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Constitutional change

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OTTAWA (CP) —
second constitutional lawyer -
in less than a month has told
a joint Parliamentary
committee the federal
government does not have
the legal right to make its
proposed changes in the
Senate and the monarchy
without provincial
agreement, :

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But Liberal committee
members were quick to point
out Tuesday that Ronald
Atkey, the lawyer who
submitted this opinion, is a
declared Progressive
Conservative candidate in
the coming federal general
election.

Atkey told the 35-member
Senate-Commons committee

Dollar reserve drops
by 799 million

By GLENN
VILLE
OTTAWA (CP) — Govern-
ment efforts to keep the
dollar’s value from falling
too rapidly drained the
country’s official reserves
by more than $700 million in
August, the finance de-
partment revealed Tuesday.
The central Bank of
Canada, under government
direction, borrowed $300
million from U.S banks and
spent that plus anather $497
million of its existing U.S.
dollar reserves,to buy up
unwanted Canadian dollars
on world exchange markets.
The dollar's value con-
tinued to fall Tuesday,
dropping 13-100 lo 86.86 cents
U.S. on New York markets.
Sinclair Stevens,
Progressive Conservative
finance critic, said in a
telephone interview the lat-
est developments heighten
anticipation that the
government will be forced to
raise interest rales once

SOMER-

more,
Last week in Ottawa there
was speculation the Bank of

Canada would once more‘

jump its bank rate—the
interest rate it charges for
infrequent loans to chartered
banks—as part of its defence
of the dollar.
PRESSURE CONTINUED

The Jast increase, to nine
per cent on July 26 from 8.5
per cent, was the third
suecessive one aimed at
supporting the dollar's value
by making domestic interest
rates competitive for foreign
investors. But pressure on
the dollar’s value has con-
tinued.

Since June, the govern-

‘ment, acting through Bank ~'
‘of Canada traders, has Spent -
‘almost $1.5 billion of its U.S, '

dollar holdings—the main
form of international
reserves—in an effort to
keep the dollar's value up.

In August, the government
borrowed $300 million from
U.S. and other foreign banks

Petroleum

under a special ime ot credit
set up in June for defending
the dollar. In total, $1 billion
has been borrowed from the
foreign bankers.

The government also has
borrowed $500 million U.S.
from Canadian chartered
banks under a special
borrowing arrangement set
up last fall =

Bank of Canada traders
use U.S. dollars to buy up
Canadian currency an world
exchange markets and 50
keep their value from falling
too rapidly.

Since November, 1976,
when the dollar was valued
at $1.03 U.S. it has been
devalued nearly 16 per cent.
Despite higher interes
rates, the pressure ha:
continued,
UNEMPLOYMENT
BLAMED

Traders say part of the
reason is continuing high
unemployment, rising in-
flation rates and uncertainty
over how the government
intends to implement the
economic-recovery plan
Prime Minister Trudeau
promised Aug. 1.

Last month's intervention
by the Bank of Canada was
the heaviest since April. By
the end of the month, total
foreign reserves including
holdings of U.S, dollars,

other foreign currencies,

gold and Canada's position in
the International Monelary
Fund had fallen to $4.19
billion, the lowest level for
official reserves since March
aL.

Still to come this Thursday
are official-figures on the
country's. curren! account
deficit in the April-June
‘second quarter’ this ‘yedr.
This is a measure of in-
ternational balance of pay-
ments that includes mer-
chandise trade with other
countries, as well changes in
the services account and
interest payments on foreign
debt.

companies

ask further exports

CALGARY CP - Canada's
two largest petroleum in-
dustry associations asked
the National Energy Board
on Tuesday to allow in-
creased natural gas exports
to the United States.

In separate briefs to be
presented during the board's
gas hearings here Oct. 11,
the Canadian Petroleum
Association of Canada EPAC
said limiting exports to
protect Canada’s own energy
security would have a
reverse effect.

IPAC, in its submission,
sald Lf exports were not
allowed to the U.S. and there
were ‘a consequent lack of
markets,”’ exploration would

be curtailed and develop-

ment activity of new
reserves severely reduced.

