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_ by RALPH RESCHKE
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TERRACE— On April 24, council.”

. made the final decision on plans for -

the design and construction, of; the |,

| new RCMP’ ‘detachment head-—

quarters.
Council decided to go to use-plans :-

"prepared by the local firm of Royce

Condie and Associates, that would .
see construction ofa 17,400. a ft.
building costing’ $1.7:million. °. .-

However, as a result of this move *
one local businessman gays he is out
“$14,000 after. spending that: amount
to develop'a propcéa) to houge'the
RCMP detachment in his building,
the old Western Home Furnishing
store, |,

Ron Rugg, owner: of the. building,
says he spent the money todeyelopa
design that would satisfy the RCMP,
which he says he succeeded in doing.

_ Tnapector : Ron. Evans; _ of.’ the
Terrace"RCMP. detachment : con- .

that the police were satisfied
not oaly with the building, b but also
with: ‘the location. .

_ applying those costs to

. proval from the treasury
- Ottawa, ihe RCMP, and the ministry

‘enought

This wag taking plac in'gha time
‘when the municipa y ‘souldn't
-afford -a ew polit, eadquarters.,
. because‘ of other “capltat’ cost ex-.
‘penditures, namely the water and
‘sewage treatment facilities.

‘0n-February 9, 1983, at a meeting:
of the finance committee, a

recommendation was nade that the

, district advertise for proposals from

vs, parties interested In,-leasing: ac,

_-commodation for ; the RCMP to. the .
district.
The’ proposal’ that reached the .

District from’ Rugg called dor a, 10-..
‘year tease arrangemeht . with. ann

option to buy after the lease expired.

Some of the lease payments would
be applied to the final purchase
price, theoretically lowering | the cost
‘to the district,

_ Rugg said his proposal meant the:
city would save money on-the pur-
chase price, and would also be able
“to: collect ‘taxes .on ‘the: property, it.

"self, whleb would eventually, cut ‘the

cost of the project in half; ;
However, Mayor’ Helmut |
Giesbrecht says he can't” sed Rugg
‘paying taxes on the property-and not
the, final
purchase price, a0 “ihe taxes
collected would be “coming in’ one
pocket and going out the otler.”’.
He foresees another proble: with
Rugg's proposal, this one dealing
with size. The Rugg property. en-
compasses three city lots with

- another four behind the building

available for parking. The.mayor
said that in Rugg’s plans, space in
front of the building would have been.
used for public parking, while the

. city's present plans allow for on-site: and ‘must .~ be -. Immediately
Perlae of police, and private _replag presidential ; bans
: je ee ee sean “ahild a Weds

‘Would

~ it ata Saye
be rteainhin to how much the Rigg
” piillding could be expanded, should

that be required. .

Rugg, however, says that his
building was designed to carry a
Second storey, should expansion
‘ever be required,

Overall property size of Rugg’s
proposal does not equal that of the

* district's plans.

In a letter to city couneil, Rugs
listed the costs of building a new
headquarters versus the costs of
renovating his building: so that it
meet RCMP specifications.

At the April 24 council meeting,
the Mayor went through a number of
discrepancies in the figures related
to the district's costs saying that
some of them were not accurate and
could not be applied to the district's
plans. °
" Glesbrecht pointed out that Rugg
did not include an allowance for
inflation on the property and
building in his proposal. The Mayor
Bays inflation would raise the cost of.
the property after 10 years.

As well, contingency costs cannot
be’ included in the plans because
they are not fixed costs, and the city
planner forecasts that not more than
$20,000 to $25,000 will have to be used
from: those funds. Contingency
ifunds are used when something
unexpected occurs during con-
struction,

The $1000 allowed for removal of
the quonset hut has also been
eliminated because the hut has been
sold to the local air cadet squadron
and they will remove the building.

The $15,000 estimated for staff
time was another area of contention
for the mayor. He says that amount
does not ‘accurately represent ‘how
much the city will have to pay for
Staff costs, because most of the
project will go to tender and not
involve district staff.

With this in mind, the mayor says
the new building won't cost much

more than the Rugg proposal, and it —

will make more sense for the police
to use a building designed for them,
rather than one designed to sell
furniture. |

The city’s plans now await ap-
board in =

of jranicipal affairs.

approval comes back soon
‘a: June instead of a
November referendurn may be held.

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‘ The month of May has. been officially proclaimed as
better hearing and speech month by Mayor Helmut
.. Glesbrecht as part.of.a nation-wide campaign to raise
public. interest ‘in that fact that more than 10 per cent of

he population suffers from speech. and : hearing

Valume 78 No.87

problems. From left to right are: Sheila Pretto, Deloris
Hutcheson, Susan Lang, Petra Heitland, Adrianne

Belcher.

All but Adrianne are speech pathologists;

Adrianne is a teacher of the hearing impalred. They work
out of the Terrace Child Development Center.

American accused of election- -rigging

. SAN SALVADOR | (AB) oA US.

senator and a right-wing Salvadoran
:, vice-presidential candidate accused -

the American ambassador of trying
.to manipulate the forthcoming
presidential runoff and asked that

_ the envoy be fired.

Ambassador Thomas ‘Pickering...
has ‘‘taken actions which support:

only | one candidate” in the election.

nesday,. et from’ what he bald.
was a letter from Senator Jésge:
Helms (R-N.C.).

The dispute flared on the final day

“of campaigning before Sunday's

runoff election, which pits Roberto
d’Aubuisson of the rightist
Republican Nationalist Alliance
against centralist | Christian
Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte.
Barrera is @’Aubuisson’s running

“mate.

Helms, in a letter to President
Reagan, said Pickering is trying to
engineer Duarte's victory, said a
Washington congressional.. source
familiar with the letter. “The U.S. Is
supposed to be neutral down there
and should cling to that,” the source
quoted Helms’s letter as saying.

Helms accused. Pickering. of
helping the Christian Democrats by
encouraging Salvadoran election
‘officials to retain questionable yater
registration lists, sald the source,
who declined to be’ identified.

‘us. Embassy spokesman Greg

:Lagana denied the charges, saying

the United States has been “com-
pletely neutral" during the cam-
paigning,

But American officials have sald
privately they would be concerned if

d’Aubuisson wins. D'Aubuisson has -
been - linked with rightist death

squads and his victory. would make

alt even more difficult for the Reagan.

inistration . to “obtain : approval

jBatr military. aid. from: Congresses! 7
isthe secondranking - “

Helms

Republican on the Senate foreign

relations committee and an ad- .

vocate of tough measures against
left-wing rebels in El Salvador. .

Helms did not release the text of
the letter, but Barrera said excerpts
were read over the phone to
representatives of his party.

The Christian Democrats claim
their polls show Duarte will win 65
per cent of the vate. The party's
forecast was fairly accurate in the
‘firat-round election March 25, when
Duarte led eight candidates with 43 A
per:cent of the vate.

NONE HAD MAJORITY

D'Aubulsson won 29.7 per cent of
the: vote, The runoff was. called
because no candidate had the
required majority. .

An estimated 1.6 million people
are eligible to vote. Léftist rebels
conducting a 4%-year war against
the government call the election “a

7 farce” and are not participating.

Newfoundland loses
its legal. battle
to control resources

OTTAWA (CP) --- Newfoundland
officials hoped for’ the best but
braced for the worst today as the
Supreme Court of Canada decides
whether the province can get out of a
contract which allows Hydro-
Quebec to sell Newfoundland power
at a handsome profit,

Bad news, they say, is nothing new
to Newfoundlanders engaged in a
long ard lonesome struggle to win
control of their resources.

“Newfoundland is used to that," a
senior provincial official said. “We
haven't had too much good news in
450 years.”

A negative ruling would be
“another indication that something
is wrong with the system when you
even change ah uni-

The case was heard by the high
court more than a year ago but
judgment was delayed to give
Newfoundland and Quebec a chance
to negotiate a way out of the
stalemate.

When negotiations failed, the issue
was again left for the court to ar-
bitrate.

LOST FIRST CASE

It is the second time this year
Newfoundland has taker its hopes
for control over its resources. to the
Supreme Court. In the first case, the
court ruled the federal government
had the right to direct development
in offshore oil fields.

The Churchill Falls dispute waa
before various courts and tribunals
for almost a decade as Newfoun-
dland struggled to recover the riches

from one of ihe world’s largest
single hydro-electric plants.

The heart of the dispute is the
mighty turbines on the Upper
Churchill River in the Labrador
hinterland which produce more than
5,200 megawatts of electricity.

In return for Hydro-Quebec
assistance in developing the project
in the 1960s, Churchill Falls Corp.
agreed in 1989 to sell Hydro-Quebec
5) per cent of the power at about
three cents a kilowatt hour, The
contract runs until 2024 and does not
contain any provisions for price
increases,

’ Elsewhere” in Central. America,
there were these developments
Wednesday:

— In Nicaragua, a fishing boat
struck: a mine planted by U.S.-
supported rebels and sank in the

_northwestern port of Corinto, said

Jose. Leon Talavera, Nicaraguan
deputy foreign minister. No
casualties were reported.

