"-Reception-Classitied: emma aaa ! 0% ‘The Harald, Wednesday, July 20, 1983, - Publis ‘every weekday at 4010 Kalum Street, | - Terreca, B.C, by Sterling Publishers Ltd. “Authorized ai second class’ mail: Registration 7 o » Number 1201. Postage pald in cash,. return postage ? “guaranteed © a 4 ‘Keith. ‘Alford ” Ny - Circulation: ae _ Sue Nelson . mm : ~ Carolyn Gibson: os NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT a The Heraldretains full, complete and sole copyright. - Invany advertisement produced and-or any editorial. . or photographic content published-in the Herald, Reproduction Is not permitted without ihe written a permission of the Publisher. “Inflation is up Canadians got reacquainted Tuesday with a couple of . things not seen for a few months — rising interest rates ‘and — renewed inflation, ‘ Toronto Dominion Bank became’ the first: Canadian ; | chartéred bank to raise its mortgage rates since interest rates started to plunge last. summer.: Toronto Dominion, Canada’s fifth-largest. ‘chartered ‘ bank, arinolnced itis raising the interest it charges for one:, ; two-and three-year morigages’ by one-quarter of a per- centage point, while the five-year rate will jump by half a percentage point... Effective today, the rate. ‘or -ané-year mortgages becomes 11 per cent, two-year 12 per cent, three-year 12, 75 ' ‘per cent and five-year 13.5 per cent. . The increase was the first movement in the bank’s * mortgage rate levels since it reduced about mid-May. 1 Last week, National Trust became the second Canadian financia) institution to raise mortgage rates, following increases by Victoria and Grey Trust. National Trust also raised the interest paid to. those: holding guaranteed in- | vestment certificates. INFLATION RISES . Inflation, meanwhile, edged up to an aniual rate of 5.6 ~ per cent in June from 5.4 per cent in May, ending 12 con- secutive months of declines, But economists’ said there was'no need for panic. It was merely an uptick caused an unusually large increase in the price of gasoline.” Motorists-were forced to” handle a 19,2-per-cent i increase ‘in’ gasoline prices in June. as cut-throat - price: wars in _ Ontario and Quebec ended, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The price wara were, the. major: ‘factor in the. sharp. deceleration of inflation in April and May which made the - _ 6.4-per-cent annual inflation rate in. May the lowest in: more than 10 years, - In other news, the Ontario Secutities Commission said it | .. will appeal a Quebec government. agency's successful challenge of provincial corporate takeover laws. In an Ontario Supreme Court decision released earlier in. the day, the Caisse de depat et placement du Quebec won an‘: appeal against asécurities commission order that it make a. followup offer to minorjty shareholders of Domtar Inc.,.in . which it bought controlling interest nearly two years ago. SEEKING STAY —. The commission said it has instrpcied its counsel, Brian Bellmore, to seek-a stay-of the divisional. court decision. ’ The calsse administers the Quebec Pension Plan. In August, 1961, the caisse and ‘another Quebec govern- | ment firm, Societe generale de financement du Quebec, . bought 20 and 22 per cent respectively of Domtar at $i7 a share from major shareholders. (The stock was trading at $24.50. share on the Toronto Stock Exchange at the close of trading Tuesday.) ; The commission argued that the caisse mut follow Ontario securities law, which says that any firm making a takeover bid must make-similar offers to majority and minority shareholders alike. . : ___ The caisse had argued that ag an agency of the Crown i in. Quebec it was nat bound by the Ontario Securities Act. The ‘ court agreed, ’ The president of Rothman's of Pall Mall of Canada Ltd. said in Toronto the battering the Canadian tobacco industry — is taking at the hands of federal’ and Provincial tay . collectors threatens one of the country’s viable industries... Robert Hawkes, president of the country’s second. -largeat ~ * . tabacco products manufacturer, told shareholders at the. company's annual meeting that indexation of taxes to the consumer price index is leading ta an increase of the financial meen on the industry. CHARGES W, “» the Anti-Slavery Soclety. . — “gay, was largely, or partly ; anyway, t rin. by. Arabe,”" me . Goree, once the chief colonial slave marke ‘LONDON (CP) ~ month ‘marks: -the oth Parliament.» - an . ‘We're hoping to cag £8 ‘in a modest way, oni these commemorative ‘eve ents.to increase .oijr.. meth; bership; to-make people. muth\more aware that the’ soelety "exists and so‘dtes slavery," sald Peter Davies, director’ o£ iveraary ot fans ‘abolition We -:dn'Nova Scotia in the 18768 the roclety boul Halifax: to’ resettle former slayes.