me en PRESS PPADPPI EDAD DSR HAS - (Rabghai lve iLivakt, oe emu a st te Pa bp Beetat 2 ae DBE fee ate batten g WiUCORIA, *.0e, nh qu _{ TERRACE-KITIMAT ») ( RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. | —— bee COPPER we buy BRASS é ALL METALS & BATTERIES HOW. - SAT. OPER TIL 5S p.m. {Votre 72 No. 190 20c Monday, September 18, 1978 ) (Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5839) ‘Happy Lions are ready to roar as their bus departs for Canyon City Village where a new Lions Club was chartered Saturday evening. Lions from four local clubs, the Centennial, the Downtown, the Lakelse and Kitimat all sent delegates fo . welcome the new club members into the pride. The new lub is the first. ever to be chartered in a native village. OTTAWA (CP) — Senior that a raucous, difficult and Poisonous session of Parliament is ahead of them, starting next month. MPs interviewed Friday, a _ day afler Prime Minister _. #fiieral election yotilspring, _.. legislative pions... —.. deer said there will be no d they ara angry, dis- appointed and even depressed. Some predicted Internal party disputes over some of the government's economic recovery plans. “It's going to be difficult, it's going to be hard,” said Walter Baker, Progressive - Conservative House leader. Stanley Knowles, New Democratic Party House leader, said the new session will be rough. “The government is a long way into ils mandate and ihe opposition smells blood.” . ,Some MPs and party aides are using the adjeclive “poi- Sonous” to describe what they expect. They say tempers are short, internal disputes already are under way and there is concern the opposition will do its, best to block every government proposal. “It's unrealistic to expect toa much co-operation in a Parliament before an election,” said Robert Kaplan, Libera] MP for York ‘Centre and head of the Commons finance com- mittee. . : Both Conservatives and the NDP plan to demand immediate introduction of a budget when they return to the Commons Oct. 10. Baker sald his party wants a budgel ry * While the ‘yet to decide on the exact wilhout a speech from the is tov unpopular. Adds . politicians are predicling throne and Knowles says his Baker: “The issue is not partly wants a throne speech mail-opening in Canada. The lo preface any budget issue is the economy.” meastires. ' “] don't want the order The throne = speech paper cluttered up with delivered al the beginning of things like the national a session gives a broad . anthem either,” adds Baker, outline of government A proposed bill that ‘would The Liberal try’s . official anthem has been shunied aside for several years. cabinet has scenario of Parliament resuming. There is some consideration of meeting the afternoon of Oct, 10, taking hy ama ke- OF Canada-Ahe- coun: Other bills that would die include changes in federal- provincial cost-sharing for social services, creation of a federal ombudsman and . proposals to tie public ser- vice wage increases tu privale sector rates, | _ -The government's sum- mer: "series of: economic” announcements contain measures that would require a budget plus some separate Israeli withdrawal Oct. 11 off and returning Oct. 12 for the throne speech. The Oct. 11 break would be partly to honor the beginning of the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, to make tp for hard feelings uver the Ocl, 16 date WASHINGTON (CP) — President Carter announced of 15 byelections which in- to the world Sunday night terfere with anulher Jewish that a ‘framework for holiday. Liberals lost a peace” in the Middle East byelection candidate in has been reached at his Toronto because of the summit meeting with voting date. Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Is- When the new session rae}’s Menachem Begin. begins, all legislation that Accompanied by President was introduced but not Sadat and Prime Minister passed during the last Begin, he said documents session dies. The gov- which were signed by Sadat ernment has to starl from and Begin at the end of the scratch through the approval televised White House event process for bills it still wants = ‘‘pravide that Israel may to push. live in peace within secure The government might borders.” ; seek arrangements with Carter said that when the opposition parties to put such summit talks began 13 days bills back in Commons ago he had asked the world commiltees or other stages for prayers that the of the process where they ‘negotiations would succeed. were left hanging. Bul “Those prayers have been Knowles and Baker say answered far beyond any ex- success is unlikely. pectations,"’ Carler. said, On the mail-upening bill, adding that the lwo Knowles sald the govern- documents to be signed ment would not dare to at- represented ‘‘an achieve- temp! a.deal because the bill ment none had: thought 5 Stet Socreds were getting ready to welcome the Minister of Health to Terrace the possible a year ago, ur even a month ago.” The U.S. president cautioned that differences still remain and there are still substantial issues Lo be settled. “The problems that have brought warfare and_bil- terness to the Middle East for 30 years will not be settled overnight,’ Carter said. . He said Israel would with- draw its forces from the West Bank of. the Jordan River, and added: ‘The Palestinians (now living under Israeli occupation) will have the right to partici- pate in the determination of their own future.” On the Sinai front, Carler said, Israel would withdraw its forees quickly, the result