- Separatism blamed MONTREAL (CP) Former Liberal premier Robert Bourassa says the defeat of his government at the hands of the Parti Quebecois last Nov. 15 can be blamed on three years of unemployment and in- flation. 4 But Bourassa, in the first of eight interviews broad- cast Sunday on the Telemedia radio network, said he called the election, not for economic reasons, but to obtain a clear man- date from Quebecers to deal with Ottawa on the Canadian constitution. “Tf it had not been for the constitution,” he said, ‘‘it is clear that I would not have been. ita ioe ane 4 in precipi an election.” Ar the time, Prime Minister Trudeau was discussing unilate federal action to bring the constitution and the power to amend it to Canada. At present, the British North America .Act can’ be amended only by the British Parliament. : “] considered that (Trudeau’s statements) had the herald ‘Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass ‘ . VOLUME 71 NO. 120 Price: 20 cents =©MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1977 a Society helps people ’ First of a series oe ‘This is the first in a series of articles by staff writer Juliette Proom, who spent . the weekend talking to people running several programs sponsored by the Terrace Community Ser-. vices Society. The society is holding a general meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Caledonia lecture theatre to which the public is invited to offer both their comments — and volunteer help. ‘Terrace Answering Bureau, may I help you,?’ That’s what you'll hear when you dial 638-8195. And there’s more to the number than a_ pleasant voice telling you the time of a meeting, a place to go for help, or when the next bazarr will be held. The Terrace Answerin Bureau (TAB) is the voc chords of the Terrace and -District Community Ser- vices Society. It is funded by a Canada Works grant but the money is administered by the Community Services Society. TAB also operates a wake- up service for people who don’t like alarm clocks, but need help waking up-in the-.- morning, an answering service for business and a new monitoring system to check for fires and break-ins used by schools and businesses. TAB grew out of the Crisis Line, a former service of the Community Services Society. It still has coun- selling services and an- swered 107 calls on the crisis line last month. The people at TAB compile the Community Calendar and publish 2 directory of services and clubs in town. They also do ping for the Community rvices Society. Both a debt counsellor and an alcohol and drug counsel fall under the society's jurisdiction. The Volunteer Services arm of the Community Services Socieyt is rather big. Under Mar Langley’s C00) tion, ‘are found for Meals on Wheels, Homemakers and other rams. Mother’s Time Off is funded by the Community Services Society. This is not a day-care service but provides a place for mother’s to go for com- panionship, guidance and a rest from kids. An intermediate school counsellor has been hired through the Community Services Society. This rson deals with ehaviorally distrubec children in elementary schools. A teacher has been hired through the school board to help them with their studies, while the counsellor, helps them with avioral problems... The old a8 well ds the young are Vane attention by the Community Services Society. The Senior Citizens housing project on Kalum Street is funded by the B.C. Housing Corp. but administered by the Community Services Society. . The society has an executive of 10 directors, a chairman and a_ vice- chairman. Roy Greening is entering his second year as chairman. Lyle Fetch, Frances Sabine and Doug Mumford are some of the Directors. Doctor testifies in child death A Terrace woman charged with manslaughter was hospitalized for about two weeks after the death of her daughter, according toa . doctor's testimony in Prince Rupert County Court held here Friday. The .trial of Dorothy Duncan, charged with the offense on Feb. 11, con- tinued for the second day Friday concluding the Crown's case, but had to be adjourned to November 4 for the defense. Duncan was in an “agitated expression, when she was admitted to Mills Memorial Hospital February 11, according to her family doctor, Dr, Peter Van Herk who was called by Duncan the night two-year- old Amelia ncan was found injured in her home. Dr. Van Herk stated he did not wish to testify as to conversations betweer himself and Duncan durin her hospitalizations whic - eoncerned the incident, but Judge Richard Low ordered him to do so, ruling the doctor-patient relationship was not confidential as it applied to the trial. Duncan told him she remembered getting a tlephone call in the evening from an unidentified person who sald her child would be taken away from her, Dr. Van Herk testified. He said Duncan told him the next thing she remembered was standing over the child with a stick in her hand. Other conversations with Duncan revealed that her husband was not home at the time of the incident. ‘Duncan also teld him her husband paid a lot of at- tention to‘ Amelia and that she Perhaps was jealous of this, the doctor stated. In further conversation with Duncan, Dr. Van Herk — stated that she said she remembered more about the incident, but did not elaborate. ; Dr, Van Herk said Duncan was pregnant at the time and decided upon an abortion, one of the reasons for the two-week hospital § iy. ‘ Duncan's brother ‘Donald Bolton, who was living with her on February 11, said he was called upstairs b Duncan when arriv home that evening and | ‘found Amelia lying on a mattress upstairs. He gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until: he .was joined by another brother, William