__ This 60 foot incinerator was erected at MacGillis &

Gibbs property over the weekend. M & G are still
awaiting approval of thelr application to the pollution
control board before the wood waste burner can be put.

. into operation. Approval has been delayed because the
PCB has received letters of opposition from local
residents who fear the burner will create smoke, fly
ash and air pollution. The company is saying the
burner will be smokeless, unlike their old burner

. which had to be removed in 1972, An expensive but
environmentally useful alternative would be to har-
ness the energy from the waste burning and convert it .
to electricity, a method used in many pulp mills.

Health office
moved here

. Herald Staff
Federal Healt. and
Welfare medical zone office

may move to Terrace to
help ease the local unem-
loyment rate, but nor-
west Indian bands, who
make extensive use of the
services, are objecting to
the proposed move.

The zone office is
currently located in Prince
Rupert and employs a staff
.of 15 to administer the 18
field offices in Indian
Villages which provide
health services. .

Dr. Rick WNuttal, zone
director of medical services
in Prince Rupert, said the
sath “att te

ent is “asking for
and recejying” the views of

= native’ péopte on the

| proposed move.
’ “The final decision on

whether to move has not yet
been made,” Nuttal said.

Nuttal said there are three
district Indian councils
involved in the federal
medical district, two of
them, north coast and
Hazelton council have come
out against the move.
Terrace district band
council, unavailable for
comment, have not stated

their views as of yet.

Skeena MP Iona Cam-

gnclo met with Prince

upert band
members last week to
discuss the proposed move
stating that the relocation
was designed to help
Terrace’s flounderi
economy ‘‘and not par-
ticularly to provide better
service to Indians.”

Campagnolo said she was
aware that bands and civic
bodies were protesting the
move and told delegates it
would not be made without
consulting the people.

Delegates protested that
the move to Terrace would

not be central to the region -

and would mean that coastal
Indians would have to go to
Prince Rupert and then
travel to Terrace.

Campagnolo insisted the
real reason for the proposed
relocation was to boost
Terrace’s economy
although the department of
‘health and welfare would

correctly explain it in terms |

of - travel and  com-

‘munication.

~ Quick st

OTTAWA (CP) — Indian
Affairs Minister Hugh
‘Faulkner promised Wed-
nesday a quick start to
negot ations almed at
settling the Metis and non-
status Indian land claim in
the Northwest Territories.

The claim, which has lost
some of its urgency because
of a decision against
building a Mackenzie Valley
gas pipeline, calls for new
political and economic
structures in the N.W.T. It
proposes splitting the huge

council .

The MP suggested the
bands continue their
protest, .

G ,
(rain
VANCOUVER ({CP) —
Columbia
Development Corp. is un-
a joint study with
Alberta Wheat Pool to test
the feasibility of building a
terminal grain elevator in
Prince Rupert at a cost that
could go as high at $60
millio

n.
_The study is to be com-
pleted by Jaiunry and i the
indings’ afé—-favorable
“we'll go ahead and build,”
BCDC President Donald
Duguid said earlier this

*Saguid id the - tw
sa e two
groups are considering at an
elevator with a rated
capacity of between six and
nine million bushels, and

costing between $35 million

and $60 million, depending
on size and the equipment
installed. ;

Last year, Agriculture
Minister Eugene Whelar
invited proposals from co-
operatives and private

- Drilling near 10,000 feet

CALGARY (CP) — Dome
Petroleum Lid. of Calgary
seduction eating will begin
production testing
at the Nektoralik well,
which has been drilled to a
depth of 9,142 feet in the
Beaufort Sea.

The company announced
Sept. 20—five days before its

shore drilling permits for
the 1977 drilling season were
to expire—that natural gas
had been encountered at all
three deep wells being
drilled by Canadian Marine
Drilling Ltd. (Canmar),
Dome’s wholly-owned sub-

sidiary.

The federal cabinet said
Sept, 22 that Dome had been
given rmission to extend

rilling Netkoralik
reported to be the more
promising of the three wells.

ut it refused the com-
pany’s request to extend

territory in two with a line
running north from the
ManitobaSaskatchewan
berder.

The western territory,
covering the Mackenzie
Valiey, would be governed
by a legislative council

ected at large. There also
would be a native peoples
senate with veto power over
any rules or regulations
“which adversely affect
aboriginal lands.”’

Faulkner, who received
the claim at a ceremony

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1997

a,

‘District will press
ski shop battle

The district of Terrace
will continue its fight

A against Mickey Johnson
Recreations Ltd., despite
the nditure of $12,000 in

legal fees during the three
year battle.

Mayor Dave Maroney,
commen! on the court
decision which ruled in
favour of the district’s right
to refuse to hold a pu td
hearing on rezoning
block Lazelle, said the
district will continue te
actions

pursue other

relating to the zoning

conflict.

“It's been a hassle in the
courts for the last three
years,” Maroney said,

which time there has’

been “a lot of manipulation
by Mickey Johnson.”

"Maroney refereed to the
“delay tactics” of Mickey

_By Donna Vallieres
Herald Staff Writer

Johnson Recreation Ltd. in
having the case drag on this

long.

“I don’t see any end to it
this fall,” Maroney con-.
tinued, but said the district
would not back off from the
fight because other
businesses in town. are
getting upset over the fact
they have to purchase
business licenses while
- Johnson has been operating
his ski shop without one.

Council revoked John-
son's license last year after
he refused to comply with
zoning regulations within an
agreed period of time.

The company took the
issue to supreme court in
January and the district
filed a counter action in

- county court. The county

court action will be heard in
Prince Rupert October 31.

$60 million |
elevator in Rupert

companies ‘interested ir
taking over the running of
the under-utilized govern-
ment elevator at the north
coast community. The most
attractive submission came
from the U.S.owned Cargill
Grain Co. Ltd.,of Winnipeg
but whelan decided against
granting a lease. -

Dr. William Hick,
cbairman of the grain co-
ordination ‘committee of
Prince Rupert Chamber of
Commerce said last week
that Whelan invited
proposals only because of
pressure to do something
about the Prince Rupert
elevator, ;

“He never had any in-
tention of leasing it out and
Cargill’s bid gave him the
perfect out,” said Hick. “He
could say that the people of
Canada would never stand
for their property being
handed over to a U.S.
multinational.”

Dome Petroleum

drilling at the other two
wells.

Dome said Tuesday it has
suspended drilling at the
Koponoar and Ukalerk
; but some testing will
tbe done based on the
‘available drilling results.

A fourth well was drilled
by Canmar early in the 1977
season, but it was cased
after going to 1,350 feet.

Dome said that, after
tes at the three deep
wells is completed, the three
Canmar dr‘ ships will
be moved to other locations
to conduct shallow drilling
Operations. ;

The company has been
authorized to drill to a
maximum depth of 1,600 feet
at the new locations. Dome
said current ice forecasts
indicate shallow drilling can

’ TO MOVE ON

Wednesday afternoon, said
the federal government
shares some of the ob-
jectives outlined by the
Metis.
ANOTHER CLAIM .
However, Faulkner also
must deal with arother
claim tothe same territory.
The WT, Indian
Brotherhood has presented
a claim calling-for creation
of a Dene nation in tha

valley.
The Metis, who until last
year were working with the

- elevator., -

SOUGHT PARTNER

Alberta Wheat Pool heard
that the BCDC and other
companies were interested
in project so it sent a
study team to Prince Rupert
and then sought its own
meeting with BCDC. The
outcome was an agreement
‘to orm =6a_—sojoint
exa tion of =the
prospects for ;
‘Lorne L. Clapson, vice-
president of C '
originally initiate
discussions with the BCDC,
said “BCDC seems to be
running to talk to every girl
on the street.”

In the past crop year,
ended July 31, Cargill
moved 20 million bushels
through the Port of Van-

couver.

Clapson said that Cargill
likes to operate its own
facilities where possibl:
“because we normally do
better when we are on our

continue through’ most of
inne ugh

October.

Canmar has been drillin
the wells for Dome an
partners, ineluding Hunt
nternational, Columbia
Gas, Gulf, Aquitaine,
Brascan, Norcen and Mobil,
which have varying in-
terests in the wells. .

. A new partner is Kaiser
Resources Ltd. of Van-
couver. | ‘

Edgar Kasier, Jr., Kaiser
‘president, said in Van-
‘couver Tuesday that the
com as inves
million for a i-percent net-
pro interest in the Dome
project.

