LEGIZL TIVE “LTBMAR COuP,.77/78 PARLIAMENT atLptnads oo ae / NEGTORIA BaCey . onl =1%4: # i , a 635- 71228 : nant o ‘ “a. week ‘Service t fe ~ ~ RUPERT. STEEL Be: SALVAGE Seal Cove ft, Pr. Rupert: 624- 5639 | 7 brass, all metals, batteries, etc . »We-are open Mon. through Sat. a a gam-Spm_ te “> Journal ‘Tribure, which had com-~ | Piekets 7 VANCOUVER (cP) — “Ligon | “ypkeydincial, Distribution’ ‘Branch will ask ‘the’ B.C, Supreme ‘Court .to - enforce ‘a- -ceaseand-desist , order! against: picketing "members. ‘of. the” Brewery, , Winery. ° ‘and: Distillery. “Worker's; Unton,"'a “branch: "Spokesman: said: Wednesday. + the; ‘focked-out . ‘ brewery. - workers ‘continued to picket . * the-. ‘branch's’ hain | : {warehouse in East’ Van: ‘gouver, and prevent de. _ liveries of imported beer, in deflance afthe order granted: -. Jate, .Tupsday. ‘hy the BC: Labor elations, Board, ... Yandals pulled down these boards that are part of the) Fall Fair by wolunteers.. oe . os «phe. new: = Hin roe The youths: ‘were on top! i ‘ot ‘the roof. tearing * shingles. of. whén Jean Hamer - Spotted. them about 9 p.m, ; e-vandhld “ran. away aid asap ~ Hvestock “at ‘Lions’ Park: - Arena, was’ vandalized Wednesday: by. . youths. bere ; ‘The’ addition was ‘baile tor the coming Skeena . he akesee and: members of five’. a “Donna - “Hdbpaer managed ‘to catch one Pboy, ‘byt he got away. He : ., Was” younger ‘than the ” others. She: guesses, “he. *, might-be' In gradé-seven. The ‘bay Donna. caught baa aches on -his chin,: ae brown; | short and straight. - Jogked, quite ; tall, Don ee ‘teh. -"Maty-: Waldbauer;. the | association, : ‘wearing’ bhie {jacket ; © Vandalized - eatlier:: this ; id blue jeans. His hair is. ~ addition for.livestock. The addition was built for the Skeena : Photo ‘by carla wilson show’ on. Sunday,” : said president: OF ss the fair The - addiiion’ was Week ‘as: well. so repairs’ - If anyotie hag any time. 1} who would appreciate the mo help. Sha can he reached:-|: ae 635-5615. re “ awhal lot'of. work: to get it.. Teady’ for" ‘the. livegtock *.} : - Driver. - ; loses. “perrace. ROMP were ine - valved i in'a high-speed chase . early Thursddy .morning _ before a driver -finally lost " control ‘of, the vehicle: near Clinton Manor; where he was "|. apprehended by police, The vehicle was a late model car . which. was reported . stolen: 7 #800 plock of haye- already. ‘been: dont: __ eatller from the The «other. vandals. co It once. -: ue “ghid ‘s tohlp repair the addition | gall Mary Waldbauer,: |- .. Davis, ca Joseph: ‘Belanger. 18, “will appear ‘in court on charges ) a ” theft. and. impaired ‘driving. A. 14-year-old youth was. “sent to hospital Tuesday “after his motorcycle collided. wa with a B.C; Hydro’ ‘truck on Matgon. Road. in Od Reema “) compared wlth $29. 3 million . in the first sik months of last year, In “yet: another | "an- ‘Nouncement, Thomson said FP. News Service will cease — the. Winnipeg Free Press,- Lethbridge © Herald and Victorta Times-Colonist. first. edition annowriced “the. demise of the Ottawa. paper --and had to be recast for a . operation Friday because {ts have been. Teduced to three newspapers: subgequent edition ‘ to chronicle ‘ita, own death, Wednesday's | “dramatic moves shook the Canadian. newspaper: industry which: _ had ‘already ‘absorbed .a Ini. Ottawa, ‘The Journal's 95 years of publication came: ‘fo an abrupt-hglt because of rperating losses totalling he Jast four years as well as sases of. more than $3.4" inillion so fsr this year, Thomson announced. Southam. attributed the ‘death of the 90-year-old Tribune .