Torture vi _ TORONTO (CP) — Injuries suffered by torture victims before they left their homelands are becoming Amajor medical and public health problem in Canada, says a Toronto psychiatrist, ; Dr. Frederico Allodi, a member of the Canadian Medical Group which helps political refugees who have been tortured, said Saturday he recently studied 41 torture victims and found all have suffered severe -PRAVINCTAL LIBIARY d ctims pose psychological damage as well as physical injuries. He told a medical seminar that Canadian health authorities are not doing enough to help the estimated 400 to 600 persons in Canada believed to have been tortured in other countries. These torture victims should be given medical care when they receive refugee status, he said, In his study, the doctor found all 41 patients suffered wp health problem here from severe anxiety, insomnia and nightmares about persecution. Children who witnessed violence in their homes, or saw a parent or parents taken away, need special help, Allodi added. Dr. John Marshall, also of the Canadian Medical Group, said 25 general practitioners and 12 peychiatrists are involved in diagnosing and assisting torture victims frora Latin America and West African countries who apply for refugee status in Canada. The group, formed in 1978, has 150 physicians and provides yoluntary medical services for torture victims who apply for refugee status in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. Marshall said about 150 torture victims have been assessed in Canada since 1970, f” > / _ However, the - . The PoP shoppe" i TERRACE-KITIMAT erald f" 14 Flavors ; , BOTTLE DEPOT Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert Beer & Pop Bottles 624-5639 4636 Lazelle Ave. ‘ open am choc catiycteapt sunday - WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, Fri.ti9 pm. 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The settlers slipped out of existing West Bank set- Hlaments during the night to build “‘footholds"” in almost every comer of the captured territory where. the Palestinian residents are to be*.given: home rule. next. .; ey year. Elyakim Haetzni, a Gush Emunim spokesman, sald © purpose was to press demands for the government to increase the area of Jewish settlements to aa much as 50,000 acres from about 4,000 acres within the next six months. The wildcat action followed a cabinet decision Sunday to allocate about 1,000 acres of West Bank- land not owned by anyone to five existing settlements and to build a new Jewish town south of Jerusalem. cabinet unanimously rejected set- tlers’ demands that it seize private Arab property for Jewish enclaves. Working by car headlighta and flashlights, about 80 squatters raised the Israeli flag and slapped together a tin hut and makeshift tents about one kilometre outside the ancient West Bank town af Jericho, 22 kilometres northeast of Jerusalem and the site of Joshua's defeat of the Canaanites. The wildcat settlement network was coordinated by Gush Emunim, which wants Israel to annex the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, captured from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-[sraell war, and poses the EgyptianIsraeli plan to give home rule to the areas’ 1.1 million Pale- stinians. Gush Emunim believes that only a large Jewish lation on the West Bank will prevent the Palestinians from setting up an’ in- dependent state after they get autonomous home rule. Sgn eee” . poe . we Why is Mitch Kohi holding Cutbaek /fear here Service groups call for lobby By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer Local . community service organizations, fearful of anticipated funding cutbacks, are calling for the establish- ment of a community resources board in Terrace, The half dozen service groups met with Skeena MLA Frank Howard in an information workshop at the Terrace Hotel on Saturday afternoon, The 29 representatives who attended the af- ternoon workshop are calling for such a board to co-ordinate the activities 4 _ of the numerous and often . ae serene es >. provincial” government, . this strange weapon? See story page 3. Fog causes collision VANCOUVER (CP) — A Japanese freighter is under arrest In Vancouver harbor today, but the ship can’t leave anyway, The 24,000-ton Japan Erica trapped itself — and twa other deep-sea freighters — by knocking down a portion of the Second Narrows train bridge when it attempted to leave the harbor In a heavy fog Friday. The damage will cost Canada millions of dollars, officiala say, because the harbor's multi-milllon-dollar business will be cut 15 per cent while the bridge is out of commission. Shipping agenta, Canadian ‘National Railways and harbor officials are discussing whether the Japan Erica should post a bond before sailing. The ship had a pilot on board when it missed the raiged centre section of the bridge and plowed into one af the fixed sections. The freighter, loaded with logs, was only slightly PLANE Two men killed in a plane crash were among