INGE eens Se Peer eres ey PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, September 29, 1977 General Office . 635-6357 . (Kitimat) - 632-6209 postage guaranteed. . = NOTE OF COPYRIGHT Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 PUBLISHER... WR. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weékday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varitied Circulation. Authorized +4 second class mall. Registration number 1201. Posiage pal. . cash, return : The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any - advertisement produced and-or any’ editorial or this week by convincing key congressmen that over-zealous x government controls might block important advances. The seientista convinced Senator Edward Kennedy - (Dem.-Mass.), who had been chief advocate of government = controls, to withdraw support from his own hill which would : have required federal licensing of all laboratories involved + in recombinant DNA research. - Meanwhile in the House of Representatives, the chairman > of the commerce committee blocked a committee vote on : another bill to control the research, which involves com- :.bining the basic genetic building blecks with different = species to create new life forms. : he developments undoubtedly will result in increased : activity by those politicians and environmental groups who = want to stop the research, or at least impose strict limits on ~it. = Opponents fear the DNA experiments might create new : diseases capable of destroying crops, animals and humans. . They also raise the possibility that experimental material might be used in a new form of germ warfare or be turned ‘into weapons by terrorists. Scientists involved in the controversial research were the ‘first to raise such fears. As a result, the declared a : voluntary moratorium on such research until the National ‘Institutes of Health issued guidelines that now apply to all ‘researchers using U.S. government funds. : These guidelines say that DNA research must be carried ‘out in the most sterile of environments and require filtered ‘exhausts, separate plumbing and special waste treatment. The congression debate now centres on whether the quidelines should be boradened to apply to privately-funded ‘research, incl uding studies by drug and chmical firms. : Scientists opposed to government regulations say that ‘overzealous controls would possibly inhibit major new developments in an area they regard as a scientific land- mark as important as the start of the atomic age. “They note that although the research is only its infancy, it already has resulted in the-creation of bacteria capable of producing an abundant supply of insulin which might be used to treat diabetics. A New York cancer institure also plans to begin ex- perimenting with the research in hopes of finding clues that might one day lead to a cancer cure. Other scientists say that the dangers of lethal life forms. being created in the laboratory and ssibly allowed to escape into the environment are still high. They say the tightest forms of control are needed, noting that in many cases, it is impossible to predict the exact outcome of DNA experiments. nnedy, who agrees that controls are needed, suggested that creation of a new commission to study the field would be preferable to imposing instituted guidelines now. Whoever makes the decision about the DNA research- members of Kennedy's proposed commission or congressmen — will have to resolve some extremely technical but vital questions. determining the present and The first problem will be future capabilities of the research, Methods to prevent new germs from entering the environment and to prohibit abuses of the research also will be needed. In any case, the decision will have a major impact on the scientific community and eventually, on the world. " STUDENTS ARRESTED SAO PAULO (Reuter) — Military police arrested 176 students Wednesday in a move to prevent anti- government dem- onstrations. About 5,00( armed police and troops surroun the state and Roman Catholic universities of Sao Paulo and thwarted the planned student rally, called as ‘part of a campaign to demand the return of democracy to Brazil, ERMAN SOVIETS WIN NAMENT PRAGUE (AP) ~ Czech- oslovakia beat the Soviet Union 5-4 Wednesday night, but the Soviets won the Rude Pravo newspaper’s hockey tournament on the sireng of aggregate score. Cmn- cinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association, the third participating team, lost all their matches in the tournament. TOUR- S677 tinversal Press Synducte “You'll get a hot-dog when you go home and "put ona jacket and tie.” Business spotlight Diversifying pays for mining firm TORONTO (CP) — A decision to diversify and an encounter with giant TexasGulf Inc. has made a winner out of Conwest Exploration Co, Ltd., a firm that grew out of the Cobalt, Ont. mining rush in the early 1900s, Martin Philip Connell, 36-year-old president