BY DONNA VALLIERES . HERALD STAFF WRITER development of northwest B.C., local ofticlals learned from representatives of the federal and provincial governments at a meeting " sponsored by the northwest council here : ter: men "yes ' More than 50 municipal and regional govern- mentsofficiats came to the day-long seminar to learn how the northwest can benefit from recently an- nounced incentive program which will be jointly funded ‘by the federal and provincial governments. eena. Shelford. said Was wh worthwhile” because it brought it ‘together all the > roups who would be involv in subsidy 0 meetin pr . . oer will come out of this meeting alone,” he stated. > PREV ENTS ~ BURGLARIES Bin Economic assistance programs We won't get a chance like this again Shelford said Skoglund Hotsprings one of his pet projects in recent years, could benefit from an in- centive grant to turn it into a resort and tourist at- traction. He said he was also thinking up other pro, ects which could use the nding schemes. Earlier in .the seminar Shelford had pointed to the need for government in- centive programs to keep the economu going because production costs in‘ this rovince are too “far out of ine’ to be able to compete with imports. - Reagrding agriculture and Ilvestock production Shelford said there would have to be more support from supermarket chains in purchasing B.C. goods and packing industry, as well as slaughterhouse, would have to be promoted within the province. ; At present, almost ail of the cattle in B.C. has to be shipped to Alberta for slaughter before they are shipped back to B.C. for retail sales, Shelford said. Chairman of the industrial development committee on Terrace council Ald. Bob definitely be taking ad- vantage of the (programs offered through the senior government departments. “The money is there, we should form ate plans,” he said. Cooper said one area in which Terrace could benefit under the programs is land acquisition for development which would encourage industry to come into area.Currently the municpality does not have capital funds to. purchase land for development. The next step, the Terrace alderman sai , is to talk to various progrmas over in council and work through the regional district to get e@ programs gong. Chairman of the Kitimat- r said Terrace would | Stikine Regional board Joe Banyay, said the meeting was a fou first step for local administrators of the program to meet the people who are administering program on the senior level. Banyay, who met with provincial and federal department representatives about a month ago to discuss various regional benefits, said the next step is to acquaint the business community the programs available. “This is government helping business,” Banyat said, and the businessmen will have to understand what is available before local represent thier needs. e Chairman of the Northern Development il which hosted the seminar, BERT Simmons, said the council has long realized the need for secondary industry to complement the primary government can’ resources industry, as well as the need for local par- ticipation inthe type of development to oceur within the region. The federal and provincial agreements will bolster secondary industry while elving room for local imput into development, he said. “4 don't think we'll ever pportunity like this Simmons said to the $100 million available through the programs. Director General of the Department of regional economic ecpansion in B.C. Ron Marshall was at the seminar to explain the role of the federal DREE programs in the reduction of economic disparity. Marshall said that the department was formed in 1969 to ensure that weaker regions in the country could benefit from relative rosperity elsewhere in nada and explained that regions in 8.C, have ‘the™herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazelions, Stewart and the Nass P' . VOLUME 71 NO. 110 : Price: 20 cents FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1977 Weather days. Today's high will be about 10 degrees, tonight's low, five degrees. FR So _ Herald staff “ About one in every hun- dred people over the age of 90 ..develops glaucoma, a disease that leads to total blindness and is very dif- ficult to detect. conjunction with World is sponsoring a_ free aucoma clinic at Clarence chael School gymnasium from noon fo 4 pm. Saturday. Optometrist Vic Hawes, one of the people co- ordinating the volunteer “§ Lions Day, the service club A close examination of the eyes is one of the main tests in-the free glaucoma screening program at Clarence effors of optometrists. nurses and at least one physician, said the screening program should pick up most people with symptoms of the disease, but it can still be missed. Persons undertaking the tests will pass through five stations iveing their personal. data, taking a visual acuity test, sub- mitting to an ; ophthamosocpy, or close inspection of the eyes, a tonometry, which tests the . p.m Screening may prevent blindness pressure in the eyes and a lood pressure test. Some people may be referred to professionals for further testing, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have the disease, said Hawes, who emphasized a certain percentage of people with glaucoma could still be missed by the screening. In order to make the screening 100 per cent sure of catching all those in whom glaucoma has begun to develop, the number of tests would have Michael School gymnasium Saturday from noon to 4 _ available, +o be phenomenal, he added. |” ‘Glaucoma damages blood vessels and the optic nerve as a result of pressure of the fluid inside the eyeball increasing for a variety of reasons, he said. This af- fects vision and ocular metabolism, After the optic nerve is damaged, sight can’t be restored. A variety of treatments are however, for those whose glaucoma development is caught in its early stages. _ Cherry Point ruling appealed ‘. WASHINGTON (CP) — Atlantic Richfield Co. issued a statement