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2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, January 31, 1978

EDITORIAL
Lights Out

When most of Terrace

plunged into darkness

_ Sunday evening, the Terrace HERALD plunged
* right along with the rest, All but a small part of
5 the front page had been put together in the

‘> “back shop’when sudd

ly “everything went

+ BLACK." Luckily, the lone male member of the
i three at work had a flashlight-three flashlights,
‘' in fact,-and so it was by the glow of a hand held
electric torch, the last pieces of set copy were

‘found and pasted up with an appropriate

‘headline, on page one.

Grabbing a camera from under his desk, the
editor then set out in the black cold of the windy
night-it was about 8 p.m.-to see how Terrace was
coping with the power failure emergency.

‘The streets seemed more than usually filled

with cars whose head-ligh

its glared all the more

noticeably against the dark background.
Street traffic lights were not working, so
motorists from all four directions were forced to

hesitate and make their

own decision when to

proceed at the crossroads. Some streetlights

were on-along the main

thoroughfares. Gims

restaurant on Lazelle looked cozy and warm
through the windows as patrons dined by can-
delight and small propane lights. Gas-burning

stoves in the kitchen enabled food to be served as

usual,
Then, heading back. West on Lakelse, flashing
lights of orange, red and white adjacent to the
al Canadian Legion indicated feverish ac-
tivity on the part of B.C. Hydro workmen, Three
large heavy equipment vehicles, all ted

yellow were lin

ed up beside an obvio

ly frac-

tured power pole, at the base of which a white or
cream coloured car-akin to a mustange-cringed
~ in a crumpled, cowering

Snapping a number of otographs in the cold
with ee eera set for fe {

position.

widest aperture, took

all of ten miniutes and by that time the Hydro
“Cherry picker”: an articulated metal arm with
a bucket at the end,was hoisting the apparently
“totalled”? automobile several feet of the ground
alongside the towing vehicle.

At that
feverishly
workingon cutting

point, apparently the result of
usy repairmen who had been
d wires and splicing new
right around the broken dydro po

vapour street lights flickered-

e-mercury-
feebly at first, then

fieninsacence and: tae Bisctoue hed ed

approximately 38 minutes after it-had: begun.-

short power cut-off,

such as this is a good

reminder to all of us to eoare for future, and

more prolonged and se’

ous emergencies, We

are being advised by various authorities to
designate one rogm in each home as a “Survival

room’ with an aternate-

keep an emergericy:supply of food and

water on hand, It might be never needed, But in

Eastern Canada last week these who had the,
foresight to be prepared were glad they did,
when the big blizzard cut off power and tran-
sportation and normal living conditiones, It
approximately 38 minutes after it had begun. -

been ready, if it had?,

Weekend Fatalities

Six persons killed in
fires in Quebec were
among 29 accidental
deaths across Canada

the weekend.
A survey by The
Canadian 4 from 6

.m: Friday until late

inday night local times
showed four other fire
deaths ‘and 17 traffic
fatalities: o
Besides those killed-in -
fires in Quebec, there
were five traffic fatalities -
in that province.

British Columbia had

two traffic deaths and a slayings
_ suicides.

fire death.

In Ontario, one man
died after falling off his
roof, There also was one
fire death, qne drowning
and seven traffic fa-
talities in the provence.

There was one fire
death and two traffic
fatalities in Sas-
katchewan.

Newfoundland, Nova
Scotla, New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
and Alberta r no
weekend fatalities.

The survey excludes
industrial. deaths,
and known

TERRACE

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—!

Ottawa —
Offbeat.

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa - Score one for
Conservative Leader Joe
Clark.

Score a big one.

It’s not impossible to

imagine thatit just might | firi
bea bi nat o win the

next election if the count
is close as it was in 1972
when Prime Minister
Trudeau won it by only a
margin of two seats and
was humbled into run-
ning a minority govern-
ment for a couple of
humiliating years.

Joe’s big one is how to
win the public service

vote.

Small stuff, you say,
this public service vote,
not large enough to swing
even a close election.

Think. again.

Not even counting the
Armed Forces - which ,
inexplicably, always

seem to vote heavily -

Liberal - federal public

servants now number

departments, the
commissions,
various regulatory:
agencies. and the crown
e ations, =
“That's a lot of votes to
in with.
ut think of the Public

boards,

Service families.

