. Japan to, buy B.C. -- wood chips Ji vans pra d to b apan are iu all’ the dood chips that British Columbia wants ° to export, Forests Minis- ter 79m Waterland said Monday, and sales should total between $15 and $20 _ million during the coming year. - “We have com- mittments for as many wood chips as we can handle,” he told a news conference, “and orders will be forthcoming.” The minister also said that a Japanese company _ig interested in building a pulp mill in B.C., and has committed. ‘itself to making a_ feasibility study very soon. He said that existing marine _ transportation facilities were able to handle only 383,000 bone dry units (a BDU weighs approximately 2,400 pounds) of wood chips, ut expected this amount to be increased to 500,-000 BDU by the end of 1978. Approximately 45,000 BDU were shipped to Japan on an ex- perimental basis this year, and 30,000 BDU to TRIP FRUITFUL Waterland and Economic Development Minister Don Phillips returned last week from a twoweek economic mission to Japan and Korea He noted that the provincial government is prepared to allow the export of maximum of 500,000 BDU a year from the Interior under per- mits which would have a maximum lenght of 10 years. He said this will permit sawmills to get rid of their surplus chips, “‘but we do not want to export to discourage the establishment of new PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Provincial government cutbacks ve George Regional Hospital between three and five years behind in its development, the hospital’s administrator said Wednesday. . Bert Boyd said hospital construction plans are continually being deferred by Victoria. He said funding for stage three of the hospital’s long-range plan, an addition of non-medical support services and relocation of surgical obstetrics and radiology, was cut to $10 million from $14 million. . “Our development is logical but it is oecurrin too little, too late,” Boy said. “So the population growth will have to stag- nate or we have to be permitted to accelerate our own construction growth.” Health Minister Bob McClelland said Wed- nesday in a_ telephone interview from Victoria that hospital officials told him at a meeting last week that they were pleased with the progress of expansion. BEDS NEEDED The hospital has 362 beds to serve a referral area population of 150,000 to 200,000, while Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has 391 beds for a referral population of about 120,000. Kelowna General Hospital has 457 beds for a __ basic population of 70,000, although it does some re- ferrals from other areas. . Prince George has 95 doctors with working privileges at the hospital, while Kamloops has 110 and Kelowna 103. The local hospital has — 2%: approved pyschiatric beds, but there is no paychiatrist and until two weeks ago there was only one, Kamloops has 21 beds in its psychiatric ward and two part-time sychiatrists and is fookin for one full-time psychiatrist. Kelowna has a 23-bed unit and four full-time psychiatrists. Both’ Kamloops and Kelowna have a- radlo (cP) —— placed Prince. pulp mills in the province." Waterland refused to name the Japanese firm which h to build the ip mill here because “it Ss trying to negotiate out of existing contracts to take advantage of B.C chips. ¢ minister noted that this was anew market for the surplus chips from the Interior, and will not affect the 400,000 BDUs shipped annually to northwestern nited States, NOTHING SIGNED The economic — development minister said that the mission did not come back with signed contracts because the government does not sell goods but rather that creates an atmosphere which allows companies in B.C. to sell. He said he found a “very exciting potential” in Korea, and that a delegation from the Ko- rean steel and coal in- dustry will visit B.C. in January in search of coking and thermal coal. P said that Korea would analyzing the possibility of building another steel mill during its next five-year plan which begins in 1979. The economic development minister said he told the Koreans to beware of dealing with third world countries because while the im- mediate prices may be low, these governments will want to increase their standard of living, "The costs will go up,” he said, “but I told them- that hopefully we have reached a plateau in offering social services for the people, and that they should not be enticed into areas of low cost now.” isotopic diagnostic unit, while Prince George does not, and Kamloops has the only kidney unit. Boyd said the hospital coul become the regional referral centre it is supposed to be if construction begins now on expansion of emergency