Bolton, who then took over unt!l Dr. Van Herk arrived. RCMP afficers also testified Friday that they had attended the scene after being called and found Dunean in a_ hysterical state. - Sgt. Douglas Martin said he also questioned Duncan while she was in hospital and produced a bix-page statement which had n made by Duncan. Defense counsel Dou Brown asked for an ad- journment at the end of the Crown's case, and the trial was adjourned to November XN Or . volunteers _ _ rebels figh MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Despite sweeping successes by Somali-back ng for control of Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, diplomats here say Ethiopia, with newly-re- ceived Soviet military supplies, may still blunt the secessionists’ offensive. In the last three months, guerrillas of the Western So- malia Liberation Front (WSLF) have captured all but twokey towns in the sun- parched Ogaden region, an area comprising about one- third of Ethiopia. The rebels want to annex the territory, primarily inhabited by ethnic Somalis, to neighboring Somalia. But. there is a ‘growing consensus among diplomats here that unless ee, in- surgents can quickly cap- ‘ture the last Ethiopian strongholds, Harrar anc Diredawa, their drive will be endangered by dwindling supplies. Cloudy with rain by noon today as a new weather system moves onshore. Today’s high, 10 degrees, tonight's low, five degrees. Vivian McVey checks her boxes before leaving Skeenaview Lodge to deliver Meals on Wheels. The volunteer program supported by the Terrace Community . tored in Ken ( ») WEATHER NY - help others - Robert Bourassa: on unemployment, inflation... important consequences," said Bourassa, who favored obtaining the consent of the wovinces before taking ac- on on the constitution. “I needed the support of the ple on a precise mandate.”’ Bourassa agreed with PRIVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLD33S VICTORIA BC Pierre that several mem- bers of his cabinet did not want an election at the time, but he said “‘there was no interviewer Raymond St. deliberate treason” during we pe eee the campaign. Bourassa repeated that the main cause of the defeat was the length of the economic crisis. ..Which is going to get worse OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian worker must lower his economic ex- pectations and start livin within his means, federa Finance Minister Jean Chretien said a CBC radio interview for broadcast Sunday. . Chretien said Canadians must face reality for the next three or four years. He tN Services delivers about 20 hot meals to senior citizens three times weekly. For further information, call Ann Lang at 635- law: ult by a. roup. of ugi- ‘terrible, - businessman wants said there must be a slower increase in the standard of living. When questioned about recent Layoffs at Inco Ltd. in Sudbury, Ont., he said the nickel market is a special problem. “There is over- roduction in the world and e nickel market is de- pressed,” he said. ‘Some Americans are selling below cost and Inco has been forced to stockpile seven months of inventories, so there is not much you can do about it.” HURT INVESTMENT Asked why he doesn’t limit foreign travel by imposing restrictions on the amoynt of money that tourists would be allowed to take out of the country, Chretlen said such action would ‘create a very bad climate for investment in Canada.” Later in the interview, Chretien was asked why he hadn’t opted for cutting sales taxes as & means of stimulating the economy when he announced major economic policy changes last week. Rally cheers as NDP denounces Inco layoffs stamped their feet in ap- proval Sunday as New mocratic Party leaders called on governments to instruct Inco. Ltd. not to _ eliminate 3,450 jobs. Both federald NDP leader | Ed Broadbent and Ontario ‘Leader Stephen Lewis ' brought a protest rally to its Tourist boycott feet with a promise Sunday to. urge both the federal and Ontario governments te pursue the issue. Lewis says the Tory government in Ontario has the pwoer to issue those instructions. He added he assumes the provincial Liberlas, whe with the NDP could ou-vote the minority Consevatives in the legislation, will go along with the plan. appalls chamber VICTORIA (CP)—Allan Emery, president of Chamber of Commerce here, said Sunday a motion approved by the Victoria Labor Council encouraging tourists to boycott the area is appalling. The labor vouncil is en- couraging the boycott in retaliation to the threatened Vancouver Island hessmen to recover losses they say were incurred during a recent strike by British Columbia ferry workers. Eme: said “its a frightenin situation when a person. is told that if he exercises the normal legal rights as a citizen... there's going to be severe reprisals against “Are they really trying to destroy Victoria just because some little 0 exercise his normal legal rights?” he asked. Murray Drew, of the International Woodworkers of America, said the boycott would be launched today at an IWA convention in Portland, Ore., where union members would be asked not to travel to the Victoria area, J. J. Gow, lawyer for the businessmen, said the group has made a formal request to the provincial labor | May beat off rebels yet Ethiopian forces revived by Soviet arms The WSLF said Sunday its troops killed 44 Ethiopian - goldiers and wounded 32 others Saturday in fighting near the old walled city of Harrar. The rebel com- munique, broadcast by Radio Mogadishu and moni- gave no ‘a details of the fighting. GIVES ARMS Moscow has been fun- nelling arms, inciuding tanks and jet fighters, to Ethiopia while at the same time reducing supplies to Somalia, formerly its major ally in the Horn