len We wish aw youa Merry Christmas Volume 72 No, 247 f =" TERRACE-KITIMAT dai 20c erald ' Friday, December 22, 1978 RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. we buy COPPER BRASS ALL METALS & BATTERIES MON. - SAT. OPEN TIL 5 p.m. Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5639 \ ) __ Churches band together ha oe t FOR ATTACK 1 Seen ‘above are Lt. and musically condusive setting ‘Cheer fund and the empty Mes. Jack Strickland of the around one of the Christmas ‘ stocking gift program (with Salvation Armoy with: Luke - Cheer bubbles: many needy gifts): Please Gouthier--and *Reve-eDavid---The-United Church has not five generously. ‘'United we Martyn, Church, _ providing of the United only augmented the Army's* ‘stand.” a band but also the Christmas .- Anti VICTORIA tur). | — Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy said Thursday her ministry is - preparing a new program designed to get 18,000 people off welfare, ; The minister told a’ news conference the program will be aimed at providing jobs, Venus surface © MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft landed. on Venus Thursday and. radioed back nearly two. - hours of information on the sizzling atmosphere of the earth's nearest neighbor be- fore going silent in the in- tense heat, the Soviet news, agency Tass reported. © — . The. Venus.’ 12: probe, launchéd Sept. “12, was’ the.~ ninth Soviet craft to land-on Venus' rocky, cloud: shrouded surface, and: proved the most successful . Soviet mission to date. The Soviet success came 12 days after five U.S, scientific capsules plunged into the Venusian at- mosphere: - One U.S. probe was designed to burn up in the atmosphere, while four others were to burn up after they struck the surface. Bul in an unexpected de- velopment, one probe managed to survive and Paper takes holiday Terrace-Kitimat Daily Herald will net be published and the offices will be closed on Monday, Dec. 25 and on Tuesday, Dec, 26. Publication will resume on Wednesday, Dec. 27. Fhe management and staff wish all their customers and their readers a very Merry Christmas. - 30 years of age. BY B.C. GOV'T -welfare program planned education and skills to single employable recipients under Mrs. McCarthy aisa disclosed that the provincial government will pay $8 a child .a month during January, February and March, 1979, to offset a reduction ‘in’ the federal f transmit measurements ‘on ‘the planet's atmosphere for 67 minutes, 47 seconds, In October 1975, two Soviet probes landed on Venus and . sent back the first television pictures of the Venus land, scape. There . were days, 10 -On Tuesday, 238,400,000. kilometres in 98. atmosphere, “a descent vehicle separated from the main Venus 12 station and slowly dropped down to the planet. During the descenl, the . probe carried out a chemical analysis, examining Lhe composition of the al- mosphereand clouds, as well as solar radiation and elec- trical charges dispersed in the atmosphere, Tass said. Once it landed, the probe continued to transmit scientific measurements for 110 minutes, the news agency reported. Venus 12 landed on schedule, Another Soviet probe, Venus Ll, which was launched five days before Venus 12, is due in the vicinity of the planet Christmas Day. The Soviet’s first two attempts to reach the planet failed, U.S. and Soviet scientists said they plan to swap in- formation about their Venus flights. U.S. scientisis say the findings of the probes earlier this month are leading them to reconsider their theories on how Che solar system was formed family allowance payments. She said this special -_payment, affecting 51,000 children on welfare, will cost the province $1.2 million. The minister said new in- ‘creased welfare rates will hot he’. disclosed until February because her problems in developing the rale structure. The new rates will not take effect until April 1. . She said the proposed job- crealion program will be un- veiled in February for im- plementation April 1 when the government begins its new liseal year, . no |. The: locomotive, ---pRotographs reported from” the ‘Venus 12: mission, which “edverdd” the“ journey’ of : ' two ‘days ‘betore. entering - the thick ministry had run into a’ few Russians probe..|.:.28 CHILDREN.- locomotive making test runs collided in a morning ‘fog Thursday, killing 28 children and injuring at least 36 others, railway ‘Officials said.-- ariver ‘1 avid engineer were listéd . among .the injured by a ‘Salamanca hospital, . Transport Minister ’ Salvador . Sanchez-Teran, .a member of parliament from Salamanca, prepared to visit the scene of the accident in western Spain to push the full-scale investigation ordered by the govern- . said, - approaching the crossing. . the’ driver ment, aides in Madrid Railway.