Dai ae coat Tite eee iim est . ig eu S ae RT Sy Ne In brief: | Waiting for strike |. VICTORIA (CP)- Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Rafe Mair says he is waiting to hear from B.C. Government Employees Union general secretary John Fryer on his appeal for co-operation if liquor store em- . Ployees go on strike, ; . Mair unveiled a plan Tuesday that would see liquor distribution taken out of government hands, so hotels and purchase beer, hard liquor and wine. The minister said that the plan would ensure that the 16,000 employees In the hotel and restaurant industry wouldn’t be affected if the liquor store employees component of the BCGEU ‘decide to strike. . Mair said Wednesday he has talked to Fryer about it, * and will be discussing it further with him, but declined to go into any details. : Cancer covered — VICTORIA (CF)- Human Resources Minister. Bill Vander Zalm promised Wednesday that prostheses for ‘breat cancer victims will be covered soon under his, -Ministry’s universal pharmacare program. NDP MLA Rosemary Brown Vancouver-Burrard had earlier asked the minister during question period if such provision could be made for those women who have undergone a mastectomy, as they are necessary in most eases and not just a cosmetic. - Vander Zaim said he agreed they were necessary, and gaid the proposal has already received top consideration from ministry officials. _- He wasn’t able to fix a definite date as to when they would be included under the plan. More fires OTTAWA (CP)- There were more forest fires across Canada this year from April to July then over the same ‘period last year, but fewer acres of forest were burned, Figures released Wednesday. by the Forest Fire ‘Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment Canada show that 7,164 forest fires consumed 1,591,000 acres while last year 6,386 fires destroyed 2,303,000 acres. Yearly averages for the corresponding period over the last decade were 5,898 fires and 2,152,000 acres. Lines severed -- NAIROBI, Kenya Reuter - Ethiopia severed diplomatic relations with Somalia on Wednesday and gave Somali diplomats 48 hours to leave the country, Addis Ababa radio reported. It quoted the foreign affairs ministry as saying that diplematic relations between Ethiopia and Somalia serve no useful purpose “in view of the continuing war of invasion which the Mogadishu regime is waging against opla.” The ministry said.the Somali government had strained, armed and jnfitrate’ bandits | and terrorist ‘oups to carry out acts of sa 8, r and murder (eehin Ethiopia,” the radio added. ® The ministry statement said that on July.23, the Somali -government launched ‘fan unprovoked naked aggression against Ethiopia by using its regular ground forces and er. air power. “Since that date a full-scale was has been raging between the invading ground and air forces of Somalia and the defending Ethiopian forces.” . The statement said Ethiopia has limited its defertce to its own territory and has “exercised the utmost self- restraint. not to exacerbate the situation.” Following the Somali decision to walk out of last . month’s mediation attempt. by the Organization of African Unity in . Libreville, Gabon, subsequent declarations and activities of Somalia showed that. ‘‘it has opted to continue its aggression against Ethiopia," the foreign ministry said. . For this reason Ethiopia decided to sever diplomatic relations with Somalia effective Wednesday, the statement said. Scratch insanity ._ MANCOUVER (CP)-.Forensie psychiatrist Dr. John Duffy of Vancouver said the legal plea of not guilty by reason of . insanity - shouldn't. be allowed. -” Duffy, who is also executive director of. the Forensic Psychiatric Commission,. told a service club Tuesday normally, and if found guilty, be sent to prison. , * “Then, if they areso mentally ili they have to come to hospital they should be admitted,” he said. Duffy said he has proposed this idea to the Law Reform Commission. . Dr. Duffy totd the Rotary Club that people too often us mental patients as scapegoats and this results in widespréad fear of the mentally ill. os - “People get scared when mental patients are released -from hospital,” Duffy said. ‘‘But we don’t release them if they're going to. cause harm. _ “Ifa mental patient is going to commit a crime itis in the first acute phase of the illness.” Idi gets surgery . NAIROBI, Kenya Rueter-President Idi Amin of Uganda underwent surgery by a Soviet medical expert ‘Wednesday for an undisclosed illness, Radio Uganda reported. a “The radio said doctors at Mulago Hospital in Kampala declined to disclose the nature of the president's illness. ~ The radio said Amin, admitted to the hospital earlier in the day, was accompanied there by the Soviet am- bassador to Uganda, Yevgeniy Moussikye; another Soviet embassy official, two military officers and four of -his children. . ' Hunger strike ’. PARIS RUETER-A member of France's senate has gone ona hunger strike because she has been replaced by ‘aman for a senate election. - Janine Alexandre-Debray, mother of left-wing author Regis. Debray, began a fast none days ago and now is. ‘very ill, her husband,. Georges, said Wednesday. | - He told reporters in a statement that his wife, a member of President. Valery Giscard d’Estaing's | Republican party>is making the protest ‘in the name of the respect of women’s rights toa political life.” The Repiblican party has put forward DEPUTY+Christian Taittinger for the Sept. 25 senate election instead of Mrs. Alexandre-Debray. 