_ Kitimat to ask

By ANN DUNSMUIR
Herald Staff Writer

Kitimat District Council will seek the advice of an
authority on air quality contro) before taking any
action on the Eurocan Pulp and Paper Company’s
request to the pollution control branch. Eurocan has
asked the branch for permission to resume operations
Without a precipitator, a device which removes
chemicals from the exhaust in the steam room before
emissions reach the atmoshphere.

The precipitator was.destroyed in a $10 million fire
Nov, 11. A company spokesman.said Wednesday that
the mill could be shut down until March unless per-
mission is granted io operate without the device.

Apress release issued Tuesday by the district states
that “in view of the uncertainty surrounding the
recent request by Eurocan for relaxation in their

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pollution control branch permit to authorize them to
release increased amounts of particulate into the
atmosphere, the council has decided to consult the
original district air consultant, Dr. Arthur Ressano, to
determine what course of action to take. ;

“The council is of the opinion that the gravity of the
situation is compounded by considerations of con-
tinuing employment by the pulp and paper employees
of Eurccan while trying to obtain guarantees for the
health and welfare of these employees and other
residents of the district of Kitimat.

“The council feels that the lack of authoritative
information provided by the company and
representatives of the pollution control branch should
be rectified immediately and the district will be-
reviewing the matter thoroughly before formulating

any

further public position.”

Kitimat’s Mayor, George Thom, said Wednesday
that the “uncertainties'’ mentioned in-the release
involve the amount of chemicals which will be
released into the atmosphere if the company operates
without the filtering device.

The company has estimated that up to 40 tons of
pollutants could enter the atmosphere daily if the
precipitator is bypassed.

Under normal operating procedures only 1.5 to 2
tons of particle enter the atmosphere each day.

Emissions consist of 85 per cent sodium sulphate, 10
per cent sodium chloride and 5 per cent sodium car-
bonate. .

Dick Nickel, regional manager for the pollution
control branch, and Mike Kreuger, section head of the
forestry section, have recommended that the mill be

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allowed to resume operations without the precipitator.

The branch is expected to approve the company’s
request sometime this week, although neither
Eurocan: nor pollution control branch officials are
certain what effect increased pollutants will have on
the environment.

Emissions will be monitored at designated
production capacities to determine the amount of
pollutants entering the atmosphere.

The pollutants have a corrosive effect an automobile
finishes. A reliable source says employees have been
told not to drive new cars to work if the mill resumes
operation.

Mayor George Thom said the pollution control
branch supercedes Kitimat’s air quality control
bylaw. He said council will consult with Dr. Rossano in
Kitimat on Nov. 27 before taking any action.

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By DON SCHAFFER

Herald Staff Writer

Gordon «and
Hamilton found their dogs
Tuesday night.

‘- The two dogs, purebred

Samoyeds worth several
hundred dollars each, went
missing last Thursday af-
lerncon about 3 p.m. |

They were found Tuesday
night by Hamilton down by
the banks of the Skeena
River, near Graham Road,
in the brush.

They had both been shat in
the head,

Hamilton had four
purebred Samoyeds, which
he planned to breed. Now he
isn’t sure if he is going to
bother breeding the other

wo.

“¥ just couldn't believe it,”
Hamilton said. “The dogs
hadn’l ever been a problem
in the neighborhood, they
were always penned up in
our yard,

“*] just built a six-foot-high
fence around the yard to
keep the dogs in, so that they
wouldn't run loose,”

Emmett McCann, who
recently had three sheep
torn apart by a dog pack a
month ago, praised
Hamilton's efforts to keep
his dogs corralled, and ex-
pressed surprise thal the
dogs had been killed.

“He (Hamillon) is one of
the few dog owners in this
area that does mainlain
control over his animals,’
McCann said. “He is the
exception around here.”

Hamilton is upset about
the loss of the dogs, but is
really bothered by the way in
which they were killed,

The female dog, a
Canadian champion
Samoyed named Samko
Kelestial Star Khiam, was
found with a rope tled around
her neck, Hamilton said that

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the dogs had been taken to

_ the spot where they were

killed in a vehicle, taken out
of the vehicle and shot in the
head at close range.

“They were so friendly
they would have just stood
there and let the guy shoot
them,” Hamilton said.
“They had always been

‘taken care of, and they didn't

know that people would do
that to them.”

running loose, he wasn’
warned at all by the killer.

