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B.C. BRIEFS

VICTORIA . (CP) —
Family commitments are
the major reason that nurses
drop out of nursing, ac-

to a survey of 1,870
nompracticing nurses by the
Registered Nurses Aaao-

elation of British Columbia. .

Staif shortages last
aummer inspired the survey
after the lack of nursing staff
forced closures of many
hospital beda, including 62 at
Victoria's Royal Jubilee

Hespital
A first look at the results of
the survey showed family
commitments as the reason
that 40 per cent of the nurses
were noton the active roster.
Another 90 per cent cited
unsatisfactory shift
arrangements, 27 per cent
referred to poor working
’ conditions, while a ‘lack of
job opportunities nearby or

of job opportunities in their
area of specialty each pre-
vented 12 per cent from
working. Low aalaries
discouraged nine per cent.

The totals add up to more
than 100 per cent becawe
some nurses cited more than
one reason.

When asked what It would
take to get them back to
work, 41 per cent said hours
of work would have to be
changed or part-time
working opportunities would
have to be provided.

About 28 per cent said they
would have to make adjust-
ments in their family life and
15 per cent said they require
more In-service education
and refresher courses.
Another 17 per cent said
nothing could perauade them
to o get back to work in nur-
sing.

Crippled jet lands okay

“VANCOUVER (CP) ~ A
CP Air 747 landed safely at
Vancouver International
Airport Tuesaday after one of

its four engines shut down
shortly after takeoff.
The jumbo jet, with 140

assengers aboard,

veloped problems shortly
after taking off at 2:30 p.m.
for tokyo. The plane
dumped fuel over the ocean,
then flew back to Vancouver
using its three functioning
engines.

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No gouging seen in food

VICTORIA (CF) — A
newlyreleased from a
deals tative ping thee which

8 says there
no evidence of excessive
ts in the food chain from
to consumer,

The report’ was one of
three released Tuesday from
the nowdefunct select
standing . committee on

culture. The committee
. Was set up for two yeara and

cost #3 on. -
Corporate profits had only °

a@ minimal impact on - food

prices, the report says,
adding that while noats to the
consumer are. expected to
tise substantially over the
next five years, profits will
not be a contributing factor.

The report puts the blame
for rlsing prices on increased
costs of labor, energy and
taxes.

The opposition New Demo-
cratic Party argued while
thecommittee was operating
before last May's provincial
election that the work done
by the group was useless.

Golden evasion caught

SECHELT, B.C. (CP} — A
gold prospector has been
found guilty of income tax
evasion and fined almost
$7,000 In provincial court in
this Sunshine Coast com-
munity northwest of Van-
couver.

A spokesman for the
federal income tax depart.
mient sald Raymond Whittle
of Garden Bay, B.C., was
found guilty of failing to

declare income of $101,155 in
1978, 1974 and 1975.

He was fined $6,665 and or-
dered to pay a total tax bill,
including penalties, of
$51,005.

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Income tax department
spokesman Rod Jamieson
says Whittle’s evasion was
traced ‘through . audits .:on:

income tax reports of pepple~

who had purchased gold
from him.

McClelland blames media

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
The British Columbia public
is seared and confused
because the media has
distorted ‘out of all
recognition” the health and
hospital policies of the

rovincial government,

eaith Minlater Bob Mc-
Clelland sald Tuesday.

McClelland, speaking to a
meeting of the B.C. Heart
Foundation, said he believes

his ministry should be more .

aggressivein trying to ‘keep
the record straight.”

“If one was to believe all
the hysteria, one would
rapidly conclude that doc-
tors are opting ont of

medicare or leaving the
country in droves,” Mc-
Clelland said.

“If people believe all they
hear and read, they will con-
clude that unless our

hospitals are equipped’

immediately with the latest
and most advanced in
sophisticated technology,

then doctors will not be able ,

to keep

to perform their function and

_ people will die like fllea.”

McClelland conceded he
might be exaggerating the
situation, but added that he
was trying to make the polnt
that there are enough issues
of real concern without
having distortion.

Embargo marks rail strike

VANCOUVER (CP) —
3ritish Columbia Railway
will place an embargo on
serishable goods, livestock
and hazardous materials as
a first move if its employees
strike Friday, & company
spokesman said Tuesday.

Seven unions representing
400 workera at the govern-
mentowned railway have
threatened to walk off the job
if the company lays off 80 to
125 employees as announced
last weekend,

Rail spokesman Hugh
Armstrong said pasaenger
service to Prince George and
Lillooet from Vancouver will
also grind to a halt if there is
a walkout, About 70,000
persons travel the route

every year.

