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SECTION EDITOR: MARC HORTON Wednesday, October 10. 1979 City Journal Nfld. premier puts trust in Alberts deal Alberta currently offers commercial rates on its trust fund loans and negotiates rates with provinces according to their individual credit ratings. Dr. Collings accompanied Premier Peckford to Edmonton following Mr, Pcckford's speech to the annual reports award luncheon of Oil Week magazine in Calgary Tuesday.

The two premiers also discussed Mr. Lougheed's Monday meeting with Prime Minister Joe Clark and federal ministers to discuss energy pricing. Mr. Peckford said Mr. Lougheed reaffirmed his commitment to a reasonable increase in domestic oil prices, a position supported by Newfoundland.

"The only way we can get dollars quickly is through some arrangement ith Alberta." Newfoundland was the first Canadian province to borrow from the trust fund, negotiating a $50-million loan in 1977. Mr. Peckford said Premier Lougheed expressed no reservations about extending financing to the province. The province's credit rating is the lowest in Canada, Newfoundland Finance Minister John Collins said Tuesday. Newfoundland hopes Alberta will take into account its expected improvement in an upcoming commercial assessment and offer an interest rate equivalent to loans to other provinces.

By DKNISE HARRINGTON Newfoundland and Alberta may complete the deal on a $50 million minimum loan from the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund by the end of this year, Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford said Wednesday. Mr. Peckford and Premier Peter Lougheed met for two hours in Edmonton Tuesday to discuss trust fund financing of Newfoundland's general revenue and hydro-electric and offshore oil and gas projects. "It's quite likely we will be able to finalize a loan with Alberta very shortly," Mr. Peckford said in an interview.

"The amount and the rates megawatt Lower Churchill hydroelectric development in Labrador and the Hib'ernia oil well, 350 kilometres off Newfoundland's Grand Banks. "He (Mr. Lougheed) was very open to exploring that," Mr. Peckford said. "That's a sound investment good for Newfoundland and Alberta." The Newfoundland government will know by the end of the year when the Lower Churchill project can begin and Mr.

Peckford said offshore oil and gas production could take off in three to six months, leading to spinoff construction industries, if tests on the Hibernia well show commercial production is possible. "We're going to need money up front quickly," Mr. Peckford said. will be worked out by the finance ministers." Newfoundland must borrow $165 million by the end of 1979 to finance general revenue spending, Mr. Peckford said.

Newfoundland Finance Minister John Collins met with Treasurer Lou Hyndman to discuss further details of a loan. Mr. Peckford said he was confident the two provinces could negotiate a loan for general revenue over the next month and added Newfoundland would like to make annual loans from the tmst fund a regular part of their annual borrowing program. The two premiers also discussed trust fund financing of individual energy projects, from the 600 to Brian Peckford A Inside City ysterious 5 a mam V' y' mutilations close to city Vl s.W A 4 By NORM OVENDEN The mysterious slaying of cattle has moved closer to Edmonton with the discovery of two further mutilations recently. Special RCMP investigators are today checking mutilations of cattle in the Tofield area and on the Enoch Band Reserve.

A seven-year-old cow was found carved, with its bladder removed in a pasture near Tofield Monday. A three-year-old Charolais bull was found Saturday in a field off Highway 60. said Cpl. Lyn Lauber, in charge of the province-wide RCMP investigation into the bizarre deaths. On Oct.

1 a bull calf with its sex organs cut off was also found near Tofield, about 50 kilometres east of Edmonton. Since May, 15 farm animals have been reported mutilated in Alberta but tests in police toxicology laboratories have revealed little in the baffling cases. As was the case in most of the other animal deaths, the anus, penis and scrotum of the bull had been cut off. A frustrating aspect of the investigation is that the animals have often been dead for several davs before being discovered. Cpl.

Lauber said the Charolais had been dead for about 10 days when found and "decomposition was well established." Other animals had eaten parts jof the carcass, further hampering pathological tests. Meanwhile, RCMP in Estevan, are also investigating the mutilation of a bull calf found dead on the weekend. The animal's tongue and tail had been removed. Cpl. Lauber said the RCMP is investigating the possibility a satanic cult may be responsible for the 15 slaughtered animals.

It is also believed "copy-cats" may have been wielding the knives on some instances, perversely inspired by the notoriety of the mutilations. An estimated 3,000 mutilations have occurred in the United States since the 1960s. Police there have been stumped. Investigators in the U.S. have been checking the more than 200 cases in which witnesses heard or saw unmarked and unidentified helicopters landing at or near the sites of mutilated animals.

Jakov (second from left) with wife Milusa (left), son Peter and Peter's wife Lyubinka Bakich toasts his freedom and 67th birthday at home The armada was prepared, but nobody counted on the elements to be their fiercest opponent in war games on Vancouver Island. Stories, pictures, Pages E6, Eli Alberta legislature resumes proceedings today with a fall sitting that should produce about 50 bills. Tuesday's political developments, Pages B6, B8 Hunter survives 36-hour ordeal in thick bush after getting lost. Page B4 Heritage savings and trust fund financing of petroleum-related industries not achieving province's goal of economic diversification. Page B6 RCMP seeking public help in finding the owners of two guns in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident.

Page B5 Elderly woman stabbed 46 times and one knife thrust "cut her spine in half," murder trial told. Page B5 The Edmonton Public School Board decides to warm up the lighting for some students at Harry Ainlay High School. Page B8 I-ack of student enumeraion, a wrong poll location and invalid votes should equal a election in Julian Koziak's riding, argue lawyers for one of bis opponents. Page B8 By LINDA GOYETTE "Ziveli!" Friends and relatives will understand Jakov Bakich 's joyous Yugoslav toast today when he lifts his drinking glass at his 67th birthday party. So will thousands of other Edmontonians who don't speak a word of Serbo-Croatian.

After all, Mr. Bakich has more than a birthday to celebrate. A year ago today, he sat in a Yugoslav prison cell faced with a possible death sentence for war crimes he knew he hadn't committed. He was finally acquitted Sept. 17, and returned to Edmonton Sundav.

Safari park project approval bid looming Happy to be home, the retired caretaker banished jail from his thoughts Tuesday. After a long sleep, he enjoyed a hearty breakfast, then returned to his quiet, daily habits munching his daughter-in-law's date cookies and chatting with a neighbor over the backyard fence. want to rest and rest and then take it easy." he said, patiently answering reporters questions about his 18-month ordeal in the Yugoslav prison. Repeating his gratitude for public support, he pulled a crumpled telegram from his wallet a reminder of days when brief messages from the outside were his only-consolation. Mr.

Bakich described his health as good although he says jet lag has caused some fatigue and he isn't used to the bountiful food yet. His wife Milusa and the rest of the family have filled the house with overflowing baskets of fresh fruit, trays of baked goods, and plants. The refrigerator is so full it hardly opens. But with media interviews squeezed between welcome-home parties and birthday celebrations, the guest-of-honor hasn't had much time to enjoy the pleaures of home. Pacing the narrow floor of his prison cell, however, gave him lots of time to plan his future.

"I want to elax at home and I want to bring my nephew Milan to Canada from Yugoslavia," he said, then paused before adding: "And most of all I want to go moose hunting. That's my game you know A Calgary couple planning to open a safari park. with animals from Al Oeming's Alberta Game Farm will apply for municipal and provincial government approval next week. Architectural drawings should be completed soon so the proposed Lion's Den Park near Calgary can be presented in detail to authorities, said Bonnie Roddis. Mrs.

Roddis and her husband. Allan, plan to purchase more than 500 exotic animals from Dr. Oeming for a a 160-acre drive-through safari park they hope to open by next June. The couple became eligible to apply for a government permit this September after a 12-month suspension was issued last year in connection with illegally keeping five exotic cats. While Mrs.

