Spo ag ty Ey i Aree erat en ate se Ne oe peau tMeEAL LIBRARY a fe " PARLTANEST BLDGS _ et. ae wk ; eS ‘VICTORIA Be . os aa cee ee are OE 70million windfall to oil purchased abroad after Jan, 1 _ He quoted National Energy Board figures ‘showing the industry had almost 70 million barrels ete a — ey ment pay the cost of keeping the price to consumers of imported oil, now more than 40a barrel, down to the ‘domestic level of 355. 0 Broadbent sald Inter ‘outside’ the Houre that . consumer subsidization of the ads — an attempt to : counter charges of oil industry overeharging — pees ccd “ OTTAWA (CP) — The major cil companies got an unwarranted $170-million profit from consumers when domestic oil prices were increased New se : Year's Day, Progressive Conservative enersy critic of oll or petroleum products in reserve — on which it - “New Democrat Leader .Ed: Broadbent ‘acciised amounts to ‘‘a double rip-off." a Michel Wilson said Thursday. " had not paid the $2. Soerbarrel levy — at the start of . " Amperial Oil Ltd: of attempting to sedhice the pulille ‘ Theads carry aheadline in big type saying: “Rip if Wilson, MP for the Torontoarea. riding of the year. with: costly,. tax-deductible “newspaper ‘ad- off? Nonsense!" | ct _yertisementis denying allegations raised ina recent Etobicoke Centre, told the Commons the profit was Then, beneath a picture of Imperiai chairman aay }. - ! 2 made because of a loophole or flaw In the ap- plication of a $2.50-a-barrelfederal tax designed to ‘ _. Peeover part ofthe cost of subsidizing expensive , imported oil. . Energy Minister Mare Lalonde, bombarded by questibus from the Opposition, reiterated that he “didn’t agree with Wilson's analysis but refused to elaborate. Wilson said the oll compaiies -passed’ the in- , creased cost along to consumers immediately, even. oe the bapvernment had intendedi it to spplyanly . Another . Friday, the 13th mo, : VANCOUVER (CP) —For . “people ‘suffering from la -~ fear of , -the number 13 -~ 1961 isn't a ~ "good year. . "Not only does Friday the ‘8th ‘qecur three times this year, but it appears two -pionths in. a row — last ‘topnth and today. It also - ‘ierives in November. The fault for this es with Pope Gregory XIII, who _ came wip with the present ea appt et ~ A taunched ite 49th and _ +f, 50th cosmonauts into Bae Fy woke &e. calendar in 1580. The Gregorian calendar, aa it is -calied, is used by most _ Western countries. ‘ Friday the 1tth in both “:\February and March occurs _1f-times in this century. It _ theories’ about ibe ‘origin of the miperstition. Some fee] it -,dataa. to. the: crucifixion of -" Carist which allegedly took : place Friday the 18th and Hinwolvied 13.61 the lable of the- Last Supper; others feel it. originates with a feast of 12 Norse Gods and the entrance ofan unlucky 19th, the spirit of evil and strife. . The Brief Dictionary of ‘Cancer can be beaten, say Pat Bunn, American Superstition 8ay8 = district co-ordinator; fear of 13 in the most - ‘widespread phobia of all. MORE IN. SPACE “oso (eter) The Soviet Union has . aboard 4 Former rhilway ‘engineer. Viktor -Savinykh and fis flight commander, Col. ‘By contrast, there is by tradition a-twomonth = <2.» _ delay in passing on to consumers inereases in the- - oe welihead peice of domestic oil. A $1-a-bartel . = wellhead increage Jan, 1did not gointo effect att the ~ pumpe unti] March 1. ‘Thiit constitutes a ‘double standard,” Wilson said 7 as be urged Lalonde to convince the companies. to .. Gelay this year’s increase to consumers and to : - + ensure it does not happen in 1982 and 1963 when the * ” compensation levy'is next raised. es ‘The levy i Sesigued to help the fir gover vos oy federal report that they overcharged customers by $12 billion — in 1980 dollars — between 1068 and 1973. . ‘Broadbent told the Commons the ads — to appear ©.” 1 96 of 37 newspapers across-the country — are deductible expenses for income tax purposes “and ~~ “therefore have to be made up by other Canadian . ~Apokeaman for the Toronto Globe and Mal. “ne ° 00 ; space Nights, were sent into: orbit Thursday oh night aboard the ‘Soyuz T4 spacecraft. + ‘Ther task-is to dock with the orbital space station where they will probably. stay for peveral months in the latest of several marathon Soviet missions. Seven cosmonauts from Soviet "of the papers publishing the ad today, said.a full”: page ad in its national edition. would cost shout Vor . L- Ys i 7 wot nae bass : Bryant, northern district chairman Sarbara B.C.