vm ey

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
review — -of campaign
promises. by federal
politicians during the past 20

years shows. that if the -"'

promises always were kept,

ancouver and Prince.

Rupert, B.C.,
would have the hest-
developed harbors in the
world

In Vancouver, a third
qrosalng. of Burrard Inlet-

would be linked to a city |
and...

freeway . system .
federa financed subway
tars would deliver citizens
downtown: .
LA second : “‘trans-Canada
way would link northern
iH es, and modern super-
buses, complete with

comolic beverages, would
‘@vel along them. One
would even be able to drive
er the causeway that
nked Vancouver and to
the maliland. =
The review was triggered
by federal Transport
Minister Otto Lang's an-
nouncement earlier this
month that Prence Rupert

has been selected aa the site —
rt,

of a new northern superpo:
and that railllons of dollars of
mostly private investment
will make it a major port for
Canadian grain shipments,

Local offictals greeted the

" NEWCASTLE, N.B, (CP)
= alan women are
becoming increasingly more
involved in all wales of Ilfe
and because of that, more of
them should be appointed ta
the Senate, one of Canada's
newest Senatora said Friday.

‘Margaret Anderson, a
busineaswomen and
Prominent New Brunswick

beral, was appointed to tha
Senate Thursday. Her ap-
pointment was one of seven
announced by Prime Min-
ister Trudeau,

"Women ara now par
Uclpating in all walka of
Canadian life,’ Senator
Anderson said. rate was a
time whennthe roles o

are ti part in business,
government - ‘and in all
roles.”

Sacer

THE HERALD, Monday. March 27, 1978, PAGE ?

probably -

_} Look what will happen |__:

“if politicians kept promises ©

: announcement | with en:

thusiaam, bkt also noted thal
both federal and provincial
governments have promised

port development in Prince -

Rupert sifice before the First
World War. -

Federal Urban Affairs .

Minister Andre Quelle has:
unveiled a $100 million
reconstruction: plan, for

“Vancouver hatbor, which

includes a convention centre
on a small, “man-made

’ island, No money was com: .
mitted.

- Most federal election cam-
_paigns have included various

promises to upgrade the har-
dn 1974, J985, and 1962.
Thereview of political pre-

election promises includes. .

only those of the varty
elected, which at least in
theory hada chance to carry
them out, -

She is the daughter of W.S,

Anderson, who served for 17-

years as a provincial cabinet ”
miniater underntwo Liberal
promlérs.

- “Senate seats are cer-
talnly often given as a
political .reward for good
service to the party, but not
entirely,” Senator Anderson

said. “I think these recent -

appointments have worked
-out. very well, bringing.
qualified People into the Sen-

ate,”

The new ap intments in-
cluded flve als and two
Conservatives, They aleo in-
cluded one other woman In
addition to Miss Anderson—
Florence Bird of Ottawa.

“T think the Senate has an
important role to play in
Canadian government,”
Senator Anderson said. “The
moat pressing issues facing

5

_Unlonlang may kili summer
- hospHial program

VANCOUVERN(CP) —
Hospital Employees Union
attempt to'get union pay for
about 300 summer joke at
British Columbia hospitals ls
jeopardizing student em-
loyment, the Hospital

ar Relations Ascclation

Chester Hooper sald
Thursday that the union
wants a wage increase of 30
per cent for summer em-
ployess, who are mainly high
school and - university
students.

Hooper said that because
the students.are assigned
jobs not normally done by
-the regular work force, they
are riot entitled to the same
wages conditions applicable

t9 regular hospital em-

ployees. .

With - the union's
agréement, the students
were aor #1 an bour last

mer, The hospital

provide $1 an hour

while $§ came from the
provincial government.

This year the provincial

Youth Employment
Program is prepared to
5 wages by $3.20 an
hour and the hospital boards
will pay 98 cents an hour. -n
About 600 students were
hired last year by hospital
boards: but the program is
allocating 0 only $552,000 to
hospitals to provide em-

E ployment for about 300 stu-
- Genta this "

4 year." .
STUDENTS. WILLING

a“Studenta’ are more than
‘willing to accept summer

$250,000 to repair an.
 about-to-close school -

NORTH VANCOUVER
has been spent to Tepais a
5 o repair a
secondary echoal here which
Will be shuttlng down later
pin ae hint but ‘To one is

ining.

