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By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer

What's cooking at the Skeglund Hotsprings? That's
what a lot of people would like to know including
Skeena MLA Frank Howard and former Agriculture
Minister Cyril Shelford. a

The provincial ministry of lands, parks, and housing
completed a study on the site over a week ago. It is not

mending, if in fact there are any recommendations.
Skeena MLA Frank Howard has written Jim Chabot,
the minister of lands, parks and housing, requesting a
public statement on the government’s intentions,
“The minister has had a report in his hands for over
a week now regarding the hotsprings,”’ says Howard.
“T had a letter delivered to his office by my secretary
to impress upon him the need for an early statement

Howard envisions a multi-purpose facility including
plans to heat greenhouses and nurseries. He also says
the Northwest Community College could use the
facility for training students.

‘It is a bit frustrating to local residents to see this
important and valuable piece of public property under
lock and key and with a gate across the entranceway,”

said.

been in contact recently with his ex-colleague.

“T talked to Chabot and he says the study will be
released probably within the next two weeks," he said.
“He knows my views and is accepting some of my
input,”

Rhelford sees the development as beneficial for the
whole area, especially for the tourist trade. Shelford
hopes about $5 million will be pumped Into the project,

known what the fact finding committee is recom- on the springs.”

has

if given the go ahead.

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firm
on sex

PHILADELPHIA
(Reuter) — Pope John Paul
has dashed hopes of
liberal Roman Catholics by

declaring that he will not .

relax the rules of prieatly
celibacy and irrevocable
commitment to the

priesthood.

During his first three days
In the United -States,
Pope hes proved that, while
he is among the moat
charismatic of recent
pontiffs, he is also one of the

most orthadox.

Nowhere in the three cities
he hae visited since arriving
on Monday has the Pope's
concern for Roman Catholic
orthodoxy been as clearly
expressed as it was Wed-
nesday in Philadelphia, the
cradle of U.S, democracy.

At a mats attended by one
Pigelphls's Logan cir jn
Phila *s Logan Circle,
he warned Americans not to
wefreedom as an excuse for

ter ina apeech to demi-
narians, John Paul said that
riests make “an
wocable commitment” to
celibacy and to remaining in
the thood.

deed offering you this gift
which is intended for the
good of the church and for
the service of others.”

And be quoted St Paul's
words to reaffirm his own
thoughts: “There is nothing

that I cannot master with the
help of the one who gives me
| ."

“.Thie Pope added: ‘I want
to ind you of the im-
portance of fidelity (to the
priestly ca . Before you
can be ed, you are

called to Christ to make a
free and irrevocable com-
mitment to be faithful to him
and to his church.”

Qne controversial aspect
of Popa John Paul's brief
papacy has been the freezing
of more than 1,000 requests
by priests to leave their

He is reported to be con-
sidering new rules tougher
than Pope Paul VI's tolerant
attitude towards the return
of clergymen to the laity.

Many priests have applied
to leave the priesthood while
remaining Reman Catholics
because of the dissallsfac-
tlon with celibacy,

Ve cy

cutting duties here Wednesday.

McCarthy opens home here

By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer
It was a busy Wednesday
for Human Resources
Minister Grace McCarthy,

while she was visiting
Terrace, as first the
provincial cabiret minister
attended the ribbon cutting
ceremony of the new Skeena

Grace McCarthy is asslated by a resident of the Skeena Residences and Jack Cook In her ribbon

Residence on Sparka Street,
then made her way down
along with about 80 other
people, to the Bavarian Inn
for the presentations of the

Auto workers walking out

MONTREAL (CP) —
Nearly 4,000 workers were
off the fob today at General
Motors plantas in Quebec,
despite reports the company
andthe United Auto Workers
have reached tentative

agreement on a country-
ide contract,

Local union spokesman
Claude Pelette said picket
linea were up at the GM plant
in Ste. Therese, north of
Montreal, which employs

Twister tears it up

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn.
(AP) — A freak tornado

. Milled one person, left 118

others in hoapital and catised
damage estimated at inore
than $100 million as it tore
through forthcentral Con-
necticut.

The Wednesday affernoon
tloere facing winds of up to
r pac of up
194 kilometres an bour, de-
atroyed a collection of rare
airplanes and blew away
homes and businesses

through parts of Windsor and
Windeor Locks

“They wandered around
saying, ‘Gee, my howe just
blew away,’ Rev. James
Silver sald of the survivors of
the storm. Silver's
Congregational Church in
Poquonock lost its roof and
steeple to the winds.

