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PR 37ft~ff~L LrBRAR~ r P~LR~,JAM ENT BLD3S Chretiens's Sl,e, ech next week Wage-price control p:hase-out date coming OTTAWA (CP) -- which has seen the in- markets~ comment on a published have expired at midnight. small number of cases the pro~'am. Finance. Minister Jean bU•eet,cabinet meeting, ternationai value of the Chi'etien said new report that a ceiling on Dividends were frozen another two per cent to Chretien repeated Chretien said Thursday held on the second an- Canadian dollar sink to its regulations limiting in- pay increases for the in the first year of the account for past ex- earlier remarks by he will not bring down an nivereary of . ,Prime lowest level since 1939. creases in pay, prices and duration of the program program, "which began perience of the group. Trudesu and others that early budget but will Minister Trudeau s an- Despite the.decline to dividends will be an- may be 7.5 per cent. Oct. 14, 1975, and were Professional pay raises labor and business will reveal, the method 'and notmcement of the 90.89 cents U.S., ~hretien nounced in his speech. The limits on dividends allowed to rise by no more are restricted to a have to restrain their starting date for removal program, was held amid a said the dollar would Until then, the current were extended by a than eight per cent in the maximum $2,400 a year. demands on the economy of wage and price controls climate of continuing continue to float on in- rules would be extended, cabinet order signed second year. Profits are regulated by to help restore the in a major Commons economic uncertainty ternationai money Chretien said he had no Thursday. They were to The existing a complex formula which competitive position of ~eetc.hl~ht. next Thursday regulations for pay, tries to ensure that firms Canadian industries in I .... l prices and profits and for do not pass on increases home and foreign .. '~..~lwetinn told reporters deep low pressure area professional incomes higher than additional markets. a~ter a cabinet meeting moving northest from the would continue production costs. In a dcli- Chretien's an- i that he will announce Pacific will bring clouds automatically, a finance tion, about 350 major nouncement will come at some important economic with eoninuous rain by this department release said. companies must file stime when the country is palicy C]~anges in his ad- evening lasting aH day Under current rules, advance notice of price. facing a dismal unem- d ur~ the throne Saturday. Today's high 11 pay increases are held increases with the anti-in- ployment problem, in- speech debate. degrees, tonight's low, this year to a basic flation beard. ation rates nearly two He would not be specific the erald seven degrees. Tem- protection factor of six The new regulations to per cent highar than a Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass. on his prepdsed an- peratures should drop per cent plus a maximum be announced next week ~ear ago and a lack of nouncement, but he was , Sunday afternoon, two per cent for will apply_ for the investor and consumer _ deflnite about ruling out a .VOL' 71 NO. 114. Price: =0 cent~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER. 14_ 1977. ,/ " -'~ productivity and in a remainder of the life of confidence. , mayCa aeabad Carter will sign us out i "i CherryPoint bill WASHINGTON (CP' i ~ ~ ~ -- Canada may be ap- 1 ~ i OLYMPIA (AP) -- a joint resolution which have a very good working proached soon about the ~i 'President Carter will sign would authorize relationship and there is possibility-of providing ~ ~ ~ a measure which includes negotiations with Canada no reason why we could emergency natural gas a ban on construction of a regarding a superport. In not come to agreement on supplies ff the U.S. suffers Puget Sound oil superport the interim, no federal the oil port issue. an-othar fuel crisis this .\ east of Port Angeles, ~orrmits could be issued • "These a~ all ad- winter, U.S. officials said Wash., United States an oil transportation :ditionsl steps along the Thursday. Representative Dc facilities in Washington path toward keeping all ,/ Officials said informal, l Boriker said Thursday. state. off transshipment out of exploratory talks may ¢ Bonkar, an Olympm "The Federal Energy Washington state, which • begin soon about Democrat, said he thinks Administration is a course I am per- Canada's ability to par- the action may mean testifled...that there is no senaily committed to and ticipate in an emergency there will be no oil re,ison to be pessimistic one which I am convinced _energy contingency plan transshipment point in about negotiations with will prove to be the wisest designed to increase Washington state. This, Canada," he