The CPA was more subtle.

“Only the exploration and
development process can
provide real security
through the continued ad-
dition of natural gas
reserves and deliverability,”
it said.

“It is, therefore, in
Canada's interest to have the
current levels of exploration
and development sustained
and even increased where
possible through the
generation of cash flows
from export sales of surplus

3."

IPAC agreed and said the
export of 16 trillion cubic feel
of gas would have a net
benefit to Canada of about
$10 billion at current values.

“These additional gas

exports would generate

approximately $2.8 billion
per year of foreign exchange
earnings in the mid 1980's,"
TPAC said.

“woreign exchange from
additional and currently
authorized gas exports
would roughly offset the

jected $5 billion per year
exst of foreign crude oil

prices.””

It added that as many as
25,000 jobs, many of which
would be in Central Canada’s
manufacturing sector, would
be created in Canada

through the gas exports.

But the two associations
could not agree on the size of
Canada’s gas reserves.

CPA said it estimated the
country’s remaining
reserves of marketable gas
at 78.8 trillion cubic feet.

School

Board

head
quits

REVELSTOKE, B.C, (CP)
— A breakdown’ in
negotiations between the
provincial education
ministry and the school
board in this southeastern
British Columbia com-
munity has led to the
resignation of: the -board'’s
chairman.

Brian Matheson, a British
Columbia Hydro manager
working on constructlon of
the Revelstoke Dam, sald he
resigned because he ‘clearly
saw a conflict of Interest” in
negotiations.

The school board, the
ministry and Hydro are
trying to decide on allocation
of schoo! costs.

Matheson said the board is
worried that an influx of
schoolage children brought
into the school district by
workers involved with the
dam will raise school costs.

“So, Hydro is a third party
here, and as .1 work for
Hydro, [ decided to pack it
in,” he sald.

School trustees said
Tuesday that if an
agreement is not reached,
the district will have to
reduce educational services
or place a heavier burden on
the taxpayers.

The strgol board
estimates it has already
spent $140,000 in extra
education casts.

rovincial O.K.

on the constilution:

“This proposed violation of
a basic convention of our
constitution is so serious, in
my opinion, that it will set
back rather than enhance
the process of effective
consultation which is so
necessary if this country is
going to survive.”

The 36-year old former law
professor held the Torento
riding of St. Paul's from 1972
to 1974 for the Conservatives.

Atkey was repeating the
legal opinion offered two
weeks ago to the committee
by Queen's University law
professor William Leder.
man. .

Both lawyers told the com- ~

mittee there are serious
legal problems in the
government’s plan to make
basic changes in fun-
damental institutions on its
own,

Justice Minister Otto Lang
has said the government
faces no legal roadblocks in
changing the Senate, the role
of the monarch and gover-
nor-general and Supreme
Court because these are
areas of federal jurisdiction.

Wood
bridge

SOUTH NEWBURY, Vt.
(AP) — The patient was 112
years old and in traction,
joints gnarled and twisted,
frame sagging,

But the doctor, Milton
Graton, said the Bedell
Bridge is recovering.

Working with hand tools
and aided by two assistants
Graton was restoring the 36-
foot covered bridge that
spans the Connecticut River
between South Newbury and
Haverhill, N.H.

Perched on a plank
suspended alongside the
wooden bridge, the 69-year: -
old bridge expert was
relaxed as he performed the
delicate surgery.

Obscured by beams and
eribwork, Graton carried on
his quiet work at one of the
five remaining bridges over
the Connecticut.

The Bedell, warped by
time, buffeted by floods and
crippled by neglect, was ‘in
terrible sad shape when I got
here,” Graton said. ‘

Much work remained. A
new roof was being shingled
and side boards were being
replaced. Some 60° vertical
posts that support the
trusses were being fitted and
damaged joints rebuilt.
WON'T USE METAL |

ii he believed in metal, the
job might be easier, Bul for
Graton, building bridges of
steel is “like shooting a deer
in the zoo—there's just no
challenge to it.”

“If the state folks have a
job and want metal, they get
someone else,” he’ said,
stroking the spruce posts at
the Vermont entrance.

