a ee j LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY, PARLIAMENT SUILDINGS, VICTORIA, BoCey f Volume 72 No. 208 20¢ COMP. 77/78 ol ray Ge VEv=ThE— Friday. October 27, 1976 Q COPPER ALL METALS Location Seal Cove \ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD, we buy MOd. . OPEN Til 5 p.m. ~ BRASS & BATTERIES SAT. Phone 624-5639 y, Gov't blocks move OTTAWA (CP) — Govern- ment lawyers refused Thursday to allow three royal commissioners to see correspondence between the government and former RCMP commissioner W.L, Higgitt. ' Michel Robert, acting for the government, blocked an attempt by RCMP Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne to in- troduce a letter that might support Higgitt's contention that he informed solicitors- general that the RCMP had been breaking the law in performance of duty. But both Lamontagne and Robert warned against drawing inferencés from 14 pieces of correspondence Lamontagne produced or tried to produce as exhibits, None were made public and four were not produced, marked or even shown to the commission as a result of objections by Robert. Robert and Joseph Nuss, another government lawyer, said their objections 4 stemmed from the fact Marvin Crown and: Judy Eastman were the best Lamontagne had given no dressed hillbillies at Caledonia Senior Secondary notice he intended to praduce School recently when the school held a Sadie the documents. Hawkins’ Day. The students placed at the tap of the list during a hilfbilly sock hop at noon hour. SETTLERS TO REMAIN. Isreal stands firm on West Bank WASHINGTON (CP) — Is- faeli Porgign Minister Moshe Dayan arrived in Washington on Thursday night and declared that Israeli settlers will remain on the West Bank of the Jordan River. whether the United States and Egypt objected to it or nat. Returning to peace treaty talks here with Egypt, he said the United States is lo blame for the dispute that flared up after Israel’s . decision to enlarge its West Bank settlements. “There is na question about it. We don't dream about removing or dismantling one single Israeli settlement from there,” he said to reporters on arrival at. Andrews air force base near Washington. “T want to make it clear we don't feel we have to apolcgizé abdut It:” Dayan said the decision was taken because U.S. Assistant State Secretary Harold Saunders had told Palestinians on the West Bank that the status of Israelis who remain in the settlements in the future would be a subject of negotiation, These remarks made by Saunders during a recent visit to Jerusalem caused an uproar in Israel, Dayan said. “We say that we do nol in- tend to move (from the West Bank). The Israeli cabinet wanted to assure the people they could stay.” The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Begin was considering imposing restrictions on U.S, Juvenile laws ok- ex-judge — Any move to make juvenile law stronger should be stopped, a former appeals court justice told a panel discussion on crime in the community Wednesday, Poets read here Four North Vancouver coets will give two public ‘eadings from their work, one in Hazelton, tonight, and In Terrace, Monday. The readings are spon- sored by Northwest College, in co-operation with the Canada Council. There will be no admission charge. Everyone is invited to come and hear these readings. The poets are Hope An- derson, Pierre Coupey, David Phillips, and Bill Litlle, Little is also known as Zonko, and edits Head Magazine, Anderson and Phillips are co-editors of The Body, a new anthology of B.C. writing. Coupey is a poet, painter and instructor at Capilano College. The readings will be at Nor- thwest College in Hazelton at 6 p.m. tonight. In Terrace the readings will be at Northwest College, Room 211, at 10:30 p.m. In praising the existing federal Juvenile Deliquents Act, Angelo Branca said provisions in the act through which a juvenile offender 14 years ald and over can be moved to regular courts should be used sparingly. A member of the audience asked whether the interests of the juvenile offender comes before the interests of society in general, ‘The protection of the lad is the protection of society,” Branca said, adding that juvenile offenders come from broken homes where they are unloved and receive no support or discipline from parents. “It’s the parents fault,’” he said, “and then we blame the kid.” One person in the audience of 200 said judges should be harsher than they now are on juveniles after their.first of- fence, Lottery winners NOBLETON, Ont. (CP) — Five tickets each worth $100,000 were drawn Thursday in the Wintario lettery draw. The winning numbers were 16336 in series 40; 79784 in series 20; 12105 in series 8; 20202 in series 39; and 87506 in series 41. diplomats visiting Israel who “want.