Page 6, The Herald, Thuraday, November 16, 1978 NEWS IN BRIEF OTTAWA (CP) — An urban affairs department Study supports a Progressive ‘Conservative proposal to make mortgage interest payments deductable from income tax, says Con- servative social affairs critic James McGrath. The Conservatives have’ proposed for some time that mortgage interest rates be deductable grom income fax. They have at- lacked by the Liberals and New Democrats a5 catering to the rich with a plan that would discrZminate against the poor, the renters and the elderly and hurt financial markets. Commons In the on Wednesday, McGrath’s contention came in the midst of an exchange between David Crombie (PC— Toronto-Rosedale) and Andre Ouellet, urban affairs minister. At one stage, Crombie, an MP for only a month, transgressed the Commons rule saying somebody deliberately misled tte House and subsequently withdrew. Wearing a big smile, he seemed to be en- joying himself as he tackled Ouellet. Quellet reiterated the governme t position 4s he came under Conservative criticism on a number of housing matters. Union to appeal ruling —The British Columbia Ferrz and Marine Workers’ Union has decided to appeal a ruling by the B.C. Labor Relations Board over the auspesion of 2) union members, union president Shirley Mathieson said Wednesday. She said there was a heavy ‘turnout of union members to discuss the two-day suspensions handed the members by the labor relations The 2% persons were in- volved in a four-hour walkout during the summer tourist season to protest working conditions on the vessel Queen of Coquitlam. The walkout halted B.C. Ferry Corp. services at Horseshoe Bay. IRA sets off bombs BELFAST (AP) — The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has set off bombs across Northern Ireland in a declared attempt to hobble a British official's search in the United States for millions of industrial investment dollars for the troubled territory. Roy Mason, Britain's secretary for Northern Ireland, is in New York City trying to convince potential investors that normalcy is returning to the war-torn North. The IRA said in a statement the bombings were intended to discredit Mason's claim. It also sald it will not observe the usual Christmas truce this year. IRA guerrillas set off blasts in Belfast and six towns Tuesday and struck Tuesday night in Castlederg, 104 kilometres west of Belfast, Security was Port Moody PORT MOOPY' BIC. (CL(- " walkatt iv about 50 oundide civic workers is Wegel and the me city will apply for an amjunction to order the striking employees back to work, Mayor Ian Young said Wednesday. Young said the employees, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, had not served strike netius when they walked out Wednesday morning, They reported lax because of several weeks of inactivity. Nearly a score of bombs eaused millions of dollars in damage, but no death was added to the 1,868 persons killed in Ulster's nine-year civil war. Most of the 37 persons injured were struck by flying glass and debris. Most of the bombs were left in parked stolen cars, but some were parce] bombs left in stores or on doorsteps. The militant Provisional wing of the IRA, which claims to represent Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority, took responsibility for the bomb blasts. The IRA seeks to end British rule in predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland and unite it with the overwhelmingly Ro- man Catholle Irish republic to the south. CUPE upset have been without a contract since January, Young said he has asked the British Columbia Labor Relations Board to appoint a mediation officer. "A union spokesman said earlier that the workers walked off the job because they were upset that the Greater Vancouver Regional District had intervened in the bargaining process. Good times in ‘79 -Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy has asked hotel eccraters in British Columbia to make the province a ‘four-season vacation land” in attracting tourists. Mrs. McCarthy, minister responsible for tourism, told the association's annual convention Monday that her ministry's successful “Smile” campaign and next year's ‘‘Good Times in ‘79"' theme should bring a 30 per cent increase of tourists to B.C. from Europe and Escapee loses eye VICTORIA (CP) — A 33 yearold man, wounded in a gunfire exchange with Saanirh, B.C., police Nov. 8, has lost an eye as a result of the Incident, an eye specialist said Tuesday. Dr. Margaret Kilshaw said Tommy Young Lackey had the eye removed Saturday in Victoria hospital, Lackey and Corporal William Hillcost, 38, both suffered gunshot wounds in the incident. Lackey, who was serving a 12-year term for armed rob- bery, breaking and entering, and theft, has been charged with attempted murder and armed robbery i connection with the shoot-out. He was wanted in con- nection with the stabbing of a prison guard and for escaping from the federal medium-security prison at Matsqui, B.C., on Nov. 3. Japan. The ministry has decided to maintain a permanent tourism bureau in Seattle, she said, and to open a permanent tourist welcoming centre al Van- couver International Airport next March, She asked hotel operators to tie their promotions into a 43-stop tour af the province next year by the Royal ‘Hudson train Serry makes bid for mayor’ by Ann Dunsmuir If Kitimat Realtor David Serry was a teenager he would tear the town apart board by board. Serry, a candidate . for mayor in the Nov. 18 elec- tion, wants to change the “unfeeling, uncaring at- titude’” of municipal government that he feels has alienated the people. Serry cited as an example council’s recent donation of $1,000 to the Terrace Veto Vandalism Campaign in- stead of supporting efforts of Kitimat Youth Council to raise funds for a centre. “If I was one of the young people in this town I'd let them know what vandalism really ig,” Serry said. “I'd tear it apart board by board as long as I had a council so unfeeling and uncaring that it gives no leadership and encouragement to the good things, young people are He said this same uncaring attitude was ‘displayed during recent storms when appeals for help from householders with flooded basements were ignored by city officials, Serry also thinks the “take-it-or-leave-it” attitude of the Kitimat establish- ment, particularly the merchants, adds to feelings of alienation and discontent. He said that “‘a bad breed of businessmen who didn't have to struggle and take their lumps" was allowed to locate in Kitimat when Alcan controlled the town. “Fhey came to expect Alcan to look after them and developeda take-it-or-leave- it attitude and