| | i _. Wage-price c OTTAWA (CP) — Finance’ Minister Jean Chretien said Thursday be will not bring down an early’ budget but will _Teveal. the method ‘and starting date for removal of wage and price controls in a major Commons speech next Thursday Giretien told reporters after a cabinet meeting that’ he’ will announce some important economic cy eee during the throne on his pro an- nouncement, but he was definite about ruling out a ifie - budget. e cabinet meeting, held on the second an- niversary of . Prime Minister. Trudeau’s an- nouncement of the program, was held amida climate of continuing economic. uncertainty PROVINCIAL LIBRARY - PARLIAMENT BLDGS VECTOREA. BC Chretiens’s speech next week which has seen the in- ternational value of the Canadian dollar sink to its lowest level since 1939. - Despite the: decline to 90.89 cents U.S., Chretien said the dollar would continue to float on in- ternational money markets: Chretien said new regulations limiting in- creases in pay, prices and dividends will be an- nounced in his speech. Until then, the current rules would be extended. Chretien said he had no fi eherald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewartand the Nass . -{ VOL. 71 NO. 114, Price: 20 cents: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 197. } comment on a published report that a ceiling on pay inereases for the duration of the program may be 7.5 per cent. @ limits on dividends were extended by a cabinet order signed Thursday. They were to A deep low pressure area | r3 >| moving northest from the Pacific will bring clouds with coninuous rain by this evening lasting all day degrees, tonight's lew, seven degrees. Tem- peratures should drop \ Sunday afternoon. Saturday. Today's high 11 | - have expired at midnight. Dividends were frozen in the first year of the program, ‘which began Oct. 14, 1975, and were allowed torise by no more than eight per cent in the second year. The existing regulations for pay, prices and profits and for professional incomes would — continue automatically, a finance department release said. nder current rules, pay increases are held this year to a _ basic protection factor of six per cent plus a maximum two per cent for productivity and in a small number of cases another two per cent to account for past ex- perience of the group. Professional pay raises are restric to a maximum $2,400 a year. Profits are regulated b a complex formula whic tries to ensure that firms do not pass on increases higher than additional production costs. In addi- tion, about 350 major companies must file advance notice of price. increases with the anti-in- flation board. The new regulations to be announced next week will apply for the remainder of the life of ontrol phase-out date coming the am. Chretien repeated earlier remarks by Trudeau and others that labor and. business will have to restrain their demands on the economy to help restore the competitive position of Canadian industries in home and foreign markets. Chretien’s an- nouncement will come at atime when the country is facing a disma! unem- loyment problem, in- ation rates nearly two per cent higher than a ear ago and a lack of investor and consumer confidence, « Canada may bail U.S. out WASHINGTON (CP) ’ — Canada may be ap- proached soon about the possibility of providing emergency natural gas supplies if the U.S. suffers winter, US officials sald 5S. officials s Thureday. Officials said informal, exploratory talks may begin soon about Canada’s ability to par- ticipate in an emergency - energy contingency plan designed to increase supplies and lower demands if a bad winter results in energy shor- - tages. plan, de b e plan, drawn w the new epurtment ot energy, suggests that Canada might provide up . te 48.5 billion cubic feet of extra natural gas between November and March if a serious fuel shortage occurs. ; ear, Canada feet .more suppliers almost two trillion cubic feet short of demands. , While weather experts predict that this winter may not be as severe as last year, colder-than- normal -weather, which would deplete fuel stocks, is forecast. *QUEBEC (CP) — Two members of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) cell which kidna British trade. commission James Cross (fbi ncubic. - . n i el ean Hg ae Ee at e ; sae , ” Six-week-old Joe is not quite sure what to do whe sien his owner Vincent Lincoln bends down to his level. a COREA tes , en sian case = Cana ret gs Levesque to study request in 1970 want to return home with a clean slate, Premier Rene Levesque said Thursday. ; Levesque told _ his weekly news conference or maybe they won't OTTAWA (CP) — Immigrations Minister Bud Cullen said Thursday he doubts whether the federal governmei would permit members of the - terrorist Front. de Liberation. du Quebec {FLQ) involved in a 1970 kidnap crisis to return to Canada with a pardon. Cullen . made the copnm ts statements: by Quebec Premier Rene Levesque who said earlier he would consider making representations to. the federal government for a pardon for two of the FLQ members f involved in the Thee ‘two, Jacques CossetteTrudel and his wife, Loulse, are living in France. They © wrote Levesque recently © seeking “some sort of pardon.” Cullen —: said the government would consider the case, but added that