at least four persona who KILLS PAIR CRASH John Hiram, 16, of Maple Ridge, nearly ended in tragedy. damaged but the bridge's support structure and mechanical equipment was damaged heavily. - Harbor officials are waiting for engineer ap- proval before allowing ships to pase under the raised bridge, said harbormaster Captain Henry Vondette. Don Jamieson, chief engineer for Canron Inc,, the company that made the bridge, said Sunday com- pany experts have surveyed .the structure to estimate work needed to stabilize and restore the bridge. “The impact of the ac- cident, not only on the local B.C, economy, but on the national economy, la so great that the railway is certain to ‘make a quick decision," Jamieson said, Bill Clark, Progressive Conservalive MP for Van- couverQuadra, said he will ask federal Transport Minister Don Mazankowsky for emergency aid to get quick repairs made to the export artery. Amalgamati .The bridge crosses Burrard Inlet to provide rail connections to bulk ter- minals on the harbor's north shore that handle grain, sulphur, coal and other commodities, ; Clark said a CN estimate of two months for bridge repalrs is impractical and alternate arrangements promised by rail and harbor officials will be inadequate. ‘Under interim arrangements, graln will be brought in by B.C. Rail through Prince George, sulphur will be rerouted to nearby Port Moody, coal to ‘Roberts Bank, south of Van- couver, and potash and phos phate will cross the harbor on rall barges, harbor of- _ficials said.. At best, the harbor's ability to mave wheat will be cut by 15 per cent, sald Dick Lefter, manager of a grain- handling company. North shore grain storags capacity accounts for 41 per cent of Vancouver's total of 33.6 million bushels of silo space, A light rain fell early Sunday over southwestern B.C., Improving visibility considerably. Pair share peace prize STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded today to two U.S. scientists, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg of Harvard University, and a Pakistani who works in Italy, Abdus Salam, for joint elec- tromagnetic studies of slementary particles. Salam ‘is the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize, The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences cited them ‘for their contributions to the theory of unified weak and electromagnetic in- teraction between elementary particles overlapping service organizations. As con- ceived at the workshop, the community resources board would receive its funding from _ the and be comprised of local people. Organizations such as the Women's Growth Centre and the Golden Rule employment service are feeling the financial pinch with the imminent end of the Canada Works program. The new Tory government has _in- dicated it will not renew the program’ which means Canada Works funded organizations will have to search elsewhere for funding. MLA Frank Howard said the presentations made on Saturday by each of the groups were “lucid’’ in expressing their fears about he uncertainty of future funding. He indicated he will write Premier Bill Bennett and Human Resources -Minister Grace McCarthy about the community resources board idea. Workshop organizer Paul Johnson, however, admitted his disap- pointment over the turnout. Organizations making presentations included the Women’s Growth Centre, the Terrace and District Community Services, the Skeena Works Youth Incentive program, the Northern Delights Co-op, The Terrace Association for the Mentally MARCH 1, 1980 on decision date set Retarded, the Golden Rule, and the Debt Counselling Service. Tories All the groups are facing financial problems of one sort or another. face tougher test OTTAWA (CP) — The minority Progressive Conservative government, which emerged unscathed from its {first challenge in the Commons last week, faces & tougher test tonight when MPs vote on a Liberal non- confidence motion over Tory plans for Petro-Canada. The vote will be among the highlights of a week that will _include introduction of the much-heralded government bill on freedom of in- formation. The bill, a major May 22 election promise of the Con- servatives, will be given high prio ; It will be the first original plece of legislation brought in by the new government. Meantime, the debate on the speech from the throne read at last week's opening of Parliament will continue through the week. It Is possible to have another vote of confidence on Wednesday although one was not in sight Friday, The Commons will vote Friday on a Tory motion which in effect says the Commons approves of the contents of the throne speech. On Petro-Canada, the Con- servatives happily watched an NDP non-confidence motion easily defeated in the Commons .on Thursday, when all but one Liberal and 26 New Democratic Party members sided with the government. The vote was 223 to 27. But the vote should be much closer tonight as Liberals support their own non-confidence motion, which condemns the government for undermining the government-owned oil company by seeking to dismantle it, Standing in the 292-seat Commons is Conservative 136, Liberal 113, NDP 26, * Social Credit 5, vacant 2. Speaker James Jerame, a Liberal, can vote only to break a tie. Opposition Leader Pierre Trudeau has gald he will make sure hia mernbers are in the Commona for the crucial vote, although he will not stoop to dragging Liberal MPs from their sick beds. NDP Leader Ed Broad- bent has aceused the Liberals of hypocrisy for not rity by. thé-govermment.