services, medical records and a rehabilitiation unit. A recent provincial report said, however, that money for these stages would not be avail- able for at least five years, Search continuing VICTORIA (CP) — A spokesman for the search and rescue centre said today fouraircraft are continuing the search for the 53-foot vessel Gustav, missing since Nov. 10o0na trip from Prince Rupert to Victoria. The spokesman said the planes will search the west coast of Vancouver. Island, the inner passage between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert and the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound and Hecate Strait. Listed Here! if you wish your Business Phone listed for your VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett's Social Credit ad-. ministration marks its second anniversary in office Dec. 22 and has yet to fulfil most of its campaign promises in British Columbia. The Social Credit Party was elected on the major omise that it would get .C.’3 economy back on the track, accusing the former New Democratic Party of financial mis- management and of ruining investor con- fidence in the province. Assisted by the federal antiinflation program, the Bennett government has managed to reduce inflation, Statistic: Canada says Vancouver consumer price index increased the cost of liv- ing 11.6 per cent in 1974, 11.1 per cent in 1975, 9.7 per cent in 1976 and 6.4 per cent, comparing October, 1977, to October, 1976. Complete figures for 1977 are not yet available. Unemployment, however, has increased under Social Credit and Statiatics Canada figures show 99,000 people were out of work in November of this year, or 85 per cent of the work force, compared with 65,000 or Develo 6.2 per cent in 1974, 94,000, or 8.5 per cent in 1975 and 98,000 or 3.6 per cent in 197 Bennett and Economic ent Minister Don Phillips say there are approximately 30,000 mor¢ people now in the work force than there were when they took power. SALES SLUMPED A senior economist with the economic development ministry says that the export of lumber products was the one shining lightin 1977 in what otherwise was a r year for the prov- ince as sales in pulp and capper slumped. “T hate to think what would have happened this year if it had been a poor ear in the U.S. for umber,” he said. The Social Credit government has im- plemented 19 of its 62 election promises and is working on 11 others. In efforts to encourage investment in’ the province, the legislature approved the Mineral Resource Tax Act, 1976, fulfilling a major promise to remove mineral royalties and replace them with a tax on prof- its—in this case 17.5 per Rise in Unemployment OTTAWA (CP) — The rise in unemployment in recent months has been accompanied y a marked fall in available jobs, figures released onday by Statistics Canada indicate. The figures show that the average daily number of full-time, part-time and casual job openings in the three-month period ending last Nov. 30 was 46,200, a 14-per-cent decline from the June-to- . August period: wef Sak The average from June to August was 53,600. Unemployment .figures for November show that the jobless rate hit a post- 1940 record of 84 per cent, with 340,000 persons actually unemployed. The number of vacancies for the latest period was 1,000 less than a year earlier. The jobless rate in November, 1976, vas 7.3 per cent and- there were 708,000 unemployed. For every 1,000 existing jobs during the three months ending in Strike November, there were only five openings available. That compares with six in August and a year ago. Yalthough Employment ol mploymen Minister Bud Cullen has criticized the job vacancy figures in the past, Statistics Canada says the data are ‘‘consistent and reliable indicators of trends.in job openings.” 12 The: fi _, the number of ‘free jobs "was lowest in provinces with the highest jobless rates. In the four Atlantic provinces, the average was three open jobs for every 1,000 existing po- sitions. New Brunswick was the only one of the four provinces with a vacancy rate of four. Quebec had — four available jobs for every 1,000 existing positions. Manitoba, Saskat- chewan and British Columbia had five avail- able jobs for every 1,000; Ontario six and Alberta Being | Considered MONTREAL (CP) — Most airlines, including Air Canada, resumed service at Mirabel In- ternational Airport today after snow removal erews ended a slow-down and cleaned the runways during the weekend. However, the resumption of normal service by the 160 men might be temporary. The crews have scheduled a union meeting Tuesday to, consider a strike vote. Their week-long slow- down, coming