bo ee * Page 2; The Herald. Wednesday; July wo { Terrace, 8. by: swing. Publishers lt “Reg ” authorized. psi-second class “ralts: i ‘Number. 120i, Postage paid ip p cash efurn: posta “th ‘the world’s: lar _-yANCOUW S, bP zest: ‘property. ‘companies nays, Canada is; suraetve. ta, forelgn, investory and ‘Canadians boi be ‘Land Company: Lid., “told a news: ‘contétence: "Tuewday: i benses a. -teeling in. ; America’. that | ithe “Asians are. wel they are, and-thank God they: are,’ a taid Bedford: : hose com y's - subsidiary ” Mandarin Interpalonal ; Hotels Ltd. is’ co-developing a luxury-20-rooin hotel in-the ..- ‘heart of downtown Vancouver with Westwater Industries. Lids: Hongkong’ ‘Land ‘javests’ all - ‘over ‘Ania but: ds 5, alee in Hong Kong. oy ‘place: to diversify to, he said, and his-company is con- we sidering future projects in Canada: om an Mae ~ advertising, Sales: oe » Terrace— David Hamitton "stat Writers:Photographers: -_ Mike Howlett 7 - Sports: _ Don Schafer. Reception. Classified: Carolyn { Gibson ~ Circulation: : - Marla Taylor an - NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT” . ,. The Herald retains full, complete and sore copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial | or photographic content published In the Herald. _ Reproduction Is not permitted without: the written permission ¢ of the Publisher. soe c _ Money changes . OTTAWA (CP) — Unless the Bank of Canada decides. to do away with paper money, Canadians will be folding their _ dollars for many years to come. . Despite recent reports, the Royal Canadian. Mint. can't : “have any plasis to reduce billfolds to change purses: ‘because it. doesn't have the authority, said Denis Cudahy, vice- - president of manufacturing for the mint. That responsibility lies with the Bank of Canada, he sald : --in an interview Tuesday. . ; ‘ What the mint can, and is, doing is: trying ta develop B. better coin dollar. Those dollars have been in circulation since 1935, ‘and the current design, used since 1968, is tooheavy and too large to be popular, Cudahy said... “The 1968 model is nickel, 15.6 grams in weight and 32, " milimetres in diameter. “We're looking at an alternative 50 it ‘would circulate miore freely.” © .- “L think itis a particularly. advantageous time for. the. "foreign investor in Canada and next year there: could be “< pargaing to be had in Canada.” - The company is also investing in the U,S. and will shortly . announce a -multi-milllon-dollsr, Jolnt-venture . Project there, : “Bedford, ‘whose company has approximately % billion in ‘assets, emphasized that Hongkong Land Is not. just in- terested in Canada for short-term. investments. , - “tsa sensible e diversification for us. Canada isa Pacific _ Economist sparks: lively debate EDMONTON -(CP) — A : University of Calgary economist’s" belief that technology and tnemployment ‘are unrelated sparked a lively debate Tuesday at a federal - _ > epamtttes hearing on micro-¢lectronics and employment. “Unemployment is not related to technology at all; it has been deliberately created by the federal policies of Finance ; Minister Allan MacEachen,” Stephen Peitchinis told the six-member. panel. --“MaeEachen has admitted that he has created unem- ployment deliberately in order to decrease inflation by supporting a monetary policy designed to slow down growth | in the expectatlon of “arresting the rate of increasing: . - servants and only 3,531 typists and stenographers. By 1981, prices." no 4 ‘ Peitchiais also stressed that technological advancement would not only increase economic growth but also create . willmited job opportunities, -. But committee chairman Margaret Fulton wanted to . know why the rate‘ of economic growth in Canada is diminishing despite. the existence of technologies Which assist productivity. - . Peitchinis responded by ‘saying ‘that most of. -the - . manufacuturing sectorsare only producing at about 6(+per- © ‘cent capacity, As well, with 1.23 allen people unemployed, he Baid ~ there is no way the economy can reach its optimum rate of. | productivity. _ The economist ‘also tried to convince some members that . technological advancement does not discriminate against women, who take up the majority ‘of non-managerial positions, but launches them into more desirable . jobs. Over the next.40 years, he said it is conceivable that new occupations will I predominate, while others will alsappear. ‘oward that: ea The’ “mit ha Been # Tofkng on PuRatble pes and