The layoffs are said to be
in the works because the
company has lost millions of
dollara In the first half of the

year largely due to a sharp
drop in exporta of B.C.
lumber to the U.S, The
number of cars required to
transport cargo has dropped
to 185 from 220 needed a few
months ago. :

A company proposal
suggests elimination of
medium and heavy repairs

by carmenon about 65carsa -

month. Cara requiring ex-
tensive repaira will be put in
storage,

WHOSE PARKING?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —
Asign ata parking lot here is
getting some double-takes. It
says, “Owl Parking Only.”
Drivers don't haye to be
birds to take advantage of
the parking lot, but they
must be customers of the
Owl Cafe, which is adjacent
to the lot.

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Judge

| STILL CHILDREN:

notes

their ages

John Manual Sousa was
fined $350 in Kitimat
Provincial Court for con-
tributing to juvenile
delinquency.

According to testimony,
Sousa was approached by
two teenage girls outside
Mount Elizabeth Senlor
Secondary on May 19. The
gitls, who were attending a
schoel dance, asked for
cigarettes and Sousa drove
them to the. Chop Suey
Kitchen to buy some and
Invited them to 47 Lilloet St.
for a beer,

Constable Gilles Blanchet
of the Kitimat ' RCMP
testified that at  ap-
proximately midnight May
19 le stopped a truck driven
by Sousa for running the red
light at Haisla and Lahakas,

Blanchet gave Sousa a
ticket and noted the presence
of two young girls in the
truck

Later, when the father of
one of the girls came to the
detachment to report she
had not come home from the
school dance, Blanchet was
able to identify her as one of
the passengers he had seen
in Sousa’s truck.

The officer, accompanied
by the fathec, went to 47
Lilloet, and asked Sousa if
the girls were in the house.
Sousa denied that the girls
were present and refused to
allow Blanchet to enter the
house,

The teenagers returned
home shortly afterwards,
arriving about 6 a.m.

In passing sentence, Judge
Darrall Collins told Sousa he
found hia conduct
disgraceful. “There is no
doubt that they ere children
under the eyes of the law and
no one exercising reasonable
common sense ¢ould think
them any. older,”’ Collins
said, Collins polnted out that
evidence in no way suggests °
the children are or were
juvenile delinquents.

However, he found Sousa
guilty as charged for inviting
the girls to his residence to
drink beer and encouraging
them to remain.

Collins said Sousa’s
conduct will not be tolerated
inthe community, 20. 27

mination of probation will
depend on the youth's
behaviour, “I can keep you
on probation until you are 21
year's old," Collins said.

Thomas Meier pleaded
guilty to a charge of being a
minor in possession of liquor
and was fined $50, me

Darrin Fraser Douglas
pleaded guilty to possession
of anarcotic and was given a
suspended sentence and one
year's probation.

Robert George - Thom
pleaded guilty to a charge of
impaired driving and waa
fined $400 or In default 60
days,

John Duncan MacDonald
also pleaded guilty to im-
paired driving and was fined
$300 or in default 30 days. |

Rosemarie Hickmore!
Pleaded guilty to two
charges of driving while her
right to obtain a driver's
license was suspended,

She was fined $300 or 30
days on the first charge but
given 4 suspended sentence
on the second and placed on
probation without super-
vision for one year.

Robley Whetu Knowles
pled guilty to a charge of
impaired driving and was
fined $200 or in default 14
days.

Judge Darrall Collins told
Knowles that he established
a policy of higher fines for
impalred driving on Sept. 1
bat had imposed a lighter
fine in his case because the
offence occurred July 5
before the increase was
announced,

“ "Tt" 1s “bécause of” peopl
like you that we have
pecblems with young people
who are not mature enough
to be responsible,” Collins
said.

Also in court, a Kitimat
‘youth was placed on in-
definite prubation and or-
dered to complete 50 hours of
community service work for
stealing posters from the

Bay, “
“Vie * polrited Tout that ter-

Hamilton

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his job
Scheol District 88 is stuck
with superintendant of

schools Frank Hamilton for
five years -- but for the first

* time they have a cholce.

In previous years each
superintendant was hired by
the Minlsiry of Education,
that is now all changed.

