PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, April 13, 1976 . Postal strike “ OTTAWA (CP) — A special government: bill to ban a postal strike during a federal election campaign appeared to be on its way to becoming law Tuesday after~ the Commons gave it ap- proval in principle. , But. _— the New Democratic Party refused a government re- quest to whip the measure through ali stages of Commons consideration in- one day and predicted the measure will not come up for a final Commons vote until Friday, Given two years to live “If the government wants the bill, it will have to stay here and do it,” said Stanley Knowles NDP House leader an MP for Winnipeg North Centre ; During the debate, several opposition MPs said they expect an election ‘call “any day now.” , Progressive Con- servatives supported the bill because they said a postal strike would be disruptive. But they objected to the last- minute move to deal with a problem that should have been™ dealt with before an election was looming. ; Knowles said the gfovernment was “pushing the panic button too soon.” NO THREAT “The fact of the matter is... there is no threat yet,”’ said Knowles, But the bil}, intreduced Monday as conciliation hearings into the postal dispute started, likely wil provoke the Canadian Union of Posta}: Workers (CUPW), he said. n Social] Credet eritic-* nLeonel Beaudoin (Rich- ban law seems likely to pass — mond) said the govern- ment should have. de- layed the bill until after the conciliation hearings, “so all interested parties will discuss the matter in a more relaxed at- mosphere.” The late-evening recorded vote to give the bill approval in principle was 152-to-16 with the NDP. opposing it along with five Social Credit members and two in- dependent’ MPs. » Standing in the 264-seat Commons is Liberal 137, Progressive Con- servative 88, NDP 16, fights cancer and wins - When he was a law student, Richard De- . venney was told by his doctor he had a rare form of cancer and had less than two.years to live. That was three years ago, During that time, Devenney married and bought a home, and on Thursday will be for- mally sworn in as a lawyer along with his bar admission class of almost 1,000 students. Devenney has also been chosen as a law clerk to the chief justice of On- - tario. Seventen students from the bar admission course are selected each year to sérve in the Ontario Supreme Court, a position that is handed out to the most promising young iawyers, “It’s been like winning alottery,” Devenney said in an interview Tuesday. “When [ was told I had two years to live, I thought [I had won a lottery in reverse. Now that its three years later and this‘is happening me, I feel I’ve Tnally won the lottery the right way around,’’ Devenney is convinced he ha; his cancer beaten, HAS OBLIGATION n He said he feels a moral obligation to tell other - cancer victims of his ease go they will continue to have hope... “T want to tell people not to.give up without a fight.” Devenney underwent two years of massive chemotherapy treatment and major surgery. Twice he went bald betause of-side effects from. weatment, — He was'told July 8, 1975, after an operation to remove a lumg from a testicle, #that he had a rare form of career—- embrynal cell car- cinoma. ; "I told the doctor right then that I'd fight it and beat it,’’ he said. “It was a very bravado " thing to say. The doctor. just looked at me.” The cancer soon spread to his lungs and later he faced major surgery in which the lymph glands running dawn the trunk of his body @ removed, 70 biopsies were taken, and his appendix was removed. During this time, he wrote exams in his last year in law, articled with | @ law firm and took the bar admission course, He has now been given a clean bill of health by his doctors and faces the future with optimism. - _ He said he wants people ‘to-realize diagnosis of eancer is not a death sentence, and that having a strong and op- timisticnapproach can a positive factor. “Tm less ambitious now, more willing to be happy and enjoy life. “I'm also in awe of what a fabulous thing the human body is,” ~~ One narwhal, three whales — still trapped off E. coast (CP) — Four whales remain inside an_ice- bordered cove at Hall's Bay in northeastern Newfoundland despite efforts by an icebteaker to cut a path for thent'to 2 way: ‘out 7 2 ~ freedom and the open sea, PR Residents say the three humpbacks and a nar- whal were seen Tuesday afternoon in the area in which they have been trapped since early winter. . ; The Canadian Pig year at icebreaker Sir Humphrey Gilbert cut through a_ half-mile barrier of ice Monday night in hopes that the- whales would find their & path, whales all winter, said Tuesday night a west wind is needed to get the ice out of the bay. The wind was blowing east Tuesday. n ~+- “He said the whales’ are afraid to leave until all i» “Scientists from the US.