who ' OTTAWA (CP) — MPs return next week to open a new session of Parliament, likely the last before the next federal election, with ‘high rl inflation, | heavy wnem| ent an e ind ndence hammerin promise has come. from Finance Minister Jean Chretien who . says he will announce the fate of wage and price controls, eduled to be scrapped in December, 1978. A review of national af- fairs and an indication. of government plans for the next session will be unveiled eaday when Queen Elizabeth opens Parliament and reads the speech from “the thron e, it has been 20 years since the Queen = opened - ~ Returning MP” Parliament. Contents of the speech she will read— expected to contain an appeal for national unity— are determined by Prime Minister Trudeau after consultation with his cabinet ministers. Opposition MPs put the onus on the Liberals to produce measures to combat unemployment, inflation, uncertainty over controls and a budgetary ‘deficit, . among other economic problems. Latest available statistics show the Canadian dollar at its lowest internationa: value in eight years and inflation at 8.3 per cent for the 12-month period ending in August, well above the six-per-cent governmen! target. In August, 936,00 per- sons, 8.2 per cent of the work force, were unemployed, The Atlantic provinces continue to be hardest hit. RECORD DEFICIT POSSIBLE Also, finance department figures show a significant drop in federal revenues from personal Income tax might lead to a record budgetary deficit of about $8 billion for the 1977-78 fiscal year. _ Hints that a new federal jobcereation program is in the works came during the summer but it appears unlikely now. Treasury Beard President Robert Andras indicates he plans to clam down a jederal spending and Employment Minister Bud Cullen says his department has no money lett for a new program. Before opening the third session of the 30th Parliament, MPs and senators meet Monday to : formally end the second ses- sion that was left dangling, Last sitting before election s face toughest pro in case of a legislative emergency, when they left for holidays in August. Parliament passed 45 pieces of legislation last session and ail but three of 19 bills that did not get approval will die Monday and have to be reintroduced in the new session. The government also may reintroduce bills it backed down on in the face of heavy opposition attacks. legislation was elimination of ag $8.3-million railway freight -subsidy for grain movement, use of metric measurements by farmers and the second stage of a major overhaul of combines and competition laws that has been 11 years in the making. The three bills that will not be allowed to die Monday already are partly through the legislative process. One would the herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeifons, Stewart and the Nass Weather > A warm front passing ovei northwest B.C. will bring overcast conditions and continuous rain today with a high of eight degrees. Tonight’s low, three lem degrees. _ to marchers OSLO (AP) — Two women started a peace movement in Northern Treland and a London-based organization that works for Re itical prisoners won obel Peace Prizes on The Hobel Committee of the Norwegian parliament awarded the 1977 prize to the > noi Amnesty International, for 16 of effort on behalf of “prisoners of conscience” and against torture and the death: penalty. It gave the 1976 prize to Betty. Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, for organizing a broad-based para Mit eS homeland between otestant’ atid Roman Catholic extremists. : “The women launched the cam _more than six months after the Feb. 1 deadline for peace prize Hominations last year, when all 50 candidates were rejected and no award was ven. Soviet dissident An- i Sakharov won it in 1975. - Mrs. Williams said in Lon- don: ‘‘We've only been going 14 months and other people have been pot for years. But I know how hard we worked and after all we have earned it.” Miss Corrigan, moved to tears by the news, said in Belfast: “I accept the prize on behalf of everyone — throughout the world who yorks au longs for peace a ema le who have suffered and have been jailed in the interests of promoting peace.” ; The prizes are worth $141,600 to Mrs. Williams and Miss Corrigan and $145,000 to Amnesty Ir- ternational. perhaps 10TH BODY TO WIN Amnesty is the 10th organization to win the peace prize. In selecting it over 53 other candidates, the Nobel Committee called 1977 “the year dedicatp watch on their court cases. bel Committee cited the Northern Irish women’s “initiative to end the vielence which has marked the unfortunate disin- tegration in Northern ireland, and which has cost so many lives.” “Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams acted out of a deep conviction that in- dividual feaple ean do meaningful efforts for peace throw conciliatory work,” it said. . _SAW CHILDREN KILLED The two Roman-Catholic - = women launched their movement in August, 1976, after Mrs, Williams saw three childfen killed by a runaway car whose guerrilla driver had been shot by British soldiers in Belfast. Miss, Corrigan was the aunt of the slain - children. Braving threats on their lives by extremists, the - women organized peaceful marches by thousands of Protestants and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, the Irish republic and England. Last year they travelled to the United States to urge Americans to stop sending money to the combatants. So. widespread was the sentiment in Norway for honoring them last year that Norwegian newspapers raised $325,000 and gave it to them as a “People’s Peace Prize.”” They used the *money for a trust fund to create jobs, care for or- phans and repair the devastation in Northern lreland. Stephens, a Columbia track star of two SS naan Se ee CNR A SE SSS t VOLUME 71 NO. 111 Price: 20 cents TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 977 J \ Peering through the smoke, flreman helps extinguish blaze that burned the old Tuck Auto Court to the ground Monday. Owner Alan McGowan was wrecking the - building and buming the wood in a separate fire when the blaze caught in the | | Replaces Scott Wallace | | Former track star jogs to Tory victory ‘KELOWNA (CP) Vic ‘British decades ago an now a Courenay lawyer, jogged to an easy, first-ballot victory in the leadership race at the Somebody with an ugly sense of humor thought dressing this carcass of a bear ina workman's jacket was a joke. RCMP, inofrmed of the incident Sunday night, took the remains back to its owner but laid no charges. The bear was skinned and the carcass left like this outside