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‘ VOLUME 71 NO. 159

MONDAY, DECEMBER If, 1977

Pierre Was
Furious

NEW YORK (Reuler)
— Margaret Trudeau, the
estranged wife — of
Canada’s Prime Minister

_~Pierre Trudeau, is quoted

as saying in an interview
ublished Sunday that
eaving her husband was
a..relief to her, but

a ‘anguish for him.

é

Pierre was furious
about the public disgrace
and humiliation I caused
him," Mrs. Trudeau is
quoted as saying in the
cutrent issue of People

_ magazine,

“Tf I had gone more
gracefully, he would have

been more forgiving,"’
she is quoted as saying
regarding her spending a
night in the company of
the Rolling Stones rock-
music group in a Toronto
hotel early this year and
then flying to New York.
The Trudeaus separated
three months later.

But, " ... it takes two to
destroy a marriage.”

She understands the
prime minister's anger.
‘No one wants to lose a
pretty, young wife,’’ she
Is quoted,

Board opposes
Gas Rate Hike >

- posed Pacific Northern Gas rate increases
drew opposition from members of the Kitimat-
Stikine regional board at Saturday’s meeting.

_ Coupled with 16 per cent increases by Westcoast
as and a provincial increase of 22 cents, the total
increase to residential coustomers will be about 30
per cent, according to board figures.
The apparent justification for the gas increases is

that other forms of energy
director George Thom guessed, but sta

are rising in cost,

this was a

“pretty dumb explanation” since it would just add

to the energy crunch.

Thom also pointed out that the three increases,
added to other increases during the past year, would

make the total yearly
“customers 42 per cent.

increase to residential

The board also protested the fact that hearings

would be held in

ancouver.

According to board administrator John Pousette,
the ‘philosophy in the past has been to hold meetings
in Vancouver because the increases were mostly
industiral, and industrial head offices were located
in Vancouver. However, in this case the highest
increments will be to local residential customers..

The board. voted to write to the- commission

lcoking into the proposed incraases to protest-these .:
hearings be held locally.

and to ask that

ally.

Health Minister Visit

Terrace council has
informed the HERALD
that it has arranged a
meeting with a number of
concerned persons in-
volved with the*
Skeenaview Lodge
psychegeriatric institution
and Health Minister for
B.C., the’ Hon. Bob
MecLelland at 2 pm.
Wedensday, December
21st.

Earlier in the day,
Council will be hosting a
luncheon meeting for the
Minister with the mayor
and council for the
district of Terrace; the
mayor and council of the
district of Kitimat; the

ad-
the
Kitimat Stikine Regional
District, and the chair-
man and administrator of
the Mills Memoorial
Hospital Board.

Purpose of this lun-
cheon meeting will be to
discuss items OTHER
THAN Skeenaview.

The reason, Terrace
Herald was told, city
council is not opening the

chairman and
ministration of

Skeenaview meeting to-

the public, but will be
limiting the number of
invitiations to 14, is due to
space limitatyions, and
time limitations of the
minister.

oa a

Kitimat-Stikine Regional Board members for 1973
were sworn in Friday: evening at the statutory
0

inaugural meeting. The entire

ard are (seated)

chairman Joe Banyay, directors Alice Chen-Wing,

i ae

enc. a

Frank

Allen, Vic Jolliffe and J
Watmough.)

Armitage, (Standing) Eric Janzen,

Bob
Cooper, Bobby Ball, Perey Tait, George Thom, Marty

Culp (alternate for Les

| Fire strikes. twice

Fire, bringing with it
tragedy — struck twice
over the weekend at
Prince Rupert. Ruth
Marie Jaeger, 17 died in
one fire that caused
extensive damage to the
home in which she was
living, early Sunday
morning. No one else was
injured in that blaze. At
3:30 a.m. Sunday, in
Prince Rupert, neigh-
bours were wakened by a
woman said to have
rushed screaming out of a
building. with a baby in
her arms. The. building,
known as © McCarthy

‘House, at°1737 “Graham”

Avenue, Prince -Rupert,
was administered by the
Department of Human
Resources for youngsters
removeed from their

parents by court orders,
and similar situations.
Four children between
the ages of 9 and 14 are
said to have perished in
the fire. Some of the
bodies were reported still
unidentified at 7 p.m.
Sunday evening. Ac-
cording to a_ Rupert
resident, both fires
wracked buildings were
cordoned off by police
until the provincial Fire
Marshall arrived from
Vancouver to conduct an
investigation.

