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Striking British Columbia
Railway workers withdrew
their picket lines late
Tuesday after voting to
accept a return to work
arrangement worked out by
railway officials and union
leaders,

Contract negotiations
resumed today as rail ser-
viee was back to normal
following a 2% day strike
which disrupted operations
north of Prince George.

A spokesman for the
strikers in Prince George
said they voted to lift the
picket lines after it was
agreed the company would
not take disciplinary action
and that contract talks would
start immediately. .

A recommednation for
return to work was signed by
representatives of the
railway and the joint council

_ ef seven railway unions

following a day long meeling
at the offices of the B.C.
Labor Relations Board.
Council vice chairman
Glen Bowles, of the United
Transportation Union, said
strike vote will be taken
after the LRB approves the
council's voting procedures
and schedule, He said the
council, which applied Aug.
~16 for authorization to take a

: strike vote, could submit its

vole plans ‘to the board
today.

Agreement to resume
direct negotiations without
mediation came on the day
government mediator Fred
Geddes was to become
available to enter the
dispute. The railway applied
for a mediator earlier this
month. .

Hugh Armstrong, 2 B.C,
Rai) spokesman, said
Tuesday's work stoppages

involved about 1,200 workers -

at six locations, resulting in
spasmodic service north of
Prince George but causing
little disruption south of that

VGH

Surgical!

‘Vancouver jgeneral Hospital

administrator Peter
Bazowski Tuesday to close
more than 100 beds tem-
porarily because of a short-
age of nursinr staff.

Despite the hospital's
recent strife and VGH's call
for 181 more nurses, the
patient occuparcy rate
remains high fr the time of
year and only four per cent
of te hospital's beds have
been closed,

A surgical head nurse said
Bazowski seemed receptive
to the request for more
closures in 17 surgical
departments, which would
affect general, orthopedic,
nose and throat and other
kinds of surgical beds.

She said the beds would be
clsed “‘on a tenporary basis
in order t consolidate staff,”

They would probably be
reopened in September after
the hspital assesses who is
remaining from the many
resignations this stimmer of
senior nurses and the
graduating class nurses
from the University of B.C.
has been made familiar with

VRH.

In addition to the
resignations at VGH, staf-
fing has had its annual

.

FORCED OUT
Pickets forced 320 em-

ployees off the job at the “’_.

uamish station Tuesday,
and picketing also accurred

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at te,

at Prince George, Williams .- -

Lake, Fort. St.

Armstrong said, He said
there were no pickets at Fort

Nelson, Fort St. John or ¢ ‘+ 3.7",° we

Dawson Creek.

The decision by about 160..."
strikers in Prince George to." -;

return to work came after

Vancouver union leaders *-. ,. ;

urged them to call off the
strike,

The joint council's
recommendation said that
“in view of the position taken

by certain unionized em- . -

ployees of the B.C.

Railway," the

cease the illegal action they
are involved in and return to
work immediately.”

Bowles said the strikers
were told “they were at the
mercy of the board and the
law of the land” if they
continued to stay out,

The strikers’ spokesman
said pickets came down
about 11 p.m. Tuesday.

The Prince George
strikers, who acted without
union authorization, had
voted Monday night to carry
on with the work stoppage,
saying they were upset with
the railway’s failure to enter
meaningful negotiations for
anew contract toreplace one
which expired July 31.

The contract talks cover
about 2,200 workers in seven
unions, bargaining together
in the joint council formed
last year under the auspices
of ‘the LRB under the
provincial labor code.

B.C, Rail said it has of-
fered workers a three year
contract including increases
in wages and benefits
amounting to seven per cent,
5,6 per cent and 5.2 per cent.
The unions say the proposal

includes annual wage in- PO

creases of four per cent.

could

regular" replace-
ment staff taking holidays

before returning to,
university.

RATE HIGHER

Faye Cooper, public

relations co-ordinator for the
hospital, said the ccuianecy
rate has been between 80 and
82 per cent this summer,
higher than the usual
summer rate of 70 to 78 per
cent.

The winter occupancy rate
is about 95 per cent, she said.

