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Boozing along

Police have estimated that the driver of every
second car on the road after bars have closed is
intoxicated or has, at least, been drinking. That's a
frightening thought because it suggests that no
level of police roadblocks, spot checks, or other:
surveillance can completely arrest the danger of
drunk driving. .

Each Impaired driver is a potential killer.
Thou.” driving is often little more than a serles of
fixed action patterns for most people, there are
always the sudden confrontations, the fests of a
driver’s acuity and attention. When booze takes
control of the mind, the reflexes are dulled, the
response is impaired.

With a three-headed thrust on inebriated
motorists, Attorney-General Garde Gardom has
served notice that “roadside roulette’ will no
longer be tolerated.’ To fight this problem, Gar-
dom‘s department Is instructing local police forces
to step up roadside checks throughout the year, not
just at Christmas. He has announced plans for
driver education programs and fs enlisting
wise ocead support for this counter-attack.

These are wise moves, long overdue.

Com:bating impaired driving means combating a
prevailing attitude. Drunk driving is a crime.
’ Nothing less. {t differs from other crimes only
because it involves us all; the criminals dre our-
selves and we are responsible for the crime.

When we read news stories detailing a robbery or
‘burglary committed by someone we know, we are -
“instantly aghast. We cut communication with the
deviant. When reports appear about a friend being
nabbed by police for Impaired driving, the response
is:. Oh well, look who got caught this time. Little
more.

But the crime is no less serious. Driving while
Impaired is a selfish denial of the rights of other
motorists and innocent pedestrians. The victims
are no better off than the ones who have been
robbed or mugged. All that’s different Is that with
Impaired driving, the crime is more hit and miss.
The odds are you won’t strike a motorist, total your
car, or lose your life.

Driving while under. the influence is akin to the
drunk who slobers over to you, spitting ovt his
problems or asserting his unclear demands. He’s
involving you in his pathetic lot. ; ,

Bui that is innecent compared to the denizens.of ©
the road who put your life in danger because of
their indiscretion. When they bring you into their
. drunk, the result is often tragic. .

With a commitment to catch the offender and
educate us all, Gardom is wisely trying to wrestle
with this problem. It’s no easy task. The public
says it’s okay to drink, okay to drive, okay to drink
and drive...but only to a certain limit. Then It's
Iimmeral.

Or'+ it's far worse than that. if the public must
View. 2rinking in any light, let it be like smoking.
It’s 2 hazard to health. But instead of putting a
warring on the side of a bottle of Beaujolais, let the
mess:ge to the drunk driver be clearer still: a
suspended drivers licence and a criminal record.

For tao long, we have put up with recalcitrant
drivers who have displayed a sub-simian bellef that
their right to drink and drive supersedes ihe law.
For »o long they have thought they can drink at
will, ‘vive like hell, and not care about the other

Promises

Not about to be done by the provincial tour of
Opposition leader Joe Clark, the Liberals seized a
fair chunk of the federal treasury and sent it over to
Britis) Columbia, Monday, announcing, once
again, the salmonid enhancement program.

It‘s a laudable venture, promising as It does
spaw-iing channels, rearing ponds, stream
restoration, hatcheries, and other engineering and
biological measures designed to replenish the
dwincting Pacific salmon fishery.

But haven't we heard it before? Only the
Liberals would ensure they didn’t run the risk of
ruinifig a good promise by unveiling It only once.

Again, the salmonid enhancement program is
being announced, Last time, | was a ten-year, $300.
mitlicn scheme; now, It may exceed that amount.
Giver the length of the program, the chance for
restrzint or shifting priorities in future, ihe figures,
are . rtually meaningless. But who’s going to
quik’ = about a few million dollars in the future
wher. ‘hey mean political gain today?

Certainly not lona Campagnolo. Not while Joe
Clark is In tewn.

