- good old days.

Monday, July 26, 1982 .

_ Herald Staff Writer
PRINCE GOERGE— For the second year in

well into the normal nting season. .. Was forced to deatroy close’to 500,000 seedlings
a row, the B.C, forestservice hasbeen forcedto  - Unusually hot and dry cont tions goon aftercut because of problems with moths, insectides;
dispose of large numbers of tree seedlings short the season. “fungacides, and tree planters, ©

instead of planting them. . .

Although forestry. officials often. claim: the cae
only thing holding up silvaculfiiré and: ttia:th? ‘pal
7 sat tution of the ‘wustalned-yiell" cqitapemiye

destroyed by the forest service this year..

emotes from ‘nureert

_, balloons. to divert: the
‘+ missiles,

The seedlings, scheduled for planting in the
Prince George and Vancouver forest regions —
had toc be destroyed after planting was Post:

poned thia spring.

_Tree-planting operations were delayed by the
heavy show fail and cold spring weather which 7

25 cents

left plantation sites covered with snow until.

_ The: seedlings, which had“ilready been
rob urverieg’ ae for ;
be. : pli Lee As

Vancouver Reglonal ‘manager Don Grant
’ pald thé good weather now comes too late for:
the trees. ;
“Seedlings planted beyond *. their normal
~ growth rhythm either do not survive or result in
inforlor trees,"’ Grant said, :
. Prince George regional manager John Cuth-
. hort aid the trees wouki have to Pe digposed of.

Vane ae te

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Kitsumkalum High: School (now the school administration building) reunion was a feature
this weekend when oldtimers of Terrace got together t to say hello and talk over. the

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B.C. forestry disposes of tree seedlings

Last year, the Prince Rupert forest region -

--Those trees ad been grown in Surrey where
ghee ydiigect.’and Hingus infeetions:’

_ Chemicals they had been treated with to clear
up the pest problem.

were planted, -

Most’ of those trees had been destined for
‘planting in the Kalum Timber Supply Area.

The ministry of forests expects to plant
- approximately 117 million seedlings annually
until 1965-1986: In 1980 about %5 million trees

Israel continues its assault on PLO-

BEIRUT (AP) - ~ Israeli
jets attacked the Palestine
‘Liberation Organizatlon's
battered enclave in West .
Beirut for a fifth straight
day today, as Israeli. of:
ficials attacked PLO leader
Yasser Arafat for “fraud”
in a meeting with U.S.
congressmen,

The Israeli jets made

their divebombing-run over
West Beirut this afternoon,
pounding the same targets.
hit in- the previous four
days’ bombing around the

PLO’s headquarters: ~~ ~~
The Israeli planes con-

tinued to foil the PLO’s anti-
aircraft missiles —
releasing scarlet. decoy

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There was no immediate

. count of casualties, ©.

~Tstaeli Foreign Minister -
Yitzhak Shamir called the -

document” Arafat signed ..

Sunday accepting “all UN
resdlutions relevant to the:
Palestinians” ‘an “exercise
in fraud and deception. "
Arafat ~ Bigned. the
statement for a group of five
visiting congreasmen.
Representative Paul.
McCloskey (R-Calli.) sald
he. thought’ the statement :

. satisfied US. terms for

cpening ‘direct negotiations
with the PLO and urged the:

Reagan administration nto
_do-so,

“MeClonkey ti told a news -

-» conference in the."no man's
and” between Moslem. -

West . Beirut. and Christian
statement applied to UN
Security Council resolutions:

242° and: 388 recognizing

Israel's right to exist. *

- McCloskey first“ said an
Arafat aide-had written on
the back of.the documenta,
list-of UN resolutions that
presumably included ‘242

- question,"

by

and 338." But . when an
Associated. Press reporter
who saw the backside of the
document noted there was
no reference. to resolution
242, McCloskey sald: "No,
it's ‘not (listed), ‘but--he
(Arafat) kept saying all of
them, including 243," °
The PLO’s UN observer,

Zehdi Tersi” sald that was.

not true and pointed out that
242 -refera to the “refugee
‘not

BEIRUT (AP)

executive.

_ The Commodore Hotel, home base for
175 foreign journalists covering Israel’s
Invasion of Lebanon, la thriving despite the
‘war-in West:Beirut where Palestinian |
’ guerrillas “are: trapped - by- encircling
‘Tsraell forces... -

The Conikipllore operates belter in war
". than in peage,” ‘sald Yussef Nazzal, 39...
year-old Jordanian: proprietor’ of what has
-,become ‘a ‘virtual: international press

centre, .

The lobby.” often’ strewn with television .
equipment, is a gathering place for _
_ members' of Lebanon's..parliament,: of-
-ficialy fof: the: Palestine. Liberation _
Organightion, relief workers, doctors,
promifient Lebanese busitiessmen and the ©
zémaining western.diplomats left in

the beled Moslem sector of the capital, -

Hotel policy requires guna and grenades
be’ checked at the reception desk, where _
. Teletype and --Telex machines ‘clatter +

few.

aloe: around the. clock,

Aw ‘idapoken agresment haa kept tie ;
Commodore a neutral zone, relatively free
of interfactional. sliootouts and. shelling
exchanges, Bit the ssven-storey 15-room
hotel:has nat been entirely immune from —
violence, as’ a ‘notice posted near ithe

clevatora Andicates,

fo the.

- Palestinians specifically.
He told reporters. in New
York that Arafat's en-
dorsement ‘applies to UN
General . Assembly
resolution 181 callin stor
separate Palestiniay
Jewish states,
The head of

Geneva, Daoud Barakat,

sald the document signed by:
_ Arafat does not represent a -
the PLO s

change ‘in

PLO's:
- mission’to the UN offices in

“positon. “Avatat has sald

this a hundred times, but
the Americans wanted jt on
paper,’ he said.

The Israeli cabinet said.

the MecCloskey-Arafat
Announcement “joins a long
line of announcements in
the past aiming only to

obtain propaganda ad-

vantages."

But. Egyptian ‘president
Hosni Mubarak sald ina
speech

~ Commodore still thrives _

- Windows ‘are .

'. crisscrossed with masking tape to keep

. them from shattering during a- shelling,
‘Bétréls block off streets on each side of the -:
building to keep car bombs away. The’

ice suite contains a: stock of

‘assault riflés:-

~check out of the hotel.”

' Nazzal...

The notice stemmed froma street battle
, - early - this) month between two leftist
Lebanese’ militlas over a vacant apart
- ment house nearby. —
_ The gunmen turned the weapons. on
* photographers who tried to film the battle
-and a machine-gun mounted ona pickup
.- fuck was aimed into the lobby, where
patrons dived behind couches, me
"> ~ “It is, without doubt, one of the most’
:.. dangerous Places in the world,” bald

. He. explained in an interview that he.
stays on in West Beirut because-he likes -
challenges and bécause of ‘Jong-term oe

‘friendships with journalists; © .

- “I'm thinking about having new Tahirts_ .
made to.thank’ the press for saving West
Beirut, ” naid Naczal, who acts as banker, °

: ‘press: adviser and psychiatrist to: his
guests. ‘The people here have the presa to
‘thank for Saving their lives, and I satisfied

‘| “amny-ego that T helped the preas funetion to

” make that possible." ;
., “Nazzal said he has won over most local

’ militias and guerrillas to the idea that the

’.,, Press. coverage. has helped stave off:an~

~ Israeli onslaught Into Weat Belrut through
descriptions and pictures of destruction.
“Tt has been a alow process but most of

_ them now accept the press,’’ he sald...

in - Cairo that’

~ who asked not to be ‘iden- .
-fified said-they don’t-think —-

. silty at they don't go on their

Arafat! f) statement was “a

‘very. good opening: for a.

peaceful and good solutlon”

of thé Middle East crisis,

’ McCloskey. said. he
believes Arafat’s statement
is sufficient to warrant U.S.
recognition of the PLO, But

the State Department said it
_ will study the record of the
Beirut meetings, and the.
' White House recommended

“extreme caution." Other
U.S. officlals in Washington

Arafat met the U.S.
requirement for recognition

. acceptance of resolutions
“Incase of shooting around the hotel, the |
_- management Insists that neither television
“cameramen or photographers attempt to
take- pictures. This ‘endangers: not- only -
__ their lives but those of the guests and staff,
Those’ not prepared to co-operate may.

