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Volume 72 No. 155

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Friday, August 11, 1976 7

wounds in the left shoulder.

By Deana Vallieres

A purebred female Husky dog was seriously
wounded yesterday when she was shot at close
range with a shotgun.

_ She wandered on to a-Graham Avenue property
belong’ to Mitch Aguirre and rushed to a local
veterinarian clinic by neighbours.

The Husky whose name is Tequilla was given a
50-50 chance of sruviving from the wounds and
the resulting threat of shock by Dr. L. Hays who
treated her Thursday.

Ten year old Dean Schmidt was looking after
the dog for a cousin vacationing in Vancouver

, when the incident occurred. The boy said he had

bean trying to catch his horse when the husky

],, _.. followed him out of his home at $084MaDbek..

y Dean's friend, i year old B: Han,

heard 2 shot fired and the two 8

Tequilla lying bleeding in a ditch near Northern

Turf Farms on Graham.

Mr. and Mrs. Rae Rowe, who live across the

ne TAL

Merald Exclusive Report oy.

Churchill, Manitoba is faced with.a strike that
| _—_s gould seriously affect the future of that port and
| the economy of the seriously depressed com-

| ‘The ‘National Harbours Board grain port of

munity of 1,500. ;
T, Lauzon, National Harbours Board Port
Manager, said in a telephone interview at 4 p.m.
PST Thursday, ‘We have been in negotiation
since last October with PSAC (Public Service
- Alliance Commission) and recently came up

with a one year contract offer which was ac-
és cepted by the union executive but rejected by the
; membership.

“we returned to the bargaining table, and
produced a two year package offer which we
submitted to the membership which was turned
down Thursday. We have been meeting since
five o’clock, Winnipeg Time, and I have been led

_ to believe the employees are prepared to with-
draw services. .

With the Port of Churchill limited to an insured
shipping season of 88 days per year - we are now
into our 14th day of operations with 74 left to go -

According to witnesses, the dog was shot when

- Strike May Close Port Of Churchill

Forest Fires Far From Finished

10year old Dean Schmidt calmed a purebred Husky he had been looking after while the dog was treated for shotgun

Pet Dog Shot On Graham St.

street, had been sitting on their front porch when
they saw the dog approach a chicken coop on the
property across the street, according to Mrs.

é.
Then, Mrs. Rowe stated, Aguirre came out of
his house with a gun, pointed it at the dog and

“Yesterday was not the first time she had heard
gun shots, Mrs. Rowe said, but before they had
always occurred in the — evening.
’ The Rowes carried the dog to their pickup and
drove her to Dr. Hays’ clinic where numerous
pellet wounds to the left shoulder were treated.

The veterinarian guessed the dog was only a
year or two old and was in heat at the time.

He was also treating Tequilla for shock since

the gimnsliot wounds. - °°” eR

At last report, Tequilla.was in stable condition
although it was not known how extensive the
internal injuries were.

__ Aguirre could not be reached for comment.

4

the effect of a strike could be economically
disastrous.

“Such a strike - whatever the duration - will
end for all time Churchill’s reputation of having
been a strike-free port since its official opening
in 1928. This was always one of its strongest
selling points. This I regret as it will have a long
term adverse effect on grain sales through
Churchill.

“A protracted work stoppage would further
add to the present Churchill woes. Our com-
munity is in great economic difficulty, and the
port operation is its major mainstay and almost
sole reason for existence.

There are two grain ships at the wharf and 2
waiting in the harbour to be loaded. Since the
port opened on July 29, 3 ships have been cleared
taking 3 million bushels,

Reports of sabotage including attacking the
grain belts with axes and chain saws and the
possibility of having to bring in the troops were
said to be without foundation by a Churchill
spokesman.

Sporadic lightning storms
Wednesday caused an
outbreak of 75 new forest
fires but ouly five of these
fires were in the Prince
Rupert district says Paui
Pashnik, information officer
for the B.C, Forest Service.

The local fires started by
lightning were small in size
aud all are in various stages
af control and mop-up

operations says Pashnik.