Thursday ing President Carter to yetoa bill that would bell its proposal to move Alaskan oil through = existing pinelines rom Cherry oint, Wash., to Edmonton and then to the U.S. Mid- west, -'In its statement, the company said Congress took “hasty and premptory action” Wednesday in passing a bill that would prohibit construction of any erude oil facility on Puget Sound in the state of Washington. “The prohibition came in the form of a surprise amendment to a bill to protect marine mammals, with Senator Warren nuson (Derm. Wash.) in- lucing the amendment Tuesday. After the bill was passed Wednesday night, as amended, Magnuson said he is confident it will receive Carter’s signature. ; Atlantic Richfie spokesman Manny Jiminez saidin a telephone interview from Los Angeles that Magnuson’s action came without formal notice and there would be a debate if the question comes before Congress again. For Congress to recon- sider the issue, either Carter would have to send the bill back or someone in Congress would have to introduce a bill repealing the Magnuson amendment. The Magnuson spokesman said both he and Atlantic Richfleld agreed that unless the amendment is over- turned, the TransMountain lan to move oil from erry Point to the Midwest is dead. The Northern Tier plan would have the Alaskan oil move by ship to Port Angeles, on the Straits of Juan de Fuca adjacent to Puget Sound, From there it would move east through a new pipeline. _ Thompson asked to rule on pollution documents VANCOUVER (CP) — Dr. Andrew Thompson, head of the ‘West Coast oil ports inquiry, was asked ‘Thur- sday to decide whether certain federal government documents are relevant to his hearings, and if so, whether they should remain confidential. The request followed a lengthy exchange between Marvin Sterrow, a lawyer’ representing the Kitimat Oil Coaltion which opposes an oil port in the northern, coastal city, and who favors releasing the documents, and J, Arthur MacLennan, a justice: department lawyer who believes the documents should remain confidential. The documents relate to a bid Wednesday by Storrow to inspect federal records relating to an allegation that ‘Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. of = Vancouver was responsible for a pollution problem during repairs to a ship in 1973, orrow raised the matter again Thursday during cross-examination of Bernie Heskin, regional director of the environmental protection service. Heskin was asked Wed- nesday to: produce two documents relating to the incident but. said he would search his files and then seek legal advice regarding their confidentiality. . HELD ONTO DOCUMENTS Heskin returned Thursday with Maclennan who had both documents and said he did not want to give them to Heskin lest Storrow ex- porpriate them. MacLennan, did, however, describe the documents as advice from civil servants to their su- pervisors for which he claimed —_ solicitor-clien! confidentiality. Making such correspondence publi: would inhibit the giving of such advice, “and govern- ment as we know it would grind to a halt,’ MacLennan said. PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAWENT BLDGS YICTORIA BC fo 4 ~* 7 J ¥.. vate, aeetitt Representatives of provincial and federal governments, right, fielded questions from local businessmen and government recently been designated to come more fully underthese rograms. P He said the Canadian and B.C. government agreed to . cooperate in-economic and soci-economic development in various regions in the province, including the northwest, northwest and the Kootenays. In July, these regions were designated for federal DREE assistance under the Regional Development Incentives Act >rdia). The RDIA program was designated to create im- proved oppertunities for employment through the promotion of industrial and commercial development by offering incentive grants and loan guarantees for most types of manufac- turing and processing in- dustries and loan guaran- tees for certain commercial operations. The incentive grants and loan guarantees can be offered to any Canadian or foreign group to establish modernize or expand business or industrial operations to creat op- portunities for employment. Another subsidiary agreement to promote employment, the Agriculture and Rural Development act )arda), representatives development seminar. at the economi will provide money for commercial undertakings that will create jobs, job training, remote rural community projects and primary producing projects. Programs within the region which have already taken advantage of the ARDA program are the Telegraph Creek airstrip and the telecommunication er planned for Atlin. ft is expected that programs for the immediate area will be slow in coming, but local officials appeared optimistic that the nor. west will benefit from the federal-provincial incentive assistance. arananeySesehiSeanegesSesntehonetateciancnseseneseletecectanasetecetnseceseecectseiececeeseee wa Trudeau appeals fo § §©6English school rights OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau renewed a formal appeal Thursday to Premier Rene Levesque to restore the right to English- language education in Que ovince. ; At same . time, But the federal govern- ment will join ‘in private actions already begun in lower courts challenging the Quebec language law. The government, while not pro iding financial legal aid o private groups chal- lenging the Quebec law, will intervene to support arguments that ‘‘a few rovisions of the law are of validity.” Trudeau set out his ‘government’s response to e Quebec language law, Bill 101, in a 4,-000-word letter to Levesque and a 1,600-word position paper released to press. Referring to the decision against a Supreme Court referral, the federal position paper says it believes ‘‘that itical rather: than legal itiatives are more ap- propriate in the circum- stances and that the repressive provisions of the bill should be abolished through the democratic process,” PRESENTS