. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU ~'§ otary Conventional Engines by MAZDA New & Used Vehicles SKEENA AUTO Metal Shop Ltd. DEALER LIC, 02.273 635-6572 NATIONAL 4 LIBERALS P.C 14 ‘LIBERAL NDP EVERETT. 1ONA CAMPAGHOLO FRANK HOWARD STEVENS - The oldest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest er . TERRACE, 8.C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1974 "IOWA GASPAGHOLO Farget CBC's computers, the: seals and wasleading in enough olagers predicilions about a, - Trudeau” victary” because. Uranus was.in-his Libra.and ’ hatever clher..polls, ‘guesses and...voo - doo. were . used’ to’ predict’ Monday's election,” . .- .was clear here in Terrace ‘who : would ‘be. the next: (ahd condnulng) Prime Minister, of”. .Canada an the basis of the visits” of “both Opposition “ Leader _ Robert. Stanfield and- Prime. . Minister Plerre Eltiot Trudeau. ' "Just as Robert Stanfield’s DC- -» 9 broke through the heavy cloud ~ caver‘over the Terrace-Kitimal airport it hegan (0 rain heavily. When Trudenu landed in his DC- * government. David Lewis had ‘the last election had been cut in half. Part of that was a protest =-Tne B.GYo IL reflected~ disen- "pails al, 8 pan. it Was cle . ‘Trudeau would. continue, that lime he already had enough ‘Ar wet Bt at ot a Aetna ap a ee teres na EAE eT oom! Oped ine NE Reheat aT aE ge 2 ‘ a : . By i . ~ ue ‘ ridings .10..form."a’ majority: “been defeaied, the NDP gains.in’ " vole ngainst-the’NDP’s role in’ ‘the-last minority .goyernment.- chiantment “with: thei-provincial.- & ay" _. damage of course ivas Ontario, as the. Liberals swept 44.6 ‘percent of the popular vote and... 55 of the -88 seats. © The Progressive Conservatives held 95 seals, losing: 15.and any chunce of forming the govern- ‘ment. Despite their strength on the prairies it was all over, -”: British “Columbia just con- “firmed iLwith incumbent, NDP > members: finding: ‘themselves ~[ ‘without ‘a, riding -.and-: the “Progressive Conservatives and “the Liberals the: benefactors af _ some prelly strong protest vote. . figures) the Popular vote figures. (rough Liberals. were up percent to 42.2 percent; the | Cons up 4 percent to 33 percent, and. (he. Democrats : down 12 parcent ‘Lo 45 “percent.” “stn (his province” the. Con-”” _servatives added five lo their & "geats ‘fram 1972,-,the~ Liberal loubled their's fram. 4 seats tb 8... ‘J ~” The New Pemocratic. Parly,:- was dessimaled retalning 2of It’. seals. n election. The .N.D.P, down and-all but dead; ° : Uhe Conservatives down but still - the .. Liberals. - revitalized, perhaps, the first strong and government in the Western -world to-be re-elected with-a stronger. majority. in times of high inflation. : . But the decision was never In doubt, Nolin Terrace, anyway. °"hedink Howard, én the other : hand: ig” thinking: of _ taking things" easy “fora couple. cf _ weeks." ‘Then he plans on going fi ally it was pretty much . thes: The NDP. had thirty.‘ one seats in 1972, enabling then,’ An Analysis oward,'a’ veteran of NDP | ;by” the’ way-side oters: thraughout ; gether to elect Iona, jo, ‘a: Liberal. “Howard: was just’one. of - the fifteen NDP fatalities across the ation, a lost.thal includes ald - lime politicians: aitd'’even party * der. David Lewis,» ” Astute politieal . cam- mentators have. blamed ~ the logses, “particularly heavy. in “B.C.’on-the provincial gavern- *~ ment’s legislation, with the PCs . and Liberals benefitting from the protest vote. Nine of the fifteen’ seats lost by the NDP were in B.C. - wos Terrace voters watching the rélurning resulls over. network television’. were. given. a_con- - “fusing picture. . First CBC's compuler toak the result from early figures in'-Skeena and forecasted .another wittedor. Howard. “Half an hour later’. when CFTK cut in for their * election. over ihe statistics ta see what. . happened, .Howard-is nat, as’ ‘ previously thought, retiring. . ‘Everett, ‘Stevens, PC can- didate for Skeena says that he is. “going back to work, He hopes to’ be able to get out-his rod and “reel and spend a, little. Ume fishing. vat a of atts. coverage-of the ‘election, :Londz Campagnolo -had taken’a lei thal ..° she ..: strengthened Whroughout the night’ as. -giter poll reported, 7s;