Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, March 29, 1964, dalle h ) Id . Published every weekday at 3010 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. by Sterling Publishers Ltd. Authorized as second class mail. Registration Number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed Circutation: Terrace: 635-6357 . 635-4000 Publisher - David Hamilton’ Editor: Advertising Sales: Brian Gregg Nick Walton Staff Writers-Photographer- Sports: Ralph Reschke Holly Olson Reception-Classified: Circulation: - . Clalre Wadley Sue Booten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any adverfisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher, a The Terrace-Kitimat Daily Herald Newspaper Is politically Indepandent and a member of the British” Columbia Press Councll. Letters to the Editor To the Editor, Regarding B.C, Trarsit and our bus service. With our economic slump nearly everyone is feeling the pinch. Accordingly, businesses, home buioding and repair schools, hospitals, nearly everything possible, has been cut “back. The CN Railway runs three or four passenger coaches instead of 20 or 26 car trains. But what do our. representatives at B.C. Transit do? With remarkable business acumen and foresight, and amazing intelligence bordering on genious, they buy expensive fuel guzzlers, 44 passenger size (buses) and go deeper into the red each day.- What is wrong with nine passenger mini-buses? We could have more of them, make Thornhill runs daily at 2 hour intervals and best of all, at Jeast break even financially, not to mention the difference in the Initial coat of the vehicles, Thanks for allowing a modest blast off, although It won't alter anything. Dave Kurik The Task Force on Allocation of Health Care Resources is investigating two major areas of concern: (1.) The Impact of the introduction of new procedures and technologies on the health care system, and its expected costs. (2.( Demographic changes.,within,Canada.and the expected impact of an increasing elderly population on the demand for, and availabillty and nature of, appropriate medical services. In order to better examine these issues and to recommend action necessary to achieve the best possible healthcare for Canadians, the Task Force will consider the follawing:(a.) the present quality of Canada's health care system as compared to other developed countires, including such fields as preventive services, treatment facilities and perronnel and research capabilities and yield. {b.) public expectations of the health care system, compared with what the medical profession considers desirable and governments deem affordable and—or practical. (c,) the costs of providing health care based on such factors as quality standards, geographics, demographics and organization of a delivery system: for such care; and the methods by which these costs could be met. For the past 4 months the Task Force has been receiving Input from the public at hearings across Canada; and by mail from those unable to appear. This input will be of great importance in the writing of the report. - We would like yuour readers to know that the final date for recelving briefs or letters will be the 13th day of April 1984. They could be addressed to the Task Force Coordinator at Box 8650 Ottawa, Ontasrio KiG oGé. Yours truly John O‘Brien-Bell, Member Task Force Health Care Resources 691-6434, Surrey, B.c. To the Editor, The Variety Club Telethon extends its warmest appreciation both to you and to the citizens of Terrace for your assistance in raising over $2.1 million during our recent ‘‘Show of Hearts". The generosity displayed by the people of this province . enables us to continue with our obligations to Ronald McDonald House; the Children's Variety Research Centre; . the Electro-Limb Program and our many other projects. In response ta enquiries from the public, the correct ’ address for malling pledge cheques is; P.O; Box 7400, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4E2. © The children of British Columbia thank you. Yours sincerely, . Jack D. Bibby Telethon Chairman Post Office freezes rates. MONTREAL (CP) — Improved sales and coat controle will enable the poat office to freeze rates during 1084 and . extend delivery by letter carriers to 49,000 more homes and businesses in the next year, postal boss Michael Warren said Weitnesday. ‘ . , The president of Canada Post Corp. tolda Canadian Club Juncheon that service will have been extended to 318,000 new addresses since the post office became a Crown corporation in October 1961, He also said that since 1081 the post office has cut ita operating deficit to $300 milllon from almoat $1 billion and expects to be out of the red by £967, when ite subsidy from the federal government runsout. Warren attributed the turnaround to better labor relations, coat cutting, new budget systems, improved communications and efforts to involve everyone “from workera on the plant floor to vice-presidents and the board - of directors." . ; The results, he said, are refected in on-time letter dalivery which ia up 1090 per cent from 74 per cent in 1981; About 94 per cent of Priority Post courter service delivery te on time. a hs same senior Reagan administration official who called Prime Minister Trudeau a ‘dope-ampbker is behind a U.S. protest against plans to’ use American baseball scores In a Canadian government: “OTTAWA“(CP) — The | Wednesday, =. Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S, | undersecretary - ‘of state, called In the Canadian ambassador to the United . States, Allan Gotlieb, last week to Jay down the law ‘about Ottawa's - plans for Nelles trials visits TORONTO (CP) -- An unexpected visit from nurse “Susan Nelles turned heads “It surprised me how come she was sitting and playing with her soup all that time,” she sald. "I raising §200 million for the. Calgaty ~ Winter’ Olympica through a sports” betting pool, the “sources 1088 said. os ‘External’. Affalra Department officials said Wednesday night the Canadian government has made no officlal response to ° Eagleburger’s © cothplaint and has no-plans to do so. U.S. anger at Ottawa's proposed sports betting pool ~~in which people would bet ‘on the point spread between conjmilasioner Bowie Kuhn has protested the proposal, - : But it” also upsets some > Canadians, Liberal Senator “Ray Perrault of British ’ Columbla, a former federal sports minister, met with : Several cabinet- ministers and the Liberal caucus Wednesday to say the issue - jeopardizes = Vancouver's bid. for. a major’ league ‘ baseball franchise. Perrault “wants. changes in the pool to ‘collar of her blue overcoat pulled up, she huddled close to her lawyer, John Sopinka, who said elles wanted to “have a look around” before next week's appearance, © o it. was the first me. Nelles has faced a media mob since she was discharged at a preliminary hearing in May 1982 on four counts of murdering babies. The former cardiac ward nurse returned to work at the hospital in another department last June. In preparation for Nelles' testimony, the commission is stepping up security and adding another room to hold the expected throng of reporters, During her testimony, Christie, a 24-year veteran of the hospital, said Trayner started to cry when she discovered the pills while eating lunch ohe day in August 1980. After Trayner saw the pills, she went over to examine nurse Sul Scott's ‘gallad, said Christie. i " ys tog good safety record. CALGARY (CP) — Last week's fire aboard a Pacific Western Alrlines Boeing-737 jetliner here was the firat time . in roughly 20 years that a complete failure has occurred in the 13-stage compressor dise of a Pratt and Whitney JTaD engine, company spokesman Phil Giaramita' spid The JTAD engine hag an “excellent safety record’ with few accidents over the last two decades, Glaramita saldin a telephone Interview from-East Hartford, Conn.: -. There are 11,549 of the engines in use on Boeing 737s and 7276 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s throughout the world, with about 250 million hours of flight time logged as of last January, said Giaramita. _ : About 19,000 departures every day from airports throughout the world Involve alreralt equipped with JTa@D engines. But Giaramita sald last week's fire at Calgary International Airport was the firat compression disc failure ina Pratt and Whitney JTOD-9A engine on a 197. _— While engines are bound to fail “Yrom time to time,” he said, one accident “is too many” and Pratt and Whitney officiala are anxious to learn the cause of the disc failure. On Tuesday, Fred Farrar of the U.S, Federal Aviation Administration said the }TSD-9A engines have been blamed for nine incidents in the last 20 years. In five of the _ securences, the problem involved the engine compression diac. . NO DEATHS : engines have - Bernard Loeb of the U.S. National Transportattori Safety. . Board said the earlier compression dise problems involved 7278 and a DC-4, No deaths, were reported in any of the - incidents. ; . _ In last week's tire, the PWA jet caught fire on takeoff, All of tho plane's 114 passengers and: five crew members escaped, but the $1¢-milllon aircraft was destroyed. Farrar eaid the engines have proved rellable despite the nine Incidents. . : eee The JT@D-2A is an updated engine configuration first installed on commercial airliners in the early.19700, sald Giaramita. There are 2,469 STAD-9A engines in use today throughout the world. He noted that Transport Canada investigators have found — that the compressor dise in the left engine of the PWA jet - | exploded on. the Calgary rmway with metal fragmenta | from the disc penetrating fuel tanke In the left wing. Buthe - added they haven't pinpolnted the cause of the fire. : Compressor discs compress the alt sucked into a jet engine before it is thrust out the rear. _ ' The engine was removed after the accident and