Gov. Ella Grasso, who
lives In Windsor Locks,
declared an 8 p.m. to5 a.m.
eurfew in the stricken area
to prevent looting and
vandalism. bd

She dispatched
Natlonal Guardsmen to
enforce the curfew and
patrol the area, Mrs. Grasso,
whose home was not
damaged, said an ap-
plication for federal disaster
ald js being drawn up.
Bradley International, the
state's major airport, was
closed today, ita regular and
backup electrical power
knocked out and the airfield
strewn with the splintered
wreckage of helicopters and

airplanes.
‘Tt looks like It's been
bombed,”” said state Trans-
ortation Commissioner
hur Powera.

Rescue efforts after the
storm were hindered
becausemost of the Con-
necticut National Guard’s
helicopter fleet was de-
stroyed. The few available
helicopters were broght ‘in
from other of the state

200

to fly the most seriously
injured. to hospitals while
roads remained blocked by
, dehrls

The tornado — _ not
redicted by weather
forecasters — destroyed the
alrport’s Bradley Air
Museum and its collection of
rare and antique military
aircraft.

There was no Immediate
count of the number left
homeless by the twister.
Authorities are searching
again today to determine if
any victima are trapped
beneath the rubble of scores
of homes and businesses.

Killed when flying lumber
struck his plekup truck was
William Kowalsky, 24, of!
Manchester, Ten of the 114
persons aemitted to peep
— one a ten-month-old baby
— are in critical condition,

“Tt was like a science
fiction “movie — a big
monster coming at you —
like there was somethin
outside the windows,"’ sal
LaMontt, who is [n good

ver-= in hoanital.

3,600, and at a GM diesel
plant at nearby Ste.
Eustache which employs 350.

“The orders were to stay
out,’’ Pelette, vice-president
of Local 1136, sald in an
interview. But he could not
explain. why Quebec union
representatives did not go
along with the country-wide
plan, hammered out in
Toronto late Wednesday
night, =.

Robet Dean, head of the
Quebec section of the union,
was reported to be in Toronto
and could not be reached far
comment.

There were unconfirmed
reports the Quebec workers
were afraid the tentative
contract would result in their
losing certain beneflls under
the Quebec pension plan.

Company spokesmen in

_the Montreal area were not

available for comment.
Company and union
spokesmen had said Wed-
nesday there were some
deails to be ironed out at the
Quebec planta, but ex-
pressed optimism they could
settled easily with no
work stoppage.

In the tentative
agreement, all locals acrosa
Canada were supposed to set
a date to ratify the proposed
three-year contract, But
Pelette sald no meetings had
been called yet for his local,

wes

TRA

BLAMED

* PCB source
not removed

Fulton wants action

By ED YUDIN
Herald Stalf Writer
The federal govern-
ment has failed to replace
potentially dangerous
industrial equipment at
its Prince Rupert grain

B elevator due to budget

Photo by Greg Middleton

Year of the Child and Family
Achievement Awards.
Before handing the

awards, she emphasized the
high priority children
receive with the minlatry of
human resources.

Over 4000 young people
recelye support services
from the ministry. Most of
the awards were related to
services rendered for the
care of displaced
youngsters. She sald the
primary goal of all programs
to ald children who are
displaced from their home
for whatever reason was to
“geek to have the children
returned to the homes of
their natural parents.” “Our
goal is to sea the child get the
best support possible
whether the child is han-
dicaped or not,” she said.
McCarthy added the drive
for continued improvement
for displaced and needy
children will not cease when
the Year of the Child ends on
Dec. 31.

restraints, and Jim
Fulton, the M.P. for
Skeena, has called for
“immediate action’ to

_ replace the magnets

containing
polychlorinated
biphenyls or PCB’s,
“The fact thet almost
every facility in the
country has responded by
Temoving the magnets
containing the PCB’s
clearly points out the
need for such action in
Prince Rupert,” said

’ Fulton'in condemning the

Tory government’s
failure to spend between
$30,000 and $50,000 for the
replacement magnets,

3 The highly toxic chemical

is used as a lubricant for
the magnet, which
removes nails and other
extraneous matter fro
the grain.

All private grain
elevators have replaced
the equipment, adhering
to the labour code. The
previous Liberal ad-
ministration had also
removed the equipment
from virtually every one
of its elevators — Prince
Rupert being one of the
few exceptions. The
money had been
budgeted for its removal
before the Trudeau
government's defeat
earlier this year.

