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Floods have dampened election campaign

WINNIPEG (CP) —
submerged campaigning for

] campaigning for
the May 22 federal election in

some parts of th
‘ohn southern

With water covering most
of the Hed River valley,
candidates and _ party
workers alike have turned
their attention to drier parts
of their ridings, although
aome have also put in time
flood-fighting, _ ;

“Let's face it," says Peter

cot isteal veel’ See page 13 for more stories

“People who are being
flooded don't want to talk
about polities anyway.”

Chief electaral officer’
JeanMarc Hamel and. his
staff are watching the
situation closely, but there's
been no definite word on
changes in’ election
procedures because of the
emergency.

” ‘The best guess is that some
-new stations will have to be
set up for advance polls that
begin on May 12. and perhaps
some changes in voting

_Stations for May 22 as well,

flooding. The Red and

“Morris rivers have ‘flowed
cover hundreds

of square
kilometres of land in the

eastern portion of the riding. ©

and the Carman area. suf-
fered through tlooding from

‘Lisgar, located in south: , the Boyne River about a

central Manitoba, is perhaps

__the riding most hurt by t

week earlier. .
Mabel Blight, campaign

manager for- veteran
Progressive Conservative
MP Jack Murta, says the
severe Mooding quickly put
an end to campaigning.

“All the people who would.

-be working with us down in

those areas are trying to
protect their own property,”
she says.

Murta has shifted his cam-
paign for re-election to other
parts. of the riding, as has
New Democratic Party.
candidate Keith Poulson.

“Eve ‘asked all my
workers not to worry about
the campaign,’* Poulson
says. .

- He hopes to return to the
valley later in the campaign,

- although he saysa number of

residents could be more con-
cerned with cleaning up
thair property than with the
election,

Cole is less hopeful about
the situation from a cam-
paign point of view.

“Frankly, | doubt that
we're going to be able to get
back in that area before the
election,’ he says.

Cole would like to see
apecial arrangements made
for votera displa
floods, ‘‘because these’
people are scattered all over
the place and we don’t want
to see them = dis
enfranchised.”

Campaigning has also
been disrupted In Proven-
cher constituency,

‘on the west by the Red River,
_and im some rotected

up
parts of WinnipegF ort Garry,
and several other ridings..

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They’re off.

and running |

About 120 people whe want ta
spend sdme time in Ottawa
have been nominated to
contest the 28 British
Columbia seats available in

the May 22 federal general {

election.

The three major parties — _

Libera], Progreasive Con-
servative and New
Democratic Party — have
candidates in all 28 ridings

and it is unlikely that any.

minot-party candidates
gain sufficient support for a
spot in the House of Com-

mons, ;
The Progressive Con-

Prisoners
take

hostages

DORCHESTER, N.B.
(CP) — A prisoner at the
federal penitentiary grabbed
two hostages Monday and
barricaded himself in &
section of the prison'’s
yocatlonal training centre.

“Justin Sullivan, a
spokéaman for Correction
Services Canada, sald in
Moncton the two hostages
were shop instructors.

He said the prisoner,
whose name was not
released, had not made any
demands and there was no
word on whether he waa

armed.

The hostage-taking began
around 4 ‘clock.

RCMP were called in.

been ineffect in 1974, tha PCs

would -have taken 10 of the 28 .

seats, the Liberals seven and
the NDP two.
Environment Minister Len

cain
and the Liberals know he will

be tough to beat, -

Jack Dunlop, Marchand’s
campaign manager, says,
however, that Marchand’s
strength is that he has done
go much for so many in-
divduals In the riding.
Dunlop. said the en
vironment minister has
made sure that action is
taken any time a constituent
reports a problem with the
federal government to
Marchand’s constituency
offiee. :

Ron Basford, former
justice , minister in the
Trudeau cabinet, is not
contesting the Vancouver
Centre seat, but the Liberals
feel they have a_ strong
eandidate in Art Phillips,

aed STA

these days. Ashley

His real name is Cyril Shelford
. put the Soclal Credit candidate is
belng called anything from
Sighrol Shepard to Cycll Shelford

Proceviat, baltcons.

seen here with a Cycll Shelford

former mayor of Vancouver. .

HERE

social event.

_ED BROADBENT

Ed Broadbent, national leader of the New
Democratic Party, will be in Terrace in the
arena banquet room from 7:30 p.m, to 12
midnight tonight at a May Day celebration.

Local NDP organizers say that the public .
is Invited to meet Broadbent, Jim Fulton,

-Skeena federal candidate and Frank
Howard, Skeena provincial candidate at the

TODAY

He doesn’

a yee . my oa : ‘

Sheiford on t

. Social Credit candidate
. Cyril Shelford focused his
campaign on the southern
‘ reaches of the Skeena riding
when he visited Kemano,
Hartley Bay, and finally
Kitimaat Village last week.

Shelford travelled to
. Kemano via the Alean boat.
He toured theEurecan
logging operation, met with
achool children, spoke in-
dividually with individual
residents,
ticipated in a local birthday
celebration, ==

Aiter overnighting in

and even par- |:

Kemano, it was on to the
small. Indian village of
Hartley Bay. Shelford met
with the band council and
hereditary chief John
Clifford before touring the
impressive new school’
facilities.

