VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul I, who reigned only 34 days but won the affection of millions around the world with his smile and humble manner, was buried in the groltoof St. Peter's Basilica Wednesday after a rain-soaked funcral mass on the broad marble steps of the church. Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, gathered for the second papal funeral inless than two months, paid final tribute to the ‘smiling pontiff” in a two-hour ser- vice, They then filed back into the basilica behind 12 pallbearrs carrying the simple yellow cypress coffin. The crowd in St, Peter’s Square broke into a long ap- plause as the coffin was carried inside the church. In a private ceremony in the grotto attended by five cardinals and 30 relatives, the cypress coffin was put inside coffins of lead and oak and placed in a stone sar- cophagus bearing only the Pope's name in Latin— foannes Paulus PP. I.” The grotto is the resting place of 146 ather popes, including what are belleved to be the remains of the first pope, St. Peter. “He passed as a meteor which unexpectedly lights up the heavens and then dis- appears, leaving us amazed and astonished,”’ Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, dean of the College of Caraindls, said in his homily as he lovked down on a sea of umbrellas. A crowd, estimated by Vatican officials at 56,000, braved intermittent showers to join 95 -red-robed princes of the church and dignitaries from 1v8 countries in the ceremony. Catholics bury leader # “We have scarcely had lime to see the new pope,” Confalonieri said. “Yet one month was enough for him to have conquered our hearts— and for us, it as a month to love him intensely. “It is not the length which characterizes a life in a pontificate, bul rather the spiril that fills it.” . The body of the Pope, who died of a heart altack Thursday at the age cf 65, lay in a simpte coffin placed on an orjental rug on the church steps. An open book of the gospels was upen atop the. coffin and a while candle, 1 LEGESLATIVE LEDS Ant, io ehTadeha IRL, wees signifying eternal life, stood alongside, The funeral, televised live to 31 cauntries, marked the beginning -of nine days of official mourning.. On the 10th day, Oct 14, the car- dinals will be sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to begin the process of selecting John Paul's successor. Only seven weeks ago, 100,000 persons turned out on asumiy Saturday afternoon to pay tribute to Pope Paul VI, who died Aug. 6 al the age of 80 after a 15-year reign, And il was here on Sepl. 3 thal the littl-known Uumr. F773 PAL EN» vol e Alpino Cardonal Luciani, patriarch of Venice, was installed as supreme pastor of the world’s 700 million Roman Catholics. John Paul issued no en- cyclicals and made no major pronouncements during his brief papacy, but with his down-toearth style in his few addresses ‘‘everybody wun- derstood that he was speaking to the liltle ones in order that adults would hear and understand,” as Can- faloniery put it. Almost 5,000 heavily ar- med policemen and soldiers were deployed to protect the official delegations, which were seated lo the right of the altar, The Canadian delegation included Andre Quellet, minister of urban affairs; Norman Cafik, minister for muliculturalism; Camille Laurin, Quebec cultural affairs minister; Alberta MLA Wasyl Diachuck and Laureano Leone, president of the National Congress of Italian-Canadians. Vatican officials estimaled that more Lhan 750,000 mour- ners, undeterred by heavy rain since Salurday, had hn a quiet ‘ceremony uekked through the vast St, Peter’s Square to view the body as it lay in state in the Basilica. The public viewing continued until shortly before the funeral. “He was the perfect teacher,”’ Confalonieri said in the homily. “His few weeks of ministry as the supreme pastor were enough to reveal him as such to the world as it listened both near and afar to the sound of his fatherly lessons. “Pope Juhn Paul has been himself, personally, a message of goodness.” r \., TERRACE-KITIMAT Jail Thursday, October 5, 1978 20¢ d “~ Volume 72 No. 193 , f COPPER ALL METALS Location Seal Gove _ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. MOK. . SAT. OPEN TIL 5 p.m. * BRASS & BATTERIES Phone 624-5639 _y a FRANK HOWARD He’s back and running "Tf these guys in Victoria would spend more Lime on B.C. ecunumic issues and resource development in- stead uf the constitution we - would be better off,” Frank Howard, member - of parliament from this area ior 17 years, and now an- nounced candidale for a provincial seat in Skeena, told the Herald today. This