t as . ; a ee LEGISLATIVE LIFRARY, COMP, 77/78 PARLIAMENT HUILDINGS, IS teres &, earciees i ,. Association, - Dis sident tri¢kers WASHINGTON (AP) - The American Trucking ’ representing 600,000 trucks, appealed Wednesday to -President Carter for protection after an Alabama truck driver was shot to death. Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said “ ‘department aires has’ offered “assistance to local law en- ‘forcement agenciés to curb increasing violence in the “nationwide truckers protest. Powell said Carter Is" considering increasing diesel fuel available to truckers and would an- nounce a decision before Sat- urda likely to support truckers* demands for a higher speed iy: But he said Carter is not : limit and standard weight and load regulations, which are left up to the individual states. ‘Alabama state troopers said Robert Tate bled to death after being shot in the leg while standing becide his disabled rig, Alabama Gov. Fob James Posted a $10,000 reward in the slaying. He peated a of similar reward after a Georgia truck driver's wife was shot last week: - Two drivers were injured Gunshots and rocks in Tennessee, three trucks were shot up in [linois, two each in Utah and Kentucky and one in Pennsylvania, “The Independent Truckers Association, represents about 30,000 af the which. country’s 100,000 in- dependent‘ owner-operators, called for a nationwide shutdown June 11 to protest the price of diesel fuel, in- consistent load limits, and the 55 m.p.h. speed limit. But a apokeaman said it does not direct the blockades and deplores violence, Bennett Whitlock, president of the American Trucking Association, sald some ingat tot firms were operating a! © 75 per cent of their capacity because of . the threat of vislence, While 200 National Guardsmen armed with ‘automatic weapons were deployed to mave blockaded tankers in. Minnesota, fruit! ‘and vegetables were a in fields in the south, meat shipments were stalled in the Midwest, and fuel terminals remained sealed off In severa] states. A plan calling for a canvdy of 100 trucks to haul produce out of Florida under police escort falled Wednesday © when only one truck showed up. U.S, meat packers have asked Carter to provide denianding protection armed guards: on tri caravans, The Independent Truckers Unity Committes, a coalition of small truckér organizations in:the East, called for a shutdown at, midnight Wednesday. Spokesman William Billi estimated that 40 per cent of us. truckers already were a, 6555 TAXI ~ Ae, LIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE J. n fr . Volume 73 No. 180 x. j F TERRACE-KITIMAT 20c \ f Thureday, June 21, 1979 J\ (1978 LTD.) | 24 HOUR SERVICE jai gt | | Seal Gove Rd. Pr. Rupert 635-5555, 635-2525 624-5639 | | 635-5050 . WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD, batteries, otc. Gall us - We are open Mon. through Sat, 8 a.m.-6 Pals iy Oil price goes up — OTTAWA (CP) — It will” coat more to drive your car or heat home | this winter. because of the governnent decision to go ahead with a $1-a-barrel in- crease in the price of PASSENGERS FREE Airplane | | hijacked | NEW YORK (AP) — A Boeing 727 commandeered by a convicted bomber who | ‘ the FBI said was carrying dynamite returned here Thursday almost 14 hours after it was hijacked on a flight to Chicago, the Pott United States."No one was injured in the bombing. nee the flight to New York were the plane's original pilot, Captain A.M. - Mitchell, his co-pilot and engineer, .Kavaja, and Deyan Brashich, who was United States, b Noone was in jured in the bombing. Sullivan sald Kavaja- wanted the release of Stojilko Kajevie, 7m : Ser- bian Orthodox priest who “was previously shatenced in the same bombing. Two domestic oil July i. Energy Minfatee Ray § Authority of New York said, identified by airline spokes- other persons also were con- Hnatyshyn “made the an- Abcard the plane were the mah Mary Rose Noel as Ka- victed. nouncement Wednesday flight’s original three-man vaja's New York lawyer. It — Kajevic is being held ina following a one-hour meeting crew, the hijacker and his was belleved Brashich jail in downtown Chicago with Alberta Energy lawyer, the authority sald. boarded the plane late and was moved away from Minister Merv Leltch. The plane touched down at © Wednesday in Chicago. other prisoners after the Jom F. Kennedy In- Mitchell had originally re- hijacking, Hnatyshyn announced an ternational Airport at 1:30 , fused to. take the hijacker . extension of six months of — iret the existing natural gas ,.——" ti a.m. EDT and went to an anywhere. passengera were released, Pricing agreement, due f Lb... undisclosed area, airport The passengers had been there was confusion over oe officials said. ° taken to a debriefing area at whether there waa only one 1. The extension crease which In turn will :- raise natural gas prices by 15 . cents.a: ‘thousand cubic feet, « . at the wellhead; natural gas prices will climb to $2.15 a i The decision means ‘con- sumers will pay an extra three to five cents a gallon for gasoline and home heating ol] beginning in Alberta has been pressing for more rapld increases io allow domestic prices to move -up to international levels, The July increase was negotiated by the previous Liberal govern- ment and was postponed Claudette Sandecki speaks | her piece page 3. SCHOOL BURNING ~ ' pounded for a $2.5 million fire that destroyed’ the Cariboo Junior Secondary School, a