Arthritis patient Ray Hadfield of Vancouver kicks off the local Canadian Arthritis ot pies faut ois ol ese oberg sate mae Tiga and Rheumatism Society's door-to-door canvassing campaign here. Hadfield, formerly superintendant of the B.C. motor vehicle branch, has steel and plastic . jolnts in his knees and feet plus radioactive isotopes implanted in.the joints to alleviate arthritic symptoms. CARS provided the funding for research to develop the surgical techniques, practiced only in Vancouver and Hamilton, Ont..as well members of the Order of the Royal_Purple wili campaign all day this week knocking on every door in the municipality to reach the campaign's target amount of $3,000. Labor wins in — Norway elections. OSLO Reuter - Leaders of Norway’s three party non socialist coalition conced early: today that thé bi party had retained a closely fought general election. With almost all votes counted after Monday’s ballot, Prime. Minister Qdvar Nordli’s Labor government was assured of staying in office by a narrow margin, they said. Labor held 78 of Parliament's 155 seats and the non-socialits combined 70 seats. The Socialist Left party SV was almost wiped out. Sar sU pga ap The party, Labor’s parliamentary ally in the old assembly, won only one Norvik,’*’Ctn- servative party leader, said the non socialist bid for government power ap- peared to have failed. The .Conservatives, the Christian People’s Party and the Center Agrarian Party formed an opposition centre right alliance as a clear alternative to con- tinued Labor rule, Monday was the second andlast day of voting, with a heavier poll reported that-in the 1973 elections, in which the socialist government t Gas-gulping outlawed in WASHINGTON (AP)- The USS. Senate rallied Monday behind a proposal to outlaw the production of fuel- inefficient automobiles after 1979, rejecting an effort to strike the ban from an energy conservation bill. In a 55 to 27 vote, the ~ Senate affirmed the recommendation of its energy committee to require all 1990 model year cars to achieve at least 16 thiles a gallon, a minimum that would rise to 21 miles a gallon by 1985, . In 4 separate. action, the energy committee itself narrowly rejected a plan for the gradual deregulation of , . . natural gas prices. The 9 to 9 vote by the committee left intact President Carter’s proposal for raising the ceiling on interstate gas.to $1.75 per thousand cubic feet from $1.45. Republicans and oil-state senators, however, planned ‘tomake at least one attempt today to gradually raise the Carter price ceiling to $2.41 1981 and to a higher level after that. . The proposal to ban fuel in efficient cars is sub- stantially different than the approach taken by Carter’s energy program, which calls for taxes on such automobiles. Escaped convicts back in jail ~ SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. .(CP)- Two escaped : convicts were back in custody Monday following a police chase in thick fog Sunday along the Trans- Canada Highway and a search through dense bush. Provincial. police said Darreli Charles Kirk and Richard Stanley Clark, both 19 and both from British Columbia, have been charged with possession of weapons dangerous: to the public. peace. Police said. the two men escaped Aug. 25 from the regional correction centre in Kamloops, B.C. Police, who had set up road blocks, eventually stopped the car about 130 Kilometres (85 miles) south of Wawa. Clark was arrested at the scene, the Kirk fled into dense bush bordreing the highway. ‘Police said Chico, a police tracker dos, was called in rescue helicopter from Canadian Forces Base Borden joined the search. Kirk was eventually located by the dog and gave up without a struggle. Police said no shots were fired. a“total of 15. gained power bya margin of only 84: votes in” one ‘coné stituency:.. oo, power for. only seven of the last -42.years, ot The present Labor government borrowed heavily against anticipated revenues from Norway’s offshore oil and pursued an expansionist. economic policy, holding ynem- ployment below 1.5 percent and giving Norway one of the world's highest in- vestment rates... But the opposition argued that Norway now has the world’s highest production . costs because of inflation and excessive pay. claims. Cars US. Some Senate leaders, including Henry. Jackson Dem. Wash. billed the proposal as a_ possible alternative to that tax, which now is being con- sidered by the Senate finance committee, But Senator Don Riegle Dem. Mich., the major opponent of the gas mileage minimum, complained that ‘I'm afraid we're going to get both” the tax and the minimum standards. The. House of Representatives already has passed a watered down version of the tax. Voting 52 to 28, the Senate rejected a second proposal by Reigle that would have invalidated the minimum mileage standards if Congress enacts the fuel x. Existing law requires the auto industry to produce - ears with a fleet average of 27,5 miles a gallong by 1995. But .this law does not prohibit inefficient cars as such, so long as enough fuel- efficient cars are produced . jn each model year to offset the less efficient cars and still meet _ fleet requirements. The Senate proposal would retain this 27.5 mile a galion fleet standard, but would also establish new minimum mileage requirements. Auto makers could face fines up to $10,000 for manufacturing cars that exceeded the specified minimum standards. slams labor code VICTORIA (CP)- The opposition continued criticism in the. British Columbia legislature Monday of the Social Credit government's planned amendments to the Labor e. . Opposition speakers said during second reading debate of the bill containing labor code amendments that would most seriously hinder unorganized, low-income working women. The citicism