‘peached with the

_ Management .-

© Joe Murpay, outspoken foe of B. © Hydro’s plans
to dam the Stikine and Iskut rivers i in north-western -
B.C., won a convincing election victory Saturday -
over Bobby Ball, topping the incumbent 114 to 13 in

* the XitimatStikine Regional District vole.

Murphy’ 8 lead in Telegraph Creek, where he isa .
carpenter, was 77 to 10 while he swamped Baill in
* Iskut, in the heart of the proposed development 52 to
1, Ball's only solace came at a highways camp
where he took the poll 3 to 2.
Murphy will replace Ball as director’ of area D in

‘the | regional district:

During the campaign, Murphy said proposed
Hydro dams on the Stikine and Iskut rivers are the
beginning of a process that will destroy the lifestyle

Tel strike
near end?
Terrate area Telecom-

munications Workers Union
(TWU) are stepping up

picketting operations despite - =

the fact that a tentative
contract settlement has been,
B.c.
Telephone Company.

Ken Blanes, spokesman
for the TWU - Local 33, says
Picket action will get under

way at the airport today

against Okanagas
Helicopters because that
company is flying super-

visors for the B.C. Tel
A 30-year-old picketter
Claims that he was struck by
two cars driven. by
workers
Monday ; but Blanes says the.
RCMP. have. only taken the
company . ‘complaint: that’:
to’ the | Vehicle .was ~

"Jim Miller was bit by a car
at 5: Mp. ‘Monday when a-
management - worker

fy forced his way
through ‘the picket line. As
he ‘rolled off, the hood,
another ‘vehicle struck the
was then struck by the
second vehicle and the
windshield was broken, says

‘one of the drivers was
the an same man who bit a
pregnant woman two weeks
ago,” says Blanes. ,

Bisnes says that when they
reparted the incident to the
police the RCMP had
already taken down a
complaint from .ihe driver
ami refused o take down the
TWU complaint.

The two sides in the 21-dlay-
old strike have yet to sign an
returt-to-work agreement
and company spokesman
Keith Matthews saitl the
stumbling biock is the future
' of about 20 members of the
TWU fired since the ‘strike
began Feb. 10. The union
wants the workers reinslated
before anyone goes back to
work, but the company
wants to use regular

tion that they'll stay
Peimed and we'll have the
arbitration later and we take
the position that they haven't
been found guilty a
anything, #0 that was
standoti,” union president
Bill Clark bid a a hastily-ar-
ranged news conference

following a bargaining
with federal

Clark said the emplayees

thing two sides have agreed

on a wage package which Is

et rep eprrnis
last

federal coniliator Ed Peck

pore a company offer of iast

company’s

‘ok.

Cook School

The singers and their songs en-
tertained for the athletes of Jack
and Three Rivers
Workshop during the Terrace
Downtown Lioan’s Ciub .Music-Hail
Revue Saturday. The audience was.

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and livelihood of the people of the area. .

Murphy said be would campaign against the
proposed development but Ball, an outfitter and
rancher, told ‘voters that be did not propose the
dams but he would try to ensure the development

* did not get out of hand.

Meanwhile, the provincial lands - branch has -

rejected an application by B.C. Hydro to build ain - .

access trail into a proposed dam site on the Stikine

River.

build an access route into a gravel deposit near the

Stikine in northwest B.C., about 40 kilometres

north of Prince Rupert.

~

asked to pick Its favourite singer and
the results were (above left to right)
Sandy Cook (third). Suzanne Alway
(first), Nijole Orbell (fourth) and
Karen Ljungh {second) wiih the
band Bad Manners with Wayne

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| ‘These decisions were . confirmed Monday by a
spokesman for the lands branch at Smithers.

.- Both proposed routes had become controversial

- heeause of public opposition to B.C. Hyro's plarito

.dam the Stikine.

. Lands ‘branch spokesman Brian Wilkes said
.Monday the branch bas disallowed Hydro’s ap-
- plication to build a “cat trail" to ‘ransport equip- .
“ment such as a‘drill_rig t a proposed dam site :
“known as Z, about 25 kilometres downstream of the
Stewart-Cassiar highway crossing. ;
Four reasons were given for the rejection: It
would be hard to block access to the trail to users -
olrer than Hydro; the seasitive condition of the *-

Ingvaldson,

Ralph Trelenberg,
Harold Olson, Dave Armstrong, and.
Myra Trelenberg. Over 500 people
turned out and the Lions grossed
$1,197 towards the athletes’ fun and
fitness special olympics.

