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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1978

Jim Ryan Sr., (left) Caledonia band director presented Rick'Brouwer and
Jim Ryan Jr. with invitations to participate as members of the AIL-B.C. Bi-
Centennial Band. Winners were chosen by the Captain Cook Band Com-
mittee.

1% VANCOUVER (CP) —
Economy Wholesalers

. Ltd. — of Winnipeg,

; manufacturer of a T-shirt
which pokes fun at Prime
Minister Trudeau and the
Canadian dollar, is
dropping the job because

of concern over a possible

' -dibell, ibs.a promoter of
the shirt said Thursday.
_.The T-shirts, bearin
thé “message ‘Trude
Fuddlebuck” and a

Ti replica of a dollar
tiger a caricature of
Trudeau on it, were
conceived by four
lowna, :
businessmen.

Hugh Harris, . who
started the enterprise,

Ke-.
Cc,

ae 3 uddleducks backfire in
t _ T-shirt teapot tempest

said in a telephone in-
terview Tuesday that the
group made a deal with
the Winnipeg. company”
for 500 dozen of the shirts.

- “By - last week
Economy had run off
about 150dozen shirts and

_ 1 got-a..couple:of dozen.
~ samples‘and took them: to"

Ottawa,” he sald.
Harris saidna couple of

MPs wore the shirts in
the House, but the

Speaker wouldn’t recog-
‘mize them.

“Trudeau is saying
‘that's got my name on it:

. I yant one too,’” he said.

“And a couple of MPs are
waving shirts around.”

Harris said he then was
telephoned by. Gerry
Ratner of Economy
Wholesalers saying the
order was cancelled and
the shirts already made
were to be destroyed.

* “Ramer said he’d been
told that if the Liberals.

‘won the election it-might

not he good for the firm to

have, produced these .

shirts}"’ Harris said. “He
‘wanted me to give back
the samples he’d given
me.” .
Harris said Ratner told
him that the company’s
lawyer thought there
could be a libel suit and
that if he went ahead with
the order “his auditors
might be very'busy.”

‘ A suspected mix-up in
} the. Vancouver Post
Office has caused .a
serious problem for a
number of local people.
Kenneth Mayner, a
large shareholder in a
company received notice
‘of a company meeting in
the mail on April 7— the
‘same day the meeting
‘was scheduled.
Enclosed with the
notice was a proxy form
to be. completed by
shareholders’ unable to
attend the meeting. The
proxy form, inorder to be
counted along, with the
rest of the votes had to be
received by a Vancouver

_~ ‘The 1977 annual report
of the - Workers’, Com-
petigation . Board of

ritish Columbia was

the com

Local shareholders hit
by Post office mix-up |

holding corpany at least
24: hours prior to the
meeting in Vancouver.

Mayner did not wish
the company’s name to
be published, but he did
say about.a dozen people
in.Terrace own stock in
ny along with
other. shareholders - in

Kitimat.

When he received his
notice and proxy form in
the mail on April’? —
postmarked March 15 —
Mayner telephoned most
of the other shareholders
and learned they had not
received theirs before
then either. — a

tabled last week -in the
B.C. Legislature by, the
Minister of Labour, | the
Honourable Allan

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7 _ CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL. HON.

PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN THIS. CO

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- J WOULD LIKE’ TO EXPRESS MY MOST

SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL
PARTICIPANTS IN THE TERRACE-KITIMAT-
‘VERNON -PARTICIPACTION CHALLENGE. I
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AGA IN ’ .
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CAMPAGNOLO MP SKEENA MINISTER OF

STATE FITNESS AND TEUR la:

Mayner had checked
with the Terrace Post
Office a few days before
and learned the letters
had not been received
there, so he concluded the
hold-up was in Van-
couver. |

- Neediess to say, he was
quite angry about the
situation.

“This ‘is not just a

letter,’ Mayner said.

“This is important
business. It's not a joke
with ‘the post office
anymore.
“What do we get for
what we're payipg?” he
asked. — .

In. British Columbia last year .
176 die, 149,653 injured $122 millio
in Workers compensation claims

Williams. CO

_ The. report indicates
that 149,653 work injuries,
industrial diseases and
fatalities were reported
to the Board ‘last year,
representing an increase
of §.19 per cent over 1976.

Reported fatalities~
totalled 176. Ex-
penditures for com-
pensation ‘claims
amounted to $122,741,299,

Assessable —_ payroll
from the Board's 64,362
employer accounts in
1977 came to
$11,491,000,000 ’
(provisional figure). The
board determined that

“the overall assessment

F

’ were . regarding
trucks passing .
through downtown areas, .

