Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, Apell 26, 1984 — Gallyherald — “ym We Kel $i torte B.C. by” aaalinp Publishers He ted as second. clesa mail, Wunder 1211. -Powbga pal a cash, ratrn poetage peerenioad Verrace: Circulation: 35-4557 ; 635-4009 Publisher - David Hamilton’. Edler: Advertising sates; Brian Grego NickWalton’ St5ff Welters.Phobographer = Sportz . Ralph Reschke . _ Holly Olson ~ Recoption-Classilled: Circulation: Ctatro Wadley ; Sve Beoten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Permtelon of the Pubiliher. ‘The Terrace Kitimat Dally Herald Newspecer la palileatly indipendent and a meniber of thé Seitish Columbia Prete Council. 2 Letters to. the Editor To the Editor, Just a few lines to set the front page of April 18 on the protesters straight. Thank you for bringing the situation of the protesters to the atterition of the community, however, there were smail errors made. First, the pickets were not from the. the Terrace Unem- ployment Action Center, but were from the decisions made by those of the Terrace Soup Kitchen. This case was brought to our attention. by one of the Soup Kitchen staff because this man’s unemployment insurance was cut off through a phone call which was a lie, thereby causing delays inthis man’s claim. We then the people of the Soup Kitchen had an emergency meeting of the. Federated Anti- Poverty Group and decided on an information picket to make the public aware that such decisions can be decided without any in- vestigation before you're cut off. This man, Mr. Cecil McCully, only came to the Kitchen after being called in doubt to the letter from. - the supposed employer, The unemployment insurance - office worker said to the man involved that he probably wrote the letter and signed it himself to get his claim reopened. A phone call to the employer would have solved the problem quite quickly and then there would not have been the need for a picket line in the first place. Only after being insulted with his - word being questioned to the “honesty: of the letier from the employer did we take action. Hopefully, in the future those behind the counter with a weekly paycheque, good working con- ditions and protected by a. union contract would wish the same conditions to those they serve on the other side of the counter, both union and non-union. In closing, if these are the conditions they wish to impose on those less fortunate, then maybe some unions should clean house and get some workers who will be in sympathy of others as well as their own condition of employment. I suggest a form of ethies would suffice in keeping your personal judgements without foundation to themselves. Yours in Solidarity William K. Buck” Pres. Terrace Ani-Poverty Groups of B.C. '. ‘Thank you and God Bless All LONDON (AP) — Libya: today. accused the United States of seeking to “incite hatred” against the Tripoli government and said “Britain faces ‘grave: | con-. sequences” for ordering ex- pulsions of its nationals in response. - to a shooting Inddent involving the Libyan People’s Bureat in London. “Britain's omplete submiasion to ‘the will of the U.S, godfather... does not exempt Britain from responsibility for the grave con- sequences which will result from its expulsion of Libyan citizens,” Libyan Radio sald in a broadast — monitored in London. The commentary by Col. Moammar Khadafy's state radio eame after Prime - Minister . Margaret Thatcher’s government said Wednesday it will not allow foreign ‘warring factions” to turn London into a battlefield. British officials said as many as 200 Libyans could be expelled now that London . diplomatic relations with Tripoli. That move Sunday was brought about by the April 17 killing of a policewoman by a gunman who British offidals and witneazes have said fired from a window of the building housing the People's "ite “White House supports the British move “without reser- - vation.” Talks - continued today. to negotiate the fate of the estimated — _ 40 Libyans in the besieged People’ S Bureau in St. James Square, The Libyans have been given until midnight Sunday night to leave the building but there has beenno firm indication when pollce incite hatred Libya says "wl henge which a been in effect since: the shooting. ay Libya ‘atinounced, ‘ méariwhile, that it will allow: 90 staff members and their families from: the British " Embassy in Tripoli to fly oitt