of Africa. The Somalis, quar- termasters of the insurgent - An early Halloween Masked visitor not welcomed rankster in a homemade costume took a woman by surprise in the Terrace Trailer Park early Friday morning. ; The woman answered a knock on her door at 3:30 a.m, and was confronted with a man wearing a Halloween mask and nothing else. “She gawked and he too spokesman of the incident. Police were called to scene, but no suspects were apprehended. The maximum penalty for indecent exposure is $500 and six months in jail on summary conviction, No incidents like this have been reported in Terrace since wa streaking fad died several yeara ago. | off,” said an RCMP y, army, also claim Cuban troops are fighting in the Ogaden, a charge denied by Ethiopia. Somalia has failed so far to find alternative arms sources in the West, despite uests to the U.S,, Britain and France. Thus, itis widely accepted here that the war has reached a crucial stage and that the Soviet Union is in an increasingly strong position . to call the shots. The Ethiopians are regrouping their forces and preparing a counter- relations board to seek consent for the legal action.. He said he was seeking the board's consent to avoid spending time and money if e ferry workera contested the suit on grounds. The B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union disobeyed two back-to-work orders..earlier this month technical anid “went on" aorike“ fora” week, shutting down the rovincial governme! erry system. Negotiations aimed at a contract between ferry workers and the B.C, Ferry Corporation continuec ay in Vancouver with no hint of how the bargain- ing was progressing er special rmnediator Clive cKee. McKee would only say that mediation was con- -tinuing and that his ap with pointment ends Friday, a possibility of extension. e ferry workers and other essential government services in B.C, now are living under the Essential Services Disputes Act given final reading and royal assent Friday. The bill has not yet been proclaimed, but that could take place at any time. The 2,400 ferry workers, represented by the B.C, Ferry and Marine Workers Union, defied a Labor Relations Board back-to- work order and went on strike for one week, offensive likely to include new Soviet weaponry. A successful counter-offensive could start turning the war. against the rebels. If that happens, diplomatic sources say, Moscow will be in a strong ition to force a_ dip- omatic solution on both countries and cement its influence in the region. Somali President Siad Barre on Friday wamed the Russians that unless they halt military aid to Ethiopia their relations with Somalia will be in jeopardy. Unseated driver makes quake TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Mary Henderson heard a loud noise and felt her house shake. It wasn't a sonic boom or an earthquake, it was a driverless car slamming into the front porch of her house. Police said the driver of the car, Clarence Starr, 21, told them he had fallen out of his slow-moving vehicle while making a turn onto his home street early Saturday, Starr, who was not in- 1, was booked on a compjaint of driving under the [Influence of alcohol. Broadbent, doffing his jacket in the warm union’ li, said Prime Minister Trudeau or Finance Minister Jean Chretien should call in the head of Inco and tell him, “the layoffs will not take place.” Commons Speaker James Jerome, the Liberal MP for Sudbury, said if private enterprise is begging for more government in- tervention, it couldn't have made the point more clearly than by firing an arrow through the heart of. this * eommunity, MET WITH JEERS Jerome faced a chorus of angry jeers when he rose to speak, saying Inco should have taken someone into its confidence months ago about the layoffs. A union leader had to ask the crowd to be quiet and allow him to continue. Throughout the weekend, the mine and smelter workers have complained at a labor seminar that by providing export aid to Inco mines in Guatemala -and Indonesia, Ottawa has helped to export jobs. Jerome brought more ing from the crowd when he said those foreign mines will have to be monitored to ensure they reduce operations as much as in Sudbury. “It’s too late, the damage is ‘already done,’ a red- faced miner shouted back. Dave Patterson, president of Local 6500, United ‘Steelworkers union, told the crowd he intends to keep after government and the company for measures to soften e blow of the lay- offs. He called for a better pension deal, saying it might lead some older workers to retire rather than forcing young men out. All who face loss of jobs have been with the firm leas than two years, 161 days. REFUSE OVERTIME Workers should also refuse overtime and work strictly by company rules in hopes that also will provide more jobs. Patterson meets with Inco officials today for talks and says he's willing to continue around the clock if some settlement can be reached. Another session with provincial and federal offi- cials is scheduled for Toronto on Tuesday. Lewis called the Inco actions ‘“‘a text-book example of corporate irresponsibility and political collusion.” He said a study group should be set up, involving government, the company and the union to study Inco plans for the next 10 years ‘so people will know what lies ahead.” If the company did not want to accept that kind of ublic regulation perhaps it 6 time for it to ‘‘gently enter the public domain,” he said. Broadbent repeated his call for government to end its practice of providing low- interest loans to Canadian companies investing abroad if it is costing this country jobs. He also said resource companies should be forced to reinvest a share of ear- nings in Canada.