PROVINCTAS, LIBRARY DARLIAVENT BLDIS FICTORIA BC . Terrace official defends Keith Norman, Terrace’s municipal treasurer, Says that comparing the dog problems in Terrace and Kitimat is like comparing apples and oranges. dog control here e bylaws governing ownership of animals within here because they don’t allow cows and sheep ries, l ! : killing problem because they don't allow shee = municipal boundaries within their boundaries, like Terrace does,” he and Fonts.” ny con P psabe “Kitimat doesn’t have thesame problem we do said. “They wouldn’t have the sheep and goat- Norman said the dog-control procedures in AN, PD YE T ANO TH ER DOG A TT. "ACK qerrace are much more efficient than the ones in: There has apparently been yet another attack ona ‘“‘they were pretty shook up.” “ sainal; : ; ; ; Terrace resident's livestock. The next morning he noticed a huge rip on the hind than Rita guicipality jen fae tee os The situations in the two places are com- Alan Mernett of 5242 Soucie Avenue had to destroy end of one of the sheep, which as a result had to be don’t have as good control over our stray dogs. In pletely different, Norman sald Wednesday. one of his four sheep Thursday after dogs attacked destroyed. fact, our do control is Y efter 1" The problem we have here is that Terrace is a them Wednesday evening. He said he entered the “It is the first time I’ve had an attack,” he said. - - ” ‘ ; rural community while Kitimat is an urban sheep barn at about 11 p,m. and saw at least two dogs _ Mernett said he raises the sheep more as a hobby Norman said that the only animals allowed one,” . . which subsequently escaped. He then locked the sheep than a business, estimating his loss in the neigh- Within Kitimat’s district boundaries are He made the distinction in reference to the up for the night without thoroughly checking them as bourhood of $70 to $20. domestic animals, like dogs and cats. f NC : > RUPERT STEEL @ =| TERRACE-KETIMAT / Westend === Weston Food Mart Chevron Service SALVAGE LTD. ‘y Seal Cove Rd., Pr. ‘Rupert 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, . batteries, etc. Call us - We are \ Friday Dacember 7, 1979 Jail y herald 20c 6:30am -11 pm _T days a week 635-5274 Open Chevron a “We Satisfy Tummy & Tank 365 DAYS A YEAR” Open 24 Hours 635-7228 ¥ Spy trial date soon TEHRAN (AP) — The regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini an- nouriced today that within 48 hours it will make a statement ona spy trial date for some of the 50 U.S. hostages at the U.S, Em. bassy and that death sen- tences are possible. - The government also struggled to put down a rebellion in the northwest by the country’s largest ethnic minority, the Turks. The announcement on a trial date statement was made by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who also said those hostages not suspected of spying will be teleased ‘as soon as -posaible,"’ and thal arrange- | ments are being madé for all the captives to be visited, However, a spokesman for the student militants holding the hostages contradicted the foreign minister. “We will release nobody, nobody at all” unless the deposed shah is returned to Iran, and “we have made no decision on the visits,’ the spokesman said in a tele- phone interview, Asked whether he believes the hostages will be sen- tenced to death, Ghotbzadeh said: “I hope we don't reach that extent. But on the face of the earth anything is possible.” The foreign minister gave no specific date for the planned release, or say how many hostages might be freed. But he said there are twa types of hostages — those who did not “work in espionage and those who are guilly of espionage.” Of the latter group, he said; “I don't think those people are going to benefit from diplomatic immunity." Ghotbzadeh also an- nounced that arrangements are being made for all the hostages’ to be visited in order to show. the world that allegations the captives have been mistreated are untrue. Some of the hostages. have not been seen by neutral observers since the day the embassy was seized Nov, 4. The Moslem militants holding the captives have vowed to keep them until President Carter allows Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to be extradited to Tran to stand trial as a war criminal, Khomeini’s forces ousted ‘the shah’s government in February. The toppled monarch is convalescing at a U.S. Air Force base in Texas following cancer and galibladder surgery in New York, The Carter adminis- tration has refused to ex- tradite him. Khomelni’s dispute with the United States is not the only crisis he is embroiled in, Ethnic Turkish rebela have claimed control of the capital of northwestern Azerbaijan province. Supporters of Ayatollah Mohammed Kazem Shariat- Madari, Iran's second most important religious leader after Khomeini and spiritual head of the country’s 13 million ethnic Turks — about one-third of Iran's population — seized the radio and television station in the Azerbaijan capital of Tabriz on Thursday, \___ open Mon. through Sat., be Bam-5 pa What shape the lumber industry here? See page 3 Grits fight cutbacks toCanada Works fund By Jullet O'Nelll OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberals are putting up a strong fight to halt the government's plan to drop the Canada Works job- creation program