~ ~ Northern co PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP) — An oil pipeline paralleling the Alaska High- way natural gas pipeline is inevitable, Jack Davis, British Columbia energy, transport and = = com- munications minister, said Thursday. . Davis said in a speech tp the Western Advisory Transport Committee at their annual meeting in this coastal British Columbia community that the new transportation corridor being opened up by the pro- posed gas pipeline is of far- reaching importance. _ Soon it will rank, along: with our two trans: continental railway routes to the West Coast, as a nation builder in the true sense of the word,” he said. Even if big oil discoveries are slow in coming, said the minister, and even if a Kitimat-toEdmonton oil pi e is built, ‘'an oil line ‘ollowing the Alaska High- way route is inevitable in the long run.” Davis also said that it was also inevitable that the McKenzie Valley gas pipeline proposal was rejected by the federal government. . “Tt shouldn't have been shoved up front in the first place,”” said Davis. - He. said that the Alaska Highway route will open up the northwest to a host of other developments. ‘As more oil reserves are developed around Prudhoe Bay, off-shore and on-shore, economists and engineers will say what we can do with as we can do with oil,” avis said. . rrid “We can do it several times over. We can build a largediameter oil line down the Alaska Highway. ‘We can pipe Alaskan Oil down from Edmonton through the Inter-provincial Oil Pipeline System to Chicago as well, We can Alcan route for hydro, oil, rail or may kill Kitim move our northern produc: tion, oil as well as gas, to the highest price markets in North America. “In transportation terms I see a big new northwest corridor developing. . . “Who know? Electricity from major hydroelectric the™"herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass E VOLUME 71 NO. 105 Price: 20 cents FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1977 J Oil inquiry seeks secret documents VANCOUVER (CP) —- Dr. Andrew Thompson, head of the West Coast. oil ports inquiry, continued to press Wednesday for confidential federal documents _con- cerning pollution problems involving the world’s oll tanker fleet. It was the second day in a row that Thompson had | decided his federal inquiry . needed material which has not been made public. Some of the documents are confidential, and Thompson said he would need the co-operation of such cabinet officers as Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Don t Minister. Otto Lang and Environment and Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc. Thompson, a University of British Columbia’ law professor, has sought documents pertaining to Canadian complaints to countries about ships regis- tered in them that have ‘spilled oi} in or near { dian waters. - Heig also after cacumen concerning after armen > ments to a section of the Canada Shipping Act dealing: with liability and compensation for oil spills. WHAT COUNTRIES Thompson told Erik Wang, a legal affairs officer in. the external affairs department, that his inquiry needed to know when and to what country Canada has ’ complained in recent years about substantial oil dis- es, His request for documents came on the third day of testimony concerning in- ternational laws governing sea-borne oil shipments. Wang said that in the past 10 —syears complained 80 times to foreign countries about oil tankers. He said that only 30 - per cent of the complaints were investigated by the countries, and only 17 of the 60 cases resulted . in penalties to ship owners. . Thompson asked whether the names of the countries were confidential. Wang replied they were not, but added that complaints and investigations are normally done in confidence. On the basis of previous relts, he said, Canada mmuay have to do more than just “name names.” Thompson, also seeks material about possible future amendments to the Canada Shipping Act that would ‘give Canadians greater protection against the possibility of oil spills, and easier legal remedies for damages when they do occur. ORDERS MEETING . He directed commission counsel Russell Anthony to meet with Martin Lowe, a federal government lawyer, and Ann Rounthwaite, a lawyer. representing the Kitimat Oil Coalition. The coalition opposes a roposal, since suspended, b wild an oil terminal at itimat on British Columbia's northern coast. Anthony said he didn’t know which documents to ask for. Lowe told reporters during a, break in the hearings that many cocuments are considered confidential, and that if Thompson demands them the government may a his order to the eral courts.. . Canada. has. Rounthwaite argued that the sub-cabinet level reports, studies and memoes are essential if the inquiry is to gain a complete ‘picture of the economic, social and. environmental impact an oil port would ye, eo aot . Thompson said he wants to be the judge as to whether the documents are truly confidential. He has the power to subpoena both witnesses and documents, but he said he wants to use it ar pn gil y persuasion over an order. Bennett won't reduce taxes