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Al Purschke, Bob Cooper and David Pease made their declaration of office and oath of allegiance during a special inaugural meeting of Terrace District Council on Monday......... a

Sudge Darrall Collins, who , represented the Terrace yeary ago, vficiated fusing years ago, the declaration and oath.

New Terrace aldermen make declaration of office.

MAYOR IN HOSPITAL New aldermen take oath

Mayor Dave Mareney was in hospital recovering from surgery on Monday, He is reported in good condition. Alderman Helmut Giesbrecht. was acting MAYOR. oe

Alderman Bob Cooper and Alderman Jack Talatra were appointed to represent council on the board of the Regional District of Kitimat:

MATSQUI, B.C. (CP) — Two brothers convicted ot. defrauding =the Unemployment Insur- ance Commission have each been fined $5,000 and sentenced to one day in

Hayre, owners of a fruit farm in Abbotsford, 5.C., were convicted in provincial court last week of conspiring to defraud the federal government of unemployment insurance benefits by falsifying the’ work records of em-

ployees. Their sister, Baldish

PAIR GUILTY IN UIC FRAUD

jail. Harbhajan and Gurmit —

_Bame time

Deol of Quesnel, B.C., was fined $2,500 on the same charge,

Court was told the three were part of a conspiracy in which kickbacks of up to $290 were demanded from farm workers in exchange for thé falsified records. ;

‘Evidence showed that some women were receiving medical treatment in Quesnel, in the British Columbia central interior, at the they were claiming to have worked on the Fraser Valley farm.

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| Women get better deal

OTTAWA (CP) — The gov- ernment announced plans Tuesaday to loosen unem- Bloyment insurance rules to

e it easier for women to Get maternity benefits,

rights commission following a@ women’s unsuccessful fight in the Supreme Court against current restrictions, but Employment Minister

Pensions raised

OTTAWA (CP) _ Disability pensions will automatically rise 9.1 per ‘ cent Jan. 1 for more than 134,000 war veterans, a spokesman for Veterans Affairs Minister Dan MacDonald sald Tuesday.

The nion rises automatically every year to match the climb in consumer feices,

Bud Cullen said he is still considering loosening the rules even further.

His announcement Tuesday included these changes:

—Extension of sup- plementary unemployment benefit plans to include thase which cover unemployment caused by maternity only. Currently, maternity benefits are only allowed un- der plans which also provide compengation for temporary lay-offa,

—Women who receive ma- ternity pay from employers will. no longer be penalized when they get governmert maternity benefits.

~The qualifying period for women unémployed because of pregnancy would be

doubled, easing work requirements. — Women who wish to have

their babies outside Canada could collect maternity benefits. The current rules do not allow this.

- Canada,”

Stikine. Council made no decision on who would be appointed alternates for Cooper and Talstra because Mayor Maroney had suggested earlier that he would like to be an alternate.

The schedule for acting ©

mayor was adopted. They are Helmut Glesbrecht for December and January, Jack Talstra for February

and March, Bob Cooper for April and May, Alan Soutar for June and July, David Pease for August and Sep- tember, and Al Purschke for October and November.

Council also adopted” the 1979 provisional budget, which simply provides for a

continuation of expenditures required for the normal

FBI AGENT

IN IRAN

| Government

very shaky

TEHRAN (AP) — A spreading strike by oil workers trying to oust Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi cut Iran’s oil output almost in half Tuesday, threatening

- the economic base of the

shah's embattled gover- ment.

Exiled opponents of the Shah claimed, meanwhile, that antigevernment Iranians have taken control of the Persian Gulf port city of Bushehr after new violence Monday night, but the report could not be con- firmed in Tehran, the capital.

Troops and armored vehicles, on the alert for a mew challenge from protesters here, patrolled

_ the volatile bazaar area of

ongoing operation of municipal services, said Talstra.

_ The $5.3 million budget is fhe same as the current

‘+ year's budget. Council will’

working on this budget over the next few months and it can be either in- creased or decreased from the present figure.

‘TI tell anyway’

OTTAWA (CP) - Warren.

