4 Page 2, The Herald, Friday, April 6, 1984 PUblithed very Weekday 41018 Kalurn Sirsat, Terrace, 8.C. by Sterling Publishers Lid, Authorized ax second clans mall. Regiiration Number 1201, Poarage pald In cosh. return postage querinied : Terrace: Circulation: 655-427 6354009 Publisher - David Hamilton’ Editor; Advertising Salea: GrianGregg Nick Walton. Stall Writers. Photographer Sports: Ralph Reschke - Holly Olson ~ Reception Classified: Circulation: Ctalre Wadley | Sue Booten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ‘Tha Herald reteing full, completeand tole copyright In any pdveriieernent and-or permission of the Publisher. Tha Terrace-Kitimal Dally Herald Newspaper is politically independent and a member of the Oritisn Columbia Press Council. Jobless — numbers _ climb again OTTAWA (CP) Unem- ployment climbed back above 1.5- million last month, the latest: economic jolt to shake Canadians who are already facing a sagging dollar and renewed Increases in interest rates and inflation, The number of jobless climbed by 65,000 to 1,641,000 in March and the jobless rate, adjusted for. seasonal variations, rose to 11.4 - per cent from 11.3 per cent in February, Statistics Canada said today. Unemployment is at its highest Since April 1983 when there were 1,532,000 people unable to find work. and is only down 133,000 from the revised all-time high of 1,674,000 for March last year. And the seasonally adjusted rate is at its highest level since August 1983 when it was 11.6 per cent. Late last month an optimistic Finance Minister Mare Lalonde criticized opposition MPs for being pessimistic and suggested at the .. time that good news was on its way. Today's figures shatter those expectations. : They show there has been no real increase In jobs since last Sep- tember, sald James McGrath, Progressive Conservative em- ployment critic. . Canadians have lost confidence in the government and the economy and a change in leadership is needed, . said. McGrath, who called for a quick“ election. , rome Psd § But Jan Waddell,’ New Democratic Party job-creation critic, said “We need a national commitment to full employment by the end of the decade... and that would mean completely revamping the Canadian economy.” ; The Vancouver Kingsway MP, whose party unlike the Tories trails badly in the popularity polls, rejected the call for an election. “Putting in the Conservatives, the Tweedle-dums for the Tweedle- dee Liberals is not golhg to make any difference,’ he said. The jobless rate has: been climbing steadily this year, after the decline in unemployment was halted in the final three months af last year at 11.1 per cent. The rate climbed ominously to 11.2 per cent in January andto 11.3 per cent in February, The jobless rolls now are at their highest level since April 1983 when there were 1,592,000 people unable to find work and are only down 133,000 from the revised all-time high of 1,674,000 for March last year. _And the seasonally adjusted rate Is at Its highest level since August 1983 when it was 11:6 per cent. The jobless rate rose by. 0.5 to 20.3 per cent in Newfoundland, by 0.4 to 14.7 in New Brunswick, by 0.3 to #4 in Ontario, by 0.8 to 8.4 in Saskatchewan, and by 0.4 to 10.7 in’ Alberta, The rate decreased by 0,5 to 12.7 per cent in Nova Scotia, by 0.5 to 13 in Quebec, by 0.3 to 62 in Manitoba, and by 0.1 to 14.4 in British Columbia. . The rate remained unchanged at 12.5 in Prince Edward Island. The largest decrease in em- ployment was in the construction industry where 17,000 jobs disappeared; there were marginal decreases in the trade and services industries. At the same time, the number of jobs in primary industries, other than agriculture, rose by 10,000. MEN HIT HARD a Unemployment, adjusted for seasonal variations, increased in March by an estimated 10,000 for men 25 years of age and over and by 6,000 for women in the same age group;:it decreased by 19,000 for men and women under age 28. ‘The jobless rate increased by 0.2 to 9.1 per cent for males 35 and aver, by 0.1 to 0.6 for femaleain the same age group. It declined by 0.3 to 30.1 for young men and by 0.4 to 16 for young women. Unemployment increased by 14,000 in Ontarlo, by 4,000 in Saskatchewan and by §,000 in Alberta, In Quebec, unemployment declined by 16,000 and there was Ilttle change tn the other Ob rs ’ Wholesale, provinces, da dette