fo ' PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLDGS VICTORIA BC Pollution Sree * A member of the Pollution Control Board will meet with Euroean officials. today in Kitimat to decide whether the pulp mill can operate without the precipitator destroyed in a fire Monday. Eurecan spokesman Stan Fritter said Wednesday that if the board permits the mill to resume operations without the precipitator, a device that cleans chemicals from the exhausts in the steam room, the company could be back in production within 10 days. If, however, the board refuses the, company's request to use alternative methods, the mill will be shut down for at least nine weeks. Fritter said it will take four weeks to clear away debris from the fire and a further five weeks to instal! a new precipitator. He said none of Eurocan’s 900 employees will be laid off during the shutdown. Total cost of the fire, including interruptions to board looks at Eurocan problem business, could reach $10 million, Fritter said, The company has sent force majeure notices to customers informing them that scheduled orders cannot be filled until the mill resumes operation, Force majeure notices have also been sent to the company's chip suppliers. » These visitors from the Odawa Friendship Centre are here to learn _* itéut-the differences betweed-the Pacific Northwest and their’ Dalarlo home. As guests of the Kermode Friendship Centre, they ‘toured a number of local attractions and visited nearby native Demonstrators threaten hostages An estimated 80,000 demonstrators marched on the U.S, Embassy in Tehran loday as Moslem militants threatened to take harsh action against their hostages Inside the mission if the United States forces the shah to go toany country but Iran. NBC-TV news in Tehran said the march on the em- bassy was the biggest since the hostages were seized Nov. 4. The protest followed Moalem sabbath prayers and the demonstrators were led In anti-U.S, chants broadcast by loudspeakers in accom- panying minibuses. A, spokesman for the militants inside the embassy told Tehran Radio: “We announce — the message of the [ranian people to the world that if America expels the shah, it will be committing an of- fence even greater than its previows ones, The shah should be delivered to the franiannation with his hands tled. If America expels the shah, it must be certain that - harsher decisions will be taken against the hostages.”' The broadcast, monitored in London, also said the militants would boycott U.S. goads and urged other Iranians “to ban us. products in any way possible during the coming week. So far the U.S, government has refused to meet the mili- tants’ damand for the shah's extradition and has given no ladteation it plans to expel m, “Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, revolutionary leader, has canceled all appointments for the next three weeks be- cause of ‘slight fatigue and illness,” the state radio said, and foreign diplomats in Tehran predicted a long slege for the hostages, As the crisis entered its sath day today, the United States mounted a new initiative to win increased domestle and international pressure for release of the captives, sald by the state department to number 60 to 62 U.S, citizens and eight nonAmericans. The number of hostages previously had been . estimated at almost 100, but ithe state department said Thursday night that about 30 78, Iran's. Iranian employees were freed shortly after the em- bassy takeover Nov, 4. Iran was still insisting that Shah Mohammad Reza’ Pahlavi, ousted by Khomeini’s forces in January, be extradited from the United States before the captives could be released, Pei Toate ast eee Naar creed a PA villages to compare the Nishga and Gitksan-Carrier cultures with . thelr own Ojibway and Cree heritage. A group of young people” Sponsored by the Kermodes will return the visit. Photo by Greg Middleton and there was no sign the crisis wus about to end soon, foreign diplomats in Tehran told The Associated Press in Bonn, West Germany, by telephone. The protracted stalemate led to calls for President Carter to take even tougher steps against Iran, but U.S. officials in Washington said shipments of food and medicine to fran will not be blocked for the time being. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the largest farm group in the United States, said it will support an embargo on U.S, food exports to Iran. U.S. U.S. takes hard line WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter, taking a hard line, says he will hold the Iranian government accountable for the safety of about 60 U.S. citizens held hostage in Tehran. "This is an act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition,” the president said. Carter's strong statement, made Thursday in a speech to an AFL-CIO convention here, marked a shift toward a blunt public approach to the regime of the Ayatoliah Ruhollah Khomeini. An administration official who asked not to be named admitted that US. diplomatic efforts have failed to produce ‘the ele- ments of a solution,’* Hesaid Iranian authorities have gradually eased off a demand for return of the shah for trial, but said that their control over the students who occupy the U.S, Embassy in Tehran is un- certain. The president said seizure of the embassy violated basic principles of in- ternational law. He vowed the takeover will not sway U.S. policy, “The United States of America will not yield to international terrorism or blackmail,"’ Carter said. He said Americans are angry, but that the situation calls for patience, per- severence and ‘measured, deliberate action.” The president did not in- dicate what steps the United - States might take if the hostages are not released, Actions taken so far in- clude a cutoff of spare parts for Iran's air force, a self- imposed embargo on oil imports from Lran, a freeze on most of the Iranian government's funds in U.S. banks and deportation proceedings against Iranian Students In the U.S. illegally, Hope for home today Hy GORD McINTOSH MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) — Hopes for up to 100,000 people to return home today after five nights in strange Surroundings rest on a delicate operation to drain 10 tons of deadly chlorine from a tanker car ruptured in a What does it make woman? SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An out-of-court ‘settlement has been reached in the first so-called criminal con- versation lawsuit to reach a Spokane County court in years, Criminal conversation ts an act of sexual intercourse with someone else’s spouse. Trial was to have started this week, but lawyers for both sides confirmed Thursday they had settled out of court and that Herold will pay McNei! an un- disclosed amount of money, In his complaint, McNeil, a lawyer, alleged that Herold seduced McNeil's wife spectacular train derailment Saturday, Ontario Attorney-General Roy McMurtry said that the pumping operation's potential fo end in disaster make it imperative thal 40 square kilometres around the derailment site remain tightly sealed. He would not speculate on when evacuees will be able to return to their homes. Of the 223,000 evacuated Sun- day from Canada’s ninth- largest city and part of neighboring Qakville after the fiery train crash, about 150,000 were allowed home Tuesday, McMurtry said a decision on those remaining away from home will likely be made sometime today. The chemical emergency team, at the derailment site since Sunday, made its move to drain the tanker early today when winds started to blow south towards “Lake Ontario. They waited most of Thursday for the wind to stop blowing towards populated areas to the east, The pumping operation is hazardous, Any hitch will cause chlorine gas to leak, In the operation, chlorine- andair vapor in the top part of the tanker is pumped through a caustic soda filter which converts it to sodium chloride — common salt — and dumped on a truck. To remove the chlorine still in liquid form at the bottom of the tank, the fluid is converted ta gas and then back into liquid form. But there's a complication in this part of the operation. The liquid lies below a 15-to- 340 centimetre layer of ice that haa formed in the tank. Officials fear thal the ice could collapse and create pressure in the tank. It that happened, the af- ficials said, the pressure could blow large amaunts of chlorine through a gash in the tanker that was that lightly covered with a patch. farm products represented more than one-quarter of Iran's agricultural imparts last year,” Carter, making his first lengthy public comment about the crisis, said in a speech Thursday in Washington he is holding Iranian authorities "fully ‘responsible’ and- ‘‘ac- countable’* for the safety of : the hostages. The president, who earlier banned Iranian oil imports and froze Iranian govern- ment assets in the United States, said the Iranians “must know that the United States of America will not yield to international terror- ism or to blackmail,” However, Hasen Habibi, Iran's new cultural minister and government spokesman, said in a broadeast on Tehran Radio: “The general principles of our foreign policy are that we will, in no way, retreat from the threats and display of force by imperialism. We will further strengthen our anti-imperialist position, every moment more than the moment before," He said of the shah, being treated for cancer at a New York hospital: “We want an international criminal back from the United States, that is all,” The demonstrators holding the hostages reacted angrily Thursday to a suggestion by Acting Foreign Minister Abolhassan Bani Sadr that women and non-white hostages be set free in the next few days without the shah's extradition. ‘Tehraaaaaaaaaannran Radio quoted the mililants as saying: ‘Our conditions are known. We denounce any negotiations concerning the hostages' release before the . United States extradites the deposed shah. We remind government officials to pay attention to internal problems connected with the people, instead of nego- tiating abroad and paying attention to international public opinion.” U.S. officials say the shah might be well enaugh to travel In two weeks. The Mexican government Is expected to give him refuge again, and he also has been invited to Egypt. . Nf \ ~ RUPERT STEEL & TERRACE-KITIMAT / ™ "D p — \ SALVAGE LTD. | The POF’ Shoppe ¥ Ral ; 14 Flavors | | Seal Cove RP Runert ) y BOTTLE DEPOT Beer & Pop Bottles WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, | 4426 Lavelle Ave. ; batteries, etc. Call us - We are riday, November 16, 1979 . elume 73 No. Open 10.4.m.-6 p.m. dally except Sunday (enon Mon. through Sal, 8'a.m-5 pm.) {ay “nr 40 Volume 73 N ") L Fritill9 pan. | CAST YOUR VOTE Election Saturday Kitima:’s5,040 voters have a chuice of nine candidates for district council in tomorruw’s municipal election. The number of candidates Tunning for the four vacant seats un council indicares a change of altitude in the community. In the 1978 eleciion all three aldermen up fur re-election won by acclamation. This year, however, Alderman Jue Banyay has decided io retire afier 14 years on council. In- cumbents Lee Ellis and Ron Burnet! are seeking a third ‘erm, The fourth vacant seat on council results from the resignation of Alderman Fran Buschert. New names on the ballot include journalist Jackie Pleasants, former editor of the Northern Senrinel. Pleasants wants to see the new council lake an interest “invhopsitig and amenities for Kitimar residents, “The present council is mure inreresied in parking lus than people,” Pleasants said, She also wants Io see more uf evuncil's decisions made in public. “They rehearse everyihing in secret first,” Pleasanis said, Candidate