WASHINGTON (AP) — First it was Skylab, now it’s ‘Pegasus 2. jun ’ Skylab space station that plummeted to earth in July. REGIELATLVE DEP ary, PARLIAMENT #4 VICTORIA, (2.005 VEV-1K4 wb die coup. 77/73 4 - . 7ol a BA to . ‘ Pegasus was launched in 1965 to gather information for scientists to use in designing spacecraft. . The U.S. Natlonat Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration says Pegasus 2, a 23,000-pound satellite, will fall from orbit and plunge into the earth’s at- . mosphere late this month of early in' November. .. ‘Pegasus 2 is considerably smaller than the 77.5-ton Thursday Mary .- tzpatrick, a NASA spokesman, said at Pegasus is expected to return to earth between Oct: 29and Nov. 6, with the most probable re- entry date Nov, 2 But she said the exact time and place of re-entry will not be known “until the end.” ’ Two other Pegasus satellites were launched in 1985 and have since returned to earth, Pegasus 1 fell out of orbit over Africa in 1978; and Pegasus 3 re-entered drop out of sky over the Pacific Ocean in 1969. No pieces of either were found. About 21,400 pounds of Pegasus 2 are expected to burn up as the satellite tumbles through the at- mosphere. About 1,600 pounds of debris may survive the fall and break up over an area 200 kilometres wide and 3,500 kilometres long, said NASA officials. f ‘~ the PoP shoppe - 14 Flavors BOTTLE DEPOT ~ | Beer & Pop Bottles : 4636 Lazalle Ave. Terrace, B.C. “Open 10.a.m.-6p.m. dally except Sunday Fri. dill? pan. fr ‘TERRACE-KITIMAT. daily | her al g Friday, October 12, 1979 a -20¢ ‘ Volume 73 No. 197 _, fr RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rugert 624-5639 WE BUY. copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - We are open Mon. through Sat., 8 am.-5pm. | ‘\ Dave Walker's grade 7 class at Clarence Mi fall scene for their moathly project. As Halloween comes, it will change to represent the seasonal change, Each month a different corti pe ae ahaa pdt chiel school made this discussion. a4 class | does the mural presentation, to di concernat the thme, This colorful scene was decided on after a class © granted to the Aluminum Co: wee ue Rye splay the class’s main Photo by Don Schatter Tories win | first vote OTTAWA (CP} — The minority Progressive Conservative government breezed through its first real challenge in the Commons Thuraday night by a vote of 223 to 27, despite renewed ex- fon of opposition fears or the future of Petro- ’ Canada. It was the firat teat of the government elec ‘ay 22 and the first non-confidence vote. of the three-day-old ’ Parliament. : ‘Claude-Andre Lachance (L — Montreal Rosemont) and the 26-member New Democratic Party caucus stood alone in support of the motion. The rest of the Lib- erala and the four Soclal Credit MPa present in the House voted with the government. NDP Leader Ed Broad- bent had proposed that Petro-Canada, the state- awned oll company, be given a larger role than it now has by becoming the sole im- porter of forelgn oll arid operating gas slations from coast to coast. The NDP also condemned the government for its in- tention to sell off large parts of the oll company to private interests Opposition Leader Pierre Trudeau explained after the vote that ‘Liberala see no reason to give Petro-Canada exclusive righte to imports, “We don’t believe the country wouid be better off if there was one sole importer of oll,” he told reporters. When Trudeau was asked fi he would make sure all his MPs would be in the Com- mons for the vote Monday, he responded: “Weil, sure." There were 28 MPs absent for Thursday night's vote — moat of them Liberals — and Speaker James Jerome waa not eligible to vote. Opposing the NDP motion were 194 Conservatives, 85 Liberala and four Socreds. ~ Earlier Thursday, the government came under strong attack in both the Commons and the Senate on its plans for PetroCanada. Liberal energy critle Mare Lalonde (Outremont) told the Commons of the com- pany’s search for oil in the . Arcile islands and other areas of Canada and its key role in the development of the Alberta oil sands, “Bow can thia government deliberately put an end to this?" he asked. Lalonde also said Ontario FPremler William Davis, western oll producers and most of these approached in arecent Gallup poll all favor retention of the Crown oll compari, CARS THE — KILLER| VANCOUVER <(CP) — A survey conducted - by the motor vehicle branch has found that traffic accidents kill British Co- lumbia school children at the rate of one a week while seven are injured every day. The report, . com- missioned by the In- surance Corp. af B.C. and the B.C, Year of the Child and Family, — also determined that moat traffic injuries involving achool children occur on Thursday and Saturday. Fifty-three children, aged five to 15, were killed in traffic accidents ' in 1978 7 Ambassador. is shot down THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A terrorlat shot and killed the 25-year-old son of the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands today on a atreat in the centre of The Hague. A Turkish embassy spokesman Identified the victim as Achmed Henler, the son of ambassador O2- demir Benler, He was 4 student at-a_ technical university in Delfi, southeast of The Hague, the spokesman said Hockey season starts here The Terrace Commercial Hockey League opens thie weekend