Page 2, The Herald, Tuesday, July 24, 1979

DAMAGES WILDLIFE

OTTAWA (CP) -
eamen for natives and

hunters said Monday a 2,000-

burn unchecked by federal
forestry officials,
Harry Daniels, president

square-mile northern fire of the Native Council of

that is killing wildlife and
depriving trappers of their
livelihood is belng allowed to

Canada, said Monday the
fire is burning out of control
east of Fort Smith, N.W.T.,

and there are no firefighters
on the scene because
forestry officials have not

declared the area a priority. _

AS a result, about 40
trappers have lost their trap

lines, camps, canoea and
showmobiles and the natural
habitat for the region's
wolves, bear, moose and
caribou has been destroyed,
he said,

The association represents

Quebec transit still out

QUEBEC (CP) — In citles
across North America, the
energy crisis has forced the
public to give public transit
systems a second look, but in
Quebec City the population is
learning to live without any
public transit.

For almost six months, the
500 bus drivers working for
the Quebec Urban Com-
munity Transit Commission
have been on strike, leaving
120,000 users of the bus
system without thelr regular
means of getting around. No
immediate end to the atrike-
is predicted,

The strike has been a boon
to taxi-drivera and car
dealers but a disaster for the
poor, pensioners,
housewives and atudents.

Je
provincial governmen!
telephone operator, used to
take * bus downtown from

her rb partment
eye darted Jan.
Ph ET

until
29, ;
“At the beginning I hit-

‘chiked but now it doesn't
work anymore;“* - Mrs.

mall

Gosselin says. People are
Hred of giving lifts.

“Since the strike has
started, it has cost me $400 in
taxis. take four to five taxis
a week ‘and it costs at least
$4.80 each time.”

The key Isaue in the
dispute is the commission's

Dollar

MONTREAL (CP) — A
new jump in interest rates

did not stop the Canadian —

dollar from slipping more
than one-fifth of a cent in

95.76 centa US...
+: Most Canadian banks an-

in ‘nounced increases of 0.5 per

cent in interest on loans and
_ Savings accounts following a
airnilar increase in the Bank
of Canada prime lending
‘rate toa record 11.75 per
cent .the ‘eighth increase in

“16 months. '

Still the dollar slipped.

"A lot of le were
buying Canadian dollars last
week because they an-

proposal to hire part-time
drivers to cover rush hours.

The union refuses to discuss .

the proposal, No talks are
scheduled.
Charlie Jchnson, preaident

of Local 113, Amalgamated *

Transit Union, which
represents 4,-100 drivera at

slips

ticipated the rate would go,

‘but today they were selling

becawe a further increase
looked unlikely,” one bark

trader said on Monday.
Monday's trading, falling to ©

“The heayy buying last
week pushed the Canadian
dollar over 86 cents,and
what's happened this week is
simply that it returned to
where it was befare, The
same thing has happened
before after other bank rate
increases.”

Another trader pointed to
increases in U.S. lending
rates, especially last

Thursday’s rise in the:

federal reserve rate to 9.75
per cent, up one-quarter,

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_ is action

the Toronto Transit Com-
mission, says his members
would fight any part-time
pro! “tooth and nail.’

é part-time Issue is also
one af the key paints in talks
between Britigh Columbia
Hydro and drivers on the bus
systems run by Hydro in

_ Vancouver and Victoria.

“It's a big battle coming -
up and there are going to be
some bitter fights over it,”
says Johnson, who supports
the Quebec City drivers,
members of . the Con:
federation of National Trade
Unions. : .

Old people have taken the
brunt of this strike as they -
did in 1973, 1976, 1977 and
1978 strikes,.The current
strike is the longest yet,

. Mrs. Estelle Gauthier,
president of the Association
Rencontre Amicale, a group
of 370 senior citizens in the
workingclass Lower Town
district, says the strike has
caused real hardship for her
members who must take
taxis to go shopping or see
their doctors, | .

“We can't go go to the z00,
We can’t goanywhere. We're
worse off than we were in the
depression.” :

Gilles Riverin, manager of
the Singer Sewing Ceritre in
the St, Roche Mall, says his
business is down 30 per cent.

“Forty per cent of. our
clientele comes here by bus,

.and I'm afraid the business

we've lost won't be
recovered when the strike is -
over.”

