PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, November 30, 1977 TERRACE daily herald Published by Sterting Publishers General Office - 635-6157 Circulation - 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE EDITOR... JULIETTE PROOM Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright Inany advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photagraphic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Research grants cut By CATHY McKERCHER : WASHINGTON (CP) — United States industries, their profits squeezed by inflation, are making cuts in research work, a move many observers believe will prove damaging to both this country and others whose economies are ciosely linked to it. Although U.S. industries, universities and govern- ment Jaboratories are still world leaders in research, spending about $29 billion a year, the share of world research done in this country has dropped to 40 per cent from 60 per cent 10 years ago. In the Last year, four industrial giants, Du Pont Co., Bethlehem Steel, Aluminum Co. of America, and Zenith Radio Corp., have closed at least one of their major research laboratories. Officials of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) are concerned that the closings are part of a trend away from basic research in U.S. industry, away from the long-range scientific study that led to the ype of successes for which U.S. technology is noted. The NSF estimates that private industry will spend about $17.2 billion on research and development this year, up from $16 billion spent in 1976. But most of the increase was eaten up by inflation. Employment statistics showing that private in- dustry employed 329,000 scientists in 1975, a drop of 43,000 since 1970, are more alarming. The over-all decline in private research—partly offset by increases in research in the computer and electronics fields— has resulted in increased pressure from scientists for what is known as technological protectionism, government regulations preventing other countries from cheaply a apting technologic successes which cost billions of dollars to devise in the This pressure is of major concern to Canada, which already lags far behind the U.S. in research. Not only does Canada believe its economy would be damaged by regulations prohibiting the export of already-de- veloped U.S. technology, itis seeking a larger share of research money for Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. corporations. While protective barriers against exporting technology are unlikely to be imposed in the for- seeable future, the White House is so concerned about the downward turn of private research that it has begun a study to determine the reasons for it. TAKES TIME The most obvious reason is that research is a relatively risky investment which takes a long time to pay off, There are no guaranteed breakthroughs and it generally takes about six to seven years to develop new products. High interest rates also make borrowing for research expensive. Private industry, however, puts most of the blame on toughened government regulations. Du Pent, whose recently-closed Tennessee laboratory developed synthentie fibres such as Dacron, Lycra and Orlon, which in turn fostered a giant synthetic textiles industry, says it spends about 10 per cent of its research money satisfying government safety and environmental regulations. General Motors Corp., which claims the auto in- dustry is hardest-hit by federal regulations, says it spends up to 50 per cent of the money it would other- wise use for research on meeting the regulation. The NSF is considering a change in its policy that would allow more funding of industry research. “We've always put requirements on industry that were above and beyond what we asked of univer- sities,” one official said. What officials see as a positive change in the U.S. research situation, however, is increased emphasis on private energy research. Chemical, paper, aluminum and steel companies, all big users of oi] and natural gas, are concentrating onfinding news ways of producing and saving energy. Finding such new techniques is necessary since the oil and natural gas they use costs four times more than it did four or five years ago. ERMAN “Is that the way you normally stand?” Money to racism fighters TORONTO (CP) — Financial support should be given to groups trying to solve the problems of racism or those which deal with immigrants, Walter Pitman, head of a one-man commission on racism in Toronto, recommended Monday. In his report, Pitman, 45, tr resident of Ryerson Polytechnical nstitute, included 41 recom mendations designed to control racial tensions. It recommended that the Met- ropolitan Toronto government take a leadership role in reducing racism and encourage all of its agencies to do the same, The report said the media should be encouraged to present stories in ways that do not serve to aggravate racial tensions. Prevention of racial problems should become a top priority, said the report. STUDY ORDERED Pitman, whose study was or- dered by Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey last January, was given $50,000 for research material assistants and travelling expenses. He did not hold public meetings, but met Pivately with many groups and individuals, and con- ferred with police, the Toronto Transit Commission, the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, the Toronto board of education, the Ontario advisory committee on multiculturalism and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The study was prompted by the beating of James Carson, 61, who was kicked and thrown off a sub- way train last New Year's Eve when he went to help two East Asian men being assaulted on the ain. Pitman is the former deputy leader and education critic of the Ontario NDP. LIVE IN FEAR Racial violence in Metre Toronto is causing what the report calls colored racial minorities to live in constant fear but there is no in- dication that racial violence is on the increase, it said. There is also evidence that Metro Toronto olice and racial minorities dislike each other and the school system does not want to admit a racial problem, it said. _A survey, financed by the office of federal Secretary of State John Roberts, showed that 15 per cent of Metro Toronto residents have racist views and 35 per cent are racist in attitude.’ The report also said brown- skinned persons from Africa and Asia were prime victims of racial violence. Physical assaults or black immigrants from the Caribbean or the United States have abated but job discrimination and police hassling continues for them, itsaid. Philip Givens, chairman of tne Metro Toronto board of police commissioners, said much of the report's criticism of police is too rsh. SUGGESTS TESTING The report recommended that psychological testing of police applicants for racist views be conducted and height and weight requirements be less stringent so more members of ethnic minorities may be hired. Many chairmen of Metro Toronto school boards agreed after hearing the recommendations of the report that educational programs should be provided to combat racism. Douglas Barr, chairman of the Toronto board, said he disagreed that school systems refuse to admit that racism is a problem. He said Toronto education of- ficials recognize that racism exists and that it, now is a matter of prevention before it gets out of nd. The report also recommended establishment of a race relations committee of representatives of newspapers, radio and television stations to receive complaints of minority groups involving news stories about them. | The report said the news media have done little to explain causes of racial tension. . - Jona This Week Campagnolo The phase out of wage and price controls, an- nounced last month by Finance Minister Jean Chretien will begin April 14, 1978. I regard this as a most positive move with Jong term benefits for our economy, and for the people of Canada. Employees and businesses will be freed from controls gradually. As the end of echa current con- tract or fiscal year falls, a business or employee group will become free of controls. Since contract ter- minations and fiscal year dates differ widely, the effect will ba a staggered patter on decontrol. The government, by this ruling, has minimized the risk of a sudden outburst of wage and price increases as might occur if the program were abolished suddenly. Sudden decontrol would cause what economists call a “bulge” on our economy — something that might set off another imbalanced period in our financial affairs — another wage-push in our inflation spiral. - Staggered decontro] means the majority of com- panies and employees won't emerge from controls until the end of 1978, The government's policy is to allow a first-in, first-out stystem of decontrol. There is no doubt that the Anti Inflation Program has taken the steam out of the drive for ever- increasing wages which was evident before the program was instituted. The period of control, from October 1975 until now has not been an easy time for Canadians, but there have been some benefits. Fi released recently show that the average real income of Canadians increased in 1976 by 5.9 per cent. Statistics reveal further that Canadian incomes increased in three of the last four years. The average oncome of Canadians was, in 1973, $6,416. By 1976, this figure had risen to $9,314 — an Increase of almost 50 per cent. This is an indication that the wage and price guidelines have worked to take the “gteam’” out of our inflationalry pressure, without too eatly distorting the shape of our economy. They ve worked — because Canadians wanted them to. With the same degree of co-operation I know we can phase ourselves out of the guidelines and into a freer economy without any major cirses or shocks. Turning to our riding, I am please toadvise you that the federal department of Public Works has called for tenders for improvements to the public wharves in Queen Charlotte City and Masset. The work to be undertaken includes the installation of lighting and a combination of lighting and power outlets on the floats. oo The deadline for tenders is November 29, and it is that the work can be completed this winter. i @ more personal note, [ was hanoured to take part in the Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Kitimat ast week, It was— as always — a moving event, and I hope that all residents of our area did truly pause to lect on November 11 on the sacrifices made on our behalf by our country’s war veterans. For our own sake — and for our children’s — it is a thought we must never forget. If you have any comments on the above or any other matters, please write to me, care of House of Com- mons, Ottawa K1A 0X2. Sasquatches invade CRTC lets telegram service decline Abbot was reacting toa CRTC statement Friday that it wanted to be in- OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Railway Labor Association said Monday the Canadian Radio- television and Tele- communications Com- mission (CRTC) is ignoring its public responsibility to prevent further deeline in quality of telegraph = and telegram services. Ed Abbot, executive secretary of the labor group, also said the CRTC should prevent any further shutdowns of telegraph offices until the federal government decides on an policy for such services. In a_ telephone in- terview, Abbot said the communications de- partment has skirted the question for years and now the CRTC has abrogated its respon- sibility by failing to call public hearings on the services’ future. Meantime, the number of telegraph offices and the size of their staff ‘are dwindling by the day,'’ Abbot said. Between 1961 and 1976, the number of workers involved ex- clusively in the telegraph service dropped to 1,080 from 9,997, a federal re port has said. Call for end of gov't By . DAVID SOVITZ MONTREAL (CP) — Louis Laberge, president of the 300,-000-member Quebec Federation of Labor (QFL), called on the labor movement Monday to begin working now to inflict a crushing defeat on the Liberal avernment in the next ederal election, berge, 53, ad- dressing the opening session of the QFL's 15th lenary convention, aunched a_ stinging assault on the Trudeau government, calling it undemocratic and anti- labor. The Liberals had shown a “criminal” lack of action to combat in- flation and unemploy- ment. Wage and price con- trols, he said, have favored big business while reducing the buying power of wages, which in turn has contributed to the country’s high jobless figure. Laberge was almost as blunt in his criticism of Progressive Con- servatives, whom he dis- missed as no