the budget.

“he Of Won't. he?
relatively ‘subdued ‘ecuneil a .
turned" into “a desk’ "pouiding ae
«shouting | attack “Against - ‘Mayor . ‘Helinnt
-<,* Glesbrecht by sorfie aldermen ‘over leaked ..
confidential. information reported in: ie -
_ “ApH: 12 issue of the Daily. Herald. _ a

“Alderman Chih Down says the minites”
of an-inceamera cornmittee of, the whole
a meeting: appeared the next, day calmoat
"verbatim and'since Giesbrecht was seen -

‘ having’a beer with Herald reporter. Keith
-.. Alford after the meeting the mayor. must *
__ have been his: source, Giesbrecht denied

the charge,

‘.. Down: was protesting. the ‘release: re "
information concerning ¢ council discussion
to reduce the mayor's salary from $10,000"
to 1. Giesbrecht suggested that he had
every right to discuss something as serious: :
ag havitig his salary reduced in public, He .-
campaigned on the public’s right to know
and the only confidential information from -;
in-camera meetings are court cases, land
sales, personnel. matters. Eo
“Well we don’t talk to the Daily Herald

so we didn’t do it,” said Down... He said be

information but. it-appeared. thé integrity’
and oaths of office: didn’t mean much’ on;
the council. -
Giesbrécht, however, began ‘reading
- from “a list of. more. than’: dozen. -
accusations leveled-at him by Down over ..
- the past few- months; saying he. can, now
add a few: more to the list: ne
Council, - “meanwhile, ., ig “Tooking’ at:
iniproyements; to. Kenney Street between
“. Keith Avenue and Highway 16 West. °
' ‘Ultimate plans call for-the closure ‘of the
’ pailway crossing on Kenney. because! Pohle
Mill wants. to combine-its’ Yards on both:
sides’ of. the street. Presently machines.
_. , ross Kenney: from: one yard to, another. °
| Before Kenney is" -eloséd, however, :-
~~ council would like to improve. Frank: Street:
from Keith to Highway 16 so that Skeend.
Mill logging trucks will not have tose the.
| Owerpass. Alderman Bob Cooper BBYE | that |
this detour imay mean getting that section -
' of Frank Street. paved by the department :
of highways, since- it” will

_ Galbraith. ;

= he said.:

Po overpass may be constructed sometime in™
> the hiext' four or five: years. to provide west’.
end traffic with another access ACTOSS the’
tracks. . _
_ Another suggestion is an! ‘ indusirial
coh closure of Kenney f from.7.a.in: (6.7 pm. as
Ms Bechemporg: y..;mensures\preceding i
coristriction of thé Braun Street, overpass.
- This would’ minimize ° the. Safety, and
éperation problems: at. Pohle. —

‘Council received an. increase: in grant

revenue of 990,718, which means S changing ae compute.

ins the -o
it third reading and making - the vo
ry. aed ie ct Down moved ‘the ‘

yor added the accusation to his list,
Down opposed: a motion. from the
"recreation ‘ committee calling for a
““gommittee: consisting of a representative
-_ of the ‘Terrace Regional Museum Society,
othe: District of Terrace Planner, and the’ .
‘Superintendent of Parks and Recreation to
prepare a long-term ; site specific plan for .
‘the Heritage Park, giving consideration to
“moving the Heritage ! Park site closer to the
:Beneh: ‘on the. Skeenaview property. -
‘Alderman Gordon Galbraith, Skeenaview
- administrator, left the. room, .

“Alderman Alan Souter and. ‘Down.
4 ‘opposed. a request from C.W. Cobb, senior .
‘building inspector, to attend, at-his own
“expenses, . a conference. of the Building
‘-: Inspectors’ Association: of B. C. However,  &
-,the request : Was passed by aldermen, Bob
didn't blame: ihe: reporter for.using: the’. -.Cooper,: ‘Marguarite Clarkson and Gordon .

“Council ‘will ‘take ° another iook. ‘at the
whole : problem. of . metering. water.
-vdistribotion and frontage tax. Down says.
the notices people have been receiving in
the mail on meter. rates need to he. -
” feausaied into tingliah agent cakagair ;
No one ‘understands; the fegaliatic Jargon, "

. ‘Employment’ counsellor and. ‘refugee "

_ liaison, ‘Betty Barton's request ‘that:
_ Fefugeea be allowed to. buy bicycles
‘without’ ‘making bids . was ‘approved, :
RCMP hold lost: bicycles for. three months- *
. ‘béfore: dhey” are. auctioned. But after

aan auctions. there are, still bikes left over and
these are: the. ones-, eouneil says the

_. Refugees, can have;

With warm weather vaiready here thirsty
"residents can’. ‘Took - ‘forward “to — the-
. Kinsmen’s Beer Gardens again this year. .
‘. Hld-in’ conjunction. with- Riverobat. Days
* the club, got its special occasions. licence

pm council for the two-day event J July 3
wien the weather should. be very hat.

motion: for an. investigation. into. why,
whe, where, how and who authorized the
a ‘business : ‘license forms to be bat ‘on the |

ac toibs. to Michorl

ht held up the< agreement and 7

bee

Barrett has new food for thought in Terrace

- West. Fraser’ s Johnson refutes Frank Howard .

