Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, May 3, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Otfice - 635-6357 Cireutation - 635-6357 Published by Sterling Publishers GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE-Rick Kirst KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Verified Circulation. _ Authorized as second class mall. Registration number . 7201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. 635-6357 | NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editaria) or photographic content published In the Herald, Reproduction Is not permitted. “Skeena residents are getting a ringside seat for both federal and provincial elections. All the parties are bringing their big guns, their heavy weights, to bear on this crucial riding. For the provincial Social Credit and . the New Democratic Parties it Is an important riding for two reasons. The parties have done their homework and figured out the ridings they are sure to lose and the ridings they can’t help but win. Skeena isn’t In either column for either party. To take a majority, on of the parties must take all the safe ridings, concede a few and win the majority of the. rest. Skeena is numbered among the ridings both parties feel they can and, moreover, must win. ° Both the provincial parties have in- vested strong candidates here in ex- pectation of that win. You can rest assured that should this riding vote in a winner we will get a cabinet minister. Should we vote in a loser, well, we‘re- used to long cold _—_—winters.. Federally, the Liberals have one of their few Western members’ of parliament here. For all the Liberal’s support in the Quebec ridings, they need those few Western Liberals to keep their. majority. A loss for the Liberals In Skeena would doubly hurt. A cabinet minister, a female cabinet minister, especially high-profile and seemingly fireless, as well as. photogenic, female. cabinet minister, would be sorely missed’ by a party frequently criticized for its French Canadian support. And in a time when that party will be, if it forms the nexf government, trying to sell Canadian unity to Quebecers, it needs © demenstrated Western support. The Tories, however, may well have written this riding off to be fought over by the NDP, who hetd it with Frank Howard for years, and the Incumbent Liberal. Speculation is that Rod Cousins the federal Tory candidate, who has been described as rather resembling a Joe Clark younger brother, and is about as naively bumbling, has been left out here and forgotten,with perhaps only the vague (and many say vain) hope that he could get In with an antl-Trudeau vote after seeing the other two split those that haven't seen Clark, The NOP certainly seem to have learned from the squeaker Campagnolo pulled off after the NDP, (and even Howard admits this) got complacent and forgot to campaign. Campagnolo could, since she seems to lying very low, be making the NOP mistake while thinking she has it sown up. Perhaps she feels she'll only get bad publicity from the opposition she gets from those rabid anti-Trudeau types. In any case she has missed several opportunities to face her opposition. However, after the flack she received at one meeting In Prince Rupert, she may not feel safe confronting Fulton In the Queen Charlotte Islands, his home base. She may be walting for a safer and more shopitable crowd here In Terrace, where she can bring In Trudeau and pack a friendly house for TV. tn spite of how important this riding is to. the Liberals, the rumblings from within the zoo, the motley collection of press types who follow the party leaders around, is that as hard as it is to Imagine; the Western, female, highly- photogenic, cabinet minister may have a battle here. And it is a battle she doesn't seem to be attempting to fight. This riding iss whether Campagnolo — likes It or not, a miniature of the greater scene: a strong but possibly foo com- placent Liberal, faced by a weak Tory, with a hard-working NDP candidate pulling up from behind. TRUDEAU WANTS 4 WORKING MATORITY | “Personally, I'd prefer a majority working.” 1 LOR WASHINGTON (CP) — Growing U.S. unhap- piness about huge Japanese trade surpluses threatens to trigger an all-out trade war that might wreck years of effort to stabilize world trade. The. whopping $12 billion” advantage that Japan held in its 1978 trade with United States has brought relations to their lowest tide in years. Despite growing evidence and even acknowledgement by Japanese leaders that trade losses are seriously threateni S.° economic stability, Japan persuade it to accept more U.S. goods. As a result, business and labor leaders are in full cry demanding action by President Carter to curb the tide of Japanese- made goods flooding U.S. markets, Sentiment in Congress is strongly anti- Japanese on trade matters. Japan's Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira is trying to defuse some of this between the two countries — has resisted ail efforts to .*: US. JAPAN /Yéellng with a state visit to Washington this week, ‘Bit there is a question . abjdut how far heis willing ‘go, In a series of in terviews with American reporters before he left, . Tokyo, QOhira’ made it clear Japan resents the suggestion it must be punished for its success, Canadian trade of- ficials are watching the U.S.