PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, June 29, 1978

David Thomson

| Hello,
Broadway

Terrace just might have a budding star
walking its streets. Twenty year old David
Thomson, of Terrace, has recently been ac-
cepted by the National Theatre School in Mon-
treal for a three year course in drama and
drama production.

David is a graduate of the University of Vic-
toria where he studied stagecraft and theatre
history to come out with background and no job
until he came back to Terrace working in other
ends of the career spectrum being a restraun-

er.

_ During "77 David auditioned for the National
Theatre School and had no word on his per-
formance for two months. Then word came back
positive - he was accepted in one of Canada’s top
theatre schools where only 15 French and 15
English speaking students will spend the ’78-'79
calendar year.

Basically the course will have David studying
acting the first year, design and technical in-
formation the second, and production during the
third and final year. :

For eight hours a day David will be adding
AikKedo, fencing and history to his curriculum of

- theatrical training.

_ Out of this school has come some great
Canadian performers - David could be one of the
future stage persons as he has proven himself in
‘several Terrace productions.

Among these were: “Macbeth”, in which he
performed at the Northwest College Summer
Theatre School; ‘“‘Arsenic and Old Lace’, in
Little Theatre, Terrace; “Hisses and’ Kisses”
and “Leaving Home’’. Recently, David put on
“Herringbone”, written by Tom : Cone, which he
entered in the Skeena Drama Festival. A one
man show, “Herringbone” requires the sole
performer to play 14 different characters, and
was his most challenging performance.

David is the son of Donna Thomson, of
Terrace, and Jim Thomson.

National Theatre School is a non-profit in-
stitution, partly supported by the Government of

nada.

BRIEFLY STATED

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal health department has
proposed safety standards to reduce public exposure to
microwave radiation by 90 percent.

The Canadian Press reported erroneously Tuesday that the
department has proposed safely standards on microwave
devices to reduce current public exposure standars.

In fact, federal safety emission standards have éxisted
since 1974 on microwave devices such as ovens,

HULL, Que. (CP) - Jean-Luc Pepinsays his Task Force on
Canadian Unity has not been undermined by constitutional-
amendment proposals introduced in Parllament.

Pepin, co-chairman of the study group, said at the
Richelieu Club on Tuesday that “there are aspects of the
federal system not included in the government bill such as
the redistribution of powers between federal and provincial
governments and other political subjects relevant to unity.”

National unity is more than a political question, Pepin said.

It encompasses social and economic aspects that will be
dealt with in the group's reports.

The first report ia due in September,

The government's constitutional reform package includes
proposals to replace th Senate witha House of Federation, its

. members appointed by federal and provincial governments.
The federal government appoints Senators under the current
system,

The government also proposes reform of the Supreme
Court and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms which would
Include guarantees for the English and French languages.

LONDON (CP) - Response to the Canadian Automobile
Association's CAA Open Road tour, a program which began
last fall, has been slow amd the program:“will require careful
analysis,’” Robert Erb, executive vice-president, told a CAA
board of directors meeting Tuesday. The program, which
got financial support from the federal office of tourlam, sells
planned tours for families travelling by car.

OTTAWA (CP) - Anew 14-cent stamp will be issued Aug. 17
in honor of the centennial of the Canadian National
Exhibition, in Toronto, the post office announced Wednesday.

The stamp shows the allhouette of the Prince's Gate, the
main entrance to the exhibition grounds, and was designed
by. Theo Dimon of Toranto.

KILLARNEY, Ireland (AP - Sean MacBride, Nobel Peace
Prize winner and former Irish Republican Army chief, has
appealed for a cease-fire in the Northern Lreland conflict to
end the ‘savage and relentless” violence. He sald Tuesday
the confllt between Protestants and Catholics has reached a
stalemate after nine years and no one can win. MacBride, 74,
was speaking 900 Americans at a five-day convention of the
Ancleat Order of Hibernlans AOH, an organization of Irish-

erleans, .

BCTF Claims

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PROVINCE HOT PAYING ENOUGH. SO

PROPERTY TAXES INGREASE

VANCOUVER (CP)
Municipal governments,
regional districts and
authoritles funded through

taxes was n«ressary because
the provincial government's
contribution is not sufficient.

The Greater Vancouver

off,” he said in an interview
Tuesday.

“But then it dropped its
contributions to school
boards and everything else

to increase its property tax .
levy by 22.5 per cent because
the provincial government’s
annual grant to the authority
is frozen at too low a level.

property taxes are blaming
the provincial government
for huge property tax in-
creases which have sparked
mass opposition throughout
the province.

