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Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permisslan of the Publisher. ‘The Terrace-Kitimat Dally Herald Newspaper is politically independent and a member of the British Columbia Press Council. . aie a Turner tough OTTAWA (CP) — Jack Horner, the Conservative turned Liberal, once described John Napier Turner as “the kind of politician who can make you eat dirt and Ike it.”* “He waa a very tough taskmaster,” says Simon Relsman, Tumer’s former deputy minister in the Finance Depart- ment, “He selected good stalf and he worked the ass off them.” Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney described the smooth-talking, fluently bilingual Tumer in 1972 as “the Liberal dream ii motion.” Four years later, some Con- servatives thought Turner was their dream, too, and tried to recruit him for the Tory leadership. Mulroney now calls the 64-year-old Toronto lawyer and Bay Street businessman “Ol' Blue Eyes.” But tena of thousands of Liberals more respectfully call him Prime Minister Trudeau's heir appareal — and have been doing s0 practically ever since Turner’s first bid for the leadership in 1968. . “I think John is the hands-down, odds-on-favorite for Liberal leader,” Senator Keith Davey, Liberal campaign chairman, said last June. Dalton Camp, the former Conservative president who now is a columnist, wrote earlier this month that Turner's legend has grown to the polnt that he now is “something like the Prince of Wales — possessed of a lineal, natural right of inheritance." POLLS TAKEN A 1978 Gallup poll ilustrates the mystique. If Turner had led the Liberals that November, they would have been five | points ahead of the Conservatives instead of eight points behind, as they then were, the survey sald. Bilt 46 per cent of the respondents didn’t even kiow who. Tether was Aiidng:(hoxe-who did: hii support Wai even’ higher, Turner's opponents try to blame the media for the vast support. But Turner has been largely out of the public eye sitice he quit the cabinet nine years ago, and yet a poll of Quebec voters last fall found him the cholce of 42 per cent of respondents as ‘Trudeau's successor. Finance Minister Mare Lalonde, who isn’t running, yet, . was the choice of 25 per cent and Energy Minister Jean Chretien, who is, had the support.of 21 per cent. Turner's reputation is rooted in his upbringing. Born in England, he was educated at the University of Britlsh Columbia, Oxford University and the University of Paris. He practised lawin Montreal before entering Parllament in 1962. STATURE ENHANCED His stature has been greatly enhanced by his establish- ment connections with everyone from Conrad Black to the | Bronfmang, his directorships on the boards of some of the country's largest corporations and the widespread per- ception that he was a successiul minister of finance who held the line on government spending. . But the record is not without flaws and he can expect . greater attention will be focused on them as he returns ta public life. Some Liberals still seehim as disloyal for quitting in 1975, Others won't forglve him for the newsletters he and a law partner. wrote critical of then finance minister Jean Chretien and the government's “continued inability to put its fiscal house in order.” And In 1979, when Trudeau first announced his retirement, Turner bowed out of the race even before it began. Some said his support in southern Ontario had already begun to erode. As justice minister from 1968 to 1972 he was instrumental in the passage of the Official Languages Act in 1989. But he waa also instrumental In implementing the War Measures Act in 1970, suspending civil liberties during the FLQ crisis. DEFICIT INCREASED Employment grew by 940,000 jobs while he was finance minister from 1972 to 1975, and personal and corporate taxea were lowered, But government spending rose 5) per‘ cent to $35 billion, the federal deticit Jumped five-fold to $5.4 billion and inflation doubled to 10.9 per cent; More recently, Turner was burned when twe companies of which he was chairman ran into serious financial trouble. CFI Investments Inc,, a film company set up in 1076 to take advantage of tax Incentives he created while finance minister in 1974, went bankrupt last year. Infinitum Growth Fund Ine. is still running but it lost $2 million last year. Turmer’s absence from the political stage aeame to have worked to his advantage in that no one really knows for - certain where to slat him. Some think he is on the party's small conservative wing, others believe his appeal is much broader. Transport Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who wrote many of Turner’s 1968 campaign speeches, once sald “pragmatic” was a perfect description of Turner. But Senator Jerry Grafatein, a close friend who worked on hia 1846 campaign, says that description ‘deprives him of content. “I think John can be pragmatic; he can be ideological, depending on the circumstances,” “John is very much a middle-of-the-road man in his whole approach to life,” says Relsman, now a private consultant who describes himself as a friend not Involved in the campaign. — ““He’s moierate, believes in the system and has a lot of respect for the traditional way of doing things. He's not a reckless man in any sense. He's more inclined to be in- cremental in his approach.” For