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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, July 10, 1978

Canadian Fed. Employee
Climbs India’s Highest

CANMORE, Alta. (CP) —
A snow and avalanche
researcher employed by the
federal environment
ministry is one of six
members of an expedition
which recently climbed
India's highest peak, his wife
said Saturday.

PeternMcClung, 35, sent a
telegram from India on
Thureday to his wife Evelyn
saying he and five of the
team's 10 members had
reached the top of 7,6%-
metre Nanda Devi on June

21.

The climb was marred by
a porters’ strike and the
death of the expedition’s
India liaison officer in a fall
from the 5,400-metre level,
the telegram said.

The team left New Delhi in
mid-May, travelling as far
as possible by bus, then had
4 10-day hike overland to the
foot of the mountain.

In an earlier letter, Me-
Clung said the team had left
camp at the foot of the
mountain May 31 and had
encountered good weather.

“Lifeis very simple here,”
he wrote, ‘just climb, sleep
and eat.”

RAIN THREAT

He sald the team climbed
seven or eight hours a day
and slept about 11 heurs
daily. They hoped to return
down the mountain before
the monsoon rain season
began in the region about the
end of June.

The other climbers who
reached the summit are

from Washington State;
David Handley and William
Fryberger, both of Seattle,
Steve Casebolt and Glenn
Brindelro, both of Renton
and Bruce Byers of Kent. n

Other team members were
David Seman and Jan Balut,
both of Bellevue, Wash.,
Gerald Casebolt of
Roseburg, Ore., and Michael
Clark of Redmond, Wash.

The McClungs are landed
immigrants originally from
Seattle. Mrs. McClung said
her husband has been
climbing for about eight
years and spent the last
three years studying climb-
ing techniques in Norway.
CLIMBED ELSEWHERE

“He's climbed in South
America, in Europe, the
Alps, all over,” she said,
“He's pretty experienced.”

The telegram said the
team encountered problems
acclimatizing to the dry,
thin, cold air but its moat
persistent worry was the
threat by the porters, who
carried equipment part way
up the mountain, then went
on strike.

Six of the climbers, not in-
cluding McClung, were
reported remaining in the
area fornaé government

inquiry into the death of the ;

liaison officer.

Last spring a US.
magazine reported an In-
dian-American team lost a

-nuclearpowered spying

device at Nanda Devi 13
years ago.

India later confirmed the
incident.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE ?
Record Cherry Spitter

,.EAU CLAIRE, Mich. (AP)

- One enormous Pioonoooey!

That's all it took for William Mobley to set a world record
Saturday and win the fifth annual cherry pit spitting

championship.

.- With a spit of 49 feet, 2 Inches, the 30-year-old from Fin-
dlay, Ohio, dethroned Richard Hahn of Benton Harhor, Mich.
, -Hahn spit a plt 47 feet, 744 inches last year.

..The compeiltion attracted a dozen pit-spitters to the
Treemendus Fruit Farm in this southwestern lower

Michigan community,

“=P piber Called Police ~

. -LONIA, Mich, (AP) - Two service station attendants didn’t
have to call the police when a man tried to hold them up in
this mid-Michlgan community. The man did that himself.
. Attendants Joel Basinger and Tom Jandenor were getting
ready for their 11 p.m, shift change when a man walked into
the station and ordered them to hand over all the money in
the cash register, they told police.

. When Basinger refused, the man stuck a finger into his
pocket and repeated his demand. Basinger still refused.
.«“Give me the money or I'll call the cops,” the man

demanded.
. They didn’t, He did.

. Police arrested‘ a 20-year-old Ionia man on a charge of

disorderly conduct.

Couldn't Bank On It

..LOS ANGELES (AP) - After folling the robber, bank
employees broke into tears, Sodid the customers.

. Employees thought they had outamarted the robber when
they put & tear gas cannister and dye- which was timed to
explode In afew minutes - into the money bag they gave him.
..But the robber must have been euspicious becawe he
dropped the package outside the Crocker National Bank
branch in suburban Sherman Oaks. Then passer-by picked
up the package and carried It back into the bank where it

exploded.

