ee LEG] Except us Blackilies Nobody’s Problem Efforts to uncover any information concerning the pesty blackfly problem that bugged local residents all day yesterday weré unsuccessful and despite numerous telephone calls to government agencies, the insects are still a mystery. e e tiny, black flies were ubiquitous in Terrace since early Wednesday mor- - ning, swarming en masse and covering and clinging to clothing and skin of anyone who ventured outdoors. The major problem in our information search appeated fo be the fact that here elf with insects or pest con- is no local department or agency which concerns ol. : Provincial conservation officer for Fish and Wildlife in Terrace Dave Crack the flies were a nuisance, but could shed no light on their names or their ulate they might be caused by the weather. Terrace’s record-setting temperatures recently were followed by record- setting rains then high humidity which could have caused premature hatching of origing except to 5 the fly larvae. The Federal Fisheries Deprtment in Terrace likewise did not have any in- formation on the insects. The Skeena Health Unit presumably has a entymology sub-section (because of the connection between certain insects and disease) but there apparently were no health inspectors in town yesterda We were unable to get in touch with the Pest Control Department in Victoria, and sodidn't get any further with that idea. - EALN TIVE LInsay, PoxLIAMEc GULLDINGS, Viu.URTA, MoC., gol _ VV- 1X4 { TERRACE-KITIMAT —\ ( RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. - an we buy oo COPPER BRASS > ALL METALS & BATTERIES WOK. tall SAT. | OPEN TIL 6 p.m. | volume 12 No, 184 Thursday, August 10, 1978 Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5639) CUMP. 77/7 Strange things happen in the offices of the HERALD. Strange people come to visit, strange stories are told, and strange objects af every description are brought to our attention - and sometimes even brought in for identification, And this is one of them. Can any of our readers identify the species of animal this upper portion of skull once belonged to? It was turned in By a local resident, a Mr. Thor Green. , fo Lang’s Appointment Causes Comment Whether the flies will disappear on their program will be undertaken is not certain. lerk-Administrator for the District of Terrace own or whether a massive destruction ‘ Bob Hallsor said the town-has not involyed itself in insect control and does not plan to in the case of the flies. Hallsor said controlling the flies would be “‘a roblem apparently extends far beyond the town boundaries. t they are, why they're here and when they’re leaving is a mystery, but the fl Sow one thing's for sure - the flies are a pesty problem. Beer Strike Threatens Bankruptcies VANCOUVER CP - British Columbia’s beer strike has entered its third month and for most people it means just having to do without a Depot owners who buy empty beer bottles from the public say they may have to shut down, along with the agents who buy the béttles from them. orrendous undertaking” because Tuesday there were more than 300,000 dozen empties in his warehouse. “S's killing us,”’ he said, “Most bottle depots are going belly up with no money nae Herald Publisher Laurie Mallett recelved a certificate of thanks from JoAnne of the Canadinn Wheat -Lacal speculation in the Kidmat - Terrace district following the. Tradcau apecch-to-the-nation television address, had been a cablnet shuffle would result this week, but this proved only partly correct. + Fitness and Amateur Sport minister Iona Campagnelo flew to Ottawa, Tuesday, for Wednesday's special cabinet meeting, arriving the same evening. .-At about 2 p.m. EST, the announcement came over the CP teletype that Minister of Transport and chairman Board, Otto Lang, had been awarded the additional portfolio of Minister of Justice, vacated hy Ron Basford who announced his resignation from federal politics shortly after Trudeau's television speech last week. + No other cabinet changes were announced, Wed- nesday, and Jona Cam- pagnolo was scheduled to return to Edmonton for the final three days of the Commonwealth Games, remaining for the closing Saturday exercises, at which Joe Clark KITCHENER, Ont.. (CP) - Opposition Leader Joe Clark. said he hopes that a Gallup poll released today will encourage the Liberals to call a federal election, Clark, ona four-day tour of Prince Philip is expected to preside. «The results of the latest Gallup Poll, announced Wednesday morning, revealed a slight (3 point) increase in the NDP support, favorite beverage, but several businessmen say it may drive them into bankruptcy. Dale Lyons, assistant ‘manager of Allied Bottle Distributors Ltd., said Ea -” vos an almost identical decline for the P.C.’s and litte change for the Liberals, . Some Ottawa journalists were immediately in- terpreting the Gallup pollings as an indication the climate was right, politically, for the calling of. a November election. t ..