4 . - [uegislative Library Parliment Buildings lyvietoria, B.C. Comp. @ Province \: recommended acceptance of the tentative’ miscarriage rates arnotigg those who work "and The Sun will be back on Vancouver ~ “agreement but declined to release other. - ‘on the machines, reveafchers:have been stalls. P omer a" a B.C. section, largely written by Sun and but wage increases. ‘The membership’ I Province reporters. Advertising revenve rejected the offer by 60 per-cent Sunday, . - adopt-'a tentative contract agreement -Weached Wednesday. 2s The 900-member Newspaper Guild and _ following three hours of talks Wednesday ; director of employee relations. ' pending a ‘ratification vote by guild agreement is accepied The Province will - #4 and The Sun that afternoon, _ Settlement," he said. |, ., Guild spokesman Roy Tubbs said the doorsteps May 4 for the first time in nearly two months if untonized workers. u “. agreement provides wage increases of — _ Pacifie.Press, which publishes the two _ dailies, reached a-tentative agreement afternoon, said George Townsend, - . Townsend, who declined-to give details — - members Friday and Saturday, sald if the — ~ be back on the street the morning of May “We're very, very pleased with the.’ _ However, union ‘source said the five, five and seven-per-cent respectively . ina three-year pact. Under the old con- _ tract, which expired’ at the end of | February, minimum salary for senior reporters was $701.54 a week. ~~ .. __'The. company also agreed to look into the possible medical effects of. video-’ display terminals, electronic keyboards | ‘with televisionJike screens on_.which | reporters ‘write their stories, the.sourca There has been concern that the ter- ~ minals, used by thousands of Canadian’ workers, could cause miscarriages among pregnant workers, eye strain and mental: stress. However, while studies have found __ higher-than-normal lmable to pinpoint ‘a cA JOB SECURITY. |. % . The source: aiso-#ald the agreement provides a‘ job “security clause for Province employees whereby if the paper folds, they will be’ able’ to bump. more Ise, - junior employees at: Tib Sun. . Southam - Inc.” which: owns’ Pacific Prega, reported thatthe Sun had 1983 profits .of $18 million while The Province ‘Jost $15-million.: The ‘résulting -$3-million “operating °- profit. was reduced’ by ~ depreciation and incoitie tax to $400,000. _ The Guild, which reptesents reporters, ‘editors, circulation and rlerical staff; had -reached a tentative agteement last week. . which offered the.sanjé wage increases. . However, the guild bargaining committee urged its member's to refect it because the The Guild was the last of six unians-to._; reach an agreement with Pacific Press.’ The national newspaper had considered Last Week, members of five other unions, bargaining together as the Joint Council of Newspaper Unions, voted to accept the: same wage offer, Printers earned a base hourly rate of $18.92 for a 34-hour four-day work week. oO a, “The Guild had been a council member _but was expelled shortly before the strike “began March 28,.when it asked for a mediator without permission from the five craft unions. The guild joined the picket line a few days later. . Several local newspapers, as well as the - Toronto Globe and Mail, took advantage | of the seven-week strike to increase their share of Vancouver readers, The Globe increased paid circulation to had covered related costs of about $20,000 a day.. : continuing the provincial section after the "strike ended but Globe publisher Roy Megarry said Tuesday the plan had been dropped. He said the freelancers would be returning to the two newspapers and The Globe could not see how the one or two _ permanent staff members, even with three or four people flown in from Toronto to help, could compete with the more than 100 editorial workers at the two Van-— couver papers. Megarry also sald several advertisers had indicated they would probably not continue to advertise in The Globe ance the two Vancouver papers resumed publication. - ee 4 _Union’s bargaining committee hag. ., company had refused to’ discuss anything about 65,000 from about 20,000 and added _ Serving the ’Progrsssive Northwest ‘Thursday, May 17, 1984 Reagan 7 pledges . to keep | Gulf open . MANAMA (CP) — Persian Gulf states touched by the shockwaves of war between Iran and Iraq are holding emergency talks in Saudi Arabla today amid mounting in- ternational concern over stepped-up @ttacks on oil tankers in the guif, sources in Bahrain said. - . In Washington, meanwhile, the Reagan administration accused Tran. of responsibility for the latest. attacks or oil traffic in the gulf and renewed ‘its: pledge to keep the waterway open to shipping. The White House described the mew development as a dangerous } -escalation but-refused 4o- spequlate- _ on what action it might‘take,* ~~ \ _,, The foreign ministers of the six ‘conservative Arab countries which make up the Gulf Co-operation Council gathered in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to try to co-ordinate some .. -reponte to Wednesday’s ‘missile “attack on a Saudi supertanker, seen ' widely as’ the most serious development yet in the 43-month wat. frag has previously attacked ‘tankers in the gulf, but has restricted its raids to ships near the Iranian coast. U.S. officials say Wednesday's Iranian attack on the supertanker Yanbu Pride occured off the Saudi coast. One council member, Kuwalt, has said that the aircraft. which attacked two of its tankers earlier this week also came from Iran; © approved “' WASHINGTON (AP) — President *’ Roriald Reagan will get fewer than half-the MX nuclear weapons he wants and even those missiles will be tied'to renewed U.S.-Soviet arms : talks under'a compromise approved by the House of Representatives and™ “supportedreluctantly by the Reagan . administration: i _ “The: White House supported us only after they.saw they couldn't win the whole thing,” said Represen- tative’ Les Aspin (D-Wis.), chief _architect of the plan, which won 220- 199 House approval) late Wednesday after seven hours of debate. Minutes before ‘Aspin’s deal was approved, MX. opponents failed by- only. six votes, 218-212, to kill the weapon Reagan has made the centrepiece of his record Pentagon up. oy : Reagan sought 40 MX weapons in the fiscal -1985 budget, But the vote by the Democrat-controlled House approves only 15 of the giant 10- warhead weapons, and then only if. April 1 to the arms control talks they - walked out of last year in Geneva. _ That proviso ia. intended “as a carrot to the Soviets,” Aspin said. “If they're as afraid of the MX as they say, they can return to the talks and try to bargain it away.” ~ ¢ the: Soviets don’t return. by next mS quality” and _ WHY BUY NEW? .” WHEN USEDWILL Do! - Doyou want parts to fix up your car but your budget A recent study conducted by blot the waste. management branch of the ©. ministry: of environment shows that the effluent discharge from the Terrace sewage treatment pliant is high In fecal coliform Skeena receives a poor score ists from... “Established 1908 in recent water quality tests by RALPH RESCHKE Herald Staff Writer -TERRACE—. The waste Management branch of the ministry - _. of environment recently conducted a- ‘study on the effluent discharge from 45 or 40.~ the Terrace waste treatment plant which shows the plant ; is ‘not ‘removing ‘enough solid. material — ‘from sewage." |. a . Partof.the study conducted by the - -waste management branch was a. . toxicity test using undiluted samples taken from: the ‘effluent discharge. ‘Ten.rainbow trout fingerlings —, were placed in-a tank. of’.30 ‘kilograms of sewage material, while another 10 fish were placed in a.tank containing clean water. == - Biologist Brian Wilkes, head of the environmental section of the waste management department; aald the fish survived for about 60 minutes in the effluent mixture, a result that shows the toxicity of the sewage Is very high.: In order for a “pass” to be registered, fish must survive for at least 96 hours in the test medium. _ As well, the fecal coliform count in samples of river water taken from test sites: at 200 metres and 15 kilometres downstream ‘from the discharge paint show an abnormally high amount of these bacteria are escaping into the river. Wilkes says that while fecal] - coliform tests are only. used to. determine the presence of human excrement the high numbers of- these bacteria would indicate that a secondary treatment. plant is: required to lowér the bacteria] count of the effluent discharge. " Terrace will hold a public referendum at the same time as the November: municipal elections . to determine if a secondary treatment plant will be built. Se _ Ralph Keen, municipal engineer, agrees that a second plant is necesgary, but says until public approval is . given for: its: con- struction, discharge levels will stay the same as they are now. “The