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Ee Jane Spalding, of Smithers. Jane isa brakeman on the line between Smithers and

Prince Rupert and also Endak, As far as we know, there are not many women
employed as brakemen on Canadian railways. Would you Say this is sort of a
“break-through? .

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A new forest fire was reported Sunday northeast of Telegraph Creek, according
to forestry spokesman Terry Walker. - :
: ‘Estimates as of Monday morning were that the fire was spread over 200 acres,
i _ Two DC6 airtankers from Watson Lake and two A26 tankers from Smithers are
a being used to Fight the fire along with about 30men,

The KAT fire in the Kitimat Valley is stil] in the mop-up stage, Walker reported,
, although some fireguards are still being constructed.
L Walker said he was ‘confident of having that one pretty well contained.” -
Thew SLOK fire South of Atlin is still out of contro), having destroyed an

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jestimated 3,000 acres.
sare wind shifted Sunday night and edged the fire up the Sloko River toward
oko Lake.
The KEN fire north of Hazelton is being brought under contro] with seven cats
land 120 men. That: fire spread throughout an estimated 1,050 acres.
The KAT fire as it was named was the largest fire in the southern part of the
Prince Rupert Forest District insome years. It started near the Kitimat River the
result of a careless recreationalist. It three spectacular jumps it raced ahead of
the firefighters to its present size of 2,500 ha (7,000 acres). The cost of fighting the
fire is estimated in excess of $550,000 up to July 14th. Four hundred and fity four
mén and women were employed by Eurocan and the B.C. Forest Service to bring.
the fire under control. All because somebody was momentarily careless with a
match, a cigarette, a campfire, or even a campstove or Hibachi.

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Gov’t Challenges Ganadians
To Build its Own Navy Ships

OTTAWA (CP) — The gov-
is challenging

order for fighter planestobe have to consider ap-

PNG and IBEW Go
_ Back To Bargain

by Donna Vallieres
Pacific Northern Gas and the striking members of

©; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
' (IBEW) have agreed to return to the bargaining table

sthis week following increased picket action by the
union,
Last week IBEW members travelled to Taylor, near

* Fort St.

John, and picketed Pacific Petroleum and Westcoast
Transmission plants there,

Unions involved with those plants, the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers and the Operating Engineers, all
respected the picket lines and a Pacific Petroleum oil
refinery and Westcoast gas plant, sulphur plant and
mainline compressor station were shut down,

BCR workers would not cross the picket line to
remove cars and bulk loading trucks refused to cross

4 the line as well,

An informal hearing was called at the Labor
Relations Board the next day, and as a result of these

‘| discussions the company and the union agreed to

,return to negotiations.

The pickets at the Taylor plant complex were with-.
drawn on the understanding that Pacific vice-
president and general manager Bob’ .O’Shannessy

™ would be present at the negotiations and would have

full authority to negotiate a contract, according to one
union spokesperson,

The spokesperson said it was made clear that the
union wanted to get down to actual negotiations, “or

we'll be headed back for Taylor.”

RCMP Report

Terrace

Terrace RCMP are looking for two teenage pirl
1 : earlier this month.
Linda Wright, 14, of 2303 South Kalum is described

; as 4 foot 10 inches, 98 pounds, with brown hair and

brown eyes.

May Anita Latvonen, 15, of 4213 Sparks Street, is
five foot one inch, 102 pounds, with brown hair and
brown eyes, .

The two girls were reported missing on July 8.

No foul play is suspected at this time.

A two-car motor vehicle accident last week on High-
way 25 near the Airport hill resulted in extensive
damage to the vehicles and one charge laid against
one of the drivers,

Garry Rix, 4525 Keith, was
-without a license. ‘Driver of the o
“Hambuis;:4743- McConnell)":

the afternoon.
Thieves gained access to the locked house by for-
cible entry.

Kitimat

A Kitimat man sustained minor injuri es

Saturday when his trail bike flipped over on a-

sandhill near Ocean Cement in Kitimat.

David Bilash of 874 Columbia Street suffered in-
juries to his left leg at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the
time of the accident.

Kitimat RCMP are _ still _ investigating.

Early Sunday morning a sedan driven by Frank
Gseke of 84 Babine went off the road near Hirsh Creek

- Bridge.

Approximately $1,400 in damage to the vehicle was
the result of the accident. ;

Cseke was not injured but was charged with failing
to drive with due care and attention,

A 1977 Chrysler belonging to Leslie Corbett was
struck by another vehicle in the 1425 Nalabila parking
lot last week resulting in about $450 damage. Police
are still investigating. coe,

A carbeurator and air breather were stolen off a
1966 Ford pickup in front of Bruce Bailey's residence
at 36 Campilano last week.