-Yukon; for the service to patient program; Eileen Puder, campaign chairman and Linda Kaur, - president of the Terrace valid of . the Canadian Cancer Society. - Cancer campaign set to go When anexpectant mother “smokes a cigarette she causes her baby's heart to sop beating for 10 seconds. >This is just some of the ' information that is reaching young people In schools . ' through ‘the Canadian ’ "Cancer Society, which plans fo launch its 1961 campaign during the first weeks Apt The cancer society, often ‘secused of being top-heavy, ” is really organization. 1.5staff people ‘ cover three-quarters of the ’ province-while another staff _ person covers the rest, says Pat, Bunn, district co- ordinator. . “ volunteer - only five cents of the dollar doriated goes to ad: ministration; six cents goes - to fund raising; 14 cents goes t services to patients; i9 cents goes to - public education and 56 cents goes to research. “A lot of people are going to be wondering why we are of | campaigning after the Terry Fox Marathon of. Hope raised s0- much money. | ‘Terry's fund goes into new research only; and the’ training of new. scientists who may discover new ~pesearch. Our campaign is ‘for ongoing research, which would come toa halt if we did not continue with it," says Eileen Pucer, : cam- paign chairman for B.C. and Yukon. Last year in Terrace the local cancer society raised $7,000 and $4,500 of that went toward services to local. patients. During the Terry Fox campaign in-.Terrace residents of the community ‘gave $21,000. “fy would Ge unfair to Terry if we suddenly ‘stopped ‘and let him do all the work ‘by not organizing any more - campaigns,” says Pater. Pat Bunn says that one-in three cancer patients are now being cured by early - * detection; and with the right _kind of education in healthy lifestyles that figure can be cut down toone person in two with cancer being cured. - The cancer’ society has’ . Tecently built a 48-bed lodge to house out-of-town patients at 575 W..10 Avenue in _ Vancouver. The cost per patient Js only $8.50 per day foom and board and the cost _for a relative who wants to. .- stay with the patient is $32.50 . per day room and board. . provides kits for Grades 10- 12 biology students. Each kit costs $4 and is provided to. the schools free of charge. ‘There are 25 student-teacher “manuals; one set of 35mm . _Slides ‘and three overhead . produced in B.C. Other kits are provided "from. kindergarten to Grade 12to educate young people in — the importance of early ‘cancer detection and ‘ preventative methods of avolding cancer, In one class taught about the dangers of cancer 20 per cent of the students said they . ‘were giving up smoking; and stujents ‘will often quote stalistics’ to’ cancer society representatives before they have a chance to be told. Fulton wants Amax permit: dropped _ " OTTAWA (CP) — A ‘The Skeenia MP asked for ox-land tallings ponds at an British Columbia MP asked. the federal government. Thursday to withdraw .. special permission for Amax > Canada Ltd. to dump mine tailings into a West Coast inlet. . «Jim Fulton, — Democratic environment critic, tabled in the Com- mons a 9,000-signature | petition calling ‘for ar. inquiry into the issue. id Open 6:30am-1ipm Westend tags 24 hours Ya Westend Food Mart 635-5274 ~ 635-7228 “We Satisty Tummy & Tank 365DAYSA YEAR” . ? days a week Service New, : aa It moratorium before the $150- extra cost of only $29 million . million «mine. begins operation April i. Fulto said in an interview that the waters of Alice Arm Inlet, just north of Prince “Rupert, are threatened with mine wastes that include bead, arsenic, mercury and. But he said the Amax mine, which will employ 500 ofthis constituents, could use - FEATURES Comics; Pages 18,11. _Ciassitied,, Aba. dandets, Page Crossword, Page 10. Pages 8, 9 Se - contract — two per cent less than the anticipated return on in- vestment. Amax plans ‘0 mine molybdenum, a mineral ted in hardening steel. Fulton said -the mine ‘should yield fine ‘ ntillion * pounds # year and that the mineral is currently selling for #3 (U.5.) a pound. ‘The mine wanes, which