Page2, the Herald, Thursday, February 23, 1934 dailyherald Published every weekday ‘at 3010 Kalym Street, Terrace, B.€, by Sterling’ Publishers Lid. Authorized as second class mail, Registration . Number 1201, Postage Pald In cash, return postage guaranteed Terrace: . Circulation: 635-6357 635-4000 _ Publisher’. David Hamilton da = Editor: | " Advertising Sates: Brian Gregg - Nick Walton . Statt Writer. Photographer: _ Sports: Ralph Reschke Holly Olson - Reception inset: Circulation: — Claire Wadley * Sue Booten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT. ‘The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright » in any advertisement produced and-or any editortal or photographic conterit published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written : Permission of the Publisher. The ‘Terrace- Kitimat Daily Herald Newspaper Is politically Independent and i a member of the British Columbia Press Council. , Deficit grows © Catadians travelling outside the country spent a record $2,009 billion more last year than foreigri visitors spent here, Statistics | Canada. said Wednesday: . That travel defigit, whith will worsen the country’ 8 balance of payments position, is up from the previous record deficit of $1.7 billion set in 1978, and the $1,2-billion deficit posted in 1982, - Canada earned $3. 65 billion. from international travel in. 1983, up 3.5 per cent from 1982, but spending by, Canadians travelling abroad increased 1.6 per cent to %. om billion; the federal agency . sald; The size of the deficit comes as no surpris¢ in ‘ight of figures released earlier, showing Canadians made a record’ 40.7 million trips aut of the country last year while visits here by foreigners fell slightly to 94.3 mildion. Canadiana were apparently lured out of the countiry by cheap gasoline prices in the United States and a favorable exchange rate in other countries. The same factors are blamed for having scared off foreign tourists. - ; CRITICIZES BUDGET. ‘ . Meanwhile, a Toronto economist took aitri at jest week's federal budget, saying it failed to tackle Canada’ 's maior “problems, including the possibility of renewed inflation and the chronically high deficit. . J. R, Keane, chief economist at the investment firm, Midland Doherty. Ltd.,.sald‘Canada_ has j an inflation-prone economy. and Finance Minister, Mare: “Lalonde made.a_ mistake in. removing | sixand five” guidelines from . the - . federal public sector... “It's not clear to me that the pubiic sector can operate i in a taissez-faire environment,” he told the. Toronto _ Association of Business Economists... Public sector bargaining units such as the postal workers are highly visible in their dealings with the government and * one large settlement with this type of union will rekindle people's expectations, he said. Keane complained that Ottawa avoided adding to what has become a chronically high deficit, possibly “eaving the © dirty work to whoever follows in.1985,"" SHARE PRICES FALL In another development, Japan’s reported loss of faith in - Dome Petreleum Ltd.'s Beaufort Sea venture sent share prices of the oil company and its exploration subsidiary . tumbling on North American stock markets. After a day-long trading halt the previous session, Dome Petroleum shares recovered a bit in late trading. but still closed 30 cents lower to $4.15 on a volume of almost 370,000 shares. Dome Canada, its exploration wing, lost 15 cents to 44.85 on a volume of 49,000 shares. U.S. investors also dumped Dome shares and the stock fell 3L cents to $3.31 In heavy trading on the American Stock Exchange in New York, \ Trading in both companies was haited Tuesday after a flurry of sell orders, provoked by reports the Japanese were reconsidering their‘ commitment to Dome’s arctic energy program. Japanese companies have lent $400 million to Dome to | fund exploration in the Beaufort and still have an option to invest 10 to 25 per cent. The $400 million has all been spent and, if no oilfields are developed, isn’t repayable untit 2030, But the Tokyo reports indicated the Japanese govern- _ Ment won't commit any more funds to Beaufort develop- ments withoit assurances of Dome’s financial health and the project's viability. It advised private companies to do likewlse. Dome has issued a statement saying Japan’ ‘3 caution over. possible future funding won’t have any financial impact on the company, : — Tension mounted among British Columbla’a three forest industry unions as locked out pulp and paper workers escalated secondary picketing at sawmill operations and nearly 12,000 members of the Internatlonal Woodworkers of America refused to cross the picket lines, Leaders of the . Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada and the Canadian Paperworkers Union say secondary picketing will continue until they get a contract agreement, . — Mitel Corp. of Kanata, Ont., announced it has signed a contract worth at least $44. milllon to, supply ‘telecom- munications equipment made at its Wales plant to the British market until March, 1985. The contract with British Telecom, the U.K. telecommunications authority, is the Jatest breakthrough in Mitel’s efforts to secure a large share of that market, which has recently been opened ‘lo competition. The Herald welcomes Its readers comments. Alf letters ta the editor of general public interest will be printed. They should be submitted 48 hours In wivance of desired publication date. We do, - however, retain the right to refuse to print letiers on grounds of possible libet or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters fo be. considered for publication must be signed. It Is Impossible to print a letter submitted within 24 . hours of desired publication date. errs - a rae at ts + ” - Ministry’ a ‘permission to. the mine to: ‘proceed, with ' Toronto are practising outside ‘the. plans”: ; Norton conceded there are problems ii in specific areas sand. . S10 ‘discourage extra-billing. b¥ doctors and hospital: user fees: . ~ through a: ‘system. of. financial. penalties, levied by ot FACES, PENALTIES. * *y PEACHLAND, B.C, (CP).— An application ‘for. teni- porary injunetion to stop Brenda: Mines. from. beginning’ to ‘dump’ waste -water into Peachtand’ Creek wag” enled Wednesday. . : County court Judge Howard Hamilton, sitting a focal justice of the B.C, Supreme: Court, | ruled: there: was not enough evidence presented at the hearing. Wednesday: to prove that the dumping would créate a health: hazzard, - The mine wants to dump the water because > cerned that the high water level in its meni ee tallings — pond will cause the pond to collapse. _ . collapsed outweighs the possibility of health hates dumping the waste water, : The copper and molybdenum mine’ sia: o dump hun- "dreds of millions of litres of waste water from the tailings pond into Peachland Creek before the spring ronoff begins, and Valley Environment group which opposes.the durfiping, ’ said a general petition requesting a permanetit injunction and‘an’ order setting aside the provincial Environment ‘OTTAWA (cP) — of using - dishonest, dishonorable and dunib -arguments about the extent of. extra-billing in his province. a Norton told the Commons health: committee. the .per- - centage of doctors who have opted oulof the Ontario Health Insurance Plan has been steadily falling in reeéent years arid " now igs only about 14 per cent, ° McCauley, who represents the New Brunswick. riding of Moncton, said thdse statistics are meaningless ‘and misleading because mostof the; Specialists | in. and around specialities, , but he sald they are being resolved with’ the help of doctors themselves. $a) ot And he said thé actual amaunt af exita: sili in the oe clted by McCauley’ is. only, about 29 per: “went.” a8 ; “Opting out is different from extra-billing,.". the minister said, “There's are many physicians wha have opted out, but don't extra-bill:” - DOCTORS OPT our’. - . In Ontario, déctors have to opt’ out ot thie medicare plan if ae proved by the province. Opted-aut doctors bill. all: their patients directly and patients are reimbursed by:.the province according to an approved fee schedule... os The exchange on opting out was one of two: between McCauley. and Norton that took place- during Norton's testimony on the proposed Canada health act," -. The Liberal MP algo took issue with claims by. Norton and other provincial ministers that, the federal: ‘government ° drafted the act without first consulting the provinces, : To back up his argument, McCauley produced . a jong” list of meetings that took place in the last four years involving. health or finance’ ministers, depuly ‘ministers or senior officials from both Ottawa and the provinces. Just because there were meetings, . Norton: replied, doesn’t mean there-was meaningful consultation j in the (rue. sense of the words. 