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The Herald, Friday, August 17, 1973, Page 8

_ Premiers discuss economy, tax shelters

POINTE-AU-PIC, Que. (CP) — The death of former

time - minister John

éfenbaker overshadowed | the start of the 20th annual conference of provincial _ premiers here Thursday.

After. paying tribune > “The Chie! mn ‘which obliged,

some premiers to swallow their - political and even personal antagonisms, the conference buckled down to fhe first of three business

Sehind closed doors, the premiers . discussed economic issues with ‘an eye

_ ‘Davis,

to the federalprovincial conference of first ministers on the sconomy ' scheduled for November,

Like his colleagues, On- tario Premier William Jeadoff-speaker, ‘spoke to reporters of a general agreement among

.the premiers on geveral.eco-

nomic iasues. -

But besides mentioning that all the provinces

on the important role the

federal government has to play to combat inflation and unemployment, few premiers cared to be more

specific on the areas. of

agreement when they broke 0p for lunch. sient owever, the era en- dorsed a proposal by Nova Scotia Premier. John Buchanan calling for more tax shelters for industry and a general loosening of the tax syatem to help the poorer provinces attract Investors. - P puchanan, who led off dis- cussion on, tax policy, sald the tax ahelter system has been \sed-to great ad- vamage for ofl and gaa ex- Ploration and for. the prodnetion.; of Canadian

But that hasn' t done much to’ help the Atlantic provinces, and tax shelters should be extended to sectors such as fisherles, he'told his colleagues.

He proposed a 150-per-cent tax write-off on investment in slow-growth regions, while underlining the need

‘for co-operation between -

QOltawa and the provinces to make tax policy an effective toal of economic devel- _Opment,

*SaskatcheWan Premier Allan Blakeney said: “We're

. Bpprehensive there may be

employment problems more serious than, we now have because of the real possibility of a recession in the U.S. and of it spreading to. Canada.”

He added: “There is a gen- eral belief we should be ex- erclsing care in spending on

ihe current account ‘in hopes

of reducing deficits.

“We felt we should take steps to see that we reduce governmental deficits on the current account, and yet not shut down all governmental operations which might stimulate the economy.

_ Resignation still leaves questions

UNITED NATIONS (CP) — The official explanation of Andrew Yourg’s resignation as United States ambassador to the UN leaves a number of questions unanswered,

On the face of it, Young held. a. brief and

unauthorized discussion with -

Zehdi Torzl; the- Palestinian

Liberatlon . Organization |

representative at the UN and.

then lied about the meeting

to the state department and State Secretary Cyr Vance. —

At first, Young sald the imeeting was accidental and

* the discussion was limited to

small talk, Later, ‘when jrought no rebuke-from the at a- crucial point. The

another version of ‘the

in- state’ department, only a Security Council was due to

cident was- leaked, ap- caution about such meetings vote on an important

parently by Yehuda’ ‘Boum, Israel's ambassador ‘to: the UN, Young admitted that he

being. against policy. The °U.S. - “policy is that ‘there. «<should., be

Palestinian resolution. It tacitly accepted Israel's

minutes talking over a the organization . recognizes Palestinian state, -—

Tesolution dueto come

lIsrael’s right ‘to exist.

_ before tha Security Council, Despite this;therehavebeen AB Young explained it, the

Young ‘then tendered’ his

“ resignation. no, hit However,. - there are " several things hot explained,

’ For instance, Milton Wolf, the U.S. ambassador to Austria, is répotted to have

several instances of indirect — ‘contact between the U.S. and the PLO’ through the good offical ‘ot Kuwait,

U.S. could not support’ the resolution without provoking an explosion from Israel. It -eould not veto. it: without

~ serious repercussions in the

Young’s: meeting ‘with’ Arab world and abstaining

Terzi, in

fact, oceurredinthe would have, alienated. both

‘had three meetings with a home. ‘of the Kuwaill am- sides,

PLO official, two by accident and one ‘by: design, That

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B.C. BRIEFS |

“VANCOUVER cry. Forest Industrial aaa said today it will ‘apply to the ° provincial labor relations

to stop study sessions planned by tradesmen for

Aug. 23-24,

FIR president Keith Bennett said the industry bargaining agent will make its application thia week or early next week, =

A minority group a ‘tradesmen represented ‘the Interna toma Wood workers erica,

Pulp, avec Ant Wood workers of Canada and Canadian Paperworkers

Union have formed thelr own’

association to > press for an adjusiment of thelr wage rates on top of the industry-

i Ferry VICTORIA (CP) — The ferry Queen of Alberni which ran aground in Active Pass last week milght be out of

service twice ‘as long as:

expected, Highways Minister Alex Fraser said today,

The minister sald damage to engines might be more extensive than originally feared and it could be two months instead of one month before the. vessel is back in service.

