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The fire which gutted
the Seven Seas resturant
in Terrace on Tuesday
originated in a small
craw] space beneath the
building, a fire depart-
ment official revealed
Thursday. ,

The exact cause of the
blaze has yet to be
determined, said Bert
Roseboom, a Terrace
firefighter. The in-
vestigation will continue

BODY RECOVERED

SECHELT (CP) — The
body of James Downie, 30, of
Pender Harbor, B.C, was
recovered Thursday aff
British Columbia's Sunshine
Coast northwest of Van-
couver, Downie died after a
sailboat
Christmas day, Two othera
who were aboard the boat
made it to shore safely,

VICTIM NAMED

CHILLIWACK (CP) —
RCMP in this Fraser Valley
community said Thureday a
man murdered some time
ago has been identifled as
Victor Nolan, 30, of no fixed
address. His body was
recovered from the south
bank of the Fraser River on
Christmas Day. Police said
he had been shot in the head
and stomach and they
apeculated the slaying oc-
curred upstream about two
months ago.

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capsized on |

today.
After the cause has
been determined, an

assessment. on. the
damage ‘will be made.’ If

the repair costs are
prohibitively high, the

Inspector sifts through ru

Building may have to go

Abe ty?

bble lookin

building will be leveled. A
comprehensive
assessment will not be
made until sometime in
the new ‘year,

4 ’

The restaurant building

was gutted by flames

of

g@ for the cause -

town,

- Thetaste
Says itall.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
leader of British Columbia
Railway's trainmen said
Thursday that the current
atrike will be the longest in
the railway's history.

Ken Lindley, United
Transportation Union
representative on _ the
Council of Railway Unions,
made the comment following
.@ breakdown of informal

talks aimed at getting a re-
' sumption in bargaining.

Lindley said the railway is
adamant that there will be
no settlement until the
unions agree to a reduction
in train crews to two from
three, ,

He said hia union will not
allow the reduction until the
ECR can show it can run the
railway safely.

Lindley sald the railway is
hoping the provincial
government will soon impose
a0-day cooling off period to
end the strike, but Labor

"es
vol

Minister Jack Heinrich has
said he wants the dispute
settled through direct
bargaining.

The longest strike to hit
BCR was a seven-week
shutdown in 1974-75.Con-
servative estimates indicate
the current strike, which
began eight days ago, has
cost the province's economy
at least $10 million.

HURT FORESTRY

Forest company officials
say the strike would
seriously hurt the industry in
early January when

rations gear up a
after the holidays. pee

Train crews were reduced
last year on the major
national railways, but the
BCR unions say the BCR,
with its steeper grades and
greater curves, requires the
third trainman for safety
reasons. .

“We say the BCR is 25
years behind CN and CP in

Cargo shift was
capsizing cause

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
most plausible explanation
for the capsizing of | the
freighter Lee Wang Zin is
that the cargo shifted and
caused the hull to split, says
Prince Rupert harbormaster
Bob Kitching,

The 59,000-ton freighter,
which capsized Christmas
Day . after leaving Prince
Rupert and has become
snagged on rocks off the
Alaska coast, was carrying a
full toad of Iron ore con-
centrate in the form of pea-
sized pellets.

Kitching said when the
ship was first sighted the
keel was not uppermost in
the water as would be ex-
pected, but listing between
45 and 50 degrees.

“That seems to support the
conjecture that her cargo
had moved,’ he said.

He put the survival
chances of any of the 28
missing Taiwanese crew
members at one in many
thousands.

fire. The engine: room could
be 50 feet deep and anybody
down at the lower level
would have that distance to
fall when the ship rolled
over,”

The bodies of two crew
members have been
recovered from the water by
coast guard search teams.

Canadian Coast guard in-
spector Guy Thompson said

it is difficult to belive the'

vessel rolled over because of
shifting cargo unless there
waa also some damage.

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technology,” sald Lindley,
“We say that the day the
ECR is brought up to date,
that ls, when they run it the
same way as CP and CN,
then we say we can talk
about reductlon of crews."

Complicating the manning
issue is the railway's in-
sistence that crew reduction
is a bargaining item for all
unions, while the unions say
-it must be discussed in in-
dividualy with the union
involved, the 400-member

UTU,
* The council has petitioned
the B.C, Labor Relations
Board for a declaration that
the joint council constitution,
written by the LRB,
prohibits negotiations with
the whole council, repre-
senting 2,200 workers, on an
issue peculiar to one of the
seven unions.

He said the union is
prepared to fight the railway
on the manning issue in

@ Long rail sirike seen

arbitration, but it is
management's issue and it is
up to management to choose
that route.

A BCR spokesman said a
shutdown costa the railway
an average of §2 million a
week.

The HCR is an economic
lifeline for much of the In-
terior of the province as it
hauls lumber, grain, coal,
potash, sulphur and other
products to terminals in the
Vancouver area,

The government-owned
railway normally moves
150,000 carloads annually
and 80 per cent of that
business ia generated by the
forest industry,

The railway, which termi-
nates in North Vancouver,
follows Burrard Inlet and
Howe Sound to Squamish,
then cuts through the In-
terior into the northeastern
part of the province.

WEATHER

Northern Mainland, Queen
Charlottes: Cloudy today,
periods of rain easing to a
few showers. Cloudy
Saturday with a few
showers. Highs today 9 to 12
along the coast and near 6
inland, lows tonight 1 to 5.
Highs Saturday near § ex-
cept 4 inland.

Chilcotin, Cariboo, Central
In-terlor; Sunny today with
cloudy periods, cloudy
tonlght with a few showers,

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periods, Mild both days with
highs near 5, lows tonight2 to
zero.

Synopala: The last in the
series of Paclfic systems
should cross northern BC
today. Perl-ods of snow will
accompany the system,
Some clearing is ex-pected In
the south for Satur-day.
Patchy cloudiness and
temperatures In thel5 to25
range are again predicted
for central and northern
Yukon through Saturday.

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