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Herald Stalf Writer
TERRACE — Terrace

- council’s committee of the -

whole will hold. its third...

meeting tonight to debate
_ seven items, 7

scheduled |

The ~ cattordable’. housing *
study done by a local group .
* under the direction “of.

‘Marianne Brorup-Weston
will” be discussed - “with

Brorup-Weston present. The

~ study regiiests the city. to

“help solve ‘the’ problem of “T
many people not being able - i

to afford the: housi "6
presently. available
_ Terrace. ;

The 1982 financial
statements will. also -come
under the aldermen’s

' Serutiny. |

‘The question, ‘of water :

"meters and water user fees ©

will be examined: “again: The
city recently -changed ‘its

policy on the placement of :

water -meters.. Now every’:

must have its own meter -
and. pays by exact: water .
‘used. ‘© Some °
_ aldermen have ‘stated they
' believe ‘that is ineffielent
arid unneeded, -
Additional street ligtiting °

~ for the'’énd of “Thomas Street”

: infilling, At. appli 1

- individudl apartment,
. Aailer “unit: and: business ©

“Stacey: Cooke {left) hit the dirt after diving for
the tape, .David Carmichael stretched. as far.

, as he could,-but despite the efforts of these two
, Caledonia Senior. Secondary School, runners no |
! one at the judging stand or on the tlmer’s table
could.tell who crossed the finish fine-first in
the: quvenite boys 200 metre final. Saturday. Ad.

for story;

_ Established 1908 -

- Skeena election —

results:

By KEITH ALFORD
Herald Staff Writer
TERRACE — The provincial election

_Yesults have been extended one more day.

With the victory margin in many ridings

including Skeena, far Jess than the number

of voters registering. on election day,
several candidates will not know if they

won or lost until those ‘so-called Section 80 .
; Yoles.are counted:

elayed.

interpretation has been used.

.» Each riding’s electoral. officer : was
_expecled to be informed of the change by 7
- noon Monday, May 16, :

The Skeena riding received notice af the ;

.. change in'writing‘on Friday, May 19 —

three days before the rest of the province, .
_ At that time, only the Skeeng. riding was" -

to have its*cotint-mioved by. - a ‘day,
£ according. ta Daily. ‘Herald ‘sources 202. “)

A change this moming, means ‘those ~

politicians will now have to wait another 24 -

hours to find out if they willhaveaseatin -
’ Victoria, ,

Currently ir in-the-Skeena riding, ~NDP -
incumbent MLA Frank’ Howard folds
- about a- 400 vote Jead over Socred |
- challenger Joanne Monaghan. There are -
over -1,200- Section 80- on still tobe __._the. voter's list,. Howard told Victoria: ‘that-
counted as well as Section 117’s which are -

. those :votes cast election day by people

travelling outside their home’ electorial
districts,

The Election Act reads those votes shall

~ be counted not Jess than 12 days after the:

election day,.Bob Paterson, deputy chief
returning officer, for the province, has

-interpreted that. to, mean they shall be

~ dead héat was called in ihe-closest race.of the.
day, with both Carmichael and Cooke taking ©
24,9 seconds to-do the 200, Carmichael was-the .
_ top polnt-getting male athiete. at the Terrace.
” Invitational track: and fidid. A mee}. See- page § 5..

‘(GENEVA (Reuter)— The’,
il ‘United. States and the Soviet ©

to the olfer.- residential Union: ‘resume. talka today
areas of ‘Terrace when on medium-range’ nuclear
someone. wants: to add ae missiles in Europe with new
‘subdivision of either one or proposals from both sides

to count warheads rather |

than just launchers, but his
revised proposal still insists
on including the British and
French arsenals.

The Geneva talks begun |

"the ‘talks. He said: Moscow
would not-accept Reagan's’
“dnaterim solution,” which —

he described as being aimed
to impose’ ~- unilateral °
disarmament on the. Soviet

two new homes. ;

An amendment to ‘the
city’s strata title conversion
policy raquired ‘by changes
in provinc ial legislation will
be. prepared by-- the -
" committee of the whole for
debate and vote at a full

council meeting.

Following a meeting
between cit
representatives ‘ind BC
Timber held April 20,; 1983,
coundil now fias'to deal with’:
four points. A safe crossing
from the log yard. to the mili ~
via Kenney Street, a-

proposed truck route, al

building permit. to build:
truck seales and. possible \.
upgrading of the: ‘Keith. -

Frank. roadway.“due to |
* for the two. ‘superpowers - ‘to

‘gonatruction scheduled for ‘
Highway 16 have to be dealt. *
with = *

The purpose of the’
_ committee of the whole ig to
prepare recommendations
for action on these items- -
- whieh are then brought up *
at a regular ‘council session
‘for voting afd final action. .

