LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY; wee eee To panama tae te ViCiwils, bats : | VOY LS Frey ne nt arrerre trier | #61 Volume 72 No, 224 20c Tuesday, November 21, 1078 y a COPPER ALL METALS Location Seal Cove No RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. . we buy MON. - SAT, OPEN TIL 5 p.m. BRASS & BATTERIES Phone 624-5639 y, \. Gordie Tapp here TV show Hee Haw, Ted Taylor from Sight and Sound an Gordie Tapp (left), from the =andO’LynCallahan, concert before Tapp and Callahan pianist demonstrated the performed at the R.E.M. Lee Yamaha organs Monday Theatre later that evening. NDP. elect | head. The provincial con- stituency association of the New Democratic: Party for Skeena elected Terrace resident, Bruce Ferguson, as president at a meeting held recently. Others on the executive for this coming year are Francis Sabine, also from Terrace; Rob Goffinet and Jennifer Davies of Kitimat and representatives from all the NDP Clubs in: Skeena. Plans were made for the nomination convention to be held in Terrace at the Thornhill Community Centre on Saturday, Dec. 9. Ail members in good standing will be eligible to vote for the person to represent the NDP in the next provincial ‘election expected to be held ‘some time in 1979. Anglos on MONTREAL (CP) Premier Rene Levesque said Mondayhe believes Einglish- speaking Quebecers are showing a more — un- derstanding attitude toward the performance of the Parti Quebecois government during its two years in power. Mass suicides follow ambush b GEORGETOWN (AP) — Guyanese soldiers searched through a steaming jungle Monday for hundreds of American religious zealots who fled their remote compound after the suicide- murder deaths of at leqst 409 fellow cultists. Some were shot but most apparently lined up and took doses of cyanide poison mixed in a lub with flavored water, government officials sald, A witness said poison was spoonfed to babies. All were reported to be Americans, with most of . them from California. They perished at about the same time Saturday that en- raged members of the sect attackéd an invesligative _.. _ Sroup led by Representative wnt eeeeett Three people are homeless after their mobile home in Rosswood burned down — early Monday morning, The home belonged to Art Wagner and his wife, Donna. Their 4-month-old baby, Trisha, was also In the home when the fire slarted. Young Trisha was the baby who needed special emergency rations of milk during the recent flooding. . The family was unable to save anything and Art does not even have a winter coat, his wife said. She said they were preparing for bed when FAMILY LOSES to old terms they heard a crackling sound from the roof. At first they thoughl it was the wind but when Wagner realized it was a fire he told his wife to lake the baby to the neighbors. Wagner suffered burn to his eyes and hair when he remained behind to try to save the home but the fire quickly became unmanagable, said Donna Wagner. The family is in need of clothing and baby ar- ticles, like diapers and bottles. Anyone in- terested in assisting the Wagners should contact 635-5721. Former Terrace resident in court BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — Crown prosecutor George Campbell has asked for a 20- 2 our side “T've noticed not so much a political change, but a relatively change toward the ad- ministration of the govern- ment,” the premier told reporters. “I think many English people are realizing that we're trying our best to administrate effectively.” Leo Ryan (Dem. Calif.), killing Ryan and four others at a dirt airstrip. By midafternoon, soldiers reported counting the bodies of 163 women, 138 men and 82 WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. state department official said Monday that US. Kepresentative Leo Ryan, who was killed Saturday ina Guyana jungle camp of an American re- ligious cult, was aware of the perils but was net specifically advised against making the trip. “Tt was proper for us (a feave fo fim the heiee of substantial children, A year jail term for a man who pleaded guilty to two sex of- fences, one involving a girl under 14 and the olher a boy. Robert Westover, 36, of Burnaby, was remanded to Dec. 7 for sentencing when he appeared in provincial court Friday. Westover had previously lived in Terrace, B.C. Campbell said both a doctor and a probation of- ficer who interviewed Westover agreed that any remorse he felt was only for his own condition. police spokesman said later the toll was 409 as the terrible task continued at the settlement in this small South American ‘country tucked below Begin agrees. JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin wants to turn back the clock in negotiations with Egypt and is ready to accept a U.S.- sponsored draft of the peace treaty that his government rejected four weeks ago, sources said Monday. . The sources said Begin is prepared to accept a vaguelyworded clause linking the treaty to the development of Palestinian self-government on the WesL Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, both Israeli-occupied territories. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in a television interview Monday that he is willing to meet again in a summit with Begin to resolve the remaining problems over a peace treaty. In the interview, filmed Saturday. at Sadat's residence outside Cairo, the Egyptian leader said, however, he would insist that the final treaty be signed with Begin “‘on the top of Mount Sinai, on my land" and that he would refuse to go to Jeruslaem again. “Thave already gone there once and I'm not going to slart again,’ Sadat said. “But Lam ready to meet Mr. Begin anywhere else." Sadat also insisted that no peace trealy would be signed Venezuela. He said bodies still were being found, ° Also found in the fields, huts and communal dor- mitories were 17 shotguns, 14 rifles, seven pistols, a flare that failed lo deal with the Palestinian preblem. “If Gaza and the West Bank are not treated in an over-all settlement, no one should count on us to con- clude peace,” he said. ‘‘It Is serious because it is a point of fundamental principle." Sadat said he had received a personal message fram President Carter dealing with the status of Jerusalem, which he said was “quite satisfactory.” . World ends this winter PASPEBIAC, Que. (CP) — Sixteen people have settled into this remote area of the Gaspe peninsula to wait for the end of the world—and they believe it will come this winter. The five men and 11 women, aged between 18 and 31, are the remnant of a group of 29 who installed themselves earlier this year in a hand-built log house, near a mountain they call the “mountain of the eternal." The remaining 13 un- believers have apparently given up the vigil in the wilderness, about 500 kilometres northeast of Que- bee City. gun and large amounts of ammunition, government officials said. By dark, police and soldiers had found only 12 survivors from among the UP THREE CENTS Mail will OTTAWA (CP) — The cost of first-class mail will rise to 7 from 14 cenls an ounce along with other postal rates next April 1, Postmaster- General Gilles Lamontagne announced Monday. Opposition MPs whistled when the minister made his announcement in _ the Commons and later criticized the minister's running of the department. Walter Dinsdale, Progressive Conservative postal critic, said the an- nouncement will do nothing to enhance the tarnished reputation of the. post office and probably will hurt it. “Asking this postmaster- general to run the depart- ment ig like asking Evil Knievel to park your car, ” shouted John Rodriguez (NDP—Nickle Belt). The minister aiso an- nounced that an agreement has been reached with State Secretary John Roberts under secretary's department will subsidize losses suffered by the post office on second class: = mail—such as publications. He gave no details of the agreement, other than to say that the stale secretary will set postal rates. The minister said there ' will “be? no subsidy to publications but com- pensation to the post office for losses incurred through any government policy to assist publications in their mailing costs. Opposition Leader Joe Clark expressed concern because there was no in- dication in the minister's announcement to which publications would be helped by the new policy. Clark said the an- nouncement was alarming and has implications of censorship. A later announcement from Roberts said his department will set rates for “certain categories of mail affecting periodicals, books and records.”’ The new policy would provide the opportunity to consider alternative ways of ensuring Lhat ‘these kinds of cultural products are sup- ported,” “This agreement serves to recognize formally the need for special postal rates for publishers and other culturally-related categories of mailand permits us to co- ordinate postal rate policies with the government's over- all cultural abjectives. ' Opposition spokesmen, in- cluding Clark, David MacDonald (PC—Egmont) and T. C, Douglas (NDP— Nanaimo-Cowichan-The Islands) expressed concern that the state secretary might pick and choose which periodicals to give a postage break ta, estimated 500 to 900 who had fled into the bush. Charles Kraus, a reporter for the Washington Post who was with the Ryan party Saturday but escaped death, which .the state. show’ t more OTTAWA — (CP) Consumers may have to face some oil-price in- crease early next year, even if not a full three cents a gallon, as a result of current negotiations between the federal government and Alberta. Federal Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie says that as far as he is concerned it is “all or nothing” in talks with the province on federal proposals to skip a Jan, 1 increase of $1 a barrel in the price of crude gil. But federal officials say privately that at some point in the talks it may become necessary to accept a compromise on price, something between nothing