. Firemen and paramedics spent 30 minutes washing out the
eyes of bank employees and customers.

Aeros seek NHLentry

HOUSTON (AP) _
Kenneth Schnitzer, owner of
Houston Aeros of the World
Hockey Association, said
Thursday he js still seeking
entry into the National
Hockey League either as an
expansion team for by ac-
quiring an existing NHL:
franchise.

Schnitzer sald one option
would be for the NHL
Colorado Rockies to move to
Houston although the
Rockies are reported ex-
ploring other possibilities.

The Aeros owner told a
news conference he started
workiig om a proposal
Monday to make Housten an

For some time now, the
Legislature has been
debating, ministry by
ministry, each of the $4.2
billion dollars that will be
spent by the government in
the next fiscal year, This
last week, however, B. C,
Hydro had its borrowing
authority increased from
$4.15 billion in half a day's
debate. Despite the NDP
opposition to the increase,
the Social Credit party
dutifully bowed to the wishes
of Hydro Chairman Robert
Bonner and supported the
increase. What Hydro wants
from the present gavern-

expansion franchise in the
NHL,

“As soon as we discovered
Colorado had other potential
buyers we started working
on our expansion proposal,’’
Schnitzer said.

He said the Acros offered
the NHL §2.5 millon, plus in-
demnifieation to the NHL for
any litigation arising from
the move.

“The NHL board of
governors has not acted on
that proposal, so we still
have slight hopes of getting
in,’ Schnitzter said.

Expansion talks involving
four other WHA teams fell
through Wednesday at a
meeting in Detroit.

The Japanese tall ships Nippon Maru and Kalwo ‘faru attracted thousands of visiiors
during their recent visit to British Columbia. The fcur-masted barks are the first
several tall ships to visit the province for the British Columbia Captain Cook Bi

UME Ae

Centennial commemoration, The United States Coast Guard training ship Eagle will
visit Victoria and Vancouver starting July 20 and the barque Sagres Il from Portugal
is In October.

Environmentalists Blamed

B.C. Hydro Says

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) —
British Columbia Hydro may
not be able to supply power
for future industrial growth

on Vancouver Island, says .

Hydro's vice-president .for
corporate affairs,

Charles Nash told a ser-
vice club meeting Friday

that much of the blame lies -

with those protesting
Hydro's expansion plans. -:

Nash sald it was posilble
power supply by gener:
ation on the island and
submarine cable from the
mainland would be in-
sufficient to handle the
electrical needs forecast for
the island between 1980 and
1984.

“It is unlikely that any of
you, individually, will go
short of electricity, he told
the audience, but added that
“in a period of high unem-
ployment, the creation of
jobs is jepordized by
unanticipated demand.

“In the forecasts for Van-
couver ‘Island “Hydro has
anticipated your residential

- and ‘edmmeréeal needs but

there will be no assurance
that new large industrial
loads will be supplied by the
time they are ready to go on
ine.” +

TO BE UPPED
Nash said that the elec-
trical load on the island is

Statistics Canada Says

Food & Shelter Take Bigger CUut From Low Incomers

OTTAWA (CP) — Low-in-
come families spend a
considerably larger share of
their total expenditures on
food and shelter than other
consumers, an experimental
ftudy done for Ftatistics
Canada says.

A test consumer-price
index for low-income
families shows that the poor

‘ spend about 31.6 per cent of

their money on food com-
pared with 26.3 per cent for
average-income consumers.

The poor also used 33.7 per

Nazi Group Holds

CHICAGO (AP) — Under
heavy police protection, Nazi
leader Frank Collin and
about 20 of his supporters
held a white power rally
Sunday before about 1,000
onlockerf in an urban part.

Far fewer heard Collin’s
20-minute speech attacking
Jews and blacks because
police held the crowd away
from the loudspeakers.