Edmonton area,

spending. :
Pin World Military and

% Social Expenditures 1977,

Ruth Leger Sivard contrasts

the estimated $350 billion ©

spent annually on military
forces to the urgent social

needs that are not being ©

met.
The study, sponsored by
organizations that include

- the Rockefeller Foundation

and Toronto’s Peace
Research Institute-Dundas,

‘notes that the $350 billion

total is equal to the total
income of the world's
poorest 1.6 billion people. It

ples: the average person
will devote three to four
years of income to the arms
race; the almost $1-billion
cost of one U.S. Trident
submarine would pay for a
year’s schooling for 16
million children in
developing countries.

Sivard’s study, which
updates two earlier similar
works, may provide useful
reinforcement to the Carter
administration officials and
congressmen who are
seeking to put in place ef:
fective limits on the growth
of military spending,

former U.S. defence secre-
tary, says ina preface to the
study that ‘‘to the extent
that such expenditure
severely reduces the
resources available for
other. essential sectors and.
social services—and fuels a
futile and reactive arms
race--excessive military
spending can erode security
rather than enhance it.”
The study's author says
five per cent of one year’s
world military spending
could finance the following:
The study's author says
five per cent of one year’s

million.
~ First year of a program
to'make all adults literate
by the end of the century,
$12 billion, —
‘Training of medical
auxiliaries, $250 million.
-Aid to improve the food-
production capability of
developing countries, $3
billion.

A program to provide
minimum shelter to all,
using self-help construction,
$750 million,

‘Supplementary food to
ensure full development for

EF Phere merge

EDMONTON (CP) — Ina
bold experiment, about 10
per cent of ‘‘on site” -con-
striction at the $2 billion
Syncrude Canada Ltd. oil
sands plant at Mildred

Lake, Alta., has actually |

been completed near here—
more than 300 miles away.

At three locations in the
com-
ponents for the plant are
presasembled for shipment
y truck to Mildred Lake.

Canadian Bechtel Ltd,
managing contractor on the
project, said in a statement

@ arrangement has im-
proved efficiency, saved on
bor costs, and granted the
company access to the
larger number of skilled
tradesmen available in an

‘urban area.
Bechtel says on-site
construction—particularly-

in remote areas such as |

Mildred Lake in the nor-
theastern part of the
province—must often be
done at a forced pace under
difficult conditions and with
a constantly changing work
force. |

With pre-assembly,
however, much of the work
can be completed, largely
indoors, by a steady staff of
city-based tradesmen
working a normal 35-t0-40-
hour . week.

Del Zambon, a manager
at the city assembly
facilities, says
assembly of permanent
plant materials is not a new
concept, but our effort is one
of the jargest known ven-
tures.”

It is expected the ex-
perience could be used in
other large projects such as
gas pipeline construction.

The city-area operation,
called Edmonton Field
Operations (EFO), includes
a freight warehouse with 2,5
acres. of outside space, 70
acres of farmland with a
new half-mile access road
and a rail spur line and an
eight-acre property with

- shop and yard capacity.

Thefirst site handles most
of the engineering tasks and
receives materials prior to
shipment to the job site or to

“pre. |

Business spotlight

| Syncrude plant built in parts

either of the other two EFO
sites. About two-thirds of the
EFO staff not engaged in
manual work is employed
here. Bechtel says.
The second site, the
largest, handles pipe
fabrication and pipe in-
sulation and assembly and
emplaya about 1,000 men,
including about 150 subcon-
tracted insulation workers.
A welding school jointly
sponsored by Bechtel and
e provincial manpower
department also is located
re.

Instrument ‘components,
electrical conduits ‘and

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precast concrete forms are
assembled at the third site
by about 250 men, which
include milivrights, pipe-
fitters and electricians.
Assembled plant portions

up to 80 feet long, 25 feet.

wide and 20 feet high can be
delivered to Mildred Lake.

Work at the EFO sites is
expected to continue into
1978, but the project has-
finished much of its work
and production is starting to
decline. |

The operation at Mildred
Lake will produce synthetic
crude oil from _ the
Athabasca oil sands.

Synerude is a joint in-

‘Alberta,

dustrygovernment venture
financed by’ Imperial Oil

‘Ltd., CanadaCities Service

Ltd., Gulf Oil Canada Ltd.,
and the governments of
Ontario and
Canada.

