1s — = daliyherald day mi 3010 Kalu Street. Paine tc by or sreclieg Publlahers Ltd. Authorized 89 betord cles mall. Reglstraiion - Humber 1201. Posrage paid ln cash, return peatage querantesd Terrace: Circulation: 639-4357 £15-4000 Publisher - Savid Hamilton’ dttor: Adtvertising Sales: Brian Grogg Nick Watton . Safi Wrilers-Phatographer Sports: Ratph Reschke . Holly Ofton ~ " Reception-Classlfied: Circulation: ClaireWadiey Sue Boaten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ‘The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright tn erry advartieg man? produced andor any edifarla! or phodcgraphic content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitied wlihoul the wrllie: permission of Ihe Publisher. ‘The Terrpce- Kitimat Gaily Herald Newspaper is Balitically incepancent and a member of the British Columbia Presa Council. Letters to the Editor To the Editor, In the Skeena Mall on March 10, the Cubs held a Cub car race. I understand many people attended, and many pictures were taken. Whether the Daily Herald took pictures or not I don’t know, altho’ none has been in the papers as yet. The winners were: 1st place - Mark Perrin of 4th Cub Pack; 2nd place - Doug Stainton of 4th Cub Pack; 3rd place - Darren Bell of: 1st Cub Pack. All these boys received trophies, I would very much like to get some pictures of the boys with their trophies. I would be very grateful to hear fram anyone who can let me have pictures, naturally I'll pay. Hoping to hear from you. - DIL. MeCreight RR2 Copperside Terrace, B.C. VBG 3Z9 Editor's Note: The results were featured in the Scouting News column Tuesday, March 20, 1984." Alcan rebuilds Quebec MONTREAL, Canada— Alcan antiounced that work will begin this spring. on. the Laterrlere smelter at Chicoutimi*Quéhec. . The dew pli wWiihain dius capacity of” represent an investment of some CAN §1 billion. The announcement was made by David M. Culver, President and Chief Executive Officer of Alcan Aluminium Limited, David Morton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd, and Douglas Ritchie, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aican Smelters and Chemicals Lid, in the presence of members of the Quebec government and reporters. Mr. Culver described the Laterriere smelter as the first stage in a far-reaching $3 billion program to rebuild the company’s Quebec production capacity, which dates from the 1940's, over the next 30 years, It will be built in three Phases, each phase consisting of _ 82,700 tonnes of capacity. The first aluminum is expected to be poured about mid-1938. For Quebec, the project means 20,000 person-years of employment mid a potential of more than $700 million injected into the economy. Mr. Ritchie confirmed that Laterriere will employ new sinelting technology conceived and developed by Alcan researchers. Hi consists of a new generation of electrolytic cells, or “pots’’, that will operate at very high am- perages — 275,000 amperes. _- Papal shooting | ROME (AP) — A Turk im- . plicated in the 1081 attack on Pope dohn Pau] surrendered to Italian authorities today after being ex- tradited from West Germany. Omer Mersan arrived at Ro Rome’ 8 ‘Meonardo da Vinci airport fram Munich, accompanied by two Interpol agents. He was tran- ‘sferred to the Rebbibia prison .in Home's eastern outskirts to be questioned by the magistrate who has been conducting tha govern- ment inquiry of the papal shooting. Meraan |s wanted in Italy on a- warrant charging him with false. testimony in connection with the state investigation into the May 13, 1981, shooting of the Polish-born Pope by a Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca. Italian authorities have accused Mersan of providing a fake passport for Agca which the Pope's would-be assassin used In travels before arriving in Italy, Agca is serving a life sentence In Italy for the attack in St. Peter's Square. Recent [Italian newspaper reports sald a state prosecutor has recommended a trial for three Bulgarians and several Turks on charges of complicity in. the shooting of the Pope. O00" tines alu nechanlsms, ia.cava er attitude... Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, Apri 12, 1984 Construction union: contract. talks. resume VANCOUVER (CP) — Contract talks In the British - Columbia construction industry, shuffled into the background: by an’ emotion: charged union versus non-union picket-line battle and the uncertain . future of Exxpo 66, are set to get back on track, — . - Today's scheduled. negotiating session between the 800-member Construction . Labor Relations Association and the 55,000-member B.C. and Yukon Building. Trades Council is the firat since a stormy meeting Jan. 26. The construction unions walked out, describing the industry demands for cost-cutting con- cessions as ludicrous, short- sighted and designed to roll the clock back 20 years. In the succeeding three months, the thorny issue that is casting a gloomy shadow over the talks — the growing presence of non-union firms — was thrust into the spotlight. Hundreds of unemployed trade ‘dollar Expo project on the north hanging when © chairman unfonists were - involved. ‘in. violence-marred; picketing . of a condominium site in ‘Vancouver's False Creek, where a prominent non-union firm - ‘won! a. major contract, The trades’.Gouncil:. Wag subsequently found ini¢ontempt of a court ‘order. and érdored, off ‘the site, -: EXPO. ‘UNCERTAIN ~ } And the future of” ‘the ‘philion: shore of False Creek was’ ‘Jett “J Pattison recommended to cabinet Wednesday that the world's fair be cancelled unlesa the trades council ‘guaranteed Jabor peace. -The unions have agreed not to atrike and to ‘work alongside non-uhion workers, but the government is balking at the council’s demand that those employees be paid the union rate. A provincial cabinet meeting on the future of Expo ended without decision Wednesday and was to. resume today. . ' BIL wilds, senior. vice-president ofthe’ ‘constriction : ‘association,’ whose member companies now ate’. conducting. a lockout vote, said the nor-union «= sector has been *- “growing by leaps. and: ‘bounds,"”) “And it’s happening clear across” ‘the country,” he said. “In Alberta, _- & per cent \of the work is. non- ‘” untan; *. .In . Saskatchewan and - Ontario they’re also gaining ae ' strong foothold.” "18° tough to put ahandleon itin. - this province, but I’d say about 30° to 40 per cent of the work-is going - non-wnion. We can’t continue to - escalate our costs and expect to be _competitive.’” ; MOVING IN. Last year, .. : aba-union’ firms ‘ gaptured about $600 million worth | ‘of ‘work traditionally done by ticnized companies. _ And while non-union. firms have been strong in the. residential construction: field, those com-- panies now are picking up more” and more commerical and An: of agreements: on stitutional “> projects: — Unlan,, . eadesmen cirrently receive §22.72 . an hour. in wages and benefits while . non-union construction. Workers receive an average hourly ‘wage of. $15,” Wilds: said the - industry - ds | .ipréposing to split the collective agreement into three separate seta one each for in- dustrial, : commerical-inatitutlonal and residential. - “The. -non-union | firms have | almost taken over the residential | construction, ‘and the only way we're going to get back what we lost many years ago is to come up with. a competitive, agreement. ad ‘LEAP. INTO PAST” Roy Gautier, president of. the building trades council, said - splitting the standard contract would lead to three sets of inferior agreements and the 17 member: unions “were unanimous in.. rejecting this leap into the past.” , Wilda said the industry has not Challenger astronauts. successful. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts using the U.S. space shuttle Challenger's Canadarm returned a healthy Solar Max satellite to its mission as an Earth: orbiting sun watcher today, and the shuttle’s skipper declared: “Satellite servicing is. something , that’s here to stay.” “We pick up, repair and deliver,” said commander Robert Crippen, obviously pleased with the historic first retrieval and’ repair of a satellite in apace. The satellite was dropped off at 4:28 a.m. EST by the-Canadarm, the shuttle’s 15-metre mechanical arm, which had plucked jt from space Tuesday for in-orbit repairs. Two of Challenger's crew replaced defective parts during a ‘record space walk. Wednesday, “Solar Max is dead on the sun,” said Mission Control in Houston, Tex., in reporting the satellite had a firm lock on its- target after a television picture showed it drif- ting