ame

- libraries, muzicipal

drew about 400 peop!

nights business seminar, :

ae

ual to the previous
ut only haif those

attendng the Terrace rally,. Lawyer‘ and past

President: of Rupert's

chamber of commerce

eral s cae a ss
Prince. Rupert's Operation Solidarity rally Don Sliversides sald, ~

The Herald, Wednesday, August.10, 1963, Page?

“justice ‘cannot ‘be

privatized’ and sald the lack of a rentalsman
would result an additional cost of $8 million
per year to the government to hear sults In the

‘Supreme Court of B.C,

=

Ridley Island workers and others tlsten 6

Terrace’s Joanne Peters, Maureen Bostock ©

and Ross Redy repeat previous talks.

The

audience gave an informal best speakers

based the:

‘

on -

award to Harbhajan Sangha of the Hindu- Sikh

association who said Bennett Iled his wa
Into power and called for a new election
proposed

~ P

back
budget.

- Thousands: attend Operation. Solidarity

“VANCOUVER (CP) —

_ Most -Iquor. stores will be

closed: and Greater Van-.
couver bus service halted

> for several hours today as -

‘thousands of people book off
Work to attend a rally. at
Empire Stadium to protest

the Soctal Credit govern-

ment’s controversial ‘
restraint legislation.

eo

Many: other services ‘in
halls,
courts and’.the telephone

' . COMpany, were expected to
' be attested as disenchanted

workers: prepared to leave ©
their jobs to go to the four- °
hour rally, - *

The | demonstration,
organized by Operation.

Solidarity, a coalition ‘of |

unions, community groups .
‘and religious organizations,

is ‘to protest the legislative
package - that ° slashes ©
government’ services,
loosens human rights laws

., and>-gives Victoria’ wide -
. the . region, including

powers: to fire public ser-

’ Vants.

Organizers. refuied to say”
how many _ peaple they

~

Ur. (AP) —
airport,

. the field — but

‘expected at the.32,000-seat

Stadium — it can also ac

_commodate about d8 8,000 on
t Kube,

B.C. Federation. of Labor

‘outnumber. the more than
20,000: ho attended a rally
two ago on the lawns
-of the provincial. legislature

"in Victoria.

CAN'T’ IGNORE

Kube “said if "Bennett.

ignores tens of thousands of
‘protesting voices, it will be.
‘at his own peril. :

president, sald he expected :
the number of protestors to .

“ really don’t see how a.
government’ that wants to
survive politically can
ignore the vast majority of

. the population opposed to its

legislative program.”

Kube and Vancouver
Mayor Mike Harcourt were

- to speak at the-rally along

with. union, . church ‘and
community. group. keadera,

The largest . turnout was

‘expected fram the 40,000-

member B.C, Government
Employees Union, although
Provincial, Secretary Jim

Chabot warned civil ser--

_ Permission,” he said. _.
_ NO PRESSURE :

vants Tuesday that they * report had picket lines
_ being set. up ‘at some

would be docked pay and

“have a letter of reprimand

Placed in their employee
files if they. left work to join
the rally. 7

~'We ‘won't — tolerate
walking off the job without

Meantime,
Robble. Robinson, ‘ govern-
ment
dismissed
reports’ that government
workers would. be forced

into joining the rally, One

- Kube . “and.

employees © union.
_ Spokesman, |

government facilities “to
pressure workers into goirig

’ to the rally.

“The demonstration is a
voluntary assembly and as:
far as Operation Solidarity
is. concerned no picket lines
are being setup to get

people ~out to the rally,"

Kube said,

Robinson said govern--
ment ¢ employees are upset
by the legislation, and ‘we
don’t need anything like
that (picket lines) to con-
vince our members to come
to the. _ ta. ” He- said .

“-psseritial services would be .
maintained.

Kube said the federation
has not.asked private-sector -
affiliates to pull - union
members. off the job,
although the - Telecom-
munications Workers
Union, representing B.C. .
Telephone Co. employees, is

asking its members to book 7:
‘off work. a

The council ‘of unlons ‘at
B.C. Railway was also
encouraging its members to
attend the demonstration.

“We are not going-to be - ~

kicked. in the head by that

kind of legistation," sald
.. council Chairman
Farley,

Most .

- Druse. Moslem gunners shell Beirut airport —

Druse Mostem |
gunners shelled .. Beirut
‘the. Lebanese
ive Ministry and the .

iN UV.S, mar mS.

- Iebatese women and. ‘a

child and wounding 30 other

people, inclulng a marine
and “seven ~ Lebanese —

. soldiers,

7 "Lebeiton's army returned’
- artillery and mortar fire on

’-Druse positions in the hills -
. overlooking Beirut, and the. -

1,200-man U.S. marine
contingent at the : airport -
went on “Condition 1,” its-

. highest state of alert in four

- months, Maj. John Shotwell
said.

