” plockéd off the area while _ RCMP ., > bomb _ éxperts ‘arrived to search for more: 7. Which ‘exploded in the faces “gear oftwo Vancouver-ared men,. . brought - traffic. in’ the "Vancouver, -to:a standstill . Tuesday afternoon. -processing manager at the - :! post office, ‘sald the parcel "takes it out and if he can't «bomb. victims shouted, -don't- have no. cnemnieo, : ~~ Hospital, police ‘evacuated Victoria, B. Ce. vV8V 124 a LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY... PARLIMENT BUILDINGS By’ KEITH ALFORD. . : * Herald Staff Writer . : TERRACE— Was it news? “Was it fair? Wasit too soft? “Wasit too hard? Was it an, NDP commercial? Will tt ‘burt Terrace financially? ; ' Those: are” “questions. many. “people | ‘are. ‘gating about [BCTV’s Skeeng riding profile aired’ Monday. - ‘Some are upset enough, to cireulate a petitions 9... " "The petition addressed to Cameron: Bell, the. network's = “news director; charges the.‘reporter:ignored the © ‘“significant change” in the town's forest-industry with the Eale of the Skeena nil; ‘and “seemed to imply a serious ; depression” whilé ignoring car . dealers and. furniture ‘store's increased sales; The signers ara ‘saking for another, - more positive report “within the: ‘next-few days.” Stu Krause, Socred campaign worker and salesman for — CFTK, wasn’t happy, with his.own station's coverage, but - ‘profile”, Krause saya only, Terrace was reported, on - both ‘Kitimat and Smithers ‘were omitted’... It ignored, new ; highway’ construction, showed closed stores - that merely ° '. hanged location -.as if they had gone bankrupt; ‘and: could - cause a real drop, in’aréa property values, hesaysi Gregg. Lutz, “Socred’ ‘candidate — Joanne. ‘Monaghan’ a. campaign ‘chairman, ‘said the program "ignored: recent --\ building ‘construction in Terrace, such’ as’ the court: house, the Slumber Lodge, the WCB building, the. Credit, Union, . additions. to: the college, and the 1 new wing | of fhe Canada Employment Centre... ; Before’ you do a hhuimber ¢ on tie toi, do. a. ‘is homework ‘tirkt,". Late saya. "It" was. “incredibly irresponsible Journallam.” ” But date lays, the blame on the ; political’ statement. Others weren't se sure... " reporter did not talk to merchants in Terrace by saying. they . Cameraman was inhis store; but didn't talk to him.‘ : the goddam leit wing works.” ., to believe. considering the EBAP and NEED" progranis ~ ’ their counters” than ever.-before,. -: town asa depressed area in 1975. Sharples als Tecalls t ‘print story. and SAYS, “every bit of negative news ‘puts “US: e. news director-editor, 1 not the reportor.: = 7 Siyod Both the above men said they did not see the show as a Al Pursehke’ backs up the pétition’s, charge ‘that ‘the | bey resulted j jn wholesellers telephoning local: stores. ‘and demanding ‘cash for inventories, “It was rotten. ‘spool; negative, negative, negative,” he Bays, “but that's the way _ Grace Fell, a florist, wasn’t titet viewed either. and: found a theshows portrayal of the town’s unemployed ‘‘a little hard: ‘ available,” ‘While such cases may, be “isolated Instances,”: thee she notes, that. within the last Bix months, several Terrace *. retailers have seen more large denomination: bills a efvsalng:; The Daily Herald talked to all the retail st stores on 1 the 4600 «: block and could find no merchant that was interviewed; * Car and furniture sales are up. Dick Sharples of ie Furniture says his sales are up considerably from last: year, He refers toanothér BCTV show done the day after Barrett: ~ was in Terrace the last time, and says they filmed a singlet "store that closed due'to bad management and depicted. the : back afoot.” Hew was not interviewed by! BCTV. Totem Ford's Jake De Jong, who wasn't interviewed, ’ Says his car sales-are up. . While saying a 40 per cent . unemployment figure was possible in Terrace, he notes that March was hisbest monthsince last year.”. A super political announcement," he da “an NDP: documentary is what] ” call it.” Those at the Food tor Thought & soup kitchen, which was * extensively filmed, saw the story in a different way. “Tt was not negative,” ”* said ong man eating his soup. “It have gone a lot heavier." .» was the hidden truth coming out.” A. woman sald, “it could ~ campalgned here. . That, story, cording. to. "Ponies Croft Randle, ITU: business: agent: cand: NDP campaign worker is sending his own letter to BCTV. He congratulates reporter Margo Harper saying,: “y feel: she handled a very sensitive and personal problem; ‘that’ of unemployment and the resulting poverty: and: despair, with: Compassion and * sensitiyily,"..:. : BCTV's news director Caméron Bau had not heard of the petition before: being. telephoned by’ the Daily Herald and . had received only. one phone: call late Tuesday afternogn. _ “If there were specific errors we will correct them," Bell’ : possibility. a say$,. adding the: network was checking: out one such Bell :hopes: the: petition signets : -inelude ‘their phone numbers so he car-call them:: but says" the -petitt needed. “If the mayor or the president of the-Cham ‘is not rai. Commerce or any. group wants to refute or enlarge the coverage, we will give them air time’ he'says. The new - director alsa said’ if shat happened , BCTV crews “might retin to Terrace to do another ‘town profile. | “Ty hews ‘is to generate public discussion,” ” states Bell. ‘His Station has. certainly done that.. et) politics. making: decisions, that have been: disasterous. to on the economy and the people wholive here, hesays. 