Scheduled for completion
in the spring of 1978, the
plant will begin commercial
production at 52,000 barrels
a day, with the output ex-

‘pected to double within a

year.
Syncrude expects to
roduce more than one
illion barrels of synthetic
crude ojl from its 7,-000-acre
mine site during the 25-year
lifespan of the project.

ALUMINUM PLANT?

ources of power enticing »

motivations—

mothers, $1.5 billion.

Construction of primary
schoots for 100 million
children, $3.2 billion.

A program designed to
give clean water to ail
people by 1990, $3 billion.

Sivard says the worst
effect may be on the
developing countries whose
governments strain their
economies and neglect 80-
cial needs in building up
armed forces. Sivard
estimates that military
figures are in key positions .
of power in 40 per cent of the
developing countries.

A major part of the study
is a list of countries and

arms exporter for the period
1961-75, with a total of $1.5
billion (U.S:), Canada ap-
pears better than most in

_ proportionate military

spending.

Canada is listed as sixth in
per-capita : gross national
product for 1974,.at $6,221
(U.S.), but 22nd in per-
capita military spending—
£30.

Perhaps for that reason,
Canada that year—the
latest for which statistics
are available for all coun-
tries—ranked first in both

r-capita education and
health expenditures,

PRINCE PHILIP
Constitutionally,
he doesn’t exist

LONDON (CP) ° —
Prince Philip, husband of
the Queen, -has been
described as an unusual
man doing an unusual job.

British author Richard
Hough says the prince will
disagree with the first and
will agree with the second.

What is his job? Author
Hough says this is a question

- the prince had to ask

himself when he resigned
his last appaintement in the

_ Royal Navy in 1951,

That job was whatever he
made of it.

“Constitutionally ,”
Prince Philip has observed,
“EF don’t exist.”

Jn February, 1952, he was

_the fit, intelligent, well-

informed 30-year-old
husband of the Queen, who
had just succeeded to the
throne. For the prince, at
that time, there was no
clearly defined role or job to
be done. :
Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort to Queen Victoria,
faced conditions, respon-
sibilities and circumstances
in 1840 so different that no
precedent could be found
there.

The work
money,
power, security, pension
rights, adulation—did not
exist for Prince Philip. ‘He
was surrounded by a forest
of negatives: not banking,
or journalism, the law; at
first not even flying, but he
soon fixed that,

The nature of his work
was to be shaped by his first
concern, the protection and
support of the Queen, who
found herelf on the Throne
at the age of 25, _Erieving the
death of her father, George

usual

This concern was present
from the time of the prince's
marriage in 1947, but was
multiplied many times over
with the accession and the
new burdens the Queen now
had to carry. .

The support could be
demonstrated in two dif-
ferent ways, He could act as
a shadow. Or he could
demonstrate his support on
a broader basis by going out
into the world from which
the Queen was restricted by
the narrower life imposed
by the tasks and duties of a
busy constitutional
monarch.

Author Hough says this
second activity was the
better way to support the
Queen and the Crown.

The prince likes travel. He
averages about 75,000 miles
ayear, most of it by air, and
much of that as a pilot.
Winston Churchill in his last
term of office as prime
minister nearly had a fit
when he heard that the
Queen's husband was going
about in a helicopter,

Another breath-taking
average is his 1,200
engagements a year.

‘For instance,4n- 1974 -he

made official visits to
France (twice), Australia,
New Zealand, Belgium,
Switzerland, Germany. and
the United States, as well as
a Number of private visits.
All require him to be
socially agreeable, to make
speeches, and to be well-
informed on a hundred
subjects.

“Youth,’”’ Prince Philip
said 25 years ago, “is @
catalogue of untapped
resources." Since then he

S given many speeches—
he writes his own anda total
of 40 a year is typical—at
colleges of: . science,
polytechnics, universities
and schools of every kind.

“If you throw out a chal-
lenge,” he told one Outward
Bound audience, ‘‘it is
sometimes surprising how
many people take it up and
how well they overcome it.”"

- to Kaiser’s corporate planners

WHITEHORSE, Y.T.
(CP) —Kaiser Aluminum is
considering Whitehorse as a
ossible site for a
ophisticated aluminum
plant, a project that might
set off major hydroelectric
development in the area.
Power’ is the most
essential part of Kaiser’s
scheme and the Oakland,
Calif.-based company has
been studying the area's
power potential for 4%

years.

