Not enough profs
not enough food

VANCOUVER (CP}
Thirdworld countries are
facing severe food shortages
because . they lack
professionals who can help
their citizens become self-
sufficient, a Commonwealth
universities conference was
told here Monday.

Sir John Crawford,
chancel or of the Australian
National University, said
universities in developing
countries do not play a large
enough role in economic
development and are not
turning out enough
agricultural technologists
and researchers.

“If allowed to function
reasonably in a developing
country, a university will
almost inevitably have a
pervasive influence in the
gocial and economic
development of its country
or, of its region, inthe case of
large countries like India,”
he told 600 delegates at-
tending the 12th Com-
monwealth Universities
Congress.

He said there is no escape
from rural poverty or
progress toward  seif-
sufficency unless yields are
improved or more new land
opened up than can be ex-
pected from traditional tech-
nologies.

Crawford said, however,
that third world govern-
ments must recognize that
universities need adequate
funds to train personnel and
apply new technology. but
added these universities are
at best only moderately
equipped for teaching and
research,

PLAY BACKSTOP ROLE

Universities in developed
countries such as Canada
and Australia, he suggested,
could havea “backstop role”
using their more:
sophisticated equipment to

better tackle, than de-
velopng countries, basic
problems blocking greater
production. ‘
Developing countries, he
said,: must aim for self-
sufficiency in food
production because tradi-
tional suppliers such as
North America and
Australia, can’t be expected
to shelp beyond emergency
aid.
- L, H. Shebeski, dean of
agriculture at the University
of Manitoba, said the world’s

current agricultural land |

area should be able to
provide food for three to four
times the present population.

This can be done by using’
expanding
developing

pesticides,
irrigation,
disease-resistant varieties of
crops, increasing numbers of
kinds of crops grown 4 year
and by reducing land in
summer fallow in more
temperate regions.

“In these countries it
should be possible to. in-
crease production by at least
50 per cent during the next
ten years and, in some cases,
even double production..,.but
only if the transfer of
knowledge can be mate to
reach and be utilized by
literally ‘millions of sub-
sistence farmers,” he said.

“There should be little
doubt that there is an un-
tapped production potential
(hat could be developed at a
rate that would ensure an
adequate diet for alk the
earth’s inhabitants.”

He said the 10,000 people
who die each day from
malnutrition do so not
because of a world food
shortage but because they
can’t buy sufficient food to
exist, a condition caused by
inadequate capital,
marketing structure and
storage facilities.

Anti-abortionists
welcome cancellation

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Health Minister Bob Ne-
Cielland's cancellation of the
Vancouver General Hospital
(VGH) annual -: general
meeting ‘was’ welcomed
Monday.aby, anticabortion
forces and criticized by a
group fighting for cholce in
abort!

on.
McClelland said he was
cancelling the meeting, an
annual battle between pro
and antlabortion forces,
each trying to elect trustees
torepresent its point of view,
because the anticipaed
confrontation had created
anxiety in an already-
troubled situation. »
Pro-Life president Betty
Green said the cancellation
was a good thing because it
made McClelland personally
accountable for the abortion
situation at the hospital.
Barbara Findlay of Con-
cerned Citizens for Choice on
Abortion said in a news
release that the organization
is dismayed that the an-
nouncement left unanswered
such questions as the status
of the current membership
and the thousands of ap-
plications held by VGH.
Hespital spokesman Fay
Cooper said VGH will return
all applications for mem-
bership, with the $2 fee,
Although the return fees
sent membership is not
ing dissolved, VGH . will
also return the $2 renewal
fees, because administrator
. Peter Bazowski will retain
all powers which would have
been vested in a board of
trustees elected at an annual
general meeting, she said.
About 50,000 applications
for new memberships were
given out by the hospital for
this: year’s meeting,

although less than a fifth had
been returned. The deadline
for applications is Friday.

Ms. Green said that
because of McClelland’s
decision, governments will

have to stop passing the
abortion buck.

“They will no onger be
able to use the unborn child
as a political football," she

“Ms. .Findlay, wad urged
that VGH administratlon be
returned to normal as soon
as possible, said anii-
abortionists have flooded
Lion’s Gate Hospital with
applications for mem-
bership.