Logging accident |

inquest

A Terrace resident
visited the Daily Herald
office Wednesday to
express concern over the
death of one local youth
and the injury to another
from an accident earlier
in the month.

On April 4th 14 year old
Trevor Franz was killed
and another youth
severely. injured while
walking east on Highway
16 when a loaded logging
truck turning onto the
highway from Sande
overpass was caught on
overhead wires strung
between two poles. One
pole fell on top of the two
youths. -

The visitor wanted to
know what the by-laws
oaded

loggi

and wondered if there
could be tragic

recurrences of this ac- .

cident involving further

death and injuries. -
The man insisted he

had driven behind loaded

. logging trucks in the

Terrace.city limits and
‘noticed the wheels
digging into the blackto
metalled highway, wi
resultant costly damage
to the surface.

A spokesman for the
Department of Highways
thas since ‘informed the
Daily Herald there is a
traffic bylaw, well en-
forced, prohibiting
loaded logging trucks
from passing through the
city.

The load heights of
logging trucks, in any
event,. will not permit
them to go through town,,
as the traffic signals and
supporliig wires are of

“cont, page

by Scott Browes
From Smithers, Prince
Rupert, : Kitimat and
Terrace members of the

_ Public Servants Alliance

Commission met in the
Lakelse Hotel in Terrace
Tuesday night to start a
‘local awareness of the
lobby being set-up in the
federal government to
attempt to stop Bill C-28
froma passing.

Ma, .
Jacn Kennedy,
executive secretary ‘of
local Employment
_.Workers Local of the
PSAC, presented the
partisan audience. with
the lobby undertaken by
the PSAC to acquaint
federal MPs with the

ramifications of the bill. ©

Al Hadvick, also of the
PSAC, described the
danger the bill presented
to the public servants in
Canada as “part of a
large proposal to. inhibit
unionism across the

country.” Hadvick ex-

plained the process starts

with the federal’ public
servant unions and is
followed by the provincial

rate for 1978 would
remain unchanged’ from
last year, although there
were changes in the rates:
Of some classes and sub-
classes of industry,

Maximum wage rate on
which a worker's com-
pensation benefits can be
calculated “was adjusted
to $17,600 for 1978 from
the 1977 maximum, of
$15,600.

_ Major events during
the year included the
February appointment
by: Mr, Williams of the
neW four-man Board of
Commissioners. Dr.
Adam §. Little -was

Scott Spencer of the Caledonia band, pins a “support your Band” button onto
band supporter Denha Forsberg. :

insufficient _ Height ato

Three from area chosen for
_ Bi-Centennial band

. by Donna Forsberg .

_The Terrace-Kitimat area can be proud of the
high quality of achievement attained by their
students involved in the band program in the
high schools, Three students from our cities were
chosen by the Captain Cook Band: Committee to

participate as members of the All British:

Columbia Bi-Centennial Band. The two students
from Terrace are Jim Ryan and Rick Brouwer;
June DeKleine represents Kitimat.

The Bi-Centennial band is a 110-piece band
comprised of top band students from all over

B,C, Auditioning for membership in this band .
was done from tapes which were sent ‘to the

committee in March. 0 2 ik et
+The stiident representatives fronrour area will

goto Vancouver for the week of May 11-16, where

unions,

then the
municipal unions ending-
up in unions of the private

- sector.

Hadvick said that the
PSAC was aware of a
meeting between the
federal finance minister
and the provincial (BC)
finance minister on the
subject of Bill C-28 and an
agreement had been
reached by the ministers
which amounts to ‘union
bashing.’’

A spokesman for the
provincial and municipal
governments’ unions who
attended the Lakelse
meeting warned thase
persons attending that
the PSAC was definitely
aware of the threat to
their ynion posed by Bill
C-28 and that it was part
of a larger effort from.

across the country which

included the prevention
of indexed pensions.

The spokesman said
‘federal employees had
better win this battle for
the sake of unions.
everywhere.” ;

Kennedy said that a

named chairman,
Jerome B. Paradis, vice-
chairman, S.H. Brown

commissioner anc
Dennis Davis, com-
missioner. °

The new Beard
initiated a com-
prehensive ad-

ministrative budget
system, effective
January 1, 1976, designed
to improve financial
reporting and : promote
cost consciousness.