Charlie Paul, the
superintendant of the
Prince Rupert elevator
says the treasury board
refused to allocate the
replacement funds as
part of its restraint
program.

“The magnets are
dangerous, moreso to the
worker than the con-
sumer,” he said, pointing
to a minor leak in 1974 at
the Prince Rupert
elevator.

PCB has been known to
cause changes in skin
pigmentation, bone
deformities and has
resulted in stillbirths
when the chemical in-
filtrated the food supply.

Paul acknowledged
that the workers at the
grain elevator appeared
to be oblivious to the

dangers of a spill.

“They don’t seem to
realize what danger there
is ”

The government’s
attention has recently
been drawn to Ab-
hotsford, where a spill in
Billings, Montana has
had its effects, The cost of
the cleanup was far in
excess of the money
needed to replace the
magnets,

IN KITIMAT

“This temporary delay
of a $50,000 expenditure
may have grave im-
plications and cost much
more in the future,”
Fulton said. He has
written Agriculture
Minister John Wise,
asking for some govern-
ment move to rectify the
situation. He adds there
shouldn’t be a double
standard for private and
government elevators.

Plan sees bay
used for port

mutate ' roposed
commy plan, cir-
cillated to all residents a
week ago, has already
been revised.

Minette Bay, reserved
in the original proposal as
parkland and green belt
for recreational use, has
been. changed to joint
industrial and recreation
use on the basis of a
telephone call to Van-
couver,

Mayor George Thom
told residents who at-
tended a public hearing

on the proposed plan
Tuesday that ‘‘in-
dications have been
received (from the
federal department of
Environment Canada)

that Minette Bay may be
available. for
development as a result
of alienation of the
habitat through minimal
water circulation and
industrial undertakings."

A report prepared by
William Schouwenburg,
chief of water use
division, habitat
protection division,
Environment Canada, on
the feasability of a ferry
terminal east of the
Eurocan dock limits the
development to 600 feet.

The report hag not yet
been received but
telephone conversations

cont’d on
page 3

Trade deficit up

CAROL GOAR

‘AWA (CP) — For the
firat time this year, there
was a deficit In the balance
of trade.

Government figures
raion gap between importa

ion gap een
and the merchand|se Canada
aold abroad.

Statistics Canada ed
that exports inc by a
mere 3.1 per cent in August
from July, but imports rose
by 6.4 per cent in the same
period, leaving the country
in the red in its merchandise
account with the rest of the
world.

Imports during August
were valued at $5.45 billion
while export sales amounted
to $5.31 billlon.

The $2-billion trade sur-
plus Finance Minlater John
Croabie has predicted for the
year ia beginning to look
almost unreachable, Two-
thirds of the way through
1970, the surplus was $857
million,

The figures contained
further bad news for the

government and business
community.

The $77-million surplus
previously reported for July,
on a pi ary basis a
month ago, was revised to

“ga million =...

Since the beginniig.. of
June, there has been total
surplus in merchandise
trade of less than $100
million,

If the government |s forced
to revise the A t figure
because final atatletica show
the situation worse than it
mow appears during that
month, the three-month
figure could be dismal.

This small surplus com-
pares with a pluses of more
than $250 million in a single
month at the beginning of

ar.

Most economists are
warning that the worst is to
come. With the U.S. moving
ever deeper into what now
appears to be a prolonged
recession, sales prospects in
that country, which buys 70
per cent of Canada's exports,
are likely to deteriorate.

Helpline gets credit

“Some are just people concerned about themselves.”

Helpline For Children, the new child abuse

emergency phone service, has already been in-
strumental in preventing fatalities, according to what
Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy, said at

the Year of the Child Award presentations in Terrace

on Wednesday.

“Tf we hadn’t had ihe Helpline in the last few weeks,
some cases would be statistics today,” she said.
Helpline for Children is a 24-hour toll-free Zenith
number established in August across the province,
Since then over 5,000 calle have been received.

The people are then referred to the proper counselling

or aid service.

AS Soon as a complaint comes in over the number,
immediate action is promptly taken. In many cases,
reports by parents, neighbours and even children has
resulted in preventative action. There are still reports
of child deaths she admitted, but the figure is drop-

ping.

“We are attacking child abuse and child neglect

port -

“Some of the calis are not concerning child abuse or
neglect,” she commented in explaining the high total.

with a vengeance,’ she added. ‘The resuits are well
worth the investment,