SERRE, i OTONEAIEITS UTTNE B ferdabia Price Sony Precision Balt Driven Turntable 4607 LAKELSE AVENUE, “Radio saaek The Right Sound AD The Af. $159.95 q PHONEGIS-S8IO Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewartand the Nass . ‘VOLUME 71 ‘NO. 49 Prica: By ALLAN KRASNICK Managing Editor Mario Di Giovanni's circuitous four-year effort to establish a modular home and accessories plant in ’ Terrace has finally received municipal approval. The Terrace developer, owner .- of Madig MARIO ‘DIGIOVANNI 2.conte COUNCIL FLIP FLOPS” - DiGiovanni proposal accepted Construction, received council ,approval for his distrc yesterday, as the is rict once again flip- on e issue Sorecoing, by two-thirds vote, its earlier rejection of attempts to establish the Plant on a Graham Street Mai or Dave Maroney was by Ald, Jack Talstra, ou bh Mumford, Vic ‘Jolliffe, and Robert Cooper in supporting a motion to enter into a land use contract with the developer, thus: legitimatizing his construction to date. Ald, Helmut Siesbrecht and ‘Dave Pease dissented. The proper ‘operty is presently zoned or agricultural rather than industrial use. Di Giovanni has contended that he urchased the Graham t property in 1973 after ‘ assurances from municipal staff that its agricultural zoning was subject to revision to industrial use. When told that he was resiricted, at the tlme of purchase, to contruction of agricultural buildings, Di ‘Giovanni determined to call his structure a warehouse, oyen {noni accordi ng to in’ a June 8 ta raid interview, he never intended the building for this use. The land will continue to be. zoned agricultural but under designation as a development area, its new industrial use will supersede the zoning designation. The pair whose reversal promled acceptance of the -law were Jolliffe and Mumford. Jolliffe said he. changed his mind after seareing the Di Giovanni. file at city hall. ; He said Di Giovanni had done nothing illegal, was offered and accepted a land use contract, and, when asked by the city to accept new provisions in t contract to protect the public, agreed to the amendments tough, Mumford said he om inally rejected the plication because he felt himself Jacking in the owledge to support a go- ahead. He at first tried to table’ the ‘motion when | it: arose before council last month, he told the meeting, but when this effort fail he ‘voted “no”, would once again come up. _ TUESDAY, JULY 12, . a AY, JULY 12, 1977 - municipal and constituted a binding pact hoping ‘it - The alderman reviewed the city’s involvement with the developer. To suggestions that an agreement between ‘administrators the . development Giesbrecht, expressed ee city i responsible but not cosamitted to what our staff says,” Giesbrecht oe rtunity to reconsider « declared jovanni’s case came when Mayor Maroney, exercising a prerogative e enjoys under Section 180 of the Municipal Act, re- introduced the by-law for fourth reading. He required - - 8 two-thirds vote of council to negate the previous ‘yejection and, when this was granted, discussion. on the lication ensued. = * mae mut irbapaaneerind consistent in to the scheme, said he dislikes it not because of the the developer has _ “Its just l lansing, ” ‘Giesbrecht sa -aldermen who application) on He added that he disliked “lumped in with other osed (the e basis of e tactics used.” Pease agreed - with Giesbrecht - about the cal in of the al proposal in the . residential-agricultural area. “Pye opposed this since I cam eon council for the same reasons (as Giesbrecht),’’ Pease explained. ~. *{t'g just not logical -to ‘have ustry there. I've seen no fresh information to cause me to change my view,” - Kick out 3 MLAs, says ‘Macdonald VICTORIA (CP) — Social Credit MLAs, two of of Macdonald (NDP— Vancouver East) said them cabinet ministers, are Monda nolonger eligible tosit in the Brit Columbia Legislature, former at- torney- general Alex - VANCOUVER cP. ‘The Sun says the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia paid several claims it had earlier refused after Social Credit MLA George Kerster asked the government-controJled corporation that they be. Pithe evening - newpaper wiacdonald called ‘on Attorney-General Garde Gardom to take action against Recreation Minister. NE WSPAPER CHARGES ~. *rfered-v itt paid documents in its. sion claim Kerster tervened in “claims Bortnick, ICBC vice- president and general then ordered the claims to be paid. — Kerater sc- oquitlam one set of said Monday he intervened’ in the claim procedure, but with Norman - Sam Bawlf, Agriculture | Minister Jim Hewitt and George Kerster (Copulam), after’ Housing: ster Hugh Curtis tol the Tegistaiuve that some of their expenses had been claimed he. was. “doing my job as an MLA.” The documents state that three claims by a Leslie — ‘Wood, turned down because © they were suspect, were later paid on Bartnick’s . orders, in one case specifically, ‘after, unnamed MLA got involve “I remember this nha _ CHRIST CALLED HOMOSEXUAL Gay editor convicted of blasohemous libel "LONDON (AP) — The editor of Gay News and his ‘newspaper were convicted of blasphemous libel Monda tdepctn euGhistes a2 poem t a homosexual: , Britain's first blasphemy . trial.in 55 years ‘aroused surprised protests from free-s advocates after the jury of.seven men and five women voted 10 to two’ for