TMewalle halls and facade
of the. 68-year-old school,
which soon will bow to falling
enrolment, got “A new paint

Ib. Addetion ting wae

stalled in -“ ways, -
Yecoverable” security system
Was pul in place, classrooms
received new shelves and the
parking lot :was' paved. n

Len’ Berg,’ school “board
secretary-treasurer, sald the
board. voted unanimously
last year to spend the mariey.

to students would be g ver:
Be.
beers-in other ‘high schools, .

the same ‘courses -as :

‘He said heha’ not received
any protests: apart from ‘one
ar Who questioned why

i lot waa being paved.

set acl
‘froposed Ww
oper sald. “And the
spital have. no surplus
monies to go beyond what
the market place requires.”
Hesald the jobs are menial
and last summer. included

' clearing out hospital archies
. and doing outside gardening.

Union. rates vary from

_hospital te hospital bkt would |

generally be $5.25 an hour,

Union spokesman Steve
Brewer said the union found
that at least one hospital
board falled to live up to the
agreement that summer jobs
would not infringe on regular
employment,

“We cannot, trust them not
to use them as regular
employees so they better pay
them as regular . em-
ployees,” Brewer said.

There was a two-day work
stoppage bx building trades
unions at Burnaby General

Hospital last summer when
students began moving.
furniture into anew addition,
a job that falls under the
hospital union's jurisdiction.

Brewer said the union does
not want to see students used

*. a8 a cheap labor pool to
_ board _

balance hospital
budgets,”

Vern Burkmardt, director
of the provincial govern:

ment’s employment op- -

portunities program, said it
is up to management and the
union to come to some
agreement regarding the
wages and working con-
ditions of summer staffers,

Tme board, with education “

ministry approval, pur-
chased three new. portable
classrooms for $100,000 to
house drama and music
students, but before they
couldnbe Installed, the board
had to comply. with city
bylaws which required: that
the car park be paved,

Berg sald: the only non-
recoverable expense is the
interior and exterior paint

job, worth about $75,000.

Andnit may. prove: wor-
thwhilé, he said, depending -
on thenew owners or users of
the school. ~~

Although the‘board hasn't

decided ‘what to do with the
aging sehool;'ct. has in-
dicated that: public use is a
preority, ntherefore, the
parking lot,’ ‘securit system
and classrooni:niodifleations

' probably will still benefet the

public who are paying for the

school'sfacelitt, he said.

country's political °

“through a maze of
\ the glant’ liner’s ‘middy-

CANE LAST YEAR

The Liberals first

promised the televising of .

Parliament in 1968, It came
late last year,

The turnover of the
Jericho parklands, which
had been a federal military
base, lo the city of Van-
couver,nfirft waa talked
about. by the Progressive
Confervative party in the
1958 campaign,

It did the Tories for
another election, then the
Liberals pickedit up for 1963
and 1965. Prime Menister
Trudeau aigned the deed at a
rally during the 1969 elec-
tion

Since the atart of Con:
federation, railways have
been good for a promise or
two each election. -

leaders today area

In 1974, the Liberals [oan fund from which.
promised to establish a m wnice palities
Crown corporation to take borrow.n

over rail-passenger service -STILL COMPLAIN
(which was done ‘afterna Westerners often are:
three-year delay), electrify promised that freight rates”
some western rail lines, are going to ba revised in a

* ee!

- buildup a pool of freight cars major way to end unfair

for lumber, and reorganize advantages they give to

- Women senator wants more appointed 7

the and nelther is more im-
economy and national unity portant than the other.”

‘Switching and croasing. central Canada, Westerners

patterns aroknd the Van-

still complain,
couver area, which was not

The city’s coliseum was a

Pacctic National Exhibition,
partially with federal]
government funds.

In 195, then transport
minister Art Laing, a local
Liberal MP, indicated that
federal aid was available for
the second crossing of
Burrard Inlet, plus a
freeway leading to it, but
complained the provincial
government was holding the

government killed the idea
and plans have not been
revieed since.

