—— ppt ss LEGISLATIVE LIERARY, COMP. 77/78 PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, 8.Ces #6l i ~ "TERRACE-KITI Me Wan . - MAT . - : = RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. - i: we buy a a COPPER BRASS , ee ALL METALS & BATTERIES Te MOK. - SAT. — - . OPEN Tit 6 p.m. | Location Seal Gove Phone 624-5639 q Tuesday, December 5, 1978 20c Volume 72 No. 234 sX\ A CUPE slams bill OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) predicts ‘Intensified confrontation and conflict’ next year if Parliament passes a bill to link public service pay to in- creases in the private sector. “Bill C22, the bill to amend the Public Service Staff Relations Act, is a declaration of war against the country’s public sector workers,”’. the executive board of CUPE, the coun- try’s largest union with 250,000 members, said Monday after a weekend meeting. . The bill would instruct arbitration. boards and advise conciliation boards to compara the total value of pay and benefits with a representative selection of organizations outside the public service when determining public service increases. “Tha argument that publicsector workers spark inflation is a big lie fabricated by Liberal party propagandists and their statisticians in yet another attempt to prove that the Liberal party ls the only political party worthy and capable of gaverning the national affairs of the country," CUPE executives said. “Public employee unicns boweymen ‘by as national YMen Prime Minister Trudeau and his party as part of their campaign philosophy of crises tha fabricating false \4 only the Liberals are capable enough and decisive enough to solve.” Arson kills three TORONTY (CP) — Arson is suspected as the cause of the pre-dawn blaze that raged through a paper warehouse Monday, leaving three firefighters dead and causing $750,000 damage. Fire officials said it is the third time in two years that arson has been suspected in fires at the glant Kimberly- Clark of Canada Ltd. warehouse In northwest Toronto. But so far, officials have yet to prove it. Firefighters dug fran- tically through mounds of paper for about two hours Monday before bodies of two of the men were uncovered by workers using front-end ders. The dead were identified as District Chief Lloyd Janes, 54, Capt. Donald Kerr, 46, and firefighter John Clark, 44, all of To- ronto, Janes,senior member of the department, had 28 years service, Kerr 23 years and Clark 14 years. Fire officials said the men mer Killed when 4ymetre: stacks of paper’ rolls, wet and weakened in the firefighting effort, collapsed. Student honored VANCOUVER (CP) — A University of British Columbia student has become the first woman in the province to win a Rhodes scholarship. _ Catherine Milsum, 21, of Vancouver was chosen for: the 1979 scholarship irom among 13 applicants, a university spokesman sald pata She was also the woman among . Miss Milsum, will graduate in honors English next year. She then will leave for Oxford Ualversity for two years of study wi an optional third year. She said she intends to pursue an academic career, probably teaching at the university level. ’ municipal © affairs Theatre — production. planned These preparing for the Terrace Little Theatra production of Ben and the Boxes, written by two Terrace residents, Cherie Thiessen: and Dave Dossor. The play will be actors are seen at the Kalum Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. on Dec, 7 and Dec. 9 and at 8 p.m. on Dec. 8. . Two matinees will be held at 2 pm. on Saturday and Sunday. Everyone who plans to attend should get their tickets early as there are only about 75 seats per performance. Advance tickets are on sale at McColl Realty and sel] for $1.50 for adults and D, ' SHELFORD AGRICULTURE . B.C. cabinet shuffled — VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett today cabinet responsibilities. and extensive reorganizational changes within ministrieg of his three-year-old Social Credit government. Bennett added ‘two new - ministers to his cabinet and announced the creation of a new ministry to reduce or eliminate red tape. Three ministries disap- peared in the shuffle and two others were absorbed by other ministries. New cabinet ministers are Elwood Veitch (SC— Burnaby-Wiltingdon), chairman of the committee on Crown corporations, who becomes the minister of tourism and small business development, and Cyril Shelford (SC—Skeena) who becomes agrictuture minister. Velich also becomes the minister responsible for the B.C. Steamship Corp. and a director of the B.C. Development Corp. Shelford was agriculture