4 ’ 3 3 } Wide ede TF oh Cr Faabiiescuteer bk 25 A TLeENgd, VICILPTA, iad, fant vay-1%4 eg aes tah ee "By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer . Aly travel in the northwest remains in a quagmuire today, despite Monday’s injunction ordering designated air radio operators back to work. — Day flights at the Terrace-Kitimat airport were once again operating with a degree pf normality, though the morning flights will be departing later than ysual due to the continued shutdown of the Prince Rupert airport. Air radio operators who are now considered as ‘designated’ continue to picket the ferry (AUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert ——- 24-5639 | WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - We are Pat, COMP. P7y7S! to Digby Island, effectively preventing passengers from reaching the airp are being bussed to the Terrace-Kitimat airport. Meanwhile, the executive of the Kitimat-Terrace - District. Labour Council has issued a statement of support for the air radio operators. Paul Johnson, the secretary of the council, says C.P.Air has been flying under conditions the council considers unsafe. “We're asking people not to use the service at the airport until the dispute with the air radio operators is resolved,’” he said. ort. Prince Rupert travellers. . Johnson claimed full weather and runway con- ditions were not being forwarded to both incoming and outgoing flights. Peter Chettle, the manager of C.P.Air in Terrace, denied Johnson's allegations, claiming hazardous flying conditions did not exist at any time in the dispute. “As far as C.P.Air is concerned, as far as fire -Tegulations and getting our weather, we are well within the safety laws,” he confirmed. Chettle says y, open Moo. through Sat.,.8 a.o..-5 p.a. . 5 ee i x Pheeoee A year ago Terrace was batiling floods. See Pp . vO “ oe ce pe aye Sab bonige Mo? C te iE Pho : otos pages 10 and 11 TEHRAN (CP) — Students holding some 60 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy here today threatened to kill them if Washington took any action, military or other- wise, tosecure their release. A communique from the students read over state radio, said: ‘'The spies who are our hostages ore very well taken care of and we declare to America that any military or non-military action will cause the elimination of all the -hos- tages." dressed to the Iranian Moslem nation, said: ‘The spying and plotting centre of the United States will be in our. hands until the final conclusion.” The students, who have been holding the hostages for more than 48 hours, are demanding the extradition of ‘before # revolutionary court in Iran. : Tehran newspapers today published photographs of male hostages, blindfolded and with their hands. tied, being exercised in the em- bassy grounds. The students have called on Iranians to track down and detain U.S. charge d'affaires Bruce Laingen, when it was stormed last Sunday. . The demonstrators told Laingen to come out "from your hiding place’ and surrender as soon as possible “because your secret (wireless) contacts with Washington will be of no help.” However, Laingen has been holed up at the Iranian foreign ministry, negotiating with the government of Premier Mehdi Bazargan since Sunday. Meanwhile, Bazargan re- signed today because of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s escalating anti- American campaign and continuing interference in state affairs, and Khomeini directed his Revolutionary Council to take over the government, Hassan Tabatabai, an official of the premier's office in Tehran, said Bazargan, who has headed the government since the successful conclusion of the Iranian revolution last February, resigned because of ‘developments over the past few days as well as his physical tiredness." Tabatabai said Khomeini, the leader of the revolution Clark may call election first ST, JACOBS, Ont. (CP) — If Opposition Leader Pierre Trudeau persists during the winter in bringing Canada to — the brink of an_ election, Prime Minister Clark may decide to call one himself, says the Conservatives’ 1978 national campaign director. Speaking Monday at a party meeting in_ this community near Kilchener, Ont., Senator Lowell Murray said no one wants an election during the winter but the party should be prepared for one if Clark decides Trudeau has made it impossible -for work to be done in Parlla- ment, ; Noting that there have — beet two-non-cotifidence _ motions since Parliament opened Oct. 16 — with a third scheduled today — Murray said any more motions will result in a “supercharged political almasphere.” The Liberals and New Democratic Party have each had their non-confidence motions defeated by the Conservative minority government OCELOT HEAD HERE TO LOOK Roy Fisher, an executive of Ocelot Industries of Calgary, will visit Kitimat next week to determine if the municipality is right spot to locate his company’s proposed $140 million menthanol plant. Skeena MLA Frank Howard has been in touch with Fisher and has offered io accompany him on his tour of Kitimat. Fisher has already ac- cepted a similar invitation from members of the Kitimat council. Ocelot officials are trying to decide between Prince Rupert and Kitimat for the site location. A final decision on whether to go ahead with