no Published: every ny at. ‘sano: Kelujn Streets . Terrace, “Authorized 9s” second’ class. mall. : “Registration Number 1201. Postage p \d \ ‘ “ Cael Page 2, = Herald, Friday, August 13, 1982 B.C. by: Sterling Publishers: Ltd. cash, return. postage, Oe "Brian Gregg. 7 fig Advertising Sales: | _ Terrace — David Hamilton ‘Sports: 7 Don Schaffer eh Statt Writer- Photog ra pher; -Kelth Alford - Reception. Clausitied: ; | Carolyn Gibson ee . “Circulation: = prom - Marla Taylor __. Morice oF copyright. 2 The Heraldretajns fufl, complete and sole. copyright in-any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without ihe written permission of the Publisher. : Letters to ,. the Editor "District 88 hit . To the Editor, - _ Open letter to the board of Schoo! 1 plstricts “What is it. going to take before you begin to act.in a: democratic manner and respect the rights of the people who elect you? -Your autocratic and secretive manner in dealing __ With public issues is unacceptable, if not verging on illegal, : When- will you realize that. people Will not: Jie down and. allow you to walk on their rights? If it requires constant media coverage of your inept way of dealing with issues that vitally affect the educational lives of the children in District 88 (especially the outlying areas), then: media . erage Witte eas If it requires repeated 600 km enple. of anh ko son fel eiag - meetings in order ‘a ow torre are plann I all, and any, District 88 school business, then we will make | those trips. it requires the banding together ‘of parent advisory groups to protect and. ensure the rights of our children, then this, too, will be. done. : Certainly you are not always wrong, but it would seem many of your more 2 virtuous actions are strictly cosmetic or. - © et . *genanieopy me aid wage settlements hia’ \ pring, were more than double the federal. govern: _. Ment’s new slx-per-cent guideline - _ at a time wi “ane -hall:: of, ‘Américan workers, owho. sig agreerients gol nb. ‘increase at all, >>: : Canadian unionized-workers' got an: ‘dvetage de; ~ cost-of-living clauses that were signed in the second: ‘s quarter, figures released by: Labor-Canada show, ©» _ ”. Workers with contracts ted to inflation averaged - . 99 per cent, without ineluding benefits from. their, » -tost-of-living clauses, “ . ‘The’ survey ‘didn't “include ‘sottlemients ‘reached since the June 28 budget when the federal govenment ae |—-arinnninced its voluntary program aimed at’ ‘limiting - wage and price increases to elx per cent thks year and . five per cent in the next year. Although governments talked tough about _. Testraint, increases for public servants averaged 12.6 _ per cent in the second quarter while private sector . workers averaged just 11.0 per cent. : American wagesettlements are remarkably lower. - "Annual inciedses averaged 2.7 per cent for the 1.1. - - inillion American workers who signed: contracta this -_ spring, said Harriet Weinstein of the bureau of labor _ Statistics at the US. Labor - _ Department in Wathington,.. - “That reflects a lot of. contracia that were made ; _ telephone interview Thursday, tracts without wage increares, # ahe said. . : ye “-per-cent annual increase in the 63 contracts without: * ' U.S. or Canadian surveys, > The ‘latest Canadian increases: are ‘at their loweat ' point since about 1980. without any wage increases,” Weinstein’ said in acl About half the workers in the survey. signed con- panera wage ae wis Génetal Motors employees in. ana have vowed ‘(to fight similar concessions...» he’ U.S: survey ia of private aecior employees only.) .andineludes contracts with and without conto ‘living. _ fupreements. ce, "Many of the workers who signed contracts ‘without <: " wage increases’ will benefit from their ‘cont-ofdiving -“glauses, but the amount wasn’t included in either. nthe ‘During the fiat half of the’ year, the average Us” : annual increase was three per cent. Workers without’ ‘cost-of-living clauses averaged 6.8 per cent while those with Inflation clauses averaged a :s A per-cent. iricrease, Weilnatein said.: “Canadian statistles for the third quarter shuld show If employers ‘and workers are. heeding” the i * federal government's