach
Holding Co. in Perth,
Australia, which owns the
oil, has said responsibility
lies in the hands of the
shipping company.

The Australian oi] first
ran into trouble when it was
lpaded aboard a British-
registered Norwegian
vessel, the Stolt Llandaff,
which docked in Portland,
Ore. in September.

The ship was turned awa
by Portland customs of-
ficials under a regulation of
the United States Marine
Mammals Frotection Act
which forbids the transport
or import of whale products.
The oil cargo was then
brought to Vancouver.

Voice of the readers

Eyesores still around

: We would like to com-
pliment your publication of

October 28, 1977 with special

regard to the photos and
article on the eyesore
buildings...“So away they
go.” This certainly brings to
the attention of your readers
how such buildings can be a
detriment to the community
in terms of being unsightly,
unsafe, potential fire
hazards and a nuisance to
everyone. It gives some
indication that Council is
prepared to uphold the
Bylaws and do something
about these dilapidated
buildings which are nothing
more than irritants to
residents who pay healthy
taxes, put in ocnsiderable
effort to keep their homes
and property as an asset to
our community.

However, we would en-
deavour to complete your
article. We would like to
bring to the attention of your
readers probably . the
longest existing eyesore in
Terrace and the  in-
difference of both council
and the builder to solve the

problem. The eyesore is the.

rtly constructed, partly
burnt and completely ob-
noxious mess which should

.be 4812 Hamer Ave.

Construction was started
on this building in 1972
without the issuance of a
Building permit. (This was
taken out in 1975) which is
direct contrevention of
Municipal Bylaws. From
1974 until April, 1977 con-
struction was non-existant.
In April, 1977 the Builder
bearded in the frame with

plywood and has left it
sitting in this state ever
since.

In accordance with the
statements in your article
Council did discuss the fate
of this building and the
result was that the building
should be completed in the
regulation time or be
demolished. The  ap-
propriate Registered Let-
ters were sent and the time
periods for such laid down
according to the Bylaws.
Representatives of the Fire
Dept. visited this building in
June, 1977 to put out a fire
(which could have had
hazardous results). The
Buildin Inspector also
visited the building agreed it
was an eyesore and ex-
pressed that his Department
would apply constant
vigilance to ensure that the
Builder complied with the
clauses of the Building
permit and complete on
time or forfeit.

In the five years this
building has been sitting
here deteriorating we have
had three elections for
Mayor and Council with
another one coming up — we
do not feel these City of-
ficials have made any real
progress and will not make
any compensation to us
Taxpayers. Your article
mentionst that District
workers “can” goin and do
the work, but will they?

We hope you will keep
your readers informed in a
followup article.

Residents of 4800 Block
Hamer Avenue

Stone walls do not
a prison make, but
classroom walls do

Children are prisoners in
our society. Schools use up
the most important years of
their lives and give them
very little in return.
Feachers tell children to
think and use their heads
but they don’t give them
enough time to think about
things or to find out a lot of

’ things they -would- like -to ©
know

Teachers try to make
children think that they
know what is best, but the
children know themselves
that many teachers don’t
seem very smart. Worst of
all, they think that children
have poor judgement, and
so they tell them what to do,
and what not to do.

The schools don’t take
children seriously enough.
They should listen more to
their problems and ideas.
They should take children’s
problems seriously, but they
don’t. They are not very
interested in your personal
problems at hoem or
anywhere. Everyone knows
that it’s easiest to learn

when you're young, yet the
schools bore their minds
with work that means
nothing to them. In just a
few years they will be facing
problems they’ve already

ard about, like pollution,
poverty, | over-population,
nuclear war, women’s
liberation, racial prejudice, .,
leisure time, social unrest”
and so on. Some of these
things can be learned best
out of school, but if they are
interested on solving these
problems they should be
earning as much as
possible about them right
now. The schools are not
trying to do this.

Most kids don't like the
present school system, and
would prefer a system
where the teachers are the
students, and nobody
punishes anybody, and
hobody fails. :

(These opinions do not
reflect the writer's point af
view, but indicate what
people are feeling and
saying today.)

“Concerned”

Inselberg replies

Open letter to Alderman Vic’

Jolliffe, ;

On October 24, 1977
property owners of the 4700
Block, Lazelle Avenue,
attended a Council meeting.

At that meeting I had the
opportunity to present to
council the application for
re-zoning of the 4700 Block to
central commercial and the
reasoning behind it.

At that presentation I
explained the concept based
on a perspective drawing
produced by myself. I
mentioned in that presen-
tation that ‘the Mickey
Johnson building, due to its
proposed 60 foot set-back is
not visible, but that a car is
parked in front of his
driveway, which of course
happens once in a while...”

e next morning, Qc-
tober 25, you phoned me and
told me that I am in your
eyes “down in the gutter”
because (a) as a
professional man 1 had
attacked you in council, (b)
I had mingled in a pending
court case which you have
against a member of the
RCMP and (ec) I had
assisted Alderman David
Pease in a viscious attack
against you.

I do not understand your
reasoning as (a) I have not
attacked you, (b) I had no
knowledge of the pending
court case against a
member of the RCMP. who
ordered the towing away of
your car which you left
parked on Lazelle Avenue a
couple of weeks ago, and
(c) I did not assist Aider-
man David Pease in

drawing up his written
presentation to Council and

d no knowledge of such a
presentation.

You also mentioned in
your phone call that one of
the reasons that council
rejected this third ap-
plication for the re-zoning of -

. the 4700 block was that the

presentation had not been
made to Council prior to the
regular meeting. If this is o,
it is in my opinion an ap-
palling reason for the
rejection of a petition made
by local citizens. Surely
yourself and council were
fully aware of the wishes
and intent of the property
owners since the first re-
zoning application was
made now over a year ago.

Furthermore, how is it
that you are able to make
these statements on behalf
of council members and the
mayor? .

It is sad that you as a
council member could give
me only such a negative
response towards myself
and the cause I presented.

Now I must write an open
letter to you asking this
simple question:

Can or may I assume that
your further decisions as a
council member involving
myself in one wa or the
other will not be biased?

I must protect myself by
asking this question publicly.
and trust you have the
courtesy of replying in the
same manner. |

Sincerely
Alexander J, Inselberg