later today. Libya initially said-it would - refuse to let them go until the besieged Libyans in London‘leave. - The Libyan Radio commentary underlined feara in London that Tripoli’a strident anti-Britlah rhetoriccould bring trouble to 8,000 Britons living in the North African country. - “Britain knows mat when at rejects all the tolerance-shown by Libya . . . it will be Britain. which will lose mudh,”* the radio ‘said. “Libya - has. nothing -to. lose, Britain will-be responsible for the harm ensuing to the Interests of the British people, while. Libya will suffer no harm,’ The radio added: “Bye points to the fact that what has . happened was only part of the | widespread provocation campaign | hatched and planned by the U.S.A, to indte hatred against dbya es Tt accused . Washington and slander" to. brant 2 Hhadsty's 5 government with. “accusations of terrorism and to distort: its image in the world so as to prepare th grownd for Ronald Reagan who ‘approahes the final days of his presidency to spit venom and . pursue his. personal vendettas,” British, Home: Secretary; Lean Brittan told the House of Commons when it reconvened ‘after .. . Easter reoeas Wednesday ue Thatcher was seeking international © action te curb Khadafy’s campaign _ against Libyan dissidents in exile. Frieght rate fight won CALGARY (CP) — The decades- long fight to abolish the Crowsnest Pass freight rate for graln was won partly with a promise of an economic revolution in Western - Canada but the promise. likely © won't be fulfilled soon, a railway conference was told Wednesday. The statutory Crow rate, which froze rail shipping rates for export grain at prices dating from the turn of the century, was replaced. ~ rene - nuniber of permanent jobs will last year, by. the. Western. Gal Transportation Ad, er aoe. The legislation raises the price farmers pay for shipping grain in stages between now and 1900, cushioning the impact on producers through a $650-million federal subsidy paid to railways. Railways.must use the money to help pay for massive upgrading of the rail system, mostly in Western: Canada. Initial estimates two years ago put the capital cost at $16 . billion by 1990. But federal Transport Minister Lloyd Axworthy told the con- ference that inflation and poor export markets have combined to reduce the figure by about §3 billion. However, Axworthy said he'll make sure the railways don't back away from major projects on the slate. Some observers say the rail- Upgrading program would mean as much to Western development as the firat line of track which spanned the Weat, But aside from # surge of con- - struction between now and the end Tray ner accused of TORONTO (CP) Nurse Phyllis Trayner was - accused Wednesday of making threatening phone calls to the ward where she worked and putting heart pills in her own food and that of a colleague after a rash of baby deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children, In one of the most dramatic exchanges at the 10-month-old Grange royal commission, Trayner ‘denied a suggestion by Doug Hunt, lawyer for the Ontario Attorney General's Ministry, that she was responsible for a series of bizarre “dirty tricks” at the Ent “accused Trayner, 23, of deliberately putting the heart drug pranalol in her soup and nurse - pro Sul Scott’s salad in the fall of 1941, of making threatening phone culls to Scott's children and other nurses at the hospital and of scrawling . lipatick X's on her own apartment door, car and hospital locker. “You were under such stress In August, September and October and you were bothered so much by it that I eapaest it was you who ing responsible no ly for pu pills in the soup and salad, but all the bizarre Inddenta we're looking at,” Hunt said, But Trayner quietly answered: “No, I did not.” * PROTESTS INNOCENCE When Hunt continued to press Trayner,.she gald, with hands trembling, “I don't now who was responsible for the baby deaths, I don't know who was ble for theother events. lcan’t speculate. 