Herald Staff Writer
: TERRACE— The new owner of the Skeena lumber. mill
seemed to have two purposes during his Friday press
conference. One, was to explain further when the mill will
_ pen and how! The other was'-to ‘refute. a. supposed
_ Statement made by incumbent NDP MLA ‘candidate Frank

Howard in which Howard took credit for the mill opening.

“I don't want to get political in this thing,’ Solinson said,
| “there Was article in one of the papéra where Howard took
all of the credit for putting this thing together.” We

committee chaired by B

Timber and ourselves.” "

- Chester Johnson, president of West Fraser
(left) and H.$. Doman of Doman Industries,
were in Terrace to Friday to arinounce the $3.1
mititon reconstruction of the nawly purchased
Skeana Milt. was. In the engiieering stage.

: “] want to make’ it very clear that there are two areas, -
one’ was ‘the’ ministér of forests and the: other was the’
Bill McRae...they were the ones
| responsible for concluding this transaction,” along wi with BC =

Howard, T'vé never iet...1 don't know the man,” Johnson
said, : “he had absolutely ‘nothing to do with this
transaction.” He also included the mayor as is being helpful
in the deal, me :

’

Stu Krause, who had | organized, the press conference,,
indicated that Johnson was.referring.to an article in the’.
_ Daily Herald on April 11 in which Howard stated he, other

NDP MLAs, Mayors Giesbrecht and Mayor Peter Lester of
Prince Rupert -with .union representatives. talked to BC

the same article. Howard . said -he “alone and ‘single-
handedly” proposed” preductivity’ committees - for. “BC

Thal money. will pay for a whole log chipper,
twin band mill, canter and hog system.’
Additional modifications to the planner mill
ra ton will come later at a a further cost of $a"
millilon, oF

wt cr oa

Timber and BCRIC officlals wherein ihe NDP caucus’
offered to work in any way that was needed to open the mill,
_ That offer was never answered, according to the MLA. In

‘Timber; can idea which was adopted; and got BC Timber.

president John Mentgomery tocome to Terrace last year to
Start a: .community consuliation process, .

Howard, in response to Johnson's remarks, . “BayB2. province’ 's books is needed before he will know what funds ar

“That's quite correct when he says he has never-met me,
T'ye never met him.” “But somebody hag given him some
wronginformation or ‘he has picked up some ® wrong

information, because at no time did I even hint at claiming —

any. credit to the sale of the Skeena mill to West Fraser. "

~ Skeena plans —

Herald Staff Writer =). *.

‘TERRACE~ Chester Johnson was,in Terrace Friday to

review. again his newly acquired Skeena mill;.-

Hesays its opening will restore 325 jobs to Terrace! ‘200 in
the mill itself and 125 loggers. Skeena mill ip expected to
open on July 1.

The earliest the logging operation. could begiti is June 1,

' the latest June 15, Johnson says. ‘While lots of rain ‘and cold
weather could extend the period, he noted that the forestry .

issued fire warnings should have no effect on tha start-up.

The West Fraser president said the logging would not be
merely to clean up previous cut trees as had been rumored, .-
- but to actually cut down standing timber. As well, the mill

will be cutting the 52,000 cunits it hasinitsinventory.  _
The newly refurnished mill is to be a sawmill and. a
chipping operation. The chipper is needed, according to
Johnson, just to take off the rot factor in’ its TFL. He hotes
theratio af good wood tobad is about 50-50, se Ste

“Qur purpose is to cut lumber, not to chip oes, "he Bays,

“but the rotten wood you. have to get out of the. ‘mill as
quickly as possible,”

In order to open the mill that has been closed singe July,
1982 a major reconstruction project. is now.in~ the -
engineering stage that will cost close to. §3.1 million. ‘That’ -

money will be used to install a whole log chipper, twin band

mill, canter and hog system. Later another 8. million will -

See ‘Howard’ page 3 -

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Classifieds pages 687
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. a TV debate. - Oe 7 ; ar

-' Kemano II project. will: be subjected to “a full public i

By KEIM ALFORD
Herald Staff Writer

TERRACE— NDP leader Dave Barrett found anew.
election issue in Terrace - the F Food for. Thought ‘Soup rs
Kitchen. o a ae

A quick visit there was alast minute addition tohis travel: Lt
schedule; after his press: -coriference;; after his lumich' with.” .