slowly away from the shuttle. - “Good news,” said Crippen. “It looks pretty out there.” ”.. After more than three years of circling the globe as dead weight, Solar Max was back: in. orbit to provide valuable information on : giant solar ‘flares ‘that pour: torrents. of “radiation ‘into -in- terplanetary space. What scien--. " tists Jearn from. the satellite may help them better understand the sun and how it affects weather, radio- communications and other . conditions on Earth. . NEWS: CONFERENCE Doe "With the retrieval, repair ‘and Senior officials. less than honest VICTORIA (CP) — Senior of- ficials in the British Columbia Tourism Ministry were less than honest in ‘their handling of public funds during the 1992 fiscal year, Auditor General Erma Morrison said Wednesday. In a third special report to the legislature | on* financial irregularities ‘in the ministry, Morrison said that a police in- vestigation may not have been able to find any proof of criminal ac- . tivity, but that did not mean that there was not a lack of honesty. “The turning of the blind eye, the ti th e Abepgation of responsibility, irl of ton toward the use of public monies and accounting for them may not have been criminally unlawful — or provably so — but they do, however, suggest lack of honesty,”’ Morrison said. ; Attorney General Brian Smith - said last week that an RCMP in- vestigation into the mishandling of -public funds by the ministry failed to find any evidence that would support criminal charges. POLICE CHECK Police were called in by the government laat July to look into the ministry's books, particularly . In relation to its advertising agencies, McKim Advertising Ltd. and Vrlak Robinson Advertising Ltd., but were unable to find any evidence of criminality. Morrison said that Tourism deputy minister Jim Rae had failed to: provide the necessary checks and balances to establish accountibility and control, She said that John Plu, wien - aasistant deputy minister of. marketing and now with a New Westminster, B.C., radio station, operated with “tittle or no “ap. proval, review. or scrutiny by appropriate senior ministry — of- ficials.” . Plu is a former campaign manager of Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy and was appointed to the Tourism Ministry when she was the minister. n.did nat, e: Fe. Ob dena interview. Morrison said she ledt the: ‘ine vestigation into Jordan's activitles to the RCMP because “I did not think that it was appropriate that I -Should conduct my investigation in ’ the private sector.” Jordan did not seek re-election in . the May 1983 provincial general: election. ; Morrison sald Rae was ‘singled out rather than the minister because the general thrust now is to put a “very heavy onus of. | responsiblity on the deputy minister aa the active- head L of. the tment. 2B wren we _by their titles, and there: MRE.NOS dng eo grat reference in her report te either McCarthy or Pat: Jordan; th Tourism minister at the time," NOT SUPPORTED Morrison ministry financial officials ‘for accepting “‘inadequately-suppo- rted material” submitted for ‘payment on Plul's approval, ‘and the office of the. comptrdiler - dequete general for making payments without“ supporting documentation. The investigation was long, arduous and unpleasant, she said, because her staff found there was a lack of documentation that made it impossible to determine whether many of the’ transactions were right or wrong. “Tt was auditing in a vacuum, and you can't have vacuums exist with regard to the expenditure of public money,” she said in an Pharmacists cleared VANCOUVER (CP) — When Mary-Ann Slebert’s nine-month- old son Douglas woke up from a coma last October after taking a prescription tainted -with the heroin-substitute methadone, she expected severe disciplinary ac- tion would be taken by the British Columbia College of Pharmacists. But in a decision handed down Wednesday, the college cleared three pharmacists in the Fraser Valley community of Chilliwack of Misconduct or negligence in the incident, which sent five people, including three children, to hospital. “I'm shocked, mad, angry and_ just can't believe they could make that sort of decision,” an emotional ‘Siebert said in a telephone In- terview from her Chilllwack home. “I almost lost my baby.” A