Quesnel fireman said Wednesday. The fireman, who asked. not to be identified, said he and another full-time paid spokesman. said police received the alarm, call at 8:40 a.m., the same time the - fira department would have received it. The fireman said the station had to wait for more firemen before responding to 10 minutes to arrive at the fire, less than a kilometre from the firehall, District superintendent Bob Patrick said staff tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers. but the flames were in the -walls and ' Education Minister Pat McGeer said Wednesday that reconstruction will begin as soon as possible with the costs belng split between the province and the school district. -aboard, The American Airlines jet, hijacked Wednesday af- ternoon with 136: persons returned: -hijacker had unsuccessfully demanded freedom for a FBI: Special ‘Agent John _ Otto said at a news con- ference at O’Hare In- ternational Airport early today that the hijacker hada military training that could detonate the dynamite,” Otto said, The FBI special agent said the hijacker, identified aa Nikola Kavaja, 45, was dus in Chicago on ‘Thursday for sentencing on a bombing from -. the terminal after their release at late afternoon. Four female flight at- tendants. and a male at- returning to New York City and would land at John F. go to Peru. The vice-consul of the Peruvian consulate in Chicago, Julio Vega, went to the airport but no- in- formation was released on hijacker or lf he had an actomplice. Mandich said the hijacker had originally claimed to have an ac- Domiestic..all ‘prices ‘will - Caleago « several hours ‘after. . tendant also were released. " due and | ee had nate 5 y aall..the.- passengers.-were. - epgkeama ree. din in Heil we rergaly released iPinharmed. The “Mantes ld tie nian was eae the combiey ar 35 ie ee and friends of passengers thousand cubic feet A : priced feu 0 ai Taconte + jailed Serbian natlonalist Kennedy Airport. gathered at the airport to distributors. - i comrade and safe passage to Mrs, Noel ‘had said earlier watch the plane on television : Photo by Greg. Middleton = Pry that the hijacker wanted to when the aircraft was at the airport, . “It's like watchin corpse,"’ said Josephine Milano of suburban Brook, who had gone to 5 supplies ‘have’ cleared’ the “number of sticks of tis activities. O'Hare to greet her sister refining and distribution ays- dynamite” and demanded to «U.S. Attorney Thomas and brother-in-law. “All we feat Th leave the United States. Otto Sullivan in Chicago iden- can dois cross our fingers.” Hnatyshyn refused to say ey were aving co fee. said Canada and South tified the hijacker as Hikola It was the fourth hijacking whether a second $1-a-barrel Africa were mentioned by Kavaja, 45. Kavaja has been in the United States this year increase scheduled for Jan. 1 QUESNEL, B.C. (CP) — ‘sent here to survey the sald the department istrying am. and staff could have’ ~ eae is ohel free on bond and was on his and the second in two weeks, will go through as planned. ‘The volunteer fireball in this damages and determine the tofigure out what causedthe controlled the fire if more brief evice fs ‘Bi whe vay ack to Chicago to be On June 11 a Delta Airlines Talks would begin soon with interior British Columbia fate ofthe school’s estimated delay water was available. brie case type ostieke at ins aries for a part ina Plane was hijacked to Ciba the provinces oq future in- Tuenday he wag , empty i ame snel RCMP nid Aa well, choo attcas _ “Evena little garden hose dynamite in it with a hand suburban Chicago home of a York to ror Lauderdale, ' rest be 6 would have doneit," hesaid. grenade simulator used in Yugoslavian consul to the Fia. , Battle rages in Managua from last Jan. 1. fireman were al in a the call and estimated that ’ McGeer said he wants to Leitch told reporters at a restaurant actose the street trucka left the hall at 8:47 Couldn't be contained. relocate the students for the. conviction and staged the separate news conference when the call came in. am Andy Motherell, the balance of the school year, hijac al to avoid being : that the primary producing “We weren't in the .RayBeaulleu,deputychief school’s principal, said the but a decision will not be Senten MANAGUA (AP) — functioning Sherman tank, — ceremaing committed building at the time,’ he of the 42-man department, fire was discovered at 6:25 made until later this week, “It's my understanding National guards troops: informed sources said. The - understanding reaction to the decislon. The last domeatic oil price increase was in July, 1978. A meeting next week of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is likely to sah further increases for importing countries. firefighters and water- bombers from the B.C. Forest Service. All students were evacuated safely. Investigators were sifting through the rubble Tuesday trying to: determine the cause of the fire. Education ministry officials also were nuclear power coming : VICTORIA (CP) — Canada cannot avoid ex- panding the use of nuclear energy in the future, Robert Bonner, chairman of British Columbia Hydro last ‘sald, year with requests from eight industrial firma for additional power by 1982. “We had to advise them that we couldn't serve them: until the fall of 1893 at the’ ignore the stark renlities of energy shortages. “The implication. of the next two decades for those areas of the country which are relatively. rich