-_ ‘In Costa Rica, Foreign Minister :

“Carlos Jose Gutierrez said relations
between his country and Nicaragua
are at thelr “lowest level’ as a
result .of an air. attack by
Nicaraguan planes.

Costa Rica charges iwo
Nicaraguan warplanes fired rockets
Tuesday on the Costa Rican town of
San Isidro de Pocosol, about five -
kilometres’ from the Nicaraguan

- border: Loa

“asian pilgrimage :

for Pope John Pau!

SEOUL (AP) — Pope John Paul
began an Asian pilgrimage today
and told South Koreans he prays that
negotiations and trust will reunite
their peninsula, divided into Com-
munist ‘North and non-Communist
South for almost 40 years.

While flying from Alaska to Seoul,

the Pope said a prayer for the 260

, People, many of them South Korean

and 10 of them Canadian, who wére
killed Sept, 1 when the Soviets shot
down a Korean Air Lines jetliner
after it strayed into Soviet airspace.

The papal plane, a chartered
Alitalia DC-10 jetliner, followed the
route the KAL plane was supposed to
take. The Vatican described the
inflight prayer as a gesture of
solidarity with the South Korean
people. The prayer did not mention
the Soviet Union.

John Paul had stopped in Alaska
to meet U.S. President Reagan, who

’ was returning to Washington from

his tour of China,

The Pope, beginning an 11-day trip
te Asia and the Pacific, said he came
as an “apostle of peace”’ to all
Koreans.

He plans to spend five days in

. South Korea, which the Vatican says

will soon surpass Indonesia as Asia's
second largest Roman Catholic
country. The Philippines is the first.

The Pope set the theme of his visit

Irish Protestants reject

- through confrontation and hostility,

immediately.

“] pray. that your beloved

‘fatherland; now tragically divided

into two for over a generation, will. .
be retmited as one family, not:

but through dialogue, mutual. trust
and brotherly -love,” his arrival
statement sald.

Such a development would mesn
“giving the lie to a world more and
more given to mistrust, hatred and
the violence of arms," the Pope said.

'. After stepping off his plane, John
Paul kissed the tarmac, his gesture”
of blessing for the lands he visits. He__
is making his 21st overseas journey:
as Pope. It is his first trip to South’
Korea, although he has visited Asia
before. .

Greeting him at Seoul’s Kimpo
International Airport was a group
headed by President Chun Doo-
hwan. The government estimated .
1,600 people greeted him there. = =

Military security services and’
South Korea’s  100,00+member.
national police force were on alert.
‘Recent reports from Rome, quoting «
Italian and U.S. intelligence sour-
ces, said international terrorist
groups were plotting an attack on —
the Pope in Sduth Korea.

. After South Korea, the Pope will
go to Papua New Guinea, the
Solomon Islands and Thailand.

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unprecedented appeal

DUBLIN (AP) — Protestants in
Northern Ireland have rejected an
unprecedented appeal by Reman
Catholic nationalist leaders for a
constitutional conference to work
out a blueprint for unifying the
island.

The invitation came out of The
New Ireland Forum, which was set
up by Prime Minister Garret Fit-
zGerald a year ago to consider
Solutions to the violence between
Catholics and Protestants.

Militants of the Irish Republican
Army, have been fighting to wrest
contro] of predominantly Protestant
Northern Ireland from Britain and

' unite it with the Republic of Ireland,

whose population is mainly Catholic.

Northern Ireland’s Protestant
parties refused to participate in the
Forum, and Sinn Fein, political front
for the outlawed IRA, was not in-
vited because it supports the
militants’ “armed struggle" to unite
freland by force.

The Forum's = report, issued
Wednesday, proposed a conference
on these options: unite Ireland and
Narthern Tratar? * "oat

arrangement between the republic
and the British-administered Ulster,
or have Ireland and Britain share
authority over Northern Ireland.

Accompanying such unification :
would be guarantees of religious;
political and civil liberties for
Protestants: under a- new con-
stitution.

Tt invited Britaln and Northern
Ireland’s loyalists to join in the
conference,

Rejection: of the proposals came

quickly. -
THEY. SAY NO.

“I donot want to be a citizen of the
Trish republic,” said Harold
McCusker of the Official Unionist
Party of Ulster.

Rev. lan Palsley, one oj- Ulster's
most outspoken Trotestant leaders,
tacked his response on the door of
Dublin’s Geheral Post Office even
before the Forum's appeal was
published. His prociamation read:
“Ulster is British — No surrender."

The post office was the main point
of resistance’ during tive ill-fated
Easter Rising in 1916 againet British