plea. for restraint. The annual average increase tor all agreements _ during the first half of this year Ia 11.3 per cent, down - one point from thé 12.9-per-cent average during 1981, - In 1980, increases averaged 10.1 per cent compared with 8.3 per cent in 1970, ‘The average of all agreements includes. public and private sector settlements and contracts. with ‘and — ‘without ‘ontotaiving claws ve “Anger growing among TORONTO (CP) — With statistics showing workers under 25 are by far the hardest hit by the recession, com- munity workers are warning that Canada’s youth are . becoming dangerously angry and disillusioned. This summer, 50 per cent moré young people are without a job compared to last summer, and many are e turning ta - drugs and crime. , . ’ “Fhe worsening economy has aggravated the situation,” - " gays Steven Bourne, a social. worker in Vancouver who deals with young prostitutes. “We've found that the best way to get these kids off the street i is to.find work for them. But there just hasn’t been ‘any jobs in the private sector for the past 12 months, " - Tony Calnes, a'social worker with an. inner-city youth . * project in Torento, sald a growing number of young people are being attracled {o the downtown area in the hope of ‘finding employment; “They come here looking for jobs, but. they end up living on the street. There are twice as many kids as last year. Many of them get mixed up in drugs and prostitution. " Caines said most of the street ‘youth have little formal — editation and experience a Breat deal of difficulty finding sie Calgary," He dre of Cambyr Counselltig” Agencies repott jemhployin ent’ “Wad cariteibiited "to family stress. “Our family caseload is much higher than it used to bes ". « said ' Patricia Malane, “Dad is out of work, the parents are fighting and the kids — . An analysis of youth ‘unemployment reveals some star- “ tling facts: — There were 677,000 people between the ages 15 and 24 unable to find work in July, compared to 422,000 a year ago. ., > Hone includes 67,000 young people not looking for work . in July because they: believed no jobs were available, the unemployment rate for this age group would have been 12h per cent, ; — Total: employment {for all age . groups) declined by 458,000 In the past year and 82 per cent of this loss occurred - among the young. ' = Young people make. isp only about one-quarter of the - ‘industry spokesmen see little hope of Togg-tepm "provement as long as the recession continues: . president and general. manager of Pacific ‘section by: ‘Avopping Star. Ward and halying the: sive of 4 I: “strips, for’an anaual saying of $70,000. Eatliss this month. the Toronto Siar’s page’ width OY 19 millimetres, or threequarters of an “iach Tt ‘The Vancouver’ Sun lopped a page off Its weekly: oc ~ Shrinking. advertising revenves and increasing © costs wi forcing economies on Canadian’ newspapers, :and ‘Our finanelat condition is very bad,” said BEM Wheatley Presi Lid.)'an Vanco: at q shih prints the - Southam's mid-year ‘acta statement showed-a of $12.8 million, or $1.03. share, down sharply from- * 3 ", million and $1.96 a share in the firat xix inioaths of 198f,.and - Wheatley said the drop in Advertising ‘was bigger in: Vain total labor force but account for almost halt the total © unemployment in Canada. - “7 - Harriet Wolman, who prepared a report for Toronto council éarliet this year, estimates about’ 60,000 young people in the city have dropped out of school and are unable to find jobs. _. “And many of these youth with low skills are being left . ; further . and further. behitid,” Wolman said. “There's a whole group of street. kids who have no future’ in em-.. ployment.”