Four per cent of the
hospital's 1,763 beds have
been closed: 52 are closed
because of staff shorlages
and 21 because of re-
novations.

The hospital agrees with
complaints that there aren't
enough nurses, Cooper said.
The new graduates start at
VGH Sept. 5, but wan't be on
the wards until Sept. 18.

Following. 4 report last
week from the quality of
care appraisal committee,
medical board chairman Dr.
W. D. Stewart said: “It may
be that we will have to clase
some wards.”

In his report, committee «

chairman Dr. R. E. Robins
said some patients had been
denied admission due to lack
of nursing staff.

Low standards to go

VANCOUVER CP -
Universities that lower their
admission standards in
order to attract new students
are only hurting themselves,
Doug Kenney, president of
the University of British
Columbia said Tuesday.

Kenny, addressing
delegates to the Com-
monwealth Universilies’
Congress here, said
universities cannot afford to
open their doors to everyone
because they must maintain
high quality.

“The hard fact is that, by
and large, the essence of

her education is to be
selective,’ he said, ‘‘In
-aceepting this truth, most
universities have realized
that their guiding principle
was to enhance quality,
while fully recognizing the
Importance of justice.

“Without a strong com-
mitment to first class
learning, a university will be
committed to a second class
future."

Keeny said universities
should provide ‘equal
educational opportunilles
regardless of race, sex,
religion ana . ‘onomic status

but, at the same time, must
also maintain admission
standards.

“fhis principle simply
means that we . guarantee
every person with the ap-
propriate entrance:
requirements an.equal op-
portunity ‘to enter a
university," he said. ‘this
principle doesn’t imply an
open admissions policy - in
fact, entrance requirements
assume an inequality based
on academic and intellectual
grounds.”

Kenny said universities
must privide education that
will challenge students to the
limit of their abilities and
turn out graduates with the
best qualities possible.

“Just as banks must
maintain selectivity among
borrowers, the credit-
worthiness of universities
will depend upon their
resolve to preserve stan-
dards and {o push forward a
student’s intellectual
frontiers to the highest level
before he is permitted to
graduate," he said.

Starling next month, UBC
will tighten its requirements
for students entering from
Grade 12.

council .
“directs the membership to .

James, |
Chetwynd and Mackenzie -

Kate Inoue, Children’s
Librarian at the Terrace
Public Library for the past-
two years has moved. We are
sorry tosee her go and wish
to thank her for the fantastic
things she has done for the
library during that time.

We already have someone
to take her place, however,
and she will continue to keep
things active in the
Children’s Department of

the Library. Her name is
Sandra Henson. She is a
graduate of Humboldt State
University in Arcata,
California where she
majored in Education.

She is a Canadian citizen
nad has just moved from
Princeton, B.C, where she
was Community Librarian
for the Princeton Branch of
the: Okanagan Regional
Library.

*h

Sandra Henson

New children’s Librarian

By Miehael Collins |

Besides her duties with the
library there she was also an
alderman for the Village of
Princeton and has been
involved with numerous

recreational. programmes
for seme time.
Her hobbies include

cooking, ‘weaving, pottery
and reading. We are happy
to have Sandra here with us
and hope that she enjoys
Terrace.

Hostage taking youth
shot by Toronto police

TORONTO (CP) — The
lice shooting Tuesday of a
youth who held a 15-year-old
girl at‘knifepoint for seven
hours marked the third such
death involving the
Metropolitan Toronto force
this month. .

A police spokesman said

. Supt. Frank ‘Barbetta shot

and killed: Paul Reid, 16,.an
escapes from the Pine Ridge
Training School in
Bowmanville, Ont., after ne-°
gotiations Eailed to convince
Reid to surrender.

Police said Reid's erratic
actions in the last hour of the
hostage-taking led to the
decision that the incident
must be brought to an end.

Supt. Barbetta was able to
distract the youth, allowing

the girl to move out of the
way, and then caught Reid
with two shots from a .38-
calibre revolver.

Earlier this month, a 55-
yearold man brandishing a
gun was shot and killed by
police during an incident ata
downtown apartment. The

officers were called.after a...

man telephoned police

saying he wquid kill the first. -

policeman he saw.