“Pd have paid for any
damage they did,”’ Hamilton
said. “If they'd been
destructive, I could un-
derstand il, but they never
had a chance, they never ran
loose,”

He said that he doesn't
know how they got out of the
yard, .

Ejther they dug under the
fence, or someone opened

He is upset that, if they the gate and let them oul,”
were being nuisances, or Hamillon said. ’

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shot

He said that if they had
been killing sheep or chasing
livestock and had been shot
in a field, he could un-
derstand that.

“To lake two dogs, and
shoot them in the head
deliberately and for no
reason, I just can’t un-
derstand that,’’ Hamilton
commented.

McCann’s wife said that
the dogs were “nice
animats,"" and that when
Hazel Hamillon came over to
look in the traps the Mc-
Canns had set after lhe sheep
episode, she was surprised
thal the dogs were missing.

McCann said that he was
probably “the number one
guy" to look for afler dogs
had been shot in the area
after the loss of the sheep,
but that he didn’t operate
that way.

“If ['d caught them in
after my sheep, well, It
would be different. I'd have
shot Lhem for sure,” McCann
said.

“It's jusl a shame that
there is (he odd oddball that
takes advanlage of these

kinds of situations.”

Hamilton also feels that
someone “is just a lillle too
happy wilh the trigger.”

“We had a $200 reward for
those dogs, but whoever did
this knows that he’s done
something aul of line, and
won't own up to it,”

He hopes that if the other
two Samoyeds manage to get
out ofthe yard, that someone
will phone him and tell him
rather than just killing them,

“Tl gladly pay for any
damages they might do,
although I don't think they’d
do anything if they did get
out,” he said.

“Bul this thing, well,
somebody's just a creep, just
a creep. 1 dare him to phone
me and deny that he is.”

. Students stormed. the. U5.

TEHRAN (CP) — The
commander of the Iranian
navy, the most powerful in
the Perslan Guif, sald today
he has put his forces on alert
but he does not think the
United States will launch
military action against Iran,

In a telephone interview,
Rear-Admiral Ahmed
Madani described as a
“warlike gesture’ the

“decision by the United States

to dispatch a -naval force
from the Philippines to rein-
force U.S. naval units
already operating near Iran.

Speaking from Ahwaz, the
capital of oll-rich Khuzestan
province, Admiral Madani
sald that Iran’s naval forces.
was put on alert the day
Moglem fundamentalist

Embaasy in Tehran on Nov.
4, taking U.S. citizens and
other foreigners hostage.

Since then, the Iranlan
navy has been redeployed to”
meet what he termed ‘'the
critical situation” — a
reference to U.S. warnings
that the use of milltary force
could not be excluded to free
the hostages.

Meanwhile, the Reuters

news agency said today the
Tranian students besieging
the U.S. embassy here have
released five more non-
American hostages, bringing
to 18 the number released so
far, Forty-nine U.S, citizens
still are belng held.
- A spokesman for the
students told the news
agency that the five are two
South Koreans and one
national each from Bangla-
desh, the Philippines and
Pakistan.

“Our remaining hostages
now are all Americans,’ the
spokesman said. He declined
to give thelr exact number.

Estimates by the London-
based Institute of Strategic
Studies put the atrength of
the Iranian navy at about
30,000 men, with the naval
arsenal including
destroyers, torpedo boats
and a variety of attack and
patrol vessels,

In Tehran meanwhile, a
spokesman for the students
holding the embassy
repeated an earlier threat
that every hostage within the
27-acre compound would be
killed in the event of U.S.
military action.

The students, backed by
Iranian leaders, are
demanding the extradition of
the deposed shah from the
United States to stand trial.
The U.S. government has
said it will hot hand wr belng
lormer monarch, no
treated for cancer ina New
York City hoapltat,

Meanwhile, ai U.S.
congressman, here on a
private ‘‘mission of mercy'’
seeking the release of U.S,
hostages, tried to open
negotiations today with the

[ranian milltants holding the
U.S. Embassy.

Iran’s navy
getting ready

Representative George
Hansen, an Idaho
Republican, the highest

ing American to visit
Iran since the embassy
takeover began Noy. 4, said
he came to Iran as a private
citizen because the Iranian
regime refused to admit a
apecial envoy sent by
President Carter,

The congressman, accom-
panied by a small group af
reporters, went to the back
gate of the embassy and
talked with one of the
students,

.'Teantan | students
. bassy. in ‘Tehran’ said’
today: they ‘have releaned _
five» non-American.