district of Terrace hag plans . that call for the construction of a secondary treatment plant directly © -beside the primary treatment plant, The new ‘plant will be. very cost- efficient, because: it's . going to operate under the aerobie principle, which requires few maintenance coats to operate.” Le Keen explained that the project had not been completed earlier because of poor ecanomic con- ditlons,. but this year council has decided to give the $2.1 million project a chance. He said preliminary. plans call for the construction of two lagoons where the effluent discharge will be aerated and also where bacteria will decompose and settle to the bottom of the lagoons. ‘The sewage will stay in these ponds for a minimum of 15 . days hefore being pumped into the river. . The primary treatment system now operated by the district breaks down the sewage in three steps. The sewage first pagses through a,set of macerators which bresk down ‘the : material into a fine sludge. ',. The sludge then passes onto the - Clariflers,. where, further settling takes place. From there, the liquid : which remains is pumped to the digestora, where methane gases produced from the decomposing . material are pumped through the ' -After the sewage has passed through these three steps, it is ‘discharged into .the river. ne sludge is dried in open air ‘pits, In short, the fish in the Skeena River are still safe- to eat, but caution must be exercised when cleaning the fish (it’s best to do this at home), and don’t drink the water, it may give your stomach some problems, ; _.. Bellhops charged with selling Kennedy cocaine ‘ PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — David Kenriedy asked two bellhops at a posh hotel to sell him cocaine, ‘complimented. them on its "good appeared to be under i won't allow it? Bead the high cost of new parts with quality used parts fromi- S.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 635-2333 or 635-9095 - 3690 Duhan (just off Hwy. 16 £) - 80, of West Yarmouth, Mass., have its influence in the days before he died of a drug mixture, authorities say. ’ Kennedy,- 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, was found dead April 25 in his room at the Brazilian Court Hotel, a few kilometres from the winter estate of his grandmother, Rose Kennedy, The cause of his death, disclosed for the firat time Wednesday by State Attorney David Bludworth, was a. “multiple drug ingestion of cocaine, Demerol and Mellaril."’ Demero] is a prescription pain- killer and Meliaril is used to treat emotional disorders, The bellhops, Peter-Marchant, 24, of Warwick, R.1., and David Dorr, been charged with selling cocaine to Kennedy and conspiring to sell the substance, Bludworth said. In Florida, a third-degree murder ‘charge .can be brought against a supplier if itcan be proved the drags. supplied caused death. However, Bludworth said it was not known whether the cocaine Marchant and Dorr allegedly sold Kennedy was the same :cocaine medical examiners found in the body. The state attorney emphasized the two were "not being charged. with murder," and indicated it appeared unlikety that murder charges would be lodged against them. A state attorney’s investigator, Tim Valentine, said: There may be others (arrests) forthcoming.” Supreme Court ruling — B.C. aw arded | water rights | OTTAWA (CP) - The Supreme Court of Canada has put limits on the federal government's offshore rights by awarding British Columbia ownership. over inland - waters between the mainland and the B.C, . archipelago. In a split decision the high court _ ruled today, the inland waters of the - Straits of Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Charlotte were part of British Columbia at Con- . federation and-therefore still part of the province. a : The majority decision, written by. new. Chief Justice Brian. Dickson, departa'froni earlier judgments: by “count, In the biglogical oxygen demand and exceeds standards in toxicity ‘levels. Although they say there Is no danger from © eating fish in the Skeena River, residents are warned not to drink the‘water." Hig: court which “had- given the federal government offshore con- trol. we _ In = March, «the — justices unanimously ruled Newfoundland: did not hold ownership of the ‘con- . tinental shelf. ts . While the Supreme Court had Riven Ottawa control of the B.C. offshore in 1967, the justices ruled | the earller decision left the question of the inland sea