dail ly ae VOLUME 72 NO. 98 20° FRIDAY, MAY 18, 19:- others, . Terrace, + ‘Rupert grain terminal could || cost millions more VANCOUVER (CP) —The . British. © Columbia Development Corporation says it could cost an extra 41 million ¢o build a new grain terminal at Prince Rupert, 5.C., if a site favored by the federal government is chosen over a location selected earller by BCDC, . BCDC president Don Duguid has sent a letter to Economic Development Miinister Don Phillips, and outlining the financial case for building at Casey Point on Kaein Island, Instead of on National Harbors Board property on Ridley Island. Duguid says in the letter there is no conflict between BCDC and federal transport minister Otto Lang, who on March 7 announced that $16.3 million would be apent on servicing the Ridley Island site for a grain elevator and a coal terminal. The money is an NHB loan which will be recovered through traffic tolls. Duguid says in the letter that Lang has conceded that the information upon which he based his decision on the site was not as com- nsive as he would have “Mr, Lang conceded that if, as it appeara, the cost of -penalties to a grain terminal on Ridley Island are sub- stantially greater than any benefits that might accrue to the p coal terminal, then he certainly would not insist on making any benefits that might accrue to the oposed coal terminal, then he certainly would not insist on making any assistance to either the coal port or grain port conditional upon both facilities belng positioned on Ridley Island,”. the letter says. SITES SURVEYED Prior to the May 11 letter, Duguid said in an interview that consultants engaged by BCDC had surveyed the potential of both the Casey Point, and Ridley Island sites-something not at- tempted by the federal. government. Ridley Island would have to be linked by a causeway to Kaein Island to secure rail access and much of the $16.3 million in NHB funds would have to be spent on this work, the letter says. id’s letter says an additional 670 metre causeway would have to be built and equipped with conveyors. to grain from.a terminal elevator on Ridley Island to a deepwater berth. This construction would impose a §7.3 million cost disadvantage compared to an elevator at Casey Point, where’ there is deepwater moorage close to re, Duguid says the distance to the sea berth at Ridley Island would impose an annual $270,000 operating _and upkeep charge not faced at Casey Point. Besides the $7.3 million for causeway and conveyors, an additional $3.1 million would ‘Economy, energy survey The economic and energy aspects of society are of growing concern to everyone. Facts on these topics for regions like the ‘ Terrace and Kitimat area have not been com- piled, so projects similar to the one Canada Works has undertaken inthe area should help to give a better insight to the concerns of the people of the region. The- project has three employees in Terrace and three in. Kitimat working with a ‘survey attempting to get their questions answered. -, What do they ask? One example of the fact- seeking questionaire asks, “‘What type of economic growth would you like to see in the Terrace-Kitimat area?” The workers are trying to cover a represen- tative area ‘in both cities but it is impossible to do so without public support. ‘The information gained from such a study is confidential. Both city councils and the public populations will be informed as to the results of the surveys. If you wish to get a-hold of one of the surveys drop into the Herald- office on Kalum street in be required for railway trackwork and other site development at Ridley Island, compared to $700,000 ‘for such work at Casey Paint. : TAKE THREE YEARS Duguid says it will be three years before road and rail access to Ridley Island is in place and work on a grain ,terminal can be started. “*A three-year delay in this period of inflation and an-' nual escalating construction costs could result in a capital penalty of $25 million.” : The alternative to delay would be to move in materials and men by barge. go that construction could proceed in advance of rail and road access, This could _ cost $13 million and would not overcome a 12-month lag in planning, compared to construction at Casey Point. Duguid estimates a one-year delay in completion would cost $4 million because of inflation. a He says that the cost premium on construction on Ridley Island, together with the tolls which would be, levied by the NHB in an effort to recoup the $16.3 million spent on site access, could push the terminal charge on grain to 50 cents a bushel, or $60 million on an annual throughflow of 120 