fee

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Barrett challenges
commission study

VICILURIA (CP)
Opposition leader Dave
Barrett agaullenged the
royal commission
studying the. British
Columbea Railway to

- subpoena ast «and -
present board members
Monday after he
delivered his  writ-

tennsubmission to the
inquiry in Vancouver.

e NDP leader and
former premier told a
news conference here
that the inquiry should
compel himself and
former premier W. A. C.
Bennett to testify, or run
the risk of having its
findings placed in doubt.

“Tf the royal com-
mission is to be credible,
it had better call us all,’
said Barrett. .

“T’ve nothing to hide . .

Have they fe the guts
or haven't they? That’s
really where it's at.”

Barrett made the
comments after being
informed that Mr. Justice
Lloyd Mackenzie, com-
mission head, d
branded his written
testimony to the inquiry
as “political and a bit
sill ’

Mackenzie made the
comment after receiving
the 20-page submission,
which said that the
crown-owned railway’s
Dease Lake extension in
northeastern B.C. should
not be abandoned.
POLITICAL PURPOSE

“The commission was
set up for political pur-

es in the first place,”
said Barrett, “and I can't
accept the argument that
politicans shouldn't be
Called because it’s the
politicians who
ultimately will make the
decision on the railroad.”

Barrett said
negotiations should begin
immediately with the
Yukon Territory, the
United States and Alaska
for the building of a rail
link between B.C. and
Alaskay isos sry Pa
(He,.also.revealed the”.
existence ‘ of a con-
fidential report prepared
him about the
feasibility of a merger of

CR nd Canadian
National Railways.

Barrett said the report,
submitted to him on July
10, 1975, recommended
that the two lines not
merge. He said it was still
his opinion that there be
no merger.

Asked why the report
had been requested, he
said: “That’s the kind of
suggestion that came
through the
cracy.””

USED FOR POLICY

He sald he had not
revealed the existence of
the report before because
it was a policy study,
rather than a fiscal re-

port. .

“While I have no idea
Why this report has been
withheld from the
commission, perhaps
thereis other information
whiem also has been
withheld from _ the
commission, such as
correspondence on the
MEL Paving case related
to the decision to settle
out of court,” Barrett
said in his submission.

The BCR settled out-of-
court with MEL for $2.5
million in December 1976
after the Alberta-based
company had alleged
civil fraud in the tender-
ing of earth-moving
contracts for the Dease
Lake extension.

“The current govern-
ment implicitly admitted
the allegation of fraud
was valid by settling the
issue out of court after
the trial was overand
before a verdict could be
rendered,’’ Barrett said
in his brief.

His submission detailed
the BCR studies carried
out bx his former NDP
administration, studies
which showed, he said,
gross mismangement of
the railway’s affairs by
the W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit admin-
istration which got the
BCR under way.

He said that, as well,
the current Social Credit

_adininist¥ation ‘led by

“Premier Bill Bennett has:

continued the “extremely
unproductive and extr
vagantly . expensive”
Dease Lake project
without adequate studies,

Halifax to get new $35 M pier

Transport Minister
Otto Lang announced that

' g $35.6 million pier to be

came from offices

financed partly by the
federal government and
partly by the Nova Scotia
government will be built

in Halifax.
Revenue Minister

‘Joseph Guay said con-

fidential tax information
that was eluded to on a
radio program recently
in

Vancouver, Montreal and
Ottawa. He said the
RCMP has heen in-
vestigating James David
Lillie who was quoted in
the Globe and Mail
Saturday as saying he
obtained the information.

Alastair Gillespie,
energy minister, said all
miners facing layoffs in
Sudbury, Ont., can get
work elsewhere.

Oddities

EVANSDALE, Iowa
(AP) — The Evansdale
Police Department wrote
too many traffic tickets,
Mayor Ron Nichols
complained. So he and
city council told police
last week to shut down
their radar unit.

“It may be for another
day or until the end of the

-. year—it just depends,”

. Nov, $ in a bid

said Nichols. ‘If drivers
start ripping up the
streets, we'll put the
radar back on.”

The mayor said the

action was taken because
people complained they
were being harassed by
policemen, ‘They say
they won't drive in
Evansdale anymore,” he
said.
Nichols was defeated
for re-
election by former police
chief Robert Aldrich.

NEW YORK (AP) — If
the pages of old comic
books look yellow to you,
look again. They’re pure

gold.

Consider this item for
instance: a 1931 Artion
No. 1—the first issue in
which Superman, the
superstar of comic books,
appeared: It's worth
about $3,-500, according
to Gary Berman.
' Berman, 21, is an
organizer of the three:
day Popular Culture and
Comic Convention at the
Statler-Hilton Hotel this
weekend.

Some 160 people will be
offering rare editions for

sale there during the
weekend. About 4,000
People are expected to
thumb through the
thousands of plastic-
wrapped, catalogued
books this weekend.

COLUMBUS, Ohio
(AP) Columbus
residents who are blind
will be able to “hear”
books via television
starting Thursday.

The experimental
system called
“Telebook” will be pos-
sible because of special

cable television and FM —

radio hookups.

Blind adults and
children will be able to
call the Telebook Centre
24 hours a day and re-
quest that a book be
played for them. They
will be told what new

titles are available and.

even will be able to hear
the first few pages of
unfamiliar books.
“‘Talebook readers will
have an equivalent to
browsing —_ the local
library's aperback book
rack,” said Ken Stetten, a
physicist at MITRE Corp.
in McLean, Va., one of
the sponsors of the
project. ‘
Others sponsoring the
project nelude the
brary of Congress and
the Columbus Library.
Participants will have
a choice of 600 readings
from the Library of
Congress’ current
Talking Book list.

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THE HERALD, Tuesday, December 6, 1977, PAGE 3

t ave their doors wide open for business as once
again outdoor lovers take up the Winter’s challenge to adventure.

Egypt breaks with 5 Arab countries

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt
broke diplomatic
relations Monday with
the five Arab countries
that met in Libya to plan
a “resistance’’ front
against President Anwar
Sadat’s peace initiative
with Ifrael.

The five named by
Egypt's Middle East
news agency are Syria,
Libya, Algeria, Iraq and
South Yemen.

Egypt's move produced
the most serious political
division in the Arab world
in years.

All except Iraq agreed
early Monday to form
“resistance and con-

frontation front” to op--

pose Egypt’s overtures to
Israel and denounced
Sadat’s one-man peace
campaign as “high trea-
son.” But Iraq, still
feuding with Syria,
walked out of the con-
ference without signing
the communique and
accused Syria of
“eapitulatory solutions.’’

2 initial report by the
Egyptian. news agency
listed only Syria, Algeria,

Libya and South Yemen
as the countries with
which Egypt severed
relations. That led to
speculation Egypt was
retaliating only against
those countries that
signed the conference
declaration. The agency
later made an offieccal
correction, adding Iraq to
the list.
DIPLOMATS TOLD TO
GO

The agency said
diplomats of the five
countries were sum-
moned to the Egyptian

House speaker rules on

7 Supreme court judgement

OTTAWA (CP) —
Commons Speaker
James Jerome ruled
Monday that a much-
discussed Ontario
Supreme Court t judgment
does not interfere with
the rights of MPs or the
press. ;

Jn a ruling that former
rime minister John

iefenbaker calles
Solomonesque, Jerome
rejected concerns about
the recent judgment of
Chief Justice Gregory
Evans on an international
uranium cartel,

Progressive Con-
servatives had said the
judgment might curtail
the rights of
report the activities of
MPs.

Jerome said:

—The judgment does
not alter in any way the
rights, privileges and
powers possessed by MPs
or as exercised in their
relationship with the
press in respect to
preceedingf within the
Commons,

--Nothing alters
existing privileges and
relationships inrespect to
ctivities of MPs outside of
Parliament.

—The judgment dealt

News

GUETERSLOH, West
Germany (Reuter)
Two drivers lay badly
injured in a hospital
Monday after their heads
collided while they were

‘ craning out of their cars

during thick fog, police

said.

The literal head-on
collision on a country
lane left both cars un-
scratched, police said.

