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OTTAWA (CP) — Both the
Liberal Party of Canada and
Pierre Trudeau are expected
to take on new images this
spring.

The 34-member party
executive has decided after a
two-day meeting to held a
convention March 28-30 in
Winipeg) to choose a
replacement for Trudeau as
national party leader. At-the
same time, it will attempt to
enhance its sagging profile
in Western Canada.

After the meeting, sources
close to Trudeau said he
would leave federal politics
immediately after the
convention and resettle in his
hometown of Montreal
where, in the role of an elder
Pea wagreast he will
campaign aggressively for
federaliam in the Quebec
soverelgnty-association
referendum battle.

The 60-year-old Trudeau
staggered he party last week
with his announcement that
he wanted to atep down after
li years as party leader. He
ssid later the move was
because he wanted to d
more time with his three

a sons — Justin 7, Sacha, 6,

and Michel 4.

Aregular party convention
olready was tentatively
scheduled, but neither site
nor dates had been set. The
party national executive
immediately scheduled a
meeting to decide these
matters,

Although no candidates
have officially made ‘their
intentions known, it is ex-.
pected former federal
finance ministers John
Turner and Donald Mac-
Donald will be prominent on
the list along with former

ke on Quebec

ministers Francis Fox,
Eugene Whelan and Herb
Gray and Art Phillips, first
elected to Parlinment May

22 after several years as the
mayor of Vancouver.
Trudeau visited the
executive meeting for about
30 minutes Saturday, but not
to take part in its
Geliberations, -

"T only came to say
adieu,” said the unusually
subdued man whose vitality
and charisma charged the
counury when he took over
from Lester Pearson in 1968
and for the next several
years.

Trudeau was prime
minister from the ime he
took over theparty leader-
ship until May 22 when Joe
Clark led the Progressive
Conservatives to a minority-
government election victory.

In announcing the con-
vention site and dates
Senator Alasdair Graham,
‘party national president,
said he expected the con-
vention to be the largest in
Canadian history.

Graham said he expected
a total of 8,000 delegates,
alternates, observers, party
workers and reporters to
attend. Of these, $3,200 would
be voting delegatea com-
pared with the 2,-500 who
elected Trudeau In 1968.

The increased Commons
memberthip — it went to 282
from 264 for the May election
— was a major reason for
this, he said.

Graham also said ex-
penses would be higher for
the delegates since Winnipeg
was farther. from main
population centres than
Ottawa, where the last
leadership convention wap
held.

Ed gets moderate mandate

By JULIET O*NEILL:

TORONTO (CP): =<! NDP: - N

Leader Ed Broadbent

returns to Parliament today
from his party's national
convention armed with rank-
and-file support for
moderate policies on public
ownership, nuclear energy
and the Quebec referendum.

The majority of about 1,200
lew Democrats at the con-
vention rejected calle by
radical groups for more
snilitant policies on the three
issues but Broadbent aald, ln
so many words, that the
party remains radical
enough.

“You have given us 8 pro-

gram once again that makes
it clear there ls a difference
in Canada in the political
parties — the Liberal-Tory
party on the one side and us
on ane igiher,” Broadbent.

wrap-up speech
after being acclaimed party
leader for a third twoyear

term.
*The people of Canada will

Native police force

“ote ac LA

By VIC PARSONS

WHITEHORSE (CP) —
The Whitehorse Indian band
haa won a three-year fight
and overcome prickly
Jurisdictional questions to
inaugurate the fira natlve
police force in the Yukon.

Permission for the forco.,

was granted by Ottawa
recently and Doug Graham,
Yukon's minister respon-
alble for justice, saya there
could be as many as 12
native special constables by
next March.

Ironically, the firs! con-
stable will be John Maloney,
a Nova Scotla-bom white
man, who was the
Whitehorse band's policing
co-ordinator during the
battle for the special force.

Despite his origina In
River Hebert, N.S., Maloney
has lived in the Yukon for 21
years and says he knows
more of the Indian language
than most of the village
realdents.

Throughout the siruggle
by the village, Which Is
located within the boun-
daries of the City of
Whitehorse, there was 4
continuing discussion of
what authority a band police
force would have and what
laws they would enforce.