Another fire started as a
result of an overhang from
Spring burning but it was
also put under control.

There were light showers
reported [n most parts of the
forest area Wednesday and
Pashink says the only part of
the area not receiving rain
was the Lower Post Fireside
area In the north where the
fire hazard is still high. He
adds raln was reported
falling inthe area Thursday.
Rain fell in the Burns Lake
and Southbank. areas
Wednesday night and helped
rehice the fire hazard in
those aréas.

Locally the rain rapidly
aceelerated the control and

mop-up action on the major
fires in the district and in
particular has allowed Fire
Bosses on the 7,000 acre KAT
fire south of Terrace and
1,130 acre KEN fire north of
Hazelton to man the fires
with a skeleton crew and
give the rest of their crews a
day off, For some this will be
the first holiday in nearly
four weeks, Aggressive mop-

actions will continue until
the fires are extinguished.

Ranger. Jim Dunlop at
Lower Post reported the rain
this weekend enabled his
crews to secure the control
objective on the 7,500 acre
SLOK fire south of Allis. He
has also reported light
showers fell on the remote
uncontrolled 3,000 hectare
KING fire, 2,700 hectare
KOW fire and 250 Hectare
BOO fire. He stated’ these
fires have not increased in
sizeand have been relatively
static for the past week.

“To date 45 fires are sill
burning in the area with 495
men plus equipment battling
the blazes,

A total of 241 fires have
burned 55,00) acres in the
Prince Rupert Forest
District costing $4,813,000 in
trying to control them.

Forestry officials in the
Kamloops lire district in the
southern interior, one of the
hardest hit areas In the
province, snid the situation
there is explosive because
thearea has received norain
since July 16.

“It took a spot fire 15
minutes to increase to two
acres, and dry lightning
glarted 25 new fires Wed-
nesday, bringing the area
total to 205,’ said forest

protection officer Jack
Bailey. ;
Ole Ketleson, fire

protection officer in the
Prince George district, said

a severe lightning slorm —

there ignited 1L new fires
Tuesday, all of which were
under shaky control Wed-
nenday, he said.

FIRE CONTAINED
Firefighters on Vancouver
Isiand were reported

Wednesday lo have con-
tained. a fire about 45
kilometres west = of
Parksville. The fire has been
burning-since July 26.

Walt Schultz, assistant
district fire ranger, said
crews had succeeded in
conlaining the fire to 1,500
acres from 2,000: acres but
rain will be needed to snuff it
ou . +

Meanwhile, a 50 acre fire
was reported burning out of
control Thursday on the west
coast of Vancouver Island, 12
kilornetres north of Jordan
River.

Officials said expected
lower temperatures and the
possibility of rain could
improve the situation there,

Walker said seasonal
lightning siorms are 4
serious problem this sum-
mer because the exireme
drought has cut the forests’
residual moisture in half.

Officials set last

weekend's firefighting bill al
$1.7 million and estimated
the lota! cost of fighting fires
co far this summer al aboul
$9 million

Campfire
Ban Over

The Ministry of Forests
advises effectively im-
mediately the campfire
restrictions ordered within
the Prince Rupert Forest
District have been lifted
within zones R-4, Hazelton,
Kitwanga, Zone R-5,
Meziaden Lakes area, zone
R-6, Cedarvale, Terrace-
Kitimat, Kemano, zone R-7,
the outer coast area of
Stewart, Prince Rupert,
Bloedel, Ocean Falls, Bella
Bella, Rivers Inlet, zone R-8
and the Queen Charlotte
Islands.

The restrictions order is
still in foree inall other zones
of the district which includes
the communities of
Smithers, Houston, Burns

. Lake, Southbank, East Lake,

Atlin, Lower Post, Bella
Coc’a and the other forest
districts of the province.

Riverboat |
Missing

A riverboat belonging te
Tom Jingles was reported
missing from the Kalum
River in the Kalum Bridge
area, according to Terrace
RCMP

The grey, 16 foot
homemade wooden boat did
not have registration.