Some counter-
demonstrators shouted,
“Death to the Nazis, death to
the Nazis,” but there were no
major violent incidents.

cent of their incomes on
housing compared with 32.5
per cent by average-income
earners, They spent less
proportionately, however, on
clothing, transportation,
health and personal care,
recreation, tobacco and
alcohol,

The experimental index
was based on goods and
services purchased at 1969
and 1973 prices. The low-
income index included
families earning iess than
$6,000 a year in 1969 in cities

Collin, leader of the
Nationalist Socialist party of
America, spoke from the top
ofna white van surrounded
by hundreds of police in
Marquette Park in a
sometime racially troubled
neighborhood of tree-lined
streets,‘

Police said there were a
few arrests but could not

» give an exact figure.

POLICE ESCORT GROUP
Collin and his group
arrived under heavy police
escort at about 2 p.m.
One in Collin’s group spoke

currently about 1,100
megawatts. The total
capacity to .opply this load
is about 1,400 megawatts, he
said, adding it will soon be
increased to about 1,600
megawatts by upgrading the
present high-valtage direct
current cables from the

mpjiland. ee,

‘We éxpect ‘the “total
capacity to be ‘exceeded by’
the forecast load plus a
normal reserve by 1961,”
said Nash,

“Thig Includes none of the
170 megawatts of large in-
dustrial loads recentiy
requested. Just at the time
those would have come an
line we seemingly will be

with 30,000 or more. popu-
lation. ~

Poor people's groups more
than those who are hetter off
because the poor spend a
Higher proportion of ear-
nings on food.

Food costs, the prime
cause of inflation, have risen
by almost 25 per cent within
the last 186 months.

Gordon Walford, a federal
statistician, sayg in an ar-
ticle on the experimental
index publishednin the April
issue of the Canadian

short of capacity to supply
them id

Nash said Hydro had
anticipated the situation and
aix years ago considered a
nuclear genering station on
the island as a ‘‘gaod,
practical source of elec-
tricity—but it soon became
recognized as being
politically . unacceptable."

A 500 kilovolt tran- -
smission jine irom the
mainland is considered the
best alternative, he said, but
it could not be in service
before 1983 because of the
need to develop the
technology to permit reliable
submurine operation of the
circuit.

Statistical Review, food
price increases have had a
greater impact on the poor
than on average income
Carvers,

However, the impact of
food prices is offset by
slower-thanaverage jn-
creases In the housing
component of the index.

While the poor spend more
of their money on housing
than average income ear.:
ners, rented dwelling! play a
much more significant role
for them than for those who
are better off,

Nash.

Alternative energy
sources are not practical
from either environmental
or economic points of view,
he said;

“The nature of citizen
participation bas illustrated
& phenomenon of our times—
a desire to protest before the
facta are known,” added

+ TheHydro
the 500 kilovelt overhead
transmission and submarine
cable proposal to supply
Vancouver Island was made
known 18 months ago, but a
“storm of protest’ has
erupted recently over both
the need for the project and
possible routes.

Because home-ownership
costs have been Increasing
faster than coslé fornrented
accommodation, the housing
factor has tended to have a
balancing effect on food
costs by affecting the
average earner more than
the poor.

The index shows that 12.1
per cent of money spent by
low-income families went
toward rented ac:
commodation, while 6.3 per
cent was spent by them on
home-ownership payments.
Among =  average-income

‘Vancouver Is. May Go Short of Power

“And now we hear a call
for a moratorium on the
project—a call to stop while
the urgency increases,”

He said recent protests
have been bused largely ona
misconception thas there is
no néed for more electricity.

Nash also it ut critics of .

af

My BOGE Hydro's use ct: herbicides,
spokesman gaid:“

He said ¥,.4-) has, been, used
ir the island tose veers
4 tino recurded effect other
tnan vegetation control, for
which itis iesdat,

“About seven million
pounds are used annually on
the praries innvereal crop
production and we're still
eating bread,’ said Nash.

families, these figures were
reversed.

The May consummer-price
index, shows that costa of
home ownership have risen
by 93.7 per cent since 1971
while rental costs have gone
up by only 33,1 per cent.n

Waltord concludes that the
low-income index is in-
teresting and useful because
of its overall results but adds
that it should not be con-
sidered a defcnitive measure
of costa for low-income
familles.

Rally Protected By Choe Chicago Cops

” first. Then Collin spoke of a

“1978 white revolution" in
which “the blacks and their
collaborators (the Jews) ...
would be wiped off the face
of the earth.”