Native Indians have been
promised just settlement of.
their Jand claims before -
federal elections.

In 1565, the Liberals were
to set up a special Indian
land claims commissio. In
1974, Trudeau promised “a

square deal," and to despose
of the Indian question. in a

The vision of Garibaldi
Park being developed ex-
tengively: with federal funds
was brought forward by the
oe 1. and. by the

Cae tine ibd 6th
yironment sminister” Wok
ae pow ip the provincial
saa ek palit” government
& stheme for tur
ew we Strait Into &
huge underWater marin cud
park, if it:colld be Wa:
oul with.
wasn’
Separate television net-
‘works it French and English
were advocated by the
Liberals’ = in 1985—-
Francophones in Vancouver
now have a French television

‘the. proyince.” ‘Tt

a
od by provincial
propost Resources Minister

“Bill Vander Zalm—the man

the city: plus Toronto and
Montreal, Nor have the
superbuses arrived at Inte . VANCOUVER (CP)
rlor cities. j that Trudeau Don Burdenx was in the.

envisioned inna campaign middle of a speech daring
speech. ‘the British Columbia
The party's 1988 land- ‘Telephone Co. to disconnect

speculation tax ‘never his telephone lines because
materlalized, hor did a 1969 «he is renting sequential
dialling message machines,
Then his telephone linea

' -went dead,

' His dialling macmine—
which delivers a recorded
message 1,-000 times a day to
those who answer at the

VANCOUVER (CP) ~- A
board .of inquiry has
criticized a Richmond, BC.

private security firm for Minis

asking job applicants where
they were born

AAA Rentagard of Canada
Ltd. violated provincial
human rights legislation by
asking applicants their place
of origin and that of thelr
‘spouse, the board ruled.

Leon Getz ordered. the
company to make amends by
giveng Kathleen Ralf,-
nhuman rights
derector, a copy of a revised
application form which

GAINESVILLE Fl 8, (ALC

Bernice Pherigo, chin) for42 Polak ha
YOare,. can ae @ jain because.

“oe excabe
teleged

syice a
ibe that pa ve

to her retina,

‘The device.was developed
in the early 19708 by Dr.
Hernando Cardona. of
Columbia University in New
York and works for only a
few dozen blinded persons,

doctors say..
Miss Pherlgo, 65, of
Columbus, Ind., Jost her

“vision when ahe was in her

208° because of a disease
called ocular pemphigus.
The disease causes blisters
and scars onthe outer sur-
face of the eye. In Miss Phe-
rigo's case, the scar tissue
was removed several times
in surgery but continued to
grow back and her vision
deteroriated to the point
where she could only
distinguish between light
and darkness.

Last fall, Dr. Frank Polak
of the Florida. Health Cen-
tre's Eye Clinic implanted
the device, a Teflon disc in

an optical cylinder, in Miss -

Burial at sea’
fate for Queen

HONG KONG (Reuter) —

.The twisted remas have

been hauled from the depths.
and now the skeleton of the
Queen Elizabeth—once the
symbol! of elegance in ocean

. travel—is to be buried at sea,

‘A 20-riéan team of South
Koreanndivers, ;
pipes-in

carcass, have dragged’ out

-- 45,000 tons of scrap. The old.
pride of the transatlantic. is'

ready for her funeral.

branch ©

Invention restores
. Sight through lid

ees iniages .
through a hole & in her eyelid:
operation was unsuccessful

“nerve,
" receives Hight and transmits

. It to the eye's retina, where

‘and the cylinder protrudes

and close the eyelid,

‘fered U-boat. captains a.

‘groping :”
“build: giant ‘managed. to |

‘ journeys totalling 80 - 300"

undergoing conversion into a -

floatingnuniversity ‘whenna
fire broke out and the ship
gank'to the bottom of Hong
Kong harbor in January,
1972. ;

It: has taken the divers :

43,500 man-hours to hack off
the . hunk of wreckage
protruding from the seabed.

