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635-2801 i, : SERVING TERRACE AND KITIMAT PHONE 635.4564.

6TH YEAR NO. #4 TERRACE, B.C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1971 635-4957 18 Cents:

‘shutdown.

- request,

| Log lack signals posible

| Skeena shutdown

A query to Skeena Forest
concerning an expected layoff
brought a ‘‘no comment’
response from a representative
of Skeena. An unidentified man
had called the Herald earlier to
see if something could be found
out about the rumoured work
He said, ‘They
never tell us until the last
minute, maybe the paper can
find out what’s going on.”

The spokesman at Skeena
said that as far as he knew no
shutdown was planned. But he
did say as a result of the logging
truck owners pulling there
trucks aut, no logs werd coming
in for processing. .

Frank Munson, secretary of
the Northwest Loggers
Association said that out of
fairness to the other side, he had
been reluctant to publicize the
fact that their negotiations with
Skeena had come to a halt. But
in view of the fact that nothing
had been accomplished sq far,
the people should be kept in-

formed. On December 1, many

of the Terrace truck owners had
pulled their logging vehicles off
the roads when their quarterly

_ licenses came up for‘renewal.

Because of an increase in costs
of over 30 per cent over the last
three years, and no increase in
rates from the companies that
hire the trucks, the men found
themselves in an impossible
financial situation.

Mr. Munson reported some
success with Calum bia
Cellulose representatives who

came to Terrace to discuss the
matter with the loggers
association. Munson said that
the Colcel men ‘were not too
happy with the situation in
Terrace, which they said had
been reflected on the Stock
Market in New-York. As a
result of the meeting they of-
fered an increase to the Nass
haulers with 4 promise of a ton
rate increase on March 1 of
1972.

Bul Skeena Forest Products
has not come. up with the in-
crease they “half-promised.”
Munson said that Skeena_had
mentioned some kind of
“retroactive deal’, but they
didn't say how much or when.
Meanwhile the bulk of the
trucks are still off the road and
will remain so unti] they get a
raise. If there is no way an
increase can be initiated,
Munson said that the men will
just leave town. ‘“There’s
plenty of work down the line. If
they have to work for nothing
why should they go back?”

Mayor-elect Johnstone, in an’,
interview with the Herald, said
that we cannot expect the work
situation to improve in Terrace
until the worldwide economic
situation shapes up.

Just how soon that will be no
one knows, but if Terrace’s
economy remains as shaky as it
is, we may lose the shopping
centre complex planned for the
Lakelse Avenue section just up
from the Municipal Hall.
Developer, Ray Skoglund said

Trudeau

Terrace drug letter

The district of Terrace
received a reply from the office
of the Prime Minister in
response ta a letter sent by
Mayor Jolliffe at council's
concerning the
Dominion government's plans
on the legalizing of marijuana.

Mr. Trudeau's correspon-
dance secretary, Henry
Lawless, replied that the matter
was still under investigation by
the LeDain commission and
that the government was aware
of the delicate. nature of the
problem. He thanked council
for sending their letter which
would contribute to the
discussion of the question.. He
also included a excerpt from a
talk by -Trudeau to a youth
proup in Whitehorse on his own
opinion of drugs. The speech
reads as follows:

(In answer to question as to
Prime Minister’s personal
apinion on the use of drugs)

Prime Minister: My own
opinion? Well, if you want my
own opinion not as a legislator
but as an individual I don't dig
it, I respect the freedom of
other people to do many of the
things they want to do but it’s
not really.... My own opinion, is
that it’s a form of getting high,
perhaps not all. that different:

from alcohol, not all that dif-.
ferent from other forms of in--_
I just personally:

toxication...
don’t believe in intoxication, I

think it’s a form of escape, it’s a
form of .secking your. ex-:
citement or your release from.
the outside, from artificial
means, Whether it be alcohol,
whether - ‘it ‘be marijuana,

-ment going to do about ,
‘know, they go around polluting
their. own, Jung.

answers

whether it be hash, whether it
be the harder stuff, and people
who want to get high before
going to a party, or take two or
three cocktails in order to screw
up enough courage to sit down
toa big dinner, it’s their choice.