-Japan trade tiff closely, even though the trade situation with the Japanese is very different for Canada. In 1978, Canada had an $800- million trade surplus with Japan, but mainly because of ;huge exports of raw materials and , Semi-processed goods, Such as coal and lumber. Canada wants greater access for its manufac- tured goods in Japan, and is concerned about the - ‘implications of a larger dispute involving the worldwide tariff-cutting agreement initialled in Geneva In mid-April. That agreement, which took five years to . negotiate under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), has. yet to be Trade-war threatening all _ ratified by the U.S. Con- gress. Tokyo has received warnings Congress might turn thumbs down on the . whole package unlegs . Japan agrees measures to cut the U.S. deficit. Besides proposing a mutual lowering of tariffs on non-farm imports averaging 33 per cent over eight ta 10 years from next Jan. 1, the Geneva agreement chips away at a variety of non- tariff barriers, such as exclusive praduct safety standards countries use to keep foreign products ou t. If United Stateg. or . others reject .. . the, agreement,...it- likely.” would lead to retaliatory erection of new trade - barriers by other coun- tries and possibly even signal the start of a trade war. Nonetheless, there have been repeated calls in Congress and in the business community for quotas on Japanese goods, or even surcharges of up to 15 per cent on specific Japanese items.- Legislators appear to feel they can no longer . store a better trade i tolerate the continuing “trade losses. . State department of- ficials are playing down the rift with Japan to some extent, advising privately that the Carter administration will op- nh Asian ally, officials note. Still, there’ is widespread opposition in Congress to Japanese shipments because a series of old-lne in- dustries, including tex- tiles, steel, -shipyards, corisumer:s glectronics, autos arid’héthicals, are threatened, Politicians are under pressure from unions fearing job losses as well as from business, The ad- ministration needs a sign from Japan that it is ready to act quickly to re- Carter balance with the United Slates. Otherwise, Congress seems ready to follow up its tough words with tough action against Japanese products. Britain voting today LONDON (CP) — Millions of Britons troop to the polls in dreary weather today ina general election which may end with another minority government, Opinion polls suggest that neither the Labor nor the Conservative party may be able to win a clear majority in the next 635-seat House of Commons, The latest opinion poll in- dicated a fairly even split among the country's 41 million voters, raising the prospect of a ‘‘hung Parliament,” with neither, Labor under Prime Minister James Callaghan nor the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher winning an over-all majority to govern Britain for the next five years, , Both Callaghan and Mrs. Thatcher cautiously claimed their parties will triumph, but the polls and election analysts indicated a cloae result, which could leave Britain's minority parties holding the balance of power in the next House. “We have considerable grounds for cautious optim- iam," said Mrs. Thatcher at her final pre-election news conference Wednesday, Callaghan closed the cam- paign after a visit to his own constituency in Cardiff, ‘Wales. “If you vote Con: servative, you'll vote for change with chaos," he sald in a speech Wednesday night, adding that the vote “is going to determine the shape of our society in the 1980s." Callaghan has been fighting an uphill battle since a no-confidence vote in March forced dissolution of Parllament. Mrs, Thatcher at first seemed confident in her’ qiiest to become Europe'# first woman prime minister, , * But polls showed that the early léad‘of up to 20 per cent by the-@onservatives was steadily whittled down during, month of cam- i pas National Opinion Poli Monday published in the Conservative Daily Mail showed Labor pulling ahead by a slender 0.7-per-cent margin. Some analysts predicted the lead could be two per cent today, still not enough for a com- manding majority. Some early returns are ex- pected tonight but if the votlng is close, the outcome might not be known until midday Friday. The parties need at least 316 seats to win a majority. Recent polls have shown the supporting" Liberals, who held 14 seats in the last Parliament, gaining ground, apparently at the expense of the Con- servatives, who held 242. Callaghan, 67, who has hinted this may be his last -electoral battle, has said he does not want to find himself in the situation he inherited from Sir Harold Wilson in 1976 of having no over-all majority in the Commins. Labor won in October, 1976, with a five-seat majority over the Tories. That bare majority was steadily eroded by deaths and byelections to a minority 307-seat government that de- pended on such small parties ‘as the Liberals and the Scottish Nationalists to stay- in power, . Another minorily party, Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionists, said Wednesday it TODAY IN HISTORY May 3, 1978 The stage was set for the War of Roses in England 1937 — Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel .Gone With the when the Yorkist army of Wind King Edward VI massacred Lancastrians supporters of King Henry VI at the Battle of Tewkesbury 60 years ago today — In 1471. The only surviving claimant to the throne was Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, who returned from exile and Cairo. 1970 — Queen Juliana re- seized the Crown from Richard IE in 465. oC ~—Ss Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaica and named the island Santa Jago. 1952 — A U.S, C-47 plane made the first successful landing at the geographic North Pole. 1967 — Dr. Hans Eisele, fornier physician of Nazi Germany's Dachau con- centration camp, died in 0. ceived a Canadian delegation marking the 2th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands from Germany. issues, would throw its support to one of the major parties in return for restoration of the Protestant-dominated Ulster legislature, suspended six years ago. Both major parties have rejected this demand. The Unionists and their colleagues held 10 seats when the last House was dissolved on April 7. The election campaign was dominated by union power and bread-and-butter Most prices havedoubled In the last five years and statistics show 1.3 million persons are out of work, 5.6 per cent of the work force, with higher