Page 2, The Herald, Friday, May 25, 1979 INSIDE LEBANON ‘Israelis bomb guerillas. TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli military planes strafed and bombed mountain and coastal Palestinian guerrilla bases deep inside Lebanon for the second straight day Thuraday, hours after Palestinians shelled a northern Israeli border area. Lebanese authorities. said the air raids caused high civilian casualties. Farther to the south, near El Arish, capital of the Israeli-occupied Sinai. defiant Jewish settlers who had resisted eviction by throwing stones and vege- tables at Israeli soldiers, finally relented and gave up their 10-acre farm Thursday so the area could be tumed over to Egypt today under the Egyptian-Israell peace treaty. In Jerusalem, & man was slightly Injured when a small bomb exploded in a subur- ban supermarket, police said, but little damage was reported, U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance arrived in Cairo and immediately left by helicopter to meet in Alexandria with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On Sunday, the two are to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Menachern Begin in Beer- sheba, Israel; to begin talks - on Palestinian autonomy in Israeli-occupied areas, The Israeli milltary command announced the aerial attack on “terrorist SHORT TERM. COMMERCIAL FUNDS NOW AVAILABLE ‘Royal Trust now has short-term funds available for commerelal and industrial securities and apartment § loans, One, two and three year terms for existing properties are 11% percent, Five year lerms for new and existing properties are 11 percent to 114 percent. m Amorization periods up to 25 years. All enquiries a welcome, Please contact Bruce Hansum or Bob | ROYAL TRUST MORTGAGES * 248 Bernard Ayenue + Kelowna, B. Cc. VI¥ 6H3 oo FORBBNO JéRtates subject to confirmation. WJ ‘Overwaitea Bingo concentrations” hours after . a man and a woman were slightly ‘Injured barrages of shells feli on northern Israel, The com- mand said without ela- boration that the artillery , fire was returned. Israell military officials would: not specify which sites’ were hit in the mid-morning air raid, but reports from Beirut sald Israeli planes bombed Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla targets in the Reihan mountains, 64 kilometres miles southeast of ‘the Lebanese capital. Lebanese officials said at least 20 persons were killed and more than $0 wounded in the air strikes against the neighboring coastal towns of Naameh and Damour, about 16 kilometres south ‘of the - - been injured, capital. Lebarion's state radio said | Israeli rocket, bombing and shelling left “dozens of- civillan casualties" in four. major Palestinian-controlled towns, set pine forests ablaze and.caught United Nations peacekeeping forces in a crossfire, Lebanese authorities reported the Palestinian-run towns of Aichiyeh, Nabatlyeh, Kfar Tibnit and the adjacent crusaderbuilt Beaufort Castle took the -brunt of the repeated barrages. ’ “Damage is colossal; misery Is everywhere," said a Lebanese government official in Sidon, the when > provincial capital ‘of the No UN troop. casualties were reported in the southern buffer zone at the - israeli border area, separating Paleatinian guexrilla positions and: the Israeli positions. - The Palestine Liberation 4° Organization said it suffered no casualties, Israeli jets hit targets in Lebanon on Wednesday following a bombing in Peta! Tikva, a Tel Aviy suburb, which left three Israelis dead and 11 injured, The PLO claimed responsibility for , the time bomb placed on top of the ‘roof of a crowded bus stop. The deaths brought to 18 the number of Israelis killed by terrorist actions In Israel ‘this year, More-than 2 have Official statistics in Beirut show 105 Palestinians and Lebanese were ‘killed and moré than 350 wounded in alr, sea and artillery reprisals Israel mounted in Lebanon since the Egyptian- Israeli peace treaty In March. . Palestinian guerrillas have vowed ta step up terrorlat activity to sabotage - the treaty. June 4th likely date OTTAWA (CP) — The caretaker Liberal cabinet huddled for more than five * The “contract . following a six-month, IsraeliEgypt peace NEGO TIA TIONS | TO CONTINUE? — year and.70 centa in: the: - |: MONTREAL (CP) — Officials of © Alcan ' Aluminium Ltd. hope to ' continue negotlating with the union representing - 8,000 workers al its four Quebec. smelters even’ though the employeea haye authorized a strike. Alcan spokesman Terry. Kirkman’ sald Thursday there has been no breakdown in negotia- ilons ard talke could resume shortly, Aluminum Unions hasn't advised Alcan officially yet that the workers voted Wednesday to turn down -: management's latest offer, and ‘'a lot can happen” hefore a strike .starts, Kirkman said. - Union spokesman Jean- Mare Dubols .sald the dispute comes down’ to money — Alcan has of- fered an across-the-board hike of 90 cents an hour in the firat year of a new contract while the workers want $1,47. Dubois . said the’ workers look small wage increases in the last — signed strike in 1976 — because of. wage-and-price con- trols and because of a de- pressed world demand for aluminum. . Now, world markets are strong and demand for the metal is expected to’ gtow about five’ per cent annually for the next five years or 50. Because of this, sald Dubois, the- federation feels it should hold out for what it wants, Alcan is offering a three-year contract with average hourly increases _ Wants a. two-year con’: . Federation of. $147 in thecfiret year. hours Thursday. to plot of, 65 cents In, the second. third year, The federation: o tract with:an across-the-:-" board hourly. increasa, of: $4 cents in- the. Becorid year, The Alan offer worku out to 11.9 per cent in the - first year, 7.7? percent in | the second year and 7.1 per cent in the third year, The current ‘average . hourly rate 1s-$7,99°... >" The union: “demand, ‘at mf would provide an average © hourly wage of $9.06 — a 19.4-per-cent The 34-cent increase in - the ‘second., year would constitute “A further 5.8 . per cent. The cost-of-living adjustment clause is the - same in both the. com: | pany offer and the union - demand, and < non ‘monetary clauses have been Initialied, ‘Dubois. -Contracts:covering ‘the workers expired May 12,: and the federation. has had the right to strike since May 20. About 70 per cent of the workers ° cast ballots. Wednesday, and of these, 90 per cent rejected the offer and gave union leaders a strike mandate. Should they all strike, it would eut Alcan, aluminum production in Canada by .75 per cent, ‘Alcan'’s only Canadian smelter outside Quebec is in Kitimat, B.C. : Alean produces: about one million tons of aluminum in Carada- annually and another 400,-000 tons elsewhere in its whollyowned smelters, .. ' Draw inner sirategy for their new role in : opposition, but ministers refused to discuss any de- clsions taken at the meeting. ’ Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was not available ‘for comment on his im: mediate plans for turning over the reins of power to the new Progressive Con- OTTAWA (CP) -~- The servative government of average wage earner would Prime Minister- Elect Joe have been taking home $20 Clark, _more-each week by the end ; But Jim Coutts, Trudeau’s of 1978 without the federal principal secretary, told price and wage controls, a reporters that June 4 was 4 - study released Thursday ‘probable - date, for ; the: -concludes. ’. “transition of, power. ; 5: eet The 1é-page ‘autopsy. ofthe. Coutts also said Trudeau i is. Liberal government's three- likely to have a newsconfer- year income control ence next week and hold the program, by the Conference last of his regular weekly Board in Canada, says the meetings with the Governor- controls did a better job of General. limiting wage Bains. than Several ministers said the controlling prices. The cabinet session was a free- program had a neglibile ef ‘wheeling discussion on the fect on profit margins, the election campaign and the study says. reasons behind the Con- re board, a private eco- servative victory. mic ‘research And Supply Minister organization, spent several Pierre de Bane said the thonths analysing the.con- question of leadership was trols program.as a tool for 5S discussed. fighting the kind of inflation “Every one of my Canada was experiencing in colleagues was asked his the mid-1970s, opinion of Trudeau’s . Author Reginald leadership. Every one of my Letourneau summarized his colleagues was of the opinion findings: “The antl-inflation that Mr, Trudeaushould stay program appears to have and fight and lead ug in the had only a modest impact on next-election.” the price level and a. In Jasper, Alta:, where somewhat larger impact on Clark is: meeting with a wages and salaries." — transition committee, a Heestimates that when the spokesman said Clark is program ended last ing al June 4 to assume: December, the level of office and name a new average weekly wages was federal cabinet. - about 7.7 per cent leas than it . Coutts sald Trudeau and - would. have been in the ab- Clark are likely to discuss sence of controls. The the takeover next. week. A general price level was only final cabinet meeting ia about two per cent lower planned as well as'a session than it would have been with the full Liberal caucus. without controls, Average BRIAN PIWEK (left) manager of OVERWAITEA, presents LOLA SCHMIDT of 3733 Eby St. with a $1,000.