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LARGEST ENERGY PROJECT

AL Can line gets
— Joint approval —

WASHINGTON
President Carter announted
Thursday his official ap-
proval of another historic
construction project, a si
billion pipeline to ca
Alaskan natural gas sou!
through Canada along the
Alaska Highway.

His decision in favor of the
Alaska Highway route,
which was proposed in
Canada by Foothills .Pi
Lines Yukon Ltd. and in ¢
U.S. by Alcan Pipeline Co.,
appeared to doom the rival
Paso proposal.to move

_ the gas from Alaska by ship

without crossing Canadian
terri

tory.
Shortly after Carter’s
announcement, a key
congressional supporter ot

(CP)-.

the.E] Paso plan, Senator
Mike Gravel Dem. Alaska
indicated his belief that
Congress accept the
president's choice.
With: Prime Minister
drudeau standing beside
him, Carter told reporters
the 2,500 mile Alaska High-
way pipeline, “the largest
single private energy
project.in history,” is fur-
ther evidence of the spirit of
co-operation between the
two countries.

Trudeau compared the
project with the building of
the .St. Lawpence seaway,
saying the pipeline will be
even more important. He
added that the two countries

in a “spirit of complete

cabinet

openness” on the pipeline

ue.

An agreement in principle
was reached in Ottawa last
Friday between U.S.

-Energy Secretary James

Schlesinger and Canadian
House Leader Alian
MacEachen. The Canadian
approved = the

although their joint
statement indicated that
Canada had withdrawn- its
proposal that the line take a
more costly route, through
Dawson City,. to. make. a
possible future pipeline for.
Canadian use less ex-

pensive,
There war no immediate

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agreement Tuesday and
Carter’s approval was
announced just after his 5
minute discussion with
Trudeau on Thursday.
Neither leader gave
details of the Canada U.S.
agreement on the pipeline,

official confirmation of
reports Canada also
dropped proposals to have
the pipeline carry the coat of
a.$200 million Yukon socio-
economic fund and to delay
the construction start to 1981
from 1979.

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Letter carriers sign;
sorters may follow |

OTTAWA (CP)- Post
master-general . Jean-
Jacques Blais signed a
contract Thursday with the
Letter: Carriere. Unionof
Canada

een some encouraging

evelopments in the dispute
with the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers CUPW.

“T hope that within a breif

period of time,.we'll be back
at the bargaining table with
CUPW,’’ Blais said.

But he said heis not going
to elaborate until both sides
are “ensconsed in com-
fortable chairs with both
feet firmly under the
bargaining table.’”

Jean-Claude Parrot,
president of the 22, 000
mem
not think a detailed ¢om-

ment would “‘serve the best ,
interests of our members or

the public.” .

But he also expressed
hope contract talks will
resume shortly.

CUPW and the post office

attempted in May to start .
negotiations for a new -

agreement, But those talks

- proke off after an hour and
therehave been no meetings .

since then.

Old agreements. covering
the letter .carriers’ an
CUPW, which represents
mail sorters and postal
clerks, experied last June.

The one-year contract

signed Thursday by. the:

letter carriers was reached

without any slowdowns. or .

work stoppages. It provides

‘an eight percent salary

increase plus a cost of living
adjustment clause that
applies when the inflation
rate is more than six per-
cen

If approved b
inflation board,

the anti-

~ Liberals will

‘and said there have ... carriers- ‘wold

will bring the top rate of
for a carrier with two year's
experience to $19,878.92 a
year.. Toten president
im
in favor of the agreement.
CUPW also has called for
a -royal. commission of

inquiry into what it calls

incompetence and poor
administration at the post
office.

MeGrny: admitted ‘there he.”

has been a serious loss of
public confidence in the post
office, buthesaid there is no

need. for a royal com-
mission.

The problems of the pos'

office and the unions should
: worked: : out’:.. by

‘McGarry sai

NOBODY KNOWS

ber CUPW, said he did:

Arms dump in Interior?

