7 - iterala Blatt Writer “TERRACE John McNish, a longtime ‘* reaident of the B.C. northwest, ‘announced “today that he is ‘seeking: the federal > Progressive Conservative ‘nomination | ‘in ‘the riding of Skeena, ' MeNish, 51, has been. a member. of the’. PC. party for many years, sind is currently. fy ‘ithe president of the’ Skeena Progressive © « Conservative riding association. : : ‘One of his highlights of his long affiliation. — * with the party was the active role he took in. . Presenting the case-for the new: Ridley. «Island grain - terminal to: the. Clark, - government in 1979.’ . -Marrled and the father. of six. aduit , children, McNish has lived and worked in , Prince Rupert for the past 18 years and is _ the manager of the credit bureau. in Prince. Rupert, , He was born. in Smithers, aud lived for _, tlttee-years in ‘Terrace where ha was a‘' “director of the Chamber of Commerce and — _ the Rotary Club.: _ Since moving ‘to Prince ‘Ripert, ‘NoNish , “has” ‘participated in several community * organizations, . Most recently, he wae the presideni of the’ * "Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce. : He has also been’ president of the Prince” ' Rupert Rotary Club, the Association for the - “Mentally Retarded, and the idinor Baseball « “and Basketball Associations; .° - _ MeNish says he is Bleased that there | Bre - now three people seeking the .PC . nomination’ in Skeetia, ‘and that. a record a" of party memberships are: ‘being’ sold. ; nomination shows afi increasing interest in goverament: “OF Canada.” 3: “Hei says’ that: ‘the “eampalgn ‘for ‘the : ‘ndmination wil give the candidate a much . better iiderstanding of Skeena and the’, | jasues that face us." an * MeNish’ says that no matter: who: is the . “ guccesstul ‘éandidate on ‘April:7, Skeena PC. : “. members will unite behind that person and * work! hard at-sending: him: to Ottawa as a ; “. new member of.the-Brian Mulroney team... Although the PC's have done poorly atthe: polls in . Bkeena™:in’ the |. now. conservatives.can win this Tiding. : He said: of the NDP; "I believe the people . ‘of. Skeena’ want 4. change in government ‘ and I think. they know’ that, voting for-a party that has only 31. of 262'seats is not the. -- way -to. get ‘strong -Fepresentation' in . Oltawa.”* .” ~ ‘McNish says’ that ‘Skeena needs federal . ~-commitments’in the’ fishing, forestry and “omnibing; ‘Sectors to- improve* ‘the’ ‘general + ecohomicécene arid reduce unemployment. oa -“T belleve the people in our riding will not , be satisfjed ‘with ‘the ‘representation they ere getting now for another four or five ” “McNish wall ‘ick. ‘olf. his’ nomination ; * campaign with'a meéting for members and _ supporters at the Prince Rupert Civic ~ Centre, Eagle Room, tonight, . ‘He. will. be visiting ‘other“areas of ‘the : - riding during. the néxt:two months. ..For more information phone 624-20). Prairie weather: mild: CALGARY. (CP) — The mild weather in “Alberta and Saskatchewan should not kurt farmera unless it is followed by a lack of ‘Spring rains, say agriculture officials, — | Temperatures on the Prairies have ‘remained well above zero since date ‘January, with. little snow. ; ' Soil-moisture levels are slightly lower. ‘than normal, but analysts say it will have little effect unless there is a dry spell during the crucial planting period, — - Ted O'Brien, drought analyst with the Regina-based Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Association, said most Saskatchewan ‘reservoirs are at normal levels, but the laék of snow in the south points to a lower / ‘spring runoff, ‘ Crop scientist Brian Fowler sald winter whéat in many parts of - Saskatchewan - needs more snow to protect it froin cold «weather later this winter. * ‘Fowler said winter wheat seeded into’ ‘stubble came through the ‘pre-Christmas ~ ‘eold spell, but the warm weather has “deere "uinirtiee” fallow ‘land"has "beéh ‘killéd this’ ° ‘year because of lack of snow cover. Southern Alberta, fanned by warm. chincok winds, is also dry, “but ‘it's a: bit early for serious concern yet,” said Conrad Gietz, agro-meteorologist with the Alberta Agriculture Department. Farmers should start to worry if the dry spell persists into late April, when early pastures come into use, or May, when crop seeding starts in earnest, he said. . _ Winter wheat and rye crops are under a more immediate threat. Snow cover, which _ protects the crops planted last fall, has melted in many. places, exposing plants to damage if there should be a sudden cold . snap. — _ Peggy LeSueur-Brymer, information analyst for the Alberta Wheat Pool, said the threat of winter kill remains until late: February. a “The eritical period is still to come,” she sald. . Only a small fraetion