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By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Prime Mlalster Trudeau
sald Wednesday that he is’

to remain leader of
the Liberal Party even if it is

'. defeated in the election 12

days from now.
New Democratic Party
Leader Ed Broadbent was

“endorsed by the Toronto

Star, the largest English

, Bewapaper in the country,

¢

and said It should help win
support for the party among
firet-time voters. in the
Ontatio capital.

But in the southern Ontario
community of - St.
‘Catharines, Conservative
Leader Joe Clark said voting
for the NDP would only keep
the Liberals in power,

. Campaigning in Toronto,

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Trudeau said that he
wouldn’t promise to remain
Liberal leader forever and
would step aside for a better
leader, “but I certainly don't
intend to quit. and abandon’
them if we all agreed that I
Bhould stay on.”

He also told about 900 high
School students in a pre-
dominantly Jewish neigh-

t go,

ee

borhood. that President
Carter had asked him not to
move the Canadian embassy
In Tel Aviv to Jetusalem
because . it could.* upset
delicate Middle East peace

‘talks. _
Clark has promised to

move’ the embassy to
Jerusalem if he “becames
prime minister. <):'' |

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noe Banas
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at not, be put in pn
position where It once a
would prop up a Liberal
Ininority government.
Broadbent said the Star,
with a weekday ‘circulation
of 500,000 “and higher
weekend readership, has

the NDP’s platform and Is “a,
cham Hon | of the ordinary

In the endorsement, the
Star said it ‘does not! agrea
with the NDP's total plat-
form but admires Broad-

_ bent’s campaign and general

principles.
. Clark’s campaign pledge
refusing . to negotiate

sovereigntyassociation with
Quebec was challenged in
Montreal by Conservative

_ Candidate Andre Payette.

Although Clark is legally
correct to say Quebec cannot
vole itself out of Con-
federation, Payette sald "no
federa) government could
oppose the democratic ex-
pression of a people's will.”

~: Today Trudeau plans to

pa his national unity theme
the spotlight at a dinner
speech in Montreal, then
flies to Toronto where he will
spend the night. Clark
campaigns in Prince Ed-
ward Island, then flies to Ot-
tawa for the evening.
Broadbent mainstreets and
speaks toa the Toronto
Teachers Federation in
Toronto.

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registrations have been
counted. Persons in the
Terrace ‘area are reminded
they should vote at Veritas
Hall; located at . 4896.

Straume, - Thornhill

‘residents can cast their

ballots at Thornhill Com-
munity Centre.

Korier said only people
who have been Re to
yote in previous elections or
those. who _ {illed ” out

registration cards du
‘pegistfation perlod “which
“y eeded

arrangements to vote at the
polls.

Residents of outlying
areas who plan to vote in
Thursdayp election are
advised .by Kozier to check
the “where to vote’ card
they should have received In
the mail, Any registered
voter who does not have ane
of the “where to vote’ cards

. should. call the campaign

offices of. one of the local
candidates, said Kozler,’

Registered
voters now

be reached at 638-8591, while
the number for Social Credit

at the foll locations:
Cedarvale - Wallington

tesidence, Price Creck
Lakels ) - Gle's Place,

iy - ;
Kitimaat Village - Safety
Bullding, South End. .
Rosswood = -
residence,
Kitwanga - Royal Bank
Building. - ; .
Kwinltza = - Erikson
residence, Kilby Road,

Tomecek

Kozier advised -residents
interested In learning the
election resulta as soon as
possible ta stay tuned to
either television or radio,
since direct phone lines have
been established between the
media and the returning

office. _ ;
“There is no polnt in the

public” coming . to. the .
Tetlrning  office,'’’

said
Kozler. “By staying home,
they can receive all the
provincial reaults and they
will receive the reaults in
Skeena as soon aa they are
received by us.”

“The voters’ list in a poll in
the - Vancouver-Little
Mountaln peo yyneial
riding excludes 47 per
cent of eligible voters
. while 18 per cent of the
those on the list — 37
le — have died or no
longer live in the area,
says a New Democratic

P survey.
Th tlon in the

The inves!
riding represented in the
last legislature by Grace
McCarthy, human
resources minister, and
Finance Minister Evan
Wolfe was conducted by
Wally Ross, a canvasser
for the New Democratic
Party. He said the poll
was selected at random.
The party said if this
poll is representative of
others across the
- Province,thousands of sli-
gible voters have been
Jeft off the tlat, Soon after
the election was called,
the NDP asked for an
extension to enumerate
‘voters but the request
was denied by Provincial
Secretary Hugh Curtis,
Ross said there are 202
eligibde voters In the four-
block area he studied and
1 were not on the votera
t.

VOTERS LIST
MISSED MANY

. VANCOUVER (CP) —- .

“Tn addition, the voters
list for these four blocks
contains 37 names of
people who are deceased,
moved or unknown to
thelr nelghbors," he said, ©

One man in the area
aald he received 10 poll
cards = two each for
himeelf, his wife and his
three daughtera. One of
the daughters hasn't lived
at. the addrees for 10

years.