in con- idea" how an explosives- laden Kavaja might have ed security at New where the flight originated Wednesday morning. U.S. Attorney Thomas Sullivan in Chicago said Kavaja had been free on $350,000 bail and was on his television correspondent was Killed at a roadblock. The guardsmen at times - were pinned down by .50- calibre machine-gun fire and heavy bursts from automatic ‘weapons, Guerrillas claimed they had knocked out a Sherman tank in one of the eastern tomore rapid domestic price sald. “We take colfee breaks they wanted to go to New fought slowly into areas of. sources said the guard lat - Seren onie itor ot laine aif “nena hat. } TMOP in New Yorba Sniy aghi hanty ee ott tal Sent comment on full-time paid members.” e- in New York sa neaday against. heavy Sherman tanks in Leon, the - ,a er rate Jan, 1, The fire raged through the H d h ‘ the plane was headed for from guerrillas who have second-largest city, where | paaaie siid he had cement and wood building ; ro LY alrm an Sa § John F, Kennedy “In- held large sectors of the the rebels eet city. guard ‘ consulted the consuming for three hours before being . ternational Airport. Nicaraguan capital for more from: ita downtown com- h provinces and received an brought under control by 60 The agent said he had “no a week. A U.S. pound last week. BE Pe There waa no estimate of rebel casualties incurred in the three weeks since the Sandinistas launched their offensive, thelr second in 10 months as they try to oust * President Anastasio Somoza and end 42 years of rule. Reliable sources said the national guard has lost 90 s . . ' Wednesday. earliest and only then if we ventional energy resources way back to Chicago to be neighborhoods, but the killed and 215 wounded and a Ld Growlng energy demands, have successfuily - “added is that in the national in- sentenced for his part in a report could not be con that in addition to losing the ! 1 ot & roun e dwindling resources and the more power capacity,” terest, noregion may expect 1975 bombing at the firmed. - tanks, only five of the 9 need for energy — in- id long to enjoy the luxury of suburban Chicago home ofa Such a loss would reduce guard's rocket-firing Cessna : dependence make nuclear Bonner said the Crown mondevelopment,” he said. Yugoslavian consul to the the {9,000-man guard to one aircraft are atill flying. bed energy unavoidable, Bonner corporation is planning to no reason cite ' told a Vietoria chamber of complete installation of x. . : commerce meeting. submarine cable from fr ' ‘ ’ He said nuclear ener; mainland ancouver h h k; TORONTO (CP) — Air The federal’ transport systems will have to - Island, noice wn supply ts er iit en 9 § or ewor er § Canada . cttieials ney ministry concluded this year expanded eit se : enough power to look after e say es rou: a “gs nt, Island needs until] the year ; ded a pilot following avoided the crash by ap- politear lobby” opposed to 2000, ro te St th reat to oO b S ¢ release of a report on the plying full braking power nuclear development aswell He said the 1983 deadline crash last summer of aDC-B four seconds sooner. _ 88 open-pit mining, dams, could only be met If no ob- : aircraft at Toronto In- The ministry's report sald’ eoalburning plania and stacles were thrown in the VICTORIA (CP) — and “save our jobs,” the province’s fishing fisheries, sald the im- a ternationsl Airport. Stewartreacted accordingto almost all other sources of corporation's way. More than 150 fishermen = were members of the industryandanendtothe — mediate action demanded # Reginald Stewart, Air Canada procedures that energy, Bonner said a federa] | and eshoreworkers United Fishermen and issuing of licences that by the union is not ji 4, “a Brampton, Ont. has didnotstressthe importance — Bonner did not single out government energy strategy | demonsirated outside the Allied Workers from allow processing at sea, possible largely because i. filed a grievance and nd also is ot immediate ‘maximum B.C, as being destined to paper published in 1976 } British Columbia throughout the B.C. coast. Hewison said if the % overlapping - jurisdic. appealing directly to ae a braking. adopt nuclear power, telling states that Canada would | legislature Wednesday to three measures are not ‘tion with the federal Canada Chairman Claude Had that procedure been his audience of about 350that have to double its electrical { back their demands for a Spokesman §_ George taken, up to 2,500 jobs government. Taylor through the Canadian stressed during the captain's everytime he brought upthe generating capacity by 180 | moratorium on issuing © Hewison paid the union could be Nast He sald he reconizes Air Line Pilots Association. simulator training and had subject he got into trouble. and the only way to achieve | fish processing licences. also wanta the provincial that the problem is a Two people were killed and he employed it, the alreraft However, he sald B.C. that goal is through con- government to insist on Environment Minlater major one and itis dotting mY Oe ured sien son win the brought ¢ toa Hydra, which supplies power siderable expansion af nu- hanting demonatrators. full disclosure of all Rafe Mair, the B.C. attention = from . 0 ; ‘or 90 per cen ' elear en systems. dl “we want joba’’ corporations moving into minister responsible for minis crashed on June 26, 1978. - therunway,”thereportsald. province, was approached. No region be warned, can ind ° aa