A SPECIAL AWARD “to commemorate sixty years contribution to Canadian drama” was presented to Jack Ammon
(centre) on behalf of his mother Alicia Ammon, Thursday in North Vancouver. The posthumous award was
presented by John White (left), president of the B.C. Performers branch of ACTRA, while Mrs. Ammon’s daughter,
Lorraine. Hooge looks on. Alicia Ammon was probably North America’s oldest actress at the time of her
death, February, at age 93. (Elisworth Dickson photo)

OTTAWA (UPC) - Canada
would face a “political crisis”
if Alberta decided to limit its
oil production, and _ the
federal government invoked
its powers to keep it flowing
from Canada’s largest oil-
producing province, ac-
cording to federal officials.

The blunt warning to the
Alberta government
Thursday came hours after
Alberta Energy Minister
Merv Leitch announced the
province's crude oil prices
would go up $2 to $16.75 a
barrel today and that he had
not ruled out further in-
creases this fall.

The higher crude oil
prices were expected to raise
the cost of gasoline at the

pump by seven cents per
gallon in about 60 days.
Hours after Alberta's
announcement, two federal
officials, who would not be
identified, told reporters in a
background briefing the
federal government would
invoke emergency powers if
Alberta shuts down its oil
wells in a possible move to
farce even higher prices.
(The Alberta government
passed provincial legislation
last spring allowing the
cabinet to fix maximum
limits on oil production from
crown lands, which produce
85 per cent of Alberta's oil.)
The main weapon in the
federal) arsenal to force pro-
duction from Alberta's wells

would be. the all-encompas-
sing clause in the British
North America Act em-
powering the federal govern-
ment to protect the “peace,
order and good government”
of the nation.

“We would face the music
when or if they (Alberta)
decide to play it,” one of-
ficial said. “No doubt it

Ottawa sends Alberta blunt

warning on oil production

would create a_ political
crisis. But not a_consti-
tutional crisis because we
havé the powers.”

But the officials said

_ Ottawa would not go to

court to stop Alberta's un-
precedented unilateral

_ pricing. action because it

would be considered a
“provocation.”

Police airlifted to island

PORT VILA, Vanuatu (UPI)
- Riot police were airlifted to
the Pacific island of
Malekula Friday where
villagers armed with bows
and arrows” reportedly
clashed with supporters of

the 2-day-old government of
the newly-independent New
Hebrides.

A police spokesman in the
capital Port Vila said 15
armed police were ordered
to Aitchen just off Malekula.

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Permissive age
comes to Scotland

LONDON(UPI) - The
permissive age is finally
coming to Scotland, and in
two years, dour burghers
and highlanders will be able
to blow trumpets without
permission, hang from the
back of, a street car, and

transport dead horses un--

covered.

Housewives may stand on
the outside of window sills,
hang washing on their fences
and shake carpets out of
windows.

At present such acts are
banned in Scotland under
the Burgh Police Acts. But

George Younger, Prime
Minister Margaret That-
cher's Secretary of State for
Scotland, . announced
Thursday the outdated and
obsolete laws will lapse on
Jan. 1, 1983. ;

As a result, the Scots will
soon be able to cut loose like
their countrymen in the rest
of Britain, cyclists no longer
will be obliged to ring a bell
before passing a pedestrian,
horse, mule or other beast of
burden.

And bulls and _ stallions
will be allowed to serve cows
or mares tn public view.

Bartenders face
mass layoffs

Terrace, B.C. (UPC) - Up
to 20,00 B.C. bartenders and
waiters face a layoff unless
hotels and restauants can
replenish vanishing beer
stocks with U.S. imports, the
president of the B.C. Hotels’
Association said Thursday.

Association president Rod
Verstrate said while con-
sumers could haul 10 cases
of U.S. beer into Canada

during the current beer
production shutdown, hotels
and restaurants, or licen-
sees, must make do with
domestic supplies on hand.

“We need American beer
right now to keep our staff
on the job,” Verstrate said,
adding the 75,000 other
workers in the hospitality
industry would be affected
by an extended shutdown.

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