Confusion aver the
voters lst began just
after the election call as
potential voters, some of
them confused by the
federal election an-
noiincement, inundated
the registrar of voters’
office with telephone

calls,

June Jensen, the NDF
campaign manager in
Littia Mountain, has also .
charged Social Credit
organizers with sending
out cards that resemble
official poll cards but
carry pictures of Wolfe

and Mc ,

Carthy.
“It’s designed to look
like an official card sent

Body discovered
in Prince Rupert

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
(CP) — Aman wasin
custody Wednesday after the
body of an elderly man was
discovered earller in the day
ina hotel room in this no

coast city.

Police belleve the man
died as the result of a fight.
His name was withheld. No
charges were laid im-
mediately.

Usk'- Earley residence:

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_. YOUR CHOICE

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_ Skeena students cleaned streets before the election. :
A garbage campaign
with the difference

school grounds

Keeping
clan's a weekly chore fore
most schools but the Out-
doors Unlittered Pitch-in
campaign is helping to clean-
up areas of Terrace that

However, schools have
found that the plastic bags
that ‘the . provincial
organizers send to distribute
to school students tear and
fall apart a oon as
anything is put into them.

During the Skeena Jr,

- Secondary School ciearelip

on Wednesday students
the “strong ones” around
Tgetoypkedp coud
ge Bp cou
tated bok to
without causing little meases
from torn bags all over town.
Most — of Terrace’s
elementary schools are
going to be out In mass
cleaning up their neigh-
borhoods on Friday af-
ternoon,

Weather

George Blakey, from the
atmospheric environemnt
service, predicts “a rotten
day" -‘weatherwise for
today's (May 10) provincial
election, Blakey said couds,
shower activity, and a high
of about 12 to 13 dagrees in
midafternoon. .

e school -

Arecord number of groups
in the province are par-
ticipating In this year’s
pitch-in, which ends on May
12, There are 400 projects
taking place in B.C.

This is the 11th year that
the campaign is being held.

“It Is co-sponsored by the

minlatry of environment and
Shell Canada Limited. Shell
has ‘donated approximately
50,000 bags in the province.

Editors

dy Linda Purschke

Managing editors of B.C,
newspapers were asked ta
make their election
predictions in a poll con-
ducted by Victoria's Monday
Magazine at the Canadian
Press (CP) managing
editors conference held in
Victoria on May 4,

Most of the editors told
Monday they felt a Social
Credit victory would
probably be the result of
today’s provincial eleetlon,
although many of the editors
stated there were no speclfic
jesues confronting the
volera.

Local achools are using the
pitch-in campaign to remind
everyone that litter is a form
of pollution that is not

* necessary in this area.

The schools include
Thornhili Elementary, E.T.
Kenney Primary, Cassie
Hall Elementary, Thornhill
Jr. Secondary, Clarence
Michiel School, The Jack
Cook Schoo! and Kid K’Shan
Primary School.

| own party.

Few issues

in election

VICTORIA (CP) —
Political rivais Premier Bill

Bennett and Dave Barrett, ing

who have spent 8 1-2 years
learning more of the art of
politics, will have their
studies marked by voters in

today's British Columbia’

election.
Bath the head of governing
Social Credit and the leader
of the New Democratic
Party are craftler, wiser
versions of the pair who
fought over the: voters’ af-
fections In 1975, ;
* Social Credit . spokesmen
say their leader has come a
long way since -his party
romped to a easy victory
over the NDP, while Barrett
says he is older, wiser and

more realistic than the man:
‘who walked into a knockout

Punch delivered by the
electorate in 1975. .

_ With few issues to stir u
Voters in this quiet five-w

Samnpalgn,-much of the focus -.
“hat Besar the two lenders,

Bennett resists -

~ Ruggestlons ‘that the cam-

paign should focus on party
eadera, saying the real Issue
is philosophical differences
between the NDP and his

“The iasue is not Bill
Bennett, the issue is not

- Dave Barrett,’’ he said

recently, adding that ita
should be the question of pri-
vate ownership versus
government ownership.

But there is litte doubt,
eapecially in view of a st
lockout at Vancouver Sun
and Province newspapers,
that for many voters the five-
Sis Gate hn

of flee 8
and sounds of the two leaders
on television and radio, with
little substantive. debate on

issues,

About one-third of the 1.6
million eligible votera are
located in the Vancouver

area,

During this campaign,
Bennett — who describes the
effort as a “long job ap-
lication’ — has shown

a to be aa resolute and
tor politician.

His message, delivered in
a style that Is still somewhat
wooden, is basically the
same wherever he speaks.
He tallas of the negativism of
the NDP, the need to
maintain a government
business can trust, blames
Barrett for nearly wrecking
the province and calls upon
his rivals to come clean with
the voters.