will have the consistency a soft ice cream, will turn’ salmon from their normal ating patlerns, well, they will rob about 3,000 Nishga Indians of their traditional fishing for clams, crab and halibut, Fulton said. He said the unique pernal, isaued in the midst of the 1979 federal eléction,, when coupled with a. ‘provincial permit, allows the mine to ba Listings, Page 14. Town, Page The - . prolonged dispate _ between B.C. Tel and the Telecom: munications Workers Union fs producing a lot of losers on beth “damp 6,000 times the current federal Emit of wastes per litre of mispended solids. Any publie inquiry should ‘ok into the ereumsiances of issuing the permit, he said, . “He said thé inlet had - allready been subjected to wastes from another Molybdenum mine between _ thday (and the ribbing that goes with &) in stride. Page 6... ‘transparencies. They are” Calgary - Jack Arnstroug, a brief message says, . the “allegation of a consumer rip-off will not stand up to ” "tn itnpeytial inquiry. a The government's allegations were made public. last week iti 9 massive report after-elght yeara of tions VANCOUVER (CP) per cent from four." . with seehths BY share.” ee: demands — The provihcil govern- - ment’s $6.6-billion budget will cost each: member of . tbe International Woodworkers of America in B.C. about 30 cents an hour, or between $300 and $400 a - year, year, so the union will be increasing. it wage demands accondingty, ;a spokesman sald Thursday. Negotiations’ betwebn the union and. the forest companies begin April 1. , The budget, t, presented Monday ‘ty: Finance Minister Hugh ‘Cortis, calls for various tax in- creases inchiding a 0-per-cent inthe sales tax to ix e ex the Combines investigations 7 ~ . Ne ge ave to nd ta ‘ yallegations willbe aired at’ a: public ota Restrictive Trade Practioes Cone: governnient 4 (the budget) has to make us more dete at the bargaining table,” said Clay Perry, 1wA spokesman. “The setderaent is going to be larger than it would haye been.” -- Thé union is digging in for-a one-year contract . i ‘BM percent wage hike, he sald. Perry anid because of the nature of working in the forest indusiry. — + such as gasoline purchases in : ural areas— members will be hit harder by the tax - - __ - netentes than the average BC. resident. ery Saad Oe companies will clign they-too budget r the: “‘companies~ will paying more, but their view is that iabck’ shad be _ At the tall end of it all. But that's pot an attitude we tax . increases. The current twoyear agreement expires June 15. ‘Retired farmer to the rescue _ CALGARY: (CP 4 a A retired farmer. ‘with “a little paid Drabick héld off a police siege for, five dayi earlier this year. like arlybody’ e else,” Ralph Ferguson, 69, anid in an interview. “I hadn't hoped for any publicity at all.” Drabick took-two sheriff's ballifts hostage. ‘in January as they attempted to: derve an eviction notice on him and Drabick, 50, is to appear in court later this month for a preliminary hearing on charges of extortion, wiawful confinement and we of a weapon, Should he go to prison, his wife will not have to worry about making ‘ mortgage payments - for four’ years under the new mortgage held by Ferguson. Ferguson eon said he “has never met Drabick, although “he briefly met Drabick’s wife, Anne, and their three children in the contested home. He said the taking ‘of are to protest’ what Drabick considered unfair “ m.fust a human being ' treatment by the bank was wrong. “I couldn't a iat an” _ Buthe was “sympathetic” : Ww the family. | Power | outage - widespread . AMLB.C. Hytiro crewa were _ Inaiss feed line to the Skeena Sub-Station Region. The power outage affected Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Usk and the Nass Valley. The automatic kick- in syatem from Alcan, which is designed to give the area power when the 500,000 voit main transmission ling to ' Skeena fails, did not work during the power failures, says Dennis Mahoney, a spokesman for B.C. Hydro. Power was out in Terrace for 2) minutes at 6:50 a.m. and for 20 minutes at 3:30 a.m, Mahoney said this mior- ning B.C, Hydro was unable to locate the source of the problem immediately; but it was expected to ha¥e solved the problems by later today. 638-1825 4720 Hwy. 16 W. TERRACE . “Complete Office Coffee Service” host: