ere aman: PATIVE LUDTAnt, " Lot - sat ae Pea tii! TOPLTOMES? Sulla bdo, Federal party leadera unanimously condemned the wording af the. Quebec referendum on sovereignty- associatlon Thursday asthe first week of campaigning . for the Feb, 18 election drew to a cleae. The party leaders were in Western Canada as Prime COMP. 77/78 #61 ~All three lea - Minister Joe Clark, urging Quebecers to vote against the spring referendum, said the federal government . would not negotiate with the Parti Quebecois over’ the terms of a politically sover- eign Quebec. . Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau was restrained in his comment but several of his former ministers called the wording a joke and a fraud Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party, sald the wording gives Quebecers only two options, the status quo or in- dependence, He said he be- QUEBEC REFERENDUM ders condemn DETAILS PAGE 2 lieves in a new federalism, Clark unveiled In Van- cover his government's decision to retain effective control of PetroCanada, the government oil company, and even to expand Its mandate. The prime minister said a new Conservallve govern- ment would retain ownership of about one-third of the shares of the company while giving away or selling the remaining twothirds. His comments represented a backing away from a previous hard line to turn the —™- Crown corporation over to the private sector in Its entirety. Broadbent vowed his party would do everything in ita power to prevent the altering of federal ownership of Petro-Canada, “The Tories are not golng to get away with it,” he tolda rally of about 1,000 party supporters at an evening ly in Vancouver, Trudeau restated his com- mitment to making western Canadians more at home within the Liberal party. He said in Winnipeg the cam- palgn would be built around 4 team approach in an effort the wording to increase party strength in the four western provinces where only three Liberals were elected May 22. The politicians were to make their way back to Ottawa later taday for the Christmas break before resuming campaigning in the new year, | RUPERT SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd. Pr. Rupert 624-5639 WE BUY copper, batteries, etc. Call as - We are ~ STEEL & brass, all metals, f q Friday, December 21, 1979 A TERRACE-KITEMAT daily herald 20¢ “ Volume 73 - No. us) New a Westend Food Mart Open 6:30am - 11 pm 7 days a week 635-6274. Chevron Service we “We Satisfy Tummy & Tank 365 DAYS A YEAR" > Westend Open 24 Hours 635-7228 Pharmacist Patty Sande helps Santa select a winner open Mon. through Sat., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. from a total of 2,000 entries in the Northern Drugs fiant stocking contest. The $150 worth of goodies PETROCAN SHARES a contained in what may very well be ane of the warld's largest Christmas stockings, was won by Irene Sharples of 4828 Davis in Terrace. Clark offers BCRIC of a deal By MICHAEL BERNARD VANCOUVER (CP) — Prime Minister Clark's election promise to give away shares of Petro- Canada seems designed to appeal to the stock market baron that Bill Bennett found in British Columbians. The B.C, premier mined that seam of latent ‘capitalism prior to his government's re-election earlier this year and struck paydirt when he gave every quallfied resident of the province five free shares in the British. Columbia Resources Investment Corp. The added appeal of some- thing for nothing — even though the former Crown corporation belonged to British Columbians anyway — made the giveaway an enormous success. . Many observers credited the tactic for Bennett's narrow election victory over the New Democrats, whose previous government had originally assembled BCRIC’s (pronounced BRICK) $151 million In assets, Tis holdings included two sawmills, an 61-per-cent interest in Canadian ‘Cellulose Ltd., 10 per cent of West Const Transmission Ltd, and oil and gas rights om 2.3 miltlon acres in northern B While the politiclans haggled over philosophy and fine print, 1.8 million residente stormed financial Institutions to apply for 12 million free sharea and 94 milllon more at §6 a piece. The giveaway and sale swelled BCRIC'’s assets to $600 million and = its borrowing power ta an én- viable §2 billion. The bankers were happy too. Their distribution role brought them $30 million for handling applications and sheve distributions paid for by the corporation and the provincial government, There have been estimates {t would coat at least $300 million to give away and sell two-thirds of Petro-Can's $3.3 billion in assets, The giveaway made people aware of the cor- poration and BCRIC's debut on the Vancouver Stock Exchange in August made it & howehold word, Newspapera put BCRIC’s closing price on the front page, radio stations reported trading figures’ hourly and _ television stations ran closing prices in graphics alongside Dow- Jones averages. Beer parlors became trading floors as patrons dickered to convert BCRIC shares Into booze, mar sil _& peak when the corporation ‘announced it was Interested in buying up Pacific Petroleum’s $1.2 billlon assets. The stock hita high of $9.15, a tidy profit for those who bought the maximum §,000 shares at §8. The stock cloaed unchanged at $8.95 on Thursday. Rising interest rates have prevented many inveators from buying the stock on margin and many who did when it was first listed have sold which brought the stock down to the $6 range at one point. Despite the drop, stock analyste say BCRIC's future Is bright, supported by the corporation's last quarterly report of $247.5 million in earnings or 50 cents a share, Door opened to death VANCOUVER (CP) — it wes an invitation to death when a high-rise apartment tenant fled from: his burning suite without closing the door, an inquest was told Thursday. "TF the door had been closed, the fire would have been contained in the suite,"’ fire investigator Lt. Joseph Pears testified, Instead, a wave of smoke and heat greeted fire department Capt, John Graham, 82, when he and two other firefighters atepped out of the elevator on the fire floor. Thecoroner's jury said the intensity of: heat and gasea would ilkely have been leas in the hallway where Graham died if the door had been closed to the apartment of Michael Younie where the fire started Nov, 10, in the city's West End. The jury found that Graham and a tenant, Willam Bell, 75, died of amoke inhalation and classed the deaths as un- natural and by :isad- venture. ‘ The jury recommended the Vancouver fire depart- ment supply a printed in- formation sheet on fire procedures to apartment liding managers, owners or tenants. It also called for a training program for managers, owners and other employees on fire procedures. The jury also recommended training procedures and bulletina with elevatera be brought up to date. Graham died after he and died In the stairwell when he attempted to reach the roof from his eighth floor apartment. Peara sald the fire was started by a cigarette ember in a chesterfield, Evidence showed the apartment door / Council two other firefighters took the elevator directly to the fire on the fitthficor, Bell was tense produced. , he sald, and in- eat and gases were HOSPITAL HERE HAS A NEW HEAD The hospital board for Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace has appointed a new ad- ministrator te replace John Allen, who resigned earlier this year, Robert Finlayson, 43, of Dryden Ontario will take over as administrator on Feb. 1. Wayne Epp, the chairman of the hospital board, said in a telephone interview today, Finlayson's ap- pointment was confirmed at the last hospital board meeting this past Wednesday. “We have been lacking manpower," Epp said, in reference to the double duty being performed by acting administrator and supervisor of nursing Shirley Bentley. ‘Mr. Finlayson has an extensive background in hospital ad- ministration.” Epp said there were a number of candidates before selecting Finlayson. The new ad- ministrator is married with a family of five. Foriner adminstrator John Allen resigned in early October, citing health reasons. | GITKSAN-CARRIER Natives oppose Alean project By KEITH WATT Special to the Herald. SMITHERS - A spokesman for Gitksan-Carrier Tribal says Alcan Should not expand its Kemano generating facilities until the Tribal council's land claim is settled. Neil Sterritt, claims co-ordinator for the Hazelton-based tribal proup, said: “That type of project cannot go until the role of native people in resource development is clarified, and until the the land claim issue has been resolved.” About 4,500 Gitksan and Carrier Indians in seven villages two years ago filed: a land claim to 22,000 square miles in an area extending from Cedarvale to Burns Lake and from Tweedsmuir Park te Spatsizi Park. Sterritt said the tribal council will meet early in January to consider the whole issue. “It’s of direct concern to us because the entire project is within the boundaries of the tribal council,”” He said the proposed expansion concerns not only native food fisher- men, but also native people fishing cam- mercially on the coast, because of possible ef- fects on salmon stocks. “But over and above that, it’s just another example of the wealth and riches belonging to the native people being siphoned off to other parts of Canada and the world,” he said. Ken Russell, a com- mercial fisherman and chief councillor at Kit: seguekla, echoed Sterritt's comments: “T've been a commercial fisherman on the coast for twenty years, and many times the fisheries officers have told me to tie up my boat and stop fishing to save the salmon. Then Kemano I comes along and destroys the salmon. What's the sense?” Opposition to Alcan’s proposal is mounting among other groups in the Bulkley Valley, and business and government spokesmen are reacting wilh caution to the an- nouncement. Two groups-- the Save the Bulkley in Smithers and the Father Morice land, Outdoor Recreation Society in Houston--have formed in the past six months for the sole purpose of opposing the project. Save the Bulkley will begin a campaign to get Alcan and various government agencies to release more information on the development and its potential impact. Public information sessions will continue, using shde shows and Fish spawn killed A reduced flow into the Nechako River this month has resulted in some damage to salmon spawning grounda a federal fisheries officer in Kamloops said today. “Les Goodman, the diatrict- supervisor for federai fisheries in Kamloops said the flow into the river has dropped by half according to reports from fisheries of- ficers in Prince George. He said