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RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD.

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Phone 624-5639
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Customers kept K mart cashiers busy all day
Wednesday when the store opened in the new

New store

drawing

crowds for opening —

By Nixon Baker

; Terrace residents had a love affair with the
new K mart store located in the Skeena Mall
Wednesday. How long the affair will last is still
open to question, but thousands of shoppers
Streamed through the store on opening day.

» How much of the crowd can be attributed to the
massive advertising campaign launched by K
mart and how much was as a result of simply

. turlousity remains to be seen.

: The crowds were somewhat of an em.
barassment of riches for store operators as
queues extended almast the length of the store at

some check-out wickets.

. Many shoppers were spotted returning goods
to shelves vowing to return to fight another day.
Although the store was well staffed and each

employee wore -

‘OTTAWA (CP) — The
Chamber of Commerce js
willing to forego major
business-tax reductlons in
the next budget in favor of
measures to help the
economy recover, the organ-
ization says. In a brief
presented Wednesday to
Finance Minister Jean
Chretien,

The chamber says in a
regular prebudget sub-
mission that while it is
concerned with the burden of
taxation on business, the
first priority must be to re-
store the health of the
economy through reductions
in government spending and

.
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- hey

a ribbon designating them.

deficits, Chretien has
promised a budget by mid-
November,

at times.

_ Selves as helpers, even they were over whelmed

The gigantic parking lot which looked so
barren and out of place only last week was
unable to meet the demands today, resulting’ in
many patrons parking further down the lot or on

Lakelse street,

Store officials admitted upon questioning. that
they had made preparations for a large number
of shoppers but even they had not expected such

a tremendous turnout,

large, kept full throughout the day, but rush.

Shelves were, by and

orders have already been placed to replenish
stocks, however no one is expecting a repeat of

Wednesday’s

opening

day crowds.

Most shoppers when interviewed admitted that
they had purchased more than they had jin-
tended, but seemed satisfied with the store and
the service, “considering It was the first day”.

Chamber makes concession

“In the light of this vital

need, we recognize that we
must play a responsible part

Chretien stays mum

OTTAWA (CP) — Finance
Minister Jean Chretien was
tight-lipped about his budget
plans Wednesday, saying he
will consider, along with
numerous other suggestions,
a recommendation from the
Economic Council of Canada
that he cut taxes by $2
billion.

Chretien dismissed at-
tempts in the Commons by

recentlyelected New
Democrat Bob Rae (Toronto
Broadview) lo get a preview
of the government’s mid-
November budget.

Earlier in the day, the
council had released its 15th
annual review, warning the
government its recent
restraint initiatives will have
depressing

in the fiscal process and
refrain from seeking major
tax relief at this time,” it
Bays. .,

Should tax cuts bé in-
troduced, priority should be
given to reductions in‘ per-
Sonal taxes, the chamber
says.

“Real labor income per
employed person has been
declining in Canada for the
better part of two years and
this has undermined the
Strength in consumer
markets.’ .

“We, however, ‘would
counsel in favor of con-
siderable caution in this
regard,”

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« STRIKE ENDS

Workers return,
leaders charged

Striking inside postal
workers began returning to
work Wednesday night at a
number of centres across
Canada, but how long they
would stay on the job was
uncertain.

The return started after a
series of meetings of locals
of the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers (CUPW)
called to discuss the national
executive's recommendation
for the workers to end their
strike, which was staged in
defiance of federal back-to-
work legislation passed last
week.

Postmaster-General Gilles

Lamontagne said Tuesday
that any of the union’s 23,000
members not back on the job
by 12:01 a.m. Thursday
could be fired, He said in the
Commons on Wednesday
that the threat had per-
suaded about one-third of the

national CUPW membership

to return to work by noon.
Charges were also laid

“against CUPW and five of its

national leaders, including
president Jean-Claude

| Parrot, in an action-packed

day. The RCMP also sear-
ched all 265 CUPW locals
across the country, appar-
ently in an attempt to obtain
documents that would be
evidence against the five.
nd some injunctions

Ampbng the first workers to
réturh were members of the
Sf John's, Nild., local, which

‘+ has 193 members.

Ted Rice, acting president
of the St. John's local, said
they were allowed to meet

. only on the condition that the

workers would be ordered to

’ return to their jabs,

“We hope the employer

doesn’t try any dirty tricks,” -

he said as he and other
workers went to the main
post office to sign in.
*. Workers also were back on
the job at Saint John, N.B.,
and Moncton after strikers
agreed to go along with the
national executive's
recommendation. However,
workers at . Bathurst,
Cambellton and Edmunston:
did not report for the evening
shift.

In Toronto, about 1,000
angry and noisy workers
said they would return to

Pilots

set to
strike

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Pilota at CP Air will goon
strike Nov. 4 if the
company does not make a
better contract offer, a
spokesman for the

nadian Airline Pilots
Association said Wed-
nesday.

The company's 545
pilots have been without a
contract for 11 months.
The association said
Tuesday they voted 43 per
cent in favor of strike
action to back contract

demands.
Don Brown told a news
conference Wednesday

that the chief stumbling
block in the negotiations
ig arbitrary reduction of
pilot pension en-
titlements.

work after local president
Arnold Gould asked them to
go along with the executive's
wishes. *

He said 95 to 97 per cent of

the 5,200 Toronto inside
workers would return,

Some said they would go
back and work 24 hours
without a contract, then they

would resume picketing.

Gould said he was dis-
appointed that the workers
had to abandon their strike.

