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Fishermen protest licence increases

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Commercial salmon
fishermen have protested
bitterly against a federal

overnment proposal
atte’ we

ry
for the cost of “the
salmon enhancement
program announced this
year.

The reaction was
disclosed Monday by
program director Ron

after a test
made by Chief Cecil Reid
of the Bella Bella Indian
band, one of a number of

Minister Romeo LeBlanc,

ested

licence increases ble
taxation.

He said that under one

of three alternative

proposals made the
committee, he as-

sessment on a fisherman
with a 20-ton seiner could
be $8,000 a year,

encieod said, however,
pro were
made merely to get
reaction from fushboat
operators, processors
and others like

fishermen who have an
interest in salmon runs.

UNVEILED PLAN
‘LeBlanc said in May
that the government
plans spend $150
million over five years on
rearing ponds, hatcheries
and other rehabilitation
rues an the second
o! program, an
expenditure of between
$30 million and $60
million a year could be
made over a period of
years. ;

A consensus of the
reaction to the licence
increases suggested is
being compiled and
recommendations will be
made to the federal
cabinet, McLeod said,

He could not give any
indication a the
recommendations to be
made, but he said that
generally, the groups
were. to the
principle of recovering
government expenditures
on the program to double

‘ the production of Pacific
runs.

Some groups agreed on
the principle of recovery
under certain conditions,
he said, but groups such
as the United Fishermen

and Allied Workers’ Un-
-ion and the

Native
Brotherhood of British
Columbia, which rep-
resents Indian fishermen,

were opposed: without
qualification.

There was also concern
about the amount of the
cost that should be
recovered, and the rate of
recovery, especiall
the initial years of the
program. WANTS ROLE

Respondents, including
spokesmen for sports
if they paid a part of the

ey paid a part o:
cost they should have a
role in management of
the program, and that
bureaucratic costs should
be held to a minimum.

Salmon processors
expressed concern at any
federal levy unless the
deal is sanctioned in a
federal-provincial
agreement that would
safeguard them from
double taxation.

Another artificial sweetener to go

STONY BROOK, N.Y.
(AP) — Researchers
here said Tuesday the
US. Public Health
Service has notified them
preliminary reports
showed a chewing gum
sweetener called Xylitol
caused tumors in labora-
animals,

the State University af
New York at Stony Brook
cited the reports in an-
nouncing they have sus-
pended & Broject in which
Begua chewing. gam
gum
sontaining Xylitol.

The school children, 300
sixthgraders in the
William Floyd Union
Free School District on
Long Island, had been
chewing the gum for only
three days when the
project was halted, the
university said,
of gum any. child. had

gum any
chewed was nine sticks,
university officials said.

Researchers at Stony
Brook's School of Dental
Medicine had been
studying the. possible
beneficial effects on
dental decay offe two

Gens de l’Air
take tests too

QUEBEC.(CP) — The
Association des Gens de
PAir du Quebec, which

repres'
lots, has decided to end
ts boycott of federal
simulation tests into
bilingual air traffic
contro]

er Demers,
ident of the
association, said in an
interview today that
three representatives will
begin participating in
simulation tests at Hull,
Que., next Tuesday.
The association has
boycotted the tests, run in
unction with a
federal commission of in-
quiry into air traffic
i , Since they

began in January.

s said the
association changed its
mind because the federal

t department has
complied with most

tions the association
set for its participation.

“We believe that 98 per
cent of our conditions are
filled,” be said. ;

Among the “‘essential”
conditions that Ottawa
has filled recently is a

sdiction over Que
air space now in the
hands of the Moncton,
N.B., control centre to
Montreal

lon .
This transfer is to take
place over the next two or
three years. In addition,
some Quebec air space
controlled from Winnipeg
is to be transferred to
Montreal. ;
Also,

the federal

government did not in- -

Matings to abject 0 an
object to an
attempt by the Gens de
lAir to decertify the
Canadian Air Traffic. As-
sociation as! bargaming
agents for Quebec con-
trollers, Demers said.
GAINED CONFIDENCE
Finally, Demers said
he now has more con-
fidence in Ottawa's
rogram to introduc
Freech in visual flight
rules at all airports ex-
cept Montreal’s Dorval.
This. decision results
from an interim report by

the inquiry.
Despite participation in

the simulation tests, .

Demers said the Gens de
\'Air still do not accept
the mandate of the three-
member commission.

“bility to a-commise

“It changes nothing ...
We don't accept the
decision by the govern-
ment to pass its res ons
i)
inquiry.”

The commission was.
established by Transport
Minister Otto Lang after
an emotional 1976 strike
by pilots opposed ‘to

alism in the air.

But Demers said the
climate has “really
changed” in the aviation
tthe English epeakin,

“The ish-speaking
world of aviation is ac-
cepting the presence of
French in the air.”

Demers said one hears
“no more declarations
based on fanaticism and
racism.

“It’s been a question of
education.”

The association
representatives are to
participate in -the second
phase of simulation tests
which will

landings.

The first part of the
tests simulated high-
altitude flight in air
traffic corridors using
Frenchas well as English
in communications.

Demers says he ex-
pects the tests to be
completed next whine:
The three judges will then
write their final report.

and

simulate . ;

gums, one sweetened by
Xylitol and the other by a
natural sweetener called
Sorbitol.

Late last week, the
National Institute of
Dental esearch, a
branch of the U.S. Public
Health Service, informed
the. researchers of the
laboratory animal study.