Wart, a former FBI and ROMP agent, threatened Suesday to identify secret agents in Canada and make other embarrassing revelations if he is not summoned to testify before the McDonald royal com- mission into RCMP wrongdoing,

“IF [ have not heard from the commission inthe next 30 days, I will begin to name the names of agents who carry out clandestine activities in he told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview from Burlington, Vt.---

SURVIVAL WAS A MIRACLE

WALDEN, Colo. (AP) -]: Searchers on’ snowmobiles Tuesday rescued 21 persons, in- eluding an infant in his mother’s arms, who survived the crash lan- ding of a twin engined commuter plane on a mountainside and spent the night in near blizzard conditions. Authoritles sald one person died in the accident.

Most of .the survivors were injured. Only four were able to walk unaided.

The crash site was more than 3,300 metres up in the Colorado Rockies.

Rocky Mountain Air- ways Flight 2i7-a de ‘Havilland DHC 6 Twin Olter - had left the ski resort town of Steamboat Springs at 6:55 p.m. Monday on a scheduled 45 minute flight over the Continental Divide to Denver. Fifteen minutes later, the pilot radioed that he was having} trouble with ice and was heading back to Steamboat Springs.

- Pollack said he

Hart, who once spied on militant black groups in

Canada for the RCMP;

believes the RCMP is pressuring the McDonald Commission to prevent him from testifying because the force does not want “their

IN COURT

foreign operations made ec”

’ Mr. Justice David Me- Donald, bead of the com- mission investigating allegations of illegal acts by the RCMP, refused to comment .

Lawyer shot

TORONTO (CP) — A Toronto lawyer was shot to death Tuesday in the Supreme Court of Ontario where he was preparing to represent 4 woman in di- yoree proceedings,

Police said Frederick Gans, 40, was shot in the chest at point-blank range as he was leaving a con- sultation room at a city courthouse shortly before

noon. Aman has been taken into custody for questioning in

e .

Gans, the father of two children aged 9 and 11, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital,

Toronto lawyer Arthur saw a man pacing the corridor for about half an hour before Gans arrived.

"Fred sald, ‘Hello, Mr. ...

TORONTO (CP) — An internal uprising in Vietnam seems imminent from the number of refugess who continue to flee the country’s Communist regime, says South Vietnam's former vice-premler and minister of defence.

Gen. Tran Van Don said Monday the refugees know their chances of reaching anywhere alive are only 50- 50 and they would not be

but I didn't catch the name and the man just pulled out a gun and shot him, He didn’t Bay anything before or after

“Then the man with the gun put his hands down at his side— he was still holding the gun— and just started’ calmly walking away,” ‘Pollack said. ;

“There were two court at- tendants In the hall and they ‘wentover to him and led him away. He didn't struggle or anything. They just led him into a room until the police came.”

-Lawyer Ann Gibson said she had been told by a court clerk of an anonymous

Metropolitan Toronto police said could not confirm

_ such a report.

thecity Tuesday, The bazaar was the site of three days of protests beginning last Friday night in defiance of a §p.m. curfew. | .

The capital was generally calm, but demonstrators played tapes of gunfire and screams and the military retallated by selectively

shutting off power.

The government has said at least 14 persons were killed and 50 wounded in the violence that began Friday. Diplomatic sources said the death toll is closer to 40. Opposition sources clalmed the death toll is at least 3,000, but observers believed this figure to he wildly exaggerated.

Well-placed sources, who asked not to be identified, said oil production has dipped below 3.5 million barrels, just above haif Iran's normal daily output of six million barrels. The oil industry was just recovering from last month's crippling 15-day strike when the new walkout began Monday.

Iran’s military prime minister, Gen. Gholam Reza Azhari, appointed by the shah Nov. 6, ruled out using the army to force the oil workers back to work, as was done to end last month’s strike.

“We must convince them that their activities are not only damaging to the government, but to the people as a whole,” he said at a news conference,

The strike was called for by exiled Moslem religious leader Ayatullah Khomaini, who is living in France. Khomaini, who opposes increasing Westernization of the traditionally Islamic Iranian society, has been joined by a rising middle class, students and leftists who oppose the shah’s autocratic rule.

In Paris, French foreign ministry officials refused to comment on a meeting in which a senior official warned Khomaini against making inflammatory statements while in France,

Azhari called Khomaini “a toal of the enemies of this country,”’ but added that the 78-year-old spiritual leader is welcome to return ‘‘at any time— he would be treated like any other Iranian and would not be arrested if he behaved.”

BRUSSELS (CP) — Allled defence ministers have approved a $2.5- billion airborne defence system to thwart any surprise altacks from the Bast where the Russians are continuing a power

NATO authorities, who disclosed the decision Tuesday, sald the United States and West Germany will pick up about 70 per cent of the bill with the rest coming from 10 other NATO countries.

