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‘Skeena River proves that winter weather did not turn ‘to

eri he suggested
MPs may not

Opposition:

$800-million speciat. job-

" ¢reation fund. ©"
And a grinning Finance. -

Minister. Marc. ' Lalonde
Progressive’. Conservative
MPs had been kept in the

dark about the fund,

_. Lalonde, said ° the: first

$150-million. slice of. ‘the

1 Special fund was annain¢ed
in the Jie 1982 budget and

the second halfin Aprit ings. -
Referring to a’ charge by

: Tory communications critic

David ‘Crombie that the
criteria for claiming the
funds were not revealed to .

: Tory and New ‘Democrat

MPs until last’ week,”
Lalonde said, -
honorable mzmber was in
the “dark = until = mid-
February, then ‘he’s. net
looking ‘after his con-'
stituency very well,” -

And Trudeau told Tory

‘employment — critic - Jim

Hawkes. that the funds had
been spent in all provinces,
and territories, ‘not on the

_ basis of who (the recipients) ’

: will vote for; ‘but because -

Challenger’s astronauts take

“CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) — Challenger’s
astronauts went before the
camera today to star in a
panoramic movie, while on
the ground officials were

eyeing bad weather that.

‘could delay or once again
cance] the first shuttle
landing in Florida.

The space travellers,
after five bittersweet, busy
days in orbit, welcomed a
relatively easy day of ex-
periments and relaxation

before winding down the ‘

journey with more
tetherless space walks
Thursday, a news con-

ference from space Friday

and return to Earth on
Saturday, landing. at a
launch site runway, ;
But weather officials
reported a storm front
moving in from the Gulf of

Mexico. It could bring rain.

and clouds to this area at
the planned 7:21 am, EST

’ touchdown time Saturday.

NASA would like to start

+ touchdown

landing shuttles -here in-'

stead of in California to save

‘money and cut down tur-

naround time between
launches. To achieve that
goal on this flight, the
agency said it would kéep
the Challenger crew in

Space an extra day and land

All
About

PEOPLE

:

Voters whe wonder about the workload of their senators
or suspect that politicians take too many junkets to exotic
climes will be encouraged to hear about Hill Rankin,

Rankin, a councillor-in the small Ontario town of Fergus,
dragged himself out of his hospital bed, put on a three-piece
suit and took his intravenous unit with him to a recent
council meeting. .

. Rankin had been in hospital afler experiencing trouble
with kidney stones. ; ;

But he said the condition is not serious, and attending the
meeting was not as heroic as it sounds, .

Council met in the hospital's boardroom, because
municipal offices were being renovated, and Rankin only
had to walk down the hall.

:Actress Sharon Gless had a snappy explanation to: a
startled visitor who noticed her pregnant appearance.

_ ‘Itjust happened,” she joked. “I accused half the crew,”
‘ Actually, she admitted, the pregnant getup was for an
episode in Cagney and Lacey, a television series filmed in
Los Angeles about two female police officers.

That episode deals with a fake pregnancy, and another
episode is to show her character, Chris Cagney, facing the
prospect of giving birth as an unmarried woman. ;

“Cagney’s problem in the pregnancy episode is
something that's important — women in their late 30s, early
40s who expect a baby, let's say out of wedlock,” said Gless.,
“A lot of them are doing it voluntarily, :

“This particular one was not voluntary, but it may, be her ©

last shot. So should she go through with
“Tra not telling the oulcome.".
What started out as an ordinary ‘day for Zvelyn Prince,
abemployee at Amity Goodwill Industries, sudderily tirned
lotto-lucky after she found about

it or not?

Creek, near Hamilton. oo

“When I first saw it I didn’t think it was real,” Prince
said. Se : ;
Although she admitted she was tempted to keep the cash,
Prince turned it over to police because she didn’t think she
could live with such dishonesty,

This is the second time she has had to do the right thing, ©
Three years ago Prince found a wallet containing $2,000,. °

which was eventually returned to its rightful owner.

Sandy Claws, an elderly 13-kilogram lobster being raffled
off for charity, wasn't all he was cracked up to be.

The colossai crustacean was recently unmasked as an
imposter standing in for a 105-year-old Jobster that died just
after the raffle began in a Chicago restaurant. - ..s

Greg Kiefer, manager of the seafood restaurant, ad-
milted the switch in an interview with Chicago Tribune
columnist Bob Greene. ; . a

“We went ahead with our story because we didn't want to
hurt the charity drive,” Kiefer sald, :

have completed an unusual trade — they swapped a ‘coach
for a player. ; ,

The Roughriders agreed to let defensive co-ordinator
Gerry Hart out of his contract to take a similar job with
Calgary. po,

Inreturn, the Roughriders will gel an undisclosed amount -
of cash and eight-year veteran defensive back Terry Irvin,
sald Saskatchewan general manager John Herrera.

