— pe ee old Remo residents have a beet. In fact, they have quite’ bif. : chang ged. from. of beef and It Is hotding-up traffic on the road out. there. some: will to closed:r: _- residents have complained, through the Thornhill. advisor " group to the’ ministry of agriculture 1 that the area should: b NDP. claim coal. price will be even higher athe bidy of the. i, Dr. Hog, bas errace, ‘resident, - redrick:.,: - Hoge. ‘dnd : “fengive, sare 7 Willjbald: Marx of South « Hazelton have been‘ named~ as, vietims:, after. " airplane, hit some. trees and ». sev 7 pen into the ‘Sheena’ River right ° ' an exe ~The body. of the’ passenger:: ‘Dr. Willivald rat 0 South |, site.on the Sati _ « Skeefia. River ‘about:6. p. me . said: Sergeant.Ron: Mengan® of the Hazelton RCMP. The: aircraft t was taking off “ah . ‘at Absit 4:25 -pit he -aitberne when it: ran inte verde <- SEpteaTive LawRART ’ “(PARLTAMENT BUILDINGS," _ VEGTORIAs: B. dey oo a cour. , cwapte “from Gerard, Wa lev's- ~ private: fanding- strip: an Salmon (River: Itoatt, near Glen, Vowel. approximately : 1miles. from New dageiton, “the: airplane. Bekingéd IG -Hogg. and is, 4-single-erigine, fixed-wing alreralt: ‘It was che: paid. a smite sare uf “diffie ult “atid collided with the ‘tap a darge vedier: tte, “was part of a stand of trees . separating. the Airstrip, from the Skeena Rivet, Hee ~ that. Witness a sy. \owards “the. ‘und of the | runway, ‘the plane batiked tu, _ the, Jef And hil. ne. of the aera | was afloal-fora-short. time - trees “tt conlintied to turn 12 nats, estimate nd Mengan. | sharply ‘To the Jeft-and wont - The wee. “Skeena, . “the major. portion, af the aircralt ‘was seen. by more people about one ta 1! “miles farther down the river: The ‘plane seemed to be on top of the river, . then ‘submerged and didn't come: up again, said .Mengan. The area was searched by a . down: in. the middle.’ cot the Ubservers. suid, ihe: plane before it- submerged and was carried rapidly downstream - ‘in the fast flowing river, The river there travels at about °, Iwo river boats and an aircraft ‘last night and seurches hegan firs, thing: Friday morning. . Livers can’t go. down because the river is 50 fast, Mengan_ said. ° , The federal ministry. of transport will be notified today so they can investigate ~ here, aa s ( lle ( | the crash, tthe provincial transportation coroner will be investigating the accident on on of the province, he sai Hogg ‘'WwaS_ A radiologist He flew to Hazelton frequently to work ‘at the . hospital there, Marx was an | Xray technician. . " agen STEEL. 7 ~ SALVAGE LTD: |, oy “a d., Pr. hot eo ee WE uy. copper, brass, all pias, “> cWattattes, ate, Call as - Weare: Volume 74 No. 124. —™ (7 Westend Food Mart = ‘ Open Chevron . 6:30am -Hpm — ‘ Open 635-5274 Y aT ap . “We Satisfy Tummy F Tank MBDAYSA YEAR" of Chevron: Service ™~ Westend — Sen “ ‘in i. thw Si. 6 ames: Ls A. e ‘blocking ‘ratfic ‘an Kemano i ' By GAIL DOTINGA Herald Staff Writer Norman. Johnson, the president of the. Association of Professional Engineers of B.C. said people should not ~ be overly. concerned with the. - égvironmental impact of the Kemano completion project fanned by the Aluminium Company of ‘Canada. wes don't want to see the en- vironment, destroyed -either." |: Speaking ' on: controversial, Johnson said the association was ;disap- Pointed with’ ihe: Provincial Rovernment's’ “ban “.. on: uranium mining.“ They feel the option to mine should: be d Thursday re pt He presen small in comparison: to- mae a -hatural -disaster’ like: the ‘eruption of Mt: St. ‘Helens or _@ forest’ fire. ean dd to. the environment.’ . — . a wo : - os "square miles and the - 2en. ang ui eet can, roam at No minor ofthe water eyel by the mudflows and ash. fall from: Mt.. St. Helens,"’ ‘~ -Jobinsoii | said. - oy , VICTORIA (cP) — The | Japanese steel industry will © ' have to pay between $30. and $85-a tonne for northeastern: British Columbia coal, well ' above. the $72 a tonne estimated by: ‘industry - sources, Gary Lauk (NDP -- Vancouver. Centre) - sald ureday, at Th ” Lauk, the former NDP™ ; economic development minister, said if. the nor-: theast coal project is not .: “heading for’ Japan. handled: carefully, Sit) wil: have avery serious fiegative effect: ‘on the: southeast coal fa ‘povernmenty : have been J region. y ar 1 The: apancse currenty