example, Reisman says, ‘there's no way on God's green earth’? Turner would have brought in the con- troversial national energy program or Allan MacKachen'a bungled 1962 budget. a earl Nile atlas ote a - Banks push prime lending rate up again ‘The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and four smaller chartered banks were the itat torespondto a abarp: increase in the trend-setting Bank. of Canada rate? ‘om - "Thuredsy by pushing their prime‘lending rates. up hala: percentage point to 11.5 per cent, The prime — the rate at which banka lend to their’ best corporate customers had held steady at 11 per cent fon i. months. The Commerce, Cansida’s second-largest chartered bank, ; along with No, 7:Continental Bank of Canada, No. & Mer- cantile Bank of Canada and the smaller Bank of British Columbia and Western and.Pacifie Bank of Canada: sald.” they had toraise their primes because of the ellmbing costa. ‘of short-term money. Bank of Commerce also announced today that effective Monday, it will raise rates paid to holders of term deposits, . non-chequing savings accounts and daily interest savings accounts by: a range of half to three-quarters of a per-., centage point. ay, Sam aqua, execulive vice-president and chief finenclal officer of Continental Bank, said the increase “was not what Canada needs right now” and had been put off as long as possible, “The cost of funds has been rising since mid-November with no corresponding increase in the prime," he said, adding that, he felt the move'was only temporary. ; Finance Minister Mare Lalonde, responding In the : Commons to opposition condemnation of the government’ Fd interest Tate policy,. alsa said he hopes: interest rates will | decling later this year.: a But Jan van' Vlelt, ‘senior ‘pcontoinist ‘at the’ forecasting firm of Chase Econometrics, ' ‘warned that the increase may touch off a round of increanes in such senaitive, APeAS a8 mortgages and‘ ‘consumer lending: - He sald the higher prime will Likely put ps further damper on business investment: in the ‘economy, which . was not atrong even! under lower interest rates, y 0 HURTS THE DOLLAR . * Tt was prompted by rising interest rates In ‘the United States that: altracted investors and put pressure on the Canadian dollar, which has slumped below the T-cent US. level in recent-days. . The government and the Bank of Canada are trying to walk a fine line between protecting the dollar with higher interest rates and keeping the economic recovery going. But some economists have suggested jt would be belter to accept a weaker dollar because although that would boost inflation through higher import prices, {t would also make Canadian goods more competitive domestically and in. export markets. This would improve the trade balance, lead to more money flowing into the country and ultimately boost the . Canadian dollar, they say... Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar recovered marginally against its American counterpart Thursday, propped up by the large increase in the Bank of Canada rate, The dollar closed, at 73.74 cents USs., up 7-100 of a cent Machines: thwart petty crooks VANCOUVER (CP) — The new automated teller machines may look temptingly easy to steal from but,.in fect, few criminals have managed {o cheat them. - Petty crooks have tried prying them open with crowbars to get at the money but, so far, they haven't succeeded. A few customers have withdrawn funds from them and. then denied nraking the transaction but investigations in- variably jog their memories, While the potential. fér abuse of the banking machines, grows along with the increasing number of them available at financtal institutions, offictals say that annual losses from machine abuse are still low. Klaes Secher, spokesman for Toronto Dominion Bank, estimated the bank lost ‘about $200,000 last year through fraud committed on its 350 machines across Canada. He sald there were more than 30 million trattsactions.on the machines. ' ‘The average loss on 4 fraudulent transaction, he said, ’ amounted to a “tidbit' — usually less than $100. FAMILY FRAUD. “Family fraud” is the most common type, A friend, family member or other acquaintance learns a person's secret identification code, steals the banking card and with-: draws money. . “ The machines require a secret code — which Is elther , chosen by the client or assigned to him by the bank — to be. punched in before a transaction can be made. Customers are encouraged to memorize the number and’ : nol write it down, but many unwisely keep a record of the _ Cade alongside the bank card itself. - : Secher sald most people report the loss of a card im-, mediately, which minimizes the number of fraudulent transactions, Others, however, have taken weeks to report Shelter tia Wo hatetactag =: Maneély-watite i ssi roll Sanat. the loss and In those ' CARES, they are responsible for the losses, Another common practice is withdrawal of funds on “unverified" deposits, A* person deposits a worthless cheque to his account and then withdraws funds based on the fraudulent balance. But Secher said the bank cari contro) that form of abuse by deciding whether or not to give a customer the privilege of withdrawing funds on unverified deposits... |. A “character assesiment'’ of a customer is made, he said, before granting that privilege. “The syatem is actually more secure than dealing