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Bernle Selder, of the Terrace
Cerebral Palsy Association,
receives a cheque for $690 ‘from
* Peter Twidle, representing the B.C.
‘Hydro. Employee Community

Service Fund. Employees of Hydro
may ask that a certain portion of
their salaries be se? aside for
various community services. The 90

$2,300 for various services, Including
the proceeds for the Terrace Child
Development Center building ex-
pansion program.

employees in Terrace collected

" DAMASCUS (AP) —
_ before

_ only
the

agency : said.
'. Pakisian agreed today to a/

. ‘

Commercia! Hockey League -
players gathered Tuesday night
for the league’s annual awards
banquet at the Terrace Hotel and
Terrace, Chrysler Juvenile cap-—
tain Doug Richey hada big night:
’ Above, he accepts | the league

demand | by: ‘three plane hi-.
jackers to release 55 political;
prisoners, ‘the: Syrian news

‘The hijackers, who ‘seized

‘award

Damascus, the: Syrian. demands were: met by: 11°
capital, had earlier. threat- am.EST. — . .
ae They set a new deadline of

champlonship trophy on behalf of

the team. Later, he accepted the
leaque’s most valuable player
from Master of
Ceremonies Keith Keating, More
pictures on Page SOD

“thePaulston jettiner ‘days: ¢
age dod’ flew jibe firet: tov:
Afghanistan and - then . “to

their request, diplomatic
sources said.

. ‘The sources, who ‘refused
to be identified, said that
after. the : Pakistan
agreement Negotiations

identity of six of the 55 whose
Téelease was ‘demanded by

q the three hijackers. ._ -* -
Earlier ‘in the - day, ‘the

‘ijackers: had Iabelled the

Central Intelligence Agency
agents and. -said
prepared -to- collect their
bodies.” ‘They mate the
threat in a letter dictated t

the plane at Damascus.
airport.’ The ‘letter was

The Americans have been -
identified’ as Frederick:
Hubbell of Des Moines, Iowa,
a lawyer, and businessmen
Craig Richard Clymore of
California and Lawrence
Clifton Mangum of New
York City, whe.aow. makes
“his home in Spal. AUS.
embasay official: .

“We have no idea how they
(the hijackera) could have
come up with the deduction
that they’re CIA agents.”

The hijackers already
have killed one hostage — a
Pakistani diplomat, last
Friday.

VICTORIA (CP) Industry
Minister Don Phillips is
playing the ‘barefoot
country boy routine’ by
giving less than candid
_ answers about the financial

viabilit) of. the northeast

B.C. coal project, New-
nocrat Gary Lauk
ged Wednesday. ©

-Lauk questioned Phillips
for the second consecutive
day about a §2-a-tonne
rebate or reduction to be

'{60" hostages « ‘unless thelr HF

7 p.m. EST for fulfilment of -

began to. establish the -

three Arnericans. as U.S. ,
“be *
Pakistani authorities: from.,

released by the. official —
Syrian news agency SANA. -

In -
Istamabad, Pakistan, ‘said:

"parvo virus hag not
‘returned ‘to epidemic
proportions but an. in--
creasing, number . of |.
dogs are dying | from the |

disease that reached the
epidemic stage © last
summer “when © ” 44
_ animals. in “one. -clinic
were killed i in a *4-hour
period, =. :
Dr. ‘Lou ‘Blorza, a £
; veterinarian, says that:
in his clinic in’ the last
two - weeks | 15. dogs in
‘Terrace and Kitimat
have ‘died: from the

The virus hits puppies
and - older: dogs the
hardest; and - the
‘symptoms are yornit-
ting of blood _and
digherra. /

Although supplied
were scareé,. last
summer bécause - the
virus was an unknown
. disease, Dr. Les Hays is
optimistic that there Is
plenty of vaccine’ on
hand to deal with the
problemi; aid more
complete supplies are
expected April 1..’

The only safeguard a.
dog owner has to protect
-his animal: Is_ vaccine
and ihe velerinarians
suggest that pupples,
breeding dogs and older:
dogs should be treated
immediately. If a bitch
is immunized the
puppies will be im-
raunized, saya Dr. Hays.

“Saha rantte 7
~ Federation of Labor ‘building’

_ years,”

" sulators,’.
: bricklayéra,

. painters,

coal vonipanies which’ has
agreed 16 sell coal to Japan,
on transportation charges in
the first five years of coal
dellvery

- Lauk “gald. Teck vice-
president Robert Andras has
been told his company will
receive the reduction but is
unsure how the two railways,
Candian National and B.C.

‘Railway, will split the dis-
count.

OTTAWA (CP) The
country's top  -labor
organization, the Canadian
Labor Congress, announced |
Wednesday the suspension of

12 U.5.-run international .
building trades unions, .

labelling their practices .
autocratic, authoritarian
and undemocrati¢,

The Congress also -an-~

nounced establishment of a

congress building trades -
department, leaving the door”

open for individual locals of
the international unions to
defy their U.S. headquarters
by affiliating with the CLC,

The suspensions are ef-
fective April 3.

The decision by the CLC’ B.
executive coueil officially”
opened one of the historically _
deepest ‘ division in the
country's labor movement
and could lead-to un-
precedented inter-union
trouble as tradesmen. decide
what, to do, -

The move comes as a

result of the refusal by the

internationals, representing
229,763 union members, to .

_ pay pér-capita dues to ‘the

2,3-millionmember’ congress.
since last spring. —_
"Their dues in 1970 was
$475,228.

he ". Congress” to
itt” ec.
trades organization, saying |
it “infriiges on the juris-..

diction of the internationals.
; witnessing.

“We are.
perhaps the most important

-event in the labor movement

in Canada for the past 25
‘CLC president.
Dennis McDermott said’ in.

announcing. the decision,

The 12, unions, all joined
under, the U.S. umbrella of

: the. Building and Con?
. struction Trades Depart-.
_ ment, AFL-CIO; include

laborers; carpenters, in-
‘bollermarkers,
electrical
elevator con-
" operating
_ ironworkers,
sheet metal
workers, and plumbers.

workers,
structors,
engineers,

' Twa other unions in the
group, ‘the Teamsters and
the. Plasterers’ —_In-
ternational, were cut from

_ the‘CLC in earlier disputes

over finances and labor
practices. . :
“It is indeéd . unfortunate

* that the decision to suspend
- mist. be taken at such a

crucial time in our history,

but the Canadian Labor:

Congress cannot accept the

‘kind of autocratic trade un-

ionism preached by” the
international building trades
unions. In Canada,” Me-
Dermott said in a prepared
statement;

“The tradition of Canadian
labor is one of democracy
and grass-roots involvement

" at all levels of the decision-

making process. It is a
tradition we are proud of and

Northeast coal deal
comes under new fire

given Teck Corp., one of the |

Phillips said in the house |

that he was unaware of any 4q

rebate, .

“1 happen to believe Mr.
Andres is under that im-
pression,” Lauk said. “It
didn’t come out of thin alr
and therefore it either had to
be negotiated with: the
railways or directly with the
provincial government.

“yg don't think the

ininister’s 5 candid with

The internationals | refused -
_ te Bay their- dues to. protest: :

expelled
by congress

a tradition we intend to

keep.” ‘ ; .

Suspension - effectively
isolates the unions. from the
Canadiad labor movement.

However, ‘the unions’ and |
their individual locals: have
the option of joining | the new:
CLC: building “trades —
depa riment.

The -CLC. ‘pln 48
establish’ ‘provinelal building «
trades: councils ‘which. will-
affiliate « to. the. provincial: °
labor federations: and / the
CLC.

“The ‘model’ is: ih. ‘quebec’
where the. ” Quebec:
Federation of Labor,. urider :

provincial legislation, “has
‘set up a provinelal’ building .

trades council ‘for collective.
bargaining ‘with employers. -

* The internationals have
their own council and the

legialation allows | union‘

locals to” vote’ on: which
_ council ‘they’ want for

; bargaining purposes.

The situation preaents ©
several possibilities. :

Entire unions could rejoin
the CLC through the new
structure. Some‘locals of a.
union might join while others -
slay autside. Or, ‘entire

" VANCOUVER, Ww
4AP) — A ball hearing ‘tc

‘John: Lee Larsen - “WAS, “e

disrupted Wednesday when.
Larsen began: ‘screaming
profanities, 8

~ Lanien, accused. ‘of first-"

degree . murder . in. the
mutilation - ‘slaying | of
Jeanette Rae .Mason ‘last
Thursday, was dragged from °
the edurtroom. The hearing

‘was delayed, and. Judge .

Robert Harris, who was.

among those spit at, ordered,

buck’ US. Headquarters § it

spitting . ‘and.
yelling out that he: killed ea
17-year-old, pirliriend..

unions may ‘stay outside,
The trouble could beginifa .
koeal votes to rejoin the CLC
but its US.: ‘headquarters
tries to deny thé mieve..
‘officials said they are willing |
to help locals fight through: .
_ the courts if necessary:.to'

the. ‘huluding ‘trades: "union |
that, could not'be resolved.“
during: ‘monthd: ‘of peace
_ tals:

—: itding ° trades, ”
headquarters" wanted | the:
authority‘ to- : ‘appoint ©

delegates” to “CLC: ‘con-
‘ventions, bypassing the tight
“a: Jocal-. unions. to | elect .
“opavention delegates. and
“ran their own affairs.’
—Resolutions: to CLO ton:
_ ventions were td be the sole oe
purview of imion'snational _
international
headquarters, ‘instead ‘
‘local members. { ~
_—The. CLC was :
“tervene ard disnante ‘a
- union structure in Quebec in”
which construction workers
had voted to ‘participate. .
wader provincial tegslation. ~

The, Maoring in Clark:
‘County Superior Court: was:
called: to: consider petting.
bail and to find Larsen, al,
an: “attorney... .
Also | “pending . Was. the
"presentation: af firet-degree -
arson: charges. stemming
from. a° fail : fire. following _
Larven'’s first appearance in,

+ Larsen. ‘was being: ‘kept -
handcuffed to his bunk ina
single prisoner’ maximum: ..
security cell In Clark County ”

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