of Conwest, said the company had to diversity to develop a cash flow and “‘to give a balance in the mix of our business.” His grandfather, F. M. Connell, how 83, incorporated the company in 1939 after taking part in the rich metal strikes at Cobalt. The company has interests in such resource firms-as Cassiar Asbestos Ltd., International Mogul Mines Lid. and rhance Mining and Exploration “Mining exploration is a highrisk business which gives high rewards, if you are lucky,” Connell said in an as ree 1 laying 1 ut you are always playing long shots. Your chances are about 1,000- Leonard Brett's work, Clouds, is one of the paintings on display unt] Oct. 11 in the Terrace Library arts room, downstairs in the library. The display is a to-one. The Conwest directors have long felt there was a need to diversity ...7" ; SETUP SUBSIDIARIES Asa result, Conwest set up Con- sortina Inc., which was created to consolidate its interests in the Jarvis Hotel, a Toronto lounge, Riverside Lodge in Oakville, Ont., Ports of Call restaurant here, and the Ascot Inn Hotel in nearby Mississauga. Cos of the four properties was about $6.5 million. About $2 million of that has gone into renovations of the Ports and Ascot Inn. Connell himself took over the Jarvis House which was a typical old-fashioned men's beer parlor before he changed it to a modern lounge. Otherwise, he said his role in the variety of interests Conwest now oversees is that of ‘“‘an ad: ministrator,’’ MADE IMPRESSION _ The young Connell, however. made his biggest. public impression in the encounter with Texasgulf. Texasgulf had been carrying out dri around its big ore body near Timmins, Ont., when it encrouched on limits held by Chance Mining, in which Conwest holds a 54-per-cent interest. “Texasgulf misinterpreteda stake line for an old concession line in the survey and drilled 275 feet from where they were supposed to,” said Connell. It was. inside the basic Conwest holding. There are a number of versions of what happened and the fault in- volved, if any, by either company. “It was a perfectly innocent mistake by Texasgulf,” said Con- -—mell. But he admits the mistake was - collection of works irom the Vancouver Art Gallery which has supported many of the artists in exchange for a donation of their work. . favorable to Conwest shareholders. Chance Mining wound up making an agreement with Texasgulf tod on 40 claims held by Chance in return for a 1¢-per-cent interest in profits resulting from the claims. - Media ignore world suffering MONTREAL (CP) — The Ca- nadian news media are ignoring torture and human rights violations in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, preferring instead to dwell on domestic and constitutional problems, Marcel Pepin, president of the World Federation of Labor,. said Monday. — - The lack of media concern for such events makes no sense, Pepin told a news conference on his return from an eight-day visit to South America. “Thousands of workers are literally having their throats cut and no one here is aware of it,” he said. “However, there are news agencies such as Prensa Latina which expose these tortures and follow the cases.” Here, however, the media prefer “to talk about the constitution,” he said. The constitution was important but not so important a8 many world events. ‘ “What we saw was horrible,” he said. “‘But- what we heard from people in jail, from the wives of people whe have been tortured or ve disappeared, was worse.” Thousands of union leaders are in jail in these regimes ruled by terror, said Pepin, former president of the Confederation of National. Trade Unions. STORIES FIRST HAND Because his group represented an international organization, “we still managed to meet a few hundred union leaders in these three coun- tries and we got their stories first hand.” _ In Argentina, “we were given rmission to visit two labor leaders in jail in La Plata, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. They told us no Inquiry told charges had been ‘laid against them.” Prisoners told the delegation their heads had been submerged in water to the point of suffocation while electric shocks were released in the water, Pepin said. In Cordoba, also in Argentina, he said he met 25 union leaders shortly before leaving the country. He learned the following day that three of them had been detained and questioned about the meeting. In another incident he heard about, a fisherman, who had noticed military helicopters flying over a lake, had to dive to the bottom of the lake to recover an outboard motor. There he discovered several bodies with their feet in cement blocks. The fisherman somehow died shortly after telling the story to others. Ruthless cuts revived BCR VANCOUVER (CP) — British Rail’s chief solicitor and legal ad- viser told the British Columbia Railway inquiry Monday that his country’s rail system was brought into the black by ruthless cuts in staff and service. Evan Harding