a: re ‘ i Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, July 12, 1979 By THE CANADIAN PRESS 1," said Dixon. it's in terms of net benefit.” Industry reaction to bound to be anti- Ontario Industy Minister details of the Geneva trade inflationary.” Larry Grossman called on talks released in Ottawa on Wednesday ranged from delight to caution. “We're delighted with the tariff comcessions made by. Canada,’’ said Kelth G. Roy A. Phillipa, executive director of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Asgociatlon, said theo newhtradz pact placey the onus on Canadian manifacturers, labor and the federal government to’ assist industry to adjust to the new trading en- vironment. Ontario will be looking for the federal government “to Dixon, president of the governments to do all. become more aggressive Ganadian Importers they can to maintainandim- and. active in providing Association, prove the competitiveness of adjustment assistance and The Geneva agreement, Teleased in capitala around the world, calls for reduc- tions in Canadian import duties averwging 40 per cent spread over eight years beginning Jan. 1, 1980. The cuts, part of the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, also gives Canadian exportera greater access to some of the bigg st markets in the world, In- cluding the Unpted Statzs, Jwpam and the European Economic Community. “Tt should raduce con- sumer prices, starting Jan. Orgy BATHURST, N.B. (CP) — A week-long orgy of looting and destruction ended in this northern New Brunswick city Wednesday when striking policemen and outside workers returned to their jobs, The settlement came sud- denly Wednesday afternoon when the provincial labor department stepped in just when it appeared the city was headed for another night of violence. By late Wednesday af- ternoon enough policemen had been rounded up by union officials to mount patrols on city streets, Broken signs and windows in shops, gas stations and a bank on the main downtown Canadian products and services and to increase our exports to ali corners of the world.,”’ He urged the government to act in concert with other GATT members to’ ensure compliance with terms of the deal and not act unilaterally to reduce tariffs as was done after the Kennedy round of trade talks at a cost of a number of jobs in industry. “While many opinions of the deal will be expressed, thefact is thatno one can tell whether any one nation has madeany great gain or loss safeguards to the manufac- turing’ sector.’” The Canadian Chemical Producers’ Association, which represents 95 per cent of Canada's industrial chemical production, said Canada appears to have gained as mutch as it gave. “The tariff reductions agreed to for industrial chemicals by Canada and its - major trading partners are. generally smaller than had initially been expected,” the association said. Thus, the new deal would not significantly change trading patterns and volumes between Canada and the U.S. Trade. between the two countries now ac- counts for about 75 per cent of Canada’s total exports and - induatrial imports of chemicals. Tarlifs have been eliminated between the two countries in heavy inorganic chemicals. “It-Is expected that two-way trade will expand moderately and re- « sult in a net gain for ~ Canada,” .- The association described the new tariffs for some key petrochemicals a5 a dis- appointment. Canada’s tariff protection in this field has historically been such lower than the European and U.S. rates, “After the cuts agreed to. in this negotiating round have been fully im: plemented, Canada's rates will still be the lawest, but the gap. will have been narrowed significantly.” ported cars will drap to 9.2 per cent from 15 per cent over eight years, There wuld be tariff reductions on practically all imported products except textiles and 08s, “Canada has the highest tariffs in the industrialized world,” Dixon said. ''This is. a start to reduce those tariffa.’