7) | | | ti LEGISLATIVE LIEBARY, 18 CULP,. PWLTAMENT BULLOUNGS, “ue 4 ue ¢ ie oh + + ; Ao aie age hearer Dimer ninth stn Sige . — -_ P.N.E. | VANCOUVER (CP) — A 17-year-old girl from Prince Rupert, B.C., was crowned Miss Pacific National Exhibition Tuesday night after beating out 37 other candidates in the twoday pageant. Gloria Macarenko is the second Prince Rupert girl to win the event. In 1948, Margie Brain of the north Miss Pri coast city became the first Miss PNE. She was crowned by Sandy Blackburn of Kamloops, B.C., last year’s winner. Miss Mararenke, who won $1,-000 along with the crown, said she hopes to enrol at the University of Victoria and study journalism. Attendence is still below 1977 figures although 53,228 e Rupert Wins COPPER ALL METALS eq Location Seal Gove . (RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. MOH, - SAT. OPEN TIL & p.m. BRASS & BATTERIES Phone 624-6639) Strike in. Churchill «CHURCHILL, Man. (CP) - — Grain handlers returned. to work Wednesday af- proposal from the National. Harbors Board. Their vote brought to an end a 13-day strike that has jeopardized hopes for bushels of grain through this northern Manitoba port. Port manager TT. A. Lauzon now says that the port is unlikely to achieve record grain movements this toktal replacement of ships that were diverted elsewhere after the strike began and ideal weather conditions. “We would have no spare days at all now,” he said, adding that the 25 to 26 million bushels suggested by Lang is more realistic. So far, abou three million bushels have been shipped. Shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday about 30 workers began loading the Polish freighter Cedynia. ‘The HEHALL was the first - 19 break the news of the Churchill strike, and though little has appeared in the Ti. Vancouver press, for the. past 13 days that seaport - half-way up the West coast of Hudson Bay has been locked ever since in a critical struggle for survival. nar eos : Western farmers, who . know Churchill is the cheapest route to ship grain River and Seaway ports have been trying for years to complish jut that, . if ao. properly. exploited." : . Jim “‘Dewney,: Maritdba agriculture minister Tuesday threatened to fly prairie farmers into the port persons went through the toload their own grain if the turnstiles Tuesday, up 5,909 strike was not over by from the corresponding day nightfall. The port is open last year. The four-day at- only $3 insured days a year, tendence this year is about but is capable of shipping 957,000, down from abut over 30 million bushels of 260,000 for the corresponding grain in that period. The two period last year. week strike has spoiled The car winner Tuesday Churchill's 50 year strike- was Mike Smith of Delta, free record and, because B.C., while the home ap- shipshave had tobe diverted pliance went toT, Garnett of at great extra cost, will have Burnaby, B.C. dealt Churchill a damagin blow. . Bulletin OTTAWA CP - A strike by Air Canada pilots has been called off, deputy labor minister Gordon Mc- Caffrey announced Wednesday night. The announcement followed 12 hours of talks bet- ween airline representatives and negotiators for the 1,500 pilots. Details of the settlernent were to be outlined at a news conference by Air Canada president Claude AIR CANADA STRIKE SETTLED Taylor and Norman Foster, chief negotiator for the pilots. The strike was to have taken effect at 3a.m. EDT ay. Federal labor department officials and represen- tatives of Air Canada and the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association (CALPA) took part in Wednesday’s meetings. Sterling Chain Sale Settled - t moving a record 32 million - year. : Se He says that would require . & Transport Minister Otto also know St. Lawrence - s : shut Churchill down - and~ one bad strike could ac- . * , ternoon less than two hours: ~, after ratifying a coatract . VICTORIA, V8V-1X4 B.C, ol VOLUME 72 NO, 164 \. TERRACE-KITIMAT This fire damaged house is one of a number of structured slated for demolition by council. - House Removals To Beautify Terrace A number of houses and other buildings were ordered _ demolished or cleaned up by the district of Terrace following a public hearing Terrace council heard a - report from district building inspector Peter Brock who listed the structures and the reasons for the recom- mendation to rid the town of these visual nuisances. Anyone can. complain to the building inspector about unsightly p)properties, and the inspector will visit the structures and recommend whether they need to be cleaned up or demolished. This week's public hearing was to give the properly owners a chance to make ‘representation to council if they felt there was a reason for not carrying out the recommendation. Following decisions were made by council following the public hearing: 4611 Graham, clean-up; 4607 Loen, clean-up 2404 Kalum, demolition, 3230 Kalum, demolition, 2401 Kalum, demolition; 5025 Halliwell, demolition, 4620 Davis, demolition, and 4705 Soucie, demolition. ; Owners of these structures have 60 days in which to carry on the demolition or clean-up on their properties or the municipality will send in its own crew and the property owner will be charged for the job. Decision was deferred on several