* She said many “can't get into training courses because they..don't have. the education,-and- the -apprenticeship | programs require thatcthey-first-havesjoba.ytasy tis Fr Community workers:estimate youth unemployment Is ag) high as 60 per cent in some- Toronto neighborhoods. - Caines said social workers in these areas are “seeing alot - more violence on the streets.” “The kids can't find jobs, they’ re “peeaming more anti- social, they're taking drugs. If they can't make an honest” living, they'll do it. illegally... r are reacting to the pressure. " : extra-curricular (le. trips to foreign countries, the music: ' festival, tennis courts, etc.). While these trips, etc. are certainly useful and of educational value, they are not ofa © fundamentally essential nature to education. - ‘The ministry of education encourages parent advisory groups. The ministry suggests all-round parent Ine, ‘volvement in education,- The proposed draft .on parent advisory groups falls abysmally short of the guidelines put out by the B.C. Parent Advisory Council, the B.C, Home and _ School Federation and even the review board findings and recommendations compiled from the results of the i inquiry after the: 1981 school board fiasco; -: Parents are morally responsible to act as advocates for their children to ensure that their own, and the com- munity’s children’ receive the highest quality education possible, and this school board must learn to respect, .en- courage | find -understand that public accountability. to parents. must be accorded. Now! Immediately! . -We will not fade away! You will learn to be publically accountable, A budget of $22 million of taxpayer money is far te greal amount to be left in the hands of a group of elected officials who have chosen lo function ina dictatorial mo _ © Susan Bennett ‘Chairman Stewart Schools Committee ; “Stand up everyone who just ate : the porkehope.” ee es jobs. on, Jayne Creighton, mother ; ~ Albertan economy slows ‘Land « of milk, honey no aan , EDMONTON: (CP) Although Alberta hasn't lost - ‘its altractions for. Al MacNeil, the 24-year-old ’ Nova Scotian is going home. Nova Scotia now offers _ Some of the attractions that have lured _Maritimers westward, After two years year course he hopes will Although MacNeil never ‘In Alberta, he is going back’. ‘to Halifax to start a two- ‘lead to a job as a drilling “supervisor. ‘had trouble finding a job in. Alberta; for others jit has - always been a tough place to_make a living and has become tougher. . A :New": ‘Brunswicker started to weed out -ap- The Alberta * cabinet plicants by demanding meets Tuesday to consider typing speeds:of 90 words a minute, she said. can leave unfilled until 1993, ; Lougheed watches: NEP disappear “EDMONTON (CP) — The federal government is Is slowly. * moving away from-the national energy program, Alberta” Premier Peter Lougheed said Thursday. “[ haven't any doubt that they realize they made some” very . -bad mistakes,” Lougheed said during. a panel -, broadcast on a local television statlon. . _ 1980, was devastating to the conventional oil and a5 in- . ; ‘Hiltchhiking to Calgary from” ‘|. ‘Edmonton said: he was on his way south after spen- ding five days knocking on doors in an Edmonton in- dustrial area and finding most. companies were not taking applications, let. alone hiring, ‘He had a job washing. windows in Edmonton. He | said he quit because his — employer refused to pay for. ‘travel lime | between The national energy program, introduced ia. October, dustry,,‘‘a basic’ industry” in Alberta, -he said. Decisions showing the change in attitude by Otiawa in- elude reducing the tax rate for Suncor Inc., which recently announced 4 $350-million expansion of its Fort McMurray - oil sands ‘plant in northeastern Alberta, and the recent National Energy Board decision to allow increased exports of Alberta natural gas. “All of those decisions are showing, a lot slower than rr like, int step-by-step they're going to move away from -where they were almost two years ago," Lougheed said. During-the program, the premier faced a panel including broadcaster Leo Leclerc, trade union leader Reg Bagken and Jack’ Foster of the western regional. office of the ~ ” . Canadian’ Assoctation of Independent Businesses. The: buildings. Eight | or nine. about five hours’ pay. . In Calgary, the oil Industry. slump .and other, factors ‘ - hours on the job resulted in.. have’ snuffed’ out’ the :con- — struction boom — projected value of Calgary building | permits has nosedived to $1.43. billion from the 1981 . total of $2.45 billion. — and wiped out hundreds: of offlee of a 10-month-old chiid, has \hree months to supplement _ her-husband's income. > * Calgary: firms looking for premier