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PAGE -2 Saskatchewan to lead world 'information revolution' By Pauline O'Connor and Chris Bain JOURNAL REPORTERS Pulses of light capable of carrying your voice, your favorite TV shows, even computer programs will soon be flashing across Saskatchewan. The technology is called fibre optics and, in a world's first, the Saskatchewan Telephone will announce plans next week for the largest commercial installation of the revolutionary glass fibres. It is the first step in what experts call an "information revolution." SaskTel will unveil a four-year program to install glass fibre cable across 3,400 kilometres of the prov- Eagle-eyed cop nabs robber The eagle-eye of a TV monitor and the equally sharp eyes of an Ottawa policeman led yesterday to a man being charged with armed robbery. The owner of Wilbrod Groceteria at 317 Wilbrod, concerned about a recent rash of robberies, installed a TV monitor in his store two weeks ago. Later that day, a man armed with a knife held up the female clerk in the store and made off with a small amount of money.

Police examined the film but were unable to identify the robber. They took pictures from the film, however, and displayed them around the Waller Street station. Staff Sgt. Stephen Nadori was glancing out the window of the station yesterday, when he noticed two men passing. One face reminded him of the face in the picture.

Dashing outside he grabbed the men on the Mackenzie King Bridge and brought them back to the station. Charged with armed robbery is Reginald Keith Johnson, 21, of 74 Daley Room 4. He will appear in provincial court Monday. Insp. John McCombie said last night Nadori should be commended for his "excellent observation." ince, linking 51 centres, say SaskTel officials.

II could be the beginning of the end for copper telephone wires and co-axial cable. The SaskTel project will be able to carry telephone conversations, television signals and computer programs. It will first be used to carry U.S. television signals north to Saskatchewan TV viewers, as well as signals from community television stations. Later, telephone messages will be moved on to the glass fibres as the existing lines reach capacity.

No official figure was forthcoming for the cost of the new technology. However, $79 million has been budgeted for a smaller 675-mlle line being installed between Camden, Massachusetts, and Washingdon D.C.. The Camden line Is one of a few small fibre optics lines now being installed around the world. But the size and complexity of the Saskatchewan plan' represents a world breakthrough. Costs are less Fibre optics out-performs existing message carriers not only because it cost less but also because it carries much more information.

Rising prices and growing scarcity of copper makes traditional copper wires Increasingly unattractive. Ontarians had their first glimpse of the new technology a year ago when Bell Canada began field trials in Toronto. Bell linked subscriber telephones to central exchanges by fibre optics to test the new material- According to Bell officials it worked, and still is operating. Another field test is still operating in the small town of Elie, Man. The Saskatchewan program brings fibre optics closer to reality for all Canada's provinces.

The Saskatchewan project will lay 12 fibres on each link. Only one of those fibres is needed for video transmission. The first phase of the project will be to install the fibres 200 kilometres across an undisclosed part of the province. SaskTel is expected to announce the program Feb.28. Cloudy and milder with sunny breaks Ottawa Mostly cloudy with a chance ot flurries this morning and some sunny breaks this afternoon.

High today near -3. Variable cloudiness expected for tomorrow. Looking ahead A low pressure system centred over London, Ontario is moving eastward and will bring mostly cloudy conditions and possible snow flurries to our region today with gradual Improvement over the next couple of days. For the record Yesterday high -9 3C; mean -1 1 Record high: 6.6C. 1975 low: 1963 Humidity (noon): 51 Precipitation: 4 cm.

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Trudeau announced the date yesterday after meeting (or an hour with Schreyer at the National Defence Medical Centre where the Governor-General is recovering from surgery. He said Schreyer approved the date after asking him to form a government and Prime Minister Clark also agreed to the timing. The swearing-in was expected to be earlier, but Trudeau has been forced to find ways to have Western Canada represented in his cabinet. Only two Liberal MPs were elected in ridings west of Ontario. Senate appointments are "one of the routes" the Liberals are examining to put Westerners In the cabinet, Trudeau said.