AE BS CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Five astronauts rode the U.S. space shuttle Challenger into orbit 466 kilometres. above the. Earth, highest yet for a shuttle, and set off today in pursuit of a crippled solar observatory for a daring first attempt to repalr a satellite in space. . ; ; ~The mission, in which a free- flying “astronaut will put. a Jet- powered backpack to its first practical use, began with a rum- bling Hftoff on schedule at 8:58 am. EST, me, . Accompanying the crew: were 3,300 honeybees and the shuttle's heaviest cargo so far — an 11-tonnie package of experiments, including 13 million tomato seeds, that will be dropped off in orbit and picked up next year. ‘The Canadian-levelaped robot arm will be involved in the satellite repair exercise and will place the bees in orbit, and a Canadian- designed movie camera will be tested. _ —_ Commanded by Rabert Crippen, - the first astronaut to make three : shuttle flights, the 100-tonne space plane rose from its launch -pad swiftly on the powerful thrust of its engines and darted eastward over the’Atlantic Ocean. — - TWO-DAY CHASE ‘As the astronauts soared into orbit, the target satellite was half a ‘ world away, 18,500 kilometres in front of the shuttle. Crippen will lead Challenger on a chase of 1,320,000 kilemetres over two days until he moves to within 60 metres of his goal. Co , It was the 11th shuttle launch, the ( . "Space shuttle launch orbit the 11-tonne satellite carrying °° = fifth for Challenger. The flight is to’ -end next Thursday with the second landing back -at Cape Canaveral. _ Crippen isin charge of.an-ali- rookle crew of pilot Dick-Scobee and ‘mission ‘speciallsig :“ Terry Hart, George Nelson and James van Hoften, 0. Thelt journey puta a recdrd 11 people ‘in space at the same time, including five cosmonauts, and dn- Indian astronaut. “who: ara travelling on the Soviets’ Salyut.7 space station: The old. mark of eight was set in February when five --astronauts .- and three. cosmonauts were aloft. , With the skies so crowded, NASA had only seven minutes, 45 seconds of leeway for today’s launch. The United States. and Soviet Union have an agreement not to come within 320 Kilometres of. one another’s spacecraft, and liftoff any Jater would have put. the shuttle and space station closer than that. a NO CONTROL SYSTEM - Challenger’s mission calls for it to rendezvous with the ‘Solar Maximum Satellite, which has been wobbling and spinning slowly, since losing its control system nearly three years ago. a It will be Nelson’s job, wearing one of the backpacks, to cast free. from the orbiting shuttle, flit 60 metres away and attach a device to Solar Max so it can be hauled. into the cargo bay for repairs. ° -.. The astronauts’ first major task will come Saturday, when they dsé- the shuttle’s 15metre remote- controlled Canadarm to place in e A) 67 science, ‘:: technology "and materials experiments ‘which will. 02 operate’ in. ‘space: until : another | ‘To the Editor, shuttle crew recaptures’ ‘the payload and returns It to Earth 10 months from now. That.’ payload. includes the lomato seeds whose growth back on “Earth. will be studied for - any _ effects of weightlessness, |. The bees, safely tucked away in a box, will be kept aboard the shuttle to seé. whether they. can - build: | honeycombs .. in. weightlessness aa well as they do. . on Barth. ¢° 00 2. On Sunday morning, Crippen and Scobee will track down Solar Max: and Nelson: and van Hoften, in spacesuits, will move through an airlock into the open cargo bay. Hart, operating the . shuttle’s Canadarm from inside the cabin, will reach out and snatch the. payload and bring it into the bay. Van. Hoften and Nelson will replace:a faulty control: system - “that prevents’ Solar Max ‘from - pointing precisely at the sun. The spacewalkers will be outside again ' {wo days tater to switch out a bad. electronics box on one ‘of- the satellite's seven experiments. If, the repalrs work, Hart will use the arm fo retum the payload to :a. productive orbit). © - 0 0 ves The astronauts will also teat ‘a camera ‘called IMAX, for a movie - to be shown on the five-storey-high- screen in the Smithsonian's Air | and Space Museum im Washington. The IMAX camera was designed. by IMAX ‘Systems Corp: of Toronto... Te Raging «killer mine fire GLACE BAY, NS, (CP) — Miners began sealing