|.. - “We're - ‘arrogant, . aren't “we, We’ . Weaterners,’ : Davies, whose first-hand look at slavery in’ the West: African’ ' »We asgume that: We more OF lesa invented slavery, -4t, profited from it, and then. when: we abollahed i, that * that he said in an interview: ~*~ n v "Of “course, we ‘had only. Jatched :’on -'to- *Gatabllahed system in Africa which, I think, its not vnfair to. “BLACKS TOOK PART |’ ‘Blacks also played a part. The curator. of Senewal’s = okey ves, even’ as’ Brisa ls taling a party af black taurisia: “Don't ‘you ling ‘th "ingrehip, : cestors.¥ people plaves, eae. “thé. fact ‘that since. independence” ‘from © ‘ " France ‘in! “atate ‘af Mauritania..« was ® the subject’ of .a' recent BBC ~- very old - wasn't: just the wicked whites coming inj It" wae. 4 part tween blacks and whites and Ie ‘was yi ho. sold blacks, Into avery fo the ‘White p 5 * boat “$00 ‘te 1960, “all Mauritanians are theoretically: es r\ Waa, even formally. abolished in duly, 1900. : Slave a ” ¥ are owned in exactly the same way as the alave - of life ‘and death: over it,"' sald Davies... .. Another 300,000 former’ slayes. eke out a hunibte existence. and: Davies'ig still checkiiig reports that: Maveitanian blaves: a’ month are being shipped to Saudi. Arabia,” «. o> Slavery also exists in other. West African states sitch as Mali and Niger ‘but they-are, “a: little: Sitther On. “with” ° _emandpation than Mauritania,” said Davies. CAN'T: FREE ‘SLAVES .”- Mauritanian offictals acknowledge the evil but plea suit under present conditions, emanelpation would virtually. : mein aoe the slaves to die, Money is not avallable to « “es eg SOIM GaN T0 LEVEL WiTH THE PATHETIC FEW OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING THIS TV. SHOW: © 7 YOU'RE WATCHING BECAUSE YOU. SAN SALVADOR (AP) — U.S. and Salvadoran officials - claim that El Salvador’s army has begun turning the tide of - ’ the.45-month. civil war in its favor after six months of. -defeais at.the hands of leftist. guerrillas. ; Despite the optimism, however, officials caution that the © rebels could regain the upper hand unless the U.S.-trained ‘Salvadoran. army continues to fight aggressively. “Right now, the army has it all it’s way, and t's damn good,” said former ambassador Deane Hinton before he left here last week. ; _ Five weeks after the start ofa big push through: silgar and |: cotton-growing country in two eastern provinces, officials: “say the offensive ig “more. successful than anybody ‘had * hoped for.” “The mood in the military is more contident, The guys are doing what they should be doing,” said a U.S, military _ - Official who spoke on condition he not be identified.’ “They, are listening to the U.S. advisers more.” a AVOIDS OPEN FIGHTING _ Military ‘analyats say “guerrillas are falling back into mountain ‘strongholds rather than fighting: But it is not the first time in the war that rebels haye: been silent for an, extended. period. . The rainy season, which started ‘about six woeks | ago, is - traditionally a period in which (Suerrillas head into the” mountains to resupply and recriit new fighters. : On Monday, guerrillas bésieged the town of Suchitoto, 65 _ kilometres Horthinest of San Salvador, for two: ‘hours befére Salvadoran officials optimistic | ‘said last week she would like to see an Increase of 30. .per’. ‘thousands of hectares of vegetable and corn fields and cent in retail prices of cigarettes, Hawkes sald “we have a- ’ leaving soil (parched and cracked in central Ontario. federal cabinet minister who proposes to wage war on a - stable Canadian industry.”: 7 The industry will be attempting to convince governments to reverse their taxation policy by tending a committed of . chief