wie coveritg, vex 7 Day, - Cons. ting “) Super: isory ‘staff, * complete . A _ the buil "because of work being - Sin-a-long ? - determine whether . carting ; “OR, Fb eae a J ALTARS. - Yiu cRin, “4 tome oa eles aly QOSP. 77/79 - 751 y Trailer No. 16, belonging to John and Fran Nagy of Sanny Hill trailer court suffered an all too familiar _fate while the owners were away on vacation this week, It would appear the lead-in water pipes gave u the battle and burst during Terrace’s profenged cold THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1978 . men ror ~ ~ J snap. Forecasters say the cold temperatures should Caabia, moderate laterin the week, but for the time, anyway, it might be well to leave water taps trickling if there danger from freezing — just in case. __... Supervisory staff complete more calls over new year, despite work stoppages _., Accordiig to Ron . . Drane, . blic —‘In- -formation officer for B.C. “Telephone Co., who has _*.. moved to Terrace from Prince George for the iration of the current ‘Telecdmutunications Wofkers:* ‘Union’. “Work: - the: hour’: of they . over 1,000 "operator handled (ong distance) calls. durin that period — 30 per cen more than were hardled during New Year's in 76. © . There, were .also-_ 60 ’ overweal telephone calls, “ ikndied er Nei Vear's while customers com- — about the , pleted 9,000 directed "dalled calls ’ same as last year. ‘This would indicate, " Drane thought, that the local supervisory per- sonnel are becoming more jar with the soppaue, ‘thete. were -16 tattic operators working Se Bour. period “Neve Years": function of the local . operating a greater ency. Superv. personnel, Drane added, y are striving hard, against all odds, to maintain the good name and record of service associated with the Company’s name over the years... -Thig..” is. what. -is keeping ‘our moral, at ite resent hight ~moreieis™~ ery high'in Terrace — among our supervisory staff. Many of these ad to leave people have eir wives and families over the holiday period an come to Terrace to fill in during the TWU labour stoppage.” he added. -- Picketting spreads to ferries and - Ron Drane, | advised them. to remain _ aboard the ferry since “‘alternatiye route — a 100 mile :.dtive around the . lake — makes it an im- - practical and. time- On Wednesday, at Francois Lake, members of the BCGEU refused to operate the highways epartmen err’ ere un two Be. Tel vehicles were removed. ‘As of this moment” said “I haye the 1 consuming one.” In the B.C. Tel In- f opinion, referring to the a commented, | “It is an iMegal work stoppage and the, ferry is:payt of the bie highway ‘system of Saree ie ae ’ All sorts of stories and reports concerning the B.C, Tel s ge by TWU workers have been pouring in at an in- creasing rate during the past 24 hours. - One report came from Kitimat Village ‘ where TWU protesters are as'TWU workers try to shut down “VANCOUVER (CP) — conducted inside by B.C. The dispute between British Columbia _Telephone.Co. and the 10,- 000member Tele- communications Workers Union (TWU) escalated Wednesday when pickets a at a ce re" government. pute ‘ATWU spokesman said ‘was picketed in north-central Tel supervisors. | The pickets were raised at 8:30 am. and with- drawn about one hour later after negotiations between Diane Buck, of the B.C. Government Employees Union, - and. TWO of officials. BCGEU employees were affected by the picketing. Premier Bill. Bennett said in Kelowna he would under a photo In Tues nesday, all “Dear Mr. Editor, “‘gin-a-long’’ this field? Phoned in by: An AM aceldentally drop verted “sing-a-long” into “‘sin-a-long” brought this phoned in Letter to the Editor on Wed-. the way from Prince Rupert: After reading in your Jan. 3 paper about the that . 30. Terrace eltizens enjoyed at the Terrace Lion’s annual — party, hundreds of Pr. Rupert sentor citizens are tirgitg Lions’ Clubs in this coastal city to sponsor a similar evening’s entertainment here. * Hag Terrace agaln beat out Prince Rupert in Earnest Senior supporter.”” (it might be worth mentioning the HERALD's editor la named "Ernest Senor.) “g" in the cutline y’s paper which con- senlor ~ -Laetrile working? _ "BALLSTON SPA (AP) — A judge wh Laetrile on a. 8ix-mon tri with the first bi-weekly on the treatment of cancer-stricken .eight- year-old Joseph Hof- uer. : ‘The boy's progress under Laetrile treatment’ is belug monitored over'a = h period to gix-mont te o put . nth who ruled Dec. 9 that the - al says he is satisfied . N.Y. ched to