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LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY -
PARLIMENT BUILDINGS
Victoria, B.C.

- Icolm: :
! ee ale Campbell ‘stands. on i homme and w poden 4

zat 1ng,

ment: of. Fisheries. ‘officers

‘ were., designed to appease .

. American fishing interests -
with |

who ‘are. upset .

unlintted Indlan fishing of °

~ the’. ‘Fraser. River, the

- president’ of the United

Fishermen and . Allied..

Workers’. Union said
“+ ‘Thursday.

Jack. hal sald the

. 7 government’ ‘held the ‘raids
to ‘speed the passage’ of a.

publicity given to it comes ‘legally caught when the.
“at a time when the-in-
‘- ternational salmon treaty is Indians ‘was ‘thelr’. sale, he

only infraction by the

them laid.

coming up for ratification?” said.
Terms of the Cariada-U. 5. Native Indians are. per-
salmon trealy, which has: ’ mittedtocatch as much fish

“not:. yet been © ratified: by.
‘Patliament anil the’ uU

5.
Congress, have not: ‘Been
released.

“The, ‘unlon is. staimehly -

"opposed ‘to - poaching and:

always.-has ‘been;” ‘Nichol,

told a news: tonference, a
. But = federal’. officials -

, “milsled"’ the: -publi¢: into

as they need for their own,
~ use, bit it is Hlegal for them

“to sell. the fish.
Nichol

sel! failing to clamp down

on. a ~ lucrative “poaching :

The raids: reuilted in 130
charges — ‘all’ but one of
alnst. “native

. Indians = for illegal
possession anil: shles: of

salmon.:

Federal ‘officials. paid:

their operators - “sel Up a
storefront operation’ and let
it be mown they were .in-
terested . in. buying ‘fish.
Natives came. to:them with

$5 million. in® ‘salmon, over

four months, they. said.
fishermen. charged ‘in the

-- bilaté¥al salmon treaty’.
' “Ig it quite a’ coincidence”

belleving * the: ‘500,000: fish.
that. thls - action: and. the,

‘welzed in: the: ‘ald; were,

Center planned —

“Herald Statt Writer
“WERRACE—=A new facility for aiding the aemplojed i ia

a ‘about! to open in’ ‘Terrace.

‘The Kitimat- Tetrace and District Labor Council is about’
to open its Unemployment Action Center within a week-to 10

" - days.’ ‘The centre Is one of several’ around the’ province
_— being funded by the B.C. Federation of Labor and organized .”

-. by local, labor councils,
... The centre is to provide assistance ona self! ‘help basis.
“and: ‘atimulate local. involvement. Several . counsellors |

“working under a coardinator’s direction, will offer referrals

for those with questions about UIC, welfaré; WCB, medical

-benefits, financial and family matters, :All assistance is'to

. ‘be. on a ‘one-to-one. basis . and will: _ ea r kept strictly

. confidential, 7 ’ os

ne ‘ Applications, for the coordinator position, will be received '

 up'te néon Monday, Jan. 17. For further. F information call:
+ Miia Cintain at 686-440, ; :

WHEN USEDWILL © Dor:

Doyou wantp ifs sta i pyour rey put your budget
“won't allow a?

KB: AUTO SALVAGE |
- £35-2333 or 635- 9095

sao Dhan (justott Hwy. \é EY

: » Pour from $6

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‘atl same, yen. _ raid: accused federal of.

"VICTORIA: (CP): — The B LC: government takeover of the
Whistler resort development was to prevent the banks from

* getting: 24 hectares of prime, developed land: at firesale
- ates, Lands Minister Tony Brunimet seid ‘Thursday; -
~~ "The reason we had to step in was because bankruptcy or

' receivership action could have triggered a takeover by the |
" secured creditors, and they would have picked up millions”
of dollars in assets for a song,” the minister told a news
"conference, .

* He sald the move also protected the $20 million invested

by the taxpayers in: the development to create. an: i .

ternational resort and tourist attraction.

For the:token fee of $1, the province acquired from the
village municipality the 100 outstanding shares of Whistler
_ Village Land Co. and Its liabilities of $97 million which in-
clude loans of #H million to the Royal Bank of Canada and
_ $1.5 maillfon to Yorkshire Trust.

The government created a new Crown corporation known |
as WLC Developments Ltd., “in order to pull together the.
- anaete, the land company, the controls that are necessary in

~ order to get.a return on our investment.” ..
“And ag soon as we can put this package together, then

~ we have an attractive package that we ‘can. elther. market
 ditectly or that we can allow some ;private soctor ‘operations
- to Bld. on,” Brummet aaid.

He sald the government will sell the firm as toon as it can
. Bet its money out of it. coe!

