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ee ‘Jan. 1, ‘Health..;

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‘from ..: general
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7 plan will cover 80 par cént of
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nounced.today, > , The minster. ‘unveiled the |. Four groups of persons are the Medical Services Plan, . —Childrén 14-and- under
“The program : is primarily < plan in a joint announcement ‘@igible: —- - Inéluding ‘senior, citizens not- covered jn other
Intended: to’ help: chijdren, ‘with: the: College ‘of, Denial . . —Thoge. whose: “Medical “creceiving premium - aa- cajlegories will have 100 per:
a ~ genes citizens Bug. the pobr, { Surgeons.of B.C.) ‘Services Plan ‘premiums are.” sistance; and dependents,”
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the ental. Care 8 Pan “A. perdon, annual y. for. ‘basle”” human ‘Tesoureeg, and oer

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oral. check-up,
sealing and fluoride treat:
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‘By. Gant DOTINGA |
“Herald Staff Writer ;
tes -pbibbite" Are the. latest -
oe wietinia: of ‘dog: maulings in
. ‘Teetace thls pas it week,
fe Sunday. night it ap-
ata te ‘several dogs’
‘into a-tabbit Hutch in ,
@'4700 block of Straume |
and killed 11 of them.
Brian Dorrington, a neigh
was. awakened, ‘in
hy barking’ dogs. and.
lie rabblig. ©...
nf heard: at least, two dag”
barking." .
‘The next. day. he ‘jooked,

— overcthe fence atid Baw. the =

, rabbits streqn over the:yard. |
'. The owner ‘of, the rabbits *
was working night: shift but
._ his wife had Beard the noise.
. However, she, dic
_ the dogs w
“Fabbita..

5 OTTAWA (cP) — Prime
Minister. Trudeau, eyeing ©
both a new enery policy and

oS Bnew" constitution, enters °

tough negotiations this week
-* that must lead inevitably to-
| substantially higher oil and .
-} natural gas prices.

_ ve “Trudeau, in the last term of

hig 12-year reign over the
"Liberal government, sits
“down Thursday with Alberta
‘ Premier Peter Lougheed:
“Whose: province produces 90
-_ percent tof the country’ 3 all

“and ga
aan aoc is ig .the. sharing of.

“‘pillions of dollars among the .

,, central government, the.

Ee. and the petroleum
ndustry - a windfall
~ peaulting trom the inevitable
“ellmb:- ‘In ‘world energy
ees. But
avertheless will be halted
by. Ottawa well: short of
“peevaiting world levels LE it
: keepa the
in gaining ré-election Feb.

» eth. i

‘The domestic 0 price now
is $14.75 Canadiad a barrel,
- Jess than half average world
fates, “A feérierous federal
subsidy cushions the cost for

| apen: ‘Mes. . thre sa. § sie. a ie

7 Dorris

: ven

that climb.

promises ft made |
Leitch, which failed to reach _

is very upset,
about tHe incident. 7.
SS been te

He Hopedthat, by; iiiking .

the public: more: aware of |

these incidents, dog owners -.

will., becomie” more. respon-

- gible,
Another neighbor - ‘sald.

"dog in heaton: wore

- Skeena.- i
Howard tad The Herald this |
“whieh = that the . Eo |

“ ; cancelle

those in Eastern Canada who. ;

have to depend on higher-
‘eoat imported petroleum.

the: Western Canada spoils:
‘without further aggravating .
an. already troubled
federal-provincial
relationship. -

‘The Western energy-
pioducing provinces of
Saskatclewan, ‘Alberta ‘and
British Columbia + have
already formed a. common,
front and are determined to

torpedo Trudeau's ¢herished ..

constitutional reform if they.
“don’t like Ottawa's a enersy

Pro a

Energy Minlater’ Mare
Lalonde said Tuesday ‘the
federal government jas a
proposal ready. for. Thur-
sday’ 8 mecunt Hut he would

gotiations
and his

agreement, t, Alberta rejected

any proposé] which did not
gre the rrovihce the same

nefit proposed by the

> the

The issue is how to divide '

former Progressive Con-"

—othere are a dog ail: over" *
place‘here. .Every week.”
they go through the garbage.
Wes. ath big and little dogs,
‘sometimes two or three of
them | run around together.