it is a result of decreased precipitation this year and a droppoff in water flow from the Nechako water reserve, The Nechako Reservoir supplies water to the Kemano project, which information packages already assembled by the group, and some mem- bers are looking at potential legal remedies, such as challenging the 1950 agrrement that gave Alcan all the water rights to the Nechako and Nanika Rivers, or the Industrial Development Act of 1949, a provincial statute designed to lure large fabricators, specifically aluminum supplies power for Alcan’s Kitimat smelter. Increased demands on the reservoir by Alcan, .due to the low precipitation, may be the cause of the-drop off in the . ate water level. Goodman said the chinook salmon redds are being damaged in part by the exposure to the cold and the lack of water coverage. He did not say what per cent of theredds would be killed as a result, but sald there is no question there has been some damage which could effect commercial, native and recreational fishing in coastal and interior areas, ALCAN DAM SAID FAULTY VANCOUVER (CP) — A dam built by the Aluminum Co. of Canada at Qotsa Lake in west central British Columbia cracked because the concrete mix used in its construction Reteriorated, says a welder who worked on the m. Phil Jones also said that the dam gates had improper welds and in 1977 an addition to the dam was built with an improperly installed fail- safe mechanism. Hugh Hunt, B.C. water rights chief com- missioner, said Thursday that when the dam was buill in the 1950s, engineers did not understand that certain concrete mixes could be eroded by alkaline water. The dam was repaired in 1977 at a cost of §3.4 million. . Les Holroyd, Alcan public relations officer, confirmed that a winch controlling the log stop guide at the dam was. bolted down with inadequate bolts which pulled out during testing. Holroyd said the bolts have been replaced with new and larger ones which will not pull out. Jones said he wants to publicize the dam's problems because he believes it raises serious questions about Alcan's ability to build and supervise the expansion of its Kemano hydroelectric project near Kitimat on the north B.C. coast. “There's an old wrecked gate there, the welds were shoddy and the gate had been dropped 16 inches — what goes on?’ Jones said. “And Alcan’s going to build a big new one,” Alcan recently announced plans to treble hydroelectric output from the Kemano site, a project which will require additional damming. companies, into the province. Smithers lawyer and group member Jim Sayre told the Dec. 12 meeting that “the provincial government can’t make agreements which override federal laws, such as the Fisheries Act or the Indian Act. The development could be stopped by court in- junction until, say, land claims are settled.” Mike Bell, secretary of the Houston group, said the society's concerris are that the company has made the decision to proceed without full impact studies, that public “gatherings” to company proposes for January in affected communities will not have full information on the project to which residents can respond, that job figures supplied by Alcan do not take into account jobs lost in the tourism and fishing in- dustries, and that tax- payers’ money is being wasted on improvement programes, such. as salmonid enhancement, the benefits of which will be wiped by Kemano expansion. “Those of us who live and work in the northwest need to know if we are being asked to make economic sacrifices so company shareholders living els2:where can enjoy a better standard of living,” Bell said. Skeptics to the project's benefits were not confined to en- vironmental groups. Smithers aiderman Bill McAloney questioned the effect of reduced Bulkley River flows on the town's water and sewer systems. ‘Just because the water supply is from wells, it doesn't mean that it wouldn't affect us, Who knows where that water comes from? he said, Smithers Chamber of Commerce president Ted Taylor said he wanted more information before passing judgement on the proposal, “| want to know what it’s going to do for us and what it’s going to do to us," he said, Even the tiny Palling Women's Institute near Houston passed a resolution condemning the proposed expansion. Northland layoffs hurt staff A spokesman for 25 Kitimat workers laid off as a resull of Canadian Pacific decision to end its leasing of the Northland transport service criticized the com- pany Wednesday for the poor timing of the an- nouncement. Mark Pearson, the president of local 6611 of the United Steelworkers of America said the an- nouncement leaves the workers with little time to find hew jobs at the worst lime of lhe year. CP said the Northland service will end due lo mounting financial Josses at the end of January. A lotal of 85 employees are effected, though 20 will be retained in other capacities by the company. Pearson said Kitimal Mayor George Thom has contacted the government on their behalf and telegrams have been sent to Premier Bill Bennett and Lincoln Alexander, the federal minister of labour. sometime in January. He said arrangements concerning severence pay and relocation of the 25 workers will be determined “Most employers give the Christmas turkey.” he commented. “CP Rail has given the Chrisimas goose without the golden egg.