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Lazelle Preschool reopens

The LazellePre-schoo! will
this year. With new
staff members, Lucy
Holenstien and Linda
Webster, the doors of the
pre-school will be open for
the 78 - 79 year on Monday,
September 11,

After struggling through
the previous year, with low
enroliment and inadequate
funding, the Pre-school
Board is now looking at the
coming year with optimism.

Last, January the Pre-
school was threatened with
clogure in the face of a $4,000
debt, In the ensuing months,
with support from the
community and most
notably the Terrace Cen-

tennial Lions, the Pre-school
will be opening debt free.

With 17 registrations
already and a new
agreement with the

Department of Human

Resources the Preschool’

anticipates no difficulties in
operation for the coming

year.

Because of the quality of
the Lazelle Pre-school
program the, Board has as
new teachers for the coming
year, the tep students of last
years graduating class from
the Northwest Community

‘College, The members of the

Board are very pleased in
the hiring of Lucy Holenstien
as Supervisor and Linda

Webster as  ‘leacher.
Another teacher willbe hired

.in the early Fall

The Lazelle Preschoo) is
for children three to four.
years of age, with sessions in
the morning or afternoon.
The poate eovell is ase
equipped to enro. idren
with special needs,

Preschool registration will
take place at the Lazelle

“Preschool (in Knox United

Church) 4907 Lazelle Ave.,
September 6,7, and 8, bet-

ween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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Fords could jump gears

OTTAWA (CP) — Tran-
sport Canada warned
Tuesday that about 900,000
Canadian owners of 1970
through 1973 Ford cars and
light trucks face the risk of
the vehicles jumping gears
from park position into

reverse.

There had been 28 reports
of such incidents in Canada
and four persons injured.
There‘hbd-been 12° cases. of
property damage. -.., .

‘The problem involves
vehicles made by Ford
Motor Co. equipped with its
C8 and FMX transmissions,
This includes Ford, Mercury
and Lincoln vehicles with
eight-cylinder engines.

Department officials
advise owners to make sure
the vehicle is properly
engaged in the park position,
put on the parking brake and

ensure the engine is not
Tunning before getting out of
the car.

Slamming the door while
the engine is running can be
enough to make the shift
lever jump into reverse
position, setting the car in
motion. Tt can move back-
wards at varying speeds,
depending upon how fast the
engine idles, a
REPORTYOUR ©
PROBLEMS —. .. A

The transport. department
wants owners with similar
problems to write to its road
safety branch at Place de
Ville, Tower C in Ottawa.

In Washington, a U.S.
government safety agency
warned nine million Ford

-owners Tuesday about the

defect and said it will decide
soon whether to order a
recall, which would be the

largest ever.
The National Highway
Traffic Safety Ad-

ministration (NHTSA) in the
U.S. said it is investigating
consumer allegations that
777 accidents, 23 deaths and
259 injuries have resulted
from automatic trans-
missions slipping from park
into reverse.
A statement from..:.Ferd
said there are no flaws inthe
iransmission. The, company
said the accidents might be
caused largely by driver
eatelessness in putting the
shift lever into park.

The largest safety-related
U.S, auto recall occurred in
1971 when General Motors
recalled 6.8 million.
Chevrolets for defective
engine mounts that caused
uncontrolled acceleration.

Schools demoralize, teachers |
told at Pentecostal meeting

CALGARY (CP) _-
Textbooks and teachers in
Canada’s taxsupported
schools were criticized
Monday by delegates at-
tending the Pentecostal
Assemblies of Canada
convention.

Several delegates said
texts are fullof degenerative
materials, teachers are anti-
religious and It is time the
church raised a fuss until the
situation is ‘‘cleaned up.”

The complaints arose as
delegates debated a
resolution urging ‘support in
principle to the establish-
ment of Christian day
schools for elementary and
secondary grades.