* Grossman said the ex- clusion of textiles, clothing and footwear by most in- dustrialized countries from all but minimal tariff cuts would be of particular in- terest to eastern Ontarlo. Northern Ontario, with 25 pér cent of Canada’s em- ployment in the pulp and paper industry, would benefit from greatly im- proved market access far per and paper products in the United States, European Economic Community and Japan, of violence is over lawlessness and violence that terrorized the city of 16,000 over five nights. Police and city officials said Wednesday charges will be laid against those responsible for the destruction, - As drunken vandals smashed plate glass win- dows of a Dominion store and looted the supermarket during the early morning . hours Wednesday, angry - businessmen marfched on Mayor John Duffy’s home and demanded action to end the violence. : Duffy said city council had given him a mandate to call in the RCMP if a settlement was not reached Tuesday night. But. he said it was | outside police would only antagonize delicate contract negotiations. The strike officially ended late Wednesday afternoon as police and outside workers signed separate memorandums of agreement. Duffy said the city is “very satisfied’ with the set- tlements which he said are within the guidelines and mandates given by city “council to its negotlating team. Talks between police Local 1497 and the city became deadlocked early Wed- nesday afternoon over an officer rank structure clause police want included in their new three-year contract. The inclusion of -corporal and sergeant status. to the ’ present rank structure, The deadlock came only hours aflar police had announced an end to thelr strike and cleared the streets of van- dal. ; Earlier, police and the elty had agreed on & new contrat that will give the police a an- nual wage of $20,000 for first class constables by 1891. The city also agreed to a cost-of- living allowance clause that would come into effect following any increages over 12% per cent in the cost of living index. , Blair Boucher, chief negotiator for the police who are members of the Canadian Union of Public street bear evidence to the decided the presence of disputed clause provides for Employees, said the rank THURSDAY 5 p.m. to midnight KING ceTK | BCTV KCTS eee Oe cee cee y ee x hb 4. (crv) 9 (PBS) bee rem ay 0 “Make tte!" a Moa” ere ‘Six ca . Mister . 15 Laugh! Squad Million Rogers 130 News Hourglass - Dollar Electric ras Cont'd Cont’d Man Company 00 Cont'd. The Muppet News Studio iM Cont'd. Show Hour See 110 Cont'd. Love Cont'd Dick a5 Cont'd. Boat Cont'd Cavett “00 Seattle Cont'd Angie MacNeil 1S Tonight Cont'd Cont'd Lehrer :30 Match Cont'd Stars Stepping 145 Game PM Cont'd On Ice Out :00 Project Mork The Nova. “15 ULF.O. & Mindy Waltons Cont'd 40 Cont'd King Cont'd Cont'd 45 Cont'd of Kensington Cont'd -| Cont'd w Quiney Thuraday Live Marie :15 Cont'd Night It Up Curie :30 Cont’d Movie Soap Cont'd 45 Cont'd “Police Cont'd Cont'd :o¢ | Cassidy Story” Sweepstakes Dial 16 | Man U’cover Cont'd Cont'd Line 30 Cont'd Cont'd Cont'd Nine 45 Cont'd Cont'd Cont'd Cont'd “00 News Natlonal cTV Cinema 5 Cont'd Night News Bo. 10 Tonight Final News Hour Joe a5 Show P.M. Final Garcia 00. | Cont'd. Kojak Late Sign 15 Cont'd. Cont'd Show O'F 30 Cont'd. Cont'd “Eve” 45} Cont'd. Cont'd Cont'd FRIDAY 10 am. to 5 p.m. 00 New High Friendly Trouble Electric ; 158 Rollers (Giant with Tracy Company 30 | Wheel of Mr. . Definition Measuremetric 45 Fortune Dressup Cont’d ' Blue Umbrella 09 «© [| Password Sesame What's Zebra Wings 15 Plus Street Cooking Write On :30 Hollywood Cont'd, Mad Cover-Cover 45 | Squares Cont'd Dash Environments Days of News Noon Music -15 f Our Lives Bob Switzer News Cont'd. 30. «| Cont'd. Mary Tyler Alan Art Starts 45 Cont'd. Moore Hamel Stories of Amer. 00 | The On Cont'd Write On -:15 | Doctors the Cont'd, * Art Cart 30 Another Evidence Another Universe a5 World Cont'd | World Roomnastics 7) Cont'd The Edge Cont'd. Book Loak 15 Cont'd Of Night Cont'd, Music Piace 30 {Cont'd Take Cont'd, Poetry Alive ; 45“ Cont'd Thirty Cont'd. Bread & B'F lies :00 Movie Western Movie Over NS “Sing Summer Matinee Easy :30 Boy Cont'd “Seminole"’ Speakout 145 Sing" Cont'd Cont'd Cont'd. :po" | Cont'd. Flinstones Cont'd. Sesame :1§ 9 Cont'd. Cont'd Cont'd, Streel 30 Cont'd, Pan Am Cont'd, Cont'd. 