He said he criticized the appointment of Industry Trade and Commerce Minister Robert de Cotret to Woman 'immoral' Continued from Page 1 tions came from Dr. K. Ray Nelson, director of Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, who said he had learned that 4,000 patients were sterilized at that institution alone. Nelson, who has headed the Lynchburg instituton since 1973, has tracked down many of those were sterilized there. He said the program was a product of the times Tt was conceived, the 1920s, and said those who carried it out "believed they were doing good." "They were just badly misinformed," he said.

Leads movement Nelson said a 1951 story in the American Journal of Mental Deficiency reported that 5,931 patients in Virginia had been sterilized between 1924 and 1951 and the births of 1,800 "feeble-minded" people had thus been averted. Dr. A. S. Priddy, superintendent of Lynchburg Training School in the 1920s, spearheaded the eugenics movement, aimed at halting the reproduction of "undesirables" on the theory that this would produce genetic purity.

Not only Doris Buck Figgins, but her sister, Carrie Buck, who had become the mother of an illegitimate child before being sent to Lynchburg Training School and was regarded as "immoral," were sterilized there. But unlike Doris, Carrie was told the nature of the operation, and became the object of a test case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The state policy was upheld. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote the Supreme Court's 8-to-1 majority opinion, said: "It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind." Nelson said at the facility there was a regular sterilization scheduled for many years males on Tuesday and females on Thursday.

Although the program was aimed at the mentally retarded, a review of the records suggests prostitutes, petty criminals and malajusted criminals were included. JOURNAL the Senate only because he was from Ontario and the Conservatives had several other MPs from that province. However, Trudeau. added, he did not criticize the appointments of Quebec senators Martial Asselin and Josie Quart. The Liberals' only Western MPs Lloyd Axworthy (Winnipeg-Fort 999 pleasures of SUVA', Fiji (CP) Were he alive today, Udre Udre, a 19th-century Fijian, chief, would have a solid claim to inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records.

At least, if anyone has shot for-his record of documented cannibalism, the challenger has yet to step forward. The chief had an efficient method of recording the number of bokola human victims he ate during his lifetime. Every time a man was clubbed for Udre's pot, a Stone was (SKEAT CHOICE. GEE AT mKBHiSEET COMEfOET. Green spaces and parkland are skillfully laid out in this Minto "master-planned" community, where homes of every kind harmoniously blend into the natural features of surrounding sites.

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Al Graham, Liberal Party president, next week. put away in a certain spot. When Udre died, the stones numbered 999. One of his descendants, Ratu (Chief) Emori Bolobolo, says that although Udre Udre's achievement is not a thing to be proud of in a civilized society, he is pleased nonetheless that his ancestor had the foresight to preserve history. Although it is, not known where Udre is buried, a tombstone was ALL HOMES WITH WOOD-BURNING FIREPLACE SPECIAL BONUS.

Ask for details. mniDKuQo CMUUM'f MOST MONOUmO UIUXR 1 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1980 Banks in U.S. raise interest NEW YORK (AP) The prime lending rate charged by some major U.S. banks soared to a record 162 per cent yesterday as the effects of the latest credit-tightening moves by the Federal Reserve Board began to be felt. The rate, which is charged by banks to their most credit-worthy corporate borrowers, was raised from 15 per cent in the largest one-day Jump since last October, the last time the Federal Reserve moved to tighten credit.

In Canada, the Royal Bank also announced yesterday it is raising its U.S. base-lending rate to 16 Vi per cent from 16 per cent effective immediately. The rate is the one at which the bank lends U.S. funds in Canada. "This move reflects our judgment as to the! proper rate in view of the strength of loan demand and the cost of funds," said a spokesman for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.

of New York, the first to move to 16'2 per cept. Although the prime rate directly affects only business borrowers, it is one example of rising interest rates being felt by home buyers and savers as well. The rate banks pay savers on six-month money-market certificates, which are issued in minimum denominations of $10,000, rose this week and are expected to climb again next week, probably to more than 13.25 per cent from the current 13.013 per cent. the flesh erected at the site of the stones. In fact, the foundation of the tombstone consists of the very 999 stones Udre used to keep tally of his bokola.

The president of Suva Rugby, Tom Vuetilovoni, is a great-great-grandson of the old chief. This itself is ironic: In Canada, rugby enthusiasts have been seen driving cars sporting a bumper sticker that reads, "Rugby players eat their dead." fOUEENSVVAV A Baseline ZJ FaltowfieW.