“This modern generation
knows all about concrete and
steel. When they see wood,
they make a campfire out of
it,”

Graton sees the Bedell as
the challenge of his life.""All
the others got me ready for
this one, I can’t make a
mistake,”’

Examples of his work can
be found from Canada to
Michigan. In all, he has
restored 22 bridges in 20
years, Five others he built
from scratch. ©

His knowledge grew out of
a job moving bridges for the
US.: Army Corps
Engineers. In the process,
Graton began to make
repairs.

Before long, he wanted to
do more.’

-His dusty pickup first
bounced and rattled down
the dirt road to the Bedell
Bridge five years ago.

Each sunny day, a few
townspeople from both sides
of the river arrived at mid.
morning to waich and wait.
Graton stopped work to show
them newly restored sec-
tlons of the bridge he calls
“the masterpiece.”

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A helpful planning guide on

sound money and credit man-
agement entitled “The Con-
sumet’s Almanac” Is available
by sending $1.00 to The
Consumer Credit Institute,
1000 Sixteenth Street, N.W.,
Suite 601, Washington, D.C,
20036,
eho

Third, avoid making major
purchases for cash or credit
without discussing the subject
and getling agreement from
the other member of the
financial partnership. Re-
member that husbands and
wives are equal partners and
are entitled to be treated
accordingly.

The log cabin was introduced to the American
colonies by Swedish settlers in Delaware in 1638,
They brought their own timber from Europe.

Pee eh:

During her recent visit to the Terrace-Kitimat area, Minister of State, Fitness

THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 6, 1978, Paga 3

Plastics mix
with gardens —

WINNIPEG (CP) —
Brownbag lunches and
garden hoes. An unlikely
combination?

Not for some of the em-

 ployees at the local Boeing of

Canada plant who at this
time of year may set off for
work carrying both.

For when they’re not
producing reinforced plastic,
they like to squeeze in a little

[ + time working on one of the

and Amateur Sport, Iona Campagnolo was spotted talking with officials of Alcan
and Eurocan whom she thanked for their participation and financial support in
helping get the new fitness track off the ground at Kitimat.

Derv’s regime forces
dusk to dawn curfew

LIMA (AP) — Peru's
military regime imposed a
dusk-to-dawn curfew and
ordered soldiers Tuesday to
shoot if necessary to control
labor unrest at the country’s
largest iron mine, a gov-
ernment controlled
newspaper said.

Thecurfew was ordered as
the government-imposed
deadline passed for Peru's
45,000 miners to ‘return to
work or be fired. The strike,
which began Aug. 4, has
crippled the country’s
economy.

Even as the government
moved to have the mines
back in production, other
unions called strikes.

The union representing
452,000 government em-
ployees announced a 49-hour
strike beginning today to
protest austerity plans union
leaders say would cost the
jobs of 100,000 workers over
the next three years. Public
employees are prohibited by
law from striking.

Unions representing 20,000
bank employees announced
an indefinite walkout to start
Friday. The bank em-
ployees, whose monthly
salaries range fram $82 to’
$176, have been staging -
wildeat strikes for two
months seeking unspecified
pay increases. ;
PREVENT VIOLENCE

STILL NO ELECTION

Record

number

of candidates

HALIFAX (CP) — A
record 162 candidates have
been nominated officially for
the Sept. 19 Nova Scotia
election.

The Liberals, who are gun-
ning for their third straight
victory, the Progressive

- Conservative opposition and

the New Democratic Party
are running candidates in all
§2 ridings and there also are
six independent candidates.

Six moreseats are at stake
than in the last election in
1974 when there were 140
candidates entered.

Nominations closed of-
ficially at 2 ‘p.m. ADT
Tuesday.

The hopefuls include the
leaders of the three main
parties, Premier Gerald
Regan who will run in
Halifax Needham, PC leader
John Buchanan who will run
in Halifax Atlantic and NDP
leader Jeremy Akerman
who is running in Cape
Breton East. The three
leaders held those seats in
the last legislature.

MOST TRY AGAIN

Forty-one of the 46
members of the last house
are trying for re-election,
including all of Regan's
cabinet ministers except

. Health Minister Maynard

MacAskill who announced
his retirement from politics
several weeks ago.