7 - THE HERALO, Thursday, September 0, 1977, PAGE 3. BIG JOB, BUT STUDENTS OLDER GM won't bend _ Principal returns to first BY DONNA VALLIERES HERALD STAFF WRITER Caledonia senior. secon- dary school opened its doors to both new and returning _ students Tuesday and st the same.time welcomed a new. principal to the staff. peputpal of Sk a former of Skeena Junior Secondary took over the post as. a temporary John Bastin who is on leave steer’ said he enjoying 8 e en working with the same students he met while at Skeena and is | for- ward to the season ahead. I think this is just .an - excellent facility,” he said. - “It's a big job, but the tudents are much more mature than at a junior Hele secondary level, waite responsible. So far I'm enjoying that atmosphere.” Stren first began teaching at .Skeena in. 1964 before going on to teach in Kitimat. Since then he has held various posts in Kimberley and Smithers, returning to Skeena two years ago. 5 ‘I t was ironic to come back to the same school he is having to familiarize “§ hinself with the staff and =. with senior secondary iculum. Caledonia has a staff of 30 mm working with 66 grade.10,11 ae and 12 students who come from as far away as Iskut and Telegraph Creek to attend the schools. "Bill Stern post This semester there has been a turnover of about 125 students which Stern described as ‘‘quite large” for the total number of students enrolled. Caledonia will be seeing a few changes this.year, with Mary Sedgewick, Walt McIntyre, Hugh Powers and Ian Jordan jfoinging the staff, and a new scheduling system which allows the students to program their own classes and choose their own teachers. Students will also be taking five course per semester, rather then four, study periods have been eliminated except for some - grade 12 students dealin with a heavy acedemic load. Only one new course be added to the school’s curriculum grapic arts course, byt Caledonia already has a total selection of .85 different . courses, which Stern discribed as “a large number for a school of this size.”’ The school will also continue with the work experience program, designed to familiarize ‘students with employment altenatives, under the direction of Audy Barr district co-ordinator. Stern is apeo preparing. for. an. external provincial accredidation study which will be carried out sometime in October. They study will evaluate the school in terms of Department of Education standards. But Stern emphaiszed he is looking forward to the challenge of being principal at Caledonia. Tenders Warmer atmosphere in kindergartens... called © for wharf Tenders have been called by the federal Department of Public Works for repairs to Prince Rupert’s Cow Bay wharf, said Skeena MP, Yona Campagnolo,-on.behaif on Public Works Minister, Judd BUCHANAN. The tender calls for the restoration of 2,5000 square feet. of wharf super- structure. Aging docks will be replaced with new timbers, but pilings on which the dock rests are sound and willnot be placed. Public Works officials say the actual repairs will take about two .-months, but additional time is being Sonie Kitimat kin-. dergarten students won't have to face that scary moment when parents leave and they find themselves in ‘a roomful of strangers. , Kildala, Nechako, Cor- morant and Roy Wilcox elementary schools have adopted a new method of kindergarten entry. Each child accompanied by a parent, will haye a personal interview with the teacher lasting about 20 to 30 minutes This gives the child an opportunity to become acquainted with the kin- dergarten room and his teacher in a relaxed at- mosphere... While the student checks out the toys allowed for the successful_.and.the Lilliputian-sized contractor to. gather materials. Partial service for pedestrains and .com- mercial fikermen will be maintained during repair work, OTTAWA CP-MOs secrestaries, whose postions are also depedent upon the whinis of the electorate, are becoming increasing _ militant aobut their lack of job security. The secretaries and research assistants can serve an MP for 20 years.or more and suddenly. find themselves jobless because their. boss didn't re-elected Golf fun tourney Golfers wanting to play in the Kitimat Works Sports Association fun tournament to be held Saturday Sept. 10. at 11 a.m. at Hirsch Creek Gof Course must sign up by this evening. Contestants may sign up onthe clubhouse bulletin board or call 632-4242, The fee is $6 and any Alcan employee and family may compete. For further Details contact Stan Green at Alcan local 460, . furniture, his. parents and teacher have time to discuss academic expectations, . health problems and the “ child’s special interest and ability. or dictded to retire from the political forum. In' a letter to Elmer MacKay, chairman of the Conservative Parliamen- tary cauus, Walsh said the main. .areas. of the associations's concern are salaries, .working con- ditions, training, orientation and social activities. In an interview Wed- nesday, Walsh. conceded that job security is a priority with many of the secretaries and research assistants, especially those who may be the breadwinner of a family. Gary Steeves, president of the Parliamentary Association of Support Staff- the NDP group, also seek better job security for association members, Before the NDP secretaires formed their ‘ group, an MP could walk _into .an. office without warning and tell an aide “you're fired,” Steeves sald in an interview. Since the support staff association was formed more than a year ago, dismissed employees must be given 30 days notice. ‘ben In the past children en- tered. kindergarten. in consecutive groups until all were present. The school board feels the ‘'‘new entry model’’, pioneered suc- cessfully in 1976-77 at Kildala and Nechako schools, will help children, parents and teachers communicate better. Regular classes will begin next week when all chidiren have been interviewed. ..and more crowded in local schools Kitimat’s school population is out of step