Now all that remains is to.
fill In the seabed hole where

surface,

Scrap was used for
building materials, but some
of the ship's ‘remains were

pul to more glamorous use. |
For. example, 6,000 .com- -

-memorative pens were made.

out of 700 pounds of salvaged

brass from the sunkennhulk.
However, it all seemed a

Ata

- Florida’ tourist. attraction. ,

: ambitlous ‘academic project:

the remnants of the hulk lie! “ames Jan. 9, 1972, when fire

almost 20 metres below the.

_ that while It had no

_ desperately sad ‘end for the.

The Queen Elizabeth was sald. her to. a

‘acta by a Person or persons

in sequencd— sto the
tae of its apie ‘chia

_ BC, Telsays the machines
complles with the code, will tie up velephone. lines:
Getz, appolnted bx Labor
ter Williams to
hear the branch allegation,
found that the company
ignored legislation which -
prohibcts employers from
asking applicanta personal
Information relating to race,
religion, color, ancestry,

piace 0 of origin or: ‘Political

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
‘band of 32 gypsies that
became a aubject of con-

and = British Columbia
governments set. off Thurs-
day for Winnipeg, after
lea Ind an. unpaid

motel it of more than £2,800
RCMP said immigration dollara.n

laws prevent persons with
erlminal records from: en- ne wa why’ they wet

tering the country, . the Manitoba capitol and
thelr lawyer, John Taylor,
gaya: “It will be intereatlng
to sea what happens when
they arrive,” —

Tne gypeles arrived here
avenge reo
Pherigo's right aye, ~ ‘ay rom vi
aad - performed the the. United States. The

peatinen pai Hentt, fc a Rosetta defer 1a7Y é :
mt) om, ed be fi Te at oy
Phe are a sae Ty An Franoe ite
the other slx,-Polak sald the.

is

because of complicating

diseases of the retina or opde By P AUL CHUTKOW »

PARIS (AP) — The
fledglingFrench women's
movement faces an un-
certain future after a dismal

The cylinder works like a
fixed-focus camera. The lens

the image is recorded. ine
Miss Pherigo’s upper and embly elections.
lower eyelids were per: _ Outofa record 60 women

manently stitched: together os elected ‘to the 491-

through a hole in the eyelid, Member assembly, That is
There is no peripheral 10 more women than were in

the last assembly, but
vision, but Miss Pherigo can ;
‘move the cylinder with Women leaders had hoped to

muscles that‘normally open at wane t aaisogyny, just

French conservatism,’ said

Doctors say the vision in Florence d’Harcokrt, whose

Miss Pherigo’sright eye is at.
about 20-40 now. She can
read largeprint magazines
and newspapers and. is-
 Ophihalmnologiets say aye:
mole say eye-
@lasses.will be:added to im- VICTORIA (CP)’ = A

report ae ared for the.
eect her vision of cd | ach fh and wrildllie

ech rammed 11 coastal
sites that would be more
suited to industrial devel-
‘opment than the Cowichan
Rive T estuary.
urns said location of the
i “sites should not be
disclosed. because  lan-
‘downers would increase
selling prices.
The report proposes.
’ moratorium ‘on future and
pending development at the
‘Cowichan estuary ‘and

queen of the seas which once
plied the Atlantic between
S.- out hampton,
brougnand New Xork.

The luxury liner was also a
war hero. Adolf Hitler of-
the over-all suitability of one
atikngler: bt the pan Particular site ‘is deter-

‘Doman Industries

a
Westean Terminals he ’
‘Blready have industrial sites
on the estuary. Doman,

ttansport’ 800,000 troops in ~

Kilometres.

The Cunard Line tnaly
busnessman.who planned in
vain to. turn--her into a’

ms, Oita! (AP) —

wate jflans collapsed and
ong Kong businessman
¥. Tung bought the Hnernat Co™Mmon for active people.
auetion. for: about $2.3 But they don’t usually come,
mailllion... He renamed her
Feawise University and ind
hoped for UN backing for his

Alice Hicks" suffered the
ruptured tendon innher right
thumb about five weeks ago”

But his dreams went up in While filcking a lighter. She

a pulled a musele and it
had heal. But it diin't, so
she went to a doctor Monday

and had surgery.

engulfed the liner as it wau
belng. reifitted. in Hong
Kong's harbor.