it looks doubtful that the two would be readmitted to Canada. The two, he said, © would be subject to criminal charges for their rt in the ki pping of ames Cross, British trade commissioner, in 1970. ; Solicitor-General Francis Fox said the matter would have to be referred to external af- - fairs, butaddedthatthere — is an open warrant for the — arrest of the Cossette- Trudela that was exe- cuted when the two left. the country. Ferry | workers ‘VICTORIA (CPB) — Members of the ‘British Columbia - Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union in Victoria, Nanaimo and Powell River voted Thursday to return to - work, putting an end to york pane ainst the . British Columbia Ferry Corporation. The union members in Victoria voted to return by more than 99 per cent an condition that there be ‘no disciplinary action against striking em: ployees and no court action hv the company. In that he recently received. aletter to that effect from Jacques Cossette-Trudel and his wife Louise, “@lrrently living = in France. “From their point of view, which I understand, ’ they think the time should be ripe for some sort of lon ... or something ike that,” the premier said, | Levesque said he would study. their request and consider ‘ making representations to the . federal gover nmer where he said the final decision would rest. A spokesman for Marc- “Andre Bedard, Quebec justice minister, said both face criminal charges of Kidnapping and forcible detention upon their re- turn. . ’ “There are charges and they must respond,” the spokesman said. _ He noted that the couple would first have to ask federal authorities fo1 new passports if they decided fo return to Can- ada because they have been absent for seven years and any old Pass rt would have ex- pired. At the news conference, Levesque noted that- the Cross idnapping ‘didn’t bring any vio. sense of what happened to (Pierre) Laporte,” the Quebec labor minister murdered by another FLQ cell. In considering the request for represen: tations to Ottawa, Le- vesgue said: ‘“The only I can say for the moment is that you get a letter like that and in- stinctively, (you think) ence in the’ seven years is a long time to be separated from family and friends.” _ The Cossette-Trudeals, who now have one child, were permitted to leave Canada for Cuba in ex- change for the safe return of the British trade com- missioner, Legal experis say there would be two ways for the couple or the other Cross kidnappers— Marc ~ PCB case BY DONNA VALLIERES — Cancel pollution trail being heard this week in Terrace provincial court bogged down yesterday with e : testimony, some confusion on the part of both coun- sellers, and technical arguement. from the defense. After a day-long trial, Judge Selwyn Rommily. adjourned the trial until ay while he considers a submission.from defense council Robert Gardner fer dismassal of all 16 charges. Gardner said he was “sitting onmy technicalities” to ensure that all of the evidence relating to the pollution tria} is carefully considered. The main focus of Gad- ner's objection tothe Crown’s case hinges on the continuity of evidence t one records made of samples \ _ FLQ kidnappers may return Carbonneau, Pierre Se- guin and Jacques Lanc- t—to return to Canada and not face trial. | Morris Fish, a Montreal criminal lawyer, said the kidnappers could be pardoned for a crime even if they were not yet convicted and had not been tried, The power to pardon rests with “her majesty ... which in effect is the (federal) cabinet.” OLYMPIA (AP) — ‘President Carter will sign ‘a measure which includes ena So construction of a et Sound of] superpo east of Port Angeles, . Wash., United States Representative Dec Bonker said Thursday. Bonker, an Olympia Democrat, said he thinks the action may mean there will be no oil transshipment point in Washington state. This, he said, will increase the need for such an oil port at Kitimat, B.C., about 640 kilometres northwest of Vancouver. “The President will sign the Puget Sound “" protection legislation, and that act will prompt formal reactivation of the Kitimat oil port alter- native, complete with a list of new and financially important sypporters,’ d in a news release. ‘All indications point to these developments ot- curring in rather rapid- ’ fire fashion,” he said. ‘Negotiations wit on mutual crude oil transshipment needs will then become of paramount importance, and there are en- couraging signs in that regard, too.’’ The legislation he referred tois an extension of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, plus an amendment added by Sen. §_ Warren F Magnuson, of Washington state, banning construc- tion of an oil port on the inland waters of the state. ‘The measure ap- parently blocks a plan to uild a superport at Cherry Point, Wash., near the Canadian border. Northern Tier Pipeline Co. is sponsoring a roposal to build a port at ort Angeles, Wash., -coupled with a pipeline around Puget Sound and eastward. ; Bonker has introduced a joint resolution which would authorize negotiations with Canada regarding a superport. In the interim, no federal ~ its could be issued or an oil transportation facilities in Washington 8 tate. “The Federal Energy Administration testified...that there is no reason to be pessimistic about negotiations with Canada,” he said. “‘We Carter will sign - ~ Cherry Point bill have a very good working relationship and there is no reason why we could not come to agreement on the oil port issue. _ “These are all. ad- ‘ditional steps along the path toward keeping all oil transshipment out of Washington stdte, which © Is a course I am per- sonally committed to and one which I am convinced will prove to be the wisest public policy.’ Midwest states worried oil will run out KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A move by Senator Warren Magnuson to k oil tankers out of Puget - Sound in Washington state.may result in‘ for- cing’an’ oil port.on Part eles, ash. oF Kitimat, B.C., an Oregon economist says. Mike Wells, an em- foyee of the Oregon ergy Department, said Magnuson doesn’t favor an oil portat Port Angeles but has said he wouldn't oppose it, either. Magnuson’s amend- ment to the 1977 Marine Mammals Protection Act would not allow tankers east of Port Angeles. The senator has said it would not revent enlargement of four refineries on Puget Sound. However, oilmen say larger refineries could not increase pro- duction without an in- creased crude oil supply. Fielding —_Formway, manager of the Atlantic Richfield Co. refinery at Cherry Point, Wash. said the four refineries produce 313,000 barrels a day, with about 250,000 — Defence submission to drop charges which were taken from Porpoise Harbour, where the chemical was discovered Polychlorinoteo biphenyl (PCB). cause most of the samples were ‘“‘destrayed or | ' lost by the Crown,” defense is at a disadvantage to question the results of analysis, Gadner said. On that ground, the defense council stated that the Crown was offering secondary evidence which was made even . more secondary because the laboratory technician was not present to testify as to the accuracy of the records. Gadner began his defense following testimony by an electrical engineer, a crown witness who was established as anexpert in power generation and power istribution as related to “transformers. The PCB found in Por- poise Harbour is alleged to’ ve gotten there following an power transformer ex- plosion in the pulp mill plant ‘Prince Rupert gets last January. Thomas Carscadden testified that power tran- sformers oft his typecontain a liquid which is composed in part of PCB. ossible reasons for failure of power tran- sformers are manufac- turing defects, electrica. overload, electrical surges, ot the most common, a loss of the fluid, Carseadden said. ; The engineer explained that when a transformer release a which covld cause an ex- plosion. Evidence was given in- during the first three days of the trial held in June that onlu 180 allons of the fluid out of 380° ‘ound in the tankfter the explosion. hen questioned as to what would cause the loss of fluid, Carsecadden stated that there was evidence of holes in the transformer fins, which have covetings of about one millffieter contaminant thick. “The transformer is very rusted” he stated while locking at exhibit photographs. There appeared to be rust on boththe body of the transformer and on the fins, CArscadden stated, adding that the radiators in the fins should be replaced as soom as there is evidence of loss of fluid. “It's inevidable that the transformer is going to fall if the fluid leaks out,” he said. Carscadden stated that the liquid could have been leaking out throught pinholes caused by rust on the transfomer, but he was unable to speculate where a half-inch hole found on one of the fins had come from,except to guess that it looked like it had been plugged. Gadner suggested the half-inch hole could have been a result cf sabatoge, perhaps from a gunshot. Gadner and Crown counel used in Washington state. Most of the rest goes to Oregon. “Magnuson’s bill. will Tesult in a reduction in supplies to Oregon and woe tes ornia, = le there are waking up to that fact,” Form- way said. Magnuson reportedly has contacted Oregan Senator Bob Packw to assure him the state will get necessary petroleum supplies. Since Oregon has no refineries and relies on the four at Puget SKOUND FOR MOST OF ITS SUPPLY, THE BILL ME NS ITS GROWTH CAN BE MET ONLY IF ‘THE Washington refineries obtain more erude oi] by other means than tankers. : Wells said currently is no provision in plans of the Northem Tier Pipeline Co. to supply Puget Sound refineries with oil in its ‘proposal to build an ail superport at Port Ange- les. The Montana-based firm might change its plans, however, he said. there technical Werner Heinrich were both confused as to prior evidence given concernin g one record in the labortory book and the actual dates when samples were taken, received by the laboratory and analyzed. Testimoney given Wed- nesday concerned analysis of the samples when PCB Is were recorded, but all but two of the samples had been destroyed. Defense council for Cancel also argued in his introduction that the results of PCB have not been determined by the scientific community, There is “not one iota of evidence to relate the readings to anything meaningful,” Gadner said. Judge Romilly, however, indicated he was not swayed by this arguement. The trial ended for the day Judge Rommily stated he would review the Gadner’s when. evidence follow request for dismissal. “and I- think~: