August 4, 1985 SUNRISE: 227 a.m. SUNSET: 8:26 p.m. SYNOPSIS: A low pressure system over the Gulf of Alaska and.a weak ridge of high pressure ‘off the B.C. coast will maintain generally sunny but unsettled weather for the next few days. fe] fel [2] Le Fost ee a Ee Congressman invites suggestions to bill By RENDA DALGLISH VANCOUVER (CP) U.S. Congre n bons didn't make any prom- ises when he met Canadian representatives Friday but he invited Canada’s federal government to suggest tions about what changes need to be made in the legis- lation to make it fair,” said Gibbons, who cloaks his political clout with disarming Southern charm. The key point is the def- inition of subsidy. Canadian to his prop anti-subsidized-import legis- lation. Gibbons, a powerful Demo- crat from Florida, is the author of a bill Canadian lumber p are afraid lumber are wor- ried factors like stumpage rates — the money provinces- collect for timber on Crown land — and transportation charges will be considered would result in courtervail- ing duties against Canadian lumber. “Mr. Gibbons this morning specifically asked us to please submit to him a paper, a crit- ique on the subject, sug- gesting to him amendments that we up in-Canada think would help alleviate the con- cerns we have about his bill,” said: Federal Trade Minister James Kelleher. “We naturally were very. very happy with this request or invitation and I can assure you that the federal’ govern- ment and the provinces are going to sit down immedi- ately and work on this and get some documentation back to Mr. Gibbons,” Kelleher told reporters after a three- hour meeting with U.S. poli- ticians and several represen- tatives of the Canadian lum- ber industry. “ “We are open to sugges- But Gibbons said if, as Canadians argue, there are no subsidies, then Canadian producers have nothing to fear. NO IMPACT “Evidence presented this morning by the Canadians would tend to show that log costs when delivered to the saw: blade in the mill are about the same in the United States as in Canada,” Gib- bons said, “That bei: the legislation that we’ id ering would have absolutely no adverse impact upon Can- ada.” When questioned later, Gibbons, whose bill is con- sidered the anti-import legis- lation with the greatest chance of being passed, em- phasized he had not made up his mind whether Canada subsidizes its lumber. “I said the Canadian gov- ernment and its officials are convinced that there’s not any subsidy and they make a good case that there's not *: any subsidy,” he said. Representative Don Bon- ker, a Washington Democrat who attended the meeting and is the sponsor of another bill that would restrict lum- ber imports, was not con- vinced. “If Canada is subsidizing it's time she looked at whe- ther or not she ought to be subsidizing this. major in- dustry,” he said. “I person- ally believe Canada is sub- sidizing.” The bills proposed by Gib- bons and Bonker are only two of of joni LIFE AND DEATH . . . Surrounded by new trees and shrubs eight years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Industrial Exhibition continued from front page, The targets — Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki — were major military targets that were undamaged from previous bombings. Hiroshima, Japan's southern district army head- quarters, was the first target. . next, but cloud cover on Aug. 9 forced the B-52 bomber to a secondary target, the Navy and shipping centre of Nagasaki. The Strategic Bombing Survey, an i HIROSHIMA REBUILT Kokura, a manufacturing centre, was supposed to be’ Hall stands as a stark reminder of the bomb’s destructive power. Phote by Goidon Norwood Laskey is one of the lucky survivors not to have any lasting ill-effects. Others have not been so fortunate. (See letter to the editor, page A4.) But what-are we to believe, when confronted with horror stories of mutilations, cancers, and sterility on one hand, and Laskey’s survival with no illnesses and two thriving cities — Hiroshima and Nagasaki — on the other hand? $ Norwood's description of Hiroshima, a city rebuilt, and full of life only eight years after jts almost total destruction, suggests atomic bombs are not the history of bombing during World War II, says that even without the atomic bombs,. American bombers would have run out of targets by October 1945 because of - ‘saturation bombing with conventional. weapons. The survey concludes the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings hastened Japan's surrender by a few weeks or months. But that aI is of little to the , apocalyp' believe. 5 pons their would have us But Norwood quickly dispelled that thought. “One thing people have to understand is that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an atomic bomb. The nuclear bombs they're making now require an atomic bomb trigger. The newer bombs would make \(the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who survived the bombings. Kinuko Laskey, the founder of the Canadian Society for Atomic Bomb Survivors, is one of 12 Vancouver residents who survived the attack on Hiroshima. Last week she and the other 11 survivors were given a special-medical check-up in Vancouver by visiting Japanese doctors. Laskey was told she suffers no lastingyeffects from the atomic blast. a “Every time I got sick I'd be frightened that it was P measures being put forward in the United States. Asked what Canada is doing about these proposals, Kelleher said: “Well, we've got a very large box and we're collecting them.” The Americans are .con- cerned because Canada’s share of the U.S. lumber market has risen to 30 per cent, from 18 per cent in 1975. Canadian lumber produ- cers attribute this to the strong American dollar, which makes Canadian prod- ucts cheaper in the U.S. Canada exported more than $3 billion worth of lum- ber to the United States last year. as the i It will always be in your mind, but it is a relief to know that now I am healthy.” Laskey said in a phone interview last week that, to her knowledge, there are no survivors of the i bomb) look like a firecracker.” Norwood said that, at the time, he never expected the development of nuclear weapons to escalate the way it has. “The big deal at the time was the Americans had it (the bomb) so it would be a deterrent.” Norwood said his visit to Hiroshima has left a Jasting impression on him, and agreed with the suggestion that perhaps too many people take for granted living under the shadow of nuclear war. . “People who have seen a war don’t want anything to do with it again. When you see the results of what a bomb can do... .,” Norwood trailed off, leaving the rest to imagination. “We don’t need any more wars.” living in the Kootenay; «She said she _hadsadvertised in. newspapers across had any replies. Canada seeking to contact_more survivors, but had not ” of the bing. of will take place in Castlegar Tuesday with a ceremony outside the courthouse. at 6. p.m., followed -by- a-procession: to Zuckerberg Island at 6:25 and the planting of a Japanese maple on the island at 7 p.m. Federation dilemma VANCOUVER (CP) — Two of. British Columbia's largest unions have placed the B.C. Federation of Labor in a dilemma‘over how many delegates unions should have at federation conventions. ‘A committee under Ken Georgetti of the United Steel- workers of America is examining the issue and will report to thie: next convention in November. The two unions most immediately affected are the International Woodworkers of America, B.C.’s largest private-sector union which stopped paying per-capita dues to the federation early this year, and the Hospital amount of per-capita paid,” Munro said. “We're not putting any magic numbers forward as the solution, but we're saying there has to be some sanity.” ‘The IWA, with 34,000 members, had 157 delegates at the 1984 federation convention, where Munro was ousted as first vice-president. e i The B.C. Government Employees’ Union, with 40,000 members, had more than twice as many delegates, 322. ‘The reason for the inequity is that the delegate formula gives each union local two delegates for the first 250 Canada should take part OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government should. make a decision soon whe-