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Christmas

is here

Gold Band is
selling Christmas trees at
the Skeena Mall tonight and
Saturday. Seen here with the

Skeena

trees for sale are (left to
right) Mike Schaeffer; Petra
May, band conductor and
instructor; Christina King

and Mike Sandyke. The trees
will also be sold next week at
the mall,

PWA INVITED

CP Air service slammed

by Ann Dunsmuir

- It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
More than likely it's a bus

from Prince Rupert loaded

with hungry, exhausted and
angry,.CP Air passengers.

So meny complaints about
the poor service have been
recelved by Kitimat City
Council that members
decided Monday to invite
Pacific Western Airlines to
fly passengers on the
Kitimat-Terrace to Van-
eouver run.

Council passed a
resolution to that effect
introduced by Alderman Ron
Burnett. “I get more com-
plaints about CP Air’s lousy
service than about flooding
in the Kildala area or any
other local issue,"’ Burnett
said.

Burnett’s resolution stated
that CP Air's scheduling
does not take into con-
sideration atmospheric
conditions common in the
area and as a result
“diversion, cancellation and
general disorder are the rule
rather than the exception”.

It also stated that although
lack of equipment was given
aa the reason for poor
scheduling, the airline has
been reluctant to rectify the
problem for the duration of
the winter schedule and for
these reasons council should
invite PWA to land at
Terrace. '
“‘The flight will have to
land enroute at Sandspit or
Smithers,”’ Burnett said.
“But that’s better than the
bus to Prince Rupert.”

CP Air's poor service to
Kitimat-Terrace residents
came up again during the
correspondence, Council
received a copy of a letter
from MLA Cyril Shelford to
cP Air complaining of a
recent Vancouver-Kitimat
flight that landed passengers
(by bus) in Terrace at 3:30
aim, Kitimat residents had
te climb onto yet another
bus. They finally arrived
home at 4:30 am. The
arrival time scheduled by
the airline was §:19 p.m.

Shelford said such trips
are particularly hard on the
elderly, women with small
children, the sick and the
disabled. He said that
travellers who aren’t sick
when they embark often are
ill by the time they arrive.

Alderman Fran Buschert
suggested that council
contact Alean, Eurocan and
other Industries in the area
and ask them to boycott CP
Air on cross Canada flights.

Council vated to write a
letter to CP Air in support of
Shelford's views.

Council also voted to ac-
cept the terms offered by the
Ministry of the Environment

- $87,300 will be

available by special warrant
. but-thy Land Management
Branch will expect to

for funding improvements to
the Cablecar subdivision

- water supply,

Funds am

made

recover the money from the
sale of adjacent Crown lands

MONTREAL (CP) — A
fivealarm fire, ‘ne doubt''
deliberately set, caused at

to be developed in phase two
of the project.

saree tert
. ie
oa “in the ier ; Y

costly mistake made by the
Land Management Branch

in the first phase”,

However, Mayor George
Thom said the minister had
been reluctant to admit the
Land Branch's responsibili
and council would have: to

| 'thave to-pay for "a. either accept the terma

offered or do- without the:

money. I.
In other business, City™

Manager Ben de Kleine

_ CHURCH GUTTED ©
Arson suspected in

least $2 million in damage
Thursday to a section of
historic Notre Dame Church,

Aerial survey

“VANCOUVER (CP) —-
British Columbia Hydro says
its aerlal thermography

Safe
place
found

Kitimat RCMP recovered
a safe that was stolen from
Northland Navigation 20
years ago, an
spokesman said on Thur-
sday. The safe, which
contained $800 at the time of
the theft, was empty.

Jim Anaka, an. employee
for B.C. Hydro, telephoned
police at 3 p.m. on Wed-
nesday to say that work crew
had discovered the safe near
the Haisla Bridge while they
were picking up a pole near

Dyke Road.
They found the safe behind

. a large tree just off the trail,

To date no one has been
apprehended, The in-
vestigating officer was Sgt.
Greggory, who is now the
Chief Constable of the
Vietoria City Police
Department.

The safe was apparent
buried when the crime
place in 1938 and it was
washed up during the recent
flooding of the Kitimat
River.

Terrace RCMP sald that a
man was assaulted at the
Red D'or Cabaret by four
men about 2 a.m. on Thur.
sday. The identity of the
men Is unknown, The man
was taken to Mills Memorial
Hospital and later released,

Thieves broke the window
ofa vehicle parked overnight
on Wednesday at the Terrace
Hotel and stole a case of beer
from the vehicle,

survey, introduced a year
ago to reveal rooftop heat
losses in the Vancouver
‘area, has been expanded.
The 1977 program
produced thermograms of
about 167,000 homes and

buildings in Vancouver,

Burnaby, New Westminster,

itlam, Port ultlam
and Port Moody, H. said
in a news release.

Infrared scanning flights
were made over Prince
George, Vanderhoof,
Smithers, Terrace, Kitimat,
Vernon, Armetrong, One
‘Hundred Mile, Willlams
Lake, Kamloops and Vic-
toria Nov. 10 to 14 this year,
. Hydro said it plans to con-
tinue the thermography pro-
gram until moat of the popu-
lated areas of the province

loss, Well- ited roofs ap-

pear black, but areas which

are radiating heat show up
grey or white.

