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Shocked

At Conditions In Employment Minister Says :

Prince George Psych Ward Jobless Rate To Stay High —

PRINCE GEORGE
B.C. (CP) — Bert Boyd
Prince George Regional
Hospital administrator
and Howard Lioyd (SC—
Fort George) are sched-
uled to meet with Health
Minister Bob McClelland
today to discuss health
care finances and

psychiatric services in
north-central B.C.
Dr. Paul Carry,
spokesman for the Prince
rge Medical Society,
said in an_ interview
Sunday that one of the
questions that should be
raised at the meeting 15
lack of psychiatric ser-

Parliament «*—
Clearing Decks.
With Eye On __
Fed. Election ©

By PAUL_GESSELL
OTTAWA (CP) — With
a federal election on their
minds, MPs from all
parties are expected to
give a speedy approval to
Canada Elections Act
amendments in_ the
Commons this week.
Some of the amend-
ments aroused the Op-
pesition’s _ ire and
rompted Walter Baker,
Progressive Con-
servative house leader, to
accuse the Liberal
government of “trying to
buy the next election.
But the government
has indicated a
willingness to scrap the
offending amendments.
The opposition was also
supported Friday when a
Commons committee
tabled changes it wanted
in the government’s

amendments. _
The opposition  €x-
pressed its greatest

displeasure with an
amendment which would
have permitted |
anonymous political
donations.

"We want to let the sun
shine in on the electoral
process and we don’t
want. shadowy figures
carrying little brown

‘rooms. of - a’ political

Whoo

bags into the committee

party,” said. - Con-
‘servative.. leader’: Joe
CRITICIZES
PROPOSAL |

‘Many MPs also ob-
jected to a proposed
amendment which would
have pegged parties’ in-
creased spending Limits
to_ inflation rates since

The opposition said that
would place millions of
extra dollars in the hands
of political parties and
said the spending should
be increased by whatever’
the inflation rate since
1976.

Some. government
sources have indicated
the Liberals are prepared
to accept the opposition

suggestions because-af a: .

desire’. to - have ; the,

amendments in place for -

the next federal election.

Most amendments to
the Canada Elections Act
take about 60 days after
royal proclamation to be
implemented. _

The general feeling on
Parliament Hill is that
the next general election
will be held next spring.

HOLMES 7

vices for children in this
area. :

'. Carry said there is the
example of a nine-year-
old girl who spent five
weeks in Prince George’s
only psychiatric ward of
% beds, during which
period the ward also
contained a child
molestor, a prostitute,

. three drug addicts and

five schizophrenics—one
of them a p ranoid
schizophrenic,

| After five weeks in the

ward, the girl was
transferred to a hospital
in Victoria. .
Carry said 800 other
children under the age. of

16 were admitted -to the -

same . ward
because no
facilities could be found.
He ‘said the provincial
government continues to
spend money on health
services -in the major
centres, with no regard
for the needs of . the

150,000 péople of the
north-central interior of.

~ Cullen said on the CTV
coming '
before health in this.
_ province, said Carry,

the province.
‘Votes are

adding it was time the
federal government

-ordered a royal com-.

mission on health care in

northern B.C. and force:
the provincial govern
its:

ment. to.. meet

obligations: —

SUE - MAJOR:

BOSQUELLJ) (AP) —
The warm weather may
have confused Corny, the
missing whooping crane,
and she headed down to
the Pecos Valley instead
of over.to the Rio Grande.

Wildlife officials sa
they cannot find the bird,
one of only about 100
whooping cranes believed
left in the world.

Corny, who was the
first whooping crane to
enter New Mexico when
the .endangerted birds
began arriving with
greater sandhill cranes in
1975, turned up this year
at the Las Vegas National

Wildlife Refuge. on Nov.

29. Shé was last sighted
about a week ago and has
not, been seen since. The
other seven of the big
white birds expected
have been accounted for.

Officials at the refuge
say they had-assumed the
crane. flew on ‘to the
Bosque. del Apache
National Wildlife Refuge,
where: she has spent the

f tae’ ~ * A

ping And

last two winters,. but.
refuge manager -Dick
Rigby “said his - people
have not seen anything of
her and do not expect to.

