Page 2, The Herald. Friday, October 12, 1979 ‘Bennett returns to face scandal VANCOUVER (CP, Premier Bill Bennett returns from Tokyo today tofind that 8 political dirty tricks scandal has been linked to his office. Bennett said before leaving on his two-week tour with Economic Development Minister Don Phillipa that the party does not condone tactics such as using fic- titious names in letters to newspaper editors sup- porting the Social Credit party. However, Bennett made his comments prior to the realgnation this week of a former member of his communications staff and Jack Kelly, senior re- searcher for the party Caucus. Thursday's resignation was tendered by Ron Greig, a former sasistant to Ben- nett’a commmunications adviser Dave Brown, The resignation was announced by Hugh Curtis, provincial secretary, whose office Grelg later joined. Greig has been identified by party sources as the man who signed the name of a wellknown New Democratic Party supporter to a letter published in Victoria newspapers which attacked NDP MLA Norm Levi's record when he was human resources minister. ‘ Curtis said he did not know why Greig quit. Provoking additional interest in Bennett's homecoming was disclosure Thursday that a high-ranking party official approved diatribution of tape recordings In which Kelly and another party worker detall the strategy of using fictitious names, Les Keen, party president, said Dan Campbell, head of intergovernmental affairs, had authorized distribution of copies of the tapes at a rally in the southern Interior city of Kamloops. the . FLIGHTS VANCOUVER (CP) —]. Flight schedules at Vancouver and Victoria airports were disrupted Thursday night by heavy fog as more than 2,00 people were stranded, About 800 people waited . at Victorla International Airport. Charter buses tried to take some to ferry terminals where they could at least reach Van- couver. Conditlona at Van- couver International Airport were much the BAM, ; Montreal strike snarls traffic MONTREAL (CP) — The streets of. Montreal were clogged with trafile this morning as commuters shifted to care instead of buses and the city entered ita” fourth public transit atrike in ~ six years, The firat major trouble spot was the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, where a radio. reporter surveying britiges to Mon- treal Island said the situ- ation was “absolutely hor- rendous” even before 7:30 am. EDT. The Jacques Cartier bridge was backed up for a full hour at 8 a.m.‘ with traffic that jicluded 87 buses from the south shore, which is not affected by the strike. ‘The -situation was only slightly better on other bridges and traffic from a tunnel was bumper to bumper for almost seven Kilometres, Most people ignored suggestions they get a very early atart. * : More than 2.7 million people live in metropolitan. Montreal... sO, Even the transit drivers, ’ who will be laid off and therefore will be elegible for unemployment | insurance me benefits, were angered by ss Get a handle on something great. ae bead Wi DR bet OBS BONUSES DUE ON ISSUES * DATED BEFORE 1974 If you own unmatured Canada Savings Bonds dated prior to: November 1, 1974, you are entitled to a special cash bonus payment on November 1, 1979. Here are the eligible Series and £ ‘IMPORTANT NEWS __ CANADA SAVINGS BONDS YOU NOW OWN. _ the amounts payable per $100 face value: Cash Bonus Payable 1974/75,1975/76 AND 1976/77 SERIES Series November ], 1979 Holders of these Series will receive the new, higher return 1967/68 (S22) $32.50 in the form of a cash bonus payable on the maturity date of the 1968/69 (S23) $23,50 bonds. The cash bonus increases the effective annual yield on 1970/71 (S25) $16.75 these bonds to 10'4% from November 1, 1979 to maturity. Here 1971/72 (S26) $19.75 are the bonuses payable per $100 face value: 1972/73 (S27) $20.25 1973/74 (528) $20.50 . Cash Bonus Payable (Holders of the Centennial Series, dated Nov. 1,1966and maturingonNovd,{ 2 | | Series Maturity Date at Maturity 1979, will receive at maturity a cash bonus of $30.75 per $100 face value.) 4 1974/75 (S29) Nov. 1, 1983 $2.50 These cash bonuses, which were introduced in 1974, 1975/76 (530) Nov. 1, 1984 _ $4.75 increase the effective annual yield on the bonds to 10'/2% from 1976/77 (S31) Nov. 1, 1985: $8.00 September 1, 1974 to October 31, 1979. A FINAL BONUS AT MATURITY In addition to the November 1, 1979 cash bonus, you will also receive a final cash bonus payment, providing you hold these bonds to maturity. With the final bonus, your bonds will continue to yield 10'/2% to their maturity date. YIELD INCREASED ON" LAST FIVEISSUES Effective from November 1, 1979 the average annual yield to maturity on issues dated November 1, 1974 to November 1, 1978 has been increased to 101%, . Final Cash Bonus Effective from November 1, 1979 these Series will now | Series Maturity Dale earn aiana bated yield 104% interest for each remaining: yearto Matisrity. 1967/68 (S22) Nov. 1, 1980 4 4 50 | ee With the increaséd rate of teturn, holders of Regular ; 1968/69 (523) No "4° 1982+ $11.75 Interest Bonds of these Series will now receive an anntal | 1970/71 ($25 Now. 1, 1981 $ 550 interest payment of $102.50 er $1,000 face value each 1971/72 (S26, Nov. 1; 1980 $ 2.75 November 1, beginning in 1980," untiT the bonds mature. 