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water although it occasionally clambers up on a log
or rock to’ bask briefly in the sun. Color varies
fram’ dark brown or alive green to black. Patterns
on the carapace are not always clearly pronounced
but a wellmarked specimen wil! have a dark series
of radiating spots or'lines. Eggs are deposited in
a shallow cavity in the earth; when laying is tom-

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East Coast Also

Against

OTTAWA (CP) -~ Joe
Marris, president of the
Canadian . Labor
Congress (CLC), com-

lained Wednesday that

e@ congress and other
labor organizations have
been barred from making
a formal statement to a
public inquiry into
proposals to construct an
oil port on the West Coast.

“The limited evidence
submitted to date
suggests that a major.
increase In tanker traffic
on the West Coast would
be extremel dangerous
insofar as the fisheries
are concerned,” .Morris
said in a telegram to in-
quiry chairman Andrew
Thompeon. me

“Phis situation is
further compounded by -
the fact that we cannot
endorse any develop:
ments which would

Tankers

impair the ability of the
indigenous people of the
region to reach an equi-

table settlement of
0

related to land and water
usage,”

_ Morris said the inquiry
denied the CLC, the
British Columbia ;

Federation of Labor and
the: Pacific Coast
Maritime Council of
Unions the opportunity to
make a formal statement
to a public meeting now

“under way in Vancouver.

“Sooner or later the

overnment will be
orced to make up its
mind about the

disirability of a western
oil port and since we now

-- have the time to under-

take a thorough study of
the .. implications of
building a port, we should
take, advantage of this
fact.”

_ Joe Morris Protests

VANCOUVER (CP)
Three major labor
organizations were

denied the opportunity to
arene inauiy b Coast
oil ports. y because
of their lastminute in-
tervention, an inquiry

spokesman said Wed-
néesday,
Commission counsel

Peter Bernard said the
Canadian’ Labor
Congress, the British Co-
lumbia Federation of
Labor,- and: the Pacific .
Coast Maritime Council
were denied the right to
appear because they
didn't qualify under -
ound rules set in May
'y commissioner Dr.
Andrew Tompson. —s,
Bernard said it was ,
stipulated that only those i
groups who wished ' to
participate in the inquiry
ona major basis would be
permitted’ to make
representations.

He added that groups:
might make written
submissions which would
be considered by the
commisaion, ;

He said the criterion for
heing a major contributor
was that a group be
prepared to take part in
all phases of the inquiry.
SENDS MESSAGE

In a@ telex to the com-
mission, CLC president
Joe Morris said the CLC
did not understand why
the inquiry adopted suc
a restrictive position.

Pensio

VICTORIA (CP) — The
British Columbia
government | should
provide hospitals with
adequate notice when
increasing daily charges
for extendedand in-
termediale-care patients,
Charles Barber (NDP—
Victoriay said Tuesday.

He said “that Gorge.
Road Hospital, the major
extended-care cenire in
Victoria, had heen in-
formed only lust week
that the rates were going
Up OS par cent on Fan. | te
$6.4 a day from $4 and
now is informing its
pationts.

“Ttenters are suppused
fo wet three monlis notice
‘oan ineckse, why nt

.~* Commission's Turndown: -°

Morris called for an

order-incouncil to extend — saijli

the life of the inquiry
indefinitely, because it
has started a process
which has allowed for
discussion of important
uestions facing Cana-

ans.

B.C. Federation of
Labor secretary-general
Len Guy said the com-
mission’s explanation
was unacceptable.

“Inasmuch as we are
not presenting new
evidence but are

cifically addressing
hose issues before this
hearing—that is, the
advisability of the inquiry
continuing—there is no
valid excuse for refusing
fo hear our commission,
’ he said.

The euberission th
pro jointly by the
Cee and the B.C labor
body, urged the inquiry
not to be recessed and
that it continue with an
exhaustive prove of the
oil ports issue.

ompson said Nov. 9
that the inquiry would be
adjourned _ indefinitely
because there was no
longer any specific port
development application
before the commission.