rotten business practices,” Serry as doesn’t think lack of competition accounts for these alleged attitudes on the part of the business com- munity. “It’s not lack of competition but rather lack of competence,” Serrry said, Serry said attempts by Alcan to improve the quality’ of life for its employees are useless as long as wives are unhappy about attitudes they encounter when they shop. "It took a strike to make Alcan realize it was on the wrong track. What will it take to make city council_ come to the same realization," he said. Serry said’ housing, especially for young, single workers, is another area where the needs of the people are ignored. He describes Kitimat’s rental ac- commadation as “a disgusting abortion’. “If the building inspector was doing his job half of them would be closed down,” Serry said. He believes that although - some apartments may have conformed to building regulations when they were built, they would be aidered illegal by Moday’s standards. Serry said the municipality should build a rental facility for single workers. He thinks this -would solve the conflict between young renters and their older, more purilanical landlords who can’t tolerate modern life styles. He said that while young people need to accept more responsibility for their ac- DAVID SERRY Arsenic hazard exists A follow-up study on arsenic levels in Yellowknife, N.W.T., has confirmed a potential hazard exists for the town's 10,000 people. Residents, including 1,000 Indians, have more arsenic in their bodies an ‘‘arsenic free,’ control group in neigh- boring Hay River, the Canadian Public Health Association says in the study released Wednesday. The study, commissioned by the federal health department, did nat, however, determine whether exposure has been severe enough to increase the chances of lung cancer. Tons of arsenic dust, a by- preduct of the refining process, haye settled over the city since gold mining began there in 1939. No one has denied the existence of the arsenie but there has been a continuing con- troversy over whether it is affecting human health. A study by Indian organ- izations, the steelworkers union and the University of Toronto two years ago sald dangerously high arsenic levels at Yellowknife had increased cancer deaths, Marc Lalonde, then health minister, instituted an inquiry by the public health association and its initial report, published i 1977, . pinpointed the mines as the main source of arsenic con- tamination. But the follow-up inquiry, headed by Dr. Cortland Mackenzie of Vancouver, could not deal with the lung cancer issue because statistics on employee deaths at one mine were de- stroyed in a flood several years ago and the cost of researching the olher mines’ files would invelve ‘an inordinate amount of effort and expense.’ Main recommendations in the 1977 report included companykept records on lung cancer deaths, ensuring an arsenic-free water supply for Yellowjife’s -1,000 In- tians, decreasing emissions and effluents of arsenic from the two area gold mines and constant monitoring to de- tect any changes in the environment. “The aew study confirmed all we knew before,” Dafoe sail Former rentalsman has his day in court VANCOUVER (CP) —- Barrie Clark, former British Columbia rentaisman, testified Tuesday in B.C. Surpeme Court. that the former New Democratic Party government and the present Social Credit ad- ministration frustzated every attempt he made to negotiate ‘salary increases and benefits for himself and his staff, Clark, now a oper-line radio host, is suing the Crown for breach of contract covering his four years as rentaluoan. He resigned in January. Clark jestified that terms of his contract were set out in a meeting with then Al- torneyGeneral Alex Mac- donald in the springof 1974. Yhe terms, he said, covered = slatus, salary, expense account, annual pay increases and henefits equivalent to that of a deputy minister. He was also A PROGRESSIVE , COUNCIL Marguerite Clarkson allowed to hire assistante. Aiter the Landlord and Tenant Act was adopted by the NDP, Clark sald he repeatedly sought a written contract. However, he received neither a contract nor the salary increase or benefits he expected. Clark said that, in 1975, he was given assurances by then Premier Dave Barrett that his requests would be met if he would wait until after the provincial election in December. The Social Credit party won the election and later promised him benefits that didn't come through either, he said, Clark is seeking unstated damages for breach of contract and for a declaration that he acted within the scope of his ju- risdiction in appointing a deputy rentalsman. The case continues, Paul Johnston FOR TRANSPORTATION TO THE POLLS SATURDAY CALL 635-4747 tions, alder people also need to change and become more forgiving and tolerant. Serry believes Kitimat needs a change of emphasis that will place more value on the needs of people, Kitimat pays the highest taxes in B:C, according to Serry. ‘But when it comes to people values we have eserny thinks any development — even an oil port — which would broaden the tax base is desperately ed. “Tf we can allow Alcan in town, then by pollution standards an oil port is a pussy cat,” Serry said, In his opinion, an oil pipeline following the same route through the Telkwa Pass as the gas pipeline which ruptured during recent storms would be perfectly safe. “The gas line was never installed properly in the first place,’ Serry said. ‘‘It was an accident waiting to happen. An oil line wouldn't be installed under the same shoddy, half-engineered type of project because oil companies are responsible ople.”’ He would like to see a resort hotel offering fishing and skiing built in Kitimat. Serry believes a hotel would provide much needed jobs for women. He said that most women would rather work than live on welfare and the city should subsidize day-care centres so that single mothers can afford to take jobs. “Council would save money by providing day- care so mothers can work to Canada in emigrating Cana dian 967, He became a nin 197 hia has tived in Kitimat ‘since Aug. 1971. He is married with two young sons and is a long-time member of the Salvation Army. He is rather than pay higher welfare rates for them tosay home,” Serry said. Wi Arthur David Serry, formerly of the British Merchant Marine, is elected mayor next Saturday there a be some changes made at ce- 1] — in philosophy if administrative vi fot in fact, me aid president of the Neca Taastmasle Serr A ee He ast president of Skeena: Federal Progressive Con-, servative Association. educated in Scotland. 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