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VOLUME 72 Wo. 76

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LeGiSh 61 IVe Le kadt,
PARLE eMEN cle Ludo,
VICiGRIA, '.C.,
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1978

Falis From Helicopter
At Telkwa- Man Lives

A 29 year old BC Hydro employee originally

* from Cranbrook was seriously injuried after

falling 40 feet from a helicopter sling in the Telk-
wa Pass Monday at before 2:30 p.m. B.C. Hydro,
in Vancouver report the accident to have oc-
curred when Pat Donavan of Cranbrock was
working with crews lifint insulator bars to the
top of transmission line towers.

in hooking, the sling, lowered by a helicopter,

* to the insulater bars the worker became en-

tangled in the sling and was raised off the ground
until ground crews radioed the chopper to inform
the operators of the predicament and ordered
him to decend. On the decent the man fell from a
height of about 40 feet landing on the ground.
Bulkley Valley Hospital admitted the man at
2:30 p.m. Monday. One hour later the injured
man was flown via helicopter to Mills Memorial

. Hospital in Terrace.

Officials at Mills Memorial say the man un-
derwent significant surgery for crush injuries
and is reportedly in stable condition. |

Office manager at the Telkwa- BC Hydro
construction department would not release any
information on the case but officials in Terrace
“imagine superintendants are investigating the
matter further.’”

n-- ‘happened in the upper.
m ‘portion of city centre

parking lot last weekend. .

“vA 71994. .- Chevrolet.
- Biscayne - was. damaged
‘. anestimated two to-three |
‘hundred dollars."

. case wasreported to have —

_ Kitimat a
unestimated “damage to ©

repair, A large rock was
reportedly thrown

through a window
sometime Sunday. .

, A hit and run accident
at Minette ~Bay near’
caused

the front end of a vehicle
registered to Mr. Dina
Tremblay of Kitimat, A
1976 Ford pickup was
apprehended shortly
after the report. .

, Charges were laid of hit
and ‘ran against. the
owner of the track which
was found by description.

.-Police report the
suspect car to be blue in
colour and to have
damage to‘ the

jmiper and fender.

vestigating the accident
and would appreciate any
aid the public might have
to offer. De
.-IE information — is
available to anyone they

-are- urged to call the

RCMP office at 632-7111,
persons can remain.
anonomous if they wish.

BC Terminal

_ Transport Canada has
decided roceed with
development of a new.
deep sea terminal at
Duke Point, Hugh An-
derson, Liberal MP for
Comox-Alberni, said
Tuesday.

Anderson said Tran-
sport Minister Otto Lan;
has indicated he will as

’ the treasury board for a

$6.5 million grant to
finance the project and a

- $4 million loan to the

harbor commission to aid

the development.-
Anderson said | the

project will include a
rth for-deep sea vessels

and an assembly area, ~ |

and will have room for
future expansion.

The federal govern-
ment will ask the British
Columbia Development

 Corp., a provincial Crown

‘corporation, to donate the
120 acres of land needed
for the project.

- facilities.”

. The Kitimat River hosts world renowned salmon

These fishermen are in search of ‘the

ounds.
A Last

popular Steelhead on the Kitimat River.

. “minimal”.

week when ‘these ‘boys’ were out in the cold
water the catches were reported to be

Kitimat. passed a referendum. last. fall to.
redevelop the Riverlodge recreation facility, to.

_. the tune of $1.2 M. In a letter dated April47,.MLA
“Cyril Shelford’ announced. a Ministry’ of: - acec
. will be “no later than June”’.

Recreation and Conservation grant approval. of

$400,000: to be used on the’ project." ‘This sum. Cy
‘constitutes approximately 55 percent of the

recreation facilities assistance program budget
sO far this year.

A total outlay of $700,000 has been granted

provide wide with $400,000 going to the

. pastenger's Side front Riverlodge program. According to an RFAP
Palive. are , still, in-*-SPokesman this is.a “significant” amount of the’

“budget. see >

‘Inthe letter it is stated that the redevelopment

of Riverlodge ‘is a number one priority of the
community”. Recreation director in Kitimat
Jon Gurban explains that‘ at the time of the
referendum, and the time of the grant ap-
plication, it was the “‘number one priority”. “A
short while ago an arena complex was the
number one priority, now that the referendum
for that complex has passed I would imagine a
theatre would now’ take on the position of
priority”, Gurban commented, He added, ‘‘The
number. two priority would be outdoor field

Construction tenders are now out on the
project... According to cost, quality and
‘availability (and a few other requirements) a