minister fram 1968 to 1972 under the previous Social Credit administration. Bennett said that’ Grace cCarthy will. move fram *® Ovi M provincial secretary to in, resources minister, but will remain deputy premier. . She also becomes the minister responsible for the McGeer assumes ad- ditional responsibilities for -seionee and. . technology. under an expanded education, science and tech- nology ministry. He also be- comes a director of B.C. Hy Bennett sald that Jim bot, ‘moves from Minister’ of mines and petroleum resources to be- come’ minister of the new lands, parks and housing _ ministry with a mandate to make Crown land available to the citizens of B.C. Jim Hewitt, former ‘agriculture miniater, now'is energy, mines petroleum resources minister and a director of B.C. Hydro. - Highways Minister Alex Fraser becomes minister of an expanded transportation, eommunications and high- ways ministry with a mandate tp develop a transportation policy for The premier said Fraser also will be responsible for the B.C. Ferries Corp. and B.C. Air Services Including assistance programs for local airports. Heading the new deregulation ministry is Sam Bawlf, the former recreation and conservation minister. Bennett said the ministry haga self-destructing clause, and has a two-year mandate © to cut red tape in govern- Insurance Corp. of B.C. ment. (ICBC), a post previously held by Education Minister Pat McGeer, Hugh Curtis, minister of an housing, has been assigned the expanded provincial secrelary and government services ministry. He will be responsible for the B.C, Buildings Corp. and the Government Employee Relations Bureau. Bill Vander-Zalm moves from minister of human resources minister to municipal affairs minister with responsibility for the Urban Transit Authority. Rafe Mair, former con- sumer and corporate affairs minister, becomes en- vironment minister and a director of ICBC. Bennett told a news con- ference that he wil] continue as chairman of the cabinet committee on confederation and will become chairman of the environment and land use committee. In a switch, former en- vironment minister Jim Nielsen becomes consumer and corporate affairs minister. ent, Finance Minister Evan Wolfe has his ministry ex- panded to take in the research and analysis vision of the economic development ministry, He continues as minister re- sponsible for the B.C. Systems Corp. Also retaining their port- folios are Attorney-General Garde Gardom, Economic Development Minister Don Phillips, Forests Miniser Tom Waterland, Health Minister Bob McClelland and Labor Minister Allan Williams. In what the premier de- scribed as significant changes, the agriculture ministry was given an ex- panded mandate to promote the processing of home- grown food; attorney- general's ministry takes over the film classification division from consumer and corporate affairs; and labor was given the sole respon- sibility for the safety engineering division of the former highways and public works ministry. Bennett said the “sweeping administrative changes constitute an en- tirely new lock to the ee es eee ES ne a structure ‘itn many minis- tries." ; After being charged with three counts of.fraud, three counts of false pretenses, two counts of possession of a restricted firearm without a permit and one count of possession of marijuana, a man calling himself Kenneth William Bowers did not convince Judge Darrall Collins in Terrace provincial and- gourt on Monday that he should be allowed out of jail until his next court ap- pearance on Dec. 11. Bowers, age 31, was charged on Friday but he did not make a plea on Monday in court. The man’s true identity has not been established, Tom Bishop, crown counsel, told the court. The charges were laid after a man established seven bank accounts in the Terrace-Kitimat area and wrote cheques amounting to an estimated total of $317,000, said Bishop. The cheques were written on personalized cheques from one bank to accounts at other banks, said Bishop. @ man apparently ob- talned a truck Hl a Terrace car dealer. The truck was worth $12,000, Bishop said. : OTTAWA (CP) — Blair Clow, a Prince Edward Island fisherman, knew he had a big one when he saw the turtle caught-in his net. And scientists at the National Museum of Natural Science proudly introduced Monday a rare 1,000-pound leatherback turtle named Sweetums, after the Mup- pels (of television fame) monster. The six-foot, 10-inch male, which drowned in Clow’s net in September, had just been shipped frozen from the East Coast in a fish truck after being identified by Nova Scotia museum