7 ron 6 stil. maintain. tal, ihre haps hot been consultation.” Meteor cuts EDMONTON (CP) — A dazzling blue-green meteor cut through the sky over Alberta, leaving fear and excitement © in its'wake Wednesday night. The sparkler fizzed low across the province shortly after’? pm. MST from southeast to northwest. Many Albertans aw the spectacle and flooded newspaper, radio and police: telephone lines to find out whal it was, “Tt was huge, dropping sparks as it went by," said Cecil Eccles of Edmonton,’ who saw the meteor about 100 kilometres north of Westlock as he-drove on Highway 2 to Edmonton from ‘Athabasca. - “T got seared. I thought it was going ‘to hil my. truck. “At ‘ane time, T thought it was a 747 losing altitude.” Eccles said the meteor brightened the road so well, “you ‘Liberal MP Gary MeCauley accused- Ontarip Health Minister Keith Norton on’ Wednesday night ° . ‘they. charge. any of their Patlents’ more than the fees :ap-_ could almost pick up a pin.” on - “Tt looked like a jet on fire,” said Mel Rankin, treasurer. of the Edmonton chapter of ‘the Royal ‘Astronomical Society, . “1 thought afew hundred people were -going to perish and . my heart started to go thump.” ©. Rankin said he watched the enormous, slow-moving meteor for about 10 seconds. To him, it appeared green with ared, sputtering tai! but his wife saw it as a dazzling white core, - “It was the biggest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, as ; wide as a full moon and almost triangular shaped,” he said, “All iny life I wanted to seen one of those things and it just left dumping should come before the B. 6. ‘Supreme ¢ Court in about 12 days.” aN he : RECENTLY. FORM D woke ‘The Save’ Okanagan Lake and Vatley Envirdnment group was formed in’ Péachland last Friday in response to. Brenda: Mines’, request to’ lower: its tailings: pond: . water can be: ‘pouret into the ‘creek, Hts § ‘expected “thi ‘the € duraping wil ake ‘i least two Blarcom aigiied that Peachland réaiderils rein: a ‘no-win situation ~- they need the. temporary injunction to gain time © to collect evidence’. but they. need the ‘evisiense, to gel a.” “temporary injunction:”’. wea David Van Blarcom, lawyer for the Save. Okanagan. Lake , “Unfortunately. citizens are, behind the eight all in’ ‘that ‘the mine and the provitice have all the: experts. The people — unfortunately, don’t. have those resources. “We need hard * medical evidence — ~a physician to come forward and atate . it is w health azzard . vo! original medicare ‘program came about not because of co- program - fd, because: of . Publle opinion in ‘favor of medicare: . : : ; ‘Much the’ game céntions have led to the new y Health act, ; he added,. : a Norton said Blaikie: is ignoiing the fact: that most, of. thé provinces had some, kind of health-care. insurance eyen. - ‘before the, federal government propos plain: : an The main purpose . of, the Canada health 7 favs “Ontario; faces. penalties of ‘about $0 million ae “Fear. ; because of ‘extra-bllling if the act goes through i in its present ' form, ‘and extra-billing remains‘the‘same, Norton said the province hasn't decided whether: t0- take action agaitist extra-billing: or simply to pay any penalties. The province also collects about $30: million a year in fees: for certain kinds of chronic’ and extended tare, but Norton. said he’s convinced : all, those fees will be exempt from penalties, ~ - Ontario's general position on 1 the bill is that it has ‘to0". “many shartcomings’ to be salvaged, so it should be s¢rapped and work begun ona new bill with consultation “from the- ground up.’ Norton: said his own. 1 priorities ‘would be to determine. fulure health-care needs, try to develop a system to meet +, those. needs and then determing the most appropriate way of paying the bills’ involved.’ : Joining Norton for his ‘presentation were representatives. of the provincia) medical, hospital aiid dental associatjons. Norton was the last of seven provincial health ministers ‘to appear before the commiltee. Manitoba Health Minister '-Larry-Desjardins was scheduled (0 testify today’ on'the'final day of hearings ; but nolified:the'ebinphittes wganeb bay’ he would be. unable;to come to: Oltawa.; bE Tee vyeasee nates through sky me shaking. 1 was speechless,” " GOT A SHOCK _Karen Kutyn of St. Albert said she and friend Brandy . Kash got.the shock of their.lives when the meteor whizzed by as they walked near Sturgeon Hospital. ~ Kutyn said Kash screamed when ‘she saw it. “She grabbed me and shook. me and pointed up ‘in the’ sky,” Kutyn said, ‘There was.a-big white and blue ball ‘and a big red tail, It lit the whole sky up and it scared me.. seen anything like this.” -— ‘Grande Prairle. air-traftic controllers saw y the ‘meteor coming toward them but it appeared to. break up before reaching their area. They said it appeared to be part of.a meteor shower sighted. as far south as Calgary. and as far north as Fort Simpson in the Northwest. Territories. - It was also sighted as far east as Lloydminster, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. ° RCMP at Slave Lake said officers saw the ‘shower break _ upsouthwest of the community 250 kilometres northwest of © Edmonton, ' Radio