million bushels yer, which is. the traffic figure proposed. MoT won't cooperate VANCOUVER (CP) - Crown Counsel Dirk’ Rynevald said Wednesday that federal transport ministry officials aren’t co- cperating with the inquest into the Feb 11 crash of a Pacific Western Airlines jet - at Cranbrook, B.C., in which 43 persons died. - He made the charge amid confusion over whether a vital preliminary transcript of air-crew-ground radia communications would be produced when the. inquest resumes next week... Wednesday a final transcript of the conversations will not ’ be available for at least a month. He would not say if - the preliminary’. transcript woudl be produced. Bernie Caiger, the national research council engineer ordered to produce the document also refus comment. “The uest was adjourned May 12 after the department refused to produce the transcript and Corner Dr. Alan Askey ordered Caiger: to produce it-on May 23. Referring to reports the transcript will not he provided when the inquest resumes next week, _Rynevald said the “preés is being infomred before the coroner and counsel--the transport department has again seen fit not ta co- _ operate with us.” He sald he has tried to call Ottawa regarding but “sofar no one has returned them.” Rynevald said Caiger has been ordered to attend the inquest with the transcript A ministry public relations - officer, sald. , in... Ottawa. oinig ed to. the’ pear with that document in comipliance with the order.” He said the inquest cannot proceed without the tran- - _seript which might explain why the pilot had to abort his landing just before the crash. . Frank Wallace, a ministry spokesman in Ottawa, said Wednesday that an expert at the National Research Council has advised the ministry it will take at least a month to sort out overlapping conversations and some unintelligible portions of the tape, - «. roduce a partial tape, leaving blanks on. now- intelligible portions because that could lead to ac- cusations it was leaving out _ pertinent information. Search for bodies QUALICUM, B.C. (CP) — Search and rescue personnel were searching Georgia Strait today for the bodies of two Qualicum youths missing and = presumed drowned after: failing to return from a boating trip Wednesday night. The youths, aged 16 and 19, _ set outfrom Qualicum Beach about 7 p.m. in an eight-foot aluminum boat and were re- ported missing about mid- night, ; RCMP in Parksville co- ordinated a-search by volunteer boats during the night, finding the overturned boat, lifejackets and oars. A Coast Guard cutter from Vancouver joined personnel from Canadian Forces Base He said: the transport — : ‘ : e IL.V. Rogers school from Nelson were just one group% B. ‘rehearsing their plays for Kermdode Theatre ‘78, the B.C.~ Hi ool ‘ MOSCOW (AP) — A Soviet court sentenced dissident physicist Yuri Orloy to seven . years in a labor camp and five years internal exile Thursday, and pollce briefiy | detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov with his wife after they struggled with officers who barred them from the court- house.. Sakharov, also a physicist, is the. most prominent. Russian ‘dissident. Orlov’s. was the first of an expected round of trials of Moscow dissenters, with the apparent aim of putting down or- ganized criticism of the Soviet government. In Washington, the House - of Representatives passed by a unanimous vote a try- ' doesn’t ~want tyne ff}? Soernennert ne am rag el OTTAWA (CP) — The gov- ernment: said Thursday it will oblige only ‘chartered banks to become members of a proposed new national cheque-clearing system that \ may be the forerunner of a _ virtually cashless society. In a major change from ° proposals made nearly two years ago, new banking legislation introduced in the Commons: on Thursday says trust companies, calsses populaires and credit unions tival takin “place in Terr resolution asking the Soviet Union to free Orlov, 52. State department spokesman Thomas Reston said the U.S. government strongly deplores the action against Orlov and called it ‘a gross distortion of internationally © accepted standards of human rights.” In Ottawa, the Commons also unanimously criticlzed the Soviet Union for its treatment of Orlov. MPs of all parties voted to ‘deplore the trial and extremely severe sentence’ given to Orlov for “activities which in Canada would be perfectly acceptable”, And British politicians: from both-left and right said the sentence was shameful cashless Society. comes closer — that accept deposits will have the option of joining or - staying out of a proposed Canadian Payments Association. Even if these institutions join