Sete he tet a ne tet VICTORIA (CP) -- Mines Minister Jim Chabot rejected Wed- nesday a request by an environmental group for a $60 000 grant to study the social, economic and environmental impli- cations of uranium mining in British Columbia. The Scientific Pollution and Environmental Control Society (SPEC) said éarlier this week the request was made to both the federal and provincial governments because they had provided a similar amount in 1976 for a three-year geochemical reconnaissance program for uranium. Chabot said such a great to SPEC would be a waste of money, and would only serve to delay uranium mining develop- ment in B.C. by three years. ‘He said, meanwhile, he will attend a public meeting next Sunday in the Clearwater area to enswer questions about a proposed uranium mine at Birch Island, VICTORIA (CP) — Health Minister Bob McClelland has _ in- structed public health officials to tighten up their operations to counter rising vaccine costs. ° McClelland said Wednesday he has in- structed the oificials to offset the increases by operating efficiently and keeping wastage to a minimum. The minister said, however, the government does not intend to cut back on its immunization program. He explained that one of the majer Canadian pharmaceutical firms as already given notice that it will be increasing the cost of all its im- munizing agen per cent nextedp: RECORD ONE CHANNEL WHILE YOU WATCH ANOTHER A prime-time colli- slon helween two fa- vourlte programa? SeleetaVision will si- lenlly dupe one while you waleh the other. 12 ye MeCletand said she expects similar sub- stantial increases from American manufac- lurures. He said that, for example, the Sabin oral polio vaccine cost only nine cents a dose when it first became available, while in 1978 it will cost 938 cents a dose. BAILEY NAMED OAK BAY (CP) — Inspector Irving Bailey has been appointed the new chief of police for the municipality of Oak Bay. Bailey, 50, who recently headed the largest of Vancouver’s four police districts, will start his five-year term as police chief in this Victoria area municipality Jan. 2. CONSIDER PASSES VICTORIA (CP) — Arlie Bender, warden of the William Head medium security federal nitentiary 20 ilometres southwest of here, said Tuesday the rison will consider uing special Christmas passes to prisoners. soners' spokesman Wilf McBain had com- plained earlier that only about 15 of the peniten- tiary’s 150 prisoners were going to receive passes this year, 25 less than last year. Bender said ‘the prison has decided to set up a special temporary absence board to con- sider holiday passes. ARRESTS MADE VICTORIA. (CP) — RCMP said Wednesday that five arrests have been made here and 11 in the Comox Valley area following a month-long undercover drug in- vestigation. Seized in the operation were small quantities of cocaine, MDA, Thai _ sticks, hashish oil, psilocybin mushrooms 3 and mtirijiana... a cloxsiles. The WOMAN CHARGED VANCOUVER (CP) Roberta Shirley Bjorn- son, alias Roberta Milne, 45, of Surrey has been charged with possession of a narcotic for the pur- pose of trafficking. Police said Hjornson. was charged following seizure of a pound of cocaine from a Vancouver apartment. The street — value of the drug was estimated at $23,000. MAN IDENTIFIED 70 MILE HOUSE (CP)— RCMP have identified Alfred Gordon House, 58, as the man killed Tuesday in a collision 16 kilometres east of here. Police said an inquiry will be held into the accident in which the victim's cattle truck collided with a logging truck, a INQUEST CALLED WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — An inquest. has been called into the death of Edward George Gil- bert, 65, who died after being struck bya a car Tuesday while he was walking across Highway POLICE GET RAISE MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec provincial Policemen and the government have reached a tentative agreement.on a 45-month contract that will in- crease the. salary of a first-class: constable to $19,000 from $17,800. A spokesman for the association representin the 3,700 policemen sai this. week he. would recommend acceptance. of the contract.. The average 7.3-percent raise is retroactive to April 1. HEADS QUEBEC CAMPAIGN OTTTAWA (CP) — Keith Morgan, a. Bell Canada executive from Montreal, was ‘named Wednesday as president ofouvthe os, Progressive Tes : News shorts — B.C. and around the world > new Formula oo racung team on Une Grand ix ‘wulo curcuit next yoar will: be bucked by a Saud -Conservative Quebec campaign committee for the.next federal election. Morgan, an unsuccessful candidate in the Mon- treal-area_ riding of Chambly in the last federal election, ‘will be nsible for directing and: co-ordinating or- ganization of the party throughout the province. EXPELLS EIGHT BLACKS ’, PITTSBURGH (Reuter) — Carnegie- Mellon University has expelled eight black Rhodesian ‘students who ‘have been boycotting a special management training program since Dec. 1 on grounds it made ‘them look like ‘‘puppets”’ of’ Rhodesia’s white- minority: government. University President Richard Cyert said the students had disrupted the program, designed to teach them skills in economics, data-analysis, accounting and com- munications. POLICE « ~° STORM COLLEGE OAXACA, Mexico (Reuter).