urged Albertans not-to-fall prey.to a doom and gloom attitude and pointed to the Suncor expansion as a. positive’ ‘step. * ; ' “That's an impoftant. decisién," Lougheed aid, “Right in the middle. of.a downturn in the economy, they made the. decision’ to spend $350 million immediately." . ‘The premler ‘said positive-thinking oil ‘men: ‘think the : industry ig on the way back. It will recover to 1979 tevela of “activity, though not to the boom of 1980.: .. Almost every economic forecaster says Alberta has the 7 best prospects: for rerovery of any ‘area In North America, Lougheed said. Alberta’s “prospects are’so much betier than the Feat at ~ . Canada and the world,’* ; . been Toaking ‘for -a job ‘for. * We’ ve got to keep our confiderice, *he'sald, , warning | that: pessimism ‘‘will become self-fulfilling" if Albertans” don't “see where opportunities are. The most serious problem for the conventional oil and gas _ business is Its cash flow, he said. The Alberta government” “has reduced royalties to help get the Industry on the road to. | recovery and that revival could occur by this winter, or next parttime secretaries have. pring: pores Oe! mo 7 ‘ we how many job openings it” ‘Calgary: and Edmonton ‘have warned civic em- ployees to expect layoffs. ‘Alberta is riding out the - recession better than other ” provinces, Its eight-pei-cent . ‘unemployment is below the national average. But there are . suggestions~ that: " easterners are headed home families and.that migration to Alberta has dropped, . ', “One-year ago, we’ would imually. accept. 40. to 50 | people a month and now we _ are accepting a-dozen a discussidn on. the troubled state of the Alberta economy. - manth,'’.. Ed. - Langner, carpenters’ Junion business manager - in., ‘northern . Alberta; said, “One year ago, we had very few people clearing out. and now we have 30 to. 40. clearing out each month. " _ ‘Chris Batty, assistant regional . managet for . Greyhound Bus Lines, said the number: of: long-haul passengers headed east ~ ~ from Edmonton has'gone up __ in (he last several months. president of Hi-Neighbor Welcome. . Services: in - Calgary, said migration into - the city - dropped’ in- the Spring and has stayed down. 7 to give individdal ‘résults; and previous, In ‘Red Deer, ‘Tocal. £ ‘ ployment-:in the; oilfield “service ‘and: supply ssector | cthas dropped: 40: 3,800 -from ” .., 6,200 In the laskitwo: years, ~ sald. Bill: ‘Hull, ower. of a -. service firm. and director of the: Energy’. ‘Services ‘Association, : , Fewer Maritimers': “seem to ‘be. coming to: :the: Edmonton area. this sum- mer” and ‘about’ 40° of: Thembers of a‘club for i coast “natives “have g ne back inthe last few months, st - couver than in the other cities served by. the chain’! veg Bel . 12:8 per cent at The Sun arid 14.7 per cent at The compared “with lant year-..” * ‘Thomson's operations in the U.S. offset the -Advertiaing volume over the aix-mont period, wes ger Torstar Corp. and Thomson Newspapers Lid. reported reduced earnings from Canadian newspaper operations, although Torstar’s book and magazine division. ; sand Torstar’s newspaper operating profit was +": 8 m l ion, qt. down from $11 million for the first aia months of 1981; and Thomeon. said‘its operating income dropped by nlrié ‘per ‘cent with.a decrease in Canadian operations outweighing a “modest increase” in the U.S. ; Toronto Sun Publishing Corp. said ite tabloid. newspapers in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary earned $758,000 or nine cents a share in the three months, ending July 24, compared with $1.04 million or 1 cents a share it the 1981 period, Quebecor Inc., which ‘publishes’ daily papers in Montreal. and Quebec’ and. ‘several weeklies in the province, reported a profit of $8 million or $2.72 a share for the nine months ending June 30, up sharply from $4.1 million and $1.64 a "year earlier, but analysts sald the increase resulted from ; the closing of the unprofitable Philadelphia Bulletin in 1981. | “The drop in advertising was crucial. George Hutchison, Pacifie Press financial director, calculates that a‘ Van: couver Sun ‘subscriber gets an. avérage $7 worth’ of newsprint a month for the $4 subscription price. ~ “"” ‘ Godfrey Mead, president of the. Advertising Agency Association of British Columbia, said the news media cut their own ad revenue when. they Feport bad news, “If a headline story says the economy is ‘golig down; Jt can be felt immediately in the retail business," he said, TE a story says we'll recover, that is also felt." °° But he said things are likely to improve in the fall: “National Christmas ads for products Ilke perfumes, power: tools: and toys have to start .in ‘Beptember.. and October. This generates local retail ads baying: “We've got . that. at this price.” "-- © ; uP Peter Speck, publisher of The North Shore News, which “has an unpaid circulation of 54,000 in suburban’ Vancouver, sald advertisera should be more aggressive in taking ‘ad- vantage ofthe positive side of the recession, He said The News conducted a survey of residents in its circulation area showing that only, 13 per‘cent Planned to, takes thaipl vacations ieuteide 'BiCy:“with 23 per ~ vacationing, in-the provinces and woe at Nee Wve Il. The other 24 | per cent didn’t kw we Mercury threatens ‘in Wabigoon R. ‘ WHITEDOG, Ont. (CP).— Chief Isaac Mandamin called Thursday for a complete ban on fishing in an area of the English-Wabigoon. River system in northwestern Ontario where mercury dumped in the 1960s still poses a threat. The chief of. Whitedog Indian reserve said if all fishing. is hat-prohibited, band members. should be monitored more closely for traces of mercury, Commercial fishing has been sg mig Prytes pen ty ' banned since 1970 but sport. fishing is allowed: About. 35 Whitedog residents were tested by federal- ‘government health authorities during a 244-week period in May and June. Mandamin issued a teport Thuraday, on what was found in the hair samples of the esidents. ° ’ ‘The medical report said levels of mercury found in the hair ranged from nine to 20 parts per million, Mandamin’ ‘8 hair contained nine parts per million. Officials of Health and Wellare Canada, consider levels : up to six parts per million acceptable, while more than , parts per million.is regarded as high risk.” * ~ . The agency, in form letters to the band members tested," advised them strongly not to eat fish caught locally. But Mandamin said tourists eat their catch from. local waters and he and his people plan to continue to fish for food to save money on grocery bills. Although frozen fish is flawn into’ the reserve trom av nor- thern Saskatchewan, to be eaten instead. of the focal. catch, -Mandamin said the. Ontario government. is afrald 4 to impose a full ban because that would hit business at ‘the provinclally-owned Minaki Lodge, near the reserve. a , Area commercial fishing was bauned by Ontario in 1970 after the Reed Ltd. pulp and paper mill , Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd‘, had: danped about 10 “ ons, tonnes of mercury. into the water system § 1962. Mildred” Robinson, - vs since ow owned by ~Mandamin said reserve ‘residents’ have’ been - tested: periodically, in recent years, Mercury poisoning, which -attacks the central nervous system;’can cause:numbness, loss of co-ordination, jRaralyéls and ¢ even death. ‘Mandamim sald the latest tests were ‘the first he has seen ‘how many people wert at the differént't He said he wants to know whe to in deaths blamed on: natpanid a te alse SAE NGL Sat ais rts. sald only be ‘ the ‘aniftin, of Blt ‘which also: . bauses a-loss of, co-ordination. : eel te cs "He said he also would like {g find: alow anuch mercury : was In the. bodies ‘of reserve members. Wwhoes deaths have: ” * been: attributed: to violence | or ather caus; i: rhe reserve has been wracked’ by high: sinemploytnent, -diolence. ‘and alcoholism : since \the ‘ban on -eommerclal fishing was imposed. The band -reached |a °$1.6million © seitlement earlier this year with the federal government, as compensation for the loss of ita commercial fishing licence. “ "The band and the neighboring Grassy Narrows reserve; where even higher levels of mercury have'been found in residents, are seeking $15 million‘ in compensation’ from a Reed, Idd, and Great Lakes Forest: Products Ltd.’ _athe execulive eald~-. ope —Whitedog. is about 60 kilometers northwest of Kenora. a