Canada will contribute about $200 million, the third largest in the alliance, but work orders for the Canadian aviation industry may bring most of that money back into Canada.

Development of the airborne system in part supplements U.S. satellite monitoring ar- rangements. But it also would plug gaping holes in NATO's ground-based radar network from the Arctic to the Aegean because the Soviets have perfected-ways~of--un- derfiying this radar coverage,

DEFENSE BILL WON APPROVAL

- tors—electronic- warfare,

The decision by NATO's defence planning com- mittee of 13 defence ministers—with | the French and Greeks staying out—highlighted a major source of worry for the West. Norwegian General Zeiner Gun- dersen earlier had warned the ministers that Soviet-led forces of Warsaw pact countries are outstripping those of the West, arousing “serious and growing concern.’ Gundersen focused on “an increasing emphasis (by the Com- munist countries) on electronic warfare capabilities."

As chairman of NATO's military committee— made up of chiefs af staff—Gundersen was provided an authoritative situational report, based on intelligence —in- formation, of the current East-West power bal- ance. He told reporters later Communist attack potential is being enhaticed in four key sec-

tanks, submarines and

chemical warfare.

Gov't to lose

on non-lottery

OTTAWA (CP) — Sporta Minister Iona Campagnolo said Tuesday it will cost the federal government at least $1 million to $2 million to get out of contracts for a com- puterized lottery it has turned over to the provinces.

She denied in the Com- mons aCBC television report which said the cost of abandoning Loto Select would be close to $37 million. The final cost will not be known until the contracts are terminated, perhaps within two or three months.

Campagnolo told reporters that she could not go into de- tails about contracts not yet settled “because it might influence the final buy-out costa.”

She said final contracts specifying buy-out costs, would be tabled in the Commons when they are worked out.

New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent said Auditor General J.J. Mac- donell should investigate “this horror story of waste, incompetence and mismanagement.”

Progressive Conservative Paul Dick (Lanark- RenfrewCarleton) suggested Prime Minister Trudeau replace Campagnolo because of her ‘‘inept wasteful habits (and) poor management ability."

LN VIETNAM Civil war the prediction

fleeing unless conditions in Vietnam were desperate enough to encourage internal revolt,

Many of the refugees who escaped earlier already are in Canada and the country is prepared to accept 600 refugees in total.

Tran, in Toronto to visit his son and publicize his new book on Vietnam, Our En- diess War, led the 1963 coup that overthrew President

Ngo Dinh Diem.

He was an associate of President Nguyen Van Thiew and instigator of the moves to make Gen. Duong Van Big Minh leader of a Communist- Capitalist coalition govern- ment in the weeks before Saigon fell in April, 1975.

He escaped South Vietnam the day it fell and now works as a =maitre d' in a Washington restaurant.

Tran, 41, said he Is in close

contact with the refugee situation and has sponsored many refugees in the United States.

Even disiliusloned former members of the Communist Viet Cong now are among the people fleeing Vietnam in

ats, he said,

“The people just can't take it any more, They can't Ilve on a pound of rice a day and a halfpound of meat a month.

“The peasants won't agree

Loto Select was scheduled °

to start last month, but in October, the federal government agreed to hand this lottery over to Ontario and Quebec and to get out of

the under-$10-a-ticket lot: Campagnolo said the

Crown corporation already has spent $300,000 to get out of one contract. It will cost a further $2 milllon to $3 million to get out of a $14 million contract, with On- 0 and Quebec paying $1 million of this. paying .

SHOOTING. RESULTS IN CHARGE

John Alfred Wilson, age 31, is scheduled to appear in Terrace provincial court on Dec. 18 to face a charge of eriminal negligence.

The charge results from an incident in which Paul Martin, who remains in

satisfactory condition in

Mills Memorial Hospital, recelved shotgun wounds apparently suffered in an altercation on Saturday at 6:30 a.m.

The 26-year-old Martin

was reperted shot ina fight .

at a Kalum Street residence, police said,

to pay taxes on the food they produce for their families and then additional taxes on rice they have to give to the government,”

He linked his prediction of revolt with the situation in China where demands for more democracy are not being discouraged.

“China will back the revolt in Vietnam when it comes," Tran said. “And that will not be far in the future.

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