other properties, 4515 Haugland, 4940 McDeek, 4926 Agar, 5028 Agar and 4437 Park, so these situations could be further studied by - council, The last two, 5028 Agar and 4437 Park will also be looked into by the health depart- ment. B.C. Briefs : Twelve-Foot Marijuana Plants PARKSVILLE, B.C. (CP) -— RCMP officers using hellcopters have seized more than one ton of marijuana plants during the past two weeks from plots in remote ~ -" “oe? hAT@AS ON Lasqueti Island in 8; theSéait of Georgia near this * community on the east coast of Vancuver Island. Parksville RCMP said Tuesday the seizures include 460 kilograms seized Monday after a police helicopter pilot . to-date. . discovered five marijuana gardens growing in small clearings. Police said one plant was 12 feet tall. No charges have been Ipid, Ld VICTORIA (CP) -- The Greater Victoria School District will provide a high school program for gifted students in 1979, -board chairman Susan Brice said Wednesday. . She said the proposed pro- gram is similar to that an- nounced last week by Education Minister Pat McGeer, and officials. do not anticipate any. conflict between the two." 07: ’Ms. Brice said the ministry and the district will be working closely with the University of Victoria in developing the programs. McGeer said the ministry is planning an accelerated program which will enable bright students to advance through secondary school at a faster rate. SURREY, B.C. (CP) — -Nursivjgataff at King George Private hospital in this municinlity southeast of Vancot - walked out for an hour tw ¥ in support of a pregnan ‘vorker who Ist seniority rirnts. Anthropoligist To Address Baha'is By Glen Cameron Professor J. Jameson Bond, of South Mountain, Ontario (near Ottawa), will be in Terrace to meet with the local Baha'is and their friends. On Thursday August 24 he will be speaking at the House of Sim-oi-Ghets at the Kitsum-Kalum Reserve. Professor Bond received his M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and has taught at the Universities of Windsor and Alberta. He also served the Canadian Government ia the Northwest Territories and latterly in Ottawa as the senior social policy analyst with the Department of Regional Economic Ex- pansion. He has published many professional papers in his field, has been involved in Arctic Research, Jecturing widely, as well as chairing various symposiums and committees. In 1947 Professor Bond became a member of the Baha'i Faith, a new world religion In 1947 Professor Bond became a member of the Baha'i Faith, a new world religion based an the life and teachings of Baha'u'llah, whose expressed purpose is to unify mankind. Professor Bond has served for several years as a member of the ’ National Spiritual Assembly, and is currently Assistant Secretary to that body. The ideal of unity as en- visaged by the Baha'i Faith is not a vague hope, but the logical conclusion of an historical process begun thousands of years ago. The Baha'i: Faith teaches that mankind as a whole grows and evolves in much the same way as an individual. Just as an individual goes through stages of infancy, childhood, adolescense and maturity, so does mankind. This evolution is helped along and guided by God from age to age through the Founders of the world religions. Krishna, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, the Bab and Baha'u'llah each acted in this capacity. Through their lives and teachings mankind was thrust forward into another stage in its collec- tive development. With the appearance of Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith, the long childhood and adolescence of humanity has come to an end; the age of maturity is at hand. Slowly, Baha'is believe, mankind is tearing down the barrier. of prejudice that has divided us. It is a -painful, but necessary process, and the conclusion is a glorious one characterized by the unification of the entire human. race, and the emergence of the first world civilization. As the world continues to shrink, and interdependence ‘becomes more undeniably essential, this trend is in- creasingly more visible. management” one ‘Vest Pocket Methods” will give way to “more sophisticated VANCOUVER (CP) — David Radler likes profits and hot dogs. ” Nine years ago Radler with partners Conrad Black and Peter White put together $20,000 to buy a money- losing daily newspaper in Quebec. _ This week they sold their newspaper and printing interests to Maclean-Hunter Ltd. of Toronto in a dea which could be worth nearly $20 million. “The Sherbrooke Daily Record was losing money at the rate of $100,000 a year when we bought it in June, 1960," Radler said in an interview Tuesday after the sale of Sterling Newspapers Ltd. was announced, “In four months we Made a profit and never looked back. And we never put another cent in it. All the purchases in the West were bank loans,and the vender taking paper (promissory notes).”’ The 35-year-old son of a retired Montreal restaurant owner who was a business consultant before the Sherbrooke purchase, has agreed to stay on as, presi- dent of Sterling for six months or longer as Maclean- Hunter moves into the daily and weekly community newspapers field for the first time.. MOVING UP But he also is moving up the co Black, 33-year-old Toronto! giant Argus Corp. Ltd. hol awyer, ta ding company. orate ladder as es control of the Toronto sources indicate Radler is expected to be appointed to the board and executive committee of Crown Trust Co. of Toronto, which has assets of $1,184 billion under its administration. Black and Sterling boughta major interest in Crown Trust last spring. In addition, Radler is expected to continue as president. of Dominion Malting Ltd., a Winnipeg company with revenues of more than $20 million. “Tam now buying my first lunch in 10 years," he said halfseriously in Sterling's office on the fifth floor of the IBM Tower in downtown Vancouver. “I don't own the petty cash anymore.” Lunch at the paper-littered desk--only a constantly- used calculator was not buried—was two hot dogs with lemonade and two cardboard sandwiches for his visitors, bought by his secretary for less than $5 in Ea- ton's basement cafeteria. “We have an affinity for Eaton’s,” an obvious reference to Black’s close business relationship with Fredrik Eaton of Toronto. ; KEEPS WITH IMAGE The inexpensive hot dog lunch was in keeping with the image painted by some employees, ‘‘He’s so tight, he squeaks," said an editor, Sale price of Sterling was not disclosed but estimates range from $15 million to close to $20 million. One source indicated that about $18 million could be right after tax benefits are considered. Radler declined to reveal financial figures because the company is privately owned, however, published figures for 1975, the only ones available, show sales of $9.3 million and earnings of $1.35 million, He_ said this year’s sales and earnings are significantly higher. What did Maclean-Hunter get to go with its network of printing and publishing, radio, television, cable television and book and periodical distribution? Nine daily, nine weekly and two twice-weekly newspapers, close to 400 employees with a payroll of almost $7 million a year. ALL IN B.C. All the papers and printing facilities are in British Columbia with the exception of the Summerside Journal-Pioneer and two printing plants in Prince Edward Island. The Journal-Pioneer has the largest daily circulation at 11,500 copies and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin has the smallest at 2,000 copies. Cir- culation of the weeklies ranges from 2,000 to 50,000. Donald Campbell, chairman of Maclean-Hunter, said Tuesday in Toronto that the newspaper industry “ds something we have looked at for years but haven't been able to get into.’ Campbell and Radler said no decision has been made on Sterling’s recently-acquired interest in UPI of Canada. Sterling and Toronto Sun Publishing Carp. combined with UPI to set up a new company to provide a new news service with operational adquarters in Toronto. DECISION RECENT Radler said the decision to sell Sterling was made eight weeks ago. Inquiries about purchasing started to come in while control of Argus—the company with huge holdings which include Dominion Stores Ltd. and Massey-Ferguson LTD.—swung over to Black. He said the investment firm of Greenshields Inc., was hired to co-ordinate offers. Radler is optimistic about Sterling's future unter Maclean-Hunter. chain that Maclean-Hunter Ltd. intends to buy, said “Tuesday that he will stay on as president for at least six months.Sterling signed the deal with Maclean- Hunter on Monday after several weeks of negotiations.Radler said he had been talking to six or seven parties but in the end, it narrowed down to the Toronto-based publishing firm “when they put in the highest bid.”"He didn't disclose what Maclean-Hunter will pay but said it is closer to $20 million than the $13 million figure quoted as Sterling's original asking price.Closing date of the deal is Sept. 30.The Sterling purchase is Maclean-Hunter's first venture into the newspaper business Sterling was founded nine years ago by Radler, Toronto industrialist Conrad Black and lawyer Peter White, who remained its sole owners. They built the group up te a chain of nine daily. nine weekly and two twice-weekly newspapers. All but one of them is in B.C.The dailies are the Cranbrook Townsman, Fort St. John Alaska Highway News, Kinberley Daily Bulletin, Nelson News, Port Albernie “They will give it more sophisticated management. We were quick and we u vestpocket methods. “They will do better than we did.” Last summer Sterling sold the Sherbrooke Record— described by Radler as one of the most profitable papers—to Sherbrooke lawyer George McLaren. “) think he is doing as well, ifnot better, than we did. There is no reason why this can't continue in Sterling.”’ Maclean-Hunter is the largest publisher of national periodicals in Canada. The company reported revenues of $175,233.000in 1976, up from $151,678,000 in 1975. Pavid Radler, president of Sterling Newspapers Ltd.. the B.C. newspaper Albernie Valley Times, Prince Rupert News, Terrace Herald and Trail Times.Sterling’s suburban weeklies include the twice-weekly White Rock Sun, Surre Delta Messenger, Coquitlam Enterprise and Nort Store Citizen.The community weeklies include the twice-weekly Peace River Block News and the once- weekly Chetwynd Echo. the Mackenzie Times. the West Kootenay Advertiser, the Cranbrook Town and WEATHER Glo ut th showers N18 - L10