this spring, But they face strong resistance from Em- ployment Minister Ron Atkey who says the program is a waste of money and had become a source for members of Parliament to “dispense patronage in their constituencies,” The Liberal battle reached & peak Thursday in the Commons during debate on an opposition day motion condemning the Progressive Conservative government for creating na jobs since taking office six manths ago. The motion singled out “the inhumane cutbacks in the Canada Works program that have eliminated (from the program) hundreds of communities across Canata that have been suffering from high levels of unem ployment,” The motion was proposed by Francis Fox, MP for Biainville Deux Montagnes and Liberal employment critic. Canada Works grants go to community groups using the unemployed for such projects as building restoration and — parks cleaning, The government chopped almost half the program's funds for this winter, saying it was putting a lasttime $100 milion in to tide it over until a new job-creation policy is in place. Asa result of the cuts, con- stituencies- in all but three Provinces got less money and in Ontarlo and the Prairie provinces no money was granted, Under the former Liberal system, some money went to every constituency — even if there was na unemployment in the region. Cousins is still] Rod Cousins, the Progressive Conservative Candidate in the May 22 election, has been elected a vice-president of the Skeena Federal Progressive Con- servative Association. In a news release issued by the association, it was noted that Cousins’. election con- firmed his position as party spokesman for the riding, “I Intend to play a very active rola in helping to substantially expand and improve the Conservative organization in Skeena," Cousins says. Cousins adds that a Conservalive member of parliament would have given Skeena a direct voice in government. Cousins, who finished third behind Jim Fulton (NDP) and [ona Campagnollo Tory voice here Rod Cousins (Liberal) in the May etec- tion, said he will work in the meantime {to “maximize” our voice.” The next meeting of the riding executive takes place in Prince Rupert in Februrary, at which time it is expected a member of the federal cabinet will be a guest speaker. Grants are limited to regions with unemployment rates of at least nine per cent. One example that bugs Atkey is the $600,000 grant last year for Edmonton, a city with an unemployment rate of less than three per cent. , On the other side, however, the Liberals say the cuts affect more than such rich cities. They deprived neighboring poor native communities and rural areas of funds they had grown to expect every winter, . One example is the Algoma constituency in Northern Ontario, represented by Liberal Maurice Foster, who says Canada. Works regularly provided between 500 and 600 jobs in native communities each winter. The region used to get about $1 million but this year received nothing, The New Demacratic Parly opposes Canada Works cuts and spokesman | David Orlikow (Winnipeg North) said temporary job creation is “socially neces- sary,” Newfoundland NDP member Fonze Faour (Humner-Port-auPort-St, Barbe) termed the program a total waste because it provides temporary jobs and starvation wages Robbery cheaper It's cheaper for banks to be Tobbed than to install security systems, says - Montreal Urban Community police director Henrl-Paul Vignola, Vignola told a meeting of the metropolitain govern- ment's council that bankers have determined the amount of money stolen from their branches adds up toless than the cost of security systems, Volume 73 No 234 > ei Photo by Greg Miduleton Sacked Santa ‘suing sexist Its the season to be jolly, but not for Nancy Fulford of Toronto, a Santa Claus who got the sack because of her SOX, __ DID CLARK KNOW OIL SHORT? OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Clark Said today the gov- érnment was well aware last summer af the possibility of home heating oil shortages this The theatre arts student said she was fired after two days asa Santa in a shopping mall because merchants did not like the idea of a woman winter but was reluctant | i” the role. He take steps that might Miss Fulford, 20, has com- ave signalled an! oiained to the Ontario emergency to the public, However, the prime minister appeared to Human Rights: Commission. “L think 1 made a very contradict himself later | good Santa but 1 didn't when he sald “there was | happen to be a man,’ she no evidence in the | said, “If children are fooled summer” of shortages. by a false beard, red suil, a “You don't declare an story about an arrival from emergency when oneisn’t | the North Pole via reindeer, there,” he said. then they'll be fooled by Clark told his weekly | Santa's sex.” hews conference that appointments to the energy supplies allocation board, which has broad powers to distribute petroleum product suppiies in an emergency, could have touched off hoarding and panic among industry and consumers. Sit in paid SURREY, B.C. (CP) —A retired plumber has ended a sit-in at the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia claim centre in this Vancouver- area municipality after being promised that his claim for a stolen camper will be re-examined. DESPITE RUMOR Gas deal to mean Sfor B.C. British