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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE; B.C.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 19°

Trudeau ‘dictator’

says Skeena’s MP|

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Unemployment = ana
sagging economy, he has
indicated, will drag down the
government.

. And, David would beat
Goliath.
HOWARD'S HOPES

-Howard’s hopes
economic-planning,
aboriginal rights, penal
reform--ancd what leaves
some New Democrates and
Labor  shaking--Canadian
contre! of uniens as well as a

program of putting business
back into Canadian hands
would go forward.

But in the meantime he is, in
effect, asking people to trust
him not to be a “dictator” in
the House.

Referring to what he infers
is Trudeau's tiron-fisted
control of the Liberal
government, Howard said: ‘1
know that people in the
country get rather fed up with
the situation. Why is it, they
ask, that alk we do in
parliament is debate."

“For example,"* Howard
said, “with regard to the
serious unemployment
situation which exists at the
present time, they ask: why is
it all you do is ask for
emergency debates...?

MOTION'S IGNORED
. Hesald any concrete motion
aimed at steps to alleviate
such conditions offered by any
opposition in the House is cut
down. .

“And it only takes one
person to disagree-—-usually
the Prime Minister---to
prevent any such motion to be
put."

fai

Howard said this is the
structure buill up over the
years ‘“‘to consolidate
authority in the hands of one
person and give him a dic-
tatorial position,'”

“It is bad enough when
there is someone In the office
as prime minister who is in-
competant and inept,”
Howard charged, looking
squarely at the Prime
Minister Tudeau's empty seat.

Taking another swing of the
axe, directly at Trudeau,
Howard said: But when you
have a person in office who Is
an authoritarian, who has a
dictatorship concept as to the
way things should be run, who
is rigid in his make-up—as he
has sald himself in his
writings---the matter becomes
much more serious.”

Howard said the Bill before
the Howse would give even
more authority to Trudeau.

“Nat only does the Prime
Minister desire this additional
authority, as though he did not
possess power
already; not only does he wish
to add to dictatorial status of
his office, but he seeks even
further power to control other
people...”

Howard blasted the
proposal contained in the Bill”
to increase the number of
cabinet ministers to 30 from
the present 25.

He lashed out alse at the
provision to increase the
number of parliamentary
secretaries.

This would, he said, make a.
total of 60 posts within the
povernment structure to
which a salary is attached.

Pratt raps

‘phone

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meeting.

“T have an office in town. I
never got a call,” he said,

A‘HOLDOVER'

Dr. Lee told Pratt that he
and Trustee George Stenning
of Stewart were not included

inthe ‘meéting ‘because the '|-’

business was a holdover from
last year when neither of them
were on the board.

Lee said the secretary-
treasurer “in his discretion”
phoned the trustees and that
Pratt and Stenning did not
have the background in-
formation on the subject.

“It seems lo me,” Pratt
said, “‘that when you phone
People saying, “‘do you believe

meet

this? Do you believe that’, it’s
potentially dangerous.”
Fred Locke, assistant
secretary-treasurer, replied
that the phone meetings are
“approved policy of the
department” and used for
emergencies.

- MONLY WAYS. +.

only way a district of this size
can carry on meetings without
getting people together for
every little item.”

When he was new to the

board, Dr. Lee said he was
also ommitted from a
meeting.

“Certainly in the future you
will be contacted like
everyone else,” he said.

Curlers evacuated
from Terrace Rink

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B.C. Telephone truck, both
equipped with ladders, were
brought in and the men went to
work hosing off the thick

frosting of snow.

Melanson cancelled the event.
He said he planned to get a
determine

contractor to
structural damage.

As the snow was washed and
shoveled away, two weak spots
were visible near the center of

the rinks roof,

ETV sought

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If cablevision comes ta

Terrace, Sage said the ETV
_ will receive it as well as the
local broadcast signal.

-ETV ean range soley from
taping commercial broad-
casts to schools making their
own television productions.
Material can be taped from
the commercial network and
re-played at any time in the
classrooms, he said.