during a series of storms, forced most airlines using Mirabe] to shift to . New Business’s suburban Dorval airport. Airport - management handed out 70 one-day suspensions, a. spokesman said, because e workers were not doing their job properly. Gilles Guibord, resident of the Mirabel local of the Public Ser- vice Alliance of Canada, said the men want parity with private sector workers who ear as much as $2 an hour more. The workers were earning between $5.20 and $7.30 an hour under their last contract which expired last Jan. 26. Not listed in our B.C. Tel Directory. E. MARR DISTRIBUTORS LTD, - 638-1761 MARR’S BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTING - 638-1761 TERRACE OIL BURNER SERVICES - 635-4227 BOOK NOOK - 635-3081 RHETT BLADES OCCIDENTIAL LIFE - 635-5757 THREE RIVERS WORKSHOP .. 635.2238 ALL-WEST GLASS - 638-1166 Free - for ONE month courtesy of THE DAILY HERALD customers Please Call 635-6357 ’ provincial res‘show that's "Clark cent of net income. The Sennett ad- ministration, however, was not prepared to return the $39.6 milllon in royalties alread collected under the NDP and the legislature this year approved — the retroactive Mineral Land Tax Amendment Act clarifying the original NDP royalties legislation, The mining industry had sought to have the original act declared invalid and have the royalties returned. DUTIES STOPPED The government also eliminated . gift and succession duties as promised. The premier. said this would encourage investment in the province. K. M. Lightbody, the comptroller- general, said $39 million was collected through gift and succession taxes in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1977. The Social Credit government fulfilled its promise to end subsidies to the Insurance Corp. of B.C., but at the cost of an initial rate increase averaging 140 per cent, and the borrowing of $181 million. ICBC has announced that In 92.8 per cent of the cases, the 1978 rates for B.C. drivers will be lower than those faced by drivers anywhere else in Canada except Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where aulo insurance programs are subsidized. Policies implemented in a few areas have ac- tually contradicted campaign promises. The Social Credit Part: had promised an ant- inflation freeze on taxes and the removal of the five-per-cent sales tax on building materials. SALES TAX UP ; Instead, the sales tax was increased to seven per cent from five, personal income tax in- creased two points to 92.5 cent and corporation income tax two points to 15 per cent for a projected increase in revenue of $267 million. Bennett said the in- creases were necessary because the provincial finances were in worse shape than he had antici- pated, Local taxpayers will be paying higher school taxes next year following a recent announcement by Education Minister Pat McGeer that the province will decrease its Employment Credit Bill Speedy Passage? OTTAWA (CP) — Progressive Con- servative leader Joe Clark asked the federal government on Monday to intraduce before Parliament rises for Christmas holidays today an employment credit bill promised in October. Clark said in the Commons his party will give swift approval to the legislation before MPs pack up for holidays. The legislation will create 50,-000 temporary jobs, the government has said. . ark suggested ' that Prime Minister Trudeau’s Christmas holiday is more. im- portant to him than the plight of the unemployed: Trudeau replied that the opposition should give Sp ly passage to a bill to. cut $100 million from government spending on nadian National Railways operations. CAN CREATE JOBS The $100-million saving “we can use to create jobs,’’ Trudeau said. Or “perhaps on a trip to Vail,” Clark shot back in reference to reports that Trudeau is taking a ski holiday in Vail, Colo., after visiting the North American air defence’s headquarters near there. Trudeau said it is a rare delight to have the opposition promise to quickly pass a bill— the employment credit law— that it has not seen. Clark then tempered his promise for quick approval of the bill. He said such approval will come only if _ it corresponds to — the description Finance Min- ister Jean Chretien has given it. Chretien says it will include $100-million worth of tax credits to companies which provide new. jobs. it will create about 50,000 temporary jobs. Latest figures should show about 840,000 Canadians unemployed. SHOULD NOT WAIT The bill should be in- troduced immediately “rather than have the Foreign Ships Will Require Licencing OTTAWA (CP) — Foreign fishing vessel ‘operators will have to buy licences to fish within the 200-mile