North Sea
Oil Flows

LONDON (Reuter) — Oil
production has started from
Britain’s Dunlin North Sea

Company, operators for

field on behalf of Exxon's
Esso subsidiary, Continental
Oil, Gulf Oil and the state-
owned British National Oil
Corporation, said initia.

production. would be about:
.- 30,000 barrels a day as the

first three wells are brought
on siream.

Crude is flowing into the
Dunlin§ platform's own
storage cells which have a
capacity of 800,000 barrels,
he said.

: ield,. th id
there ad been 9 considerable loss of blood from, Thursdays cu
pT ES" a apokeamait for the Stel

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NDP Leader Ed Broadbent

The Federal Leader of the
New. Democratic Party, Ed.
Broadbent, M.P. Oshawa-
Whitby, will be in Kitimat on
Monday August 2ist. Ac-
companying Mr. Broadbent
will be the Federal Can-
didate for Skeena, Jim
Fulton.

The ‘purpose of Mr.
Broadbent's visit is to meet
with local interest groups
and attend a_ public

_ gathering that evening at the

Chalet, 8:00 pm. Refresh-
ments will be served during
the social howr to follow.
Tuesday morning both Mr.
Bedadbent.and Mr. Fulton:

” will drive’:-ta” Ter¥ace: for.

further interviews before
‘leaving for Vancouver on the
afternoon flight. .

Ed Broadbent is not too,
well known in Northern B.C.,
so for those who have not
been following the NDP

‘. Selene... a4 57s

Federal party, the following
background material may be
of interest.

Mr. Edward (Ed)
Broadbent was born in
Oshawa, Ontario, in 1936. His
father wasa clerk at General
Motors, Canada. He is the
second of three children.

A brilliant student, he
earned three annual out-
standing student awards.

In 1055 he graduated first
in his class in Honors
Philosophy at U of T. His
post-graduate work, all on
scholarships, includes an
M.A. on Philosophy of Law

and a doctorate in Politi

From 1965-68 he was 2
professor of political science
at York University, Toronto.

In 1968 he defeated the
former labour minister in
the Diefenbaker Cabinet by
15 votes. He was re-elected to

the House of Commons in
1972 and again in 1974 witha
plurality of 10,000 votes.

In 1970 he published ‘The
Liberal Rip-off’ on the
government of Prime
Minister Trudeau,

Following the 1972 election
he was elected chairman of
the federal NDP caucus, and
became deeply involved in

- the development of a housing

policy for his party.

He was unanimously
elected NDP parliamentary
leader after the defeat of
David Lewis in the 1974
general election, and in 1975
was.elected leader of the

i

lew. Democratic Party.” ”

‘He and his wife Lucille .

Munroe have two children,
Paul 18 .and Christine, 5.
He visited Prince Rupert
in 1975. His last visit to this
region,

Festival 78 Outstanding Winner

EDMONTON — (CP)
Festival 78, the first cultural
exposition to accompany a
Commonwealth Games, has

Promior’s Conference
Flowing Smoothly

REGINA (CP) — ‘Iwo
western premiers today said
that they were satisfied with
the emphasis placed on the
economy at the annual
premier’s meeting.

Both Alberta Premier
Peter Lougheed = and
Manitoba Premier Sterling
Lyon came to the ‘annual
premiers conference con-

cerned more with economic -

than constitutional matters.

They told reporters that
there had been full
discussion Wednesday and
the economy was to be
considered again today.

“] was concerned we
would be down-playing the
economic side in favor of the
constitutional side—that

| didn't happen,’ Lougheed
said

He said he would prefer it
if the meeting concentrates
on getting the Canadian
economy moving and con-
siders the constitution as a
second priority.

He said a federal election
might clear the air from an
economic point of view.

Lyen described the
economic discussion as
frank,

“The message the political
leaders. . have to give is a
message the people of
Canada already know,
namely that governments
have got to stop speriding a8
much money’ as. they. are,
atop taking as much money
by way of taxation and give
more elbow room to the
private seclor to get on with
the job of reviving the
economy," Lyon said,
ISSUES REMAIN

Ailan . Blakeney of
Saskatchewan told reporters
there were a good number of
issues outstanding on the
economy to be discussed

British Columbia's Bll

Bennett said he was happy
with the way the conference
had gone the first day and
restated his opposition to
Prime Minister Trudeau’s
constitutional proposals.
Bennett had insisted an 2
five-region concept for con-
stitutional reform with his
province gaining full
recognition as a region.