conviction of editor Denis Lemon and the paper Sentence was: to. | today. | Britain's blasphemy “legislation, which traces back to the Middle Ages, specifies no maximum . The last man convicted .got nine months at hard labor. en The poem, in which a * anti- homosexual Roman ‘centurion describes his fee! toward Christ at the. Sy proseentor ohn Sinyth yy prosecu myth 80 vile that it would be hard for even the most per- verted imagination to conjure up an' g worse. “We have free s ” Bea Smyth cole ‘cour re att the "s ope a week ago, “You can say Christ was a fraud or a deceiver or Christ may. have . been a homosexual, ‘Provided you say. it: reasonable, measured, reflective, de- cent way. y. POEM TRFENDED | : . The defence, led by play” wrl ht-barrister John ortimer, contended the poem by Oxford Prof. saved the life of another man last year was presented wi Canadian Humane Society award Friday. Suliasi Molidegei of 33 Petrel Street received an incident in the - Kitimat River in August 7, 1976. ~ Molidegei swam out into the cold, faat- Award presented | to Kitimat man A Kitimat man who’ a Royal: the award asa result of . moving river to. BAY : Douglas Milne who was clin ing to his: ed kayak. The man and kayak were. drifting toward a stretch of rapids when °* ‘Molidegei ed them ashore. . E.H. “Prefry commanding - officer “ot the Prince Ru ort division of the R made the revectation on behalf of the provincial secretary, James Kirkup, di tack Christ but Him by assertin ‘for him Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, ‘a well-known a mural and anti- pornogra’ campa . who made e the comp int that started the prosecution, declared at. the: end: a "if not. substantiated, aren't simply ‘thank God... A ine. has at leasts rzzt.” Lemon, 32, tqld reporters he was “shocked and dis- appointed, and - ational Council for Civil Liberties condemned the — - verdict as “‘a dan angergus new form of censor lp. ; Artists and ters, the cuncil said, ‘‘must now conform tothe standards of a religion practised by only a minority of the country.” Lemon and Gay News were convicted of “unlawfully and ublishing a blasphemous ibel concerning ~ the Christian religion, namel an obscene oem and illustration v ‘Christ in His life and crucifixion,” The poem was printed last year. Copies of the distributed to t reporters in court, judge directed that it not be printed in poern were of blasphemyin: Br John William Gott, was a secularist pamphletesr sentenced in 1922 for selling two of his works, Ri Ticklers and God and Shot in a London street. His health suffered In jail, and he died . shortly after release. did not “a lorified tian 8 . beliets and speakin of love beating :, connection with three ‘months before the fe juryend j in the pr i The last man Found pullty. ; tain, said Keister about the Wood claims.” “I. spent: a ‘whole day up up there.’ CBC sp okesman: Bev Penhall Kerster’s intervention ‘was ‘investigated by ICBC resident and: ducation Minister Pat MeGeer, and the charge of political interforene “was found to be ee Kert iKerster was in Bortnick’s office, but as an MLA, representing | constituent.” DISCUSSED CLAIM Another set of documents show that Kerater discussed with ICBC officials: another claim on damages to a car stolen from the Dodge. dealer. of which he was president and. general er before he e in December, ' 1975. terminated his claim was filed with ICBC and six months befote he contacted ICBC officials over the matter. “All of these: allegations, of beans," said a this is stupid. They're getting into a sneer cam I Seid ‘by somebody in the corporation that some le are out to get me.” In Victoria, McGeer rejected any interpreta tation that Kerster had impr ly interfered _ the co: ation. said - a thorou h- investigation two mon ago found Kerster had not- inpropey Kerster, . acted said Mc ‘other MLA or member of public, had prodded ICBC just as any to making a decision on. cases that had been left idle. McGeer aaid the outcome of the claims had nothing to. ‘ Kerater’s | do with inte rather the judgments ‘were ' made grounds that ICBC would nave. ‘lost had tthe claims gone to court. Later during queation period in --th ‘cginlature, | McGeer tg tabled a imgrng the ‘egistatare: the results af investigation into charges of wrong doing | against Kerster. . \axpense — sheet was - ~memor - from. dep “housing minister Larry , to b raid: Monday pay at the firm | thé year ‘to investigate ‘roadblocks in the delivery of auld ‘the L housing in B.C. Curtis tabled in the egislature dqcuments ich show the government : t paid $1, $1,681. .82 to cover the three MLAs, studing a direct payment the . of $107.58 to Hewitt. - Accompanying to an assistant deputy min- ister’ ister instructing that no direct] the the MLAS on this commi tee assed for payment rom de- partmental funds.” SEEK OTHER SOURCES “It is the intention of the government to seek alternate sources inorder to compensate the MLAs for these expenses.” Macdonald said the docu-- ments confirm that the three received expense funds: contrary to the: Constitution. Act and they now are ineligible to sit as He noted Curtis ex ressed regret ‘and es were department, they Dai not not . have been, and had not been repaid by’ any of the three membet'a concerned,” ‘ “That the minister seeks repayment or reimbursement from some (pee “Kick out”, P.2) Alaskan oil halt remains -pipeline developed a crack, WASHINGTON (AP) — Intetior Secretary Cecil Andrus ordered on Monday that-the halt onnthe flow of oil the trans-Alaska continued until midkes sure there is no danger of another explosion. An explosion and fire at Pump Station No, 8 killed one person and injured 1 five others: — last apparently when oil jeak the into the pumphouse and: ignited A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, which sent a team to investigate the Pump Station No. 38 ‘explosion, said Sunday that no delay in oil flow resumption would result from that investigation. FLOW STARTE Oil tarted flowin through the line June 20 an 8 opera ng compan tabs oe estimated it ould 30 da taka 30 days fe for the firat ol trogen gas ahead® Prat tos it to srevent an explosive mixture of oil and air, to reach Valdez. ‘Fourteen days later, the record number of ce ieee _ghgertamind “further: intimated that while the ; the ' attended. the of the ‘Mills Memorial Hospital psychiatr{e. wing Monday. The large crowd was indicative of the many people who have worked wards the expansion of the hospital through two provincial government administrations. Five years of planning and fighting government realized when Jim Dong, Pacif Coast Enterprises ‘handed Wayne Epp, hospital board chairman the keys to the wing. Leo Donahue, vice-president of B.C. Health Association, presented the board with a gavel from the association. The new wing houses the psychiatric unit, the kitchen and dining room on the lower level. On Friday, ed the ground floor is the was resident OF - Cyril Shelford, MLA for Skeena, unveils looks on, The $6.3 million budget for the plaque for the new wing of Mills hospital extention was not completely used Memorial Hospital in Terrace Menday as a while Hugh Metlelland, Minister of Health, Dignitaries open new hospital wing ~. aguiinistration .. offices. Sa a face” onto eliminated most of the Haugland = Ave.), “medical. records, laboratories, X-Ray radiology departments, ‘ phsio erapy, and ' @mergency plus remodelling of the operating room. The elled-in upper floor has space for 25 heds and an existing modern: intensive care unit, . $6.3 million, under budget by $.7 million when completed, The hospital has now fone from an 65 bed fac ty to a 103 bed eon Shelford, MLA . for Skeena, unveiled the hospital plaque which was covered with a fia of. Canada. — Healt Minister Hugh McClelland then reminded those in attendance that $500 million will be spent on: health care facilities the next five a §.7 million savings was matie. + and avoid sm . constructi included ‘public. - en He. ‘paid ‘selec has" “ther” diseases and a lot of - health today comes Pon careless pepe habits. He said should be caref eat and how her me should wateh fae ‘drinking habits Also attending the opening from Victoria: e John Glenwright associate minister o} health, Hugh McGann, on and inspection of B.C. Hospite? Programs and Ray Goodacre of the department’s planning section. Local representatives “members of ast and ospital regional municipal povernmente, or local hospital staff rand administration and the present boards, districts, other UNTIL DANGER PASSES apparently because of contact with cold liquid nitrogen instead of warmed- up nitrogen gas: The oll was stopped, 15 miles short of Pump Station No. 8, for 234 days while the damaged section of pipeline was replaced. Last Thursday morning, the oil started flowing again, assing through Pump tation No. 8, and filling the four-foot diameter pipeline for another 30 miles south, Last Friday oil pressure in the line dropped suddenly. The oll flow was fhe workmen fabhed for : and when a crew to check a hu ee ne see if it: was. crude oil and vapo. ae under pressure into the . p room and expl ed as safety. 4 Alyeska said dama, ei was in0re than the milion, Toll 19 in French flood RICH, France (Reuter) — . The death toll mounted to 19 Monday in the worst flooding to, hit southwestern France this century and the government dispatched : a senior minister to co- ordinate relief operations. Weekend flooding following days of torrential rain, destroyed up to 90 per - cent of the region's cereal and tobacco crops decimated livestock and caused millions of dollars worth lf property damage The Meteorological Of ce forecast further storms for the southwest. Prime Minister Raymond Barre announced that one million franes ($200,000) would be made available for immediate aid.n President Valery Giscard d’Estaing ordered Interior Minister Christian Bonnet to tour devastated areas in the Haute Garonne, Gers and Lot and Garonne departments (districts) to coordinate relief work. This city of 25,000, capital — of the Gers district, ‘was cut in two by a muddy torrent when the Gers River rose nearly 10 feet in half an More than 5,000 people were made homeless when the lower part of the town | “was submerged by flood waters, which carried away | two bridges, undermined ! the foundations of buildings : and smashed cars. : The bodies of six victims * had been found and at least ‘ two other people were | known to have drowned. Elsewhere, five campers : perished at a holiday camp - in the Haute Garonne area. : Six Je died in the Lot | and Garonne area, including { a young soldier killed in a - read accident hile on a: 4 rescue mission. :