off several sections of one the world’s deepest coal mines today to prevent a raging fire from spreading further under the Atlantic Qcean floor and jeopardizing the. economic lifeblood of this Cape Breton Island community. - Concrete-block walls were being built in five areas throughout Cape Breton Development Corp,’s No. 26 Colliery to starve the blaze of oxygen. ° ; : The walls will entomb Ronald McDonald, 42, the only miner trapped in the 10-kilometre-deep mine. The father of two was given up for dead--because he was working below the fire with no escape route, ~ Deveo officials said Thursday they decided to seal the mine because the fire had-spread to all three entrance shafts, leaving no decision was an attempt to save the company’s second biggest coal mine. ’ With 1,400 employees on its payroll, including 1,100 miners, No. 26 has been the major employer in this coal town of 23,000 for half a century. : The town has an unemployment rate of 20 per cent and only: two other industries — an Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. heavy- water plant-whose work force has ‘Newspaper strikers frustrated VANCOUVER (CP) — The more than 900 reporters, editors, cir- culation staff and librarians out of work because od a strike at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province are frustrated and disturbed, Jim Young, president of the Newspaper Guild, said Thursday after an information meeting. The guild was a member of the _ Joint Counell of Newspaper Unions until it asked that a provincially- . appointed mediator be brought into the contract dispute with Southam- owned Pacific Press Ltd., which publishes the two papers. With mediation set to start Monday, the guild's members are refusing to cross pickets set up by the 400 members of the joint council who went on strike March 28. The council includes. the Printing Pressmen’s Union, the Retail Union, the International €§ . Typographical Union, the Mailers’ Union and the - Graphic Communications Inter- national Union. oy Young said he -shares his - members’ frustration, “but mote - because of the company's un- willingness to sit down and bargain than anything else,” However, as some guild mem- bers left the meeting Thursday they sald they were angry that 400 employees can keep the majority from working. “ Guild members also collected their cheques for $100 a week from the gulld’s defence fund. Sirlke pay for the other unions is $75 and $20 for most, while the typographical and maillera’ union members are - belng paid $250 a week. TAKES LEADING ROLE _— - Young sald the gulid is com- mitted to the mediation process and it hopes it can take a leading role in resolving the digpute. He sald even if the guild reaches an agreement with Pacific Press, its members probably won't be able‘to work until the other five unions setile. ; “T think the best way we can pul pressure on the joint council to reach an agreement is to lead. If - been reduced to almost nathing by world market conditions, anda fish plant that employs about 350 people. HOPING FOR BEST a “IT know_the people are just. silting back waiting and hoping for the best, but-unfortunately I don’t think they are-golng to get the best,” said Mayor Bruce Clark, _ “TE in fact it is lost, it would be the worst economic disaster the community has ‘ever faced. We've never known from one end of the day to the next when our callieries would be closed, either by economic. conditions or by con- ditions such as we have here today, but we have always been able to come back.” oa Once the mine is sealed, nitrogen and carbon dioxide will be pumped behind the walls to help smothe the am@e, apparently: fueled: ree shafts no old. timbers holding up ‘the 'mitet?} “Wway’to “get RE “the -blaze. Theire“raof. . 