45 | Cont'd, Highlights Cont'd, Cont'd. _ the US. Clause had heen agreed to by the elty during previous ne- gotlations. But he said the city tried to “‘trick"’ the police by dropping the clause from the final agreement. The provincial labor department then stepped in and ordered that the officer rank issue go to binding arbitration. That ended the strike. There is a legacy of bitter- ness among downtown mer- chants and citizens who watched their city disgraced by drunken mobs in the glare on natlonal press coverage. Garry Tower, president of the Downtown . Businessmen's Association, -told The Canadian Press that, merchants will hold a public. meeting this afternoon to discuss ways of avoiding vio- © lence in the event of future police strikes. Damage to.stores is esti- mated at between $50,000 and $100,000, Tower sald. | Australia - .—|.is ‘sprayed: WASHINGTON (AP): — ‘The space statlon Skylab, in its death plunge to earth Wednesday, sprayed debris over central Australia, some of the-most desolate terrain on the face of the earth. For the residents of the area, the fall of Skylab over the Indian Ocean and Australia ‘provided a celestial flreworks show, complete with the sound of sonic booms, “Quite a bit of debris [ell on Australia,’ said Jim Kukowski, a spokesman for National Aeranautics and Space Administration. , Late Wednesday, the North American Alr Defence Command revised _ its position where the last and largest piece lost its forward motion and started to drop. — NORAD put the spot at Kalgoorlie in southwestern Australia, about 1,200 kilémetres northeast of the position in the Indian Ocean where NORAD | _first estimated it to be. NORAD . estimated the time of the “decay polnt” at 12:37 p.m. EDT, give or take two minutes. “We have received no reports of property damage or personal injury," Kukowski said, ‘That doesn't rule it aut 100 per cent, but it appears highly unlikely that any debris would fall on anybody,” President Carter sent a message to Australlan Prime Minister J. Malcolm Fraser saying he was relieved to learn no Injuries resulted’ and offering any assistance that might be needed. Capt. Bill Anderson, a pilot . for a local airline in western Australia, saw Skylab's fall from his cockpit as he was flying toward Perth. "There was this blue glow, almost like ailrcrait headlights," he told NASA telephone. “We almost . HHentitied it as a large air- craft close to us with the lights on and everything else on, 1 suppose.” Anderson said that as the debris ‘descended ‘‘tt changed from a blue to almost arangey red. You could see the breakup starting to occur. As the breakup continued, it - finished up into five very bright orange bails in the front and the remainder. of the debris behind giving off sparks,” Trade talks delight industry - ‘Dixon aadd the tariff on im- _ Anumber of key U.S. con- cessions on chemica] products would benefit producers in southwestern Ontario, as would improved tariff treatment in the U.S. and Europe of agricultural producra such as corn, white eans, . tobacco,. processed foodstuffs such as biscuits, cakes, con- fectionery, canned corn and processed meats. He estimated that by 1988, Canadian manufacturers would have duty-free access into the American market for about 20 per cent of all exports to that country, compared to 68 per cent at present. . On the minus side, Grossman said concessions were less than hoped for, but some market opportuniti for Ontarlo had opened up the aerospace, avionics and forest products sectors. Ontario also regretted that tariff cute in petro-chemicals and iron and steel were small because of existing global overcapacity. Grossman aaid certain sectors of the Ontario economy would be exposed to greater competitive pressures from abroad.. These would likely Include certain types of furniture manufacturers, plastics fabricators, toys and games producers, glass products, ° and major and small ap- pliance manufacturers, NEWS IN BRIEF | _. A family iriend said early” f Hl a minister: in the Liberal and © FAMILY ACT IS TESTED VICTORIA (CP) — The -British Columbia : government ia con- sidering testing the -con- Stitutionality of its