alternative at all to the Liberals, and the New Democratic GER- Party which he said is losing credibility as a force for social change. Although noting that the QFL has not decided yet what position it wilk take during: Quebec’s forthcoming _in- dependence referendum, Laberge warnéd the 1,000 delegates and‘observers that the QFL fnust steel itself to fight the federal Liberals, with the same ferocity it utilized to campaign against the previous provincial government of Robert Bourassa. TRIED TO NEGOTIATE Laberge said the Canadian Labor Congress helped put a damper on opposition to controls by agreeing—“‘in good faith, no doubt”’—to try to negotiate with Ottawa a way out of the restrictions. The QFL is the Quebec affiliate of the ° congress. He said the QFL will fight to galn back ‘the billions which were literally stolen from us by companies, thanks to the Trudeau controls.” He indicated the New Democrats are losing what little support they have in Quebec and are proving a disappointment in other provinces. — The federal -party has failed to take a clear stand on the Quebec independence question, Laberge told the con- vention which continues until Friday at a down- town hotel. The New Democrats haven't moved far from the constitutional position of the oldline parties ‘for fear, it would seem, of losing votes in English Canada.”’ Without hinting how he stands on for- theoming referendum on Quebec —_ independence, the QFL leader said the rovince’s political uture would be decided by Quebecers, not out- Siders, Laberge had kinder things to say about the Parti Quebecois government, whose performance to date he described as generally favorable, But he warned the provincial govern- ment not to bow to cor- porate pressure and retreat from electoral pledges to introduce sweeping social and labyr reforms formed by the telecommunications branches of the Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Ltd. of any planned closings of telegraph offices. WANTS CON- SULTATION The CRTC also said it wanted to be told by CNCPTele- communications of any major changes = in telegraph or telepost services. The statements were made in the = an- nouncement that the CRTC had approved the bulk of CNCP Telecommunications’ proposed rate increases. Telegraph prices were increased by varying amounts. The railway labor association, which represents tele raph workers, opposed the increases, saying they would “place the various services beyond the economic ability of a large part of the Canadian public.” In its intervention in the rate increases, the labor association called for the CRTC to hold ublic hearings on the ate of the telegraph service, but the com: mission ignored that re- quest in its deci8md- ixb’w. the gun. We found two more and everybody was popping staples into their shoes.” The Eskimos com- plained about the foot- wear in which the Alouettes ap eared, but Hap Shouldice, CFL director of officials, and others checked the shoes end found nothing wrong. Montreal general manager Bob Geary said before the game that he LITTLE EAGLE, 5.D. (AP) — Many in this remote hamlet on Standing Rock Indian Reservation are con- vinced they have been invaded by several Big- loo And they are afraid. Since early September three Bigfoot, or Sasquatch as they are known as in Canada, reportedly have haunted the thick scrub cot- tonwoods that surround and fill Litde Eagle's scattered townsite of 60 residents. Twenty-eight si htings have been reported in the last two and a_ half months, according to Gary Alexander, whose eneral store serves as eadquarters for the Bigfoot hunt. The sightings, in- volving as many as three of the creatures, were made from as far away as 150 yards and from as close as 10 feet, he said. LeMar Chasing Hawk saidhe was confronted by a Bigfoot lurking 10 feet away from him. He said the incident ocurred around 10:15 p.m. one night last September, and he has carried a rifle for protection ever since. NOISE IN BUSH Chasing Hawk said he was on a path bordered by scrub bushes outside his back yard when he heard a noise in the bushes and saw something stand up. It was Bigfoot — about nine fet tall and weighing over 600 pounds, he said. “T didn't stay around long enough to find out what it looked like,”’ he said. “I turned around and ran for home and didn't look back.” Some residents, such as the Rev. Angus Long Eik, have decided to leave Little Eagle until the furor subsides. “T couldn’t stand its running around shrieking all night,” he said of Bigfoot’s coyote-like screaming nolse. “It was doing it all the time, And about two weeks ago my wife saw it at night while she was down by the river, She's been afraid ever since and wanted to leave.” LEAVING TOWN Long Elk, a town resident for the last five ears, said he was leaving for the safety of McLaughlin, 14 miles to the north. Alexander said the Bigfoot creatures have been described as bet- ween six and nine feet tall and weighing 600-900 unds. He said one of the arger animals is reported to be dark in color and the other light. A third Bigfoot repor- tedly is smaller, at about six feet tall and 400 pounds, he added. Alexander has not seen a Bigfoot but said he is convinced the reports are legitimate. ‘When we've found tracks in a row, the stride has been 6-7 feet apart,” he said. “It would take three men on stills to make them and get that deep an impression.” Authorities have asked hunters not to carry weapons for fear of in- yuring each other, but many continue to do so. — _. “We're not out to hurt it,” one hunter said. “We're all carrying .22- caliber rifles or .22- caliber magnums.” Bigfoot pursuers are also armed with tranquilizer guns. Ed Meller, an unem- ployed gravel hauler and ail products distributor, has set up a mobil camper equipped with a tape recording system on Chasing Hawk's property... Bigfoot is ‘pretty nosy,” Meller said.““Anything that goes on he just has to see.”’ The animal showed up at the van about two weeks ago, and two of them appeared twice around 4 am. last Wednesday, he said. Milton LaSalle, a New York State soils engineer who has studied Bigfoot sightings on the East and West coasts the past 20 years, traveled to Little Eagle last week. LaSalle, however, won't commit himself - without more evidence, “I won't say it’s a Big- foot, not until I see. it myself," he said.