“ the ice: drifts’ out: Belley and Canada have been in the area for several days studying the mammals da and trying to find a way to get them into the open, . Pelley, a: Cyril Springdale businessman who has been feeding the ua ‘8 a ri . ‘ Progressive Con- servative MP Elmer MacKay (Central Nova) asked Wednesday why a Quebec firm astride the Canada-Vermont border is testing ralssiles in An- tigua, and whether it is shipping arms to South Africa and Israel. MacKay asked Defence Minister Barney Danson in the Commons whether he is aware. that Space Research Corp, is in- volved in “the manufacture, de- velopment, testing, shipment and in- ternational sale of-arma- ments which include gun shells and types of missiles,” Danson said he will ask External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson about It, He later told reporters (hat as far as he knows - the company manufac- turers ammuhition for small arms. MacKay told reporters che company is shipping arms from Saint John, Con't from. a.low clearance, he said. In a telephone con- versation with Jim Lynch, distriet Coroner, the Daily Herald learned the tentative date for an open inquest into the death of Trevor Franz has been set for 7:30 p.m. May 2nd, at the Terrace Court House. oo, ’ “The public is welcome to attend the inquest, since the purpose of it is to bring out all the facts pertinent to the cause of death.” Lynch said he would haye liked to have held the inquest earlier, but even the May second date is. ‘tentative’ N.B., to Antigua for testing. He said Space Research owns. 600,000 — acres spanning the ‘Canada-US. border. at Highwater, Que., and Troy, Vt, The company has its own special customs arrangements, he said. “lam intrigued by the apparent size and resources of this com- pany,” MacKay said. He said he wants to find out the finai destination of the arms going to. Antigua. “1 think I know where they are going, but I want to get the minister (Danson) to respond.” He -said he is. not making allegations, but just’ asking exploratory questions. It is possible at the testing in An- tigua is some kind of ‘work for NATO, but it could also involve the sale of ‘arms. to South Africa and Israel, said. because photographs of the accident have to be processed and developed y the RCMP Photo Lab section in Ottawa. The Ottawa Lab is notoriously slow in returning the: films, and sufficient time has to be allowed for that purpose, > MICHAEL [8 CHAMPION, 5 TORONTO (CP) .°-— Michael Rohland, 16, of Toronto, is Canada’a new junior chess champion, The Grade 13 student will represent Canada at the world junior chese cham- plonships this summer in Austria, he : “tet (ata atatastatatal said the weather is mild, so it should be only a few s. ‘ He said the channel cut by the icebreaker thas filled up with loose broken ice. Pelley said the whales Milfoil danger A provincial biologist said Tuesday . that Eurasian milfoil weed could ultimately destroy all fish in the Okanagan lakes system. : Peter Seales, public information co-ordinator for the British Columbia aquatic plant man- agement program, told a meeting held to discuss. use of the herbicide 2,4-D that danger to fish would come about when the weed decayed. “As it decays a lot ofnthe nutrient goes into the water and soil and this leads to rapid aging of the lake,” he said. “Oxygen levels are reduced to such a point ‘that present species such as the salmonides (trout) may cease to exist.” Scales also said that if the weed is not con-. trolled, it is possible it would spread into the Shuswap Lake system and from there into the seem to know him and other local people who have been trying to help them. The whales came toward them when they approached, and followed their boat into the. channel, 20h.) ey Pelley- «expressed... concern about: the nar- whal because he was unsure whether it was taking food. - ; Pelley' and federal fisheries officials con- tinue keeping a close watch on the whales. Thompson and Fraser rivers. . ; Vernon pathologist Ross Wilcock said that while it may he reasonable for 2,4-D to be. used by properly- qualified persons, “it is highly dangerous to he. used by the public.” Three government : scientists ‘told the meeting that there would be no danger to either animal or fish life from controlled use of the herbicide. But Jay Lewis, a member of the South Okanagan Environ- mental Coalition, which has been fighting use of the herbicide, said government scientists have so far failed to show that the herbicide will be safe. He said the burden is on the government to prove that there would be no dangers to humans ° before ,2,4-D is used in Okanagan Lake. provincial Social Credit 8, In- dependent 4, vacant 11. , TO COMMITTEE Because the NDP refused the special ap- proval needed for speedy passage,nthe bill goes to the Commons labor committee today and if it is approved there, Knowles said it cannot be debated on the final reading stage in the Comnions until Friday, After that it would have ‘to go to the Senate and through routine. royal assent before taking 2ffect. Jean-Claude Parrot, sresident of 23,000- member CUPW said in an interview “there is no doubt this bili is a provocation and it may prompt some reaction by our people.” ; “But at the same lime, that might be what the government would like.” After conciliation hearings end, in about 4 two weeks, Parrot said CUPW executives will meet to carefully cc: sider their strategy. Normally, the union would have. the right under the Public Service Staff Relations Act to strike seven days after the conciliation board reported. —_ The postal clerks and mail sorters represented by CUPW have been without a contract since June 30. The union has asked for the right to negotiate prorosed technological changes -to eliminate adverse effects on the membership. CUPW also has asked for an end to the use of casual, non- union labor in the post office. ; Attempts at direct negotiation failed sonthe government requested the appointment af a conciliation board last November. # os a Members of the B.C. Council for the Family ¢0-0rdinator Connie Hawley with Rev. John Maureen Okerstrom, Helen Patenaude, and Stokes. by Donna Vallieres Members of the B.C. ‘ Council ‘for. the Family — were in Terrace.this week..; to-explain the purpose-of. . the council and to en- courage people in Terrace to.form their own ebranch, “'" 07, Helen Patenaude, secretary on the board of directors, explained to an audience at a Tuesday luncheon that the B.C, Council for the Family is a- provinge-wide. - organization which aims - to strengthen marriage and the. family. “Whatever we can do individually and as a group to support family life is what we're about,” she said. The council, which is non-sectarian and non- political, is made up of representatives ,. from religious~ bodies, ~ ethnic proups, community agencies and the four main political parties. Establishment of the council was the result of the 1976 Conference on ‘the Family which came up with that recoem- mendation as well as the recommendation to proclaim and celebrate Family Month in May each year. These and about 90 other recommendations from the conference were compiled into 2 book reflecting what is wrong with families and how - Kitimat crime by Scott Browes ’. Kitimat RCMP report a single vehicle accident on Gannett Street in Kitimat: Tuesday. Owner of the vehicle is Lucy Critchley of Gull Street Kitimat. The vehicle apparently ‘slid out of control and struck a telephone pole. Damage was estimated as minimal. There were no injuries reported, . A watch was found in the Kitimat Hotel Tuesday. Owner may claim by description at ‘the RCMP station. Two break and enters were reported in Kitimat Tuesday. Ye Wise Owl . . — Cr 3838, atatatatatetate a eh Bo | We're _ Listed _ Here! "a"ata*als'stateta's Tet etal lf you wish your Business Phone - listed for your customers please call . o PO Jew Busines Not listed B.C. 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These recom- mendations have formed the basis of the council's efforts. The B.C. Council for the Family: focuses on four Major areas: Marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, parent advisory groups and family time together. Mrs. Patenaude said there is a need for couples’ planning on marriage to prepare for this im- portant step. She pointed to one study which showed that where couples had not participated in a marriage preparation program, one in. four marriages failed within- 10 years. The failure rate tor those who had been involved: in a program was one in 55, . Once people are ’ married, it is still im- portant for them to look at the relationship and focus on what is right about it, Mrs, Patenaude said. - Many church groups have marriage enrich-. , ment programs, she said, but..people. who rare. natu} church members) shéuld-t also have the opportunity - of these programs which “keep families strong.’ The council secretary also suggested the for- mation of parent ad- visory groups attached to the schools. It is important for -parents to be familiar with courses their children are taking, such as sex education, so they. can have some ‘“‘postive” input into education. The last major point | Mrs. Patenaude spoke on was the need for families to set aside one night a week for the family, Coupled with this js. encouraging May as Family Month as a time for thinking about the family as the basic unit of society, ms Many people in the audience expressed in- terest in forming a local branch of the B.C. Council for the Family and were advised to contact Arlene Gohden at 635-4324 for more in- formation... ‘