*

-.othei people's’ property
Beenie wi ato Pesple’s B
‘see what was happening “or. -th
allel the police bp there is. |
: ite the dog cateher can dp.

: New. “Remo ake “pv acy ‘t's ‘en pag

‘<"Because of | the : “time .
-. Jithit,”” said Howard, “they. |
- the: " miinistry) . decided: to:
y. drop ‘thé’ project.” ‘That.

sxratve government, ha ;
That proposal wou ve
raised oilprices to 85 pércent
of the world level, now about
$39 Canadian a. barrel.

And as if to underscore
‘the difficulty of reaching a .
‘new agreement,
and Saskatchewan Premier:
Alan Blakeney issued a
statement Tuesday saying
Canadian oil prices must
move’ in significant and
. measured steps towards
world levels”.

 Loughéed said there is a
large La betwgen , Ottawa

dogs it’ was: we-¢an’t:
anything,” said Barbara
* Barkley, a~ worker cat: ih ,
‘local animal shelter, |. f°,

ig. they. don't know ‘whoes

“When we're: ‘out: in.
truck we cati pick up d

The: ‘animal: shelter says

- Seemed like reverse logic: Tt
“' should have been’ their, in-
‘eentive, to proceed . mo

‘and Alberta‘ on prising. bui he
still hopes to achieve
agreement and prevent the.
disruption of- a _full-biswn:
federal-provincial ‘conflict. -

The prime minister for
-years has sought.a way to.
make a new constitution the |
basic law of Canada instead
of a law of Britain for
Canada. The British North
America Act of 1967 is the
existing constitution and the
goal is
system for future amend-
ments.

But arguments: have

i *
Objections defeated

‘OTTAWA (CP) — New Democratic Party objections

to ine overnment

decision. on the Alaska Highway

gas pipeline were rejected early this morning
before fore cane MP tialy began’a delayed thtee-

month recess.

The Liberals and Progress

sive Conservatives ganged

up just after midnight to’ defeat 153 to 28 an NDP
motion to condemn approval for early construction of
southern Canadian sections of the pipeline. That done,
MPs endorsed a motion to recess until Oct.15.

. serie rr

work out an agreed -

F ‘vatilly people. phone in.

do because thelr garden has.
been tram '
sald Bar! ue * ;
‘Tf & dog hag ‘been cailght:.
destroying | property. not,
oe fo its: owner ‘he
“disturbing. the- peace, ~ the.
owner. can be fined $6. If a;
. second ‘complaint ‘has’ been '

by dogs,”

istered: the shelter can

e the dog put away.
‘Also. if a .dog’ has.
_ damaged your property, the
owner, can. be - taken ‘to.
j. eburt,”” said” Barkley..i-

"People don’t. always repoct
"Incidents. ‘or if {ney | do. they - -
‘blown.’ ag: the. first blast
tipped a hole-in the lava

menymilyy. says

When, nuttin about:

complaint with the owner we

- keep “any. witnesses «or
. ~-somplaintants confidential, an

Tligher fi fuel f prices sure as taxes”

survival *; the: ‘political and
fifaclal.- power — the
‘say:they need to
‘survive In a spread-out
countty and the powers that
the centre sayg it needs for
the country to survive as one
nation.
The objective is to
rearrange the split of powers

‘among the national and.

provincial governments in
two: ways - by giving the
, regions a stringer. voice in
federal decisions and by
redefining the spending and
taxing powers exercised b

_ each level of government.

