' Piper is not taking

‘IClear and sunny skles,
The weekend is going to

_ VOLUME 71 NO. 74

Price: 20 cents

“the almost the same.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1977 "]

Weather —

, (Thursday: High 34
ed Low 18
| Friday: High 33
: Low 16

- Thornhill Volunteers . Fire Department and Thornhill Volunteer without the other. Some of the volunteers at the fire hall are (left to right)
Firefightera are two different énthiles, although one. would. mot exist Claude Mercereau, Keith Alexander, Marty Nathanson and Dave Gale.

- gypman ones”

eer

district.
’ The Thornhill. Volunteer

. Firefighters have responded

to three big fires outside the
district and they have taken
thelr own equipment with
them. But the property of
Thornhill has remained at
the hall.

-~. Thursday night practices

ceptre around the important

‘repair work at the hall |

‘because Fire Chief Jim.
any
chances in the hot weather.
People wanting to burn

' down old buildings will have

to wait until the tem-
‘perature cools off.

. “We aren't like Terrace,”
Piper says, “We can’t go to.
‘a. commercial outlet for
repairs... We have to do that
ourselves.” oe
At the moment the
firefighters own tanker is in.
constant need of repaira. It

is a 1052:truck and there is .

diffleulty ‘getting parts for

it. an
” The No. 1 firetruck is a

1952 vehicle and aside from
the same problems as the
tanker when breakdowns:
occur it is hauling 550
-gallons of water when. it

ould only be hauling 200
gallons. ” an
a. “We

need . a - new
firetruck,” says Piper. “I

erald staftwriter . im
~ Department has been lucky

this hot summer; it has not .

had‘a. single fire within its

et

- Volunteer fireman Marty

Nathanson demonstrates ©

the Scott Air-Pak, an im-
portant piece of firefighting
equipment. Among the
equipment needed by the

fire department is more

pas, os.

hope the residents here will -
Tealize that when we go to | -

referendum...With what we

7 «6the insurance un

Front page feature _

- Volunteers on alert for fire

* . ‘unemployment rates is to be

have presently we' would

@ have real trouble if_. there
are Hee

e ‘November. referen-

dum will be to-get more

equipment, such as -bigger

B -hoses and additional Scott
' Air-Paks which the firemen

use when they enter a
burning building. .
According , to | Marty
Nathanson, a volunteer who
lives at the fire hall, they
‘are similar to diving
equipment.
“We have three at the
moment which means that
we can only take on hoge
inside a burning
‘Another important reason
for residents to support the
referendum is fire in-
surance. Because of te age
of the No. 1 truck it is not
iiethg att
irefig eq ent by
' erwriters.
:. Thornhill residents are

"paying more for insurance

ause only one fire truck
Is legally considered tobe

: .. equipment, even though
| there are-two firetrucks.

The volunteer’ fire
‘department ~ and. the
vo

unteer firefighters. are
two different entities...

According

“had no experience and the

_ other half join fire depart--

ments as — volunteers
- wherever they live, ~

building.”

to Nathanson,
‘half of the volunteers -have — .
», «Fire Chief Jim Piper is well known ag the leader of fire

equipment repairs. The volunteers’ awn tanker started
falling apart at the Kalum Lake Drive fire and Piper
decided the repair work could not be put off any longer.

UIC AND. MANPOWER JOIN

CERSLAT IVE

CONFE\Mi<0€! o ae

| —_— =

Premiers ur
- cut in taxes.
Jobless figures ES
remain too high _

By ALLAN DICKIE
ST. ANDREWS, N.B. CP - Canada’s 10 premiers
3 Thursday suggested the federal government cut taxes

Li BRAQx 7

e

am to improve consumer purchasing power andhelpbattle =
‘ unemployment. a

By ALLAN DICKIE
ST. ANDREWS, N.BE.
(CP) — Canada’s - 10
premiers Thursday
Suggested the federal
overnment cut taxes to

Improve consumer pur- ~

chasing power and help
battle unemployment.

The premiers also
suggested action to ‘ensure
that housing construction is
speeded up, either through
tax measures, accelerated
government procedures or
increased funding.”

In a communique issued
shortly before midnight,
Atlantic time, the premiers
agreed that “unemployment
in Canada at its present
level is unacceptable.”

“The provincial leaders,
who are scheduled to wind
up the formal part of their

. annual conference today,

said etic coeeneicy con
uin unemploymen
rates for at least the next 18
months were a source of
great concern.

They agreed that both
shortand long-term
‘measures are needed if a
significant reduction of

givable capital loan fund as
a third short-term measure.

Commenting -on the |

federal government's

economic planning, —

Saskatchewam Premier

Allan. Blakeney said that

“we did feel there was
certainly a lack of national
focus.” .

Election
talk anew

OTTAWA (CP). —
Renewed efforts to convince

Liberal Prime Minister .

Trudeau to: call a fall
election were in the works
Thursday. ;
Two .days before
Trudeau's return from a
vacation with his children,
top Liberal party strategists
met here privately to drum
up fresh arguments for an
election hefore Christmas.
Trudeau is reportedly one
of the last of the reluctant
Liberals to be persuaded
that an election Is needed
before next spring. _
Party planners have
failed in other recent at-
tempts ‘to twist Trudeau's
arm and this next try should

- be one of the last, insiders

say.

, pressed

Premiers such as Bill,“
Bennett of British Columbia :
and William Davis of On- ;
tario insist that French- —

Canadians already

“have that right.

“We never look at anyone
coming into Ontario from
‘another- province as
anything but another
Canadian, ’” Davis said..

