Cherry
Point

- still

- alive

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) —
The Energy Site Evaluation
Council isn’t sure the Puget
Sound, Wash. oil port issue
isdeaddespite
congressional approval of a

measure that would ban

such a facility east of Port

Angeles. - ;
During its regular
meeting Monday, the
council refused to delay a.
prehearing conference |
scheduled for Oct. 25 on the
Trans-Mountain Pipeline
Co.'s application for a
Pert at Gbersy Puist, Wash
a , Wash.
a the council isn’t yet
‘eady to take action on a
Clallam County request that
it dismiss a orthern dicr

application for a permi
y blish an ail port at Port

eles.

Ange motion for dismissal
was put before the council
M by Clallam County
Prosecuting Attorney Craig
Ritchie. Lo

Ritchie argued that the
council would not be able to
meet a Dec. .27 deadline for
deciding whether It would
recommend issuatce of a
certificate for the Port
Angeles oil port. The council
hae one year from, te date

filing of an application
make a decision.
MOTION REJECTED

The council rejected the
motion on grounds that
Ritchie had not notified
Northern Tier attorneys of

the filing.

Under the Northern Tier
proposal, Alaska crude
Fould be received at the
‘Port Angeles site and then
hipped to the Midwest
through a transstate

. That p isn’t

ected by Sen. Warren G.

Kangaroo Court showed no mercy Frida
as the bailiffs stuffed this grade eight
student’s clothes with green spaghetti.
The proceedings were a part of the annual.
initiation for new students and teachers at

a.

L

Skeena High School. Most new teachers
spent their lunch hour being attacked by
water balloons ifollowed by a smothering
in whipped cream.

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Magnuson’s amendment the
Marine Mammel Protection
Act that would preclude
increased tanker traffic on
Puget Sound east of Port

Angelen. or ey cee
” A mnotion by Lee Johnson,

= nay OFTAWA. (

¢  AUOrneY earings on two applications

by Westcoast Transmission

. Ltd. of Vancouver to
ipeli aeons i

peline and processing

labeled Perilities in .northeastern

British Columbia will be

P asgiete ator

Be neral acting as the
counsel for the envi-
asking that the
TransMountain -hearing be
delayed was
‘premature’? by council
member Bruce Reeves.

construct

Northeast pipeline planned |

CP):=-: Publlé—: recovery plant: ade

ate Sg ee.

Grizzly-Sukunka area

The pipeline would cor
nect natural Bas producing
fields in the Sukunka-
Grizzley Valley area of
northeastern B.C, to.a new.

rocessing plant and to

estcoast’s main line gas

gas

held in Fort St. John star-. transmission system, .
peetes eter ite ae ting Nov.. 15, the National Cost of the‘ pipeline
not yet been into law Energy Board said facilities project is
by President ter. Tuesday. . estimated at $47.4 million

And an attorney for the , In. one application while the processing plant
Atlantic Richfield Co., Westcoast proposes to build costs are estimated at $75

me orsofthe Trans- bout 93 mules of 10-inch, 20- million. . ,
Mountain p oject, said as inch and 2tinch \ pipeline In its second application
far 88 his company jg plusatotal of 10.8 milesof4- Westcoast proposes to build
concerned “it’s business as ich and B-inch gathering facilities to gather natural
usual.” laterals and a natural gas gas produced from fields in
processing and sulphur ne Silver-Dahl areas of

Which witch
is which?

. KIRBY, England (AP) — Five
witches whose backyard fire dance.

‘disturbed neighbors watching
midnight horror film on television
have been puf on probation by
Thagistrates. —~
_*] was watching Night of the
Zombie on television when I heard

them shouting,” sald Robert Eaton.
“They looked as though they were in a
trance. It was worse than seeing the
horror film.”

Other residents of the quiet neigh-

-borhood testified Monday that the
thrée men and two women were
chanting and dancing around a fire in
the shape of a cross burning in the
middle of a circular pit in the back
yard of the house in which the witches
were living together.

The women ‘and: two of the men
wore black robes bearing signs of the
zodiac, the witnesses said.

“They ‘kept throwing something
into the fire that seemed to cause an

losion,”” said George Taylor, 39.
“Then they would Jump through the
smoke. I must admit I thought they
must be unusual people when I saw
one in them sunbathing naked in the

arden. ;

& Prosecutor David Kilner said some
of the neighbors threatened violence
against the witches, -and the police
were summoned. The prosecutor said
one of the five, Hugh Singleton, told

. the police: “We are practising our

. rellg on. ’'m a white (good) witch.”