When the go-ahead for the
force was announced, the
local crown attorney's office
was debating whether or not
to proceed with a liquor
ordinance charge placed
against a village realdent.
QUESTION LEGALITY

The office decided against
proceeding. The issue in
question was the legal status
of the village.

Police had laid a charge of
drinking in a public place
against villager Lawrence
Bill. The City of Whitehorse
has a ban againat public
drinking.

In the wake of the back-

. down in the case, RCMP

decided they will nol now
enforce the drinking ban in
the village.

In the past, city bylaws
have not. been enforced in the
village and the cily has

vided faw services except

re protection.
City manager Dave Gairns
says the cauncll has

regarded the village as 4
piece of federal land and
dealt with it as a plece of
private property. In that
event, he saya, the village
would also have the right to
hire its own alalf.

An opponent of the estab-
lishment of the force was
Whitehorse alderman Ray
Cumming, who says his

Doctors
told:to
print it

CHICAGO = (AP)
Medicine men who con-
versed by smoke signals or
drum beats may have had it
al] over today's physicians,
says a study which concludes
8) per cent of all orders
weilien by medical special-
isis require extra time to
interpret.

“What effect does the
clarity of handwriting have
on the effectiveness of
communications within the
hospital community?” asks
the authoy of an unsigned
article in the Nov. 30 edition
of the Journal of the
American Medical
Association. “The purpose of
this study is to indicate that
physicians’ handwriting
causes a considerable waste
of hospital employees’
time."

The study, which analysed
47 physicians’ handwritten
orders in a 500-bed leaching
hospital, also said 17 per cent
of the specialists had
illegible writing, while 17 per
cent had barely legible
writing, 18 per cent falr to
average, 34 per cen good to
very good and 15 per cent ex-
cellent. The hospital was not
identified.

The system used to grade
handwriting assigned valuen
of legibility from one to 10,
with 10 belng given to notes
that “‘can be easily read —
no extra time required.”

“That there laa problem In
communication caused by
poor handwriting is com-
monly acknowledged," the
report says, “Its actual
effect on the cost of medical
care can be evaluated In
terms of time expended by
nurses, secretaries, other
physicians, pharmacisis,
and other personnel,”

The study sald one
mem of the hospital's
resident staff, questioned
about his ability lo read the
notea of a doctor with one-
rated handwriting, sald,
“Kt’a no problem. We can’t
read them, 80 we don't iry.”

rmed in the North

concern Ls over jurisdiction
and not specifically with
appointment of a band
constable.

“T want to know who gives
him the authority,” he says.
“IT want it clearly defined
what authority he has and
what laws he'll enforces“

Cumming says he would
like the status of the village
cleared up, noling that it ja
not a reservation under
federal law, “What we ap-
pear to have here is a
municipality within a mu-
nicipality."’

Local RCMP have also
said they would like to have
the same matters clarified.
‘Graham says he knows
problema will arise in cases
of serious crime and
Prosecutions, for example,

Laays he le pleased at the
Iniuative the band has taken.

“Those problema will crop
up but I think between the
justice department, the
RCMP, the city and the
Indian band we can work it
out,”

Graham foresees a rapid
expansion of the wie of
natlve constables If there are
recrujia and training
facilities avallable at RCMP
headquarters at Regina.

Maloney expecta ta be
handling territorial or-
dinances and city and village
bylaws, calling upon the
RCMP for help in cases of
serious crime, He notes
there are lota of precedents,
for band constables in
Quebec, Ontario, Alberta
and other provinces,

He says a band officer can
help avaid a lot of misunder-
standing among Indians and
nornatlye policemen and
wanta to prevent as much as
possible the high in-
carceralion rate for natlve
offenders.

“You get a lot of pollee
posted here from Ontario
who don’t have a clue what
they are deing,’’ says
Maloney. “The old syatem is
just not working.”

About 85 per cent of the
charges laid in the territory
invelve native people, who
are leas than one-third of the
population, Maloney says.

RICH IN OIL SHALE

One of the richest deposits
of petroleum shale is found
In the Green River un-
derlying Utah, Culorado and
Wyoming.

have no doubt over who's the
real opposition -in the House
of Commons.”

