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Vfi news roundup Socreds fire four remaining research staff VICTORIA CP Social Credit MLAs abruptly eliminated Tuesday an office that has been source of em barrassment for them singe September by firing their four remaining research employees guess some of us are Scrooges caucus chairman Jack Kempf said in response to reporters remark that the fir ings were nice Christmas presents Among those fired was researcher Ellen Mackay key figure in the recent socalled political dirtytricks revela tions which involved the sending of letters with phoney signatures to newspaper editors in an effort to discredit the New Democratic Party opposition Kempf MLA for Omineca denied the sackings were con nected with the scandal under investigation by the RCMP Two of the fired researchers who talked with reporters said they felt the dirty tricks are behind their dismissal Urges sprinklers for churches HALIFAX CPI Fires in historic Canadian churches are virtually impossible to put out and the churches should be equipped with sprinkler systems says Halifax fire dc partment official Tom Abraham says most church fires are first reported by passersby because churches are often unoc cupied That means the fire has made considerable headway by the time firefighters reach the scene Once fire gets into the roof of these buildings you can say goodbye to them Abraham said Canadian dollar up then down MONTREAL CPI The Canadian dollar took ginger step above the 86 cents mark in opening trading on North American money markets Tuesday but retreated into the 85cent range by the days close The dollar opened at 8607 cents US on Tuesday traded at steady 8598 throughout the morning and slipped steadily to close at89t Mondays clt be was 8593 Althouth the Canadian currency has gained full cent against the US dollar within the last two weeks analysts said the slight setback Tuesday could be blamed on no better than anticipated foreign currency reserve and merchandise trade figures released by Statistics Canada as well as bout of profit taking Not happy with chicken import levels OTTAWA CPI Chicken import quotas from the US can be renegotiated if the industry requests it Agriculture Minister John Wise told the National Farmers Union con vention Tuesday Wise said he is not satisfied with import levels established last month and would be prepared to seek cabinet approval to renegotiate them The agreement allows large imports of US chicken by processors and grocery store companies and has been con demned by farmers Stanfield back in Middle East OTTAWA tCP Robert Stanfield is back in the Middle East continuing his study of attitudes toward the Canadian government The former Conservative leader was to fly from Rome to North Africa today for round of visits before flying homr lie is to report to Prime Minister Clark early in the New Year The prime minister mentioned Stanfieids second trip to the Middle East in passing during Tuesdays Commons question period Liberals go neutral OTTAWA CP Nineteen of the 67 Liberal MPs from Quebec on Tuesday declared themselves temporarily neutral in their partys leadership race in order to err courage large number of serious candidates The 19 said in declaration they will remain neutral until the end of January in order to make an enlightened lead ership choice They indicated they believe that the next leader should be bilingual anglophonc Price of gasoline is topic The question of the high price of gasoline came in for attention again Tuesday 77 this time catching Prime MinisterJoe Clark on the defensive Under question in the Commons Clark indicated the gov ernment had no immediate plans to roll back an increase announced by imperial Oil Ltd but that he would look into it New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent wanted Clark to make sure other oil companies dont follow Impe rials lead and raise their prices too Ottawa seeks guarantees OTTAWA CPI As Chrysler Canada Ltd waits for word on federal aid the government is trying to get guarantees from the company before agreeing to help After four months of talks be tween senior company and gov ernment representatives culminating in meeting Tuesday between Economic Development Minister Robert de Cotret and Lee Iacocca chairman of Chrysler Canadas US parent company momentum is building for Ottawa to help the troubled company Canadian government sup portncontingent on Chrysler Corp getting $15 billion in loan guarantees from Washington is expected to amount to $500 million in the form of govern ment loan guarantees and matching loans from Canadian banks However government sources say that until agreement in principle is reached on loan guarantees Ottawa has not settled on the Home Auto Life Business One of the Social Credit caucus research people let go by BC Sacred Caucus is Ellen Mackay Entire research staff was dismissed CP Laser photo Levesque wrong again OTTAWA CPI Quebec Premier Rene Levesque was wrong once again in saying the federal government had awarded Stiltmillion