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8

Letters to
the Editor

To the Editor, .

The tragic bus accidert on Mt. Washington reminds us
again that children are dying neediessly on B.C. highways.

B.C. Minister of Transportation and Highways Alex
Fraser is now on record as saying mandatory seatbelts in
B.C. buses is a future possability. The British Columbia
Medical Association commends the minister for his interest
on this issue.

However, Mr. Fraser is neglecting ancther lifesaving -

gap those solution is as close as the pen on his desk.

As it stands, B.C."s seatbelt law demanis that anyone
over the age of six be buckled up. But the very young - thase
who cannot make this life-saving decision for themselves -
are not protected by law. .

’ ‘'Weall share in the grief for Adam Kerr, whose young life
was loston Mt. Washington. Yet, in 1982, 397 children under
_Six years of age were killed or seriously injured in B.C.
traffic accidents -.17 killed, 380 injured. We know that
infant and child restraints, when properly used, can reduce
fata) ties by 90 per cent and disabling injuries by 65 to 70 per

| 43,0f those Jost children aid,
others,

Srna et et, ME

" Seatbelts in buses‘ iy a‘complicated design probiein, bit
Standards for child safety in motor vehicles have been
‘agreed upon and safety-approved child restraint systems
‘are easily available to.consumers right now.

” The highways minister has publically agreed that
seatbelts save lives. Yet, the piece of paper that would
prevent this ongoing annual carmage has been sitting on his
desk and, despite the urgent pleas of various agencies, he
has thus far refused to sign it.

. The BCMA has once again written Mr. Fraser, urging
him toact, And once again, we ask all B.C. citizens to insist
their government provide laws that protect ail lives,
especially those of our chiddren, They have a right to safety
on our roads.

Sincerely

Norman E. Hamilton, MD

Chairman

Emergency Medical Services Committee

‘Star discovered

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A team of astronomers from three
universities, including two from Cornell, have found a
relatively new star around which a solar system appears to
be forming.

Cornell astronomer Steven Beckwith described the
discovery Wednesday as “‘one of the first solid pieces that .
other planetary systems could exist.” a
‘He said the star and a cloud of heavy, light and gaseous
elements around it were not evidence of extralerresirial life
in themselves but were a step toward proving Such life
could exist, ,

“First you need the planets,” he said. “If there are other

planets, then life may be forming . . . but to say they show An estimated 38,000 peopie dropped out of the labor force. .

life ou! there is a pretty big logical step from what we've
seen. The step we've made is that we've seen the conditions
that look like they’re just right for the formation of
planets.”

The observations were recorded electronically in
November and December through three large telescopes —
one at Kitt Peak, Ariz., and two atop Mauna Kea volcano,

The fact that the cloud around HL Tau, a star im the
constellation Taurus some 500 light years away; contains
heavy elements approximately equal to the mass of the

The constellation Taurus is visible on clear winter nights
in the southwestern sky. One of the clases! star groups in
the galaxy, it contains some stars only four ligh! years
away. ‘

Light travels 299,390 kilometres a second and a light year

is the number of kilometres light travels in a year — just Said.

over 10 trillion kilornetres. .

NASA recently anounced the discovery of evidence that
solid particles exist around the stars Vega and Fixuakhact,
but Beckwith said they do nol appear to have the cloud
mass of HL Tau.

in addition, be said, the telescopes also detected enough
material weight in the HL Tau Goud to form other planets.

“In our own solar system, if you add Jupiter, Saturn and
the other planets, you get 305 to 400 times the mass of
Earth,” he said, “We think we see about 200 times the mass
(in HL Tan's cewd disk}.”

Astronomers believe the planets of our own solar spsiem, -

which is thin and circular as a giaet disk, formed from a
collection of dust particles like these around HL Tau.

He said the formation of a solar system was something
which would take “many, masy huedreds of thousands of
years” but noted that was 4 relatively short time in terms of
the ages of starz.

daliyherald

“Plonoer remembers carly Band

Con

sm * rae ™ get
ree ee : ppc, ones

Some of you. may be a bit too young to
remember these guys, but for those of you
who don’t recognize them, they were the
first brass band organized In northern B.C.
The year was 1913. Left to right from the

To the Editor,
1 any enclosing herewith, a picture taken of the
Terrace Band at Terrace in 1913. .
‘This Band was proposed and organized by Mr. Just
and myself and was composed by young men, whom,

