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Highways reopening

Highway 16 East to Prince George is expected to be open to traffie by noon today and people are asked to drive with extreme cautian.

The last Bailey bridge was installed at Legate Creek, 22 miles east of Terrace. Crews were expected to work through the night on Thur- sday and early this morning to finish the bridge, said Neville Hope, regional Maintenance operations manager for the department of highways.

The Bailey bridge at Liitle Oliver Creek, 26 miles, was completed on Thursday and crews were working on the approaches late that af- ternoon, he said, ‘

Both the Chindemash Creek washout, 14 miles east, and the Price Creek washout, 57 miles east, were repaired at the two extreme ends of the highway closure by Wednesday, which allowed crews to move their equipment into the two middle areas.

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“We're building pressure and feeding gas in,” Jdéhn Low, manager of sales and service for Pacific Northern Gas said late Thursday.

Pressure was built up slowly, he said in case there were any weak spots,

“We know there are no more breaks but if there is a weak spot the line will blow,’” he said.

About 20 lbs, of gas an hour was pressured up and Low sald at 6 p.m. on Thursday that there was no reason why

the residents could not begin

using gas again.

The gas line broke about 26 miles from the Copper River Bridge during last week's storm and crews = im- mediately sent in to begin building a bypass line.

Pacific Northern Gas asked residents to use alternate heat in their homes and the rationing caused some schools in the Terrace area to be closed this week.

Weather was the biggest factor in repairing the broken line, Low said last week. If the weather had worsened other breaks might have occured and crews would have had dif- ficulty in doing the needed repair work on the first break.

The weather improved but when the line was pressured up on Tuesday after the bypass was completed another break was discovered in the line bet- ween 22 to 23 miles from the Copper River Bridge.

poor condition and there is single lane traffic in many places. Big Oliver Bridge, 27 miles east, will be single lane because of an erroded retaining wall on the west side.

Highways crews will continue to work on the high- way to improve conditions as long as the weather permits, he said.

Alex Fraser, minister of highways, was expected to be in the Terrace area today to assess the progress of highway reconstruction.

A new detour at the washed out area on Highway 25, two miles south of the Kitimat River Bridge, has been established. Hope said it is a good detour and it is hetter than the former logging road detour,

The Bailey bridge should beinstalledand the work should be completed today at the washout 43 miles north of Kitwanga on Highway 37.

Hope said all other high- way conditions have remained stable.

No paper Monday

As the staff of the Herald will be taking Monday off in lieu of the oyember .11 holiday

will be no paper that day: Regular publication will resume Tuesday.

Auditor bows to pressure

OTTAWA (CP) — Auditor- General J.J. Macdonell bowed: to pressure from MPs Thursday and agreed to postpone release of his at- tention-getting annual report until debate on the coming budget is completed.

Macdonell said in an inter- view late in the day he will table his report Nov. 23 in- stead of Nov. 21 as he had announced earlier in the day.

He said he had been per- suaded by members of the public accounts committee to defer release by two days.

“It was my decisiDn. I was not instructed to do it. I happily agreed it would be better to defer my report for two days in the interest of the budget." ;

Earlier in the day, the auditor-general set off a flurry of government protest by announcing he would table his report in the middle of the six-day budget debate. The budget will be tabled Nov. 16.

Comment sparks heated debates

OTTAWA (CP) — Post- master-General Gilles Lamontagne sparked a furore in the Commons on Thursday when he wondered aloud whether Jahn Rodriguez (NDP—Nickel Belt) was trying to protect postal workers who broke the law and disrupted the mail service.

Rodriguez protested and called on Lamontagne to withdraw the remark. Commons Speaker James Jerome said he will rule on the matter today.

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postal critic for the NDP.

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had asked Lamontagne whether the post office will remove disciplinary leiters from the persona] files of postal workers as a step towards calming the tense atmosphere in the wake of last month's postal strike.

Lamontagne replied: “When I listen to a question like that I wonder whether the attitude of the honorable members is not one of protecting the workers who got involved in illegal aec- tivity or acted in view of dis- rupting the postal service.”

The union called a legal

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Fragile truce holds

TEHRAN (AP) — hah.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's

saptigorruption drive, aimed ‘at calming the popular

unrest that has shaken his rule, reached into the Iranian Parliament on Thursday. A deputy was ac- cused of profiteering by cornering Iran's glass market.

An uneasy peace prevailed in this capital city, centre of violent anti-shah protests last weekend that led to the fall of Iran’s civilian ad- ministration and the shah's appointment of a military- led government. Troops backed by armored vehicles and trucks with machine- guns mounted on them guarded government buildings and patrolled key locations throughout the city.