Transportation, a nearby
port and people were the
other considerations. Raw
material would be shipped
from New Orleans, the
location of one of four
Kaiser reduction plants in
the United States. .

The White Pass and
Yukon Route has indicated
it can handle the Yukon
lant’s transportation needs
by adding three extra trains
a week to haul coke and
alumina 110 miles by
narrow-gauge track to port
at Skagway, Alaska,

Steve Hutcherait, vice-
president of Kaiser's raw
materials division, said
there still are more reasons

for the project not to go
ahead than for it to be
completed. Shipping
distance to markets in the
U.S. was but one disad-
vantage.

Company officials said the
plant, which is planned for
1985 and would employ 1,180
workers, requires a 400-acre
site within Whitehorse’s 162-
squaremile town limits and
would not-interfere with
Indian land claims, Site
specifications could possibly
be met by Whitehorse

Copper, a mine that is ex--

pected to be exhausted in
three years.

Kaiser has made informal
presentations to the 1,000
Whitehorse residents
through the Chamber of
Commerce, the chamber of
mines, conservationists,
Indian organizations and at
public meetings.

So far, response has been
favorable although Flo
Whyard, the Yukon’s
minister of health and
welfare, says the proposal

sounds too good to be true,

and perhaps ‘the right
questions haven't been
asked.

“We came to ‘the
territory’s population first
for a reaction,” said Dick
Spees, Kaiser's director of
public affairs. “If the people
don't want us in Whitehorse
there is no reason to con-
tinue.”

The next step for Kaiser is
to «© hold extensive
discussions with Northern
Canada Power Commission
(NCPC) and the federal,
territorial and municipal
governments.

Officials said a final
decision must be made
within 18 months if the plant
is to be in production in
seven years. Planning
would take three years and
construction four.

Kaiser needs 6.5 kilowatt
hours of power for every
pound of product it produces
and has indicated it wants to
sign a long-term contract
with NCPC,*a Crown cor-
poration, to purchase power
at two cents a kilowatt hour.
Kaiser's initial needs are for
300 megawatts of unin-
terrupted power—it would
cost $15 million to restart
the 24-hour-a-day operation
after a shutdown,

Hutcheraft said that if

abundant power is available -

Kaiser will definitely
consider Whitehorse. Power
accounts for 15 to 20 per cent
‘of Kaiser product total
expenses,

Later expansion would
necessitate doubling of
hydro facilities to. 1,000
megawatts. Kaiser said the
surplus could be used to
open other Yukon mines.

Chairman Jim Smith said
NCPC, which has been
studying four , potential
damsites within a 150-mile
radius of Whitehorse for
several years, is willing to
talk with Kaiser about

development possibilities.

While the Kaiser idea has
appeal, some Yukon
residents are worrled about
a possible re-run of the
problems encountered in
construction of NCPC's 30:
megawatt Aishihik power
project 80 miles northwest
of Whitehorse. .

. The cost of the Aishihik
project, originally
estimated at $15 million,
eventually soared to $45
million for a dam that is
operating at half of its an-

ticipated capacity.

Ron Granger, president of
the Yukon Chamber of
Mines, said the mining
industry needs stabilization
in hydro and rail prices ...
“otherwise mining will be in
trouble by mid-1980.”

Ed Boobyer, Kaiser's
technical adviser, said the
proposed Whitehorse plant
ig _evironmentally sound,

‘No other plant in the world
matches its efficiency or is
as advanced in cleanliness.”

Boobyer said sulphur
dioxide emissions would be
minimal, Dust, debris,
fluoride and fumes would be
trapped in hooded celis and
recycled, There would be no
detectable ‘odors or visible
impact on air or the com-
munity from the plant's
electrolytic process. Kaiser
would provide its own
sewage treatment facility to
purify water for disposal
into the -area's water
system,

It takes two pounds of alu-
mina, a white powder inter-
mediary product which
comes from four pounds of
bauxite ore, to produce a.
pound of aluminum.