. ‘ rar a 4 uly - PINE’ POINT, | N.W.T. . ACP) >" Officials hoped westerly winds forecast for today - would help keep a pie a fire ‘from * community of 1,600 near the aouth shore of Great Slava Lake... 3: a“The weatherman - also -Sald some showers: w ere: éd tonight, but I had to see it to believe it,” ‘Checkley, head of fire control for the Noethweat Territories, said Sunday in a telephone interview, He'said there had been no from rain aince the fire started Tuesday. Sunday’s light. easterly winds blew smoke into the town, but the © situation was not serious to.order evacuation of town. . ee Town manager Doug -: Lagore sald Pine Point is "ona standby situation for evacuation,” If evacuation is - ‘ordered, residents would be . driven to Hay River, 95 kilo- matres to the west.. pes oo EESTSCATIVE LISEARY, PARLIAWENT aV=bK4 for Lagore said about 10 men the town, firefighting efforts, Heaald the fire, which had burned 249: square kilometres of bush, was within sight kilometres of Pine Point. He said earlier reports that the fire was five kilometres southwest of Pine _WIGTORIA, E.Ses ednesday to co-ordinate - BUILDINGS» wok. Point resulted from an error territorial capital, that there ‘ were 126 men working on the fire during the weekend, Two - helicopters. and four Cansa. water bombers were available," but the water bombers had not been used. ‘Checkley. said heavy: , Amoke at the fire site was woes eee COMP. 77/78 . making the use of water bombers difficult, The bush near Pine Point consists largely of scrub jackpine, and some spruce, interlaced with boggy areas. . “Is very good wildlife habitat,” Desroches snid,. it also stands on grounds with interesting chemical properties, Desroches said firefighters who pumped swampy areas dry as they poured water on the fire had the unn experience of Watching the swamp bet- wind change, fire toms flare apparently because of the presence of a ‘sul phurous leaching out of underlying The drifting smoke has caused Pacific Western - Airlines to bypass Pine Point on its flights between the -N.W,T. and Alberta, - Vern Ross, superintendent of the Cominco Ltd, lead-zine mine about two kilometes northeast of Pine Point, said smoke is also drifting to the - mine. eo chemleal He added the mine, provider of about 600 jobs, la an open-pit tion with buildings made largely of stee). Desroches sald there have been 337 -forest fires in the N.W.T. a0 far this year, com- pared with 187 all last year and an average of about 310 in p years.’ ; burning during the weekend e weeken and crews were fighting 24 of them. Some crews were pulled from other firea to fight to Pine Point blaza Calling this year the worst foreat-fire and the years, Hunters Association of N.W.7. has asked the federal government to conduct an Inquiry into the handling of fires, ; The association maintains that the government has failed to do an adequate job about the. fires, resulting in lost trap lines for many hunters — 4 . a a " : : a . ; oan wo * S585, TAXI TERRACE AIT oe w \_ Volume 73 No, 160 (RUPERT STEEL & ) | SALVAGE LTD. ‘a : | i Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert | 24 HOUR SERVICE |. 635-5555, 635-2525 | 635-5050. LIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE es 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, oe . batteries, otc. Call us- We are _ 5 _ 20° Monday, Avast 20, 79 J (Open Mon. through Sat., 8 a.m.-6 putt. ; INSUN Stewar IS booming | again a Tae filling uponce more | * #8 ons who died ac- Edentally In Canada Dempster ; e- a highway a. . is Open Yukon. (CP) —- Jom Diefenbaker was ouk here Saturday as the mah who gave Yukoners an entry into the Canadian acene when 1 others had dented that ae wantad.s0 much to be Canadian,” said his long- time friend Zrik Nielsen, his volee choked with emotion during the official ceremony . _ opening the Dempater High- W Neilsen, MP for the Yukon for more than 20 years and now minister of public. told a sombre - works, audience of more than 200 that “no prouder Canadia : n ‘!, existed than John Diefenba- "oer. aft was the former Con- setvative prime minister's government that launched construction pf the project in 1968, providing the flrat high- vay to cross the Arctic e, linking southern an Arctic Canada. “The Chief’ had planned to attend the ceremony anda plaque bearing witness to the event was unveiled with his name inscriped as attending. Achair was left vacant in the centre of the platform where dignataries were seated in the inidet of the green Yukon ress, “| spoke to him the af- ternoon before he died. He forward was really looking to being here, h ing ed Nelsen excited,” sobbed Ni "y Stewart's mayor, Tan McLeod looks to a brighter future Pioto by Greg Middieton for his town Snowmobiles race across the KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — British Columbia; which: al- ready boasts snow golf and world - bellyflop cham- plonships among its wild and wacky sports events, added another » ihe list ete running Sunday o re Kamloops snowmobile river crosalng, Fourteen snowmobile en- thusiasts from around the province tried their hand at Special train is carr OTTAWA (CP) — A special train carrying the body of John Diefenbaker to his Saskatchewan home left Ottawa on Sunday after 4 ' (tering state funeral and a ee salute for Canada's crossing a nearly quarter- ‘mile stretch of the North Thompson. River near this central Interlor city. Three drivers, all from Kamloops, not only sur- prised 2,000 onlookers but also themselves when the managed to keep their machines on top of the water long enough to get to the other side, Moat of the reat saw their 18th prime minister, Several hundred people. Tia eine a or a pee o Chief before his coffin was ced in a regular Via Rail gage car which had been winter play things submerge ‘after less than 100 feet, All the machines were later recovered, - Fred Turner took home the $500 first prize after he went 50 feet further than promoter Terry Reeb and his brother, Robin, in a run-off along the ver, - “I didn’t want to beat him (Terry Reeb)," he said, “] stripped, carpeted and draped, Gov.