“Hl f 1 H fy A “yj i ; 1 ey ia woh etree ' we ere eee & ‘ LEGISLATIVE LIGRARY, COMP. 77/78 PARLIAMENT BULLDINGS, - . . arr aT 2 Bil #51 ~~ ~ TERR ACE-KITIMAT vev-1n4 | 7 | 7 RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. . | we buy COPPER BRASS ALL METALS & BATTERIES HOW. . SAT. OPEN TIL & p.m. Location Seal Cove Phone 624-6639 \ Volume 72 No. 248 20¢ Tuesday, November 14, 1978° J) \_ > IN. TERRACE Candidates offer by Nixon Baker Desplte the fact that th is no mayotality race Terrace this year, all the elements are present for an extremely interesting aldermanic election, Town residents will be given the opportunity of questioning all nine alder- manic candidates at the R.E.M, Lee Theatre Wed- mesday evening at an all- candidates meeting. Running for the three spots open on council are five men (three incumbents) and four women. . A new element has been - introduced this year as two candidates, Marguerite Clarkson and Paul Johnston are openly running as candidates sponsored by the Kitimat-Terrace labor council, , Clarkson is the co- ordinator of Canada Works projects in Terrace and a Shop steward with the Im- migration and Labor Union. Johnston is the business agent of the Rock and Tunnel Workers Union, He is also a part time instructor at the Northwest Community College The two candidates are conducting a vigorous joint campaign which includes a pamphlet entitled a “Municipal Programme” compiled by the labor council; issuing business cards, aml the = free distribution ‘of an area newspaper which ‘carries artleles particularly flat to ‘the two. labor. Both Clarkson and Johnston admit that their labor affiliation may be harmful to them in some areas, but a concerted effort will be made to make sure union members turn out at the polls, Clarkson ex- plained. All three incumbents, Vic Jolliffe, who lists his oc- cupation as alderman, Bob Cooper, an independent logging contractor, and David Pease, an accountant, are seeking re-clection. *Both Peaseand Cooper are first term aldermen, while Jolliffe, an ex-mayor olf Terrace, has served eight of the past 16 years on council. Jolliffe, a noted fighter on both Terrace and regional district councils, explains his candidacy by noting that gomeone must fight for Terrace as the transition of the district from a logging municipality to a district service centre continues. Both Cooper and Pease report they still have major choice contributions to make to the district and would like the opportunity to finish many undertakings started during the past two years. Cooper was a director of the Kitimat-Stikine regional council last year also, The other man running for council 15 local merchant Al Purschke. Purschke, a past governor of Lions In- ternational, saya simply council must stop bickering among themselves and act in a more business-like man- ner, Three © other women seeking aldermanic seats Include Li] Farkvam, an Instructor at Northwest Community College and an active member of the recreation commission, who is making her firat try for a council seat, The major plank in her platform is better recreation facilities for Terrace and quicker action by council after it has been presented with a problem. Juanita Hatton, a long- time well-known Terrace resident wants people in Terrace to take more pride in what she calla “the most beautiful town in British Columbia." Hatton adds that since the recent floods, “‘we can 00 longer hide behind the mountain, everyone knows about Terrace," she said, Hatton says Terrace badly needs a civic -centre and some form of public tran- sportation, Lilly Nielson who ran for council {ast year, finishing at ‘around to ask questions concerning what she describes as shoddy work- manship done within the district, whether she is successful in her council bid or not. By and large most can- didates agree on mest major items such as bus tran- aportation - differences as to financing belng the main argument here, Ail agree parks and recreation need more attention. All agree that it is a good thing for Terrace to become a regional district centre of the mid-north. The two labor candidates, naturally enough, have more grandiose ideas including land stock piling by the district to supply low cost housing. ; Election day is Saturday, Nov. 18. Only one pollis used and that is located at Clarence Michiel Elemen- tary School on Sparks Street, Voting hours are from 8 a.m, ° to 8 p.m. The ship just passed NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The tanker that collided with a shrimp boat in the Gulf-of Mexico on Sunday at first stopped about 1.5 kilometres away, then resumed its journey into the night leaving the sinking boat and five fishermen in the water, a survivor said Monday. At Complaint rejected LUSAKA (Reuter) President Kenneth Kaunda has rejected complaints by white farmers that they have been harassed and attacked by Rhodesian nationalist guerrillas. At a. meeting Sunday the farmers, who produce much of Zambia's food, threatened to cease operations unless the harassment stops. They sald the guerrillas follow nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo. “I would not accept that any government could succumb to pressure of this nature," Kaunda said Monday. them least two died. A distress signal just before the boat sank said the tanker was Japanese but did not name it, ‘Two men were rescued Monday and two bodies were found by the U.S. Coast Guard. The search for the fifth fisherman continued. One of the rescued sailors, who said he was asleep at the time of the crash, was