contract to build an icebreaker to an Ontario shipbuilder Senator Jacques Flynn said Tuesday Senator Flynn said the contract has not been awarded and consideration is being given to four bids to build the ship that would replace the icebreaker diberville Levesque charged last week that the contract has been awarded to Port Weller Ont Drydocks citing it as an ex ample of Quebec industries being hurt by federal delays in awarding contracts Other options to free hostages SEATTLE AII swift stunning Entebbelike rescue of 50 American hostages in Iran is not possible Moshe Dayan former lsraeli foreign minister said Tuesday But you have other options Dayan told news COII fererrce In July 1976 Israeli commandos rescued 103 hostages from Entebbe airport in Uganda The hostages had been passengers on an Air France airliner which was seized by proAPalestinian guerrillas Dayan said such rescue would not work in Tehran but the option of diplomacy is very powerful Should it fail there is military pressure he said Dayan said he is confident the US never will turn over the desposed shah to Iran Predicts sizable merchant fleet EIIONIREAI CPI With little government encour agement Canada could have sizable merchant marine by the turn of the century says Paul Martin president of Canada Steamship Lines would not be surprised if there were up to 200 Canadian vessels on the high seas by the year 2000 Martin said at an informal news conference Tuesday if the government is willing to offer the same incentives as it offers for oil and gas development could see the deep sea fleet really taking off World trade changes could lead to the creation of shipping cartels that might leave Canada without adequate transport for its exixrrts Martin said Ilc added that even small cut in Canadas estimated $3 billion annual deficit on the cost of moving its imports and exports could help the balanceofpayments picture Canada has always relied on flag0fconvenience shipping he said referring to the foreign vessels that dominate in Canadian trade division of governtueantlvate sector financial involvement Federal loan guarantees likely would contain legal re quirements giving Ottawa first call on fixed and floating com pany assets gsarieant 4r Insurance too Boll Formld Ionic On 320 Bayticld Street Bayticld Mall Barrie Ontario Telephone 17057288581 Royal Trust You work hard for your paycheque Shouldnt your payrheque work iust as hard for you Come in and see us Paul Shortrccd Manager Royal Trust Stunned at US conce CINCINNATI Reuter As shocked city mourned the deaths of 11 rock music fans trampled in stampede into concert by the British group The Who city leaders met Tuesday to decide how to pre vent such catastrophe in fu ture People are stunned said one Cincinnati police official They just cant believe it really happened the way it did people engulfed in crushing human wave They read about such things happening in other countries but they never imagined people could be trampled to death here in America The Who continued its tour Tuesday night with perform ance in Buffalo before 17000 fans that was dedicated to those killed Monday Were totally shattered Chemists charge additives in some natural MONTREAL CPI Several natural food products on sale here contain the same chemical additives found in ordinary foods the Quebec Order of Chemists has charged President JeanClaude Richer told news conference Tuesday that chemists from the order had analysed the natural foodstuffs last month and found More rules sought OTTAWA CPI The Eco nomic Council of Canada wants more rules to slow the growth of government regulations and to make politicians and govern ment agencies more account abletothepublic In summary of its interim report on regulatory reform due next week the council sug gests threepoint system to curb the regulatory explosion which particularly in the last two years has raised op position from business groups The report stemming from February 1978 request from federal and provincial first ministers says the number of federal statutes has grown by almost 30 per cent in the 19705 compared with the previous 10 year period But the council ad mits it stops far short of recom mending elimination of some rules E5th filth between her and Arctic As Our Gift To You The Municipal Savings Loan Presents is ncer The Light Bright Beautiful Music of Christmas Performed by the HURONIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUNDAY DEC 16TH Free Du For Sale Largest Stock Reasonably pr Georgian Mall foods they contained preservatives 0r monosodium glutamate while their labels claimed they were free of chemicals Among the products tested Richer said Vogel brand pea nut oil and biomargarine and Le Naturiste margarine and sunflower oil contained two antioxidant preservatives Lesser amounts of the pre servatives were also found in Hain sesame oil Erewhon corn oil Golden Harvest soya oil and Canasoy soy butter although the labels said the contrary the president said The antioxydants 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