Rev. Gerald Morgan of St.
John, N.B,, submitted a
lengthy amendment to the
resolution which castigated

school literature for
numerous faults.
There is a “continuing

degenerative, demoralizing
influence and ideology’ in
many Canadian schools
which ‘‘threatens the
eventual demise of youth ...
and thus the country," he
said.

Urging the church to spend
one year trying to effect a
“moral and social clean-up
of the blasphemy, profanity,
sexually-exploitive language
and vulgarity contained in
curriculum and source
books’? used in schools,
Morgan said it was worth
fighting the problem in
existing schools before
supporting the establish-
ment of independent
Christian schools.

TOO LATE?

Rev. Jack York said he is
convinced Canada’s schools
are beyond repair.

“1 don't believe there’s 4
big enough breom to clean up
the current school system,”
York sald.

“There's hell-a-poppin’ in
our schoois today. But If you
want to clean it up, the deck

is stacked against you.

“Tye goé some dogs |

wouldn't send to school today
.. for obedience training or
any other kind."”

Other delegates ' were
reluctant to support
development of Christian
day schools, especially by
the church.

TOO EMOTIONAL

Some said it would cost
parents to send their
children to privately-
operated schocls while
others noted it would be diffi-
cult to set up an independent
system.

“I fear there's a band-
wagon movement toward
Christian schools,” said an
unidentified delegate, ‘*']

don’t want to get caught up
in the emation of it."

Rev. Charles Yates,
executive secretary of the
church, said it has received
lawyers' advice that it is not
alithorized to operate its own
schools under its existing
charter.

If the church wants to
operate schools, it will have
to do so at the district level,
by establishing a separate
body to be responsible for
running such schools, he.
said,

Debate was suspended
when the resolution was sent
back to committee for more

study.

Beef drops 10°,
steak going up

TORONTO (CP) — Three
supermarket chains have
reduced beef prices by 10
cents a pound, ,but a
livestock manager says
some steaks might cost $6 a
pound next year.

Miracle Food Marts,
Dominion Stores Ltd., and
Loblaws Ltd, said in their
announcements they were
passing along savings to
consumers as a result of a
drop in wholesale beef
prices.

But in Winnipeg, the
manager of the IIvestock
division of Manitoba Pool
Elevators said the best cuts
of steak may cost §6 a pound
or more in i2 to 18 months.

Art Dilworth said that as
cows and heifers § in-

creasingly are kept on the ,

farms instead of being sent
for slaughter, there will be
"a fairly acule shortage of
beef.”

Charles Gracey, manager
of the Canadian Cattlemen's
Association, said the food
chains are setting short-term
price policies, while
Dilworth is speculating

about long-term trends.

Dilworth's prediction
seems unrealistically high,
Gracey said, .

Gracey said he would be
surprised to see an average
10-percent increase in beef
prices in the next year.
NEARS END

He ssid the market is
nearing the end of a three-
year surplus in beef
‘production—a time when
catthemen have refrained
from increasing the' size of
their herds. As demand
continues or increases and
as supply drops, the price of
beef will rise, Gracey said.

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OTTAWA (CP) — Don Ma-
zankowaki, Progressive Con-
servative transport critic,
today called for a public
inquiry into events
surrounding the release of an
investigators’ report on the

f = Churchill Falls air crash last
December. —

a ee Toe

Mazankowski sald in a
statement he suspects
political interference, The
report was released Thur-
sday by the aviation safety
bureau of the transport
department.

. It said two persons who
survived the crash—but

political interference in cra

later died of exposure—
might have been saved il
there had been a serviceable
emergency locator tran-
smitter aboard the aircraft,

Six other passengers and two
pilots died instantly when the
plane tried to land at

Air Canada union split

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MONTREAL (CP)
Negotiations in the Air
Canada labor dispute were
disrupted Tuesday by a
union split, when ‘three
members of the Montreal
lodge of the International
Association of Machinists
resigned from the 1AM’s 13-
member national ,
negotiating committee.

