{ PAGE Aa, THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 17, 1977 The winning ticket in the Kitimat Workshop’s fund-raising raffle is drawn by Workshop participant Laura Dowker | (right) while Mickey Anderson, director of the Kitimat Association for the se rug Mentally Retarded, looks on. The raffle - EXECUTIVE'S LAMENT | Tourist industry slumping under higher tax burdens EDMONTON (CP) — Tax relief from all levels of - government is needed for the recovery of Canada’s tourist industry from a two- year slump, J. K. Dakin, executive vice-president of CP Air, said Friday. Dakin said in a prepared speech to the annual con- vention of the Travel In- dustr Association of Canada that all segments of the industry must cooperate to develop marketin programs with price an x raised $157 for the workshop's work with mentally retarded adults. The hooked in the background, created by workshop participants, was the winning prize, going to Jeanette Camazzola. sane appeal for lomestic and international visitors. He said the deficit of Can- ada's travel industry balance af ayments plunged to $1.1 billion in 1976 rom $264 million in 1974. The shortfall in tourist receipts compared with Canadian * holiday ex- penditures a road represented nearly one quarter of Canada’s entire oreign exchange deficit, Dakin said. He said even more up setting that the actual deficit is the fact that the amount has quadrupled in two years. High costs of sportation, hotel rooms, meals, drinks and shopping in Canada make it clear the country is in danger of pricing tourism out of busi- ness, he said. Dakin said minimum wages 75 to 85 cents an hour than in the United States and construction financing WITHOUT POLICY oo Canada can absorb 150,000 immigrants TORONTO (CP) — Im- migration can continue al 140,000 to 150,000 persons a year while the federal government and the provinces develop an over- all population policy, Bud Cullen, minister man- power and immigration, said today. . Cullen ‘told members of the Institute of Public Ad- ministration of Canada that proposed new immigration egislation, now before a Commons committee, wil contribute to a moderate population owth while the olevels af government set long-range goals for the size and distribution of the population. a text released in ad- vance of delivery, he said critics claimed erroneousl that the proposed bi ‘treats people as pawns to be selected and directed to meet Canada’s needs rather than their own needs.” On the contrary, the proposed measures ‘‘are likely to make immigrants feel more wanted and more respected in the future.” The legislation would © require the government to consult the provinces and set figures on the number of immigrants to be admitted. Prospective immigrants would receive extra con- sideration if they signed agreements to stay for at ‘least six months in parts of the country where their: skills are needed. FOR HUGE PAY RAISE MPs egging Edgar Kaiser OTTAWA (CP) — The Commons was asked Monday ‘‘to express ils sense of outrage’? over corporate executives get- ting salary increases a3 as $60,363 last year while their company's employees were held to six-per-cent wage increases under federal guides. Referring to a published report based on a survey of corporate executives by the Vancouver Sun, Stanley Knowles, New Democratic Party House leader, asked the Commons to express its indignation. He said the anti-inflation board guides should be applied to top salary ear- DREE ACCUSED OF STALLING OTTAWA (CP) — Op- position MPs said Monday at the federal department of regional economic ex- pansion (DREE) has failed end regional disparities and is stalling in signin agreements for new proj- ects in British Columbia and Quebec. Don Munro (PC-- EsquimaltSaanich) said in the Commons that there have been complaints of slowness and demanded to mow the reason for such de- lays. Marcel Lessard, minister for DREE, denied there have been delays.