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.. an Irish Republican Army

(CP)- RCMP. here said
Thureday they know nothing In an “interview. from a
hideout somewhere in

of an aleged Protestant
Quebec, Kennedy told a

arms dump in the area.
The charge ‘was made Vancouver reporter that he

Wednesday by James will disclose concrete
Kennedy, a man im-- evidence of the existence of -
migration authorities say is the arms dump

hear

e contract

_ Fame sought by
gum chewer

. ESQUIMALT, B.C. (CP)- as there’s nothing listed in

Ricky. Mathison’s chewing the Guiness Book, but he

lose its flavor on. the bed- ‘thinks he’s set a new one.
post overnight because he For now, he’s iust going to
keeps it in his mouth. - ‘keep..on chewing with. no
-He parks it on the roof of particular target in mind.
his mouth or between his
teeth and upper lip while he He only chews a small
sleeps and 30 far, he hasn't ‘lump of gum, half a stick,
chocked or four itin his hair and every three or four days
in the morning. . he.adds another half stick
The 12 year oldresident of because the gum seems to
this Victoria suburb has had wear away.
a. plece of gum on the ge ‘The grade 7 student says
since June 7 because his teachers are sym-
wants his name the pathetic ‘to his record-
Guiness. Book of Racords ‘setting efforts, but then. he
He said Thursday that he doesn’t chew ‘all the time
isn’taure what,the record'is, either.

simultaneously in Canada
and Ireland sometime in the
future,

Kennedy, 37, said by
police to be James McCann

. who is wanted for ettorist

activities in Europe, was
released from the Lower
Mainland Regional
Correctional Centre Oakalla
near Vancouver on $5,000
bail while he appeals a July
14 deportation order

- Kennedy, a. declared
member of the Sin Fein, the
political wing. of the. IRA,
said funrunsing activities
were occurring on the West
and East Coast of Canada.

“There is still a major
arms dump near
George and the RCMP in
Mission east .of Vancouver
Imow about it,” Kennnedy

. said,

“The RCMP sre pursuing
this in Mission,” he said. .

Police spokesmen in
Prince George and Mission
denied knowledge of such an
investigation Thursday.

‘Vancouver spokesman:

would only say that the

police force strongly denies
that it is turning a blind eye
to ony gun-running ac-

It.takes more than rain to sour Dawn. Coxford’s en-
thusiasm for softhall. The Royal Bank pitcher threw the
first ball in this weekend’s scrub tourney, but her

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Overwailtea In six innings. Before the game, home plate
had to be excavated from the mud. Games schedule for
the weekend tourney Is on page 5.

Coping with instant fame
is nothing to Channel swimmer

FOLKESTONE, England,
(CP) — Cindy Nicholas, 20,
of Toronto, spent nearly. 20
hours conquering the frigid
waters of the -English

Channel — then fainted and.

sprained her right wrist in
the warmth of her
bathroom.

She swarm round trip, not-
stop from Dover to Cap Fria
Nez and back, something no
other woman has ever.done.
She slashed an incredible 10
hours, five minutes off the
men's record.

-“T was in control all the
time,” she.said.

She admitted: “It hurt; it
hurt a lot, but that’s
something you learn to live

Cindy had been without
sleep for. 40 hours as she

A spoke with reporters and

coped with phone calls from
news organizations in North
America and England.
She walked into the water
at Dover just about dawn on
Wednesday. Nearly.20 hours

later, cut and bruised, she
“crawled out” back up the
same beach.

Her two-way swim gave:

her a total of five Channel
crossings, equalling the
récord set in the 1960's by
Greta Anderson, a Dane
from the U.S.

“Pm coming back next
year,’ Cindy said.
“Definitely.

She wants the title. Queen

of the Channel, which she
shares with Anderson. She
also want the England-to-
France record — eight
hours and 56 minutes, held
by Wendy Brooke of
England,

Cindy set out for that
record — she already holds
the France'to’England
mark’on the first leg of her
swim.

The worst part of her
swim came as she ap-
proached France, where
waves hattered her against
the rocks.

SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS AT PICNIC

Under new regulations, a
swimmer must walk clear of
the water to qualify,

“I had trouble. getting. out
and getting back in," Cindy
said.