Lougheed also said a
majority of the provinces
agreed the federal con-
stitutlonal proposals were
unworkable and impractical.

The concept of an ap-
pointed upper chamber
reflecting voting patterns at
both the federal and
provincial levels was
strange to Canada's political
tradition, Lougheed said.

Jurisdiction could not be
transferred to non-elected
peopleso the proposed House
of the Federation would
become a non-entity.

“There is a developing
frustration about how many
times we go around. the horn
here,” Lougheed said, ad-
ding the provinces presented
a proposal for constitutional
reform in 1976.

‘That proposal was ignored
by Trudeau in drawing up
the latest proposals, he said.

The Alberta premier also
said he was concerned about
a preamble and statement of
aims forming part of the
constitution since that would
mean interpretation by the
courts, which ‘would mean
courts would make the law
and not elected repre-
sentatives.

WEATHER

Cloudy
with
Showers

. Anne Austin,

blossomed so successfully
that the Games Federation
in England has been asked
that similar celebrations be
held at forthcoming Games.
Each day since the Games
started here Aug. 3, the city
has experienced vibrant
music and dance by artists
from Commonwealth
countries arourid the world.

The response, from both
residents and Games
visitors, has been over-
whelming. Officials estimate
at least 500,000 people have
trooped to shopping malls,
parks and school
auditoriums to witness the
colorful mystique of foreign
cultures. eo

John McKenzie, © an:
education officer with the
Commonwealth Institute in
England who aided in the
festival’s development, said
a letter sent to the federation
after a meeting of top Games
officials this week rec-
ommended that a “cultural
jolly" be a facet of the 1982
Games in Brisbane,
Australia.

McKenzie added that
consideration was also given
to the possibility of holding
similar’ expositions In the
four-year intervals between
Games. The concept will be
brought up at a meeting of
Commonwealth prime
ministers scheduled for
Zambia next. year.

WINS PRAISE

Edmonton's festival has
won the praise of officials
from other countries and
erased apprehensions that
local organizers were ¢x-
periencing before the Games
started.

“It’s been a tremendous
success in terms of public
acceptance,” said Bob
Dubberley, specia)] events
co-ordinator for the Games
Foundation.

“It’s been one of those
marvelous things.”

Horst Schmid, Alberta
minister of culture, has been
working with other volun-
teers on the project since
1974 when Edmonton tax-
payer's gave the goahead to
city council for construction
of the Commonwealth
Stadium. For the culture
minister, the festival has
been nothing short of a
triumph.

Schmid has been working
16 hours a day since the
Games began, popping from
one festival location to
another ta meet the en-
tertainers and welcome
them to Canada.

He said the festival, which
includes entertainers from
moet of Canada’s provinces,
bears witness {o a freedom of
expresaion found in Canada.
“Insome other places people
are afraid to show their
heritage."

STANFIELD WEDS

OTTAWA (CP) — Former
Progressive Conservative
leader Robert Stanfield was
married ‘Thursday in
Toronto.

Stanfield, 64, married
a Toronto
divorcee and former history
teacher, Stanfield’:
executive assistant said,

The new Mrs, Stanfield has
two grown sons and is 6

- former teacher of Canadian

history in ihe North York
school system.

She becomes Stanfield's
third wife. The first, Joyce,
died in a ca¥ accident some
years ago and the second,
Mary, died in October, 1977,

of lung cancer at age 65.
They had been married 20
years.

NATIONAL LEADER

He served as premier from
1958 until 1967 when he was
chosen national leader at the
bitter party convention that
ousted John Diefenbaker.

He fought three un-
successful federal election
campaigns as leader and
came close to teppling the
Liberal government af
Pierre Trudeau in 1972. He
quit as leader in 1976 but
remaines as an MP. He does
not plan to run for
Parliament again.

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