KILLED IN DISCO
Two days later, a 24-year-

old man was shot and killed

by a police officer during a
disturbance at downtown
discotheque.

Tuesday's ordeal: began
when Reid broke into a
three-storey house and found

6% for PSAC —

AGREEMENT SIGNED
OTTAWA (CP) — The
Public Service Alliance of
Canada (PSAC) has: ac-
cepted a oneyear, six-per-
cent pay increase for its
13,000-member general
service group. Treasury
Board, the government’s
negotiator, announced
Tuesday it had signed the
agreement, effective Dec.
26, 1977, with the PSAC, The
group is composed of clea-

ners, cooks, laundry
workers, tailors, security
guards, storemen,

messengers and diplomatic
couriers.

CANADA CONTRIBUTES

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada
will contribute $1 million in
wheat flour to the United
Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestinian
refugees, the Canadian
International Development
Agency announced Wed-
nesady. A development
agency statement said the
contribution is above and
beyond the $2.5 million in

flour and $1.65 million in
cash donated to the UN
agency this year.

TIME TO PAY

QUEBEC (CP) — A 48-
yearold man, fined 90 cents
and charged $2.20 court costs
Tuesday in sessions court for
petty theit, has been given 30
days to pay the fine, The
man, who pleaded guilty to
stealing two bottles of beer
from a grocery last August,
had only 75 cents in his
pocket when the sentence
was handed down.
TWO MORE ESCAPES

MONTREAL (CP) — Two
prisoners escaped from
separate prisons in nearby
Laval Monday night. Police
are looking for 24-year-old
Serge Ouellette, who
escaped during a_ visiting
period from minimum-se-
curity Montee St, Francois
Institution, and Ghislain
Girard, 23, who broke out of
mediumsecurity Leclerc
Institution, Neither is con-
sidered dangerous.

Katerburgservice

Funeral services were
held August 15 for John
Katerberg at the Christian
Reformed Church in Sardis,
B.C. Mr. Katerberg passed
away August 11, 1978, in
Lacombe, Alberta while on
vacation.

He was bern in Holland on
April 28, 1914, and resided in
Terrace from 1955 to 1977.

After leaving Terrace Mr,
Katerberg took up residence
at 7520 Queen Street In
Sardis and worked in
Chilliwack as a custodian for
School District 33.

He is survived by his wife
Klassje, five sons, Hank of
Michigan, John Jr. of Ab-
botsford, Frank and Harry of
Prince Rupert, Richard of
Sardis, and three grand-
children.

Pallbearers ‘were Hank

Katerberg, John Katerberg, ,

Frank Katerberg, Harry
Katerberg, Richard
KAterberg and Henry
Bergman. Burial took place
at the Oddfellow's cemetery.
Henderson Funeral Home
was in charge of the
arrangements.

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Jackie Belleville, daughter
of the owner, alone on the
second floor.

Police said the youth

apparently intended to rob.

what he thought was an
empty house. They said he
had abanoned a stolen car on
a nearby side street.

Reid took .the. girl to a
thirdiloor bedroom where he

tied her hands. and legs with,

ropes and handkerchiets.

A neighbor saw the youth
enter the house and alerted
police,

Minutes later, a police
officer arrived and the youth
told him he would kill the
girl. The officer called for
reinforcements.

Supt. Barbetta and S.Sgt.
William ‘Bishop negotiated
with Reid for almost seven
hours. Reid demanded safe
passage to Scotland, where
he said he was born, and a
chance to speak to his
mother. He also wanted a
training schoo] supervisor

_ brought to the sceile.
MOTHER DILT ARRIVE

Reid's mother never
arrived, but a _ schcol
supervisor was in at-
tendance.

Supt. Barbetta said that
when police arrived, the
youth was curled next to the
girl holding a serrated steak
knife to her throat.

Later, he sat in a chair
-with the girl on his lap witha
knife still at her throat.

However, S.Supt. Michael
Coulis said that in the last
hour of negotiations, Reid
became erratic in his
movements and his
demands.

“He started to make
waving motions (with the
knife)," he said.

