LEGISLATIVE LLHRSRY, | ag arennerenis coMP. 77/78 PERLIAWENT PULLDINGS, - VICTORIA, b.Cey fol . Ve Lk4 |" TERRACE-KITIMAT yf ) 7 RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. we buy COPPER BRASS ALL METALS & BATTERIES ; ‘@ MON. - SAT. OPEN TIL 5 p.m. , Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5639 Y Volume 72 No, 227 20c Friday, November 24, 1978 q y Israel stands ground ¢ Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said Thursday that there is nothing left to negotlate with Egypt and he will not be returning to Washington for further peace talks, He said itis now up to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to accept the draft treaty. Sadat, however, insists there can be no treaty with Israel untess it is part of a comprehensive Middle East settlement. In Cairo Thursday, Forelgn Minister Boutros Ghall said Egypt is ready to resume negotiations but only if the United States takes an active part. Ghali told the Paris news- paper Le Monde he was “both astonished and disappointed by Mr. Dayan’s words but I donot think those are the last words Israel has to say.” “The Israeli negotiators in Washington genuinely desire peace a they have recognized the evolving link which should be created between Sinai and the Palestinian territories,” he Yankee bubbly brewed § . fi | protits VICTORIA — The BritSH Columbia govern- meat will have made a profit of $14 million on the sale of United States beer this fall when it sells the remainder | of its stock, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Rafe Mair said Thursday. The minister said in a news release 100,000 dozen U.S. beer have been sold in the past week, leaving only 50,000 dozen to go before a atockpile, brought in during a labor dispute in the B.C. brewing industry, is com- pletely sold, He said sale of U.S. beer aince the strike-lockout began will exceed $40 milli on. The price was reduced to $3.84 a dozen—the break- even point—last week to clear the stock before e ofits shelf ie, ae al athe qua e rema r is still good even if it has passed its peak shelf life. Lottery winners ST. THOMAS, Ont. Five tickets each worth $100,000 were drawn Thursday in the Wintario w, The winning numbers were 23012 in series 04; 20761 in series 7; £9879 in series 13; $6166 in series 15; and 45242 in series 24, Three special bonus numbers were also drawn: 85171 In seriee 50 for$50,000; 11144 in series 47 for $20,000; and 22189 in series 74 for $10,000. Halibut discussed OTTAWA (CP) — Talks on a West Coast fisherles agreement include discussions on allowing Canadians to fish halibut off Alaska in return for access to groundfish stocks off British Columbla for Americans, says Sport Minister Tona Campagnolo. A treaty allowing Canadians to fish Alaska halibut expires in April and the fishermen will not likely be allowed back unless there is an agreement, Mrs. Campagnolo said Gift - given Alan Mather (left), a resident of Osborne Guest House, receives a chair from Grade 12 students Anita Wirt] (center) and Colleen - McGhee. The students from sociology 11 raised $180 last spring for the residents of Osborne. Six chairs ané a barbeque were donated to — the residents, The 18 students taised the money from bake | sales, chilisales, a raffle and a car wash, All Seasons Sporting Goods, Pizza Hut, Mountainview Bakery and Safeway also contributed. to the project. ; Ed Harrison, the students’ teacher, soys that he has never seen a high school class raise money on its own in the 10 years he has been teaching secondary students in Terrace, The studenis decided to start the project after they visited Osborne. FROM REPRISAL US. protecting cult survivors GEORGETOWN (AP( — of the jungle are scared out undisclosed iocatlen, said Twenty-nine Jonestown of thelr wits and requested U.S. consular official Doug cultists terrified by the nightmare they fled and by reprisals they think await them went into hiding Thursday behind a U.S, protective shield. The Guyanese government prohibited all Jonestown survivors from leaving the country until it completes its investigation of the mass murdersuicide, Three U.S. military helicopters shuttled back and forth between the Georgetown airport and the Jonestown suicide camp, ferrying out the bodies of 408 members of the American sect who died, almost all by taking poison, in suicidal allegiance to the cuit's leader, Rev. Jim Jones. But tt still is not known how many cect members fled into the jungle or where they now are, . The U.S. Embassy said 31 residents of the commune have emerged from the jungle in northwest Guyana since last Saturday's suicide. Two of them are being held as suspects in the bloody airfield ambush of a group led by Representative Leo Ryan of California, whose investigative visit triggered the violence, The Guyanese earlier ar- rested a third suspect in the ambush which killed Ryan, three American journalists and a disaffected cult member. Ryan’s group was trying to eascort would-be defectors from the camp. The other 29 Jonestown residents who have come out - Columbia flood the U.S. protection, at an Ellice, Union brands bankers goons VANCOUVER (CP) — Union efforts to organize bank employees § are frustrated by ‘'gaons in three-piece, pin-stripe suits,** Laraine Singler, director of the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC) bank organizing campaign said Thursday. Ms. Singler told the British Columbia Federation of Labor that “the barons of Bay Street" are getting worried as unions set their Bights on the 100,000 bank employees, Branch managers are as- signed by the chartered banks’ head offices to ‘spy and report," “When they sniff out union activity and report it, the boys at head office send in a headoffice flying goon squad,”. she said. “They conduct inter- rogations—the banks tell me these called career progress interviews,” The Canada Labor Relations Board opened the door to bank organization last year a] REPORT SAYS Our millions being wasted OTTAWA (CP) — Civil servants have regarded the blic purse as “virtually ttomless’”” and dispense millions each year without heed to whether taxpayers .ore getting their money's worth, Auditor-General J.J, Maedonell said Thuraday, In the 00th annual auditorgeneral’s report and his sixth, Macdonell notes some improvements but chronicles widespread waste on projects ranging from Indian schools to airports and concludes that tax funds still are spent with little regard to economy, ef- ficiency or whether the money is accomplishing what Parliament intends. | Federal spending has in- creased 497 per cent during the last 15 years to #2.9 billion for the year ended last March 31, he says. During that period of rapid growth, “it appears that the public purse was gradually deemed virtually bottomless and that access to it was not unduly restricted for the ingenious.” Macdonell says the government has started to redress ‘the critically serious inadequacies” in the management and control of public funds with the ap- pointment earlier this year : .of.a. comptréier-general. : = That was his later recom- mendation. - But he insists that. more must be done. ‘Public servants must be given the “clearest possible direction'’ that all tax spending is to be made with “the most careful, demonstrable attention to economy, efficiency and effectiveness.” In a letter incorporated into the 746-page report, Treasury .Board President Robert Andras says he too has been concerned about inadequate control over public spending. A series of reforms included careful reviews of departmental administrative procedures. Treasury board monitors all federal spending. Macdonell said public ser- vants are not entirely to blame for ineffective management of public money. Often, they had been given inadequate training and too little direction. Instead, Macdonell blames the system, which he says “puta more emphasis on developing policy initiatives and new programs than on the principles and well- established practices of economical, efficient and ef- fective resource management.” This Macdonell report is the first to include new auditing procedures that attempt to determine whether taxpayers are Betting value for money spent by government, That is a big part of his long-range strategy. In many cases, he con- cludes the value isn’t there. The report was prepared with the help of a 500- member staff and a $25- million budget. It zeros in on 13 major het en tee ojects, Of the 13, only two demonstrated reasonable regard for economy.” A review of the 13 showed that achial costs amounted to $699.7 million, up 148 per cent over original estimates, The report noted that the 13 represent only a portion of the $10-billion worth of government . spending now under way on capital works projects, [t suggests short- comings throughout the system. Spending increases on the projects range from a relatively modest jump to $7.6 million from $7.3 million in the coat of building dykes in southwestern Ontario to a big increase to $108 million from 1972 estimates of $17 million for bullding ice- break ers. : On a school construction program for Indians, reagury board approved $5.4 on to build in five locations, mainly because it wanted to giva local Indians jeba and training oppor- . tunities. Total cost of the five reached $12.8 millian, Little heed was paid to economy, the said, For instance, few reasons had been given for building one particular school at Fort Alexander in Manitoba, 60 miles north of Winnipeg. A submission to treasury board “did not describe the existing school, gave. no justification for replacing it and id not t disclose meat pro w serve school students for whom facilities had already been built in a nearby non-Indian community at a cost to the department of $164,000.”" The report also takes the post office to task for estimating that new automatic _letter-sorting equipment would save tax- payers $161 million aver a 15- year period ending in 1985. The system cost about $159 million to install in 31 separate post offices in 26 cities, THE OTTAWA (CP) — Highlights of Auditor- General J.J. Macdonell’s annual report on govern- ment spending controls, tabled Thursday in the Commons. Public servants see the federal treasury as “virtually bottomless" and spend millions of dollars annually without due regard to economy, efficiency or HIGHLIGHTS Parllament’s plans for the money. Federal spending in the 15 years since the fiscal year 1962-63 has in- creased 487 per cent to $42.9 