i . Legislative Library ' \ Parliment Buildings ' Wietoria, B.C, vav -124 » Progressive eo “Northwest “ ‘Boy Scout and Girl Guid Week February 19 to 24 récelved . the official go-ahead from acting mayor Ruth Hallock. — Representing the different divisions of the scauting movement are, left.to right, Ross Shearer (Scout); David Cross (Beaver), Scott Wilson (Cub), (Venturer). Paul Fleming oo, ‘Established 1903 Brownles, Girl Guides, ‘and Pathfinders will also be taking part inthe week long Thinking Day bervice, and 2: tarchlight parade , ‘on curring this week, -Jowans participate in precinct caucuses : DES _ MOINES. (CP) — . Former vice- president Walter (Fritz) Mondale is the clear favorite today as an estimated. 100,000 Iowans oo particlpate | in state-wide precinct caucuses, the ’ first stage in a ‘process that will decide which Democrat will run against President’. Ronald . _ | Reagan's in‘the Nav. 6 election. © n ‘; The caucuses — 2,495 separate meeti private hones — are the tirat big: teat reight — ~. candidates seeking” the. Democratic : party's” presidential. ‘nomination’ at a: San ‘Francisco, ‘convention next: July, we A poll issued ‘Suinday by . the Des Moines ° Register ‘in the state capital showed the 56- year-old Mondale, -affectionately known as Fritz, with a wide lead over the others and a three-way race for second spot among Senators John Glenn of Ohio, Gary Hart of Colorado and Alan Cranston of Galifornia. _ The poll was bad news for Glenn, 62-year-old. millionaire‘ and: former astronaut, who shas. been perceived for months as the man who could turn the contest into a dramatic two-way race at an early stage and possibly overtake Mondale in the end. - “The important thing that Thope people think — about is not what king maker or self-appointed - power broker decided who the ‘nominee was v. going to be six months ago,” Glenn told sup- ‘porters Sunday at a small rally as his lowa ‘ campaign came to a close. SUPPORTS FIGHTER Hig pitch worked on Herb Dennis, a middle- _ aged man who walked into the Glenn rally as an undecided voter, ‘‘T-think I’m, going to go for _ him,’? Dennis said, "He's a fighter.” ’ But it left his friend, Donna Coffman, cold. A.. teacher, Coffman said slie supported Glenn | ~ until a few weeks ago when he started laun- . ching “nasty and petty attacks” on organized a | campaign ‘fifaneing “and | the: gs In ts Se chen eat ee ubtbn methberis; ti Democrats in ‘person or’on the telephone an “ urged: them to support the: frontrunner 0 labor’s support, for ‘the Mondale campaign. ‘Now she is undecided.’ - Mondale’s. labor support, from the AFL-CIO labor umbrella: and thé’ National: Education | 7 -.. Association, isthe envy of the othér candidates. « * land the subjact.c of controversy ina debate over influence | af.” “special interest ‘grou 38. “ from * Mondale “Minnesota, ‘conducted their sixth: Ppt blitz”: ‘on the weekend. They contacted thousands “grounds “we feel: she’s: the most slectable: in . November.” . . ee "Hart, 45,- appealed to. “the independent - voter’ who does not slavishly follow the advice ~ _ of labor or other organized groups. He has tried to distinguish himself as a forward: looking - thinker, branding the others as men with:old - solutions to new economic and social problenis. - _ Cranston, 69; has plugged into the activé ariti--. fuelear movement. in-lowa, running a “peace -and jobs'”’ campaign that has won “support in _ rural and urban regions..But his age and - cadaverous appearance seem to be working: ".. against him. wot " The caucuses - are techilcally: designed to. choose delegates to county conventions but, in - the process, each candidate finds his’ State-wide * popularity ranking and thus ‘gains or ‘loses. - “ campaign momentum that is eruclal during. the, a _ next three weeks."