oS hae ee Te ee Pee —s . Sheremel oy {TERR ACE:KITIMAT SECOND SECTION |g ~~. | KITIMAT COUNCIL | ‘More money but...’ The schoc) board has agre Ballet dancer calls delay ‘madness’ and arbitrary MOSCOW (AP) — Bolshoi ae Ludmila, Viasova a rom a long-overdue Soviet jetliner into the arms of her weeping mether Tuesday, then told in- terviewers her 731;:hour forced delay at Kennedy International Airport in New ork was “madness.” * Her goverment accused the United States of “‘artl- Soviet” plotting. ' The Soviet newa media did not report that her husband, Bolshoi star © dancer . Alexander Godunov, had defected in the U.S. last . Wednesday, setting off the chain of events that ended with her arrival here, Crowded by reporters and security men, the 36-year-old brunette walked from the lane at Moscow's evo Airport and embraced her mother. Later, Miss Vlasova said in an interview broadcast on Moscow radio: “I consider (the Americans’) actions to _— Df, arbitrariness berauge scald they occupled our plane b - force. They got inside wi guns and handcuffs to guard “me. It was just madness, “Tam very happy that I set foot back on native soll,” said the dancer, who con- vinced U.S, authorities at a meeting Monday night she was returning to the Soviet -Union of her own free will, Convinced of that, U.S. authorities allowed the air- craft to leave Kennedy. A statement published by the Soviet news agency Tass quoted Miss Viasova as saying her ordeal was an act of brutality organized by ople wantng “'to worsen be Soule t-American relations.” Tass’s only reference to Godunov was a statement that Miss: Viasova “did not want to find herself in a situation similar to that of her husband ... who had ‘disappeared shortly before that under circumstances’ which are not yet clear,” At the airport, the 62 other passengera aboard the Aeroflot Iyushin2 jetliner d.the atmos Jnside , the craft 4t Kennedy was warm but tense while Diei’s bill said wyers were told Tvesday it Is foolish to expect that the Canadian Bill of Rights will Former local - killed W.R. (Bill) Quanstrom, 38, of Smithers died recently in the Calgary Foothills Hospital from injuries sustained in an aircraft crash August 9 yhile fighting a forest e. Quanstvom, a a birddog officer with the Ministry .Of Forests, was directing a fire bombing mission when the accident - oc- . The fire action "was taking place in the Canal Flats area of the Nelson forest region, He attended school in Williams Lake, and worked the summers as a logger before joining the . istry in 1966 as a .compassman in Smithers. . His career was centred in that region where he eventually became an assistant ranger in Terrace from 1972 to 1977. In May of 1977 he became a zone management technician stationed in Smithers and received his birddog officer training in early 1678. be any more effective if It is entrenched stitution. - Eldon Woolliams, Progressive Conservative member -of Parliament for Calgary North, told the Canadian Bar. Association's annual convention that the Supreme Court of Canada has used caution” since the Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament in 1960, The bill has been. ef- fectively used in only one case in 19 years, Woolliams said. That case involved the dismissing: of a llquor- related charge in the mid- 1864s. ‘ Woolliams said en- trenchment of rights In the constitution would have little effect If the courts continue to take the approach. of the last 19 years. + He recounted numerous efforta to Invoke the Bill of Rights in court cases, vir- tually alk of whieh were rejected by judges. .° Earlier Tuesday, the association hadresolved that schools in Canada should educate children about their ghts. . A resolution by Eric Teed, a Saint John, N.B., lawyer, said Canadians don't know what the rights are. And a Quebec delegate said efforts are under way in his province to put posters in jails to advise arrested persons of their rights. But the tenor of the pane) discussion that followed was that rights in Canada are illusory, et Victor Paisley of Toronto in the con- dancers attending. Terrace, DANCE CLASS SUCCESS HERE | Terrace Dance Association reports that their summer school held here recently at Northwest Community College was a success with 21 The dancers, ranging in age from six up, came from Kitimat and Smithers as well as from Classes were held in classical ballet, modern jazz and acrobatic dance. Clinics were held two evenings a week for coaches and terested in the acrobatic dance, which is used by teachers in conjunction with gymnastic classes. A spokesperson for the school said guest teacher Sheila Marshall, who came here from Sydney on Vancouver Island, was well received and her classes ware well prepared and the students enjoyed them. rsons in- negotiations dragged on outside. ° Passengers said they held busband, a chess tournament and put on amateur entertainments while Miss Viasova roamed the aisles freely, joining In thelr songs and even signing . ee id th @ passengers sa ey all were aware of Godunov’s defection because they read about it in after 10 a.m, Moscow time (3 epar- ture. U.S. authorities ‘said they grounded the craft because they wanted to mest with Miss va, fe she had been spirited aboa: against her will. In New York, Godunov told authorities his wife wanted to stay in the U.S. and leaded for a chance to meet r. But when the compromise ‘Meeting. ..was finally. arranged Monday nigh chief U.S. negotiator Donald no use said the Soviet Union haa'a firstelass bilk of rights. New York’ newspapers, on The jet landed here shortly However, even that bill isn’t 2 satisfactory, he said; The | rights have to be known and accepted by the people. “They are only fun- damental as long as we accept them,” Paisley said, “They are not laws of “excessive nature. o’Call , Ed- monton Journal publisher, said recent lawauits have infringed upon the ability of newspapers to rint editorials, editorial one and letters to the editor. . “The climate in the courts these days is not