“Our participation with
Dome and its partners in the
drilling program is Kaiser
Resources’ first energ .
related investment outside
of the coal industry,’’ he
said.

Hugh Faulkner:
art to land claims

brotherhood on a single
claim, refuse to accept that
concept. Prime Minister
Trudeau also has said Ot-
tawa cannot accept the phi-
losophy of separate nations
within Canada.

Wednesday's Metis claim
includes a call to the

brotherhood to get together °

again to settle one claim for
the natives of the valley.
Last month however, the
brotherhood indicated that a
reunion is impossible.

. focus on

_Evan Ha

The action this week to
sjuiring the district to hold
c a
socbrate application fled by
ate application
Mickey "johnson
Recreations this summer.

Maroney said district
solicitors are still trying: to
get Johnson to make a good
will commitment to the
municipality, but Johnson
has claimed that repeated
attempts by the company to
meet with district have been
turned down.

The district expected the
outcome to be in favor,
Maroney said, but added
that the district is
“somewhat disturbed that
an expenditure of over
$3,000 of the taxpayers’
money was required in

order to uphold the legally
constit: by-laws of the
district of Terrace.”

own ... we are more ef-

ficient."

“At Prince Rupert we
proposed taking over the
(federal) elevator, fixing it

and then opera ing it for

comers,” he said. “We
would have been after every
ruddy bushel in the country.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
panel of four independent
railway experts uesday
presented royal com-
mission
British Columbia Railway
with a series of ‘Broposals to
revive the trouble-plagued

company.

The proposals, presented
by the panel at the end of a
twoday study of the
problems and successes of
state-owned railways, did
not cover questions of ex-
tension of track, but did
‘public = ac-
countability and business
management of B.C. Rail.

The panel suggested that
the government should:

—entrust the railway’s
affairs to a  semi-
autonomous board of.
railway and independent
officers with direct ac-
countability to a cabinet
minister ;

ter ;

identify the profitable
and non-profitable areas of
the railway’s system and
implement separate ac-
counting systems for each;

—provide the railway with
a yardstick budget by
means of a fixed annual
government subsidy for its
non-profitable operations;

authorize the cabinet
minister responsible for the
railway to investigate its
affairs if it exceeds the set
budget.
SUBSIDY NEEDED

The experts included
, one of the

Generally, the
brotherhood, representing
mainly status Indians,
wants an Indian govern-
ment in the valley. The
Metis proposal is for a
government of ali people,
native and non-native, with
the Sonate ensuring
protection of native lands.
The claim also asks for
land, financial com-
pensation, a share of
resource royalties and tax
concessions on certain
native lands and revenues.

Viera kia GEV “cag

Herald staff
Canadian National In-
See or eapaige billz on
a campaign on
October 3 when 250 Lions
Club members and volun-
teers will canvass all homes
in the Terrace area.

administrator for the CNIB
was in twon yesterday to
speak to Lions Club,
Members on the coming
capaign and to review some
of the functions of the in-
stitute.

The CNIB is a multiser-
vice private agency,
Kealenz explained, whose
main objectives are
rehabilitation of adult

dness and the preven-

tion of blindness.

B.C. Hydro responded to a recent front
page picture in The Herald which pointed
out that hydro guy wires were strung up
on Kalum Avenue without protective
shields. Yesterday they sent a man out to
correct the situation. The wires must be
protected because blind people can walk

Campai

Fred Koalenz, district The agency

VEV KE -

f

into them undetected by their walking
canes. Canadian National Institute for
the Blind will be holding their annual
campaign in Terrace next week and local
Lions Club members, assisted by
volunteers will be canvassing residents on
Monday, October 3.

For the blind

on blitz Monday

wil aslo in-
volved in the training of
blind children and coun-
selling of parents of the
Soest tg the well ae
luca e general public
on how to m meet blind
ple.

CNIB works closely with
Lions Internatin a service
club committed to the
conservation of eyesight and
in Terrace both inDowntwon
and the Centetinial Lions
will be involved in the
campaign.

Last year Lions CJub
‘members and volunteers
raised more than $4,000
through the CNIB canvass
and are hoping to do even
better this year.

The door-to-door- blitz will
be held Monday October 3,
when households will be
called upon between 6 and
8:30 p.m. and the campaign

sponsors an
adjustment iit tye t

program, a specific 0
Paming whichis designed to
build a self confiednce and
skills for the blind person
and also counselling the

amily.