Her parents — Jim and
Vicky Nicholas — were with
her all the way in the ac-
companying pilot’ boat.

"It was like Highway 40!
out there at night,” her
mother said.

Cindy. said “some. very
large ships came very close.
Some of the ferries seemed
to want to give their
passengers a close look.”

Eight hours of. her swim
was. accomplished in
darkness and Mrs. Nicholas
said: “It’s a : garbage dump
out there, with ships, boxes,
bottles and seaweed.

“And it wascold, The air
temperature was 57 and the
water temperature was 62."

Cindy's feat — the record
she broke, 80 hours even,

was set two years ago by

Jon Erikson of Chicago —

made. her an_ instant
celebrity.

One of the telephone calls
she received was from Paul
Martin, Canada's High
Commissioner to Britain,
inviting her.to dinner,

Late editions of London
afternoon newspapers ran
her picture on the front

page.

Cindy, at. five-foot-five,
normally weighs 135 pounds
but she put one 12 pounds
before. her .swom as
protection against the chill
water..

During her nearly 206
hours, she ‘'put on another
five pounds" by snacking on
chocolate bars, grapes, soft
drinks and sausages.

In addition te her deter-
mination to return next year |
she has another goal in mind
— swimming the turbulent
Strait of Jaun de Fuca in
British Columbia, but that’s
somewhere in the future.

. OTTAWA (CP)- Finance depart-
ment. officials continued work
Thursday on a new federal make-
work program while Liberal MPs
ended what one said were “bloddy
serious discussions” on the economy
with a picnic in the nearby Gatineau

ae realize we're going to have to
take.some lumps this winter,”
British Columbia MP Jack Pearsall

' L-Const Chilcotin as Liberal MPs
_ completed morning talks on

aemployment and other economic
concerns. ‘‘There are just 1 no easy
solutions.” : oe :

said

The Liberal meetings, part of a

two-day private planning session. .
prior to a mid-October. opening of.

Parliament, .ended with an. af-

ternoon picnic at Prime Minister

Trudeau’s Harrington Lake, Que.,
summer retreat in the Gatineau
Hills about 20 miles north of Ottawa.

Asit ended, Employment Minister
Bud Cullen said cabinet would sound
out several job creation options on
Liberal MPs before adding to
current federal plans to sink $458
million into make-work projects

‘take some lumps’ this winter ©

before the accunting year ends next
March 31, .
Meanwhile,

senior finance

‘ department officials, who drafted

employment plans that . were
rejected by.cabinet earlier thisyear,
were working on new proposals
ordered by the govenrment. .

They plan to.spend the weekend at
another Gatineau Hills retreat
drawing up a job program that will
likely form part of the government's
pelicy-previewing throne speech
address read perhaps by the Queen -
when Parliament resumes in Oc-

r.

Cullen said any new program
would have to get the blessing of the
finance minister who replaces
Donald Macdonald, the 45 year old
MP for the Toronto riding of
Rosedale who announced his
resignation from cabinet earlier this
weelt,

‘Trudeau is said to have put a
higher priority on plans to offset the
steadily rising unemployment rate -
it stood at 9.1 percent of the work
force in July, or 878,000 workers -
than on the struggle to keep the
country together in the face of

threats. from Ren Levesque’s
separatist government in Quebec.

prime minister may give
some indication of his government’s
plans for the unemployed at a news
conference today. He returned to
Ottawa on. Thursdey from an

overnight visit to. Washington to —

witness the signing of new Panama
canal treaties and a meeting with

_ President Carter.

NDP Leader Ed Broadbent: has
scheduled a meeting with reporters
shortly before Trudeau’s news
conference, and officials in

Broadbent's office say the NDP
leader plana to launch another
assault on the government’s han-
dling of the jobless situation.

Labor and business leaders,’
however, were cool to federal plans
for a consultative forum that might
have developed ways to reduce
unemployinent.

Government has become in-
creasingly upset with business
reluctance to use tax cuts offered in
the last federal budget- Macdonald
8 an incentive to expand operations
and create jobs,