came as a motion tosuspend debate on the bill was defeated 27 to 17 by the government majority. Liberal leader Gordon Gibson and Progressive | Conservative leader Scott Wallace joined the New Democratic Party in calling for the pause. Opposition leader. Dave Barrett. said the. legislation will. drive working .women making marginal incomes back onto welfare. Barrett said that. because the legislation makes union organization. more difficult, it will indirectly remove motivation for workers, the majority of whom are women, to continue at low- paying jobs. Labor Minister. Allan Williams said earlier that blame for the plight of the low paid working woman should be directed at big unions. . Williams said the trade union movement has failed to discharge its duties by net more actively organizing such workers. . He said the- legislation “doesn’t make organization more difficult... it doesn’t make it any easier either... it makes certain a union's mandate will be beyond question.”’ . Opposition . members. questioned Williams. on the netessity of the legislation,” ' which would. allow em- ployers to withhold staff lists from union organizers ‘and would allow employers to give their opinions . to workers about union organizing activities. “What's the purpose what’s the reason” ask Barrett. ‘‘What problems are you trying to solve, what are you doing it for.” Barrett said Williams seems to be intent on disrupting a peaceful labor climate in B.C. “There’s no political ose -for this. You're walking into. a buzzsaw.”’ Worm Levi NDP - Van- couver . Burrard said the legislation ‘‘is the thin edge of the wedge of right-to- work legislation.” Wallace also said he was about the motivation for the © - changes and speculated they were the direct result of strong employer's group pressure. ‘Dennis Cocke NDP.- New Westminster said Williams introduced the bill because he was the only cabinet - minister yet to produce a piece of negative legislation. - Cocke said the bill will burt workers in the service industry attempting to organize. “That’s who this tepressive government wants to keep enslaved in ‘our soelety,”’ said Cocke. Barrett said the bill is an opportunity for the “small, right wing employer... to maximize his profits,” by guaranteeing a poverty level pool of labor. The NDP leader said the bill only came about because Williams . was - “trying to make himself look good in the eyes of the red necks.” Len Guy, secretary- treasurer of the B.C Federation of Labor, said in an interview Monday that the federation is considering a number of proposals to fight the anti-labor trend of the government, Guy who spent the day observing the legislature, would not reveal any details of the plans, but said several options were under con- sideration. He said that under the - Credit. - govenrment, ‘we even- former - Social tually got so disgusted... that. we boycotted the mediation commission.” “That is the sort of things that the labor movement will do,” Guy said. “There - is six things that could be done.” , Guy said that, ultimately, ‘we'll get them at the polls.” Veteran comic on CBC mornings OTTAWA (CP)- Don ' Harron, one of Canada’s most vers kk actor - writer - eomics, began a new career Monday as.star and host of CBC radio’s Mor- ningside show. Five days a week for three hours a day, Harron will present a pot-pourri of music, comment and in- terviews with a satiric touch, His opening show included a spoofed interview with Prime Minsiter Trudeau as a so-called unidentified source, man-in-the-street interviews .on peoples’ secret -ambitions, and an interview with.a doctor specializing in viruses. ~“‘Harron has been working in theatre, radio and “television for more than 40 years and in recent years has been best known for his character, Charlie Farquharson, an outspoken Ontario. farmer whose spoonerisms and twisted look at society have ap- peared in .books and on private radio. . But Farquharson will not appear on the CBC show. Rights to that character remain with Toronto radio station CFRB, Harron's record in Canadian theatre is im- pressive. He was one of the original members of the Stratford Festival company % years ago. He wrote the book for the TV show Anne of Green Gables which later was transferred to the Charlottetown Festival stage and has been running there 13 years. ‘Don . He was also an. original member of the Spring Thaw satirical review which now has passed into history. He made his radio debut in 1936 as a child performer in a three-a-week CBC ad- venture series. . Taking over the Mor- ningside show, which originally featured Judy LaMarsh and last season, Harry Brown and Maxine Crook, it has been renamed Harrison’s Mor- ningside. Kirsta Maeots is executive producer, with a dozen producers, story writérs and. assistants. Harron is reported to draw. $65,000 a year under his ew contract. He promises to bring a new, biting, . satirical and irreverant wit to the show. In the debut edition, he supposedly interviewed Trudeau on the pending cabinet shuffle to replace Finance Minister Donald Macdonald. But when Harron asked whether the prime minister. had a new- position for his estranged wife, Margaret, the PM - hung up. The CBC : says the program, which will be carried daily on 27 CBC-AM stations, will be ‘shaped, but elastic.” The first.hour is to be a fast moving survey of current affairs, the second hour more probing, with interviews and debates, andthe third hour is to rove over numerous subjects with . tape-recorded in- terviews from all over the country, He Terrace Downtown Lions turned its newly-completed tennis courts over to the ‘THE HERALD; Tuesday, September 13, 1977, PAGE 3 municipality Monday. The Lions spent three years and $50,000 on the facility for excavation, placing drainage