2 ’ : Sears is ready to work for a new deal - which is more like. - the fre enterprise of days gone by, before big government’ ‘bureaucracy took over and a ‘person needed’ a million, Bomb. unclaimed ‘NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) — A parcel bomb went unclaimed in a local “ft post affice for ‘six days, postal officials aay. ' That is one of the few clues police have in the explosion of. the booby- trapped’ package. which downtown _core:of this city, | 15 Kilometres southeast of ‘Joe. - Nicholson,” . mail — ‘measuring - 20-by-40 centimetres — had been in, the. building since April 20. make a delivery, he cards it for the customer to pick up.’ Mo: Twenty. ‘éustom bikes like these will! be on display at the — Skeena Mall all day Saturday. The show Is organized by " . mounts. an ad hoc group of riders who are just proud of thelr *, lumping. him’ in with the. communists, - , Spending: big bucks: don't get in‘the news,’! he says. ~~ painediates in this'é - “Somebody should. -push them aff.” Witnesses ‘said one of the won't know’ why ~ it - happened," after he collapsed outaide his pickup Premi ‘Beane h _ truck ona downtown atrest. “once “a 4 net - As the. burned . and Columbia.” * Resource bloodied men were taken to Investment Cotpi: spheres as & plece’of is the poat office building ard plece-of the: took, anne campaign they. should Ko to Las Vegas‘ if: ‘they want to speculate. © ; Bennett, ' ‘whose. Social Credit: government’ created - the corporation. after the bombs. + Police said Henry Blankers, a 27-year-old local contractor, had gone to the post office to pick up the parcel with ‘Gordon ; says he feels tio. ‘moral’ - corporation shares.“ ~The ‘corporatlob became ma ‘the focus of the ‘campaign “ ‘Tuesday when shareholders ‘telling investors ‘during the o May.5 B, C. general ‘election _ directors for the company’s ; ‘Leader Dave Barrett,. who. 1978 ° Provincial, _ flection, ~asbogiation, with ‘the responsibility for: investors. - who ‘suffered louses with. campaign, said Tuesday a NDP’ Sovernment, has a ‘moral’. i ° qbligation to ‘shareholders. cof. the “company, “but, says’ market - sensitivity ~ prevents him _ from” obligation. ' ; “In Prince George, Barrett ‘told a news.conference that Bennett | should have gone to Socred's.: the’. corporatioan’s . annual wees meeting - to.“‘stand up and criticized * corporation track record at the’ annual a meeting in Vancouver, | * ‘New Democratic Party 2 attacked: the near vc aftiend from > adive his: paper as as father of After picking up the (.. BORIC. oO package, Blankers returned “IN IDE The" NDP. leader said was ‘parked. outside. atid : eer ” ms ra Bennett asked Milne to open the box. - vim ma He a en the Inside the parcel were Local. world sports| Pages 485. - premier's office to. flog "styrofoam pellets and a 1: 7 _ Shares... : smaller, booby-trapped box. C Ne. 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SALVAGE ‘se ae, ~ ‘Bomb’. _- ae : 635-2333, ot 635-9095 | trading at $4 and eventually a be. 36H Duhan (lust olf Hwy, 16 E "1p Pose to #9 before starting to page 3 i Miomeimetinnne __) mphaicesaiits —, a 5S iti NTN pa eet cia me Feu ph 64 hee see Lat mk en a BD Ae eye, at AR tT ‘corporation. euler in the 7 - marketing of 4 eben bee han tell ec bea ae want, eee _ : shares closed at $2. 95. ‘Bennett said’ ‘he: felt no moral responsibility to those: who didn’t sell their shares earlier,’ adding “private. companies also are - suffering “recession. efining © the - during. ‘the “Bennett . later’ took his mesuage ‘about resource development to Nelson, in “southeastern B.C., praising his Social Credit . government's efforts in the producis. He raked the NDP for what he called its punitive taxation: against the mining - industry while’ in power “between 1972 and 1975. He said" it drove mining companies from _ the province and left, B.C. lacking .{n ‘highly-skilled Seologists and technicians. The: premier sald . the Socreds had ‘built up that ‘expertise in the past seven - years and despite, difficult international . markets for some metals, mining community is “feeling confident with this government and our policies," : ‘Meantime, Barrett ridiculed. . - Bennett's “reportedly “, eniotional speech Mondiy nigh ‘ “4 i la forest . the B.C.. me abe he ot ee ee) Election offers no. gambling. in B. om " saying at ‘Bennett “wee " moved ‘to tears," “It's ‘the first time in this. campaign ‘he's . spoken’ About - “his: _ record: “At least. he’ 3 in tears —a greater portion” of the: population - ig: fit. tatters because ‘of, his- tecord," Barrett sald to thunderous. applause from @ packed 900- seat auditorium in Prince George. = >" Public accounts show it cost taxpayers. $900 for a makeup jobon Bennett for a’ - . television appearance, “and even then. they couldn't get it right," said Barrett, But Bennett