the association, they will , not be required to keep non- interestbearing cash reserves on deposit with the Bank of Canada as must the chartered banks. This is another major concession to ease political pressure from RCMP Asemi-trailer left the road ‘on Highway 16 about 40 miles west of Terrace Wednesday, plunging into the Skeena and sending two men to hospital. « ‘Driver of the unit, Scott Watkins and his passenger, Derrik Watkings' both of Surrey, were taken to Mills . Memorial Hospital after the accident, my The tractor was left and “we expect him to ap- Comox in the search today. partially submerges and the ‘victim of report trailer floated downstream: until it caught on a sandbar. Police ate still in- vestigating. Finning Tractor was the a burglary sometime during the early morning Wednesday. Thieves gained entry by smashing the glass in a door and made off with ap- proximately $100 cash. VICLCRL Ay elegy Vel-lra during this week. Plays were performed belore audiences | In the R.E.M. Lee Theatre Thursday evening and will sa armenia oa Soviet critic sentenced to labor camp and exile - and an outrage. STARTED MONDAY Orlov, whose trial began Monday, was convicted of “antiSaviet agitation and propaganda” on the basis of dacuments about Soviet human rights that he wrote and distributed to Western correspondents and em- bassies. . Orlov has seven days to appeal the imprisonment ~ and internal = exile— banishment from Moscow. Orlov's British lawyer, John McDonald, who was refused permission to attend the trial, said in London an appeal is being prepared. Sakharov, 56, and his wife, Yelena Bonner, were detained for five hours after the Quebec-based caisses and credit unlons against the reserves requirement. : Federal proposals in 1976 for revising banking rules, which led up to Thursday's legislation, observed that . payments and transfers of money increasingly involve electronic transactions by computer rather than paper. acurrently, the system for ea eques con- trolled exclusively by the chartered banks. The government wants to let the po near-banks—caisses, trust companies and others—be- come members of the chequeclearing system so that planning for electronic payments and transfers will be more orderly. As background papers to the banking legislation observe, “the government continues to believe it would be in the interests of an in- tegrated and wellmanaged payments system if all deposit-taking institutions were to be members.” : Orlov ~ the incident with police. Tass, the official news agency, said the couple committed ‘impudent hooligan actions.’ “All this was like a play,” Orlov's dissident colleague Vladimir Slepak said after the verdict. “It was all decided beforehand. The trial had no influence on the decision of the court or the sentence,”” Orlov's wife Irina said the courtroom was packed with chosen, hostile spectators who applauded the sentence and shouted: “You should - have given him more.” SUPPORTERS BARRED The U.S. embassy sent First Secretary Richard Combs to attempt to enter the Orlov courtroom as an obsever, but he was barred, as were- Western reporters and Orlov supporters. ~ = Stillawaiting triak but with - no date set are Anatoly Sh- _ charansky and Alexander Glnzburg—co-founders with of Moscow's “Helsinki” dissident group formed to monitor Soviet compliance with human Tights provisions of the 1875 Helsinki accords. - Ginzburg was arrested just before and Shcharansky just after Orlov, who was imprisoned Feb. 10, 1977, All have been held - in- communicada. During the struggle with the Sakharovs, witnesses said pollee appeared to be trying to restore calm but Mrs. Sakharov slapped one liceman in the face and Sakharov hit at a policeman wo was trying to restrain After this, the witnesses said, Sakharov's. arms were seized and he and his wife were bundled into a green bus and driven away. Sakharov later said he and his wife were freed from a — Militia station, but that two young men arrested with him were taken to a court and sentenced to 15 days each for ‘‘petty hooli- ganism,” Aboat a dozen people aflernoon, hem local pioneers, attended the pre-opening of the Terrace Mini-Museum Thursday This pioneering display was just one of six displays in the ‘museum featuring artifacts from thé 1920's and 1930's athe Mb Works project. “Bureau ‘on Highway 16. The museum was a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Canada”; eee Soo nformation «(3 Py OOe wee eee ee ee ee - Due to holiday there will Le no pub ee ee ee ee ee et ee eee Sond ee ee wee ee Pe ee te ee ee 8 oe ee PPO AEHO0o0 LABLE yt ere ‘eet ee lication on Monday,May 22. we ee ee ee