communications cut ait brletly while the meteor passed over, said RCMP. , Edmonton city police and personnel at ‘the’ "Edmonton municipal airport control tower said there were bo Teports . of any injuries caused by the meteor. Oil recommendations filed OTTAWA (CP) — Preliminary recommendations urging the government to loosen arrangements oil companies have made with each other to control fetail prices were filed Wednesday with the Restrictive Trade Practices Com- mission investigating price fixing in the petroleum in’: dustry. Lawson Hunter, director of investigation and research at the Consumer and Corporate Affairs Depariment, said in an Interview the recommendations are contained in a report filed by federal combines ‘investigation ‘branch lawyers to the commission.. The report also points ou! factors imposed by the. government which affect prices, Hunter said. - Representatives of the oil “companies now must present - their arguments and the lengthy commisslon inquiry will likely wind up by late July, Hunter said, adding the long- awaited report is not expected before the end of the year: The inquiry was set up after a massive seven-volume * report, released in March 1981 by former combines branch director Robert Bertrand, alleged the oil industry had gouged consumers for $12 billion between 1958.and 1973 by overpricing products and restricting rade. _ . FOCUS ON RULES | The preliminary recommendations, whieki will be filed in refiners, tariffa and other regulations affecting in- ebendent petroleum ‘retailers and certain reciprocal - agreements between companies, said Hunter. co, A federal import compensation program encourages oll highest-priced crude to Canada, he added, .. The combines investigation branch argues in Its report that the incentive program has detrimental effects on parts , Of the Canadian market, such as the East Coast, which ‘detail Iater in the inquiry, focus on import incentives for’. depend. more heavily on imported crude, Hunter said. | In addition, certain government regulations ' prohibit independent gasoline retailers from importing. their own ° crude oil, often forcing them.to pay higher prices, he added. . Oil companies often also. work out longterm agreements’. “under which they buy products from ‘each other in different ' parts*of the country, The exchange agreements allow companies to know details about” their competitors’ -Mmarketing and other ‘plans and lead to lessened com- petition, Hunter said. The combines branch will also recomfiond a review of current practices under which ‘petroleum suppliers prohibit ‘thelr retailers from selling anyother unbranded. gasoline. : from other pumps at their stations, Hunter said. . .. PASSED ON COSTS fo ee - ,.Bertrand’s 1981 report alleged’ the four biggest oll. com:" panies ‘in Canada at the tine — Gulf Canada Lid., Texaco . Canada ‘inc.,‘Shell Canada Ltd, and Imperial oil Ltd. — paid too much to their foreign parent’ firms for crude aid’ ” _. then'passed the extra cost to consumers In Eastern Canada, where. the four had a stranglehold on the market, The inquiry bogged down a year jater over. a ‘disj ute between the Restrictlve Trade Practices Commission. and the anti-combines branch over ‘who ¢ determines witnesses to ’ appear before the inquiry, “The confrontation brought allegations fi from commission " ehairman Gerry Stoner that the combines branch * was . ~ companies buying crude around the world to import the . delaying the investigation. — The Federal.Court of Canada resolved (he issue in the” ‘combines bratich’s favor by ruling it-had the power to. ° subpoena top corporate executives to testify at ita inquiry. The decision effectively. put the Investigation In Hunter‘s - hands. .. i Me - the $100,000 dam arid diversion pipe, which « mine ‘last ‘week to “ channel . the «waste wat ~Peachland irrigation district's water Intake and- ‘esetalr: 7 near the creek. | protesters to leave but thay. refused, said Chatway ‘ pollee took no action. - Statistics C alled. ‘rhisieadiag: cae fn rotate, ons are _ , but had to evacuate at least 10 times when water fi Bill Blaikie, New Dethocratic Party health critic, said the”. Meanwhile Pater ‘Chataviay; a ‘director of: ‘the: Kelowna: > and. district branch -of. the: “Soclety: ‘Promoting ' Bn Aton~: ‘mental Conservation, and’one, of’ several protestora ;¥ - have camped since Monday at ‘the end of the pipe in ‘who: ". the waste water will be dumped, said if the company. opens: " the valve and begins dumping, the water, protests will: Mine manager Gordon Harris. said Wednesday. that the | Po dumping is. expected : to start. later this “week. after: testing _ has been. finished:to determine the how quickly “the wasti, . turn it off. os oe S — PIPE BUILT | Chataway and the other protestera camped a wash -Tuesday protesters’ ¢ climbed a fence: sufroun district's property to demonairale against the duniiping. RCMP officers and the' mine manager ‘ordei the: " Eater, about 100 residents of the Peachland wate alstelct: joined the protestérs inside the. fence to view the diversion? project and stayed about. 