But where Bennett seems
to shine is when he is dealing
with the frequent heckling
that has disrupted his
meetings. Hia most en-

- Million

thusiastic responses from
supporters in recent meet-
8 have come from his
replies to dissidenta in the
crowd

Party officiala are pleased
with what they perceive ag a
maturing of the 47-year-old
e who succeeded
Is father, W, A. C, Bennett,
a8 Social Credit chief.

When Bennett took over
the party, he was awkward
and Ul at ease, they say.
Social Credit's success

- 1975 arose more from the

voters’ disgust with the NDP
than from enchantment with
the new leader.

Bennett still seems uneasy.

with voters and his scattered
jokes, after the first telling,
appear forced. But, beamed
one Social Credit candidate
recently, “he’s come a long
way,”

For Barrett, the rely-poly
former premier, - light:

hearted.-banter and: joke:. |

telling comes‘ ensily, He’ is
perhaps one of, the. finest
orators in Canadian politics.

But the 48-year-old veteran
of 10 years as NDP leader
has undergone a refur-
hishing of his image in this
campaign.

He compares himself to a

boxer who hag been knocked
down, staggered up and has
shaken himself back ta con-
sciousness for the next
round. :
His message is less
strident and he tells volers
he is older, greyer and wiser
after going through what he
termed after his defeat in
1975 “a great learning
Every once in a while
when I start thinking about
rushing ahead with a new
program 1] reach back and
feel one of the scars I got last
time,” Barrett says,

A victorious NDP would
not go as. fast as it did bet-
ween 1972 and 1875, Barrett
Bays. Tt would explain its
moves better and it would
mot bring back the same
mining royalties that
alienated many both inside
and outside the Important
industry last time.

Barrett polishes his new
image with pinstripe suita

and has rejected the jacket: .

off, ahirt-sleeved approach
of the past.

“In a way, the defeat was
good for me,” the NDP
leader said recently.

“It taught me a few
lessons. It told me: ‘Slow
down, Dave."

If Barrett has not learned
the lesson well enough, it
could mean a test of his
leadership at the next NDP
convention,

ONLY ONE

“The problem with this
campaign is that there has
been no real issues.” said
Lee Ballantyne of the
Nanlmo Free Press. "1 think
the Socreds will be back with
a reduced majority,” he
concluded,

Dave Brown, from the
Victorian Daily Colonist, did
not want ta make predic-
tions, but stated he felt Vie
Stephens would have dif-
flcuity retaining his seat in
Oak Bay. Stephens strongest
competition is sald to come
from Socred candidate Brian
Smith, who is a former
mayor of Oak Bay,

Brown said he felt the
remaining seats in the
Victoria area would be split
petween the Socreds and the

Ted Fairfax, aasiatant
managing editor for the
Vancouver Province said he
felt the lack of newspaper
coverage due to labor atrife
between Pacific press and its
employees had hurt the
campaign, He estimated the
Socreds would win 30 seats in
the electlon, even though
“more recently the tid® has
turned in favor of the NDP.”

“The Socred campalgn has
been too fow key,” said

see a Socred

Grant Kerr, wire editor for
CP. He waa quoted as saying
he felt the Socreda would
maintain a majority of 31
seats, while the NDP would
be elected In 26.

Jim Polling, CP Van-
couver Bureau chlef also
said he thought the Socreda
would stay in power, .

“There is no great In-
dication that the people are
wanting to change thelr
government,” he stated,

Larry Scanlan, editar of
the Nelson Daily Newa waa
the only editor to predict an
NDP victory.

“This Ia a sleepy campaign

KERNAL
OF
TRUTH

The results of the
Centennial’ Lions Club
“Popcorn Poll" held
Saturday tat the
Terrace Trade Fair may
Provide the only kernel of
wisdom about the results
of today's provincial
election;

"It waa all in good
humor and everyone
rather enjoyed it,"’ said
tae ine sod final
tally, the popcorn ©
gained a slim lead of 173
to168 over the NDP, while
the Undecided polled 114
votes. ,

VANCOUVER (CP} — The
British Columbia Peace
Officers Association is
spending $4,000 on ad-
ve! to encourage vot-
ers to elect candidates who
favor reintroduction of
capital ent In the
May 22 federal election.

e sald peace officers
across the country want a
return to hanging in casea of
premeditated murder or the
murders of policemen and
prison guards.

TAXIS
FOR
KITIMAT

Kitimat residents
without transportation on
election day will be able
to whistle up a taxi for a
free ride to the polls.

Chrls Knight, owner-
operator of Rainbow taxi
at the Nechako Centre,
said today he will provide
transportatlon free of
charge to anyone who
might otherwise be
unable. to vote-
particularly old-age
pensioners and = the
handicapped,

The service will be
available 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.,
May 10 while polls are

open,

e
with no real issues iden-
tified," he told Monday,

As quoted In Monday, the
final tally for the predictions
of the editors is eight feel
Social Credit will return to

wer, one editor favors the

F to win, and one editor ia
ety MeDe ell, editor of

Derry nnell, editor
Monday, made his own
predictions on the results of

the provinclal election in a.

telephone interview, Me-
Donnell sald he felt the NDP