was an _ obvious reference to the recent visit of Rafe Mair, minister of consumer and Corporate affairs who said that the B.C. government has drafted a multi-volume report on Federalism. s“At the moment, with the off-again, on-again federai and provincial elections, musi of the criticism for the sinking Canadian dollar and the econumy is leveled at Chretien and uther Ottawa ministers. -Huwever, B.C. has been a villian also by selling natural resources ina raw slate to be finished by workers somewhere else,’ Howard added. Asked if socialism had effected the value of the Canadian dollar, Howard replied, ‘'No another “S” has, stupidity’’. The former MP pvinted to the Granduc Mine as an example, claiming the ure was shipped out raw, processed in another country, then bought back by Canadians at inflated prices. “Successive governments have operated under the philosophy that Canadians can’t do the job themselves, that we must have outside money and advice. This is nonsense,” Howard said. “The important issue befure us can be summed up in two words; jobs and jobs. We are headed for disaster if we continue lo rest our economy on the extraction of raw materials,” he added. Howard plans to return to Oitawa loday’ to clean: up’ some “louse ends’ and then will return to Terrace to, “look for some kind of: employment and find a place . | and lu live." OVER POTASH RULING Blakeney on attack REGINA (CP) — An angry Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney attacked the federal government Wed- _ Nesday for its part in a Supreme Court of Canada decision declaring uncon- Stitutional the province's polash prorationing program. “Seldom has any province been so attacked by a federal government as Saskal- chewan has in this decade,” said the New Democratic Party premier who faces a ‘provincial general election Oct. 18. Ruling on a suit by Central Canada = Potash = Ltd. originally brought in 1969, ‘the Supreme Court decided _ on Tuesday that the province did not have the right to sel production quotas and ‘minimum prices for a re- ‘source exported to markets outside the province. : However, the court rejected the company’s claim for $1.5 million in damages, saying thal Saskatchewan charged with enforcing the law were doing so in the belief that it was con- atitutlonal and therefore the administrators were not lable. Good use for money VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment will use $200,000 of its lottery revenue to install smoke détection devices in nursing homes, Altorney- General Garde Gardom said Wednesday. He said the funds will be used to provide for in- stallation of 10,000 smoke detectors in 522 community- care facilities. He said the fire marshall’s office will screen ap- ‘plications and provide alt Necessary technical advice: st i cr schre wat sae mas ah cay Sarena ate os oa officials In a related case, the Su- preme Court ruled Tuesday that Saskatchewan must pay interest on laxes it callected from oil companies under a law ruled unconstitutional last November. In the earlier suil, filed by Canadian Industrial Gas and Oil Ltd., the Court found that the province did not have the right to levy a surcharge on oi] pumped in Saskatchewan and ordered the return of $500 million already paid out - by ai] companies. Blakeney was careful to avoid saying lhe court ilself was anylhing less than impartial in its rulings. Chretien defensive, admits surplus down OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Minister Jean Chretien drew back from two of his economic predictions Wednesday, saying the country may fal short of the - $4 billion trade surplus and the four-per-cent growth rate he has been forecasting. Speaking to reporters al an impromptu news con- ference, Chretien said the government plans no change in its economic policy, but there could be dayto-day modification in its tactics to defend the dollar on world currency markets. He said such flexibility is necessary to stay a few steps ahead of currency traders, and in: ternational speculators. Chretien said the govern- ment is concerned about the low international value of the Canadian dollar which closed Wednesday at 64.50 cents U.S., but repeated that nodrastic move—such as the imposition .of exchange controls or the seeking of a loan from the International Monetary Fund—is being contemplated. Any major change in eco- nomic policy would have to come as part of a new budget, which Chretien has promised to introduce before the end of the year. He refused to give a precise budget date because he wishes lo consult with the provinces and watch for tends in the monthly economic indicators, such