“ He pointed out that two reements were recently - signed with the government of British Columbia and said that more are forthcoming. In Quebec, negotiations continue between the two levels of government despite the election of the Parti Quebecois last Nov. 15, Lessard said. A few projects had been delayed in Quebec but the problems were not un- common in dealings with all provincial administrations. Lessard tried to assure Adrien Lambert (SCc— Bellechasse) that recent criticisms by the Quebec government would not prompt the federal government to withdraw DREE from the provilice. Lessard said the federal overnment will continue to eal with Quebec in the same way it deals with other provinces. ners as well as those in the middle-and lowerincome brackets. Robert Kaplan, arliamentary secretary for inance, replied that the anti-inflation board has agreed to study the report. The board initially found one misleading section of the report, he added. An AIB spokesman said the only quarrel the board has with the report is that it left the impression that anyone getting more than a $2,400 annual salary in- crease is violating the guides. That's simply not frue,” he said. The report listed several AIB exemptions under which senior corporate officers can get increases above $2,400 a year. But the spokesman said it did not mention that large bonuses last year were based on bonuses received in three of five previous years, The amount is not supposed to match a bonus received only the previous year, he said, The AIB spokesman said the board is reviewing all the cases cited in the survey although it was not known whether all of them had previously reported to the IB. “We'll satisfy ourselves all is well and if it isn’t, the companies will be notified and an adjustment made,” tran- . LUSAKA (AP) — Zam- ‘bian President Kenneth Kaunda—a major supporter of . black Rhodesian guerrillas—declared Monday that his country is in a state of war with the white regime of neighboring Rhodesia. In another indication of a worsening racial con- frontation in southern Africa, President Samora Machel of Mozambique dismissed talk of a possible peaceful solution in Rhodesia as “a mistake.” The new rumblings of a major black-white clash cameas U.S. Vice-President Walter Mondale and An- drew Young, U.S. am- bassador to the United Nations, prepared to initiate a U.S, diplomatic campaign to help end the four-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and pave the way for black majority rule in southern Africa. Mondale meets with John Vorster, prime minister of white-ruled South Africa, on Thursday and Friday in Vienna, discuss the at more than 11 per cent, compared with seven per cent in the U.S., might be unavoidable, but the greatest opportunity for cost relief lies with the various levels of government. “Considering the multi- billiondollar golden egg the tourism goose drops into their collective coffers annually, self-interest should motivate them to ease the burden of taxes on the industry,” he said. He said examples were high provincial sales taxes, the 10 per cent sales tax on meals in Ontario ‘and Quebec and wholesale liquor prices sometimes higher than government retail ices, A classic example of one agency working against an- other, he said, was the doubling ‘of ferry rates to Vancouver Island Jast year followed by declines up to 40 per cent in tourism im the area, Dakin said air tran- sportation has suffered to e detriment of tourist travel. An eight per cent tax on air tickets in Canada, soon to be levied on in- coming tourists, is a device seemingly calculated to discourage tourism, he said. RACIAL CONFRONTATION region's racial turmoil. Young was scheduled to arrive in Maputo, Mozambique, late Monday for a | conference on southern Africa. In other developments in the region Monday: South Africa, said Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, has been banished from the Jo- hannesburg area and or- - dered to live in a small town in the countryside; ans in Angola have taken over itions in government and usiness. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Cuban soldiers remained in Angola after helping Communists there win a civil war last year. Kaunda, at a news con- ference in Lusaka, said he KURT WARNING MAPUTO (Reuter) — UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim told a conference here Monday that a grave - international disaster would occur if efforts to find eaceful: solutions in odesia and Namibia {South-West Africa) were not accelerated. * But President Samora Machel of Mozambique said the peoples of Rhodesia and Namibia had no alternative to armed struggle and ‘“‘we believe it is a mistake to speak of peaceful solutions when there is war.” However, black guerrilla wars and international pressure have made the situation “favorable for a negotiated settlement,” though there still are im- portant obstacles, he added. The two men were ad- dressing the first session of a sixday conference in- tended to mobilize in- ternational support for black majority rule in the . ‘ two territories, Waldheim said: ‘Unless - we accelerate efforts to find {ust and peaceful solutions end the unacceptable situation in Zimbabwe (black African