f bcs (ATIVE LIBHAR x _ : ; teeth Vier we ORI 722 nal ee es “LOGGERS TOLD TO LEAVE RESERVE | oe Port: Simpson Indian Band under threat of suit went to talk with them, men en# FO meta sagt cI Matatalaleterrcatetra Pacific Simpson a licence. by the federal timber, but can’t do 80 Indian Affaire for the band © Mark Grimwood of Van- didn't live tip totheterms of involve stumpage pa ments Lumber: . Ltd. is De artment of ~ Indian without band cooperation, and, as far as knew, couver, band lawyer, said the timber ficence between and the umnpape date” of and’ equipment were = consideri : legal action Affairs in 1975 to cut 13C WHeoaid the tifa rt would be returned to the the Indians are unhappy 1975 and 1977. He said the logging operations. ordered the reserve. " 3 following stoppage of million feet of timber onthe pagefee was trust by company. because Pacific Simpson conditions in question Ron Berg, vice-president: Sampeon, band chief, % l atl reserve and the licence was of Wasser’and Winters Ltd., was. not. available for : ogging ongon the reissued in April of th f th hareholder of comm ; Port. Simpson Indian year with J in od Pacific Sen "son, said a ent. Re Band. resetve, com Operations be beginning « eine telephone interview from . Smith said discussions ; spokesman John Smi “Despite the fact th Som: a Longview, Wash., that Were taking place with? said Thursday.: pany has a licence,”. said Pacific Simpson invested [Indian Atars officials toy Smith said in a telephoze th, “it was denied $500,000 n logging determine “to. copay 8 & interview from Vancouver °Ce8s "to the reserve. equipment for the operation Investment. recover its 3 & that 1 on the reserve _ Don Sneddon, Terrace and and moved it to the reserve. ' : g 3) miles north of here Prince Rupert manager for rojext would jhe five-year | Grim wrod adie that the oo sped July 16 aoe the Sepa A pee paid ero ‘O00 in _ . Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass e S million to. to the band in bein Fenewed with few ; ‘ : i " dl nerve, band to leave the re- igang operations Pega .°. A VOLUME 77 NO. 57 Price: 20 cents "FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1977 ie were notified those conditions. were, not . # The Washington state: onsaidthecompany © —“"—"™ " unofficially that ihe band met, adding that the band % ‘| & based company was granted has a. legal right to cut . ote 7 ; said eee when We assessed. e entire matter re- . SER EES nn RESPITE ET NCTE Le OE Oe ASSES Se et oleeaeatteitseae eset ie tae aah eanaataeeegeneenee bata Ta tataia tata tarae renee nce dipparceuurontnnsncmnanton aS ESOL GOSBUANEEGSERAtOSES eH vot ! “ENCROACHES ON LIFESTYLE” oning blasted by Lakelse residents — ae ee Lake homeowners _want free hand -- Boyd: Woods, one. “of the 18 workers hir. maunicipelity his summer, uses an Alea VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia legislature set aside. normal Thursday for what proved fo be an acrimonious debate of an opposition motion of non- conti nce in Speaker Ed Attorney-General Garde VICTORIA (CP) — The New: Democratic Party has 4 asked: the attorney-general to look: into a possible - breach of the-Criminal Code in connection ‘with the on going Insurance Corp. of ritish Columbia controversy. . Dennis Cocke: (NDP— New Westminster) . sai Thursday filed Wednesday. by Education Minister ‘Pat McGeer; minister responsible ‘for: ICBC, eae g ta nd gcumments obtained b by the Cocke told the ‘egislature that hoth decimenits contain statements. by Ronald Richard Hudgins regarding . ar ging reg nding a controversial hy Surrey D Cocke, .said Attorney-- General’.Garde Gardom should examine the two sets re Ltd. of stataments to see if there . has been .a breach ofthe . Criminal Code. The . NDP’ has ‘said: that © usiness: that documents ~ ’ the: ‘attempted much by the “eat the planks for the pienie tables which are beng nee ta. “\placed around the area. Plans call for 40 tables to be. -. workers themselves. Seg as ~-NON- CONFIDENCE MOTION | ae = House’ debates Smith as speaker | ‘Gardom ; launched the. "Government | :defence of ith (SC--North. Peace | River), saying the motion ‘Wasa: “calculated political manoeuvre! Opposition leader Dave Barrett, who along with Progressive - - Conservative. rge. - Kerster | (sc— oda). the ‘head of Suey odge waely December, as. properly: intervened with the copeniy oyned insurance company order. to: get. the: nthe claim involved a car whicm was stolen from the dad lotof the dealership and was .