The Wm. Wrigley Jr.
Co., of Chicago, recently
introduce oorand of
gum ¢ rbit con-

ini Xylitol.
Manufacturers have been
looking for alternatives to
saccharin, which has
been found to produce
tumors in animals and
may be banned.
PRODUCED TUMORS

Xylitol is a natural
sweetener obtained from
plant sources, Stony
Brook said it has been in-
formed that when given

to laboratory animals in
large doses, the
8

tumors. .

Dr. J. -Howard Oaks,
\vicepresident for health
sciences at Stony Brook,
said the two dental
rencarchers conducting

e@ project, - Gary
Leske and Dr. Louis

their project. The two re-
searchers said in. a
prepared statement:

“At this time, it is
prudent to suspend the
study pending the
evaluation by the (U.S,)
Food and Ad-
ministration of the new
evidence from animal
studies of the effects of
Xylitol. the’ partieins ue
assure cipating
students and their
parents that the chewin,
that has already occurr:
has not been injurious to
health. Only nine sticks of
Xylitol gum -have been
consumed by r-
ticipants in the stuby.”

e three-year study
was being conducted
under a $210,-000 contract
from the Institute of
Dental Research.

Stony Brook said the
project had been en-
dorsed by the Tenth
District Dental Society on
Long Island and was the
first federally-subsidized
academic study of: the
sweetener in the United
States.

Stony Brook said the
students who far
ticipated had all volun-
teered and their parents
had given consent,

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Ehancement com-
mittee economist David
Reid said the alternatives
put forward to obtain
reaction were a licence

ious
ings adjusted for the
landings é enefits for
fishermen using various
types of gear. _

Under the first, he said,
current fees of $400 for a
seiner and $200 for

rs and trollers
would have tripled in the
initial five-year period of
the program.

Under the second plan
the fee per net ton would
run from $150 to §400.per
net ton after 15 years,
while under the third

the initial fee on
seiners would be .about
$1,900since they would be

the first to benefit from .

increased sockeye, pink
and chum runs.

SANTA MONICA,
Calif. (Reuter)
Motoreyele daredevil
Evel ievel, who
adamantly refused to
apologise for what the

osecution called a

utal baseball bat attack
fenced Mowday to. spend
ten spen
his nights and. weekends
in dail for six months.

te Superior Court
Judge Edward Rateedie
said. be was impressed by
the f t and honest
way in which Knievel had
rttack on Sept. 19 against

a of 13.4
: Saltman

who wrote a book about

him.

“But he reacted in a
way which violates all the
precepts of civilized
society,” the judge said
of Knievel.

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United States worried

about pipeline

SEATTLE, Wash. (AP)
— A subcommittee of the
House Interior and In-
sular Affairs Committee
was told Monday that the

pipeline to funnel Alaska
crude o:] to its landlocked
refineries. ,

Representative Ron
Marlenee (R—Montana)
told the subcommittee
that such faith would put
the U.S. in a “‘dangerous
position."

“It would be a little like
letting a foreign country

own andoperateall ofour pi

ships,’’ said Marlenee
who favora a Port An-

Prosecutor Stanley
said the attack,

examination,
admitted he had taken a
second man along to hold
Saltman down during the
attack at the 20th Cen-
tury-Fox film studio.
“The man went with
me because I had two
broken arms. He didn’t
want nie to hit Mr.

for Miawestern Monday's debate pitted
Don Bonker (D— =

t most

“RTE ERR

of “4
oil by
tanker to Kitimat, B.C., to
400 miles northwest of
Vancouver, and then

move it thr: es
to refineries fy Hiuetana
North Dakota and

Minnesota.

The Northen Tier
Pipeline Co., wants
establish a t at Port
Angeles on Strait of
Juan de Fuca and then
transship the crude to the
Midwest via a 1,500-mile

from the

Kitimat . =
Bonker said there ‘‘are =

the bestsense -
for Washington state, for ‘-
the United States and for ~
Canada.”'

tanker facility’ to Cold-

i ' tanker ano
SEEMS DOOMED the coasts of B.C. -
Seattle mayor Wes Washington and serve ..:
an with existing refineries in
‘Marlenee’s argument Vancouver ins:
at

Alaskan oil continues °°
environmental groups. today. a

=.

work during weekdays,
but will have to enter &

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REFERENDUM BY-LAW
NO. 95, 1977

Public notice is hereby given to the Electors of the defined

portion of Electoral Area C, more commonly known as a

Copperside subdivision, that a poll shall be taken in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the “Municipal Act’ to

determine whether or not the electors wish to participate in “

the Copperside Subdivision Fire

law No. 95, 1977.

Protection Referendum By-

To extend the boundaries of the Thornhill Fire Protection
specified area to include the Copperside subdivision area.

The question on the ballot shall read:

ne

*Are you in favour of receiving fire protection services.
‘fram the Thornhill Fire Department at an arnual tax
vlevy not to exceed eight (8) mills?

Take notice that the above is a synopsis of a by-law that may

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be inspected at the Regional District Office, No.9-4644 Lazeile a

Avenue, Terrace, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and is not to be ,
deemed an interpretation of the by-law. . me

The poll will be conducted at Thornhill Elementary Schoo!
and Clarence Michiel School on the 19th day of November,

1977 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. | | hw

Lucy Wood
Returning Officer