A 22-year-old male
from Ontario was bumed

‘to death; at‘5:05 Saturday”

morning in Kitimat and
another man occupying
the same mobile home
suffered first and second
degree burns to his back

More Cables Cut

KAMLOOPS, B.C.
(CP) — Damage to
telephone cables Sunday
temporarily cut off
service to about 100
subscribers in this
southern Interior com-
munity.

A British Columbia
Telephone Co.
spokesman said Todd
Mountain ski resort, just
nerth of here, was among
those customers whose
service was cut-off.

He said service was

restored early Sunday to
several other = rural
communities which were
without it Saturday after
three company repeaters
were knocked aut by
gunshots.

Company supervisors
have been maintaining
telephone services in B.C.
since 10,000 members of
the Telecommunications
Workers Union walked
off the job Nov. 24 in an
escalation of a strike-
lockout situation.

and shoulders. He was
reported having been
taken to hospital. Sunday
night the police still had
not released either man’s
name. No cause for any of
the three fires had been
given.

At least 24 persons
were reported to have
died accidentally across
Canada over the wekend,
including the above 6.

Ontario had two traffic
fatalities and one
snowmobile death and
Saskatchewan had two
traffic deaths and a fire

TORONTO (CP) — An
immigration department
official has.confirmed the
existence about seven
years ago of a document
called the East Indian
Control Program. But it
has since been scrapped.

Tony Galasso said
Saturday the document
did exist as part of

Canada's immigration
policy, ;
He said the instructions

were designed to stop a

widespread racket at the ©

time whereby charter
planeloads of East In-
dians were. coming to
Canada, supposedly as
visitors on tours

death. British Columbia
had four traffic fatalities,
Quebec three deaths from
traffic and two from fire.
Newfoundland had one
snowmobile death. Nova
Scotia and Manitoba one
traffic death each. Prince
Edward Island had one
crowning. Alberta was
free of accidental deaths
over the weekend and
there was no report from
the Yuion and the Nor-
thwest Territories. No
fires werereported by the
Terrace Fire Department
between Friday and
Sunday nights. . .

organized by un-
scrupulous tour
operators, and then
vanishing.

“It wasn’t racist at
all,” Galasso said: “It
was intended to put an
end to this particular
method of getting around
our immigration laws at
the time. If these tours
had originated from any
other country or involved
any other nationality the
instructions would have
been the same.”

Photocopies of the
documents, which outline
instructions to im-
migration officials aimed
at combating illegal

recommendation ¢

Terrace Airport
“Hell of a Mess”

Shortchomings of the Terrace Airport were again
the subject of a discussion at the Kitimat-Sii
Regional board meeting Satruday.

e transfer point for bus passen ers in Terrace

is “‘one hell of a mess,” accor:
Thom, a Kitimat alderman.

ing todireetor George

Thom complained of buses double parking on
Lakelse Avenue with the result that luggage ended
up in puddles or on snowbanks while passengers
have to wait an hour or more before boarding a

to their destinations.

Following Thom’s complaaint, board members
voted to write letters protesting the conditions at the

transfer point to CP Air an

Transport.

the Department fo

Aldermen Disagree

Terrace watershed area may be the future site of

logging operations.

e regional board was informed by the Ministry
of Forests that the Kitselas and Copper River areas
are being considered for logging.

The ministry was asking for a map or a list of the

creeks involved so some form of warn

system

could be established to protect the potable water

sources.

Alice Chen-Wing, the newly-elected director for
electoral area C, admitted she did not underatand
how logging would affect the watershed, but advised

the board to approach the issue ver:

cautiously.

