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Sizzling’

Despite a report last week, a.
court case involving the
municipality. of Stewart and
Peter Curran regarding the
moving of trailers into the
northern B.C, town, was ap-
parently not heard in Prince
Rupert last Friday,

An inquiry has been ordered,
however, by the Department of
Municipal Affairs, and this will
take place in Stewart on the 18th
of this month,

Municipal Affairs minister
Dan Campbell reported last
week that the inquiry is the
result of ‘a number of com-
plaints”, [t will be conducted by
J. Everett Brown, former
deputy minister of municipal
‘affairs.

The minister gave no
example or details of com-
plaints.

Though Campbell spoke of a
number of complaints,
Stewart's miayor Ian MeLeod
says he's sure there’s only one
source — businessman Peter
Curran.

“He feels Iam using my of-
fice aS mayor to prevent him
from going into business,”
McLeod said. “Nothing could
be further from the truth,”

McLeod is a motel owner.
Curran has a trailer camp
which includes a bunkhouse and
cafeteria.

The mayor says Curran's
operation doesn’t meet
municipal requirements,
Curran says the requirements
were never enforced until his
business “conflicted” with
McLecd's business.

McLecd said on Monday that
Curran, an unsuccessful Social
Credit candidate in the last B.C.
election, “feels he's got some
sort of pull in Victoria and he’s
going to show us country hicks a
thing or two.”’

The mayor said the trouble
began when his hotel burned
down in February, leaving the
town without publie food and
lodging.

Because his was the only hotel
in Stewart, McLeod said,
council granted 00-day permits
to persons providing temporary
trailer accommodation,

He said Curran was one who

Teceived such a permit, renting ©

two trailers and going into
business.

’ “In the meantime, I had a
prefabricated motel built in
Vancouver and [I’m now con-
structing a new hotel on the site
of the old one.

“At the end of the 90-day
period, because permanent
accommodation was once again
available, the special provisions
were allowed to lapse,”

Curran had since leased a
trailer camp, but ‘McLeod
claimed the units do not meet
standards of the National
Building Code.

“He is raising a big fuss about

Stewart Situation

soon

it and thinks he should be given
some sort of special status. He -
thinks he should be exempt.

“The municipality has
charged him. ..with moving his
trailers into the community
without a permit, The case
comes up in Prince Rupert on
Friday. ‘

Although the municipality
fefused to hook him up with
sewer and water, he’s operating
Tight now with a well and septic
tank system,

“He can either bring his
structures up to building code
requirements or they can be
sited on a loca! mobile home
park under the jurisdiction of
the provincial government.

"In this case, municipal
building requirements would
not apply.

“There's all sorts of room for
him, but he refuses to do
anything except what he wants
to

“Mr. Curran is a ‘relative
newcomer here and he’s been

“nothing but trouble.

“For a start, he brought a
bunch of junky old warehouses
here from the Queen Charlotte
Tslands and set them up on the
waterfront, where they’ re the
biggest eyesore you’ ve ever
seen.

“He recently wrote a letter to
the local paper claiming that [
am trying to get away without
paying taxes on my motel
because it isn’t belted down and

‘therefore not a permanent ;

structure.

“For a fact, it is bolted down
and you'd better believe ] am
paying taxes.”

Before McLead’s hotel burned
down, he added, the ac-
commodation in Stewart was
limited to 50 rooms and often
was strained beyond capacity,

Curran said he invested
several thousand dollars in
providing trailer ac-
commodation during the 90-day
period.

He accused municipal works

crews of “smashing my sewer

connection to pieces’' while
putting in a sewer to McLeod’s
new motel nearby,

“They never used to enforce
the national building code
requirements with regard to
trailers until my business
conflicted with the mayor's
business.”? . ‘ Wes

Curran added that a Stewart
alderman recently applied for a
permit for a trailer park. He
claimed trailers are.aiready in
position even though the site
has not yet been appropriately .
zoned:

“The council in this town has
had contro] for too long, The
place is a real mess,”

Curran said the people are
“100 per cent” behind him and
he intends running for mayor at
the earliest opportunity. ,

Soviet spy makes
hush hideaway

LONDON (CP) — A high So-

viet intelligence official has de- -

fected to the West and a British
official described him today as
extremely valuable,

The unidentified defector is
reported to be in a secret hidea-
way in the London area,

The official said no details
would be disclosed at this stage,
but he would describe the Rus-
sian as far more valuable than
Soviet electronics engineer
Anatoly | Fedoseyev who
defected from the Paris air
show last June.

London evening newspapers

broke the story of the defection. |

One, The Evening Standard, de-
seribed him as. @:fairly senior
member in the’KGB, the Soviet
secret police, Another said: he
was a top intelligence officer.

event saying it was a security
matter.

When _Fedoseyev defected,
‘there ‘was’ widespread British

speculation that"he was a top’
‘space official, The disclosure .

_later that he was much lower
‘down * In’ the’: .Sclentific “scale
tended to increase caution

, among. obseryers that the new: -
. identified as an electronics ex-,
“perl whose.work een a

_ defector may not be as. impor-
tant as immediate reports Buig-
“ gested. .