The British Columbia
School ‘Trustees Association
says the 15.5-per-cent in-
crease in budget funds from
province-wide property

Regional Hospital District
says it was forced to ask for
a 36-percent increase in
property taxes this year
because the provincial
government's share in
hospital construction is rot
sufficient to meet the
district's commitments:

The B.C. Assessment
Authority says it was forced

*And it’s the -
municipalities who are
getting all the blame," sald
George Ferguson, first vice-
president of the B.C. Union
of Municipalities,

“The province brought in
the new assessment formula
this year and told everyone
the municipalities are better

dependent on property taxes,
forcing them to raise their
levies.”* ;
SHARE INCREASED
B.C. municipalities in-
creased their share of
property taxes by 7.7 per
cent this year to $379 million
from $352 million. ; .
Meanwhile, B.C. schoo

_ share by 16.1 per cent to $19.5

Since California voters
passed a referendum
reducing taxes, B.C, tax-
payers have been in an
uproar over their property
taxes. B.C. Progressive Con-
servative leader Vic
Stephens has called on B.C.
ratepayers to revolt against
the provincial government's
formula for municipal and
school financing and com-
munity meetings have been
held throughout the province
to protest the increases.

boards increased their share
of 1978 taxes by 15.5 per cent
to $498 million from $431
million in 1977; regional
districts increased their

million from $16.8 million;
the hospital districts in-
creased their share by 23.4
per cent to $17.4 million from
$14.1 million and the B.C,
Assessment Authority in-
creased its share by 22.5 per
cent to $13.7 million from
$11.1 million.

B.C. - Alta. gas find could meet Canada’s gas needs
for one hundred years — If the price is right!

CALGARY (CP) - A scientific paper which its author says
might lead to a fundamental change in the energy supply
situation in North America was presented to an international

’ petroleum geclogy conference

y.

John Masters, president of Canadian Hunter Exploration
Ltd, of Calgary, said undreamed of quantities of natural gas
may be found in the so-called Deep Basin of Alberta and
British Columbia. .

Canadian.Hunter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Noranda
Mines Ltd, of Toronto, discovered the Elmworth, with at

least six trillion cubic feet of proved, probable and possible
reserves likely to be found.
26,000 square miles iying immediately east of the Racky
Mountains in north-western Alberta and north-eastern B.C.

Masters told the conference, held in conjunction with the
50th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Petroleum
Geologists, that the Deep Basin may have a resource base in
excess of 400 trillion cubic feet, split about equally between
Alberta and B.C,

The basin has a total area-of

In Vancouver

'

Albert now has about 60 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves

Cops still don’t know how to
pick up a prostitute? —

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Police Chief Don Winterton
said he and Justice Minister
Ron Basford have failed to
agree on whether uniformed
or undercover patrol officers
should be empowered to
arrest prostitutes soliciting
on city streets. .

Winterton told a news
conference following a
meeting Tuesday with
Basford that police are not
completely satisfied with
Criminal Code ammend-
ments introduced May 1
giving power only to un-
dercover officers to arrest
prostitutes.

Under the amendments, he
said, police are forced to
“masquerade as a trick”
(customer) to make a

In brief coremony

arrest, .a unnecessary
practice degrading to offi-
cers,

While he didn’t say he sup-
ported return of vagrancy
laws removed from the
Criminal Code in 1972,
Winterton said he agreed
with laws forbidding loi-
tering for the purpose of
prostitution.

Basford said the vagrancy
section was removed with
approval from all political
parties because it was a
throwback from medieval
times.

He said the government
resists vagrancy laws
because it attacks peaple for
what they are, not for what
they do. : :

»

AMENDMENTS PLANNED

Basford said he ap
preciated the growing
prostitution problems in
major Canadian cities, and
that he hopes the amend-
ments are passed by Parlia-
ment this fall,

The amendments coun-
teract a Supreme Court of
Canada decision Feb. 7 that
prostitutes must vigorously
harass clients before they
can be convicted of
soliciting. The court aiso in-
dicated an unmarked car is
not a public place and
therefore prostitutes can not
be convicted for soliciting
undercover officers in cars.

Basford said he is also
planning amendments which
would cover men who ap-
proach women while looking

Princess Caroline becomes Mrs.

MONTE CARLO (AP) —
Princess Caroline of Monaco
married Paris financier
Philippe Junot in a 15-minute
civil, service in the royal
palace today,

Princess Caroline's hand
shook a little as she signed
the register, said ‘Louis
Roman, president of
Monaco’s state council, who
performed the ceremony.