What a difference a day
makes]

Yesterday some 100
union members turned
out at various times to
Support CUPW in their
strike against the post
office here in Terrace,

Today when asked what
happened to the strike

loca post, office workers
Teplied, ‘‘what strike’,

Postal service is back
to normal today with mail
deliveries taking place on

POST OFFICE

Terrace workers back

schedule and inside
workers busy sorting the
“small backlog which had
accumulated during the
strike.

The only remaining
mystery is what hap-
pened. Union
representatives are not
talking to the media and

management simply says
operations are being

- carried out as they should

Outside postal workers
here received word late

last night that they should
return to work. No ex-
planation was given.

RCMP detachment
officials told the Herald
thal they had received no
special instructions
regarding the removal of
pickets from outside the
post office building.

Other stories in today’s
Herald outline the
Canada-wide __ situation,
but as far as Terrace is
concerned it is strictly
business as usual,

picketing: were:

HIGGITT DENIES |
Protect Mountie

policies helped.

OTTAWA (CP) — Retired

RCMP commissioner W-L-
Higgitt denied Wednesday
that a long-standing policy to
stand behind Mounties
caught breaking the law in
the course of their duties
might have actually en-
couraged them to be less
cautious about lawbreaking.

Higgitt. ingisted under
tough questioning at the
McDonald royaT‘commission
into RCMP Wrongdoing that
members of the force knew
that if they were ac-
casionally required to break
the law that these actions
had to be justified.

But it became unclear
under repeated questioning
by commission counsel Ross
Goodwin, commission
chairman David McDonald
and commissioner Donald
Rickerd how Higgitt would
decide what illegal acts were
justified.

_ He was questioned closely

on an RCMP memo in-
traduced at hearings
Tuesday which showed
senior officers were con-
cerned about putting on
paper a policy on support to
members of the force caught
breaking the law in their
duties,

Senior officers had asked
Higgitt in 1970 for permission
to distribute a memo on the
policy. But the documents
showed that Higgitt balked
at putting it in writing and
instead, it was to be com-
municated verbally to
Mounties taking  in-
vestigation classes at Ot-
tawa headquarters, _

The memo prepared for
Higgitt's signature con-
taining the policy said that if
a force member broke the
law on orders or with ap-
proval from a superior of-
ficer, all fines and legal fees
would be paid if he were
caught and charged. If sent
to jail, his salary would be
paid and he would be
rehired,

“If the illegal act were com-
mitted by a farce member
acting independently, he
would get support if the
action were justified,

Higgitt denied Tuesday

~ that the entire memo was in|

fact a force policy and that
just because a mountie broke
the law under orders would
not necessarily make the act
justified. ,

Hot air storm
is prediction

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau has of-
ficially given provincial
premiers permission to
begin next week what could
be a stormy debate on the
realignment: of federal and
provincial powers.

In a letter to the premiers
dated Oct. 18 and made
public Wednesday, Trudeau
said there will be an op-
portunity to discuss power
redistribution at a con-
stitutional conference here
Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday.

The Western provinces
want to increase their
control over mineral
resources so they will not
continue to run afoul of fed:
eral legislation.

Quebec and other
provinces have been fighting
for years to assume greater
control over com-
munications and culture—
two areas the Parti
Quebecois believes are
easential to the survival of
the French-Canadian people.

At a news conference in
Regina Wednesday,
Saskatchewan Premier
Allan Blakeney appeared
optimistic that agreements
on resources, commu-
nications, culture and
language rights will be
possible.

Blakeney, noting an ap-
parent lack of popularity of
the federal Liberals, said
Trudeau is showing more
willingness to enact changes

Israel approves peace

Israel gave qualified ap-
proval Wednesday to a draft
peace agreement with
Egypt, but instructed its
delegation to the peace
conference in Washington to
seek important revisions in
the final text.

Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said after
a three-day cabinet
discussion that 15 deputies

voted ior the treaty and the
amendments he proposed
and two ministers abstained.

Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan and Defence Minister
Ezer Welzman will leave for
Washington today, the
government said. The US.
stale department saitl the
lalks probably will resume
loday or Friday and that
State Secretary Cyrus Vance

planned to meet with the
Egyptian delegation.

Egypt has said it also
wants to amend the 10-page
draft treaty and informed
sources estimated the
negotiations may conlinue
for several more weeks,

“The government of Israe]
approves in principle the
draft peace treaty between
Egynt and Israel,'' Begin
said.

Jong sought by the provinces.

However, Trudeau has in-
dicated he is not wiiling to
reduce the over-all strength

of the federal government.

Skeletons
identified

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) -—
Two skeletons found in an
abandoned mine shaft near
here Saturday have been
identified as those of two
brothers fast seen alive in
March, 1969.

RCMP identified the
brothers as Terry and
Darryl Wayne Brown who
were aged 19 and 16
respectively when last seen
by their parents before a
weekend outing.

Their remains were found
sitting close together in the
Furnace Portal Mine,
abandoned in the late 1940s.
Three local teenagers made
the discovery while ex-
ploring the shaft which runs
450 metres into a hill about
seven kilometres from this
Vancouver Island com-
munily,

The identifications were
traced through a social in-
Stirance card found near one
of the body's = and
corroborated by bone
studies, A Nanaimo Rod and
Gun Club badge for a club
event March 29, 1969 was
also found near the bodies.

plan

“The cabinet approves the
amendments proposed by
the prime minister to the
draft peace treaty, has given
appropriate guidelines to the
delegation and has
authorized its members to
continue the negotiations,”

He said the final text will
be brought before
Parliament for ratification
before the treaty is signed,