per- centages in Northern Ireland, Scotland and nor- theast England. Taxation also has been a key issue. Britons are taxed ata minimum of 39 per cent, rising to 83 per cent for any income over $48,000. In- veatment Income is taxed up to 98 per cent — a bracket that these days only affecta | movie and rock stars, business tycoons and in some eases Britain's battered aristocracy. The Conservative formula for repairing the economy includes restrictions on labor unlons and reform of the Labor-inspired welfare system. The Conservatives also have made a big play over Labor’s reduction in Britain’s defences and Its. NATO commitment ata time when Western Europa is becoming increasingly con- cerned over how much it can depend on U.S. protection. Callaghan has forg c8eztiinks with the Carter administration and was’ given unswerving support to Carter's human rights crusade, OTTAWA OFFBEAT | BY RICHARD JACKSON © 4 Quebec power bloc, _rest of the country for Quebec’s unrest and _ Canada, of English-French. antipathy, and the, ” threatening unity. He has researched the now urgent problem of — national unity down.to such a fine point as to be able to name the very day, July 19, 1963, “things began going wrong.” vette shat’ was the, aay former Liberal Prime Minister ‘Lester Pearson. set up the mischlef- making Commission on Blculturalism and Bitingualism. ! ae Uniil then, says James Richardson, Canadians. were on the right track nationally, working together bullding the grand design of one Canada concelved by the Fathers of Confederation. Lester Pearson, struggling with his first minority government and Ike all Liberal ad- ministrations holding power only through’ its apparently found. -it necessary to pander fo what became known. as - first “the French Fact’ and then ‘French Power.’’ : ss " The Liberals told Canadians for the first time In their history that they were not one people, one nation indivisible. a And Pearson, playing to Quebec, ordered. the “B and B Commission’ to recommend steps be taken to redevelop Confederailon on the basis.of equal partnership between two founding races. This: concept of two founding races, says. Richardson, was “a destructive myth..." “A\l Canadians," he went on, “are bullders of Canada and natioral unity must of necessity ‘be - based on equal partnership of them ail, not on the purely Inventive fable of a partnership of two supposed founding races.” \ on As ardered, by Pearson's minority Liberals, | recalls Richardson, the Commission brought Ina doomsday report, warning of the impending disaster of a divided Canada and blaming all the. upheaval. Oo a And the commission was only the first of a long and still continuing series of Liberal Party and government documents and legisiation ali based on the same theme of a deprived Quebec. ~~ Each report, recalls Richardson, each plece of. legistation emphasized the imagined duality: of. perenne vie unfair imbalance. between Quebec and the rest It was all negative, all divisive, insists. Richardson, and al! contrived politically by the Liberals to.protect and preserve thelr Quebec power base. Co So why didn’t Richardson, the strong voice fram the West in the Liberal Party, remain in the government and fight this Insidiously divisive “myth of two founding races?” . Like other English members of the Trudeau - eabinet--including veteran George Mcliralth-he': ; found It impossible to turn around in the face of j "French Power” In the government. - And so he resigned, to travel the country | crusading for his “Canadians for One Canada’’ organization. a Two founding races, and the “two nations” concept of Biculturallsm and Bilingualism, says Richardson, are just fancy names for separation. . : Ottawa,-Although It Is running no candidates | In the federal election, the ‘‘Canadians for One Canada” organization with offices In Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg, belleves its founder and director James Richardson, is exerting a profound Influence on the vote. — - Richardson ts the former Liberal defence minister who followed a number of other English ministers, Including Paul Hellyer, John Turner, Donald Macdonald and Ron Basford among others, out of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet. uo Their leaving cabinet weakened English representation in the Trudeav ministry to the point of impotence. oo Since gaing, Richardsonhasbeenona crusade-- for unity and against bilingualism--and in. Ot- tawa the other day reported his support as “overwhelming.” — ’ Canadians In their “thousands” have written him, he says, and people are forever stopping him on the street urging him to ‘“keep up the fine work.’ . OUR CANADA By John Fisher of the Council for Canadian Unity Ga) James Smith was a ship builder of Saint John, New Brunswick in the gorious age of sail. He drafted plana for a new type of ship that would be the fastest in the world. In 1851 he gave her a fancy name, “Marco Polo.” On her maiden voyage to Liverpool, England she crossed the Atlantic in the incredible time of 15 days. English shipbuilders and foreign segrtien marvetled at thie sailing ship from Canada. British shipping companies were locking for fast sailing ships to go to Australia for the gold rush, 80 they purchased Canada's Marco Polo. _A challenge from the steamer Ausiralia was thrown to the sailing ship Marco Polo. Big money waa waged. To the amarement of sailors, the Marco Polo arrived in Melhourne one week ahead of the steamer - Australia + a record 76 days. She was back in Liverpool having circum- navigated the globe in five months and 31 days. She was now the fastest ship in the world and the most celebrated. Her prowess boosted Canada's maritime reputation, ~All good things must end; Marco Polo crashed on.s aandbar in 1853 and smashed to pieces off Cavendish PEI, the place Lucy Maud Montgomery made famous, oe Vice Presilent of ‘the Council for Canadian Unity was Canada’s Centennial Commissioner, wae