; with the exception of two of the members, had not had
any previous musical knowledge nor Band.
experience. As far as 1 know they have all passed _
away with the exception of Claire Giggey (now living -
in Vancouver) and myself and possibly Sam Kirkaldy
in Terrace. We purchased the instrument from a
music house in Seattle, each man paying for his own,
excepting the drums which were paid

Having no place to practice we organized the
Terrace Progress Club by selling shares at $55 each,

- whichhall I believe was destroyed by fire a few years
ago. The Band was probably the first one between
Prince Rupert and Prince George, or possibly
Edmonton... . 2

Personally: In 1915 I joined the Band of the 72nd
Seaforth Highlanders and went overseas with them,
but all regimental bands were dispersed and given

‘vifles instead, owing to the shortage of recruits.

_ Many of them were casualties during the war and
when the 72nd Band returned we had a new Band
made up in France during 1917-18. Of the original
Band of 35 members that went overseas, only Sgt.

by the

back: Sam Kirkaldy, Ed Cole, Ed Kenney,
Clare Giggey, Joe Spitzl, L.H. Kenney, .
Lindsey Morrison, Al Grider, unknown,
Carl Lindblom, Jack Spitz, Ernie Large,
and in front is bandmaster T.F. Just.

became wounded and was sent home, which left me in
charge of the Band for the remaining six months
which we were in France and England before
‘reaching Vancouver on June 29, 1920. .

l was the only remaining member of the original
Band that came home with the Battalion, and was
giad to'lead the Band in playing the final dispersal
order, “DISMISS" which made us all civilians again.

Ibelievethat Terrace has a Museum or a collection
of “Artifacts” of some kind ‘of organization of some

-  ‘kindand I would ask you to kindly hand the picture of
.. the Terrace Band over to them as I don’t expect that

it with my kind regards and’ best wishes in their
efforts to collect and protect momentoes'of the past,
My own residence in Terrace was from 1912 to 1929, ©
minus the four years or'so while I was in the war, and
Ihave many fond memories of the many good friends
and good.times that I enjoyed there. I have now
passed my.99th year as might be evidenced by all of
I would be glad if you would advise me of the .-
receipt and the disposal made of the picture. .
Thanking you and wishing you the compliments of
. Lam

they would have anything similar to it, and I present

Yours Truly
__ LH. (Bert) Kenney

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Fy -!

OTTAWA (CP) — With a budget only days away and an
election a year off at most, the government is a fountain of
economic confidence. :

But the optimistism of Finance Minister Marc Lalande

‘may be more political faniasy than economic reality.

There are disturbing signs the recovery is faltering —

interest rates remain stubbornly high, consumer con-’
fidence is waning, business is reluctant to’invest and
economic activity has weakened. oo

And last month another 152,000 people were without jobs.*

That. brought the total to 1.5 million, boosting the unem-'

ployment rate to 11.2 per cent from 11.1 in December. 4 ©

That's not the way a recovery is supposed to work,
Statistics Canada has warned of abnormalities in the:

recently-weakened recovery and says we must count on-

other countries to fuel growth.
Many of the jobs being created are generally low-paying’
ones in services industries, not the fulltime, betier-paying :
jobs in goods-producing industries which were lost, says
Thomas Maxwell, Conference Board of Canada chief
That's a poor trade-off, he notes.

Elizabeth Ruddick, an economist with the private ‘
forecasting firm Informetrica Ltd, agrees. i
“The (qmemployment) rate went up because employment -

has confidence

ye

Ruddick says the pattern of a decrease in employment
and an increase in labor force dropouts suggests an
economic uncertainty hangs over employers who are
reluctant to hire and over potential workers ‘who don'l

- believe jobs are available,

Maxwell's concern that there has also been a poor trade-
off in jobs is supported by a study conducted by Midland

Midland economists in a comparison of job losses and
gains in Canada and the U.S. during and since the recession
found that in both countries the generally higher-paying,
goods-producing sector has been the Joser and the lower-
paying, often part-time services sector the winner.

Derek Jones, Midland economist, says that in. Canada -

from the onset of the recession in mid-1981 to December
1982, its low point, 456,000 jobs in the goods-producing in-
dustries were lost compared fo 113,000 jobs in the services
CREATES JOBS eo a

But in the first year of recovery, 123,009 jobs were created
in the goods-prodacing industries, only a quarter of the

;. Dumber that were lost, while 254,000 jobs were created in

+.

the services sector, more than double the number last.

went down, but it would have gone up further to about 115 ; back,” says Jones. ".

per cent if we hadn't had the kind of decline in the Labor |

force we had.” ‘
RECORDS DROPOUTS

last month at a time when many economists say the op-
posite should be happening, Ruddick notes.

it's surprising, says Rob Butler, an economist with Chase .