experts. Francis Cook, museum ‘berpetologist—an expert in reptiles and amphibians— sald there was probably a Bail refused | The man convinced one bank to give him $2,000 in travellers cheques, he said. When police arrested the man he had two iden- tification cards on him under the names of Bowers and Green. A third identification card wasn't complete, said Bishop. The man has also been known as Duffy, he said. Police, according to Bishop, found a loaded pistol in the man's motel room at the time of his arrest. They also found a small quantity of a substance alleged to be Marijuana, said Bishop. The man appeared to be preparing to leave the area when police arrested him, said Bishop. Bishop said police are still Investigating and there may be further charges against the man, Judge Collins said that he was not satisfied that the man calling himself Bowers should be released. “If someone can devise a scheme to get money in this way, he could find a way to leave town if he wanted to,"’ he said. The man was remanded until Dec. 11 at 9 a.m. - ofl = revenues, IN IR Government is tottering TEHRAN (AP) - Thousands of oil workers launched a new round of job slowdowns Monday hoping to lopple Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by drying up the country’s all-important reliable sources reported. In Tehran, three days of bloody anti-government protests appeared to he winding down Monday. But in a new twist to what has been a one-sided struggle by unarmed dissidents against the military's guns, a guerrilla band attacked a pelice station, killing one officer and wounding another. Youthful protesters also set fire to a bank in the heart of the capital, causing considerable damage. But otherwise the armored imilitary patrols stationed at key points in the city seemed generally in control. The government reported its troops killed {7 persons and wounded 50 in Tehran and the southern city of Isfahan since the latest violence exploded Friday night. Diplomatic sources put the death toll at more than 30 here and in provincial cities and some of the shah’s opponents claim as many as 3,000 persons have been killed, a figure most observers believe to be wildly exaggerated. “We're fighting to the death now; we have shed too much blood to step,"’ one militant who identified himself only as Hassan told a reporter at the burial of a half-dozen slain protesters in a Tehran cemetery. The opposition is both reli- gious and political— orthodox Moslems who want to reverse the shah’s Westernizalion of the traditional Islamic society and political dissidents who want to end his authoritarian rule. Sources who asked not to be identified said the new slowdown by many of the 37,000-man work force in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan oi) fields im- mediately cut tran’s daily oil production by two million barrels, one-third of the normal level, “We expect the slowdowns to get worse tomorrow and production to drop even further,” one well-placed source said. Iran, the world’s No. 2 petroleum exporter, depends heavily on its oi) revenues. Leaders of the opposition, particularly the Paris-based Ayatullah Khomaini, exiled head of Iran's dominant Shiite Moslem sect, had called for stepped-up street protests and a general strike beginning during the weekend. MESSAGE MAY START TALKS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sent a message Monday to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt that might get the de- railed peace talks back on track. Although official Israeli sources refused to disclose the contents of the message—Begin’s reply to cne from Sadat last week— they said it makes clear that Israel expects Egypt to drop its demand for linking the peace treaty to a timetable for Palestinian autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. Israeli Radio described the note as ‘‘polite but aggressive," Egypt wants Israel to agree to a timetable, or at leasL a target date, for electing a Palestinian governing council, but Israel has rejected the idea. The Egyptians have agreed to a U.S.