told reporters no one coluld believe Barrett’ after he ‘ accused the ‘premier of * stostalling . a $80,000 in his office. Bennett said the installation cost’ was no more than it would be for any normal. shower. Barrett's‘ speech, punctuated by jabbing fingers and gesturing arms, "was frequently. interrupted by loud applause and ahouted . comments of ‘support for the. NDP. and eriticlam of. the Social Credit government... - - Standing in the last house was Social Credit 31 NDP 26, — Lo fone ik peta omen sn it cents yBRIANGREGG LipHerald@ Editor - : Times have gotten tougher because the w wrong people | dollars to’ atart a private enterprise. “When I came here in 1956 everyone was working and they still needed people,” he says. “Every small logging — operator had a piece of the action but the forestry decided. we couldn't have that so they stopped It.'" Now if the large ’ companies aren't willing to get the job done no one works, .Sears says that a ferty service.in this areainay notbea. - good thing. “It won’t be a good thing if it's a goyernment run operation. Where are they going to get the money. ‘to! Start such a service. I would gq back and consult the peaple. who have to pay the bill. We elect these officials ad then they run around telling us: what is good for us,: They tell us What they want instead, of. ‘letting us decide what we want.” Welfare is a disgrace, says Sears, and needs far more "public input." It is a.corrupt idiotic plece of garbage ‘that _ insults your intleligence and’‘ia so alienated from public . need it is no wonder, people who work in it have thick hides," he says. Welfare has: to be brought fown to the People’ s level. . . Sears isnota lettewinger ‘and he is angry at the media for - Most news reports -to recognize there are three i Bkeendt He the, media ‘sit on. the -fen lect; their money. ; The NDP stands for, Negative Depressing Politician, “he ~” gays, The'only positive thing they have ever done is slam the government, he says, and if there is any.truth in this lection ‘it must be. what, the two parties are saying about -each other, “T plan toseek out the majority. ‘There are not that many left-wingers or right-wing extremists, People want to co- ,operate to make this country go again but there is always a . union man or a politician who wants to make his own points. I'm gaining support every day, People are getting ’- fed up with negative politicians,” says Sears, “Why Is it that all politicians in the West ¢an see that the | federal government uses unfair practices against the West, but refuse to accept the fact that provincial governments do the same thing to the people who reside i in. the north?" gays _ Sears. -. The people should hava the right to recall a-politician if, after a reasonable time, the representative is not able to perform the duties entrusted to him, says Sears. It is also not necessary for the goverriment to get involved * Ineverything. That is why Sears says the system is corrupt a and needs to be Teplaced. “Anything that creates employment through the government is not necessarily. a good thing,” he says, ee. _— Station promised Herald Staff Writer ; TERRACE— A new ambulance station will be built at Mills Memorial Hospital for an estimated cost of ; $305, O00. Socred MLA ca ndidate J oanne Monaghan made the announcement Tuesday in. Kitimat, while Health Minister Jim Neilson was making a similar one in Victoria. B.C. Buildings Corporation will build thé “three- way" station ta accommodate all yehicles indoors, | according to a press release, ‘While BCBC will build © “the structure, it will be leased back to the. department of health, ; "Terrace presently has three ambulances which are "ett outside the fire station. In cold weather drivers have sometimes ‘had to de-ice the windshield or unfreeze doors before responding to a call. It was feared those actions added preclous minutes to ‘the response time, The new facility will eliminate that, It is expected it will take four months to build the. new station. ; , Skeena’s third candidate, is: nt ‘hitting the campaign trail, hard i in this last week to remind: "the electorate that\the.sun doesn’t" rise and relay, Frank, "Howard and’ Joanne Monaghan. . 4 ~ “Tee you' re not. p objects to the way °°” et ee Wore qth at ha Ae adel gy ot age. Grant increased Herald Staft Writer TERRACE— The Daily Herald has learned that Terrate will continue to have both a full-time building inspector and a full-time business jicense inspector,’ With the provincial government kicking in more money to Terrace than was expected through the provincial revenue sharing program, both Junctions were yestored: to their previous level at ‘Monday night's committee a the’ whole _ meeting following Terrace council. There will still be sofne excess funds and that means the city will not have to draw as heavily on its Surplus funds to meel this year’s budget: When ‘contacted for. remarks. on their restoced aiatus, “Bullding Inspector Gil Cobb said, “no comment,” and ~ License Inspector Tom Chesterman sald, “I "ow kaw it tt . is full-time, no one’s talked tome aboutit.” 0-0 ead ae gt ce Le Be De en, a a oe re aOR sites Sathe. ” we Siidaliabtet bles