” 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

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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. Roots on
that ‘exploded when “Mile omi 8 ‘horoscope . page 6 mie’ Social’ Credit
ted i, : Classifieds ages 8&9 | covernment formed BCRIC
ete vi geet = Pp - ‘attitiimimemal 2 08.8 Crown. corporation to
las burris to his arm; cheat and . caaimase all th ia
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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

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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... -

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: 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 °°”

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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

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