‘The five, aged between 19 and 35,
leaded guilty to a charge of conduct
ly to cause a breach of the peace.
The magistrates put them on

’ probation for a year and ordered

them to pay a fine of &50 (about $95)

each if they got into trouble during
that time.

‘The neighbors said the coven has
moved away.

Democratic

crushing .

Overcast skies with
showers will prevail in the
wake of a warm front
-which passed through
yesterday. Today's, high,
nine degrees, tonight's

casuaities.

19771973

PC 3321
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low, five degrees.

Bleak winter

By VIC PARSONS

OTTAWA (CP) — Job prospects for the
unemployed this winter appeared bleak
Tuesday with publication of Statistics
Canada figures showing the unem-
ployment rate in September hit a post-

The figures brought a flood of
suggestions from opposition critics on
policies the government should follow to
avoid a crisis.

Progressive Conservative spokesmen
called upon Finance Minister Jean
Chretien to turn to the private sector for
advice on how to run the economy. Ed
Broadbent,, New Democratic Party
leader, called for jobcreation programs
that would make work for 250,000 to
300,000 unemployed.

The actual number of jobless last month
as determined by the Statistics Canada
survey was 798,000, down from 838,000 in
August. But the trend toward worsening
unemployment was evident from last

ear’s figures which showed that in

ptember, 1976, the jobless total was
128,000 lower.

The §3-per-cent jobless rate, which
takes. into account seasonal variations in
the labor force, compares to 8.2 per cent
in August and matches the post-
Depression high reached last April.

In September, 1976, the seasonally-
adjusted unemployment rate was 7.2 per
cent. The actual unemployment rate was
7.6 per cent in September this year
compared with 6.5 per cent a year ago. .
LITTLE IMPROVEMENT

The dismal job picture has been ac-
centuated recently by comments from
Chretien that there is likely to be little

1940 high of 8.3 per cent.

| substantial improvement in the jobless

situation over the next year and a half.

Conservative critics Sinclair Stevens
and James Gillies urged Chretien, who
was appointed to his post Sept. 16, to drop
his government advisers and change
them for a group from the private sphere.

‘treasurer of the

Stevens said Chretien needs to get away
from the “‘cocoon, ivory-tower approach”
af finance department officials and get
fresh advice from spokesmen in industry,

. Banking, labor, small business and from
consumer advocates.

He and Gillies suggested basic changes
to the economy are needed to restore con-
fidence in the country. The slow-growth
policies followed by former ministers

onald Macdonald and John Turner were
not good enough.

Gillies said impetus for economic
growth must come from the private
sector. “We're not going to solve unem-
ployment by massive government
spending of a general nature,’ he said. He
added he is concerned that some people
feel short-term jobcreation programs will
resolve basic economic problems. ©

Broadbent said a new government
make-work program would “at worst’
mean a marginal increase in federal
spending because the government would
save money otherwise earmarked for
wiemployment insurance and welfare.
The government would also increase its
lax revenues if thousands found jobs, he
said.: | .

SUGGESTS PROGRA

‘“What we need is a commitment ap-
proach to jobs,” he said. Broadbent
suggested a program similar to the
winterworks plans of the early 1970s.

Donald Montgomery, _ secretary-
Canadian Labor
Congress, called for a new budget to
stimulate “the demand side of the
economy.”

Montgomery called for a onemonth tax
holiday for workers earning less than
$15,000 a year followed by a continuing
fiveper-cent income tax reduction for the
same people; a $50-amonth increase in old
age pensions and public investment in
housing, insulation and food storage and
transportation. ,

The Statistics Canada figures showed

Prince

_ CanCel faces maximum
fines of $55,000 if convicted
of the charges laid after a
compund,
poluchlorinated
(PCB) was alleged to have
into a

nd through
ollowing an transformer
explosion last January.

_ The case originally began |
in Prince Rupert court wit
Judge Selwyn Romilly
resiting but was moved to

| Tories sweep NDP out
in Manitoba elections

WINNIPEG
Sterling Lyon and his
Progressive _ Conservative

rty handed Premier Ed
chreyer and his New

a
aceat” in
Tuesday's .Manitoba elec-

pulp mill log

. with party leader Charles
Huband among the election

Standing in the new
legislature compared with
standing after the 1973
general election was:

61,1 per cent a year ea

Terrace where Judge
Romilly normally holds
court.