" Pung @ Jun. the

LONDON (Reuter
Oil tankers are getting

. safer and world oil pollution

-is being reduced despite the

weekend disaster off Cape —
Town,.South Africa, when a
Spanish supertanker broke
intwo after a fierce fire, say

-shipping experts in London.

Shipping industry and -

_ safety: experts sald the

‘break~up of the  196,822-—

tonne © ‘Castillo ‘de Bellver
had ao far: jtot raised major |
doubts about. tanker size or
design onal such accidents ;
were f.

. “Th ations on tanker

‘safety’ and pollution have.

really been raised abremly
and the cry nowadays. is

: “GET :
-FOXHOLES,“ McFarlane -

\ middle-aged tankers built in

‘improve. .

‘bombardment, US.
presidential envoy Robert
McFarlane visited the
marines. But a shell struck
about a metres. ‘orth of
pound ‘as
MeFerlane was meeting

_ With the marine comi-

mander, Col,.- Timothy
Geraghty, sending marines

_ leaping for cover.

As the marines shouted
IN-.: THE.

: walked briskly to his nearby
“ear. Marines and: his
’ plainclothes ‘bodyguard
shielded him as he sped off
with a: ‘Lebanese ; ‘police "
"escort. ;

President
Gemayel’s

Amin
government

More’ to implement and
enforce measures that have
been or are. being. in-
troduced," said one expert.
‘As time goes’ by and

the boom years of the 1960s
and early 19703 are phased
out, the safety record of the
world's tanker fleets should
get. better, he said.

Safety " experts’ will
nevertheless __ carefully
study the eventual report of
the Inquiry into the disaster
that struck the Castillo de —
Bellver for tips on how to
. Safety. Crew
members ‘flown - home: to -
Madrid said they ‘had no

‘idea what caused | .the

_ the

presented a major hazard to Inst

‘ordered’ the airport: ‘closed

after ‘the - - first,” 30-minute .
‘barrage, ‘diverting inbound -
~neighboring .
; cayntries The alrpdrtcwas:
’. reopened-te outbound traffic
three hours after the attack,
the second bombardment‘of

planes. -:to::

the ® fect in three weeks,

Beirut ~ airport
stlling came during a new

~ pound . of heavy: fighting

between . Lebanon's
Christian: and Druse
militiamen in the Israeli-
held central. - mountains
overlooking Beirut.

After: the airport attack,

the state-run news agency .
 Druse fighters

report
hhelled -a token Lebanese

disaster’ which left three
men missing.

The. vessel had a full
. cargo of oll which should
~ have meant its tanks did not

‘contain explosive gases. In
past these have

tankers.

The Castillo de Bellver
was .a. modern — ship
registered in 1978 and would

_ almost certainly have been

equipped with an inert gas
system to. pump harmlesa
gases into empty or partly
filled’ tanks, blocking out
inflamimable'gases.. ~

But one source, W
stressed he knew nothing of

the circumstances ofthe |

typical .

who -

mountain town - of Kfar
Matta 18  dlometres
southeast of Beirut,
wounded five soldiers: and |
“attacked and entered"? two
nearby villages., ar

‘The shelling appeared to"

- mark ‘a setback’ in: talks

between :.the government
and Druse ‘leaders ~ over

. sending the'Lebanese army

‘into the mountains when the
Israeli‘army pulls back to
new. lines in the south.:The
Druse claini. the Christian-

‘dominated army supports ©.
~ the Christian militias.

CRASH INTO SLUMS '
Police said | rockets
crashed. into slums on the

‘ airport’s edge, killing. orle
army garrison - -in - . he.

Shipping experts call

woman vin her ear, ‘another

disaster that hit the Castillo
de Bellver, said it. was
always‘ possible for such

“ systems to break down.

' Inert gas” systems are —
of - the: safety
measures introduced in the
‘10. years, Another

example is arule requiring
oll tanks to be away from’

the sides of the ship to -

lessen ‘the. risk of ‘fire or’

explosion in a collision.
Next: year the first in-

ternatiorial “standards of

'training-for ships’ officers

and crews are due to be

‘established ‘under . the .

auspices -of © the Inter-
national ~ Maritime

inher bed and a boy walking
to school. °.