-As proof of this, they were “polnting to Otto’: Lang's ° double - almost triple’ - portfollo, suggesting it would have to be a short-term load and would not have been’ considered under any other circumstances. . Some local reaction was Lang's extra portfolio had oaly further ruffled feathers. among voters in the west - especially in British Columbia where he has been acclaimed 5.C.'s most disliked politician - on a level, (as one phone caller to. the HERALD has suggested) with B.C.’a Bill: VanderZalm, southwestern Ontario, said he ig. not concerned his - Progressive. Conservative party has slipped eight percentage points behind the Liberals in the public opinion poll, VICTORIA (CP) — A, heavy demand for building materials in the United States is causing shortages and rapldly increasing prices in British Columbia, ‘Industry spokesmen say. Most seriously affected are cedar products, because flInished boards are becoming increasingly difficult to acquire, and kiln- dry, tongue-and-groove siding has skyrocketed to $1,200 a thousand board feet from $655 a year ago. Gyproc, used for drywall construction, is algo in short. supply. An industry spokeaman said more than 60 per cent of the B.C. and Alberta production is heading to the "These days when @ guy comes up from Washington State witha truck fullof hay, you can bet he'll be returning home witha load of gyproc,” said one building supplier. He said some gyproc com- panies in Vancouver are refusing to t orders. STATES FRUSTRATION “It’s polntless trying to quote on big jobs now because we know we. can't deliver on time,” he said. For manufacturers, however, the surge in ex- ports is a bonanza. Not only Shortage are they getting.a better dollar through export sales, but many U.S. dealers are icking up the product at the factory for the same price the companies charge delivered to supplier outlets in B.C, The popularity of cedar products, partieariy in California, is causing many . home builders here to switch to other woods. As one local supplier lamented: “Who can afford . the price? It’s ridiculous.” Shortages are occurring -with other products, There's adearth of stucto wire on the market, largely because of an increase in exports to Alaska, and prices have risen dramatically. A 112- foot roll. of wire that cost $18.10 last summer now Is selling for about $30. MARKET TIGHT The market for fir plywood is also tight, causing prices to increase almost % per cent in the past year. “Victoria has to compete with the reat of Canada for it," said one dealer. “Byeryone is busy, and there’s just not enough wood in the pipeline.” Those in the building supply business are reiuc- tant ta discuss the problems. None wished to be identified. | risk my The class of 1968 of Terrace High Schcol were seen reliving old memories at Riverboat Days this weekend, Pictured above are Ron Judd, Alan Haugland, Jerry Elkiw and Betty Jo Orr. vr.‘ coming in. Something should be done about this because we'll go belly up, too, if this Ames of the Canada Employment Centre for Students and Youths. The Herald was one organization thanked for participation in helping to promote the CEC’s strike keeps going. - OTTAWA CP - The possibility of a fall election was refuelled Wednesday by the publication of a Gallup poll showing the Liberals leading the Progressive Conservatives by eight percentage points. “IT would feel comfortable with an eight point lead going into an election,” ‘ Senatir: Alaidair. Graham, Liberal party president said in a telephone interview. - Immediately prior to the 1974 general election, the Conservatives trailed in public opinion polls by eight percentage points and the Liberals won a handy majority of the seats. Wednesday's: poll, which as taken in July, shows that student summer employment program. Election Fever Seizes Ottawa among decided voters Liberal support dropped to 42 percentage points from 43 points. the previous month and the Conservatives dropped three percentage points to 44. The New Democratic Party increased three points to 19 and. the undecided number of voters dropped one polnt:t6-31.-,- Aer Ee Tova Hae A spokesnian for ND! Leader Ed Broadbent said: “We're obviously pleased with the results.” ; The larger support for the NDP likely would not be translated into more seats because the increase is spread thinly throughout the country. Conservative Leader Joe Clark, during a visit to Kitchener, Ont., said he hopes the poll will encourage the Liberals to call an election. Figures Cooked’ .«-Qpposition:-Laber-critic Karen Sanford (NDP- Comox) said that. statistics showing a small decline in unemployment in British Columbia are cooked!’ and therefore provide no reason for optimism. Sanford also said the legislature should not be idle when so many B.C. residents are jobless. . By Jim Morris Don Richard of Usk, 11 miles east of Terrace says it was his belief in the Baha'i faith which gave him the strength to fight the current of the Skeena River to save the life of Ann Baxley who's canoe had overturned. . In the acciderit which occured last Thursday, Ann’s father Commander William Baxley, 37, of the U.S. Coast Guard was lost and is presumed drowned. Ann would have also perished if it hadn't been for Richard, yet he says he shouldn’t be praised for what he did because his religion dictated he do it, -“Its being a Baha’i. Its my belief that I should e, or give my life for another person. Part of our belief is we should help anyone who is in distress. I think being a Baha'i gave me the strength and the decision right away to help this person with hesitation whatsoever. “T shouldn’t be praised for what I did because what I did was something I had todo.” The incident began for Richard Thursday about noon. The CNR crew Richard works on were on their lunch break about four miles down -the track from Usk. Richards was in the woods reading while the rest of the men were fishing in the Skeena. He says