Fon ae Re The carnival attraction of dime-operated elephants is ob- 4 local shopping Mall last weekend. viously a jumbo attraction for this youngster photgraphed in hy The Public Advisory . Committe to the Foresty, representing the Hazelton- Kitwanga Ranger Districts, gave its approval to the B.C. Forest Service on February 7th to the latest modified logging proposal for the north slope one the Seven Sisters Mountain Range -at Cedarvale. This proposal was the result of a -consultant’s study, whose goal was to minimize the visual impact of logging on this scenic range, In co-operation with the Public Advisory Com- mittee the Service. contracted a land- scape forester from Van- ‘Solving Quebec's economic problems | would solve Canada’s unity problems — By PAUL GESSELL OTTAWA (CP) — Solving Quebec’s economic ; problems may be the key to national unity, Jean-Luc Pepin, co-chairman of the Task Force on Canadian Unity, said Wednesday. ‘Economics may be the way to solve what some call the Quebec problem arid is really the Canadian problem,” Pepin said at the close of the first of three days of public hearings here. English-Canadians tend to rank cultural and linguistic problems ahead of economic woes when describing the causes of Quebec separatist B.C.Forest . couver. The consultant’s report, while not significantly different from the - forestry’s former modified plan, contained detailed visual which indicate that the view of the four. clear-cuts totalling 300 acres, as viewed from the north side of the Skeena River, between Kitwanga’ and Cedarvale, will appearas: two very narrow strips. Two clear- cuts will not be seen, the report says, and the two thin strips will be only portions of the remaining two openings. - The report: added,. “while.it is regretted that the forest cover,,.is to be broken, the sentiments, he said, But eco- nomic betterment was Quebec's greatest aspiration. oo ‘The formal Liberal cabinet minister directed the remarks, at several in- fluential businessmen, who had presented briefs praising the unifying effects of the financial community, The Canadian Bankers’ Association aaid: - oot “For example, it is dif- ficult to visualize how the West could have opened up as it did in the last quarter of the 19th century—and have remained Canadian in the velopment of the resources Timber Shortage “VICTORIA. (CP} — Forests MinisterTom Waterland has termed as absolute nonsense 4 prediction that a shortage of limber will lead to high unemployraent in the forest Industry in the next 15 years. Waterland said in an inter- view: Monday there will not be massive unemployment in the industry because both - government and industry are constanting adjusting - their. programs to meet. changing conditions. “Biologist Paul George said Saturday that poor logging & practices by the forest in- dustry. will cause a timber - shortage and create large- “province and scale unemployment by the _ freight rates and. regional - early 1900s, ; He said a shortage of trees will also lead (Co en- vironmental decay, with’a . resulting loss of fisheries: resources and reduction in wildlife habitat. . ot | Waterland said: ‘‘We are making a firm commitment to the proper management of the forests and intend on dolng our part.” The. minister said the ‘the federal government: pilapend a reat | deal: off money on silvicultural practices—the tending and harvesting of” forestry crops: - profiles: -. Approves Seven Sisters Logging Plan long narrow..cuts will blend * well .with, the horizontal - character of the ridged bench-land, The relatively small areas of _ logging.:.should not be ob- trusive after the first greening.” The logging will hot be visible from Highway 16... ros : The Advisory Committe formed in the fall of 1978 to investigate opposition to a 1200-acre logging plan on the Seven Sisters, had submitted a six month study and report to the B.C. Forest Service recommending’ that the range not be logged to preserve its ‘scenic beauty. The Committee based its of the established East through the national banking system." ; NOT RESPONSIBLE Earller-in the day, jour- nalists and news media owners asked that they not be held responsible for keeping the country to- gether, . Ernie Steele, president of . the Canadian ‘Association of Broadcasters, said; “To ioad national survival on the backs of broadcasters is a scary idea.” . _ Pepin said that, after tray- elling across the . country. presiding over public hearings, hehas learned that Canadians feel their national institutions are not always serving the cause of unity. The group's regional Canadians complain that these Institutlons-- some of which were controlled by the businessmexi testifying at the hearings—have failed to end allegedly discriminatory disparity. _ The businessmen must be more ' innovative in strategies if the country is to remain intact, said Richard Cashin, Atlantic repre- sentative... - Sam Hughes, executive- director of the. Canadian Cahmber. of. Commerce, replied that the -federal government had formed a group to develop such’ a strategy. as "BE MORE. MOBILE... ~~ W.O, Twaite, chairman of *- “opinion. | findings, in part, on a public survey in which respondents favoured “ no logging” on the range by a2 to 1 margin. | Over 1,U00 signatures on petitions expressed the same: The’ Committe requested: the. hiring of a landscape forester in the event that the Seven Sisters be logged. ; oe The B.C Forest Service modified the logging plan to lessen the visual impact of logging, and reduced the area by 4 acres as the result ofa hydrological study requested hy the Committe, which uncovered potential run-off damage from the initial proposal, Canadians are too tied to. their home regions and should be willing to be. mare mobile to find jobs... “Canada is still a country where the spirit behind the. old phrase, ‘Go west, young man,’ should prevail,” the council said in a brief. Solange Chaput-Rolland, Q uebe ¢ noted that a brief from Canadian National Railways ‘leaned towards the wer-pay philosophy in transportatlon.. Such a policy would mean financial