Page 2, The HERALD, Mav 8, 1979

NEWS| IN BRIEF

‘NEW YORK (AP) — .

_ Health Unit, he the Skeenaview
Lodge, Child
Development” Centre, the

evecy three questions ins reaaived
before ‘resuming ouclear
lan, the poll pays, .

mont stil aren't Meaty to

Oiled agreement reached

reOTTAWA (CG a Mexico
to gell Canada up
to 100,000 barrels of oil a day
for at Jesat 10 years in return
for an extensive package of

' | TERRACE
TERRACE - HUB OF THE NORTH

EN LAKELSE

Canadian industrial

-technology, # was an- , The worst ls nat over for hl week, olficials say.
atened residen Slowly-rising water on .

Energy Minister Alastair Ontarioand Manitoba where’ Lake Nip F a

nounced here Monday,

Americans wait “order. all nuclear planta Mexican Anibassador ‘Canal, ped. to. recoup .
closed. — a position advo-- Barrios Gomez, told a news. package read thee
r eS nus .

tated ky some: *openee of conference tie dea! will cont pete net
wale. ow ‘Candu -

at least $5 billion at current . possible

- world oll prices. : . Buclear reactor. ;

Worst not over -

issing“in Northern
by rivers are expected to peak Ontario M0 tier to force

“| have a vision that will provide economic security anda = -
quality of life unparalieled i in the the past for all the residents of Skeona. os,
lt rests on the development, of these ‘main areas” . ae :

| weNWaY 1 - HIGHWAY OF APORTUNTY.

7 é :

 peaidents. aloug’ its nor.
’ theastern shore to evacuate
: Ls cone

Necth Bay, water levels have

dropped about 18 cen . ;
“The area has been deer

. @ligible. for pro: al
mw dlsctler: relief of more’

$2 million, but pores 1
peoperty damage In ‘neatly

ee Sturgeon Falla alone has

In
kilometres "northwest of

been eaimatd at #25 mk

al :

Survivors: ‘ob
x vis
saved:

ihe
BOSTON BAR, B.C. (¢
— Survivars were ‘plut
off rocks along the banks.
in the middle of the aw
Fraser River Sunday. 4 a

q white water. adventure .

turned to tragedy.

Three men died and
men and a woman-survi}
after their 30-foot raft’s
a rock at the approacki to.
boiling China Bar rapids ihd

. received damage to ane 0

four rubber pontoons. .

Two of three |
‘drowned weré identified

Monday by RCMP at this

community 140 idlometres

northeast of Vancouver= ie
Mike ‘Barry of Burnaby:a
Vancouver suburb, iy

: ‘Duncan Maclaren of

: trip -
“ sertion .) ‘the iver: to

: photograph a waterfall. the
- giverhas

for the last few weeks be

cause of heavy spring runoff.
The . surviyors  tald
rescuers’ from. two other

companies that Tun Fraser

The unonchod reseercas of th oathenraaces'ol West Canada wil -

become accessine down thls highway aad trough the port ef Kina Ae nas
) Vancouver aud Terrace the sapaly cams 5 Labiale tape a ha te |
Yukon and Alaska. ,

UAZELTON - ‘DOORSTEP To THE WILDERNESS

Whi conpivod this Unt botvoen Maha 18 and
_ ey 3 teow ct Wl en 4 wa tot

iu

oY et fe ghia ati a wet Ah, “bea,

~ SMES - Ski CAPITAL 7

OF BS.

-. A goedsla that will take skiers’ from
donno Saters tn the tp of eso
Bay Mountain will transform this area, with
-/ its long ski season, lato the Switzertand of

~ fhe north, The new ski facifities will be

SMITHERS

—/" sarvalied anywhere le Canada

HOTSPRINGS - FOCAL POINT FOR HEALTH
- AMD RECREATION.

This eststandiag nataral rescarce, nestled quietly on the shares
of Lakelse Lake, will provide local residents aad travellers with
accqmmedation, cdecational opportaatiies is betel maaagemesl,
agriceltare and recreation, a convestion centro, health ” aul
nalimited possibilities for ontdoor pastas, mos

KITIMAT - GATEWAY TO THE HORTH

Kitimat as a multi-use port and tary tock would be ie hay to a aw

transportation corridor from Vancouver to Alaska and ater fway ta tw
Pacific Rim countries for Casadias emer . :

River tours that the Cascate
River Holidays raft. ap-
peared to fold up on them

. after it struck the rock

eval entag eine ne
onday, more
than onethird of a céht
agalnat its U.S,

The Canadian doltar
closed at 36.59 cents U8,
Monday, losing steadily ©

' after opening at .the day's

_ igh of of Ais 7.01, Friday’s clo close

% vlog pa ins ad

87.60 to 87.16 last “week

’ because of. the Quebec

government's al-

factors for the dollar's
continued drop.

back inte
the picture signs that
Chicago was back In there
iis Canadian dollars,
“It's also fattening out be-
cause of the uncertainty in-
volved in the Upcoming
federal electicsis.”
mines? factors negated the
impact 0 arelgn currency,
e figures reli

Ottawa, last week. pased by
Villages
will flood

ANCHORAGE, Alaska
(AP) — The villages of Ruby

‘and Galena on the Yukoo

River will be flooded in the

*_ next day or two as ice makes
its way downstream, a

spokesman for the United
States National Weather
Service sald Sooty a
le: er, & ogist
with the service, sald. he

, ner thas risen’ Sout four

metres in the last eight days
near the villages and
flooding will occur if the ice

Tce broke up near Stevens
pillage Sunday night without
flooding as expected, he

 owever, Nibler anid the
village of Birch Creek ap-
parently has been flooded.
Birch Creek is on the Yukon

River tributary of Birch

Creek, about 25 miles south-
Weat of Fort Yukon on the .
Arctic Circle. He said the ex-
tent of the flooding was not
known yet.

Nibler said this spring's
breakup on the Yukon River.
was a litle worse than nor-
mal because of aly

= Warm temperatures,

Dawaon Clty, Yukon, was
left a disaster area Thureday

m as the Yukon River spilled

over its banks, As the ice
break up moved down-
stream, Circle City and Foret
Yukon in Alaska also were
flooded.

ma
estimated in the milllona, al
RxS 240p from apatate