sizes-and consulting variois groups, such as sie i * Re . transit authorities and vending machine associations, tor _ input and reaction. - But designing a new coin-is complex _ ‘size, : weight, diameter; shape and‘ore all -have to be. ‘considered. “We have to have a coin that will work in with all other ’ gains," Cudahy said, An addition, it has to be identifiable for such groupe as the blind. ‘When a satisfactory colh has been designed, ‘the mint will ‘produce significantly more coin dollars than the two million to three million now circulated annually, he said, . ‘But he did not elaborate on the-amount or how long R could take to develop an acceptable coin. , A new $1 coin hasbeen under study for-several years. Alyre Cormier, director of the Canadian. Urban’ ‘Transit: Association, has submitted briefs to Supply. and Bervices, : Minister Jean-Jacques Blais and Finance Minister Allan MacEachen asking. that $1 bills be. replaced by coins. With rising. transit fares, “Many passengers are. paying with $1 bills, ‘Which clogs fare boxes and, ‘in some ‘cases, extra people must be hired to pull them out, he sald. - Donald” Blow; prealdent of the ’325-member Canadian Automatic Merchandising Association, supported | the idea. ‘ “With prices of $1 for goods in many machines, a $1 coin - _ would mean. = movement of people in waiting lines,” Taxis racist? - MONTREAL’ (CP) — A Montreal taxi fleet manager ; admitted Tuesday that he laid off 20 black drivers because his firm was losing ground to cab companies that hire only whites. : Taxi said in an-interview, |: ‘He sald hard, economic times and tough comipetition trom companies that let it be known all their drivers are white. a - have brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy. _ 'SOS-Taxi, which has 320 cabs, got 23,000 ‘fewer calls inst , ‘May than in the same month a year: before, he sald. ‘On Monday Leclerc had denied in a newspaper interview that racism had anything to do with the‘layoffis. =. ‘Several other cab companies gaid they either do not hire blacks, or they honor the wishes of customers who specily they want white drivers. ay, aaa . Several managers. interviewed ‘said many. “ellents feel . . black drivers-don’t know. their way around the lly. or are incompetent drivers. . coe ‘ hire blacks, “Most clients say openly they don’t ‘want black . drivers,’ he aald. - .. Willy. Rochon, owner at Beaubien: ‘Taxi, said he’s losing * - money because between $00 arid 00 of his 3,000 daily clients a ~ say they don't: “want black drivers.” ‘Rochon has. 50 Haltians among his ‘table of 829 drivers, . _ but ‘we have’ no more openings tor blacks." Lucien Bonhomme, vice-president of the $,2t¢member: Montreal Taxi League,. sald racism is “an old problem’? in the taxi’ business. He’ sald three: ‘companies - are near _ collapse because customers don’t want their black. dylvers: “If they bave black drivers, they lose concessions ‘In . shopping centres,” said -Bonhomme, who estimated that about 1,500 of the area’s 10,000 cabbies are black. ““Paule’ "Ste-Marie | of ‘the Quebec: Human © Rights ‘Coni- , - mission sald, several. complaints - from. drivers .’ of discrimination. by -emplayers: and passengers . are elng- Investigated.” ‘Buch discrimination is clearly legal, she seid, “Customers: ‘don’ t want blacks, ” Benoit Leclerc’ of SOs ¢ naa pee rae Sh " OTTAWA (CP) — Some prisoners are being forced to » share cells in two federal penitentiaries because of over- - " erowding, Solicitor General Robert Kaplan said Tuesday. __,4 sharp inerease in the number of ‘people being sent to. federal prisons is causing overcrowding at the maximum- ‘security Saskatchewan penitentiary in Prince Albert and the medium-security institution in Drumheller, Alta. Kaplan said in an interview two more medium-security - prisons — Bowden institution near Red Deer, Alta., and Stony Mountain near Winriipeg — -have been given approval.” - to Gente bunk prisoners- if their populations continue to Swi . A trailer annex is en route to house up to 80 prisoners at Bowden, which haa been forced to reopen an old Sormitory for an overflow of 10 prisoners. . *. Denna Finlay, a spokesman for the Correctional Service ‘of Canada, said this is the first time in recent history prisoners have had to share cells. . Kaplan attributed the overcrowding. to the courts, ‘im- . posing harsher sentences and more sentences of two-years- plus-a-day, which automatically puts a prisoner. in a federal, rather than