lata be | examined at CP Air facilities in Vancouver-and federal : Aviation Safely Board laboratories in Ottawa. - ‘Howard urges broadcasting study .. VICTORIA —Frank Howard, NDP House Leader, told the legislature today that ‘broadcasting the proceedings of the legislature by television and radio is a must if democracy {3 to be served more fully than it has inthe . past’, Howard said, “Television and radio are integral parts of our communication ayatem. It is the electronic c to the written word and has a plece in our leglolature dmilar to that which newspapers and Hansard had in the : earller years of the development of our parliamentary — democracy.” Howard sald that the motion referring the Standing Ordera of the House to a committee for study la sufficiently broad toauthorize the committee to examine the question of transmitting the proceedings of the House by radio and sieriien and he urged the committee to undertake such a 3 ‘1 . we utc Eat Shotts Soonoretam™ mink teatimony Wednesday atthe - ~, royal commission on baby o : deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children, _ Bo ts prelie to next week when HEY MARK AND shes eboduled tae the "TARE SERIOUS! | the testimony of registered Beek EARLY POLLS HAVE nureing assistant Marianne : | . US RUNNING A ‘ cecaslan in which ture | B41! CLOSE FIRST AND Phyllis Trayner found heart a , SECOND.....POR Pithe pote Nelles epent | THE NEXT DAYOR about five minutes in the TWO... hearing room. Keeping the ane _— sporis starts at the ‘top of the baseball leagtie,” Baseball 7 nr. i M burs following Yuri An thelr former leader in Join the quorum again. organizations.” under Brezhnev. understand that they Vienna. HOT SPOTS Sterling News Service Oscow prepares for some changes Twelve wise men (that Is the rest of the Polit: how united they are in thelr grief and how ° monolithic remains the ruling body. In fact, the last three months of Andropov's life. Was one of the most dramatic periods of Soviet political history. Unknown to the reat of the world, of the Soviet putilic, the struggle between the old guard of the party, led by Konstantin Chernenko, and the political ‘nouveau riche” from the KGB and army pushed ahead by Aridropov, took place while the Great Leader himself was lying in a coma on the first Noor of the Kremlin hospital. Andropov’s name still dominated the official documents and public speeches. But, unlike the general public, the 12 members of the Politburo knew that the former head of the KGB would never From the very beginning of Yurl Andropov’s rule he was considered to be an outsider in the party structure. His KGB past and his dependence on the army commanders’ political support was a dangerous factor for the traditional style of govern- ing. the U.S.S.R. Konstantin Chernenko, a man whom the Jate Leonid Brezhnev considerd his heir apparent and who lost his leadership bid once - 15 months ago to Andropov - ailing leader. As historian Zhores Medvedev said recently, ‘There was a tacit coup in the Politburo with indirect participation of the provincial party The Party's Central Committee, which consists of 200 representatives from party orgattzatlons | throughcut the country, has not been satisfied with . the state of affairs during the 15 months of An-. _, dropov's leadership, What ‘concerned them in par- ticular was that food shortages during this 15 mon- ths had become more acute than they had been . The government meanwhile was preoccupied with problems raised by the KGB, such-as new law about guarding the state border, A week belore An- dropov died a new book by Chernenko was publish- éed and reviewed In Moscow. It was unusual, by the standards of the Soviet hierarchy. A book by the Great Leader should be published first, and then olher members of the Politburo usually follow. . One might say that the interim period which was Andropov’s reign is over not only because the leader died but because the Party apparatchike gave their rivats inthe KGB and the army clearly to challenges to thelr power from the outsiders again. Uniike In November, 1982 when Andropov sasumed Brezhnev's position, one might suggest these days that some serious changes in the internal and foreign poltey of the Kremlin lie ahead, These changes could be Interpreted as positive ones - some Teforms in the economy, particularly in agriculture, and a return to the negotlating tables In Geneva and: . The Weat sould be more than ever prepared to read these changes and to find a conelllatory tone and constructive approach whatever we may think about the 12 wise men in the Kremlia, oo. lya Gero’ | , Feature v's death) have buried Square, trying to show led the revolt against the will not tolerate any . A, spokesman for, Sports ‘Minister Jacques Olivier sald Wednesday night he' la consulting External Affairs Minister ADan MacEachen - toconsider a response to the . ‘U.S, complaint. - ‘SURPRISE DISPUTE The issue arose: “out of the blue,” said an official in MacEachen's . office, * only: days before the minister is - scheduled‘ to meet U.S. State Secretary George. Shultz in Washington on Sunday and Monday. The officlal added that the baseball dispute hasn't yet "been addet to the agenda of - items for MacEachen and Shultz to discuss as part of. their regular ‘quarterly: sessions on U-.