Dozens of political figures, including a former prime minisiér, have been arrested in the anti-corruption campaign, On Thursday, the roundup reached into the lower house of the Iranian Parliament, which lifted the immunity of Deputy Mansur Yasini so he could be prose- cuted for alleged industrial profiteering.

A report by a parliamentary investigation committee charged that Yasini, who owns all three of Iran's glass factories, had caused a seven-fald increase in glass prices to $1.35 per square foot.

The committee said the politician-industrialist had set up a subsidiary cor- poration so he could control both production and distribution and arbitrarily increase prices.

Former prime minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda, arrested Wednesday, had been one of the shah's closest confidants. Military police did not say why Hoveyda was arrested, but reliable sources said he was accused of misuse of power during his term as government head, 1964-77,

After naming the military government, the shah an- nounced he would vigorously prosecute corruption in Iran, one of the demands made by the opposition during months of bloody anli-government rioting.

The shah's [oes also charged that many persons close to the imperial palace had amassed fortunes. In a

Zesture to the opposition, the shah ordered respected legal -

expert Jamalidden'Akhavita..:. ; Ma an investig ie “Mest of the

head an investigation into - the reputedly vast holdings of 64 of the shah’s closest

relatives, including his sis- ters and brothers.

shah's relatives were sent abroad by the shah two months ago.

Campagnolo set to discuss relief

Iona Campagnolo, Skeena MP, will meet on Sunday in Terrace with local officials to discuss the federal and provincia] governments’ cost-sharing formula for cleaning up last week's flood- damage. :

Camipagnolo is expected to” meet with representatives of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, District of Kitimat, District of Terrace, Provincial Emergincy Preparedness Secretariat (PEP) and local Indian band councils,

Campagnolo has also released a telegram from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to Premier Bill Bennett sent on Nov.9 in which Trudeau said, ‘'] understand that it will be some time before a realistic

assessment of property damages can made although preliminary estimates suggest that it will be very heavy."

Trudeau said the Federal Disaster Assistance Program provides for federal-provincial sharing of costs when the financial burden of restoring public and private property damaged in a disaster goes beyond what a province can reasonably be expected to bear on its own.

The program is the responsibility of — the department of finance headed by Jean Chretien and officials from that depart- ment were expected to discuss the details of the program with provincial officials, said Trudeau.

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ON BUDGET | Caution urged

TOTONTO CP - Two senior bank economists had a two work message for Finance Minister Chretien and his federal budget planners: Be careful.

The advice to Chretien, who will unveil a new federal budget to Parliament next Thursday, was that Canada should be a follower, not a leader when it comes to any major stimulation of the economy.

B.V. Ben Gestrin, vice president and economic adviser for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com- merce, and his colleague, G.E. Angevine, senior economist, discussed the forth coming budget with reporters at one of the bank's periodic briefings on the economy,

While the briefing was to be on the bank's economic forecast they saw little change for 1979 for an already sluggish Canadian economy the concern for Chretien's budget soon became apparent.

Gestrin, who has just returned from a 10 day fact finding trip to Europe, said any stimulus Chreitien provides in the budget should be strictly limited because of financial and currency exchange problems. He was referring to Canada high inflation, devalued dollar and balance of payments difficulties.

“The government has got to be very careful because a country like Canada is in no Position to go out and expand vigorously and..lead the world “in expafisionary policies.”’

“If you go angain this,"

‘he said later in an interview,

“You have to pay the price.” Angevine agreed, saying, also in an interview, thal if “we goose up the economy too much, we increase im- ports and damage our balance of payments.”

Angevine told reporters he would be opposed to reductions in taxes on retail sales or personal imcome in the budget, favoring, in- stead, a reduction of federal tax on building materials which he said would stimulate construction and help ease inflation.

“Sales tax cuts tend to cause people to go aut and spend and increase their debtedness , and then they have to go through a painful readjustment period,'' he said,

With personal income tax culs, he said there is a danger people will not spend the extra money but put it into savings which are already high in Canada,

Gestrin said the growth prospects for Europe next year are ‘relatively good compared with 1978.”

While in Europe, he said he went to the Scandinavian countries where he

discovered that Canada is regarded as a “formidable and ruthless competitor.”

Liberals vote against bill

OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal MPs lived wp to an agreement Thursday by voting against a bill that would have allowed the government to borrow $10 billion for the next fiscal year.

The strange turn of events came as the Commons finance committee gave final consideration to a bill through which the govern: ment initially had sought authority to borrow $17 billion for this fiscal. year, ending next March 31, as well as for 1979-80.

The bill as amended was approved and now goes back to the Commons for final reading and consideration before the Senate.