" Levesque said negotiated
agreements amon

provinees was not new an

that his government was
epared to be flexible in

' that some provinces might

have more difficulty than
others in setting up ch

programs,

id he‘ was
“disturbed arfd dismayed”
at Levesque’s proposal, |
touched off a heated ox-
change between the
Saskatchewan and Quebec
premiers during an af-
ternoon closed-door session.

Blakeney said it was “‘not
an argument or a dispute”
but Levesque called it “‘a
pretty vigorous exchange.”

The Saskatchewan
premier admitted when
by rej s that he
y be misinterpreting
ue's..

_ A- position paper on
lan alge eet which
(

matter further when the
premiers meet again today,

aque 8. Jan guag.
nro pods wand sald Be woe
prepared to discuss the

PARKS |
_ PEOPLE
ANGRY

TORONTO (CP) — The

board of directors of the .

Canadian Parks and

‘Recreation Association has

called for the resignation of
Iona Campagnolo,: federal
minister of state for fitness
and amateur sport.

A statement Thursday by
association president W.R.
Green said Mrs. Cam-
pagnolo has not demon-
strated sufficient concern
‘and attention for recreation.

Aresolution passed by the
association at its annual
meeing said there has been
a decline in the quantity and
quality of recreation-related

programs run by the -

department of national
health and welfare, under
‘which Mrs. Campagnolo’s
lministry. operates.

- ‘The ‘Ottawa-based, non-

Profit . association js: com- . .

oaed of about 2,000 perdons

Empl ed or interested in
the field of parks and
recreation.

Campfires banned
as forests heat up

An ban on campfires for the whole Prince Rupert
forest zone was a announced by Herb Quast of the
Terrace branch of the forest service.

The ban came into effect midnight and will cover -
the whole northwestern part of the province ex-
cepting the outer coast areas in restriction zone
seven. Prince Rupert, Ocean Falls and Stewart are
considered outer coast areas. SS

_ -Quast reported there have been three small fires

since Tuesday.

One fire was started at the Aiyansh

garbage

dump, when an individual decided he would burn

his garbage.

On mile 43 of the Nass Road at the'lava beds, a ..-
fire started on the heavy lichen of the lava beds. It «=
only covered one acre, but Quast said the. fire. :::
probably set the ecology of the area back a few. ©.

hundred years.

- The cause of the fire is undetermined, but Quast *
guessed that it was probably caused by a cigarette —

smoker.

A fire on the old highway 16 seven miles west of —
town started in a grassy area and burned a strip 100
feet long and 15 feet wide. The forest service
doesn’t know who put it out, but they would like to
thank them.

‘program began Augu

lo ByYBILLMARLES
oe". Herald stalf-writer

; ‘Immigration, Canada Manpower and the Unem-—

ployment Insurance Commission have combined to form

the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission,

Terrace is one of two places in B.C. and several areas
in Canada chosen as the site of a pilot project to begin’

-. October land end March 1978,. Dave Sparrow, manager. .
of the Canada Employment Service in Terrace, says the -
" pilot projects are to test out how to give the beat service

under the new setup. Po, D
In Terrace, there is only Canada Manpower and UIC.
‘So it’s basically a matter of training manpower per-
sonnel to°do unemployment insurance work, and UIC
people to give manpower service. This re-education
st 1, a
Sparrow ‘says it’s-a big job to reorganize the 25,000

employees of manpower and UIC across ‘Canada, _Aslo
a: f members have to learn different jobs. _

Government documents show that 70 pércent of the

Yepele who seek jobs from manpower are unemployment . ~-
io gurance claimants. a Ge h age bent se! ne er : ” eee

. oF

; The object is to serve the client better by his having to

. only goand see one person. Befcre, clients would have to

go to see several persons to be served.

“Before it was.a bureaucratic nightmare for our poor
clients,” said Sparrow.

Sparrow says there will be no losses of jobs in Terrace ,
_ a3 aresult of the re-organization. In fact, the number of -
“staff has increased from 24 to 30 since July 1. The em- |

ployment centre has been hiring mostly local people for

’ the last one anda half years, he said.

"The increase in staff, he added, has been accomplished

by the moving of UIC files to Terrace from other centres:

. _, Sparrow says.Manpower and UIC -personnel have a

- little ‘game going down there. If a employee identifies
hims

f-as being from manpower or UIC instead of the
Canada: Employment Service, he is fined 10 cents.
New signs saying. “Canada. Manpower and the
Unemployment Insurance Commission” will soon be
erected in place of “Canada Manpower” or “the
Unemployment Insurance Commission”, .

The difference for the job seeker is that he will have to
‘see fewer people. Sparrow expects that service will not

*- be quiet as efficient as it can be for the firat while. But

Better service to help find jobs

ater, instead of seeing several people in.two offices, the

* job seeker will visit only one or two people in one office.

- For instance, a logger finds himself outof work. Under
the old system, he would go down to Canada Manpower

for a look at the job board. If there is no work there, he
would go to the UIC office and file for unemployment
benefits, He would then be told to go back to manpower

and register there. .

Sparrow says the logger or other job seeker will be able
to do it all in one trip - look at the job board, apply for
UIC, register for work and have the alternatives, like re-
training or taking an out-of-town job, explained to him.
' Sparrow says there are now two staff members from
Vancouver surveying the service the pilot project here is
providing, By the time they are finished they will have
interviewed 250 clients about the present service and how
it can be improved.

Sparrow. hopes the pilot project will prove that the
commission needs fewer manager. This means there
will be more workers to serve the public, he said.

The job creation branch office, which has to do with
Canada Works and Young Canada Works, is still in a
‘eparate office. Sparrow hopes it will all be under one
office, after the pilot project is finished, next March.

- Dave Sparrow is the Terrace manager of the Canada
Employment Service Canada Manpower and Unem-
ployment Insurance Commission services are merging
to form the Canada Employment and Tramigration

* in B.C,