§.Supt. Coulis added that
Supt. Barbetta felt that the
girl's life was in imminent
danger.

“There was an opportunity
and he was able to distract
the person sufficiently that
the girl was ableto move and
he was able to use his fire-
arm and he fired two shots,”"
TAKEN TO PARENTS

After the shooting, Supt.
Barbetta took the shaken but
unharmed girl through a
crowd of onlookers into the
neighboring house, where her
parents were waiting,

The girl had arrived from
Cornwall, Ont., on Monday to
visit her father, Victor Belle-
ville. Her parents are sepa-
rated. ‘

Police said she remained
valm throughout the ordeal
and there was no indication
that Reid knew the family.

The street, a quiet neigh-
borhood, was ringed’ with
police snipers and? crowded
with reporlers, cameramen,
policemen and onlookers.

ots. way

THE HERALD, Thursday, Augus) 24, 1978, Page 3

2 / Obscenity laws co uld

mean censorship

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Adoption of proposed
amendments to federal

obscenity laws would en-
courage harassment and
censorship, says the British
Columbia Civil Liberties
Association.

The association has sent a
letter to former justice
minister Ron Basford, al-
tacking legislation he in-
troduced in the House of

- Commons Jast May increas-

ing ‘the penalties for

breaking obscenity laws..
The association said it op-

posed even the present ob-

+» seenity laws in Canada, but

focused its attack on the two
amending clauses, 18 and 19.

Clause 18 redefines what is
legally considered obscene
and clause 19 calls for stiffer

nalties.

The BCCLA said that child
pornography laws have been
extended to the point where
they could endanger all of
the arts.

The obscenity laws con-
cerning children are to be
broadened so that nothing
could depict or describe a
child even simulating sexual
acts or unduly displaying
any portion of his or her body
in a sexually suggestive
manner, BCCLA said.

“Adding the ‘sexually
suggestive’ criterion could
presumably choke off even
such trivial and harmless
productions as old Shirley
Temple movies,"" BCCLA
said.

Lawmakers now will not
only have to settle disputes
over what is obscene but also
what is to be considered
sexually suggestive, BCCLA
said.

Schooner
stripped

VICTORIA (CP) — The re-
port of an investigation into
the destruction of the
provinciallyowned schooner
Freelance places the blame

‘for the vessel's loss on the ~

government of Panama, Dr.

Philip Ney, of the Quest Star

Society, sald Wednesday:
He said the report,;now'on

Minister Sam Bawlf, will
show that the 30-metre, gaff-
rigged schooner could have
sailed off the reef and back
to British Columbia had it
not deen stripped and looted
by natives.

The society was in charge
of the vessel when it hit a
reef off the San Blas Islands
in the Caribbean Sea on June
13, and at that ime accused
the Panamanian govern-
ment of allowing the craft to
be destroyed.

In announcing the pur-
chase, Bawlf said the
government had paid
$125,000 for the schooner.

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Other amendments ‘also
extended obscenity from
“undue exploitation of sex,
and crime, horror, cruelty or
violence,’ to ‘‘undue
exiloitation of sex er crime,
horror, cruelty or violence,”
BCCLA said.

“Thus, the latter four
would become obscene in
their own right, surely
opening a pandora's box of
possible charges and sup-
pression. For example,
would so-called ‘‘detective’
or ‘mystery’ novels
represent undue exploitation
of crime?”

A third amendment, which
added “undue degradation of
the human person” as ob-
scene is vague and am-
biguous, BCCLA said.

Widening the boundaries is
yet another amendment
which allows for any kind of
thing to be considered ab-

scene, BCCLA said.

“Items covered by the
code would clearly and
explicitly de extended from
‘publication’ to ‘malter or
thing,"

This change ‘would
greatly increase  op-
portunities for harassment
of citizens by police, customs
officials and others.”

Pornographers would face
“grotesquely excessive”
punishments under clause
19, the association said.

“The amendment calls for
truly draconian punishments
to be imposed on producers
and purveyors of por-
nography.”

“And these extreme
penalties are to be imposed
for ‘criminal’ acts in which
the ‘victims’ those who
read or watch obscene
materials—are chiefly
volunteers."”

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