“CCCA only managed to.
sign up 800 applications
before the deadline bul we
hope this is suffilient tm
prevent a single issue group
from gaining control of Lions
Gate Hospital,” she said.

Ms. Findlay asked
whether the government was
going to lock to appoint
administrators to all
hospitals. ‘‘Surely the
government should take an
unequivocal stand that the
acai abi ity of abortion is a
medical procedure just as,
for example, blood tran-
sfusians are,” s e said, “If
that were done, hospitals
culd then ret down to their
business of patient care.”

Meanwhile, Barb Bradley,
another senior nurse and a
surgical assistant super:
visor, Tesigned Monday. --
making her the 1th nurse to
leave over the policies of the
previous administration.

Vgh doesn’t want nurses
like me araound who are
clinically competent, ad-
vanced in skills and ready to
take leadership roles,” she

said,

*] don’t think they listen to
nurses; [ don’t think they
want to, ''Most of the things
that go through a nursing
committee is vetoed by a
non-nursing committee,
anyway.

“The department of
surgical nursing is now in a
state of chaos. In three to
four weeks, it will be in a
state of crisis.”

2,4,.D buffer
cut back

VICTORIA (CP) -- The
environment ministry has
cut beck to 800 metres the
buffer zone surrounding a 10-
acre plot of weeds near
Summerland, B.C., treated
with the controversial
herbicide 2,4-D.

Ministry spokesman Steve
Phillips said Tuesday the
zone was reduced to its
oririnal size when no traces
of the herbicide were found
outside the 600-metre mark.

The ministry expanded the
buffer zone {o 2,400 metres
Aug. 16 as a safety measure
because of sirong ground
currents. .

At the time, biologist Dr.
Peter Newroth said there
was no cause for concern
because the amount of 2,4-D
residue found was well below
the minimum drinking-
water standards set dv the
World Health Organization.

Phillips also said Tuesday
that 182,00 kilograms of
Eurasian water milfoil was
harvested last week in
Vaseux Lake, between
Penticton and Osoyoos in the
Okanagan Valley.

He said the harvesting
allowed swimmers use lhe
beaches for the first time in
two months.

Southbound traffic across the old Terrace bridge was

—

closed Monday night, forcing: many motorists to turn
around and use the new route over the by-pass. Sooner

or later much needed alterations of a

lasting nature

will have to be carried out on this historic feat of

engineering, in the interest of public safety. North-
bound traffic was still using one lane when this photo

was taken at 7 p.m.

BCR wildcat strike ends in PG

VANCOUVER CP - The
British Columbia Railway
BCR went to the B.C. Labour
Relations Board LRD today
to try to end a wildcat strike
at Prince George which has
disrupted the railway's
services.

The company said the
railway was operating on a
“reasonably normal basis”

‘from North Vancouver to

Prince George in central
B.C. but services north of
there were spasmodic.

The company said the

trouble involved about 300
mmbers of seven unions at
Prince George but the
workers who set up at strike
headquarters there said
employees were also off the
job at Quesnel, Fort St.
James and Fort Nelson,
further north. .

The Prince George
workers, who voted.
unanimously Monday night
to continue the strike which
began Sunday, said they
were protesting the com-
pany’s failure to engage in
meaningful discussions

during the current round of
contract talks with the year
old joint council of railway
unions.

They said the bargaining
problems showed a con-
tinuing anti-labor attitude by
the provincial government's
railway corporation. The
strikers also said they won't
return to their jobs until the
negotiation become serious.

The strikers denied they
were trying to break up the
new joint council set up
under the auspices of the
LRB.

Companywants to retrieve
seized fishing boat

VANCOUVER (CI) — A
Vancoucer fishing company
has begun legal proceedings
to retrieve a $30,000 fishing
boat being held following the
arrest. of - a Vancouver .:
fishermen.; charged. with..
illegally . fishing :‘in:: ‘United: ~
States waters.“

The boat was rented by Jo-
seph Herioshi Negero, a
Vancouver gillnetter
Negero, who appeared
before a federal magistrate
in Port Angeles, Wash.,
Nondas, is the first Canadian
fisherman taken into custody
in the Pacific region since
the reciprocal fishing
agreement between the two
countries broke down June 4,
said a U.S. Coast Guard
spokesman. .