This was the theme
repeated during the four-day
convention by the 43-year-old
Broadbent, who delighted
party faithful by billing
himself as the new senior
political leader since Pierre
Trudeau's resignation.

John Turner and Donald
Macdonald, both former
finance ministers, and
corporate lawyers now

‘regarded as possible suc-”

cessors to Trudeau as Lib-

eral leader, wera the ete
of Broadbent's final political
attack.

Choosing between them
wes Ilke deciding between
the prealdent of Shell ‘and
Imperial Of) — “If you're
expecting any difference in
the Liberal party if they
choose either Mr, Tumer or
Mr, Macdonald ...farget it.""
- The convention adopted
three major party eatablish-
ment policies challenged

continually during debate by .

two blocks of delegates who
organized themselves Into a
left-wing caucus.

—Call for a moratorium on
new nuclear development
until a public inquiry decides
where it Ip safe. Militants
sought a total ban on nuclear
power production and
uranium mining.

—Pledge to make
government ownership of
industry a practice only
when necessary. Militants
wanted nationalization de-
clared the major tool of eco-
nomic development.

—Declare Quebecera have
the right to decide whether
they want to separate from
Canada, but tempt them into
staying with constitutlonal
proposals unveiled three
months before the
referendum on soverelgnty-
association in June.

There was little significant
disagreement among
delegates on a wide range of
other policies, most of them
atrenghthening Jact May's
NDP election themes.
Highlights were to keep
Petro-Canada under govern-
ment contfol, preserve the
medicare system, increase
domestic ownership of
natural resources, create
jobs, lower inflatlon and
provide sexual equality in
the workplace.

Support. for Jean-Claude
Parrot, head of the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers
sentenced to three months in
jail for defying Parliament's
1978 back-to-work bil, was
declared In a last-minute
resolution Saturday after
earlier belng screened out as
a priority by a polley com-

Hee,

The left-wing caucus in-
cluded NDP members of
Parliament John Rodriguez,
represexting Sudbury in
Ontario, and Svend
Robinson, representing
Burnab: In = British
Columbia, who supported
altempls to radicalize the
public ownership policy.

Despile their

disagreement on the lsaue

BAD
BOOZE
KILLS

VANCOUVER (CP) —
A fourth man has died in
the city's Skid Road area
after drinking a deadly
homebrew mixture,
police said Sunday.

Police withheld the
name of the 48-year-old
victim. All four lived at
the same hotel,

A resident of the hotel
said the victim joined in a
drinking party where a
jug of homebrew waa
passed around.

Police say the
polsonous concoction was

ced with a cleaning
agent Which contains
methy] hydrate.

Parking is
prohibited

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) —
Laurie Gordon drove with
her husband to, the train
station Friday and gave him
a goodbye kiss — a clear
violation of the town’s no-
kissing zone.

Had she been 50 metres
away, In the community's
kissing tone, she could have
legally smooched all mor-
ning.

The kiss and no-kiss
boundaries are clearly
marked by signs. The firm
has a silhouette of a man ina
hat and a woman in curlers
touching puckered Hps. The
other is the same picture
with a slash through ft.

The point of this govern-
ment intrusion into domestic
affection is to keep traffic
moving in the drop-off point
at the Milwaukee Road
commuter station in thia
suburb = northwest = of
Chicago.

The idea developed after
the city completed work on 4
parking fot and put up a
bunch af eee do oe
way, no parking, don't
thla, don’t do that,” said
Marge Emery, an assistant
village manager.

“One engineer said the
traffic was getting clogged
hy couples kissing goodbye,”
she said. “So we thought
we'd put up 8 sign outlawing
amooching.”” _—

ee,

The fisaiu, sicaday, Noveinber 26, 1974 Page 5

‘MORTGAGES

T
NDP, Grits planning

OTTAWA (CP) — Liberals
and New Democrats are
drafting major amendments
to the Conservative mor:
tgage Interest and property
tax credit plan as Commons
debate on the proposal en--
ters its second week today,

Neither opposition party
seems prepared to force an
election by defeating the bill
on second reading — ap-
proval in principle.

But spokesmen say they
are prepared to fight in
commiliee for a host of
changes in the plan.