A commission counsel
report to the inquiry's
three-day summing-up
session’ has concluded
that proponents of a West
- Coast oil port have failed
to show absolute need for
the proposal.

Patients

hospital atients?
Barber asked, ;

He said the increase is
unnecessarily Stepp and
would create hards ip for
pensioners, particularly
those who also maintain a
residence while in hospi-

He suggested thal an
increase of $1, to $5,
would have been more
reasonable,

Premier Bill Bennett's
Social Credit government
announced a 700-per cent
increase in the daily
churges for extended and
intermediate health care
in March of 1976 to $7 4
day from $8 but later
cut the inerease io $4
following public: uproar.

- work

. A brief

BC's Tent & Awning Co. Has
Interesting History °-- -

VANCOUVER (CP) -
Jones Tent and Awning in
40 years here has hud to
adapt to the demise of
sailing ships. the feverish
gold Tush days. two

epressions, three wars,
British Columbia's forest

and = industrial
development, growing
leisure time for

recreation and today's
tight economy.

The company's raw
materials over the years
have changed from white
cotton canvas to colorful
synthetics. Its product
emphasis has shifted
from sails, tents, and
industrial products to
clothing and recreational
gear.
‘Today, despite the
company's name, the
Jones boys are almost out
of the — tent-making
business, except for
small lightweight hiking
tents and industrial tents.
Competition from low-
priced imports has forced
them to switch from
manufacturing their own
tents to distributing
imports.

The healthy demand
for their garments and
sleeping bags, however,
has been considerable
consolation. Total annual
sales are in the $8 million
range, With the biggest
proportion from gar-
ments and sleeping bags.

Ken Jones, the com-
pany’s secretary-
treasurer, says it is the
largest manufacturer of
skiclothes and sleeping
bags in Western Canada.
it also handles tar-
paulins, water bags, life
Jackets, pack frames,
utensils, and other sports,
camping and outdoor
items—manufac-
turin, some and
distributing others.

Jones Tent and Awning
has managed to maintain
its position and grow,
while watching dozens of
smaller .B:C. garment-
makers go. under. ,
ALMOST CLOSED

iw all been clear
“Until the federal
government came — in

‘interest when

recently with clothing
import quotas, we were
afraid we might have to
shut ‘down our
machines." | suid Jones
recently.

And with the price of
down jumping to $24 from
$6 a pound in less than
two years, the company's
profit margin has been
shrinking, ‘even. though
sales are strong. —

. The company once
developed a fair trade
with United States

customers, with as much
as one-quarter -of’ its
output for export during
the early 1970s, but risin
costs have put its prod-
ucts at a price disad-
vantage there.

There's a brighter
outlook in Europe,
however. ,

The company’s Pioneer
brand of work clothes and
sportswear relies, on
quality workmanship
rather than cut-rate
prices, and “as a
specialty item, we fare
well,” said Jones.

SHOW INTEREST

Countries like Sweden,
Germany and Swit-
zerland took quite an
e@ com-

ny first introduced its
Jines there three years
ago.

“We were amazed at
the reception,’ said
Jones. “Our lines really
took off.”

Over the years, Jones
Tent and Awning has
become a part of British
Columbia’s history.

Founder Charles Jones,
a Liverpool-born sail.
maker who moved here
after stays in Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick
and Manitoba, started out
on the Vancouver
waterfront, making sails
for fishermen and the
sailing ships comping
into the harbor here. He
expanded his production
when..he realized, there
was a greater need for

~ tents, after."a “fire ‘swept. ..,

through the city in 1886.

Just after the turn of
the century, when the
fame of Canada's big

_ equipment.

Brizzlies was: spreading
around the world, the
company found itself
outfitting hunting parties
which included heads of
state, dukes and other
world figures. C. H. Janes
and Son, as the company
was known then,

foremost
outdoor equipment.