con- troversial Family / Relations Act Attorney- | General Garde Gardom said Wednesday. = .Replying to questlons by Stu Leggatt (NDP— CoquitlamMoody), Gardom said the law is being carried out in the province. “There has been a. challenge which was not court, and the matter is under consideration.’' Leggatt noted that two judges now have refused to hear cases under the act, saying that some of its provisions are the pre- rogative of federal judges. He urged the attorney- general to use the Coa- stitutional Questions Determination Act to refer the act directly lo the court of appeal “so that’ we can: have a decision once and for all and settle the uncertainty in the law in this province." - Outside . the house, Leggatt said the Family Relations Act is badly ‘written because ‘‘they may have assigned it to the wrong court.”” “It should have been a matter for the Supreme Court to deal with family law generally or county court because they have féderally-appointed judges and there is iess doubt about their jurisdiction.” Leggatt, a lawyer, said the attorney-general is wrong In saying he has to wait for a test case because “under the Con- stitutional Questions Determination Act he can refer it to the court of appeal to determine whether this province has Juriedietion to do what it Leggatt said he thinks the act Is un- constitutlonal. Winnlfred Murphy, a retired family court judge in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, said she adjourned several cases under the act after the disputed ruling on ‘the act by Judge Phil Govan in the same-court. Judge Govan’s ruling in April brought a complaint in the legislature last week that deputy at- torney-general Richard Vogel tried to have the judge removed from the case, ‘ Vogel denied the charge, saying that Judge Govan misinterpreted telephone calls made in connection with an ap- plication to the 35.C. Supreme Court to compel the judge to hear the case. Gardom has appointed Mr. Justice Peter Seaton to look into the matter. argued in front of the |” MONTREAL (CP) — “Senator Claude Wagner died here Wednesday night after a lengthy illness. today Wagner, 54, had been in hospital since June 4 and’. died at 7 p.m. (EDT). «= The friend, speaking onh-- behalf of the family fram the - ‘Wagner home herz. bid not specixy hia illness, and a ‘hospital official declined to. give any further details, but the CBC said he died of leukemia, Since Wagner, a Progressive Conservative, was named to the Senate in. April, 1978, by then prime minister Pierre Trudeau, leaving his House of Com- ‘ - mons seat for St. Hyacinthe, he had rarely been in the public eye. Salmon run BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — There will be a larger-thanaverage run of pink salmon during this year’s salmon fishing season, say Washington state fishing officials. . “It's not a bad pink year for. the U.S.,"" Gordon San- dison, director of the state department of fisheries, said Wednesday. | “Coho is depressed and chinook will be down, It will ‘be about an average sockeye year, Peter Elich, a Bellingham _pillnetter and member of the salmon advisory panel of the Air corridor WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — _ Air Canada has complained about the dangers of the air corridor where five men lost their lives when two private aircraft collided over Windsor on Tuesday,- an ‘offical of Transport Canada says. Dean Smith said Wed- nesday the complaint was made in May in a letter by Sherm Everard, assistant director of Air Canada’s flight operations. ‘leade' His tempestuous career in- . cluded a term a8 a Crown prosecutor, a stint asa “law. | and order” sessions court judge; the post of justice - cabinet of Jean Lesage, an unsuceaaf attempt at the erahip of the provincial Liberals and defeat for the Tory national leadership at the hands ofan obscure “Albertan, Joe Clark, "" Wagner is survived by his - wife Gisele, daughter Johanne, 23, and his sons, Richard, 24 and- Christan, . 