rescued: by a Russian freighter Sunday after ‘swimming 17 hours with a life preserver in the chilly Gull. A second survivor was licked up by the coast guard after about 29 hours in the water and was faken to a hospita] in shock. He was identified as Walter Galcik, 26, of Montauk, N.Y. The five crew were aboard the vessel Joanie Renee, which sent out radio distress calis early Sunday from about 40 km into the Gulf of Mexico and about halfway between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala, A coast guard spokesman said it appeared the tanker ‘Gust kept going” Pom ei et Ly Mike O'Conner insp : 2 eels Se SNS, GNA: iver ans seme emma ects bridge work | Alberta hospital workers out at four, ready at more EDMONTON (Up) — Support staff at four Alberta hospitals went on strike Monday and the situation could worsen this week with ve ¥ gd ther " ‘strite ‘votes. scheduled ata - caine ake wil’ stil bo zen more. ; About 40 Canadian Union of Public Emlloyees (CUPE) members in Ed- monton and 30 in Innisfail joinednearly 300 in Red Deer, who have been out for eight days. . Most of the walkouts have been at nursing homes—with the exception of Red Deer and Innisfail—but votes being taken this week wiil alfect many general hospitals. Workers at Fort Mce- Murray are scheduled to walk out today and strike votes are slated for hospitals in Calgary, Edmonton and Medicine Hat later this week, The workers have been without a contract since April and Bill Petrie, CUPE provincial coordinator, said the union is employing gradual pressure to force the Alberta Hospitals As- sociation (AHA) into a settlement. CUPE is hoping the strategy of striking in- dividual facilities rather than calling for a province- wide walkout will keep the provincial government from ordering its members back to work. “We're not Irving to farce anybody's hand,” he said. But Verne Rheault, AHA assistant executive director, says the union actually is hoping for government in- tervention, citing appeals made by CUPE to Hospitals Minister Gordon Miniely and Premier Peter Lougheed to step into the talks. The main stumbling black toa settlement is wages. The AHA offer, recommended Oct. 6 by a conciliation ‘poard, is for a sixper-cent increase in the first year of a two-year agreement, with the second-year increase pegged to the 1978 rise in the consumer price index. Petrie said CUPE originally sought a one-year contract withincreases od 70 cents an hour, between six and 13 per cent depending on individual pay levels. But Petrie said the union now is seeking a 50-cent increase the first year and would consider a two-year agreement similar to the conciliation package. even if the two sides can close the gap on the wage issue, however, CUPE is clinging tenaciously to a clause in the old contract which gives hospital tradesworkers 55 per cent of the wages given to con- struction workers in Alberta. Rheault sald the clause af- fects only 15 CUPE members and would not necessarily mean their wages would be cut back. Hospital tradesworkers put in more hours than their counter- FLYING SAUCERS - They just stopped here for a drink BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Witnesses say flying saucers have been kidnapping oc- ecupied cars in South America to drink the gasoline. Others tell tales just as strange. Carlos Acevedo and Angel Moya say they were south of ' Buenos Aires Sept. 23, Stragglers on the final leg of @ 30-day stock car race, when a yellow and violet light shone in their rear-view mirror. A force shut off the engine and headlights of their Citroen CG, lifted it off the road and sel it down a Minute later and 150 kilometres north. The force had drained the car's gasoline tank. Businessman Alejandro Hernandez says that while driving in southern Chile on Sept. 24, a huge saucer swallowed his car. Inside, five bulky figures stuffed his 13-year-old son into a box while a sixth in- terviewed Hernandez in a metallic voice. Witnesses reported wat- parts in construction, he said, and enjoy better fringe nefits, in trouble WASHINGTON (CP) — Leading members of both the Israeli and Egyptian delegations to the Middle East peace ‘conference here were called home Monday for consultations with their governments on main ob- — State Secretary Cyrus Vance in New York on Sunday night. In Egypt, Sadat and his advisers met in the Suez canal city of Ismailia and a top Egyptian source who asked not to be identified stacles blocking agreement -said there was “bad news.” on a peace treaty. The decision by both sides to hold urgent talks came less than 24 hours after the United States presented a compromise proposal on the key issue of linking a peace treaty with progress on the Palestinian question. Peace talks spokesman George Sherman said acting Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali was returning home later in the day. After talking with Ghali, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan decided to return home also to attend a cabinet meeting and consult with the government about the peace talks, Sherman added. . Israeli officials had said earlier Dayan and Defence Minister Ezer Weizman were expected home today. Sherman said Weizman would remain in Washington with other members of both delegations to continue the talks. The head of the Egyptian negotiating team, Defence Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, will also remain in Washington. Sherman denied a report from Egypt, quoting sources A lay-off clause and close to President Anwar vacation time are also in