EA en SS easement spn sy ain tame eae Co heme a ee ere Victoria, AE 1 LEGTSLAYTVE Lrapany PARLIMENS, BUILDINGS), - RERRACE— Groga Lut inde rome with the plan. Andi , eat plans successful, the 4600 block of Lakelae Avenus will os “never be the same agaist ss [Lathe is-also knowt as Arehitects No It all started: at # Chamber of Commerts, mnnetinig at " “tended by 'Perrate Mayor’ Helmut Gleabrecht, The mer- ~ ‘chants of that area were wondering when thig area would be . Tevamped, Glesbrecht. said that ‘if-théy wanted it _Tevitalized; the business men should get organized. - Lutz ._ said, “I was volunteered tp become that organizer”! . . Although: plans of this type have been talked about for ~ years, Lute says that “any program could only go ahead if a downtown plan was submitted to council," He says, “such — | a plan was submitted In August 1961 and is still with coun- cil's planning committee. The current concept is actually thought ot BB Phase One, of r\! least a three phase project, Eventually merchants “would like to extend it via walkways one block both-north — ‘and south, that is “‘to the Sears plaza and the Co-op areas”, Latz has signed agreements with 10 of the 12 property owners (who are not-necessarily the actual merchants) . stating their committment to the plan. - : The plan ts not to turn the 4600 block into some sort of theme park. There will.be no Smithers-like alpine village " concept here, Rather, the attempt is tomake the beat use of ' »what-already exists. . "The main dea ie to make this area more inviting and : ‘pleasant: for pedestrians and vehicle traffic aswell, by redesigning the whole block as a unit, rather than the - present collection of separate parts that:just happen to be ~~ located there; . When completed the feeling would like one would have walking Vancouver's Granville Street. ‘There is a‘whole host ‘ol. Ideas in Luts’s plan to achieve ’ this; The street will be reduced from four lanes to two for vehicle traffic. The sidewalks will be widened. At thé same _ Dispute ends. : Herald Staff Writer TERRACE — The BCGEU picket line in front of the "Terrace Courthouse is down, but both sides involved in the pet woke les =. pen PEN ge Fw _ quickly to their earlier’ levels. : dispute are reluctant to give the detaila.of the settlement, Terry Campbell, district manager of court: services, told . the Herald, ‘all ’'m prepared to pay is that there is a mutual agreement,” “BCGEU business agent, Dave McKinnon at first: sald merely, “it's resolved," However, he did add that the Burns Lake Deputy Sheriff who was called back toiwork “during the full union strike was “having one day of bbliday time added to his vacation in lieu of the day worked”. © The Government Employee Relations Bureau in Victoria . was: unavailable for comment. . VANCOUVER (CP) — British ‘Ciouibiss lumber : manufacturers and brokers have little’ reason: to feel cheerful as the market slump in their products drags on . through the summer... ”. After. an upward epurt, in the late ering — which ‘saw per thotisand board: feet — lumber prices dropped back The same. species have been elling “for. $190-$135 per thousand | since late July, and there is.no sign that’ the ’ decline in interest rates ia being translated yet into rising lumber prices. The 38. 7 per cent rise in U.S. housing starts in July, to an ; annual rate of 1,097,000 units, created a short-lived flurry as _excitement spread over the prospect of a: ‘austained upturn in homebuilding. - ; Within the housing sector, the major: incréase was in starts of multi-family buildings with flye units or more, _ which rose 135.6 per cent to an annual‘rate of 489,000. However, the incréased- activity reflected the Aug. 1 ‘deadline for government subsidized miltiple units, rather _than much improvement in the funddmentals, The July total of multi-unit starts is unlikely to.be matched this month, because the government subsidies 4 are no Tonger available. Starts of single-family units. actually. declined to a. . Beasonally. adjusted annual rate. of 614,000 in July, from _ . 