financlal officers of the four Canadian manufacturers - and the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers’ Council to talk to finance ministers. Studies are being done to better: the Corporations’ arguments, : in other business developments:. , — Statistles Canada reported that shipments . of manufactured goods increased to May to a seasonally adjusted level of $16.5 bilion, up 3.9 per cent from the April value of $15.69 billion, The May statistics on shipments, inventories: and orders of manufactured goods are Senerally good news and are further proof the economy ia. on the mend, an acmicy Officials sald.. The Herald welcomes lis readers comments, . All. latters to the editor of generat public interest will be: Printed, They‘ should be submitted 48 hours In - however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on - grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. - All letters to be ' considered for pubileation: must be signed. it Is. impossible to print a letter auimitted within 4 hours of desired Publication. date, advance of desired publication dete. We do, | _ After.a heat wave last weekend, temperatures moderated somewhat this week, but farmers-are saying. they need © about five centimetres of rain in the next seven to 10 days to ensure an average crop. With weather forecasters calling for a return io sunny and warm conditions, farmers are worrk | they'll be piling up heavy losges, ... “The ground is cracked. open,” sald Dale Koable, a corn ’ farmer near Fort Erie, south of Niagara Falls, Ont. “T've never seen it like this. There‘are ‘cracks in the soil two in- ches wide and a foot deep.”” ” Koable, has one field of aboilt 60 hectares tint, likely won't survive. “It's pretty much too late now, he ania ina telephone In terview Tuesday. ‘. 2 *Max Ricker, vice-president’ of the Ontarié’ Corn Growers » -Assdctation, Said the drought is particularly: bad on heavy clay soils, ‘Predominant: in the. southern vareas of the - province, Because of heavy May rang, planting on the clay : flelds was late and 1 now those same fields are parched, he . Bald. “There has been some spotty rain .’. . but if there Is ha “pain in 10 days there's going to be some dried-up corn,” said ’ Ricker, who runs a farm near Dunnville; 86th of Hamilton. MAJOR CORN SUPPLIER . Corn is Ontario's No. 1 cash -crop and. the province produces more than 90 per cent of the, country’s supply, the ie och for eastern Canadian cattle, ples. ahd other ves who plantéd about 200 hiectaves ofeorn, said he CANT AFFORD ASULY VACATION, OR THECABLE, ORAVIDEO ~ RECORDER, NEVER MIND —THEPRICE OF A FILM AT: YOUR LOCAL THEATRE BUT ” OUR ADVERTISING SALES PEOPLE DON'T WANT YOU. -_ DBADBEATS WATCHING IF “YOU HAVE NO MONEY To / SPEND.-$0 STAY TUNED ~ FOR MORE SUMMER RE- ~ RUNSOF BRUCE PHILLIPS". EDITORIAL COMMENTS .ORTURNOFE “YOUR SETS. . falling back as government reinforcements arrived. An army now numbering about 5,000 soldiers, plus about: 25,000 auxiliary security forces and militiamen, has been battling an estimated 7,000 guerrillas in the stalemated war. - U.S. officials say American military ald to El Salvador iss 7 “at aimed -at defeating the rebels but at achieving a - “inillitary: balance in which security can be maintained and. the government can move toward democracy. - “ . PLANS NEW ELECTIONS — Elections are- scheduled for December but Constituent: : ae Assembly president Roberto. .d'Aubuisson said Tuesday his’ rightist party wants the voting postponed because there is 2 » hot enough time to organize them: U.S. training of Salvadorans has ‘stepped up in the past - few months to cover a current total of about'4,500 trainees, and U.S. advisers hope to increase. that number eam - alderably, + . Tn the big offensive that started June 10; 6,000. soldiers swept through San. Vicente provire to flush out rebels. -Acsimillar drive in ‘under way: In neighboring Usulutan - provinee but only about 3, 000 troops are involved. ‘n both - _ areas, the army says, most:rebels have fed their r camps , ond broken’ into small groups. A major: part of the operation involves civic > action a programs run by. the army, which ‘has visited, all 13: - municipalities in San: Vicente. province, Promising em- : ployment