However, the official, who
cannot be named, said it can be
taken that the man involved is.
far more important and more
valuable than Fedoseyey,

A newspaper report that the
defector may have been in Lon-
don, under interrogation, for as
long as three months should be
treated cautiously, the officlal
‘added.

The evening news said inter: |
rogation has produced material
of high importance.

“The suggestion is that the- -

Russian was persuaded by Brit- .
ish blandishments to come to-
London,” The - Evening News
said, .

Il said British intelligence au.
thorilies had been i in touch with

_ the U.S. Central ’ Intelligence
Agency,”

The foreign ‘office alsa de- -
clined to throw any light on the.

Ther eported: ‘defection comes

aes

altér several episodes involving, ; -

diplomatic friction between |.’
- Britain and the ‘Soviet’. Union.

during the last. few months, ~

One case that caused strained

feelings came. in Jime when a

high-ranking Soviet. technical’ *‘

expert left a Russian delegation
‘attending a Paris air show and

; Was given refuge in Britain,

- Analoly Fedoséyev, 61, was

to the Soviet space effort.

JAPANESE SENTIMENT -

* Pub ¢ opinion polls can. be- Interesting mesures of national: =
-sentiment, voarticularly when denionstrations and other visual.

means”: ‘sometimes - give’ contrary indications.’ ey
‘newspaper Mainichi recently asked its ‘readers, “On whitch mo

‘The. Japanese

country do you think: Japan should be modeled?” : :

‘The United States and Switzerland each received 29 per ‘cent : ae be

‘ of the replies, to tle for firat;.Britain.was next-with 10 Per: cent,

_ followed by’ West. Germany .(?) a

nd France 4

ida, lit

significantly, Russia recelved only two per. cent and Red Ching

was mentioned by only.one percent, "
Distances and misunderstandings: sometimes:

pictures of ‘alional sentiments; “Poll. anette

. TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

STOGIE CRISIS

it can only. be hoped the Cigar Smokers of America ap-
preciate the full significance of what it has done by inviting .

women to join.. The formerly all-male association apparently

has. been tracing a number of smoke rings to feminine lips and -

reached the ultimate conclusion.

It does, however, present some problems to the male stogie
devotee, accustomed as he has been to being chased from
meticulous living rooms by hostesses who are net captivated by

his aroma. Does the Cigar Smokers of North America’s action ~

mean new frontiers are opening, or older ones are closing?

Will it now be considered proper etiquette for a man to offer —
a lady a cigar, or should he wait to see if she offers him one? [i *

she does, and it turns out to be lavender-perfumed, is he
obligated to smoke it?

What if the non-smoking male who finds himself trapped in

a room filled with cigar-smoking women? The least the Cigar
Smokers of North America could do would be to isstie updated

rules of etiquette.
Otherwise, the only safe course may he to adjourn to the

twa.

rear of the barn, or the modern equivalent, for a quick puff or

NEW YORK CAP) - Even
touch costs more in New York.
Much more, The Company of

- Los Angeles knowa,

A band of young theatrical ex.
perimenters, the company re-
cently decided to augment four
years of West Coast- ‘acclaim
with an East Coast trek that the

sorely needed long-term endow-
ment.

Out of a reportory of 20 di-

_ verse items, everyone agreed,

the show to take along was The

James Joyee Memorial Liquid

Theatre, a free-wheeling envi-

‘group hoped would attract

sight, taste, scent, sound and, -

' most of all, touch.-

The original cost Of the pro-.
duction. ‘was about $100, Plus

collective ensemble energy, -

To take .it- to New York,
though, a budget of $60,000 had
to be raised from 42 backers.

Instead of the $3 top admis-
sion charge at the $0-spectator
theatre out on Robertson Boule-
vard, the box-office scale had to
be raised to $9.25 on weekdays, -
$9.75 an weekends,

The show is to be performed
in the suditorium of Fifth Ave-:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6; 19

to contemporary graphic repre-

sentations. The booking is’ the.

’ first breakthrough joining a
performing ‘art with a major

- ‘Centre of painting and sculpture:

ina long-run endeavor,
The $1, 000 weekly rental. is

being used by the trustees. to

Mount a retrospective Mon-

adrian exhibit, - -.

‘To Brooke Lappin, producing

‘the stage show along with Bruce

Bassman and Michael Edin,”

the venture is ‘‘an all-out gam-

ble of the company | for sur:
: vival.’ vo :

Touch’ costs in “experiment

“invelves audience and actors in nue’ s elite Guggenheim Mu-
multiple sensory experiences of .Seum, an institution dedicated -

_Since being founded in 1 1967

a Group of students at Souther

California and other- univers

_ Wes, survival has been achiey

by shoestring co-operative im

| “Bvery spectator becomes

_elerrent in it,” he says. “Th

Is to get away from

purpose
. inhibitions of usual theatrf

going and to. make everyornme
aware of those senses that
tend to neglect.”

One by one, spectators.

. adtnitted to ‘a “cushione "
“chamber where tea’ is servemm
and’ assurance administered 7

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