However before that happens,. the company. will have to
n to $9 million into the development “but

See ‘Brummet’ page 3

“Billets needed

a Herald Staff Writer -
 FERRACE— ‘Over 200 billets are. still needed” “for

; ” teeringed athletes who will -be in Terrace for the Northern
B.C, Winter Games Feb, 4,and Terrace residents are-being

asked to reconsider if they haven't already volunteered to

i ‘billet,

‘New billets ate need sod 4 as billeting is already taking
‘place, with visiting athiétes being assigned to houses that.
have offered a bed or a place on the floor. People who wish-
* to take 4 billet or two should call 635-7462 during business
; hours to. voliinteer, .

1

ichol and several. native :

ishing raids appeased Americans? -

7 Raids “on native: Indian ©
communities by’ Depart: -

ficials -of entrapment by.

posing as businessmen who
persistently tried to entice
the Indians to sell them fish.

He admitted the union has
- been aware for years that
_ salmon have been caught in
| the Fraser by both Indians
and non-Indians, .

“Vethe ‘attack’ ‘on. “the.

Indians does not ‘atone for
thie: :
mismanagement: of .the
salmon fishery, * he- Said,

7 h e
- operation; ‘however, did

ve plaudits from‘ Jay

Calko, ‘president of the
Sapperton ‘Fish and Game
- Club, in ‘a telegram: sent
Thursday. - to Plerre De
Bane, Minister: of Fisheries
and Oceans at Ottawa.”

“The: ‘telegram ‘Staten;

- “You. and your staff are to

.

be: congratulated for the
action taken today regards

Fraser- River salmon.
poachers. " oe
“The ‘B.C.- Wildlife ”

Federation also expressed

its: ‘satisfaction Thursday.
“““PHie lack of action in the:

. fast has-long been a sore
polit with this federation,”
Jaid association - vice
president Len Shaw.

‘It "Is gratifying to see

that the brood stock. is once -—
more being: condidered .

important
Protect, ”

enough - to

Fisheries director general ;

Wayne Shinners said the
department undertook the
opération after criticiam of
ite failure to halt salmon
pokching ‘on, the .Fraser
watershed ard illegal sales.
Over a four-month period,
Fisheries officials made 200
purchases of 55,850
* Mlograms of fish, Jeading to
‘Tuesday’ 5 summonses. .

nN

In addition, Pa cars and .

trucks which officials said

were used to transport the

fish:'-were impounded.
Persons charged under the

isherles Act face loss of
those vehicles, plus fines of
me $5,000 and one year In

_ department's.

- Undercover’

residents home _

Herald Sta tr Writer

; amhpaee It may not be a case of the
mountain coming to Mohammedan, but -

it's certainly a case of the hill coming to
. the Campbell's - again:

Pearl and Malcolm Campbell live at wa.

-'N, Kalumin Terrace. That's a small house

on the east side of the street,at the bottom.

“of the bench. The Campbell’s bought the

house just after it was built in 1962, and

“then .added two bedrooms. ;

They say everything was ‘fine until 1987,
which was algo the year Terrace put in an
underground sewer behind their house.

The Campbells say that now for four’

_yeara in a row they have had problems

“with sections of the hill sliding down on |

their home. The last time was late Wed-
nesday night when Terrace. recieved an
usually’ heavy rainfall. The time before
‘that"was late March 1982. The Campbells
' would like the city to pay for a cement

‘retaining wall behind their house, which.
‘they had estimated would cost atleast

o Terrace Municipal Engineer Raiph

- Keen hadcity.crews at the Campbell home
’ early Thureday morning. Although he has

. sympathy for the owners, he sees, other
origins of the problem tther than the in-
‘atallation of the 1967-sewar line,
The Campbells admit they cut into the
toe of the hilt In 1982. Keen says that

NCC women

“By KEITH ALFORD
Herald Staff Weiter ;

ig the women's atudles program,-
the worker's education program and .
drastically altering its official philosophy.

The women were Invited to the board's
: in-camera meeting at 10 p.m. on Jan. 7,
There they say they were told their official
position was similar to a sub-committee

‘and their input was deemed %o be very |
valuable. The only criticism they and the |

rest of the academic division heard, was
that they didn't seem to-trust the board
and talked to the media too much. But the

.Women’s Advisory Commiltee says. the

tane on the meating was friendly...

During the next day's public meeting, |
_the ‘committee representatives state

things were a little different.
Firat, they could ‘not get coples- of the

agenda, : finally belng told it was on the | -
Wall. Then, the women say, the board

began discussion of whai “sections of the
curriculih were being cut. In° NCC
jargon, “‘section’® : doesn't precisely

- translate into ‘courses. ° But there is an
Finally, the.
‘Women's Advisory Committee asked point

overlap in the two terms.’

blank if the women's studies program was
being: ‘eliminated, .

The ‘Fesponse was equivocal. Sort ofa
The.

“not-really-but-kinda" answer.
position of women's coordinator may be
eliminated, and. the entire women's
program placed. under the direction of the

. community. education section.