Immediately after Collin
finished speaking, the Nazis
climbed back into their two
vehicles: and left the park
protected by a police escort
on horseback.

A scheduled = goose-
stepping demonstration
never materialized.

Abokt two kilometres from ,

the park, hundreds of other

rictequipped police kept a
close watch on another large
group of demonstrators who
unsuccessfully tried to make
their way toward the park.
PROTESTERS STOPPED

Atone point, more than 100
helmeted pblicemen, their
nightsticks in hand, stret-
ched across a _ street,
blockingnthe progress of
several groups who had
planned to confront the
Nazis. n

Shouts of ''Facist Nazis go
to hell,” were heard from
other demonstrators at the

police blockade.
Tme blockade was set up
about one kilometre from the
Nazis’ rally site. Collin and
his group battled in the
courts for more than.a year
to win the right to hold the
rally in Marquette Park, an
area that Collin calls his
backyard.
Among groups which sald
they ‘would protest against
the Nazi rally were the
melitant Jewish Defence
League and the National
Association for the Ad-
Yancement of

M.L.A. Thinks We Should Be Suspicious of B.C. Hydro

ment, Hydro gets.

Why shouldn’t we be
suspicious of Hydro?
Millions and millions of
dollars, for example, are
going to be spent of the
development of Hat Creek
coal, It has been leaked out
that Hydro has had a study
done on the effects of such a
development. The area in
which the thermal plant will
be located is already
“ecologically stressed'‘.
Tazis, the soil as well as the
water of the area contains
large amounts of naturally
eccuring arsenic and
fluorite. Notwithstanding

that face, the ranchers and
the Bonaparte lindians who
inhabit the area have en-
joyed, up untll now, the
benefits that the land and
vegetation have afforded,
This however, may not
always be the case.

If Hydro proceeds with its
plans for electrical
generation, the stacks from
the thermal plant will be
emitting highly toxic trace
elements. The addition of
trace elements to an alkaline
area do not have a gradual
millenium-type effect
rather their addition even in
relatively small amounts

changean area dramatically
andrapidly. These chemical
particles would endanger the
fish in the nearby Thompson
and Fepser river the
migrating wildlife in the
area, othe domesticated
animalsy the ranchland, as
well as the lives of the people

the = area.
in the report that Hydro has
successtully withheld from
the public, the authors flat!
stale the Hat Cree
development would be ‘‘of
concern to the integrity of
the environment". Will
Hydro be responsive to these
dnvironmental, human and

productive resources of the
province?

Another example should
answer that question. The
Site C on the Peace River Is
algo about to receive millions
of dollars from the bill to
increase Hydro borrowing
authority. The Site C dam
could potentially flood vast
acreages of some of the best
farmland in the province.
Hydro’s response? Over the

st two years B. C. Hydro

s been buying up

land that could be flooded
and leasing it back to the
farmers that previously
owned it. That way if there

were any landowners
protesting in the future about
the loss of farmiand, the
protestor would be Hydro.
Needless to say, there won't
be much protest.

The worst scandal of all of
those surrounding Hydro is
that alternative ways of
producing energy exist.

_ Wind andsolar power as well

as the more efficient use of
such waste products such as
hog fuel are rapidly being
developed in the United
States. The construction of
these alternatives invelves a
greater ration of jobs to
investment than does the

spectacularly expensive
projects that Hydro is un-
dertaking. What is par-
ticularly faddening is that as
much as Hydro is wedded to

People.

However, city officials and
other white und black groups
urged citizens tu stay away
from the ralli wi hupes of
averting vielercn = |

A last attempt to step the
Sunday ‘aarch tailed when
the U.S. Supreine t!surt on
Friday retuse-! to held up the
Marquet:." ark rally while
the Chicago Park District
petitioned a federal appeals
court to remstale a
requirement that the Nazis
post a $60,000 insurance ©

Colored bond

its man:moth engineering
projects, ve the people of the

province are wedded to the
debt Hydro creates.

EVERYONE
NEEDS TREES

TREES...A GROWING CONCERN

ha CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION

AND YOUR PROVINCIAL FORESTRY ASSOCIATION