Columbia will receive $85 million a year in additional revenue from natural gas exports as part ef a $15 billion gas export plan, a spokesman for West- coast Transmission Co, Ltd. sald Thursday, John Anderson, Westcoast executive vice-president, said the revenue will come fram a contract under which Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. will sell a minimum of 60 million cubic feet of gas daily to El Paso Natural Gas Co. Federal Energy Minister Ray Hnatyshin announced Thursday that additional exports of natural gas to the United States totalling 3.75 lillion cubic feet will be allowed between now and 1987. cote The gas will be sold at $5,90 U.S. a thousand cubic feet but the price is expected to increase with changes in the price of crude oil, Westcoast’s allowable daily exports af gas will go to 869 million cuble feet from their present level of 809 million cubic feet. Anderson said that under existing revenue-sharing ar- rangements, B.C. natural gas producers will get about $2 million a year and the provincial government's B.C, Petroleum Corp. will receive a minimum of $50 million and perhaps as much as $58 million. Anderson said additional Pipeline facilities needed to service the contract will reduce revenues by about $10 million a year. However, in the early years of the con- tract, costs will be almost entirely offset by additional revenues the province will receive. for transporting natural gas from the Yukon to the U.S. under another export contract approved Thursday. he said. . But opposition parties are furious with the decision, an- nounced Thursday by Energy Minister Ray Hnatyshyn, to allow $15 billion worth of new exports as recommended by the National Energy Board ina report delivered to the minister late last month. Hnatyshyn announced the gcvernment’s approval for additional exports of 3.75 trilion cubic feet of gas through 1987 valued at $13.2 billion (U,S.). Libera! and New Democratic spokesmen immediately blasted the decision as a sellout of strategic resources at a time of threatened energy Rah nen | shortages in Canada. The board report nearly doubles the export volume it reported surplus to domestic requirements: only nine months ago. Damestic consumption is about 1.6 trillion cubic feet a year and current exports are about one trillion annually. Hnatyshyn said almost half the total new exports are granted to Pan-Alberta Gas Ltd, of Calgary to encourage early construction of southern portions of the giant northern pipeline to carry Alaskan gas to the lower 48 states, The export price wil! be the current rate of $4 Canadian — about U.S. $3.45 — a million cubic feet, compared with the $3.62 (U.8,) that Mexito. is charging for its gas exports to the U.S. effective Jan, 1, Hnatyshyn told the Commons the government has “more than sufficient evidence these exports are in the national interest.” The energy board had gone to great lengths to ensure the “massive conversion’ to natural gas from oil the government has planned for Eastern Canada will not be jeopardized, he said. The announcement came on a day when the govern- ment was under renewed attack in the Commons because of predicted winter . shortages of home heating ail. Opposition critics suggested Canada should reduce present oi] exports to the United States, which run currently al a rate of about 100,000 barrels of heavy oil a day and about 75,000 barrels of petroleum praduets, such as heating oil and gasoline, daily. Liberal energy critic Marc Lalonde labelled the export decision “one of the biggest sellouts in Canadian history." “This statement will be one that Canada will live to regret,” Lalonde predicted, accusing the new Progressive Conservative government of inaction on energy issues since assuming office in June. DECISION SHOCKING Cyril Symes, NDP energy critic, called the decision “shocking and irrespan- sible'’in light of Prime Minister Clark's admission there may be limited ait shortages in coming months, “We are giving away our trump card,” Symes told MPs. "We are selling our birthright." Kemano to go ahead By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer Reports circulating that Alcan is contemplating dropping its Kemano 2 power Project have been denied by a company spokesman. In a headline story in this week's edition of ‘The Interior News’ it is reported that Alcan and B.C. Hydro officials met Thursday with the company planning to make an announcement to “wash its hands” of the power project. However, Brian Hemingway, the public relations spokesman for Alcan, branded the report as “misleading and totally wrong.” He said there is no contemplation of the company suddenly turning its’ back on the project. Hemingway noted the reports of Alcan scrapping the Kemano completion project are not new, and said there was no substantiation lo any of them. When finally constructed, Kemano 2 will supply additional hydro power for Kitlmat's aluminum shelter. At present, about 40 per cent of Kemano’s power output is sold to B.C. Hydro. The Interior News speculated that should Alcan pull out, B.C. Hydro might take over the project perhaps on an expanded basis. Kemano 2 has drawn the ire of en- vironmentalists concerned that the damming of the Nanika River will affect the flow of the Morice River system and result in environmental damage.