chemotherapy.” Judge Loren Brown, boycouldbe - _ ‘: provisionally treated. with Laetrile, said . Tuesday, “I’m satisfied with the report.” How- ever, he- declined to treatment for Hodgkins ease, lymph node aaneee, should be awit: . reveal specifics. Dr. Michael Schachter, a psychiatrist who has been treating the boy said the report indicated Joey's weight remains the same or that he gained a pound or two. give no direction to members of the BCGEU in Prince George. “J, along with other B.C. residents, hope there is a quick and fair resolvement of the dis- pute,"he said. . PROJECT STOPPED TWU pickets also held up a nine-mile widening project on the Trans nada way be- - tween Cache. Creek and Spence’s Bridge. Ja Topolewkst, manager of View Con- struc Oneida highway cops, B.C., sai way crews refused to cross picket lines ahd did not up for work Wed- nesday. oo. TWU officials said the picketing was a result of iC. Tel supervisors moving six telephone poles and 10,000 feet of cable last month to ac- the $3.5 ! project. Topolewski said aboout 40 men from four unions . were affected by the work stoppage. eanwhile, Ray Perreault, . government leader in the nate, said here Wednesday he would try to convince federal Labor Minister John Munro to ipersonally intervene in the dispute. Munro earlier had a pointed mediator Jiins in the six-week- old labor dispute. - In other developments the B.C. Ferry Corp. will appear today in B.C, Supreme Court seeking damages from the TWU for cancellation of four sailings Monday. REVENUE LOST Members of the B.C. Ferry and Med Cah Sy ORME A TA Marine. - reported to have followed a supervisory staff worker onto the Indian village when he went to service a telephone there. The protesters are said to have driven around the triler wher¢ plc was _ Soing on, ho Orns . and‘making other noises. . The octiipant asked the otesters to be quiet, ause there were children sleeping, and when they refused he is said to have opened the door of the protesting vehicle and roughed up the man inside. Andiher report suggested were was a B.C. Tel employee employed at the jocal — Terrace ‘Post. Office —. “and: as, picketers:: 7 disrupting tbe-Phet Office": at Varicouver. created an anomaly. Some - supervisory personnel have suggested 5° Tel system Workers Union refused to cross TWU picket lines Monday in Nanaimo. The Crown corpo the cancellations resulted in $2,000 of lost revenue. The.corporation said it will dam: against the TWU for Ww a breach of contract and eonapi to injure the corporation and its business. “The TWU said ‘the pickets were put up ecause telephones were being serviced at the De- rture Bay Terminal in . anaimo by B.C... Tel supervisOrs. . .: Vancouver area mail service returned to normal Wednesday after TWU pickets were re- moved Tuesday from the city’s main post office. The union’s picket line had been set up to protest use of post numbers by B.C, Tel. The picket line was honored by members -of the Letters Carriers . Union of Canada and the Canadian Union of Postal Employees. A TWU spokesman sald the pickets were removed after the post office agreed to remove’ B.C. Tel boxes from service. Postal official Betty Amos said it would take ‘the poat office until the end of the week to catch with the backlog caused by Tuesday's disruption of service. Collins has ~ been mesting with both sides in an attempt to resolve the six-veek dispute. Union president Bob Donnelly said there are no more meetings scheduled for a few days. office box Kitimat Oil port is dead? VICTORIA (CP) — David Anderson, a kesman for the British lumbia Wildlife Fed- eration, says the federal evernment will no longer support a propos to build an oil port at Kitimat, B.C., effectively killing the idea. “Kitimat is dead,’’ Anderson, a former Liberal MP and once leader of the Liberal in British, said Tuesday after returning from Ottawa. “Kitimat Pipe Line Inc. could re-apply but they’ve played out their hand. No one in Ottawa wants it.” He said a recent law approved in the United States barring ‘oil-tanker traffic east of Port Angeles showed there was no oll crisis in north- central U.S., a conclusion reach Thompson inquiry into West Coast oil ports. Cyril Shelford, MLA for Skeena, told the ‘HERALD Wednesday that sooner or later, in his opinion, there would have to be an oil port established somewhere along the B.C. coast. - “That is,’ he went on, ‘‘unless we can find alternate resources to oil and gas, people quite si quite posal ventional gas and