CBG! SOAaTiy é i 3.4 Avo 12 — BAC ya owes Buin eg Vie Ter ,4 3 Th maemet | —( INSIDE} | . | The Right Sound At The At. fordable Price . . - «Where the host reall : . ; So Pracision gator tn on Sey Preion Starting today...} | rnetional cuisine. | . $159.95 At the KALUM MOTEL. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass 607 LAKELSE AVENUE De ar Abby, p. 2 635-2362 VOLUME 71, NO. 35 Price: 20 cents TUESDAY JUNE 21, 1977 y q PHONE 695-5810 J « : ; B.C. RAIL HEARING IS TOLD | Dease Lake line would tie into Alaska’s wealth * from I preliminary study into the of track in Alaska, 560 miles Five Terrace youths are adding a little excitment to Terrace living by constructing an adventure playground beside E.T. Kenney Primary School on Loen Street. A Canada works project, the playground will consist of a swinging ‘bridge, fireman's pole, climbing: rope, walking beam, jumping pit and stairs. The whole thing is John Stanley Brown, one of 12 $1-million winners in Sunday's Loto Canada draw, plans to buy a house with servants, the” biggest Cadillac,na mobile home to travel through the United States and a big stick to fight off the women. The 43-year-old bachelor ersoll, Ont., who was a ears, has been married our times but now wants to avoid it. “It'll be a pleasure to fight the women off, but I’m going to buy a big stick just in case,” he said, Ags well, he plans to donate $26,000 to the Salvation Army for helping him three years ago when he was ‘unemployed and buy a Cadillac for the person who sold him the ticket. “— was without money in my jeans or food in m Vy. The Salvation Army pald my rent, gave me food youchers and helped me get rtender for 14 ‘Supervisor - Richardson) it was “doubtful” that a being built according to a blue print drawn wp by the District of Terrace. picture are In this Mervin Beedle (left) David Hull and Kent Keenleyside (parially hidden). The other two helping on the project are Allan Sutter and David Cruzzelle. (Photo by DAVID LOTTO.CANADA WINNERS - - Bachelor wins $million : welfare,” he added. He now works as a_ machine operator in Woodstock, Ont. % MILLION TO QUEBEC Five of .the $1-million -prizes in Sunday’s draw went to Quebecers, . Robert Harbour, of. Rouyn, Lise Verrmette of Gatineau, a group of eight nurses and one male friend from Sherbrooke, 17 Montreal bank employees © and 10 paint ‘company employees from Longueuil held $1-million tickets. Aspokesman for the paint company employees said he has no immiediate plans for his share of the prize money. None of the other Quebec winners was available for comment. . ; Other $1-million Loto Canada winners include five officers and office worker Serita Hinchey of the RCMP detachment in Fredericton, Mrs, Eunice Loggie, 60, of .Toronto, who shared a winning ticket with her son Robert, 27, and campground owners Jim and June ‘Waldner of. Regina. For the Waldners, the win meant relief from worries about how to pay the bills and stay in business. BILLS ACCUMULATING The couple went into the © campground business three year's ago with other family members but this was the first year operating alone while trying to buy out the rtners, The campground s not Been busy and the bills have been accumu- lating. Waldner said he thought about what he would do if he won $1 million but when it happened, he went blank. . He said they plan to pay off business debts and per! aps add a swimming pool to the campground— after they take a month-long holiday. Mrs. Loggie, a registered nursing assistant in a Toronto hospital for 10 years, checked only the last - very positive response despite interest in such a FASTEST ROUTE — Stewart. said that it was a “ball park encourage northern the BCR route. sees role -as major terminal BABOON’S HEART FAILS TO PUMP By ANDREW PETTER Herald staff writer should serve as a northwest terminus for the British Columbia Railway, Stewart mayor Ian Mebeod said Monday. ' McLeod and private engineering Winston Stothert told the Royal Commission inquiring into'the BCR that construction of a rail link from. Suskeena, ~.288. miles north of. Terrace on the . Dease Lake extension, to. - Stewart would result in an all-BCR route to a deep sea Pacific port. ‘ Stothert said that if the Stewart link went ahead he “would imagine” that it would make unneccessary a roposed rail line from Bus eena to Terrace a Meziadin Lake. VICTORIA (CP)— Opposition leader Dave Barrett called on Energy Minister Jack Davis Monday to force British Columbia Hydro chairman Robert Bonner to either shut up or retract his statements about nuclear power. Barrett said during debate on Davis's budgetary - estimates that Bonner has publicly contradicted the _minister’s stated opposition to development of nuclear power by B.C. Hydro. three digits of her ticket and thought she was a $100 winner, She was about to call her son. when he telephoned her. to say they shared $1 million. — “I've always bought lottery tickets,” said Mrs. Loggie, a widowed mother of eight. ‘I've always kept hoping