THE WIZARD OF ID . THE FAIRT HERES SovETHING NEW...” SIXTEEN BIFIN-FCLAP ~ f MILEMAIPS INA FREE-RoR- ALL AUD Fir nt ty by johnny hart B.C. THANE THIS TERRIELE DREAM WHERE ME AND THIS GREAT-LOCKING GLY GET Mf e\ STUCK ON A FERRIS WHEEL. i PETE < -_ | fd? HEAP RIN LH, opens ot. : 7? the AMAZING SPIDER-MA LET'S GO, MAN! HERE'S WHERE WE AIT IT AGF — Oe ES ws REGINA (CP) — Con- struction laborers returned to work at most job sites in Saskatchewan on Tuesday while a threeman con- ciliation board tried fo resolve a strike in the in- dustry which began in mid- May. Most construction laborers -working when the dispute started have been called back to work and the union was trying to fill orders for an additional 50 men Tuesday, said Dietrich Cimmeck, business manager for the Construction and General Laborers’ Union, Local 18. Cimmeck said laborers have returned to work at job sites in Regina and outside thecity, but he was unable to estimate how many of the 1,100 laborers in the province were back on the job. The laborers are represented by decline by about 20 per cent over the same period. The new Internalional Sugar Agreement (ISA) which | wen into effect in January, 1978. was designed to stabilize the price of international sugar in an 11 ta 21 cents-per-paund range - a range which would guarantee praduc- ers sufficient income to cover costs, This price is.in contrast with the 64 (U.S. cents per pound reached in 1974. and the nine (U.S.) cents per pound prevailing at the beginning of this year, ; Canada imports 85 per cent of its sugar and the decline in value of the Canadian dollar on the international markel, and in- a aicaitterent local in Quotable . toremmain onthe job wal the Comments conciliation board makes its report to Labor Minister Gordon Snyder in about two weeks, ' The union will decide its next move after it sees the report. The dispute surrounds a move by contractors to implement a lower wage classification for in- experienced laborers. “Employers wondenng why their labor budgets have thinned out in recent years should take a new jook at what they spend on so-called fringe benefits. Major bargaining units in Canada have won pay increases af just less than 19 per cent since $975, But a study to be released this fall by Thorne Riddell Associates Ltd., of Toronto, says employee be- nefits rose over the same period by 30 per cent, or ata rate more than half as fast again'as wages... This is a trend that has persisted Socred Head Opposes Sex Education years and is expected to continue into the foreseeable future.” Clayton Sinclair, the Financial Times, August 8, 1978. WHATS SO Gx HE'S AT THE. SAY AAG PAS , Sugar over- almost without a break in recent Bota AND IM AT THE TOR, _— By Stan Lee and John Ramita \ TW ROUGH>-\i Ted PP Ameen | Obbd § GROUF D GAOL id fe OE Ch | ent Aedsed yee ays tS mE rar I crease in refining and distribution - costs appeared to ensure price rises. Although the ISA limits pradue- But the price of sugar has declined. The reason is the world supply of sugar is well in excess of the current needs of consumers. As usually happens when o product rem ~. LS sions have not as vet had effect. The Canadian consumer also benefits from Canada not having a substantial domestic sugar in- ane a wif bt Bae’ a hu = i: Pd ant fer. eS ean ae Bidet leh ae a Peete “ Canada imports 85 per cent of its sugar, most of it from the United States, Puerto Rico, Trinidad/Tobago, Cuba, Guyana, Belize, and Australia. Because of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar and the increased costs of processing sugar, the natural trend for sugar prices would be to rise. Actually, because of the international sugar situation, Canadians are paying less for sugar than they did last January. . 7 European communities, Cana- dign sugar prices ate not kept at antificially high levels to sustain aceeptuble income for domestic producers. When international sugar prices fall, so do the prices on the Cunadian retail shelf. North Sea Fish Ban Changes EatingHabits . BREMERHAVEN, West Germany (AP) — Germans, Dutch and Norwegians are being forced to break with one of their oldest culinary traditions as a fishing ban on North Sea herring removes the delicacy from their menus. A seafood staple in nor- ‘thern Europe since the Middle Ages, herring have “been so badly depleted by overfishing that North Sea _ eatches were banned this year to replenish them- selves, Governments agreed to the ban after the North Sea herring. catch plummeted from 482,000 tons in 1973 to 169,000 tons in 1975. . The herring ban and strict quotas on herring and other fish in the Baltic Sea, North _ Atlantle and elsewhere have been protected