with a game Saturday at 4:30 p.m., between McEwan GM and Skeena Hotel. All games will ba played at the Terrace Arena. Monday there are two games, Westend Foodmart against McEwan GM at 4 p.m, and Terrace Hotel versus Skeena Hotel at 10 p.m. Several rules of conduct have also been set out for the league this year, over and above those normally used by hockey teams, Any player, coach or manager who. strikes an official in- lentionally before, during or alter a game will get an automatic match penalty, and will be Hable to in- definite suspension by the league. Any player suspended ln such a mafiner will have no recourse for appeal, For fighting, still penalties will be given. For the first fight in the season, a4 player will be awarded a five minute penally and a game misconduct. For the second fight of the season, an automatic three-game suspension will be tacked on, and after the third fight, besides the penalties and suspension, the league executive wilt review the player's record. Rules will be those set out by the BCAHA. Robbing him was routine VANCOUVER (CP) — Young tougha knew Candy Bill was an easy mark 0 they made a routine out of robbing the 91-yearald man, famlly court was told Thursday. A youth .accused of his murder learned of the robbery ploy but he didn't follow the routine, and George Willlam Dickinson died. . Testifying at his own trial Thursday, the 17-year-old youth, then 15, admitted robbing Dickinson in June, 1078, : But he clalmed to have an accomplice in the robbery with whom he split the $800. He sald he watched the ald man being tied up by his 14 year-old companion, . “I didn't mean to cause him no harm.... I didn’t think he'd die,” the youth sald, The youth, whose Identity must be concealed because he is a juvenile, is charged with committing a delinquency in the form of second-degree murder. The court has been told Dickin- son died of shock, with aix broken ribs and a bad heart contributing to the death. The youth said he firat heard of Candy Bill — nicknamed from his days of running a candy store — two . or three weeks before the old man's death when a friend told him the man had a lot of money. ’ About two weeks later, the accused sald he and another youth were walking the streets after a drinking part and remembered Candy Bill and his money, In his statement to police, the youth said he acted alone. In court, he aaid, his 14-year-old companion was an accomplice. He sald the younger boy tled up Dickinson while he watched and that he ran away from the house, leaving the younger boy and the old man in the bedroom, In earller testimony the younger boy denied any in- volvement in the robbery, but admitted helping the accused spend the $800. The court haa been told that both youths have a string of convictlons, The accused has a record for shoplifting, theft under $200, dangerous driving, auto theft and robbery. The younger boy. has been convicted of threatening, breaking and pos and theft under QCI man can stay - VANCOUVER (CP) — Englishman, Martin Flax- man was atil! celebrating Thursday almoat 24 hours after learning he had won a reprieve from deportation from the Queen Charlotte Islands and Canada. ats a major victory against petty bureaucracy — everyone's been just terrific .. My friends, the media, my lawyer and MP Jim Fulton (NDP -- Skeena),"’ the happy’ Flaxman anid in an interview. In August, officials can- celled a special miniater's rmit which had allowed to live for 3% yeara in Queen Charlotte City where he is building a house. fo -O8 Canadas 5500" , i KEMANO TWO Howard for gov’t study By ED YUDIN — Herald Staif Writer The provincial govern- ment, not Alcan, should be conducting —_erivironmental studies on the proposed Kemano Two power project, aays Frank Howard the member of the Legislative Assembly for Skeena. He made his remarks while addressing a luncheon meeting of the Smithers Chamber of Commerce earlier thia week, : “Instead of the govern- ment carrying out Its legal and moral responsibilities, it is permitting Alcan to do the environmental study work,” Howard said. -''That is something like putting an areonist in charge of fighting “We must remember that Alcan’s purpose is primarily to increase ita production of electricity and other matters are secondary to that pur- pose,” he explained. “In pursuit of that goal, Alcan is going to convince us that no damage will be done to the environment, or if there is damage It will be minimal,”’ The Father Morice Qut- doar Recreation Soclety has complained that Alcan is damaging salmon spawning grountia with their drilling and lashing. The water license granted to Alcan in 1849 gives Alcan tos much of a free hand, according lo the society and the water rights branch. Howard says that failure by the provincial govern- ment to assume a role would be “an abdication of ils responsibilities.” Alcan tests licence VANCOUVER (CP) — Signs of revived interest ina hydroelectric project in northwestern British ‘Columbia have prompted two provincial government agencies to ‘test the legal extent of a 149 water licence Alean started drilling operations this summer to teat bedrock for the Kemano Il dam which would com- plement hydroelectric generating faciltiea sup- plying power to Alcan's aluminum smelter in the north coast community of Kitimat, ~ Jack Biickert, Prince Rupert regional forests manager, said