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" before’ the end ‘of: February,-

* advertising rates,”

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skeéna. ‘Broadcasters.’ The appez

-In.8 press release, the competing. firm, ,
Broadcasting of Prince. Rupert, emphasized'a: concern far”
competition in the. area.” Without. this competition, ‘the |
release says
Broadcasters to improve radio. programming to .attract'
More. listeners; and -no Fengon whatsoey

Dave Gibbard, | a major. stockhiolder of ‘Great North, bys
his firm contacted ‘most of the business firms in this area |

. and with few. exceptions” they all expressed a, Aesire for

competition. on the air waves.”

"Accountant Odd’ Eidsvik, ‘another’ major dnareholder of

Great North, says: that Skecna ‘Broadcasterd’ recently
__tecorded_a net’ profit. of. $589,000 ‘on revenue of $4,862,000
“These figures. certainly: ‘do not indicate: a firm on the.

~ _brink of financial “disaster and unable to face even very
= ‘limited’ ‘competitlon,’*:
He notes that towns like Williams. Lake, Vernon, Prince ©

Eldavik gays, .

George; Penticton, | Kamloops and Kelowna have two, three, -
and sometimes. even four. ‘compelling: commercial radio
‘ stations...

Eidsvik is asking people who “feet kewise” to write to

; ‘Francis Fox, the federal communications. minister,

. Gibbard adds, thatif: Skeena Broadcasters are ableto add -
“FM radio to its AM radio, television and cablevision
‘monopoly in this area ;“‘there will never be any. com-
petition.” ae

Great* ‘Nort. desétibes the propetied § Skéena station, due. *
onthe air ini’ November, asa “highly automated, country
_ musi¢ service, ‘from studios located in Terrace. '

- On the other hand, Great North FM “hadplans for studios |"
in Kitimat; ‘Terrace’ and Prince’ Rupert; with specialized -
~ Joral programming for each major centre." To

1

US. Chinese
~ relations clear

PEKING {AP) ~ U.S.:State Secretary: ‘George Shultz
concluded eight hours of talks with China's foreign minister
today and’ said U.S.-Chinese relations are “out in the clear ©
again” after a difficult period,

Shultz, on his first visit to China, met three times over two
days with Foreign Minister Wu Xuegian. to; discuss a wide .
“range of differences between the two: ‘countries:

Before the final seasion with Wu, ‘Stultz. told'a group of
U.S. corporate executives, "We have steered’ through some
rocky. stretches this past year in. U.S. China relations, I
think both sides have navigated successfully. and we are out
‘inthe clear again.” «|

an the next two. days,’Shults is scheduled. to mest with -

slop leader, Deo Manet, an ley with Prince

Shultz had daild befire Peaichilng Pek

coalition formed in an effort ta drive the Vietnamese out of
Cambodia. The: United States has given: moral but not
military support to. that effort.

Wu, in his first. meeting with Shultz, said China. intends to"
’ maintain an independent foreign policy and to speak out
- when it disagrees. with U.S. ‘policies...

‘He urged the United States to ‘increase pressure. on Israel
to hasten. withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon; |
‘He also ‘anked for more. forceful .U.S.-‘action to secure

"independence for the territory of South-West Africa, also

__ ‘known as Namibla, which has been administered by South.
Africa. sinct the end of the Firat World. War,

‘Shultz had told reporters he wanted ta clear up problema
based on misunderstandings of U.S,.positions and “‘talk
out’? policies on which there are clear differences.

. U.S. officials said China carinot expect a: quick. softening

“of the U.S, position on ‘Taiwan, the-subject of difficult
negotiations last year and a tople of Aiseussion for ‘Wu and.

Shultz today.

: The Chinese government, Which claims sovereignty over
‘ Talwan, wants Washington to end arm ‘sales ‘to the
-Nationalist regime there, But a U.S. official eaid Shidltz told
‘Wu the United States is unwilling to go beyond a promise

that arms sates will not be increased and eventually will be

reduced.
’ China also wants Washington to increase bigh-lechnology

° ‘exports, Shultz said the United States: is ,allowing more

exports while adhering to regulations controlling trade with
Communist countries. ‘

At his Luicheon with the U. s. executives; Shultz replied

ai when’ asked. if ‘Washington - would: relax its _
biti

ion: of. exports of nuclear technology: to China...
i question carries the implication, ai most of your
" questions do, that there ia something wrong with the United
States,” said Shultz, adding that. U.S: regulations: results
_ from concern about the: ‘proliferation of. nuclear ‘weapons -.

technology.

