PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, October 19, 1977
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Pierre a swinger again

: OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau celebrated his

: S8th birthday today amid a regal swirl and new reports that

: he has resumed the swinging life he led before his marriage

: to Margaret.

_ His birthday coincided with the first parliamentary
opening by the Queen in 20 years and front-page suggestions
by Ottawa’s newest newspaper—Ottawa Today—that he
may be romantically involved with entertainer Sandra

- O'Neill, 36-yearold producer of a local night club show.

Trudeau's companion Monday at a dinner for the Queen
was actress Louise Marieau.

Ottawa Today said that entertainer O'Neill has visited
Trudeau a number of times after first meeting him last July
during a performance at a local night club.

_O’Neill confirms that she has met Trudeau, but refuses to
discuss their relationship.

“Why can’t you leave (him) alone?” she is quoted as .

saying in Ottawa Today.
a think he’s been put through enough.”’

Stanfield’s wife dies

OTTAWA (CP) — Mary Margaret Stanfield, wife of
former Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield,

died in hospital Tuesday after a long struggle against lung.

cancer, She was 65.

Mrs. Stanfield, a slight but energetic woman, had been
married to Stanfield for more than 20 years.

She had been suffering from cancerforsometime.. -

Mrs. Stanfield had a lung removed during an aperation
last year, and Stanfield said she appeared much better
when she was released from hospital. But she remained
weak, and has had relatively no social life during. the last

year,
She married Stanfield in 1957, three years after his first
_ wife died in an auto accident, leaving four children.
in the early years of their marriage, she concentrated on
making a pleasant home for Stanfield and his children. But
she entered

assumed the federal Conservative leadership in 1967.

Must restore dollar

OTTAWA (CP) — Sinclair Stevens, Progressive Con-
_Servative finance critic, said Tuesday the government will
have to introduce economic policies that will restore inter-
national confidence in Canada before the decline in the
dollar will stop.
His comments came as the value of the dollar dropped to
a low of 89.91 cents U.S. in New York Tuesday before
recovering to slightly above 90 cents.

- Canada has ail the potential for a strong economy, said
Stevens, All that is needed is the proper direction and
leadership from the federal government,

“It is essential to convince the world that Canada has fis-
cal and economic strength,” he said.

Prices rise .7 per cent

' OTTAWA (CP) — Residents of Winnipeg and Saint John,
N.B., were hit by the largest increases in the cost of living
during September as prices in those two cities.rose by
severtenths of one per cent, Statistics Canada said

esday.

Calgary had the lowest percentage increase among 14
major cities surveyed, as prices there rose by only one-
tenth of one per. cent last month.

The national increase was sixtenths of one per cent, for a
12-month inflation rate of 8.4 per cent. Higher gasoline and
heating fuel prices led the increase.

The 12-month increases in the three cities were: Winnipeg
8.6 per cent; Saint John 8.3 per cent and Calgary 8.6 per
cent.

Price increases during September in the other 11 cities,
with their 12-month increases in brackets, were:

St. John’s, Néld., up twotenths of one per cent (7.3 per
cent); Edmonton, up two-tenths of one per cent (81 per
cent); Quebec City, up three-tenths of one per cent (9.2 per
cent); Saskatoon, up three-tenths of one per cent (8.8 per
cent) and Regina up three-tenths of one per cent (10.1 per
cent).

Ottawa, up four-tenths of one per cent (8.5 per cent); To-
ronto, up four-tenths of one per cent (8,1 per cent); Halifax,
up five-tenths of one per cent (8.5 per cent); Vancouver, up
fivetenths of one per cent (6.2 per cent) and Thunder Bay,
Ont., up six-tenths of one per cent (8,2 per cent).

Tel merger in six months

KELOWNA, B.C, (CP)—T. F. Heenan, vice-president of
British Columbia Telephone Co, and Okanagan Telephone
Co., said Tuesday the long-planned merger of the two
companies might be made within six months, B.C. Tel owns
99 per cent of the Okanagan firm’s stock. ;

Heenan made the comment at hearing of the provincial
Motor Carrier Commission into an O.K. Tel application for
an average 15 per centa monthrate increase.

Heenan told the hearing that the merger, first proposed in
1966, now is being seriously studied.

He said at this time the financial circumstances look suf-
ficiently better to warrant further studies of the problems
and factors which would arise if a merger went ahead.

Prisoners commit suicide

BONN (Reuter) — Three convicted leaders of the
BaaderMeinhof urban terrorist group committed suicide in
separate prison cells Tuesday only hours after West Ger-
man commandos foiled a plot by hijackers to force the
release of jailed members, justice officials said.

Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe shot themselves
through the head, and Gudrun Ensslin hanged herself from
a window frame in Stuttgart’s top-security Stammheim jail,
said Traugott Bender, justice minister for the state of
Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Another member of the group, Irmgard Moeller, 30, tried
to stab herself through the heart with a bread knife, officials
said. She was taken to a hospital but is not listed in critical

: gondition,
The dead trio, who had been held in cells on the prison's
seventh floor, killed themselves after apparently learning
’ of the successful raid by elite German police on a hijacked
* Lufthansa aircraft in Mogadishu, Somaila, Bender
suggested.
e three were serving life sentences imposed Jast April
’ for a series of bombings, shootings, bank robberies and the
murder of four U.S. soldiers.

Officials were unable to say who might have smuggled
into prison the 7.65-mm. .ad the 9-mm. pistols which
Baader and Raspe used to kill thimselves.

PASSED LAW

Only two weeks ago, parliament passed an emergency

Jaw decreeing thal jailed German terrorists be cut off from
_ allcontact with the outside world and with each other.

political campaigns with a vigor after he —

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MOUNT CURRIE, B.C,
(CP) — Mount Currie Indian
band members told the West
Coast oil ports inquiry
Monday that an oil port
would further endanger
reserve life already beset by
a long history of economic
deprivation. .

The day-long hearings in
this community 160
kilometres north of Van-
couver were designed to
give native people a5 ent on
spawning salmon the
chance to tell inquiry

commissioner Andrew

Thompson their views-.on

west coast oil tanker’ route. -

the

an a

Currie Indi

“Time was," said Johnny -:

Andrews, "when you could
walk across the mouth of the
Birkenhead .River and
almost ‘never touch the

ound there were 50 many

But commercial fishing
and restrictions on Indian.
fishing in Lillooet Lake have
cut into the salmon native
people can catch for their

own use. ;

The Birkenhead River is
one of many which flow into
Lillooet Lake and-to which

the

Secret data to be
used in drug
treatment

VANCOUVER (CP)
Health Minister Bob Mc-
Clelland confirmed Monday
the provincial government
will use confidential
medical information as part
of its program of com-
pulsory treatment of heroin
users if the courts order it.

He was commenting on
statements made by the
British Columbia Civil
Liberties Association
whose representatives met
McClelland last week in
Victoria. The association
opposes compulsory
treatment on principle.

Association president Jim
Dybikowski said McClelland
refused to promise that the
program would not use
information heroin users
have given to the Vancouver
Resources Board or the
Narcotics Addiction
Foundation, despite the fact
the information was given
yoluntarily on the un-
derstanding it was con-
fidential.

The law has recently been
changed to allow such
records to be subpoenaed.

The association was
seeking assurance that
promises of confidentiality
would not be cancelled
retroactively.

“Tf the government goes
back on these promises...we
would be compromising the
future,” said Dybikowski.

PANEL RESPONSIBLE
Dybikowski said the
minister assured the

association that a panel, not |

just one person, would |
responsible for deciding
whether someone is a heroin
user. ;
The decision would be
open to appeal in a court of
law, Dybikowski quoted the

minister as saying, but -

McClelland said the
government has not made
up its mind. whether’ a
person could have a lawyer
at the panel hearing and, if
so, whether legal aid would
pay for the lawyer.

McClelland said"he can
not give the association the
assurances it wants because
the assurances are “simply
not available.”

Even doctors can be
subpoenaed to give evidence
on the health of their

tients, he said, an

ug information be
treated as a similar ise.

McClelland confirmed
that doctors will not be
obliged to report patlents
who. are heroin users—a
condition that would
“destroy the support (for,
the program) of the medical
profession,” and he said
addicts treated under the
program would be able to
make choices about their
particular treatment, short
of refusing treatment
altogether.

Diamond in the rough

TINTON FALLS, N.J.
(AP) — A garbage collector
can be a girl’s best friend.

Workers at the Monmouth
County Reclamation Centre
spent more than one hour
last week rummaging
through garbage before they
found a $5,000 diamond ring
belonging to Barbara
Makris of Ocean Township.

Mrs. Makris called the
centre after she thought her
ring may have been lostin a

shopph
that had been picked up by a
sanitation crew.

Workers sorted thrugh an .

eight-foot high pile of trash
that had just been dumped
olf the garbage tuck be ore
ora sho

with the diamond

le:

bag full of trash

Fish already

HARM STOCKS

The Indians said a coastal
oil spill would. harm the
stocks of fish at sea and thus
curtail the numbers
avaitg58foo(ndian nets in
Lillooet Lake and for lines
thrown into streams.

The Mount Currie band is
settled on 10 small scattered
reserves totalling 7,000
acres which now support
1,100 people.

Rosie Ross, 77, widow of

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Juliana Williams, 78, said
“we donot want a lot
our lake is small and our
nets are not very big.”

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