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U.N. evacuated after kamikazi threats | NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations Secretariat and General Assembly were evacuated today after a young man, angry at a publishing firm, buzzed the company’s nearby offices in - a single-engined plane, police said. \ Bells sounded throughout the the 48-atorey Secretariat bullding on Manhattan's East Side and security of- ficers ordered the several thousand employees to leave. ‘ The General Assembly hall, where a session was oe LEGISLATIVE LIERLPY, CCMe. 7 PARLIAMENT [UILDINGS, VICTORIA, 3.0.» 6h VeV-1%4 scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Thespokesman did not say also was ordered evacuated. what is on that cassette, but about 11: a.m. said police were in the news- paper’s offices Hatening to the tape and questioning the Meanwhile, a spokesman paper’s editors. at the New York Post sald the newspaper had received a tape cassette from the unidentified pilot. “Security has advised us” that a lunatic is flying: ' 7” to {73 around here and threatening to crash into the UN building, and for that reason we are ordering an evacuation,” said UN in- formation officer Rudolph Stagduhar. Nora McCormick, a clerk at the New York City police department's aviation unit, said the unidentified man started flying near the publishing firm's offices about 9:30 a.m. He was not threatening to citash the plane and was in fact “very pleasant’’ in his coti- versations on the radio, she said. . The plane, a Cessna 172, alarmed passers-by in the aren, who thought that the pilot might have been protesting against the planned visit to the UN later this week of Cuban President Fidel Castro, | Police said two helicopters were sent to the area. They would not say what company the man had worked fer, nor would they describe his complaint. ™~ ~ i "tne PoP snoppe | 14 Flavors BOTTLE DEPOT Beer & Pop Bottles 4636 Lazelle Ave. _ Terrace, B.C. Open 10.a.m.-6p.m. L Fri. tl? pm. daily except Sunday NO \ TERRACE-KITIMAT daily Tuesday, October 9, 1979 \ herald 20c ~ Volume 73 No. 194 _, f RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - We are (open Mon. through Sat., 8 am.-5 p.m. Staff in on tricks VANCOUVER (CP) — Jack Kelly, a Social Credit pa researcher, was not alone in advocating political dirty tricks to boost the party's popularity, a tape of a seminar last ast year ine |; dicates. Both Kelly's superior, former research director Glen Mitchell, and fellow researcher Ellen MacKay endorsed the tactics Kelly proposed. . Caucus chairman Jack Kempf has said he was in- vestigating tactics ad- vocated by Kelly, including prompting party. supporters to write letters to newspaper editors and sign them with fictitious names. The tape, obtained by a newspaper reporter, was recorded at a party com- munications meeting Sept. 22, 1978, attended by about 200 Soclal Credit con- stituency officials, ‘Kelly responded to a question from one official about aliases by giving an- example, ; “What we do, inevitably, with allases, we'll take om ebody. living In the area, - Mr. J, T, Lattis, We'll ” change it to Mr. T. Mf. Lattia, the same address, and send it In and it’s printed.’* At this point on the tape, Ms. MacKay elaborated on the technique. "You see, Mr. T. M. could be his nephew, could be his son,”’ she said.” ; “What newspaper editors tend to do is they look in the ’ telephone book and they say, ‘Ah, yes. Lattis, Fine, Must he somebody in that household,’,. And they never check it out any further." “It's quite a bit safer to do that than you might think,’’- Ms, MacKay said. She also suggested writing lettere in which the author claims to be a member of the New Democratic Party con- cerned about some aspect of that party. The controversy arose Sept. 18 when party sup- porters complained Kelly was advocating the tactics at an Esquimalt-Port Renfrew constituency meeting, OTTAWA (CP)- With just the slightest trace of a self- conscious smile, Charles Joseph Clark today for the firat time sat in the Com- mons seat reserved for the prime minister. His firat words to MPs at Scenes like the above are becoming more familiar for Terrace and Kitimat RCMP, as the weather takes its toll on the roads. Both detachments report a total of 8 cluding one fatality. motor vehicle accidents on the holiday weekend, in- Photo by Greg Middleton their first gathering since the May 22 election were to nominate Sudbury Liberal MP James Jerome as. Speaker of the 292-member Commons, They were in French. Conservative members of monton Oct. 12. KITIMAT WAITS FOR REFUGEES By ANN DUNSMUIR * Herald Staff Writer A family of six Vietnamese refugees is ex- pected to arrive in Kitimat by Oct. 15. - Rev. Ernest Stevenson of Kitimat’s First Baptist Church said Friday the family has already left Hong Kong and will arrive in Ed- The family consists of Thanh Tran, 37; his wife Le, 33; their daughter Ngoc, 8; son, Kim, 4; and Tran’s brother, Cam, 82; and sister, My, 30. Stevenson said Tran, his brother and sister are all trained factory workers with 12 years of education who should have no problem finding work in the