Rigby specutated the
weather threw Corny off
on her flight from Ouray
National Wildlife Refuge
in Utah.

“We had a very mild
fall all through this part
of the country and they
migrated much later than
in the past,” he said,
“She got down to the San
Luis Valley (in southern

-Colorado) after most of

the greater * sandhill
cranes had migrated
down here, and when she
left, she left-with a group
of lesser sandhills, and
they traditionally winter
at the Peces.”'

Hesaid the Pecosisina
different drainage area
than the Bosque, and that
it is unlikely a bird in one
drainage will move into
another. He speculated
Corny might end up at the
Bitter Lake National
Wildlife Refuge near
Roswell, N.M. .

-

in 1977:
other

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OTTAWA’ (CP) —
Unemployment levels
will remain high. this
winter, says Em-
ployment Minister. Bud
Cullen; -

"don't think anyone in
Canada in his right mind
would suggest that the
unemployment rate in the
winter is going to drop,”

rogram Question
eriod, taped
broadcast Sunday.
The: . minister
questioned. the

‘for

way

statistics are gathered on.

unemployment, saying
young ‘people bounce in
and out of jobs and that
among . other | groups
unemployment may é
seasona

GOVERNMENT: «

whoopers are among
roughly 100 of the U.S.
and Canadian govern-
ment-protected birds left
in the world, and are the
offspring of a US.-
Canadian program aimed
at increasing their
numbers.

The whoopers were
hatched in Idaho from
eggs taken from parents’
nests at the Wood Buffalo
National Park in Alberta
and the. Northwest
Territories, and placed
under sandhill. cranes.

In 1941, wildlife of-
ficials said,. there. were
only 21 known whooping
cranes in the wild and by
1943 the count was down
to 15. But through various
programs there has been
a slow increase in their

numbers, About 70 birds’

are wintering this year at
the Aransas National
Wildlife Refuge on the
Texas. Guif' of Mexico
coast. - a

. About 20 others are in

rather. than
_ permanent. tee

Hollering

:. paris or
acilities, he said.

“Are they legitimatel
out of work?” he asked,

‘“Should a person who
only works eight weeks in =

the course of a year be
considered a permanent
member of the work
force?”’

_ Although emphasizing
his department's ex-
penditures of $1.3 billion

.on various training and

job-creation programs,
Cullen said: ‘'Buying
your way out of unem-

- ployment just doesn’t

work.

Government must walk
.a tightrope between
stimulating ‘the economy
to create jobs and
countering the inflation

“ which results. |

ISSUES. WARNING
He said the federal

Captivity in zoological
research

Rigby said two of the
other whooping cranes
from Utah— Ida and
Homer—are at Bosque
del Apache, where they
spent last winter.

Another wheoper, one
of the immature birds
that has not heen named
yet, is on private land
hear Polvadera, and two
other birds, Pancho and
Miracles, are in the
vicinity of the state
waterfowl refuge at Ber-
nardo, The other two are
believed to be in Mexico
with their foster-parent
sandhill cranes.
} ) — Her
Majesty’s Air Force
Vessel 2757 arrived at
Hendon, just outside
London, recently to be the
first boat to be seen at the
RAF Museum. Special
arrangements were
made at the dock for Jift-
ing the 30-ton rescue and
targettowing craft from
the water for its overland

journey.

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’ out,

government can't carry
the full load of job-
creation efforts. Under
the federal Canada
Works program, 116,000
short-term jobs will be
created,

“How many more
parks can we clean,
ams can we paint,
arenas can we do,
because the guy that’s out
there working, paying the
tab, says hold it.”
Quebec unemployment
levels are traditionally
high, but the situation has
worsened with the
rospect of separation,
Fallen said. Investor
confidence is low and
head offices are moving
adding to the
problem.

“It’s in the bes. in-

terests of Quebecers to
look to the future, to a
time when, politically, we
can move Mr. Levesque
out of there and move'a
government in that'is not

committed to ‘sep
aratism.” .
Part of Canada’s

unemployment problem
arises from a mismatch
between education and
jobs available, Cullen
sald. .

Many students are
forced into university by
parental pressure when
they might be good auto
mechanics. Guidance
counsellors and parents
would have to rethink-the
advice they give young
people. en

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