After lengthy negotiations,
the provincial ministry has
agreed to let local school
districts hire their own
superintendants. The only
Wovision is there be more
than four thousand students
inthe district, :

So at last: week's school
board meeting, the board
officially hired Hamilton for
a five-year period. The
trustees were near
wanimous in their approval,

“In past years the ap-
polniment was made with no
input from !ocal board
trustees,'’ commented
trustee Joyce Krause. “It
was a bone of contention in
‘this area for some time.”

“It’s something the school
board has fought for years
for," explained = Nan
Harrison.

“Burwesh, The storm is ex-

WEATHER

Forecasts for Yukon and
northwestern British
Columbia issued at 5:30 a.m.

Synopsis: A Pacifle storm
progressed across southern
Yukon and northwestern
B.C, Tuesday night bringing
some raln to most com-
munities, The southwest
Yukon was buffeted with
atrong winds wh ch reached
69 kilometrea per hour in
gusts at Whitehorse and over
100 kilometres per hour at

Results of the Terrace 747
Air cadet Squadron's
summer studies were
received this week, with a
Tmumber of Terrace Cadets
receiving excellent reports,

Cadet Kristine Berg is now
ane of the few women glider
pilots in British Columbia,
having been awarded her
wings at the glider school in
Nanalmo with a merk of 97
per cent, coming second in a
dassof 59 students. She has
been recommended for
training as a private pilot
end glider instructor.

pected to track east to the
Mackenzie Valley later
today and skies should pay

‘clear, Anather rapidly
moving storm will bring tool tt ine np Spencer
more ‘cloud with increasing Lifeguard Course {n
wind once again to thesduth~_ p, mold, Alberta, and was

west on Thursday, / Ae
cas ._ awarded the Royal Life
Northern Yukon; Oc Bronze Cross, with the

caslonal rain or rain and
recommendation that he
‘snow mixed this afternoon. continue to the Natinal

High near 2 northern section Lifeguard level.

to 5 south, Low tonight near Cadet Jon st dy attended

0, Occasionally sunny on wt
the Air Studies.Camp, also in
Thursday, Highs 3 to 5. Penhold, Alberta, prior tb

Klondike, Stewart River,
Pelly: Qccasional rain
today. Moderate southeast
winds In some valleys. High
near 10, Clearing tonight
with low3 to 0, Mainly sunny
Thursday with high near 10,

Beaver Creek, Kluane, °
White-horse, southern lakes, /
Liard, Cassiar Mountalus:
Occasional rain until later
this afternoon. Moderate
southeast winds changing to
southwesterly this af-
ternaon, High-16-to 12, Clear.
ing tonight with low 3 to 0.
Clouding over again Thur-
sday with high 10 to 12.

NAMED FOR LEADER
Italian ‘dictator Benito
Mussolini was named after
Benito Juarez, the Mexican
revolutionary.

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YOUR LOVE LIFE

‘emphasis on your home,
--your family and marriage

special piano concert
‘Bowker Brothers

The Herald Wednesday, October 3, 1979, Page 3

TERRACE CADETS

Good grades noted

beginning his studies toward
his glider pilot training.

Other Terrace cadets who Michiel

School
successfully completed their Wednesday evening at 7

The Terrare 747 Air Cadet
Squadron mefts at Clarence

every

summer studies were James pm., and welcomes

Muller, Shelley Anderson
and Allan Burton: Basic
Training; Kirk Tasa and

George Dahlman: Air
Studies; Robert Clifford: Range,
Junior Leadership Training. Survival.

Forestry changes
the staff around |

The reorganization of the
Prince Rupert Forest Region
continued with. the an-
nouncement Tuesday that
seven new district managers
have been appointed. ™

Gerry Dodd, a ranger
supervisor In Prince Rupert,
will be heading the Terrace

NOTICE

legislation.

ln chservance of Thanksgiving, Monday, October 8, 1979, the
District of Terrace offices will be closed.

The change in refuse pick-up will be as follows:
Garbage normally collected om Monday, October 8, 1979 will be
picked up on Tuesday, October 9, 1979.

The sanitary landfill will he closed ox Monday
DISTRICT GF TERRACE

Sponsored by the Christlans of
errace ard area.

Everyone ough! to come at least
once,

and girls 19 years and oldar.

Training is offered in Air
Studies, First Aid, Rif_e
and Wilderness

Forest District. Herb Quast
who had been the ranger
supervisor for Terrace will
now move into a similar
position In Hazelton. The
~ appaintments are in kee
with the decentralization
guidelines of the new forest

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_ Terrace

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