name for Rhodesia) and Namibia, I fear that a disaster of grave dimensions will occur which will have repercussions far beyond this region.” Machel reminded the delegates that they are meeting only a few miles from the South African horder. ¢ “ “Welcome to Mozam- bique, the boundary bet; on full alert and ordered that any Rhodesian aircraft intruding on Zambian alr- space be shot down. There was no immediate reaction from the Rhodesian government. He said he has issied the ordera after being told by British Foreign retary David Owen that Rhodesia, which borders Zambia to the southeast, might launch cross-border strikes against guerrilla camps in Zambia. Kaunda's declaration is not expected to lead to an immediate all-out war. Zambia's army—estimated at 5,000 men— is less than half the size of the Rhodesian army, and the Zambian army and air force are wunderequipped in comparison with Rhodesia's. In March, 1976, Mozambique, on Rhodesia's . eastern border and another base for nationalist errillas, made a similar Jaration. Since then the Rhodesians have raided verrilila camps ozambiqué and have charged that Mozambican im me Zambia at war with Rhodesia | has put the Zambian Army, with troops are operatin e aan ‘horder the guerrillas areas. Machel, opening the UN conference in the Mozambican capital Monday, said: “We believe it is a mistake to speak of peaceful solutions when there is ‘war,”’ The conference, attended b representatives of .80 ies, was called to muster support for the black nationalist struggles in ‘Rhodesia and tee “South African-controlled territory of South-West Africa. Machel’s speech was an apparent rejection of current U.S.-British peace efforts. He also rejected the possible participation of odesian Prime Minister Ian Smith’s government in any conference writ a ‘new Rhodesian constitution. - Owen, backed by the U.S., has been trying to gather support rom lack nationalists, .Smith and other black and white leaders in the region for a constitutional © convention aimed at ending the ‘supplying Rhodesia, _ Rhodesian conflict by transfering government control to Rhodesia’s 65 million blacks from the. 272,000 whites. Black insurgents based in zambia have been stepping up their attacks since early last year: In the lates guerrillas fired mortars and ’ machine-guns at a police ost in northwestern hodesia during ~ the weekend, wounding a sergeant and two black ci ns. ’ Besides Zambia and. Mozambique, three other so- called ‘frontline’ black states—Angola, Botswama and Tanzania— have been. providing shelter or other aid for black Rhodesian guerrillas. Kaunda said he has asked “friendly nations” for arms and called on the U.S. and Britain to help prevent a Rhodesian ‘attack by stopping cil companies from The Smith regime, which — unilaterally declared in- dependence from Britain in 1965, gets most of its oil and war material from South Africa. accepted. from the undersign $10. for the sum of $10. except holidays. Tender forms with enve' The Ministry ‘’Gen Cheques or money orders shall be ma Finance. No such purchases are refundable. Ministry office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday fo Friday, for the sum of $10. HIGHWAYS - NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS ‘Canada - British Columbia WESTERN NORTHLANDS HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SKEENA ELECTORAL DISTRICT Grading Project No. 3320: Construction: Kigwanga fo D.L. 1206 Kitwanga - Meziadin Lake Highway No. 37 (12.82 Miles) Full Size Drawings are Available. Tender Opening Date: Tuesday, May 31, 1977. File No.: 297 SEALED TENDERS, on the forms and in the envelopes provided, _ accompanied by a bld bond or certified cheque as defined in the In- structions to Bidders, witl be recetved by the Ministry of Highways and Public Works In Room 237, Douglas Building, Victoria, B.C., up to 2 p.m. (local Victoria time) on the day of the tender opening, at which time tenders wiil be opened In public. The lowest or any tender not necessarily lopes, plans, specifications, and conditions of tender can be obtained from the Ministry of Highways and Public Works, 3876 Norland Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. VSG 373 (telephone 294-4711), or ed If avallable, full-size drawings can also be obtained for an additional eral Specifications for Highway Construction,“ to which the construction of this contract shall conform, are also available de payable to the Minister of Province of British Columbia _ Ministry of Highways and Public Works - R.G. 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