ARGUMENT Trudeau's letter to ‘Levesque urges the premier to reconsider the federal proposal of one month ago— rejected by Levesque Sept. $—to guarantee minonty language rights in schools of all provinces by a con- stitutional amendment. “Onee again, I invite you to reconsider your position on the advisability of roviding for education language rights in the constitution of Canada,’ Trudeau writes. “Indeed, I implore you to do so, if only for the sake of the francophone minorities in other provinces, who at last would have the support of the constitution in their . long struggle to affirm their rights. ; me emphasize also that this guarantee would ensure to the anglophone minority of Quebec that its language rights would no longer subject to further restric- tions,” Trudeau adds. He suggests that discussions on the issue. begin soon. Copies of the letter to Levesque have been sent to the nine other pro- vincial premiers. a JOIN ACTION Immediately, the government says it will om alti ts n. appear in a case launched in Quebec Superior Court, Montreal, by three lawyers who say provisions giving priority to French in the . courts and the Quebec national assembly violate the constitution. The British - North America Act of 1867, the * solintiy’s* . main stitutional Jaw, gives equal . con- status to English and French in the Quebec and federal legislatures and courts. Bill 101, the language charter which became law in Quebec Aug. 26, says “French is ihe language of the legislature and the courts in Quebec”’ and gives French priority in govern- ment and business. The charter also restricts the right to public schooling in English to children who have a sister or brother in the English school system, who have at least one parent who was educated in Quebec English schools or who move into Quebec from another part of Canada for a temporary stay of up to three years. Other immigrants or Canadians who move to Quebec are required to send their children to French- a requirement already defied by some Quebec parents and school boards. SUGGESTS GUARANTEE Trudeau wrote to Levesque and the other premiers Sept. 2 proposin e constitutional amend- Ment guaranteeing freedom to choose either English or French education “wherever the numbers of children ... warrant the provision of the necessary acilities.” Under a special proposed provision, Quebec would be permitted to restrict the education guarantee to Canadians—immigrants from outside Canada would have to choose French schools. But Quebec would be invited to apt for full ap- plication of the guarantee at some future time when that province felt the future of the French language there was secure, gbevesque rejected ate pt. 2 proposal, a that it would curta Quebec’s rights and con- stitute federal intervention in education—a fHeld reserved to the provinces in the division of federal- provincial powers under the NA Act. The BNA Act does not give equal status to both languages in provinces other thangpp Quebec. A ten-year-old bo was mauled by a t dr several families live. bear and they co section,” he said. Kuschke said. pulling it off the boy. injuries. Bear mauls boy in city area By Ann Dunsmuir Heraldstaffwriter <<" is in serious condition after he © e-year-old female bear inside Kitimat city limits at about 6:30 p.m. last night. A neighbour shot and kill ing Chad Taskinen up hill out of a gulley flanking the street on the west side of town where Klaus Kuschke, of 67 Dunn Street, whose back yard runs into the gulley, said he was leaving his house when his sons Kevin, 12, and daughter Susan,14, called to him for heip, saying a boy had been attacked by a di) him screaming. “They were crying and excited,” Kuschke said. He abbed his .303 rifle and followed the children into the ush, “The bear was pulling the child by his mid- ear From the ridge above the gulley he was able to get a clear shot at the bear's chest area. “The bear’s head was in the boy’s lap, so I had to aim for the chest,” He pumped two more shots into the bear before Kuschke said the child was conscious when rescued, though he had lost his scalp and suffered abdominal the boy was taken to Kitimat General Hospital and is reported in serious but stable condition. the bear as it was Court rules out MONTREAL (CP) — A Quebec Superior Court justice ruled un- constitutional Thursday a section of the province’s Charter of the French Language requiring that all court documents be filed in French. Mr. Justice Perry Meyer, handing down a ruling in a complicated injunction proceeding, held that chapter III, Section 12 of the language charter violates language guarantees contained in the British North America Act. The section of the charter at issue requires that all court documents be written in French, or if in English be accompanied by a French translation which is the official version for judicial purposes. r. Justice Meyer's ruling was immediately appealed. The decision, which af- fects only the one section of the charter, arose as the result of a courtroom tactic by defence lawyers trying to obtain a delay in an in- junction hearing unrelated to the language law. PLEA FOR INJUNCTION The case centred on a bill patition for an injunction— iled in English—by a New Jersey-based company, Chemical and Pollution Sciences Inc. The firm is trying to block a former employee, Maurice Malone, from working for Record Chemical Co. of Montreal. The plaintiffs charge that Malone, a former employee of the US. firm, violated a contract agreeement barring him from working for any competing company for two years after leaving his previous employer. The provision was designed to protect trade secrets. Lawyers for Malone and for Record Chemical Co. challenged the injunction tition on the grounds that it was not submitted in French. No paper Monday | The Herald staff wishes all Terrace-Kitimat residents the best over lhe Thanksgiving weekend. Since we'll be taking a holiday ourselves, there will be no paper Monday.