-Gen. Ed Schreyer and Prime Minister Joe Clark were among those present when the train left at 220 p.m. EDT, 20 minutes was just going to pull over, , I figured this was far enough, I'll get second. “And then they come up and tell me I beat him by 50 feet and I said 'Oh no, he’s © going to kill me,” Robin Reeb said many drivers were sinking shortly after they hit the water because they had not done any work on their motors Since winter. behind schedule. The blue and gold train, also carrying government olficiala, members of the family of Carolyn Weir, Diefenbaker's stepdaughter, his friends and media active exploration un- derway all around Stewart and several iirm mining commitments already made. Jan McLeod, the no- . honsense mayor of Stewart, points to 15 active exploration groups as well as 12 indiyidval prospectors working in the area a proof of the renewed confideitce in his town. “All the way from here to the Yukon border ther’s exploration going on,” the 52-year-old . Cont'd Page 3 rive “Tf you don't have your en- gine tuned properly you won't reach the proper speed when you hit the water,” he said. “You're not going fast enough when you hit the water and then you start to bounce. Those who didn't sink, he said, were “hitting the water about 70 miles an hour and we're avoiding the bouncing. That's the only reason we're making it across,"’ representatives, will travel 3,000 kilometres before reaching Saskatoon, the site of Diefenbaker's burial Wednesday, . The hearse the former Progreaalye Con- operators the mine, . said Sunday, He made the comment after rail services and a truck rental company were ‘picketed by workera from the Central Interior molybdenum mine last week, 480 workers, members of the Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied - Workers, have been on strike at the mine near this com- munity since Feb, 14. toe rent Canada stop ren trucks to Placer to ship molybdenum from the mine after union members set up pickets at Hertz's rental centre in the Vancouver suburb of Bur- naby, However, Thompson, sald _ the company is not con- cerned because there are plenty of trucks available elsewhere. Earlier in the strike trucks shipping the ore used In the manufacture of steel were pelted with rocks and shot at, Thompson also said a decision by B.C, Rail not to move ore on a spur line from Placer’s Gibraltar mine near Williams Lake because of secondary pickets is causing little concern ying Dief home servative leader's body made the final trip through the rain-sonked streets of Ottawa to thestation after an hour-long interfalth service at Christ Church Cathedral, More than 1,200 invited the bitter contract dispute. Thompson said the union would be better off returning to bargaining. . Last month, a provincial mediator ‘wage and fringe benefit increases totalling 24 per cent in the first year of a two-year contract, and nine per cent in the second year. The union later asked for an additional 15 cents to be added to wages January 1, 1061. ue the company re proposal. Base Tate now is $4.43 an hour, Security . said the issue now UITAWA (CP) — Federal civil servants will demand to include stronger job securi 88 an important part of a future collective bargains, says Andy Stewart, president of the 178,-000 strong Public Service Al- lance of Canada, “We will in every set of de- mands, hereafter, be for job security in our collective agreements, dignitaries, government officials and Diefenbaker crowded into - the Anglican church to heat the former prime minister Cont'd page 2 during the weekend. oF Canadian ‘Press from's : rom ° ; m. Friday until late | Th pos, Fray” onl ass | mgs | STEWART HAS : fatalities, thres ykino | SEEN ITS SHARE: _ fatalities, three l ki Q drownings, two fire. oOo ng ‘ ; _ . deaths and one man who . oo ; by NelllGaddes i eter better Speclal to the Herald : on him, . | STEWART -If ever a mining town has known the Police said Linda Leigh roller-coaster habits of world metal prices, it’s Lippett, 20, was sun by Neil Gaddes this one. bathing with friends te a Special to the herald There are 850 residents living now at Stewart; Perrgontutday, when. the - in 1910, 10,000 called Canada's moat northerly _ ene necked up over STEWART. This ice-free porthome. In between, the population, * There were five other B.C.-Alaska border town, |. along with the mining industry here, has - ‘Ontario reported 10 edge of the provinces’s as the Granduc mine cut back production the F traffic fatallties, twa current mining boom. figure dwindled until after the mine closed in if 6 man e 850 residents June 1978, - ‘lied when bis car fell on couldn't be happier, ; This is nothing compared to the end of World : ebec. tind (10 read The buoyant attitude of War I when only 17 souls admitted they lived at - dette eng iad 20 Toa the town is markedly { Stewart. . . ‘British Columbia . ee Just a year. . With Esso Minerals purchase of the Granduc . 8 Wi , reported tive, ee ; Grandue copper mine [| _ Cont'd page 5 nd three. . finally shut down after : In Saskatchewan a there everal years of cutting Ps ® were two ea ck the workforce. Jand two fire deaths. _ . But the announcement P l cket aid i a ee, oer -_ ‘weer f ' Esso er a su ; Nova Scotia and New . , . reported . Sidiarty of Imperial Oi] t bl one: irattic fatale No ' Ltd., would take-over and no a . ro em 1 sccdenta! deaths wore saved Stowart tiem 2! FRASER LAKE, B.C. becauwe theore cen be stock. : rtal (CP) — Secondary picketing piled. . . “othe trey excludes fut in vam ‘economic by striking employees at the Union spokesman Bob . industrial deaths, | And the Granduc "adako mine is a nuisance Green said the union will ‘a slayi nd . know ;, batnota major problem, Bill continue seconda ry a slay ings and . known reopening is just the thin thompson, a spokesman for picketing in an attempts to mr edge of the wedge with Piacar Development which presaure Placer into settling