° ta - mect- Palestinians in the occupied territories. Dayan expressed the hope that despite the Israeli decision, peace talks that went into their third week here Thursday would con- tinue, He said he brought with - with . him the draft treaty as ac-. cepted by the israeli Zovernment, together with suggested amendments some of which touched on issues of substance. _ He said the settlements issue was not dealt with in the Camp David, Md., agreement and Israel's action in no way violates the two frameworks., He said he wished to ex- press the hope that the other parties would “keep their LESS GOODS MADE OTTAWA (CP) — The largest decline in durable goods manufacturing since January, 1975, off- ‘sel substantial gains in production for several other major industries in August, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. The result was a marginal increase in over-all production in the economy of less than one- tenth of ane per cent. The federal agency said strikes and production slowdowns, especially in the primary metals component of durable goods, contributed heavily to a substantial 4.i-per-cent drop in durable goods output. role within the agreement'’ and not demand that Israel do something beyond the agreement. . . Incompetance charges denied OTTAWA (CP) — Em- ployment Minister Bud Cullen denied opposition charges Thursday that in- competence and mis- management were the reasons his department paid out $142 million too much in - unemployment insurance benefits last year. Cullen said in the Com- mons that his department willcrack down onerror and ~ fraud, Steps will be taken to ON RENTS recover the $142 million in previously undetected overpayments revealed Wednesday by Auditor- General J.J, Macdonell, he said. This was in addition to $67.8 million in over- payments last year which were detected by the government. All but $6 mil- lion of that was recovered. Cullen insisted the over- payments were not a large percenlage of total benefits. Gov't phases out controls VICTORIA (CP) — Rents on all bachelor, studio and onebedroom apartments renting for more than $200 a month will not be controlled by the government after Feb. 1, Rafe Mair, consumer and corporate affairs minister, said Thursday. Mair said controls on two- bedroom units renting for more than $350 a month alsa will be removed on that date as part of phase two of the government's de-control program. Rent controls were im- posed by the previous New Democratic Party govern- ment, and Increases are restricted toseven per cent a year, Phase one involved units renting for more than $400 a month. Mair said he is making the announcement now to allow landlords time to give the mandatory three-month notice to take effect on Feb, I. The minister said tennants in units no longer covered by controls may appeal ta the Rent Review Commission any increase they feel are excessive provided their rent does not exceed $500 a month, “Workers, | FOR RELEASE Union head OTTAWA (CP) — Postal union President Jean-Claude Parrot bowed Thursday to a judge’s ultimatum that he ei- ther publicly declare invalid all strike authorizations to union members or go to jail. Parrot issued a statement in a union news release which contained the exact words Mr. Justice D. F. O'Leary of the Ontario Supreme Court ordered him to make in a declaration as a condition for release from RCMP custody. The order forced Parrot to publicly declare that strike authorizations by the 23,000- member Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) were invalidated by Parliament's backto-work legislation passed last week less than 24 hours alter union members began a legal strike across the country. The statement was issued about four hours after the judge, in a mid-afternoon court hearing, gave Parrot a midnight Wednesday night deadline to comply with the order to issue the statement in a news release. The _ Statement said: “T, Jean-Claude Parrot, national president of the Canadian Union of Postal notify you that pursuant to Section 3(1) of Bill C-9, an Act to provide for the resumption and con- tinuation of postal services, any declarations, authorizations or. directions , to go on strike previously declared, authorized or given to you has become in- valid by reason of the coming inta force of the Act.” Parrot appeared in court with four members of the CUPW national executive committee, All of them had surrendered to RCMP in the morning. They were released until a trial at an undetermined date after Signing statements promising to meet O'Leary's ‘ orders. They were charged with violating subsection 115 (1) of the Criminal Code by failing to tell union members that strike authorizations became invalid when Parliament passed the back- to-work law Oct. 15. They had called off the strike Wednesday night. O'Leary said the five men could be released if Parrot issued the public declaration and a news release in specific words chosen by the judge, if all five agreed to stand trial later for violating the law and if they all en- couraged union members to continue working. O'Leary said Parrot had shown contempt of Parliament’s law and of the courts by ordering union members to stay off the jab and by referring to the back- to-work law and injunctions against picket lines as illegal. The judge rejected the union lawyer's arguments that the conditions were an altempt to humiliate and embarrass Parrot and to score a political victory that should be none of the court's business. . The 23,000 members of CUPW were told to go back to work by the union’s national executive