The field includes I!
women and two members of
the cabinet of Rdbert
Stanfield, Nova Scotia
premier from 1956 to 1967,
who are trying for political
comebacks in Cape Breton

ridings. The son of Stan-§
field’s successor, G. If

Smith, failed in his bid for
the Tory nomination in a
Halifax area riding.

Finance minister Peter
Nicholson is running in
Annapolis West, the seat he
has represented for 22 years.
-Percy Gaum and Donald
MacNeil, both elected in 1956
when the Stanfield Tories
ended 29 years of Liberal
government, were defeated
in later elections bul are
making comeback attempts
this time, Gaum in Cape

Breton Nova and MacNeil ing
Cape Breton South. Both are mm

former Stanfield ministers.

Nicholson's son, Pete
John, is running as a Liberal
in Victoria
father-and-son candidates
for the same party in the

same election may be a first .

in Nova Scotia politica
history.
SONS RUN
Conservative Art
Donahoe, running in Halifax
Citadel, and his brother,
Terry, in Halifax Cornwallis,
are sons of former attorney-
general R. A. Donahoe,
another member of Stan-
field's 1956 team which upset
Henry Hicks’ Liberals.
Tory Brian McKeough will
try to hold Cape Breton

riding. Them

North, a seat his father, ‘fom
MeKeough, represented
from 1970 until his recent
retirement.

Three prominent
municipal politicians are

M arte ‘Tubrett' of - _’ _
ayor Earle ali - , Obedience Trial - won by the

Sydney is running for the
Liberals “in Cape Breton.
Nova, an NDP stronghold.
Mayor. Norman Mansour of
Amherst is running for the
Liberals. in. Cumberland
East, held by Conservative
Roger Bacon since 1970 and
Colchester County Warden
Ed Lorraine is running for
the Liberals in a new seat,
Colchester South.

The election, the 29th since
Nova Scotia entered Con-

federation in 1967, is the first:
in September in 100 years. -

The Liberals, who snapped
14 years of Conservative rule
in 1970, won 31 seats in the
1974 election. The Con:
servatives won 12 and the
NDP three. :

Standing when the 46-seat
house was prorogued for this
election was slill 31-12-3. .

iS Lisa rn
Eagles mate for life and return
to the same nest every year.

Help with

your

DOLLARS

The newspaper La Prensa
said the curfew was applied
at the Marcona iron mine
and the surrounding region
456 kilometres (265 miles)
south of Lima. It said the
measure was taken to
prevent a- recurrence af
violence that broke out Mon-
day when some miners tried
to go back to work and
clashed with others on
strike.

The government last week
declared a state . of
emergency .
from page 1

Following is the list of
winners as declared by
Judges at the annual
Terrace Dog show held in
connection with the ath
Annual Fall Fair held at
Lions Park in Thornhill.
Winners in other categories
will be published in the

' Herald during the week.

Best in Show and Best
Puppy in Show - won by
Lorelei’s Delilah owned by
Sadie Moerman of Terrace
and co-owned by Mrs.
Shirley Ekman of Prince
George and Ann Webster of
Aldergrove.

High Scoring... Dog: in

‘Boston ‘Terrier, ~ Myja's
Tommy Tucker, owned by
Carol Stegavig of Prince
Rupert.

Highest Scoring Dog in
Purebred Obedience Class
was the Doberman Pinscher
owned by Bob Price of
Terrace,

Highest Scoring Non-
Purebred in Obedience was
trained at the Terrace Dog
Club class and was Dober-
man Pinscher female pup
owned by Betty Guerriero,
trained and handled by Carl
Sterner.

Sporting Group - Golden
Retriever, ‘‘Beckwith’s
Onion’, owned by Laureen
Kinney of Prince Rupert.

Hounds class won by
Saluki owned by Wanda
Kerby af Terrace.

‘Working Doig, Collie, “The
Lorelee's Delilah owaed by
Sadie Moerman and Shirley
Ekman and Ann Webster.