Marine. spokesman Maj.
John Shotwell sald a marine

Six U.S. Navy warships.
providing support: for. the:

marines pulled back from

Beirut's . -Meditefranean’

washit.in:the right thigh by": coast: duririg’ - the: rocket

‘a: piece ‘of, shrapnel. froit: :
what he described ‘aa a
” Soviet-made Grad rocket .
that exploded ‘ ‘in — the
Bmarine compound at the
airport. The - 1,200-member
Marine contingent is part of
a. multinational
peacekeeping
patrolling the Lebanese .
capital. “

The nose cone of a Grad
rocket could be see eni-
bedded in’ the tarmac ‘
outside the main ‘terminal
about 100 metres from a
‘Belgian Sabena Airlines’
Boeing 737° ..

tankers safe

Organization, a 195-country

- United Nations body.
Rules limiting cargo tank ,

capacity to improve safety
and limit pollution, ~ in-
” traduced in 1973, are being
reinforced in October in new

safety and ‘anti-pollution |

‘measures promoted by the
organization...

‘Accidents to oil tankers
last year were the fewest on
record, the IMO said. Less
than two tankers in 100 were

involved in serious incidents ~

such as a fire or collision.

"Progress in reducing oll
tanker pollution has been
more dramatic. ;

Space. telescope discovers planets

. PASADENA, ‘Calif. (AP)
— A telescope in space has
found, the first direct,

. evidence of what may be

"around Vega turns out to be,

exciting,” he sald Tuesday,

enother solar system — a-
vast and mysterious cloak
of particles circling one of

~* the brightest stars in the
"night “aky, |
‘report.

astronomers

Whatever
kilometre

he . “meoillion:
ell of debris

. nothing like it has ever been

‘universe _ before,

seen ‘anywhere In the
said -
Conway ‘Snyder of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory,

’ “That's what makes it so

Vega, 20 trillion
‘Kilometres from Earth ‘in
the constellation tyra, “Isa a

‘building |.

‘ternational .-
. Astronomical

“fairly ordinary type of star,

- baaically-the same as our

Bun," he eaids > >>,
‘The shell of -particles,:

_which could include planets

pr. cosmic debris. thet is
planets, |
discovered | by. the ‘ne

‘Infrared

launched In January to map

“the heavens. It analyses the:
invisible infrared jight of

heat emissions. ‘The - Jet
Propulsion, Laboratory
manages the U.S. phase of.
the, satellite program,
Wiiether’ the Vega _par-

* ticles ; represent another

solar system, perhaps one
that’s only now evolving as

- Earth and its eight neigh-

= boring worlds: evolved 44

Satellite, :

billion years ago, “is very
much conjecture, * Snyder
said.

‘the shell “has some of the.
characteristics of a solar
system and it may be a

Police

News

|

VANCOUVER (CP)
RCMP tourist‘ alert for
Wednesday, Aug. 10. The
following . persons are
requested fo contact the

néarest detachment of the |

RCMP for an ‘urgent per-
sonal message:

of. Virden, Man. -
Kyle. Boulton of Willlams
Lake, B.C, =

Ken Elltson of Hole River,

Man. oo

Hector and Berle ‘Foulkes
of Lafleche, Sask.

Gordon and June Grant of

Calgary’ .

John Hergeshelmer of
Winnipeg’

Nyle. Alexander McGill of

- Richmond, 8.C. :
Donald and Kathy Angell *

Marley: MeGill of 70 Mile

House, B.C. >

-‘Shannol McLean © - of

-Jam “wan Smith of
Surrey, B.C.” —

solar system,” he sald: -

“But our knowledge about

how solar systems form is

80: incomplete that riobody

can say."
Astronomers ~ have been

_ Searching the heavens for: |
‘decades ‘for " evidence ’ of

planets circling stars other
than our. sun. Some argue
uncountable millions of

‘planets ‘must exist In the

Universe and some. should

harbor extraterrestrial life."

None has been found so far.

attack and steamed out’ of |
sight, but there waa no word

‘fallen near them.
State Tadio said some’
. Shells exploded near Israeli,
army positions south and
east of the airport, promp-

force ¢ ting Israeti soldiers to open

fire with oachizie-guns thet —
scared motorists off the
road.

Israeli police,: meanwhile,
said the Arabs, irom the
Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip,
were travelling’ to jobs
within Israel: when a car
with two passengers drove

up and sprayed’ the ‘open
truck with” automatic

weapons ‘fire.’ Two- Arabs”

_Were seriously injured. :

The Christian-Druse feud .

in the central mountains has «:

* persisted for months, The
, whether any rockets had. 7

Tsraelis-have said. they plan —

~ to pull back to southern .

Lebancn to. extricate
themselves from the “ sec-°

_ tarian fighting and reduce’.

casualties from Palestinian
guerrilla ambushes.“

The violence - erupted
after “ U.S. presidential

envoy Robert McFarlane
_Feturned to. Beirut

on,
Tuesday, having failed to
induce Syria or - Israel to -
commit ‘themselves to a!
‘timetable for: withdrawing
their troops from Lebanon.

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