The ‘civil ceremony took

place in the palace’s small

chapel. Caroline and Junot
will return there Thursday
moming for a Roman
Catholic nuptial mass at-
tended by 100 guests, in-
cluding members of Parisian
society, the international jet
set, ex-royalty and movie
stars. :

The press was barred from

Study shows

both ceremonies ‘as well as
from the pre-nuptial ball at

palace Tuesday night.

ie
i brevity of the guest list,
the absence of members of
reigning royal houses and
the privacy surrounding the
wedding were in contrast to
the 2,000-guest extravaganza
Caroline’s .father,. Prince
Rainier ITE, staged on April
18, 1956, when he married

her mother, American movie .

star Grace Kelly.
OUTFITS BY DIOR

Dior, the Paris fashion
house, designed the wedding
outfits for beth Caroline and
her mother. Designer Marc
Bohan outfitted. the bride in
blue crepe georgette for the
civil ceremony
traditional white for the reli-
gious rite while Princess

and .

Grace was wearing apricot
chiffon today and will wear
yellow crepe georgette
Thursday.

The palace refused to say
where Caroline, 21, and
Junot, 38, were
honeyniooning or what gifts
thelr parents were giving
them. .

It has been common
knowledge that the rulers of
this 370-acre principality on
the French Riviera were
unhappy about their
daughter’s insistence on
marrying 4 commoner 17.
years older than she with a
reputation as a playboy.

. This disapproval has:
melted recently, judging
from Grace’s remarks to
friends. She told one friend
her daughter was happy

for prostitutes.

The change was not in-
cluded, he said, because his
advisers misjudged a ruling
April 18 by. the British
Columbia Court of Appeal.

The court unanimously
upheld a county court
acquittal of Anthony Dudak,
charged with soliciting an
undercover policewoman on
a West End street.

The court ruled a man does
not engage in the act for
money and therefore could
not be convicted of soliciting.

Winterton said Vancouver
citizens are not prepared to
have prostitutes on city
streets disrupting traffic.
Police are trying to deal with
the problem but effective
legislation is the only proper
method of control, he said.

Junot |

“and it’s her happiness that
eounts.”*

Monaco’s police foree of
300 and the 90-man: palace
guard maintained tight
security around the palace to
keep gate crashere out of the
royal ball Tuesday night.

Greek shipping magnate
Stavros Niarchos's Bentley
limousine almost crashed
into one of the police
barricades when
photographers’ flashbulbs
blinded the chauffeur.

The guests included ex-
King Umberto of Italy,
Egyptian Prince Fuad,
Frank Sinatra, David Niven,
Ava Gardner and Cary
Grant, Princess Grace met
Rainier when she and Grant
filmed To Catch a Thief in
Monte Carlo.

Bad vibes at work can harm your Health

Recent work of experts in
the field has cleared the way
for a greater understanding
of how vibration affects the
human body. In a society
which brings man into daily
contact with machinery of
all kinds it is important to

Hartley Bay

It was announced today on
’ behalf of the Honorable Judd
Buchanan, Minister of
Public Works, that J.A.
Stewart Construction Ltd.
has been awarded a contract
for $79,630 to expand the
existing power system‘ at

Hartley Bay, British
‘Columbia.
The successful firm

submitted the lowest of five
bids received in response to
public advertisement, The
‘high bid was $130,000,
Specifications for the
contract, which calls for the

explore the implications of
prolonged exposure to
vibration.

Nearly fifteen years of
research intu the dangers of
vibration to the human body
has resulted in the
publication by the In-

power boost

work to be completed by the
end of December, were
prepared for the Department
of Indian Affairs and, Nor-
thern Development by
Public Works Canada.

The contract calls for the
expansion of the existing
power system by the in-
Stallation of two new
generators and 3-phasing of
a portich of the power line.

The project manager is ° by

MLM. Lambert of the Public

Works Canada’ office in”

Vancouyer.

More missionaries murdered

SALISBURY (AP). —
Milltary officials reported
today that two Roman
Catholic missionairies have
been murdered at a remote
hospital in central Rhodesia.

The report did not say
when the missionaries, both
Germans, were killed. Last
Friday, 12 Britons,
missionairies and members

of their ‘families, were
hacked and clubbed to death
near Rhodesia’s eastern

rder.

The killings of the German
missionaries were reported
by the military and Roman
Catholic authoritles. Names
of the victims were not
released pending notification
of next of kin, .

ternational Organization for
Standardization (ISQ) of
International Standard 2631 -
Guide for the evaluation of
human exposure to whole-
body vibration.

