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—B.C.’s biggest
dam approved —

VICTORIA ( {CP)-. The

British Columbia govern-

ment .has approved con-
struction of a massive B.C.
Hydro power dam on the
Columbia River . near
Revelstoke, Labor Minister
allan Williams said Mon-

Williams told a news
conference that conditions
will be imposed on Hydro to
reflect the economic, social
“ environmental concerns.

caused Sot construction of
the $1 billion dam.

He said “wo committees
will be established to
prepare environmental
guidelines and monitor
consultations between
Hydro and local groups in
the dam.area. .

Both committees will be
made up of provincial public
servants,.and Hydro is to
pay the cost of the com-
mittees, sald. Williams.

Hydro would be allowed to
set its own schedules for
completion, which the
Crown corporation has said
should be in 1982. .

Williams, who chaired the
cabinet committee that
heard the appeal against the
dam, . rejected
suggestion that ‘the
restrictions put. on Hydro
would be weak and inef-
-fectual.

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Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass

\ VOLUME 71 NO. 92

. Price: 20 cents

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1977

,

Veteran NDP
members quit

OTTAWA (CP) —
veteran New Demonee
Party MPs — former leader
T.C, . Douglas, - Andrew
Brewin and John Gilbert —
are quitting politics at the
next. general election,

of the party’s
Safest federal seats for
newcomers.

.Candidates are already
lining up for a chance to
replace the three

‘In the British Columbia
riding new held by Douglas,
aspirants for his job have

been. campaigning for
weeks. A nomination
meeting has been set for
Oct. 2, two days after the
party says goodbye to the 72-
year-dld former leader and
Saskatchewan premier at a
testimonial dinner.
Brewin ont Gilbert
represen ronto-area
ridings .of Greenwood and
Broadview, respectively.
Brewin, 70 on Monday, is
leaving, like Dougias,
because.of his age. Gilbert,
56, is quitting for family and

personal reasons.

Douglas captured his
current seat — formerly
Nanaimo-Cowichan-The
Islands, now. Nanaimo-
Alberni because of

redistribution — in a 1949 °

byelection after losing a 1968
campaign battle in
Saskatchewan.

The riding has a long
socialist tradition, going
back to 1935 when J.S.

Taylor won it for the CCF, -

forerunner of the NDP
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planned-on-

library expansion

Areferencum will be held
in the future to determine
whether Terrace public
library will be allotted the
funds to construct a $175,000
extension to its present site.

A delegation from the
library board appeared .at
last.night’s council meeting
asking that council grant
approval for the referencum
which would double the floor
space of the facility which
provides a valuable. service
to about half the residents of
Terrace, accourding to a
board spokesman.

Allan Soutar, chairman of

the library board, . told.

council the library "is ‘a
focal point of the com-
munity’ especially during
the long winter months.

-At present, ‘Terrace
library is below the stand
for libraries in the province
both in size of building and
sumber ef books, Soutar
Ha

Speaking to the need for
extended floor space, the
library board chairman
stated.that other recreation
facilities in.town, poch as
the swimming poo! and ice
arena, are sople the in the
num people cater
fbi aed by € io
function 5,800 local
borrowers,

The library ' provides
records, reading for fun,
facts and figures, maps for
consultation and hobbie-

_information, Soutar said.

“All these things are
available i in the library ,” he

The library also. has
special services for children
senior citizens, retarded
persons, the handicapped:
and French and foreign
language speaking residents
, 48 well as the arts council
and profit and non-profit
organizations.

“No other service in
Terrace serves so many
people for.'so little cast, i
Soutar claimed.

He also -peinted to a
survey done in. Prince.
Rupert which stated that 46
per cent of high school
students have taken drugs
at some time, and fewer

Continued on page 2

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Spellbound by a story read by library assistant Marla Young, pre-school spenta bappy afternoon downstairs in the library Saturday. Story hours
have resumed for the school year. ;

a NEW MARKETS FOR B. C. PRODUCTS
Bennett encouraged by
Kuropean businessmen

LONDON (CP)- Premier
Bill Bennett of British
Columbia held a round-table.
discussion with 20 British’
__pisinesemen pantay and .

ssncou
ear ‘tn rest’ Bhi aa
bY ibe investments i the:
province.

that one British firm -ex-
pressed interest in
developing hew markets for
processed fishing products.
He said the ‘initial query
would be pursued.