30 minutés, Chataway: sal : “ “the protest group has also staged a sleep-in‘in: ) “centimetre steel pipe, which drains waste water from: 2,000-metre-long mountain-top pond to Okanagan: Lake. . ‘Chataway said the protesters, who placed boards- iia: pond came rushing through. : : Mine.-manager Harris said. water has ‘been flushed ' _— h’ ‘the pi since Monday as a test to determine how: operation between Ottawa and the provinces, but.becaise * through ‘the pipe y ‘of the federal: ‘government's willingness. to ‘finance, half the . rapldly the tailings can be dumped into the ‘creek leading t to’ s the lake... , — ; a \ Access. made. OTTAWA (CP). _ It’s (OK for Canadians to know ‘how: much. they contributed: towards building Prime Mixister® ” .:trudeau’s swittiming pool and how much it costs 0 house “and feed his family. -Buat they can't be given details of ‘Ottawa’ ‘3 financial ine volyement in the 1968“ Calgary: ‘Olympics or.’ cabinet” » discussion fapers lending up to. the sleanitive ‘restraint | ‘program. . cre The. ‘Access ‘to Inforrnailon Act; ‘which came intorettect 7 almost. eight months j ago, : has. ‘uncovered some interesting, “and embarrassing tidbits about government activitie 5 “But the meaty information about how the. govea makes its important, decisions s.for the most’ part. being ; kept secret under more than 100 sweeping exemptions in the, act.. : te Many of the early applications for information fell un the muck-raking category: For example, the Toronto Star obtained one | of the first pieces of. information under the act in July, when: it . discovered taxpayers spent more. than $160,000 ‘in ‘Hacal - : $981-82 to maintain Trudeau's two official residences and to feed and housé him and his family. . . PAID FOR POOL): vine Soon, afterward The Canadian Press learned taxpaycre: contributed $25,677 loward building the swimming pool at 24° Sygsex Drive in'1975, But it was told the names of private - donors and the a nount they each contributed wete held by” a private tru: in Toronto. : “The'Star-also found out éhbinet ‘mintaters ‘made ateiwipa’ on: gévertiniénd aierare betwee ‘AptE4 and--July 1 Hage! year, led ‘by Agriculture Minister “Eugene Whetan 06. a - made 21 trips. ‘The ministers ‘Weren't always: ‘alone: Transpart. nlite . Lloyd Axworthy took his live-in girlfriend and her ‘two* . children on two trips; Industry Minister Ed Lumley took his _ wile along; and Solicitor General Robert Kaplan and Mines’ Minister Bill Rompkey allowed, aides and department. af- * ficial to bring their wives on government planes. In another vein, The Canadian Press obtained a ‘public opinion poll on Senate reform, a series of | background’ ' papers anda draft cabinet discussion paper on the proposed division of the Northwest Territoriés and an Employment Department document showing almost one in five people "under 24 will remain unemployed well into 1985. CP has also obtained edited copies of reports by the .. federal prison investigator at riots at Archambault, Mat “T'ye.seen lots of falling stars in my life, but ven never , : squi and Stony Mountain prisons. Earlier this month the Vancouver: Province received documents showing the government knowingly aponsored : research in which unsuspecting patients were used. as- guinea pigs in mind-altering experiments years before the CIA ‘became involved. OS DENIED MATERIAL . . . What sort-of information is being denied? vit CP asked the Justice Department for documents: showing. how the Charter of Rights affects the rights of homosexuals ‘but was told such information does not exist... . - It asked the same department for the titles of. all federal Jaws that must be revised because of the Charter and. was" _ told the list is a cabinet document. The Calgary Herald was denied, among other things, records outlining how protnised federal funding, for the 1088 . Winter Olympics is to be distributed, records’ “concerning . doctors who are prohibited from prescribing naxcatic drugs and coples of the estimated nancial performance of the; National Sports Pool. The Star couldn't get: cabinet discussion papers, leading. up to the six-and-five program, but was told it could have: ‘some, ne background bapers for mut pr ; “l'd like to see a set of your unbreakable dishes.”