242. and 338, including
‘Israel's right .to exist. -

* Israel’s ‘ambassador - to
France; Meir Rosenne, said

- In Paris that Arafat, head of

the largest of the eight PLO’

factions, does not have .

authority’ to change the
organization’s charter,

_ Which calls for replacement

of Israel with a secular

-Palestinian state.

The Israeli miilitary

7 command reported that all

its. “planes ‘returned safely
rom the 20-minute. raid-
Sunday” morning and five-

“minute attack Sunday night -

on Palestinian: ammunition
dumps near’ the Sabra

‘abantytown | ip ‘West Beirut.

. The -. ‘Lebanese police

; reported .at ledat 12 civilians
killed or wounded in the:.
‘morning attack but had no |
casualty . report. after the _

night rald. :

Israel, which resumed the:
bombing ‘of Beirut last

_ Thursday after a 27-day lull,

is “demanding that Arafat

and his.8,000 guerrillas get _

out’ of Lebanon ‘and is

threatening to storm the”

Moslem sector af the capital

own. :

_. Convicts

no Hernld Stat Writer: a
KITIMAT— Eurocan ‘Pulp and Paper
and thé federal government have: “signed
an agreement providing a warm water

supply from Eurocan’'s Kitimat mill to the
salman hatchery under construction on the -

Kitimat River,

Federal Fisheries. Minister Romeo
LeBlanc and Eurocan president Lars-

. Wrede signed the water agreement
. recently allowing the $9.6 million hatchery

& warm water source for heating and [h-

cubation uses.

Eureean will be modifying its waste
water system to supply the hatchery via-a
Eurocan will
maintain the system under contract from
the department of fisheries and oceans,

Eurocan had. previously co-operated
with fisheries in the operation of a five-
year pilot hatchery project on the mill site

14 kilometre pipeline,

itself.

The new agreement Is expected to'nave

: fisheries aa much as $900,000 “annually. -

. The water will be used to heat the hatchery
building and to keep its water supply ice
free in winter, The warm water will also
be used to heat water used. to incubate

~ salmon eggs in order to produce larger and

. stronger fish..
Eurocan vice-president . Paull
Hamalainen said the company’s in-

volvement with fisheries should be
regarded as an ongoing relationship and as
‘an. example of how industry and govern- —

_ Ment can work together for mutual
benefit,

The Kitimat hatchery will he the largest
in the province when it is completed
sometime next year, It will be wed to
enhance the Kildala, Dala, and Bish Creek
salmon stocks and should resulf:in‘an
increased catch of 130,000 Chinook, 200,000

___Chum, 66,000 Coho, and 6,000 pink salmon
‘each year y Westcoast fishermen. -

Prisoners stab ) guards

MONTREAL (CP) - _ ‘A
‘foiled escape attempt
turned into a bloody hour-
-long riot Sunday at

hambault Institute, leaving

“Prisoners dead.
Another seven guards
were injured in the incident,

prisoners. were believed to
have taken part, a
Corrections Canada
spokesman said.

“This is: probably the
bloodiest prison rict ever in
Quebec,” one shaken. but
uninjured guard said. when
the melee was finally
quashed around midnight
EDT.

All of .the dead were -

_ Stabbed with home-made
knives carried by prisoners,
prison spokesman Gaston

_peblensn prepa ring them for planting led to - Pelletier told reporters.

Tree: planters .
tefused to handle the trees because of the

There ‘were “also” un-
contlrmed reports _ that
some of the dead. guards
were mutilated. .

One of the dead guards;
Leandre .Leblanc, was
working his last shift before
‘retiring after 25 years in the
federal. penitentiary ser-
‘vice. He was 60, '

- Hus two dead colleagues-~
-were- identified as Denis
.. Rivard, 27, and David Van

Den Abeele, 36..
The° dead prisoners —

both of whom were serving |

life terms — were Yvon
Martin, 27; convicted for a
double murder .in the
Quebec City suburb of
Charlesbourg in November,
1978, - and Christian
‘Perreault; 24, sentenced.
earlier thig year for killing
Montreal policeman
‘Emmanuel Cloutier’ during.
4 bank robbery last fall. ‘

Al! of the victims died
overnight, except Leblanc
who died. in hospital, later
this morning, °