VERNON, B.C. (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett today threw cold water on a suggestion made Wed- nesday by Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm that the provincial sales tax be reduced. . Vander Zalm said he would like to-see B.C.'s seven per cent sales tax cut to five per cent or less. He said the government. ghould seek revenues from sources oe eatett sald that the sales tax would not come down for .some time yet because the money already was com- mitted , The premier pointed to the improved labor situation in the province, saying there had been 45 per cent fewer man days lost in industrial disputes in 1977 than in the evious year, He said that Faure was achieved at a time when 80 per cent of the major industrial contracts were up for negotiation. Bennett said the labor record will pay dividends for B.C. in both Europe and Japan: He said B.C. is the bright spot in Canada with an inflation rate less than the national average and a real growth rate of close to six per cent. . . “Everyone from labor through to management is showing considerable re- straint,” he said. “We are giving an example to the world of what can be done for industrial relations.” Commenting on Vander § Zalm's statement that B.C. is prepared to spend $250 million on the world’s most comprehensive. state-run health care system Bennett said the “program. was announced earlier this year by the health vue gh and myself and the figure given by Vander. Zalm- I: would copeiter: as, being.@ bal: Pepennett ave a cost eafimate of $138 million in pril. * Premier WHO? VANCOUVER (CP)- British Columbia's future remier could be Bill ander Zalm « or so the Human Resources Minister - mused Wednesday. “Tm not interested in the job right now, but eight to 10 years down the road, if I’m still interested and if the people want me, then maybe ‘ll take a shot at it,”’ he said. - iHe: said that “someone will have to do the job if Bill Premier Bennett goes - and I don’t want that person to be Dave Barrett. New Democratic Party leader.” wether Te ew octet Sagres nea dae se Damas 8 gee saapaertec: Colin Goodall silk screens T-shirts for the North festival which begins with entertainment tonight. The message reads, “I'm a mother-loving’ logger from Terrace, B.C.” The shirts will be sold in conjunction with loggers’ events. These include a safety conference in the Sarane ee en See west Loggers Association UV ENOTAG 4 PARGIAMEAY GLOGS VICTORIA BC developments in the north may move this way. Metals and other minerals will, even some forest products. "A railway link could be economic in time. And, with all this happening, Canada's two major transportation corridors to the coasi (the two national railways) would be joined by a third, the Alaska Highway route, the route that will really put northern B.C. and the Yukon on the economic map of Canada.” MUST BE FOUND Davis ualified his prediction about the oil line down the highway by saying that, ‘‘first, to make the Alcan route viable for oil, Possak. inflation controls are phas crude oil has to be found on the Canadian side of the Alaska-Yukon Boundary.” “It has to be found in large ‘quantities in the McKenzie lta or offshore where Dome Petroleum is ex- ploring now,’ he said. “It may not happen tomorrow but it will happen eventually.” “We are bound to find more oil and gas in Arctic Canada, around the Mackenzie Delta and in the Beaufort Sea.” Davis also said that the Kitimat pipeline Pro al would not necessarily die if oil Howed down the Alaska Highway. i at eo 2 PPTL Li pg ee ee re end * pa er oiit and cockiail Kour and banquet Saturday evening. Entertainment to go with the convention includes the Allan Sisters singers at the REM Lee Theatre Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., who share the stage with comedian Jay Hoyle and banjo-player Felix mat line . He said, however, that if big Canadian oil pools are found quickly in the north, it will make a Kitimat oil line redundant. ‘Believe me, I'm not mentioning a Kitimat oil pipeline because I think it is inevitable,’’ the minister said. ‘It may never be built. “But Canadian energy policy, dictated mainly by Ontario, can call for its completition." He added that if such a pipeline were built, it too could be paralleled by major economic activity along its route. A copy of Davis’s speech was released prior to delivery. Terrace Hotel Saturday morning, a panel discussion on responsibility after Working parents need babysitters Church evicts day care By DONNA VALLIERES w king pat staff ' or rents of pre- schoo) children may be caught in a bindif the Terrace Day Care Centre canno find another building in town where they can operate the. child car facility. Pauline Effray, treasurer on the hoard of parents which runs the centre, said Buckle up! HERALD STAFF New seat belt legislation goes into effect on Saturday, October 1, and from that day on drivers and some passengers will be facing charges if cought not wearing seat belts. Sgt, Hud Cummings of the Terrace detachment RCMP traffic division, said the new law, is going to be hard to enforce, ut we will enforce it.” Set. Cummingssaid - persons co not wearin the belts : urin routineinvestigations would be charged under the Motor Vehicle Act and would be Hable to a maximum fine of There will be “no all-out campaign,” he said, but instead police would take a “common sense approach.” Figuring out what kind of seat belts individual vehicles require and where they have to be gets com- plicated, but generally. a seat blet must be worn wherever there has been one installed b the manugacturer. Seat belt regulations have been required for all models of cars since 1965 models. Here are the requirments for various vehicles by model year; «1985 to 1971 passenger cars: pelvic or upper torso. “1972 passenger cars: Pelvic or upper torso in- front, left and right, front centre and rear seat. . 1973 and 1974 passenger cars, convertibles. and commercial trucks: pelvic or pppet toso in front left and right, front centre and Tear seat. -1975 and 1976 passenger cars, convertibles, com- ‘ mercial trucks: pelvic and u 2 alae aene and spelvie or upper torso in contre front Pind rear seats. “1977 convertibles 10,000: pelvic or upper torso in front level and right, centre front and rear seats, “1977 cha mouonted emaper: vic or upper torso in front left and taht, centre front and rear seats. -1977 motor home and for- ward control vehicles: peivic or upper torso in front eft and right. Drivers of 1973 and 1977 buses must wear pelvic or upper torso. . : the hoard received word last week that the centre’s lease will not be renewed in December. St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, which owns the building housing the child care centre, has informed ‘the parents group that the church needs the building for the use of their paris and the centre will have to find other accommedation by the end of the year, “If we can’t find a new facility ... 25 parents will be looking for babysitters,” Effray stated. The board treasurer said there was no other facility in fown to her knowledge which would meet the Stringent governmenl regulations for day care centres which include and : commercial trucks over © It’s buckle-up time whether you like i¢ or not, Starting tommorrow, any adult caught not wearing a seat belt where one has been installed by the automobile manufacutrer will face a fine of up to $100. Here Gloria Kuiper makes sure son Devon will have a safe ride. square footage, yard space, washrooms and heaith and fire requirements. The centre has been operating out of the building on Park Avenue since 1973. Itis operated by the Terrace Day Care Society, made up fo all parents whose children attend the centre, and a board of directors administers the operation. The society snows no profits, Effray stated, and any money tht that is left over after expenses are paid -each month goes back into expanding the centre y andi purchasing programs an eouipment. However, because of the costs of running a day care program, there is usually ittle money left after rent, utilities and staff salaries are paid, Effray said. There are 25 youngsters aged three to five who at- tend the school full time, and another 14have be been put on a/waiting list until vacancies come up. The - centre receives frequent requests from other parents who do not put their names on the long waiting list. This is proof in itself that there is a need for an all-day centre in this town, Effray stated. The day care facility is open from 7a.m. unt} 6 p.m. and has staff working shifts to accommodate various work schedules of the parents who need the centre, About one-third of the children who attend the day care centre are subsidized through a provincial day care fees assistance program which pays yup to 100 percent of the $140 a month fee depending on the number of persons In the family, total income and family expenses. A rough estimate would be that a single parent with one child earning $600 a month or less, with normal expenses, would not have to pay any portionof the fee. ith every $20 extra income over tat, the. parent would pay a $5 portion. Less than half of the children who come to the day care centre are from single parent families, according to child care supervisor Virginia Chase. ase, who came to Terrace from Kelowna in July to take the job as supervisor, said she was concerned she would be out ofa job along with the othe r four staff members if the centre had to close. However, she said the real hardship would come to the parents who depend on the centre for full-time, quality day care for their youngsters. “All the parents here would have to find other means of having their children looked after,”’ Chase said. ‘Either that or quit their jobs. And most of em can't afford to quit their jobs.” “Tt would be really hard for everyone ifithas to close | down,”’ she added. Board treasurer Pauline Effray said the board has not yet had time to in- vestigate alternate ac- commodation for the centre so it is not known if the centre will be able to continue. “We have to have more meetings before we can discover whether we're in a crisis situation,” she said. But to find another building is goin g to be difficult, Effray stated. “We're really going to have to dig.”