billion for the year ended last March 31. Public money has been wasted needlessly on major projects ranging from construction - Indian schools and ice- breakers, to airports and flood dykes. Financial control and management of public money has improved with the appointment of a comptroller-general but all civil servants must be given “the clearest possible direction" to see that tax funds are spent properly. _ SQUANDERED FORTUNE Transport slammed OTTAWA (CP) — "Serious deficiencies” in financial mumber of cases, planning by the transport department caused costs to triple when Toronto and Calgary airports were ex- panded, the auditor-general says in his annual report tabled Thursday in Par- llament. , Costs rose at the Calgary project to $127.4 million from $57.7 million and leaped at Toronto's Malton In- ternational Airport to $159.7 million from $54.6 million. These multi-million-dollar cost overruns, like several other “horror” stories gleaned from .the transport department’s financial records, could have avoided, says J.J. Macdo;* well's report, Keep | those tickets Ticket holders of the Terrace Chamber of Com- merce raffle for a snowmobile should hold onto their tickets until after Dec. 16 because the draw has been postponed until that date, said Neil Matheson, a chamber spokesman. Matheson said there were not enough tickets sald to pay for the cost of the machines and the group decided to reschedule to draw to Dec, 16. Tickets are available from Chamber of Commerce members. “We noted that in i e department zommitted itself to projects before the scope and design were finalized, realistic cost estimates were developed and before firm agreements on rental rates and other charges for we of the facilities were reached.” Macdonell partially blames the Calgary cost overrun on a lack of. supervision by transport. department headquarters over the western officials charged with bullding the Construction was about as OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government has needlessly wasted money on major construction projects and should tighten control over such spending, the auditor-general’s report says. A review of 13 projects showed estimated final costs of $699.7 million, an increase of 143 per cent over original cost estimates of $281.6 million. Government planning for everything from food dykes every’ rom cr to icebreakers, did not ehow "a reasonable standard of due regard for economy.” “The process suffers from a number of shortcomings which in total indicate that resources of an appropriate quality were not acquired at a minimum cost,” says the report tabled Thursday in Parliament, Government departments and managers had ‘‘carried to extremes” their advocacy of building programs that further the aims of programs for which they are reapon- sible. J.J, Macdonell says there wasteful were cases where facilities were not needed or the benefits were exaggerated by thelr government backers. Making progress - Andras OTTAWA (CP) -_ Treasury Board President Robert Andras said Thur- sday the sheer size of government makes it impos- sible to eliminate all wasteful spending and financial mismanagement. Buthe maintained the gov- ernment is making progress in its effort to gain control over spending that now has reached about $50 billion a year. Andras said it = is unrealistic to think the government will get to the point where there are no problems associated with its spending. Gov't spending a horror story OTTAWA (UP) — spen- ding of $568,000 on a British control project, later halted for environmental reasons, is among the host of gov- ernment financlal horror stories in the auditor- general's report released Thursday, Auditor-General J.J. Macdonell said the dyke- “building project in the Fraser River Valley was halted on grounds the 200 acres of land on and near an Indian reserve were found to be valuable salt water marsh, The result: $568,000 in “unnecessary costs.” Other examples of wastes Money and bad financial practice: —A $143-million plan to replace lighthouse keepers with remote-control stations by 1972 still has not been completed. And the smail reduction in lightkeepers achieved so far has been partly offset by an increased number of technicians and other staff needed to run the partially-automated system. —A Canadian Broad- casting Corp. employee, taking advantage of ‘weak financial controls," cashed $87,500 worth of travel cheques issued for trips that were never taken. The em- ployee was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud but the money has not yet been recovered. -~The government ordered the Royal Canadian Mint to develop 2 new, smaller one- cenl coin. It reversed the decision and cancelled the coin after $230,000 was spent. —Federal penitentiary guards and other prison staff were paid $16.2 million for overtime work in 1977-1978. The cost of this overtime has been mounting each year since the first sharp increase in 1971-1972 when the bill totalled $3.7 million. —Free meals for prison staff last year coat $1.6 million, The Canadian Penitentlary Service never reported this as a taxable benefit for employees although the revenue department says it should. —The unemployment Insurance Commission cont'd page 2