"We were heartened at
the type of discussion,”’ he

“and were surprised .at

-some of the more specific

inquiries that could relate in

more immediate irivestment

that we set out to develop on
this trip.

Bennett is making a tour
of Western Europe to drum _
for British Columbia. |

The premier: ‘said one of
the areas which concerned
British businessmen was the
Canadian government’s
Foreign Investment Review
Agency. ;

“However, because we
had the federal officials with
us, I think we resolved most
of their concerns,’ Bennett.

By DONNA VALLIERES
Herald staff writer -
Teenage. pregnaticies,
venereal disease, and un-
wanted births are some of
the problems the -Planned
Parenthood .Association of
B.C. and its .branch in
Terrace are trying to solve.
‘This week ,
representatives from the

Terrace chapter, Joyce

Krause and Liz Mangi, will
be attending the. 16th annual
general meeting. of the
provincial association being
held in Vancouver where
delegates from the 16
organizations in B.C, will
meet for workshops and
information swapping.

‘Krause said the local
group plans to co-ordinate
its activities with: those of
the provinctal group.
“We're such a new group
and we've .got to become
more familiar with the B.C.
organization,” she stated.
The Terrace .Planned

‘IParenthood society was

formed this past spring and
now has a membership of 15.
This will be thelr first
meeting with the B.C. group
which will feature keynote
speaker Lynn Smith,
chairman of the legal aub-
committee, who will speak
on “Child Abuse and the
w,!?

two.

number one objective of

both the provincial and the |
local planned parenthood

sroups, Krause explained.

At present they are get- |

ting together a program to

present to the department of

education in Victoria for
approval before being
brought into the schools.

. Aninformation centre and

library for the general
public.is being organized in
Terrace to make people
aware .of the various
alternatives of planning a
a |

“Teenage pregnancy is
the most visible problem,”’

Krause stated, “and VD is of.

course another . concern,”
but with proper information
and knowledge — both
problems can be reduced.

Krause. said the
organization plans {o urge
governments to concentrate
on prevention of these
problems: rather than
solutions such as abortion.

Terrace Planned
Parenthood is inviting all
new members to join their
organization. —

Meetings are held once a
month, with the next one
scheduled for Seplember 28
at 8:30.in the basement of
the _ library.

Local parents to Vancouver meeting.

Public information .is the |

#

Joyce Krause with son Jason. Krause will represent. the
Terrace Planned Parenthood Association at the provincial
meeting in Vancouver this week. .

-alheavarking-relationah

: Hydro with

said. “In part, this was also
because the B.C. success
ratio before.the agency is
‘about 9 percent.

“I would anticipate. that

have with the government of
Canada and the agency will
continue to improve. We
feel very positive about new

ip-we |.

applicants having. the op-
portunity to participate in

Barlier;. «followin
nieeting-with-.m us

embers ft

the National Coal Board, the
premier said British Energy
Minister Alex Eadie and
_ Joseph Gibson, a senior

Carrying coals
to Britain —

LONDON (CF)- Premier

Bill Bennett. said Monday

.that Britain’s .coal
utilization technology could
provide a major boost to the
economy of British

Following a meeting with
officials of the state owned
National Coal Board, NCB
the premier announced that
Alex. Eadie, British energy
minister, and Joseph
Gibson, a senlor member of
the NCB, will visit B.C. in
November for talks on coal
technology.

He said the. talks might
have a strong Impact on the
B.C. economy and might
result in more jobs.

Bennett said his own talks
with the NCB, which is
already providing B.C.
technical
sssistance in the develop-
‘ment of the Hat Creek coal
deposits, were of great long-
term interest,

“We talked of the various

Lolumbia.

processes to obtain greater
value from. coal including
just . straight burning,
gassification and other
processes,”he said.

‘They the NCB canhelp us
with the technology for the
thermal plan and higher use
of the Hat Creek coal.”

The premier, who is
heading an 18 day economic
mission to Europe, said
private companies might
also benefit from the
technology and in turn
provide more jobs.

Britain is ahead in the field
of coal technology because

of the. country's ‘winding
resources

“There is the possibility
here for discussions on
future technology so that we
ean get the best utilization
possible out of B.C.'’s coal:
resources,’’ he said. . .

With the premier. in
Europe are Don Phillips,
economic development
minister and Evan Wolfe,
minister of finance.