616,000 in June. ag EROS pe tes heey ' Another positive: sign - for lumber _ producers was Tuesday’s decisions by the U.S. government's three: ‘biggest . mortgage agencies to lower interest rates. The Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Housing Administration and the. Veterans Administration _ have announced cuts in the minimum interest requirements “Ton newly issued adjustable-rate j mortgages. on “There was no immediate indication how : soon, U.S, banka, savings “and loan associations and ‘other lenders might ‘follow suit, but officials said they’expect in most cases the”. by: rodd- “to Damascus would: start today. following interest charged to home buyers will be about the same as the rates charged by the federal agericies. . Seat -But-David. Maxwell, head of the mortgage aasocjation, + Was cautious about predicting a boom in new construction. " “Phe drop in rates will contribute to housing activity, but ae ba saya king Spi wl actully be erated The : aod the planié to - ue revitalize, beautify, change, and alter both sides and the palddls of what has become known’ fo jarea residents as oe simply: “the 4600 block”. . outside area for the flower shop, and wants toencourage ‘strest vendors there'to liven up the a _ Hydro poles will be eliminated and underground wiring . _.-VBY 12" “ Sidewalke will hecome brick instead of concrete and @ ‘brick -* croaswalk will. be constructed in the middle of the. block; ‘where people cross anyway, #0 one might as well disign for it. ‘Lutz is planning fot en outdoor dining area for the Deli, an ere. The current bus stops would be moved just outside of the block. Along both dides of the street willbe continuous canopies, - - with dormers extended ateach shop entrance enable people — . ta be dropped off and walk outside when the weather turns ~ wet and alill be comfortably dry. instalied. The current street lights would be removed and © lower “more intimate lighting” erected, “Bits. of. fur- niture” and a lot more ‘trees will be placed in the en- vironment, - Newstore fronts would go up and to maintain the unity of "feeling a very limited color scheme would be Imposed on the dwners of the buildings. | . “It's now or never,” says Luts for. this idea, “prices are : - low and the enthusiasm is high,” ‘While.a portion (yet to be defined) of the coat will come . from taxes, the lion’s share will come from the property owners and existing government programs,” says Lutz, Part of the planning task is to organize the financing he renovate: store fronts, the existence af low interest loans for © ‘street improvement, and possible assistance in covering — the coat of putting Hydro linea underground. ‘A complete cost analysis will not be. done until council gives its ap- proval for the concept... | if approved, construction will begin in the early spring of next. year and mast of the work completed by late summer, Lutz says that he has the support of the plarining committee as well as the city planner. At the next council meeting oa Sept. 13, Lutz hasbeen invited to give a presentation " complete with drawings of his plans for council's approval. . It will ba Intéresting to see the reaction to what Lutz call both “a readable piece of music” anda “design for ‘Peaple” “No bus stop, 1 new store fronts, a continuous protective canopy, brick sidewalks, trees, : Street vendors, and a lot more people will be what the 4600 block of Lakelse Avenue will leak {lke if a redesign plan goes through. Thursday, August-26, 1982 “te substantial changes to the national energy program, Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine'says. .- . . Devine, emerging from: tt communique, did not say who the dissenters were, But Ontarlo Premier Wiliam Davis has said he only . . western spruce-pine-fir 2x4. dimension lumber reach $153 wants the agency modified, not dismantled, | and Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley ‘says the agency is fine as it Is. -Pawley told reporters that the breakfast: session made ‘substantial: ‘improvement and changes to. the dratt prepared . Wednesday.” “- _ Pawley, who has als been odd. man out on the need for ” government restraint, said a new draft was belo prepared and he wanted to check it first “to see if it is sufficiently broad (general) to_permit my ¢oncurrence with it.” ’ Quebec. Premier Rene Levesque said Wednesday the communique also appeals to the Bank of Canada to match | more closly the deciine:-in interest rates in the United States,” He also said the premiers’ won't heed Prime. Minister Trudeau's request to fall