told the royal commission investigating the BCR that British Rail operates on strict commercial lines despite the fact it is governmentowned. In 1976, British Rail recorded an operating surplus before interest of about $24.6 million, compared with a loss the previous year of about $51 million. To achieve the surplus, Harding said, the railway increased its passenger fares by 51 per cent, reduced its manpower y 8,000, abandoned unpre itable passenger lines and confined its freight ser- vices toshippers willing to enter into long-term contracts. “If the public doesn’t like the fares, they can vote with their feet and get into their motor cars,” Harding said. ‘‘British Rail’s idea is to operate as a business and to reduce ludicrous facilities.” Harding appeared before the commission as part of a state railway symposium in which he and railway officials from Canada and the U.S. discussed the “participation of the Crown as a shareholder’ in railways. FREE JUDGMENT The symposium is intended to hel the commission devise a framewor within which the BCR can operate in accordance with “good business ractice’ but ‘consonant with the evelopment of the province.” Commission counsel Martin Taylor said the goal is to determine how the railway can be accountable to the government for expenditure of public monies, yet remain free in matters of business judgment. The three-man commission under the chairmanship cf Justice Lloyd McKenzie listened intently ti Harding’s presentation, partic arly his remarks in respect to Britis Rail’s drastic cutbacks. The result of the reduced system, Harding agreed to questions from Taylor, is that much of Britain's freight is now transported by road. In 1954, 39 per cent of Britain's freight was shipped by rail and 37 r cent by road, whereas the gures in 1974 were 65 per cent by road and a mere 17.5 per cent by rail. Prior to 1963, when its common carrier role required British Rail to uote public rates, the railway was obliged to carry anything from an elephant to a penci), Harding said. Now the railway is able to “pick and choose” its freight and con- centrate on massive shipments of goods such as coal and cement, he said, As for its surplus manpower,’ Harding went on, the railway’s work force was reduced from 650,000 in 1948 to its present total of 220,000. High wage hill pite the manpower reductions, which were achieved by technological changes such as the introduction of diesel locomotives and electronic signalling, British Rail’s wage bill still representa 67 per cent of its operating costs, rding sald. The railway's three trade unions were extremely co-operative 11 agreeing to the manpower reduc- tion, he added. Harding stressed that Britis) Railway’s present relatively healthy state was not achieved overnight but was implemented in three stages over a period of some 15 years. The first period occurred between 1962 and 1968, when the railway’s board received annual government grants totalling some $1,400 million to meet its deficits. In the second period, from 1966 to 1974, all unremunerative passenger services were identified and the losses borne by the government. Since 1975, the third period, the railway has received a fixed annual grant within which it is required to operate. MELTS GOALS Under the new agreement, which amounts to a contract between British Rail and the government for Provision of rail passenger services, e railway in 1976 received a passenger grant of about $64 million. it delivered the service for about $574 million. Also under the agreement, the railway was required to contain the short-term grant for freigh operations within a limit of about $104 million. It delivered the freight service for about $63 million, . To achieve the financial goals, the railway is permitted to make its own decisions, unfettered by govern- ment, onthe extent of its operations, Harding said. It can open.and close freight lines strictly on a commercial basis, without government consent, and it can argue a case of “hardship” and close down a passenger service, Harding said members of the railway’s board of directors are appointed for a five-year period b the Secretary of State for anspor who chooses them from 4 shor Hist prepared by his civil servants. ssenger CP news features Arctic sailor plans more trips VANCOUVER (CP) — What do you do for an en- core after you have been the first man to sail solo through the Northwest Passage? Willi de Roos, 54, says he might be able to retire and do some sailing on the weekends, but there are a few things he has to clear up first. He still has to cross the North Pacific to Vancouver, spend “a couple of weeks or a couple of months” here writing his account of his voyage through the passage and then set out again for Antarctica, where he will winter the rest of the year before striking out for Europe on the final leg of his circumnavigation of the Americas. De Roos gave an account of his future plans, and some of the deta of his past voyage, in a telephone in- terview Monday night from the jetty he is docked at in the small Alaskan outspost of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. Sunday night was the first prolonged sleep he had had in four days, he said. “IT have recovered already, I think, a lot,” de Roos said. You can’t get rested in one night, but I feel in top condition. I think I Will aps s ere one mo Oy ind then head for Vancouver,” He estimated that would take approximately 15 days sailing straight across the’ North Pacific, which is a shorter route than it would be to hug the Alaskan and British Columbia coastlines LAND DANGEROUS “T could do the Inside Pas- sage route because it is usually c there,” he said, “But I do not like being so close to the shore. For me, the land is the danger. The sea is not dangerous; I fee] safe in the deep, open water. The land is dan- gerous...” Once here, he said, he'll visit with his wife and three daughters who are flying in from Belgium to meet him. . After some rest and recuperation, he said, he'll set aif alone again in his 42- foot ketch Williwaw to Antarctica. De Roos said he was goin to take it easy in Dute Harbor for another day. “It's just good to be around people for a change; it's a great feeling to know: you're not really alone,” he said. . De Roos had stretched his endurance to the limit when he reached Dutch Harbor Sunday. “(A few days ago, I want to lseep and Jet the boat sail itself, and I woke up to find a fishing fleet ali around me,” he said. So I stayed on guard and kept my concentration for four days so I could sail into Dutch Harbor without any more mishaps.” Stop Nazis, asks former prisoner VANCOUVER (CP) — A University of British Columbia associate professor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp has appealed to , United . States . President Jimmy. Carte: help stop public meetings of former members of SS- Divisions in West Germany. Dr. Rudolf Vrba of the de- partment of pharmacology said in a letter to Carter, a copy of which was sent to Prime Minister Pierre Eliott Trudeau, that he has learned from reliable sources a number of public and other meetings are scheduled between Sept. 24 and Oct. 31. He said the SS-Unit meetings include 88-Panzer Division “Das Reich’’, SS- Body Guard Division “Adolf Hittler’, and the 4th SS. Police Division. “It has been declared by the Nuremburg Tribunal in 1945 that (with the exception of the SS-Cavalry) all units of SS, including the so-called Waffen-SS, are criminal organizations,” Vrba wrote. “Therefore, .the care and fostering of the traditions of these 5S-Units amounts to thr promotion of criminal organizations. “Under the despotic and tyrannical and national: socialist rule in Germany, the SS and also the Zaffen- SS did consider it as their task to annihilate the racial minorities and they did all they could do towards this end. He said the nursing and fostering of SS-traditions is not only criminal, but it is also a dangerous example for the young and - formed people in Germany today. Vrba has received a letter from the office of the prime minister in Ottawa which said his protest has been brought to the attention of: the secretary of state for external affairs. Trapper sues gout as hobby VANCOUVER (CP) — Dogteam Bill Smith, a Yukon muskrat trapper whose hobby is suing the federa] government, lost another court case last week, but it won’t be the end of his campaign against the constitution. Dogteam Bill, 56, who lives with his Indian wife in a tent cabin near Old Crow, ukon, was sentenced in absentia to pay a $400 fine or serve 30 days.in jail after he stom: out of a magistrate's court that found him guilty of illegally trying to sell a bearakin. But the case won't sto there. P ; “Elizisk the $0 days in jail if in the end I fall to be sustained by the higher court,” Dogteam Bill said Monday in a telephone in- terview. He said he killed the bear to protect his winter food cache and said he had no idea that a permit for sale of a bearskin is required from the territorial game branch. But the grounds for his appeal won’t be that’ narrow. After he pleaded not guilt to the charge April 27, Smit raised such issues as terms of the original Hudson’s Bay Company charter and the 1763 Treaty of Paris. He contended that the Yukon was never properly ceded to Canada and, therefore, no judge has the right to ty Magistrate William. Pearce retreated to Whitehorse to study British North America Act then returned and overruled ; Smith’s objections. When Pearce said the trial should go on, Dogteam Bil] headed or the door, hollering “rank chicanery,”” He has launched a court action to overturn the magistrate’s ruling, one of about a dozen actions he has going in Whitehorse, © ancouver and Ottawa, He’s not upset to have one more. In fact, he personally thanked the RC officer who charged him, saying it ave him one more forum or his constitutional at- tacks, ;