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_* VANGOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia mining in-

dustry posted record sales.

Tevenues in 1978 on ‘the strength of higher prices for coal, molybdenum, lead and

Tax ‘payments, wage and salary settlements and

sociation of B.C. says in a news release,” _ ’ ‘Increases’ in world tnineral: prices,: stabilization of federal and provinclal.tax ‘policies and sone moeration in the inflation. rate helped the mining in- dustry turn around the mood

In 1978, gross sales

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per cent while eight per cent was set aside to pay. for depreciation of - previous capital‘costs and estimated fulure taxes. -

revenues in the. industry totalled $1.6 billion, up from ~ $1.4 billion in the :previoug year. Of this amount, 53 per cent went to pay off supply costs, 18 per cent was paid out to employees, nine per

The survey, which covers 22. operating mines in the province, shows companies -

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in 1977.-The average over the | .

last decade has been 10.7 per cent, ;

_ An annual economic survey of the industry by Price Waterhouse’ and Co. in- dicates that B.C. mining: products are being sought by

Last year, customers other than the big three accounted for 18 per cent of -gross revenues, compared with Seven per cent aa recently as 195, =.

The study said new mines developed over the next few years would result in a

_ _B.C. mining industry sees record profits

In 1978, exploration and

- development spending totalled $65.5 milllon, 10 per cent more than the $59.6 million spent a year earlier,

‘Taxes paid to the B.C. gov- ernment by the industry tatalled $110 million, about

lest.year, up 28 per cent. The industry paid 2350 million in wages, salaries and benefiis to about 15,609 direct employees, That was a five-per-cent rise from 1977. ‘The

major mining

primary exploration ‘of pessimism ‘prevalent in and six per cent was pald to earned an average rate of countries other than the ‘ Blgnificant expansion of the — $10million more than in 1977, operations in the province spending was also at record | the past five years,” the investors. “return of 18.3 per cent, U.S, Japan and Britain‘in «industry, B.C,'s second while the federal govern: were 5fper-cent Canadian- Ipvela,. the Mining As- association says. The companies kept seven _ compared with 10.3 per cent increased amounts, ..* largest. ment collected $69 million owned on Dec. 31, 1978, ( —— ¢ — : —_) : TERRACE-KITIMAT : . :

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Yukon wants | roads, power WHITEHORSE (CP) — Yukon government and business leaders said Wednesday they welcomed federal plans to push ahead with new power and tran- aportation policies for the territory despite stalled land claims talks with native

organizations, ; Indian and Northern Af-

fairs Minister Jake Epp told ©

the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce that development had almost become a. bad word and that the new Progressive. Conservative government was determined ‘to help realize the le- gitimate asplrations of the Yukon.” , -

The minister, making his et ana . ¢ hopes to take g; ic hydroelectric; road, and reall

end of the year. _ “Yukon'is tomorrowland,"” Epp said in a speech that stregged northern development and the ‘inevitability of more re- sponsible government for the Yukon. To that end, he announced that control over designated

and occupied recreational’

land use would be tran- sferred to from Ottawa to the territorial administration as soon as possible.

Yukon residents have been unable. to = purchase recreational. land used mostly, for. cottages, fbr several years because. of government-imposed restrictions on its sale,

The announcement means the Yukon government will control future zoning and purchase srrangements, Recreational land has been in great demand throughout the territory.

Territorial © government leader Chris Pearson said the territory had been arguing for such a change in policy for some time from

_ the previous federal Liberal government. |

Scientology |

sued for false

pretences PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —

A jury awarded over $2. million in damages Wed:

nesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of..Sclentology de- frauded her by failing to fulfill promises of Improving her ig ala, caused ologic: age.

Pre jury deliberated 168 hours over two days before reaching a decision.

The award was nearly the entire $2.6 million sought by Julle C. Titchbourne of Portland for anguish abd suffering and reim- bursement for course fees. She alleged unlawful trade

practices, fraud = and. ‘outrageous conduct.” Defendants were the

Chureh of Scientology of Portland and two other organizations: The Sclen- tology “Mission of Davis" of Poriland and the Delphian Foundation, which operates aschool 95 kilometres south- weet of Portland, Alao named as a defendant was Martin Samuels, president of both the Mission of Davia and the Delphian Founda- tion.

DEATH

There is no oil to check, but Frank Peabody, super- visor of the University of B.C, Electric Car project, sti has to spend time looking under the hood. The

is - Haeeteie | Garis: entered in a contest. for énergy- yi de! ui? ni. re rade to. teks tes an.’ in oe * H 1 <: Or 1 Pr ry y pete: '

Detroit. The project has

eats of evolution,

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retelved funding from a

number of individuals and organizations, and- has involved more tha 100 engineering students in its three

tage

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Search on for stragglers

, PLYMOUTH, England

CP) — As more storm- gaf

battered survivors of the Worst disaster in yachting history ‘straggled into ports along England’s south- western coast Wednesday, the death toll climbed to at least 17 and .an air-sea search continued for 28 boats still missing, —~

The Royal Ocean Racing Club reported that 25 yachts, valued at more than .$5- million, : were. sunk or abandoned in the freak Storm that tore through the Faatnet race Tuesday.’ .