Three witnesses, called
byCrown Counsel Waner
Heinrich took the stand

volvment in collectin
and analyzing sediment an
water samples taken from
Porpoise Harbour since
January.

The major arguements
presented during . cross
‘examination by CanCel
defense counse] Robert
Gardner appeared to hinge
‘onthe credibility of the
wintesses and the accuracy
of sampling and analysis of
the harbour sediment.

Glen Parklan, a marine
biologist with the En-
vironmental Prtoection
Serivee, testified he had

biphenyl

roof drain

The Conservatives cam
-paigned on a strong free-en
-terprise platform that in
cluded numerous tax cuts

and a leaner look for the

-provincial government.

They also cast themselves
as the-only real alternative

(cP) —

ee HOM. sto socialism, a stance that
Northeastern-B:C, north“of’ *TheConservatives made’ was apparently reflected in
Fort St. John. - strong inroads into areas of the party’s sighificant in-
Cost of these new facilities traditional NDP suppor! and crease in the popular vote.
is estimated at $28.4 million. handed personal defeats to Most of the new support
; three of Schreyer's cabinet came from disaffec ib-
= ministers. erals,

‘a _ \ The Liberal party was all “The Conservative vietory

Weather but wiped out in the process, was also a personal trium

for Lyon, who took over
party leadership in 1975
after a bitter battle with
incumbent leader Sidney
Spivak.

“Tt looks as though
Manitoba is embarking on a
new era,” the premier-elect
said as soon as the election
trend became obvious.

_ Lyon, 50, was a prominent
member of two previous

Unemployment soars

that the jobless rate rose in six provinces
but drop our.

Quebec had the largest number of
unemployed at 281,000. The jobless rate
for the province rose by six-tenths of one
per cent between August and September
to 10.8 per cent, the highest since the
federal agency began collecting monthly
job figures in 1953.

Ontario had 262,000 unemployed and
registered the largest increase in the
number of jobless from a year ago. In
September, 1976, there were 202,000
unemployed in the province. The Sep-
tember unemployment rate was 7.3 per
cent, up threetenths of one per cent from

ugust.

Newfoundland continued to have the
highest jobless rate at 15.8 per cent,
although this was a decline of one-tenth of
one per cent from August.

BLEAK EVERYWHERE

Despite a substantial one-percent drop
in New Brunswick’s jobless rate from -
August, the province had the second-
highest rate of unemployment in Sep-
tember at 13.3 per cent.

Nova Scotia's rate rose by one-tenth of
one per cent to 10.4 per cent and Prince
Edward Island's jumped by seven-tenths
of one per cent to 9.3 per cent,

Manitoba saw a three-tenthsof-one-per-
cent rise to 5.9 per cent and Saskat-

head

chewan, with the lowest rate among the

provinces at 4.2 per cent, showed an in-
crease of two-tenths of one cent,

Alberta’s rate declined by four-tenths of
one per cent to 4.5 per cent and British
Columbia’s dropped by flve-tenths of one
per cent to 8.3 per cent.

The statistics also showed that number
of persons working in September was
9,906,000, up from 9,688,000 in September,
1976. The participation rate, which
measures the proportion of persons of

working age actually Jo. bor force,
was 61.8 per cent in er, up from

taken eight smaples from
the harbour on Jan 27 and
nine more on the following

say.

The _ biologist was
questioned extensively by
efense council Robert
Gardener on the cleanliness
of the equipment used to.

, father the samples and also

extent of the samples
taken.

Garnder suggested there .

evidence” in. determining
evidence” le
the effect of PCB on sea life,
Edwin Thompson, an
analytical chemist for the
Department of the En-
vironment, testified he had
received . samples of the
sediments Jan 31. He
described the process of
analysis of the samples
submitted by the En-
vironmental Protection

Tory administrations and
had made an unsuccessful

bid for the party leadershir
in 1967.
Lyon capped his return te:

government with an easy
personal win in the Win-

nipegridingof Charleswaod. .
|| Schreyer, .4 zwconcedee

defeat gra

he was disa
outcome of several in-
dividual races that could
have meant a third term of
office for his government.

The NDP first came to
power in the 1969 election
with an upset victory over
the Conservatives and in-
creased its standing in the
legislature and its share of
the popular vote in the 1973
contest.