1 wee Ne ree just know that ’m not.” The accusation followed Trayner's recollection of finding the propranalol in the food while taking a meal break behind the nursing station with Scott and two other nurses. Trayner — whose husband, Michael, sat listening to ‘her testimony — said she discovered the pills while Scott was away from the nuralng station for about 10 minutes to help a.dotor start an intravenous proedure on a baby. ‘Hunt said the pills must have been put in the food while Scott was away because Scott testified. that when she found them in her‘salad, some were not even wet from the dressing and those in Trayner's soup had barely begun to dissolve. Hunt suggested the pills must have been put in the food In Trayner’s presence and asked for an explanation of how they got there. Trayner said she did not We “] didn't belleve it was anyone sitting at the table,’ Trayner replied. “My assumption was they had gone in before (Scott left)." Later, Traynér faced an hour- long gtilling by Barry Perdval, lawyer for Metropolitan Toronto Police, who asked her to explain why she could not remember details of many of the babies who died under the care of her nursing He suggested that Trayher and ‘nures = Susan, = ssNelles =~ had collaborated on thelr - answers before appearing before the commission. with promise unfulfilled of the decade, the economic, benefits remain.to be seen, David Elton, president of the Canada . West: ‘Foundation research: aroup, told the conference.’ -: .: * Elton estimated the number of jobs created by the upgrading program would be the equivelent of keeping the current 450,000 unemployed Westerners. at: work an average 11 weeks, Once. con- struction. - workers’ ‘leave;"’ likely be few. Federal guidelines insist the: railways lock to local sources for goods and services possible, but. most of the suppliers expected to benefit. fromthe upgrading are located in Central . Canada, Although the cash infusions he be welcome, Elton meaningful change in the Wane economy will have to come! with amendments to the act to en- courage industrial diversification. Some of the companies Program — lukewarm. HAS SURPLUS | Gordon Mills, vice-president of Procor Ltd, a major rail-car builder based in Oakville, Ont.,. said his industry has a capacity of about 12,000. cars a year but has been building less than half .that humber. There already are about 30,000 surplus cara in Canada. tricks Nelles, who had been charged with murdering four of the infants but was discharged at a preliminary hearing for lack of evidences, also téstified she ould were decidedly remember few detaila of many of | the deaths. A report by the Centres for. Disease Control in Georgia said 29 of the 36 baby deaths at the hospital's cardiac ward between. - June 1960 and March 1961 were suspicdous. Seven could have been — caused by delibeate overdoses ot. digoxin, it anid. Trayner and Nellea have ‘lt 1 they had seen no pattern In the baby deaths tntil March 1981, even though other nurses had connected’ the deaths as early as. seven months before. Perdval jumped on the fact both explain why their clleaguee had why their colleagues ha linked the deaths, ‘ahd both justified their lak of recollection by ~ saying the events occurred more “than $44 years ago.” — When Percival. asked Trayner: “Did you meet with Nelles and talk about your response?”, she in- sisted she hadn't seen Nelles since long beforethe. commission began hearings last June, . Perdval then suggested Trayner might have seen transcripts .of Neiles's testimony. “Did you say ‘It worked for Nelles, F'll try ‘it (giving the same answers) alsc'?” Pano, T dla Te ; ayner replied angrily. expected — to benefit from the building ¥! UNTIE OCTOBER, AND HOCKEY: - ‘SEASONS. |.“ IEE Coup BE Worse. Wis NG THERACE:. © SPRING ISIN-THE AIR... NO MOR™ HERING BILLS © THE OL HIB: CHEANDTHE, - BASEMENT. THE TV's our. ™ SUP (N THE BACKYARD FoR. | “THE START OFTHE BASEBALL _ Olson docu ments & can be withheld . VANCOUVER (CP) —'A county °. court judge has upheld a provincial - " court dedsion that lawyer James McNeney was correct when he “Tefuzed.to give Revenue Canada documents concerning .a $100,000. trust fund for the family of mass -miurderer'Clifford Olson, McNeney was asked by RCMP in ‘1881 to -set-up.the trust fund for McNeney should have surrendered the documenta because the Income . Tax Act states that all accounting ’ records ase exempt from the claim Olson's family. The money was in . exchange for information provided by Olson on the location. of the bodies of 11 young people he ad- urdering. mitted to m Judge D. -R Sheppard ruled Wednesday that after examining a. -Jetter, of demand from Revenue Canada « for documents” concerned with the trust fund, he had decided that Its wide scope meant that if McNeney