Terrace area residents are
paying more ‘for _ their
and home fuel today
pesult of Alberta's

and the federa: govern-
meril’s decision ty impose an
immediate price increase of
half a cent a Btre on gasoline
and all other olf products.

Increases ranging frien 1.8.
cents & litre to two cents a

for the ‘hundreds of millions
of dollars" now needed to
pay for importing foreign oil
to fill the oP left by the
reduction " cheaper
Semectis supplies ;
“Lalonde told the Commoisé
the new levy ia needed to pay
for the “hundreds of millions
of dollars” now needed to
pty for importing foreign of
to fill the gap left by the
reduction of cheaper
domestic supplies. .

He told reporters liter the
levy, which amounts to 75 —
cents a barrel of ail, will be
rescinded once Alberia’s
production returns to normal
bevels,

.Qil and gas prices rise here again

At the same time, be ‘Lougheed’s levy.”

‘warned it could increase if

Alberta goea ahead as

‘planned and cuts ail

production even more later
this year. ‘

« Johm Crosbie, finance
minister in the former

‘In Edmonton, Alberta
Energy Minister Merv
‘Leitch responded that

Canadians will eventually -
_ see through suggestions

Alberta is to blame for what
the federal government calls

In Ottawa, federal _ op-
position MPs quickly dubbed 1
it the Lalonde levy. They
accused the government of
using the levy as a tactic to
divert attention from ils own

behavior in the continuing |

dispute with Alberta over

energy pricing end reyenue

sharing. -
The announcement
marized the second time this

The price of gasoline and
home-heating oll jumped
sbout eight-tenths of a cent a
litre Sunday as a result of 2

$i-abarre! increase in the
wellhead price of oil on Jan.
1. It takes about 60 days for
an increase at the wellhead
to show up at the retail level.
However, the increase’ of
half a cent a litre imposed

Monday is a tax.at thef

refinery level and will be felt

immediately by consumers,

bringing the total price in-
creases this week to about
13 cents a litre on ail

. Consumers also can expect
a further price increase at a
aofar-unspecified date as a
result of Petro-Canada's
recemt $1.¢-billion takeover
of Petrofina Canada Inc.

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: honestly know if that will do atiything to the

alpine tundra; sablie opposition, and tbe Tands ig
branch had identified alternative methods by which :
Hydro could collect information it needs onthe dam.
site.

Wilkes said Fydro has withdraw ‘an’ application
° to build a cat trail to explore gravel deposits in the
Stikine area because spring thaw is approaching.

boa ba

. “That trail constructisn was intended for. frozen . .
_ round and we understand Hydro will apply again, - eo!
_ in the fall to ‘build the trail.” te
7 ‘A Bydro report in Jarmsary said $7.6-billion worth ‘ |
of hydroelectric projects’ on the Stikine and Yakut - :
~ Fivers are lechalealyfesaihlemnd economically at,
tractive. i oe

noe it
news here

Norma King, chairperson for the Terraceview
Lodge Society, says she was unaware that the
decision to phase out Skeenaview in Terrace is
under review by health department. officials in
Victoria: +:

“That's incredible, ” she said. “1, ‘don't

Frank Howard, NDP house leader and Skeena
MLA, made the announcement Monday saying
that this is the first break in attilude-sinee for-—
mer Health Minister Bob McClelland. came’ to
Terrace in 1979" fo- announce the. closing of
Skeenaview.

“AS soon as the present minister of bealth was
_ appointed I wrote to him urging that just such a
‘yeview. take; =-place,” Howard. says.

“Now that a ‘review is being undertaken I.
would urge every group, tion and .in-
“dividual interested in- seeing Skeenaview
developed further to. communicate with the
health ministry and ‘make the case solidly and
effectively. What we want is Skeenaview to be
kept as a fong-term care facility, providing all
levels of service toresidents needing such care.”

“Municipalities, “the regional district: the -
BCGEU,. and- other unions, the Terraceview
“Society, elderly eitizens’ groups and the: like

i _parihwest part of ‘the.

Le SaR,

we raga ta AE Poe aL Rte

out the need for such a facility, the growing
population of the area, and the general value to;
society from: keeping and modernizing “'
Skeenaview,"” says Howard. |

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