Four Canadian boats in the race, Magistri and Manitou of Toronto, Evergreen of Hamilton and Pachema of

American who lived in Londin. Ferrls had business comnectiong in Toronto ag well as in the U.S.and Brit- fin, " ra , +

' “One minute the seas seemed calm, the next we were.‘iIn the middle of a hurricane,” said one’ sur-

Vancouver, were reported

e.,

Rescue officials said the Pachema and Magistri were still cut at'sea, but not in any trouble: The Evergreen was back safely ih Plymouth harbor and the Manitou had abandoned the race and

returned to’ port soon after Vivors ; setting out on Saturday. .

le Don Green, skipper ‘ re of the Evergreen, : regaled City .¢ §. had f friends in Plymouth | with LEVWI iN, Idaho (AP). storles of the struggle. — 4 birdin the hand or two

against mountainous waves and ferocious winds, athers’’ were not so furtunate.

in the bugh might not have, been"so hard to swallow, but with :thousands of starlings

The U.S. yacht Ariadne sank With the loss of four lives, including that of her skipper, Frank Ferris, an

TAKE IT WITH A TWIST

percHed in the city’s trees, at least ion official is ready to make the:feathers fly,

City Manager Craig

“We had winds of 75 miles an hour with gusts up to 100," Green said, Winds built up waves of 35 — some say 40 feet. They were what you call square waves. They were nol the rolling kind,

“When you fall off a 40-foot wave you can imagine what it does to a boat,” he said,

he bird

McMicken told the city counci] this week that the only way to solve the problem is to order the police to. attack. All would be ar-. med with shotguns filed with bird shot, he said. "T's the only action I can see that would be effective.

Report says rights dept. ~ resorted to ‘Ruff plays

VANCOUVER (CP) — Kathleen Ruff's last report ta the British Columbia human rights . commission included a Dickensian tale of human rights complaints

_ which were settled with poctic twists, — ;

Me, Ruff, who resigned her B.C. human rights director's post earlier this week to be- come the new host of the CBC’s Ombudsman television show, explained in an interview Tuesday how two recent cases were set- tled without resorting to for- mal boards of inquiry.

Names of those involved were not disclosed because the cases did not go to public

a. ;

One complaint came from a 16-year-old girl whose employer was more in- tereated in finding a sexual playmate than a reliable worker.

‘The teen-ager amswered 4 newspaper advertisement a anal chy photaprapnie at a sin ty graphic finishing firm. But, said Ms. Ruff, it was obvious the

. employer. was “looking for

somenne to play with, not to

She said the employer, In accordance with the set- Uement, sent a $300 donation to Rape Relief.

In ‘another case, the

The employee went to the human rights branch with charges of sexual haraggment from her boss, including annoying phone

calls at home and invitations « to spend weekends with him.

The branch, already . alerted to the man’s technique by another disgruntled job applicant, seat a human rights officer to investigate,

The matier was resolved last week, said Ms. Ruff, when the employer agreed to sign up for psychological counselling and to abide by the human rights code, . which prohibits sexual harassment.

manager of the only apart- ment ‘building in a onal comminity on Vancouver Island refused to rent a suite to a family moving into the to :

wn.

The human rights branch determined that the building had vacancies and the manager was discriminating Against the family because they were of East Indian origin. '.

The family an am- bulance’ attendant, his wife and two children — mean-

time moved in with friends to wait for the outcome of the human rights complaint.

‘Then the apartment manager collapsed and she

demergency medical aid, Ms. Ruff said, and “ithe person driving the am- butance and carrying the stretcher was the person she refused to rent to.”

The manager recovered and later visited the East Indian family to thank the ambulance attendant and apologize for denying the family a suite.

Ms. Rufi sald the manager

-then Invited the family to

move into her block and they accepted,

OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservatives are deter- mined to achieve their election target of eliminating 60,000 government jobs in the next’ four years, but one- third of the cuts will be made by turning Crown corpo: rations into private. com-

pantes, Board, President

.- Sinclair Stevens outlined

TS plans tor uc e size and payroll of the public service at a news conference , Wed- nesday,

The’ government will eliminate 35,000 jobs in its own departments agencies by hiring two persons for every three who leave the federal public Mrvice,

-_ A further 20,000. jobs will ‘be cut from the government payvoll: the sale of

“government-owned | com- paniés to,the private sector, To achieve the remaining 5,000. cuts, the government will direct senior officers of

‘surviving Crown agencies to ‘reduce their statis by 17 per cent.

Three-quarters of the jobs scheduled for elimination are outside the national capital.

Stevena refused to disclose which Crown corporations are to be sald or to say which programs or services are likely to be cancelled. He would not indicate whether Petro-Canada, the $3-billion, governmentowned ail company the Conservatives have pledged to sell, is in- cluded In his plan.