The premier promised an
orderly transition of
government some time in

e next several weeks, but

made no comment on his —

personal future. ;
Schreyer was re-elected in
the Winnipeg riding of
Rossmere, but most ob-
servers feel it is doubtful
that he would remain as
leader of the 563 0
BPBM AR JWIN THE

louse.
Huband, 45, attributed the
poor showing of the Liberals
the polarization of the
vote inte NDP and Con-
servative camps— a trend
that has been obvious for at
least the last eight years.
“We had a darn fine cam-
paign with darn fine can-
idates, putting out fine
idea,” he told party
workers.

Huband was also leading
party into his first
campaign since taking over
from Izzy Asper in early
1975. His loss in Crescent:
wood marked his third
consecutive unsuccessful
bid for a seat in the House.

Most observers had
predicted a close, two-way
race between the Con-
servatives and the NDP and
had speculated about the
possibility of a minority
government.

The Conservatives
defeated three NDP
ministers on their way to an
over-all victory. Jim
Galbraith defeated High-
ways Minister Peter Burt-
niak in Dauphin, Bob An-
Gerson beat Com-
munications Minister Rene
Toupin in Springfield and
Winnipeg city councillor
Gerry Mercier edged
Education Minister Tan
Turnbull in the Winnipeg
riding of Osborne, con-
sidered a fairly safe NDP
seat,

The Tories also picked up
Emereon, Gimli, Thompson

_and the Winnipeg

dings af
Radisson and St. Matthewa
from the NDP.

PCB

Cancel faces PCB ©
_ charges in court

BY DONNA VALLIERES
HERALDSTAFF WRITER
Canadian cellulose is
ontrial in Terrace provincial
court today facing 16
chagres vf poluting the
water of Porpoise Harbour i i
Rupert _ plus yesterday to tesify of their
alternate charges resluting
fromtests conducted by the
Environmental Protection

Service and stated there
wes a wide range of results.

In nine different samples,
Thompson stated there were.
varioutions ranging bet-
ween almost! no traces of
and. parts
million.' Some of the
samples inclu an ‘‘ex-
tremely hi con-
centration of peb, according
to the chemist,

Defense counsel
questioned Thompson on
whether high concentrations
of sulphur would have an
effect on PCB readings, but
Thompson stated t if
therehad been, the sulphur
would obliterate other
elements in the reading
which it had not.

Gardern also stated there
was a wide varley of
rea taken in the area
by different independent
testors, but Thompson
rep. could be a result
of differing sampling

ues.

gadner also uestionedthe
witness at lengt on why the
tested’ samples had
discarded, stating that the
com was at a '

it of a disadvantage”
becausethe samples could
not be retested.

William Sargeant, a
pesticide Chemist with the

C)

partment of the En-
vironment, and head of the

ded,
,

March 28,

Once of the samples taken
on January 28 he attempted
to analyze, eant said,
but the analysis machine
made “such a_ heavy
hesponse” to the substance
an analysis could not be

le.
In other samples, no PCB
was detaected, SArgean

stated. |
The pesticide chemist
testified that in at least one
of the smples |
Sh tla
a er an
could smell PCB as well as
hydrocloide sulphide in the

sample.
Sargeant concluded that
the samples “must be very

_ heavily contaiminated.”

Sargeant stated he has
analyzed aquatic life in the

Prince Rupert area, and
found PCBs present in
marine birds. He also
remembered analyzing

crabmeat twice in the past
year finding less than one
million n
fn one of the crabs and 70
parts per million in the
other. ;

Samples are routinely
disgarded after four to six
weeks, sargeantsaid, but he
ahd found two of the sam-
ples in bottles.

Upon cross examiniation.
Gardner asked sArgeant if
noxious chemicals were
taken ot b VAncouver
garbage ut Sargean
gar bag the high residue
samples were into a
bottle mixed with other high
residue substances for later

Camder also questioned
thedisposal of
chromatographs charts
which record PCB content
in the samples, and was told
by Sargeant that the charts
had been disgarded.

The defense council

inted out that this meant

t two seta of “empirical
evidence” was gone.

Gardenr went back to the
elemental sulpher issue, but
like Thompson, Sargeant
insited elemental sulpher
would not show up in the

aph, but stated he was
‘dead sure” that was no
elenental sulphur in the
samples.

The crown continues In its

resentation today with

more witnesses to be