Terrier, Manchester
Terrier, Loyalist Miss
Cricket, owned by Colleen
Franks of Prince Rupert.

Toys-Yorkshire Terrier,
“Sylvestern’s Fascination”
owned by Sadie Moerman of
Terrace.

Non-Sporting, Boston

Terrier, “Myja's Tommy
Tucker’ owned by Carol A.
Stegavig of Prince Rupert.

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garden plots the company
has set aside on six acres of
land at the plant.

And for anyone not mi-
terested in gardening as a
lunch-break activity there
are alternatives.

The Boeing grounds aiso
beast a baseball diamond,
picnic tables, a small or-
chard of crabapples that can
be picked for jelly and a two-
mile jogging track which in
winter converts into 4 cross-
country ski trail.

But one of the most suc-

- cessful outside activities has

proved to be gardening’

(Notice of -

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Public Hearing

OTTAWA, AUGUST 25, 1978

‘

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

ISSUE NO. 2

OCTOBER 24, 1978, 9:00 A.M.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecom-
munications Commission will hold a Public Hearing
beginning Octaber 24, 1976 at the Four Seasons Hotel,
™ Georgia Street West, Vancouver, British Columbla
to consider the following:

_ PACIFIC REGION

101 KITWANCOOL T.¥, ASSOCIATION, P.O. BOX 209,
KITWANGA, BRITISH COLUMBIA V0J 2A0

Cedarvale, British Columbia _ | (781325500)
Dorreen, British Columbia (781334800)
Kitwanga, British Columbia (781332200)

Kltwancool, British Columbia (781333000)

Applications for a broadcasting ficence for new
English language FM radio stations to rebroadcast the
programs of CFTK Terrace, British Columbia as
ollows:

Effective

Radlated

Location Frequency Power
Cedarvale, British Columbia 98.7 MH, 1.7 watts
Dorreen, British Columbia =. 96.) MHz L7watts
Kitwanga, British Columbia 94.3 MHz 3.5 wats
Kitwancool, British Columbia =92.1 MHz =O. watts

Locations where the applications may be examined:

Cedarvale Lodge Coffee Shop,
Cedarvale, British Columbla.

Post Office,
Terrace, British Columbia.

Post Office,

Kitwanceol Band Office,
Kitwancool, British Columbia.

104 CROWDER COMMUNICATIONS LTD. 4625

LAZELLE AVENUE, TERRACE, BRITISH
COLUMBIA VaG 154
Kitselas, British Columbia (781416300)

Application for a broadcasting Hcence for a new
English tanguage FM radio station at Kitsetas, British
Columbia to rebroadcast the programs of CFTK

Terrace, British Columbia as follows:
.
Technical Data |
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Frequency: 93.3 MHz
Effective Radlated 14.5 watts

Power:
/ Location where the application may be examined:

Post Olftice,
Terrace, British Columbia.

GENERAL INFORMATION
How to Intervene

Anyone wishing ta comment on an application must
submit a written intervention which should contain a
clear and concise statement of the relevant facts and
the grounds upon which the Intervener’s support for,
opposition to, or proposed modification of, the ap-
plication 1s based. !f should also state whether or not
the Intervener wishes to appear at the hearing.

Deadline. for receipt of Interventions at the Com-
mission and with the Applicant:
October 4, 1978.

To be sent by registered mail or personat delivery to
Applicant and CRTC Gitawa, Ontarlo KiA ON2 with
proof of service.

Interventions must be actually recelved on the
specified date, not merely posted on this date.

Examination of Applications and Oocuments

At local address given in this notice and at the Com-
mission, Central Building, Les Terrasses de {a
Chaudiere, 1 Principale Street, Room 561, Hull,
Quebec.

Applications are also avaiiable for examination at the
Western Regional Office, 1260-1050 West Pender Sireet,
Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Further information Is outlined in Rules of Procedure
available for Ihe sum of 35 cents from: The Publishing
Centre, Printing Centre, Printing and Publishing,
Depariment of Supply and Services, 270 Albert Street,
Ottawa, Ontario.

Information: Write to CRTC or phone 819-997-1027 or
997-1328.

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Secretary General.

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