Lauis Bolyki, a service man at Alcan, describes himself as a “professional haba.” He has livedin Kilimat for five years and spent four of those years lobbying for an airport here. Bolyki said trying to in- terest council in an airstrip was like ‘running into a brick wall." “TF 1 join the gang, I might dv berter,"’ Bulyki said. Ciaude Levesque, painting contractor, wants to alfract same light indusiry to the area that would provide jobs for = women, His = main concern, however, is public safety, Levesque said the dike road Should be raised and the Kuldo Street extension should have sireel lights, Albert Vennard is running fur cauneil for the firs! (ime alihaugh he has lived in Kitimal for 18 years, Vennard, a pipe filter, wants the disirict’s by-laws agains! litlering enforced, He said all kinds of debris livers quidoor areas such as Radley Park and the tidal flais. Vennard said the municipality promotes tourism but forgets the need “ta keep the doursiep clean as well as the house,” Fred Ryan, analyst, would like (u have the adyisury council on recreation enlarged ta give the municipality ‘more input from people who use the facilities." He would also work for development of the hot- springs, light industry and a ferry port. Incumbeni Lee Ellis likes tu finish what she starts, Ellis has served [uur years on council and wants In see projects undertaken during her terms in’ office com- plered. The prajects include recreation facilities, neigh- bourhood X in the Kildala area and Cablecar phase 11. Incumbent Ron Burnett admits he wanis a third term n council because he enjoys t, He said the new council should cuncenirate un ferry service for Kitimat in con- junciion with development of the hotsprings. Candidaies Stan Wat- churn, a teacher at Mount Elizabeth Seniur Secondary, and Ray Brady, electrician, could nut be reached for comment. Candidates for the three seats on the buard of trustees for School District 80 are: Noel Halton, engineer; Rick Wozney, lawyer: Hans KX Kitimat has a choice Wagner, management assistant; David Edwards, indus:rial instructor and William Fowle, buyer, One thing is certain — whoever wins this Saturday will have to run again next year, The winning candidates will hold office for only one year instead of the usual two- year term tu paye the way for biennial elections of the entire council and board of Lrusiees. Terrace voters offered seven Sa‘urday is the day of decision for-4531 registered Terrace yorers, when three sea:s un council will be coniesied by seven can- dida:es, including all three incumbenis, The. three incumbenis, Alan Soutar, Helmu: Giesbrech! and Jack Tals:ra, are being challenged by newcomers Russell Mercer, Mully Na:iress, Lily Nielsen and Mickey Johnson. : The poll is ai Clarence Michael Elementary School Gymnasium on 3430 Sparks St, upensar 8 a.m, and closes a 8 pm, Voters who have nat regisiered can sill du sw ar the polling sation un election day, Any Canadian citizen 19 years or older who has resided in Terrace fur three months and in the province for six months is eligible tv cas! a ballor. An advance pull will be held ai Mills Memorial Hospital from the hours of 4 Bm, 4) 6 p.m. on Friday. There are no referendums on the municipal ballot this year, Thornhill must make decisions The future direction of Thorahiil will be ane of the issues yuters will have in mind when they go to the polls Saturday io decide which of three candidates would best serve the Thornhill-Queensway disiric’: on che buard of the regimnal district of Kitimar- S'ikine, The direciorship will be cumtesred by incumbent Les Waimough, a scaler, Nadine Asane, a journalist, and schuol = principal == Roy Greening. Area E has 1872 regisiered yorers who will casi their ballots at either the Thornhill Elemeniary Sehuil or Clarence Michael Schail. The polls open ar 8 a.m. and close al 8 p.m. Saiurday evening. Vuers in Thornhill will casi iheir ballot as well on a dog control bylaw propusal, along with parts of the Cupperside Estates. In addition, a propusal for funding the Terrace Public Library will be iaken w a vote by Thornhill and Queensway eleciours, Volver eligibility requirements differ slightly in regional district elections, Residents in the specified areas for the past three months and six months in British Columbia can casi a ballot providing they are 19 years ur over. In addition, non-resident property uwners Whu have resided in the province for 12) months can cas! & balla, Any person who meets jhe eligibility requirements bu! has nut yer registered can du su ai the polls on Saturday, Outlying areas vote Alice Chen Wing and Stan Kerr will contest the Area Cdirectorship of — the Regiunal District of Kilimat- Stikine on Saturday, There are 1,409 registered voters in this district, Chen Wing is an incumben seeking 1 retain her seal against Kerr's challenge, In wher regional district baules, Marty Allen will seek another lerm as the Hazeliuns’ representative, He is being challenged by envirunmenialisi Marcel Poulin. Area S, which in- cludes Telegraph Creek, has two novices Ernest Klassen and Gurdon Franke fighting Too. Area C yoiers can vole in the following locals: -Ole’s Place, Lakelse Lake -Recreatton Centre, Kemanu -United Church Office, Klemiu -Hariley Bay Band Office -Early Residence, Usk “Recreation Cenire, Kitimaar Indian Village -Rosswood General Store -Thornhill Elementary School Clarence Michael School Results Monday Saturday, Nov. 17, is election day in municipalities throughout the province. Locally there are elections for Terrace and Kitimat council seats, regional district directorships, and school board elections in Kitimat and the single schoo! board seat being contested in Hazelton. The Herald will present the complete results of all the local elections in Monday's issue. The Herald urges voters to exercise their franchise on Saturday. eb