As straightforward as
many. of the reform
propos#ls may
especially next door to the
U.S. éonstitution and its 168-
peu Bill of Rights, they

vo failed repeatedly’ to
win. federal-provincial

ment.

e@ contentious issue

firlally a red headed ie
a- resolution following the
federalist victory in the May

20 referendum - on

sovereignty-association in
Quebec,

A away
‘Sastionn after the: moun-

ver’. power x and

seem, |

VANCOUVER,”

(AP): _ After” ‘lulling ob-
‘servers -with: six weeks of
relative serenity, Mount St.
Helens exploded. ina spec- '
tecular sexies- of -eruptions,
hurling
| high. Ash reached Canada’
and air traffic was restricted
in parts of the northwestern
Minited States. .
"Residents of gome ipitles inn’ -
eastern Washington were ©
warned they may. have to-
haul out their ash. masks ~

_ again -following. the. moun: °.
-tain’s display. Tuesday, -
. Which cotild be seen for more

ash:.17 -kilometres ~

than 160: km.

The U.S. ~ Geological

‘Survey’ ‘said a pyroclastic

flow... a. superheated

avatanche. of ‘ash, gas and -
“rock — poured’, down the
orth. slope o af the mountain *

Paonie THE.

tain’s first eruption May. 19,
which had'a force as great as
an atomic bomb, '

There were no. reports of.
injury late Tugsday and the

'.. only evacuation Was carried
~ ‘oditin the town of Cougar as.a°
; ‘precaution, ° Many, of . the

town's | residents ‘had not
returned after ‘the i sana he

- previous eruptions M
-May 25. and June os ¥ ad

same of the 20 to 25 people
who did were not fleeing the

town again, authorities said.

. ‘The eruptiofi came as a
surprise ‘10 scientists and

- federal disaster officials wha

were winding down ac

me Hivitles, °

Seientists had sald thet a
recent. lull: in volcanic .ac-

‘ tivity indicated that pressure:
-. was’ being released rather

than. building within ihe:
volcaho,. ‘That, theory w

dome: -buildjag ‘in the.
voleano’s gaping crater.

“Yesterday, we _did, not.”
expect anything like this to’
happen,” sald geologist Tm

Although the federalist
. forces won, there was wide
acceptance.of the fact that
many Quebec . residents
desired constitutional
change. That prompted a

meeting” between Trudeau

‘and the. 10° provincial
premiers who agreed to have |

their ministers spend the
summer: hammering out
common ground on any of 12°
key areas of change placed
on the agenda.

The crunch comes Sept. 8
12 when Trudeau the
premiers meet in Ottawa to
initial agreements, if any,
reached by their ministers.

The. prime minister,
exasperated by persistent
delay, has threatened to use
overriding ‘existing federal.
powers to speed the reform

process should nb sub-

stantlal

in Septem
But first he must deal with
the Western demands for a
hefty slide of the higher
petroleum revenues, a

ments surface

sacred goal for the ees
who hold ownership ot
natural resources.

Wash. - “Hai

-vallis, .

ee theres i

anything like this.” —
The eruptions’ ‘began at
S:14 pan. PDT (6:14 pun.

EDT}, shortly after a flurry .

of earthquakes. Six quakes.
were picked up: between 6
aim, and 11 um. and by 3

p.m., thiey - had increased in

_. frequency.to about one.every °

- ‘five minutes, scientists said,
A séries: of four er five sky:
Schultz of tadio ‘gtation.

"Email earthquakes: ehded at.
$:13 p.m. One minute‘later
‘came ' a: mushroom-shaped

a eruption. ‘of ‘steam: Sub-

sequent blasts contained asti
that darkened the sky and
could be seen:as far north as
Seattle and south ‘as | Cor-
‘Ore.