-- supporting his non- confidence motion on Petro- Canada. But the party, which has provided a sustained attack on the Conservatives over Petro-Canada since the May 22 election, should have little difficulty supporting the Liberal motion. : The outnumbered Tories do not appear to face defeat in the Commons because the tiny Social Credit group supports its Petro-Canada policies and can provide enough votes ta enable the government to beai the Lib- eral mation. Given-thot none. of the opposition parties are anxlous to topple the new government and send Canadians back to the polls, some members may come down with a case of ‘diplomatic flu’ just to make sure the government does not fall, Although Petiro-Canad2 has dominated opposition debate on the throne speech, Prime Minister Clark has studiously avoided comment on the issue. Clark did not even mention the oil company or his government’s plans for it during his speech to the Commons during ‘leaders' day. Power outage planned, sort of There was a one and one half hour power oulage ‘Friday in Kitimat, which began at about 8:30 a.m., according to Doug Lozza, spokesman for B.C, Hydro. Lozza said that the power outage was a planned outage to begin with, but just as the power was being shul down, a preliminary switching device failed and shut down the system right back to the sub-stalion. The part that falled was an air-brake switch that opens and closes the power line. The outage was planned originally as a half-hour outage, to allow crews ta do some preliminary switching. died accidentally in Britiah Columbia during the weekend. Paul Erickson, 19, of the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, survived the crash in Howe Sound Friday night but Carl Sjohome, 30, of Quadra iskand, and the pilot. whose name was wi ald by police, died in the wreck The rescuers were in a canoe checking crab traps when they heard the _crash in fog. After picking up Erickson, their canoe capsized in large waves and all three had to swim 70 metres to shore. Erickson was taken to hospital with back and leg injuries. ‘The other two bodies are believed in the wreckage in more than 250 metres of water. Erickson’s rescue by Squamish RCMP Con- stable William Krenz and __ By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer March 1, 1980 has been set as the tentative deadline for a decision on the Terrace-Thornhill amalgamation question. A committee consisting of representatives of both communities met for the first time last week with representatives of the provincial government. “The committee was formed lo examine the prog and cons and put a dollar figure on amalgamation," said Terrace Mayor Dave Moroney, adding that the financial cost of the feasibility of a Thornhill in- corporation will also be closely looked at. Thornhill representative Les Watimough thinks the committee will find that amalgamation won't be any cheaper than incorporation for Thornhill. While pleased that a study is underway, Watmough ex- pressed concern that ‘‘all the plans and the funding that are available from the province are being directed towards amalgamation rather than in- corporation.’ According to Watmough, most Thornhill people are leaning towards incorporation of the community inte a separate municipality as ‘‘everybody likes to control their destiny.” If the committee decides on amalgamation, the issue will go to a referendum in both Terrace and Thornhill. If the committee, on the other hand, rejects the idea of merging Terrace and Thornhill into a single community, he says it is ‘almost certain" Thornhill will opt for incorporation, rather.than remain as is. “It has to come soon, The regional district of Kitimat-Stikine is too unwieldy for a community to progress undor th t system," added Watmough, The commitlee vill appoint a chairman at this Thursday's meet! . In addition, technical advisors; probably the Te:race District administrator Bob Hallsor and some of the municipal planners, will be appointed to provide data for the inevitable decision. Aside from Watmough, Jim Piper is also representing Thornhill, with Alice Chen Wing sitting on the committee for the Remo District, Maroney will alternate with Alderman Alan Soular, and the mayor has appointed Aldermen Helmut Giesbrecht, Bob Cooper and Jack Talstra to serve as the Terrace representatives on the committee. A couple of additional appointments still have to be made, Watmough indicated he was pleased with Maroney's council appointments.