TERRACE _ Terrace RCMP
say they won't turn a blind eye
to. underage drinking at this
year’s aftergrad parties, but
they won't be actively searching

either. :
‘Caledonia

the possession of minors.

; Senior. 4
Secondary’ 8 ‘graduation com-
mittee Is beginning to prepare :
for the annual. celebration .—-

- slated for June 22. this year.

“We treat it the same as any
other night of the year," Const.
Ken -Harkness ‘said, He- said:
police will respond to com-
plaints ‘as usual, and will ‘con-
fiscate. any. liquor they find in —

RCMP inspector Lawrence
Yeske: said police can’t ignore
the: jaws. just because it's grad

le drinking liquor illegally.”-

Dennis Lissimore.

night, He stid nolice n't: have:
any choice in the. debates about :
whether ‘grad parties: ‘should. be-
| Ed ry?te- (non-alcdholic) “or
safer (alcohol: permitted, ‘but

. dr ;
, said, "Tf they!
“drinking booze, they’ re doing
“illegally as far.as I’m concernhed,:.’-
_ And-I can’t legally tolerate peo

; “We call: drs a: reoponsible

Hities:

' The local Kinsmen ‘Club will:

again: “organize... the. official.) .*
aftergrad’ party: at. ‘the ‘arena:
following: ‘the.ceremionies,  ac--. 4
cording to Kinsmen spokesman 4

iy-it’s “theis party, ”
Lidniore e-sald,’ STE we ‘see Ii

wore tay
Neb ete enue bewatee, bow,”

"grad; * he: said, «adding: no

‘aftergrad. party. can claim to be

: completely i alcohol-free. He
alway

or , failing that,
ahead of

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Proposal made to build gold road

TERRACE — A native
development corporation has
been. asked if it. is interested in
building a road into’ the.
mineral-tich ‘Iskut Valley: area
north ‘of Stewarts.00 2.
The? proposal would see the
‘Tahltan Development Corpora-
tion of Dease Lake. become the
builder and: then operator of the
road, says mines ministry of-
ficlal John Clancy: .
He described: the. Suggestion.
as:one. of: several options being ~
examin ‘to’ Provide a ‘Ground

ie

developrie t.. corporation: .con-
struct the road and then recoup -
costs: by: atoll sysiem.is viewed
‘ rOf ending adeadiock ;

between the province, d a fhe:

soca

re or :

Gulf*s, iKlappan properties and
hy Phe! ‘Stiggestion’ te’ have the ©

much each party should ; pay | for

-road construction and Operating |
“Costs. |

We | thoughit’ they ; (the.

development . corporation);
“would be a prime candidate for
at: least a call for ‘proposals: to i.
build the road,”” said a c

last: week, .
i The corporation, | a » branch of
the Tahitan Tribal Council; was

‘created -to ‘provide: economic:

‘benefits to, the. Tahltan. Its’ first
“work:’ was ‘haulin
‘thracite., coal : samplés’’.fro
“maintains a road leading from
“Dense Lake to’ the « Golden B Bear.
‘old mine.

in, Hast fall aft

gree On how” “ment “atudy’ ald a 6dkm rodd 7

-Wra

“ saarest oh

“connection leading into
‘Iskut from Bob Quinn Lake on
- Hwy37- ‘would |, stimulate
. development and, benefit the
northwest.“ '

"Mining “cotipanies now use

“te ove in. supplies and

That study, was followed by a
second government report
which Suggested that mining
companies ‘should pay for 75
per cent of: the estimated $12.5
million’ cost. because they would
benefit the’ Most. :

‘The .companies responded

“Cont'd: Al6

used | i

TERRACE — A recent. drug
crackdown has revealed an
increase in hashish -use here,
RCMP say,

“The main drug we’ ve

been hash,"’ Cpl.
Woodhouse said. More than

hashish, he added.
AS of the end of March,

related charges since. the
beginning of the. year,
Woodhouse said. That's
more than three times. the
number of charges laid over
the same period last year,
RCMP statistics indicate. ©
“There’s certainly a lot of
drug “activity in town,"
Woodhouse = said, “We're

been running into in Terrace .
in the last three months has.
Don’

90 per cent of drug charges’
so far this year have involved:

RCMP had laid 26 drug:

‘et

n eanen

trying to put a dent in it,’ or:
at least let them know: we're

around,”"

Cocaine is still the area's

biggest problem, he said; but
the ‘relatively law. price of
hashish ~~" around © §20-'a:
gram ‘— is encouraging: it’s
use, “It’s cheaper: than '‘co-.
caine and it’ ‘seems. to be.
easier to get.” ats ;

RCMP say approximately ;
eight ounces of hash has-been ::
seized over .the same three:
month period.-: a

“It’s not a latge amount,"
Const. Doug Martin: said, -
‘but everyone: (we charge)

" seems to have a little bit.""

Marijuana ‘seizures © this”

year have totalled about |
three pounds, Woodhouse
said, *

Pulp hearings °

put off for now

TERRACE — Two companies
which want guarantees to nor-
thwest pulpwood for planned
pulp mill developments say a
delay in provincial hearings into
their proposals. won’t affect
their plans.

Spokesmen for Skeena
Cellulose. and Orenda Forest
Products, two of four com-
panies which want the
guarantee, say .they’ll keep
working on other aspects of
their developments.

Hearings into the guarantee,
called Pulpwood Agreement 17,
were to take place in Smithers
May 9 and 10 but were canceled
last week by. the forests ministry «
because it wants more informa--.
tion from the companies, ;

“It (the delay) doesn’t really °

affect us. We're not in a burry-
hurry situation. We're awaiting
the questions from the govern-

ment,” said Pat Ogawa of:

Skeena Cellulose. The company
wants the guarantee. to
pulpwood for a $750 million ex-
pansion of its Port Edward pulp
mill.

Hugh Cooper of. Orenda
Forest Products which wants to
build a 105,000 ton a year pulp
mill at Stewart said. the delay
must be considered a part of the
approval process.

“We'll keep pressing ‘on
regardless of the
postponement,’’-

wants.*?

Teacher loses
exemption bid

TERRACE — The Industrial
Relations Council (IRC) has re-
jected a local teacher’s bid to be
exempted from ‘membership in
the teachers’ union on religious
grounds.

Terrace teacher Doug Brewer
made his case before an IRC
hearing here March 14.

The decision released last
week rejects Brewer's conten-
tion that his religious views op-
posing strikes, picketing and
other forms of conflict preclude
him from joining the Terrace
District Teachers’ Association
(TDTA).

The IRC found Brewer
managed to avoid confronte-
tional labour situations when he
was a member of the association
before it became certified as a
union.

“The panel cannot conclude

that Brewer’s religious beliefs
are irreconcilable with member-
ship in the TDTA now that it
has become a union,” the deci-
Sion states. ‘The application is
therefore dismissed.”?

One district teacher won ex-
emption from the Terrace
District Teachers' Association
(TDTA) last year. Nearly 20
other crea teachers — most of
whom object to the pro-choice
abortion policy of the B.C.
Teachers’ Federation — have
also refused to join the union,
and face losing their jobs if they
don’t join or win exemptions
within two months,

The contract signed last year
requires all district teachers ta

‘become members of the TOTA

and the. provincial teachers’
federation by June 30 as a con-
dition of employment.

he said, .
“We'll just keep going until we-
find out what the government *