community. He said his church's application for a family did not specify that a member of the group speak English and this fact may account for early arrival of the refugees. Stevenson said the group will stay with members of his parish for at least a month while they become acclimatized. They will then move into a vacant teacheruge rented from the Kitimat School Board. the House, for the first time in 16 years on the govern- ment side of the Commons, thundered their applause and were joined by members of other parties. Record spending OTTAWA (CP) — MPs meeting today for the first time since the May 22 election will soon be asked lo approve spending of a record $14.5 billion by federal governments since last March. Word that the cabinet ap- proved $2.7 billion to pay for routine government operations in October was released in the Canada Gazette just before the of- ficial opening of the ist Par- liament. When Parliament ia tol sitting, the cabinet is per: mitted by lew to issue special warrants to pay for operations. The total of such warrants Issued first by the former Liberal government which dissolved Parliament in March end then by the Joe Clark Conservatives now has reached about $13.7 billion. Parliament must retro- actively approve = this enending al the earliesl misaihle time, Pierre Trudeau, who occupied the . prime minister's seat for 1 years, sat across from Clark as leader of the Opposition, Clark walked across the Commons shortly after entering and shook hands with Trudeau, whe was not wearing the customary rase in his lapel. "'T must confess that I feel a little likes father sending a son off into the world,” Trudeau quipped as he seconded ihe nomination of Jerome. Jerome is the first op- position member to serve as Speaker of the Commons. First elected to preside over the House in 1974, he was re- elected today with the support of all four parties in the House. However, Marcel Prud'homme (L-—Montreal Saint-Denis) took brief ex- ception to the fact that Social Credit Leader Fabien Roy had been recognized afler NDP Leader Ed Broadbent. The Socreds, who now sit on the government side of the Commons, have only five members and are not con- sidered a party under parliamentary rules. Following remarks by the leaders, Jerome was taken arm in arm to lhe Speaker's chair by Clark and Trudeau. As he pretended to dig in his neels al the honor bestawed upor him. Trudeau feigned a | Clark is in hot seat now © kick to get him moving. Jerome himself reminded MPs that the role of the Speaker in Britain centuries ago was to defend the rights of the Commons before the monarch. And he noted that one early Speaker had been beheaded for his efforts. “I say that so my reluc- tance in coming to the chair is understood,’” he said. One hour after the traditional ceremonies opening a new Parliament were completed, the Com- mons adjourned until 3p.m, EDT to await the reading of the speech from the throne by Gov.-Gen. Ed Schreyer. Earlier int the Senate, 16 new senators were sworn in. 13 PERCENT Bank rate is up again OTTAWA (CP) .—. Gerald Bouey, governor of the Bank of Canada announced today he is raising the bank’s lending rate to a record 13 per cent, although he is aware the high level of in- _ terest rates in the country is hurting individuals and businesses, . Effective immediately, the bank's pace-setting lending rate goes up by three- quarters of one per cent from the 12.25-percent level an- nounced Sept. 10, . This is the second bank- rate increase ir less than & month and the third since the Conservatives came to power in May. It follows an an- , nouncement Saturday by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board that it was raising the discount rate in that country to 2 per cent — the highest it has ever been. Since March, 1978, the Canadian bank rate has been | raised 10. times from eight per cenk. 2 ida Tne Bank of Canada resisted an increase in in- terest rates two weeks ago when the Federal Reserve Board announced a previous half-per-cent increase in its lending rate. But Bouey said today he felt thecentral bank had to match its U.S. counterpart this time. By raising its rate, the central bank signals the chartered banks and other lending institutions that it wishes them to charge their borrowers more, discouraging credit buying and tightening the amount of money circulating in the marketplace. The chartered banks normally follow the central ‘ bank's example within one or two days. This would push their prime lending rate — the interest charged to their blue-chip ¢arporate borrowers — to 13.75 per cent. Most other interest rates, inuding those for consumer loans, mortgages and the interest banks ‘pay their depositors, can also be ex- pected to rise, Bovey said-in a news release the 0.75-per-cent increase was needed to fight inflation and to keep the dollar from sliding on world currency markets. . Referring to the U.S. in- crease, Bouey said: “While short-term interest rates can sometimes move differently in the two countries, there are severe limits to the degree to which Canada can matintain short-term in- terest rates lower than those in the United States