Pen te perenne TP He NT Deka Ted aBaYE pale bea Ta eee ae a a See at } B :, * slelaon ‘Indian baad & is.a'step- aoe agreement.might set. a. os re _ igéserve |ivreturn for 50 per: ie Was told - any. | Food. — é:soath lpm - 7 days a.week . - - Chevron ‘Service esdiety Tamaya Tank oo an 7 ISDAYS A YEAR". mo Opén’ 4 Hours _ aS eee jfo.a$i7_ million: Wind- “Till followed by.a8: much as |. EM. whillign Gver the -riext 20 yea vafler the Indian affairs committee endorsed .a bill / Thiwsday sharing natural - “fata and he Be between, ‘the. a7 | the. ‘feglalstion - * which ‘needs Common’ Bapproval— . : > “eontirms ; an agreement “between : Ottawa - and the “peovines. ending -a: 3-year - : ial between the province © ein Band over mineral and — ‘petroleum. rights; . There ‘northwestern’ ‘B.C. be nd has about 300 members “in 40 familes. <- "But the: committee went” _ partsaay to remove thefears © "of Indian groups whosaid the récedent -limiting their tisims to mineral rights. Under: the. agreement . the “po waives the right to the subsurface minerals on the “cemt ‘of provincial royalties. — “Noel. -Starblanket, "president iof the National | ‘Indian Brotherhood, told the ” committee the ‘bill; : framed:in: al way that ex- “stinguishes aboriginal title to - the land: it describes, .and ay a provincial title * whi im. fact. very. ea ‘Clear. the’ Fort. Nelson agreement will not tet other bands. - . ‘And’ Warren Allmand, r: Liberal Indian. af-. | foe minister and MP .for ' + Montreal's NotreDame-dle- | Grace riding, said he will try _ to further amend the: ‘bill in, "the Commoris'to. ensure the | ', federal government does not - ~ support: ‘any principle ‘of Bucs ‘title tO: dndian “Starblanket’s agumgits “were vigorously opposed by’ ‘; Andrew Schuck, the. Fort “! Nelgon band's. lawyer, who {> objected. to attempts (to use ‘the bill to -solye bivader “issues affecting Indians. . We don't want to be used . as a.tool by an- organization:, ; that, ‘has: larger objectives,” “be gaid.. “if. these groups want to solve. larger Indian - ES dori't put them to our. jittle. bill.” - Schuck said the committee’ i had beén deliberately misled | } by the brotherhood when it ‘Indiati’s “gboriginal. rights ‘were af: 1 ted by the legislation. nd, -he ‘rejected. Star-" - blan et's Suggestion ~ barid: ‘was giving up its right to ‘pursue grievances under te agreement. Mig * the . ue facelift, “The! Hirsch Creek « Bridge: ‘on’ ‘Hig overhelaht, vehicles hitting It vay 95. is geiting es In the: past, “there. had” “been problems: with 80. the: provincial hiahwaye * department ¢ decided. io raise it “The bridge will also be | painted at the same time. ‘Construction will end next week and She fInat- cost, “will: total $106,500, “~~ “VICTORIA (cp) - | Money for construction of. ; ‘the Azad. branch line to coal “deposits in nor- . theastern B,C. ‘will have to... come, Yrom the, ‘provinelal governiierit or: coal companies, Mac « ‘Nof?ris, ». president. of ‘Crownowned’*’ B.C. Railway, snid ‘Thursday. i . ‘legislature’ ‘Ss . Corporations. committee. a "in building: the line and” + dmproving: its. existing ‘ine between Anzac and Prince George but. must. “be assured it will turn a . profit. . ” Netris “iold . the: Bo! Crown his compariy is interested. 1 Public: servant | a hiring frozen 5 ° VICTORIA: (CP) ~ - Calling: ba ‘erude instrument of re- straint," Finance Minister . Hugh Curtis’ announced ° Thursday an. immediate public service hiring, freeze. ‘Curtis said the move had to. be made™'to protect’ the government from a serious - budget shortfall at the end of the fiscal] year ending March 31, 1981,..due mainly to in- creased , expenditures and falling natural gas reveriués.. The minister also said he is -sonsidering ending the sreBteto studio the hiring of : consultants and ‘to’ the... awarding ‘of ‘discretionary grants by the province. : Opposition finance’ critic". Dave Stupich said he doesn’t believe the “province's. - financial position warrants _ such action... - Curtis is over-reacting; he said, and using the freeze as_ " a means of excusing a tut in _. government’ services so. the ., - government. ‘can: ‘std¢kpile - funds to finance its: gran diose