Roddis is not anticipating any trouble in receiving government approval, farmers living near the proposed park are causing difficulty. Cochrane-area ranchers have staged a public meeting to oppose the tourist facility locating near their property and are organizing a petition against the project. The ranchers were concerned the park would affect water supplies, property values and the environment because of the large influx of tourists expected to visit the area. Four die in fiery crash RCMP in Evansburg confirmed Tuesday that four people died in a fiery crash Monday night on Highway 16 near Evansburg. The accident occurred when a van and pickup truck collided head on in the westbound lane of the highway.

Tw people died in each vehicle. The representatives of the fire commissioner's office and the medical examiner's office from Edmonton helped identify the badly-burned bodies, police said. Names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. There were no survivors. Evansburg is about 90 kilometres west of Edmonton.

Frank Hutton publicity said there'd be 5.000 troops. WOW! I think the military chiefs of staff should look into the problem of desertion. Because even after the five and six-year-olds taking part in the parade were included I think they missed THAT number by somewhat more than a dozen. It WAS like old times, though, riding across the High Level on the old strcct car. At one point I even sneaked on at the back door just like we did to avoid paying the fare in the old days back when green student tickets were 10 for a quarter.

of their terms LEFT might shake their belief that omnipotence is automatically bestowed upon city councillors when they're elected. FOR WHAT ITS WORTH there isn't much I can add to what's already been written and said about our big birthday bash on the weekend. Mind you, it did cross my mind to say a silent prayer that Canada doesn't have to go to war for awhile. I don't think we re ready. Sunday's military parade down Jasper Avenue was billed as the largest in Canada's history the advance 1 Handicapped to get public school help By SAR A DAS In the first major response to the Shelley Carriere case, Edmonton public school trustees agreed Tuesday to educate severely-handicapped children.

The motion received a stormy ride, with trustees denouncing the Alberta government and board chairman Dr. Don Massey saying: I think the board was badly used by the provincial government" The Alberta Supreme Court decided earlier this year that the 1 1-year-old cerebral palsy victim has a right to an education. The court ruled school authorities are responsible for the education of all children, including the handicapped. Some trustees complained that by transferring the responsibility for such children from the department of community health and social services to the department of education, school boards are left financially strapped in educating the handicapped and don't have enough time to set up curriculums and train teachers. -I will be voting against this as a straight protest," said trustee Elaine Jones.

She was the only trustee who pposed the motion. But trustee Ernie Lund dismissed the arguments of his colleagues as irrational. Under the plan approved Tuesday, the public school system win end contracts with private schools, and take direct responsibility for educating 64 "dependent handicapped" children. fre SCHOOL BOARD. Pane BS Mind you, I have it On the best legal authority that city council will refuse to act on our united demand, no matter HOW' strong our numbers may be.

So what's new about that? This council hasn't accepted one Vet at least without a court battle. And furthermore. I've been advised that names to a petition obtained this way have no legal status and even city clerk Cal McGonigW will turn a blind eye on our list So hat's the use? Well, it won't hurt to let our peerless leaders know how many of us feel they've spent more time bickering than building since they were elected and we're not likely to forget that when the NEXT election rolls around. Who knows? Showing them the kind of vote of non-confidence they're building while they still have a full year I've always WANTED to start a petition. Has it ever occurred to you how seldom POSITIVE thinkers get a chance to sign one? Well.

I don't think the NEGATIVE folks in society should have ALL the fun so I devised that petition in the corner there for all you folks who oppose the idea of small groups 'of nay-sayers' stalling the development of Edmonton by second-guessing the people they elected to represent them. Let's face it! Former alderman David Leadbeafer. who was one of the brighter lights of the last counciFs NFX SIX didn't really retire from politics. It's jat that, as policy coordinator for the Edmonton Voters' Association, he's found a less time-consuming way to stall Edmonton's progress. HUTTON'S PETITION I Hirjt the undersigned, having attained the legal age to vote in chic elei tiom and being hmajide residents of the City of Edmonton, do hereby register my (our) opposition to the holding of a plebiscite on Bylaw 5384 (The Convention Centre construction bylaw) which was properly passed by a duly elected city council NAME -TELEPHONE.

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