of ‘Saskatchewan ~faemiland is seeded for winter crops. But Dan Schmiesser, Saskatchewan. Wheat Pool research analyst, said. a frost could devastate individual farm operations. The warm spell is a ‘mixed*blessing for | wildlife, said Bruce Leeson, an en- vironmental and ecological researcher with Parks Canada, Game animals, such 4s deer and elk, will find the foraging easier in the warm weather, With less snow, they can range — more freely and more fodder is exposed, he said. ; ‘Those in hibernation, such as ground squirrels and bears, may wake up, but likely won't roam because. the types of vegetation they eat still won't be available. “They'd sort of “raise the blind, ‘look around and go. back to bed, * said Leeson. snow cover in:many-areas. He! <> But smaller mammals, ‘teluding’ field - ‘badd! much af the wihter ‘witat’ sedtied oi?" ‘mice and ‘a migiise-like, ‘egeature éalied a Vole; could be thifeatened: "They live above - the frozen ground during the winter, burrowing in the insulating show. Without snow cover, they could freeze, he said. Some plant life is sprouting, but Leeson sald the threat of damage is small unless the warm. weather is followed by a severe ‘cold snap. However, the pores of some trees, mainly evergreens, have opened, releasing their moisture, and the roots underground. can’t replenish them. As a result, he said some - branches could dry up and die. - Leeson played down suggestions that a . lack of snow could affect spring runoff and water levels in streams and rivers, He said most of the runoff in Alberta comes from “high mountain areas where snow {fs still plentiful. Prairie waterway levels depend more on spring rainfall for their water levels, . Solidarity leaders. fearful VANCOUVER (CP) — British Colum- bia’s top union leaders were always afraid ofa general strike and were dragged réluctantly into last November's public sector work stoppages by. grass-roots ac- tivism; says history professor Bryan Palmer. Palmer and Mike Kramer, secretary- treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labor, | squared off Tuesday at Simon Fraser. University, speaking on a panel examining the two-week strike, Kramer said sanity. prevailed when . leaders of Operation Solidarity, the trade union alliance, called off the unprecedented program of escalating strike. action: they launched against the’ Social Credit government’s restraint measures. “I dit not believe that we could put it together as well we did... we were feeding off each other,” said Kramer. “And we goddamn near had a rumble in this province. “But sanity set in. We are elected by the memberships we cerve.... .. and. in... discussions with our members they- said cliff.'” . ; Kramer was defending the move ta end ° the strike following the B.C. Government ” -Employees Union contract settlerient,-and to send International Woodworkers, of America president Jack Munro to Kelowna ‘to meet with Premier Bill Bennett and alga, a deal already drafted in Vancouver.’ DIFFERENT VIEW Palmer, who specializes in labor history, saw things differently. “In B.C. between July 7 and Nov, 15 we saw massive mobilization, but we saw no leadership. We saw labor's triumvirate of {federation president Art) Kube, Kramer: and Munro . . . tail the mobilization that began outside of their control and escalated to the point that they grew m, fen and afraid. an oe “in actimate of vicious Socred restraint, labor's leadership was itself restrained rather than combative. Only after the Communist parly.and a broad left alliance of women's groups, gays and.rank-and-file workers and citizens ... . formed the Lower Mainland Anti-budget Coalition Operation Solidarity begin.’ Palmer said ‘the federation leaders were — uncomfortable with Solidarity’s .momen- tum: “As the movement progressed for- ward, it was shocking how much restraint was ‘forthcoming from that labor hierar- ch LE Palmer said labor’s leaders didn't want a mass : action and weren’t prepared to “unleash the forces of class anger evident . in the days of October and November.” — TOO COSTLY Kramer sald operation Solidarity would have faced unbearable legal costs had it - carried on with the strike program. “We ivere in a situation where we were we'll go with you, but don’t draw us over the. " going to be the meat, in the grinder for the. - courts’ ‘and the LRB (Labor Relations Board). They weren’t: going: to put trade. ”“wnfons in dail but they. were going to bleed our coffers . i and more fines. Palmer criticized Operation ‘Solidarity for using education workers - a group with |: ' + little atrike experience — as the first wave in the escalating general strike. 