After the bill was in- troduced in the Commons Oct. 17, the Progressive Conservatives objected that it asked Parliament’s blessing to borrow the $10 billion before the govern- ment had made any public forecasts about economic prospects for 1979. or estimates of spending and revenues.

The Conservatives tried to delay the bill through debate

until Opposition. Leader. Joe ..

Clark suggested his party would be willing to allow this year's borrowing of $7 billion to pass and refer it to committee for study if the

government would take out the section asking for the $10 billion.

The $7 billion for this year is largely being used to cover extensive foreign borrowings in the last year aimed at shoring up the government's international reserves. The reserves have been depleted to defend the dollar.

But when the bill got to committee, Marcel Lambert {(PC— Edmonton West) noted that parliamentary procedure would not allow the government to simply delete the offending clause. That was because MPs had

already approved the authorily in principle. The way to get around that

was for Liberal MPs to vote against the clause, so eight Liberals joined with three Conservatives to vote Thursday to delete the section,

Sinclair Stevens, the Con- servalive finance critic, asked in the committee if the government would not be able to close its Canada Savings Bond issue.

A legal adviser to the finance department replied

of bonds, the situation could arise. That was why the government was asking for the approval of the auther-

ity.

Gov't promising budget restraint

OTTAWA (CP) - Treasury Board president Robert Andras promised Thursday the government will remain within this year's spending target of $48.3 billion, in spite of his request one day earlier for Parliament's authority to spend $49.79 billion.

The request for an ad- ditional spending authority of $1.06 billion came in the supplimentary spending estimates submitted Wed- nesday to the Cemmons.

Andras said some of the

funds requested will not be spent and some loans will be repaid, allowing the government to remain within its previously an- nounced limit.

MP Harvey Andre (PC— Calgary Centre) told Andras the only way he can keep his word is by ‘inappropriate manipulation of Crown corporation books.”

Fellow Conservative Lincoln’ Alexander {Hamilton West) added a further accusation, saying the government routinely attempts to flim flam the public by manipulating the spending statistics of its Crown corporations.

There are approximately 300 Crown corporations, but the government is not required by law to include their financial statements within its national accounts.

Kitimat teachers protest

By Ann Dunsmuir

Kitimat teachers filled all available seats and lined the walls two deep at Wed- nesday's school board meeting.

They came to protest the Kitimat School Board's refusal to include non- monetary items in negotiations for a new contract. The present con- trace expires Dec. 31, 1978.

Jackie Worboys, president of the Kitimat District Teachers’ Association, said the group believes all em- ployees, ‘‘including teachers” have the right to negotiate working conditions with their employers.

She said that recent government policy statements at both federal and provincial levels oullined this right by

stressing that collective agreements for public sector employers should follow the practices of private em- ployers.

Worboys quoted from the third annual report of the Economie Council of Canada (1966) which states: ‘In all cases where the government is an immediate or ultimate employer, the object of policy should be to maintain as close a relationship as possible with wages, salaries and other benefits paid by government employers to those in (he private sector.”

Worboys said that, in view of these governmenl statements, Lhe board should negotiate working conditions with its teachers as it does with non-teaching em- ployees.

The teachers are asking that benefits such as

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maternity, paternity and parenthood leave be in- cluded in their contract.

School Board Chairperson Beverly Rodrigo said the board must act in ac- cordance with the Public School Act (section 135) which limits contract negotiations to salaries and bonuses.

She said non-monetary items should be referred to the Joint Personnel Com- mittee. Worboys said such a move wauld result in changing the stalus of the items from contract to

policy.

“Policy can be unilaterally changed by the board, " she said.

Worboys said Kitimat teachers are also concerned at the board's failure to negotiate with them.

“Why has the board used an agent instead of meeting with us directly?’ Worboys asked.

Rodrigo said the board had aright to employ an agent to handle negatialions. She refused to answer a demand from a teacher in the audience for information about the salary paid to the board's agent.

The board has hired Art Guttman of Burnaby, a former Burnaby Schooi Board employee, to handle negotiations. In other business the board decided to adhere to its present procedures for use of professional development funds rather than grant sabbatical leave to teachers.

The board felt that money for professional develop- ment ($26,600 in the proposed

budget for 1979) should be used on a wide basis and sabbatical leave would not meet the educational needs of as many teachers.

District Superintendent Dale Fiddick disagreed with the board's decision. He said the present in-service system does not provide “education in depth and that’s whal is needed.”

Board members approved in principle plans for a trip to Vancouver and Victoria by Alexander Elementary School grade 4 students but blighted the hopes of Mount Elizabeth Senior Secondary students planning a trip to China in May. The board refused to grant the China group approval in principal because of lack of parent support,

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