EEATRENR ELI RAN ERLIT ENTLY CA ea In brief: | Next-day mail soon TORONTO (CP) — Post office officials say next-day delivery of mail across Canada will be closer to reality next year when a new $105—million Gateway postal sorting centre in nearby Mississauga becomes fully operational. Spokesman Ed Roworth said that next-day deliveries already are operating with %-per-cent efficency across ntario. Nazis in German Army? BONN (AP) — West German defence authorities have started an investigation into reports that a group of army lieutenants staged a mock burning of Jews last February at the Armed Forces University in Munich. A newspaper story of the incident, which said universit authorities had hushed up the case, brought Jewis demands Thursday that the officers be dismissed. Maggie shows for benefit NEW YORK (CP) — Margaret Trudeau turned u Wednesday at Katja’s, a leading Manhattan night spot sharing the chairmanship with Mrs. Edgar Bronfman ani other New York personalities in a united cerebral palsy charity affair. . The gathering was a kick-off for the Nov. 18 main event for the charity. With Mrs. Trudeau was her frequent New York companion, Princess Yasmin Khan. Concorde wins one round NEW YORK (AP) — The Concorde supersonic jetliner won another round today in the long court battle aimed at anting landing rights for the faster-than-sound plane at Kennedy Airport, but the ruling does not open the way to imminent landings by the aircraft. . The federal Court of Appeals lifted a ban on the plane at the rt, but the ruling is certain to be appealed within the 21-day period specified in the decision, thus delaying any landings. _ Japan will pay hijackers DACCA (AP) — The Japanese government agreed today : to hand over $6 million and nine prisoners to ransom 146 rsons held hostage by terrorists aboard a hijacked apanese airliner at Dacca airport. ut. the government asked for an extension of the S deadline, and one of the prisoners was reported to have : refused the offer of freedom. The terrorists, who have threatened to kill their hostages : one by one if their demands are not met, are from the ultra- i leftist Japanese Red Army. They have released five : - MOSCOW (AP) — The Sti/et Union launched today anew hostages. New Soviet sattelite. ; space station, Salyut 6, into orbit, the official news agency : Tass announced, It was believed the station was sent up unmanned but in : preparation for a new series of manned space flights. There : was speculation that a crew would be rocketed to Salyut 6 : by Oct. 4, the 20th anniversary of the launching of the first * artificial space satellite by the Soviet Union. Tass described Salyut 6 as an ‘‘orbital scientific station.” Saccharin ban in force OTTAWA (CP) — The first stages of the ban on foods and : beverages containing saccharin, vigorously opposed and at + times aiculed in Canada and the United Btates, goes into eee effect Saturday. A decision to ban sales of the artificial sweetener was taken last March by then health minister Marc Lalonde ; after Canadian tests showed that saccharin produced : cancer in rats. As of Saturday the sale of soft drinks, beverage mixes and i beverags bases containing saccharin will be banned. Begin- : ning Fel 1next year, the sale of saccharin alone or in com- ‘ bination with cyclamate outside of pharmacies also will be banned. Relay system blamed MONTREAL (CP) — A faulty protection relay system at Da power station near the QuebecLabrador border caused ‘ the two major electrici failures which hit Quebec last week, a HydroQuebec official said today. Jean-V¥, Villeneuve, manager of production and tran- : smission, said in a statement failure of the relay system at ’ the Montagnais station, coupled with the e ' defective metering and protective device call losion of a a potential transformer, caused the first blackout Sept. 20. Family silenced by army ISLAMABAD (Reuter) — The military government moved against the supporters of ousted premier Zulifar Ali Bhutto on Thursday by arresting his daughter, warning his wife to keep quiet and hinting at the postponement of elections to restore Pakistan to civilian rule. Authorities placed Benazir Bhutto, 24, under house arrest unti] Oct. 3 for making provocative statements at a cam- paign rally Wednesday. . ey also warned her mother, Nusrat, to stop inciting people to violence while leading the Pakistan Peoples arty’s campaign for general elections promised for Oct. 18. Leaders get together MOGADISHU (Reuter) — The Western Somalia Liberation Front (WSLF) claimed to control a quarter of Ethiopia on Thursday after winning the crucial battle of the Gara Marda Pass. Following the capture of the tank base of Jijiga, the front said, WSLF forces were about 40 kilometres (25 miles) to the west, advancing on the old walled city of Harar. The front’s latest communique said 80 Ethiopians had heen killed at Babille. _ Military observers believed the Babille gap was the last ‘ defensible position before Harar, so the WSLF report of : fighti at Babille might mean the Ethiopians were trying ‘ to dig in there. , ‘invéstigatin: Britis Energy committee on burning wood wastes British Columbia has moved another step forward in the further use of wood waste aS an energy source. A coordinating committee has been formed from the forest industry, the federal govenrment and the rovincial government with orman Gish, Chairman of the B.C. Energy Com- mission, acting a3 Chair- man of the Committee. A rogram, which will be ointly funded by the in- dustry and the two levels of overnment, has been veloped to examine three main areas. The direct combustion of wood waste to produce process heat for use in such applications as sawmill dry The use of wood waste as a fuel for co-generation of electricity and process heat at large forest industry complexes. The gasification of wood waste to produce a fuel gas which can be used for a varie purposes. In the area of the direct combustion of wood waste, a study has been com- missioned which will be completed by year end that will provide an up-date on current aiiepe td and evalute existing equipment. This will allow the small sawmiller, for example, to more effectively pele uipment for his particular needs. The B.C. Develop- ment Corporation is preparing a financing package which will be availble to. the sawmiller should he require financial assistance and provided the installation is technically and economically viable. victoria cp-Opposition Leader Dave Barrett has told the royal commission inves the Crown. ened. Br h Columbia ilway that he, former premier W.A.C. Bennett all should be compelled to In cooperation and with shared funding with B.C. Hydro, a study has just been approved to identify sites throughout the province where large scale wood waste fuel fired thermal stations and co-generation — facilities might be located and to exariine the economic and . technical feasibility of ' such in- stallations. If the studies rove favourable, these ‘facilities could feed elec- tricity into the provincial power grid and possibly supply process heat to surrounding communities or other industrial customers. This has the advantage of utilizing the wood waste ‘to the greatest possible extent. The gasification of wood waste holds promise for the future and the Committee will encourage the further refinement of the Ainsworth gasifier at Clinton and has approved an engineering feasibility. study and the preparation of a capital cost estimate for. a Proiotype of the mew and different rocess developed by B.C. earch. Mr. Gish, in commenting on the program, said, ‘'It is important to realize that the forest industry has already gone a long wa to becoming self-sufficient in energy and that it currently produces about one-third of its total energy requirements. It is fortunate that in manufacturing products from the renewable forest resource it also produces a waste product which can be used for energy purposes. As the province’s major industry and a substantial user of electricity, natural gas and oil, it is a logical irst step to work with the forest industry to achieve further gains in energy conservation and the su stitution of hog fuel for other sources. Sunday. Sunday hours are 2 to Saturday. Library now. open Sundays Sunday upenings at Terrace Library start again this longer, weekday hours are poving pa 10am, to9p.m. yuesday to friday ani 5 pm. The library new, ular, Hurs are 10p.m. to Sp.m. Hospital auxilary to hold coffee party HERALD STAFF Members of Kitimat Hospital Auxiliary will hold a coffee party at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the hospital cafeteria for anyone in- terested in joining the group. New members wil be asked to contribute a few hours each month to the service of their choice. . Option include work in the the children’s touring the wards with the service carts. Auxiliary members also make handicrafts for sale in the gift shop and visit patients in t extended care, Tickets and table reservations for the auxiliary ball to be held Nov. 5 at Riverlodge may be obtained from Dorothy Cheyne at 632-3871 or Jean Fourneit at 632-6051. Members have hose a country garden theme for the ball. Anyone wanting to help with the decorations should contacat Mrs. Cheyne. Broadcast funds offered Financial assistance in the amount of $105,000.00 has been offered to the Atlin Boradcasting Society to enable construction of radio and television rebroadcast facilities bringing CBC service into the community .of