Statistics Canada puta
the average family
at three and one-hali

é,
Pest not all members of

every family are ai

-voting age.
xing 26 the family only

a mother, - father, .

an
-assume that any children
will

of vo age likel

be doe © heir y own
tical thinking, which
‘t neceasarily that of

their nts,
‘But because of common

economic interests - the
iob,. its status, and
bitually increasing pay
levels-and public service
husband and wife usually
vote alike. ©
For the

é

-YELLOWENIFE,

N.W.T, )CP) — Four of |

the six wildlife scientists

who: encountered * the.

remainf of a fallen Soviet
nuclear-powered satellite
did not ——_—- receive
radioactive. con-
tamination, it was an-
nounced today.

The other two aclen-
tists, who made the

ting near their re-
mote _ arate: weather
outpost al ‘ardens
Grove, N.W.T., were sent
to Edmonton. Their
condition was not im-
mediately known.

The six were identified
by a spekesman at the
Arctic weather central
office in Edmonton as
Robert Common, a
Canadian, and
Americans Gury  An-
derson, Kurt Mitchell,
Chris Norment, Mike
Mobley and John Mor-
dhorst. Hometowns and
other details were not
available.

Dr. Ross Wheeler, a
¥ellowknife
physician naeid he exam:

ed Common, Anderson,
Mitchell and Norment on
Sunday night after they
were flown here from
Wardens Grove,

NO SYMPTOMS

He said they showed no
aymptoms of radiation

ckness and were to be
released from hospital
later today,

Dr. Wheeler did not
examine Mobley and
Mordhorst, who were
flown to Edmonton. How-
ever, he doubted the

‘would be seriously atf-
_ fected either,

Col. Donald Davidson

-of the’ Canadian Forces,

who headed a team to
‘Wardens Grove on Sun-
day after
receivingnreports from
the eclentists, said two of
the six scientists had
made a sled trip up the
nearby Thelon River on
Saturday and found the
remains of the fallen
satellite on river {ce.
Davidson said one of
the two men touched the

th le who sign,
, overn:
Hating sourcos and to {meghtV"l> Hi govern

This is reinforced. by
the fact that for all but six
of the last 43 years, the
Liberals have’ been in
charge of hiring and

ng.
Hiring in the Trudeau
years has tripled. .
Firing? Ts the public
service? Are you crazy?
Why man, they don’t even
‘fire people out of the Post
Office when they're
caught looting the mails.
Too much union trouble.
Too much paper work.
Just too much trouble. So
forget it.

So take that basic
500,000 blic servants
and, wi
Statscan family at three

and a half persen, be §

conservative and double
the civil service vote to a
mere million.

Throw in the sym-
pathetic public service
vote, those others on the
public payroll with the
municipal, regional and

. provincial governments,

And how many have

you got?

A formidable vote. .
Concentrated in Ottawa-
-where it controls elght of
10 ridings--in Toronto,
montreal, Winnipeg,
Vancouver; and on the
provincial side every
Capital from St. John’s to
Victoria, ;

The Conservatives
cracked the public ser-

vice vote only once when’

Dief won it. along with
moat of the rest of the
country, all but wipin,
out the Liberals an
NDP.

But then the public
service turned on him,
were disloyal to the
overnment in office
traying it to its old
Liberal enemies.  -
‘Since then Pierre
Trudeau has changed

.
“The publie ‘service has
become a kingdom of its
own with ite: knights

Radioactive satellite fragment drama continues:
_ More news “fragments” from the Gdn. Press wire —

metal witha gloved hand.
Wheel

er said the
readings taken at the
crater created by ihe
satellite indicated the
men “didn’t, recelve a

very high dosage at all.’

*s not like a fallout
situation where there is a
lot of dust
floatingharound. There's
just a solid jump of this
stuff and maybe some
particles scattere¢
around,’ n

Common, 32, was hired
by Queen’s University
faculty of education in
Kingfton, Ont., last year
as a temporary replace-

ment in the outdoor with
recreation depurtment. ’

Prof, Robert Pieh, head
of the department, said in
Kingston today that
Common and the, other.
five were retracing ‘the
travels of explorer John
Hornby in the mid 1920s.

Hornby was an-.
nEnglish explorer and
rapper who made ex-
tensive journeys through
Canada’s Arctic and su

Arctic regions. He and’

two other men starved to.
death in 1927 after un-

dertaking an ill-equipped. -

trek to the Dubawnt Lake

area of the Keewatin ‘*
District in the Northwest .

