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Judge Darrall Collins
sentenced John Kenneth

’ Kirsch to a total of 90

days in prison after he
pleaded guilty to three
charges ‘of impaired
driving in provincial |
court Monday.

‘The court was told by ©
Crown’ Counsel Tom ©

Bishop one of the charges
resulted from an incident
June 1, when the truck
Kirsch was driving was

. involved in a four-vehicle

accident in front of
Omenica - Building
Suppli

es.
ee also stated
wae involved in an

earlier accident May 15. .
at the Copper Mountain:

sarid flats, and stated that
the third charge had been

" jaid after a complaint had

been given to RCMP by a
resident of the Sunny Hill
Trailer Court on May 19.

Bishop noted Kirsch
had two past convictions
on similar charges and

stated that ‘clearly in-

carceration is called for
in this case.”

Collins agreed with
Bishop and sentenced
Kirsch to 90 days for the
incident June 1 to 30 days
for the incident May 13.
and to 60 days on the
charge laid as the result
of the complaint.

Collins also stated all
sentences are to run
concurrent and ordered
Kirsch to spend one year
on probation after he is
released from prison. The
jail term is to be spent at
the Terrace Community

Correctional Cenire. -

It’s good
exercise

BRISTOL, R.1. (AP) — All
school sports programs have
been cancelled for next year
in Bristol but students in
grades four through 12 will
get plenty of exercise.
They'll be walking ta school.

Bill Starby, chairman of the
local March of Dimes
Committee, holda the can
while Jack Cook, m mer-
chant, drops in his quarter.

‘LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY,

COMP.

PARLIAWENT RUILDINGS,

Look for these cant on
display in various stores!
around town. Proceeds go!
towards to Childrens!
Hospital where 18 youngaley,

H

from Terrace, and 14 from
Kitimat have been admitted,
Nine Terrace youngsters and
13 from: Kitimat have used

the diagnostic centre, Four.

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Kitimat youngsters and 12
from Terrace bave used the
metabolic investigation unit,

Four Terrace youngsters
have used the allergy unit,

‘* "Photo by Brian Grego

OIL RIG SPILL

| MAY BE WORST |.

5: MICO CHW cae) 0'-paef Be os

An accident involving the
sinking of.a floating oil rig
fcllowing an ofl and gas. leak

in the Gulf of Mexico ap-
pears to have developed into
the greatest ecological

disaster in the history of oil,

exploration.

About 2.5 million barrels of
crude oil are expected to
keep gushing out into the
waters of the Mexican
Caribbean, 80 kilometres off
Campeche in ‘the
‘ southeastern part of Mexico,
for the next two to three
months,

The Caribbean, reputed
for its flora and fauna, . is
threatened by a gigantic 200-

km-wide oil slick, which has
already reached the coast of
Mexico's Tabasco province,
preceded by thousands of
dead fish.

The unprecedented

mishap — about 100 million |

litres of ofl have spilled
' acrogs the Gulf of Mexico —
began on June 3 with the

‘ sinking of a floating rig of the:--

ee

leaked at-a depth of: 3, 6:,
metres during ‘drilling: ats; ce
The oil slick has already
‘affected the entire Came
peche aréa, one of the
world’s largest shrimp-
zones, where 90,000
people make their . living
from shrimp fishing. an
Half of the oil and gas
spewing into the sea has
been burning at the surface
since the start of the
disaster.

Red Adair, a US. expert -
on control of oil- field fires;
and Pemex experts
managed for the firat Ume'to
control the fire and plug the .
leak but another gap caused
by pressure in the damaged
upper part of the well trig-
gered another. major leak
and rekindled a gigantic fire,

Apart from the en’
vironmental devastation,
financial losses in ‘oll,-
daaged equipment and costs
of salvage operations are
already estimated at tens of

Mexican national oil com- «: -thillions of dollars.

‘Not near us’

~eees rpice: ‘git.

Sparks, Street, appearéd

before’ Terrace. distritt «
council on Monday to protest:

a@ proposal from. the
association for the mentally
handicapped to turn thé
Sparks Street, teacherages
into homes for the mentally
handicapped. -

There would be 10 adults in’

two teacherages and = six
adulta living In a residential
home, but Tomas says the
. Ministry of human resources
in planning to institutionalize
thede people and the
buildings are not sulted for
this kind of development. .