Qne man who isn’t com-
plaining is Andre Brien, zone
manager for General Motors
in Eastern Quebec, who
reports car sales in the
region are up 20 per cent,
over fast.year. ©

Despite some pressure to |

intervene in the dispute,

Labor Minlater: Plerre et... provincial
Mare Johnson has limited ministers conference at’ tHis”
to naming: goithern New Brliidswiék!

mediators.

Fire said to be unchecked _

given priority one," he sald’ —

Metis and non-status In-
dlans,. .

A spokesman in the
department of Indian and
northern affairs said
firefighters were sent to the
area in midJune but had to
be withdrawn to fight other
fires threatening com-

munities or areas considered
more valuable com-
mercially. ;

“It's. azone four area — we
fight if there are no fires
anywhere else.’’ he said in a
telephone interview from
Yellowknife,

He said the Fort Smith fira
18 burning through timber
and scrub. No settlements
are threatened.

Alberta’ forestry officials
said their firefighters have
been fighting the fire on a
spot basis.

But Daniels said from Fort
Smith that forestry officials
are incompetent,

“Putting fires out should
be a priority if it threatens
anything, They should have
put the fires out when they
started,” ;

The fire ig burning land 50
kilometres wide and 164 kilo-

- metres lorfg in Alberta, Sas-

katchewan ‘and the Nor-
thwest Territorles.

Clayton Burke, . a
spokesman for the Fort
Smith Hunting and Trapping
Association, sald the federal
government's priority
system cannot be justified.

"The whole priority
system should be removed
and everything should be

. -priority

-
>

in a telephone interview. .
" Burke described the region
aa the traditional wintering
ground for thousands of
caribou which spend the
summer on the Arctic coast,
Those caribou will have to,
move into northeastern Sas-
katchewan and Manitoba to
survive this winter, he said.
The fire has wiped out the
entire fur-beatiig animal
population, :ha ‘said, ;
Burke and Daniels said
they want the federal .
government to declare the
cituation a crisis, :
A spekesman for Jake
Epp, minister of Indian and

- northern affairs, said the

department. is aware of the
situation but still does not
plan to fight the fire,

The situation across the
North is the worat in years
and as a& result “we're.
having togo on a fairly rigid
system.” The top
priority is a situation where
there is danger to life and
property. .

Erlk Watt, regional
manager for the department
in the Northwest Territories,
said smoke is so dense
forestry officials have been
unable to chart the fire.

He said there are 121 fires
burning between Inuvik to
the Alberta border and 12 of ©
those fires are being fought.
Three of the 12 are under
control. : .

The: whole region, but
particularly the Fort Smith
area, ls in desperate need of
rain, he said.

Ministers list
new objective.

ST. ANDREWS, N.B. (CP)
— Provincial agriculture
ministers hammered out a ©
list of objectives to Jay

before their new federal .

counterpart today, but there
was dissension from Quebec
over federal involvement in
a proposed market
development strategy,

In a statement issued after
the first day of the federal
_ agriculture

resort, the ministers agreed

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aggregate, as well
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to push for more federal
involvement in research,
financing new farms, en-
vironmental issues and an
national agricultural
development plan.

But a market development
proposal put forward by
Ontarlo Agriculture Minister
Willam Newman was
posed by the Quebéc
delegation because the plan
would be co-ordinated by
Ottawa. ' .

New
Agriculture

CARTER
SOOTHS
FEARS

WASHINGTON (AP) ~—
President Carter told 300
members of the White House
staff Monday they have
nothing to fear fram con-
troversial evaluation forms
if they are competent, work
hard and are loyal.

Last week, senior
government and White
House officials were asked to
rate subordinates on
evaluation forma which have
been parodied and ridiculed
since they came to light last
week,

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reasserting presidential
leadership and running a
tighter ship.

Those who meet the tests
of competency, hard work
and loyalty have nothing to
fear, he was reported to have
told the group.

A White House official said
Carter’s meeting with his
staff was prompted by a
desire to share his thoughts
and conclusions following hia
Introspective domestic
summit at Camp David, Md.