7 Kranier said the, “teachers asked _thebegtthey weren’t forced,” “The road to Kelowna was paved with labor bureaucrats and mandarins : geurryirig for a resolution,” he said. the:.party:, -that. will form. the. next. o ip “paat’.two | “ Blections,, MeNish’ is confident that the: 2 I picketing has idled’ nearly: 4,000 workers at the two | RAILWAY LAYOFFS: “| four customers come in on Saturdays “but there Was n south - i “VANCOUVER. (cP). — “Brille Columbia forest products companies \ will be lined up at the B.C. Labor ‘Relations. Board ‘this. week as they altempt to win > injunctions prohibiting costly secondary picketing by locked out pulp.and paper workers.- -. At least éight sawmills have closed since the pulp \ and paper induatty locked out 12,700 members of two ” unlons last -Thurgay in’an: ‘effort lo bring the unions back to. the bargaining. table. -. ‘The 5,500sniember. Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers ., of Canada and the Canadian Paperworkers Union, . representing 7,200 ' workers, have been -withoat ~ contracts since June 30. They insist they won't meel “with the: industry béfore Feb. 15. Hardest hit by the lockout, which will mean a direct — loss of $10, million ‘in. production and wages and an - indirect loss possibly, triple that, is Mackenzie, a one- . industry*town of 5;800 in north-central B.C, More than’ 200 members ‘of the Paperworkers union were’ locked out: ‘at: the. ‘B.C. Forest Products and ° Finlay - Forest. “Products pulp ‘mills, Secondary companies’, sawmills. a - Finlay “Forest Products was before: the ‘poard “Tuesday, as was B.C. Forest Products, seeking an, | injunction to: ‘Prohibit’ secondary picketing of its sawmill.’ at Crafton, on “Vancouver Island. Other .. _ hearings are scheduled for later in the week. Sawmills in Castlegar. ‘and Port Alberni algo ‘are idle after steam from ‘adjoining pulp mills wag cut off. The steam is needed. to power part of the sawmill opetations. “Meantime, B. C. mating | has dropped three four- - man yard crews in Prince George, two in Mackenzie « and one in Williams, Lake because of reduced pulp” ; shipments. Al company spokesman said he i is not sure how many: jobs. will actually be lost because of a. complicated seniority system that allows the crews to bump junior employees. ° - “It probably means that some part: -lime workers. won't’ be called in,” said Jerry Collins. “But if this . thing (lockout) goes on for a ‘while, lumber shipments could be affected. Itcan only get worse from our point of view.” In Prince Rupert, where 450 pulp. and: paper workers. were locked out at BC Timber, city council voted’ Monday’ night to send a letter to Forests Minister Tom Waterland and Labor Minister Bob McClelland .urging the government to order the two sides back to work during a cooling-off period. © Ald. Dave Cook said the shutdown is “‘a blow to the ‘economy of the. city that we just cannot tolerate." In -Prince George,. ‘Chamber of Commerce | president Rick Ingram said, is city will begin to feel “ the pinch soon. . Tngram, who owns 4 todd. ‘equipment company thal, ; supplies logging camps, said he usually has three or nobody last weekend."’: ve * “1 know business in. the Aupply and transportation ; sector j is feeling it] he said, ; “years, questioned by the Ontario College of ‘Physicians and Surgeons says he is being harassed ‘for using. unor- thadox treatments, Dr. Gerald Green said in’ interview that .other an doctors across Canada also are being hounded by their '- colleagues for using un-- conventional and drugless __ therapies. Green, who has practised . “lifestyle, nutritional and preventive medicine” for 11 said two doctors _ entered his -office Nov, 22 and performed a ''Gestapo- like’ investigation. . Green, ‘who admitted having a “running batlle'” with the college for years, The Herald; Wecnestay, Fobrua 8 1984 Pages. f Doctor: claims Fevrasomont 1 TORONTO (CP) — A. Toronto doctor whose files - were seized and employees vestigated or respond to his. charges, saying the matter: must be resolved before he = “can legally comment. Green sald his associate, Dr, John Young, was “mercilessly” interrogated and quit as a-result. His secretary was also questioned, he said. - But Young, who describes his practice as traditional, denied ‘in an interview he had quilt . over the questioning. RAISES FEES Green. said he has raised his examination fee and six- month series of treatments ' to $600 From $485, a cost not covered by the . Ontario Health Insurance Plan.: The additional money is needed for legal fees and compensation . for time ' plaint against the doctors ta’ . the * Michael Dixon, -. Dixon would not. confirm . Green. was did. . , We were going | to face, fines - OTTAWA ( (CP) — Consumers s and the economy are being hurt by government -imposed import quotas and excessive ; regulation of the transportation industry; says the govern- ment’s chief corporate watchdog, . The annual report ‘of Lawson Hunter, director of in-~ vestigation and research for the Consumer and Corporate Affairs Department,‘also warns the supermarket chains he is keeping a close watch on the. buying groups they have . formed’ to determine’ whether consumers and smaller businesses are being hurt. Hunter’s report, which provides an annual assessment of the state of, competition | in ‘the country, was tabled in Parliament this week, : Although there are. indications of “a slight tendency" , toward lower concentration levels within Canadian in- dustries, the change is too small to suggest competition is © on the increase or that fears of excessive concentration are. unjustified, the report says. One of. the best. ways of sustaining keen competition within the marketplace i is to ensure free trade exlels with other. countries, the report say8.° | .::.° “When free.trade prevails, domestic firms must. take the... degree of impor! competition into account in their business conduct. To the extent that tariff and non-tariff. barriers _ exist, firms may be insulated from the competitive pressiire of imports, This can result in higher prices and a reduced range of consumer choice for products.’ ” QUOTAS IMPOSED a - Domestic examples of trade impediments cited by Hunter include’ restrictions imposed. : by the federal government on the import of clothing and leather footwear. ‘The restrictions are designed largely to protect jobs, especially in Quebec, within these two sectors. The result is that lower-priced imports, mainly. from Asia, are not — allowed to flood the market, “squeezing out domestic products. In the end, consumers pay more to. fave jobs for a short time, Hunter says. . : The report stresses the need for an rafficient transporlatio: system to increase the competitiveness ‘of businesses. Hunter does not identify specific'examples of what he calls “unnecessary economic regulation”. in, the tran- sportation sector but says significant changes. are needed in the rules governing airlines, ocean shipping, inter-city trucking and rail freight. . ar Hunter says his department is: closely studying the im- . Pact buying groups, especially in the food industry, are ‘having on the consumer and industry: in general. For example, the competing “supermarket, chains of Dominion Stores Ltd. and Steinberg, Inc: have formed a - joint operation called Volume One . to purchase goods for their stores. " Such large ‘buying groups: havé the poteattial to lessen. competition both at the retail ‘and wholesale level, the report warns. .The government is expected to introduce a new com- petition act this month. Previous‘ attempts: in the past ’ décade to change the current legislation, the Combines Investigation Act, have been unsuccessful, largely because of opposition from business." Sauve progressing Palmer also criticized the private-sector - Union leadership — especially those. with a ’ legal right to strike like the forest unions — for not becoming. moré Involved in the . " Golldarity mobilization. OTTAWA (CP) _ | overnar-getieraldesigaate Jeanne Sauve continues to make “very, very good progress" in her fight against a respiratory ailment that has kept her in haspital for twa,weeks, a spokesman for Ottawa General Hospital said today. "The doctors are very, very satisfied with the progress so far,” Claude Dufault said in an interview. designed by the Cubans for - Spent fighting the college, he said, “Doctors in the U.S. are charging $20,000" for similar treatments.” The - two investigating doctors returned twice to has. made a formal com- college’s _ registrar, being = in- Proposal studied ‘EDMONTON (CP) — Prospects for a red meat stabilization program depend in part on how much sipport the proposal gathers at a meeting of agriculture ministers in Ottawa on Thursday, says federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan. Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta have agreed in principle on how to stabilize the income bf beef and hog producers. But other provinces have to show support or chances of ' establishing a program this year will be dim, Whelan told the annual meeting of Canadian Federation of Agriculture - on Tuesday, Tf the proposal fails, the only alternatives are a wide-open _ free market or supply management, Whelan said. Thursday’s meeting is not a make-or-break session, Alberta Agriculture Minister LeRoy Fjordbotten said later. But adoption of national red meat stabilization program sometime this year is important. THREATEN PROGRAM ' He said establishing the program would be a big- step in -- checking the continued balkanization of: the