ruin for ordinary Canadians wishing to travel, . she said. Earlier, during the debate on journalism, Pepin ‘stiffly criticized the English- language news media for its coverage of the air con-: trollers strike in, 1976 over the expansion of French at Quebec airports. The news media played the story prominently but Pepin claimed reporters became silent when it- was learned that bilingual air traffic control was safe. Richard Gwynn, Toronto Star columnist, agreed, and 8 a i d reporters ‘“‘are a little ashamed” when they look back on their files. In fact, teats to determine the safety of bilingual air _traffie control are con- © ed Death on the Nile, and — thnuing. the. Business’ Council on™.” “National ‘ Issues, " sald LOS ANGELES (AP) — It -washis last flight before retirement and Caplain Gene Hersehe was taking his wife along to Honolulu as he taxied the big Continental Airlines DC-10 toward takeoff, Then a bang. Two tires blown out. Landing gear buckled. A shower of sparks from metal grinding on - concrete. The plane careers to the right, toward a clump _ of buildings. - Hersche, who wiil be Friday, reacted in a flash Wednesday to pull it back to the left and bring the huge aircraft to a fiery halt off the runway, but short of a fence. It was a manoeuvre that _ may have saved lives. But two passengers died when they scrambled over a burning wing and slid down an escape chute into flames and 79 passengers were Big Actor is |A Gentle Man By BOB THOMAS . LOS: ANGELES (AP) -- For a guy who can project such menace on the screen, George Kennedy is a sur- prisingly gentle man. The 6-foot-4 actor speaks softly and rarely throws his 259 pounds around. You have the feeling that it wouldn't be ’ g good idea to cross him, but still he projects an air of quietude. . Not so in his new film Mean Dog Blues. “fe’s a return to the same territory that got me the Oscar in Cool Hand Luke,” said Kennedy. "Except that this time I'm the guard in the prison camp—the part that Strother Martin played in Luke.” ‘The “mean dog” of the title is a 90-pound Doberman ‘named Rattler that strikes terror in the hearts of the prisoners. Capt. Omar Kinsman (Kennedy) does a pretty goad job of that, too. A special target is a handsome young song writer, played by, - Gregg Henry, who has been’ © railroaded to prison to take.a _mansiaughter ‘rap for a drunken politician. - — Mean Dog: Blues is the product of Bing Crosby Productions (the late crooner sold out his interest years ago) and is being released by American Inter- national. , AVOIDS HEAVIES For George Kennedy, Mean Dog Blues was a departure, He ordinarily avoids playing sadistic heavies because he doesn’t want his two children to see him in that light. But Omar Kinsman was too juicy a part to pass up, he admits. The actor has had a strange history. Born in New York City, he seemed ’ destined for a show business career. He took part in his parents’ vaudeville act at 2, - entered radio at 7, became a . teen-age dise jackey. During _ the Second World War he served as an infantryman in "Europe and. stayed ‘in the .ULS. Army for 16 years. As information officer he was assigned to Phil Silver's’ Sgt, Bilko television series as technical adviser and. o¢- casionally played roles. That did it. He left the service and started acting in Hollywoad, mostly as tough guy in : television Westerns, Cool Hand Luke changed — all that, ° my . "My biggest fear was that nobody would see the pic- ture,"’ Kennedy recailed. , “That year (1967) was the year of the blockbusters and, except for Paul Newman, -our little prison camp movie didn't have much going for t.’ - AUDITIONED FOR PART Kennedy had heard that - another actor had been set to play Dragline,. the fellow prisoner who was Luke's foe, then his ally, in.the prison _camp.. . “ But the director, Stuart Rosenberg, assured Ken- nedy the role hadn't been ‘east and asked him if he would mind auditioning and testing. Kennedy didn't mind The payoff came on Oscar night 10 years ago. > The Oscar brought “bigger money and bigger roles—I was no longer the fifth guy through the door,” oe _ He also has starred in two brief. TV series, Sarge and ‘The Blue Knight. — He: -just returned from pt and London where he _is‘starung filming on The. Double McGuffin in the South, then comes The Colonel in Munich. ; injured, four authorities said. Also injured were 11 firemen. Mes. Hersche and the other 116 passengers and crew members escaped. “J think the pilot did a heli of a job stopping the plane before it hit the fence,” said passenger Robert Lyon, 41, a Los Angeles lawyer who is a private pilot. PILOT PRAISED Another passenger, retired pilot George Ambros, 61, of Hillsdale, N.J., said: ‘The captain certainly used hls discretion well. Had he delayed two more seconds, we wouldn't have made it.". When Hersche reversed the engines and veered to - Missa car-rental agency, the plane tipped to its side and a wing banged against the ground, rupturing a fuel tank. Sparks from the gear apparently set the leaking crilically. THE HERALD, Friday, March 3, 1978, PAGE 9 Fatal Los Angeles Jet Air Takeoff fuel ablaze, Continental officials said. “He saved a lot of lives,”' said Rick Dare, service manager for the car-renial firm in the path of the out-of- control plane. “A lot of people were afraid to slide down (the escape chutes),’* said Lyon. “] had to kick the woman down ahead of me." One passenger, Deborah Garvey, 22, of Hawaii, said there was a “‘big bump" as the plane taxied and then “little pieces of the ceiling panel started coming down.” “] heard the stewardess say, ‘Fasten your seat belts tightly, put your head down and grab your ankies.""’ VIEWED BY WORKERS nS de i watc e drama unfold. “The yellow escape chutes popped cut of the exits and Was to be pilot’s retirement flight people began sliding down them,"’ said Tom Spencer who works nearby. ‘They were screaming and running away in all directions. The flames were getting worse and worse, and the people were sliding down so slowly, it seemed. 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