Atlin, in northwest Britiish Columbia, Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo an- nounced Wednesday. The assistance will consist of $52,500.00 from the federal government, and $52,500.00 from the province .of British Columbia as announced Honourable Jack Davis. The contribution is made available through the provision of the remote rural community com- ponent of the Canada- ritish Columbia Special Rural Development Agreement whereby community services are improved, lessening their a Swan BELLA COOLA, B.C. (CP) — A 73-year-old woman, who gained in- ternational recognitio: during the 1920s and 1930s with her fight to save trumpeter swans faced with extinction, now_ faces a personal struggle to stay in er rented home. Ethel Edwards faces eviction from a home in this (coastal British Columbia 13 cows and a place in B.C.s history protector has five days to leave village about 450 kilometres northwest of Vancouver where she is living with her son Ralph and 13 cows she claims are a part of B.C. history. She and her son, who is unemployed, are unable to pay the rent. Mrs. Edwards admits she owes $800, but her landlord claims the correct figure is $1,400. _ She says many of her 13 cows, which she keeps tethered and protected by tents on the rented property, are direct descendants of the ones she had at Lonesome Lake about 112 kilometres southeast oj here, where she and her husband lived for 40 years. “T've been with them pretty near all my life, since was seven years old,” she sai She is feeding the cafile by eu ay by an vet ito them. During the 19206 and 1930s the Edwards cared for the c trumpeter swns that win- tered in the Ainarko Valley, about 64 kilometres east of Bella Coola, by packing 45 pounds of prain in by foot once a week on a punishing 40-kilometre trip from Lonesome Lake. isolation. With winter about to set in Mrs. Edwards faces an uncertain future and is unsure what to do with her OWS. ‘It’s too late to take them into the bush and I don't want to kill them off,” she said. ‘'But I’ve been given five days to get out which is something didn’t think they could to to an old age pensioner.” J “Slap in the face’--Bennett “We should be subpoenaed,” Barrett appear before the com- mission to give testimony. “i'm saying that the. only way the royal commission can avoid being a political: platform is to order us all by subpoena,’’ Barrett tid reporters Thursday. Trim services The former New Demoncratic Party premeir said written statements like those submitted by W.A.C. Bennett, cannot be as useful as personal appearances, where cross-examination can lead to a fuller unear- Put BC Rail under CN VANCOUVER (CP) — The royal commission in- vestigating the affairs of the British Columbia Railway heard proposals Wednesday that the troubled company be tured over to Canadian National Railways or cut back to service profitable areas only. Mr. Justice Lloyd McKenzie, chairman of the three-man royal com- mission, said the proposals were discouraging. “The disadvantages of each alternative seem to overwhelm all the options,” he said. The chairman's comment eaused one of the authors of the proposal, consultan| Neal Irwin, to reply that the difficulty of choosing one of the options illustrates the onerous task faced hy the commission. od b @ options propos y Irwin and Charles Clapham were intended to provide the commission with ideas for institutional alternatives to BCR's present provincial government control. ALTERNATIVES NAMED The six alternatives in- cluded: —transfer BCR to the control of another railway, such as Canadian National and run it as a national enterprise; —transfer it to a yet-to-be- formed Northwest Rail Authority comprised of Alberta railways and the northern sections of CN; —enter into an operating agreement with another railway, such as CN, to form a much larger enterprise; ~retain the present B.C. government contral, but with a policy aimed at operating only profitable sections of the line on a user- y basis; : —retain B.C, government control, along with a policy of continuing to operate unprofitable development sections of the line; —retain the present control, but with the railway seeking access to CN’s northern lines to create a larger railway. SERVE NORTHWEST In his presentation, Clapham stressed the ad- vantages and disadvantages of each alternative ‘and described the probable impact of each on the province. Questioned by com- mission lawyer Peter Ballem, Irwin said the consultants were not ad- vocating adoption of any of the alternatives, but said the second option (control under a Northwest Rail Authority) looked promising. He said the prime ad- vantage in control by a Northwest Rail Authority is ‘that it would provide an opportunity to create an integrated