The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have withdrawn thelr picket lines from In front of Gim’s restaurant as a result of an. agreement reached Monday afternoon at a Labor Relations Board hearing held In Van- couver. ; _ Theunion had claimed the installation made at the restaurant was not safe and was done by non- union personnel. They refused to remove their. pickets until gas was shut off. . _” Gim’s ownership agreed to do this Monday afternoon, and management personnel from Pacific Northern Gas Co. turned off the gas. . The agreement allows for construction workers to finish thelr work on the inside of the ta | : IB W dr propane, new building which is scheduled to open shortly. ‘However, there will be no natural gas unless the strike Is settled before opening day. it was pointed out at the hearing that Gim’s havea particular problem in trying to convert to the only other source of gas. A large nk would have to be placed in the parking tot and would have to be compietely guarded by steel and cement so as to prevent anyone driving in the lot from colliding with the tank. This Is a maj|or construction project. In other developments, the company has apparently agreed to binding arbitration by the industrial Relations Board praviding one par- ticular. clause is first negotiated between com- -ops picket line LEGISLATIVE TIRRARY, COMP. TTfTB PARLIANENT BULLDINGS » VicichLA, 2.C., yay-Lh4 fbi pany and union. It is understood this clause has fo do with a closed union Shop, . ; The union has already agreed to the Rand formula which permits present employees not to join the union, but they must pay union dues. According to this formula, all new employees would be required to join the unton and maintaln thelr membership as a condition of work for PNG. It Is apparently this clause which the company wants to negotiate. 7 ’ Anew proposal has been made by the company to the Labor Relations Board, but has not yet been made public. ( TERRACE-KITIMAT daily L Vetume 72 No. 136 20c “ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. | we buy. COPPER BRASS ALL METALS & BATTERIES. MON. - SAT, OPEN TIL 6 p.m. ‘Location Seal Gove Phone 624-6639) IN AIR SAN DIEGO (AP) —A packed Boeing 727 collided head-on with a small plane flown by 4 student pilot Monday and both planes crashed in flaming fragments into a lous residential area. Officials said at least 344 persons were killed in the worst air disaster in U.S. histery. Burning. debris from the Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) jetliner rained down and ignited at leas! nine wood frame houses and two businesses. Parts of burned bodies dropped on to rooftops and streets, Neighborhood residents tried frantically to douse the flames with garden hoses, sending clouds of greyblack smoke billowing over the area. The Federal Aviation Administration said none of the 196 persons aboard PSA flight 182 from 4 i i ‘dismantle Jewish my ten, fcc Pan ce service club momentous occasion Monday afternoon when ex-Mayor left to right, Emit Haugland and present Mayor Dave Maroney combined forces to turn the first sod for a meeting place and drop-in- be built at 3226 Kalum St. Jane ranch 73 Terrace explained that the s some money available for fur- nment and tocal - entre for senior citizens to Greveling, president of B New Horizons groups ha nishings and plan to ask for both gover The B.C. Old Age Pensioners Wey Organization wore lebrated | a ie ee © 144 KILLED CRASH Sacramento survived the collision. Both persons in the rented Cessna 172 were killed. At least six persons on the ground were killed by falling bodies and debris or the resulting fires. And at least six olhers were treated at local hosptals. One woman motorist was killed when a falling passenger. ‘smashed through her windshield. Bill Gibbs, president of Gibbs Flying Service in San Diego, said the Cessna carried a student pilot. and a Gibbs flying instructor. Gibbs said the student was making an instrument appreach to the airport when the collision occurred. Police and firemen cordoned off the area, but the crash drew a crowd of 4,000 to 5,000 onlookers. The collision occurred about 3,000 feet above the ground on a clear day assistance Mayor Dave Maroney, Greveling, and Elaine Gregg, committee. Since Haugland was birthday, and Maroney is mayor shovel was made of gold and silver. - » STRIKE SUSPENDED Gov't stalls legislation * e to build thel r hall. Pictures above,” are Constable Wes McCollister of the RCMP, ex-Mayor Emil Haugland, Jane chairperson of the building — mayor during the clubs 25th during the 50th birthday, the Begin favours peace proposal JERUSALEM <(AP) — Prime Minister Menachem Begin asked the Israeli tliament Monday ' to set- tlements in the Sinai Desert and accept a peace ent with Egypt in “the supreme national -in- terest. Begin also told the Knesset pe stands by his position, ‘disputed by the White House, " ‘that he committed Israe] to ’ janly a three-month freeze on the building of new set- tlements in other Israeli- occupied Arab lands. - “The prime minister said the Knesset faces the choice of approving the new Israeli- accords in full or “everything agreed upon at Camp David will be ‘There ig no third alterna- tive," he said. ‘This is the way that leads to peace.” Begin was expected to muster an overwhelming majority of the 120 Knesset members—most analysts said 90 to 100 votes— when the legislators decide later this week on the two “framework” agreements he negotiated at Camp David, Md., with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and U.S, President Carter. ition leader Shimon Peres, critical of Bezin’s handling of the negotiations, told the Knesset his Labor party will reluctantly sup- port the accords. But he asserted that they will cost a ‘double price—rhe wavoidable price of peace and the price for the mistakes” of the govern- ment, “We have chosen to be supporters of the only existing possibility for peace," Peres sald. U.S. olficials say Begin pledged during the Camp David talks to halt con- struction of new settlements until full agreement is reached. Sadat opens direct talks CAIRO (Reuter) President’ Anwar Sadat- announced Monday that Egypt is opening direct contact with Israel in prep- peace ‘negotiations. : Sadat told television reporters that Vice- President Hosni Mubarak “will be starting this day the establishment of direct contact between Egypt and Israel” to lay the ground- work for talks on the peace agreements reached at Camp David, Md. But Sadat did not make clear with whom the vice- president is opening con- tacts. aration for The Camp David accords “are solving the problem of the Middle East that has Jasted 30 years with four wars and hatred and bit- terness,”’ Sadat said. ‘All this is turning now to friendship and good neigh- borliness.” The presient was speaking ‘to reporters alter signing a document setting up a new Egyptian political group, his National Democratic Party - (NDP). In his remarks, broadcast by Cairo television, he said the peace negotiations will start whenever the Knesset, Israel's parliament, makes its decision on the agreements. It began de- bating them Monday. MONTREAL (CP) — Air Canada’s 2,700 flight attendants will walk out Oct. 5 on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend if their contract dispute with the airline is ‘not resolved by then. Laura Tamme, chief negotiator for _ the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association (CALFAA), said in an interview Monday the strike will start at 12:01 a.m. a week Thursday if Air Canada does not make a_ satisfactory contract offer, The airline, which suspended operations for 10 days last month when 7,500 ground-service workers walked out, has been training office workers to replace the flight attendants and plans to maintain limited service in the event of a strike. “STRIKE PLAN FOR HOLIDAY | Ms. Tamme said negotiations are scheduled to resume today. She declined comment on terms of conciliator Pierre Dufresne’s report on the dispute which rec: ommends a 16-per-cent wage increase in a 25- month, agreement retroactive to June 30 when the last one expired. The union’s last wage demand was 10 per cent in a one-year agreement, but Ms. Tamme indicated that CALFAA may be willing to revise that demand if the company shows flexibility on some clauses pertaining to working conditions, = = + The union received a strike mandate from 85 per cent of Its members who participated in a mail vote earlier this month, Charges dismissed VANCOUVER (CP) Charges of strikebreaking made this summer against Local 40 of the Prince Rupert Co-operative Fishermen's Guild could not be sub- stantiated, Dave MacIntyre, secretary-treasurer of the British Columbia Federation of Labor, said Monday. He said in a news release the federation conducted the investigation in August when the — Prince Rupert _ Amalgamated Shoreworkers' Union requested that. the fisher- men’s guild be expelled from the federation for strikebreaking. The shoreworkers were locked out by the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co- operative