rohan PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAWENT BLDI3 Daily Herald The Terracé-Kitimat Daily Herald will become an afternoon newspaper, Herald General Manager Knox Coupland announced today. The changeover from a morning to an afternoon per. will take place at the end of September. Coupland said the move is being made to offer better service to readers here. “Tt will both allow us to give greater and more immediate coverage to local events, as well as more up to date coverage of national and international news,”’Coupland sald. ; Herald Editor Greg Middleton explained that with the news deadlines for a morning newspaper you do mot always have the time to deal with all the stories which come out of evening meetings. “Many of the decisions made by loca] politicians are atinounced in the evening sessions of.city council and schoo] board, "Middleton said. “With an evening deadline you sometimes have to defer certain stories for a day." Middleton stressed that even when the stories had to be leit for a day, a daily newspaper still got readers the information faster thana weekly could and dealt with stories in more detail than radio and television were capable of. “The afternoon paper, with a morning deadline, will allow reporters to complete stories from the night ¢ q switch to before and then go on to reaction and follow-up stories.'' Middleton said, . Th addition to better local coverage, Middleton noted that most of the stories which affect the majority of Canadians break in the East in the morning and come across the Canadian Press wire in time for an af- ternoon paper in the West. , “It will give us more of what are called ‘today’ stories, more current stories,” Middleton stated, Coupland added that another consideration for the. change was that in this climate it was sometimes just too cold for the youngsters to go out and deliver the paper in the morning. He said he felt that an af- ternoon paper, delivered by the carriers as soon as afternoons they get cut of school, would be more reliable. “This decision is not being made lightly, "Coupland said. “We have spent the last year looking into production schedules and news coverage with an.eye to improving the paper.” Coupland said he is aware that many people do like toread their morning Herald over coffee but with the additional local coverage in the paper, and as the paper continues to grow, it had to turn to an afternoon publication in order to deal with both the amount of news and the problems of delivery. The Terrace-Kitimat Daily Herald will start ap- pearing on the news stands at about 3 p.m. and be delivered to your home by 5 p.m. asof Oct1. r ’ the PoP shoppe 14Fiavors BOTTLE DEPOT Beer & Pop Bottles 4836 Lazelle Ave, Terrace, B.C. Open 10.a.m.-6 p.m. dally except Sunday | Fri. +1 9 p.m. * A / ar While Butch Paone supervises work on the new Overwelghtea store In the City Centre Mall his dog, Thunder, f \. TERRACE-KITIMAT Friday, Ssptember 21, 1979 20¢ Vf Volume 73 No, 183 J RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert. 624-5639 | WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - We are open Mon. through Sat., 8 a.m.-65 pon. J = Kitimat department store 8 stands guard Gov't covers deficit VICTORIA (CP) — All hospital deficits for the 1978- 7® budget year will be paid by the provincial govern- ment, says Health Minister Bob McClelland. McClelland outlined the change in policy in a letter to all hospital boards which said the deficits would be added to the hospital's base budgets for the following fiscal year as well. In November, _ the government said hospital budget increases would be limited to 5.5 per cent over the previous budget. This limit was increased to 7.5 per cent under pressure and the last budget speech indicated a further $25 million would be available to cover the previous year's deficits. “In spite of these measures, it would appear that hoagpitais continue to experlence difficulties,'’ McClelland said in his letter. “They also are experiencing a cash flow problem and accumulating a deficit based on the current approved 1970-80 budgets. "Since our present funding mechanism does not easily identify variations in in- dividual hospitals, 1 believe it is necessary for this one tlme only to cover 1978-79 overexpenditures.”’ Hospitals here saying they are in the black By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer The government's decision to bail out hospitals with money problems has left the Seven convicted of arson NELSON, B.C, (CP) — Seven Sona of Freedom Doukhobors were found guilty in county court hera Thursday of one charge each of attempted arson. Sentence will be handed down Oct, 19. The verdict by Judge Kenneth Houghton came after 11-2 days of testimony. Throughout the trial, the defendants sat naked and sang Russian hymns before each court session. Court was told that on May 18 the seven came to the home of South Slocan resident and Orthodox Doukhobor Joe Podovinkkoff. Gasoline was spilled on the howe and matches were lit, Kitimat General Hospital and Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace in good financial shape at least for the time being. However, while both in- stitutions are now running a surplus, they take a different view of the new financing approach adopted by Health Miniter Bob McClelland. According to.Wayne Epp, the chairman of the Mills Memorial Hospital board, the new approach should diminate the need for extra subsidies, .He says In the past the government has looked at budget proposals and then slashed items they considered unnecessary. This generally resulted In financlal shortfall. Now, says Epp, the proposed budgets are generally being approved, though the @vernment claims it won't bail the institution out if it runs overbudget in future. “We're very much in favour of this," he said, “It's something we can live with,” . Epp explained that the @vernment is funding ac- tual coste, instead of glashing budget proposals. Jack Green, the ad- ministrator of Kitimat General Hospital] is satisfied with the current financial position of his hospital, but adds he doesn’t see any pardcular change in Mc- Clelland's approach. “The only thing we see is that he'll be a hit more reasonable and iflexible,”he said, “Now we'll. be ex- pected to pay our way. He gays if you have a deficit from new ‘on, he won't bail you cut.’” Green pointed out that sometimes hospitals ex- perience deficits for “reasons beyond our con- trol.” For example in some cases, special treatment for patienta require initial ex- penditures in the area of $800. This kind of emergency can’t be predicted . He said the government is generally, ‘not very hard ta wt along with’ and there are no problems this year. “In our case, the adjustment we got brought us on the right side of $50,000.'This