ag the unemployment rate, inflation rate and trade bal- ance, in the next month or two before making a decision. Chretien said the budget could contain a revised esti- mate of the country's economic growth for the . year if the growth in the country’s output for the third quarter of the year does not meet his expectations. Chretien defended the government’s use of $43 billion of its official reserves su far this year to defend the Canadian dollar on world currency market. He acknowledged that the June, July and August trade figures fell short. Throne speech now set for Wednesday OTTAWA (CP) — The gov- ernment has changed plans and has decided to give the speech from the throne at the opening of a new session of Parliament next Wed- nesday. The government had planned to open a new session next Thursday, but Conservatives, conscious of the effect on the Oct. 16 byelections across the counlry, demanded a change, Members of Parliament will assemble first on Tuesday to give rapid handling to a special bill that will make Thursday, Oct. 12, an advance polling day for the 15 byelections, This is being done to accominodate Jewish voters. Prime Minister Trudeau, opposition Leader Joe Clark. NDP Leader Ed Broadbent and Adrien Lambert, Social Credit House leader, will speak Thursday. SUPPLY ROUTES CUT Beirut battle is spreading west BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy reckel, mortar and arlillery duels raged unchecked between Syrian troops and Christian forces Wednesday the bombardment spread for the first time lo the Moslem western sector of Beirul. The presidential palace on the city’s eastern outskirts was reported hit by shells. Official casualty figures were not immediately available, but the right-wing Phalangist radio said abuut 500 persons were killed or wounded ina 24-hour period. “We are still under Syrian voleanves," the radio said. : “Beirut is like axillary island surrounded by smoke, flames and destruction—isu- lated frum the whole world where there is n- water, electricity, transportation, medicine or foud supplies,” the Christian Veice of Lebanon reported. The radio reported that bodies rotted in the streets and in hospilals because the heavy fighting made it impossible to dispose of the dead. ‘Red Cross officials said the threat of starvation and dealh from thirst was growing by the hour since ihe supply routes to the city had been cut off. At the United Nations in New York, Saudi Arabia's ambassador, Jamil Barvedy, blamed Syrian President Hafez Assad for the fighting, The Syrian forces are the core of an Arab League peacekeeping force stationed in Lebanon since the end of the 1975-76 civil war. 7 ‘He's a crook," Baroody lold reporters. ‘‘It's a question of misusing the troops that are there in order to bring peace,” The Syrians intervened in the civil war to help the Christians fight an alliance of leftist Moslems and Palestinians, who cum- plained of Christian political domination. Bul the Syrians now are angered by Christian alignment with their Israeli enemies and the Christians’ refusal to submit to Syrian control, For the first Lime since the current oulbreak of violence began four day ago, shells rained on the Moslem seclor. The shelling, aimed into the capital by Syrian guns in the hills, knocked out the cily’s electrical power, plunging the cily into darkness. BEIRUT (AP) SyrianChristian violence has torn apart this capital city, and some veterans of the Lebanese conflict say the fighting now is worse than any during the 1975-76 civil war. The conflict that has destroyed much of the Christian sector of East Beirut is spilling over into the western entertain- ment and commercial cenire, an area that in belter times earned Beirut the name Paris of the Middle East, The Syrians, now the heart of an Arab League peacekeeping force stationed here, in- tervened in the civil war that pitted leftist Lebanese Moslems and Palestinians against right-wing Christians whom the Moslems thought had too much political control. * The fighting there is growing worse The Syrian move saved the Christians, but they have resisted Syrian attempts lo control them, The Christian quarter has been without water and electricity fora week. . Tuesday, the big guns. constantly hammering the cily knucked out most of West Beirul’s power, Plunging it into darkness and cutting all com- munications with the out- side world. Radio reports from the Christian sector, cut off by Syrian roadblocks and sniper fire from the Moslem quarter in the west, said bodies, deprived of burial because of the danger, were rotting in streets, hospitals and homes. Red Cross