fields, fill, fencing and pavement. The court features three regulation-size playing courts. Mayor Dave Maroney, left, gets keys to the courts from Lions member Dick Green. Looking on are John Walbergs, chairman of the service club's tennis courts committee and Art Soiley, coaching chairman for the tennis club. Private insurance salesmen ‘too dumb’. ICTORIA CP + Education Minister Pat McGeer, the minister responsible for the Insurance Corporation of British. Columbia,. came under fire in the legislature Monday for statements attributed to him in a Vic- toria newspaper last week. McGeer was quoted as saying he had “always believed. in socialized automobile insurance” and that he had to give up on private insurance dealers Mortgage foreclosure who wanted ICBC dismantled because “they were to God Damn dumb.” NDP MLA Dennis Cocke new Westimister asked MeGreer if he had mailed a copy of the article to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, Outside the house, McGeer told reporters that although he voted against the Automobile Insurance Act in 1973, which set up the corporation, he had “always survey too hard IGTORIA CP + Consumer and’ Corporate. Affairs Minister Mair said Monday a survey of . mortgage foreclosures in British Columbia would not be made by his ministry because it was too difficult to get an accurate number. ‘NDP MLA Norm LeviVancouver-Centre ‘had earlier asked Mair in the Business heads named to development board CALGARY .CP + Jean Chretien, minister of in- _ dustry, trade and com- merce, . announced the appointment of private business executives to Western REgional En- terprise Development boards in an address to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce Monday. The Enterprise Development Program, established last April, has a “central board, composed of businessmen and public servants, and a simitar board in each province which can make grants and loans of up to $20, - 000 on its own,” Chretien told the audience of about 200. “The grants are. for in- novation, new ideas of processes, and loans are for adjustment assistance - which means helping a company change or merge or do whatever else is necessary to survive,” he sald. Regional board members for British Columbia and the Yukon are Ben Wosk, of Vancouver, chairman; John . F. Dunlop, vice-chairman; and Berek A. Inman, of Vancouver. ' The Alberta board is to be composed ofA. Ernest Pallister, of. Calgary, chairman; John H. Nodwell, of Calgary, vice-chairman; and a third member to be announced later. Members of the Saskat- chewan board are Dr. P. legislature to make the survey. Mair was also.asked to consider a moratorium on foreclosures since, said Levi, hundreds of families were losing their homes as a result: Levi said foreclosures were rising steadily and produced figures from the court _registry. in New Westminister which showed Michael, dean of commerce at the University of Saskatchewan and James §. Rogers while the Manitoba board is. composed of Frederick W. Sellers of Winnipeg and W. L. War- drop, also of Winnipeg with third member to be an- nounced later, The regional boards will be rounded out with an equal number .of senior representatives from the federal public service, Chretien said. Chretien told the meeting that a recent poll of business executives has shown a number of complaints. “The thing that struck me most of all was that many firms said they were resigned to freight rate inequities as a result they did not look beyond the Prairies for their market. If it truly is transportation that is stifling their urge to increase own own domestic trade, then we have road- blocks to remove.” In a departure from his ‘prepared text, Chretien said there were people in, the country “who would try to destroy us.”’ “T want Quebec to remain in Canada, and as long as there is anything. living in me 1 will fight for that.” “A lot of people are dedicated to the preser- vation of Canada.” Later, at a news con- ference, the minister was asked about the possibility of an appointment to the finance portfollo. pelieved in the advantages... of socialized insurance." =‘ But, he said, the NDP did : such a poor job of setting up : ICBC and runniong it until ' they were defeated in Dec. | 1975, that British Colum-. bians werew still paying the " cost, _ As tohis remark about the . intelligence of private In- ; surance dealers, McGeer - said that they have wanted ‘ too much too soon, - Mair | they had risen by up to 120: per. cent. ‘ : Mair said outside the House : that percentage does. not: reflect the true picture, : adding the only way to do so : would be to collect statistics : from every registry in the : province, : Mair said a moratorium : couldn't even be considered - because it wouldn’t be : practicai. : : wy Por Oe CO Let She hd “] never cross a bridge before I see the river. [have ; not seen the river yet,” he © said, However, if appointed to the portfolio, he said, “‘I will serve," Families return NANAIMO, B.C. CP About 15 residents of this Vancouver Island city have returned. to their homes after being forced to flee during a multi-million dollar’ fire at two oi] company storage depots last Wed: nesday. AnRCMP spokesman sald all displaced familles were allowed Saturday to return to their homes and apart- ments surrounding the burned-out tanks owned by Shell Canada Ltd. and Chevron Canada Ltd. The familles had stayed in motels or with friends since the day-long fire broke out. Oil company personnel worked throughout the weekend to pump all remaining gasoline and diesel oil from the tanks to Tes, Meanwhile, Ian Michael Tychonick, 28, of Squamish, B.C, charged with arson and man-slaughter in connection with the fire, remains in poor condition in Vancouver General Hospital with burns to 90 per. cent of his body.