Ira —s Jones,
chairman of the board at
age 74, joined his father

Tr

ed in the business in ~~

1922°as an awning in-
staller. He ‘later

graduated to sales ‘and -

still. remembers the

‘Depression when ‘

desperate men would
come into the store and

sink thelr last $50 into :
prospecting: equipment. -.
“"What’s interesting,” .
says Ira, “is that some of ;

them made it.
“Wehad something of a

prospecti boom in 1992

at developed into a
rush. “Then ‘the In-

vestment men came into ~
the market. And in the

middle of the depression,
Howe Street was full of
men gambling in gold.”

UPS AND DOWNS

With changing. times
and changing lifestyles,
the company has had its
share of ups and downs.

The hippies and flower
children of the 1960s
developed into one of the
company’s biggest
markets for sleeping

bags and camping

“And they only bought
the best,” said Ken.

The: firm also lost a
good market for its larger
tents when gro. rposwitch
instead to fancy. trailers
and campers. .

But if the firm has lost
some markets, it stands
to gain a new one with the
fedp ipe ip eil il
construction boom in the
north. © a

Meanwhile, not,to mark
time while waiting for a

ys are: putting their
heads together far their
latest project ~—a more
fashion-conscious line of
skiwwear.

»..

Nor

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.
(CP) — A new regional
district is needed by
people living north of the
58th rallel, . the
provincial government's
regional district review
committee was told here
Tuesday.

Elli Framst, chairman
of the Peace River-Liard
Regional District, told
the committee that
creation of anew district
would - .make local
governmentsmore
sensitive to the needs of
northern residents.
esented by
Framst said that despite
the best efforts of the
regional district, people
living as far north as
Cassiar and Lower Past
have legitimate claims
that they are not always
fully considered when
decisions are made.

Dow Che

Sees Need For New
th Reg. District —

The brief said creation
of a new district, with
Fort Nelson as its fu,
ciple city, should be
undertaken as soon as the
economic and social
development of the area
has advanced far enought
to assure viable oper-
ation.

Framst said the district
should include areas of
northwestern B.C. that
presently are not covered

y any form of local
government.

He also recommended
that rural residents
contribute money for
recreational
developed in a mixed
municipal and rural
setting, possibly by ad-
justments in tax

facilities .

services should be a
major concern of the re-
view committee.

Framst and Mayor Fat
Walsh of Fort St. John
said they were both
happy with the general
idea of regional districts,
adding that there was’ a
satisfactory . state of
affairs between - the

Peace River-Liatd ° :°
Regional District and its
component mu-.
hicipalities. a
Walsh called for
stan#ha no oit
benefitting areas and for
changes in terme of
electing members to

regional district boards.
He said there was a
problem posed by divided
oyalties of. municipal
council members . sitting
on boards; .~

Recovering Masculinity. 7

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP)
Some workers at a Dow
Chemical Co. plant who
were exposed to the
pesticide DBCP—

lieved to cause sterility
in males— seem to be
recovering their fertility,
Dow said today.

Tests in August among
B6 workers at Dow's
Magnolia, Ark., plant
showed low or zero sperm
counts in 47 men. Dow
said that follow-up tesls
on some of the men in
November showed that
five who-had produced no
sperm in August pro-
ded ‘esi gm ef

amounts and two others
whose sperm counts had

heen fow in Aupiust

Jproduced normal

denails

Tage
ert) Ln er Ls

A Dow announcement
quoted Dr.. Benjamin
Holder of the company’s

medical department as |

saying the November
results were
“preliminary
tabulations.’ He added:
“It is our interpretation
that these data indicate
initial reversal of effects
which will continue.”

Ay
Dow tgok as normal a
sperm count of 20 million
sperm per cubic cen-
timetre of semen or
more. °
‘Twenty-six al 6) men
who were asked to par-
ticipate in the fellow up
dtudy did not, Dow said.
The company snk all
would be encouraged lo
take partin further work

on Low's study of the
effects of DBCP.

DCEP, .
dibromochtoropropane,
is a fumigant used to con-
trol pests that attack root
crops. The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration
banned it for most uses
after the possibility of
sterility was discovered.