he heard a high pitched scream. At first he ignored it, then thought it must be one of his friends who had caught a fish. It wasn’t until he went to investigate he saw the capsized canoe and the body floating downstream with the current, The men Richard works with decided they should try and reach help and went to phone the RCMP. Richard felt he should do something right away. “I decided I'd better go in and get her, but by this time she was way down river and I was quite aways behind her. I ran along way along the shore to try and keep up to her.” Richard said he wanted to go into the water to help the girl but she was on the far side of the river and he wasn’t sure if he could reach her. He k-;t yelling to the girl he wouldn’t let her out of h's sight and she kept screaming at him to help her. He says he was getting discouraged because he was still so far behind and was running out of both breath and energy. “Just as I was thinking I was wasting all my energy she hit these rapids and at that point I Ordeal By Water At Kitselas Canyon though for sure I was going to lose her. That's when I decided, even though she was that far ahead of me I should enter the water now because I was getting nowhere running.” ’ Richard says he took off his clothes and en- . tered the water. He relates he was getting fairly close to the girl when he saw a truck on the op- posite bank of the river. He yelled at its oc- cupants he needed help and they waved, turned and headed toward Terrace. “T had no idea what they were doing. I thought for sure they were going to come out of the truck to help us, I was getting really cold and tired and I could have used somebody at that point.” The people in the truck had a CB radio and tried to contact police Richard later learned. Meanwhile he was nearing the girl, “As I was swimming to her she was pleading with me not to drown. The reason she was afraid for me, the first words she spoke to me when I got closer, was her father had just drowned. She told me she had seen her father drown and she did not want me to drown.” Richard says the girl was hysterical and he hesitated going near her in case she grabbed him and they both drowned. He says he was surprised she was only a child because he hadn’t seen her until this point in the drama. “Her canoe was three quarters under water and she never really was able to get on it because itkeptrolling with the current. She kept grabbing to stay with it. I grabbed onto it and held it in a certain position so she could get on it. then ex- plained to her everything was O.K. and we were going to do it on our own.” Richard explained at this point he didn't know where he was on the Skeena River. He felt the canyon where the river narrows between two walls and the current is stronger, was ahead of him. It wasn’t until he reached shore he found out the accident had occured in the Canyon and by the time he reached the canoe they were well down stream from this point. “After floating with her for quite a long ways and explaining to her I had thought the canyon was ahead of us and we were both going to drown if we didn't get away from the boat, I told her If she didn’t relax she would drown me. So finally she said she would get on my back and we would go for shore.” . Richard says he had entered the river on the track side of the Skeena and now they were going to try to reach shore on the highway side. He says the current was going this way and he felt they could make it easier. “Amazingly enough when she got on my back she was really helpful because she kicked her feet and everything. She was really calm and never strangled me.” He adds because of the life jacket Ann was wearing, she was much lighter than she nor- mally would have been. “After a lot of stroking and stuff we weren't getting too far. We tried for this one point that was sticking out and we missed it. We got pretty discouraged about that.’ Richard relates after fighting the current for what seemed a long time he finally got close enough to the shore he thought he could stand up, but this was not as easy as it seemed. “When I finally did touch bottom I couldn’t stand up, the current would throw us back into the river. I was very tired and she knew it. We did a lot of kicking and stroking until finally I did stand up. When we finally got to stand up I couldn’t move. My body was so exhausted I just started shaking. She started crying she was so happy that she was not going to die.” Richard says both he and Ann rested on the shore for a time, Because he had taken off his clothes to swim, he couldn't help warm her up. Also noone knew where they were. They had about a half hour wait before the RCMP picked them up in a boat. Once they were back in Terrace, Ann had to go through the ordeal of telling her mother, who had beenwaiting for them in Terrace, her father was dead. Richard says they were ina room when the mother came in. “She asked Ann where Dad was. Ann told her he had drowned and she just went to pieces. It seemed to me she had no idea he had drowned.” Since the accident and rescue Richard says he ‘has seen the mother two or three times. ‘“'They’re very beautiful people. They thanked me a heck of a lot. The brother flew in from Hawail. He wanted to thank me for what hap- pen J At last report Ann had been released from Mills Memorial Hospital. The police had given up the search for the body of Ann’s father and the family had returned home to the United States.