(Southam haa owned it -since’ 1920) to operating losses exceeding $13 million during 1975-79 ‘aid an expected loss of $3 million more this year. The Tribune's 370 em: ployees reacted with shock, sadness and anger when told of the newspaper's demise by Gérdon Fisher, Southam president. » His message was a repeat .of one delivered less than 12- hours earlier to The Jour- nal’s 375 employeés by. Thomson executives. The front page of The Tribune's “almost: $7.7 million during - : series of ‘unsettling changes during the: last year:. ~The loss of-165 jobs: with. the closure of the 11l-year-- old Montreal Star last Sept. 25, due to substantial losses, | followlng an eight-month strike by preasmen; - —A flerce bidding war in February which put FP Publications in the Thomson fold; —The ‘sale in duly. of Thomson's Calgary Albertan to the Toronto Sun Publishing Co. Ltd., which in turn renamed the paper the. - Calgary Sun; —The merger of the Victoria Times and Colonist, . both dailies owned by the Thomson group, leaving about 60 people jobless. Business. analysts and some Industry observers viewed the latest an- houncements primarily in terms of their soundness as business moves, although others were more concerned with the end of newspaper convicts | at” g and 4a “security Laval Institute lald ; minds were. - releaged the: last of” their The -bréakthiceig ' after, Magitre ’ gelves-up téday, three days : lawyer, Robe = aoe Sancr in — scene raae 4 on MONTREAL (CP) = Nine niaxijium- itheir down: weapons, hostages ‘and’ gave ‘them- after they - seized - the hostages following 1 a ‘bungled escape attempt. © ‘Guy Verreault, spokesman’ . ‘for the federal penitentiary service, ‘said: two. of.. the - hostage-takers surrendered “‘ghortly after 10 a.m. -EDT.. “They stripped to thelr’ un- - ’ ticipating , ‘ie “Haye + arrived at the prison at the request of ‘the ‘hostage- takers, Prison officials. had said that La Haye, a veteran of several previous hostage- takings, was: tot” Par. ‘negotlations - but’: Wee." ad- vising the prisoners. of thelr, detwear,. were - ‘handeulfed Fights. and then taken away... - “At the same-time, the hostages. walked: off: all at . ~ once,” said Verteault. We. knew it wasvover then.” ‘The seven’. remaining - convicts then stripped and © -surrendered ‘.one ‘by one, — They threw their: pistols and . : fiomemade knives" over a / nearby: fence.” ‘The canyict idéatified by. . authorities as the leader: of ~*| the. group, Roger Duhamel, was the: last. to sirrender. | Verreault said there were no. conditions altached to. the . , surrender: ' of any of" the _ " hostage-takers. , ‘There were ‘eight hostages: -* sti being held at the time of “the surrender, Three others “ ; selieingl Ket. i iwi ine hal eee Falelwd>“S ", earlier, totlay; - ‘and “yet " andther’ ‘was | released. :on -- woe bol! ee ‘, Const i ‘Tuesday, one. day ; after” the incident began. °° “The hostages appeared to ‘be’ relieved although they're: very’ tired,”” Verreault said. They:: were | taken~ - mediately to a: prion ‘ine .- firmary to. have: medical examinations. =~ "Tt happened very fast,’ said Verreault, adding that it Was. unclear whether all the prisoners. decided . to give themselves up at./once, or _ whether the stirrender of the first two prompted the others to, give” theniselves - up. minutes later. -‘ “They had . been: talking competition i in twa cities and ‘the loss of jobs...” . Media analyst | “Richard ‘ Dormon of First Marathon ", _Secprities Lid., of Toranto said . Thomson's acquisition - of FP Publications should be regarded 49 “a steal". in the , light of stibsequent evonts. Lea | Hansen, Toronto, get exclusivity in Vancouver —. about.18 times potential annual earnings but in ‘-gomparison with some U.S. newspaper. acquisitions, where prices have ranged up: to 30 times earnings, “it may ’ be quite a reasonable prite.” ‘Kenneth i ¢halrman of Thomson, said economics dictated the company’s decision, calling The Journal “‘a licence to -Joue money"’ — a twist on the famous comment of his late. father; Lord Thomson of Feet, that his Scottish tele- . . Vision dequisition was a licence to print money. Thomson also said he tried tosell The Journal to eight or “nine different groups but had no luck; Asked in an interview whether he thought the closings were: good for. Canaan journalism, | im- 7 cone . munications analyst with . Dominison Securities Lid. of said Southam . probably