- 8 later. recovered a.few in a damaged condition. The incident took place in the summer of 1975, while ICBC was on strike:” dodge’. repaired Surrey 0D ear -then later to Lae aes ICBC ‘pay for the Thee NDP has- ‘said that when ICBC turned down the claim, Kerster . used improper influence. to-have the ruling. overturned. In itself. addition, the NDP ‘says. ‘dime; ICBC. broke, the: claim, and ..that.-¢ claim was a paid even th though | Be leader Scott Wallace and Liberal leader ‘Gordon Gibson introduced’ the mo- tion’ on July. 7 oad the matter dealt wil foundation of representative democracy, . The controversy ona ruling. -made July 4 by: ICBC irregularities — _demand legal. study very centres Smith in which he cleared a government witness-tampering alle- gations. The that George Kerster (SC— Coquitlam) had im ly persuaded B.C. Rai vice-president Mac Norris not to attend.a meeting of the legislature's public accounts committee on June “Dave Stupich (NDP—Na- - naimo),’ chairman of the MLA of’ tion contended | way special comimittee to in- te the case. - “om th ruled there was no. ' prima facie case of breach of privilege and the. opposition introduced the non-confidence motion. Gardom said Thursday the fact that the motion, supposedly spontaneou e-written prove Phthe was t that the o The attorney-general said on had e grossest - built and the wood comes from trees fallen by the , (Story on page three.) im roperly persuaded. 3 subsequently told the publie accounts committee that Kerster did not specifically tell him not to. attend the’ June 28 meeting, but only told him there would probably not be a quorum and the meeting would in all likelihood be cancelled. Barrett said there was a prima facie case of breach Pad Smith had gone beyon considering whether there ae Brice . _ Father be ] | He added that ‘people means they By BRIAN GREGG ° Herald Staff Writer Residents of. Lakelse Lake say. a by “pioneer « lifestyle” -is being District A proposed zoning by-law yas el 2 peame and a ‘ up * some who Pitended a publle hearing, Wednesda t at the lake, but most residents who attended simply demanded to imwo the he reasoning. bebin behind: any a le raperty. act Dv ve ‘lived here 30 years,” Jim Mckay told the regional board members at the meeting. ‘“Lused to be in favour of z0 but after seeing how it is done in Terrace, Rupert . .L-Wou alone.” should be left to live on their own. land by whatever can. Roger . Vinnedge,: a Lakelse Lake advisory planning “commission Tiember, said although he first opposed zoning he has come. “i accept it as a fact of life and the zoning by-law is not as tough as ot 8 he has see asked the residents to take a more reasonable attitude about the by-law. year ba Johnstone, a 50- omeowner at the lake, vid with some chan es in the by-law “I can't see anything wrong with. it. People hate to have thelr. rights taken awa sometimes their ne nel have to be protec Johnstone said 65 percent of the houses at the lake are less. than the legal. requirement. under the by- law. ..He says the new regulations - will make it tou le who want to build ad itions onto homes that were constructed before the regulations came into effect, He said the only peo le - who are going | to be hurt by = this non-co aspect of the by- law be the residents, not their neighbours. Begional district stration sees the by- _ public accounts committee, Stupich had given Smith no appeared to be a case, as is ‘gaid his privileges as an hard evidence to consider’ required, and had ruled law as a means of forcing no ICBC éfficial had seen MLA had been breached by” and there was no evidence incorrectly on the al- residents to justify any the car. ~ . - . Kerster and called for a- at all that Norris had been _ legations itself. additions within 26 feet of Kitimat and bo : contention deals building above the flood . ensure ; district 8a ‘ CHILLIWACK, B.C, (CP) Aman picked up Vancouver ‘was released after it was TWO TEENAGERS STILL