’ For each full year of oper- ation, the cuts should save the federal treasury between $800 million and $1 billion, he

and.

t . cepted peg NRE uleamepecitien: wa

Tories vow to make eut |

VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia forest and pulp industries continued to .be hit by waikouts Wed- neaday as workers in two

- Lnions protested employers’ actions, - . A number of sawmills in the central Interior were * pleketed by members of the International _ Woodworkers of America, unhappy with

the negotiating position |

taken by the North Cariboo Forest Labor Relations Association in contract talks which broke off Monday, About 900 pulp workers walked: difthe: ‘job-T over local’ disagreements.

Jack Munro, regional president of the woodworkers, said the forest industry had been unwilling to discuss a change in expiry date for the northern Interior contracts, which expire Aug, al. *

The union is demanding that, the northern agreements, covering 5,000 members, expire in June along with contracts cov- ering 38,000 woodworkers in the coastal and southern Interior regions.

Talks are scheduled to re- sume later this week after member companies have

been consulted. Woodworkers at Finlay Forest Industries at:

Mackenzie were holding a study session to protest the breakdown in negotiations

Walkouts harass forest industry

“Tuesday”

weatern .

» many government em-

Stevens said it 1s im- possible to estimate how

ployees will be faced with wmemployment ag a reault of his restraint program,

Most public servants af- fected will be offered

alternate government jobs, MONTREAL (CP) — but treasury board cannot Police were searching for a guarantee anyone continued wounded bank robber

employment.

Employees of Crown corporations sold to private owners will normally remain with their agencies, but can be stricken from the

javernment payroll. 8 Little hardship will be felt when the planned reductions can be made by failing to re- place public servants who

Wednesday after a $330,000 robbery and shootout at the CBC employees’ credit union left one armored car guard dead and another seriously injured,

Police have advised Montrealarea hospitals to be on the lookout for the man, believed to have been in- jured during the holdup on

the ground floor of the

Canadlan Broadcasting Cor: He promised the govern- poralion’s east-en

ment would do {ts best to headquarters Wednesday

retire or leave, Stevens | ded.

ensure that no essential- morning.

services are jeopardized by As they fled the building, the cuts, He did not define the bandils took one hostage, which services he considers {taxi driver Jean-Guy

essential, beyond saying the © Vanesse, and forced him to

RCMP will remain at itscur- drive lhem away.

rent sLrength of about 20,000. He was released unhar- The government is also med about 20 minules later,

committed to keeping its andtold police one ofthe four

level of francophone robbers was bleeding from

tation al the exiting his right side. 6 ver cent. ‘ ne The name of the dead

and the company's refusal to discuss local issues.

About 150 woodworkers were off the job at Netherlands Overseas Sawmills in Prince George.

The Weyerhaeuser pulp mill at Kamloops was shut down for the second time in, three weeks after members’ of Local 10 of the Pulp, Paper’ and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) voled 75 per cent in favor of rejecting the company's wage offer for mobile equipment operators,

Meanwhile, woodworkers at seven mills in the southern

Caribéo “returned - ta --work

Wednesday after a 24-hour walkout. Pickets also were taken down at Weldwood operators at Canim Lake sawmill near 100 Mile House and Merrill-Wagner in Williams Lake.

Pulp workers at Mac- Millan Bloedel's Harmac mill at Nanaimo were back on the job after Tuesday’s

"walkout by 200 workers to

Protest. the suspension of tradesmen for refusing to man forklift trucks,

A forest contract already ratified by coastal and southern Interior wood- workers and the Canadian Paperworkers Union in- cludes a wage increase of 90 cents an hour in the firat year and & cents or 8.5 per cent, whichever is greater, in the second. Previous base rate wes $8.16 an hour.

Police seeking bleeding robber

guard — an employee of Alliance Blinde Liee, — has not been released. The man was shot In the heart and the thigh.

His partner was wounded in the neck and the side, He is in serious condition in an east-end hospital, where he underwent an emergency operation.

Police belleve the bandits got into the building through a side entrance.

Police spokesman Nor- mand Coulllard said the holdup occurred just as the guards were carrylng two bags of money from their truck into the bull

ton of the g Py carrying the money and the other was walking close by with his service revolver drawn," he said.

No arresta have been made, but police were questioning Vanease to obtaln descriptions of the holdup men.

_ Residents are nervous about subdivision

“Most people realize development is going to come," Hugh Power, a Birch Avenue resident , satd Wednesday, ‘‘but we just want to make sure we're not adversely affected."

Power made the comment after an outspoken group of Birch Avenue residents attended a public hearing on a rezoning request held by Terrace council Monday

night. _, ‘Phe hearing was called after Edge Properties Ltd.

asked council te rezone 26 lots on Birch Avenue from rural to residential as part of a plan for subdivision, but established homeowners expressed concern about possibler problems with dust, water pressure, sewer

ines, and drainage that may result from increased housing in the area. ‘

In addition, Murdoch Robertson, another resident sald the cost required to bring the area up to the desired standard to sell lats for housing might be paid

partly by established residents and asked council to insure all cosls involved in upgrading the property and Birch Avenue be incurred by the developer.

After a lengthy discussion, Mayor Dave Maroney recessed the hearing for two weeks to allow city of- ficials to ascertain the existing zoning and to study the problems established residents sald could reault from su vision.