a * “ yetroag lf PAGE 2 THE HERALD, Monday, July 4 1977 Regional board A further chapter in the Skeena- “: Queen Charlotte regional board’s’ attempt to divorce the Queen Charlotte Islands began with a report calling for the establishment of two District. councils on the Islands. The report introduced and authored uy board chairman Peter Lester, who is also the mayor of Prince Rupert, suggested a district council be set up on both Graham and Moresby Islands. He called for the Graham Island Legal. ratification of council decisions would come from the large regional board but for all intents and purposes they would have autonomy to decide on administrative and financial matters including hiring staff and appointing committees or commissions, he said. Lester pointed out his proposal to establish local government on the Islands has not yet received provincial government approval and requires been suggested as possible when the regional district firs! approached the province last year. When itseemed possible sub-regional districts could be formed on the Islands with the aid of provincial dollars, the regional board appointed a committee made up of Island directors to investigate and make recommendations for self-government. However, eight months later, that committee indicated not all interested JSLANDS NEED DISTRICT COUNCIL wants divorce with Ch over the budget allocated for the Graham | Island Advosory planning COMMISSION. : The commission, which is composed of appointed Island residents, says .it needs about $14,000 a year to function but the regional board has given it only $3,000, saying the larger budget whic would have allowed the group to hire an administrator is too much for a non- elected body which is not directly responsible to an electorate. larger budget, has said people on the Queen Charlottes are not ready for local’ government but the regional trict the APC. hn district should support ting and ° Moresby Island Advisory Planning because at least it is funclioning and supplying basic government services. The expected argument between Linde and Lester over the seli- government roposal - didn’t materialize at Friday’s general board meeting. mo + Instead Linde asked the proposal be tabled until the July meeting so he arlottes would take a long time to formulate, Although the proposal didn't spark the usual fire between Lester and Island directors, a request from the Commission for the board to formulate anewelectoral area on Moresby Island led to a few verbal spats. : Linde who also represents Moresby tsland on the board was upset over the request because the APC had not consulted with him before making the move. ; . He said that he was sure the APC P discussion with Island . : ; : council to be composed of an elected, more ante : oups on the Islands were in favor of The services supplied by the could makea written reply, ‘and avoid L Graham Island director and, the communities and electoral area Focal’ government and that a positive commission are expected to terminate the usual harangue at this meeting.” request involved only a small nucleous directors of the two unincorporated: recommendation would have: to be the end of June because of a lack of of people from the unincorporated villages, with Moresby Island council: composed of an Island director and two" elected residents. < The proposal is banking on a $47,000 start-up grant for the local bodies from the provincial government which had differed. In the last two months the question of self-government has come to a head. os THREE YEARS OF .TALKS _ Waves start to calm down at Law of the Sea meeting UNITED NATIONS (CP) — The UN Law of the Sea will have to continue through .another sealavw- main working committees. The sealaw talks have been A six-member group of experts including Alan operating capital. Islands director Carey Linde, who has supported the APC’s demand for a The board agreed to the tabling motion but not before Lester told the Islands directors he didn't think ‘the- board could tolerate a decision that illage of Sandspit and likely excluded five Sher Panne communities which he’ was elected to represent. VISITOR MEETS VIOLENCE WATSON LAKE, Yukon (CP) RCMP are investigating the death of a 17-year-old youth who was involved in a fight here Friday with a visiting Cheaper gas available PORT ALBERNI for all union members PORT ALBERNI, B.C. (CP)—Local 185 of the’. it International Woodworkers, ideal time to get a start on ‘The location and pumps Clarke said the service station could: assure all union members that they conference has: started, conference. oing on for three years. ‘of Can hegan : TESTE tting down on paper the “You'd have tobe a wild- The E urrent session i the Beesley tat ie called in aN member of the force. of America (IWA) has: were leased from the former would be getting the best road outline of a prototype eyed optimist to think that sixth, andin theearly stages jargon ‘‘a single informal ANRCMP spokesmansaid opened.a selfserve gasoline “owner —_ and Canada prices in town. — treaty to. govern the use of we could take this and go it seemed headed aor composite negotiating Saturday that an altercation outlet in this Vancouver Manpower assisted with the the oceans.’ :”. . home,” the spokesman said. disaster. The session started text.” It will have about 400 involving Corporal Ken sland community to bring locating and training of the “We cousider it quite a “There's going to be more. May 23 with delegates articles of law. . Munro and Douglas Johnson union members the best first two men hired to run WILLIAM dramatiey negotiating -and .all the representing 157 countries. Hamilton Shirley Amera- of Watson Lake began early possible prices for oil and the station. _development,*’said a Ca- frustrations that gowithit.” ‘with twoweekstogo—the singhe of Sri, Lanka is Friday morning while the as. It took seven months to D A K | N nadian spukebman. — What is being produced is conference ends July 15— chairman of the drafting corporal was assisting in the Ernie Clarke, union make ‘ the project But the®finished product an informal composite text, work on the composite text group. He also is chairman investigation of a break-in recording secretary, said in operational and the union may take years to complete pulling all together the work ISexpected to be completed of the conference. At, the local fire Hall recording secretary; sali bopestobeabletobiremore | OA OSES and negotiations probably of the chairmen of the three in the final week Beesley, among the The two rolled down @ jocal went into the business members at the station “ae ; world’s top experts in sea Sravel embankment into ® ‘Yenture to also provide soon. A prayer service will be | law, is chairman of the Parking lot, the spokesman disabled union ‘mom The two employees, Al [hela Monday, July 4, a¢ NORTHERN GARDNER. Conference drafting Said,.where the scuffle with gainf i: embers Biggs and John Warkentin, 17:99 p.m. in| McKays ae continued untit Johnson fell gainful employment. re accepting the word of committee but this is the. motorists who use the Funeral Chape! for the late Te ; . to the grourid unconscious. ic Dakin. Thinn; ‘pri fretimehehusbeen asked iyosin woo peonouoal gation lon ovr QP= ation tet they are union | ater Neary wil be In Nn in g a D rio rl y composite text. dead on arrival at hospital. seryice station which members. officiating. | The other groups -. Jehnson’s body was being previously went out of The IWA plans to send Funeral Services will : members are the three flown to Vancouver where usiness, promising all yw; ie ans se follow Tuesday, July 5, at ' ' -. committee chairmen—Paul 8" autopsy was to be . union members in the area windshield decals, to all 11:59 p.m. at the Sacred a IS : tim e O ear Engo of Cameroon, Dr. performed. that gas prices would be the union members in the area, } teart Church in Terrace. 3. : es Aguilar of Vene- , RCMPsaldaninquesthas Iqwest possible consistent making them eligible to bUy 1 Burial will be in the New - mueta and Alexander begun here, and a full with a profitmaking gas at the station, Kitgumgallum Cemetery. By DAVE HAVARD next to each other compete to mutual Yankov of Bulgaria ~and omered nas been entire.” t oeyears onite ve ng pet Found ti Nwould be 7 ot see the rapporteurgenera ' caus ; ; two years after being | Heart Foundation would ; a ore, in the garden fnewballs bs this | disadvantage, and create conan that Kenneth Rattray of Ja- _ The spokesman said it is “We'd been discussing the injured while a logging appreciated in lieu of, ij you'll dind, yourself attending to one eventual spacing between each plant maica. common practice in small matter of sponsoring work truck driver, — while | flowers. : priority after another. One of these should be 15 inches or more but in the “T'm reluctant to use the Yukon communities for off; for our disabled members Warkentin was out of work MeKays | Funeral Priority jobs is thinning, and right ey home garden it is logical to’ leave each hrase ‘a prototype treaty’ duty: members to assist for some time,” said Ciarke, for six months. His medical | Services are in charge of ticularly, thinning lettuce, if .you. plant About 6 or 7inclies apartin the row, ut that’s really what other detachments “and this looked like the problem was not known. arrangements. : Peven't-aineady dontit. =r? >-~re '* «4uthe firstthinning, Gradually, by using Amerasinghe hopes it will . = almost always find, that what appearsto but if you want to use something and to what extent they fall be one seedling, is at least 2 and often = stronger, try Malathion or Diazinon too short of their ex- .. ‘More, and the longer the thinning jobis sprays, according to directions provided pectations. ; delayed, the more difficult is the job of with these products. Meanwhile don’t “Tt would thus be clear to separation. -— forget to get rid of the caterpillar you _—alll participants what mutual _ Separation into individual plants is found somehow or other-Iwon'tgointo concess ion and ‘important, because plants growing right details! compromises are needed for FIRST PRIZE ge ae MAFUTTCT CEES CEE LCE RTECS ELITE EEE ef, . leaving each First.of Gourse, the job requires that the between-row area is free of weeds. Then take the hoe and “block out”. the crowded plants into small groups, group a good apart, whicir will usually be just about the width of a hoe. If you have more than one row of lettuce, and they are next to each other, they should be at least 15 inches apart, incidently. 6. inches - 7 Mey That was the easy part of the job. Now — comes the work, so get down on. your little knees. If you start the thinning job at the right time, when the first .frue. leaves are formed, and the little plants . _are the size of-a quarter, the next task will be easiest. Even so, and no matter ~ how deft you are with the hoe, you'll ‘the row, so that no every other one of these, before they are fully grown, you'll eventually end up with. the desired spacing. If you happened to put two or more rows closer than 15 inches, just stagger the plants in o ant is directly opposite another. The humbling posture brings you close to the earth. Take advantage of the chance to observe. Look for pale green caterpillars, curled up in an effort to impress you that they're harmless. If you find only one in the row, you can be sure that more will appear in the. next few days, Dust the plants with one percent: Derris dust which your supplier will probably have under the trade names Rotox or Atox, I find it adequate, TD chequing itsnotabig deal, but i No-charge be,” the spokesman said. “We've had these texts before, but they’re written by three different chairmen and contain contradictions. 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