surplus enabled the Kitimat General Hospital to pay off earlier accumulated debts, leaving a total surplus of $7,000. Herald staff writer Erleen Comeau is on the phone working on her column, Around the Town. If you have an item of interest give her a call at 635-6357, still divulge the name of the Herald Staff Writer company except to say “we are in conversation now with them.” ‘As we continue to find tenants, we are going ‘to continue to build,'"he said. ‘We're well under construction, and building a number of Kitimat will be getting a new department store as part of its expansion in the City Centre Mail, but Jim. = Alexson a spokesman for the Cloverlawn Investment company would nat Terrace shoppers to get new mall By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer While Kitimat is expanding its central shopping core, Terrace is not lagging far behind. In fact, a new shopping centre will be going up opposite the Skeena Mall. The same company responsible for the expansion of Kitimat's City Centre Mall, Cloverlawn Investment, is developing ‘the new two-story shopping centre on 58, “We'll have the bids for this new project here in the office on Sept.27,says Cloverlawn construction manager Bob Groves. ‘We don’t know at this point who we will be awarding the construction project to. Cloverlawn, who own the 14,000 square-foot lot, are the developers. The new shopping centre will lease aifices on the upper floor with the merchants located on the ground. Groves wouldn't reveal who the tenants were, though he said it is likely a new bank branch will be coming to Terrace. There will also he a major drug store chain and at least one restaurant possibly Mr. Mikes moving from their old premises down the street. He says the old shopping centre’ vill be upgraded," “We think Terrace is going ahead and in two years down the road we think it'll be underbuilt, not over- built.” he concluded. mystery. major’ buildings in the new complex, the largest o which is the new. . Over weightea store.” Paving on the site should begin. shortly, according to Alexson. The entire expansion project, excluding the mew department store, will cost in the neigh- bourhood of $ to $6 million. The construction manager for Cloverlawn, Bob Groves, says the $1 million Overweightea project should be com- pleted by Sept. 30, the new addition to the Northwest Community College will be ready by mid-October, at a cost of $250,000. Another $250,000 lot, including a Redwood Foods store, should be ready around the same date. A new $500,000 contract has just been awarded for another complex to include a major drug store, bakery ‘and «delicatessen. A completion date of mid- November has been set. In total the new con- struction will .this year take in 95,000 square feet. Originally the land was owned by Alcan who sold it for $1 square foot to the municipality. The land was then sold in turn to the development com- pany, with the municipality obliged to provide public utilities as its major expense. DC 9 ceiling lifted MONTREAL (CP) — A low flying ceiling imposed on Air Canada DC-9 aircraft for safety reasons following a near-disaster Monday has been removed effective at 6 a news conference Thursday evening at its Dorval maintenance base, company engineers at- cracks in the rear bulkhead tempted to explain how tiny. a.m. EDT today, the alrline has arinounced., The national carrier's 43 DC-8s had been ordered to fly at25,000 feet — 10,000 feet lower than usual — to reduce stress on the planes after an air seal broke last Monday and blew a nine-metre tail cone off an airborne plane and into the Atlantic Ocean, The airplane was 11 minutes out of Boston heading for Halifax when the mishap occurred, Escaping air pressure sucked out a liquor cart, but except for a stewardess who was slightly hurt, no one was Injured, Refugees on By ERLEEN COMEAU Herald Staff Writer The community of Terrace will be welcoming its first Ind- Chinese refugees as early as this weekend, says John Vanderwal spokesman for the Christian Reformed Chur ch, The Christian Refor- med Church has recently -been notified that three families have been selec ted to be placed here through them, said Vanderwal Thursday. Temporary arrangements have been made to house the 17 newcomers and Van- derwal says,we have more offers than people,”’ CMHC is unable to supply apartment units for the families until sometime in October so families here have opened their homes, he said, The group has been ‘able to arrange for in- terpreters to assist them on the arrival and sorting out of the families at the airport. The boat pecple were due {0 arrive Thursday but due to transportation peoblems they have still not arrived in Canada to be screened at one of the two slaging areas where they spend their first 48 hours in the country. Vanderwal ia op- fimistic they will arrive in Terrace via CPA sometime on Saturday or Sunday. spread enough to cause a rear emergency door to fly out and trip a cable which released the tail cone. “We're satisfled that we have no aircraft flying with Vulnerable cracks in the bulkhead," said Derek Bone, vice-prealdent of main- tenance. However, gix aircraft will not be put back into service until = =‘‘tiny'’? ~~ cracks discovered in their rear bulkheads in susequent x- rays have been repaired, be sald. Those planes will be released for service during the day today, while the jet . wa Although donations to set up housekeeping for the needy families has been good, Vanderwal says they are still lacking bedding amd beds, The three families arriving have a total of nine children ranging from one year to 16 years @f age. Toys and other articles for these children would be greatly ap- preciated, said Van- derwal. The occupation of the heads of the families is which lost its tail cone will be out of operation for a couple of months, he said. Bone sald that aiter. Monday's incident, Air. Canada developed a multl-. faceted, in-house system for inspecting pressure areas.: Previously, only a single - head-on x-ray was used, “We found said Bone. ‘‘Now, cracks that could escape attention. are now showing up quite clearly.’ The whole fleet of class 32: DC-9s will be given this fine- tooth comb treatment over the next 15 days, he said. Bill Ramage, director of maintenance quality, could not say how the crack that shows up on routine x-rays of the bulkhead taken four months ago was missed, here | still quite vague and the group is unable at this time to determine whether or not em- ployment situations can be established, he said. The sponsors are hervous, as they are quite unsure of what to feed them and how difficult communication will be, Vanderwal said. Assistance for the group may be directed to Norm Mantel at 635-5226 or John Vanderwal 635- 320. that this method is not infallible,’’ em a: