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no sign of forced entry. The court was: also informed

. that Smith had worked for the company a short time
before and she made a duplicate key to the premises
while still an employee. SS

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tences he would have considered sending the women

possession after the two women split the money. A
to Oakalla, which is the nearest women’s prison. P y 7

Collins ordered Poirier pay $250 restitution to the

company.
“I can’t see any extenuating circumstances in this i

case,” Collins stated before passing sentence. ‘It :

seems to have been a well planned, well executed

crime.”

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“4 Two young Terrace women were given 500 hours of.
‘community service work as one condition of a two-

‘year term of probation after they. were sentenced on.
‘charges of break and enter by Judge Darrall Collins in
“Terrace provincial court Tuesaday.

‘ Collins termed the sentences a “real break’’ and
. noted: that if the Crown had pressed for prison sen-

; ~

The court was told by Crown Counsel J. Arndt the
. charges arose after a noon-hour break-in at Big River
Distributors on May 30, Arndt stated $1,500 was taken

Amdt also stated all the money had been recovered
from the cash box on the premises and that there was

with the exception of $250 which had been in Poirier’s

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(Woodworkers of America (IWA), Local 1-71, says that
does not endorse the actions of some members who
eda picket line at the junction of Highway 16 and
Highway 25 on Tuesday. OS
Thompson, who was in Vancouver to work at the
bargaining table, said that a membership decision will
‘be coming soon and he hopes that another walkout will
‘not happen. ;
: Some fallers apparently formed the picket line at
the vital traffic intersection to stop union peoplefrom
carrying out thier work. ''The picket line was honored

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by all good union men so it worked,” says Thompson,
‘but be sald that his information is second hadn and he
‘did not wish to comment further,  s6—

There are 6,000 members of the IWA in the nor-
thwest, says Thompson, and said Terrace is the only
place in the region where anyone hag become “over-

excited,”

‘Terrace parents |
ask for French

| .sAm important meeting’ taking 90 percent of their

faat a vital to the Brench’ se ing in

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tonight at 7:30 p.m.

‘held

‘ways Alex Levesque,
chairman of the group of
: perents for instruction in
: ch in school.

The French
program involves
students from kin-
dergarten to grade 8
taking their schooling
only in French and then

core

A Terrace man was
found not guilty on a
charge of ‘impaired
driving and on a charge
of driving with a blood
alcohol content over the

. Kegel limit after Judge
Derrall Collins ruled in
provincial court Tuesday
that Crown Counsel J.R.
Arndt had not presented

' - evidence to prove the

. friend

man was driving,
- Henry Bentham was
found not guilty.on the
charge after defense
counsel Gordon Cramp-
ton. made a motion that
the. Crown had no
evidence in the case, -
Collins agreed with
Crampton and told Arndt
“I you're learned
has you,”
referring to Crampton.

schooling in French and

‘om grades
Leveaque says Fr
Hamilton, district

- guperintendent, will talk‘ f

with parents. about the
program and the future of

the program depends on =

eommunity support. ;
There are some English §

speaking people who are
Planning to send their
children to the program,
Levesque says.

_ Impaired charge out

“There is not one stick
of evidence before me to
indicate the accused was
driving,”’ Collins con-
tinued

‘During the trial, Arndt ©
Constable Lester ©

called
Schell who testified that
he saw Bentham in a car
which was blocking a
laneway at a trailer court
on Nov. 26, 1978 and
Schell said that he ob-
served Bentham smelled
of liquor and his speech
was slurred, Constable
Nolan of the RCMP also
testified, and stated he
felt Bentham was im-
paired before giving him
a breathalyzer test. —

Collins also refused to
allow Arndt to amend the
charge after the evidence
had been presented.

JOYRIDE COSTS

_ ‘Two Terrace youths were given stiff penalties
after they each pleaded guilty to charges of
. joyriding before Judge Darrall Collins in

Thornhill Jr. Secondary Grade 10 students at work.

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GENEVA, Switzerland
(AP) — The Organization of
Petroleum Exporting
Countries is near agreement
onan. oil price of §20 a barrel
as a compromise between
moderate and extreme
members of the cartel,
conference sources said
Tuesday. °

- Members ended the firet
day. of meetings without
- formal statements and were

fame - the. conference today. -
official base price of OPEC
crude now is $14.55 a barrel,
but surcharges imposed by
most members bring the av-
erage price to about $17.

OPEC oil ministers did.
reach a decision Tuesday on

i ._-sxpected to,annolmce: their.
: ple nara 6 aD

add $900 milllon to the

cartel’s special fund to help

underdeveloped countries

meet oil price increases. The

fluctuating fund now stands

at $240 milllon.nThe decision

to expand the fund must still °
be approved by finance

ministers of OPEC's 13

member countries. °

Meanwhile, Mana Saeed
Aloteiba, OPEC president
and oil minister of the United
Arab Emirates, warned of a
“dramatic worsening” of the
world’s oil supply syatem
before the mid-1980s because
of.an expected sharp in-
crease in Soviet imports
from Arab producers.

Photo by Srian Gregg

A harder line taken
with drunken drivers

the victim recelves the full
amount of third-party
liability carried by the in-
sured.

This has been ICBC’s
policy all along, he said.

Penhall said the decision
to change the policy resulted

“VANCOUVER (CP) — The .
British Columbia govern«
rent has opened up another!
front in its war on drinking.
_ drivers with a major policy
change on thirdparty claims,
on impaired drivers’ in-
surance. if

The Crown-owned In-|
surance Corp. of B.C. (ICB-!

+

C) now is pursuing impalred

about drinking and driving.
More than $100 milllon, or
drivers to recover damages} $42 of every insurance
paid out from their third-
party liability insurance. «|

Prior to the change, made!
by order-in-council effective

costs of drinking drivers ev-
ery year, he said.
Under

from heightened concern ¥

premium, is absorbed by the ,

the provincial

Terrace Provincial court Tuesday.

Steven Roger Hoving, 18,: and Laurence
Eugene Taylor, also 18 were each given 168
months probation, 200 hours community service
work, and ordered to pay $1,000 each as
restitution to the victim of an incident May 2. -

The court was told by Crown Counsel J.R.
Arndt that the charges arose after residents near
the sanitary landfill on Kalum Lake Drive heard
the cat parked at the landfill running about 4:00
‘a.m. RCMP later found the vehicle lodged in

__ trees on the site. ‘ .

Arndt told the court a statement from the

- “Insurance company indicated $2,535 damage had
been done to the cat, and added that the
statement noted the operator had lost $2,400 in
down time.

Collins gave the two men one year to pay the
$1,000 restitution and until Nov. 30 to complete
the community work service. ,

March 1, ICBC had refused
to compensate impaired
drivers for damage to thelr
own vehicles, but paid thelr
third-party Iability. ;

ICBC spokesman Bev
Penhall said in an interview
Tuesday that the change will
not affect the victims of
impaired drivers. Third-

rty claims will atill be paid
by the corporation, which
will then seek a judgment
against the impaired driver.

Penhall sald while the

Insurance Act now states

that the corporation must
pay only the minimum
$76,000 in cases where a
driver has breached his
policy, ICBC will recom-
mend tq cabinet that the
regulations be changed so

government’s Counterattack
program against drinking
drivers, police have in-
creased roadblocks and
mobile blood-alcohol testing
units have been brought in.
There has also been a
massive advertising cam-
paign and one Vancouver
lawyer thinks the ICBC
policy change is part of It.

Donald Yule, head of the
insurance law section of the
B.C. branch of the Canadian
Bar Association, said he
thinks ICBC will have
trouble collecting from
impaired drivers ordered to
pay third-party claims. .

“A cynical view is that
they'll only be going after the
nich,” Yule sald.

If a judgment is made

He told a Zurich

newspaper: ‘It is time to
sound the alarm bell and
start implementing con-
servation measures and
opening other sources of
energy, like coal, solar and
nuclear energy."
. Otelba, considered a
against a driver, hesaid, the moderate, said he favored a
corporation can garnishee a price of $20 a barrel and
percentage of the driver's added OPEC must return to
wage, but in terms ofa large a unified price, “without
settlement, ‘‘it’s almost nat which there will be no return
worth the effort.” to stabilization.”