“It's an unexpected com-
plication,” said Barry Shaw,
chief negotiator for the 7,500
ground-service employees.
The airline shut down

-operations last Friday,
locking the workers out after
union members had staged
wildcat strikes at most
Canadian airports.

Shaw said an attempt
would be made to find
alternates to sit on the
national committee— made
up of local lodges in Mon-
treal, Toronto, Winnipeg and
Vancouver and the national

office.

Should that fail, ‘I think it
is legal (under union bylaws)
that we can continue to
bargain’’ without the
Montreal representation, he
said.

Meanwhile, Air Canada
negotiators, who called off
an afternoon bargaining
session with the union, were
not discussing the labor
conflict with reporters. They
said only that they requested
the postponement fo study
union proposals, making ino
reference to the split in 1AM
ranks. ;

Shaw, clearly upset by the
development, said the men
who resigned wouldn't go
along with the negotiating
committee's acceptance af a
management proposal to
increase to 60 days’ the
maximum suspension perlod
for delinquent employees.
Nor would they agree to a

new job classification clause -

affecting almost 100 women
employees across Canada,
": Air Canada has stated that
both items. -are:. not
negotiable, Shaw said at an
impromptu news conference
in a downtown hotel.

ELUSIVE SETTLEMENT

Settlement in the dispute,
which the airline says is
costing it $3 million a day,
has been elusive.

Earlier attempts this
summer to settle the conflict
were scuttled when the
union's members—
maintenance workers, cargo
handlers and other em-
ployees—rejected two
tentative contracts approved
by the IAM negotiating
committee.

Leaders of the Montreal
local showed - their
displeasure last week, after
country-wide rejection of the
second tentative contract, by
calling for the resignation of
the national negotiating
committee,

But Jean Quesnel, the one
member of the Montreal
lodge who did not resign
Tuesday, said:

“We will certainly not
resign as a committee
because that would be totally
irresponsible. We're stil.
prepared to explore every
avenue to reach an
agreement."

Shaw said of the Montreal
local: ‘We're not going to be
dictated to by any one group.
We represent people irom
coast-tocosst and we're not
going to be pushed around.”

The Montreal lodge répre-
sents Air Canada workers
throughout Quebec and the
Maritimes. ‘

Meanwhile, an opposition
MP said Parliament should
be recalled (o pass
legislation forcing the
strikers back to work, Eldon
Woolliams (PC-Calgary
North) said the strike has
caused a crisis situation in a
country already ex-
periencing serious economic
disturbances.

KEEPING WATCH
In Ottawa, an aide to

Labor Minister John Munro —

said the minister Is keeping a
close watch on the situation
but so far his department is
not directly involved.

Wre a

ARTHRITIS

FIGHTER
HELP BEAT
_CRIPPLER

A Post Office official in
Edmonton said national or
international mail deliveries
are normal, despite the
shutdown. Don Savaria sald
the estimated two million
pieces of mail which go
through Edmonton daily are
reaching their destinations
with a maximum one-day
delay.

Deliveries to the Nor-
thwest Territories and other
parts of Canada have been
redirected to alternate air
carriers, primarily CP Air,
and some regional airlines.

One regional carrier,
Transair Ltd, has received
permission from the
Canadian Transport Com-
mission to begin flights from
Winnipeg to Saskatchewan
and Alberta during the
strike. Edmonton-based
Gateway Aviation has also
received permission to fly to
Regina and Saskatoon.

Transair is continuing its
extra flights to Toronto, and
CP Air is running four extra
flights nightly through
Winnipeg. Northwest
Airlines is using a Boeing 747
on its Winnipeg flight to
Minneapolis where pas-
sengers are making con-
nections east and west.
AFFECTS BOOKINGS

The strike is even affecting
future bookings. Keith West-
erland, general manager for
Ottawa Travel Services, said
his agency is having trouble
booking winter holiday
flights because the staff at
Air Canada's Montreal
reservation office has been
cut to 30 from 200,

CP Air has imposed an
embargo on perishable
goods and animal tran-
Sportion on its flights,
because of the uncertainty of
scheduling and demands on
ground crews. .

