eu DISPUTES $25,000 GIFT —_. ORV INCIAL LIBRARY “ARLIAMENY SLD33 JICTORIA BC Group sends out SOS on oil cruise Representatives o1 tine Prince Rupert g,uup. Save Our Shores (89S) have ealled for a hoycott of the North entral Municipalities Associatios (NCMA). convention cruise this month and .a_ public ' inquiry into its financing. The demand came on the heels of a rei.'sal by Kitimat © Acting Mayor Joe Banyay on behalf of NCMA to an- swer SOS questions con- cerning a $25,000 “donation” to the cruise by Kitimat Pipeline Ltd. which has proposed to build a 75 mile pipeline from. Kitimat to - Edmonton. _ Environmental groups province-wide, including SOS, have _ strongly protested the pipeline and ensuing oi: tanker traffic along the northwest coast. Banyay recently told the Daily Herald the $25,000 is not a donation but the cost of rerouting the ‘Princess Patricia’ to follow’ the pipeline route. He said the working cruise was not scheduled to follow the route and when Kitimat Pipeline wanted the ship to take the tanker route it was learned the extra $25,000 would be needed, _ Prince Rupert Legal Aid dawyer, Doug Chapman, retained as SOS legal ad- visor last month, wrote to NCMA April 6 asking ‘for detailed information regarding the donation and crulse. In reply, Banyay asked if SOS had received $30,000 in federal and provincial grants and requested details concerning any such grants. Banyay also asked how many Canadian citizens and local residents are on the SOS executive and stated “it is of some personal concern that the provincially funded Legal Aid Society is in- yoived in this matter when Save Our Shores has direct access on request to any publie information.” ‘] was just trying to find out where they were at before I answered any D.003914, | *3,377% mMmazDa Skeoena Aute Moetal:Shop Ltd. 635-6572 Terrace new Mazda prices start at VOLUME 71 NO. 1 \the erald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewartandthe Nass = - ' TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1977 TERRACE, B.C. “DEAL WITH THE FRIENDLY FOLK” 349 City Centre “WHO'S GOING TO SUE YOU?"-DAVIS at Kitimat 4 Less damage FREE CONCERT - Variety Club promoter ’ Bobby Curtola gave a free performance at Skeena- Secondary School Friday in gratitude for the schools efforts in raising money for the telethon held on BCTV recently. Skeena raised more money than any other school in the province. _ School system poorly funded VANCOUVER CP - School boards and teachers were singled out by Education Minister Pat McGeer on the weekend, when he said taxpayers’ money is bein used improperly for a schoo! system that needs improving. McGeer, addressing the _ British Columbia School Trustees Association's annual meeting, said school: board bargaining for teachers’ salaries, the current trend to reduce pupil-teacher ratio, and student absenteeism, contributed to poor spending of tax money. McGeer said his . department is in the process of changing a.titudes to education so students and taxpayers will be better’ served. ; He said the mandate for his department is ‘“‘to improve the quality and depth of education while, at the same time... enhance R.E. M. L the cost benefit of what we McGeer -said government programs are weighed according to their «ost benefit, and taxes are assigned on that bas's He'said that Jast fall the trustees ‘still: hud act recognized ‘‘realities of today.’* VICTORIA CP - Energy Minister Jack Davis said Monday he does not deny making a statement earlier this year that-oil companies would be better off with Kitimat, rather than Puget Sound as an oil port. In a telephone interview from Vancouver Monday afternoon, Davis said he had denied making the statements earlier in the day but he thought reporters were referring to an entirely different situation. He thought he was being asked about matters concerning B.C. Ferries and it wasn't until after denying . making the statements that he learned he was being asked about a-meeting last February between Washington State and B.C. » AECL B cen ree atest 9 ~The ‘Colinist, Victoria's niorning newspaper, published Sunday part of a transcript of the supposedly mi private meeting. The paper quoted davis as saying: ‘Well, if !was an oil company looking at the two, PIPELINE FOR FOOTHILLS CO? OTTAWA CP - Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. claimed a victory Monday after across Canada. In recommendations Foothills is a member. the Alaskan gas. president Robert commissioners would recommendation of the Power Commission split 2-2 over which pipeline should be chosén to move Alaskan natural gas south recommendations to President Carter, the commissioners said a pipeline across the country is preferable to a tanker route, but they divided over whether it should be Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Ltd. or the Alcan Pipeline Co. project of which Both the commission staff and the administrative law judge who heard the case recommended to the commissioners that they select Arctic Gas to move “It is really a victory for us,” Foothill’s vice- . president Bob Pierce said, pvinting to the earlier recommendations released by. the commission. He said it confirmed, the belief of Foothills air, who rejected the other proposals as too costly. VICTORY the United States Federal to President Carter, 6In who said the not go along with «the administrative law judge Protestants launch strike. BELFAST AP - Militant Protestants jaunched a general strike in Northern Ireland and several stores were firebombed before dawn today, police reported. They said there were no casuulties. A powerful bomb on the uutskirts of Belfast ripped out railroad tracks It was not known whether the bombings were committed by Protestant strikers, seeking to frighten other workers from going to their jobs, or fuerrillas of EE ' Belfast's the outlawed Irish Republican Army [RA. The strike, which began midnight Monday night, may parqqyse this country © ef 1.5 million people as a Protestant-iniliate did in 1974. . During the early hours, sireeis were