“The little we've done is
fine," Sage told the trustees.

But, he added, “The big
message is not to rush. Lots of
-things are happening if .we
. take time.”

There was another on the
north end. Inside, a heating unit
sloped noticeably. Melason said
its supports had dangerously
weakened.

The women’s ‘spiel got un-
derway Thursday with 22 local
rinks and 10 visiting rinks
taking part.

Five teams were from Prince
Rupert; three up from Kitimat
and one each from Smithers and
Prince George.

At press time, Mrs, Gravelle

said she had no idea if the ‘spiel
could be played out elsewhere,
possibly nearby Kitimat. Only
one full day of action remained,
but results were unable to be
tallied.

She added, however, that the
estimated 120 women. curlers
and their husbands still planned
to hold the annual Valentine
‘Spiel's dinner and dance in the
Community Center, just a
stones throw from the sagging
rink.

“It really could have been
trouble,” Mrs. Gravelle said.

“But thanks to the keen eye of
Ken (Melanson) and Roy Jacks
what might have been a ‘real
disaster was averted,” -

enough |

And Dr. Lee said, ‘It’s the “

Just like handing sweets toa
baby Howard inferred.

This arrangement permits
the prime minister to say to
another 60: [f you do not
behave yourselves you will
never get into the inner cir-
cle"? Howard said.

He added ‘‘So, he has
already got 12¢ members of
the Liberal Party tied up with
the prospect that if they de not
behave according to his
satisfaction they cannot ex-
pect to remain in, or enter,
this inner circle.”

“What little independence
may have beat within their
breasts would be subdued hy
the pospect that they would
never be appointed a
Parliamentary secretary or
cabinet minister.

“The effect of all this,’
Howard reasoned, ‘is that the
Prime Minister is, in a very
real sense, in a position to
exercise control over all but
two members of the Liberal
party.”

IGNORES THEM

.And, Howard said, he can
afford to ignore them.

“The Senate,’ Howard
added, "is a bonus.”

“The purpose and intent of
this bill is not government
reorganization, but govern-
ment organization of the
dictatorship concept,
Skeena member said.

“Through a process of
consolodation, governmental
power is to be retained in the
hands of the prime minister.
The Bill will give him
whatever additional authority
he needs to keep his own boys
in line or to pay them, off for
having remained in line, and
this runs absolutely contrary
to ou concept of democracy.”

WHERE'S TRUDEAU?

Later, Diefenbaker,
speaking on the Bill, asked
where Trudeau, wha
authorized the Bill was.

‘Hansard reports a member
brought the cheers from the
opposition benches when he
replied, “Playing with orang-
outans.”"

“] have never known a
government which treated
Parliament with such
disrespect,”’
said. —

-iaDieferbaker; at: 75," hasn’t:'

lost his art of oratory.

In a booming voice, he said:
“T have seen the Prime
Minister thumb his nose at
members of the opposition. I
have heard him refer ta
members of the House of
Commons as bums, and. he
said the rest of us were
nobody's

Shoplifters
get slapped

A Terrace man was fined
Friday for shoplifting meat
from the Safeway Store.

Police said Toby Willie, 22,
was seen taking $6.75 worth of
meat from the slore Thursday.

He was fined $50.

A juvenile was also picked up
by RCMP after he was observed
shoplifting at the same store.

Trustees back

to school
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transporting them to meetings

in schools is a problem.

“Maybe it could be not an
board

honest ta goodness
meeting but an open meeting
for parents to come," Dr, Lee
said,

Other trustees said board
meetings had«been held in
school -in the past but few
parents had attended,

“This area isnot that big,”
Sargent said, “that anyone
can’t goto this meeting who can
go to another meeting (in a
school)...

The trustees decided to hold
the next meeting in Caledonia

Senior Secondary and “see how ;

it goes. ".

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the hinterland to the coast in
the-early 1900's the name was
changed to Dobbies. :
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in 1953. She was a good nelgh-
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many and # good mother to
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