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| Hat Creek delayed

VANCOUVER (CP) — Environmental impact studies on
British Columbia Hydro’s proposed Hat Creek power
project will not be finished this month as originally
scheduled. :

Hydro.spokesman Dave Robertson said Wednesday that
completion of the studies is now expected in December, but
he gave no reason for. the delay. ;

He said a final decision on whether to build the piant
cannot be made until after the studies have been received
by Hydro, Earlier this year, Hydro spokesmen said the
decision wduld probably be made this fa

A coal-generating plant at Hat Creek would involve the
mining of vast coal deposits in‘a valley between Ashcroft
and Cache Creek. ‘

The proposed 2,000-megawatt plant would burn 40,000 tons
of coal a day and is expected to cost $1.2 billion. It would
ultimately be expanded to 4,000 megawatts.

CNR asked to stay

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Residents of two central
British Columbia Interior communities, protested the
proposed removal of the local Canadian National Railways
agent at a Canadian Transport Commission hearing
Wednesday.

The CNR is asking for the removal of agents from 11 -

small communities in central B.C. but only residents of

Vanderhoof and Penny presented briefs to protest the |

proposal,

Penny postmaster Jennifer Burrows said the 60 local
residents rely on the CNR’s agent-operator to use the
company’s phone link in case of emergencies because B.C.
Telephone Co., service to the community is unreliable.

_ Penny, located about 60 miles east of here, considers CNR
its only reliable link, she said. .

CNR lawyer Howard Pye said it would cost CNR $20,000 a

year to keep the agent who delivers about four telegrams a

month. '

Vanderhoof alderman Ken French also protested the
proposed removal of the local agent in his community
about 60 miles west of here.

Under the CNR. proposal, fulltime agents would be
replaced by part-time operators who would only contro]
train traffic. ; ’

Drunk workers

VICTORIA (CP).— Management is the weak link in the
united battle against alcoholism, Labor Minister Allan
Williams said Wednesday.

Unions have shown a willingness to take action against
work-ralated alcoholism, but often they do not get the full
co-operation of management, Williams told a seminar
sponsored by the Greater Victoria Drug and Alcohol
Regabilitation Society. .

He said any joint union-management program to help
combat alcoholism would have the full support of the
provincial government. ; ‘ .

The number of alcoholics in the aBritish Columbia's 1.1.

million-person work force is between 30,000 and 11,000,
Williams said.

Some of these people are in management positions and
this, in effect, creates a cover-up, a8 emplouees try to
protect other members of the management team, said the

minister. .
“Tf I am too critical of the employer group, then I

apologize," he said. “But I ask them to show me I am

wrong.’

Whale of a meal

VICTORIA (CP) — Miracle the killer whale calf began
eating again Thursday, eagerly devouring the half-pound
portions of ling cod fillets given toit 20timesa day.

The diet was restored by officials of Sealand of the Pacific
after a red dye test on Wednesday showed Miracle had only
a partial blockage of the intestine.

Sealand manager Bob Wright said Miracle doesn’t ap-
pear to be suffering abdominal cramps that worried
Sealand officials earlier in the week.

He said the animal has been taken off all merlications.

“we're letting nature take its course,” Wright said,

Miracle was found earlier this summer in Menzies Bay,
about 240 kilometres northwest of here, suffering from a
gunshot wound, near starvation, and serious infection.

Impaired fines up

THUNDER BAY, Ont. (CP) — A provincial court judge,

t with what he calls an excessive number of impaired
drivers, says he-will fine motorists $2,000 for a first im-
paired driving conviction.

Judge Roy Mitchell made the announcement this week
after 12 persons appeared before him on such charges in one

y, \

A city lawyer said fines for first convictions ‘usually
average about $200, but the Ontario attorney-general’s
office last year gave judges the right to levy whatever fines

they thought necessary in an effort to get drunk drivers off

the road, .
“Some people don’t like it, but there’s nothing one can do
about it,” the lawyer said, —

Death toll rises”

KANSAS CITY (Reuter) — Fresh rain fell Thursday as |

the death toll rose to 20 from flash floods that swept through
the area earlier this week.

Police working in a cold drizzle found the body of the
latest victim in a creek bed on the east side of the city,
where waves of water up to 20 feet high crumbled walls and
damaged homes Monday night and early Tuesday.

