PAGE 2, THE HERALD, VANCOUVER (CP) — A new organization which says it represents 90,000 of British Columbia’s 105,000 native Indians, has asked the federal government to freeze distribution of certain grants until feuding groups _ Settle their differences. “m MAe At stake is $750,000 in annual core fundin designated by the federa department of the secretary of state for political organ- ization of Indian bands in conjunction with the native claim to aboriginal rights. ACCIDENTAL $20,000 WINNER - Loyal Order of Thursday, Gro May 19, 1977 Traditionally, the money has been split equally between status and non- status Indians. The B.C. Coalition of Native Indians, a month-old Broup, said at a news con- erence Tuesday that the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs should not get its traditional 50 per cent. Until last month, the union represented almost ail Indian bands in the province, with the exception of the powerful Nishga tribe in the Terrace area. Moose in Terrace came by the money by sheer luck. The Moose sell the Western Express in Terrace after. they buy them. hooks that were mislaid, The winning ticket was among several according to Scott Foote. Spokesmen for the new group Tuesday were leaders of two urban Indian bands, Delbert Guerin of the Musqueam band and Joe Mathias of the Squamish band in North Vancouver. They outlined a new structure of B.C. native groups that has evolved in e past year, but said that the structure was based on jong-standing differences between native factions in the province. The coalition, they said, is a loose federation of other BREAKAWAY FROM UNION OF B.C. CHIEFS groups: The United Native Nations, representing 50,000 nonstatus, Indians; the Native Brotherhood of B.C., representing 25,000 coastal status Indians with a fishing economy; and the new Alliance of Indian Bands, with about 5,000 members primarily from Vancouver- area bands. —, Guerin sald that the federal government was seeking strict documen- tation, in the form of official band council resolutions, of the formal withdrawal of In- junior governor, who is pictured above. He estimates that since the Moose began selling the tickets through the various commercial outlets in town last October, about $45,000 has returned to Terrace in prizes. The $20,000 is going towards the building fund, LOTTERY WINNE Person not claiming his $million prize VICTORIA (CP) What's a million? At least one Victoria resident doesn’t seem to care. He or she won $1 million in the Feb. 28 Provincial lot- tery, but so far has been too shy to claim the prize. That doesn’t mean the winner doesn’t know about the winning ticket. It’s lodged for safekeeping in the National Trust vault in Victoria. Trust officials are keeping the winner's identity con- fidential, They won't even let ubiquitous television cameras film the ticket on specific instructions from eir client. In the meantime Jack Stewart, director of the lotteries branch said Tuesday there isn't much he can do to flush out the winner. “It’s up to the winner to make the claim,” Stewart said, “We can't take any further steps. But I wish we knew who the winner was so that we could get as much publicity as possible out of 1 “However, perhaps we'll get as much publicity this way rather than the other way.” . The winner has year to make the claim. — “T thought I'd find out the name of the winner when I ’ confirmed the win, but all I was told was the National Trust was the claimant,” Stewart said. Adding spice to the mystery, is $250,000 STATE OF NEAR-WAR SCARES OFF TOURISTS SALISBURY (AF) — The holiday resort town of Victoria Falls came under mortar fire from neigh- boring Zambia today but the attack caused no casualties or damage, Rhodesian po- lice reported. The attack on the town, popular with foreign tourists, followed Zambian President Kennneth Kaunda’s statement on Monday that his countr was in a state of war wit white-ruled Rhodesia. It was not clear, however, if the attack was made by zambian army troops or Zambian-based Black nationalist guerrillas engaged in a 42-year war to topple the Salisbury regime. The Zambezi River and spectacular Victoria Falls form the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. Official sources in Salisbury said the type of mortar fired at the town from across the river has a range of about three miles. The sources did not know how many rounds were fired but said all landed on unoccupied land in the town of 3,500 persons. Rhodesian and Zambian troops are dug in along the border near Victoria Falls and governmentsources say Zambian reinforcements were sent to the area following Kaunda’s “state of war” address. Respite PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Aboye normal rainfall in western Oregon and Washington the first two weeks of May had a beneficial but minor effect on the waer supply outlook for the Columbia River Basin, two federal agencies said Wednesday. The National Weather and Soil Conservation services said that while the rains were well above normal over most of the Columbia Basin, most moisture was absorbed by dry soil and forecasters expected