Econometrics Canade. —
‘The encouraged-worker

job opportunities entering the labor force — is general in a

recovery, he says.

effect — people optimistic about .

encurged worker effect — the Mow back into the labor

force of optimistic workers — actually did take place early

in the recovery. , Gy

The economy was given-an artificial boost by govern-
ments through salestax reductions and home-buying
grants, be says. — hedlire “? dare tthe oe teoue
“We borrowed from the future. ? now the party is over.”
Bat it's a “temporary phenomenon,” he adds.

“T's nothing to really get upset about, growth for “$4 will
still be quite respectable...” ;

Federation members rankled

- EDNONTON (CP) — Alberta Agriculture Minister
LeRoy Fjordbotten’s warning not to balkanire Canadian
agnadture was still rankling members of the Canadian
Federation of Agriculture on Wednesday.

_ ‘The minister's blunt speech Tuesday night did not help

Alberta delegates wisen they pul their case Wednesday for a

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have agreed in
principle t 2 stabilization plan but federal Agriculture
Minister Engene Whelan says more previnoes have to join
or chances of putting it inte effect are slim. Agriculture
ministers are to meet in Ottawa today to discuns it,

' IF Fjordbotten had been speaking in Eastern Canada be
would hawe been booed ou! of the hall, one delegate said in
an interview. ; °

*

plan unacceptable to ABerta prodacers, there was virtnally
fe support when Alberta delegates tried Wednestiay to put
the federation on record as opposed to provincial top
loading in any red meal stabilization program.

Under top loading, guvernments could make stabilization
payments in their provinces higher than levels set cut in the
Proposed program.
FACE HIGHER COSTS

Its necessary Seczuse some provinces foce wharpty

Federation members agreed support prices for bee!,

Alberta delegates still warned that top loading could raise
support prices to a level thal United States producers might
“Pve been informed that if Canada gets into a situstien

where they create some sort of incentive-type sybsidy, the ©

United States is going to tariff it away from us, possibly
even go as far as closing the border to certain types of
meats,” said Roger Buxton, zane representative with the

__ Butetber provincial leaders said they would nol stand for
erosion of the beef industries in’ an effaxt to protect

production advantages in Alberta, the main exporting

Despite Fjardbotten's ning he would nol approve a -. “We're not crying but we have to have some kied of

mechanism to stay alive,” said Haak Detoer of the Nova
Scotia Federation of Agricniture.

“He (Fjordbotten) said the plan would be gasd fer
Alberta and we shoulde' balkenize,
“Maybe be didn mean to say thal, What be actually was

"saying was, ‘It’s good for Alberta and you guys can drop

dead.”

on the wellbicad price of ol and gas opposed by the industry. :

indusstry task force that all ind met of a petrochemical

Canada praised .
iam Brock, U.S. special trade representative,” has,
‘ised Canad for agreeing to change foreign investment =F
ee reening practices found to bein violation of international ;
ing agreements. a rae
ye teu the statement on Wednesday, a day after the: 7%
governing council of GATT, the Geneva-based organization J
erseelng interna ; arlier
finding ibet faulted “buy-Canadian” practices in Canada’s
ign Investment Review Act. SO
ihe US government, through Brock’s office, had lodged
the original formal complaint about the, Canadian rules in
1932 rider the General Agreement on Tarifa and Trade.
The council, representing 88 countries, adopted the report:
of a GATT panel which ruled ast July. that practices

ny

- requiring foreign investors to promise to buy supplies:and

‘within Canada violate the principle of treating’
ie crowned and domestic companies in an evenhanded .
Canadian officials in Washington said instructions. will ‘
soon be issued to foreign investment review officials ‘to
ensure there is-no perception that Canada is coercing
foreign investors into buying Canadian goods or services.
PREVENT SQUEEE rn
In another development, Ron Basford, co-ordinator of
British Columbia's northeast coal project, said Canadian
threats of protectionism and heavy Japanese investment
wil prevent Japanese steelmakers from squeezing ‘coal
companies involved in the project too hard for price cals.
With representatives from slx Japanese steelmakers-in
Canada this week attempting to renegotiale: contracts

signed in 1981 with Quinlette Coal Ltd, and Teck Corp.,

Basford said it would not be in Japan’s interest to insist on
price or tonnage rollbacks. Coe,

The coal companies say the Japanese have asked for a
reduction in the price of metallurgical coal to $84 a tonne
from $98, Japanese steel production is down considerably
from the level it was‘at when the northeast coal contract
was signed. ’ a

The contract terms were completely open, Basford told
the Canadian Club, and on the strength of those terms
“Canadian, European and Japanese banks have advanced
huge sums of capital and Canadian and Japanese com-

’ panies have become shareholders in the project.”