capital schemes, °: ; .; Curtis,” who -last-- month’. asked his cablnet colleagues’ “Hostage released: ZURICH: (AP) — Richard Queen; the -first American - hostage treed from Tran in Banks will be: opened OTTAWA - (GP) . Legislation that. will . allow banks in Canada to remain _ open after today was ‘given royal assent-in the Senate Thursday The ba one: of six pieces _ of legislation to receive royal "assent during the ceremony, . extends for five months the current Bank Act, which must be revised every 10 years and has already been extended three times since 1977. ‘The bill was necessary be- on eause MPs-still are. debating changes proposed in @ new Bank ad now ‘before the Commons finance com- mittee, - “The government has said - ~ banks would have had no au- _ thority to operate afler today if the bill had ‘not been passed. ' and became law,” more. “than. seven months, arrived in Switzerland today | ‘and was taken to a Zurich ' hospital for treatment of a reported psychological or neurological:probiem Ayatollah | Rukoltah &. an Tranian « ° "Khomeini, “the revolutionary leader, or- dered’ the 28-year-old U.S. : vice-eonsul’s release he- ‘ cause of the-iliness, But an Iranian official in - ‘Tehran said“ this ‘does: not - -meatt any change in Iran's attitude toward the 52 .American’ hostages who remain behind, in captivity : since last Nov. 4. ‘A U.S. embassy spokesman, whe - reported Queen's arrival here, said the freed American will remain at the Zurich hospital for an indefinite time for treatment. A U.S. state department spokesman said his parents will he flown here .to Join him later today. Queen, who grew up in: Scarsdale,.N.Y., was met by the U.S. ‘ambassador lo ” Swilzerland. Richard.”.Vine, when.the scheduled Swissair . jetliner touched down in Zurich after six-hour Hight. . todo "some beéll-tightening” within: {heir owh.- ministries, said the hiring . freezewill have. ‘an. ‘immediate ‘effect. - . ‘a * By jim Poling . VICTORIA, (CP) Premier - Bill Bennett won't rule out. “any strong action, including ‘weslern::; “Oltawa’ Imposes an ekport , _ tax-on natural gas: “7 wouldn't ‘rule. owl ‘any: - action, - but 1.-woulds't rule _ any action necessarily , in,” he- said in. an: interview during which: he was. asked ‘whether an export tax might _ precipitate a sovereignty “referendum: “or: a Be, “election. * ay : “toask' me to restrict in advance those ways in which EF would help, the people. of ‘British Columbia. oppose. it _ dexport tax) would be foolish indeed,” iHe said there are no condi ’ tions under which B.C. would - ‘accept the. tax, which. he of ‘calls'an outright grab by the : ‘federal government. ‘The, interview : was . eon | ‘ducted i in advance of tdday's. -special: joint meeting ‘of the > Alberta “and_B.C.~ cabinets. Bennett refused 10 say what will be: diStussed, but his. - “comments indicated - “the, Ottawa tax proposal is high . yon the agenda. Oulawa wants. the ‘export “sovereignty | ~tassocialion referendim,, ‘if “crisis... . * : But fo- look, ‘around: and “see: “capital ‘that's - easy ‘to lax. to pay. off, its massive © deficit, .built up through years of -had financial ~ “management, Bennett .said. : Cutting f ederal-spending and imposing, equitable. taxation. across the country. would be © the only way for Oltawa to deal . with * _ their financial . grab is like the old.days of Ahe: highwayman looking al _ the wealthy. passersby. . _ Goverriments' cannot: aél as “ highwaymen. “Equity, fairness and trast are the threads that hold the d spark vote “country.” aor “country. together, Benieit it ihe federal government, they've: ° * eits those. sthreads,-, taken: away the Teaso Tor a ‘Today's - “joint. ‘meeting’ ‘follows a‘ ‘series’. of tough, ‘public * statements _ against.. Ottawa by Bennett and his. ministers: Same of’ the’ slatemepts ‘have ‘been con-. “sidered posturing * for - the difficult: constitutional. , _ negotiations : hat resume in ‘the autinin between Prime’ Minister Trudeau and the 10 provincial premiers. morning, _,Menny. | “NO ARRESTS ‘IN RAPE CASES — * qerrice RCMP are still investigating the two - _ rape complaints they received early Thursday . A’ man, had been’ taken into. custody: for © questioning in connection with one of the'rapes | but was later released by police. One of the incidents.occurred néar, Marshall Crescent and the other was in 1 the 2600 block of | railway: -.. Alberta suggested in 1978 a8 - Jpossibly the best link to coal. British - ignored ‘in. ane of By GAIL DOTINGA ’ Herald Staff Writer st Ahdeltog of the criminal court listhas people waiting nix -Tmonths or longer for their tria) It is this situation: that the “moat disgraceful’, tocome tocourt.