Because of the overwhelming response to the
Dave Barrett banquet in Kitimat this Saturday
evening, NDP ‘organizers have opened up
another 120 séats, according to Jennifer Davis,
president of the Kitimat NDP. *
Davis explained the Riverlodge had ‘been sold
out for the former premier’s visit. and the extra

Terrace-Kitimat
‘ port manager Bill Mit-
chell announced.
yesterday: at 3 pm. a
contract —: for. the
enlargement © -of the
‘terminal waiting ‘room,
relocation of CP: Air of-
fices and enlargement of
the security holding room
d been awarded. to
Guran Construction of
Vancouver. * .

provincial... contribution
redevelopment costs of the Riverlodge ‘Centre.

_ Kitimat Crowds

~ Kitimat Riverlodge Gets A Green Light

construction contract will be awarded

“Sametime in late May,” says Gurban. Con-

Struction is estimated to begin in early June,
according to Jon, who assures that construction

Cyril Shelford, M.L.A. for Skeena, announced
today that the Honorable Sam Bawlf, Minister of
Recreation and Conservation, has approved a

-grant of $400,000 to the District of Kitimat for the.
redevelopment of

the Riverlodge Recreation

Centre.
Mr, Shelford.said, “This grant represents the
to the major

“Phe facility will include an improved gym-
nasium complex, a new weight-lifting exercise

area, new pottery area, new locker-changeroom |

facilities including a. sauna, new handball-
raquetball courts; an expanded community
room-banquet area and kitchen facilities as well
as outdoor, courts for tennis, basketball and
volleyball. ;

Mr. Shelford noted that this was one of the first
grants to be awarded from the Recreation
Facilities Assistance Program. This program
provdes grants of one-third of the capital con-
struction costs, up to $400,000, for the develop-
ment of recreation facilities through-out the
Province. The program also provides grants to
communities for the preparation of recreation
master plans. ;

To Hear Barrett

seats will place the overflow auience in the
lounge during dinner. '

These people will only be separated from the
main hall for the duration of the meal, she ex-
plained and will be able to join the main audience
for Barett’s speech and the dance afterward.

Tickets can be purchased from Walter Mc-
Connel in Terrace at 635-5304 or Rob Goffinet in
Kitimat at 632-7039, ;

-- But No Control Tower?

air-

Mr. Mitchell did not
have a quotable figure on

security holding room.
The hand-held,

the amount of the con- sometimes em-

tract. Tenders for the barrassing, metal

project were called “a’ detector being used at the
airport now will be

couple of months hack”
and closed March 16,
according to Mitchell.
Construction should
‘start in about a month
Mitchell estimated. One
improvement to be noted
is the enlargement of the

replaced by a_ walk-
through metal detector
and there will be more
room for passengers ta
await their flight once
being screened, ac-
cording to Mitchell.

Near Whitehorse

Terrace Man Killed
In Highway Accident

A single vehicle accident on the Alaska high-

- way Monday April 17 has left one Terrace B.C.

man dead and three passengers injured. The
accident occurred at mile 929 of the Alaska High-
way. According ‘to Sergeant Rockwell of the
Whitehorse RCMP mile 929 is just north of the

_ Whitehorse city limits and is a gravel highway.

The late model crew-cab truck was driven by
Hans Joachim Morlok of 2704 Skeena Street,
Terrace, and was proceeding south into
Whitehorse when it apparently upset on the high-
way, according to police. — ‘

Morlok was pronounced dead at Whitehorse
General Hospital by coroner Ben Mills at about
8:40 p.m., Say police, Passengers in the vehicle,
Jim Garay of Terrace, 31, John Davie of Vic-
toria, 39, and Don Lister of Kamloops, are in
hospital. and are reportedly in good condition.

Evidence shoing Morlok to be-driving at the
time of the accident was revealed in a
preliminary investigation by the Whitehorse

Coroner Mills advises that an inquest into the
death will be set but no date has been established
as yet,

Terrace RCMP Report

..An attempted armed 7 p.m. Monday night
robbery at a Terrace using a knife.

grocery store was th- ..The culprit was struck
warted by a. quick- by Ron Shields, a store
thinking clerk.. . clerk, and fied empty-

handed.
. According to Terrace ..Police are not giving
RCMP, a male in his late out a description of the
teens attempted to rob.would-be thief becaus
the East Side Grocery on this may hinder the
Lakelse Avenue at-aliout

possibility of arrest.

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‘Highway officials were unavailable for comment but “‘something is
ji in the woodwork fot: the clean-up of the project’’, according to a
source. The mud started slipping away two weeks ago

and has begun to cover the shoulder of the road,

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Pr. Rupert

Again, Again and Again

BURNABY, B.C. (CP)
.~ Teresa Brewer, 20, a
prisoner at the Lower
MainlandRegional
Correctional
(Oakalla): was reecap-
tured Monday two hours
after she made her sev-
enth escape in two years.

oud be proud” commented one observer of this Brewer was under
_ glow creéping mud slide just outside Kitimat on the highway No,25, | escorton her way to see a
psychiatrist when ‘she

estaped Monday.
In the past, she has

walked away from a work
party in the Oakalla.

Centre.

prison garden, fled from

.& prisoner’s swimming
excursion, sawed throu
cell bars and scaled walls
to get away.

Brewer was _ first
convicted in Prince
Rupert, B.C:, of armed
robbery ‘and assdult
causing bodily harm
February, 1976, and then
sentenced: to two years

jess a day definite and
two years indeterminate.

Her first escape came
in July, 1976. |

~ School Board Mum

Will the school board of
Terrace, be replying to
questions’ of local hiring

‘practices: raised. “by.

several letters to th
editor recently published:
in the daily Herald?

After having received
assurances from one
school board. spokesman

_that it would, and

waiting, the Herald
phoned the board for
confirmation. Director of
Instruction Marshall
Bergsma stated that

while he, himself, would .

not .raise the issue
himself, if a member of
the Board of School
District 88 .(Terrace
District) were to do so at
the next, meeting,
scheduled for April 24, a
statement may be for-
thcoming for publication.

Meanwhile, during the
last few days, a number

of further phone calls and
enquiries and comments
‘to the Herald have been
madeé-by.persons who feel.
the District No. 83 School
District’ consistently
passes up local teaching
applications,. with full

walifications in favour of

ose outside the district
and that there is a policy
against hiring wives of
teachers in the same
school district,

According to Bergsma,
this is not the case. -
Problems are bound to
arise, he said, from the
present ratio of 25
qualified teachers for.
every local vacancy: :
There are also probably
ten unemployed teachers .
living in Terrace at the
present time. Bergsma
Suggested that special
efiorts are made to place
these first whenever a
yacancy has arisen in the
loca] school district.

Grant To Hazelton Hospital

A contract of $689,430

will be made hy the
federal govenrment
towards the ‘cost of
replacing the Wrinch
Memorial Hospital in
Hazelton.

The announcement was
made yesterday
(Tuesday) by the Hon.
Iona Campagnolo,
Minister of State and MP
for Skeena on behalf of
the Hon. Monique Begin,
Minister of National
Heaith and Welfare. The
new facility which opened
in March 1977 has 35 beds
and 4 extended care beds.

It replaces the old

Chick Embalmer

Loses Out

MONTREAL (CP) — A
taxidermist who sold
thousands of embalmed
chicks to Montreal area
stores in 1973 for use as
Easter gifts has lost a
$200,000 libel action
against the City of:
Montreal] and The Star,

Superior Court Justice
¥ves Leduc said Monday
that city: officials acted
fully within their powers
in criticizing the practice, :
while The Star satisfied
ail the requirements of
the Press Act in giving ‘'a
justified warning for the

benefit and advantage of
adult citizens and their
children,"

Taxidermist Normand
Lassonde had bought
20,000 chicks for $300

. from a chicken breeder,

the court was told. He
embalmed ‘the lot and
sold them for $2.25 each
or $4.10 for a pair.

Testimony showed the
chicks were embalmed
with formaldehyde in-
jections and could jeak,
causing skin burns or poi-
soning.

Wrinch Memorial .

Hospital: opened in 1904
with 20 beds, by the
Methodist Church of
Canada. ,

Fifty-five percent of the
total cost of $3,654,560. is
being paid by the
Government of B.C. while
the Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District is
roviding a share of

47 394.

The Federal  con-
tributiontis added to this
Jocal share since Reserve
based Indians represent
almost one half of the
population to be served.

In making the an-
nouncement the Minister.
stressed the fact there
will be Indian
representation on the

Hospital Board. Full
support has been
received from the

Moricetown-Carrier, the
Kitwancool, the
Hegwilget,: the  Kit-
seguecla, the .
Gitanamaax, the ‘Glen
Vowell, the Kispiox and
the - Kitwanga -Indian
bands. Mrs. Campagnolo
will be in Hazelton
shortly to meet with
hospital officials on the
matter. Further in-
formation is available
from Rene Mercier, -613-
996-4950.

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