The revised WCB In-
dustrial Health and
Safety regulations, which
became. effective
January.1 of this year,

| -PSAC local opens war
‘on federal hill €-28

major federal lobby was
in effect to attempt to
aquaint the MPs with the
full effects of the bill.
Kennedy pointed out that
nearly all MPs ‘were
unaware " - of the
ramifications and con-
tents of the bill. He added’
an agreement had been
reached between the
PSAC and the provincial
Conservative caucus not
to support the Bill C-26
proposal.

C-28 is a complicated
legislative - proposal
which was numerous
categories of provocation
for the PSAC. One of the
largest of these
provocative aspects is
negation of a 1967
legislative act’ which
allowed the Public
Servants Alliance to have
competitions within the
bureaucratic - structure

rather than the old, ©

traditional, merit
system, ‘The merit
system allows
favouritism and
corruption to breed in the
system”, one PSAC
spokesman said.

n paid

were completed late in
1977 after nearly four
years of preparation in
co-operation with
management and labour
in B.C. The regulations:
represent minimur
requirements for healt

and safety standards i.

industries within the
scope of the Workers’
Compensation act,

Late in the year,
construction was com-
pleted on the Board’s $18
million rehabilitation
complex, the Leslie R.
Peterson Rehabilitation
Centre in Richmond.

the Bi-Centennial Band will be preparing to host
the World International Championships during
the weekend of May 13-16. As well, they will tour
B.C. with the band for the month of July; the last
two weeks of this tour will bring them through

their hometowns..

Labour brief attacks
_ gov'ts fiscal policy

“Rather. than ‘making
excuses and defending

the interests of their.
Corporate: friends, ‘it. is:

time political leaders
recognized -their
responsibility and made
decisions in the interest
of working people and
their - unemployed
Brothers and Sisters...”
concluded the Brief on
Unemployment recently
endorsed by the Labour
Advisory Committee and
the three Labour Conncils
in the Pacific Northwest..
The Brief attacked the
fiscal policies of both the
Federal and Provincial
Governments. It noted
that wage controls and
unitive tax: increases
ave dampened the
economy...’’ costing
thousands of
robbing workers of
millions of’ dollars.”” In
order to cover up this
fiscal mismanagement,
myths have been created
by Business and
Government leaders.
Myths that blame
workers and the unem-
ployed for the current
resession.
“The impression is

‘given that the unem-
ployed are lazy people

jobs and.

who cheat on Unem-
ployment Insurance...
‘Cor)-; secondary © earners
- whose ‘inconié‘“is~ used...
for luxury items.” Yet
only five vacancies exist
in B.C. for every one
hundred out of work, The
majority of the jobless
either woman who must
support themselves and-
or their families,or young

‘people new. to the job

market... These are the
people bebind the
statistics, a generation of
lost potential.” Lo,

The Labour Councils
called upon the Govern-
ments to take remedial
action and end their
“whimsical belief in the
free enterprise myth.”
Rational planning rather
than Corporate tax
concessions is needed.
The Councils noted that
“secondary industry
can and must be
developed on a scale’
acceptable to the local
Populace ... (and that)
resource rape on a
massive ‘scale, as has.
been practised in the
past, profits only the
large corporations,”

The Brief is to be
distributed te all levels of
Government this week,

Ditch Danger Discussed

Asix-foot ditch on Mills
was described as an
“ever present danger” to
children playing in the
area, according to a 24-
signature petition

- presented, to ‘Terrace

council Monday night.
Tony O’Connor,

spokesman for the neigh-

bors and father of a nine

_ month old daughter, was

at the meeting to ask
council tc remedy the
situation this year by
either installing a
protective barrier or
installing culverts and

back filling.

“I realise that the
economy of our area is
not what.it could be and

' that strains are placed on

the municipal budget,”
O’Connor stated, *‘but in
view of this obvious
hazard especially to

’ children as well as adults

I feel confident that the
mayor and council will
act wisely before a

tragedy occurs.”

The ditch is more than
six feet deep, he said, and
commonly has two feet of

flowing water in the
bottom, During spring
and fall rains, the ditch
can fill with water, .the

spokesman for the
petitioners said.

One neighborhood
woman pulled two

children from the ditch
recently, O’Connor said.

Council members
learned that the ditch is
not used for drainage and
there appears to be no
reason for it. They voted
to refer the matter to
public works committee
who will study costs of
filling the ditch for
possible inclusion in the
1978 budget.

Ald. Alan Soutar was
opposed to putting the
matter off. He suggested
cauncil begin work on the
ditch immediately
because of its potential
danger,

However, Ald. Jack
Talstra said council does
not have the expertise to
make a dicision im-
mediatley.and the ditch
should be looked at by
engineers.

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