and supplies. Heat wave & affects farms © Referring tafe federal Health Minister Monique Begin, v who - TORONTO. (CP) — A summer "drought is wilting | " Virginia to Kansas, whose critical corn tasseling period.was _ late due.to the cold, wet spring. Now pollination is being hurt due.to.a lack of rain.’ re hs ‘But: the drought is also affecting other érops ‘and other pares of Ontario as far east aB Prince Edward County, south of Belleville. “The peas are ruined, the grain is already drying up,” - "paid Reeve George Reynolds ‘at a.county councll meeting ‘ Muesday. “How serious does it. have. fo get before we "declare this county a disaster area?. “It's real serious. Crop Insurance will barely cover the : ~ gost of planting the peas and’ won't cover anywhere n near the cost of g¥ain or corn.” In the small, rural courty,. agriculture is a key industry, The pea. crop alone is valudd at close td #2 maillog with. a. (tomato harvest of equal velue. oe Doe, - NEARING CRISIS STAGE . . Larry. ‘Matheson, Agriculture Ministry representative ior . the county; ‘agréed the. ‘drought was approaching a crisis . situation. He said the area has not hada meaningful rainfall % agince. nad: -May, adding it has® ‘been some years Since the county, has suffered ‘such‘a drought, - . ~ Crops. where: irrigation. is available a are OK, “but even Sagome farm pods used for irrigation are starting to dry up, " he sald, .. . ‘Oni July 13, the water purification piant, at Picton, at the : < ‘southern, énd of the county, pumped 'a record:13.16 million." " Hitred of water. Much of this was used by farmers without “irrigation, ‘ald local truckers. In the southwest-areas of tie prove, however, ffeats | Were more optimist: fs . i : , necessary to give freed slaves’ ‘the means a *. bondage, the: ‘pledging of labor for.an: haa always been owned — — the master hag. absolute powers 5 tt campalgnedagains! female cireurncision in Sudan long, an . but to endure that your daughter, and your wile arid all your 7 - " women folk were done. ad aa - slavery or female circumcision, from within'the country.’ " '*. But the society needs wider international support taretain’ ~ ” - - It would be curtains if, when the society’s status comes up * resigned as sentor Law Lordin March, 1962, the day before * last year, on indigenous populations, Lo _ musicacademy in Odessa for trumpeting ‘“‘bourgeois”* jazz. - -formed his own jan band and has become a popular suc- - for the festival's Grand Prize of the Americas. - . - showa at the international festival which this year honors . the ry weather" ‘Je also altecting US. farmers th? ” show the work of film-makers from studios in the republics oot _ Georgia. . Slavery’ exists In other forms in: other: co atrle * pay off-a debt, is rife in India for example, : hete| Davies “game across It ag a Batis ‘Council: pigiaicerc before estates. ‘where ‘tl rk, ~~ American coun : --Ghild exploitation in Sou! ca was: the ‘siibject “recent report by the society and a future ond is. pape > Working. childrenin Britain, + te _ Selling brides. or transferring. mat ano ‘her. husband’s death is another’ form of 1886: United Nations. convention on the ‘pubject ey ce aaicheles -‘ Britain, who ‘died :July 29; 1883, ‘thee daye after: abalitian : a “was. secured in the British Parliament... : ns ‘The society faded out but was revived in 1888 ‘when it:was |, realized that there was still work to do. For years, it was the,’ oniy international human rightsgroup.- ' before it beearne fashionable to do 80; and id Teagned an _ portant lesson. _ OUTLAWED IN 1946 - . After a 20-year battle, the practice was oullawed: Br tish-hetd Sudan in 1946. Independence wag: near, anti) colonialism in- full force." : _ “Bar from the act being accepted with screams of delight ' by the Sudatiese, it was regarded as & gross interference in- " traditional practices and cultural rights and 40 forth by the - eolonial power,” said Davies. "It became a patriotic thing to do, notonly ta disregard It, “So the effect was entirely counter-productive. : “It taught us an essential lesson, yhich is that really, you . _can only bring about’this ‘kind of change, whether it be . The society now has about 1,200 members around’ the” world, one quarter of