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE as winner of the Overwaitea Bingo Draw held Saturday, May 19 | Overwa itea Crom ST ONT SPM LONG DISTANCE WEEKEND RATE TO MOsT PLACES IN B.C. | B.C. Tel’s speclat weekend rate is really cheap. You can dial direct (112) to fost places ln B.C. between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday for just . 35¢ or less per minute. from hotel, motel or coin telephones ot to some Northern points not served by B.C, Tel. 7) ROTEL {Minimum charge 23¥ a call.) So call someone long distance this weekend, And tatk It up while rates are down. Rate dogs not apply on calls earner. . would have more In dollar terms,. the average weekly wage, without three years of controls, would have been $267.50 instead of the $267.50 reported by Statistics Canada, : ‘thirds’ of. the ‘over-all price levels were subject to con trols, the study says. Food ! prices were excluded, as. were imported - raw materials, industrial machinery and consumer goods. - Most of the government's _ Power over price levels came through its ability to gontral wages and salaries. The program also included . limits on professional in- comes and dividends paid to shareholders, but these had only a marginal effect on inflation, the study says.. Although ‘profit margins fell steadily during the three- year control. period, Letourneau attributes most of this decline to forces other. than the ‘control program, which he lumps together as “‘weak over-all economic © conditions.” . One major result of con- trols was to shift spending power from the consumer to business organizations. “Without controls, con- sumer spending would have been stronger and in- vestment spending would have been weaker than what actually eccurred during the Although consumers cari hardly be expected to thank . the government over the short-term for reducing their buying ‘power, Letourneau Suggests there may be long- term befits for economy. The control period did allow industries to reduce their production . costs (primarily labor) which made them more com- petitive on international markets, This led to in- creased export sales, the basis of much’ of today's improved Industrial health. BS” se - years of the program,” “Increase, 9. ' weekends, ~~ Roadblocks are ‘scheduled . ’ began Thursday, the year totalled NEWS IN BRIEF '_. GODERICH, Ont. (CP) — * “Aman has been charged ina an - hostage-taking incident pear in court again July 16... _ Wednesday in -which eight ms . people: were ‘Held . captive herein a federal ‘Government . ~Nmothy Sheardawn, 27, ot ~ Goderich appeared in court Thursday and was charged - with possension’ of dangerous “weapon, . discharging a fire-arm with "Intent to wound and using a fire-arm -whilé committing an ‘indictable offence. ‘ He - was ‘remanded in custody at the "‘Meohol ' ‘VICTORIA’ (CP) - Ate -torneyGeneral Garde .. Gardom : blamed‘ alcohol today after 33 people died In ‘trafic - accidents on British Columbia highwaya during the’ last lwo weekends, : . Gardom said his ministry is looking at setting up more province-wide roadblocks to nab drinking drivers — especially Suring - long for this weekend, : The attorney-general said. the government’s Counter Attack program will never be a total success but it has “Penclangulshene, “Mental Health Centre and. will ap- following psychiatric tests, -The gunman kept police at... ’ bay for 12 hours Wednesday | - “hefore surrendering. His..: : ,--bostaged escaped uninjured © . but nine‘of the spectators on. the scene, some of whom had brought lawa chaira. and ® pinoculars to wateh -the alege, wore sallghtly ‘wounded i by bicks Pollce.. vid the ‘incident began on a golf course outside this. town, -75: kilometres northwest of London, Ont. : blamed — made some headway. ‘in reducing the number of drinking drivers on the road and making drivers aware of the dangers of drinking and driving. The ministry. is “also considering stiffer penalties for Impaired drivers such as automatic jail sentences: for firat offernders. “It is certainly one