-Presidentlal appointees
from departments and in-
dependent agencies have
been Invited to a similar
conference today,

Meanwhile, Carter and his
staff continued a top-priorlty
search for anew Federal Re-
serve Board chief and the
president also scheduled his
irst nationally broadcast
news conference since M
29, It will be made We

nesday at 9pm. EDT from
the White House East Room.

Malcolm MacLeod, .. con-
erence chajrman, said Que-
bec is the on ieee ath
strong reservations about
the plan which.. proposes
federalprovincial ‘ market
development committees in
each province, co-ordinated’
by Ottawa,

“It was a congenial
meeting, but there were
reservations on the part of
the Quebec delegation about
the way they want; to be.
inyolved.,,with.,.the federal .
government, obviously for®
ideological reasons,’
MacLeod said at a news
conference following the
conference,

Quebec Agriculture
Minister Jean Garon said in
an interview the three-day
federal-provincial meeting is
important because..,it,.. will
give the provinces the op-

‘portunity to assess policy
-directions of the new federal

government.

“We want to know if the
Conservatives have policies
of their own or if they will
simply be following those of
the previous Liberal ad-
ministration,” Garon said.

“Mainly the PCs took the
stand, during the recent
election campaign, against
big government and they
said they wanted more
decentralization and more
decision-making powers for
the provinces, Well, we're
still waiting to see if they will
follow those pledges,”

Garon said Quebec is able
and willing to develop its
own export and local
markets and will do a better
job without infringements by
the federal government. ~

“Too often people say ‘ask
the fedral government ta do
this or do that’ instead of
being responsible and asking
the provinées. That was OK
when the provinces were
babies and teenagers, but
they’re old enough now to
make their own decisions,"

The provincial ministers
met behind closed doors
Monday separating the
wheat from the chaff on
issues of concern to all
provinces, The priority con-
cerns will be presented to
new federal Agriculture
Minister John Wise and his
blest today and Wednesday.

All provinces endorsed a
call by Nova Scotia
Agriculture Minister Roger
Bacon that the federal
government devote more
money and attention to
agricultural, research,
particularly in Quebec and
Atlantle Canada.

“The Allantic region does
not have major ongoing
research programs at the
universities nor are the
provinclal governments able
to devote the necessary
resources to finance. both
extension and research,”
Bacon aaid,

“Agricultural research Is
becoming ‘ increasingly
important ta the industry,"
MacLeod sald, “because of

new developments in crops
protection and seed grow.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Bank of Britlsh Columbia |
announced Monday that ils
prime lending rate will in-
crease by one-half a point to
12.5 per cent- effective
Tucsday. . . ,

Savings rates also rise on
Aug, 1 by one-half a ‘point to
10 per cent from 9.5 per cent
on ‘Westbank Savings and
Inflation Fighter Savings
and t09.75 per cent from 9.25
per cent for the Bonanza
account, -

The Bank wi-«" ° ‘4 at
nounced Sunday was

. raising itslending rate tothe ©

chartered hanks to a record
11.75 per cent, Increases in

the Bank of Canada rate are. -
- meant to trigger a series of —
‘rises in other interest rates.

The.previous increase wap

“lest Jan, 3 when former.

Liberal Finance, Minister
Jean Chretien approved a

similar increase which.
raised the bank rate to 11,25 —.«.

per cent.

German called risky

- OTTAWA (CP) —.A Weet
German professor has asked
External Affaira Minister

- Flora MacDonald to explain

why he is considered a
Canadian security risk.

Andre Gunder Frank, a
sociologist at a British

security reasons, but - last ..

week Immigration Minister
Ron Atkey. granted Frank a
ministerial permit to stay in
Canada for one week. .
Frank said in his létter
that he is willing to answer
any questions about his

university, was granted background, A

special permission last week.

40 attend a conference in

Vancouver next month.

He has been refused entry
to Canada four times in the
‘last 10 years for unspecified

cf , spokesman
sald Miss MacDonald has not
had time to answer the letter -
because she just returned
Monday. from a. United
Nations conference in
Geneva. - .