§.-Canadian ‘relations. MacEachen leaves Washington on _ Tuesday for a major trip through four Central American countries :-—. Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama, *.. Eagleburger, No.3 man in, the State Department, said late last year that Trudeau ‘had to be “on dope’* jf he thought his personal. peace Initiative, was accomplishing. . anything, That happened just: before Trudeau < arrived § in Washington and ‘cast. a shadow over the visit, Eagleburger's new - complaint, Canadian officials said, .. ‘took everybody by surprise” and comes at an especially. inconvenient , time _ for Ottawa. pet All "10 provinces are mounting a legal challenge today In the Federal Court of Canada ‘agalost the proposed sports betting . pool, alleging it vistates a 1979 agreement in which “Ottawa agreed to leave * lotteries to the province in exchange for a share of the profits. So , vl Tha. federal government is basing its defence partly on‘a claim that the sports betting pool involves: sime skill and therefore isn’t a lottery. . ; fe By Nige! E. Hannstord mediocrity, give us the finger. states, ‘aubject. * Dominion Day became him at the next election. may he at least rest, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was different from the com- mon run of politicians in that so many obnoxious ": characteristics were combined in one Individual. To knock the Liberal Party, it was only necessary to single him out. The rest of them were, among a par- ty of mediocre people, outstanding only in their He was for instance arrogant, too smart for the. - rest of us, he let us know. Other members of the Liberal party were arrogant too, but even so none of .. . them ever showed such disregard for public, sen-, sibilltles as to make a comment like, “Everybody's. . either skiing or Ia the Caribbean,’ when the country. was in the middle of a recession. ne Neither did any other member of the Liberal elite . Plerre Trudeau was also a socialist. In the ‘40s - and ’50s he wrote scholarly, {f turgid, polemics on |. - . the subject, Prior to his entry Into federal pollties he. : - 7] expressed an affection for the eastern bloc, visited -.[. “Rueda Ching’ and Cuba. After his election, his." . foreign policy reflected this and today, while hun: “"}: ' dreds’ of thousands of Canadians languish on the."\I dole, our foreign atd ‘programs continue to pour; f° billlons into supporting the inefficiencies of Marxist There are other socialists In the Liberal party, but — . few of importance whose left wing credentials have | been so studiously ignored by the national press. He was of course a francophone, yet quite capable of Insulling anglophones in‘fluent English. Though he used the Liberal Party to promote the status of French, it was an uneasy support which he received even in Ontario, Western Liberals like to cheinge the He was a pacifist, Well, he was once engaged In a scuffie with a TV reporter, but during the war, when there was hot lead In the alr, he stayed in Montreal. ‘The armed forces, a bastion of the free world at the end of the war, have been allowed to wither away. . Yet there have been good defence ministers. They were Liberals and may have been arrogant or in- sensitive but they weren’t Trudeau clones. They had some redeeming qualities. _ One could go on, but at the end of any summation, one would have to admit one thing. Trudeau has been consistent, If you can sea through the smokescreen and determine his real objectives, . You see, he was something new on the Canadian political scene, a politician with an abstract philosophy, He was not a pragmatic politictan but a social reformer who sought to rework the country (and to some extent the world) to coincide with his view of what reality should be. That reality was to make Canada a centralized, _ bureaucratic state, where power, both economic énd polltical, was well removed from the fringes and concentrated in the centre. To‘ that end, he - played off the west against the east, using the language Issue, In the name of natlonalizing the oil industry, he Tuined the west, thereby removing the “only national scale economile force outside central ‘| «Canada, He systematically encroached on the . Fights‘of the provinces to strengthen the central government. He waged war on the cultural symbols , Of English-speaking Canada, which he loathed. ‘replaced God Save the Queen, the flag had already’. been changed. Third World ‘mmilgration was ‘en-' couraged and many a Liberal MF owes his seat in. thehousetothe“ethnic vote”, © ‘ May he now resi, Not necessarily in peace, but t ‘ Canada Day, O Canada.