! -: ‘They are positioning themselves for pcimary. votes in New Hampshire on Feb. 28 and ina ‘group of southern states on what iss bécome ~ known as Super: Tuesday, March 13, ‘The ultimate victor. will likely’ be: clear. Super . Tuesday even. though. state caucuses: and . ‘primaries. will continue until late spring, - : erfr of, vindical “wha is bunni what the pundits call. “e cam~ igri. to make | up. tort his. 1972 x ars and at e ‘imagination rot ‘many ” fowshe when: he urged: ‘them: in: 18 “televised debate two. yea ‘ago: ‘not to thro: heir cone a siyearald . riubae, who i is. going. to" a Deniderat caucus’ for - ‘the first-time and plans. to Support | McGovern: - ‘ “y ve, been a registered Republican ' for 22 years - — ever since my husband told me to'sign up — but when I watched McGovern; on TV Frealized . I've been -i in the wrong party: ‘all ‘this time. I. . agree with hitn — Uh don't want.to Yhedw my cOnscience, away.” ios Rev. Jesse Jackson, a ‘firey black, ‘Baptist - preacher ; who | seeks . to”: tinite, “a> rainbow coalition’: of Minorilies and ‘women, ‘has. not - ‘ampaigried: much. in this farm: state that has fal a small black epilation, ‘Support ‘tor him "here seems slim." *” Former Florida governor Reuben Askew has - : ~ strong ‘support from ‘anti-abortion groups but ‘appears.to have had'little. other impact. And “,former’ South Caroliria . governor. Ernest _ "Hollings lias paid little. attention to the party ‘members here. ae - Republicans: are holding. caucuses too, to: diseuss policy.. Regan. is - uncontested as. Republican presidential. ‘candidate but. was - scheduled to appéar in, Des Moines today to fire “the political troops and, perhaps, 8 steal some , limelight from the Democrats. ’ guade - Orillia woman’s | ‘sentenced. reduced TORONTO (CP);-— A pregnant Orillia woman sentenced: in January to three months in jail for‘ . contempt of court after she refused to testify against . her, boyfriend was ordered released today following an ‘Ontario Court of Appeal : hearing. - Associate Chief Justice B. J. MacKinnon reduced the . sentence imposed on Karen _the case, ‘Mitchell, 22, to two weeks, which he said equals the time she has already served : in jail. Mitchell had returned to the Vanier Correctional Institute in _—snearby Brampton on Sunday after . relessed Jan. 9 | pending the butcome of the ; being appeal. in ordering ‘the senilence reduction, MacKinnon sald” _ he “in no. way wanted. - minimize He offence,” but: was imposing the shorter - tern. peculiar circumstances of Including her - “because of misconception of the fact charges were lald, the fact . she has no previous record : ‘defence the ~ and is in her sixth month of pregnancy. sa Crown: Attorney ‘Paul Lindsay said he agreed with. ‘lawyer ‘Brian ; Greenspan that’ the - gen- tence should be reduced, but, said he felt time already served was not adequate ‘and suggested a lerin of between 30 and 0 days. ., ‘Provincial court Judge. Leonard ‘Montgomery Pulp negotiators. find agreement Negotiators for both sides in the ongoing British Columbia pulp and paper dispute were in - agreement on'one point Sunday — VANCOUVER (CP) — sparked : a: national debate .’ last month “when he sen-" enced Mitchell to 90 days, saying her. refusal to testify. against Terry Reed was “a | _ grave , attack on-law and order ‘on his Pommunity.’ ” Reed, or, “who Mitchell said is father of the childshe - is carrying, ° was charged with assaulting her on Sept. 24 and, Oct, 3. and with block to a-settlement still is contract length. Pulp and Paper ‘Industrial Relations Bureau negotiator. Dick Lester said negotiations between the buréau and the .: Canadian Paperworkers: Union and the Pulp; Paper aid Woodworkers of Canada have been going nowhere, Paperworkers spokesman. Art Gruntman said the ' weekend laiks failed to achieve anything, . oe The parties planned to meet again today. The- industry wants a three-year deal, while the pitip unions are equally insistent on a two-year agreement. Lester said the bureau, during a 90-minute: session ‘that-the mais stumbling . escaping” lawful custody by running away from -police when they tried to arrest him. He was released. on bail Oct..5 on condition he | stay” away from her. . * The Crown ‘alleged he failed to comply. with the condition and he was sen- tenced Dec. 5 to 30 days for violating the parole order. He is’ to appear in court unions want improved. -egain March 20 and has not been allowed bail. * Mitchell: told. provincial court ‘last. month she. ‘and Reed’: ‘planned . ‘to. get married after his ‘divorce became final: She said she had: not intended to have criminal : “charges brought against him but only wanted a peace bond to keep him away from her until ‘the wedding. He’ ‘sald the