Page & The Herald, Thursday, February 5, 198) Automakers selling well TORONTO (CP) — Canada’s Big Three automakers increased their total car and truck sales in January by five per cent from those of Decem- ber. figures released Wednesday show. General Motors of Canada Ltd, had higher sales for both cars and trucks. Chrysler Canada Ltd. reported slightly better truck sales and F ord Motor Co. of Canada hada small increase in car sales. Tatal sales in January were 62,322 units compared with 69,201 in December. The total] was down 13.4 per cent-from the 71,-957 cars and trucks seld in January, 1980. Chrysler Canada of Windsor, Onl., sold 8,744 ears in the latest month, down from 9,013 in December and 9,189 a year earHer. But truck sales rose to 2,397 from 2,376 in December. They were down from the 2,786 sold in January of last year. ¥ves Landry, vice- president and general sales manager, said in a news release, ‘Despite a con- tinuing soft market for new motor yehicles, we ex- ceeded our sales objectives for. both passenger cars and trucks in January. “We continue to be op- timistic about our sales prospects in the weeks ahead.” _ General Motors of Canada, based in Oshawa, Ont., said it delivered 27,173 cars in January, up from 23,858 in December but down from 30,689 a year earlier. ~ Truck sales were 9,179 in January compared with 8370 in December and 10,851 in January, 1960. Richard Colcomb, vice- president and general sales manager, said GM Canada expects accelerating sales throughout the spring and simmer. ‘ ” “In spite of high interest rates and inflation, we are encouraged by the stability @ cohsumer demand and the ongoing strength of public preference for our ts.'” Ford of Canada reported from Oakville, Ont., its January car sales in- creased to 9,014 from 9,-556 in December. Sales in the first month of 1960 were 10,085. . . Truck sales declined to: 5,809 from 6,626 in December and 8,-407 the previous January. Kenneth Harrigan, vice- president and general manager, said a strong surge of sales in the last 10 daysof January gave Ford _ of Canada its best monthly improvement in more than a year. “The upswing is due in part to our interest-rate reduction program, in- troduced at midmonth, and also reflects better availability of Escorts and Lynxes,"" Harrigan said the two new front-wheel-drive modeis have given F ord of Canada a 273-percent in- crease in sales over the subcompacts they replaced. ‘Queen may no longer lead us OTTAWA (CP) —- The fovernment refused Wednesday to insert words in a new constitution describing the Queen as “head of state for Canada.” Progressive Con- servalive MPs at Parliament's constitution committee immediately accused the government of trying to downgrade the monarchy. "You have moved a giant step towards a republican system,’’ Jake Epp, Conservative con- stitutional spokesman, told Justice Minister Jean Chretien. ‘The uproar occurred during discussion of a clause in the government's constitutional package relating fo ways “‘the office of the Queen” could be changed in the future. The Conservatives wanted the section amended to read ‘‘the office of the Queen and Her status as head of state of Canada.” : Chretien refused, saying be was merely using the same wording the 10 provinces had adopted during constitutional negotiations during 1970. He denied the govern- ment was brying lo remove the Queen as head of state. Joe Clark has — leadership support TORONTO (CP) -— Only one of three candidates for the presidency of the national Progressive Conservative party has an- nounced publicly he will support Joe Clark in a leadership review at the party's national convention this month. Peter Blaikie, 38, a Montreal lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for federal office twice, told 300 Metropolitan Toronto party members Wednesday he will vote against a leadership review at the convention, scheduled to begin Feb. 27 in Ottawa. “Tt don’t think = it (leadership review) is in the best interests of the party," be said in response to an audience member's question. The other two can- didates, MPs Patrick Nowlan and Chris Speyer, stopped short of endorsing Clark, whose days as party leader could be numbered, depending on the outcome of the vote. “Nowlan, 49, MP for the Nova Scotia riding of Annapolis Valley-Hants fincé 1965 and one of the leddership candidates de- feated by Clark in 1978, said he would not announce hin position on the issue. Grace McCarthy js now incensed VICTORIA (CP) — Grace McCarthy, B.C.'s deputy premier, sald Wednesday she is incensed over PetroCanada’s de cision to purchase Petrofina. McCarthy said it's in- credible to see the federal government on one hand spending over f1 billion dollars to purchase Pel- rofina while cutting beck funding for social services. The Petrofina deal will cost the taxpayers millions and do nothing to enhance Canada’s oi] supply, she said. "The purchase is beyond reasoning and whats worse is that Canadians are willing to accept it." Audiences are reacting to Beyand the Fringe in strange ways. The play that set the scene for such successful shows as Monty Python’s Flying Circus will be seen in Terrace at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre tonight at 8: 15 p.m. Tickets are on sale today at Sight and Sound. This is English humor at Its best. Self-sufficiency era in Canada is over OTTAWA (CP) — The country's oil-supply situation is critical and the National Energy Board should report on the issue to the federal government aS soon as possible, the Canadian Petroleum Assaciation says. In a revised submission to the board on Wednesday, the association said measures in the national energy program = an- nounced last fall have