and the $1 figure negotiated 18 months ago. It also is possible, they say, that the ministers will negotiate a longer- term deal, covering further increases in later imenths. ; ee OIL PRICE AIKE LIKELY A $1-a-barrel increase in crude prices Jan. 1 would result in about an additional three cents a gallon on the cost of gasoline or home-heating oil when it passes through the system to consumers by March 1, The federal govern- ment failed last week to garner support from the other provinces for its proposal to cance] the next price increase. General reaction from the provinces is that a deal is a deal and Ottawa should let the increase go ahead. The price decision now will be negotiated bet- ween the federal and Alberta governments in talks expected to resume in early December. A central issue in those discussions will be what value to place on the beleagured Canadian dollar when comparing prices here and in the United States. Hospital strike is at a stalemate EDMONTON (CP) — it is up to the provincial govern- ment todetermine how much longer a strike by Alberta health-care workers will drag on, a union spokesman said Monday. About 2,300 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) walked off their jobs last week at hositals and nursing homes in several centres across the province. Bill Petrie, CUPE health care co-ordinator, said the union has requested the government to intervene in the strike which spread to two more centres Monday after weekend mediation talks with the Alberta Hos- pital Association (AHA} failed. The union's last contract, for one year, expired March 31, The major issue in the dispute is wages. Six health-care institutions in Calgary were struck Monday by about 1,500 CUPE members while 25 workers left their jobs the same day at SL. John's Hos- pital in Edson, Alta.. Union members include clerical, dietary, kitchen and maintenance staff. The employees who walked out Monday joined support staff already off the job at four Red Deer in- stitutions, three Edmonton institutions, where workers are into their second v-eek of picketing, and in Fort Mc- Murray and Innisfail. Refugees rescued PORT KLANG, Malaysia AP -- The first of 2,500 refugees from Vietnam will leave the crowded freighter Hai Hong in a couple of days and fly to eight Western countries including Canada and the United States, in- formed sources said Mon- day. ; They said agreement was reached among Canadian, French, U.S. and Belgian diplomats, the UN High Commisioner for Refugees representatitives and Malaysian foreign ministry officials on allowing the refugees, most of whom are ethnic Chinese, to leave Malaysia. Canada has promised to take about 600, y cultists was in a pool of journalists permitted to return to Jonestown with government forces Monday. He said Jones had been shot in the head and was one was aware there could be dangers wheiher to make the visit and the arrangements for doing so," said John Bushnell, head of a special department force on the Jonestown camp massacre. Ityan, u California Democrat, and four other Americans were killed at the People's Temple camp. Subsequently, 300 lo 4u0 men, women and children, many of whom were reported to. have lined up for doses of poison, were found dead, LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AL) - Itev.; Jim Jones, head of the People's Temple religious cult, was seriously ill and had promised to enter a hospital for tests after U.S. Hepresentalive Leo Ryan's Jones Guyana's = information minister said, Leader was disturbed visit lo his settlement in Guyana last weekend, In Copenhagen, Denmark, a Danish psycholopist: who recently visited Guyana said appeared to be mentally disturbed. Ryan's top aide later said the state department failed to give the congrcssman adequate warning of danger before the trip. Hushnell told reporters here al a briefing: We do have reports from Guyanese authorities thal a suicide pact was implemented and also that some people tled." Describing the evenls as “a great calamily,”’ he said U.S. consular officials had visited the camp periodically and did not find anyone being held against his will, All the residents were understood to be US. citizens. Bushnell, deputy assistant state secretary for Latin America, said none of the U.S. officials who had visited the camp in the past had been molested. of the few to die from a bullet wound, Jones's body, clothed in black pants and a colored casual shirt, was on a slage of the communal meeting hall, Kraus said. Scores of bodies were packed in (“2 hall, a round pavilion about 40 metres in diameter with a roof but no walls, he said, and other bodies were in clusters outside the hall, many with their arms around one an- other. Government investigators told reporters Jones ap- parently had shot himself. They said most of the dead apparently drank the fruit- flavored water spiked with cyanide but it appeared some had poison injected in their veins while infants were fed the deadly doses.