4 Pe ee ee | The fire started’ Thursday morning near a coal conve¥or belt about halfway down the mire, whose slanting shafts extend 10 4 ver kilometres under the ocean from - this seaside town. The cause is not known but officials suspect a faulty bearing on the conveyor belt. CAN'T PREDICT | There is no way of predicting” how long the fire will take to burn: itself out, said Doug Shields, head: we can get ‘down ito productive. talks with the company, it ‘maj open all kinds of doors,” Young said. . . ' There havé been no negotiating sessions since the strike started: George Townsend, chief negotiator for Pacific Press, said Thursday the company made i clear at the last meeting that 3 three-year contract with no in- crease in the first year, 3.5 per cent inthe second year and five per cent in the third year was only a star- ting position. : LEFT DOOR OPEN. Townsend: sald: “I take the position that we left the door open for negotiations that day.” However, he said Pacific Pr won't consider increasea similar th those negotiated in Calgary last July.. The Southam-owned Calgary Herald agreed te wage increases of eight per cent in the first year and 7.5 per cent in the second year. - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hotel ‘ workers marched outside resorts ‘Thursday and a second picketer was hit by a car as lawyers. went to court to limit picketing in the fourth day of a bitter walkout along Las Vegas’ - ambling strip. 7 § Ons betel warned atrikers they would be. replaced if they don’t. return to work by tonight. ' . Metro Police Lieut. Jim Chaney ' sald a ‘woman carrying a sign wag hil-by a car driven by a worker trying to get through a picket line outside the MGM Grand Hotel on Thursday afternoon, is Chaney sald the driver stopped. -. Members, A hotel spokesman said his car when it wae struck with a nign. After his car was hit a second time, ha tried to back up and hit the woman, knocking her about a metre in the air, - The woman, also not identified, was taken to hospital. The driver was arrested and charged with 7a Va Confihied oti of Deveo's. coal division... “I wish [ could give you an an- swer that Is nice and simple. How - long‘ does it take to create an-inert- atmosphere? It is hard'to guess and we're not talking: about a couple of weeks,” ; It could be a month before any decision on the mine's future will be made, but Deveo president Steve Rankin said he was op- timistic after Shlelds briefed him on his visit to the mine. “I get a glimmer of hope from him that with some luck, perhaps the fire will exhaust itself before it _ gets too far into the deeps. We have not abandoned 26.”' « The fire was discovered by a group of about 40 miners who were returning to. th ‘Working pvditiine - irondtl ett. Putting'on: ‘ait! packt they iB’ On the Way, met the day-shift miners heading ‘down and tirhed them back. ’ Between 350 and 375 mirers were * evacuated. Officials on the surface talked by ‘telephone to McDonald, who was operating a fan below the fire. He : told them ‘‘the smoke was heavy and he couldn't. see,” said ‘Spokesman Don Maclsaac, His . only route to the surface was ’ through the burning area. ; The council asked for a two-year contract with raises of eight per cent each year. Pacific Press employees’ last raise was 13: per cent effective March.1, 1989, with 17 per cent the year before. . ‘Under the old contract, minimum salary for, senior reporters was §701.54a week, while senior printers received’a base. hourly rate of $18.92 for a 34-hour, four-day week, roe The strike is a boon A sort: munity newspapers In the Van- couver area. The’ Courier, which went daily during the eight-month - strike in 1973, was 132 pages’ Wednesday. — more than three times its average size’ — and it increased its free circulation to 100,000.fram 52,000. . : Phil Hager, co-publisher’ of the newspaper, said demand for ad- vertising space is forcing the Courier to have a Sunday edition as ’ well as its usual Wednesday paper. battery with a deadly weapon. - This Ineldent followed two stormy daya which included a ‘ battle at the Las Vegas Hilton_and an accident Wednesday in which another picketer was run over by a car at the entrance to Caesars rae Sot “ cé four unions representing 17,000 people walked out ‘at dawn Monday, 119 people have been arrested, moat on charges of im- peding traffic, i 2 The strike by unlons for culinary workers, stagehands, bartenders and musicians has ° showrooms, any. gaming workers are hot union ~ weekend bookings at major resorts are “above 100 per cent.’ , The Holiday Inn Centro Strip said it sent letters to 925 striking a . 7 e eo a 7 1 thes: .