The residents also say ina
petition to councit that as
‘owners and-or residents of
lands and premises in the
. general area where such
property ig located we feel
that such placement is most
‘undesirable personally for
ourselves and our children
and that such placement will
also unfavorably affect the
economic value of our homes

fron

ij ni ning a
“quest oning: erman,
“David Pease* sternal
Guest -.Houge, '- which,”
presently hosed the people
who would be living at. the
teacherages, hag not
disrupted the neighborhood. .
' Osborne Guest House is -
daly situated a block away
.the —_ protesting -
“residents, says Tomas, and
he is even concérned: about
what goes on there,

“What can you peopledo to:
stop this,’” he sald to council,

- “TL want you to go around the

table and think aobut it.’’
Council will forward the
petition, which refers to the
mentally handicapped 4s
“abnormal” and ‘‘sub-
normal", to the minstry of
human resources and
request that. a full ex-
pansion be given to council

meee Hallsor, municipal
administrator, says that the
use of the bulldings by the
aseociation for the mentally
handicapped conforms to the
bylaws in every respect.

Pressure mounts for price.
hike by the oil producers

GENEVA, Switzerland
(AP) — Pressure mounted

-Monday for Saudi Arabia

and other OPEC moderates
to ga along with a substantial
rise in the price of crude oll,
but the. cartel’s president
caid moderates might in-
crease production to keep
radicals in line,

“If they don’t come with
us, we Will go our own way,”
said Mana Said a] Otaiba, oil
minister of the United Arab
Emirates and president of
the Organization’ of
Petroleum Exporting
Countries.

In an interview, he also

proposed a ceiling on. the.

price of OPEC oil to prevent
Brice inflation through such

vices as surcharges above
the official price.

“l don’t want to threaten
any of my colleagues in
OPEC, but if they ask for
very high prices, 1 will
realrict the raising of my
prices and maybe look into
increasing my production,”
he said.

The oil ‘ministers of the 13
OPEC countries will meet
formally today and Wed-
nesday in an attempt te unify

their — price structure,
Meanwhile, leaders of the
major industrial countrles,
including ‘Canada, are in
Tokyo discussing ways to
deal with the energy crisis!

Otaiba suggested he might
back a base price of between
$18 and $20 a barrel. Many
observers have said they
believe OPEC will com-
promise at about $20.

Among the more radical
members of OPEC is Libya
~— whose oil minister, Ez-
zedin Ali. Mabruk, "said
Monday that the price’ of
crude oll should be $27 a
barrel, An Iranian official
said earlier his country
would ask OPEC to set a
price of more than $20,

The base price of a barrel
of OPEC oil is $14.55, but
many members have adjied
surcharges, pushing the
average price to more than
‘giz.

In addition to his propdaal

for a base price of between

$18 and $20 a barrel, Otaiba
proposed a ceiling on prices
for all OPEC grades at $21 —
about the highest price

today. i
Hesaid OPEC should meet

again in September to
review prices. OPEC's next
meeting now is scheduled for
December.

OPEC’s members agree
that the cartel must set a
unified price and avoid
surcharges.

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MORE VIOLENCE

NEW YORK (AP) — Inde-
pendent truckers vowed

‘Monday to expand the

proteat blockades which
have disrupted food and fuel
deliveries for weeks, but in
some areas their violence-

Pauer prot Proteata appeared to

A Tehege coalition of
independent drivers said
they plan to shut down all
trucking movement in the
area to dramatize that
truckers are “being cruci-

on the cross of in-

’ flation.”

Ted Bates, coalition
spokesman, said nearly all of
the 2,000 indepemfents in tha
Chicago area will join the

blockade.

Scattered violence . con-
tinued in the strike, which
began more than two weeks
Ago as a protest against high
fuel cosis, load walght limits,
and the BO-kilometre-an-hour
speed limit.