— About 8,000 police and troops stormed Oaxaca. University on Wednesday’ and evicted about 3,000 students who had been occupying it for several weeks. |The university has been. the scene of frequent clashes between supporters and opponents of the dismissed left-wing rec- tor, Dr. Felipe Martinez Soriano. Last week two students. died of gunshot wounds in a clash. bet- ween.’ the .rival . parties. ‘WILL: FREE -EIGHT UNITED .. NATIONS (Reuter) — The Polisario guerrilla group battling or control of the Western Sahara has. promised to release eight French nationals. it has :been holding..on charges of hostile acts against: the Saha e A General Kurt) Waldheim of the United Nations said Wednesday the pledge was delivered by Hakim Ibrahim Adel, Polisario representative for for- eign affairs, with whom Waldheim intervened on behalf of the French prisoners. i BUSINESS BRIEFS PRICE OF LEAD UP TORONTO (CP) — Noranda sales Corp. Ltd., marketing arm of Noranda Mines Ltd., an- nounced Wedbesday an increase in the price of lead sold in Canada to 35,25 cents a pound from 34 cents, effective im- mediately. TEXTILE PACT SET GENEVA (AP) — The world's 50 leading textile importing and exporting states agreed Wednesday to extend the 1973 textile trade agreement after weakening a clause for guaranteed export growth for developin countries. They agree that the treaty should allow ‘“‘jaintly. agreed reasonable departures’’ from its rule: for an automatic annual six- percent growth of textile deliveries by developing countries to the consumer countries. BELL GETS CON- TRACT ' STOCKHOLM (Reuter) — Saudi Arabia has awarded a $2.5-billion contract for the ex- pansion ‘of its telephone system to the IM. ricsson Telephone Co. of Sweden, the Phillips group of the Netherlands and Bell Canada. A spokesman for Ericsson said Wednesday that ‘Ericsson and Phillips would each ~ supply uipment worth §1 billion during the next three years and Bell Canada would manage dhe Systorn for five years. THEY WORKEIS TORONTO cCP1 Despite high unem- ployment, many smuill usinessmen suy u shorl- age of competent help is a major probiem in Canada. A survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business showed 20.4 per cent of 7,630 small businessmen listed inflation as their biggest worry. Lack of qualified help was the chief problem for 16.3 per cent and the second biggest worry—after inflation— for 12.5 per cent. LABATT EARNINGS UP LONDON, Ont. (CP) — John Labatt Ltd. had net earnings of $18.7 million or $1.38 a share for the six months ended Oct. 31, up from $16.2 million or $1.22 a share for the corresponding period in 1976. The company erro- neously reported Dec. 9 that the earnings were for the second quarter. SED SPORT BRIEFS U.S, SWEEPS JAPAN TOKYO (AP) — The United States, seeking its second victory, swept the four first-day doubles matches and took an 3-0 lead’ Wednesday in the third U.S.-Japan collegiate golf meet, Masahiro Kuramoto, Japan's 1977 collegiate and amateur champion, shot. the best individual round, a three-under-par 69, followed b Americans John . Star and John Cook with 71s. LABATT’S TO PAY WINNIPEG (CP) — The Canadian Amateur Baseball Association and Labatt’s have agreed that the brewery will support the association’s coach- ing program with $18,000 a year over three years. A brewery, spokesman said the money will: offset OPE Td cde beeps eft HE WD AE Ba these uedag, costs of couches clinics, manuals and = video instructignal oo maLerial: > CALTHEN NAMED BEST a NEW YORK (AP: Steve Cauthen, the first jockey to win $6 million in purses in one yeur; was named Wednesday as winner of Sport's lilustrated Sportsman of the Year for 1977. The 17- year-old jockey was only the second horse racin figure to be so honored. The first was a horse-—- Secretariat, U.S. thor- oughbred's 1973 Triple Crown champion. URR TO MOSCOW TORONTO (CP) — Bobby Orr, the National Hockey League's premier defenceman until knee problems cut short his career, left Wednesday for Moscow - at the invitation of the Soviet Winter Sports Federation to attend the Izvestia tournament. Orr . is an assistant coach with Chicago Black Hawks and a part-time television analyst. The World Hockey Association champion Quebec Nor- diques are Canadais representative in: ithe tourney. _ ‘SEES . DISCIMINATION QUEBEC (CP) — A Parti Quebecois back- bencher said Wednesday the CBC is discriminating against the World Hockey Association and the Quebec Nordiques by not broadcasting the team's games from the Izvestia ockey tournament in Moscow. 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ON TAINO WINS OPAVA, : Czechoslovakia (CP) —: Dave Peace scored a pair. of goals as Cambridge’ Hornets defeated ' Kobrivnice 6-5 in an ex-! hibition hockey game: Tuesday night. [t was the: second victory for: Hornets in three games; on their Czechoslovakian tour, Hornets. are reprebenting>the Onlario Hockey: = ASsociatio Senior A series. TEAM: CAN'T OPPOSE ¢: €ZECHS} ff") f° TORONTG ¢€P} — At the request of the visiting teams, two: former Czechoslevakian hockey stars will not be allowed to play for’ their: National Hockey League teams in exhibition games against ‘two Czechoslovakian teaims, says Al Eagleson, executive director of the NHL Players’ Association. The players are Vaclav Nedomansky of Detroit Red Wings and Rudolf Tajenar of Philadelphia =‘ Fiyers. 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