-proposed target date of the end of 1979-and are reported to be willing to incorporate this idea in a letter appended to the main body of the treaty. In the West Bank, Israeli army bulldozers demolished the homes of two Palestinians convicted of political murders and terrorist operations, in what appeared to be a renewal of a policy of retribution. The Israeli Supreme Court issued injunctions against the demolitions late Sunday, but a court official said the erders had not been delivered to the military government until Monday, after the bulldozers had gone inte action. Israel abandoned its policy of razing houses of guerrilla suspects, which were often described as terrorist hideouts, following in- ternational criticism that the action violated the Geneva - conventions. Alleged jew-killer’s conviction quashed THE HAGUE (AP) — A79- year-old Dutch millionaire art collector, onc? convicted of killing Jews whiie serving with the Nazi SS (elite guard) in Poland in the Second World War, was freed Monday after a Dutch court reversed his con- viction. The district court said Pieler Menten had claimed that a former justice minister promised him immunity from war crimes prosecution after he was convicted of Nazi collaboration 26 years ago, and his claim “must be accepted as a possibility." After the ruling, the diabetic Menten, who also claims to have a_ heart condition, slipped out the back door of Scheveningen prison near The Hague without comment. He had been in jail since his con- viction last Dee. 14. The ruling came after a 4- ‘minute court hearing heard charges that Menten partici- pated in the summer 11 massacre of 20 to 30 Polish Jews at the village of Podhoroce, now inthe Soviet Ukraine. Menten had been con- victed of the charges after a seven-month trial in Am- sterdam, but the Dutch Supreme Court threw out the ; LEATHERBACK TURTLE A big one but not for little dickering with restaurants first, But scientists here have been waiting for the likes of Sweetums for a long time, said Cook as he showed a giant turtle tank built nearly 14 years ago. A check with major selence museums in the United States and on both Canadian coasts showed Sweetums may be the only leatherback ‘left intact, he added. “One estimate says there are only about 1,000 female leatherbacks in the world,’ he said. “And estimates are based on all known nesting beaches where the females have lo come ashore to lay eggs.” Moreover, scientists have no idea how old Sweetums is. “The baby turtles are hard to keep in captivity and die soon after. We have no idea how long it takes to grow a turtle of this size." Despite Sweetums' size, females grow much larger, Cook said. “It is [hought that marine turtles in northern waters is an aecident,”' sald Cook although reports have documented sightings off the East Coast since 1889. Some of the five types of marine turtles will haul themselves out of the ocean to bask in the sun “but as far as we know leatherbacks never do.” Most marine turtles become sluggish when they leave the warm Gulf Stream waters and head into colder paris of the ocean because their blood temperature drops to match surrounding water temperatures, Cook said, “However, leatherbacks found in cold water are very active and have food in their stomachs, It’s almost warm blooded because the blood temperature is about 18 Gegrecs Celsius above (he water temperature.”” BRecause Sweetums has al- ready thawed, scientists must work quickly to reproduce the specimen in a plaster cast for laler exhibitions before the real animal is preserved in formaline, Cook said. conviction in May, saying it found procedural errors in the Amsterdam trial. The high court said insufficient attention was given to Menten’s immunity ‘claim. A successful tea dealer in pre-war Poland, Menten served an eight-month jail term in the Netherlands in 1949 for collaborating with the Nazis in Poland, but he was acquitted on charges of serving with enemy forces. He fled the Netherlands in 1976 when the justice ministry moved against him on war crimes charges, but he was picked up in Swit- zerland and returned to the Netherlands to stand trial. Correction In the Dec, 1 edition of the Daily Herald we reporzed that the Thornhill water . supply referendum will be d on Jan. 6. Later we pointed out that a regional district newsletter erroneously reported a referendum date of Dec, 7. We meant to report that the wrong date was Jan. 7 and the correct date was Jan. 6. We apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced, soup “These things are rare and endangered and this is a good opportunity for us to examine him."’ All marine turlles have be- come endangered species as men collect eggs from the warm sandy nests for food, he said. “The leatherback flesh 1s not regarded asa delicacy as it is the green turtle. It can even become a deadly meal at times." Cook said not enough is known about the leatherback to explain why the meat can be toxic. He sald the main diet of the leatherback is jellyfish and some of the iargest con- centrations of the giaft turtles are found near schools of jellyfish. A DERN oo