: Shultz, : “wha was ‘president af: Hechtel;: a giant in-

‘ temiational construction firm,’ before ‘becoming State
secretary, said U.S. businessmen sometimes create their
- own problems. oo. Cy ot

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VICTORIA (CP) — Hospital ad-
ministrators say they must re-evaluate
how to keep their hospitals operating after’
Health Minister Jim Nielsen announced.
Wednesday there will be no increase in
B,C; government funding for the coming

year,

Jolin Tegenfeldt, Vancouver Children’s
Hospital administrator, said. hospitals now
will have to go “back to the drawing

board." -

Nielsen's statement, while not. entirely
unexpected, ‘will cause. liospitals. serious -
‘concern, said Peter McAllister, president
of the Health Labor Relations Association
which bargains for B.C. hospitals.

McAllister said it will have a substantial
impact on the hospitals’ ability to pay 1999
wage increases, including a five-per-cent .
pay hike effective April t awarded to 24,000,
members of the Hospital. Employees
Union. It was part of'a 27-month package
handed down by arbitrator Don. Munroe.

“Tf the hospitals de. receive-no increase —
in 1 funding, some may be able to get by

with carry-overs from the previous year,
bul otherwise, where are the hospitals
going to be able to cut, when 85 per cent of
their costs are for salaries?” he asked.
“It would appear that hospitals may
- have to look at curtailment of some ser-

7 Vices in order to stay afloat. ”

. Nielsen said B.C.'s 119 public hospitals.
: would““fare fairly well from_our point of
‘ylew;”: but he’s sure many hospital of-

ficials feel they are being asked to do more

“practice;

" than they can.. .
-He added déficits will not be pleked wp
by the B.C. government, contrary to past

Nielsen conceded hospitals face a- major
problem in not knowing what their future
‘wage bill will be. ms

But most of the hospitals “will be able to
_ function reasonably well with maybe some
| tough. management,”’: che said.

Tegenfeldt said the Children’s Hospital .
already is operating with bed cuts and if
funding is not forthcoming; hospital ser-
_ Vices would probably have to be cut, but ;*
_sporabeds would not necessarily be closed. 5 ko.

Premiers seek cooperation —

“SWIFT CURRENT, Sask.

(CP) — Co-operation rather .

“than ‘confrontation will -be
the new watchword the four
" weatern | premiers agreed

; stroke. . tee

OM le
~“@ntire-menth, of ‘February ‘as!
- Campbell, area organizer look

a. proclatnaties dec!
“B.C. Heart Morith” while. Betty -
on. The-Heart-Fund.aids In the
. treatment of cardiac: arrest hypertension, heart surgery. and 7

g'the:”

Pay TV ‘confuses viewers.

~ At ‘least two Canadian
- eable, television ‘systems. —

both in:British Columbia —
have delayed ‘their planned —

_ Startup of: pay TV because

of problems with - home..
descramblers, ‘the boxlike
units needed by ; subscribers:
to watch. the new” com- ”
‘mercial-free networks.  .
. The two companies pulled,

Canada * on: ‘Feb. 1.: The...
decision’ was made because
“wee were: ‘not. ‘Satistied with’
the Way. the” ‘descramblers -
were ‘Working;""” sald” a
spokesman. :

The systems are “Western

Cablevision : in “Vancouver
and: ‘ake,’ "and: its -wholly-: -

mo ‘Atlantic

owned ‘subsidiary, “M.S.A,

Cablevision, | ‘serving .
Matsqul - and * Abbotsford.

. Many’ ‘cable ‘systems:
‘arent yet ‘éllering. pay TV.
— inclusdin ‘plant: Matlean *
Hunter Cabi e TV and: about .
a third of. the companies in in
ada;. Bul. ‘most:
‘ofthe other systems decided. -

pome time: ‘Ago not. to, ins

“troduce pay TV. this: “month,

Tt president.”

7 Cablevision; sa the ‘delay
Wes ‘ecessary ‘becaui
felt It was linportant to have’.
working “~ ~

the

‘Steve: “MeDouala,

. Wester
dwe

‘systems. °
properly | from the| begin:

ning” “so” that customers
wouldn't become Frustrated -

and cancel. the ‘pay. service. . :

" MeDonald, ‘whio. ‘added:

*) ; that the pay service will.
- probably gtart by the.end of ”
the’
des¢ramblers. used, by the. .

month, bald ‘the...
‘conipany.. interfered with:

