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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1980
Page
2
Reader voices concern about agricultural land loss after the B C Agricultural Land Commission allowed 27 acres to be excluded near Chetwynd along Jackfish Road on October 17 1979. An application seeks exclusion of about 100 more acres by the commission.
Community column notes concern over potential agricultural land exclusion for development. Highlights BC Crown company status, calls readers to contact BCAL Commission if food prices concern, and stresses BC arable land is scarce. Also includes local obituaries and greetings from Chetwynd.
Pemex declares a new oilfield Iris-Giraldas in southeast Mexico with 1.5 billion barrels in reserves. Mexico’s total proven reserves rise to 45 billion. Diaz Serrano speaks at LA state oil group meeting with Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela. He notes Latin America holds 20 percent of world sedimentary basins and hints at further discoveries. Also mentions Mexico’s policy to cut oil supplies to speculators.
The CBC TV election team led by Knowlton Nash travels across Canada to cover the 1980 federal campaign. Reporters David Halton Peter Mansbridge Don McNeill and others report issues with fairness and impartiality. A national opinion poll will be released early February.
Wind sor Ontario manufacturer cannot find qualified millwright despite wages over 20000. Alberta Nova Scotia contractor seeks two carpenters. GM imports European technicians as skilled labor shortage grows. Worth blames policy and planning, calls for stronger apprenticeship programs to align with 200 billion in new investments this decade.
Foreign trips training systems that in many cases bear little relationship to the job market. Nevertheless, all is not lost. Crash programs to train specialized trades people are already in progress in some areas of the country with plans for more concentrated efforts. An added push is needed to ensure Canadians are trained for skilled jobs or opportunities in the next decade will be diminished.
Edmonton doctor Barb Romanowski runs the city's sole travellers' clinic and notes that trips to Africa, South and Central America and the Far East can bring home river blindness malaria and intestinal parasites. She recalls a two centimetre worm in a young woman's eyeball and warns of weight loss diarrhea and malaria as common post trip complaints.
Ottawa consumer affairs outlined two proposed tests for 1.5 litre bottles banned last August. One simulates a bottle knocked from a kitchen counter and the other mimics spontaneous explosions from structural weakening due to rough handling.
Readable TV grid outlines daily morning to late evening lineups across CBC. Notable entries include Sesame Street, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days, The Saint, Dallas, The Incredible Hulk, MASH, Gunsmoke and CBC National News with regional and weekend variations.
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