-and hospital sources said the bus, - carrying about ° st students, callided seconds alter the children shouled - warnings to. their driver that a diesel engine was One: of the surviving students told reporters replied: ‘““Don't worry, we have time to go through,’ Railway sources said thal in addition to the fog, visibility from the road was obscured by a small hill and a railway hut. Mrs. MeCarthy was unable to provide any details but hinted the program would be partially subsidized by the taxpayers and would invalye the creation of new jobs with the assistance of business and industry. She said there would be “a greater cost ifwe don't make moves in thal area because they ithe singles) stay on welfare ali their lives.” “Those people tall into a welfare role, ef you like, and “we, have by experience an historic welfare way of life through more than two -feneralions now.’ * ‘The minister said the tax- payers of B.C. have ‘demonstrated a desire to help people in need, and “when they look at the un- der-30 graup, they are saying ‘that’ people "whe are’ ablt- bodied should have an op- portunity to work, and we're going to (ry to give them an effort in this coming year.” - “What I'd like lo see our fellow citizens do is to help those youngsters get u step up the ladder so that their. ‘dreams for their children ‘ean be {Wifilled just as much. as our dreams for our children an.” “ Organization Guerrillas retaliate TEL AVIV (AP) — Palestinian guerrilias taking revenge for an Israeli air strike arched a barrage of rockets into the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona from across the Lebanon border , Thursday and authorities said an army reservist was killed and seven other persons were wounded, Within a half-hour of the bombardment, Israeli artil- lerymen returned the fire, trying to zero in on guerrilla positions in southern Lebanon, Repofters in Lebanon said a daylong, cross-border artillery ‘due? followed and did not ease up until just before darkness. The daybreak barrage was the first major rocket attack on northern Israel in nine months. It was the latest roundin a cycle of strike and - counterstrike, the bloodiest blow being Wednesday's Israeli air raid on three Palestinian, camps in southern Lebanon, which ' guerrilla sources said killed or wounded as many a8 27 persons. “ Israeli officials said the air raid was a reprisal for steppedup terror bombings in Israel, The U.S. state department deplored the escalation of violence by both sides, a criticism re- - jected as “unjust” by Prime Minister Menachem Begin. “What should we do?” Begin asked at a foreign journalists’ luncheon Thursday in’ Jerusalem, “Should we acquiesce in the killing of our people and leave in complete peace and even in comfort those responsible for the atrocities? ... What we do is an absolute necessity,” The Palestine Liberation in Beirut claimed responsibility for the rockel attack and said it was a response to Wed- nesday’s air raids. The PLO claimed that the sites attacked by the Israeli jets were two refugee camps and a civilian village. But an Thursday reporters visiting the area, around the southern Lebanese ports of Sidon and Tyre, said the planes struck guerrilla tar- gets almost exclusively. While engaged in a new -eyefor-an-eye battle with the Palestinians, Israeli officials were preparing for weekend talks aimed at ending the deadlock in _ peace negotiations with Egypt. U.S, State Secretary Cyrus Vance, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil are to meet in Brussels in the first face- to-face talks between Egypt and Israel in a month. WASHINGTON (CP) -- U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance is off on yet another Middle East peace rescue mission. In sume respects it may turn out to be his most difficult yet, _ Atler meeting = in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a new stint of arms limitations talks, Vance will travel to Brussels. to meet Egyptian and Israeli officials. The Egyptian-Israeli push loward peace has not only come toa halt but appears to be losing ground. Administration officials emphasize thal-Vance is compromise. - proposals with him when he meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan snd = Egyplian Prime Minister Mustapha Kha- it. Instead, he will try to tind a way to revive the direct Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations— a depressingly small goal when compared with the not taking any new U.S. .. VANCE TO TRY AGAIN hopes felt just a few months ago that peace was within reach. The talks broke down a week ago when Vance returned to the U.S. after failing to get Israel to accept proposed Egyp- tian amendments to the draft peace Lreaty. Asa result, the Dec, 17 deadline for completion of negotiations passed without a treaty. It was exactly three months after the end of the historic Camp David summil meeting that pro- duced Middle East peace accords that were to serve as a basis for set- tlement. Officials stress that missing the deadline ' certainly does not mean an end to the