bureau is prepared to negotiate on cerlain issues, “such as the companiés’ proposed productivity . clauses, but not contract length. The unions aren't prepared to negotiate on either issue, he added. ‘We've given a lot of inches since this experience began ‘and they've given us nothing,’ Lester said, ““Prith of the matter is, they’vé miade it pretty clear to us “today. — the pulp unions have their pride and independence “and, having told us they’re not prepared to let anybody else — capital, militiamen against army The «= | Italians force of 100 men. US. ‘President pull out. EXTRAS": LEAVE /Giese'‘said. such support perweunel as " ebokis and supply. workers had been flown : “He ‘referred to the evacuees as “exe Chamber. launches campaign turnaround." Hughes. lived CHARLOTTETOW N (CP) ~The Canadian. “Chamber of. Commerce is’. prepared to throw its weight behind any. campaign by the ” tourism" industry: to per- federal . _provincial ‘governments to review. excise taxes, par- ticularly those on gasoline ~ and liquor. Chamber president Sam - ‘Hughes, « told Canadian ~ tourist ‘leaders © Sunday fedéral and provineial taxes © on gasoline, liquor and tobacco: are hurting the tourist industry and should ‘be removed: or at least reduced. ; i “Canadian " prices _ of — ‘fiquor, ‘@igarettes and ” . gasoline: suffer badly by : ‘comparison with those in’ ° the United States,’ Hughes, _ told the annual meeting of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada. “Prices of- these high- profile products are raised . artificially. by - the ap- plication. of certain highly questionable taxes,° taxes _ that”, are . , levied - " automatically to new: _and- counterproductive | heights ‘ by increases in taxes ap- plied earlier. We have. been abandoned by common sense as government arith- metic fias: taken over.” *-. Hughes, “who delivered the thenie address “as the association's - annual * meeting opened, ‘sald he is. prepared “to - use the chamber's influence to’ persuade . the federal government to review its excise taxes. : ‘BAD FOR HEALTH “We've been doing that anyway but wilh the federal minister of finance we've been getting a double-- barrelled response: one is that-his deficit Is already higher than we want it to be, and two Is, that the excise tax on tobacco and alcohol ia not -necessarily bad because his argument is it’s: bad for our health.’ “We've got to counter that, or at Jeast take the ‘negotiate ‘an agreement with pulp, ‘particularly the WA edge off it, if we are to be (International Woodworkers of America), it's out: and-oul ~ trade rivalry.” < The Industry's last monetary offer basiealy matches the Sunday, llsted in detail the ‘disastrous history!’ ii has experienced after agreeing to different contracts with the :. _ anlond, On ‘Saturday, the bureau responded. to. areas. + the . . - See ‘Progress’ ; page 3 | successf The theme of the three- day .confetence ‘in this - Maritime tourism meeca is "934: Canada’s year of tourism, the- year of ‘the Police.said 16 people were killed and 0 . wounded in battles overnight in central ; Beirut’ and at Souk el-Gharb,” which ‘ misdion will remain what it has, to respond overleoks the presidential palace and the - US. marine. base at Beirut's-airport, The army garrison at Souk el-Gharb is under attack by Druse insurgents, while the _ fighting in Beirut pits Shiite Moslem: Christian militiamen along a line dividing the capital's Mostem and Christian sectors. abandoned. _ their headquarters: and positions in west Beirut’ a: Sabra and: Chatilla Palestinian réfugee camps.by ‘mid-morning to board landing: ~ craft headed for navy ' vessels off shore.An Italian | spokesman said . ‘the ‘1, 400-man j contingent of the mullinationat force would - be out of Beirut today except for a cleanup . ’ Reagan's | security adviser, Robert McFarlane, said Sunday in New York the 1,200 marines remaining at: the airport had also 9 begun to McFarlane said | the marines - moving already and ’m sure there are .some aboard ship by this time." He said all would’ be ‘aboard: -ships by mid-March. But a. Spokesman for the marines in Beirut said teday that although they were loading equipment onto the ships, they had ‘fot received orders * to start the troop . redeployment, . ' “We don’thave the