‘the reception of. programs.
on regular. ‘T'V. channels,”

in ils ‘system, |

The’: BC. - compasies
_aren’t alone in encountering -
problema ae eustomers in''

many ‘areas: sho. have tried

to- telephone: their local:

cable companies: jin the last

few days have ‘discovered. .
~ “Que teleg

Hipne- lines are
busy all’ the’, time,” : “said
Ernie Poscente, °

at Edmontoh's Capital:

- Cable TY Ltds Be
“We're getting a. ‘large
_numbey of calls . now. from:

. descrambl

v iee-. -
president of. programming

“t

: want pay‘ TY + and the, TV
a set itself haven't been tuned’
‘properly, sald Davis. ~

. Moai. cable’ systems: across

’ stalling’: the descraniblers. .
- theniselves * or” paying: to:

ae Weratand bor to: use; the“

His. company. ‘has sold”

“about Ame pay TV sub-
- scriptions and: 80: far only
-about®: one” iper cent. of
‘complaints. -involye
* legitimately, {electronically
faulty. decod 6, he said.

“In ‘Landon, Ont., a local
Rogers : Cal he company
‘spokesman. said, 700 service
calls * directiy : “yelated * to

‘descrambler’ installations.

-heive been mise in jhe last
two weeks

* But: Harry
technical ‘operations
“manager, - saitl, ‘only about
“two per’ “cent he or 40 of the
9,000. ‘destranib
‘hands’ of © sibscribers :—

Davis,

ih the.

installation. of the “Units,

Canada” have. given’ syb- *.
scriber's -a choles. of ine °

have: the company, as. it.”

Most ‘of. the’ complaints .

have. been caused. because
the. cable converter’ — a
necessity, for . those , who

. Poscente agreed, adding:

“Win alot: of cases, : Beople ..
haven't “ever. had to fine

- tune their TN sets before

and they. don't know how to

do it. But now it's critical —
they must ‘be- finely tuned.”

~*Kevin:: Shea, marketing |
director ©.

of Roger

: Cablesystems Inc.,. which

. pay TV. —'were the major -
reasons;. Selephone lines

-has' 1.2 million. subscribers ~

in: Ontario, Alberta « and
B.C., aid fine-tuning — and
people ‘galilig in to order

were busy. -

: Rogers - ‘systems across
the country. are sold out of
the 70,000 ‘descramblers the’

‘company ordered, Shea.
said. But. It is receiving.

have been foutd faulty.

: been related a improper

_ Jobless hit a.post

~The rest. of the calls have

accommodate waiting Hist

EEC jobless rises _

* Unemployment in’ Britain, Belgiuin: ‘and West Germaiy
088 ‘to record Yevels in Januaty, governments of, those
‘countries, annotinced today.. |

_ In Britain, ‘the: government said: ‘the ‘number of Jobless’

| Wednesday, a far ery from
: i: wa bitterness

, willingness . on the part of

. the federal: Bovernment. to.
: work with the. provinces, a

Saskatchewan ; ‘Premier

_ Grant Devine’ told a’ news

- conference after the closed,
one-day, session, ° :

ahi” “glosing’ statem ent

listed federal- provincial co-
operation as one of six main

ingredients for ‘sustainable —

Tong- -term - economic

recovery. an

_ Although. there “was
‘nothing new in the list'and it
lacked ‘detail, it- lneluded.,
“calls for stable tax policies
and’. for. “ resistance ‘to
Btowing international trade
protectionism which
‘threatens the - “pale of
everything from: Manitoba-
_ built : ‘buses. tor “Alberta
natural Bas.

The ‘premiers shld: ‘trade
could /be: enhanced: by.
“more! .
marketing techniques,” but
after “five hours.
discussion they were Short,
on examples. ’

Interest rates hiave to go
down and stay down, even if
U.S. rates begin rising

again, because stable rates. -.
will bea key-to raising

consumer confidence,
Alberta ‘Premier. Peter
Lousheeti explained.

"But Lougheed was vagie |

_ when, » asked .*- where
Canddian rates should be
now: “I don’t think that one

could quantify it — some

have -said it's a- within a’
point and a half. to: two
points (of where: the basic
rate: should be).”.

‘Theré was also a call for’
of --
mechanical pulping process produces twice as much as the

rigorous . reviews
government spending, one

of several signs at the.

inereased toa post-1990d record of 9,224,715 people of 13,8; conference that western

‘per centot thé workforce. The Jobléss toll, ane of the highest
in ‘the. industrislized world, “was up. from. 8,006,007, in

‘December or: 18.9 percent.
In Belgtum, the: ‘ tnemployment rate ‘Hie by . 13, 294 to
almoat a half-millibn, a record 11.9 per ont of the work-

»/ force, the Labor ‘Dice i in Brussel said. Government. of-

_ Gchals: blamed. thé Jost jobs on: declines. in the. food,

- metallurgy, conatpuction and retail industries.