Bathtub winner declared 7

NANAIMC , B.C. (CP) —
Fearless Australian Gary
Deathridge, who piloted his
modified bathtub through
eightfoot waves Sunday to
win the Nanalmo-to-
Vancouver annual tub race
in record time, broke his
ankle’ Monday. -

‘But he didn’t do it in the
avin’ he coracked It

an rom e
of tennis, peop Bam

Deathridge . went Monday
afternoon fo a Nanaimo

tennis club with the town's
mayor, Frank Ney, for a
victory luncheon. He ven-
tured onto the tennis court,

tripped and broke his right «

ankle, .

“T feel a right bloody fool,”
he sald. “‘After the race Sun- .
day, when the start was the —
roughest I’ve ever ex--
perienced, I. could have’
underatood gustaining an

Deathridge sald it's the
first injury he's ever had in
six years of tubbing. ;

Biker for handicapped

BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP)
— Kathryn Ricketts has
found added Incentive to
complete her cross-country
bicycle trip — $10,000 for the

mentally handicapped If she
completes the  6,-400-
kilometre ride,

‘Miss Ricketts, 19,' of Van-
coulVer; lef€-Vietoria’ May .20-
bound for St. John’s, Nfld.
United Commmercial Trav-
ellers, an international

fraternal order, is taking
pledges to sponsor the trip,

ith’ proceeds going to the
handicapped, There are 21

UCT councils across Can: -

ada.

She saidin an interview on -

Monday that 90 per cent'of

- the money. collected will be .
returned to: the. iniividual , ..
counella. The balance will go, +

to the Richmond, 5.C.,
council and to help cover her
expenses,

_ Judge dismisses appeals

OTTAWA (CP) — A
Federal Court judge has
dismiased appeals by four
Ontario Indians who said
they were convicted of
violating fishing regulations
that government has no right
to impose on them.

Mr. Justice Lows Marceau
said in a judgment released
Monday that the treaty
between the Ojibway Indian
nation and the British
government in 1850 did not
impose on the Canadian

government a responsiblity
to ensure the natives could
fish when and as they
wished. . _
The four Indians,
Lawrence Paulis of the
Shawanaga Reserve,
Clarence Boyer of the

. Mississauga No. Reserve

and Elo and Godfrey
McGregor of the Whitefish
Indian Reserve, were con-
victed in an Ontario court of
violating provincial fishing
tions made under the
federal Fisherles Act,

UBC designs new car

VANCOUVER (CP)
Engineering students at the
University of British
Columbia have designed a
family car that obtalns some
of its get up and: go by
stopping a lot.

An innovative feature of
the electric vehicle — to be
entered in an energy-
efficiency competition in
Detroit next month — is the

braking system that
regenerates electrical power
to recharge the batterrles.

As the brakes are applied,
the motor, which is hooked
up with the wheels, acts like
a generator. Instead of the
brake shoes heating up and
losing energy, as in a regular
car, the system will
regenerate energy and
recharge the hatterries, sald
a UBC spokesman. .

- Lawsuit filed

_ MONTREAL (CP) — A $5-
Million suit has been filed in
New York by the family of a
Montreal woman Idled last
March In the crash of a
Quebecair F-27 near Quebec
City, says a lawyer
representing the family. .
The’ suit — the first to
result from the crash that
killed 17 — was deposited in
0.8: District Court for

eastern New York on behalf
of the heirs of Jeannette
Proulx of Beaconsfield,
Que,, said Larry Goldhirsch,-
a member of the Spelser and
Krause law firm, -
The action was filed in
New York because Fairchild
Industries, manufacturer of
‘the turboprop-engine alr.
plane, has ita headquarters
Long Island, N.Y. ‘

- Bennett dislikes rates

VICTORIA |

(cP)

Premier Bill Bennett said |

Monday he disagrees with
the decision by the federal
government to raise the
Bank of Canada interset
rate, _
“T have always been con-
cerned with the high cost of
money and I don't agree with
undue interest charges on
British Columbiana," he said
in an interview,
“| think it is difficult and,
yen, the United States rate
pressure on Canada but
P think in tay view eee

have gone for too much of a
difference here, and I cer-
tainly am not in agreement
with a rise of that nature
right now." .

Federal Finance Minister
Joan Crosbie. said he was
reluctant to raise the rate
but dees not think the move
will seriously affect In-

tion. ;
sunt central bank said
was ralaing
lending rate to chartered
banks one-half a half per-
centage polnt ta a record
11% per cent. '

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