country’s agriculture industry. Fjordbotien said Ontario’s new beef industry plans threaten the stabilization program and Quebec's recent decision to set up ‘its own meat grading system is “ex- presaly intended to limit our sales of beef in Quebec.” The Quebec market takes 38 per cent of Alberta's beef. . The balkanization started with some provinces’ attempts “: in the 1970s to become self-sufficient in certain areas of » farm) reduction and has A de spread | like a disease, Fjordbotten a) dey aid: Pea mh «lWhab-we're’ seeitig ini Canada i is a continuing breakdown - of a united, cohesive action -in our national agriculture industry.” Fjordbotten said a meat-stabilization plan will have to Re te De include a limit on how much income assurance provincial - and federal governments can offer, despite the federation’s decision earlier Tuesday that provinces should be free to supplement stabilization benefits, Meanwhile, Whelan hinted there is little hope for a major ‘expansion of loan money available from the Crown-owned . Farm Credit Corp. FARM DEBT GROWS Farm debt has grown to the point where more than half the FCC's loans in 1983 — a total of about $735 million — are going -to refinance existing debt, Whelan said. Credit i is “a vital concern” but more borrowing won't solve problems created by low farm prices, Whelan during a‘ question period, ’ "No way can you finance a poor marketing system just by loaning, Idaning,-loaning money.” ~ -He said if his department had money to spare it would be better spent on research. Agriculture ‘Canada pays for about half of all the agricultural research in the country at a cost of more than $200 million a year, Whelan sald in a table-thumping challenge to private business, ‘Whelan spoke. hours after delegates approved a , statement asking Ottawa to restore the FCC to its former role as (he major source of long-term farm loans. Airport blessed BRIDGETOWN, —Barb- ados (Reuter) — U.S. State Secretary George Shultz has given his blessing to an airport on Grenada that was started by the Cubans, called a strategic threat by President Reagan and may he completed by the United States, Dyring «a day when he- raised the Stars and Stripes « over Grenada’s first U.S. Embassy and watched ° American skydivers per- form at ,the island's Independence Day, Shultz He said a study of the project is circulating in the Reagan administration's Office of Management. his office, asking questions and removing charts, Green said, Although. they ; ‘were not © legally’ required - ‘ta. explain their presence, they mentioned that a patient had complained about his | use of stress elec- trocardiograms. Green: said the doctors questioned him ‘about “everything and anything,” including office procedures, — how treatments were done and emergency drugs he : had available. The college, the licensing and regulatory board of Ontario doctors, has: the legal right to enter any doctor's office and seize : files, charts, or any other items it chooses. ‘LAY COMPLAINT A complaint can be laid by a patient, police, another physician or other sources, Dixon said: If a complaint is ‘substantiated, the charge health, not medical - protectionism, Dr. Lowell -. Loewen, | " covered laid professional “We're is usually one of _ misconduct. all: for in+ novation,” said Dixon. “As. . _ long as patients are aware of ail the potential risks in . trying an unproven. treat-— ment, it is the patient who is -the final arbiter in the decision.” Registrars from colleges in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, where several practitioners using . un- conventional therapies have lost their licences, said the issue ‘involved is public deputy registrar of ihe Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, said terms such as holistic or preventive are gimmicks to attract gullible patients to untried and often ex- pensive treatments not by health care plans. . provincial ab Ie stop ony CNRAIL _Appeiment, J. Alan ‘Hermanson Ross A. Walker, vite: president, CN Rail’s Moun- tain Region, Edmonton, announces the appointment of Allan Hermanson to the position of regional manager, _planaing and administration. In his new position Mr. Her- manson will be responsible lor regional planning, capital budgets, research services, administrative services and merchandise claims and. prevention services. In his broadened role, he will bring into focus all such projects and programs which generally cress functional lines. Mr. Hermanson will continue to be located In Edmonton, at CN Rail’s regional head- quarters. _ The: Bavarian Inn Presents said the airport. would be used for tourism rather than as a base for military operations. 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