deserled and there were no roadblocks, which the Strikers had yowed they would set up to bar others from going to work. , Officials said the ful THEATRE -| . ssi walkout’ be known until they receive reports on how many workers arrived at their jobs during the day. The British government reinforced its security units and warned it will block any strongarm tacyics by the’ - Strikers. Jim Smyth, a spoxcsman for the Ulster Unionist Action Council which called the strike, told a news conference Monday that Britain was preparing for u “bloodbath.” Cherry Point Washington versus Kitimat, I would much refer Kitimat because the damages in the Puget Sound-Strait _ of Georgia area have some doltar signs on them. People with property- - waterfronts and so on. “Who's going to sue you? © Who's hurt? ‘How do you gality it? Very little amage - that’s realiy identifiable in dollars up there even with a very ba oil spill, whereas down here ou could have an incredible” Davis said Monday he did make the statements but they were not offered in support of the proposed Kitimat port. ~ "T was just. talking-about the ‘facts of life,” he- said, _ adding it.was a point. which . F wee obviously had to be raised’ ; during the meeting and was one of the many points during the oral ted . In a- sparsely popula area such as Kitimat, about 35 miles northwest of Vancouver, he said, the people who would be most # affected by an oil spill would be those who live off the sea as a resource such as fishermen. ' The resource is publicly | owned and the person affected by an oil spill would: not have the right to sue the oil company for the spill, ‘Davis said, adding the Puget Sound area is highl and. eac populated owner could property ‘probably sue for -damages.. Davis said the meeting was lengthy and other aspects of the oil port proposal, including environmental ones, were | discussed. Laurin lecture Cultural Development Minister Camille Laurin. told the Canadian Club of Montreal on Monday that the fact he had been asked to speak to the club in English illustrated the need for the . French language charter. Addressing about 400 predominantly english usinessmen, Laurin said: “One sometimes has the « impression that English seems to you still your only language, English so often your only miliew.” The minister said he found it “strikingly ironical that despite the prosperity you have brought to Quebec... you so frequently lack a certain sensitivity to the French-speaking people of Quebec Whose here.” ome is ; SalemeneseetetusntetatetetstetstateTtmstate ta al eSeeshaeeetetetntatutataratattetetatatat ete hel aaa creat eae essa "er rater rata atad "a. By ; ANDREW PETTER Herald staff writer For. over five years, © Juanita Hatton has & that I’m doin = different ... and that’s a no- ats & The thing that Mrs. # Hatton as done “differently is single- = handedly locating 8,000 to % 10,000 part time and full mi time jobs for over 4,000 people. Each month Mrs. Hatton interviews over 150 Ee applicants and each month e manages to locate - = about five full time and 30 = to 50 part time jobs. # The Golden Rule was % started in October of 1971 : with funds raised by Mrs. : Hatton, a 16-year resident =: of Terrace. In 1973, under the NDP government, the Golden Rule received a 8: eet wprytarernaterers nstatetataratata’ ats se g i) f =} a = = t=] s 3 z | # the Department of Human #: Resources. This grant was Fa increased to $994 in 1974. 2 Most of the grant went to = cover office expenses with ur ~ i=] * > i] om] a 2 . Oo sa a ae oO = a Oe 2 0A , ™ ; Oa oz On $5 =a oh Cc Ca oO | Vander Zalm, was that the program was no longer necessary because of the introduction of PREP (Provincial Rehabilitative Employment Program). Mrs. Hatton applied for PREP funding, but she did not qualify because PREP is restricted to welfare recipients while the Golden Rule offers its services free to anyone and everyone in need of a job. In Mrs. Hattca’s words, wanted to” help everybody and I told them so,” With provincial funding cut off, Mrs. Hatton continued: to run the service. ‘I got no salary...no money at all, but Tran it anyway.” In November of last year, she managed to obtain. a seven-month federal .LIP: grant for $16,200. Althoug! she had always run e service alone, she was forced to hire a full time assistant in order to qualify for the federal funds. Additionally, the federal grant could only be applied to salaries and not to office expenses. And now the federal program has been further restricted. In order to qualify for any more assistance, Mrs. Hatton must hire four more people to operate the Golden Rule. rs. Hatton thinks this is ridiculous, ‘‘Any more people would necessitate a arger installation and an increase in expenses. : ee me a me a et tS Owe Seley a ne Sa te agar FR ects ee aie SI Pe are ere ek eee Cen ie Tie ie cad * province. “There are so many problems facing the nor- thern municipalities we don't want to turn the municipal convention into a pipeline issue,” he added. “Why pick on the municipal cruise....just because Kitimat Pipeline (Continued on page two) cs “It would also.make the Golden Rule into a ifferent sort of place. The 3: one-to-one rapport which is = an essential part of this =: operation would be lost.” The present federal = grant runs out at the end of 5: May. 4$200 a rionth grant 3 from the City of Terrace to =: cover office expenses will algo end soon. Even Mrs, = Hattcn’s attempt to have the Golden Rule classified as a non-profit = organizatien, in order to =: raise money through = raffles and other means, * has been refused by the =: So the Golden Rule may = be foreed to close its doors, .; not because it has failed to = find much needed jobs for = ° people — but because of % provincial cutbacks and = ederal red tape. - Be Mrs. Hatton feels that if = the governments .are z trying to save money, they 3 are “certainly going about = it the wrong way. They’re = supposed to be getting jobs =: for people ... and they're 3 not getting jobs for people. :: e ab = ee ey Lr ere iedateetama ee ed