Two of the injured guards

‘were in critical condition, ..~

although one was later

_ Peported to be out of danger.
Five ‘other guards were
treated in hospital for — -

wounds and shock but later
released,

~ Pelletler “said the riot
began at 10:30 p.m. ‘EDT

after several convicts at-_

tacked a group of 10
unarmed guards near the

maximum-security Arc--

three “quards. and two.

in which as many as 150

gas bombs, Pelletier did not
say. whether the first ‘at-
tempt to end the riot was
successful or whether more
force was needed,

_No prisoners were shot,
Pelletier stressed, because
“our guards had orders to

Shoot over. their heads,”

“We have no idea how
many of the’ convicts ac-
tually took part in the riot,'’
Pelletier added, “It could be
"100 or 150,” although many
of Archambault's 425

convicts were still in the —

recreation yard when .the
guards were attacked, . —

The injured guards - and
the bodies of the twa. dead
convicts were only found
after-the riot. :

All prisoners returned to
their cells early today “one...
by one," Pelletier said, and
would’ remain: there” until

. furthur notice, f-

* Quebec: previdclal ite
officers who were sli a

to patrol the prison .

' perimeter remained ‘on the -

full control. ;
Federal: penitentisry
commissioner Donald
Yeomans was also repor-
tedly at the prison, — -
Pelletier described
damage to the prison —
scene of several previous
riots, hostage-takings and
murders — as “aerious.' "

Archambault has been

relatively quiet of late,
ite its reputation. as

ome for some of Canada's —

most violent prisoners.

Six prisoners — “Were
hnurdered in’ 1979 alone,
with some ‘of the killings

linked to the use of illicit

_ drugs within the Prison.

In February, 1978,
Archambault. director.
Michel Roy was murdered
in the driveway of his
- Suburban ‘Montreal. home.

The killing cliriated a year —

‘of violence. at -the prison
which included a- hostage-
taking, a riot anda strike by ~

scene until prison |

convicts refuding to work in
authorities had recovered

institution shops.

Herald Staff Writer. ;

TERRACE— Groups with ideas about how the nocthwest
shoilld’ be developed will be interested In a series of' -
seminars sponsored by the West Coast Environmental Law ~
Association‘ and scheduled towns throughout the area in
August. —

The seminars are geared towards informing groups what

: ‘their righty are in regulatory hearings needed for any large:

scale Hevelopment in the atea and how to make the best usa
of opportunities to present briefs to those

The seminars are scheduled for Prince Rupert, Terrace,

and Smithers on Aug. 3, 4 and 6 respectively before moving
to Iskut Aug. 6-10, Telegraph Creek Aug. 11, and Lower
Post Aug. 19-14,

With plans for large developments neating the 2
plication stage, northern residenta could soon find them-
selves involved in hearings over huge Hydro-electric |
projects, LNG ports and Off-shore ail and oe drilling
among other things. —

-Brice- Kaun’ of the ‘West Const Baviroamental Law
Association will be putting onthe seminars.:

The proposed agenda covera administrative | law
processes in general before getting into. the detail of the
hearing process and the preparation of:a brief. .

. Kaun sald the idea of the seminars is to ¢ groups in

‘Seminars offered .

the north facing the huge $7.6 billion and 913.2 billion.

 Stikine-Iskut and Lliard Hydro projecta for the hearings

those’ projects will go through with the 5.C. Utilities
Commission, ;

“This agenda is designed for the sihaller northern. .
communities of Iskut, Telegraph, Dease and Lower Post,'"
Kaun said. “The Terrace workshop will aleo address itself

contral centre in the core of ~ to the Kemano projects and off-shore oll and gas.

the large Institution in Ste.
Anne-des-Plaines, 50--

kilometres north of Mon- .

treal. '

The prisoners, ‘who were”

returning to their cells fram:

an outside recreation yard, = a
were apparently trying to 9

take hostages in. order: to
escape, he said. Buta guard.
in the contro] centre quickly
shut off all possible avenues

‘of escape before: fleeing. to.
_ safety. LS
The incident then turned

into a riot aa the convicts

‘wielded their home-made
fur- |

weapons, smashed .
niture and-pulled sinks from
bathroom walls. :
Several prisoners
managed to break into the

-cantrol centre, smashing
equipment and pulling. .

wires. .
The prison’s tactical

squad then fired shotguns .

above the heads of rioting
d released tear
A .
7

More information on the seminar is available from Joe
Murphy al 635-6007.

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