The problems of vibration
are. the concern of ISO
Technical Committee 109
devoted to ‘the study of
mechanical vibration and
shock, Even & quick look
around us suggests that
these problems may be more
common and more severe
than mast of us are likely to
think,

For example, can an
airplane pilot read his in-
struments accurately when
heis subject to vibration and‘
buffeting in turbulent
weather? Is the farmer in
danger of unnecessary
fatigue or of injuring himself
continuous exposure to
the vibration of his tractor?

‘Do vibrations from elevators

or air conditloning equip-
ment do more than annoy
guests in a hotel and cause
the stress of the office
worker?

The ISO guide applies to
whole-body vibration as it
occurs In the transportation
industry (aircraft, boats,
railway trains, autos, .sub-

ways and so forth), the’

manufacturing industry
(floor vibration in heavy
industry), the agricultiwe
and buildings industries

promoting

(tractors, earth-maving
equipment), and homes
(vibration resulting fram
street traffic, for example).

The data contained in the
ISO guide applies chiefly. to
vibrations that are tran-
smitted to the body thraugha

supporting surface: the feet’

of a standing person, the
buttocks of a seated person
or the supporting area of a
relining person. This kind of
vibration is common in
vehicles, in vibrating
buildings and in-the vicinity
of working machinery,

-The guide is proving &x-
tremely useful in assessing
environments in which
vibration is a major element,
and is stimulating the
reporting and critical
evaluation of new findings
about the effects of vibration
on humans. -

The ISO is the specialized
international agency for
standardization. Canada
parliclpates In the work of
ISO Technical Committee
103 and other committees
through the sponsorship of
the Standards Council of
Canada, the national agency
responsible for fostering and
voluntary
standardization in Canada
and ensuring  offective
Canadian participation in
international stan-
dardization work.

ch

and B.C, about eight trillion cubic feet.

He said at today’s prices, 50 trillion cubic feet of the Deep
Basin resources may be economically recoverable. The
price of gas exported to the United States now is $2.16 a
thousand cubic feet and the Alberta border price $1.35 - in
both cases returnitig about $1 to producers after royalties and

daxes.

He said if the new price received by producers were in-
creased to $2 a thousand cubic feet, recoverable reserves in
the basin might reach 150trillion cubic feet, making it the
largest gas accumulation in North America. ;

North America’s largest field now 1s the Milk River field in
southern Alberta with nine trillion cubic feet. ;

Masters said Canada now uses about 1.5 trillion cubic feet a
year, meaning the Deep Basin reserves represent a potential
100-year supply at current consumption rates. .

In the paper and at a news conference at the second day of
the three-day conference, attended by more than 2,00
petroleum geologists from around the world, Masters em-
phasized that these were conservative estimates based on
limited data.

Masters, a petroleum geologist himself, said the Deep
Basin was discovered by applying an unconventional
petroleum geology thesis that the largest gas accumulations
in the Rocky Mountain provinces and states exist in largely-
ignored areas. ;

These areas are known to petroleum geologists as low-
porosity, low-permeabllity sands, usually between 3,000 and
15,000 feet below the surface. Because of these reservoir
characteristles, they are more costly to produce than con-
ventional reserves.

Consequently, only when gas prices have reached a certain
level do these reserves become economically feasible.

- Before the energy crisis in 1973, the price paid to Western
Canadian natural gas producers was as low ag 12 cents a
thousand cubic feet.

Masters said the Deep Basin thesis has already been
proved in developing the San Juan Basin in New Mexico,
which has 25 trillion cubic feet of reserves and whose
petroleum geology is analogous to that of the Milk River and
Deep Basin.

“I¢is not generally appreciated that Weatern Canada is one
of the great hydrocarbon areas of the world,” he said.

Deep Basin could “‘change our total concept of gas supply,
ange the Canadian oil industry, change the energy supply
situation in North America, and improve the economic

, Situation i Caniada;!?

Masters said Canadian Hunter is the largest lease-holder in
the basin with 1.2 million net acres, including 700,000 acres in
Alberts. and 500,000 acres inB.C. Other companies with large

. holdings include Amoco and Texaco.
Masters said the Deep Basin resources have not been in-

cluded in Canadian government reserve estimates and, as a
result, Canada's energy policy, especially relating to natural
gas exports, should be reviewed.

Masters said he hopes the federal government will approve
additional gas exports to the United States as soon as possible
to provide producers with cash flow necessary to develop

Deep Basin and other gas reserves.

OTTAWA (CP) - Bruce Yemen has been appointed
associate editor and Sandy Gardiner managing editor of The
Jourtal, publisher and president L.A. Lalonde announced
Wednesday. Both appointments are effective immediately.

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