Mayor Charles Wheeler, who returned Wednesday from
London, where he was part of a Missouri trade delegation,
sald an estimated 1,200 people still were homeless from the

8.

He said damage caused by flooding at the city’s posh

Country Club‘ shopping district could total §2 million.
- Parlier officials had estimated total damtage for the Kansas
City area at between $30 million and $50 million, -

Three of the seven persons still unaccounted for were last
geen caught in raging floadwaters.

President Carter has granted emergency disaster aid to
five counties in the Kansas City area, One official said that
the rains the clty suffered were the. kind that happen once
every 1,000 years.

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By DONNA VALLIERES
Herald staff writer

Northwest Community
kollege may have to drop
some of their plaris for the
coming year if the
provincial ministry of
education dees not come up
with -more money for’ the
college budget.

College bursar Geoff
Harris said the province
granted only $217,900 for the.
antiual capital budget which
is short about $400,000 of the
figure the college council
requested, oO

The beard requested
$656,000 for replacement of
equipment, minor alter-
nations to the buildings and
expansion of programs.

Last year’s college budget
was $162,000, but Harris said
increase in
requested funds is due to the
fact that the. college just
recently started up in its
present form and much
more money would be
needed to continue ongoing

plans, “
NCC is a decentralized
facility, Harris explained,
having been set up under the
community college concept
in April, 1976, and various
classes and programs’ are

seattered throughout the:

northwest.

The main physical
presence is in Terrace, he
said, but there are facilities
from Prince Rupert to
Kitimat and extending to the
Buikiey Valley.

‘ff there is a substantial
decrease in the amount of
money the college
requested, either the main
centre or the outlying
programs would suffer,
Harris stated.

“If a certain amount is
spent in Terrace, little or
nothing would be left for the
expansion we had hoped for
in other areas,’ he said, and
vice versa.

“Cutbacks of any
magnitude would have an
adverse affect,” he said.

Of the $217,900 received
for the year, $53,000 has
been allocated to physical
changes in the Terrace
facility, mainly the
relocation of the library
which is rapidly growing,
according to the bursar.

An amount of $30,000
would go toward the pur-
chase of books and $5,000 is
earmarked for conversion of
tools to metric.

The metric conversion
fund is “woefully
inadequate”, Harris said,
because the ministry of
education has committed

| Budget may cut college programs

itself to teaching in metric
by September, 1978, and
with the amoung of tools the
college uses for its trades
trining courses such as
carpentry it will cost more.

The.portion set asige for
new courses and equipment
replacement would amount
to $129,000.

‘That doesn't go very

‘far,’ harris said, par-

ticularly when the college

has $3 to $4 million worth of .

equipment needing
replacement parts and
repair.

NCC council reacted
strongly to a letter from a
ministry of education of-
ficial which apologized for
the decreased funding, but
added the $217,900 “will
enable you and your
colleagues to move ahead in
providing an excellent
educational experience to
your students.”

Council members voted to
invite local MLA’s in the
college region to a meeting
with the board to try to boost
the funds up to a figure
closer to the original

est.

Harris said he was op-
timistic that the budget
could be increased.

Those in the ministry of
education are “a respon-

INFLATED SELL PRICES

Vegetable board criticized |

PENTICTON, B.C... (CP)-
The Interior Vegetable
Marketing Board was
ctiticized Thursday at a
hearing of the British
Columbia _legislature’s
committee on agriculture.

George Covert, who
operates a. 60) acre farm
near Oliver, B.C., 30
kilometres south .of this
Okangan community, said
growers pay exorbitant
selling charges to the board
which he said is controlled
by persons with no ex-
perience in volume
_ Marketing.

2 He’ said: the board’s
charge on a 20 lb. box of
‘tomatoes is 25 cents, plus
four percent of the selling
price. The charge for a
brokerage service on such a
sale would be less than 15
cents a box, he said.

He also criticized the
$500,000 purchase by the
board last year of Western
Packaging, a wholesale and
re-packing business in
Vancouver.

“They can't run their own
organization successfully,
and yet buy another
business which requires a
real professional to
operate,” he said. “The
results were inevitable
Western Packing lost more
than $60,000 in 1976.”

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