1972/73 135 Nov. 1. 1984 $17.00 For Compound Interest Bonds, interest will now ; 1973/74 (S28) Nov. 1, 1985 $21,50 accumulate al the new rate of 114% ayear. Ts interest is —matftf ayable when the bonds are redeemed or at maturity. Here’s HOW TO CLAIM YOUR NOVEMBER 1, Pow the value of a $100 Compound Interest Bond will 1979 BONUS jp rowerew: Simply take your bond to any bank or other — 1977/78 Series 1978/79 Series authorized Canada Savings Bond issuing agent. As Nov. 1, 1979 $115.81 $109.50 roof of payment, they'll remove the upper left Nov. 1. 1980 $127.69 $120.72 hand corner and the bond will then be given back Nov. 1. 1981 $140.77 $133.10 to you. Remember, you do not have to redeem Nov. 1. 1982 $155:20 $146.74 our bond or clip any of the interest coupons Nov. 1. 1983 $171.11 $161.78 in order tu get this cash bunus payment. Nov. 1. 1984 $189.65 $178.36 Starting October 9 you can make advance Nov. 1, 1985 $207.99 $196.63 arrangements ta claim your special cash bonus. Nov. 1, 1986 $229.30 If you act in October, al the paperwork in connection with the payment of the cash bonus will be done far i you imme ately and the transfer of funds will take place automatically on November 1. CANADA SAVINGS BONDS A GREAT CHOICE coupons or interest che to the cash bonus. 1977/78 AND 1978/79 SERIES "~~ To receive your cash bonus, you have to hpld your bond to maturity. You can however continue to cash your” io tiny ques wach year and still be entitléd ca sets * may vy tty i We New Canada Savings Bonds yield 10'/4% every year for 7 years. On sale October 9th. . the strike, — “I'd rather be driving my bus than going .through all this nonsense,” said driver Claude Duguay, who was among some 600 drivers to attend a union meeting. “Wehaven't gone on strike for the past eight years," said colleague Daniel Frenette. “But once more we have no olher choice as the maintenance guys go at it Bgain,” . The 2,100 maintenance workers turned down the commission’s only contract offer three weeks ago and last week voted to atrike at midnight Thursday unlesa management came up with new wage and indexation Proposals. The almost 400 office workers voted to strike along with them, ‘Although conciliation talks continued into Thursday evening, the walkout started on schedule, At midnight, maintanance workers’ union president Jacques Morrissette said some buses were already in thelr garages and all vehicles would probabli: be off the road by 1:30 a.m. The subway also ground toa halt. Some of the maintenance workers walked off the job after being paid Thursday, but service was kept golug through the evening's rush ur, The workers want a two- year contract with raises of 10 per centeach year and full exation, to the. coat. of living. The commission, has, offered gains of alx, ¢.1,‘atd ” alc per'cetit Over tired years, and a lump sum ¢ost-of- living payment if inflation rises above six per cent. The maintenance workers now earn between $4.39 an hour for a cleaner to $9.30 for a highly qualified repairman on the Metro, the city's subway. : Doom,” gloom gets cheers VANCOUVER (CP) — The . plight af the unemployed ls dand will get much worse unless proposed cutbacks to unempioyment insurance are derailed, Jim Kinnaird, British Colunbia Federation of Labor leader told 1,000 cheering, clapping sup- rs, ers, . During the rally, several dissidenta who were at- lacked by members of the crowd and ejected from the rally, Thescuffle broke out about 15 minutes into. Kinnalrd's speech ap several persons pulled down a banner . reading “UIC is for bums” which two men had been holding aloft as they sat in the audience., Several punches were thrown during the fracas and the sign carriera were pushed and prodded out of the rally. ; FART ilet Netelet at, ttytetae? iotetel tea ret, “att ote ‘NEWS BRIEFS OTTAWA (CP) — Mrs. Jean Wadds, a former -Conservative MP and a friend of Prime Minister Clark, will sutceed Paul Martin as high com- missioner to Britain. Clark told reporters today Mrs. Wadds, a Toronto resident, is a “woman of very considerable diplomatic and political abillties.”" . She has had a “long association with me over the years and will he able to maintain the Canadian tradition of maintaining direct and close links be- tween the high commission in Britain and the prime miniater,"’ Clark said, Carter wins one battle WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Represen- tatives handed President Carter a significant energy victory Thursday by voting to uphold his decision to permit a phasing out of government price controls on crude oll], — By a 267-to-135 margin, the House decided to let stand Carter's plan for allowing the price of domestically produced crude cil to rise to world market levels by mid- 1981, The president has said this a crucial element in hia drive to reduce U.S. reliance ° on imported oil. - However, the fate of a second challenge to Carter's oll pricing policies remains Japan buys TOKYO (AP) — Overseas Petroleum Development Ca,, a Japanese semi- governmental firm, said today it has signed a con- tract to acquire a 3.6 per cent concession in oil fields in Canada’s Beaufort Sea. Under the contract signed © with