But it's not mine, if you're
asking my “opinion, | 1 think
especially when you’re young,
well ] wouldn't think much of a
kid who had to take a shot of
whiskey every other day in
arder to screw up his courage to
go to school or do his homework.
When you're old and forty. like
me, or more, you may lcok for
artificial means of facing life
and creating artificial
paradises for yourself. - But,
once again, you're asking my
own opinion, when you're young
and 15 and 20, hell, there’s so
many exciting things to do in
the warld that you should try
and get it from within you, and
from the scenery or the events
in the outside world, from
music, from travelling, from

everything rather than, once

again, pulting chemicals into

your body whether’ it be drugs —

or whether it be smoke, or
alcohol for that matter. You

want my opinion there itis. It -

doesn’t mean,- perhaps I
shouldn't go. on on.this, but

“people who do it, 1] don't judge

them any more than I judge a-
rson who.takes alcohol. You

now, it's their own health, but |

thesame people who get high on
pot five or three.times a week
very often'are the'same people
who say, “What's the govern- :
‘you:

Youth to

carol’ parade _ | us —

Church Youth groups. of
Terrace. will add to. the
Christmas spirit In town
Tuesday evening, December 21,
by staging a Christmas

Carolling parade. It is planned’ -

that the parade will begin at.
7:80 at.the Cattiolic Church and
travel down Lakelse ‘to fupley
then back along Park to Eby, A

parade permit has been

obtained ‘from the District. of .

Terrace and the RCMP. have
promised their cooperation, a
Over 16 youth: ‘grou

been contacted” "alt Ae ig

“have °
4 Brousseau ‘at eas-2a21..

hold |

anticipated that over x 100 young »
people participating. “After the
rade refreshments will be

perved in the Cathalle Hall “TE.

you are

Over 16 youth grou
been contacted .

: have”

?

- pal de ref .
_ served in the Catholic Hall, Any”
“young.
'» Jolning the parade who iave not
yet. been. contacted. can phone.

eople Interested ‘in

“David Pease at Si5-5250, ot or * Paul

, Co-op
culprit

At Cle

that a decision “will not be
reached until after .the. ist: of
February. The merchants that
had planned to open shops in the
complex are a little concerned
about the economic stability of
the area, said Skoglund.

Rupert
road

closed.

__A train derailment involving
ul cars blocked, the Terrace-

upert section. of’ the
vat jowhead Highway at mile 43
for hours on Thursday,

.spokesman at the Department

of Highways said that the cars
were loaded. and anticipated
that it would take a long time to
get them off the road. Around
noon, the Highways were
estimating midnight as the

_ expected time of road opening.

Beside the train mishap there
were snow slides at mile 35 and
other points along the road, but
none of them serious enough to
block traffic.

Five inches of snow fell on the
highways over Wednesday
night. Snow removal and
sanding were being carried out
on portions of Highway 16 East
and Highway 25.

4

caught

Larry Paulsen, 1), ot no tixed
‘address, was apprehended
early Thursday morning in the
Terrace Co-op centre after he

had broken a glass panel to gain .

entry, had broken open a
security cabinet and taken a
radio, A staff member was
working late In the store when
he heard the sound of breaking
glass and -phoned the police,
coments later RCMP arrived
on the scene and arrested
Paulsen. The culprit was
charged with breaking and
entering and theft over $50.00.
In court Thursday he agreed to
trial by magistrate, pleaded
guilty and was. sentenced to
three months in jail, Meanwhile
at the-Co-op the glass is being
fixed and all is back to normal.
This is the second theft that

. occurred at the Co-op in ag.
. Many weeks.

Skeena Forest production may slow
down soon due to a shortage of logs.

/ aaa

result in a

When asked if the situation would
temporary closure

spokesmen at Skeena said,
comment.” (D. Swanton photo)

‘ ‘no

Government neglect forced’ war |Doctor will take jail
to. protest tire rule.

NEW DELHI. (CP), ~The
Indo-Pakistan war, the third

‘+ fought between: the ‘two “coun: ” "
_ Hement with Sheik Mujib, but

‘ tries since Britain divided the
subcontinent in. 147, grew out
of the civil war in East Paki-

- Stan that - followed Yahya

Khan's attempt to crush the
“independence . movement in
the province.

- East Pakistanis long have
complained of neglect by the
central government in West
Pakistan, which is dominated
by Punjabis. The smaller,
more populous east is pre-
dominantly Bengali, and its
jute industry accounted for
the major part of Pakistan’s

But West Pakistan got most of
the benefits.

Last December, in Paki-
stan’s first ‘general elections
in 23 years, the Awami
League, a Bengali party.
promising greater autonomy
-for the easl, won 167 of the
‘313. National Assembly seats.
Yahya Khan accused the
Awami leaders of fomenting
secession and March 25 un-
leashed his army.

The teader: of the league,
Sheik Mujibur Rhamany, was
imprisoned and the troops
carried out a reign of terror
that drove an: estimated 10

million refugees into India, .

imposing a Soushing -burden

foreign exchange earnings. .