Territories, .
Common is from St.
Anne De Bellevue, Que.
Canadian and U.S. search
officials said today they
have positively identified
debris. found in
locations in the Nor-.
thwest Territories as
from ‘a Soviet nuclear-
wered satellite which
ost orbit last Tuesday.
Tvo of the sites were on
lake jice near Fort
Reliance on the northeast
end ofjGreat Slave Lake,
abou] 240 - kilometres
easto of Yellowknife, the
territorial capital, The
third site was on river ice
on Thelan River near the

‘remote Arctic weather

outpost at Wardens
Grove, about 300
kilometres further east.
Mahlon Gates, a
Nevadabased nuclear

the average f

constituency

‘and - .
. Mr. Oberle will lose:the

three ©

Frank Oberle, Member
of Parliament for Prince
George-Peace River, has

apa

nomination in the nor-
thern section of the
Prince George-Peace
River constituency.
Under the statutes of the
British North America
Act federal _‘ con-
stltwencles are
reaistHibuted every teri
years a the basis of
population. e huge
of Prince
George -Peace River
has been split in half

southern portion of the

selentist, with the Us:
energy department, -sa

aneiecis confirmed the
debris found in the three
‘locations as from «the
fallen .Cosmos-954 sat-

ellite, ered by 100
pounds ot entiched
uranium, —

CFB Namao,

headquarters. for the

‘search operation —re-
leased photographs today
showing the remains of

“4

the satellite found on
Thelon River ‘ near
Wardens Grove. . .'
Nausea, skin burns and
loss of hair are specific
symptoms
’ _ exposureto
radiation, -says G. A.
Moas of the University of

associated ©

MODERN TIMES

Frank

the present riding

- of Pritice George and the

Highway 16 area.

. Oberle made his
comments on Monday
during a radio interview
in Ottawa. He stated
thathe is looking forward
to Sharing the work load
of his former  con-
stituency if his re-election
bid meets with success,

“The ‘new system will

allow me to devote more
ime to Sine lenialstion

e pipeline slation,”’
Oberle said,’ and will
enable me to’ play a
major role in co
ordinating many of the
development: projects
scheduled for the north.”

Alberta. vo
Moss, who is with the
nuclear research centre

‘at the university, said

symptoms do not usually
snow up immediately.
But if the dose
radiation has been high,
suich a3 froma bomb, the
nausea and skinnburn
symptoms might occur
within hours,

_Skin burns caused by
high doses may develop
into tumors or blood
diseases such as leu-
kemia and anemca, but
these diseases. may. not
become apparent until 15
to 20 years, Moss said.

‘Another spokesman

~ said extremities of the

body, such as the hands,

Oberle

The City of Prince
George has been divided
under re-distribution, and

- Oberle feels that it will be

‘much . easier for two
Members of Parliament
to meet the special and
distinctive demanda tn
urban center. ;
Mr, Oberle makes his

home in Chetwynd, which.

lies in the northern half
of the present § con-
stituency,and feels that
his close ties with the
people and problems of

freses River area wilt’ Sr H
ve him in goodstead in ijarigdictign 3! 15
wa. hastsedheliedy i $iy7

Otta He

have a higher tolerance

for radiation than more
central parts because

‘they are further away

from internal organs.
N.W.T. (CP)

Edmonton on Sunday
night were reported in
good condition today
after comeng in contact
with the radioactive

wreckage of a Soviet.

nuclear-powered satellite
that fell from orbit over
northern Canada last

. Tuesday.
'.. The two, members of a

sixman wildlife survey

_ party camping out on the

sub-Arctic wasteland
while on contract to the
Northwest Territories

— Two"
of Americans flown to

represented the area in
the Federal Parliament
since 1972. Mr.Oberle
expressed : his. ap-

laced in him and wishes
assure all residents of
the present riding that he
will continue to serve
their interests in Ottawa,

“I hope to continue to
build on the friends

and sup for out Pa ¥
in both constituencies,

and to serve the unique
interests of all of pentral
‘and northern B.C. in

r m

ratte g ul cogs *y
erle

government, were: .
identified as Mike Moble

and John Mordhorst.

Hometowns were un-
available. =. +

‘Tt is believed’ the two
men received'a radiation
dose not exceeding tliat of
two normal xrays, sald

just
be ‘back’. to
J

glad to,
“civilization after being

the bush for four weeks,”
hesaid, -

The men were flown to
Edmonton for medical

examination “as = a
recautionary measure’
ause of their contact

with the wreckage.”

Monday’s Herald carried photos on pages one
and four of Terrace Pipes and drums band.
Unfortunately the captions below the two photos
were switched by mistake. Above. photo shows
girl HIGHLAND DANCERS Denise Gilles, far
right, Heather simthwaite, center, Crystal

Piper, farleft, doing the HIGHLAND Fling
Saturday night Burns Dinner, Hidden from :

j

t the

camera behind Denise, is fourth dancer Randi. :

More  photos.and writeup in

herald,

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