the Torohto Dominion Bank in a shopping area. B. Progressive Con- servative convention day. The 182 voting delegates gave Stephens 113 votes, 58 to Dawson Creek lawyer Larry Lewin and 11 to manager William Fairley, a late entry in the race. Stephens’ victory had been widely predicted. He was the only candidate with a slick, professional ap- proach and a well-organized team of workers behind old. m. The other two competed : with hand-lettered signi: against Stephens’ closed- circuit television messages. All three candidates paid tribute to retired leader Dr. Scott Wallace, but minutes after the delegates had cheered Stephens’ victory, the new ieader found Charges may follow skirmish © Charges are belng con- sidered against several people. arrested carly turday morning after a disturbance in front of the Lakelse Hotel in which an RCMP officer suffered a broken nose after being kicked in the face. “To tell the truth, # I'd d any more common sense, I probably wouldn’t have got it,” said Cst. Dave Kornichuk of his injury which wasn't serious enough to prevent him from com- pleting his shift. Hesaid he was responding to a call to help out about five other officers who were attempting to quell a disturbance involving about 15 or 20 people at 12:20 Saturday morning. “The more we tried to break up the fight, the mor the people became violent,’ he said. After arriving on the | scene he saw an officer struggling on the groun with another man and “I waded in.” He said he stooped down to help the officer subdue the other and ot a boot in his face for his ouble. “I don't think the Buy even knew who he was ‘Seveh or eight peopl ven or el ople were booked into the ‘pe ce lock-up for being drunk ina ublic place, he sald. harges of causing a disturbance, obstructing’ a police officer and assaulting a police officer are being considered against five ‘sons, according to the CMP report given Monday ni t. ornichuk said no treatment was necessary for his injury, though it was diagnosed as a fractur. “My nose swelled up and I had a headache, that’s all.” _ desirable. reorganize the ad- ministrative structure of Air Canada, a Crown cor- poration, and remove it rom the control of Canadian National Railways. The others give the transport department power to prevent urban growth near airports and to establish stricter controls over 2,300 fishing and recreational harbors, REVISION OVERDUE The regular 10-year revision of the Bank Act is overdue and the corporate affairs department plans another run at a two-year- old .bankruptcy bill that likely will be watered down. Also certain is a_ bill designed to close a loophole in the controls program that would permit unions and companies to regain the money they lost when wage | . ever - or price increases were rolled back. Measures pro ed in the last federal get, March 31, have yet to be im- plemented. They include a controversial tax on in- vestment above $10,000 gained on life insurance policies when the insured person dies. The government also has started hammering out new financial arrangements with provincial govern- ments for another plan that would endiege federal welfare «ren next year by $132 million to about’ $616 million. Since the session likely will be the last before the next general election, possibly this spring, elec- tion-type programs may show up the coming months. esebehse tial ete tate itta eat ey BRP Pe raritaseitnnilenreeton boat eabeerteaiaehte sawdust insulation. Firement treated the incident as a controfled burn. McGowan plans to wreck the rest of the building and subdivide the property. himselfin a conflict with the old. : Before the voting, Stephens, 46, told the con- vention he had a dream of sitting next to. Wallace in the legislature and afterwards he insisted Wallace must retain his seat in Oak Bay. Wallace disagreed. “A leader must be in the house," Wallace said. ‘‘A top priority is to get the leader into the legislature. “I have to try and per- suade Vic that he should consider my strong recommendations that the best way to go is for me to resign my seat and have him rum in Oak Bay,” Wallace said. Stephens, however, does not feel a quick byelection is either necessary or “I think it's equall important that I have sui- ficient time before going to the house to do the ground work, basic work that needs to be done in this party.” His first priorities are to rebuild party membership and finances. If [have a choice between Scott resigning his seat and me staying out of the house, Il elect Scott to stay on and (ll wait until the next general election,” Stephens said, However, he pointed out that Wallace has taken to the courts a constitutional question that might result in wallace and four Social Credit members losing their seats because they accepted government expense money they were not entitled to. That could mean five byelections, Stephens said, “and wouldn’t that be ex- citing.” The expense money has since been returned to the government. jTh constituion act says the emmbers are not entitled to any extra expense money since-that is coveredin their salaries and sessional allowances: Stephens said he would fight any plan by Premier Bill Bennett to settle the issue by retroactive legislation. Stephens said he would prefer to run in his home riding of Comox, where he lost to Karen Sanford of the NDP in the 1975 election. Wallace has indicated he will make a firm an- nouncement on his future plans within a week. Ferry workers defy VANCOUVER (CP) — Striking ferry workers voted Monday to defy a British Columbia Labor Relations Board ruling that ordered them back to work. And Shirley Mathieson, president of B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union, said the results of the six membership meetings in- dicate that ferries will remain idle until the 2,600 workers get a contract. "If management would sit down at the table,"' she said, “we could get a contract in no time.” The LRB ruling, made Saturday, ordered the union executive to convene membership meetings and recommend that members return to work immediately, order The executive made that recommendation at meetings in Vancouver, Vietor i Langdale, Powell River and Ganges on Saltspring Island, but workers were almost unanimous in voting to extend their illegal strike. The 26-boat fieet has been idle since early Friday m thousands of persons who had hoped to travel durin the Thanksgiving weeken over the 13 routes that the ferries usuall Ply between the’ mai:iand, Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Labor Minister Allan Wil- liams said he was disa inted with the union's lecision to stay off the job.