VANCOUVER (CP}- With six: weeks to go tothe July 31-close of the current crop year, grain terminals in Vancouver and Prince . Rupert are close to matching the loading total set for the - entire 1978-79 crop year. Former man - told he can’t be a nun too TORONTO (CP) — A man who underwent a sex-change operation and. applied to be- come an Anglican sun has - heen turned down. by a Toronto convent. The transsexual’s request was. denied by St. John's Convent, Bishop Hugh Stiff, deay of Toronto's Anglican diocese, said Thursday. Stiff sald Mother Frances Joyce felt ‘she had enough problems without taking that + Sa are getting. their BC. coal from the southeastern part ‘of the province, “arid. com: panies there say. they have - “sufficient reserves to meet Japanese needs; * Representatives - of ‘three. major coal ebmpanies are “negotiate a 1-year ‘contract. for *the.- ‘purchase. metallurgical “Coal _ trom: northeastern B.C.: The long term value of -the-sale ha -been: estimated vate: #3 Pattling: over. who will pay. : through Prince Rupert’ ‘ to. for “developrient of: ‘the | northéast: - coalfields;. .in-": cluding a 115-kilometre rail.’ : _way spur. line into thé ‘area. "The province has decided the B.C. ‘taxpayers |. would fipance the: development ‘g Prince Rupert saying it is up“ the: > federal government to. nce it. F auk. : ‘said: the Gtests' ‘very strongly" te act that private’ companies “now are negotiating a -déal,” and the entire. pablic of B.C; Vis: left’ in’ the’ dark as: to: rg subsidy we'll ‘be ‘paying: oe ubsidy to. private coni-. panies 1 ‘the northeast.!,.°°° 55-5 ‘f.the ‘negotiated. rice’ is around. $80 4 tonne, Lauk. ‘ said, the province will: ‘he. By midweek, the elevators _had shipped out eight million tonnes ‘grain, just 300,000 tones short .af the previous crop year, a Canadian Wheat : Board official said, Ed isaac said it appears the two West Coast ports will get up to nine million tonnes by July 31, equalling and possibly surpasalng a record set in 1972-73, - ‘The Canadian transport commission anticipates CP Rail and Canadian’ National Railways together can maintain.a [low-of 3,000 tars . a week to Vancouver for the balance of the. crop year. Prince Rupert is getting about 500 cars a week and is ‘wind up paying about a $10 a - tonne subsidy because of the . -governnient’s responsibilites ° for-support services." “Now if we ship 2 million © _ tonnes.a year in the first few years, that.will be §50 million .@ year in subsidies," he said, Industry Minister Don’ Phillips says development of northeast coal will not need to be subsidized. He also refuses to give Lauk any projected tonnage prices, saying’ stich a disclosure before. the coal. companies ‘sit..down to hegotiale with thé Japanese’. would be “He sald complete cost ber. would be released ter. ; set to break a loading record - : established last year. B.C. was to provide $4 mil- . lion. towards the $42.5 million Isaac said one possible im- - pediment to loadings is the reluctance of Prairie far- . -mers to dispatch barley to country elevators. estimated cost of. developing Ridtey Island a8 a grain ter- minal. Other pattters in the project. are the federal and Alberta governments, But, it has: led out: of a a ofe Hor. .. }} ‘port at ‘Raley, felon: hear *- “ “There should. be some cls, Tes “ eoncern about the en- __j°- vironment, Jolingon said. aca talks. ‘wait on strike vote ’ VANCOUVER (CP) Contract — negotiations covering 45,-000. - B.C... con- - struction workers broke: °- down Thursday ‘with each side entrenched over. one issue while awaiting the outcome of a province-wide strike vote, - Hoy Gautier, president of the 17-union B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, said management refused to budge on its rejection of the unions’ key demand for a ‘common affiliation clause .. which would allow any of then’ .to stop work if os tradesmen not affiliated with ’ the council were working on thé same project. Gautier said results of the strike’ yote are - expected about July 10 or 11. ‘No further negotiations are scheduled now he said. The olher oulstanding issue, “None of us ‘want a -wasteland left for our children. fo : on point Johnson would to remind: the public Tat! is that- the engineers who do the studies on the an environmental - impact are” a wage and benefits’ people who live