provincial, institution. . “He expects prisons.toibe cramped until early next\year, -when many of the prisoners are due. to be releaséd on parole. Long-term forecasts show a decline In” prison ‘ -. populations, he. added. toe .. Kaplan sald more. prisoners, have been ‘admitted. to the . - ‘federal prison. system in the. last, n months than ever before. a ry ST. JOHN'S, Nid. (CP) — ~ Premier Brian Peckford said, ‘Tuesday. that Newfoundland will atick to its guns and fight for more control over fisherles, but separate developments - elsewhere indicated Ottawa is not. thinking. of giving "anything up... . Peckford ‘maya the comment after making public. a fisheries policy paper that stressed the fishery will remain - the vital industry for hundreds of Newfoundland's coastal communilles. * With that fact constantly in mind, the province feels it - should have greater control over the resource to assure it 13 ' Michel Langlois. of Co-Op Taxi sald his company won't - used to further provincial goals, ‘Newfoundland cannot solve problems without control over. ts: most important resource, Peckford sald.. “To. put this. fact in its proper perspective, this is ‘analogous to: the. Prairie provinces having. no Bay. over ; agriculture," the premler sald:* Meanwhile, spokéamen for fishermen’ ‘gs groups who met ma - in Nova Scotia with members of the federal task force into : the fishery seemed to Indicate Ottawa's representatives are thinking thiat the senior level of government will: continue to - _ be the strongest player: in the fishery.” After the meeting between task force chairman Mictiael Kirby and the Eastern Fishermen’s Federation, a coalition of Maritime fishermen's groups, spokesmen said Ottawa. could move for a greater say in fish marketing. - Allan Billard, executive director for the federation, said “in: ‘an interview he received the impression from Kirby the *. task force will recommend the federal government set up a Crown. corporation. or marketing board for flah, The principal tenets of the Newfoundland policy also were — ‘ltd to the Kirby task force when it held hearings in” 7 rot ‘Trevor Badfo am maneging director! of the: “Hongkong fd a . v S eanne 12,000 people: ‘and recapded” ‘a. net profit "of Hongkong Land regards. North Atnerica aE A sensible . - Peckford sticks to his: guns area,” he at cabin it is a long-terti strategic move, if ts an we vertainly. see ‘oursely fa. 15--ferrita “proximately:#400 million Jast year, Seventy ‘per cent of its. -assets and activity are in property and property develop-. ment, 46 per cent, are: in: food- anid fiye per cent in ‘hotels. . The Mandarin, now under construction on Howe Street, ip - being built: for: the traveller who wants. first-class ac: ” : -commodation. ‘Hongkong Land will be. putting ‘up ry million ‘with the - remaining estimated $19 million coming from Weatwater, _ Hongkong’s first hotel investment sad, management con- tract in North America, The Mandarin will charge | room rates about. 10: ‘per cent Thornhill Sandecki’ 3. Slant. 2 ca atperre SANDECKE ° “ board of school truatees Is required to prepare and publish, liabilities; ‘an operational statement; a statement of debts; ~ tement showing’ all renumeration, bonusea and ~ > which already-operates hotels ’In“B,C. and the U.S; It 1s: a oe howink } gratulties paid to each employee; anda statement evn . - the total for each individual account in the amount of above what the best hotela now levy, which would putroom rates at somewhere around $180 to #160 a night at current prices. - Bedford believes. Vancouver is sophisticated enough for such a hotel, . “T have no doubt about ts "We are re ing to. couh in on hat we see here." . “What's eo exciting ‘about. having hundreds of thousands of women engaged in the daily drudgery af office work?" he asked. ---But in a heated exchange which followed Peltchinis' , address, Fulton countered that women sometimes. don’t have the luxury of options... _- " “If a women has the choice between an undesirable fob or -no job, she will opt for the undesirable job," she countered. ’ Peltchinis also said technological advancement has been responsible for taking women out of domestic jobs and putting them into clerical and secretarial work. uo, In 1931, he said, there were 134,043 female domestic employment in domestic services fell to one-quarter of the 1931 total, while the number of women in clerical and secretarial jobs soared. °. Fulton retorted that women left domestic ite because ; they were grossly underpaid and, therefore, had to enter a - job market which offered higher wages. ' Earlier in the day, the committee heard briefs from five other groups, including the Alberta Federation of Labor, which ealled for legislation aimed at giving workers a role in the implementation of technological change. The committee, appointed last March by Labor Minister Charles Caccia, is studying the.extent to which micro- electronics technology is used by establishments and in- duistries ‘under the jurisdiction of the Canada Labor Code. - and its impact on working people. | ’- The committee has already held hearings in Toronto and Vancouver and will-be in Montreal and Halifax later this month, It is expected to submit its: recommendations to : Caccia this fall. seromn nad) fie bedlghue sd vias ERED uted nino. ie itsabey fet Ie a "Prisoners face overcrowding Technically, there are already more prisoners registered throughout the country than beds available — 10,565 prisoners at the end of May for only 10,291 beds. : However, those figures include prisoners who don’t need . permament cells ‘because they have escaped, are in. psychiatric institutions or are on day parole or temporary — ’ absences. They also include the beds permanenty reserved for prisoners requiring special handling, protective custody or: - other forms of segregation. at Of the 8,285 federal cells available for the general prison Lone population. ali but 508 are occupied, ~ ‘- more paid during the last, financlal year, and all accounts as & consolidated to Manual. Mya Mk “A statement ‘of the edicational ‘affairs of the “gota: . district isa very important part of this annual report,” adds the Guide to the School Act. “In general, It may be sald that publishing” means ‘ay method of printing which makes the information available ‘ . to the ratepayers of the nchool district. One’ copy. at least must be available." | ; : “The Public Bodies Infetmsition het provides that; if a " school board does not comply with the Act, the miinister ‘of ~ finance -may withhold any grant or advance or the Lieutendnt-Governor-in- -Counci] may - withhold : any. - : guarantee of borrowings, authorized to be made, ‘pald:or oY: given under any statute tothe board.” i Given the track recird for open information itt District 8 {t's doubtful whether one copy of this report will be openly - written.’”” . “are your business. displayed for’ parents to pcan when attending the July: 1B board meeting. .. “Information is power, And just as power must be taken rather than given, 80, in moat cases,: must ‘information. Although many school officials' want to share information with parents, others make determined efforts to withhold ib or make it so hard to get that parents eventually give up,” . notes the National Committee for Citizens in Education (NCCE), in its booklet Developing ‘Leadership for Parepe Citizen Groups. Some of the favored. excuses used by school officials, to stall parents In their requests for information are, “The ; information may be misinterpreted.” This is # popular excuse for not telling parents their children’s test Scores, ' for instance. "You can get the information elsewhere” — the dodge. ‘Come and get it”. By expecting a parent to ‘drive to the board office for the information rather than _receiving {t through the mail, many a school official i a “been spared the inconvenience of providing Informationt ~ “Tell us why you want it first" - limited rights, This is @ question invariably posed by Terrace school board olfjcials, And even now a5 a trustee T’ve been asked the- same question. ~HYqur request is too vague” ~ contrived’cai: fusion, “esses ~ stonewalling. A favorite Ploy, in . District 86. . The best way to ask for information. from schoo oficial, , according to the NCCE, is 1, “Make requests in writing whenever poasible and keep ‘a, saTbonmnpy, ofall requests * “arene are hand: - a ciinwbiy ‘Geir ppoo! In Terrace, many parent groups "Sead deliver written communications to the board office and have both their own carbon copy and the original for. the official stamped received with the date as proof the school board - has received the letter. (This is known as covering your ass, and is something that flourishes where mutual trust has died.) ~ 2. “Do not hold back for fear of seeming nosey. You: are nat sticking your nose. in other people’s business. Your children’s education and the way: the public schools are ru y’re your children and it's your tax. money. School offic dls are ‘hired as your public servants.’ "In fact, it is their responsibility to inform you, the public, . Parents havea right to know all that the educators know.” The lowest vacancy rate exists.on.the Prairles, where all - but 73 of the 1,574 célls are occupied, Finlay said, The three medium-security prisons on the’Pralries have. only eight: vacancies among: ‘them, and ‘the maximum- said... - “fs 3. “Do not,be put off by vague answers, Ask the queatlon again -- specifically and: directly.as ‘possible. . By the directness and persistence of your questions yoli can help - “educate school officials both to their: responsibility to in: ” form parents and to the: fact that parents are a group: to - Security prison in Edmonton has only seven vacant cells, he — _Kaplan said the problem is worst on the Praities hecaisse - that’s the region with the highest crime rate. . “The crime rate is high in areas with a high proportion of young people who live on their own and are new to a region," he said. “The West fits that description.” Little if any extra security is needed where prisoners are - double-bunking because great care has been taken lo mateh ., compatable people, Kaplan said. However, he conceded prison officials will be ‘watching “for ‘signs of tension in the close quarters | or _ Prisoners 1. plotting trouble. - i Newfoundland. The task force returns to Newfoundland for the secon roind of consultations next month.. Peckford said a new approach to stocks eanservation is favored by, Newfoundland that would. control the’ fishing effort rather than the number of fishermen involved in the -_ Industry. ‘The number of large boats and the amount of gear they : use would be regulated if the Newfoundland ‘Bovernment : has its way, ‘In marketing, the task force and the province’ ‘may be . heading in completely different directions, —_ Peckford said Newfoundland would not favor marketing -boards and by implication, would seem. not to approve ofa Crown. corporation to sell fish. But the ‘province would _- Support a kind. of pool selling, which would allow, smaller: - plants ‘to team wp in their marketing. efforts. hela also will continue ‘to° ‘press Oliawa to: the.. fishermen can chase stocks farttior afield.” ” Tpttoe Weleope’” _. The Herald welcomes ifs readers comments. All’ tetters to Ja _ _ the editor of general public: Interest will be printed. They unilaterally extend Canadian fisheries jurisdietion,outelde || . autical-mile economic management | zone.” 50 should be submitted 48 hours in advance of: desired | ‘publication date. We do, however, retain the ripht to refuse ‘to print letters on grounds of possible libel:dr bad taste. we may also edit letters for style and length: ‘S considered for publication must be sighed. fo print a letter simited venta: 7?) pubifeaton date. a on] ae Pre ‘itis Impossible’ IleHers fo be Urs : of ‘desired, | ‘contend with.” = .- 4, “Don’t be put-off by ecjucational jargon. If you don't understand such phrases as “standardized tests”, etc. do not let embarrassment keep you from asking what they’. mean, Sometimes educational jargon is. used to clowd: ‘the issue ot to create “insiders and “outsiders”. Show your - intelligence by asking questibns when you don’t know the ; terms or facts.” . : s “Be persistent. Keep asking,” - ‘ “IE your requests for information are. consistently ignored; try sending a certified letter or.a telegram.’”’ (This - ‘ig a method I have to resort to If I truly want a reply, étherwise my written requests for information ueually id " wmanswered.) . When this board took office December 1, 1981 the new _-: (¢hairman of the board promised a return‘ to open com- "_munication=1 would like to see that commitment-tested by parent groups asking to read the financlai report required _ to be published last Wednesday, June 30, ‘The opinions expressed ‘fn this colunin are thore of the. writer and do not reflect the opinion of the board of schoo! : trustees of Schook District %. lewpoint compliarice with the Public Bodies. Tnfarmatlon ‘Acta. . i et curang te . ‘BC. School Trustees: “Aswociation’s ‘Trustee ‘Referetice me : an nt er . _ fon ee . rd) Lee ee ’ “Ntaybe we ‘re. over-drawn!” a | hk : on or before dine 13 in each. year, & tepert.on the financial: am | ‘ affairs of the school district as of the preceding Dee. SL. and . for the year then ended.’ oe '” “Pha report must include a ‘statement ‘of assets and. a pemeepi omteran narra are