Calgary Coach Steve Buratto said he’s heard of such
trades in the National Football League but “I don’t know if
it'd ever occurred in the CFL,” ;

4

$10,000 in the pocket of a .
jacket dropped off at the organization's office in Stoney:

. Shuttle:

here Sunday morning. After
that, there are no daylight
opportunities
here for several days, so the
shuttle would be diverted to
Edwards Air Force -Base,
‘Calif. -
Mission control radioed
the five astronauts that

three Soviet ‘cosmonauts .
were launched today, with

the comment: “That. makes

‘an all-time record, having

eight folks in space at one
time.” . ‘
Today’s filming. sessions,
with a special Cinema-360
camera, were to capture
footage for a. half-hour
documentary, The. Space
An American
Adventure,
TO FINISH FILM
‘The finished film, which

’. will ‘put audiences in the
centre of, the 360-degree .-

action, is designed for
projection on to the domes
of specially
planetariums. It is to’ be

completed after two more

shuttle missions.
_ Mission specialist Ronald

MeNair isthe mani ‘behind .

the lens,  prompting.-: his
colleagues to call him Cecil
B.-McNair after famed
movie’ director Cecil B. de
Mille. -
Most of today’s footage
will be of activities inside
the cabin. Some of the most

‘spectacular film was.made

Tuesday by a ‘second
Cinema-360 camera, located
in the open cargo bay and
operated remotely from

“inside the shuttle.

That captured man’s first
free flights in space, as
‘astronauts “Bruce
McCandless _ and’ Robert

- equipped —

it easy

Stewart _unhooked- their ;

lifelines and -manoeuvred
away from Challenger,
propelled by a $10-million
jet-powered backpack to a
distance greater than the
length of a football field.
When the: space-walkers

re-entered the ‘cabin after
55 minutes.

five hours,

outside, mission control

“congratulated ‘them on a

super job. . :

. “Itwas a real thrill,” said:

McCandless, ‘‘A real honor
to be up there.”
’ MeCandless and Stewart

are scheduled“to be back,

outside Thursday for five
‘more hours. rn
The backpack will be used
for a satellite repair mission
planned on thé next shuttle
“flight in April, f
On that flight, astronaut
George Nelson is to use the
Jet-pack to‘retrieve a four-

' year-old. satéllite. named ;

Solar Max, bringing. it. into

they are unemployed:”
Trudeau said Liberal MPs

- had been briefed on the fund

in caucus by Lalonde after

_ he: brought’ down the

budgets and. “Liberal MPs
are diligent enough to follow

‘up on those programs.

Liberal MPs may be doing
their. jobs better than
Conservatives,”

*OINK, OINK?

Lalonde and Trudeau's
energetic’ ‘defence . of
government handling of the
‘funding drew hoots of
“pork-barrel” amd squeals

of “oink, oink” in the most

rambunctious: _. Commons
question period’ in weeks.
- Opposition MPs have said
the. $300-million ‘fund was
limited to Liberal ‘MPs and
has been used in an attempt:

* to:buy votes.) ../.-

“On, Tuesday, ..,". Con-
servalive. MP Flora’ Mac-
donald demanded that: the
government publish a list of
the 844 projects approved as

Quotas erased —
VANCOUVER (CP) — The director of Revenue Canada’s’.

Vancouver officé admitted Tuesday that white eraser fluid:
was used on internal documents to blank.out references toa,

. quota system after a furore in Parliament over the incident.

But Brian Kimmons maintained that it wasn'l.a coverup,
just a misunderstanding by one’ supervisor. - ;
» Kimmons also denied that employees must meet quotas
on the amount of taxes they collect, but the explanation was |
called “the theatre of..the absurd” by member of
Parliament Svend. Robinson (NDP-Burnaby), who-
produced copies ofthe documents at 4 riews conference
earlier Tuesday., © | vo,

‘“He can’t pin this on a supervisor,” said Robinson, who’!
wants Kimmons stispended while a pubilie inquiry is:held.

‘Robinson told the news conference he has evidence that
Revenue Canada workers in the B.C.-Yukon-region are

operating under a'quota system, and that aitempts were: |

made.to cover up the existence of such a system,

He said he got his information from a tax office employee, 7

. but refused to identify the employee, _

" recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee —- :

Saskatchewan Roughriders: and Calgary Stampeders

‘that there's no pattern to the rhythms,” he said.