with cheques in ‘person at individual branches," said Don Wingfield, the Royal Bank’s B.C, manager of automated banking services, ” Wingfield said the identification number is the greatest protection against abuse. He said he knows of no instance where a pérson with a stolen card has guessed the secret number, The card user has. three chances ta punch in the right number before the Royal -Bank's machines refuse to accept the trangaction. -. A, D. Morris, Bank of Nova Scotia spokesman, sald there was 8 case last month when juveniles tried to gain access to a banking machine with a crowbar. | “They only managed to damage the facade,” he said. "They don’t know what they're dealing with.” John Patterzon, a security spokesman for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, sald the bank occasionally faces a situation-where'a person denies making a tran- saciion when he really did. “But whenever we've conducted an investigation and told the customer that everything pointe to the fact that they made the withdrawal, they've accepted it," he said. “We've never been sued over that kind of a dispute. " o odead ih nodtedi bee tou ze) ppo sition: : "pad OTTAWA (cP) — Canada should have stuck to- its initial strong opposition to last year's U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a former Jamaican prime minister said Thursday, “t would have been very. pleased if Canada had just remalned firmly of the view that the invasion was wrong in . principle,” Michael Manley told reporters after. "University. But he sald there may now be “a slight uncertainty about the way that you have addressed the problem since. And I regret the Canada condemned the Oct. 25 invasion of the tiny Caribbean island- by a number of its neighbors and the United States, and Prime Minister Trudeau - consternation a speech vat, Carleton- a JUSTLOOk “ae ma INTO THE CAMERA Y WHEN THE RED LIGHT GOES ON CORPORAL... AND, SURE, SAY HELLO TO YOUR MOM, ALONG Ag waa ee | ANY INTEREST IN "BENG A LIBERAL ; uncertainty. " expressed that he wag not informed In . advance of the plan. Canada at one point of- fered its services for a possible . Cofmonwealth peacekeeping force” but the force was not created.:'The government has had little to say publicly about Grenada in recent months, and Manley did not elaborate on his criticism. Manley, who has. long champloned. the rights of the Third World, said Grenada should not rush into the election believed to be planned: for this year, An election now would “be a very superficial pracess for people who have heen very traumatized,” he said, adding — that _ Grenadians should first spend a year determining what kind of democracy and constitution they- want, Manley, who was elected : prime minister in 1972 and served until 1980 when he ’ Tost a bitterly contested — election to Edward Seaga, also sald he objects to certain - “gros . misrepresentations" by the Reagan administration, - - Canada should — con- . centrate on helping other countries, especially ‘the United States‘ understand the “complex duality” ‘of many Third World countries that do not fall into the simple Ideological categories to which many in the rest of the world are accustomed. . “b Cruise test fight continues TORONTO (CP) — Canadian peace activists are vowing | to fight cruise missile tests at the ballot box. Organizers of a new peace campalgn told a news con- ference Thursday they will try to transform publle opinion into political leverage" by urging candidates In the next : federal election to exprens their views on nuclear disar- * mament. - Canvassers from the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign, a coalition of national and local groups active in the peace , movement, say they will start knocking on doors in 60 towna and cltles newt month, . "They will be armed with petitions calling for an end to the cruise missile testing in Canada, the declaration of -the country a8 @ nuclear-free zone and diversion of arms spending to “the funding of human needs,"’ “When a federal election comes, we will go to the politicians and say ‘We've got 5,000 petitions here. What's your stand on this?’” said Robert Penner, a campaign Spokesman. Organizers sald they will also get involved at purty nomination meetings, . - ' ‘The first cruise missile test was made over Canadian airspace last week deapite efforis by Operation Diamantle fo block the U,S,'project’ with an Injunction; Sn ~ donald, Alison Lindseth, from Wednesday's close of 78.67, | but down from Thulii’ 's Tate-afternoon high’ of FB.B0 . Money traders were ‘guardedly optimistic, predicting that the gains will last only as long as Canadian interest rates stay ahead of thelr American counterparts, which are, also expected to rise. - ; : - In other developments Thursday: —Mitel Corp, of Kanata, Ont., Ae it ha id a 346 employees at its ta In Florida, New. Yori an Puerto Rico. The high-technology firm sald it has laid off 155 temporary employees from its workforce e of 65) at its staff at its U.S, hetidquarters In. Boca Raton, Fla, and a of 313 al Ogdensburg, N.Y. ee ae —Conservative management. aad an emphasis ‘ow the stronger United States market helped Calgary-based Trizec ‘Corp. Ltd. to a seventh straigtit year of profit Increases last ‘year, president Harold Milavaky said. Trizec'a net income rose to $44 million of $1.17'9 common Bhare in 1983, com pared