“Water is a precious commodity,”* she sald. ~
Forestry representatives met with Terrace
council last week to discuss how the area would be
logged, and director Vic Jolliffe, a Terrace alder-
man, told the regional board that council was

against the lo

ing of the watershed.

Director Bob Cooper, also a Terrace alderman.

was not opposed to

the logging proposal and

suggested the board get the opinions of the experts

before becoming alarmed.

The board asked that a letter be sent from Terrace
council so the board would know how they stand.

Zone forester Ian Howes of the Ministry of
Forests, will meet with Terrace council and Price-
Skeena Forest. Products in January to discuss the
logging of the watershed and has also offered to
meet with the regional technical planning com-

mittee in February.

The board accepted the planning committee's

t they write the Min try ot
tha

Forests to ask that adecision be deferred until the
completion of a comprehensive development plan.

Immigration Paper Revealed

residence in Canada by
East Indians, were ob-
tained by the Canadian
Council for Racial
Harmony, which branded
them as racist and set in

motion a series of
protests to the im-
migration department.

Galasso said the law
has been changed since
then and visitors are
unable to apply for
landed ‘status within
Canada anymore, When
the law was changed, the
whole pretence for these
Woe of tours had to be

opped and those
documents became obso-
ete. ;

Tugboat.
Gassed

SQUAMISH, B.C, (CP)
— Eight members of a
tugboat crew were ad-
mitted to hospital
Saturday after a chlorine
gas leak at the FMC of
Canada chemical plant.

Police said six of the
men were treated and
released while the other
two were kept overnight.

Herald Starts Jr.
Reporter contest for
News Carriers. See Page
4.

+

Concerned citizens, including some staff, teachers,
parents, pupils, clergy, and even potential pupils of
the Lazeelle Pre-School in Terrace were out in force to
picket the offices of the Department of Human

sources, Friday afterncon. The citizens were
voicing their protest at the enforced closing of the pre-
school, which has an enrollment of 41 children anged 3
to 6. The action was forced by the apparent refusal of
the Departinent to increase funding above its 6-year
level of $40 per month per pupil,

’ The pre-school staff and board have desperately
attempted to keep the school open by every means

ssiple including foregoing salaries, but it appears it
S fering a shutdown deadline of December 31st.

Asitis, according to one board member, the Lazelle
Pre;School staff have been working for ridiculously
low pay — $500 per month each for 2 aides, $550 (ap-
proximately) for assistant supervisor and $750 for the
supervisor who has had to have special qualifications
that would normally command twice that stipend.

Attempts to reach Department of Human Resources
staff — the department authorizing the grants and
establishing the levels — were unsuccessful, Friday
afternoon (see Editorial P. 4 Today's paper),

Chaimrn of the Pre-School Board, Lyle Petch, told
the Herald ‘Day Care and Child Care are at the lowest
end of the priority scale of the Human Resources
minister. No deficit funding is permitted, despite

need. Staff have been accepting ridiculously low
salaries. Wit rising costs, the breaking point has
arrived and we can cut and pare and stretch no fur-

er.”" :

A Herald reporter hea;rd one father who was
picketing console his youngster who was whimpering
rom the cold weather and blowing snow, ‘Buck up,
son. It's for a good cause!"

The pre-school board is holding meetings, today, to
determine which children might be able to qualify for
additional funding based on special need. Pupils will
also be evaluated on the basis of need to determine
whether they require extra altention and extra time
by staff members. If this can be proven and translated

into staff salaries, the board will submit another
epplication to the Department of Human Resources.

nly 10 of the 41 pupils have so far been categorized
as needing special care, whereas a spokesman for the
Board feels the figure is closer to 50 per cent.

Board chaiman Petch personally feels the subsidy
should be upped. Some indication of the Department's
outlook, he told the Herald, can be gained from DHR's
asking them if they could operate the pre-school with a
staff of only 2 workers with the rest of the normal staff
being replaced by volunteers.

The Lazelle pre-school properly requires an ad-
ditional] $800 per month to break even; a total of $8,000
would be needed in additional funding to operate for a
ten month year, Petch explained.

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