aw a ke — varns of ‘pow Feds threaten Quebec. with referendum A bill on referendums originally introduced to settle the Quebec question ‘has been branded by opposition leader Joe Clark as a dangerous instrument of the | government that cuuld be used to override parliament or the provinces any time the government wanted to force legislation. — . Clark said **There is no question is my mind they are using the situation in Quebec to justify a referendum weapon which could be used in an attempt © to rally a yes or no support for some of government’ S pet constitutional goals.”’ this week: | JOE CLARK However, he was later accused of having misread the bill as Liberals insisted " spring any matter of referendums would have to be first passed in parliament. Clark. also accused the government of using the Quebec situation for its own electoral advantage. Earlier, justice minister Marc Lalonde said that if Quebec decided to postpone its referendum on the ques- tion of separation until 1980 insiead of holding it this fall as originally stated, the govern- ment might hold referendum to determine the question, He had said the political instability being created by Gold rush fever hits the Queen Charlottes Gold rush fever has hit the Queen Charlotte Islands, with hundreds of claims being staked over an estimated 25,000 acres on Graham Island along the Yacoun River. It all started two years ago when a Vancouver company Vancouver man hiding from PLO A Vancouver man studying in Israel has gone into hiding since the PLO named him as one of the people responsible for last week’s assassination of Palestinian leader Abu Hassan. A car used by the mur- derers was rented in the name of Ronald Colburg, who is studying there from UBC. At least a dozen people have witnessed they were with him on the day in question and = although Colburg says the passport is clearly a forgery of his own he has gone underground because of the fear of reprisals. Fewer smoke More Canadian adults are non-smokers today than in the previous decade, Statis- tics Canada reports. A survey shows that in 1978, 58 per cent of the = adult population did not smoke but that there were still six million regular smokers. CORRECTION Woodward's Tabloid The Columbian Rich. mond Review and North Shore News Jan 10. 1979 Page 11 RCA 26" Color Trak Xtended Life Color Television should have read Sale Price 798.00. We apologize for any inconvenience this error may have caused our ustomers they are holding / __bought an option on a claim held by a local logger, just as the price of gold started to skyrocket. Last year, company dril- ling produced staggering results, producing evidence of at least $120 million worth of gold ore. ‘‘And that’s just a start,” says a company spokesman. ot out Jast ancouver When the news December, the Stock Exchange suspended trading in the company’s shares. Now the stock has been cleared it is back on the market at twice the price of two months ago. In the past couple of months, at least 100 staking parties have been to the area and it’s widely thought the Charlottes will become an , area of major gold mining. 3 years and no complaints! Stephen Mace has been a News carrier since 1976 and in all that time there hasn't been a single complaint or ‘no delivery’ report from the people on his route Stephen delivers the News on both Wednesday and Sunday in the area around Windsor Secondary School His hobbies are a good mixture of arts and sciences. rocketry is his main interest (favorite school subject at Windsor is math) and he develops nis own photographs in his darkroom at home You'll be receiving Famous Pla the mail, Stephen Keep up theg Circulation 9866-1337 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver ers Gilt Cetrtificates in work Peed VERE OEP FORA V2. Dh TET when mee north shore news its own. : the uncertainty could not be allowed toe-continue indefin- itely.’ (Clark has said that original. purpose of Referendums Bill being debated, to determine the Quebec question, has now the the been expanded unrecogniz- ably. 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