by fisher- men, who say the con- servation measures are exaggerated. “Fish resources have to be protected, but unfair quotas are ruining our livelihood,” declared Karl-Heinz Burde, ‘Tanager afthe Bremerhaven coastal trawlers’ co-operative, one of West Germany's biggest. DUTCH HARD HIT In Holland, the ban is re-- gardedasa “particular blow because herring is a national feature of the Netherlands,” said Henk Kranenburg of the Dutch Trawlers Association. "It is unprecedented in _ peacetime anda real blow to the Industry.” Dutch trawlers normally net 30,000 to 40,000 tons. of herring in the North Sea in June and July, but now they - will have to fish for other varieties allotted as sub- stitutes by the Common Market. _ Norway, not a Common Market member, permits fishermen to net some. herring in the country’s southern flords, but not oF | oto Convenience can be costly A free booklet Faad - Your Any food that has already VICTORIA (CP) — Social Credit leader Lorne Rez- nowski said Wednesday he is opposed to sex education. “The only real sex education is education In purity and chastity,” Rez- nowski told a news con- ference. Salaries Twenty-five per cent of Cana- dians feet their incomes are “below average’’, according toa recent Gallup Poll. The largest He said school children are Below being taught contraception Average and homosexuality, and he . accused the federal govern- National ah ment of distributing “almost Educution ar R pornographic’’ sex education Secondary” 4 material, | F University 19 The national leader, who is winding up a tour of western Canada, said he expects the otn tia ue oh Social Credit party to win four French 22 western seats in the next fed- Other 24. eral election and at least How Canadians feel undergone seme of the prepata- tion ordiaurily done at home can be culled a convenience food, | The term includes such diverse items as frozen individual meals, cookies, instant coffee, soup mixes, pastry mixes, dehydrated patutoes, cunned slew and cut-up chicken. The desire to save time and effort in the kitchen, and ever-changing itasies in food, group. about 46 per cent, felt their incomes were “about aver- age’*, The results: an Ahove Can't Ahout have creed a demand for more Average = Average Say and more convenience foods, Of, . a Ke ‘ aot ath & Generally the more a food is 54 9 6 processed outside the home, the 50 24 4 greater the casts, However, some 37 §2 3 products such as reudy-mude cookies und cake mixes may be fess expensive, ft is up to the 42 2k 4 individval consumer to decide if 54 rr 2 the added cost and differences in 5 "0 5 flavour and appyurance ure worth the convenience. retain the eight seats 1 now holds in Quebec. Best Buy. by Agriculture Canada provides some of the buckground information on wise food shop- ” ping. Additional infornuilion. concerning food shopping is av- ailuhle by writing: Information Services, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. KIA 0C7, Optimistic Prediction | A semi-annual report on the Canadian economy by the U.S. - embussy in Ottawa predicts a substantial ingrease in economic geowth this year, The report. made public in Washington. foreeasis a growth rate of four to 4.5 percent in GNP. 7] enough to meet ensumer de- ne in Oslo, retail shops report, The Norwegian fisheries directorate is considering possible quotas for high seas herring. Cod, sea salmon, sole and mackerel also come under . quotas set by the Common Market, Iceland, Baltic countries and the United States and Canada—all “glaiming exclusive 200-mile fishing zones. But only herring have been reported to be alarmingly scatee under the quota syslem. PRICE SOARING ; “Last year, we had big barrels of herring for sale," gaid a Saleswoman in a Bonn fish shop. “Now we only get a.few pails of imported herring from Iceland and Holland and none from, German waters.” The shop, part of a national chain, gells the salted fish for 75 cents each, and charges up to $1.0 a pound for the even rarer fresh herring, once the cheapest fish In the shop. Becawie of the North Sea ban and quotas elsewhere, herring consumption may drop up to.30 per cent in Weat Germany this year, industry officials say. Herring has annually ac- counted for two-thirds of the 600,000 tons of fish consumed by West Gerans. . The German and Dutch fishing industries , are omoting other sypes 0 Pitted te the fleets by the Common Market such as blue whiting, mackerel and halibut. : WANTED Welders - Fitter Fabricators - Machinist - to work in union shop in Prince George. All benefits. Contact @.M. Industries Lid., Terrace, B.C. 635.6267 - Dale Robinson. ».. 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