Robinson also produced a copy of an employee appraisal
form in which he.said a reference to quotas had been
blanked out. ; ce =

Kimmons said the alteration of documents began Jan. 31,
but last Friday; came to the attention of a senior manager

- who ordered it'stopped. Kinamons said the documents were: ;
-already being restored to’ their original condition before

‘Robinson spoke up. boa - .
Kimmons said the misunderstanding. arose afler he tried .
to identify performarice ’ réviews that employees sald could --

‘be j misconstrued. as ‘referring. to ‘quotas,". and ‘one.
* supervisor... mistakenly: assimed “that documents filed

Pats ry

moriths ago should be changed:

“Songs planned —

_ TORONTO (CP) — A Canadian compdser and lyricist has .”
been commissioned to turn the poetry of’ Pope John Paul ©
into popular. songs; er Coe
Gene Lees, 56, who ticw lives in California, was in Toronto *:.
this week to meet officials of the. Roman Calholic -Afch- :
diocese of Toronto to discuss'a concert of songs during the ©.
Pope's visit thia year. a , i
, The:poems, written by the Pope when he was a young -
priest; have been translated into more than 90 languages, -
But the task before Lees — whose ‘songs have been ~

is to make them suitable for singing. .
_ “I’ve read them in four languages now," said Lees, born

in Hamilton. - “They're yery beautpfal and moving, ; ;

humanist more than spiritual. I hope 1 can bring them to a" ;
wider audience.” - i

The project was given to Lees abdul two years ago i
through the Vatican after

several olher composers were :
rejected. . ; _
“The problem was that the poetry is in such free form ;
“Nobody
could lick them. I had the sane problem and I was inclined _
to give up. Then a composer named Tita Fontana wotked it *
out and licked it,"* , ;

Lee received permission to aller the poems lo make them | -
work as popular songs and to linker with Fonlana’s music»
where necessary, ; - '

Lees has translated eight of 10 poems by the Pope and
says the Valican is enthuslastic about them.

_ of last'November so that the

the. ‘cargo bay for |
jobless. in Opposition and.

replacement-of a defective
electronics box.

i

Test

fom have been diligent enough in |
y. Seeking. their’ share jof a

“if the *

_ dated_

‘million - of - $112 million

_A this fiseal ‘year has already
rejected... claims.’ that’ j
projects,

.. Despite the ‘allegations of

a

ing | treated * th

fairly,

According - to." a . memo
Feb. ..1- from
Employment Minister John
Roberts to all MPs that was
imade public Monday, $99.9

committed to. the ‘program

rovide information on how
to go about seeking ; the
grants as scon as possible.

been ‘allocated: in 044

" program.

“an exclubive Liberal “slush
fund," one Tory. MP, Roch
‘LaSalle, told. reporters
outside the Comimons he has
received about: $400,000 for
‘capital projects in —his

‘Quebec riding of. Joliette

‘since last summer under the

‘However, LaSalle said he
stumbled onto. the
availability of the funds
after he saw:federal money
being used for a community
centré and an grena in
neighboring Liberal ridings.

“LaSalle, the lone ‘Quebec

. Tory MP, said he sub-

‘sequently -got “more in-
‘formation ‘onthe program
from Liberal = caucus

chairman Remi Bujold and.

_ sought the funds,

‘NEGLECTS MENTION

But asked why Tory MPs
hadn’t sought any — in:
farmation on the fund since
it was announced in 1982,
MacDonald replied that
nothing was done because.
“{he Commons wasn’t sitting
during the summer of 1983.

It wasn't until November,
she added, that Opposition

. MPs became aware that the
“special employmenl --
initiatives plan had nol
been included when a wide
range of other job creation ;
programs were reorganized

- inte four main schemes in

June 1983. _
“We discovered = in-
November thal there was
one program left outside the
four main streams and it
was this program.” ;
In November, Tory MPs
raised a storm in- the

because “I thought the

Commons over allocation af
Canada Works and olher job
creation funds, claiming
that Opposilion ridings were
not getting (heir fair share,

"LaSalle. said he never
mentioned the. availabitity
of the funds to his Con-
servalive caucus colleagues

Pleas rejected

_ VANCOUVER (CP) — A tenant group's plea for an im-

- mediate, province-wide rent freeze was rejected Tuesday

by a landtord lobby group.
. Jack Hayes of the Rental: Housing Council of British
Columbia sald today’s housing market does not justify a

_ Tent freeze. He said in an interview there are few cases of

major rent increases.
Accordirig to the landlord group, the average rent in-
crease now being imposed is only five per cent. Hayes said

“units ‘coming out of rent controls are reporting rent in-

creages of about 10 per cent. .

’ “There’s no widespread problem to my knowledge,”
Hayes said. “We don't see the panic.”

_ On Tuesday, B.C. Tenants Rights Coalition chairman Jim
Quail announced that thé coalition decided at a strategy
meejing last weekend to campaign and demonstrate for a
rent freeze, -

* Quail; whose. group claims to represent 14,000 renters,

_ sald many tenants have been hit with major increases since .

rent controls were abolished by provincial cabinet decree in.
July. He pointed to news reports in December and January | -
of increases ranging from 20 to 40 per cent, saying there had
been “rounds of rent gouging on an unbelievable scale.”

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