Thursday afternoon saw
him return.to Kitimaat
Village where he toured the
dock facilities and viewed
the master plan for the
future development of the

village. Commercial docking ~

facilities, a trailer village,
private mooring and boat

balloon for the Trades Fair, says |
that over 1,000such balloons came
in with the spelling mistakes.
Social Credit has ordered new

BARRETT

Food hike
was profit |

VANCOUVER (CP) — Ex-
cessive profiteering by the
food industry is partially
responsible for the recent
surge in food prices and a
New Democrat government
in British Columbia would
agsist food co-operatives to
provide an alternative and
stimulate competition, party
leader Dave Barrett said
Monday. :
“We sea increased food
ces a8 a major threat to
‘amily: life’ in Britleh
Columbia,” Barrett said.

He outlined the NDP's food

im policy following a vislt to the

he trail

launch facilities are all in-
cluded in the plan.
Saturday saw Shelford fly
to Vancouver and then on to
Kamloops where he ad-
dressed the Interior Loggers
Convention, Sunday he was
in Penticton the riding of

‘Energy Minister Jim Hewitt.

Monday he will move into the
North Okanagan riding of
Pat Jordan and Tuesday will
arrive in Prince George and
McBride, Shelford .wiil
return to Smithers Tuesday
‘evening, where he will be the
guest on a radio show.

A. would offer admi

Ray -Carn-Coprative Lod...
store near the ‘Vancouver |

East riding where he is
seeking reelection.
The former premier said
that, if elected in the May.10
provincial general election,
his government would set up
a special food. co-pp section
in the B.C. Development
Corp. to provide financial
and management ‘assistance
to food co-operatives.”
* He said the corporation
trative

assistance and
organizational expertise. It
would offer co-ops the same
programa available to small
business and there would be
no special capital grants
available.

Barrett told a news confer-
ence that a 1976 food prices
review board study had
concluded that chain stores
control food retaillng to.a
large degree and therefore
consumers are paying
higher prices.

“We as government
cannot possibly present an
option to chains other than
encouraging people to move
into this type of food co-
operatives,” the NDP leader
said.

“We are concerned that
big chains are reaping big
profits without true com
petition." >

Rarrett urged all British
Columbians to join co-
operatives as an shopping
alternative and ‘we would
do jcnything to encourage

a

“Bul the incentive and the
motivation and the delivery
of the co-op service itself
must and should come from
the people in the com-

m .
Barrett said the NDP
licy will ensure a reliable
ood supply and fair prices to

. CONSUMETS.

_ He repeated the party’s
commitment to preservation
of agricultural : land to
reduce the trend of growing
dependence on outside
suppliers and to a farm in-
come assurance program to
protect the
viebility.-of.the-, farming.
industry. _—

Barrett said his party sup-
ports federal NDP leader Ed
Broadbent's praposal for a

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parison list."
' Barreit sald Sunday ap =

financial .

fair prices commission with
the power to roll back um
justified food prices,

"If this commission is nel

set up, the NDP would en-
courage selective shopping
by publishing a bi-weekly or
monthly shopper

NDP. government would
reopen the investigation into
the question of middlemen
and menopolles in the food
industry in B.C. :

He said he was disap .
million

pointed that-a $3°

investigation by the

Aegislature’s....agriculture

conimiltes had d

the question of m .
kickbacks and big mid-
dtemen profits.

Terrace on Tuesday.

Government has

Howard sald.

small

forgivable loan

shows that fhere is

riding.”

FRANK SAYS
‘THANKS DON’

Frank Howard, NOP candidate for
Skeena, says he Is pleased that Economic
Development Minister, Con Phillips, visited

“1 really am thankful that Phillips came
here and told us how his Soctal Credit

businessman for he was proved my con-
tentlon that this riding has been Ignored,”

“Philiips told us that his Government has
helped 175 small businesses’ sald Howard,
“But he falled to relate the whote truth,
which Is thatonly one company In the entire
Skeena Riding has been assisted by the
business program.”

“The proof is in his own government's
March, 1979 Issue of the Tourism and Small
Business Development Newsletter. That
newsletier shows that one company in
Smithers was helped by an Interest-free and

“By contrast.’ said Howard, “Premier
Bennett's home town of Kelowna received
nearly $200,000. if nothing else It certainly

change in the representation for this

helped the small

of $4,950.00"

a great need for a

McCreery is independent

by Greg Middleton

David McCreery is a 27-
year-old logger from
Hazelton who doesn't
think either of the two
major parties In the May
10th provincial election
represent the majority of
the people in Skeona.

For that reason, Mc-
Creery threw his hat into
the ring as an. in-
dependent. He thinks

4 there should be more

independents and the
yoters should elect them
because they aren’t tied

to a party line.

“Both parties each
favor about 25 per cent of
the voters, we need a
middle of the road can-

didate that can represent
the majority,” says
McCreery.

One of McCreery's
reasons for running is
that he wants to see more
Crown land released for
homesteading. He -sa
the Social Credit
government did off
some Crown land for s
but he feels the

developers got moat of It.
McCreery wants the land
claims issue settled
because most of the
Crows land that would be
avatiable for
homesteading is also part
of the land under dispute.
McCreery claims the
political parties
are belng deliberately
slow in dealing with land
elaims because they don't
want to lose votes.
“lt people own
anything at all, and

Hh and wants to win the race

could be of ter value
than the land?” Meo-
Creery astm.

He goes on to say that
no government should
come between
and ths land. He ens
the government is
bol ba Crown

ck on
land.

McCreery, who is
running a low-key
campaign out of his home
in toa, feels that the
access to crown lané

com:

t have a fancy political machine q