private investigation by the college's disciplinary committee found that an "inadvertant error” was responsible for the mixup and did not support a finding of: misconduct or negligence under the Pharmacista Act, college registrar Norman Thomas told a news conference. SYSTEM ERROR “In our view, the nature of the error points to the possibility of the fallibillty of any system or any individual from time to time, and that the most unintentional of humar errors can often result in misadventure of others,” he said. The contaminations wera discovered after Douglas Siebert and two other children became Ill last October after taking what were 5 to be antiblotics. Douglas, who had been given the prescription because of an ear infection, was in a coma for four days after taking the medicine Oct. a Within 72 hours, another child went into a coma for two days, while a third child and two adults fell gravely ill, all from prescriptions: dispensed by the same pharmacy. - Siebert sald ahe and her husband would walt to see ‘what, If any, damage is done to our baby” before . pursuing legal action against the pharmacy. She said siteg eighties only recently stopped a Thomas said he knows of threa clvil suits which have begun from the incident; He said the committee's one-day hearing found that. the mixup occurred Oct, 21 when one of the staff at the pharmacy refilled a one-litre bottle of distilled water to . be used as a diluent. But the employee refilied the bottle “not from the bulk supply bottle of distilled water, but In- error, with methadone concentrate from a elmilar four-litre bottle,” Thomas said that someone then placed the contaminated one-litre bottle, labelled Distilled Water, on a dispensing counter to be used to prescription solutions. ~ “From that moment on, n0 employees were faced with at- tempting to recall who performed “what ts normally a routine bottle when the con- taralnation did not come to light” - imti) four cays later. criticized various -. recovered. from secret. bank ac- * ‘counts’ and ‘duplicate ‘payments ‘to date, anda further: $13,000 likely is ~ recoverable, ¥i...> - a should be investigated as. well. to - see if there Ls protential recovery, | Et 4s oF deep “Gpncern that recovery of funds from these bank accounts operated. by agencids occurred only. after: they . were. fliscovered by my audit staff." ° Morrison said she was not sur- prised that the RCMP failed to find enough evidence to lay charges “for the simple reagon that lack of documentation which plagued our activites throughout our work undoubtedly ‘would. ‘make-~ proof very difficult for them as well, because they have to have proof: and a case that would stand up in court,” Smith said” police found that. there were ‘very inadequate system controls on the part of the ministry, extremely poor ond uncontrolled accounting ~ and - recording systems‘ in Vrlak, and - poor expense or docket control on . thepart of McKim," but added that noppinese js not a criminal of-, ence " WHO"THEY Ag "Is THE pense INTERESTS BEST WHILE IN POWE: MOST RESPONSIBLE? WHO IS YOUR TAX DOLLARS at "$27,000, has been | “There are sie aribiunts’ ‘that return task behind them, the five astronauts who return ‘home Friday were in good spirits when they answered questions. from Feporters om. Earth during a a minute. news conference, | wearhg T-shirts with the slogan “Ace Satellite Repair Co.” And Crippen opened with: “Welcome to the Ace Satellite Repair Co. We pick up, repair and deliver,” Asked how he feels about failing: to collar Solar Max on Sunday and then salvaging the mission with a successful capture on Tuesday," Crippen replied: "We somewhat disappointed ‘on. Mthe |: initial attempt: But we were all _ feeling good after we picked it. It. was a team effort both heré and on 2 > the. ground. -We. proved" that ‘repairing satellites Is a doable thing; satellite servicing | | something that's here to stay,’’ Spacewalker George Nelson said he does not know why his docking device failed to lock onto Solar Max when he tried to grab it while . flying free Sunday. ‘The jury's still out on that,” he sald. ~ On Tuesday, during the repair task, he detected a possible answer .—a small metal pin, used to hold down an insulation blanket, was protruding about 2.5 centimetres above, the . NASA. officials,said ithis )- etal pin may: haves Nelson’s attachment device from penetrating far enough to set off a clamping mechanism. . o - NO TROUBLE Astronaut Terry Hart reported: he had no trouble snatching ‘the’ - slowly spinning Solar Max with the - Canadarm on the first attempt Tuesday. “I made the first try as the pin came by the cockpit and I had. it after it had rotated. just 35 degrees," After the news conference, the astronauts began stowing equip- ment and checking filght control P° systems in preparation for coming home Friday after a week in space. Landing is eet for 7:07 a.m. EST at Cape ‘Canaveral; and © weather conditions, which © had = been forecast a8 m wére upgraded .to favorable today a5.A storm system moved away from the area... The arm had held Solar Max away frem the shuttle overnight while engineers on Earth checked Its systems, Early today, they termed it “golden” and gave the spacemen the OK ‘to let it'go. The arm’s wire fingers relaxed, Challenger pulled back ahd the satellite drifted away. - _ They’ appeared . on ‘televiaicn: specified a rollback. of the basic ‘wage rate, saying that Will depend on what are made in changes & to ‘travel time and. living-out " allowances. ‘The -industry. also & : Wants to reduce the overtime rate i yeturn to.a 40-hour work week. & putier sald that forelug: union tradesmen to take cuts is not the & way to combat the growing threat ff of non-union construction, He said & nén-nion employera will simply & alash their 6wn rates further. ~.. ‘Gautier said the inroads by non- ‘wilen - companies ‘ will‘ only . be stemmed when. the economy picks “up..He said $15 billion of con- struction is on hold In the province while major corporations wait for " ay Upturn in thé economy. ‘The unions have proposed what they call ‘modest and. flexible’ proposals in a two-year contract that would add leas than five per cent to the top rate. The current ‘ agreement expires April 30, - ~ Naval.” “blockade - COLOMBO CAP). “The _Bovernment has set ap ‘a “naval blockade in the narrow waterway separating Sri Lanka from:‘India, deoking to halt what it claims are shipments of arms to Tamil -ex- tremists agitating for: in dépendence.. 7 ” _ Sri Lanka's new “ geciurity minister left today for New Delhi for consultations on his: country's ethnic: conflict, which this: week triggered the worat ‘outbreak - of ‘violence in Sri Lanka ‘sincé 350 pesple were killed in riots last ashi extremists burned down a ice: station and attacked a tiddhist temple Wednesday in the ‘couritty’s: northern region; where army - troops have. Killed 2 suspected Tamil terrorists ‘ ‘ this week. . Taxiils, “who represent 18: per cent of. Sri Lanka’s population of 15 ‘ million, are a majority: in’ the orth. : Militant members of: the ethnic group have been waging a campaign for independence from the predominantly Sinhalese south. Most Tamils adhere to the Hindu religion, while the Sinhalese: are mainly Buddhists. Lalith © Athulathmudali, the national security minister, ‘said Wednesday before leaving for New Dehli that. a “surveillance ‘zone" pln, on: the, HUG bees’ set Up ifthe Palk Strait edt! northern! Sei Lanka “and 4 Souther: India to: halt-{llegal a arms ipments. DEPLOYED SHIPS ve Athulathmudali told reporters in Colombo — his: government : has . ‘positioned “a series of ships like a net half way between our shore and the Indian maritime boundary.” He said all-maritime traffic-was ordered to remain in: the zone, which is being patrolled by | government -ships and planes. Vessels straying outside the zone ‘would do so “at their peril," he onic He did not elaborate on that Athulathmudali said: the naval action was aimed at stopping not only: the smuggling of arms: to terrorists -but also the entry of narcotics and illegal allens. On ‘Wednesday, Sri Lankan soldiers shot and killed six people carrying guns and bombs in ‘the | Northern provincial capital * of Jaffna, Athulathmudali -. told reporters, a Reports from the area: wid a mob of 500 young Tamils: threw bombs at the Naga Vihara,’ or Buddhist snake temple, in: Jattna and that the army opened fire on the crowd. . . The attack on the temple w was the secand in two days, mo N WHO-WILL CARE FOR Your. ER? WHICH PERSON SFEM¢ BEST QUALIFIED To See WHO DO YOU TRUST THE MOST?" |