“” on-the negotiating table. *

. "The most obvious point of
disagreement at present in

the Geneva negotiations is

whether British and French
nuclear arms should ..be
” included ‘in calculating the
‘future’ missile balance in
Europe.
\, The Soviet Union’ has
ottered to scale. down its

existing SS-20 weapons “to
mateh British. and: French
nuclear . absétals. -
‘Americans: “want. ‘to ' count
‘only Soviet weapons: and
WS, cruise and Pershing 2
‘missiles, ~~

Just before the last rout. .
* afnegotiations adjourned on
March ‘29; U.S. President

Reagan put forward. anew.

“interim, solution” i

reduce the number of their -
planed - ‘and ~~ existing °
intermediate-range,’~
based ‘inigsile warheads to
-equal lévels, Previously, the.
“United ‘States had” pressed =

\ weapons, |

‘ Since then, | Soviet ‘teader :

- Yuri Andropoy has agreed

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His US. counterpart,
Paul . Nitze, * complained
’ Sunday “that ie was

continuing "put.

unacceptable” conditions on
. ap agreement. -

Reagan hae not specified -
the level to which he would
envisage scaling down‘ the
number of weapons and the
Soviet Union has. also been.
“vague on numbers. ~

‘Leading Soviet

crucial effort to avold -
further acceleration of the
arms race: Before Moscow
began: ‘deploying §5-208 a’
few: years. ago,’ nuclear
arsenals had been largely
confined to long-range
weapons: based. outside
Europe. —.

On his arrival Saturday,
chief Soviet negotiator. Yuli |
Kvitsinsky accused the
United States of - blocking *.

Jobs developed

- SARNIA, Ont, (CP) ~ A first-year university student has
developed & job for. herself and: 1? other students this
summer — driving impaired drivers’home. -

become "a, socially acceptable form of homicide,” has
applied for a $2,000 Joan from the Ontario Secretariat for-
Social Development to ‘operate the service, which will
provide veople to take the impaired driver and his vehicle
‘home for‘a:fee: |”

Smithen, a former Sarnia resident who begins studies this
fall at the University of Western Ontario in London, says the

driver.
She saw.a ielevision program. about a year agfo.on a
similar-service in the ‘United States and began investigating

: ‘prospects of starting her ‘ ‘own operation. '

Smithen, who is confident her.loan will: be approved,
. plans to operate the. service. until school . begins in
September. To fill the positions for 15 part-time drivers and
two receptionists, she. will hire. only students who are

. returning to school in the fall, who own their own vehicles

arid have no Hquor-related convictions.’

POLICE BACK IDEA. ;
‘Sarnia: ‘Pollee Chief Robert. Cook is. Kacking Smithen’s -

setvice; where an individual, obliging: bartender, waitress '

‘or party host can phone to atrange a pickup. .
“Within 20.minutes,.Smithen says, two employees will -

meet the. caller, One will drive the person Homme in his

vehicle while the second driver follows in anothet. car.-
The fee is $10 within Sarnia and $15 to nearby towns and

Ye cards will be accepted, Smithén has-been told the hie fo
-* prorat will not need licensing under thie city's taxi bylaw" ™ustelans available for our area.
. because it does tiot have its own fleet of cars, :

* Smithen says the only way the service can fail is if it ig not
Supported by-the community. However, she aléo admits.

* that it is difficult. depending on impaired . people . for

business, so shé” is contacting hotel operators and

-Clreulating. flyers in hopes: of selling the: ‘idea “to the ©
.. source," ‘

- “snot likely a drunk is going to always think to call, but

it ourphone number is on: the wall ant if-a bartender is .
promoting It,'and the waitress is saying she'll call us, ‘then I

belleve: it’ will work, * she said.

_ what numbersit has in mind
Kathy Smithen, 21, who says drunk driving seems tohave, during the round of talks

_ counted ‘on the thirteenth. day. .

_ This: is’ the first time this new

Frank Howard says the extension of this
- new interpretation throughout the ‘entire
Province: comes ‘as a result of. several
phone calls he made over the weekend:

_ Howard says he was_first told. Skeena _

“needed the extra day for the riding’s chief

- returning officer in Smithers-to check the,

‘ list of names of new voters and to update

list already: exists ‘and “can ‘be’ checked.
‘against. registration cards which are
locked in the’ ballot boxes.

“The final result of the ~ various , .
discussions Howard had with the returning
officer in Victoria is Skeena riding will 10

- longer be singled out, the NDP house

leader says. .-
Monaghan did not know of ‘the change

_ until telephoned by the Daily Herald, She
_ Says, “it just means one more aay of

waiting)”

‘Lebanon agreement copreved

The parliaments of Lebanon and Israel
met today to consider endorsing the final
_ text of the U.S.-mediated troop withdrawal

_- pact, despite Syrian warnings and a PLO’

threat to wreck the accord with a new war.

In .” Beirut, | bolleemen sealed, fe:

* féare “that elements: opposed to the -

- agreement might attack the session.

‘Falin wrote saat in ‘the

government | ‘newspaper

Izveatia that Britain and’ -

France ‘deployed . 434.