Association June 23 and later charged the fishermen’s guild with strikebreaking in the dispute which ended Aug. 11. Ottawa (CP)- The Leiter Carriers Union of Canada has agreed to call off its Totating strike and await the outcome of a meeting today with Acting Labour Minister Andre Quellet, the federal cabinet minister said Monday night. . " ‘Oulett said leaders of the 19,000 mémber union spoke to him during a cabinet meeting and asked him for hir intervention. Treasury Board President Andras said the cabinet committee has weighing the effects of the rotating strikes, in their fourth day Monday and'was considering the possibility of back to work legislation with an imposed contract jset- tlement. : “Now, we have | simply "parked the.deliberations we ramsey = Andras éaid he tiopeé the Ouellet meeting will lead to a resumption of full-scale negotiations ‘between the government and the union. A union official said “Monday the union had agreed to suspend the rotating strikes for 24 hours starting at midnight Monday night. He snid they would re- consider their actions after - that jf talks were continuing. -* Quellet, appointed acting iabor minister after Munro's resignation earlier this month, planned to take seasoned labor department officials Into his meeting with leaders of the Letter Carriers Union of Canada. ‘ Postmaster-General Gilles Lamontagne, interviewed in Toronto earlier Monday, atid the government will not act at once to legislate an end to the strikes, which _ started midnight Thursday alght. ' “['m not saying we won't do it, but we won't be montagne said during a break ina conference of post office customers. Lamontagne said the cabinet committee would assess the impact of the rotating strikes and make recommendations to a meeting of the full cabinet Wetnésday. Treasury Board president Robert Andras warned striking workers Saturday. ahey could face a legislated ” endto their dispute if they do not accept the government’s latest. contract offer. But sources in the govern- ment sald other cabinet ministers were reluctant to recall Parliament early to end al-gal strike, Currently, Parliament is not scheduled ta resume until Oct. 10. On Monday, about 6,000 lett. . arriers were off their jobs in eight centres, Lamontagne said in many areas, mail was moving normally. Just less than one-third of the 22,000 inside postal workers, members of the Canadian Unien of Postel Workers, also were off wors because they refused to cross picket lines Error might . FORT ST, JOHN, B.C. (CP)A group of Peace River farmers. believe they are potential oi] and natural gas tyepons because the federal government gave them mineral rights in a book entry error in the 1950s. Their land is in British Co- lumbia’s prime oil and gas producing belt and is the target of extensive drilling this winter, Twenty-one oil and gas wells have been in production in the area since 1969 and exploration ‘is becoming more intensive. Mh 18,198-acre area is a former Indian reserve that was made; available in 1948 to veterans. of the Second ‘World War; The qugterans land Act ;provided easy ; “for “servicemen to purchase what became 42 farms, In 1950, when Sun Oil Co. of Vancouver wanted to ex- plore the area, it ws discovered that the VLA failed to retain the mineral rights, and passed them on lo the veterans. amean_ millions The Doig and Blueberry - Indian bands, which owned the. land until 1945, filed suit last week against the federal government, claiming that the mineral rights should have been held for their benefit. The suit asks the courts te void the sale of the former reservation because of “deceit, misrepresentation” by the federal government. The farmers say the dispute is between Ottawa and the Indians and the -courts won't force them to give up the land or the mineral rights. ‘It’s the same as any other real estate deal,” said George Clelland, another veteran. “When you buy land you buy it only on the basir that you get get a free ano * undisputed title. "There's no way that any shyster is going lo say that we screwed the Indians. We had our butts shot at for five years for (King) George and that ought to amount to something.” precipitows about it," has a new editor. Greg 31, and a native of B.C. comes to Terrace from Port Alberni, where he was news editor of The Kitimat-Terrace Daily Herald there. He Middleton, the paper says he is committed to make the Herald one of the best smail dailies in the province and Is looking forward to making his home here. ~. TICKETS TICKETS: AT: falsehood and _