Bucks County, Pa., Jaw en-
forcement officials
requested state police
reinforcement Monday and
said they. might impose a
county-wide curfew on the
"heels of a two-day riot by

protesting motorists and

ruckers in Levittown, |

rndoun of and all pe patice
_ powers are exhausted, ee
*Sherlff John atcha’ .

A West Virginia trucker
suffered facial injuries when
he was atiacked by snipers
near Parkersburg, In
Shelbyville, Tenn,, seven
Striking drivers were
arrested for throwing a brick
“through another trucker's
windshield. Three rigs were

damaged by sniper fire early

Monday near Hope, NJ;

4 In Providence, R.L., siate
police rode shotgun on 35
tanker trucks making
gasoline deliveries to service
stations. State Police Capt.
Donald Flynn said truckers
were “not pleketing
anywhere.” ,

Near Atlanta, drivers
blocking a truck stop said

they are running out of
money and might have to

return to work goon.

“If the trend of the last
couple of days continues,
then we'll be coming out of
it,” said Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander as some
drivers went back to work
and more fuel stops opened.

A tentative settlement
came Monday In a week-long
Btrike by independent fuel
haulers in southern Florida
with an. agreement calling
for trucking companies to
raise rates, paid inde-
permients by seven per cent
and for state authorities to
consliter a rate increase for
the companies,

HEWITT SAYS
HE’S CONCERNED.

VICTORIA (CP)
Agriculture Minister Jim
Hewitt said Monday he Is
concerned that fruit and
vegetable growers in the
weslern United States will
dump thelr -produce in
Eritish Columbia because
they can’t get it to U.S.
markets due to strikes by
Independent truckers.

Hewitt said be has told the
federal government that he
ls- worried growers in
California, Oregon and
Washington, in an effort to
get rid of their produce, will
undercut B.C, producers.

Because of shipping prob-

a depressed p
miniater said, °
“That can affoct imere_
in British Columbia."
Hewitt sald the federal }
government must watch the,
problem Closely because:
both imported and domestic :
cherries will be on the
market this week,

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in Nicaragua |

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MANAGUA - (AR) Aa
fiaiTbha)’ aban

* Nicaragia’s”

followed up ‘two days. of
onslaught" Mo with ‘ ‘aie

onday against
rebel positions in eastern
Managua, President Anas-
tasic Somoza vowed to fight
to the end.

Flames danced hundreds
of metres into the sky and
columns of smoke hung over
the east side of the
Nicaraguan capital after the
previous night's bombings,

National guardsmen
moved forward under cover
of machine-gun fire from

planes and hellcopters and

behind a tank and armored
cars, Guerrillas fought back
from trenches ad barricades
made of paving stones.

Col, Aquiles ‘Aranda
Escobar, spokesman for the
19,000-man national guard
which serves as Nicaragua's
army andpolice force, ap-
peared confident of eventual
victory, “Our objective is to
get the north highway (to the
airport) open,” he sald. “We

i eve we will be able to do
it.

In the late afternoon,
government planes in-

eir bombing of
the district. Witnesses and
Informed sources said Isaeli-
made Arava aircraft
dropped dozens of 600-pound
bombs into the zone.

Meanwhile, Brazil's con-
servative military govern-
ment announced Monday it
is suspending diplomatic
relations with Nicaragua.

The national guard is

»

More fighting’

uy

giietrillas who want ta

venta of somtoce farniig ae

Somoza the movement

is Sinan say’ ny the
they have

rupport trem & wide range of

ups.
Somoza’s internati font : :
position was serlourly :
weakened during ; the:

his resignation, The United : ;
States was ‘among the: °

‘countries in favor of the :
resoluticn.

Doctors
cut his

a

TLeAR ES beeen een raey,

feet off

LANSING, Mich. (AP) —
The severed feet of a 3%-
year-old boy, reattached In a.

@4-hour operation on the ~

weekend, were surgically
amputated Monday after

doctors concluded that blood: ‘

flow could not be mains
tained.

The feet of Sammy
Perkins were sheared
Saturday just above the-
ankles By a hay mower near
his rural home in William:
aston, Mich, The toddler,

Caledonia graduates will be honored in a supplement July 3

by Scien Grege

Truckers vow |
new protests

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