little additional runoff, awaiting a claimant from the April 20 draw. “That ticket could be any- where.in Canada,” he said. “All we know is that it was bought. The winner could have stuck it in his wallet or put in a drawer and forgotten it, Whatever the case is, there’s $250,000 waiting to be claimed. As for the $1 million we know the winner is in Victoria but that’s all.” _The winner of the $1 million held ticket number 9019886, now gathering no interest in the National Trust vault. The $250,000 prize was won by ticket number 4163976, Pickets VANCOUVER (CP) — ‘Pickets appeared outside British Columbia Telephone offices in Kamloops and Williams Lake today, preventing a total of 340 employees - from going to work in the eighth day of rotating strikes by members of the Telecommunications Wirkers’ Union (TWU), The union is involved in a dispute with B.C. Tel over equipment purchases. B.c. Tel spokesman . dian bands from the union but was not asking the same sort of proof from the UB- CIC itself. Coalition leaders also said the union squandered some $1.9 million in federal grants aimed at land claims organization during the past seven years and made less than optimum use of an estimated $12 million in fed- eral ald during the same pe- riod. The $12 million in- cludes housing and economic development Small businesses going U VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia's sluggish economy is making life tough for the small businessman as customers lag on bills and lenders pressure for credit repayment. Ina 12-month period to the’ end of March, 271 com- panies went bankrupt in -. B.C., almost 27 per cent more than the year before. Refinancing proposals by financially troubled . com- panies also are on the rise, with 28 filed for the period compared with 15 the year before. An official at the B.C. office of the federal superintendent of bankruptey, who provided the figures, predicts a similar number of bankrupt companies in 1977. George Kirkwood, assistant director of the Federal Business Development Bank’s B.C. region, says the current trouble comes from the boom-and-bust cycle: of the past few years. “In 1974, business was booming,” said Kirkwood. “You could do no wrong because there was lots of money. “Then everyone started to pull in horns. And the full. effect of the near-collapse of the forest industry here and of industry in general in 1976 is filtering down now.” HERBICIDE EFFECT NOT REALLY KNOWN VERNON, B.C. (CP) — The Vernon Medical Society called Tuesday for more study into the possible ef- fects of the herbicide 2,r-D before it is used to contro} weeks in Okanagan Lake. Dr. Nicholas Rety, spokesman for the society, sald that “by deciding to use 2,4-D for weed control before the long-term bi- ological effects are fully known, the government has opted to give tourism a higher priority than health, “As the matter stands now,” Rety said, ‘an in- convenience which, for all we know, may be tem- porary, could be replaced by a lasting problem beyond our control.”’ Rety also called on the government to educate the public about individual responsibility as 2 means of cutting down health care casts. He said Health Minister - Bob McClelland's recent suggestion that doctors should discreetly discourage patients from requesting unnecessary annual checkups ‘‘states what many doctors have been saying for a long time. “The annual physical examination is not universally considered an essential to good medicine,” “However, the minister’s call for a curtailing of the annual physical examination and elective surgery is in contrast with the cry of the government for preventive medicine,” Rety added. ; B.C. TEL 7 now in Kamloops Chuck Baxter said today’s pickets have affected telephone operations through a wide area of the Interior, from Kamloops north to Williams Lake, and west to Bella Coola. He did not say if all thse off work are members of the TWU. He said management personnel have left regular work to man the swit- chboards in an effort to maintain essential long distance and emergency service. Nine supervisors are being flown to Williams Lake from Vancouver to assist there. 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The new native group also announced Tuesday a three- day meeting at the Musqueam reserve, and said that invitations had been sent to all Indian bands in B.C., “regardless of the bands’ political affiliation.” CANCEL ASSERTS. DAM OPPOSITION . VICTORIA (CP) —_The Canadian Cellulose Corp. went before a .cabinet committee in Victoria Wednesday to reiterate its | opposition to construction of the Revelstoke Dam on the Columbia River. Cancel’s argued that con- struction of the dam would result in substantial damage to its operatjons in the area. Cancel lawyer Rees Brock » said the main reason Cancel located in the Revelstoke area ‘was because the Columbia River and the Arrow Lakes provide the main method’ of log tran- sportation and storage.’ He said Cancel would: be’ forced to endure ‘sub- stantially increased tran- sportation costs for its forest products if the dam goes ahead without adequate navigational facilitles