tn. behind Ottawa's ‘campaign to. limit increases in public sefvice ‘wages and government-. regulated prices to six and. five per cent over the ext two years, . All premiers recognize ‘the need for restraint, but the — - federal plan is absurd , Tigid, inequitable and contemptuous, , Levesque told reporters after revealing in advance some of. the conclusions of the conference, which ends today. three-hour breakfast meeting , today at which major revisions were ‘made to a -draft 25 cents ~ Alberta Préiler Peter Laughed ndicated the premiers* ‘don't have anything to offer Ottawa — such as support for its anti-inflation Program — to bring them, to the ’ negotiating table. “I-don't think there’s any Intention to approach it on the basis of there being something in it for. the feds. It's a “matter of what we.think would be the beat approach to an ‘economic recovery program.” Meanwhile, two Progressive Conservative piemiers Bill "Davis of Ontario and Richard Hatfield Of New Brunswick . played down expectations of what the conference, held in private, ‘Will achieve. |. “The difficulty i isthat whatis expected of us and what this , conference. can: deliver are- two different thifigs,” said . Hatfield: : : Although more positive, Davis alsa told reporters there “ate “always expectations of more than what in fact emerges” from such meetings. ~ Davis apparently. failed in his suggestion ‘that the _ premiers accept “some version” of Ottawa’s anti-inflation’, Program if the federal: government accepts -provineial _ advice to modify the Foreign Investment Review Agency _ and thé national energy program and to develop policies: to i encourage new inves{ment. Moré evidence the Idea failed came when Newfoundland’ : Premier Brian Peckford — an earlier advocate of working outa deal with Ottawa — backpedalled on the issue. Peckford said Tuesday it was “quite likely’ some premiers would be willing to make a deat, On Wednesday, he eald he. “got hooked into some > questions" by reporters” Established 1908 Volume 76 No. 164 Premiers want reasonable interest rates - _ eee: i Sgaliiainneis at prémiots want abolition.~: “at” Obtawale’ Foreign Investment ‘Review Agency and wails ing faver- “of: teadecte 7” Conference chairman John. Buchanan of Nova. Scotia “who “‘poneluded, pe sce added to the confusion, saying that although the premiers are willing to negotiate with. Ottawa on the. measures ~ they’re working on in Halifax they won’t “bargain and trade off.” He didn't explain the difference between bargaining and negotiating. Coiifission also developed over where Davia stood on wage - ‘and price. controls. Davis told the premiers Wednesday | morning “price and wage controls are perhaps an initial, immediate siep to a national economic recovery” but told “reporters Wednééday afternoon he was referring primarily ‘to the public sector. He then “changed that to ‘say he had been referring ex- clusively to the public'sector, but added that singling out one group to fight Inflation seems unfair. In other developments,..while the premiers generally agreed thal something has to be done to encollrage foreign — Investment, they continued to disagree-on what precisély to do with the Foreign Investment. Review Agency. Several — Buchanan and Levesque among,.them —: continued ta call for the abolition of the agency. So aenba's 8 Howard Pawley ‘defended restrictions on foreign in-. vestment ‘and Davis said the agency. must be retained. Davis said he would like to see some of the agency's rules: watered down: but’ opposes its abolition because under: ’ current economie. ‘céniditlons. some Canadian companies. - could be lost to foreign interests at bargaln-basement: prices. Overland PLO evacuation delayed in Beirut The overland evacuation of Palestinian guerrrillas from Beirut. was delayed today and more fighterd” prepared to Jeave by sea, Israeli military solirces said. Israel Television had reported earlier that the evacuation discussioné‘between Israeli and U.S. officials.” The Palestinians said they feared there would be attacks by Lebanese right~ -wing militia along the Beirut-Damascus | road and called off the first trandfer of i its guerrillas via the ‘highway. Tuesday... ea He new starts ‘will. come back” slowly," he sald. a : not have engugh jobs available. “for -" the*a7 ‘institutions. Actoae- “Canada: : - “eduication. . metallurgy, g University. de Sherbrooke. : The Israeli TV report, broadcast Wednesday night, said -- U:S. envoy Philip Habib, author of the evacuation plan, was seeking the deployment of 4 multinational force along, the | Toad while ‘the pullout was under way, ere guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization -Trainir n ig d iffic C U It | re expected to leave by sea today for Syria and South \ TORONTO MCP) — - Canadian universities and colleges Yemen, the Israeli sources said. * are having difficulty arrtnging on-thie- sae Coop »Saysthe.. - They did not say” when the overland evacuation Was ex- past president of the Canadian Anpois r ; tative pected fo etart.- |, Education. : '. Several hundred: italien and French soldiers landed, ins ‘Michael: ‘Turgeon said companies ee the revesalon do Lebanon today to join a multinational force supervising the Students enrolled in -evaciiatlon of the guerrillas, @ cooperalive “At the same time a West German hospital ‘ship began taking oh Wounded Palestinian fighters bound. for Cyprus “and Athens. . te fae wan speakinis| from Meio where c co-operative ~edue adraintatrators are. eating vith 35 major 270: "The Italians, who disembarked ployers. ara. . , . °° Bebrut-part,-were due to move ‘out “It's very, vety, very. toute to place students in ‘mining, - contro! of a section’ ‘of the main Beirut: iter today and take ascus highway. - Ag the First grqup of some 200 Italians assembled on the: will be ‘worse dock 'é y, the:Weal- German-registered Red Cross ship Students ii] c business administration. are not in: “au much difficulty, added Turgeon, a co-operative eduentlan ‘administrator at the port. The International Hed Cross ‘said 185 wounded men were belrig evacuated. ~‘Twealy of them’ Will be taken ‘olf at ‘Cyprus and the remainder will go on to’Athens. “The University of Waterloo: pions -o-operatlve:,- " education (programs 25 years ago. Thé,program involves a’ student working for a compet: aa ‘part of the required Souree of studies. “he ae m an assault ship in « a engineering and My Flara was taking on wounded Ruerrillas elsewhere in . - _guerrilas vie the highway after heavy firing the day before _ along a siretch of te road controlled by the Christians. The . . Israelis said. Christian milifiamea and Syrian soldiers were -shootirig; the Christian radio Btatlon said it was. Israeli and _ Syrian forces... No firing was reported along the highway. Wednesday, ‘Almost 1,000 PLO guerrillas left Beirut in two ships Wednesday for the Syrian port of Tartus and for Sudan, leaving | about 6,000 to be evacuated along with 2,500 to 3,000 PLA guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers who were trapped ~in west Beirut by the Israeli slege. About 2,600 Guerrillas _- left West Beirut in the four days before for dispersal in the . Arab world under the plan negotiated by abs s: ‘presidential érivoy Philip. Hablb. : Thousands of Palestinians assembled trom throughout de Syria to give a tumultuous welcome to the 550 guerrillas . who arrived early today-at Tartus., - -: Five sheep were slaughtered on the dock and ‘skinned to . provide a carpet for the arrivals as they came ‘ashore {o deafening appiaus, chants of “Victory! Victory! Palestine! Palestine!” in Arabic, embraces and kisses, . ‘: The evacuees left. Beirut. under the: protection. on 800 ; newly-arrived U. S. marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious. ; ‘Unit who came ashore at dawn Wednesday and took control ; of the port from 300 French Foreign Legion paratroopers... “Everything went smoothly; so far, so good,” said the ~ ‘marines’ commander, Col: James Mead, Reporters who witnessed themarine landing were barred -- from: the ‘portarea Inter but watched as the guerrillas boarded a chartered Cypriot ferry for-Syria and about 400 others took andihier ship for Sudan.-The reporters said the marines appeared (o be making a conscious effort to avold 7 Contact with the departing guerrillas, - _... Marine officers said they have been ordered to keep alow. profile. “My order is not to initiate-any- ‘conversation with | : __fnybody and never venture outside the. ort," one officer. On Tuesday, the PLO called ‘off the first ‘transter of its tad. 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