dispute. Poa tote anti eta we ching the car, with frightened father and son inside, descend to the road afterward. A month earlier, bank Manager Serrano Silva reported a flying object buzzed his car on the high- way between Tunja and Bogota, Colombia. The car’s engine and head- lights died, and the banker said he and his passenger suffered temporary paralysis. These stories made front- page headlines Apply now for Applications for the assessment of damage caused during floods in the northwest region must he made by Nov. 30 and. residents are .asked to contact their local govern- ment agent or the flood assessment office at 3219 Eby St. in Terrace. Dale Elander, chief assessor, said that everyone who has had damage should put all the details on ‘the applications and someone from the assessment office will be sent out to examine the damage and review the applications. Iona Campagnolo, Skeena MP, said during a special meeting with local officials on Sunday that people living in flood plains wili be eligible in this situation but they will not be eligible in the future. “This was a warning that we should al) take seriously,” she said. The federal government will be paying from 50 per cent to 90 per cent of the costs from claims made by municipalities, regional districts, departments and residents. Large companies like Pacific Northern Gas will not be eligible under the federal financial assistance program, said Campagnolo. Various government departments and agencies will be making assessments government & post-disaster & as well as a team from the Canadian Independent Adjusters Conference (CIAC). Government assessments will be made separately from CIAC assessments as a means of eross checking claims before applicants receive their money, Campagnolo said. People will be © com- _pensated for the depreciated value of their property and not for the value of a par- ticular item when it was new, Cyril Shelford, MLA for Skeena, said. Shelford said he will be suggesting to Victoria that red stickers be put on titles of property in flood plain areas in the future so that - owners are aware that they will not be compensated if any more flood occurs, He said he was not sur- prised that the federal government has decided not to pay out anymore money in the fulure if there are further floods, "1 think people are making irresponsible decisions about where they build and the government assistance programs only encourage them to build Sadat, that the talks were ‘being suspended. story from Cal curate,” Sherman said. Throughout Monday, President Carter and his diplomats saught to head off a breakdown in the peace talks through telephone conversations and meetings on two continents. Egyptian Premier Khalil said, however, the talks were going ‘‘not badly." Prime Minister Menachem Begin, mean- while, arrived back in Israel after a six-day Canadian visit and said his govern- ment will review U.S. and Egyptian proposals for resolving the central dispute in the negotiations—whether and how to link an Egyptian- Israeli treaty to a solution of the Palestinian issue. Begin gave no details of what he called a “long and serious meeting” with U.S. “The overall thnigt of the. Aftica People’s Organization ro is’ Tfiaé- Council condemns S. Africa In a vole in which Canada and other Western members abstained, the Security Council condemned South Africa on Monday for its plans to hold elections in Namibia next month and threatened to impose economic sanctions. A council resolution, ap- proved 10 to 0 with five ab- Stentions, told South Africa that such elections would not be recognized by the world and Pretoria should cancel them. However, Pretoria has said it will go ahead. Fearing political in- timidation and establish- ment of a puppet regime, the. UN wants internationally supervised elections in Namibia, otherwise known as South-West Africa, and an orderly transition to full independence. For the last 19 months, the five Western members of the council have been negotiating with South Africa and the South-West (SWAPO) ">. Ad campaign watered down SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington State Ferry system is watering down its advertising campaign after last year's media splash, Too many people took the advice to ride the ferries — but at the wrong time. In- Stead of choosing lightly- traveled hours as advised, they crammed aboard with everybody else. Newel Hunter, marketing and service’ planning manager, said ad- vertisements urging people to “spend a day overseas” were supposed to increase walk-on travel in the middle of the day and during the week, but backfired. assesment where they should not,” he said. Mayor Dave Maroney, of Terrace, said council will be discussing a quarter of a million dollar claim tonight, in committee of the whole during its reguiar meeting. Some damage was done to the town’s water supply at Deep Creek, Spring Creek and the water system from the Skeena River at Little's Island, he said. The roads on Lanfear Hill and Kalum Hill were also damaged during the heavy rains, he said. Some Officials meet to discuss assessment residents of Terrace may also be applying. The drainage system on Spark on Sparks St, could not hold the amount of water coming into it and three basements were flooded during the storms, he said. Mayor George Thom, of Kitimat, said that the municipality will be ap- plying for the costs of damage done to rest rooms at Radley Park and the costs of the primary work time and the extra equipment that was needed to protect dikes in Kitimat. 7