New trial ordered
in Kent shootings

6 NAT (AP)- The
6th U.S. Circuit Court of

Appeals ordered a new trial

Monday for Gov.. James

‘ Rhodes, state officials and

National Guardsmen named
in a $6 million damage suit
stemming from the 1970
shootings at Kent State
University in which four
students were killed.

The appellate court, in a
Unanimous decision,
overturned an earlier ruling
because at least one juror
had been “threatened and
assaulted during the trial by
a person interested in its
outcome.”

The defendants had been

cleared of .financial liabllity

inthe earlier trialin the U.S,
District Court of Judge Don
Young,

The alleged harassment
occurred near the end of the

15 weed trial on damages
sought by those wounded
and the survivors of four
students killed during an
anti-war demonstration
May 4, 1970. They claimed
take adequate precautions
to prevent injuries after
armed and untrained
guardsmen were order to
the campus.

A jury also cleared the
president of the university
and. Ohio National Guard
officers and enlisted men of
liability in the case.

It was reported to the
district judge that one juror
had been threatened three
times and assaulted on one
occasion. But, the appellate
court noted, the judge did
not question the threatened
juror to learn what effect it
had on him or whether he
had discussed the threats.

members

‘negotiations on

‘member .of the coal board,
would visit B.C. in early
November.

He notea that while the
coal board is sdvanced in
that. favorable business
dealings may result from
the visit.:

At the meeting at the coal
board's London
headquarters . mission
watched an
illustrated presentation .of

the. progress in developing -

processes for refining coal.
Bennett .was to meet

“possible ~ ditéctora

Prime Minister James

laghan. y. .

The mission algo will
attend another roundtable
meeting, this time with
or of”-Financlal ‘in
vestment institutions.

Bennett said he has not
noticed. any eecurity
Precautions involving the
moilssion

Reporters entering the
London Hilton Hotel were
searched by security staff
on .Monday, a procedure
which is said to be normal at
that hotel.

Bilingual bonus

offered if wanted

By DAVID GERSOVITZ
MONTREAL (CP)- The
federal government has
to pay .a. bilingual
bonus to some civil servants
but the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers CUPW says
it will never accept a policy
forcing members to speak
both languages on the job.
Jean-Claude Parrot,
president of. the postal
workers, said in a telephone
interview from Ottawa on
Monday that the CUPW is
t interested In.a bonus

because union policy since dr

1974 has been that French
must be the sole working
language of the post office in

English should be the only
working language inthe rest
of the country, the union

says.

postal workers say that
bilingual requirements. for
jobs are a denial of workers’
seniority rights.

A spokesman for
Treasury Board President
Robert Andras said Monday
the bonus will be applicable
to. .CUPW members
classified as bilingual, even
though the postal workers
did not. take part in
the
premium.

The bonus was won by the
Service Alliance af Canada,
which has been under
pressure from Montreal
area members to negotiate
compensation for workers
required to use both
languages.

Spokesmen for several
other unions with members
who serve the public in two
languages including Bell
Canada operators, Air
Canada ticket agents and
Montreal municipal . white-
collar workers - sald they
had no plans to fight for a
language premium.

Officials of the. Quebec
civil servants’ union were
unavailable for comment.

However, a push for a
bonus probably will come
when the. Associated
Railway Unions draw up
contract demands later this
month on behalf of 100,000

. workers across the country.

Ed Finn, spokesman for
the Canadian Brotherhood
of Railway, Transport and
General Workers said from

’ Ottawa that the rail unions

made, and subsequently

opped, a demand for a
bilingual bonus in 1975
during the last national
negotiations.

.The outcome may be
different this time because
the government decision. to
pay a bonus to its civil
servanis “sets a precedent
which other employers in
public sector won't be able
to resist,” Finn said.

Arson
suspected

Arson is suspected in two
Kitimat fires that occurred
on Gull Street over the
weekend.

Police say a shed owned
by. Mr. and Mrs. E.A,
Brisebois, $2 Gull St., was
set alight early Friday
evening. The family was
absent at the Gime and the
alarm was given by an
unidentified woman who
alerted neighbours.

Police are eager to con-
tact the woman who said she
had seen three people
running from the scene of
the fire.

Saturday a standing
clothes line at 38 Gull Ste
was drenched in. methyl
hydrate and set afire.

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