Hydro said its technicians
are usually able to Identify
common causes of heat loss,
such as open fireplace
dampers, ventilators, open
attic hatches and of
inadequate insulatior
through thermograms.

Hydro said thermograms

have turned up problems at
many large buildings in the
Vancouver area.

In some instances, ther-
mostats were not turned
down while buildings were
unoccupled while in other
cases, though room tem-
peratures were lowered at
night, hallways were not
provided with controls and
heat was wasted.

in several buildings, roof
damage or deterioration has
allowed water to seep
the in-

sulation, Hydro said.

church spokesman Rev,
Rene Marinier said.

Five fires have been set in
the church in the last year,
but despite hiring security
guards, church officials had
been unable to catch the
arsonist, Father Marinier
told a reporter in the
damaged chapel! at the back
of the church.

Police said they were in-
vestigating the fire, but no
one had been arrested.

By mid-afternoon, firemen
were stlll pouring water
rel Oe

en
chepel. The fire began about
7am. EST during morning
mass in the Sacre Coeur
chapel of the huge church, a

landmark on the edge of the —

city’s old financial section.

Smoke and water
damaged the main church
building, but firefighters
succeeeded in isolating the
flames inside the chapel and
a church museum, located in
an annex at the back.

Council

takes oath

George Thom was
aworn in for his third
term as mayor at Kitimat
Council Monday. Thom
won an easy victory at the
polls over his opponent,
Kitimat realtor David

Serry.

Also sworn in were
Aldermen Laurie
LeBlanc, Fran Buschert
and Max Patzelt. All
three were elected by
acclamation.

Thom was also elected
by council to the Regional
District Board. He joins
Alderman Joe Banyay
whose term on the board
has a year to run.

Thom's first act as
mayor was the presen-
tation of awards to
Horace Wilde and Wayne
Doyle who have served 20
years with the Kitimat
Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment,

reported that standby power
for the two Kildala lift
stations which failed during

ty’ recent torrential rains will .

coat an estimated $44,400,"
Maintenance and capital
recovery based on a 25 year |
capital write-off are ex-
pected to cost $6,400 per
year; '

blaze

‘Parish priests feared for
the safety of religious art-
work in the museum that -
included antique statues,
paintings and religious
objects which dated back to
the 17th century.

About 20 trucks encircled
the chureh, and traffic was
diverted from sections of the
old city. But smokey streets
around the church were
thronged with curious
spectators-

One fire department of-
ficer said the blaze seemed
to have started in a con-

GOV'T DEBATES
CUPE offers

strike end

VICTORIA (CP) — The
Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) will end
a strike affecting schools and
Selkirk College in the West
Kootenays and return to
work immediately if school
trustees lift their lockout,

. Opposition Leader Dave

Barrett said Thursday.

The four distiets, however, |

have refused to end the
Ieckout. Gary Cleave,
spokesman for the Brtish
Columbia School Trustees
Association (BCST'A), said
they first want a negotiated
settlement ending the six-
week dispute,

Barrett said he obtained
thecommitment from CUPE
after Premier Bill Bennett
called a special session of the
legislature for this morning
to legislate an end to the
dispute. Both sides failed to
reach agreement under a
deadline the premier im-
posed Wednesday.

Labor Minister Allan Wil-
Hams said after Barrett's
announcement that the
session would go ahead
today despite the CUPE
promise. ,

Barrett said the unions
want Williams to “move
immediately back into this
dispute and assign a
mediator who will begin to
deal with this very complex

and — difficvlt = — ‘labor
situation.” .
The opposition leader said

the school: boards have
stated publically in the past
that they are prepared end
the lockout if the union lifts
its strike, and .he has. in-

formed the districts of "|

CUPE's decision.

Barrett said the main
stumbling block to a set-
tlement is the union’s op-
position to joint bargaining
and he called on the
government to end the
practice in the public sector.

“The CUPE locals of the
West Kootenay districts
have told me that they feel
that they have suffered
because of the accreditation
(joint bargaining) process.
Unfortunately the children
have become the emotional
factor in the suffering of
everyone in that community
in this issue."

He said that by bargaining
jointly ‘through the BCSTA,
the school boards have
abandoned their respon-
sibility to the electorate and
the students.

‘It is eminently self-
evident that accreditation
should not apply to the public

“There's no need for a
special session of the

legislature—there never has
been in this dispute.

TEHRAN (AP) —
Foreigners and Iranians
alike stampeded for
flights out of Iran on
Thursday as reports
circulated that opponents
of Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi were preparing a
bloody showdown with
government troops this
weekend.

In Washington,
President Carter sald he
does not know whether
the shah can survive the
upheavals, Altough Iran
was “very important’’ to
the United States and to
the stability of the entire
Mediterranean area,
Carter said the U.S.
would not intervene to
prop up the embattled
shah.