18, Ct: -. His appointment to the | Senate'capped a sometimes. :. stormy’ relationship with other Quebec Torles, in- « cluding Hoch LaSalle, leader of the Conservatives’. two- man Quebec caucus.” called good Pacific’. Fishery — Management - Council, ‘estimated 4 million pink amen by be harvested, primarily urse seiners. “We should see a‘ good season for purse seinera and a good-toaverage season for ; @illnets,”; Elich said. ” Pink’ Salmon are . more lethargic than sockeye and more easily caught In the purse seine, he said and estimated that gillnetters will catch about 1 milion sockeye, . ‘Non-treaty fishermen have 16 days of fishing scheduled for pinks and sockeye. condemned Smith said some planes were not checking in with the Windsor tower as they pass through its control area en route to Detroit. ‘ ‘Sam Bromfield, chief — instructor at the Windsor Flying Club which owned one . of the aireraft involved in the cash, said official reports of near-crashes in the area — which is monitored by three airports -— are filed about once a week to the control . tower. _ Skylab watcher missed... MONTREAL = (CP) “— Claude St. Pierre waa eltting in his car early Wednesday morning, listening to the news on the radio and watching the sky for Skylab, when a huge chunk of metal slammed into the ground about three metres from him. It wasn’t what he thought it was, . “It was.a close call ... 1 was pretty scared,” St. Pierre recalled, “At flrat 1 thought it was a piece of Skylab that had fallen.” ar rd ae Se As it turned out, the-chunk. of metal that crashed into his front lawn in suburban Laval was a propeller from a twin- engine DC-3 flying overhead. The plane, bound for Con- necticut, lost ‘its right propeller shortly after takeoff from a private runway in another Montreal suburb, : The cone, which secures the propellor to the engine, flew about 30 metres, skimmed off a parked car and landed on a neighbor's lawn, ; Nuclear plant closed BOSTON (AP) -—- A nuclear power plant was closed Wednesday because radioactive water was - leaking from a pipe, but of- ficiala said no radiation escaped from the plant. Tt was the second closure in as many months for the Pilgrim I plant operated by the Boston Edison Co, Workers discovered the " Igak In a tunnel area Tuesday afternoon. Plymouth police said there were no evacuations of” residents around the plant. Conflicting reports were given on the amount of leakage. Edison spokesman Walter Salvi said about ten gallons an hour. was leaking Tuesday, and about 15 gallons on Wednesday. But Alan Abraham, a spokesman. for the U.S. Nuclear Reguiatory Commission, said the company told him Wednesday that only “four or five cupfuls" an hour was leaking. ‘ Abraham - said the - situation was not serious. Boston Edison officials said the leak may have developed several days ago but was not immediately diacovered because the pipe - - is in an isolated area. Ferry to be built VICTORIA (CP) — The Victoria division of Burrard Yarrows Corp, will begin construction of a $29-millun Cowichanclaws ferry in two weeks, Don Challinor, general manager of the shipyard, said Tuesday. The vessel, to be com- pleted by April, 1981, will be used on the B.C, Ferry Corp.'s run between Departure Bay and Hor- seshoe Bay. . Challinor said the’ work- force at the yard Is expected Ma Murray pans gold VANCOUVER (CP) — Former newspaper editor Margaret (Ma) Murray, 92, - can resume her new gold minin- career now that she has been discharged from Vancouver General Hospital after trealment for a hip jury. The former editor of the. Bridge River-Lillooet News has become a partner in a venture to mine gold out of to reach 835 people when construction peaks later this year. Meanwhile, he said, the number of workers will drop temporarily to 350. from 526 when the §3.5-milllon refit of the drillship Canmar Ex- plorer IV {s completed today. Burrard Yarrows was awarded a §$57.8-million contract to bulld two new. ferries. The other is under construction at the firm's North Vancouver plant, — : the Fraser River near heri: hometown of Lillooet. _She has invested nearly $10,000 in a placer mining system developed by her. longtime friend Don Dillon, a - welder and machinist, The . two have applied for a patent: ” for the system, which uses an automatic backhoe to dredge river sand into a:: sluice and shaker.