when Canada |s as dependent as it currently is on inflows of capital from abroad to finance the large in- ternational payments deficit on its current account.” Finance Minister John Crosbie has predicted the country will have an in- ternational payments deficit of $7 billion thia year, but recent unfavorable economic developments have convinced many econo- mists this estimate is too optimistic. The Bank of Canada news release sald: ‘‘The governor said that he {s well aware of the problems that current interest rates are causing to individuals and to business,” “ The underlying cause of these problems is the high present rate of inflation, of which the current level of interest rates la a symptom. The only effective way to bring interest rates down on a lasting basis is by achieving success in lowering the rate of the in- flation.” J obless rate is down again By CAROL GOAR OTTAWA (CP) — The number of those unable to find work fell for the sixth consecutive month in Sep- tember to 710,000 from 772,000 in August. This reduced the seasonallyadjusted § unem- ployment..rate..to a, three- hae i tape, io ae! “ofr” pet cent A Statistles Canada report today. : The last time the seasonaliyddjusted unem- ployment rate, the govern: ment’s usual indicator of the seriousness of unem- ployment, fell to 7.1 per cent was in September, 1976. Seasonal adjustment means the rate compensates for predictable seasonal fluctuations in the job situation such as the be- ginning of the school year or freeze-up. The number with jobs in September was 10.53 million compared with 10.91 million in August. The drop reflected primarily the removal of student workers from the job force with the end of summer vacations. ” Province-by-province unemployment rates for September were: —Newfoundiand, 14,1 per eent.from 144, per, cant in ieiat —Prince Edward Island, 10.6 per cent from 11.0 per cent. ot —Nova Scotia, 10.2 per cent from 10.5 per cent. —New Brunswick, 10,7 per cent from 11.5 per cent, —Quebec, 9.1 per cent from 9,9 per cent. —Ontario, 6.1 per cent from 6.5 per cent. —Manitoba, 5.0 per cent from 5.5 per cent. —Sasktachewan, 3.9 per cent from 3.7 per cent. —Alberta, 3.7 per cent from 3.8 per cent. +~British Columbia, 7,7 per cent from 7.4 per cent in Au- gust. Alcan faces charge By ANN DUNSMUIR Herald Staff Writer The Houston Forest Service has filed a trespass report agains! Alcan Smelter and Chemicals Lid. for slash cutting in the Nanika River- Kid Price Lake area. The cutting, Involving 3.6 hectares of timber, resulted from engineering studies commissioned by Alcan on the feasibility of the proposed Kemano 11 hydro- electric project. , Larry Hall, depuly ranger of the Houston Forest Ser: vice, said Friday® the trespass reporl has been sent to Prince Rupert fer advice from Legal counsel. Hall said any future action will depend on whether or not the water rights agreement made in the 1950's between Alcan and the BC. government gives the company the right to cut trees without authority from the B.C. Forest Service, Alcan spokesman Brian Hemingway, said Friday that it was assumed the original government agreement gave permission to clear trees, “We will be looking at the agreement again to make sure,” Hemingway said. He said the company has “heard talk of charges being laid" but so far there has been no official word. Hemingway could not identify who did the tree clearing because Crippen Engineering, the firm making the study, employs several sub-contractors. “We will have to make sure people working for the company are aware of our concern for the en- vironment,'’ Hemingway said. A report from the Father Morice Quidoor Recreation Society of Houston claims trees have been cul several hundred feet up both sides of the Nanika River near the outlet of Kid Price Lake. Members who visited the site also claim trees and silt have been deposited in the river, allhough it is a major spawning area for several species of salmon. Visitor wins derby from the Kalum River on Sept. 29. Wade's winner The Skeena Mall-Daily Herald fishing derby has come toa close with the drawing of the grand prize of a trip to Las Vegas going to a gentleman from Colorado. Charlie Myrick of Eaton, Colorado, won the trip by pulling a 57-pound spring out of the Skeena River on July 9, 1979. Congratulations from the Skeena Mall and the Daily Herald. The biggest fish prizes were also drawn, with Bill Oxford from Yakima, Washington, taking the bigges| spring, 69.5 pounds from the Skeena on July 28. 1979, and Wade Muchowski, a 10-year-old who lives at 4110 Anderson in Terrace, taking the derby's biggret echo weighed 18.5 pounds. Each winner received a fishing rod and reel cour- tesy of Daiwa-Algonquin, from Terrace Equipment. some tackle and a jacket Last week’s weekly winner was Wayne Muchowski, who took a 14-pound coho from the Kalum. Weekly winners of the derby were: Rober! Komlos, Julius Komlos, H.0. Leff, Anne Gilanders, Doug Anderson, Phil Anderson, Rodney Chin, Jim Me- ¥adden, Pal Elwood, Imco Hoekstra, Ken Lambert and Wayne Muchowski, Congratulations again to this year’s winners, and to those who missed oul, try again next year. armen