Terry Olson, Canadian.

fishing Co. Ltd, spokesman,
said today that Negero
rented the 82 foot steel-hulled .
gill netter from the company
for the season.

Lid. is a subsidiary of New
England Fish Co. of Seattle
Negero appeared in U.S.
federal court Monday and
was released without bond. A
preliminary hearing was
scheduled for Aug. 30 in

Seattle.

CAN KEEP BOAT ;
The maximum penalty for
fishing in U.S. waters is a
$100,-000 fine and six months
in jail, said the coast guard.
if Negero is convicted, the

U.S. government has the
option of keeping the vessel
or returning it to the owner.

The coast guard cutter
Point Countess seized the
doat Sunday night after

cutter personnel spotted it”

fishing about 900 metres’
inside U.S. territorial’ wa-
ters, 28 kilometres west of
Port Angeles in the Strait of
Juan de Fuca. Negero was
the only person in the boat.

jthe seized boat was toned
to Port Angeles and will
remain in U,S. custody until
the courts decide what to do
with it, said the Coast Guard
spokesman.

Several U,8. fishermen
hace been cited by Ianadian
authorities since June 4, he
said, but none has had his
boat seized.

Income tax cuts expected

VICTORIA (CP) _
Finance Minister Evan
Wolfe said today he expects
the federal government will
cut income taxes as well as
various

prograns as
promised. by Prime Minister
Trudeau.

Wolfe said he is pleased
that the provinces will be
consulted before any action
is taken becatise a one-per-
cent cut in income taxes
would mean an immediate
loss of $10 million to British
Columbia.

Provincial premiers have
been notified that Ottawa in-
tends to change some cost-
sharing agreements with the
provinces, and Trudeau said
that given the share that
payments to provinces
reiresent in the federal
budget, reductions or re-
ordering of federal ex-
ienditures could be an-

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Wolfe said he supports the
plan to cut expenses but the
province would like to know
how and where the cuts will
be made. .

He said provincial officials
will monitor proposed
changes to the Canada
Assistance Plan which

currently provides B.C. with
$250 million a year for
health, education .and
welfare programs.

Under the plan, approved
programs are shared on a 50-
50 basis. The federal
government has indicated it
would prefer to make a
lump-sum payment each
year instead.

Brewer” b&e

VICTORIA (CP) — Thirst
for Canadian beer got the
better of two men who were

discovered today inside
Labatt's brewery
warehouse.

The two, aged 23 and 35,
were found by a guard as

t! y sat with an open case of
buzr beside them. Police
took them into custody
withut incident.

Major breweries in the
province have been involved
in astrike-lockoul since May
26.

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MET WITH BOARD

BCR vice president Mac
Norris said the railway and
the union met Monday with
LRD chairman Rene Bone

, who opened a forma! hearing
today into the railway's
application for a cease and
desist order against the
pickets.

The joint council | has
applied to the LAB for a
strike vote involving 2,200
members of the seven
unions. Joint council
spokesmen in Prince George
said the council did not
sanction the walkout and the
men were acting on their
own initiative.

Ber splkesman Hugh
Armstrong denied the
railway was not bargaining
properly. The railway tried
to hold meetings with the
joint council after the initial
meeting July 27, but was told
by the council that it couldn't

meet until Aug. 16 because -

union negotiators were on
vacation. :

. Armstrong
company: has: asked- that~a

government mediater~in-

tervene in the dispute and
the council had agreed that
no strike would be held
beforea mediator was called
in.

The government has ap-
pointed Fred Geddes to
mediate the dispute.

Train
derailed

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Two men had to swim for
their lives today when the
Canadian National
Railways’ locomotive in
which they were riding
plunged into the Thompson
River, 77 kilometres west of
here following a train
derailment.

CN spokesnan Al Menard
said one of (wo other locoma-
tives also went into the river
after the train hit a slide at
Ashcraft. Eight cars of the
westbound coal train also
left the tracks.