- the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce and hours before ‘hin ook
public"meeting, arn:

Barrett, incumbent NDP MLA candidate Frank Howard, oot
and MP Jim Fulton arrived at the kitchen a. half-hour’ ,
behind schedule. ‘They were dutifully followed by. geore of
press people with their lights; cameras and mi Tophones.

The invasion turned the soup | kitchen into abit of a cheap
carnival atmosphere, Some of the kitchen's. organizers. oo
objected toso much presa; they would rather have. had. the:
candidates quietly visit it on their own, : While. some
members of the traveling press corps. made’ rude femarks: a
about those eating there,:and sought out. every conceivable © a,
angle for their “‘color- shots,” Barrett-was posing with =.
children and toesing their hair, But, - unlike some of the ;
press corps, he stopped to listen to those who work: there,

Hours later, at Caledonia gym, ina speech some of those
journalists who traveling with him sald was his best; be told
a crowd of over 1,000: of the party: faithful, “what? wee,
witnessed this afternoon was the devastation of ‘the dignity oe
and self-respect: -of the citizens of this: province cee vat
Barrett said the forerunner of the NDP, the cer, was? Oe
founded 50 years ago to end soup kitchens and here Ahey. ood
were back again. : ny
He charged the Socreds with ‘sacrificing: ‘the 0 people. fae ‘
who go there for their daily scup in the name of cutbacks . ey
and fighting inflation, and indicated Bill Benhett’s shame a
over the issue was one of the reasons herefused toengage In - = 3

 Throtigh his speech, using his’ old 1 pulpit pouriding ; yt
revivalist style, he returtied again. and again to thisthenmie, = =.”
“Any, government that justifies the existence of the soup . ~
" Kitehen, has no. justification tasty in power, Barrett said, 1 :

WW other idisuies, 5 the or nieuss eshern é i ae
' deliberatly withholding: money from héalth and Sducation” - i

‘only to produce needed funds at election time.

Barrett pledged to -use the. money ‘from the - BC. toe
Petroleum Corporation to fund jobs at the munteipal level 4 I
to the tune of $500 million. oo. so 7 a

‘He accused the press: of bias.. ‘Noting the mortey the
Socreds are spending daily on welfare he told journalists, —
“you'd have scathing editorials if the NDP was in power, ;
' why don’t you say it about the Socreds?” -
_ A’Royal Commission to look into.“every single account,

including that’ gas. bag: in downtown Vancouver” was.

promised. Reporters have been pressing Barrett to say

where he: will get the funding for some of his campaign.

promises; he continues to reply the Petroleum ‘Corporation «=
* “will cover much of it, while, a precise. examination of the . ..

the Socreds have left him to operate with, i

If the NDP get into power an May 5, the: lskut Stikine
project of B.C, Hydro is dead. “The watershed will not be
touched," he told his listeners who once again burst into.
thunderous applause as they had been doing all night. The

hearing" and environmentai concerns will be addressed by-
‘an NDP “government before ‘they wil’ decide on - its.
continuation, = 2 .
Stopping short of oftering Howard a cabinet seat, Barrett 7 .
_ did say, “one of the people clogest.to me in that new 4
_ government will be Frank Howard.”-
During Howard's presentation, the MLA accused the
Socreds of spreading: rumota that he doesn’t live in this
- riding. “I do,” he sald, "which is more than I can say of |
Grace McCarthy.” He wants to see the holsprings backin
the condition they were when Ray Skoglund owned them. ‘
While saying he didn’t have anything. to do with the salecf:
the Skeena mill, Howard said, “the NDP objective ig to do
what West Fraser is going to do.” -
“The theme in this election is jobs, id Howard said, “bot:
the Socreds only know the last two letters of that word," -
During his morning press conference, Barrett reissued a a
statement saying his government is committed to restoring
both the Renter’s Tax Credits and B.C Personal Tax. _ .
Credits, For a couple on old age pensionf that would provide -
an additional $416.70 per year in spending money according
to Barrett’s figures. _
‘Six months ago the Bocreds announced. their intention of
cancelling the two programs -and requested the federal
government to removet the forms from B. Cc income tax
packages. | ce
However, since the: Socreds talled to pass legislation, tf
- remove. the credits, .oneis, atill legally entitled to. claim |...
them. If one has already fileda tax return without claiming
the twoecredits, they deduction can be added any timeinthe =
next four years andthe federal government is legally
obligated to accept them, says Barrett,

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