had complied, he: would have given the taxation department privileged _information.. - That . information would have hes _preen in the form of written and oral spi liad etc “communi “all books ‘and oy : poe ry aut /MecNeney:.izid his cllent, “Joan - Olson, which are defined by law as privileged, Sheppard sald. “If part .of a document is privileged, all of It is privileged,” the judge added. ‘'The defence of solleltor-client _ privilege Was established by the accused,'’ A lawyer for Revenue. Ganada argued unsuccessfully that of solicitor-client privilege. “With his limited experience tax lawyer and without. Tooking « at - the act to: see what it said was. privileged, he (McNeney) said ‘these privileged’, " ald prosecutor Bill Halprin. Defence lawyer Ken Westlake said Revenue Canada did: not exercise Its option of seizing the documents, sealing them “and presenting them toa superior court judge for ‘determination of which portions | constituted privileged information. | Instead, they. sent ‘MeNeney ’ a. letter’ of- demand and when he claimed solicitor-client privilege, he was charged under the Income “Tax Act with refusing to reveal Eats fie information. boot ehatged as opposed 1a hie the documents sealed,” Weatlake said. “And there are hundreds of cases where the documents. have been selzed,”’ He said McNeney had been placed in the impossible situation of balancing the interests of his client against his own interests. in" light of possible prosecution. . communications are. * VANCOUVER (CP) — - Weitenast Transmission Co, Ltd, reports. nat “Income of $15.4 million for the three - ee angled March Si, down from $17.5 million in the first: months of 1083... we vs The company said. in a news - yelenne Wednesday thatthe dedine was caused mainly. by the ‘ eduction in the average ‘utility rate base and higher effective rates af income tax and royalties. OF VANCOUVER (CP) Slow growth in Pacific Rim markets:has aced,-as a drag on. British Columbia’s . economy, ‘the Employers’ Council of B.C; said Wednesday. The council predicts a 1080 growth rate of 2.8 per cent in the province's gross domestic product. Growth rate in 1063 was 17 ‘ber cent. Cound! ‘president. Jim Matkin said recovery .is progressing . in B.C. but at a slow pace. , ‘The councll’s mid-year econémic outlook released Wednesday says province's economic recovery: snot en eatly 1063 has not proceeded. Pang gaa Tteays thet after in early 1963, industrial atria pretuction slowed in the eects and fourth Muarters of. ‘ast. report says that “while british ‘Cumbia beoefite from id | strong recovery ] States, it has been hampered by _ slow growth in the Pacific: Rim markets. It says provindal unemploythént is expected to remain high; a averaging 13.1 per cent this year, and although there was _a.minor dedine in employment last yaar, an increase of 1.7 per cent In employment is forecast for 1994, It alo says that inflation will be down this year, averaging 4,8 per cent, The 1963 Inflation rate in the British Columbia was 5.5 per cenit. VANCOUVER (CP) — “Be. Telephone Co. had net eamnings of $22.4 milllon or 33 cents a share ‘for the three months ended March $1, compared with $14.9 million oF ‘al cents a share during ~ the ‘corresponding 1983 period. Revenues were down because ‘of the legging economic rewveéry, company chairman ‘Gordon _ Mackariane sald in ancws release abhh ee y ote Lo the vitaltering- ~~ eomomic = petpvery” restricted ‘detiand foe * qustomer lines and’ long distance services,” MacFarlane said, : ‘B.C. Tel has requested a aix-per- cent increase in local and intra- B.C. long distance rates - that it estimates will generate an‘ ad- ditional $i7 million this yéar. Requested implementation date ia yu ; Groups occupy Iranian embassies - LONDON (CP) Police . surrounded the Iranian consulate today after a group of nine people forced thelr way into the building, Police sald they were in contact with the occupants who held a sign - to a consulate window saying they were unarmed, In apparent p-ordinated in- cidenta similar forced entries occurred at the Iranian Embassy in The. Hague, the Netherlands, and ‘at the Iranian mission to UNESCO in Paris. | ‘In London, consular staff sculfied ‘with the intruders, who. claimed to be students, as they - forced their way into the building, eyewitnesses anid, An area around the building in West London, not far from‘ the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, was immediately sealed off. The group said they were protesting against shipments of * arms by Britain to Iran and torture in that country, police said. Consular staff were on the premises; police said, adding that they do not consider ‘the ituatton as a hostage-taking incident, - Police drew some specialists ‘from officers manning 4 siege at the Libyan People's Bureau at St, James's Square since a, shooting - . incident April 17 in which a British policewoman was killed and 11 Libyan dissidents were injured, NO CONNECTION . ‘There was no apparent con: nection between today's incident at the Lranian consulate and the slege touched off by submact fire thet killed Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and wounded llof the yans demonstra’ against Libyan:. leader, Col. Mosmmar Khadafy’s ; government outaide the | building that houses the bureau. British officials and witnesses say the gunfire came’ from a window at the bureau, Libya denied this and instead accused British authorities of starting the “incident, -* After’ days of. “frultiess negotiations between British and - Libyan officials, Britain severed diplomatic - relations with Libya and ordered the Libyans in. the ‘bureau-to vacate the building by by midnight. -Sunday night diplomatic: immunity on the’ ate will expire, a a ‘DOLLARS SENSE A Sten Ing News Service Feature “with MICHAEL WALKEF! A: “duce, deserve our sympathy. - sonal interests, New directions jor BC. education noey “The ministry of education has just released aposi- ilon paper on secondary school graduation re- * quirements and some comments areinorder, :s Public education policymakers, lacking as they do the most elementary marketing information’. ; ‘Telating to the demand for the product they pro- Tt is diffieult to say, however, whether they also. deserve our applause for the’ il-informed chotces - _ they make on our behalf. That ls especially true when most of those who are professionally compe- tent to help us evaluate the choices are hopeléssly _ compromised by their conflicting political and per- Reaction to the recent proposals is, however, more than usually difficult to unravel: Take, for ex- ample, the additlon of more compulsory math and sclence courses. A recent Rand Corporation - Ford Foundation study in tha United States showed that the most common reason females are barred trom “hard” sclences careers by the time they leave high achools is that they have not selected bufticlent A coriventional . graduation. seience and math courses. ‘Compulsory achleve- meat in those preas should, for that reason alone, boost the potential for female participation in hard science careers, Most of the opponents of the recent . Changes would, under normal circumstances, . regard the latter development as a dectded plus. On the other hand, a charge clearly unwarranted -ls that the changes will force children to make life. long career choices at.age 16. By selecting the arts and sciences program those students able to com- plete It would preserve all thelr options, Those who do not — efther from lack of ability or application — . Belf-gelect jhto the program appropriate to their ‘talents: and interests, market” in education through night schools and ex- tension- courses in such that no education choice these days isreally “forever,” -In assessing the proposals it [s most important to recognize:that' while we all want the very best .. - @ducation for our children, the academic stream does not bear the.same: financial rewards as once was the case, If we value an educational choice by the lifetime incore it:is, Itkely on average to pro- duce, ‘thérl best: education inthe 19903 probably - “means training asa: technologist; midway between My. own preference for the future ‘evolution of education policy is that the ministry concentrate further on the establishment of curricula and quall-. ty control standards. High posed to the students, ought to be even mare clearly. : streamed to dovetall into career options. Quality” control in the form of testing would ensure more untformity and impose: - Upon pupils and teachers slike a more exacting: discipline, Elements of the latter in current policy . proposals may explain. ‘the. heatity. of the BG, _Teachers' Federation.. In any event, the “after trades’ training : ‘and university school curricula, as op- extensive ‘province-wide.