- nuclear warheads. Since SS- -

203 carry. ‘three warheads

each, this:would: appear bo
: indicate that
‘suggested reducing ©. the”

number :of Soviet missiles
aimed at; Western Europe to
is, mY

Britain and France ‘have
both rejected having. their
nuclear arsenals included in
the. - Geneva negotiations,

arguing.that their weapons

are : -atrategic and in a
different category from the.
medium-range missiles

~-being discussed -in-Geneva.——

“Bach side at the talks can
be expected to. probe .the
other .to find. out’ exactly

beginningat the Soviet
mission today, diplomats
sald,

a ” wereld Statt Writer . 5
+ TERRACE — A pouring rain storm reduced the numbers,

Andropov ©

. Israel's. parliament began what was, .
.. expected to be a long debate in Jerusalem .
in preparation for a signing, which could

take place Tuesaday. Critleism of the
agreement cut across party lines, - but
Prime Minister Menachem. Begin’s
government Was expected to win approval.
The parliamentary sessions came one
day after Israell and Lebanese negotiators
agreed on the final text of the pact, which

‘calls. for Israel- to withdraw. its 25,000

troops from Lebanon when Syria and the.

- Palestine Liberation Organization pull out .
-~ their forces. Israel says it will consider the

agreement void without a Syrian and PLO -
withdrawal. :

Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul ‘Halim
Khaddani objected anew to the pact in an

interylew published today in Beirut's As-"~
“This |
agreement will hot pass“aid will not. be

Safir newspaper, saying:

implemented because we will not allow it.
to be passed irrespective of how matters in,
the'region develop.”

-PLO.. chairman . Yasser ° ‘Arafat ‘told

leaders. of his Fatah guerrilla faction

‘Sunday in Damascus that “the way.out of
., this present deadlock is taking a decision

to wage war to change the. balance of
power."
_ The PLO news agency WAPA, which

but did not dampen the enthusiasm, of those who listened to - 1.
folk singer Rod MacDonald Friday, May 13. -

- reported Arafat's remarks,

said he
exhorted followers to batile-the “Zionist:
American enemy” and declared that “an
’ effective war is the only way to redraw the
political map of the Middle’East.”” ~
rata nes: were forced out: of Belrut,,.

ela: ee
a June? 6 sels rae PLO ;
forbes ppposéd to Arafat’s policies said °°
he haa been facing Increased dissent from
subordinates” who think. he has
- compromised the Palestinian cause, =~
. The sources said some Fatah fighters
‘based in’ eastern Lebanon are defying
orders from Arafat's command. They said
Arafat. called meeting with -

subordinates partly to vdlscuse how to quell
the defiance. .

The troop-withdrawal ‘agreement would
formally end the state of war between
Israel and Lebanon, in. effect . making.
Lebanon the -seepnd Arab country. to
recognize the Jewish state. Egypt and
Israel normalized relations in 1979, —

The pact also calls for joint Lebanese-
Israeli patrols ina  45-kilometre-deep.
security belt in southern ‘Lebanon - to
‘prevent PLO fighters from returning to

“Taunch raids against Anorthern: Israeli
towns, a
_ Sources close_to, the » fegotiations, who.
declined to. be identified, said the pact does
_ Mot specify a role for Saad- ‘Haddad, the.
' breakaway Lebanese army major backed -
‘by Israel. They’ said -his. status will be
covered in unpublished ‘understandings.
: accompanying the accord. a

The Lebanese government: ‘officially "
regards Haddad and his, militiamen a8
renegades. ~ + |. .

MacDonald: attracts warm: ‘crowd

group brings to Terrace should be high on your list of events
to see, qi is a delightful evening well spent.

MacDonald is a small, thin man with a big voice, From
8:30 p.rh. until 11 p.m. he sang his own works. Songs of love.
and polities filled the Carpenter’s Nall. Some were serious, .
_Many were saterical.

Strumming his six string guitar with the. occasional

addition of a mouth orgaa, his ability to producé rich ° |
melodies Wag matched by his ability to invoke. _ Strong

emotional responses in his Hsteners.

_ The performer his the wit to pick up on any small’. é

occurrance during a song set, When a stray cat wanders in
from the-cold wetness’ ‘outside, MacDonald’ cracks a joke

and the'cathops 4 seat and patiently, listens to the rest of the

songs, before . leaving the room. .  -

MacDonald's musical evening. was, part ‘of the’

continuation of the norther 4 circuit,of accomplished

The Northern Delights Co-op ‘coffee house group has
" tapped this resource and slowing building up a larger
‘ following. The organizers, after years of struggle, have

recently managered the funds to purchase. their own sound

equipment, That will allow thei access to an even larger
group of performers, . -

MacDonald lives- in Greenwich Village in. New York and
* Ines opened performances to John Hammond, Mimi Farino,

Tom Paxton, John Hlartiord and Dave Van Ronk. He isa top -

artist in his ows right.
If you missed this s one, the, next singer the coffee howe

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