In Ontario, Great Lakes
Airline, which acts mostly as
a connector to national and
international Air Canada
flights, .has reduced its

“service by ‘half, with only

five flights leaving London,
Ont., daily for Ottawa via
Toronto, The company says
there have been empty seats

on every flight.

in St. John’s, Nfld,
Eastern Provincial Airways
has added an extra flight a
day on its St. John's-Halifax-
Montreal run. EPA is also
handling mail normally
earried by Air Canada,

In sports, the Haitian
national soccer team has had
to postpone a game with a
Montreal club because of the
strike, which could also
affect the national junior
baseball championships set
for Thursday in British
Columbia. .

Chiefs ask
to meet
with Queen

FREDERICTON (CR) —

Canadian Indian chiefs will .

seek a meeting with the
Queen in London to ask her
not to agree with
repatriation of the con-
stitution, Noel Starblanket,
National Indian Brotherhood
president, said today.

The Queen will be told that
the constitution should not be
brought to Canada until the
federal government gives
assurances that Indian
rights will be high in con-
stitutional reform priorities,
Starblanket told the opening
of the brotherhood's ninth
annual assembly. ;

He also said that Indians”
will crash the next. first
ministers’ constitutional
conference.

“We're not going to ask
anymore,"' he said in an
interview later. "We're just
going to go, They're going to
have to evict us.”

He also said in the in-
terview that the assembly
will be asked to approve
sending the chiefs to London.
Sources: said a- meeting
with the Queen likely Will be
Sought for-next spring: '---

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Churchill’ Falls during a
snowstorm Dee. 9, 1977.
Mazankowskl (Vegreville)
said he and John Crosbie (St.
John’s West), Progressive
Conservative industry critic,
have evidence the report was
changed by government offi-
cials before it was made
public. He said a first draft
of the report, by three in-
dependent investigators,
would never be released to
the public unless Transport

- Minister Otto Lang chose to

do 50. He said it was critical
of the department, .

“Legislation calling for a
permanent,
accident investigation
board—te be: truly in-
dependent and operate under
separate legislation without
responsibility to the
department of transport or
other departments—is
mandatory,” .he said.
RELEASED BEFORE
STUDY

Earlier in the day, Frank
Thurston, one of the three
members of the review:
board, sald Lang had
released the investigation
before the board ‘had a
chance to study it. He made
no comment about any
changes in the report by
transport officials.

“This is not an isolated ex-

independent

munple of conflict of interest
in which the department of
transport is investigating
itself,"" said Mazankowski.

Because of near-bilzzard
conditions the night of. the
crash, itwas two days before
search and rescue units
located the fallen plane a few
kilometres from the airport.

However, a helicopter sent
out a few minutes after the
accident apparently flew
over the craft but did not
spot it because of poor
visibility.

The final draft of the
report said: “On the
assumptions that there had
been at least one serviceable
electronic locator tran-
smitter (ELT) aboard, that ©
it had been activated as a re-
sult of the impact or of,
homing to the point of origin
of the signal, the rescue
activity may‘ have been
expedited.” .

Mazankowski called this.a
distortion of the original
wording. He said the. first
draft contained criticism of
the department for ordering
the removal of the ELTs.

He said the original
statement said: ‘‘The
removal of the ELTs
seriously delayed the search
and ‘may have caused un-
necessary loss of life."

‘DISTRICT OF TERRACE

NOTICE

The District of Terrace, Parks & Recreation
Department would
general public of the

like to inform = the
following:

Wednesday, August 30th

Due to In-Service

Staff Training, all

recreation facilities will be closed for today.
Hockey School will continue as scheduled.

SWIMMING POOL:

The Swimming Pool

will be closed from

Wednesday, August 30th to approximately
September 18th, 1978 to facilitate Annual

Maintenance.

may tause.”

Our apologies for any inconvenience this

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—PhliStewart

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Acting Supt. of Parks & Recreation