Meanwhile, officials at

Tehran's Mehrebad
Airport sald there was
“utter chaos" as

thousands scrambled for
plane tickets. Airlines
announced earlier that
they had cancelled flights
in and out of the city
Sunday and Monday, the
critical days of the holy
.._month-of- Moharram...|, ..

dependents arrived in
Tehran from turbulent
provincial areas a3 major
American companies
such as General Electric
and Westinghouse

evacuated the families of
employees. At least two
U.S. companies had char-
tered planes for em-
ployees’ families.

“We want to get out,”
said Betty Robinson, wife
a@ ae US. aircraft
executive based in Isfa-
han. “But we're stuck
here because all the
planes are overbooked,
We'll just have to sit it out
here.’

Her husband, Walter,
said: “Our people think
things are going to get
bad.”

Troops kept hundreds
of people out of Tehran's
airport Thursday as
pandemonium broke out

Large ‘groups ‘of U.S.”

From Iran
EXODUS

CONTINUES

inside when people
shoved and yelled in the
fight for tickets.

An estimated 38,000
foreigners, including
5,500 Americans, have
fled Iran in the last 10
weeks. Thousands of
nervous Iranlans, fearful
after 11 months of politi-
cal turmoil, also have

. fled diplomatic sources

said,

Anti-shah forces
maintained strong ‘
economic pressure on the
government with wildcat
walkouts, slowdowns and
a crippling four-day-old
stoppage in Iran's south-
western oilfields.

Sources said dally oil
production Thursday
slipped to about 2.6
million barrels—well
below half the normal
daily output of six million
barrels. The cost to Iran
in lost revenue is esti-
mated at $35 million a
day.

The pace of the exodus
has increased in recent
days because of fears that

trouble is looming Dec, 10

-and.11, the climax of the. <9.
holy month of Mcharram’ |

when religious passions
run high and the faithful
march in the streets or
beat themselves with

whips. The y
m period honors
the martyred grandson of

the prophet Mohammed.

Tehran's martial law

administrator, Gen.
Gholamali Oveisi,
warned that ''saboteurs
are launching plans
which are going to have
dreadful results."
. Ayatullah Taleghani,
one of the ieading
Moalems in Iran, called
for a demonstration in
Tehran on Sunday "to
determine the fate of the
Iranian nation.”

At least 33 persons have
been reported killedin the
last few days in clashes
with throughout
Iran, but diplomats said
the figure is much higher.

fessional in the chapel. sector.

WITH BRIAN GREGG
Around our town

“Humbug,” said the man as he realized he was
overdrawn at the bank from buying Christmas
presents (mostly ties) for the dozen or more people on

s list.

Still, it’s a great time for organizations like the
Salvation Army and the youngsters who aspire to
Oscar-winning performances in school plays.

The Salvation Army is as busy as ever preparing for
the Christmas rush and even if you are like the man
above there's always room in the Christmas bubbles
for the few dollars you can spare,

The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers to man
the bubbles at Woolworths and the Hquor store. Two
volunteers are needed for the afternoon shift and two
volunteers are needed for the day shift.

There are volunteers for the bubbles at the Skeena
Mall and the Co-op.

People can make donations tonight and Saturday,
during the store hours, Other times are Dec. 13 to Dec.
18 and Dec. 18 to Dec. 23 during store hours at the four

ocations.

The Salvation Army will be handing out Christmas
treats to patients and will be singing Christmas carols
at Kitimat General Hospital on Sunday at 2:30 p.m., on
Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. at Skeenaview and on Dec. 14 at 7
p.m, at Mills Memoria) Hospital.

It will hold a pageant and service at the Salvation
Army Hall at 4637 Walsh Ave. on Dec. 17. On the night
before Christmas it will be carolling at the Tuck and
Willows senior citizens residences as well as some of
the outlying subdivisions east of Terrace.

On Christmas Day from 12 noon until 6 p.m. there
will be a Christmas dinner at the Salvation Army Hall

for people who are alone at Christmas and who want a
meal and fellowship.

People who want a Christmas hamper should make
their applications at the church at 4637 Walsh between
10.a.m, and 3p.m. from Dec. 11 to Dec. 13.

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Youngsters in the Terrace area are preparing for
school concerts again this year.

Uplands concert is on tonight at 7 p.m. in the R.E.M,
Lee Theatre. Don McLeod, principal, says everyone in
the school is involved on stage.

Thornhill Elementary Choir will perform at the
Skeena Mall on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Clarence Michiel will hold its Christmas concert at
the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Dec, 12 at 1:30 p.m.

The Skeena Gold Band will hold a concert in the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Dec. 12 at8p.m.

Parkside Elementary will held a concert at the
school on Dec. 13 at 10 a.m.

E.T. Kenney Primary will hold a concert in the

_ School on Dec. 13 at 1:50 p.m,

Kiti K’Shan will hold a concert at the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.

Centennial Christan School will hold a concert at
the church on Dec. 14 at 8 p.m.

The Caledonia Band will hold a concert at the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Dec. 14at 8p.m.

The Three Rivers Workshop be selling wooden
toys, handicrafts door swags and wreaths that are
made at the workshop. The people from the workshop
will be selling their wares In the Skeena Mall on Dec,
14 from 10 a.m. until cloaing time. They will also make
the draw on the quilt that is presently being raffled.

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