the B.C. Forest Service is in- vestigating charges of frespass in connection with the clearing of 3.6 hectares of Crown land about 100 Kilometres south of Houston, Bilan Hemingway, Alcan pubilc relations officer, says neither the company nor the contractor has heard from the forest sarivce about the charges. “We need to establish where the bedrock exists on the damsite so we cleared some Crown land hetd by Alean under lease. But it’s all covered by our water Heence for expanding the existing Kemano plant." Environmental and engineering studies have been tendered to two Van- couver consulting firms, An outline of an environmental impact study, scheduled for completion next year, has been submitted to the water rights branch. David Tanner, an official of the branch, says it wants to know how much control it has over Alcan because its water licence ia vague, He described the licence as “‘an abberation on our books, more wide-ranging than anything we've ever issued, even back then.” Howard DeBeck, -water rights controller, said the licence was issued in the post-war years “when the government thought it had to hand over sweeping powers as the price it had to pay for development." * A 1078 federal fisheries cane study has found the proposed dam would reduce flows on segments of the Fraser and Bulkley river systems and warns of possible parasite and disease transfer bet- ween the adjacent water- sheds, Just stop for a week VANCOUVER (CP) — Tha only: "surefire way ~ to eradicate gonorrhoea in British Columbia would be total abstinence from sexual relations by everyone in the province for a week, says a spokesman for the health ministry's venereal disease division. Untila vaccine is invented, Ron LaBonte says universal abstinence for a week would be the only solution, an impractical scheme that points out the problem health officials are up against, “To eliminate gonorrhoes everybody in B.C. would Seminar have to come inte 4 health. “unit on the sate ddy and get a dose of pcenicillen, then come back a week later to check for treatment failures,” he said, adding that everyone would have to abstain in the meantime. So until a vaccine is pro- duced, the venereal disease divislon encourages sexually-active people to use condoms, make themselves aware of symptoms and get regular checkups. LaBonte thinks an ad- vertising campaign laun- ched 2% years aga is beginning to cause a drop Set on service cutback Community service groups in Terrace will be meeting with local political representatives on Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Terrace Hotel. The symposium will involve an exchange of information between the major service groups who receive funding from the various levels of government and Skeena MLA Frank Howard and Jim Fulton the member of parliament for the riding. “Lately a great number of people have expressed their concerns over potential funding cutbacks or cul- backs in the past whieh has forced the curtallment of services,” explained Paul Johnston, an organizer of the symposium and member of the NDP club In Terrace. The discussions, which will take place in the Terrace Hotel Green Room, will begin in the morning and is open to the public. In the afternoon, Fulton and Howard will meet with representatives of the ser- vice organizations to talk about what services are being offered and what would happen {f they were cut back, The idea is to establish a new style of representation for the area, says Johnson, by bringing together the “grassroots and their political representatives,” Kitimat has room for four Nominations for four seats on Kitimat District Council and three school trustees will be held in the conference room at the municipal of- fices at 270 City Centre on Monday, Oct. 20from 14. a.m. to noon. Candidates are running for @ one year term to permit biennial elections for the mayor and all members of council and the board of school trustees, Polls will be held Satur- day, Nov. 17 from 8 a,m, to6 p.m. in the main lobby of Kitimat General Hospital, the Anglican Church hall, the First Baptist Church hall, the Presbyterian Church hall and the Haisla Recreation. Centre, Kitamaat Village. Kemano workers out Maintenance workers at Alcan's power station at Kemano went on a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest working conditions. The 100 members of local 1 of the Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers were upset over what spokesman Pat Laderoute termed company neglect. Laderouie, who is the assistant to Ray Pegley the Kitimat president of the local, claims the men are overworked and the power station undermanned. "Some of them have worked up to 240 hours over- time since last January," he pointed out, ‘‘They don't feel they are adequately compensated." CASAW Is presently negotiating for a wage reopener on its contract which expires in Oct. 1980. Alcan spokesman Dave Dunsmuir Indicated Thursday that “the company is prepared to discuss work related matter with the workforce when they return to the job.” Indications are the disgruntled workers will return to work on Friday, The Kemano operation, located 44 kilometres south of Kitimat, generates power for the Kitimat Smelter, the excess being sold to B.C. Hydro. Smelter operations on Thursday were not affected, as the power station was operated by supervisory personnel.