“Because of these factors nothing will be done on the
price side that would destroy the financial viability of the
project,” he said. a

Referring to a call by Canadian automakers for Import
restrictions on Japanese cars, Basford said: . “The
Japanese know that for the northeast coal development
project and others to collapse would .. . provide the voices
of protectionism in this and other countries with the very
ammunition they want.” :

In other develpments: _

— The Toronto Globe and Mail said the federal budget to

. be tabled next Wednesday includes proposals that would

allow more companies, as well as lawyers, doctors and
dentists, to take advantage of tax breaks for small business.
The newspaper quoted unidentified government sources ‘as
' Saying a key change will eliminate the distinction between
so-called qualifying and non-qualifying small business by
making all eligible for special low corporate tax rates.

+ British Cotumbia Forests Minister Tom Waterland
said a federal-provincial forest renewal program’ to
replenish woodland cul down by logging companies will be
postponed for at least a year. Federal and B.C. officials ©

have. failed to-reach an agreement, be said, and planned = ff

expenditures of-$57- million this-year‘will not:go' ahesif,
Instead, the two governmerity Hope to'extend an ¥xistifig
agreement, under which each government will spend-$5 —
million on forest renewal programs, for one more year. .

— Stelco Inc. said it cut its losses to $14.2 million in 1968
from $40 million in 1982 but must still raise badly needed
working capital. Stelco chairman Peter Gordon sald things
were looking up in the steelmaker's consumer markets,
‘thanks to a surge in car and appliance sales, But the’other
half of the company’s markets — steel for heavy con-
struction and pipelines — remained depressed and that
wipes out gains made through the consumer sector. and

reduced costs. L-
*— Texaco Canada Inc. said it will close its refined’
products terminal in Montreal East by mid-1984. Texaco
closed its Montreal refinery in the fall of 1882, The terminal
closure will put about 50 employees out of work, although
some will be kept on temporarily for maintenance work.

— Goodyear Canada Inc. reported a 1989 profit of $12.5
million or $4.74 a share, compared with a $2.5-million loss
the previous year. The company sid sales jumped to $531.5
million for the year ended Dec. 31, up 13 per cent from $472
million in 1982, _

Provinces suffer.

CALGARY (CP) — Ontario and Alberta are both suf-
fering a5 a result of an outdated and inflexible national:
energy policy, Ontario Energy Minister Phillip Andrewes +
said Wednesday, to ae

“It's time for some serious negotiations to adjust: our
energy pricing policies,"’ he told a business gathering.
_ Amirewes said Ontario needs lower olf and gas prices if
its industries are to remain internationally competitive. He
noted that oil coming inlo Ontario from Western Canada is
often more expensive than cride sold across the border in

‘the United States, sometimes exceeding the world price. -

“Producers in Alberta are not getting world prices for
their old oil. But by the time it gets to Ontarfo, vith added
laxes, royalties and transportation costs, we pay the world °
Price,”” : -_ co

Andrewes said his province is willing to conalder-a -

” pricing system linked to cil’s market value,

“We're willing at this point to accept a market-senaitive .
racine system,” Andrewes told Calgary oil man John ¢
But he said Ontario silll wants protection from potential ; |
jumps in energy prices similar to those of the 1870s, The
Soaring cost of oil prompted Ontario to back federal moves
to create a “made-in-Canada" energy price not Linked to
~Apdreves fas beco meeting wi tiv
es has been meeting with oll induatry executives '
amd is scheduled to meet with Alberta Energy Minister :-

Canadian ownership special charge a lax Initi
ial ’ ally used to
pay for large-scale takeovers by Petro-Canada rid, ae
ince pald for those .
tax has continued to |
Andrewes said his province would alsolike areviewof the |
id his reviewof the .
12 per-ceht petroleum and gas revenue tax, a gross charge

He said the price of natural Gas, despite belng 65 per cent

ef the exergy-equivalent price for oi] is still
exergy. sis atl too high and
there ts a anger some industries. will look for cheaper 4

tonal trade rules, upheld an earlier