Family attitudes are very
imporant in the adustment
of a blind person, Koalenz

Jained.
RBity and compassion will continueintil Ocotober 8
will destroy this self- when the business com-
confidence,” he said. munity will be canvassed.

investiga tin, |

. On the
maintaining

four principal officers of
British Rail; R. L. Banks, of
Washington, D.C., a United
States transportat ic
consultant; J. W. G. Mac-
dougall, a retired vice-
president of Canadian

ational Railways; and Nel
Irwin, a Canadian tran-
sportation consultant.

During the two-day sym-
posium, the consultants ex-
plored most aspects of
railroading, including labor
problems, road competion,
productivity, public ac-
countability and the future.
question of
independence
while remaining ac-
countable to the pal lic, the
panel concluded that a gov-
ernment-owned operation
niust have a clearly-defined
subsidy in advance,

“The ation should be
accountable in advance and

judged by its accounts,”
ai Macdougall.

Harwood said the
financial parameters must
be set in advance and it:
must be accepted as 4
constitutional fact that
government controls the
size of the subsidy.

Tf the railway is obliged to
“hold out a begging bowl,”
it will lose its independence,
Harwood added.

As for the railway's
services and rates struc-
ture, Irwin said it should be

‘able to negotiate with

government its right to start

or discontinue a particular

service.

But Banks added “don't
just nail a notice to a tree in
the time-honored fashion.
Declare the intention of
discontinuing a particular
service in the advance
budget,"

On the question of
productivity as it relates to
staff morale, Banks
suggested that it is ‘highly
desirable’ to institute a
bonus system to increase
productivity on the
railways.

“Tt ig human nature to be
responsive toa few dollars,”
Banks told the commission.

Banks polnted out that
U.S. railroads in 1920 em-
ployed 2.5 million workers
compared with today’s to
railroad workforce of
500,000,

: Proposals to revive BCR

Despite the reduction in car-loads carried and ton-
manpower, and because miles covered is far greater
workers are more today than in the 1920s, he
productive, the volume of told the commission.

\In brief:

Police shoot gunman

HAMILTON (CP)- Police shot and killed a gunman
Wednesday to end a four-hour siege at a downtown apart-
ment buil which left two policemen wounded by gun-
ire

A special police tactical squad broke the siege as they .
entered the building about 10:30 a.m. after firing tear-gas
pellets into the apartment.

Seconds later, three gunblasts were heard.

Police sources identified the dead man as James Kellett,
26. Kellett, who friends said was a member of Satan's Coice
motorcycle club, ran for mayor of Hamilton in the
December municipal elections. He received about 1,000
votes of the 100,000 cast,

The exploding tear gas
of the three-story bui
contain it.

Compulsory service in Quebec

SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP) — The Quebec government

will establish some form of compulsory public service for
young people before the end of its present mandate, Social
Affairs Minister Denis Lazure said Tuesday.
_ It would be something like military service now required
in a number of countries, Lazure sald, except that young
people would be required to take part in vast community
projects such as reforestation or depollution of rivers, or
something according to their respective fields of com-
petence.

Mountie discharge appealed

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Attorney-General of British
Columbia has appealed the granting of an absolute
discharge to a former RCMP corporal convicted of stealing

r . .

Notice of appeal was filed by lawyer John Hall on the
grounds that county court Judge D. B. McKinnon paid un-

lue consideration to the interests of the accused anil in-
sufficient consideration to the public interest in granting the
discharge to James Charles Hunt.

Hunt, 38, was convicted of stealing the money which was
seized during a heroin conspiracy investigation in 1968 and
was In Hunt's possession between 1970 and April 1973.

Wagner sues

OTTAWA (CP) — Progressive Conservative MP Claude
Wagner has initiated a suit against the Canadian Broad-
casting Corp. and five of its journalists following a
documentary June 13 on organized crime.

_ Rowell Laischley, a lawyer for the Quebec MP, said in an
interview Wednesday a writ was deposited Tuesday at On-
tario Supreme Court to begin the action.

The writ follows notification June 21 to Ontario’s depiit;
attorney-general that the MP for St. Hyacinthe planned *»
sue the government-owned network for allegations made
against him in the documentary, entitled Connections.

ets set off a fire on the top floor
g, but firefighters were able to