Columbia Gas Develop- : ment of Canada, which owns 43,75 per cent interest in the - oll ftlelds, the Japanese company will pay 10 billion. yen, equal to about H444— million U.S., for, the’ con’, ” Develop cession, & company ‘official O1@0?"anl Based upon the contract, the Japanese company will . to be decided. It involves a proposal to reimpose lids on the price of home heating oil and diesel fuel for. th coming winter. : Imported crude oll, whose price is set by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, now costa around $29 to $24 a barrel ~ roughly twice the average controlled price of U.S, ail. The vote removed the most serious obstacle to Carter’s deregulation plan, which has never been in serious jeopardy in the Senate. It also reversed a non-binding vole by House Democrats last spring that renounced Carter's oil pricing policies. in Beaufort set up a new firm along with private Japanese oll com- panies this year to promote the project off the mouth of the Mackenzie River, where cil depcsita are estimated at five million to six billion barrels, There are 42 gallons In a barrel. : The joint venture, ex- pected to be capitalized at about 10-billion yen, ia scheduled to start production in 4885. .. tet Sumitomo, Petroleum Develo ments , Indonesia S Mitsubishi Ol Development Co. are ex- pected to participate in the Joint project. Boyle gets life sentences MEDIA, Pa, (AP) — W.A. {Tony) Poyle, who once headed the powerful United Mine Workers. union, has been sentenced to three conseautive life peison terma-*: for murders committed b ‘fire hired dadgasiage . Before his appearance in court Thursday, Boyle, 78, had been convicted twice of arranging the Dec. 31, 1940, “murders of union rival Joseph Yablonski and his. family. Yablonski, his wife aod daughter were killed as Ss gifievsentin their ( Clarksville o "ome in the western ‘Penn- aia AsgiWanda soft coal FaRltaRe “I .am innocent of the crimes of which I have been convicted and I want everyone to know that,’ Boyle Insisted -in a type- encatatementonaad ii re Yablonski failed in a bitter fight to topple Boyle from the - union presidency two months before he was killed. The state contended the assassins were hired to prevent any challenge to the election result. The first jury verdict was set aside by the state Supreme Court in 1977, and te .wasnfound guilty a econd time 20: months ago. An amused Castro talks. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Fidel Castro reports to the General Assembly today on the stormy Havana summit then lunches with U.S, Ambassador Donald: McHenry and 90 other dignitaries after laughing off U.S. milltary exercises aimed at countering Soviet troops in Cuba, The Cuban president, guarded round-the-clock by a massive net of security men, travels to the United Nations’ headquarters in Manhattan from the for- tress-like Cuban Mission where he has remained in seclusion ever since arriving in New York early Thureday, During Castro’s scheduled 4% hour UN visit, hundreds of America, Cuban and United Nations security men will blanket the East River headquarters and the surrounding streets, where pro and anti-Castro groups are expected to gather. UN grounds will be closed to the’ public today. New York police boats will patrol the river to head off any incidents similar to the 1964 attack on Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Castro’s industry cinister. As Guevara ad- dressed the General Assembly, anti-Castro Cubans fired a bazooka at the UN complex from across the water. The shell fell short and splashed harmlessly into the water. Guevara was Killed in 1987 leading a Teelttienary band in Bo- a. Interest sparks interest OTTAWA (CP) — The first two days of the new Parlia- ment, with Joe Clark in the prime minister’s seat, have. been highlighted by op- position attacks on the TUNE-UP not more than $40.59 . Seylinaet . $51.89 Replace Spark Plugs with new Motorcraft plugs Iqnitien Bots » Condenser Rotor with new Motcicealt pars timing. catbyurelor and bens Distubutoi cap. coohng systemhases spark pliqwites. col, POV Valea Die lite: and qasoting ties Adust Check Includes hahtivucks and unpurs Parts and labour witiuded ey baat that tet oF ote oe Lee ree stata oat ade yt toot ‘ PLUS TAX ' $59.36 G'cybrider B cyhndee Bovernment over increases din interest rates, And if you're a litte con- fused, you're probably not alone, . When the Progressive. Concervatlves were in op position just seven months ago they attacked the Liberal government over decisions by Bank of Canada Governor Gerald Bouey to. raise Interest rates. Now that the Liberals are in apposition, they are at- tacking the Conservative . government over decisions by Bouey to raise interest rates, : When Liberal Jean Chretlen was finance ‘~~ minleter, he sald higher Terrace Totem ford Sales Ltd. isi) Keith Ave. 635-4984 interest rates were nee- essary to ensure that money kept flowing into the country to finance the huge deficit in ita international balance of yments, expected to to Biliion this year, pm. Now that Conservative John Crosbie is finance minister, he says the same thing. But he added in the Commons Thursday that it was Libera] mis- Management of the economy ® that caused the deficit,