The Natidnal Weather
‘Service,charted ash plumes:

that moved north-northeast,
- Administration:
ora erat"

FalliWiig the Bama: path al

f*
- paked. eastern . Washingtoh
‘and northéra. Idaho with-the
grit May .1B.:. -
A second eruption at about
6:26. p.m. ‘towered to 18,200

metres, said Carl Burgeton“

of the U. 5, Forest Service. A

Fraser attacks
interior ‘rape’

OTTAWA “<(P) =~ .The
federal governinent shoyld
conduct a rigorous en-
vironmental assessment of

the $2.5-billion hydro-electric:
pro

ject in northern. British
Columbia proposed by the
Aluminum Co, .cf Canada -
Ltd. (Alcan), : ‘former en-.
vironment minister John’
_ Fraser. said Tuesday. -
- Fraser told the Commas
figherles committee that
Alcart's “rape. of intertor

B.C.” demanded = public
.- hearings, into‘ the project,
‘something’ the former
Progressive... Coriservative
PA _ement had promised to

‘Fraser, MP. for Vancouver

' ‘South, also said the fisheries

department should be
making public the potential
dangers of two propo

dams to the B.C. ihn’ and
tourism industries to counter

up the ‘public’. through
_public relations exercises in
‘nearby comrounities.. |”

West § Coast
.diversions. of water In the
area threaten rivers in which .
salmon and rainbow trout |
spawn. \

The company wants to
triple its aluminum smelting
capacity at nearby Kitimat
by ‘adding one or -two new
smelters. They. would be
supplied with, lectricity

No names
in crash

The Prince Rupert RCMP
are still investigating the
Kiteault plane crash, The
names of the two dead people
will not be released until the
bodies have been flown into
Prince Rupert for correct
{identification by the coroner.

Due to bad weather, the
Investigation team has been

wmable to fly out of Kitsquit.

The crash of the Terrace
Air Cessna 172 occurred last
Sunday, 10 miles north of
Kitsault. .

‘Hait. ‘Today, probably this
“morning, we did not expect

- northeast.

-Washington
* Okanogan. Valley ‘a litt:::

Alcan’s attempts to “soften |

’ se ak
about. “15,250: umetres short!\, |.

after 7 p.m.,and “pilsations +
. follow ; ;

at 7; ) an

Pm.

thousands ‘of people.

. “There's a distinct’ "Feddish- a

gray line Jooking southerly, °

. and it got’ dark‘earlier thar’
usual, “while the’ Teat- “of the |

was blue,” said: ‘Lanell:
KCUL in Colville, 400 kn:

fading away to nothitj

The leading edge of east
and steam plume ‘reached:
the Canadian bordér ner

before $.p.m. PDT, ‘said the
weather service.
The’ Federal.

viatics.

Beare
‘as te ares ensbury,
-and Wenatchee airports, anc
rerouted commercia!

“airliners to avoid the are:

‘from north of | "Portland tu
south of Seattle, said : Pas
spokesman | Ken: Shake.

from the new: ‘watershed i in
the Kemano area...
Fraser ‘tried to. get
fisheries department of-
ficials to explain what. they
were doing to pressure the

environment department to
initiate hearings but he: sonly”

_ received assurances’ that

Fisheries Minister ‘Romeo —

LeBlane was~- concerned
about Alcan’ s proposal.

Grace ©
period
allowed

QUEBEC (CP) — A senlor
federal transport depart-
ment gfficial says a small

- te eontique flying in violation
tions because there

. ie “ng Imminent danger”
"en
vironmentalists. say new -

te passengers, .

Wilfred Cusson, regional
superintendent for air
carriers in Quebec, testified
- Tuesaday that Golfair Quebec
Ltee., was given a three-
month period of grace to
conform with regulations af-
ter three inspectors r
violations in November,
1978.

Cusson told a federal
inquiry into air safety that he
granted the grace ‘period
despite inspectors’ reports
that there were
irregularities such as fal-
sified logbooks, unsafe
seatbelts and poor maln-
tenance.

The'l tors had recom:
mended t two of the com-
te s operating tng permits he

t owner

Sonne” Hemel withdraw
from the jobs of- main-
tenance director and chief of

operations.

The inquiry by the three
inspectors came after a
Transport Canada inspector
reported in January, 1977,
that he had been approached

with information. about

Golfair's unsafe operations,

B80.

The eruptions: could * hes
. seen by. hundreds | who

“The ‘wagon ‘is

‘state's:

toppad-
we tie

Quebec airline was allowed -