the plant is expected by the end of November. WCB doubles safety checks The Workers Compensation Board has accepted a recommendation from Skeena MLA Frank Howard, and have agreed to appoint a second safety inspector for industrial plants in the The inspector will be located in Terrace and is ex- pected to divide the workload with the present single inspector, also located in Terrace. The two men will be responsible for the entire northwest. ; “The present Inspector is overworked and is ukable to do the full job," explained Howard. ‘They ‘will obviousty be able to function twice as effectively as earlier,” Howard said he made the request upon recom- mendation from the Kitimat-Terrace District Labour uuncil, here still hampered by dispute allegations that weather information and runway conditions have not been made available to pilots is “incorrect”. The labour counci! executive's recommendations will be voted on by the council membership on Nov. 15, including one resolution to declare the airport as ‘unfair’. ; “We have every intention of putting pressure on the federal government to act reasonably-in this affair, something they haven't seen fit to do,” concluded Johnson. c The communique, ad-— the deposed shah to face trial, who was not in the embassy. 3 \ The PoP shoppe iN BOTTLE DEPOT Beer & Pop Bottles 4636 Lazelle Ave. Terrace, B.C. Open 10.a.m.-6 p.m. dally except Sunday Feb. til? pm. IN IRAN | Hostages threatened | and the supreme power in Iran, - accepted ‘the resignation and asked the Revolutionary Council, his chief instrument of power, to take over the government. Rival charging pipeline VANCOUVER (CP) — A rival company accused Foothills Oil Pipe Line Ltd. Monday of a “barefaced attempt” to delay National Energy Board public hearings on a proposal for a pipeline to bring Alaskan oil south. BD. M. M. Goldie, lawyer for Trans Mountain Pipe Line Co., said at the resumption of hearings by the: federal regulatory agency that Foothills was putting up flimsy excuses to put his client at a disad- vantage. ; As the- hearing. began, Foothills asked the board to all three new witnesses for questioning on the en- vironmental and safety delay aspects of Trans Mountain's plan to build an oil port at Low Point, on the U.S. side of Juan de Fuca Strait. “The purpose of this evidence is to support a dead horse,” said = Goldie, referring to the Foothills proposal to use an allland pipeline from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Edmonton, Foothills recently with- drew its application tem- porarily, allowing hearings on the Trans Mountain proposal to go ahead. The Foothills proposal has an estimated cost of $1.6 billion, while -the. Trans Mountain plan, which would include a pipeline from Low Point to Edmonton, would cast $400 million. Gov't assured of Socred vote OTTAWA (CP) — The minority Conservative government appeared assured today of surviving a Liberal attempt to defeat it in the Commons, The assurance came Monday night when Fabien Roy, leader of the five-man Social Credit group, in- dicated he would give con- ditional support to Prime Minister Clark in a Com- mons showdown at 9:45 p.m. EST. If all Conservatives show up for the vote, Social Credit support would be enough to overcome the combined opposition of the Liberals and New Democrats. Roy's conditions of sup- port, outlined in‘a letter to Clark, were that he be guaranteed thal Quebec and the Atlantic provinces have adequate fuel this winter, that the 700 independent fuel dealers in those provinces get sufficient fuel quotas and that their supply contracts will be renewed. “We are tired of hearing what’ the government is going to do, and we want positive action.” The vote is to be taken ona Liberal non-confidence motion that condemns the government because “it will cause severe economic hardship for the Canadian people this winter.” The motion says the government is doing this by neglecting the possibility of a fuel shortage, failing to support intergovernmental agreements on oil pricing and supply; ils inability to conclude agreements pre- venting immoderate price increases in the future and its acceptance of record high interest rales. Terrace man fined KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Thor Olaf Hammerstrom, 40, of Terrace, B.C,, has been fined $2,500 and sentenced to a day in jail for possession of $6,700 worth of hashish. Hammersirom, who pleaded guilty, was charged Oct, 25, 1978, after he passed oulina taxi and was taken to the police station by the cab driver. Police put Hammerstom in a cell, then found 672 grams of hashish when they searched a bag he had with him, Defence lawyer Peter Jensen told the county court trial Monday that Ham- merstrom is an alcoholic who had been fishing in the Kootenays, and had hired a man to drive him around, Jensen said the uniden- Ufied man bought the hashish which was put in the bag Hammerstrom took with him when he went to visit a friend in Kelowna. 2 northwest. WHOOPS There's no point in extra Catfish we cculd doing anything other than have used. confessing. We forgot the comic page. We had everything we needed for the page. The page was put through lhe way it normally was, It was not, owever, assigned a page number. 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