limit next year, Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc nounced Monday. an- The licensing plan is. expected to bring in $10 million in fees with charges being $1 a ton for access to the zone plus an additional fee for every day of fishing. The government decided to forgo fees for 1977 licences as part of the transition to the 200- mile limit. The’ United States, which! also adopted a 200-mile limit this year, set licence fees based on a percentage of the value of the catch. LeBlanc also said that foreign vessels will be required from time to time to carry Canadian observers and to cover the cost of their salaries and other charges. Fisheries officials estimate that about 500 foreign ships will be licensed to enter the zone in 1978, a drop of about 10 per cent from this year and a big reduction from the 1,500 and more ships found in the zone before the extended jurisdiction. FOR PRIVATE USE OR BUSINESS — AUTOVEST Before you buy, investigate the advantages of this rent- fto-own plan. All monies paid apply to purchase. 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The promise to invelve local government in welfare administration to screen applicants was reversed when the Community Resources Board Amendment Act dismantled the Van- couver Resources Board—the last re- maining board in. the province— and piaced its services under direct government control. Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm said that, when he was mayor of Surrey, he felt that the municipalities should not be involved in welfare because it is the responsi- bility of the province. He said that local committees will be set up to assist in developin policies and provide ad- vice on local conditions. ‘LOOKING § FOR SOLUTION Vander Zalm said his ministry js still looking at a promise to tie the province's, welfare program for the elderly (formerly Mincome) to the cost of living. He noted, however, that the federal increase is passed on every quarter to those people over 65 unemployed wait for the rime minister’s oliday," Clark said. Trudeau asked the Opposition leader how he can promise swift passage ay the bill when S party spent 21 days debating the tax legislation passed last week. The ofgvernment twice imposed time limits on debate of that bill. Trade Minister Jack Horner made the same observation when Con- servative finance critic Sinclair Stevens sought the minister's response to 2,752 Layoffs in November. in manufacturing plants with at least 50 em- years of age, The Social Credit promise of establishing universities in more than one area of the Interior has yet to be fulfilled, but the education ministry has set up an Interior universities coordinating council to oversee development of university programs outside the metropolitan centres. TheIndependent Schools Act fulfills in part the promise to provide ; financial assistance to “ independent schools. — An auditor-general has been hired and ad- vertising for an om- budsman will beg next month. Through the B.C. Resources Investment Corp. Act, the gov- ernment will fulfill one promise that is. dear to the premier—divesting itself of various busi- nesses purchased by the previous NDP govern- ment. These include 81 per cent of Canadian Cellulose, 10.7 per cent of Westcoast Transmission and the wholly-owned Plateau Mills and Kootenay Forest Products companies. ployees. SerTbets -os wa low ane If the Opposition had : ssed the tax legislation aster the manufacturing industry would have been helped, Horner said. Although the tax law ., was not passed until last week, its provisions were effective from the date they were announced. Some were announced in the federal budget last March 31 and some in a mini-budget Oct. 20. Horner said Chretien .. and his officials were so |. busy with the debate on | the Income Tax Act they . .;,; had no time to complete:; reparations on other .. egislation. “No change in Quebec PARIS (AP) — A meeting of the fran- cophone Agency for Cul- tural and Technical Co- operation has ended in Abidian with no formal discussion of a Canadian proposition to turn it into a francophone com- monwealth which would exclude Quebec, an agency spokesman said here Monday. Fedda Abdoulatif said there was “no change in Quebec's status” and that New Brunswick had been admitted to the agency on the same status as Quebec. The meeting also ad- mitted Djibouti, the Comoro Islands and Zaire Status” and noted the withdrawal of the Malagasy Repub- lic. The agency now has 26 member states, two “ participating govern: ments—Quebee and New Brunswick—and two associated states. 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