MISSING ‘Ghiliwone killer eludes police established he was 50 miles away when a . three nye, B olive said, may. killer as he drove away from the site of the for questioning in connection with the slaying of =. gunman shot down at least two teenagers as a two; . possibly y four ntesnag gers was group of five ores along the Fraser River “i einer developments: “Thursday :as police tried to determine just who — eaat of here police have circulated ‘to police forces was inthe e truck seen leaving the m acene The bodies of two 19- -yearolda—Eghert across North America a sketch of the killer] | ‘| Monday night Menger of Clearbrook, B d Evert Den based on a description by 15-year-old Ed] - A Resed eB.C, girl, a friend of t the victims, Hertog of Rosedale—were recovered from the Menger, the only one of the five known to have told RCMP that she was driv! ick-up — river: day. escaped. The man being sought is 23 to 30 years truck Monday night and saw. fhe dis tive Still missing are John Den Hertog and Leola - ald: gix feet tall with shoulder-length dark hair black-and-green, decal-deccrated truck that | Guliker, both 16 and both of hasedale and a dark.comptexion. belonged to one of the murdered youths leaving “we have so far located two bodies ‘and we —gas stations between the murder site and the area with two people in the cab. are continuin “ search the river,” said Staff - Vancouver, where the truck was found Police are exploring two leads: either the . Dave Me. ssiz RCMP. “But we -. abandonedearly Tuesday, are being checked to Killer had an accomplice, cr he abducted one of can't rule out ‘the poss ility that the missing —_—_see Jf the killer. stopped for fuel the two teenagers still, youths may be alive.” —officers on duty a roadblocks. setup shortly Meanwhile, a $2-year-old man arrested . Pollee are algo looking far three boys who- after the shootings are being interviewed to see Wednesday and held for questioning in North . were driving.a truck in the area. a. Monday. The if the killer “talked his way through” on the have seen the way to Vancouver. annie aeeeaennate Wed atest ewe tise dt NE Nor eagsrps Per Seats negliear ager A WT afhee bagi tts boaeipates et a proctor teins Steere: mi encroached upon zoning - regulations proposed by the Kitimat Stikine | Regional the shore. Persons who -want to build will be able to o through an. eal frocedure™ and - wih be itted any justifiable construction. But: if alternative building sites can be found, they must be used, - Johnstone, whose own house “accidently” meets the by-law requirements, . says tt this leaves — the plain level as determined by e water rights branch. Johnstone asin | is involved in this issue because the branch took his rea of flood levels over the last 30 . ears and added o on another °: ive feet to his highest : rat dink le should be: aware that oors ef thelr :: homes have “to be raised :. nine feet above the rar be sale He later this is ° or peoph le who | can Pond fill a for people with noroad access | {means : they. have . to. build their = homes on stilts nine feet up. : Regional district: _admiaitration says these © ons will not affec tng ree realdences but wail: that. future : development meets the - provincial government's : Residents who have built | ‘their homes in the last few « years have already been : required to meet these_: regulations and the regional < the by-law has : tions Integrated : ne he e overnment | to pay flood victims. But residents who are bitter about such changes. in the law say they never: get anything from. e government anyway. Johnstone says, however, that it will be a problemfor. someone who just wants: to build a summer cabin. Another area which was not acceptable to some le was the r tion which prohibits the . construction of more. than es with means tha “they have to subdivide before another member | the family can build on the - people said if the - d Some owner wants to build andther. home on which another member of hi family could live, he should have that t. ional district a tration is presently studying the bility of all a home to be built every five acres. However, ion would this re fare wh ow8 provincial: “ introduced - ‘controls when it - eee ag OE Eat TE ea oe