here too. package, was not discussed al. Thursday’s meeting. Terrace arena The. hill oulside of the- arena Is losing some of it’ s elevalion. There are several reasons for this project; one being that it was-virtually impossible to landscape the area because it was too sleep. — . The second reason was that the hill slumped down every vear, dnd in order to widen Kalum Street, the - City would have to build a large retaining wall.” It was decided to kill two birds with one stone. They'll bring the hill down to the Point where it can be “The flooding : of .a' few says ho ia’. The trade off between the “ to produce . . Clectricity for resale‘and.the * environméntal impact has to.” "There is the possibility of. minor damage to’ the -en- ~ economic development, " “Some of us wouldn't be . _ Kemano completion. project, - “Some of them are hunters’ and: sportsmen, -and they” Alcan - VANCOUVER. (CP) Aluminum Co. ‘of Canada Ltd. officials said Thursday federal Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc can nol’. ‘order them to increase the level of the Nechako River in north-central B.C. Fisheries officials say-the - -iriver's ‘water flow must be doubled to protect” this ‘summer's salmon run and LeBlanc has asked the company to-do so. “It is our understanding the minister can request .this, and he has.done that," sald company - spokesman ' Les Holyrod, adding Alean ~ does not believe LeBlanc has the power to order them to ‘- increase the levels. today if people had thought | The aluminum company, which sets water levels depending on -—s the requirements of its Kemano power ‘station, operates under an agreement with the province and reports to B.C. - > water officials, Holy rod said, He said fisheries officials are meeting with Alcan in an attempt to reach a com- promise. Fisheries officials maintain that their .depart- ment can order water lévels - raised if, as they believe, current levels would affect - _ salmon returning to the river to spawn. Alean maintains the current flow level — 500 cubic feet a second — will not harm salmon and the lower level is mecessary to maintain hydro-electric out- put next year. - . " dhother ‘from treated. nuclear wasies is-trivial, sald Johnson... The . gathering. or all available information on the subject ‘could’ have’ ‘been valuable to both the pro and con forces said, Jphnéon. — ..“The work was terminated , ‘before all the facts weré in:. the government cut It off in mid- stream.” + should ‘une place. - For one, the Jurisdiction of authority “had to be set. There should be no doubt as - to who is responsible for Safety and operations. ; Johnson feels there could - . ‘be a problem: in. establishing _an authority. responsible to ‘the public between the federal and provineial so. that none ' of the: waste . products .or : “materials: gets into the énviroriment.” The association’ also - recommends very strict safety.. regulations for the workers. ‘The dest possible par- ticipation by local people In the whole decision making process is advocated by the association. If that is done, then no one will be ‘able to say. they didn’t know, said Johnson. * He also added that the technology for that type of mining is available; it's just a matter of collecting. it and transferring it to B.C. was The ‘asséciation ‘pleased: with a recent statement: from *' Tom Waterland, minister of ‘forests, who said that the provincial government has not ruled out uranium mining forever. : Johnson stressed that the association is nota special interest group. One of thelr main goals Is to protect the - public. Johnson was visiting the area for several days to meet with the northern branch of the association... The ‘association. represents ap- proximately 10,000 prac- icing professional engineers in gets new view landscaped and at the same time they will no longer need to build a retalning wall. ‘ City crews will be out there for the next two or three days. When the hill is down to the right size, it will be turned over to the Parks Branch for landscaping. The Superiniendent of Public Works, Gene Thomas, said that it will also improve the view from the arena, _ “Right now, when you look out from the arena, you don't feel like you are in a park, but this should en- tirely change the view, especially with the work that’s being done on Loyer L ate Park."