Police are still investigating a break-in at the
Department of Fisheries boatshed on Alcan Beach Jast
week where some tools were taken.

A set of golf clubs has been turned into the Kitimat
RCMP as well as a 22-calibre rifle. These items can be
claimed by the owners upon identification.

Anyone who finds a wallet belonging to Gerald
Chase of 51 Suannell Street is asked t! turn itin to the
RCMP offices, The wallet, which contained numerous

ieces of identification, was reported lost Sunday
tween the forest fire area and Kitimat.

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Photo by

JoAnn Kronquist

Aude Gesture

~ Trudeau At It Again? —

BONN (CP) — Canada’s
Prime Minister Trudeau set

tongues wagging Monday

when he jokingly made what
appeared to be. a rude
gesture to reporters at a
formal picturetaking session

at the Bonn summit meeting. ©

‘ Turdeau and leaders from
West Germany, Japan, the
United States, France, Italy

and Britain were gathered
on the porch of the official
residence of West German

President Watter Scheel.

various

pictures. ..
After about 10 minutes, as

the leaders turned to leave,

positions for the

the photographers called out -

to them urging them to
remain, ;

At this point, Trudeau
placed his left hand on the
inside of his elbow and raised
his forearm. His left hand
was open, | ;

His gesture was greeted
with a roar of laughter from

reporter — in-

asking them to stand in stronger. .

“as aU eH wh

“It was intended as a Hip-
pant, funny thing,” a spokes-
man for the prime minister
later said of Trudeau's
gesture. ‘We would be very
unhappy if anyone took it as
an insult,”

The gesture appears to be
destined for the archives of
Trudeau antics at in-
ternational meetings.

Last hear at another
.summit meeting in London,
“Trudeau was caught on film
doing a pirouette behind the
Queen’s back. And at a
commonwealth meeting. in
London, shortly “after be
became prime minister 10
years ago, he slid down a
bannister.

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Fishing Industry Shut Down

VANCOUVER (CP) —

British Columbia’s fishing
industry was almost totally
shut down Sunday after most
of the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union
(UFAWU) shoreworkers and
jendermen walked off the
The strike comes at the
height of the West Coast
salmon fishing season, and
_industry and union sources
say it could cost the industry
$20 million a week,

The tendermen voted to
reject a last-minute offer by
the Fisheries Association of
B.C. The offer had caused
the union to temporarily
suspend a strike deadline set
for noon Sunday PDT,

However UFAWU
president Jack Nicol said the
tendermen, employed in
conveying fish from the
boats to processing plants,
rejected the offer by a: 76-
per-cent margin and walked
off the job about 4:30 p.m.

George Hewison, union

secretary-treasurer, said the
tenvermen are “angry and
frustrated" with the
association which represents
an industry which he says
will show an increase in
profits of 114 per cent this

year.
“Clearly the membership
is not prepared to stay on the
job," he said.
SET UP PICKETS .
Nicol said the offer
rejected Sunday by the
tendermen called for a $9-a-
day increase, about 9.6 per
cent, in & one-year contract.
He also said that most of
the union's 4,00
shoreworkers were off the
job and some had set up
pickets at shore plants
throughout the province.
Meanwhile, about 4,500
fishermen, the third major
group represented by the
UFAWU, voted Sunday to
accept minimum salmon
prices offered by the in-
dustry, However, no
agreements will be signed

until all three groups have
settled.

The fishermen were called
into port Friday and alt fish
caught after ‘midnight
Friday were declared hat. A
union spokesman said that
while some fishermen had
not yet returned to port, he
assumed they had stopped
fishing to “support the
strike,”

The shoreworkers walked
out after earlier rejecting by
an §2-per-cent margin a 55-
cent-anhour increase offered
by the association,
Shoreworkers presently earn
hourly rates of $6.72 at base,
$7.37 for production workers,
$7.59 in cold storage plants
and §8.89 for tradesmen,

The union is seeking an 95-
cent-an-hour increase for the
shoreworkers and a $12,50-a-
day increase for the ten-
dermen.

ernment

. Canadian industry to show

that: it can design and
produce a new multi-million

| dollar frigate for the navy.

The challenge is contained
in advertisements in 14
major newspapers today and
will be followed by more
formal invitations sent out

delivered in the early 1980s.
This is the way govern:
ment officials explained the
ship program Monday:
Any industry with hopes of
participating in the ship pro-
gram will ‘receive
specifications after getting
security clearance,
Interested industries are

proaching foreign com-
panies,

There already are three
consortiums formed to make
submissions on the
program:

Burrard Drydock Co. of
Vancouver; Canadian
Vickers Ltd., of Montreal;
Davie Shipbuilding of

Aug. 1 by the supply asked to’ join or form con- Lauzon, Que; Litton
department, - sortlums so that all aspects Systems Canada  Ltd.,
Industry will have until of ship design and con- Toronto: ‘Yarrows Ad-

fall to form consortiums and
provide preliminary

posals to the government
or six ships that eventually
will cost about .5

struction are covered in one
submission to government.