MADISON, NJ. (AP)
— What's in a name? Or
an eyebrow, for that
matter? It's serious
business for Drew Uni-

versity sociologist Sidney
Greenblatt.

The 29-year-old
professor spent the

summer studying the
effects of 2,000 years of
Chinese lore on such
activities as palmistry
and face-reading,

@ press to -

in the abstract and does
not make an addition to
the law of the land.

—The House is the
master of its own prac-
tices and will exercise its
own judgment if there is a
concrete case of alleged
breach of privileges.

Evans had been asked
by six Conservative MPs
to make a ruling on a
cabinet order which
limited the rights of

rsons to give in-
ormation on
n international uranium
cartel.

ALTERED ORDER

Before he rendered the
judgment, the govern-
ment had revised the
order somewhat,

But Evans said there is
no question about MPs’s
rights to debate inside the
Commons; however,
reporters did not have the
right to pass the
urafkormation outside
Parliament.

The opposition said that
affects the privileges of
the Commons. The
government disagreed,
saying all privileges are
intact and protected.

Jerome said it is im-
rtant to note that the
justice was talking of

Briefs

He visited Hong Kong
fortune tellers, who,
_among other techniques,
place a lot of stock in the
ition of a person’s eye-
rows, Each of 42
eyebrow positions are
said to give a fortune
teller insight into his
subject. -
“Phe first position
looks like the Chinese
character for the
numeral one,'’ Green-
blatt said in an interview.
"It indicates the subject
should be a statesman.
It’s also the shape of eye-
brow Chou En-lai_had.”
Accidents in the home don't
just happen, they arecaused,
Read the labels on all house-
hold chemical products.
Follow the directions. Let
the large symbols be your
guide for handling and stor-
‘ing these products. Think

safety - be safe.

proceedings outsid
Parliament, not inside.
Justice Evans

made clear that there
was no restriction on the
right of MPs to par-
ticipate in debate in the
chamber or for the press
to report them.

“The question arises as
to whether or not there is
an absolute privilege
when members go
beyond this chamber and
take information which
comes into their
possession and hand it to
the media.

RISKNFOR PRESS

“Is there a risk in the
media. ... In some cir-
cumstances there is. ... Is
the privilege finite. ...
Yes, in some circum-
stances it is."

He noted that MPs of
the justice committee
recently met in private to
discuss security matters
with the RCMP—
accepting restrictions on
what they could com-
municate to the press and
their constituents.

At the same time
recently, MPs had twice
said their privileges were
affected because reports

on such things as immi-
gration hag-heen given to
the press. ;)

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7 milltary messe:
liquor by mn

foreign ministry nd told
to be out of Egypt within
24 hours. It said Egyptian
envoys in those countries
were instructed to return
home immediately.n

The hardline Arab
countries and the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization ended their
five-day conference in
Tripoli, Libya, early
Monday with the declara-
tion that they will
“freeze” their diplomatic
nd political relations with
Cairo. Libya had
unilaterally seve
relations with Egypt
when Sadat made his
visit to Jerusalem Nov.
19-21,

However, the  anti-
Egypt summit, at Syria’s
insistence, had carefully

kept: the dooropen for’.

renewed Geneva peace
talks or other forms of
negotiations with Israel,
with or without Sadat.
The “hard-liners” also
had stopped short of
declaring an irreparable
break with Egypt.
Sadat said Sunday that
the Soviet Union was
behind the “rubbish” of
the Tripoli summit and
that | Eegynt might
“punish” the Russians.
NO SIGN OF BREAK
During the weekend, it
was reported that Egypt

was recalling its am-
-bassador to Moscow, but
there was no immediaz
indication that Sadat is
considering severing his
already cool diplomatic
ties with the Soviet
Union.

The United States
appeared Monday to be
trying to reclaim the
initiative as a mediator in
the Middle East. US.
officials innWashington
said State Secretary
Cyrus Vance will visit
Egypt, Israel, Jordan,
Lebanon and Saudi
Arabia beginning this
weekend to assess
prospects -for a com-
prehensive settlement.

In related develop
ments Monday:
—The" official ‘Soviet
meepped up M

Stepped u oscow’'s
attack on Sadat, accusing
him of secretly striving
for a “separ te deal with
imperialism and Zionism
behind the back of the
Arab peoples.”

—Ugandan President
Idi Amin left his country
for a visit tonLibya
where he said he would
discuss the Middle East
situation with Libyan
leaders, Amin has had
close ties with Libya for
several years.

New P.Q.
publishing
venture

PHILADELPHIA (CP)
— Quebec tabloid king
Pierre Peladeau became
an international
publisher today with the
oublication of the first
edition of the
Philadelphia Journal.

A press run of about
200,000 copies of the
sports-heavy tabloid got
under way at 3 a.m. EST
after a hectic day of a
last-minute planning.

The Journal, fourth
newspaper in
Philadelphia and one of
only a few to begin
publication in the U.S. in
recent years, devoted
half of its 64-page first
edition to sports.

It also ran a color
photograph of
Philadelphia baseball
player Mike Schmidt on
page 1.

An_attention-grabbing
banner front-page
headline—"Fire Bom-
bings Terrorize South

Philadelphia Nei
borhcod’’— came out as
the top news story,

printed on pages 2 and 3.

Peladeau, head of the
Montreal-based
Quebecor Inc., invested
“more than $1 million’’ in
the newspaper and said
he was pleased by the
result.

The newspaper, which
also featured the first of a
series of daily pin-up
irls, was about two
ours late coming off the
presses.

But newspaper _of-
ficials, noting that office
telephones were still
being hooked up and car-
penters hammering
drowned out conversation
in the office Sunday, said
they were satisfied. with
the Umifig¢re tine

fens GRE ESI

Patterned aiter
Peladeau's successful
Journal de Montreal, the
new tabloid employs 23
news reporters and
editors, 22 sports writers,
five photographers and
five entertainm
writers. Most of the staff
is young and relatively
inexperienced and all but
two are Americans.

The newspaper costs 25
cents, 10 cents more than
other Phitad

papers.

Mac-Blo seeks damages

VANCOUVER (CP) —
MacMillan Bloedel filed
affadavits Monday,
seeking damages from
the company’s former
log-trading manager and

from two other log
companies.
MacMillan _ Bloedel

alleges that former log
trader Dennis Binstead
accepted gifts and secret

commissions from.
customers.

It also names An-
dersenMacKinnon Log

Sales and Andersen-
MacKinnon Log Broker-
age, and alleges that the
three defendants con-

spired to cheat and
efraud MacMillan
Bloedel.

SS ee SS A ee OS NSE NS A EO NE A NPE TE EY
NOTICE OF INTENT
RE: LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING ACT

APPLICATION FOR AN “A”
LICENCED ESTABLISHMENT

B ..(t is the intention of the undersinged to apply; pur-
f svant to the provisions of the Liquor Control and
i Licensing Act; to the General Manager, Liquor Contra!
S and Licensing Branch, Victorfa, B.C. for an ‘A’
a Licence ta operate a licenced establishment on the
premises situated at Lot 1, D.L. 370, Plan 7569 Coast
Range 5, Geeraert Enterprises Limited.

* .. The above type of ficance may be Issued fa: hotels,
is resorts, clubs, recreational centres, aircraft, trains,
, motor vessels, International airports, municipally and

Ss, and permits the service ofall types of
ie glass as approved by the General
Manager of the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch.

Hours of sale are any 14 hours between 9:00 a.m. and
2:00 a.m. Certain of these establishments may also
have off pramises sales of beer and B.C. Clder where so
endorsed by the General Manager.

L- - 3

An “A” licenced establishment was formerly known
as a Public House and-or Cocktail Lounge.
. Residents or property owners located within a 6

block area or ‘2 mile radius of the proposed site are
requested to Register any objections by writing to the
General Manager, Liquor Control and Licensing
Branch, P.O, Box 640, Victoria, B.C. VBW 2P8.

PORTIS RISE EWE LOS HE SAE LG SS HE RE FS

Provinclally 6wned cultural centres, universities, and
2
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R
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Both companies pur-
chased logs from Mac-
millan Bloedel for resale
to other firms.

MacMillan Bloedel is
asking the court to order
Binstead to make up for
all sums or benefits that
he received.

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