Menard said there were no
serious injuries, although
one of two men in a caboose
suffered minor injuries.

He said the CN main line
was expected to be reopened
Wednesday. Passenger
trains were being rerouted
on CP Rail lines between
Basque and Kamloops. __,

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TORONT (CI) -
Representatives of Air
Canada and its 1500 pilots
plan to cmply with a request
from the federal labor
minister to meet him teday
in Ottawa in an effort to
prevent a pilots’ strike,
spokesmen for the pilots and
airline said Tuesday.

Captain Norman Foster,
the chief negotiator for the
Canadian Air Line Pilots
Association, and airline
president Claude Taylor are
to meet at 9 a.m. EDT with
Labor Minister John Munro
in an attempt to reach a
contract settlement before
the strike deadline of 3 a.m.
EDT Thursday.

In an interview
Tuesday, Foster said he ad
received “a very specific
request fron Mr. Munro to
meet in Ottawa.”

Pilots, however, still were
counting down the hours
until the strike deadline is
reached, Foster said.

“T still expect a strike but
who knows what will happe
in Ottawa.” :

Foster said he believed the
move for a meeting was
initiated by the airline,

He said pilots, owever,
would not change their
position on he only issue left :
to de settled in the dispute—
the merging of the seniority
lists of Air Canada and
Nordair.

The Crown-ownd irline
was granted permission in
July by the Canadian
transport commission ot ke
over Nordair, a Montreal-
based airline, on the con-
dition that the two airlines
operate separately. . Air
Canada has nt acuired
Nordair officially.

Taylor has said Air
Canada was prepared to deal
with that demand only after
the airline has acquired
Nordair. .

Foster said the seniority
list issue was important to
his members’ future, Air
Canada pilots and the airline
cu d agree in a new coptract
that the lists wo be
merged when, and if, ATIR
Canada takes over Nordair,
che said.

‘The union:would not.agrea:

the next! contract becauseras
takeover would be com-
pleted by then and Air
Canada would be in a
stronger position to resist
merging the lists, Foster
said,

Unless seniority lists of the
two airlines are merged, Air
Canada pilots likely would
miss advancement op-
portunities in the lucrative
charter business.

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Attempt to stop
pilot strike

EXPECTS EXIQNSION

Union officia s“have said
the airline wants to expand
into charter flights using:
Nordair instead of the main
airline. jthe jair Canada
iilots claim that any ex-
pansion involving Nordair
pilots wou d be a consider-
ably cheaper venture.

Nordair’s 120 pilots
generally are less - ex-
perienced and paid less than
their Air Canada coun-
terparts. Union officials said
that with a merger of the
seniority lists, Nordair pilots
coild expect an end to their
present lower pay rates.

Pilots of the two airlines
are members of the
association.

Earlier this week, Taylor
sent a telerram to the pilots’
association agreeing to the
union denand for a one-year
contract and offering to
sibmit to binding arditration
a dispute over whether pilots
should be allwed to My first
class to and from assign-
ments.

Foster said he would not
agree to ‘put such a touchy
issue to an arbitrator.

Instead, the issue should
be put aside unil the next
contract, when the two sides
wiil be free of anti-inflation
controls and the airline can
afford to give pilots
something in return, he said.

He said pilots do not care
whether they fly first or
second class but that they
would not give up the
privilege unless the airline
offered something in return.

Meanwhile, passengers
booked on Air Canada flights
were scrambling for
alternative travel
arrangements following the
pilots’ announcement Monk-
da of plans for a strike.

Eastern Provincial Air-
ways, based in
Newfoundland, plans ad-
ditional service on its re-
gional routes if the Air
Canada pilots’ strike takes

place.

Keith Miller, Eastern
provincial president, said in
an interview Tuesday that
the airline would provide two
additional flights daily on

and would increase service
in other areas if demand
warrants,

Th. wiime's daily service
links 4. Atlantic provinces
with Montreal.

A spokesman for
American Airlines said the
number of reservations
agents were increased
because of the increasing nu
ber of calls.

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