- Letters to The letter (Mar. 27) from Bill _\ Homburg regarding the Marcos regime in the Philippines was like a breath of fresh air compared to . ‘the. usual distortions provided by ., our news media on foreign affairs. _. Many years ago, when I was | young and foolish enough to belleve what I waa told by the media, I beHeve that the . Chinese .. communists were —_. simple ~. “agrarian reformers”, ‘and: that dictator, Once. the communists had'seized power, with the help of the ‘then-American government and news media, a virtual news * blackout was imposed. Jt was not until «many years later that I- ‘learned, ‘with horror, that these ‘same “agrarian reformers" had -Murdered some 4 million of their : fellow citizens in the process of fastening thelr grip on that unhappy land. _This. same scenario has been "- tepeated again and again in the ’ “Western. press. - Every ~antl- ‘communist government, whether {t be. in, South Vietnam, South Korea,’ South Africa, the - Philippines, or elsewhere, has been ' smeared on one pretext or another. ‘Once the communists have selzed power, as in Vielnam, almost -nothing is heard of the bloodbath ‘taking: place, as in Cambodia, where nearly half of the population _- was slaughtered. It has been said " that If someone deceives you once _ it’s his fault, but if he deceives you ‘twice it’s your fault. The news media has done little In this area - for the past fifty years other than _~ ta deceive the public, and it is high ‘“: tlme ‘that the Canadian people awoke .to the deception being - played upen them, A tiny group of / people who control the money and the media are playing the rest of us “for suckers, and we ourselves are . the ultimate intended victims of _ this charade, --. It is important for the public to realize that communism has not -been sweeping the world because of its intrinsic merits. It has been sweeping the world because it has been financed from the beginning by international bankers such a5 the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and their allies - who also control the. major news media. . The Rothschilds poured money into the Bolshevik seizure of power In. ‘Russia, and today the largest . -branch bank of the Rockefellers’ Chase. Manhattan Bank is located at One: Karl Marx Plaza in ’ to. the ace after ;,, Moscow. - We are.told endlessly by>- Sit Managed :-} media .-: ‘that. Uni comm have ben exporting Soviet of] from _the Caucasus to Western Europe ever since the Revolution, and the individual who today holds a franchise on ell the oil sold in Moscow is named Kissinger - the younger brother of Rockefeller. agent Henry Kissinger. “if today there is a superficial appearance of relative prosperity in communist countries such as Russia, China and elsewhere, it is because the assets of the Western .. ADDS THIRD EDITION The North Shore News, delivered _ free to 55,000 homes In West Vancouver and North Vancouver, will begin publishing a Friday paper today in addition to its regular Sunday and Wednesday papers. =. Bob Graham, associate publisher, said: “By happy coincidence, we had pegged April 6 as the day to begin our Friday edition.” Erle Cardweli, publisher of the West Ender and the East Ender newspapers, said the size of both papers has. doubled because of advertiser demand with the West Ender going to #4 pages this week and: the East Ender increasing to 52 pages. . He éaid the papers will emphasis entertainment coverage and sports. ‘Las Vegas strike gets ugly included a warning for those not returning today. _ “We can give youno aisurance that if and when. you decide. to return to work a vachyey will still be available for which you are. qualified,” the telter sald. “You” may ‘be permanently laced after Friday at 5 p.m." me , Vince Helm, executive director of the powerful Nevada: Resort Association, said other resorts are expected to send similar Jatters striking employees. PETES Had Eigiz HH 7,2 li r 3 z : i ’“unton employees, adylng they had Wy and HOH, A Nie Inpecaivie prints aright toatrike. But the fetter from Saad wn M here ot ded hotel vice-president Joe Francis ARO ae a ee thee wot the ‘Chiang Kai Shek was a corrupt | sm and capitalism are helped enemies: ~-Yet ~the “Rockefellers” '“tgtréite; What they doit tel us is” to - world are being siphoned off by the bankers and transferred to those ations to eanomle’. And It your local banker aS somewhat less friendly Intely when you seek a loan from him, itis: because the banking system itself lias been impoverished by ill. advised loans to communist and third-world countries that will never - indeed, can never - be id. Without constant infusijns of trade and financial ald .the imunist | systems ° allapse, as they cannot even-feed their own peaple. friendly nach Osten” (expansion «to. the aa to Beize control of. the — Ubraine . “the breadbasket* of Europe.” Every year since the: Revolution, the Western press” obediently tells us that because of “bad weather” the Russians need to import millions of bushels ‘of grain and other foodstuffs from the hated “capitalist” world. . An astute observer might note that the’ Russians have now had over sixty. years of “bad weather” - and that this weather can be expected, continue as long a8 the communits ‘remain in power, notwithstanding thelr weather modification experiments. Basically, the Western world has ° not been selling, bit giving, ita food to the communist countries.-..Our banking system is being drained of funds to make unrepayable loans which are used to buy our‘ produce, Australian farmers, for example, in recent years shipped grain to © Russia and, in due course, received payment. They naturlaly assumed that the money ‘came from Moscow. But no such’ thing happened, and no money actually left Russia. Instead, international bankers in Australia simply created new money with which the farmers were paid. Australia, therefor, not only lost Its grain, but suffered an inflated currency. as well, and was impoverished in both ways, a These same international bankers, who have probably caused more hunger and human misery than any comparable group in recorded history, are now promoting 4 program called “World Hunger”, and seeking the support of Christian churches.’ | Like the Devil, they quote scripture out of context to support their plan. They remind us of our | duty to feed the hungry, and “warld:sfood!benk’ to fed- the starving millions they have that they plan to control the world food bank in the same manner as they presently contro] the money, the media and the field of energy. They believe that when they also bolster their sagging © become © 5 wold . Under the Czars, ° Russia exported grain, and.one‘of Hitler's objectives in his “Drang ©. fo. recommend the establishmentiof'a’~~ control the food supply of the world - . . they will have effective control of the people as well, Whether the Canadian people are sufficiently — dim-witted and apathetic to permit this takeover to occur remaing uncertain. oo What is certain is that it is vital for the public to break their minds Tose from the thought-contro! ‘of the mass media, ind understand that the assigned role of the controlled media is to keep the rest of us divided, confused, misinformed and preoccupied with games and trivia until the takeover can be completed. A good case in point Is the CHC, which [have long thought could be more appropriately called “the Communist Broadcasting Corporation.” Foreign usually, and domestic news frequently, is twisted on a daily basis almost beyond recognition, On any important question, the CBC can usually manage to come up with two leftist professors - perhaps one from Tornto and another from New York - to discuss “both sides” of the issues, [¢ will broadcast a snippet of information + possibly something President Reagan has said - and than, with a straight face, say, “Tass, the Soviet News Agency, had the following to say..." We are then subjected .to a communist propaganda statement, with no | opportunity afforded for any answer or refutation. There is no need for. the communists tohave an outlet for their -pro da in Canada when in effect they already have one, financed ‘by | the Canadian taxpayers. Let there be no mistake - even as knowledge of the truth js an essential prerequisite of freedom, -. evenso a constant diet of falaehood and deception are the essential’ tools of those who would enslave Ws. There is no legitimate reason for any intelligent person to waste his time on publications or programs that he has learned from experietice distort or omit the truth when there is a growing number of smaller publications that are much more reliable, And we should not support any politicians in the forthcoming election unless they have first given an ironclad guarantee that, if elected, they will use every means at their disposal . to help regain control of our banking system and the CBC, no that these inailtutions will become: servants of the le, rather than the instrumentalities for our enslavement, - _ Nery sincerely yours, _ Howard T. Ennia, Jy. mews —