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FIRE DESTROYS.
.0.0.F. HALL
No one was injured in a fire that gutted the
‘year portion of Oddfellow’s hall in the 4500-block
of Lakelse Avenue on the weekend.
Twenty-nine members of the Terrace fire
department’ were called in about seven p.m.
Saturday. The men took an hour to get the blaze
under control and another hour to fully
extinguish it and clean up.
A department spokesman told the Herald that
the firemen’s efforts successfully prevented the
flames from spreading to Twin City Meats Ltd.
next door and from destroying an adjacent
He said that the hall was very old and is
probably a ‘‘write-off.”
The department is still investigating the cause
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Softball tourney, p. 5
Kitimat line
Political move -
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By ANDREW PETTER
Herald staff writer
The decision by the Social Credit government to
provide a ferry service between Tsawwassen and
Prince Rupert rather than Kitimat is ‘politically
based’, Kitimat mayor George Thom said Sunday.
Thom. was responding to
the announcement made by
B.C. Ferries general
manager Charles Gallagher
that a twice-weekly
Teawwassen-Prince Rupert
run for pereight cars and -
drive-on freight will begin
this fall
Feeder services will also
be provided to Namu,
Klemtu, Port Simpson,
Kincolith, Alice Arm and
Stewart, but not Kitimat.
A Kitimat service could be
added in 1979, Gallagher
But Thom told the Herald —
that he did not “‘have much
faith” in a promise that far
off.
The mayor said that the
announcement came aa a
complete surprise '
especially in light of a
recent announcement by
Transportation Minister
Jack Davis that a $72,000
study of coast’
transportation
would be undertaken this
- Summer.
-"There is-no doubt int ray
““ynlhd that (the decision) is
politically based,” he said.
Thom stated that previous
studies had shown that
Kitimat was the logical port,
to serve as the hub for a
“viable transportation
corridor” north.
“That's why I was
optimistic when 1 heard
about the’ most recent
study,” he said. “TI felt sure
that Kitimat would come out
well,’ .
Pointing out that Prince
Rupert had once heen a
strong Socred seat, Thom
charged that ‘‘they are
playing games to secure it
again.”
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“In my opinion they
should look after their own,”’
he said, referring to the fact
that Skeena is represented
Social Credit Cyril
elford.
Contacted by the Herald,
Shelford said that he “didn't
-exactly agree’ with Thom’s
assessment but added that it
was “not altogether wrong”
either.
“I’m yery disappointed,”
stated Shelford.
The MLA said that he had
ed for a Tsawwassen-
itimat route and that he
would now be writing to
Davis ouilining the reasons
why the Prince Rupert
al “won't work,’
“Truckers don’t want to
in Prince Rupett,”
ooked
carefully.
Alderman Robert
Cooper
of Terrace, chairman of
council's industrial
,into it
aeration oe and fourist
frat the ( in “seems to
be quite political.”
+ “We would like to see a
north-south route from
Vancouver to Kitimat,
Terrace and up through the
Yukon,” he d. -
While Terrace would also
benefit from east-west
traffic to Prince Rupert,
Cooper said that he felt that |
the Kitimat route would
have been better for
Terrace,
Cooper pointed out that
theroad from Prince Rupert
to Terrace is “unreliable” in
the winter and is much
longer than the Kitimat-
Terrace link.
Right-to-work
not for
VERNON, B.C. (CP) —
Delegates to the annual
convention of the British
Columbia divison of the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees voted
unanimously Sunday te
oppose any attempt by the
B.C. government to in-
troduce right-to-work
legislation,
he legislation gives
workera the option of joining
a union or paying union
CUPE
create a “donnybook” in the
legislature.
. Sanford said the laws
give workers no righis and
nowork, but only the right to
work for less money and
have their unions broken
apart.
Pointing to the southern
U.S, states where right-to-
work exist, she said they
serve as an example that the
‘law is not something that
HALIFAX (CP)'— Twelve _ MOSCOW (Reuter) — atthe endof May, Brezhnev charges—voiced by senior indication in Moscow that the Soviet Union, and algo ques B.C. should have.
s became Instant million. Soviet leader Leonid accused the United States of military and political fig- Brezhnev would meet have expressed Comox New Democratic The corivention also voted
aires Sunday when thelr num- Brezhnev flies to Paris hindering the development uresin France as well—that French Communist leader disagreement with the Party MLA Karen Sanford, to support workers on strike
bers were drawn in the Loto ftoday,. hoping to slow of detente by adopting an the Soviets have embarked Georges Marchais during manner former Soviet the NDP labor critic, said against the Hotel
Canada lottery staged In-Hall- France's gradual swing into “unconstructive’’ line in on a large-scale military his stay in Paris. president Nikolai Podgorny that if the government Vancouver. Delegates
fox while 33 others won the maingtream of the strategic arms limitation build-up. _ French Communists have was dismissed last month moves to bring in right-to- agreed to consider financial
$100,000. _ Western alliance. = (SALT) negotiations. GIVES NO HINT voiced, concern over the from the Soviet party’s worklaws,strongopposition support for the strikers if
The ticket numbers winning pene pete lay visit will be at, said Soviet concern There has been no treatment of dissidents in powerful political bureau. attempts to stop it will they asked for it.
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and 1609333. will be stressing to adpainiabratian which he Former Skeena NDP- former government along,” Dent charged. —
= President Valery Giscard sptas, “patently geared to MLA Hartley Dent says included a Stikine-Terrace “That is, to sneak these
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regular crawing and 25 winners of the ial relationship States. “anos interests have influence would have been processed British Columbia with the
of $100,000 whose tickets were PF rela aPe Fs Brezhnev returned to this St ikine CO eC r the Socred government to in B.C consequent economic loss
marked “extra”. errench political pariies— theme last week in another, SA SAENEE CAS he pe pei downplay the need for a “But the new Social 0 BC”
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5919719, policies ; Monde. . . ae , . thie operations of the B.C. - rail agreement which Victoria into down playing
Ii a television address to nee declared that it is the O rt-De nt Railway last week in plays down the Importance the Terrace link.”
The “extra” winners of $100, French and Soviet viewers ' North. Atlantic, Treaty et . Prince George that he was of a-rail line from Terrace The former MLA told the
900, were those holding tickets . ane Lease (NATO)—to approached in 1979 by to the Stikine,” he said. Commission that B.C, Rail
numbered: 2436088, 3093776, ithe it with belongs representatives of the At the same time, the should build a rail link
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