them in the United States and Canada,’ its consultative status with United Nations organizations. “Usually the Soviet Union doesn't. take kindly to he. - things we say,” noted Davies, for periodic review, “the Russians could demonstrate that . . we really don’t represent any other than rather quirky, - private individual views." ; ; Why. the antagonism from ‘the Soviets? “well, they knoiv that we’re against forced labor and they know. that‘ they: probably have more forced labor. than anybody else.” = The society kept an eye on the Canadian constitutional so debate: on FOR NATIVE RIGHTS ; co: It wasn't a question | of slavery but of native ghia, an issue the society. -tackled: when it. merged. with | the Aborigines Protection Soclety. in 1609. At the height of the patriation fray, Davies wrote a tetter to The Times, supporting the Indian claim that Britain had a “residual responsibility” to protect native rights in Canada. --. - ; Lord “Wilberforce; co-president of the ‘Anti-Slavery oy Society anda great-great-grandgon of William Wilberforce, 1 the Indian claim’ to’ British: protection was heard and rejected by his successor and four other colleagues: in ; Britain's highest court. |. :.:: Lp dsr te ‘The society has been instrumental in the salting up of two UN working groups —one on slavery and another, launched : “Pac 5 _ AS @ non-governmental. organization advising the UN's. Economic and Social Committee and UNICEF, the society can reach and “mobilize” other crucial UN agencles, ss sald , Davies. Film premiers. "MONTREAL (CP) — The breey new Soviet anv We Are From Jazz, a light-hearted tale about a group of young . 19208 jazzmen’ ostracized for playing “bourgeois music,” ‘ will have its world premiere at next month’ 8 7h Montreal World Film Festival - Featuring “a smart, uptempo soundtrack by. “con: temporary Soviet jazz composer Andre Petrov, the inovie _ tells the story of a likable young jazz buff kicked out of the By the. end of this Soviet showbiz tale, the musidan: has (cess. - : We Are From Jazz vill be entered in official competition The jazz movie is one of nine recent Soviet. films | to he “the Soviet cinema, Beperally -Hitle-known by - ‘North American movie audiences. A delegation af directors, ” aetors.and personalities from the Soviet Union have agreed =7 to ‘attend the festival, which runs from ‘Aug. 16-28..° °° _ Also offered is veteran director Sergei Bondarchuk’s I've Seen the: Birth of the New World — the Soviet equivalent of ' Warren. Beaty’s Red's— preeenting ‘American’ journalist . | John Reed’s impressions of the Soviet Revolution of 1917. . Last. year the Montreal festival carried. Bondarchuk's ' visually spectacular. but dramatically. stilted: Mexico in. ‘Flames, which. recownted Reed’s early experiences : ‘covering the Mexican Revolution. |. : “PLAYS REED ; Tn both films, Italian actor Franco Nero- plays: Reed, acted i in Rede by Benity. - ‘The two. epiclength movies: are “international - co- productions between the Soviet Union's Mosfilms Studio, ' Mexico's Conacite-2 and Italy’s Vides: ‘International. _ - Two of- the Soviet Union’s most popular screen. ‘stars, -Ludmila Gourtchenko and Oleg Bassilachvili, star - in "Station: For Two’ a charming but meven comedy. abotil middle-age love which was In official competition at. the _, Cannes Film Festival in May, . Some scenes fi the movie are set in a hard-labor camp in ‘Siberia, a‘ facet of Soviet life rarely shown in its films. Another | high-profile movie is Valentina, Valentina, ~ directed by Gleb Panfiloy and starring Inna Churikova, An adaptation of a play ‘by Alexander. Vamilov,, the: story+~ surrounds. a ‘young waltress who’ has a ¢rush ona voller, Is loved by: another yoimg man, and whose. ather wants her to m ‘he local secretaty: of e Communist Party... ay ° " . While oost of the films to be, shown: in. Montreal were . | produced. by the: huge Mosfilm. Studios in: Moscow, some. - of the Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaidjan. ‘ ‘The familiar dilemma of a modern working wonian — = in’ - ‘this case a journalist —torn between hér job and her faniily .: - ‘+ is the subject of Several Interviews on Personal Matters by. ditector™ Lana. Gogobridre ot the Grate: film. studio: in ae