-. local provincial: judge ‘inde . ‘The penalties are not being imposed’ soon enough: ‘Hew ° cana person relate the penalty to a crime he has committed ; the year before?” said Judge Darrall Collins. Trial dates are now being get for February,” 1981, A time " span. of 90 ‘days between the first appearance and the trial was suggested ‘by. Collings a8 ‘appropriate. |: “7 agree with the judge,” ‘said David: Warner, a Terrace lawyer, “Unfortunately it is too long now, an _ frustrating for-us.” and it's alzo “We needa second judge desperately,” Collins said. “lye beer told that I'll get another one, but when T don’t know.” Once the other jidge arrives, there Is the problem: of ' where to put him or her.- Terrace has only one courtroom. A new courthouse with two chambers is scheduled to be py’ ‘vle Parsons.” _ » VANCOUVER ICP) — A connection deposits “Jn: Bees ‘penerere an wiih B.C. route. ' “Theroute, put forward iti a "report prepared for the B.C. _ quickly: relegated ‘to the backburner without “further. study as the-all-B.C. Anzac-. Tumbler Ridge bragch line . proposal became the favored pro “ side of the border arid Saxon , Ridge’ B,C., southeast of the goal deposits. Af spur line ~ would have been, built bet- “ween Saxon: Ridge: and the. : . minesite. Latest estimate for the Anzac line is $235 million in 1900 dollars, $20 milliori more . than. (wo' years aga, Another $00 milllon would be needed to im rove [he B.C. Railway eli \. | west of the coal deposits, and. ijween Anzac, 5.C.. Prince George, due south, The Alberta option would . involve construction of @ 183° Kilometre rail line from . Saxon Ridge to connect with ihe government-owned Alberta Resources Railway’ ~ ‘at Beaverlodge. Alta., about '- halfway bewlween Dawson and- Grande ~" Creek, B.C... Prairie, Alta. ad The coal would be shipped - from Saxon Ridge to Beaver- lodge and down the Alberta . _ Hesources line to Jasper. - There, if. would be shunted | - onto the €NR line to Prince ~ Rupert on: the coast . lor HALIFAX (CP). _ Wonaes: of marijuana — $21 million - worth — Went up in-smoke-al- a northern Nova Scotia pulp mill . Thursday after an adventurous | smuggling operalion came {to an inglorious and becalmed- end. A federal transport aff icial said the Canadian Coast Guard could have un- wittingly helped the- sailbpat. Sea Tern on its way .Wed- fesday Wilh ils cargo of, more, thin four tonnes of. ‘hashish Intact.’ But indecisiveriens by the’ becalmed ketch's four crew members. who _chutdn't make up thei” mitds wheiher they wanted, cous! help -. a guard Rat se ; arquacd ; suspicions and led to their arrest, said Reg ‘Towers. Atlantic. public mahager for Transport Canada, . A heavily guarded tran- sport truck loaded’ with Moroccan hashish = “ihe Cadillac of hash," according to a police. spokesman --- urrived Thursday night “at the Scoll Maritimes pulp and paper plant al, Abercrombie . Point, near New Glasgow. bundies into. the mill's wood : and vil: -burning boiler. ' Cp the RCMP's narcotics - division in Halifax said the hash, divided packels of tin foil grouped in Hyannis), Mass.: "Phen Mounties tossed all 136 - Brent Crowhurst of ' into small” ~ the bundles, had a minimui sro. value ot 1 si milli. ‘Halifax, drug: - affairs « smigating charges were laid | against David Salvador, 33,- .df Provincetown, Mass.;° Paul - 3a, of Willam Wanamaker, 2, cof Eager- tony Mass. and George | Manuel Santos Nunes, 24, of Ferraguda, Portigal. it was.the second major drug seizure ii lwo months off Neva -Scotia’s coast: In late May: marijuana worth. - an estimated $50 million was taken -from the. converted shrimp (xiat’Patricla, Like the hashish it crided up in the’ incinerald®,