Fraser said the govern: ment has been unable to find

4, ‘sultable replacement vessel to take up the alack while the Alberni is In drydock.

PRINCE. GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Walter Horlson, an escaped prisoner from the Lower Mainland Reglonal

* Correctional Centre, was

arrested Wednesday in this central Interior city.

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. an ae “bite ‘field lier study sessions in tei bid to seek parity witt

said

are reaponsible for maintenance of sawa, received a higher rate than other malntenance trades prior to 1974. In negotiations. that year, tradesmen got parity with benchmen but Bennett seid ‘an ertor was made eke _ settlement. *' tree Under the new agreement, benchmen received $12.16 an hour from June 15, in- creasing to $19.32 the same date next year, Tradesmen got $11.76 June 15, increasing : to $12.68 next year.

needs some work -

And while the Alberni ‘ts out of service, ferry officials have reported increased traffic loada.

Betty Nicholson, B.C, Ferries information officer, reports that passenger traffic in July increased 0.9 per: cent over the same month in 1978, Vehicle traffic

was up 12.6 per cent for the. -

game period.

' Tourism Miniater Don

the Princess

Marguerite carried qeozm

)in its SeattleVictorla run

July, a 22.6percent in-

crease over the same month in 1976.

- Prisoner to go back in. RCMP said Rorison, 99,

was charged with theft. No other details were released.

Rorison was: serving: a

term for break and enter-ng, and assault when he escaped from the Burnaby prison .

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bassador ‘to the UN.

So Young, in what he de:

The fateful meting came scribes as a technically

i— MLA Terty riy has been criticized. by the cootenay Secondary Mills

association vice- -president,

Wednesday accused Segarty |

(St: Kootenay) of betraying ler logging operators. Schmidt sald the MLA has changed his stand in regard to the offering of timber.

earif tow Sepahty has”

rnlawed the small operators’ trust by promising us timber before the election to get our votes,” sald Schmidt, ‘“‘and then after elected, he says te . its not in the best interest of the major milla,”’ _ Schmidt said the Forest Act states that tiniber must be be advertised for sale and le aue on — and ina haan happen ' He sat titer is is nat being Bold by public competition and has been provided to

maior mills while smaller -

operators aren't allowed to

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& non-public competition basis," Schmidt said, “Small operators ‘wanted a little of the standing timber and got nothing. -

“We weren't allowed access at any price. Instead, after the big mills got through falling and taking all the prime timber smashing and leaving junk — small operators were allowed to clean up.”

Schmidt added that only the leftovers were ad- vertised for sale and sold by » public competition and! “only ‘salvage'was available?

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no right to exist but called for . and Tere spent about 30 negotiaHonwith'the Plo until establishment of ' a.

"| No. forgetting the | neglected promises

; CRANBROOK, B.C, (CP) ~

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proper action, worked out an encounter with Terzi. As it

happened, the vote on the | .Tesolution was postponed.

To Israel, the meeting was.

abetrayal of US, policy and

a treacherous move against — "' Middle East peace, .

The question: arises,

though, ag to how the truth of -

the meeling came out, One

explanation is that Young - _ told Blum about his talk with

Terzl while, at the same time, he was lying to his muperiors, ee at best,

Published Isareli. intelligence agents bugged the meeting, a flagrant abuse of American hospitality. and law. Israel denies the charge but Young ‘ said he would not be sur-

prised if the meoting turned ©

aut tohave been the target of. eavesdroppers.

Did Young in fact overstep his. authority in what he thought was a good cause? Did he meet Terzi with the tacit approval of Washington and then get caught by an Israeli bug? Is he a eca-

pegoat to Israeli auspicions about their - superpower patron?

He himself does not seem Inclined to comment on such questions,” maintaining his loyalt to President Carter

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