peace proc- ess. However, the date was important psychologically for all three countries and its passing has added new hitterness to an at- mosphere that already was beginning to sour, Israel compounded the bad feelings with a raid last Wednesday. Hijac in the MARION, IIL (AP) — A 17- year-old girl, whose mother was killed last May aiter she seized a helicopter and tried to free a convicted hijacker, ¢ammandeered a jetliner Thursday in another effart to free the same man. The girl, reported to have three sticks of dynamite strapped to her body or in her bag when she took over a Trans World Airways DC-9 with 83 passengers and four crew members on board, was idenlified as Robin Oswald. TWA flight 541, en roule from Louisville. Ky.. to Kansas City, Mo, was diverted to Marion, site of a U.S. federal penitentiary, shortly after lakeoff from St. Louis, an intermediate stap. The plane was parked on @ runway at Williamson County Airport for several hours as FBI agents runs family Negotiated with the girl through the control tower. The hijacker would riot allow an agent to board the plane, but after a few hours five persons, including three elderly passengers and a mother with her infant, were released. The FBI said it was trying lo establish a special telephone link between the girl on the jet and the con- viet, Garrett Brock Trapnell. Trapnell, 40, a former mental patient, has been on trial for more than a week al Benton, 35 kilometres to the north, on charges filed after the May 24 hijack-jailbreak attempt in which the girl's mother, Barbara Oswald, was killed. Mrs, Oswaid, who was shot by the pilot of the helicopter she commandeered at gunpoint, had been trying to free Trapnell and two others . . Around our town with Brian Gregg out and no one knows how this will affect the only MERRY CHRISTMAS! | would hate to see an issue as important as As thoughts turn towards peace on Spaceship Earth, | can't help wondering what the Nerv Year will bring in the Terrace-Kitimat areca as ublic discussion begins on what to do about thy itimat-Lakelse Valley, Will the dialoguc be healthy or will it become overly emotional? Temperatures jncrease as tempers flourish when there is a communications breakdown between those who have been elected to ad ministrate the affairs of the communities and the peo le who have to live with the decisions n.ade y the civic leaders. If | read the meeting in the Terrace arena on Tuesday correctly the local atdermen and Ihcir regional district counterparts are going fo have to learn something about the meaning af public dialogue during the next few months. A community does not decide on its future by either electing or rejecting its civic leaders al election time with no discussion about the shape of things to come in between those times, as the Kithmat council representatives appearcd jo belleve on Tuesday. the future of the Kitimat Valley become reduced fo electioneering. The tacts tend to go nowherc because most candidates are as misinformed about what goes on behind the doors of local government as the public is. Comprehensive design planning is one thin but the public must get behind atfempis by a people involved in the discussions because Ihe more public input there is the less chance {here is of people accusing the environmentalists of stealing the whole show {which is an argument that has becorne something of a cop-out among politicians today). ~ By public input f'm referring to the peapte who live at Lakelse Lake, to the people who live in Thornhill, to the people who drive betwecn Terrace and Kitimat every day to and from work, to the peopte whose children go ta school in the two communities, to the pecple who have a stake in the future of this area and want to un derstand exactly where we should be going. A major problem for everyone at the moment is the changes that are coming into effect in Ihe forest industry. New legislation is stil! coming industry communities like Terrace have. The decisions we make about the future of the valley may short-change the forest industry or it can complement the one industry that has given the people of this area one of their main economic reasons to live here. In my experience, when the public raises questions about imposed development plans from levels of government there are usvally reactions from the so-called establishment that everyone is agains! growth, | Word leaks out that everyone in the given arca is opposed to growth and newsmen descend upon the community from large metropolitan dailies and networks jo report rumours of rumours. It’s sometimes easier to make headlines than to tell the facts, if, by that point, there are any facts left to report. Perhaps this time, as the public does prepare for the debate that is sure to follow in the New Year, some level of calmness can be kepi throughout the whole discussion and we can begin to mave in the right direction tor a change.