. Michael

‘on a: ‘strained economy.
India repeatedly. called on
‘Wahya to’reach a political set-

‘the president put the sheik on

trial before a secret court,

barred the Awamis ‘from the
assembly and outlawed the
party.” Pakistan charged’ that
India was arming and train-
ing - the Bengali :resistance
fighters. :
ATTACK IN. EAST

Both countries moved their
troops up to the borders and
for several] weeks engaged in
minor skirmishes. Then on
the night of Dec." 3-4, Indian
troops moved in force into
East Pakistan.

India’s stated objective was
to force the surrender of the
Pakistani troops in the prov-
ince and to create an inde-

Delay on

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—The
Sierra Club has called for a five-
year delay in construction of the
proposed trans-Alaska oil

: pipeline until the “potential for

major disasters’? has been
determined,

McCloskey,
executive director of the. club,
made public its analysis
Wednesday of an interior
department report on the 800-

pendent state for the Ben-
galis.s : :

- India, ‘had. the "upper hand
both from -& standpoint of
numbers and geography. She
was estimated to have more
than a million men under

-.arms compared .with 392,000

for Pakistan and nearly
three-to-one superiority in the
air. And the 80,000 Pakistani
troops in the East. were cut
off from the western half of
the country by 1,000 miles of
Indian territory.

At the outbreak of the fight-
ing the Indian air force car-
ried out lightning raids on
military airfields in East Pak-
istan. Within a week, India
claimed she had destroyed
Pakistan’s air force in the
province.

o li
pipeline
mile pipeline planned by

Alyeska Co., a consortium of
seven oil companies,

He says the ‘task force's
doubts about the pipeline make
it absolutely clear that after
three years of study, the
Alyeska Co. still does not know
how to safely carry out the
project.”

.

RED LAKE, Ont. (EP) ~ br?
Michael Golster is ready to go to
court today with 31 others
charged with violating an On-
tario ban on studded tires and
plead guilty.

He says he's also prepared to

_ go to jail rather than pay a fine,

normally $20 and costs, for
breaking the provincial law im-
plemented this year barring use
of the studs.

_ “Tt’sa political issue, really,’”

said the 3-yearold general

. medical practitioner, chairman

of a group called the Citizens
Committee for Studded Tires..

“We're going to plead guilty
to this thing because we don’t
have the time to fight it as a
legal battle.” ;

Dr. Gloster, a native of Lon-
on, England, who came to this
remote northwestern Ontarlo
town 12 years ago, declined to
say how many supporters of
studded tires would choose ja

Tfhe goes to jail the district az
Red Lake will be left with four
doctors,

"the group says the ban, which
went into effect in November
across the province, may be
suitable for urban southern
Ontario roads, but not for north-
ern winters,

In this mining town of 2,200,
located 20) miles northeast of
Winnipeg, supporters say stud-

ed tires are necessary for
safety and don’t damage snow-
packed roads,

Probe on
pictures |

ST, JOHN’S, Nfld, (CP) —

Police Chief Alan Dwyer said

. today charges by a St. John’s
woman that she was paid $600
for showing semi-nude pic-
tures of herself to welfare of-
ficiais are under investiga-
tion.

Steve Neary, social services
minister, said he asked the
police to investigate after the.
woman threw the pictures on
his desk Hechessy.

Teachers nix —
party politics —

~The’ British Columbia
Teachers’ Federation today re-
affirmed a
Position for the next provincial.
election.

‘The BCTF
Committee said the Federation”:
will not affiliate with. any
candidates or political parties,
However,. the: BCTF will
continue to criticize educational
policies of the government and ,

in partiuclar the education. :.
: ene policy as it has done. in:

"Abe. ‘the Federation: ‘will
contiue to play an active, but.
non-partisan role in local ‘and -
provincial © elections,’
regard to educational problem 8
and projections, ~~
Decision ‘not to ‘take a.
partisan’ position was based Om.

non-partisan ,

Executive. -

“with *

‘to criticize government. polices
‘in education.: ~

A central concern: ‘over.- “the ;

matter of political affiliation -

. expressed by local associations

was its, divisive effects.
“Teachers resent:
“attempt to legislate su

- any
ort for

political” parties,’ R

“says, -They feel such actions
would negate the individual's:
* Eight to vote as he pleases,”;
expressed:

Robertson -
“personal satisfaction'.with the.

th: this. matter new: resolved, :
the BCTF... could “pursue
educational objectives; : .
The three. motions:

maintain: wan: ‘independent:

-- political stance thus . reflecting.
the independent political Btance’:

‘of‘or individual members..."

eilielaieg © avern
Siueational rH

That, pr

provincial, Baloo. be

continue to -blay ‘at

Secision,,saying he hoped that"
as
ised. by |

_the Executive Committee:sre:
“"\\That the BCTF contintie to” ~