and hoping but deep down I never expected to win ‘ She and her son said they had planned no radical changes in their lifestyles and would leave the money alone while considering the futures. ' . Weather Yesterday's High: 14 Low: Today's predictions: High: 14 Low: 9 Cloudy with occasional showers The district of Stewart. Tay, be consultant : milea:. : Stewart's plan would still use the proposed section of ‘ween Suskeena and Meziadin, but from there the railway would go directly through the Bear _River pass to Stewart, 119 miles closer than Terrace and 191 miles closer than Prince Rupert. . Stothert produced 1976 feasibility study his company produced for Stewart which claimed that pee iat a realiatic’ $8] of constructing.a railway from Stewart to the Nass River (Meziadin).” He told the commission that rough estimates indicated t a line to Stewart would be $150 million less expensive than a Terrace connection. McLeod and Stothert also pointed out that the Stewart- eziadin route was free of native land claim problems _ for “Commission to establish a and would not need to involve. the Canadian National Railway as in the ease of the other proposal. An all-BCR route would avoid rate sharing and other problems, Stothert said, ’ The Stewart submission also ‘included a proposed harbor development plan the town. Stothert asserted that harbor facilities could be constructed easily and inexpensively at Stewart. He also encouraged the separate crown corporation to carry out new development on the railway. Today, the Commission will hear submissions from the District of Terrace, Kitimat- Stikine Regional District, “the City of Prince Rupert and the Mining Association of B.C. HUMAN CAPE TOWN (CP) —A tient given a baboon’s eart by uth African heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard in an operation Monday died early today, a spokesman at ... Groote Schuur Hoapital here announced, The heart of the baboon was implanted into the patient in a 10-hour operation which, the hospital said, is believed to be the first of its kind : A spokesman at the hospital gaid the patient died at 630 p.m. EDT Monday. BLOOD The hospital said earlier the operation was * perform s0 the baboon might assist the ailing heart of the patient, who was not identified and whose sex waa not given. _._It.added that the patient previously had an aortic valve laced. Dr. Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant in 1967 and accomplished another medical first in 1974 whenhe _ erformed a second ransplant on the same patient, 58-year-old Ivan ‘aylor. HYDRO CHAIRMAN ATTACKED | The New Democratic Party leader asked Davis to show who held the real power with. respect to the Crown corporation and “tell Bonner to shut up.” Davis said in the legislature on Friday that MLA’s VICTORIA (CP) AttorneyGeneral Garde Gardom says his ministry will listen to tapes of ‘undercover police conversations to see if any British Columbia politicians are mentioned in connection with organized crime. Gardom __ told the legislature during question period Monday that he has not heard tapes held by the Co-ordinated Law En- forcement Unit, but he would investigate. CLEU has, for more than a year, held the tapes of a conversation between MP John Reynolds (PC— Burnaby-Richmond-Delta) and a police agent posing as a Malia figure. Gardom said that as far as he knows, there are no other B.C. politiclans involved with the tapes. Gardom’s statement in answer toa question by Alex Macdonald -. (NDP— Vancouver East) followed a CBC television series on organized crime. "Reynolds and fellow Con- —_— servative MP Claude Wagner have said they plan to sue the rown corporation because of the shows, there would be no nuclear plants in B.C. He said the gavernment would continue the anti- nuclear policy of the previous two ad- ministrations for economic reasons. B.C. did not need nuclear power stations because it had other energy alternatives. However, in an interview with the Colonist, Bonner said Friday that provincial government oppesition to nuclear power doesn’t mean plants won't be developed in the future, REALITY IN 10 YEARS Bonner said nuclear power will become a reality in “10 years or so” if alternative energy sources do not meet the province’s needs, The Hydro head also said the corporation had made studies of possibilities for nuclear stations in B.C, In the legislature on Monday, the Social Credit overnment launched a ouble-pronged denial of the Bonner statements. Davis sald that as far as he knew, there had been no specific studies into nuclear power, and if such studies were taking place, he would order them terminated. George Mussallem (SC— Dewdney), the government whip, said he had talked with Bonner since Friday and Bonner-denied making the statements attributed to BREAK-IN Barrett blasts Bonner onN-power him. Barrett called the Buuner statements irresponsible and chided Davis for having so little control over the Hydro chairman. The attorney-general sug: gested at a Social Credit meeting that a ‘‘save Quebec from separation fund” be set up in leu of such payments. He said that B.C, should place equalization yments to Quebec in an interest-earning account pending the outcome of a referendum on ation, Gibson said the notion was an “incredibly stupid suggestion’? which “amounts to political blackmail."’ Commons hears allegation that RCMP burned evidence By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP) SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox began Monday to check a Commons allegation by Elmer MacKay (PC— Central Nova) that RCMP in Montreal destroyed up to — _two tons of confidentlal documents early this month in anticipation of a Quebec inquiry into an illegal raid by police, including the RCMP, in 1972 e Mackay privately gave Fox additional details after the minister said during the Commons question period that he hadn't heard of the alleged destruction. “I gave Francis a bit more material—a few additional details—the name of an officer who was reported to me to have assisted in destruction of the documents,” the Nova Scotia lawyer said in an interview later, MacKay said he had been told by a reliable source that RCMP officers ‘literally cried” as documents and fcles dated as recently aa 1974 ~were destroyed. BEFORE ANNOUNCEMENT The alleged destruction occurred two weeks before Quebec Attorney-General Marc André a roe city announce at Quebec lawyer Jean Keable would carry out an inquiry into why no charges were placed until more four years after the raid without warrant, permed a ‘ ary” y y. € They knew there was cing to be an inquiry,’ acKay said of the Mounties. “It was for this reason the documents were Gestroyed.”’ His informant had assured him it was not a routine matter. “Tf they were destroyed, it had to be for political reasons.’’ . . Le i By ANDREW PETTER transcontinental rail‘ in the Yukon and an connection from Fairbanks within the last month.” roposal b i figure” j H : y Canadian figure’ which had been development in ahy case. _ Herald staff writer proposal. And Richard additional .100 miles in to the panhandle alone But asked after the Props. based on information from _ Asked by Taylor if United Plans to establish at aking of the Alaska British Columbia after would warrant the capital hearings about the Hesaidthe rail link would four railway companies. States funding would end at ! Tans to &6 ab ist a8 rans artment of Commerce completion of the Dease investment. ao province's decision to halt provide a means to “Isuggest itis not inthe the Yukon border should i cont inen i ra. (nk rom and Economic Development Lake extension. - Eakins. said that construction of the Dease transport minerals, refined ball park,” Taylor such a rail link be built, Alas to e cen ra nited said that the state was now it. would link up at ctepresentatives of his Lake line, he emphasized petroleum products, forest responded. Eakings said that it would. ; i eS oe ependent upon preparing togoahead witha Whitehorse with an existing department. had met that unless this northwest products and agricultural akins agreed with L comple ion rv e ease complete, $1 million cost- rail line north from separately with the line went ahead, the goods to the central United Taylor that there ‘‘willbe a The Alaskan delegation’s | \ Lake ra ex ension, benefit analysis of the Skagway on the Alaskan Canadian, Yukon, and B.C. Alaskan plan would not be States, as well as to ship hugequestionmarkover the testimony came d the : : as at : i < ie project. andle, the provincial governments about the viable. — . finished products and food study (in terms of projected first of two days of public Real Coin sek ald ‘he e Alaska proposal cails royal commission was told. proposal and had obtained = However, ‘we are looking from continental United revenues from such a hearings in Terrace by the R emmiss on 2. e for a rail line to be built Asked by commission encouragement, althoughno at a 10 to 15 year time States to Alaska. “ railway) no matter how commission. Chaired by { Be. | way in Terrace from Fairbanks to connect counsel Martin Taylor ifthe commitments had been frame,” he said. When Taylor challenged a detailed your study is.” Mr. Justice Lloyd niiay Al ‘ with the proposed B.C. Rail development of the rail line given. 7 Eakins said that he does cost estimate in the But the | Alaska McKenzie, the three e t's b a : to She line at Dease Lake. =. , was | dependent on Referring specifically to not think it is realistic to preliminary study of $1.2 representative said that the member board has been ari & ae dea e The route would require ‘ completion of the Dease the B.Cgovernment, Eakins expect that crude oil would million a mile to build the railway would serve as a holding public sessions at a commission included a the construction of 297 miles Lake extension, Eakins said said thathehadreceived "a be carried on the rail line railway, an Alaskan official means for governments to number of communities on ;