unsettled. Energy exploration, has been concentrated in the Arctic and the East Coast, but the Geological Survey of. estimated oil reserves in the B.C. offshore at about 315-million barrels. Explor:...on work has been halted by a moratorium imposéd to protect the region’s environment. Today's decision confirmed a 1976 tuling by the B.C. Court of Appeal which ‘the federal government had Canada = recently - challenged. Dickson went back, as he: put it, “through -the mists of time” to determine the history of the province and discover whether the disputed waters were part of ‘the then-British colony. When Capt. Cook and Capt. Meares claimed the region for the British monarch, both explicitly staked British ' sovereignty over what Cook called the “interior sea." Dickson also-noted that in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 when Britain and the United States finally settled their: claims to the . Pacific. Nor- ‘thweat, the trea .pet.the: boundary "eget ed strait, Oo = ’ Although the court said the inland waters would have passed to federal jurisdiction at. Confederation because they were British territory, it noted the British government had awarded them to the United Colony of Vancouver Island and British Columbia through the 1866 Imperial Act. “As of 1866, the waters and sub- merged lands between Vancouver Island and the mainland were part of the United Colony of British Columbia," the judgment said, The dissenting judgment, written by Bertha Wilson and supported by Roland Ritchle, the senior judge on the bench, said Ottawa controlled the area because the colony never formally extended its rile over the inland’ sea before it joined Con- federation in 1871. Poland the latest Olympic withdrawal ‘rhe number of countries having withdrawn from the 1994 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles stands at ‘10, and counting. . . Falling in line Thursday behind the Soviet-led procession of dropouts was Poland. It was not a quiet exit, as top Polish athletes . voiced disapproval of the decision. The 10 dropouts accounted-for one- half all medais won at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the last time all major sporting powers entered. The Soviet Union's propaganda machine, meanwhile, continues to “spew out claims aimed at justifying ita position — that it could not send its athletes because of security risks; . "The riost recent - accusation, served up Thursday by the Soviet news agency Novosti, was that extremists acting in concert with the White House planned to use hun- dreds of apartments from which terrorist groups could kill or kidnap Soviet athletes competing in California. “There are at least 100 avowed terrorist organizations that were involved in the preparation of ac- tlons of physical extermination against Soviet athletes and their harassment and kidnapping during the Olympiad,” Novosti reported. “Hundreds of secret apartments were being prepared all over Los Angeles that must have served as a basis for provocations againat Soviet . eltizens,”” DRUGS SUGGESTED The Soviets had earlier suggested U.S. agents at the Games would use mind-altering drugs to coerce Russians to defect. American security forces had " planted terrorists among members of the Los Angeles Organizing Commiitee, Hospital § spokesman Hilda McGuire said the decision was made Thursday morning after con- Sultations belween the doctor and Sinclair’s three sons — Gordon, Donald and Jack. Sinclair’s wife, - Gladys, has been an invalid for’ several years. they said, adding that the Reagan administration co-pperated with anti-Soviet groups, which merged ‘under a Ban the Soviets label, that opposed Soviet participation. The pullout by Poland left only Romania among Moscow's six staunchest East European allies undecided about participation in the’ Games. There were Indications the, maverick Communist country, the most independent of the Soviet-bloc countries, might go to Los Angeles. Sinclair taken off life support TORONTO (CP) — The family of Gordon Sinclair, who has been in a coma since suffering a heart attack Tuesday, has decided to discontinue life support for the veteran broadcaster and jour: nalist, Queensway General Hospital | said in a staternent Thuraday the family made the decision after. conferring with Dr. Gotham Clements, attending physician. Sinclair suffered. severe and irreversible damage to _ the central nervous system after the heart attack. OF Juan de Fuca ” I : ‘oe