said. "We public policy." supplies and lower he said, will increase the demands if a had winter need for such an oil port results in energy shor- at Kitimat, B.C., about taes. 640 kilometres northwest Midwest states worried ~e plan, drawn up by of Vancouver. the new department of : "The President will energy, suggests that ~ sign the Puget Sound_ oil will run out Canada might provide up protection legislation, and to 48.5 billion cubic feet of that act will prompt KENNEWICK, Wash. used in Washington state. extra naturalgas between formal reactivation of the (AP) -- A move by Most of the rest goes to N~ember and March if a ,~ Kitimat oil port aiter- Senator Warren Oregon. serious fuel shortage native, complete with a Mngnusun to keep oil ~v ',.l~nuson's bill will occurs. list of new and financially tankers out of Puget Last ~anr, Canada ~, important sypporters," result in a reduction in Sound in Washington es to oregOn and ...... h~ ~aid in a news release. stato, may resuit ii~ f~- ,'and I" think .... urn " .......... --:.:.~AIl~iiidi~tiouspoint to cing:~an; OH port on' Port tract ,'re these developments oc- Angeles, Wash., Or ~le tlie~ are waking curring in rather rapid- Kitimat, B.C., an Oregon up to that fact," Form- sunpliars almost two ~ ~. fire fashion," he said. economist says. way said. h'i~on cubic feet short of .'~ "Negotiations wi t demande: Canada on mutual crude Mike Wells, an em- Mngnuson reportedly While weather experts oil transshipment needs oyee of the Oregon has contacted Oregan predict thetthis winter " u will then become of ergy Department, said Senator Bob Packwood to may not be as severe as paramount importance, Magnuson doesn't favor assure him the state will an oil portat Port Angeles get necessary petroleum last year, colder-than- Six.week-old Joe is not quite sure what to do when his owner Vincent Lincoln bends down to his level. and there are en- normal weather, which couraging signs in that but has said he wouldn't supplies. would deplete fuel steeks, -- ~" regard, too." oppose it, either. Since Oregon has no is forecast. .~ The legislation he Magnusen's amend- referred to is an extension refineries and relies on ment to the 1977 Marine the four at Puget Levesque to study request of the Marine Mammal Mammals Protection Act -\ Protection Act, plus an SKOUND FOR MOST OF would not allow tankers ITS SUPPLY, THE BILL amendment added ~. east of Port Angeles. Sen. • Warren ME NS ITS GROWTH Magnuson, of Washington The senator has said it CAN BE MET ONLY IF FLQ kidnappers may return state, banning construc- •would not" prevent THE Washington tion of an oil port on the enlargement of four refineries obtain more QUEBEC (CP) -- in 1970 want to return that he recently received, seven years is a long time Carbonneau, Pierre Se- inland waters of the state. refineries on Puget crude ell by other means Two members of the home with a clean slate,, a letter to that effect from to be separated from ~t~ and Jacques Lane- The measure ap- Sound. However, oilmen than tankers. Front de Liberation du Premier Rene Levesque Jacques Cossette-Trudel family and friends." to return to Canada parently blocks a plan to say ,larger refineries Quebec (FLQ) ceil which said Thursday. and his wife Louise, The Coesette-Trudeals, and not face trial, build a superport at could not increase pro- Wells said there kidna~ British traae Lovesque told 'his ~tirrently -living in who now have one child, Morris Fish, a Montreal Cherry Point, Wash., near duction without an in- currently is no provision commmsion James Cross weekly news conference France. were permitted to leave criminal lawyer, said the the Canadian border. creased crude oil supply. in plans of the Northern "From their point of Canada for Cuba in ex- kidnappers could be Northern Tier Pipeline Tier Pipeline Co. to supply Puget Sound ,,~lew, which I understand, change for the safe return pardoned for a crime Co. is sponsoring a Fielding Formwa~', ,... ,.,, maybe of the British trade com- even if they were not yet proposal to build a port at manager of the Atlantic refineries with oil in its be ripe for some sort of missioner. convicted and had not Port Angeles, Wash., Richfield Co. refinery at .proposal to build an oil pardon ... or :something Legal experts say there been tried. The power to • coupled with a pipeline Cherry Point, Wash. said superport at Port Ange- like that," the premier would be two ways for the pardon rests wtth "her around Puget Sound and the four refineries les. The Montana-based said. couple or the other Cross majesty ... which in effect eastward. produce 313,000 barrels a firm might change its Lo.vesque said he would kidnappers--Marc is the (federal) cabinet." Bonker has introduced day, with about 250,000 plans, however, he said.