jai supplies are running low as all roules to the eastern sector have been severed, The right-wing militia campaign to wrest two siralegic bridges from the Syrians that lead into East Beirut and out of the cily Lo the north might be a push for an escape route, * In West Beirut, leftist Lebanese militiamen who have stayed out of this fight—some say only because of considerable pressure from Syria— have set up roadblocks in neighborhoods they treat as their own strongholds. Officials in the eastern sector believe more than two-lhirds of the 600,000 Christians here have fled to the mountains or the country, The remainder, mostly poorer residents, have stayed behind to support the militia or to protect their property from looting. . Alberta advised to drop its gas prices CALGARY (CP) _ Alberta nalural gas producers should consider reducing gas prices at the Alberta border to help pro- mute new gas markets in central Canada, a senior federal official’ sald Wed- nesday. Ralph Toombs, senior adviser to the energy department, told 450 delegates at a Financial Post conference on oil and gas, such a move might spur market development within Ontario and Quebec. The current price for Alberta gas destined for Easlern markets is $1.41 per thousand cubic feel, Toombs suggesied producers drop that price to $1.33 per 1,000 cubic feet for a set amount of gas he called an “incentive block." . Response was not im- mediate from the delegates, many of whom are from the petroleum industry. Bul Jim Gray, vice- president of Canadian Hunter Exploration Lid., said Canadian markets for Western gas must be ex- panded wherever practical. “We must also expand our sales into the huge U.S. mar- ket,” Gray said. “[t is imperative that we stake oul a larger piece of 4he U.S. market before US. domestic production in- creases," and before Mexican gas begins to flow. Toombs’ suggestion supporled remarks made by federal Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie that Ot- tawa will direct surplus gas towards new Canadian markets instead of per- mitting short-term exports to the U.S. . Toombs suggested an initial ‘incentive block” of 250 billion cubic feet an- nually over a fiveyear period, to a limit of 15 trillion cubic feet, Such an incentive block would generate $1.1 billion in revenues over the period for Alberta producers, he said, adding the concerpt was being given serious con- sideration by Ottawa. Gray said the country needs an immediate economic shot in the arm: The conference continues today. Gov't to cut civil service OTTAWA (CP) — A tally by the Public Service Alliance of Canada shows gevernment departments have so far chalked up 3,980 positions to be cul under the government's restraint program. A spokesman for the union which represents 154,000 public servants across the country said most depart- ments have not pinned down exactly which jabs will be cut bul have sel general targels. Department staff culs are part of a move to reduce gov- ernment spending by $2.5 billion and eliminale 5,000 public service jobs within the next year and a half. The tally follows a statement earlier in the day the federal health department thal about 400 employees had received no- lice their jobs would cease to exist as of April 1, the start of the 1979-1980 fiscal year. The spokesman stressed the tally does not reflect the number of peuple who would be laid off. Only 11 em- ployees—four in urban af- fairs and seven in the labor department--have received lay-off notices so far. Many employees would probably be given jobs elsewhere in the public service where vacancies had uccured because of attrition, the spokesman sald, eight government depart- ments have so far supplied the alliance with broad target numbers of jobs which will cease to exist after April 1, They include: Consumer and corporate affairs: 200 ‘surplus’ positions out of 2,463 em- ployees. Indian and northern af- fairs: 150 oul of 10,963. Labor: 30 posilions from 691, Health and welfare: The department originally notified the alliance that 650- 700 positions would be cut out of a total of 9,569, though only 400 a0 far have received warning their jobs have been declared surplus. Solicitor-general: 600 oul of 10,122 have been declared surplus, 400 of them from the penitentiary and parole services where a department official says care will be taken Lo maintain the level of existing programs and securily. Agriculture: 500 positions oul of 9,044. Public service com- mission: 600 out of 3,692, Estimates tor ume environ: ment and fisheries depart- ment range as high as 500, allhough the alllance haa not been given 4 definite figure.