" The women are wondering how they can

‘continue : to: function a8 a committee

without either. a coordinator or a budget.
The committee came out of the meeting

not knowing precisely what was going on, -

but upset at not being able to get direct
answers. They also did not know if the
worker's” ‘education Program, would | con-
tinue, ;

“weakened the hill aad. may ‘have: altered,

the course. of water. drainage. The
recurrent movement af the hill caused the
Possible danger of fracturing - ‘the “up-

. Gerground sewer line. As a result the city-

hgs had to construct another sewer pipe .

"above ground.

Other possible causes have todo with the
physical make up of the hill iteelf. Keen
says there ‘are “silt and clay” Menses"
beneath the: hillside. . These are. areas
made of very fine material. They are also

slippery when water is added. The —

“Tenses may have been built up over. eons
of geological time. But everytime there Is
a heavy rain, there is a danger. of more of .
the hill shifting. :

The eingeer says a retaining wall woild -

: not necessarily solve the problem. It could

be.swept away by a slide. .

If both parties were starting over teday, .

the problem Would not occur.- When the
Campbells bought the housathe municipal —
boundaries did not extend to their:
property. Today, Keen says, the city

would never zone that portion of land for

residential use.

Keen points out that now there is all
kinds of information available at city hall
for the potential home buyer - including
such items as where the flood plains and
dangerous hills and other problern areas

_are located.

ase angry —

The committee says that last June the .
‘college prioritized all. ils’ programs.
Women’s Studies came in 18th out of 45.
The recent report of the 1i-person outside

-Feview committee, as reported in the Daily

Herald, stated the women’s studies

: program should be continued.. “The review.
teary: “added. that, A: full-time: female”

: bir at funding to women's. studies be

intressed.
Days later, the situation became

Clarified,

-NCC's “academic division bead says

‘nothing’ will be officially cut until: the

college’s budget |s approved in March or.
April". ‘There is a proposal that both the
women's studies and worker's education
Program, as they now stand, be cut. =.

In ‘addition, NCC's high school level
college preparation courses are to be cut’
from seven to either two or three. Overall,
20 per cent of the academic programs
stand’to be eliminated. The academic:
section, according to its head, is taking the
largest proportion of cuts. ‘

But it could be worse. The budget NCC is
considering is a xero-based one. And’
doesn’t take into account -any non-*
management raises that may occur. If

’ either union at the college vas awarded ani

increase In pay, further reductions may. be

| sought by the board.

Thtre’ bave been two increases,

however. Both board salaries and tuition

are to increase by 20 per cent. .
Finally, NCC appears to have met one of
the review panel’s criticisms in an unique

_ Manner,

. ‘THe team wrote in its report that there’

. were two thrusts in the college's statement _.
of philosophy. The first, decentralization,

has been accomplished with clear success,
However, the team said, “it finds leas’
evidence that the needs of disadvantaged
people have been systematically ad.
dressed." They noted the "disad-
vantaged” is defined by NCC as being’
working people, native people and women.
The college's solution? Throw out the

whale section of its philosophy dealing
with the “disadvantaged”.

Macabre diary found _

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — e. diary

belonging to @ man whove nudes ‘decome.

posed body was found here Tuesday

‘recorded in large, messy handwriting his

last. .10° “uncomfortable” days as he
starved to death in a locked railway
boxcar, police say. :
Kamloops RCMP Const. Gerard Hebson
said Thursday the macabre diary, written
by the light of a hole in the boxcar door,

helped identify David Noel’ Hickey, 29, of -
-Winnipeg.
The last entry in.the dlary was dated

July 18.

Hickey’s body had been In the boxcar for

several months dnd was discovered by a

‘railway, worker ‘in this southern Interior

city.

‘ome of the things in his diary réally
didn't make sense,” sald Hebson. - -
“He didn’t say he was locked in, but he
* Just said he was uncomfortable the last 10

days. We feel he was trying to get out of the
ear by the marks on the floor.”

. Hickey was originally from the Win- °

nipeg area and his mother has authen-
Ucated the diary, say officials. She

couldn't be reached for comment Thur.
sday night.

But Willis Hickey, 73, a relative, said in
an ‘interview from Winnipeg that Hickey
had had mental problems and had been in.

‘and Gut of institutions moat of bie life.

“He was a loner and hasn't been seen
around here for 15 or 20 years," he said.
A last will and testament which.

Kamloops regional coroner Erb Graham.

described as "more of a spiritual:
statement” was also found | among:
Hich "s possessions.

, “sald the mystery of Hickey's
death may never be solved. The body, :
found by a CNR worker in an isolated ;

siding, was so decomposed it. was im:
possible to tell the cause or manner: of
th ;
Foul play isnot suspected, Gesham said,
Hebson nald Hickey’s leat writings were

“larger and quite messy and most of his

other writings were really narrow and
neat. It would have been dark and he
would have been trying to write with the
little bit of light that was coming through a
hole in the door.”

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