paid a high peice to - Thomson, . -Verreault had ‘said during - _ negotiations that if and when .the prisoners" ‘Surrendered, “they. would be taken: to the special handling unit — one of-two in Canada with what is known 2 AB ey eueer transfer is’ directly in - halt | velopment Centre, This _the usual procedure following a hostage-taking. ’ The: first sign of a resolution of the crisis came when three hostages, Marcel Bougle, Denis Proteau, and Marc Saindon, were turned. loose by their captors about 4 a.m. today, reducing to eight the number still held. in captivity. ‘ ’ Bougle, 46, 8 driver for the pelzon staff, appeared ex- tremely exhausted ashe was brought into ‘a nearby hall . where the hostages’ families were waiting, Proteau, 16,18. a helper on a truck owned by - an outside firm and Saindan, ' A, is a laborer. . ‘Terrace. below ee level _ By GAIL. ‘DOTINGA, . Herald Stal Welter” "BIC. asa whole ‘inay be a -violent and deatlly place for adolescents to live, but wot in ‘found ‘no ‘nat . ference betw fhe age groups. eo Trifact, for ripuihare were ‘no violent-isggths: of adolescents if Fetace. OF the five deattis'f seaiiod that year under the 4#@ f 20, two were crib deal if ferson froze; anothér: Qe Irom a heart eonditiofy SHd thi fifth died: of. natural: : There were’:# ple of suicides, but i ra think. its. bad. 7“ jour- ‘nalism,”. : Having. , only one newspaper i othe it - possible for t sake it newspaper i he said, bls immediate'p staff at the; lie se Pressnpw thatkhd Tribune is goney fd. i. - As for tl ple hho have Jost their jobs in the closings, “Thomson saidiy /Hach one has ‘to find his awn wway in this world. Ong; -woultd hope that the “.) severance ‘arrangements “would take — ~‘some of the pain out of that.” Employees of The Journal — with more: than three months’ service, 1 week's severaned ” each six mouthi; tly have been with the newspaper and a 12-week bonus. News Service's staff of 41 will get the same settlement. Fisher, | Southam president, said’ Tribune employees will be provided with generous, eéparation allowances, Fetirement for those eligible rbd help in A Tribune 5 said employees ‘witl:-recelve reguler pay ‘untl'the end of the year. Severance pay will be 9 calculated on’ ‘the basis of © _ ports of Canada or in som othe® ‘einployment. . ‘linked’ more to the time of _year rather than age,” said “Sargeant Jack Broomfield of the Terrace RCMP. Lynch agreed with the - . Minister of Health Rafe Mair ~ Saat part of the problem was ets Boe -bendiency - to.atiract restless people. “B.C;'s a rougher place to live ‘than southern Saskat- _ -chewan where farmers have been there for 74 years or in Ontario Where they have second and third generation . families, Naturally - there'll | be more stability: in those , communities. . ‘Dr. ‘Roger Tonkin examined all death cer- tifleates for individuals . under 20 who died in B.C: in 1978. He found higher death ‘rates in the threé. major categories of suicides, motor vehicle fatalities and. homicides than in other te one week's wager for ‘each six months of full-time employment.’ Bot William MeLeman, . Canadian director of The Newspaper Guild, said severance: pay does. not compensate someone for the loas of a Job. He conceded that the papers were losing money, but said, “a cor- poration’s dollars are not the ~ -game a5 an employee’ 3 livelihood.” The moves leave Soulham Ae with 13 dally newspapers in 7 . ‘Canada and Thomeon with 40. . Before acquiring FP, Thomson had effectively avoided competing directly againet other newspapers in cities with more than one daily paper, with the sole exception of St. John’s, Nfld. With the purchase of FP, Thomson found itself competing in four clttes — Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Thomson's flagship news- paper, Toronto Globe and Mail, is the only one of the ° four still in a competitive sitvation, facing The Star and The Sun. The closing of The Journal and The Tribune will mean an annual loss of $480,000 to The Canadian Press. |