being establishment of diplomatic relations belween two old foes whu had been invalved in a 30-year cun- ict. x documents “Raucous difficult session coming | legislation, including a bill to lighien up the unem- ployment insurance pro- gram. The unemploment _ in- surance changes are causing. internal clashes already. Backbench Liberals from the AUahtic provinces where “anemployment*is"high” are unhappy about the prupusals and say they intend {o-oppuse them. ; Carter's appearance with Sadat and Begin al the White House was nalionaliy televised. All three smiled and waved as they boarded a jet helicopter to depart Camp David for Washington. Carter climbed in first. Begin deferred to Sadat and urged the Egyptian leader lo boardsecond, The lhree men and the helicopler were lit by the glare of fluodlights. When the helicopter touched down on the White House south lawn, the three leaders were grecled by about 50 dignitaries and members of the White House staff, Each of the three received a kiss from the Car- ter's wife Rosalynn. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Rubert Byrd said Carter asked to explain the agreements lo a joint session uf Congress at 8 p.m. EDT today. Carter administration uffi- cials, who declined to be identified, said the “provide a Thea NEWS BRIEFS * Drowning VICTORIA (CP) — One man’ is missing and presumed drowned after a_ fishing buat struck rucks in Juhnstone Strait, about 30 miles from Alert Bay on the central Brilish Columbia coast. . Capt. Gerry Howlett of search and rescue in Vic- toria said the missing man apparently fell overbvard while inspecting damage tv the boat after the collision Saturday, : Three vther men were taken to Alert Bay aboard a fisheries patrul vessel, he sald, and the baat has since sunk. Tornado * eo . kills six GRINNELL, lowa (AP) — A wrnado slammed into a muiel and other’ small businesses in this central Iowa communily Saturday night, killing at least six persuns and injuring 43 uth- ers, One man was reported missing. ~ Three members of a vacationing New Hampshire family and an elderly woman were killed when the turnado sliced through a business district along an in-.. lerstate junction suuth of - here. The wister alév ripped nearby Laurel, killing a than and his: sevenyear-uld daughter. _ Accord at Camp David framework for continuing negotiations’’ and not a completed agreement. After the first Israeli with- drawal, Egypt and Israel agreed to establish nurmal diplumatic relations, the administration officials said. The final Israeli with- drawal is lo take place two to three years after the signing of the peace.4reaty. The treaty also isgeesigned to provide security zones for Israel in the Sinai as well as a program of arms reduction in the area. The majer disagreement on the Sinai is the fate of Israeli seltlements In cap- tured territory. The officials said Egypt demands that Israel remove the sel- tlements. Israeli negotiators wanted the issue to be decided during the negotiations, the officials said. Bul they added thal the Israelis agreed tu let the Knessett (the Israeli parliament) decide within two weeks on how the question should be resulved. Airlines given break MONTREAL (CP) °— Recummendalions that would give airlines greater flexibility in setling in- ternational fares were ap- proved Saturday by the execulive committee of the International Air Transpor' im Assuciation at the end of a local Terrace NDP Club was holding a meeting of its own. Pictured above party secretary, John Chen Wing explains a point to club treasurer Eric Olthof while club president Bruce Ferguson listens. The club is currently in the midst of a membership campaign two-day meeting in Mun- (real, officials said, A key proposal would allow IATA member airlines to intruduce so-called in- novative fares and disregard established rate levels, enabling scheduled carriers \o lower fares on heavily travelled routes, the official suid. This way they could regain business they have lust I» charter carriers and lu non- IATA, nvfrilis operations such as Freddie Laker's Skytrain service between landen and New York, fhe = reeammendations, _g@rawn up by a special committee headed by Air Canada president Claude Taylor, were supported by'a majority of IATA member airlines at a special session in Montreal un July 1. They are tv be submitted for approval at the assuciation’s annual general meeting in November at Geneva. The ofticial said the execulive commillee made nu important changes in the recummendations, whith were modified by the working committee during the summer to meel certain abjections. Al the July session, s'rong Support came from airlines operating transatlantic routes, bul uppusition was expressed by sume Asian and African carriers who feared lower . fares might hurt their financial stability. eh a farmhouse. . ‘in . Qube ee ia Ta 19 ings ake Thousands ‘inj ured TEHRAN (AP} — More than 11,000 peuple were believed killed Saturday in an. earthquake —— that devastated entire towns and villages ‘in the farming region of northeastern Iran, The quake, which U.S. seismoulogists measured at 7.7 on the Richter scale, was the muat powerful in recent ‘Iranian history, officials at the Tehran Geuphysics Institute said Sunday. US. scientists said it also was ihe strungest quake in the world su far this year. “The ufficial Pars news agency, which gave the casualty figure, said only 2,000 of the 12,000 residents of the city of Tabas survived and. most of .thuse were serivusly injured. Tabas and ‘its surrounding villages were at the epicentre of the quake, 640 kilumetres southeast of, Tehran. . The agency said 40 nearby villages were demolished and 60 others badly damaged. Iranian national radiv and television said at least 60 per cent of the town of Firdaus, about 160 kilo- metres east of Tabas, was destroyed and many peuple were killed ur injured. ' Officials said they fear the reported death tol] will go much higher as word comes in frum vutlying villages. An aerial view of Tabas breadcast on’ national television late Sunday shuwed a flattened town, with only its palm trees and a half-dezen buildings, in- cluding a domed ‘masque, left standing. - ‘“Tabas has become a mound of rubble, bent ifon beams and dirt," one witness was’ quoted as saying. The city, on the.edge of the central Iranian desert, is an agricultural centre in an area noted for Its dates, grains and uranges. “From each family, only one person has survived,” said another witness. Rescue teams are still pulling bodies—and some survivors— from the debris of levelled towns. Lowest spending growth in Canada B.C.'s Social Credit government has produced three budgets in a row with a lower spending gruwth than any other province of Canada according to the Hen. Bob McClelland, Minister of Health for B.C. . who visited the Terrace area over the weekend, Speaking to a ‘parlisan’ ~ Social Credit crowd, the -minister said lhat since 1975 the Public Service has had a zero growlh rate. “We have had three balanced. budgets in a row, during a period when every: other government _.in Canada, with the exception of Alberta ‘is. Nees Spr aie “By 1975, the former NDR government had built up a direct debt of 261 million dollars - effectively _ mor- tgaging the future of British Columbians for- years to come. Tuday we are paying interest on that debt of 22 million duillars a year," the minister added. Talking aboui piling _w ~ -fniesaive detieltt. ot a2 ~ farthie ‘McOel achievements Mr. Celland said the B.C. economy grew at a real growth rate of 4.3 percent, well ahead of the national growlh rate of 2.6 percent. Finance Minister, Evan Wolfe has predicted a real growth of more than five percent for this year. ; ““Last . year, British Columbia was a leader in job creation with 11 percent of the national work force, we created 15 percent of all the new jobs in the country. And the process is continuing - _B.C. of all the provinces is showing’ the biggest im- provement in. the country’s unemployment picture creating 48,000 new jobs go ‘far-this- lire ’ the members of the audience nol io become apathetic about returning. a Social Credit government to Vic- loria in the next election. - “We still have lots of work lo do, and we need all your help if we are to makesure of a Social Credit victory,” he concluded. ; Major issue will. mean election NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett said Saturday that when he calls a provincial electlon, it will be on the basis of a major “ peason for the increased issue. He told a Soclal. Credit party meeting at this Van- couver Isla community | that demands by New Democratic Party Leader Dave Barrett will not force him to call an election. Bennett said the NDP’ strength is declining and that while the province could survice another term of NDP government he dves not think “the peuple are prepared io trust them again.” : The premier said the province has reversed the downward trend of the province’s finances which his government inherited frum the NDP in 1975, and that the employment picture last mgnth was the best the province had experienced, with 50,-000 more people employed than the. previous month, Bennett said the provincial government is ready ta move un development of the Duke Point harbor here, even without the federal govern- ment's assislance. He said Otlawa will consider financing of the development on Thursday. Sam Bawilf, recreation and conservation minister, said “this coming year will see the cunstructlun of a first- class highway right from Victoria to the very northern lip of the island.“ Bawlf said when the B.C. Ferry Corp.'s suuthern ter- minus of ils Prince Ruper! run moves to Port Hardy fram Kelsey Bay, better ferry service tu the ceniral and northern paris uf B.C. - will ensue. He said that in August more thanone million peuple ~ 25-per-cenl wavelled on 8.C.. ferries frum Vancouver to Van- couver Island—” and alllime record." Bawif said part of the traffic was ikproved scheduling, which provided a increase in capacity. Seven days a week KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) -- The Kamloops Daily Sentine] became the second newspaper in Canada now publishing seven days a week with its firat Sunday edition this weekend. The Sentinel, owned by Thomson B.C. Newspapers Lid., initiated major format changes, including the switch from broadsheet to tabloid last Monday. The daily newspaper, located in this city in British Culumbia's svuthern [n- terior, is published in the afternoons six days a week, but its Sunday edition is published in the morning, The Toronto Star is the unly - other Canadian newspaper now publishing seven days a week. Managing editor Dan Buchultz said the newspaper made format changes because ‘the markel seems tu have changed a great deal.” j “And Sunday newspapers have pruven successful in uther centres," hesaid. “The iabloid just makes it easier ‘o read. We found peuple weren't reading as much when we were running longer stories,” Mc- rd wenton to Warn STRAIT 1 ny emer