The ship must be built in
Canada, but there’ is no
restriction on foreign’ par-

- miralty Reserarch Develop-

ment. Co. of
Scotland,

Glasgow

Marine Industries Ltd. Of ~

Sorel, Que.; Saint John Ship-

BULLETIN

The following Press Release has been received from  ‘58ociation has asked the
Dr. W.P. Moorhead, M.B.,

Ch. B., Medical Health

Officer and Director of the Skeena Health Unit: .
in the period April 15 to June 26 there has been an
outbreak of poliomyelitis in the Netherlands,

wou
polio is satisfactory

$28 Million

People who wish to travel in Holland this Summer
d be wise to check That their immunization to

Hash Heist Highest

Rustling Penalty Too Light

disappointed by the leniency
of the penalty and at the fact
that the second charge was
dropped,’ Blazowski said.

“We. cannot - understand

‘The B.C. Cattlemen's,

Crown to appeal the result of
a cattle rustling case heard
recently in Salmon Arm

court, the Cattlemen’s why the Crown requested the
secretary-manager said stay on the second charge,
and have sought ox-

planations. Surely such
leniency In our courts can
only be an encouragement to
others to help themselves to
someone else's beef on the
hoof,”

In contrast, Blazowski
noted that in a November

Henry Blazowski was
referring to the conviction
and sentencing of John ‘Les
Varga, aged 20, of Salmon
Arm, after pleading qullty to
shooting a calf owned by
Murray Campbell of Silver
Creek,

IN THIS
ISSUE

Editorial: “Boobytrap For
a Varmint.” |

Cedarvale Matriarch proves
she's only 87

Page 2

Page 3

Job Opportunities

Pages 6 and?

Sports: By new Sports
Editor Jim Morris

Page 4
Special Feature; A Flame

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_ tion, hoped that the first ticipation. THe ani building and Drydock ie ce lCrORIA | CP) ais worth of marijuana in mates Marvin gundeen ae prosecution iin aburns Githin The Spearhead. Part
ship will be delivered in 1985. Canadian-designed vessel or Rand (Canada) Ltd. of ons of highgrade marijuana ede alin etree ships an alternative of 10 days in jailed a year for stealing a
The supply department a foreign design.modified to Mississauga, Ont. In a desolate Vancouver the’ shipment wag in- Jail, ordered Varga to pay cow andaelling the meat, the | Page 9
said Monday it is the first Canadian needs. The Nove Scotia oven Island Iniet Salurday by, a tercepted ‘a a raid by 50° Testitution of $337.50 to the Crown proceeded on the theft Test Tube Baby due next
step ina three-year program ment; Halifax pyards; combin and Ca- ; dropped the | week, )
to finalize ‘tesign 8 and INTEREST SHOWN - Canadian Steamships Ltd. nadian Armed Forces team ROME and paamed (forces probation ora wean ” ents killing counts,
detailed costing of the first of | Submisslonsaretobeinby and an Italian company. was the culmination of lx otra Toernyn and the 21- Judge Lundeen granted Blazowski also drew at-| Page 10

Trudeau predicts: Better

fact that in
tention to the fac [|| times ahead for Canadians.

sending the men to jail,

months of investigation and

Two other companies are
planning, RCMP Superin-

late fall, The defence depart-
said. to be interested:

ment will consider them and Crawn prosecutor Harold

a new series of frigates to
Revell a slay of proceedings

replace aging destroyers. metre Weatherly, believed to

be a former federal fisheries

The government has make a recommendation to Genstar Lid. parent of tendent Scolty Gardiner, onasecond charge of theftof Burns Lake Judge A.S.K.
already let a contract of cabinet in the spring, Vancouver Shipyards Co. said Sunday. vepsel. ized marijuana, be- the calf’s hindquarters. Cook said‘ This” court is} Page 15 and 16
more than If the Cenadians are. Ltd, and Pratt and Whitney Fifteen men were arrested lieved to be from Colombia, Court. was told Varga concerned that people should | Classified Ads.
billion fora new patrolplané unable to stay within the Aircraft of Canada Ltd, in a cove at Flores Island, was taken by destroyer from abandoned the remainder of be free to let their cattle
and it is considering government cost restric- which makes marine orth of Tofino, B.C, a8 @ Flores Island to CFB Esqui- the carcass. range without being | Page 17
proposals for a §2.3-billlon tions, the government will engines. ; shipment of $28 million malt. “We are extremely slaughtered by hooligans.” [Comics and Dear Abby. |

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