A court of inquiry found
‘ect or fr my right arm and
conclusive evidence, it was trans py rene my right
satisfied that.:“by far the thumb,” she sald Thursday,
most likely cause of the flres “z have to leave the cast on
was, a. series. of deliberate for at least three weeks,”

unknown BATH, N.Y. (AP) — Both .
No one. was ‘ever arrested. candidates put their faith in

Pu

Pane tel Dee tc

‘ numbers the machines dials .
. homes. on their own rather

tentlon between the federal .

showing in the National -

candidates, only 17 of them —

assoccated wetlands, until .

from lighting a cigarette...

“They removed a tendon .

and harass customers, but
Burdeny says that’s only an
excuse to keep him out of
busin

ess,

“We're alleging a con-
spiracy between B.C. Tel
and the Real Estate Board of
Greater teins te because

ey're trying to'stop us
conducting business in this
ares," he said. -

Burdeny said his com:
pany, ILS Realty, offers do-
it-yourself kits to customers
who would like to sell their

than pay commission to a
real estate salesman, amove
which hesays has made him

- group, members of the

Sadinovios and Petrov
families—originally from
Yugoslavia, includes 15
children under the age.of 10,
& pregnant woman and a 61-
year-dld man with a heart
condition...

The federal government
lest week turned down the
est August, 1977: ap-

‘plication fornrefugee status

Canada. The department
sald the group will be “ad-
vised in due course of the
time and Place for further
action,”

‘An immigration
spokesman said a depart-

Tent inquiry will be con-

iui, Teh Re oe 8 adadbs
Libsuiddny. | Abmenb ded

wo neta

Women.i in politios a

- “reelection from the Paris
suburb of Netillly was one of

‘the few hopeful signs for
women,

“But In any case, ‘the
future of the - women’s
movement isnot bright,” she

4

Eleven of the 17 women
elected were Communists,
one was a Socialist and five
belonged to parties of the
centreright majority.

“As far as women are con-
cerned, the results are a
catastrophe for . the
majority,’ sald Mrs.

Island Wi Shake E "and
Western Ener
ee Valley and Be

Forest Products have ap-
plied to the environment
ministry ‘for: permission to
oamaen or expand on the

nrg said the Cowichan
estuary has become “an
environmental slum" and
that it would be feasible to
“clean industry out of there
and put a proper zoning

_ boundary at the end of the

wet forest and extend the
boundary up to- Cowichan
Lake. and the fleod plain.”

The estuary is a waterfowl
sanctuary and has sport and
commercial coho fishery
estimated at si. § million a
year,

Therepor? says developing
any of the 1 1 potential indus-

Lady Luck and the draw, of

Tendon | Injuries are pretty the

Dr. Gregory Schultz won’
with a 10 of diamonds, ~

Schultz, the new trustee in :
this western: New York
village, and Lawrence’
Crossett wound up Tuesday's
election with 536 votes each.

recalled that she thought ehé-On’ Wednesday, it was

decided that the lwo candi. .

‘dates would draw cards to

, Settle the election...
Crossett drew, the five, of

spades, Shas ,

4 CNDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
A. jury has awarded an
Iranian couple $9,193 in
‘damages for-burns suffered
when their dessert exploded.
The suit redulted fromnan

incident April 11,:1976, when ‘

ones

un popular with the ‘board,
And B.C. Tel is wortled, he |
said, because he has wor a

franchise in Vancouver to Te,

sell telephone equipmeds;
telephones, to ~ private

‘ consumers. He sald-about $1 .'T

million in telephone’ equip-
ment will be placed on the
market within the next few
months.

CHARGES TAMPERING .

" “We've got a business, and migh

‘It's being tampered with,””
said Burdeny. ‘We don't
mind. good competition, but
this la ridlculous.”-'*

Burdeny said he has about
33 machines, but two com:

Gypsies leave Vancouver and bill net

ent

said Thurfday that until thes: a

they can travel as they like ,
through Canada.

- Meanwhile,. -
gglll, owner of. tha Deluxe
os ils wondering swho who is

ay the gypsies’
§2,520 hot bill for 14 days’
accommodation, .