gaitaeren news! " J, nH said. ns speech has fallen upon hard times.” a He criticized the former Liberal government's ecution of the Toronto for allegedly violating the Official tp Act ublishing an ment that already had wide distribution, The charge was dismissed. O'Callaghan and Stanley Cohen, a McGill Universi Jaw professor, said the Of- ficial Secrets Act must be reviewed. Cohen said the effect of charges under the act against Montreal engineer Peter Trev has been devastating. The Quebec Court of Appeal has dismissed the conviction and two-year sentence against Treu, w has asked the federal government for $150,000 compensation for the losses he suffered in the court battle. ar ‘reporters called the Kitimat karate “‘satisfac Epp Monday alter they flew bad stin to decide who will we head the laquiry. ‘By ANN DUNSMUIR ' Herald Staff Writer Kitimat District Council has agreed to provide - additional funds needed to build the theatre at Mount Elizabeth Senior Secondary School. . Bids for the theatre received in July were all higher than the estimated $1.7 million approved by the school board and ministry of education. a Council agreed Monday to underwrite $643,425 of which $400,000 will be obtained from the Recreation Facilities Grant Program. The Kitimat Arts Council will raise $122,000 of the needed funds: in the community. ; YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T, (CP) — An Inquiry will be: held soon to investigate the handling of forest fires this in Bome northern areas, Jake Epp, Endian affairs and northern development minister, haa promised, Jim Schaefer, president ot the Fort Smith Hunters and Trappers Association, said Tuesday he had a ry meetin with over some sites, Schaefer said Epp told him an inguiry, asked for by the tion, will be held in six weeks, However, Epp is Chitoese Sensei of Japan, son of the Karate Master -Chitoese O-Sensei, demonstrates a front, sna Inquiry called “Tt was a pretty good meeting considering the fact he didn’t give us pny money to provide input wiry,” Schaefér said in a telephone interview from Fort . dun” wanted money to yal ct a long-range stud the effecia of the fire on the gee growing here in our life-time, and caribou. won't return for at least 30° years . . The Fort Smith region was the hardest hit by this’ yr. The department's Yel- owknife office said Tuesday some 351 forest fires have consumed 3.1 million acres p-kick during a training sesston at Kitimat’s Rivertodge Recreation Centre. Shown receiving the kick ‘s Tnomote Sensel, also of Japan. Observing the The Herald, Wednesday, August 2°, 1977, Poge? | to ve the municipality a written under that st further funds will be requested for completion or future. upgrading of the theatre, September. ‘Delegates to the convention are’ Thom and Aldermen Ror Burnett, La Joe Banyay and Fran Buschert. to a m into fire of trees and brush in the Northwest Terrotires so far this year. Aimost half of the fires, 163, burned in the Fort Smith ares Epp, however, re ted an association to fire Peter Ferguson, his foreat- fire liaison officer. Schaefer said the appointment of Ferguson was a waste of money. Epp resumed his first olficial tour of the N.W.T. Tuesday with visits ta Hay River, Fort §& . and Norman Wells. he ‘was to visit Enuvik and ‘Tuk. toyaktul where he was to in- Dome Petrolaum's off- re activity in the . Beaulort Sen. technique Is Akutagawa Semel, chief iastructer of the Kitimat Karate Clab. Chitoese Sensei and Inemete Sensel are on a 40-day good-will visit te Canada te confer with instructors and standardize trainiug ‘echniques. Clark calls meeting for coal mine town JASPER, Alia. (CP} — Sussex Drive West may be - moved next to 2 coal mine. Prime Minister Clark said Tuesaday he is consi holding the next out-of- Ottawa meeting of his inner’ cabinet in Grande ‘Cache, » & Bmal -mining community in the Rocky Mountain wilds on the edge of his Yellowhead con- stituency. . The prime minister added that he is consid having a meeting of his full cabinet outside Ottawa before Parllament sits in October. Clark laughed when Jasper Park Lodge where he is sta Sussex Drive Weat — o ‘estern White House ~— and said meeting outside the hurly-burly of wa Ls Plow needs work still KELOWNA, B.C, (CP) — Amaassive under-water weed plow, which an inventor elaims could eradicate milfoil Infestations plaguing Okanagan lakes, still Is years away from total ac- ceptance, says an expert on - the P - Mel Maxnuk, chemical ations co-ordinator for 6 provincial government's water Investigation branch in Verr = sald Monday the low invented by eer es Magge of Richmond, B.C,, still has a long way to 0. 8 Maggs said recently that the plow cleared 500 square metres of dense milfoil growth, including root es, in a teat run at a beach on Lake Okanagan. “It was an uncontroJed teat and did clear an r area of weeds and lo weeds... Tdon't usa know eraclly what It (the plow) Maggs is seeking a con- tract ehich would pay him by the acre to dig up milfoll worth the effort. Clark's 11 top ministers, four deputy ministers and other government officials are staying in a resort lodge that rents for more than §70 a night even at the reduced rates available to the government. The four-day meeting will cost taxpay:7s more than $10,-000 for accommodation alone. On top of that, there is the coat of Hut Clark does not apologize. He said ministers can work without = In- terruption by telephones, secretaries or anything else, They can concentrate on preparing for the parliamentary sitting ard on ways to implement Conservative election Promises without having to off to meetings. Clark is so pleased with the result he said he is con- sidering holding a full eabinet meeting. somewhere autaide the capital, presumably in Eastern nada. Walter Baker, president of the Privy Council, has sald the Inner cabinet could meet elsewhere, not necessarily in Clark's constituency. But Clark is talking only of Yellowhead meetings. 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