- te 1 f st LEGISLALLVE LIgKnwY, Cur. (447d _ PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, §.C., #61 ff vav-1k4 : r Vf | » : | se 7 _ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. = | we buy Hn COPPER BRASS ALL METALS & BATTERIES MOH. = SAT. OPEH TIL 5 p.m. Location Seal Gove § Phone 624-6639 C Volume 72 No, 215 20¢ Tuesday. November 7, 1978 a 4 yy, GOOD NEWS — Savings : Force ' pulls ‘ back JERUSALEM (CP) — The Israeli cabinet Monday approved the wilhdrawal of Israeli forces in the Sinai toa line stretching from Ras Mvhammad in the south to El Arish on the Medi- terranean, Acting Prime Minister Yigael Yadin said. Addressing the Knesset (Israelis parliament) i foreign affairs and defence Monday that the yield on the committee, Yadin said pallens Nercetape TE R M Se ee thdnacral es point came less than 24 hours . proved the withdrawal as part of the first stage of a bonds up OTTAWA (CP) — For the second time in three weeks the government has been forced to sweeten this year's Canada Savings Bond issue, raising the annual rate of return to 9.5 per cent, The announcement after the Bank of Canada RATE HIKE SHORT OTTAWA (CP) — The latest increase in the 7 posed ty wi increased its trend-setting ” Bevpl Peace eetrictions lending rate toa record high | trend-setting Bank off ‘were issued to the Israeli 1075 per cent. aband canada interest rale will e two upward bond revi- “‘short- . bee the Washington sions, the first was in mid. [| economic in- . He said the cabinet felt negotiations should continue on the questions of Egyptian insistence on linking the October, are viewed as an effort by the government to encourage savers to hang on to their Canada Savings convenlences'’ for the country, Finance Minister Jean Chretien admitted Monday. | Bands instead of shopping on But Chretien, under fire arent reaty ith oT the private market for better J in the Commons from ; the West Bank of the Jordan rates, opposition critics who f and Gaza Strip. The action is considered | charged the increase will i . The ministers also want unusual. It is the first time | further weaken an 5 the talks to continue on the the government has allered | already-sluggish : - “lt En eM Sate ee problem of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, Egypt's demand to reconsider the treaty alter a five-year pe- riod, the contents of a preamble to the treaty and . the question of financing the heavy costs involved in the Israeli evacuation of Sinai, Yadin sald. He said the cabinet drew Lo , with other investment op- | ment’s decision Sunday to .: up fresh proposals on these e hd ortunities. Clarke had | raise the Bank of Canada 'E five points, and they will be p 2g y p £ necused the government of | i te on its Loa : N . government of | interest rate on its loans i caste Lain hampers highway progress Safernes |i sae - flying over the area early highway are both under Highways crews were way re-opening for Friday, fidence in the through =] record 10.75 per cent from a Welzman, who returned to elletNay 8 eat ween Monday afternoon. The water 4 alerted to fast rising water at ¥ re-opening its confused economic | 10.25 per cent. | Israel expands West Bank units in Israell-occupied Arab lands, Israeli radio reported. A decision last month to "thicken’’ the set- tlements sparked a con- troversy with the U.S. government. ‘ No official U.S. reaction to the allocation was available immediately. helicopters to airlift food and MP for Skeena said Monday. Assistance Fund means that from the federal government assesment team made up of already applied to purctase ninth time ina year from the . medical supplies to Campagnola told the the federal and provincial and 25 per cent from the personnel from the 998 Canada Savings Bonds minimum security in- 4 The Israeli cabinet alsoor- Cedarvale, 45 miles east of Herald in aa interview from governments will be sharing provincial government. Any provincial Emergency will automatically receive stitution Saturday. ; dered Defence Minister Ezer here, and Greenville, 60 Ottawa that Premier Bill thecostsofthedamagesona amount of funds required Preparedness Secretariat theinereasedyleld of 9.5per Prison officials said she , Welzman back to miles northwest of here. Bennetthadsenta telegram prearranged cost-sharing above five dollars per capita (PEP) and the Emergency cent. was accompanied by two | Washington with in- Each helicopter was to fly asking for federal govern- formula. will be split with the federal Planning Canada. Thisteam ‘This may not show up on other prisoners, Elizabeth : structions to re-negaliate some previously-agreed- upon points before wrapping up talks on an Egyptian- Israeli peace treaty. In Cairo, top Egyptian ne- gotlator Osama el-Baz said Egypt intends to submit its own “‘new points and proposals” that may help Workman watches installation of bailey bridge at Price Creek. BUT WE'RE WINNING bad oh. Monday aa it was during the worst of the storm. last ~eeki""3aid' Mike O'Connor, regional highways engineer. : O'Connor said, however, that they were winning and thal the Bailey Bridge at . Price Creek was in and the one at Chindemash Creek should' be in‘place today. More Bailey bridges were due in Monday night with a load: © of ; construction equipment being barged to Legate Creek and Little Creek today. The area was again threatened by a rain storm on Monday, causing many of the areas that were hit hard by heavy rains and flooding last waek to be reflooded. Visibility was too poor for 3,000 Ibs. of supplies. Murray Dyer, co- oridinator for the provincial emergency program in Terrace, said the airlift was his first priority and he expécted the supplies would be flown in early todey. The 269 Greenville residents went without power for three days. They small diving board in the outdoor poolis sticking out of water and about four inches of water is splashing against the main door into the lobby of the resort. O'Connor said the lake itself has another jive feet to go before it is as bad as it was last week but the provincial parks office and the picnic site across the He said he was more op- _ limistic about reconstruction along Highway 16 East. "I think we are starting to win...it cannat keep on like this,”’ he said. He said conditions on the highways were not as bad as they were last week but “we don’t have the permanent protection we used to have either.” “oy ev Chindemash Creek where a detour bridge almost washed out about 3 a.m. on Monday, he said. Alex Fraser, minister of highways, said the “enemy is still with us,"’ before he left Terrace on Monday. He said the crews are making excellent progress under adverse conditions and he was Still estimating the high- Residents living in the Copperside Estates, east of -Terrace - were . being reflooded on Monday. Dyer said three families asked to be evacuated. Department of highways crews were in the area to try to divert water into run-off gullies. The total number of people being billeted in Terrace is aboul 40, Dyer said. FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL Aid made available The federal and provincial governments have taken the necesary steps to make aid available to Northwest Coast residents who suffered losses due to the heavy rains and flooding, Iona Campagnola, ment funds. She explained that this was all that was needed to put into motion an arrangement between the two governments lo make aid available. “There is no need for the area to be declared a disaster,"' Campagnola said. Campagnola said the request for assistance from . the Disaster Financial . “It will cover everything from roads te TV sets,’ Campagnola said. _ The cost-sharing formula involves the provincial government putting up the first one dollar per capita. That amounts to $2.4 million. The next two dollars per capita is shared 60-50 and two dollars per capita above that is shared 75 per cent government paying 90 per cent and the province 10 per cent, Campagnola stressed that it could be six months to a year before claims were processed but she wanted residents to know that the government would be taking action. There is a damage has already been in lhe area looking over the situation. Campagnola said there couldn't really be a proper assesment of the damages until the water has receded, Iran under military rule its rate of return during its bond-selling campaign. Finance Minister Jean Chretien brushed off op- position suggestions in the Commons that the govern- ment is struggling to overcome lagging sales. He told Bill Clarke (PC— Vancouver-Quadra) the move ig designed merely to keep the bonds competitive policies. Although no official target has been- ahnouriced, it' is © generally accepted the government is aiming for record gross sales of $7 billion in this year's cam- paign. Although the yield rate on the bonds is still short of its 1974 peak of 9.75 per cent, it now stands 0.6 per cent above the 6.9 per cent rate announced when the bonds went an sale a month ago. Chretién announced two Nov. 22 to alleviate last- minute pressure on the financial institutions selling the bonds. —The celling for in- dividual bond purchases has been raised to $50,000 from its previous level of $30,000, All individuals who have their bond certificates or application forms because the rate revision’ came so late in the campaign the government has been unable to updale its ‘printed material, Some advertising materials, such as bro- chures, will remain as printed, but others will be revised to reflect the new economy, said he hoped rates will come down once the Canadian and U.S. dollars stabilize, The finance minister also said he hopes to announce the date of a budget either today or Wednesday. Spokegmen from all three opposition parties attacked the govern- The increase, effective Monday, was the sixth since jast.-March and followed interest ‘rate increases last week in the Escape queen Teresa Brewer is getting as regular ag the changing of the guard at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre (Oakalla). The ¢1-year-old prisoner, serving a two-year sentence for robbery, escaped for the Kathleen Campbell, 21, and Edith Agnes Popokowich, 44. Students walk out COQUITLAM’ B&C. (CL) — No one was suspended Monday at Winslow junior JERUSALEM (AP)—The Kitimat. Highways crews additional changes in the : Israeli government allocated wil] be working on the two 1978 sales campaign: oo ] e $32.5 million Monday to ramaining areas where —Its closing date has been ; construct nearly 900 housing bridges are washed out, extended by a week untll BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — “bridge the gap’ that i8 are-also having to cope with TEHRAN (AP) — The ordered troops and tanks to media. No censorship was followers to remain united ates, Chrelien said. secondary