Prime Minister Clark has
promised to consider any
reasonable amendments,
and the apposition parties
will have the chance to put
thia promise to the test only
after the plan is approved in
principle and sent on to
committee.

Both the Liberals and the
NDP have grave reser-
vations about the bill, and
their concerns were echoed
ast week by Social Credit
Leader Fabien Roy.

John Evans (L — Ottawa
Centre) aummed up the
opposition complalnts ‘when
he described the plan as
inequitable, Inefficient,
unnecessary, unaffordable

and irresponsible,

The amendments being
dratted by the major op-
position parties seek to
remove some of these
alleged shortcomings.

‘The plan was unveiled in

‘September by Finance

Minister John Crosbie to

fulfil the muchtouted Con-

servative election promise of
major tax relief for
homeowners.

The bill would allow home-
owners to deduct up to §375
from their federal income
tax early next year. The
maximum credit would
increase to $1,500 for the 1982
tax year.

Assuming the bill gets to
committee, the Liberals and
New Democrats plan to seck
government concessions in
three main areas.

They want a clause to
ensure that the plan would
not necessarily be a per-
manent feature of the tax
ayatern.

Both parties say the plan
could result in an excessive
drain on the federal treasury

and believe Parliament .

should have ‘the: right’ to,

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decide whether it should
continue aller an ap-
propriate trial perlod.

They also want tax relief
for renters. The NDP has
suggested a cost-of-living or
shelter-allowance tax credit
not Ued specifically to home
ownership. The Liberals are
sill exploring similar types
of alternatives.

And both parties say the
greatest tax relief must go to
those with the lowest in-
comes.

TheNDP would also like to
pee the credits fully refun-
dable so homeowners who
pay m federal taxea would
not be denied benefits.

‘The Liberals would prefer
larger credits for property
taxes and smaller credits for
mortgage interest because a
Jarge number of people live
in mortgage-free homes.

The tax cred t plan was de-
bated for nearly 10 hours last
week. Nine Conservatives,

eight Liberals, three New
Democrats and Roy spoke.

More than a dozen MPs
still are waiting to be heard,
and that indicates a vote on
the bill will not come before
mid-week.

New Democrats say they
will vole against the
government, but neither the
Liberal nor Social Credit
pariles have said how they
will vote, ;

Crosble and other Con-
servativea say defeat of the
bili would force on im-

mediate election.
Once the winners of last
week's two federal

byelections are sworn in, the
government wil] have a one-
vote margin in the Commons
with the support of Social
Credit

The new standings in the
292-seat House will be
Conservative 136, Liberal
114, NDP 27 and Social
Credit 5. Speaker James
Jerome, a Liberal, votes:
only to break ties.

Teachers rejecting
retraining threats

OTTAWA = (CP)
Retralning for teachers
should not be a matter of
threats, the president of the
Canadian Teachers’ Fed-
eration said Saturday.

Patricla English told a
conference of the Canadian
Education Association that,
with redundancy facing
them as school enrolments
decline, teachers should be
shown the positive aspecta of
retraining rather than be
told they wil be out of work if
they lon’tL develop new

a.

She said teachers will not
apply for retraining under
threats, even if they feel
their jobs will be lost without
t.

“A teacher will be for
more willlng to take
retraining and make a major
change af the eaves is
presented as & positive st
rather than under a threat,”
she sald,

She added that counselling
should be provided so
teachers can know where the
future need will be greatest

and that “some sort of
‘made!

Rais Dea P EEA DESAI

program should be

teacher to take Ume off to
retrain,”

But Jane Dobell, a
member of the Canadian
School Trustees Association
and chalrman of the Ollawa
Board Ina ir general’ while

26 genera] Lerms,
said “retraining should not
be over-sold as the solution
of the problem of teacher re-

dancy."

School boards already give
teachera  prafessional
development days
throughout the year and if
retraining is also to be
considered, a new look would
have to be taken at spending
priorities,

Both agreed some form of
cos sharing would have to
be considered to make
retraining feasible.

KIND-HEARTED VILLAGE

LJUSTORP, Sweden (CP}
— More than 65 adults and
children in this village,
population 140, have called in
a special tutor to teach them
sign language. The residents
say they want to be able to
communicate with Birgit
Sjodin, 14, who was born a
deaf mute, ~

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