with the rest ‘of Canada’s. Although most schools across the country showed a drop in enrolment in 1976-77 and are expecting smaller student bodies this year, registration Tuesday in Kitimat elementary and secondary schools, showed, an increase of 157 students since June 30. Bruce Gordon, supervisor of instruction for the ‘Kitimat School. Board, said the. final court of the _student population will not be available until the end of Sentember because. some students are still on holidays. Gordon said that the largest percentage of young couples in the Kitimat population steer to other districts probably accounts for the rising enrolment contrary to the trend in the rest of Canada. SUDDENLY JOBLESS The NDP group is closer to a union than the Con- - gervative group. It has a collective agreement with the MP s that sets out hiring, firing’ and grievance oC . i Saltiries, however, cannot tiated with the MP because they are set by a committee of four cabinet ministers and the Com- mons’ Speaker. -Both Walsh and Steeves that MPs should be jowed to choose their own staff and that a new MP SHOULD not be forced to hire a retired colleague's secretary. — ; Secretaries to cabinet minister and the Opposition leader can transfer to the public service after two years service. Steeves said the Liberals have misused.this ability to transfer ex-aide of cabinet minister into the public service. “The Liberals are training middle-and upper- echelon public srevants who are resposive to Liberal ploicies philosophically ,"' he sa 1 . Walsh nothed that when Alberta MP Jack Horner Secretaries to federal MPs restless switched to the Liberals from the Conservatives he -_ tock along many of his staff. The aides immediately recieved a boost in pay because they were working for a cabinet minister. But being a minister without portfolio probable did not eause the staff's work load to increase considerable, Walsh said. The current salary range for MPa’ top secretaries .is $12,508 to $15,695. The junior secretaries and. research assistants are paid $9,116 to $11,098, Each MP is allowed three secretaries in his Ottawa office. and a fourth in his constituency office. Walsh, who is a research assistant for Michael Forrestall,, MP for Dart- mouth-Halifax East, sald most of the reaction from Conservative MPs to the association was favorable. Pear ee who works for ( Symes, mem ‘or some of the MPs were reluctant to accept the idea of the NDP association. ' “The reluctance readily cleared away when we talked to the caucus,” to rust rule OTTAWA (CP)- General Motors of Canada says it will not make a com- mitment to. meet new federal-provincial rust resistance standards on its despite threats of legislation to make the industry toe the line. The voluntary troduced by the federal ‘government this spring, would require 1978 cars and trucks to last at least three years without serious body rust and. a minimum six years without structural damage from rust that materials have been built into new vehicles in 1977 and 1978 model years. But the company would . be guarantee hem for a specific time because most blame for early rusting was with owners who. did not give their vehicles proper maintenance. ; ‘There's no way you're going toget me to admit toa fime frame,” Hall said.. “You can’t put a time on it because each owner treats his car differently.” . The owner's man in GM cars now rolling off assembly lines states spec the warranty does not cover damage to the . body from en- vironmental causes, in- cluding salt. . - Consumer Minister Tony Abbott introduced the draft _response to thousands of complaints .from- owners alleging their vehicles had rusted prematurely. . It was endorsed at a federal-provincial con- ference of consumer ministers in July and a code, in- committee of federal and provincial officials has been putting the final touches to It before it is released, probably by the end of the month, . Federal officials say there is agreement with their provincial counterparts that if the manufacturers and importers do not meet the standards of. the voluntary code, legislation will probably have to be brought in. . “It's because of attitudes like that of General Motors that we may have to go ahead with legislation,” said a federal official. GM is the largest Canadian manufacturer with about 50 percent. of passenger car production. Only the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, whose sales have suffered in the last few years. because of adverse publicity about alleged premature rusting of its products, has said it can meet the code requirements. Ford introduced —a warranty last year for its 1977 cars guaranteeing them for three years against rust performations. Chrysier of Canada, narrowly ahead of Ford in car sales. this year, has so far. declined to state its position on the rust code. . Manufacturers as well as importers, who are also covered by the standards set down in the code, blame increased use of salt and improper vehicle main- tenance for the corrosion problem. But the federal depart- ment says much of the blame lies with. the manufactuers for designing cars with crevices and . boxed areas where salt can collect. Career Opportunity | _ Advertising Sales The Terrace Daily Herald requires an enthusiastic, reliable person to work towards a future in advertising sales. Applicants should be neat in appearance, haveself management abilities, enjoy meeting people and have the ability to generate new ideas. Sales experience would be an asset. Your own transportation isnecessary. Full line of company benefits. Opportunity ‘for Advancements. CONTACT: CANADA EMPLOYMENT CENTRE 4630 LAZELLE TERRACE, B.C. CAREER OPPORTUNITY industry. responsibility. 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