Wed- nesday after the government threatened to fire postal workers who did not return, But Mr. Justice O'Leary said this was not good enough for the courts, Meanwhile, arrangements were being made to get two assistants for Judge Lucien Tremblay, the mediator. arbitrator appointed under the back-to-work legislation to find a settlement of the long-time postal dispute. One would be appointed by the post office and the other by cCUPW, Postmaster-General Gilles Lamontagne told the Commons about that while saying that virtually all inside postal workers had reported for work, The order by the union’s senior officers came a few . bows to law hours after RCMP officers raided CUPW offices across the country and Justice Minister Otto Lang signed indictments charging the union officials with violating a section of the Criminal Code making it illegal to dis- obey an act of Parliament. The four other union executives charged are: Andre Beauchamp, first vice-president; Dave Jones, second vice-president; LeRoy Hiltz, secretary- treasurer, and Syd Baxter, chief stewart. None of them commented after the three- hour hearing except for Parrot who said only that he would issue the court- ordered statement. O'Leary's orders were vir- tually identical to those sought by federal govern- ment lawyer Douglas Rutherford. OTTAWA (CP) — Senator Ray Perrault, government leader in the Senate, said Thursday he will ask the postmaster- general if he knows of any Communist infiltration of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). ~ The query should nat be interpreted as meaning there is to be an in- vestigation of commu- nism in the post office as news reports indicated Wednesday, Senator Perrault said in the upper house. The query was prompted by Senator David Walker (PC—On- tario), who suggested that Communists may be responsible for the current labor dispute within the pos! office. “When I heard Senator Walker's question, I stated that an inquiry would be made,”* Senator Perrault said. “I did not suggest an inquiry of communism in Senate seeks commie plot the post office would be made. I said I would inquire of the minister responsible for the post office whether he had any information on this particular point.” Wednesday's Hansard, the official transcript of parllamentary proceedings, showed that Senator Walker asked: “Honorable senators, would the leader of the government inform us whether he has yet. as- certained if behind this strike, particularly at the top, there is Communist involvement, because there seems to be an ef- fort toward creating chaos and anarchy in connection with this dispute?” Senator Perrault replied: : “Honorable senators, that information has not yet been received. An inquiry has gone forward and I shall provide fur- ther information as soon as it is available." School board race unlikely School board elections set for Nov, 19 may be cancelled asa result of lack of interest. Despite the fact that six positions are open throughout District 88 school area no one has come for- ward to challenge any of the incumbent members. _ Three Terrace trusteeships are lo be con- tested as two year terms have expired for Joyce Krause, Nan Harrison and Dennis Brewer. Also to be elected are representatives from New Hazelton, a position currently held by Linda McDonald. Larry Moore's seat in Kitwanga may be contested, and a vacant spot is available in Stewart as the result of the resignation of Terry Freight who has left the area. Despite the fact thal there are no declared candidates other than incumbents, persons wishing to seek election to the board of trustees need only to file nomination papers Monday between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon to have their name placed on the ballot November 19. CIVIC OR SCHOOL BOARD Mayor George Thom plans to seek a third term In office in the coming municipal elections herein Kitimat. Although Monday is officially nomination day, from 10 a.m. to noon, no one has announced or indicated their intention to run against the mayor. Thom notes that he still has agrcat deai to accomplish and would appreciate the op. portunity of finishing many of the projects currently in the works, particularly the ferry service into Kitimat harbor. “Other items high on the mayor's adgenda include live theatre facilities for the city and better recreation facilities. Also up for re-election are aldermen Laurie LeBlanc, Max Patzelft and Fran Buschert plus school board trustees Bev Rodrigo, Hans Brown and Dr. Chee Ling. . Although there are rumours that several Kitimat people are planning to seek office, none have declared their candidacy as yet. Mayor Thom, who is almost certain to be No contest seen in Kitimat acclaimed, currently holds a number of positions as well as being mayor of Kitimaf, He is president of the North Central Municipal Association, which inciuded all municipalities and regional districts north of 100 Mile House, director of the Kitimat. Stikine regional board, Union of B.C.'Municipatities and has been reappointed tothe B.C. and Yukon Advisory the Federal! Board of Development Bank. a director of the Business and rite a ae 7 4 5 ae