oll and electricity as a heating ree. He pointed out that one ‘ gtore in Terrace sold routine harrassment by: three wood furnaces protesters, but they also costing $600 each. Sie ine pote ape . , a safety local initiative — that pe virtually all the wood highways’ ~~ furnaces sold in this area -are manufacuted in the United States. Here would be an ideal small, labor intensive industry, Terrace ‘could profit from, if only someone would follow it up. He mentioned that one of wood - burning ration said: Peter is made in Van- derhoof, but that most manufacturersare unable to keep up with the 5 demand for wood-fuelled furnaces, and referred to a recent TV program . which showed a factory in - oterotion, frying to. fil ‘oduction trying to - puch orders. — _ The newer wood stoves _ ean last up to 14 hours on one firing; they are able ‘to make use of waste wood and the fuel is just about free for the gathering. or] hed by the abridged: _ thedbrary buildi ti creation Facilities we of “yeaa VeVaLat cae ret if e a ee oh 0 Kevin Conrad, with the District of Terrace engineering department, shown Wednesday turning off a Pohle Lumber Co. water main, prior to testing the lines. This scene taken adjacent to Highway 16 West. Recreation grant helps Terrace library taxing Terrace taxpayers may get some relief from the tax burden which will result from the library building expansion. At a special Terrace council meeting Jast night, council members voted to submit an ap- . Plication to the Ministry Recreation - for financial assistance for under the: “Assistance Program. Under this pro government _ provides _ grants of one-third of the ; district council for the Barry Downey of the Terrace Fire Department cost of a project up to a Council see. by Donna Vallieres ‘Local television’ and radio station CF TK is due for a license renewal this year and Terrace council will try to get the man- datory public hearing held in town. The hearing is scheduled to be held in Vancouver next month, but Ald. Vic Jolliffe proposed that council write the Canadian Radio and Television Telecommunications xamimum of §25,000. The question was raised as ta whether other applications could be made under the same Ald. Helmut noio p specifically to a drop-in centre for senior citizens _ which had been discussed last year... AA ih itor . k Hallsor told council they “could. submit .as many applications as they want un the program, although the submissions Commission asking that the hearings be held in Terrace, If the hearings are held in Vancouver, local people will be denied an opportunity for local imput, Jolliffe said. though the a plication and hearing ake complained of the station’s power olitput and said this is one area he would bring up at a hearing. Bob: : cs local hearing. will eventually have to he if placed in order of _ priority. Dave Maroney, however, stated that he felt the library expansion was the most important facility to consider ‘under @ program. if funding is recelved, tt will cut down the expense to the taxpayers. oaks (Hes ot cient a Mt Piteeetsren ane a | _'The library expansion, which was accepted by, voters in November’s election, is expected to cost $175,000. Recently Jolliffe has : ir | criticized Skeena : oe Broadcasting Ltd. on: a: . number of occassions for : various reasons, .in-: cluding the fact that; distant communities get: a weak signal. : Mayor Dave Maroney : asked Jolliffe if he had: other complaints’ but: Jolliffe declined to: elaborate, stating these: would be brought out at: the hearing. : Meeting will form Council to coordinate Terrace dist. A meeting of im- rtance will be held next ursday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in room 202 Nor-— thwestCommunity — College. This meeting is required to form a connects fire hose coupling to pressure pump preparatory to making a durability and bursting point of hose under actual operating conditions. Such Van area te co-ordinate and improve the activities of all cub and packs and scouts. This is a follow-up on the meeting held late in November chaired by Mr. Bill O'Doherty from is festa are a routine part of annual maintenance of fire, pected to be present on: “ ‘Thursday to help us. _: 4 2 All parents of cubs and: scouts group committees:: and leaders and any: persons interested in the : movement are requested : to attend. : ea fighting equipment — one of many not usually seen by. the taxpayers, who sometimes wonder what the: department does between waiting for fires to occur.