ended chances of becoming self-sufficient in oil by 1930. Before the program was announced, ithe organization had told the board that oil seif-suffi- ciency was possible by that date, given the right financial climate and political will. The board is conducting hearings on the supply for all sources of energy in the forthcoming years and the demand for it. The hearings end this week. The association urged the board to issue an in- terim report on its findings with respect to oil and the energy program “because * of the urgency and se riousness of the oil-supply situation.” “Hopefully this will tead to immediate revisions to the national energy - program,’’ it said. The association said it rejects the program's - forecast that the goal of self-sufficiency ean be-’ reached by 1990, largely as a result of decreased demand. . “In our view this is unobtainable except by rationing or a drastic slowdown in economic activity,” it said. The association, which represents the large - oil companies, said it agrees with the program’s goals of self-sufficiency, increased Canadian ownership of the industry and fair energy prices and revenue sharing. But it said the methods proposed in the program will not achieve those goals. The new pricing regime, new federal taxes and “WINNING NUMBERS © SECC CREUERCUEACRED EREIEVEEREED Uonly the last su fire same order at the lana nurbers above your ticket 1s ehaible to correspond wopege provincial royalties and taxes do not leave the oil and gas companies with enough money to pursue vigorous exploration and development. The association said the federal and Alberta governments must enter negotiations to -end the current impasse over energy pricing. _ The association predicted the energy program will result in: - ’ —Canadians paying $182 billion over the next 10 years to pay for additional imports of foreign oil. : —Reduced _ productive eapacity of established oil reserves in the con- ventional areas. It pre-— dicted production will decline by 24 per cent, or 714,000 barrels a day, by 1965, and by 18 per cent, or 94,000 barrels a day, by 5990. . —Reduced discovery and development of new oil reserves in conventional areas by 33 per cent, or 25,000 barrels a day, over the next five years. 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Industry Minister Don Phillips admitted Tuesday that B.C. will not break even on its northeast coal expansion unless it is able to sell an extra 11 million tonnes of coking coal. from - the fields. Phillips also said there is pot yet an agreement in writing guaranteeing that the Japanese will buy all the coal they have promiséd to buy. ' Asked whether a “take- orpay”’ clause is included. in the agreement to ensure . that the entire 7.7 tonnes of coal a year will be sold in™ return for the province's mulli-million dollar in- vestment, Phillips said the contracts have not yet been drawn up and only letters © of intent have been ” initialled. _ “We will be putting together documents bet- ween the B.C. government and the coal mining companies that insist they fulfil their part of the pro- gram," he added. The Japanese have initialled a letter of intent to buy 6.7 million tonnes of melalturgical coal and one million tonnes af thermal coal annually, beginning in 1983 and extending for 15 years, out of the northeast coal fields. _ Phillips said. buyers for an additional 11 million tonnes are needed. He believes new markets will be found, but Halvorson isn't so aptimistic.. Japan new takes about 81, per cent of Western Canadian coking coal production, and has enough coal’ contracts around the world to supply 80 per cent more than its estimated needs for the next 10 or 15 - ‘Years. B.C. government figures show tbat Japan will comprise 70 per cent of the province's market by 1965, a figure estimated to drop only to 60 per cent by 1990. About 230 million tonnes of coal was .purchased around the world in 1979. Of that, about 35 million were traded between Com- English church has.rock music LONDON (CP) — Sedate Westminster Abbey will be playing a livelier role later this month when‘ rock music comes to the famous church for the first time. Sky, Britain’s best- selling instrumental group, is to perform in the hallowed hall on Feb. 24 in a contert to raise money for Amnesty International. The concert is to com- memorate the 20th ‘an- niversary of the founding in Britain of Amnesty In- ternational, the human rights organization which won the Nobel Peace Prize four of three digs an-your licker are identical to andsr the 20 Te: tie for its efforts on behalf of prisoners of conscience throughout the world. The abbey is 2a magnificent display of gothic architecture and its overwhelming arches will make an awesome back- drop for the concert, before . olive audience of 1,500 and an expecied television _ audience of millions. The British Broadcasting Corp. plans to film the event and produce a major international television special for transmission in ~ April or May. munist-block countries, a market that Canada has little chance of cracking. B.C. needs the coking coal market to increase by eight per cent by 1963 just to absorb its product, and that won't happen, says an- industry spokesman. He says it's possible that the total world market could absorb 31 million extra tonnes by 1990, but not by 1983. From 1965 to the end of fiseal 1979 -- the last year for which figures are available -- B.C. coal producers shipped only 1.495 million tonnes of coal Ww markets outside Japan. B.C, expects to spend an estimated $485 million for extensions to northern B.C. Railway lines, roads and other facilities related to the northeast coal deai. 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