The -- two US.
manufacturers, Dow and
Shell Chemical Corp.,
suspended praduction
‘and .recalled supplies in
August.
—DPBCE also has been
shown to cutuse cancer in
laboratory animals, uid
reseurebers wha per
fortned tosts ia kit have
said they probably shoukd
have done tore testing

was |
recognized, as the -
supplier of

now .

obd thing; the silones > th

Inuits Want Own Government
But Still In Confederation

FROBISHER _ BAY,
N.MW.T. (CP) — The Inuit
of the Northwest
Territories presented the
federal government with
a new land claim Wed-
nesday and denied they
wish to create a separate
native state.

“Tt is unfortunate but
we suspect that people in
Yellowknife have in-
tentionally mis-
interpreted our position,”’
Gamaillie Kilukishak told
Northern. - : Development

Rilvieehak lives in Pond
Inlet, N.W.T., and is a
chairman of the Inuit
oup. ©
“We have never
proposed and are not
proposing ethnic criteria
of any sort asa basis for
participation in our
proposed new govern-
ment. All Canadians,
Inuit and non-Inuit alike,
will have identical
political rights and
obligations within this
new government.”
- The claim, covering the
roughly 1.5 million
square miles of Canada
above. the treeline, is in
the form of an agreement
in principle. The 17,000
Inuit say negotiations on
details can begin after
Ottawa agrees to the
basic principles.
Creation of an Inuit
overnmentwithin
onfederation and the
right of the Inuit to self-
determination are two
major proposed prin-

ciples.
LIST PROPOSALS

Also sought are:

—The right of the Inuit
to own their traditional
lands and waters, in-
cluding the subsurface,
and the right to practise
traditional hunting and
fishing.

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—Compensation tor
past, present and future
use of Inuit land, water
and resources.

Kilukishak told
Faulkner that all persons
would have identical
rights and obligations
within the government
proposed by the Inuit.

e new government and
its territory would be

-Minister.-Hugh Faullener. «pee aos-53
Mone “ane interpreter. 31 J:

OTTAWA (CP) —
Provision of massive
underground oil storage
sites on the East Coast
may be the key to in-
creasing oil exports to the
US., Canadian energy
department officials said
Wednesday.

The two governments
are currently in the midst
of talks on ways to head
off shortages of crude oil
expected next year in the
mid-western states as a
result of cuts in oil
shipments from Alberta.

Under consideration is
an expansion in the
system of oil swaps
between the two coun-
tries that started in July,
1975. Currently Canada
provides the western
states with 60,000 barrels
of crude oil above the ex-
port limits, with the U.S.
shipping an equal amount
of its oil back into the
eastern provinces.

But a broadening of the
program, which eases the

roblem faced by the
andlocked U.S.
refineries in gelting
alternate supplies, will
depend on the USS.
government being able ta
guarantee its supply of oil
to the east in times of
world shortages.

Energy officials say the
only way they can see to
provide such a guarantee
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within the constitutional
framework and would be
subject to the ultimate
authority of Parliament,

‘Faulkner called the
claim positive and
constructive. He an-
nounced that Bob Goudie,
an Ottawa public servant,

i handle — the
negotiations with the
Inuit for Ottawa.

storage sites on the East
Coast, possibly in the U.S.
but preferably in Canada.

TWO SITES PROPOSED
Two proposals for
storage sites already
have been made— filling
the abandoned iron ore
mine in Bell Island, Nfld.,
or salt caverns in eastern
Nova Scotia. The sites
could hold up to 100
million barrels each.

Energy Minister
Alastair Gillespie said he
formally has advised the
U.S, that Canada also is
willing to consider ‘time
exchanges of crude oil”
to facilitate additiona.
shipments to the western
states. ;

_ He said this would
involve Canada ap-
proving increased ex-
ports in 1978, 1979 and
possibly 1980 ‘“‘in ex-
change for a suitably-
assured return of crude
oil at a later time,"’

Canada also is
prepared to take foreign
crude on the East Coast
supplied by the U.S.. in
return for shipments
from Alberta, Gillespie
said. Currently,. the oil
shipped to the eastern

rovinces comes from

S. domestic supplies.

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