T. Western | ‘hed: already’ sold: a

Pag. 2Y te 4.0 of the 85,000
subscribers :

Wes! Gerinany'g Federal Labor Office sald the number of

. 10.2 per cent af the workforce, ad. 2-per-cent. jump over, the

December figure.% |.

The rates compake with 12.8, per cent ih Cinada in
December, 10. taper emt in the United: States, « oe

d World War técord of 2,487,100 ot

taxpayers - should prepare
_ for one or more years of

* losely ‘pruned provincial .

bidgets.

. A-recommendation for
‘regulatory reforms brought
‘auppoct “from Manitoba
Premier. Howard _Pawley.
Reluctant in the past to
‘etiticize ~ the .; Foreign
Investment Review Agency,

’ Pawley said he continues to

support: FIRA in principle
‘but

streamlined to
- uncertainty” among

aggresalve’

of .

reduce

vestors. «+
“The . back: to- basics

direction of the: conference -

reflected ‘swollen. unem-

ployment Fates an tough :
27 ice

more, than ‘10 per: cent In
December. :

All’ four premiers are
staring at massive budget
deficits for the 1992-89 fiscal.
year — from several hun-

dred million dollars for .

Manitoba and” Saskat-
chewan to $2.5 billion ‘for
Alberta -— and all four. will
be borrowing next year.

-- Their. joint -statement
“. recommended a ‘balanced
fiscal course’ for next year, .

Suggestirig 1983-84. deficits
will run relatively close to
this year’s levels.

' Dramatic shifts in policy:
to reduce debt or pay for
temporary job creation are
not wanted, Devine said. ©

in- .
‘or on the provineial level,”

niploymen -
had’ hovered ‘around : ‘three’
‘per cent for years, was

‘ “wWe don’t think that is. a
solution at the national'level:
the -

Cloaked — under |

generalizations’ were. what

appeared to bé some strong,
- differences in “approach.”

Saskatchewan on: a com-
mercial: airline with only
one official in tow compared —
with 10 from Alberta, He
said he intends to.reduce the _
B.C. civil service by 25 per
cent and has cut-.popular
services, such as denticare,
to curb costs.

But Pawley said

“Manitoba would: trim ‘its
‘spending without “pruning —
service’ -

off “human
Programs that had been

‘decades in the making.
_ There was ‘also no -con-

sensus on what to do about
Crowsnest Pass freight rate
or Transport Minister Jean-
Lue Pepin’s: “proposal to
increase the cost to farmers
of shipping grain five fold
by 1991. :

7 Capacity increases

VANCOUVER (CP)—A major increase in Canada’s pulp
and paper export capacity has been made possible by a new

‘pulping technology, says a study to be released today by

Woodbridge, Reed and Associates Ltd. of Vancouver.

The study, which will be presented to the. Canadian Pulp
and Paper Association annual meeting in Montreal, details
opportunities for up to 20 mills, each producing about 500

pulping process.

- tonnes a day, using the chemi-thermomechanical (CTMP)

Woodbridge, Reed said if Canada | can realize its full
potential, the export capacity increase would result in $2.5
billion of new mill construction during the 1960s to produce
bleached pulp and high value-added ‘Papers, indicating | a

cost of $125 million a mil.

- The study sa asys it would cost about $400 million (, 5. V0

.build a conventional kraft pulp mill today.

thinks: it ‘can be

- Bleached CTMP is said: tb be compprable in quallty to
more expensive kraft pulps in many It already is
replacing krafl in a wide range of papers.in- Europe and.
Scandinavia, and the {rend is now being followed in North
America. ~

Peter ‘Woodbridge, the. firm's” president, said the.
conventional kratt, or chemical, process.

* He. ‘ald the present’. situation of surplus outp and low .
prices should be reversed fairly shortly, predicting prices
of about $800 (U7.8.) a lonne by 1965, compared with current
Jevels of $400 U, 8. ) a ‘tonne.

“apy the ‘mid-19808, global denisnd for. market pulp is

“predicted to outstrip current and: announced a plant i
-¢reazes,” Woodbridge said. * 1 .!

. Last year, Quesnel River Pulp Lid., owned wy West
Fraser Timber Lid. and Daishowa, of: Japan, converted its
unbleached: thermomechanical pulp mill -in the B.C.
Interior to bleached CTMP. Ontario Paper Co:, in Thorgld,
Ont., is starting up,a plant using, a similar technology. .

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