scheol after holding up signing the food conditions. peleaguered shah of Iran put ring key sites in the capital. imposed on outgoing news but calm and nol to confront The biggest danancial students walked out briefly nearly-completed peace — Hank Moore,a nativeband his top soldier in charge of- It also clamped censorship dispatches, however. the securily forees. buy b cntis on eith of ‘the Friday to press demands for ' counsellor in Greenville, the government Monday ina onthe local press, radio and == The reaction of opposilion But even as Azhari ine PUY wher a four-day week. of there, There is twofeel of order,’ but bands of anti. editors and issued a a military-led government — theshahat Niavaran Palace, earlier said disciplinary | Vandals silt on the streets and the shah protesters responded ‘“wanted" list for 90 others was low-key. Blaming recent anti-government mobs were cavings Plan or the Payroll action would be taken only if community's water supply with new hit-and-run rioting accused of inciting public violence on pro-shah burning and looling vam ngs fon efore the the instigators of the walkout has been affected by a mud in this troubled city and its unrest through the news agitators, they urged their businesses. Palgn closes. could be identified. attack copters Five juveniles are being questioned by Terrace RCMP after two hellcapters, parked at the Terrace Library, were damaged on Sunday. Police said $1500 damage said no one can get in or out slide Into the reservoir. The road; is washed out 12 miles north of Greenville at Kaseaden Camp. The residents of Greenville and the 104 residents of - Cedarvale are apparently able te cope on their own unti! supplies are delivered today, said Dyer. Residents of Lakelse Lake were again semi-isolated bid to ‘‘establish law and outskirts. One person was reported killed and two were reported wounded when troops dispersed rioters. The U.S. government, whose ties with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi are a main target of protestere, quickly ex- pressed support for the shah's shift to military rule. television, arrested five leaders to the appointment of troduced his new cabinet to government's installment plans—the Official Monthly 10 MILLION DOLLARS Principal Gordon House tranger than fiction LOS ANGELES (AP) — In anaffidavit made public the wire transfer of maney } ‘ The Los Angeles Herald transfer of the ‘s fund: ve on weet helizep- when a temporary access State department press THE FBI said Monday it has Monday, the FBI disclosed from Security Pacificon Oct. © Examiner reparted Sunday 5."' Maody ide the funds ae on the road washed out. People officer Jill Schuker said in [trested a 32-year-old that Rifkin transferred $8.1 25. that Rifkin once worked for were shifted to a New York ters were bent, causing further damage to the fibre glass body of the aircraft. Helicopters have been parked al the library and used for emergency missions assisling residents evacuate were forced to remain at the lake-because they were cut off. Telephone and Hydro Washington the monarch acted within his authority and only alter it became clear a new — civilian government could not be formed. computer consultant ac- cused of stealing $10.2 million from a Los Angeles bank and using moat of the money to buy diamonds from the Soviet government. million from Security Pacific Bank here to the Swiss bank account of “RUSSALMAZ," an arm of the Soviet government that handles the export of On Oct. 27, the FBI said, Ritkin’s diamond brojer purchased $8,145,000 worth of diamonds from Soviet authorities in Geneva. Security Pacific. The FBI identified him only as a consultant when it issued an arrest warrant Friday in connection with the fraudu- lent transfer of $10.2 million financial institution and then withdrawn. The name of the New York bank was not disclosed. Bank officials said the and taking highways of- service was still available ta . diamonds. The affidavit said “hat in bank fund eft was not discovered ficials throughout the area residenis at the lake but the _ The new prime minister, An FBI spokesman here TheFBIsaidHifkinuseda during the transactio, al ams tunes. until Thursday, eight “days Helicopters have been level of the lake rose more Gen. Gholam-Reza Azhari, said Stanley Mark Rifkin reputable os Angeles Security Pacific, Rifkin used George Moody, vice- after it occurred. They sald parked at the library and than 10 inches from daylight moved swiftly to assert was arrested Sunday nightin diamond broker to purchase theallas of Mike Hanson and = chairman of | Security they had located $2 million of wed for flying emergency missions and taking high- ways: officials and crews throughout the arey. to Jate afternaon on Monday. Skoglund Hotsprings Resort is submerged in waler, said ()'Connor after control and head off the threal to the shah's J?-year reign. Azhari‘'s government Carlsbad, Calif., north of San Diego, Further details of the arresl were not immediately available, the diamonds and had them brought te Los Angeles. The affidavit said Rifkin used secret codes to accomplish identified himself as an employee of the — in- ternalional banking office of Security Pacific. Pacific, said the thief “brake through our securily to obtain information which permitted a fraudulent the missing money “in normal bank channels," although they had not ac- tually retrieved it yet.