with $95.7 million or 70 centa 4 share In 1962. © —And, the French government’s Pechiney Group. joined ” with Alumax Corp. of San Mateo, Calif, and the Québec government’s Soclete generale de financement to form a new company called Aluminerle de Becancour Inc. which ts building a $1.5-billion ameélter ta produce 230,000 tonnes of aluminum a year at Becancotr, Que., about 150 kilometres northeast of Montreal. . Reagan oriticizet ed TORONTO (CP) — Some of Canada’s most intent acid rain, which the che leaders called a threat to God's creation, In 4 public letier ‘to Reagan released Thursday, : the churchmen said they: are “deeply disappointed, ‘and frustrated that your administration appears unwilling to support measures to reduce emissions that cause geld rain.” The letter was: sigied : shy. Most. Rev.. Edward primate of the Argli¢an: Church: Most. Rev. Remi de, Roo, chairman of the social affaira commission of the Canadian - Conference of Catholic Bishops; Right Rev. Clarke ‘Mac- donald, moderator of the United Church; Rev. .Donald MacDonald, moderator of the Presbyterian Church; Rey. Russell, Legge, prealdent of the Canadian Couheil of Churches; ‘and Rey. Robert Binhammer, president of the Lutheran Church in America, Canada section. Appealing to Reagan's oft-stated desire to return: fun- damentalist ‘moral and religious, values to the U.5.;, the clergyfnen said that, from a-biblical and theological : ‘per-. spective, humanity has tho duty to protect and nurture the Earth, not exploit ard destroy it. hots ‘SAD COMMENTARY’ rat “Qur-churches find it a sad commentary on our age that your Administration claims to lack the resources::for - protecting the environtnent through acid rain control-and yet is devoting vast sums toward the production.of-more armaments capable of destroying the Earth,” the. letter sald, . at The clergymen said the Canadian people shares thie federal government's recent diplomatic protest over U. S. inaction pn acid rain: - “One can well understand the anger of many Canadians as we sce vulnerable areas of the environment in cour . country damaged by acid rain coming from your country.” ucail caea ad raaey = a. responsibility to - oxide and. nitrowporide emissions... including” ita taigher er emianing, atanderds fom aypton vehicles, but added we feel our. government. at. least recognizes the seriousness of the acid rain problem. and is committed to reduce this threal to the environment, a8 quickly as possible." Some scientists estimate as much aa 50 per cent of the acid rain falling in Canada is caused by American sources of sulphur dioxide. ; Acid rain results when sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxlde emissions react chemically with moisture In the at- mosphere. It has been blamed for killing life in hundreds of: Canadian and American water bodles, Guiding News All girls in the Tall Totem area took part in the Torchiight Parade and Thinking Day Service to celebrate: Lord and Lady Baden-Powell's birthdays. This event was combined with the Boy Scouts of the area, A silver collection was taken and $148.was realized and’ donated to the Heritage Museum Society. KITSUMGALLUM DISTRICT. . The Kitsumgallum District held its annual parent and daughier banquet. ‘The flags were carried in, Oh Canada and Grace sung then a most enjoyable pot luck enjoyed. After supper leaders were introduced and appointment pins presented. Sister Mary was glven a Girl Guide Friendship Pin in appreciation for her cooperation. The Pathfindera then led everyone in a Lion Hunt before the cookie poster winners announced, Cookle poster winners were. Ist Kits Brownies Joanne. Thompsén, Krista Scott and Kim Kennedy. 3rd Hits Brownies; Sarah Morgan, Jenny Meeks, and Sarah “Strachan, Ist Kits Guides Julie Krause, Dawn Fedorik, and Stacey Martin, 21d Kits Guides Jill Currie, Pamela Quadros, and Debra Graf. ard Kils Guides Kyra Mac- Jodi Marshall, and Aralyn Lutz Honorable Mention. Division witners in our district were 1. Joanne Thomp- ton, Brownles; 2, Julie Crause, Lat Guides; Jill Currte, 2nd es. The Eastern Star Stamp Plaque Was presented to 2nd Kita . Guides, Theresa Middleton accepted the plaque asshe had collected a good percentage of the stamps ‘The money realized from gelilng these stamps is used for cancer research and dressings - so save your used stamps. . After the campfire the Srd Kits Guides presented pennies . for the World Friendship Fund to help Guiding throughout the world. ' ‘Thanks go out to the Legion. Ladies Auxillary for their _ donation, :Skeena Girls Basketball Team for the fine job of setting ue tables and, Serving, Skeena Schoot and Veritas At this ‘time. the Kdsumgaitarn, District would Like-io thank the Herald for their cooperatlol and assistance In the large Thinking Day advertisement : -and being able to print our news column, . |: 4 NORTHERN LIGHTS AREA The Northern Lights area meeting has held in ace Bt the Inn of the West Saturday March 10, The rene : consisting of Guides from Prince Rupert, Kitimat and Sinithers discussed regular business along with discussions on our %$th Anniversary Celebrations of Gulding fn Canada in 1985, Division and Committee Reports were read, A Pathfinders Rally will be held in Kitimat in May.. Al this time area counc!] would Ike to thank the Inn of the Went for the use of their fectlitles, and the staff for their kind cooperation,