regional network to serve the northwest. The major disadvantages of that option is that BCR’s ability to expand: would require agreement: With other partners in’''the authority and higher “Yates or reduced services Would curtail its ability to reduce current losses, he sai(,. Clapham said the prime advantage of transferring to CN is that BCR, as part of a national enterprise, would be integrated with a railway that has a strong presence in the northwest. The major disadvantages would be in BCR's limited ability to control capital ex- penditures for extensions or service improvements, he said. . Irwin conceded that it might not be easy to find another railway, even CN, willing to take over BCR with its enormous debt and daily losses of $125,900. COSTS HIGHER Clapham said the prime advantage of the third op- tion (operating agreement with another railway) is that BCR would be run by a large national enterprise, but subject to direction according to B.C. govern- ment policy. The major disadvantage of the third option, he said, is that rates for level of service offered would have to be negotiated— and agreement may or may not be achieved. Clapham said some of the options would result in higher rates or loss of service to some shippers— and all the options except five and six would result in. loss of railway jobs. Earlier testimony presented to the commission said shifts in priorities imposed studies organizational change have left BCR management on slippery footing. The Report, prepared for the commission by Douglas Norman, western regional partner with Currie, Coopers and Lybrand Ld. ¢e e management for their dedication and hard work, but gave them poor scores for a Jack of long-term planning. Norman was also critical of a shortage of properly marshalled and timely information on how the railway is performing. needless duplication of effort in some areas anda . shortage of help in others. He said that during the W. AC, Bennett ad- ministration the B.C. government-owned railway was managed in autocratic style and decision-makin was highly centralized. Since the fall of that government, he said 80 percent of the top and middle management jobs have changed hands. Norman said ‘he account- ability of the board to government is unclear and ere is no statement on the role government now has in determining over-all goals and methods of meeting them. and ° thing of the facts, and avoidance of ‘‘political baffle-gab.”” Barrett made the com- ments following release of copies of a letter he sent earlier in the day to Martin R. Taylor, commission counsel. He told Taylor that,as requested, he would give the commission a_ written submission, but that he should be called before the commission . to give testimony. “Because 1 consider it essential that the public be made aware of the full story of the problems of the railway,” said BARRETT, 't feel that I, as a former railway president, W.A.C. Bennett, also a foremet railway president, along with past railways direcotrs Ray Williston, Einar Gunderson, Willian King, WINDSHIELD ANTIFREEZE GAS LINE ANTIFREEZE MISC. CAR PARTS CAR WAXS TIRES (NEW & USED) MOTOR OILS Gary Lauk, and Joseph Broadment, foremer vice- president... as well as conomic Development Minister Don Phillps' adn and Premier Bill Bennett should be subpoened to give a cross examination... “Tf we are not all called to testify on this basis, | believe there is a danger that the public may feel the commission’s final report will not contain the full story of the railway.” Barrett said he wanted the . commission to have full access to all the con- troversies surrounding the railway, including last DECEMBER'S CON- TROVERSIAL ! 4.54 MILLION OUT+0OF+- COURT SETTLEMENT WITH MEL Paving. MEL had alleged civil fraud in connection with the tendering of contracts for . at. OLD THORNHILL FIRE HALL CLARK RD. . HWY, 16 E. (turn Rt. at L & D MOTORS) open to view at 12 NOON NEW & USED FURNITURE & APPLICANCES FRIDGES RECORD WASHERS PLAYERS DRYERS TV'S 50 CHAIRS CHILD’S CRIB work on the now-idled Dease Lake extension. “I'm not afraid of the truth,’’” he ‘said...1 haye absolutley nothing to hids.”’ In Vernon, Prerier Bennett criticized Barrett's suggestion that he, Barrett and several other people should be subpoenaed, calling jt a slap in the face. Bennett said the com- ‘mission does not need and advice from the NDP leader on how it should carry aut its duties. The premier said the commission does not need any advice from the NDP leader on hou it should carry out its duties. The premeir said the commission has clear terms of reference and he had every confidence in the commission members. H SETTLEMENT IN FULL BEFORE REMOVAL FROM PREMISES SUN. 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