of the options that can be looked at — not necessarily jail, but some form of social agency custody,”? Gardom sald in an interview, “I have always- felt that the fine is not necessarily the most appro- priate form of yardstick," Prisoner transfer begins NEW WESTMINSTER, BC. (CP) — prisoners from the ancient _ and often troubled British Columbia Penitentiary to prisons in other provinces Baid spokesman Jack Stewart of the +Canadian Penitentiary . Service, Stewart said 23 prlagners: from the federal maxlmum- security institute left’ by chartered gircraft and two more. prisoners ‘-—from prisons at nearby Mission and Matsqui — also were aboard the flight. He sald a number of prisoners involved — in hostage-taking incidents at the B.C, Penitentiary were - among those transferred toa “ Between one-half’ and two. Lat Vie The transfer of © special handling: unit of - Millhaven prigon in Ontario, The reat will be sent to the - Prince Albert Penitentlary im .Saskatchewan and the regional Prison at Mirabel, . Que, A. Hist of. names of. the prisoners involved was not: released, bul Stewart said . convicted murderer Andy Bruce was not among those -trandferred, . Bruce has askedthe courts impending ._ _ transfer to an eastern in-. to atop his stitution from the B.C. ‘Penitentiary. - . alt ds po ion now stands at 23, down significantly from wie high of 700 several years ago. The government plans to Phase out the Institution, ” Broadbent; Chath: 16 widget | OTTAWA. (CP} — Ed Broadbent, New Democratle ‘Party leader, plans té meet Prime Minister-elect Joe . Clark early next week before stating how he will respond to a Progressive Con- servative minority govern- ment, . Aides said Thursday ‘that Broadbent plans no public statement about the position ‘his 26-member caucus is in until after the meeting requested by- Clark. The meeting is Monday or . Tuesday. The place has-not been decided, Clark is in Jasper, Alta. planning his | move to power in - Parliament. . Although Conservatives *- are six seals short of a majority in the Commons, Clark says he dogs not intend to negotiate an alliance to get a majority. with either the NDP or.the Social Credit party. The latter won six ” seata. Broadbent plans to meet his new caucus, expanded by - nine members to 26, as early as possible in June. Until he meets clack, be will relax with here, aides said, B.C. Hydro shows a profit : VANCOUVER (CP) British Columbla Hydro had a $44 milllon profit for the fiscal year ended March 31, chairman Robert Bonner said Thursday, | : The profit was a $22- ‘million gain over the previous year and included .. writing, off Josses of $61 million on the Crown corpo- ration's transportation oper: ations, =. Bonner. said in a news release that record sales volumes and peak demands for both electricity and gas were recorded in B.C, during 1978-70. Gross revenues for million, an Increase of 13 per . cent or $102 million over the $004: previous year... Export sales of electricity were $34 million, 4 decline from $78 mailllon from the previous year, which Bonner said reflected lower total storage: levels behind B.C. power dams. - °. Costs increased by $81 penitentiary’s - his farally lus | v: million to $855 million forthe year. Highest rates-of in- crease were 26 per cent In - the cost of natural gas purchased for resale to the public and 24 per cent for granta, school. taxes and - water rentals paid to governments. Long-term borrowings’ during the year reached $477 - million in Canadian frids. © Quake hits Montenegro ’ BELGRADE (AP) — A strong earthquake rolled through the quake-prone area of the Montenegro coast : 1000 PRIZES OF $1000: 00° May 16, 23 and 30, 1979 tickets quali “for May 30,1 979 Bonus Thursday, injuring about 60 persons, Some were hut when they jumped from - swaying buildings te to escape being crushed inside, goslav radio reported. The state news agency re- 1 ported 10 of the 50 were se- viously injured. mm 6 The «quake was centred . about 48 kilometres south of the provincial capital of Titograd and struck at 6:23. pm. (1:23 EDT), it registered 6.2 on the Richter scale, the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., reported, The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as ‘ recorded on seismographs, Every increase of one number means a_ tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus. g 4 reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 — times stronger than one of 6.6. A reading of slx ia considered severe quake. ¥ut- -