After a judgmenthas been _ In Tokyo, President Carter
made, it Is in force for 20 was reported ready to ask
ears. major industrial countries at
However, Penhall said the the summit meeting to set
corporation “won't spend $1 individual targets for
to get 50 cents." limiting oll imports through

“In some case we'd 1680. plan would alm at
proceed, in others we reducing imports by about
wouldn’t. It gives us the right two million barrels a day,
to examine each cuse.”’. ' the amount by which de-

In both Manitoba and mand now exceeds supply,
Ontario, insurance com- U.S, Treasury Secretary W.
panies are not allowed to sue Michael Blumenthal said.

one issue. They agreed to -

OIL CUTBACK |

TOKYO (AP}— President
Carter ended his pre-summit
meetings with Japanese
leaders Tuesday and

pared to ask Canada and
ther major Industrialized

’ eountries ‘to set specific

targets for lHmiting oll im-
ports through 1980. :
U.S. Treasury . Secretary
Michael Blumenthal said the’
cilsaving plan has ‘‘gat to be
specific, it- will be specific,
and it will be a strong signal
to the CPEC countries that
we do mean business,”
Also high on the. agenda
when the two-day. summit of

wi

ternational effort to resettle
Vietnamese refugees.

Carter told reporters .the |

United States is prepared to
expand refugee aid and he
believes a global plan will
emerge irom the conference.
But one administration of-
ficial sald the United States
will expand its efforts even if
others do not.

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countries. ;.. opens... here...
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initiative to mount an in-.

The plan Carter will offer
to set Individual limits on oil
imports falls short @ a
European plan to freeze cil
imports at current levels
through 1985.

But Blumenthal said be
finda the European plan
unworkable and inequitable
because would
discriminate against such
countries as Japan which
import all of their fuels, He
said countries producing
their own energy can expand
‘such production while
freezing imports

Blumenthal sald Sond -
specific ls beyo Pa
1080. eau de . aiffien vo ay

the United States can accept
general goals after 1980 if
perlodically.

ically.
Pile sald the individual
targels would be intended to
help reduce global oil im-
ports by about two million
barrels of oll a day, the
amount by which demand
now exceeds supply,

Clark agrees
to price hike

TOKYO (CP) — The Clark
government Is prepared to
speed up increases in
Canadian oil prices to en-
courage greater con-
servation and oil explor-
atlon, senior officlals
disclosed Tuesday.

But there likely will be no
oil or gasoline rationing or
reduction of Canadian speed
limits as a result of the
seven-country - summit
conference opening Thur
aday, the officials sald,

The current. domestic
price in Canada is $13.75 a
barrel and this originally
was to be increased by §1
next January.. The Clark
‘administration may double
that increase, adding about
six cents a gallon on the
domestic price of gasoline.

However, at this stage, the
amount of increase con-
templated by the Clark
government is speculative
and may be subjected to
further study In the light of
the actual summit con-
ference results.

Canada, United States and
Japan that they will oppose
any European demand for
mandatory controls on oil
consumption.

Leading European
countries, particulariy
France, have argued that the
oll crisis ls caused largely by
lavish U.S, consumption.

However, while Canada,
the U.S. and Japan are
prepared to encourage
voluntary restraint, they are
opposed to government
enforcement. On a per-
capita basis, Canada uses
more energy than any other
country.

Canadian spokesmen said
the Europeans will be
politely congratulated for
thelr determination to set an
example in the drive to
reduce world senergy
demand. But they will be told
their allocation proposal
would be utterly inap-
propriate for North America
and Japan.

But the three countries will
readily agree ta some form

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of aggressive, - voluntary
However, officials said it

has already been agreed by servation.

Eurocan unhappy at vote

Larty Beitz, Eurocan's Industrial Relations
Supervisor, said Monday the company is ‘‘disap-
pointed” the Canadian Paperworkers Union has left
the bargalning table and called for a strike vote.

"The company has at no time stated it's final
position,” Beitz said.

He said negotiations involve a ‘give-and-take
procedure” and union negotiators usually wait for a
final offer and the end of the current contract before
calling a strike vote.

The contract between Eurocan and CPU local 298

"expires at midnight Jure 30.

Local 298, which represents about 600 Eurocan
employees, issued a press release Friday blaming the
company for the breakdown in negotiations.

The union claims the company wage offer is far
below settlements in the pulp and paper industry in
other areas such ag the Northwestern United States.

The release also accuses the company of stalling
negotiations on other issues such as vacation on-
titlements, contract language and pension plans.

The union's main objection, however, is to a com:
pany demand that employees work all statutory
holidays except Christmas and Labour Day.

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