The vrovince's human re-
sources ginisiry put . the
grou in three; ‘con
ecu ve tele

Sukiichain -

_ done, 1962 promise from the plans up. n ‘

Vancouver has not seen Tories, A coliseum was In 1973, the New r esponfible mar pind onthe ol
any of the $275 million eventually built at the DemocraticParty provincial Negotiations continue. Libcal candidate ip} 1968,
promised for new commuter
vehicles promised in 1974 for

Delivery disrupted in dial dispute:

panies using | the machines
taken :them. out of
sevice on orders, from BC.

Peter Lancaster, ducts
port manager for B,C.
Ta sald the company has
recelved several complaints
about the machine, ~
“We've gat to protect our
network against. any sort of
dialling arrangement that
t Interfere’ with it,'” he

said: “We've got to abide by
out rule governing abuse. of
lines and customers.” ©"
‘He ssid B.C. Tells worried .
that a re pera dialer

gop : mus ono ‘able. ito

Siterefnen to retrieve
efaylor eald the gra

a 0. group. was
pond wenicios to. be rael ae

pps to be nat sent

firat few days he ¢ @, but se atte yan pepe.

dete Ear Baad
DES aes HE aaniars

are Oui, Oui, Weak oe
0. candidates:;: ‘but: none

d'Harcourt, “They ahow that.
only: the Communists - un,
derstood the importance of
backing good women: candi.
dates,”
WINS FIRST ROUND. .
Mrs. d'Harcourt had to nun
as an independent after her
wn party, the Gaullist Rally
for the. Republic, ran
newspaper magnate t
Hersant in her district. The.
party asked her to withdraw
bat she wise int ant
whip ersant in the
roel at voting ;
The feminist group Cholsir
(Choice) ran its own slate of

Eleven sites are better

trial sites would result in
minimal ecological -losa in
, terms of wildlife habitat and
“resource value.

B.C. dairies oan'i oonipete
VERON, B9R.. (CP) wane *

Henrz - Wiens, general.
manager of the Smuswap-
Okanagan Dairy Industrces”
Co-operative Association,
ay the British Columbia

dustry cannot rey on
strict economics. _ for pat

val ‘ .

dairy products and sell them
cheaper than if we produce
them ourselves. “Rely
strictly on economies"

see the ruinatlon of our B.C.

’ dairy indkstry," he told -the
assoccation’s annua
meeting Wednesday.

- Flipping her Bic numbed her thumb °

Hatef and Fudabeh _Behnia,
now living in Menlo Park,, orang
Calif., went to the ‘In-::
dianapolis restaurant La
Tour for dinner. -
After the main courge,’ a”
waiter trainee was |
ing bananas flambe, a .
dessert - which - involves
igniting white rum over &
heated concoction...“ of"

hag he
“We can import almidet aif Ci

Testaurant,

th aaa yids sasian jsasaved wnarbdids
aaa ns seneyen at hess wad? hatrnadeet

Ploeisee et gen PM

managed:to get: more :than-
4.4 percent: ‘of the vote,..:.i°°

“I and tho: others elected’
will do‘ all‘wé can to” geve
French; womenna voice * “tn
this assembly ‘and to’ press’

“for ‘more women candidates”
next time,” she sald: “But

rm: ‘afrald- ‘we're’ In for. ‘a
‘tough’ time. Woroy ,

Leaders of, Cholsir said
they weren’t discouraged -by

‘the, results . of . their: first ;

: campaign, ... which. was:
organized late and didn’t
have mkch money.

. * Recreation: ‘and: Con:
servation . Minister’: Sam

Bawlf was not available for: —

comment on the report.
i

i,
dot a

igi said | ee
‘qpetiting: “costs, ‘lower:
retail. prices and. the cost of

metric ‘conversion have: |

reduced the association's
profitability. He added, how-:.
ever that, the organisation

metive

(NOCA) sales in 1977 were.a-

new record, with gross sales...

. of $32 millon, up $2.5 million

» from. ;1876, Payments to:
members wereup.16 per cent
although. there has
increasein ae. volume. of:

milk handled

bananas, . sugat, | butter,

and an orange.
orange dap. an Ys

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