orders yet,” sald US. > he Force: Capt. Jack Giese. “The equip- In the eountdowi to the Iowa cauciiges, fresh | . Ment, going out i support. equipment.” by predicting _ an ‘provement in the’ troubled — and - .. business want to look for- ward to.better times, the - balance ,sheet from 1983 BEIRUT (AP) — Government traops fought off rebel attacks on the ‘strategic mountain town of Souk el-Gharb loday as Italy withdrew its peacekeeping troops from - their positions in the- -Lebanese : Brinkley. troops. and Volume No.35 “tras” and said OUS is going on” con- .cerning the movement of combat troops. The Reagan administration said last week the marines would start pulling back . from their bunkers to éth Fleet ships off the ‘ cdast of Beirut over the weekend. The .marines’ will. remain in the Mediterranean, McFarlane said. “Their wherever they are. needed, and if-that is “Lebanon, ‘then. Lebanon is. where they’ H go,” he said during an. interview.on ABC- TV’s program, This “Week with David The Israeli ‘military command in Tel . Aviv: said ifs warplanes hit: Palestinian . guerrilla bases at Naameh near Damour,. 19 kilometres south of Beirut along | the Mediterranean coast, and at Bhamdoun and Hammana in’ the .c¢ ~ Radio reports said-the planes made a - sécond rum-at the targets, which they said_/ ‘Included the villages’ of: Aley, Migheyteh, ~ Doha and Aramoun. The radia stations said Syrian batteries in the mountains fired on, ntral mountains. but did not hit the attacking planes. . ; national. :. . Wéstern: Feporters who have covered the . fighting along the coast said they have not |. seen Palestinians around the coastal areas, - although they are. kuown to have. had positions at Bhamdoun. “are ‘Damour. raids on up to the theme’s optimism im- tourist trade. . *.. But although those in- volved “in the hospitality ‘indicates the industry ‘is a long way from healthy. Canada’s 1963 tourism deficit, _ythe . difference between ‘what’ spent outside the country and what operat _Trought Canadians -- Police said the raids killed at least three people and wounded 19 in Naahme and. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, a -spokesman for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine denouncéd the. “Palestinian Lebanese positions.” The air strikes were the first by Israel since Syrian-backed Druse and Shiite Moslem rebels forced the Lebanese army - out of south of Beirut last week, placing the government of President Amin Gemayel in jeopardy. The Druse, Shiitee and Syria have subsequently rejected an eight-point : ;reconelliation: ‘Plan offered by Gemayel. and national in, reached $2 billion. LOSING BUSINESS William ,- Pattison, outgoing chairman of. the tourist association, said * Canada has lost much of its ‘ yaluable ‘ business” from the United — States — people who live “rubber tire within a six-hour drive of | * Canadian borders. He said that on average, there is a 45-per-cent dif- ference in the.price of gas between the two countries and Americans refuse to pay the Migher prices, Meeting held - Herald Staff Writer TERRACE— The Terrace Public Library held its annual ; general meeting on Thursday, February 16, and amongst the seriousness of handling board matters, a little joviality was included in the evening's agenda. Gillian Campbell, the childrens’ librarian, put on a- modified version of a Punch and Judy puppet show that had the audience laughing throughout the entire program. ‘Three new members were elected onto the library boaid, ‘Ken Beddie, Marty Lorimer and Eleanor Muehle will be | replacing trustees Jo Harris, Helen Watson and Clarence. — Nyce, All the members of the 1963 Board were re-elected to the new board. of trustees, ; This years executive board is: Pamela Straker, chair- person; Eila George, vice-chairperson; Hugh Hephurn,. . treasurer; Nirmal Parmar, corresponding secretary. The library is looking forward to installing an automated computer circulation system, in the coming year. ~The municipality will be purchasing a computer terminal that will be installed in the library and connected to a main data center in city ball. an INSIDE © ’ pages 445 page 6 pages 889 Sports Comics Classifieds [ WHY BUY NEW? > WHEN USEDWILL Do! 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