MA fpoketman. Tor ihe
, eroup told“ Reuters news:

"two coreans and
one national each from

@.the U.S. em. .
on said ~ Philippines and Pakistan,

: ‘Americans,

"agency that thé five'are ;” give their exact number,

Bangladesh; the

“sour: _femaining
hostages’ te are all.
tian said.:He declined ty

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RIYADH (AP) — Saudi security authorities are
Arablansecurity foreeshave intent on dealing with this
arrested many of the case wisely in order to save
Moslem religious extremists the lives of the hostages
who occupled the Grand inside the mosque,” he said.
Mosque of Mecca and are _ Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the
trying to force the surrender Saudi foreign minister, said
of those still holding hos- that about 200 armed
tages in Islam's holiest members of a dissident
shrine, the Saudi In- Moslem sect took part in the
formation minister said selzure of the mosque an
today. Tuesday, the eve of the
“Inshallah (God willing) Moalem calendar’s 15th cen-

everything will be broughtto tury.
an end inthe coming houra,”’ | The glant mosque is the
said the minister, focal polnt of the Moslem

Mohammad Abdo Yamani,
in a statement broadcast by
Saudi state radio.

“Few members of these
armed men are still inside
‘the mosque,” Yamani said.
He did not say how many
gunmen remained.

“We can drive these ar-
med men from the holy

shrine at any moment, but _

THORNHILL BUS

Not till spring

Even if approval is given, there is no way Thornhill

says Regional District Director Les Watmough.

faith and shelters the black,
cube-like kaaba, the Islamic
shrine toward which the
world’s devout Moslems bow
in thelr ritual prayers five
times a day.

“We arte attempting,
through a flexible approach,
to reach an understanding
with the group and make
them surrender."

“Tm here on behalf of the
American people, not the
government,’' he told a
student through a grill in the
gate. ‘I'm here to do this
because apparently there Ia
no other way to talk.”

The student, who refused
to glve Hansen his name,
took the congreasman’s
name and checked his
identification. “It is possible
we will see you,'’ the student
said,

He sald that if his fellow
students wareprepared to
talk they will make contact
with Hansen at his hotel.

Hansen, who left
Washington Monday
evening, arrived in Tehran

*-] early Wednesday. He said he
mn pald the fare out of his own

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“Carter dida't know I was
comlng, the state depart-
ment didn't know I was
coming,” he said.

Brainwash
charges
are denied

TEHRAN (Reuler} —
Moslem students occupying
the U.S. embassy in Tehran

today denied U.S. govern-.

ment suggestions that
hostages held at the mission
were being subjected to
conditions similar to
brainwashing.

“This is nonsense,’’ a
student leader told Reuters
news agenty by telephoue
from the occupied embassy,
stormed on Nov. 4 by
Moslem fundamentalist
students to press demands
for the extradition of the de-
posed shah of Iran fram the
United States.

“We treat them well, We
have given them plenty of
books. We show them films
and we have given them
Copies of the Bible and
English translations of the
Koran."

The student leader was
commenting on statements
by White House press
secretary Jody Powell who
sald Thursday it was clear
that the 13 hoatages released
earlier had been subject ta
presaure similar to bral
washing of prisoners of war.

DETAILS ON 38

] a The fare structures for the system would be slightly
will have its transit system in operation by next spring higher than that proposed for Terrace. Within
Thornhill a bus ride weuld cost 35 cents for the com-
Watmough says that if he recommends approval of muter, 25 cents for students and senior citizens. Trips
the Urban Transit Authority proposal to the regional into Terrace would cost 50 cents and 38 cents
district board, the issue would go to referendum.
However, the slow governing process for Thornhill

respectively.

precludes such a vote taking place before April or May
of 1980,

“So the starting date is off sometime in the future,”
he said. Terrace, meanwhile, is gearing to have a
transit system in operation by late spring.

Commenting to the press after a public meeting on
transit Wednesday night, Watmough felt the criticism
expressed over the 8 a.m. starting times for the buses
was justified and the times would have to be extended.

“IT don’t know what my recommendation to the
regional district board) will be just yet, quite
frankly," he said.

The community would be serviced by a single bus
covering three separate routes, The route would run
from the Queensway district to the downtown core,
back to the upper bench and Horseshoe area. The bus
would go downtown again, and head out the Kirkaldy
district, returning finally to downtown Terrace. There
will be linkups with the Terrace service.

In general the bus would stop at ninety-minute in-
tervals with increased service during peak hours.
However, the proposed service times of 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. will undergo some change.

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