1g ’ about en fer ome eae ean Sonate cE aS Weekend Spring C by Donna Vallieres Herald Staff Writer Among the tragedies which occurred this past weekend in the Terrace area was the death of a 44-year-old Dutch Valley woman. - Tina Doell died inside her burning home on Spring - Creek Road aarenthe ttempting to parently attempting rescue her children who esca from the fire. Other members of the family who escaped from the home were Frank Doell, 46 and children Arlene, 18, Garnett, 17, Rory, 13, and Dorothy, 6. Dorthy remains in Mills Memorial Hospital with burns. The fire was reported / to Terrace RCMP at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, and Thornhill Volunteer Firefighters responded to the call with their tanker truck, but the house was beyond control and burned to the ground, A referendum to establish a volunteer firefighting department at Spring Creek due to take place on Saturday at the voting polls was cancelled by the Kitimat- Stikine Regional District leaving some residents of that area frustrated. passed, the referendum would have given the Spring Creek- tech Valley area fire rotection in uture. “I just hope nothing else happens this win- ter,” stated Tod Strachen, a member on the board set up to plan the volunteer depart- ment, The referendum was delayed to allow talks between the Spring Creek society and the District of Terrace to continue. The two sides are now discussing a joint venture which would allow Spring Creek area residents to contract with Terrace teh near .-Nire Department.for fire protection. Currently, if there is a fire in Spring Creek or _ Dutch Valley, — only volunteers may fight the blaze and the only equipmentallowed outside Terrace and Thornhill boundaries is the tanker truck owned by the Thornhill volun- teers. Strachen spoke highly of recent responses of the Thornhill volunteers, but stated that the short- coming of this method of fire protection was the length of time it takes to travel from Thornhill to Spring Creek. It can take as much as an hour to travel that distance. In an earlier interview, Strachen expresse concern that Spring Creek may have to wait until next spring for fire protection, d we're talking about next while ap- | ; Other local disasters An Alberta man lost his life in a motor vehicle accident Saturday about 30 kilometres west of Terrace on Highway 16. The driver, whose name has not yet been released Sy RCMP pending notification” of ny Was a 50-year-old resident of - Edmonton. He apparently lost control on a curve, taking his truck over to the middle of the highway. The truck spilled anhydrious amonia onto the highway, forcing. a road closure for about eight hours until the fumes could be contained and the vehicle removed. The man was taken ta Mills Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. - An 18-year-old Kleaza Creek girl was taken to hospital Saturday af- ternoon after being “We were talking about fire protection for the winter,” he said. “Now year.” _ Terrace RCMP are still investigating the cause of Saturday’s fire. inned in her car after a ad-on collision with a van on Highway 16 about 15 Kilometres east of Terrace. An ambulance went out to release the girl, whose name has not yet been ‘Teleazed, and she” was Terrace Fire Depart- ment, which operates the ambulence service, is hoping to get Jaws of Life equipment in the near future, according to Fire chief Cliff Best. The Jaws of Life equipment is a giant can opener which can free a trapped victim from an automobile in seconds. Thornhill Volunteer Firefighters responded to a second fire call Saturday in the early ‘hours of the morning when a fire erupted on Mark Road, just off Queensway, The house was 50 per cent gutted inside, but firefighters managed to put the fire out before it completely destroyed the house. . No one was injured in * that blaze. Terrace Mayor Dave Maroney was elected president of the yellowhead 16 Interprovincial Highway Association at the association meeting held during the weekend. He replaces former president Paul Schab in this capacity. Purpose of the association is to promote tourism and travel in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. DIAVVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLDGS YICTORIA BC reek fire ends in tragedy TERRACE ] _dailyherald | 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1977 © VOLUME 71 NO, 140 Honeymoon plane crashes BARILOCHE, Argenting (AP) — A chartered Argentine jet- liner carrying . honeymooning couples and other vacationers to this lake and ski resort crashed during foul weather early Monday. Reports said as many as rsons may have been killed. The national Noticias Argentinas and Telam news agencies reported there were 74 passengers and five crew members aboard. Rescue teams had reached the crash scene about 20 miles from here. As news of the crash was broadcast on radio and television in Buenos Aires, a crowd gathered at the city airport pleading for information about relatives aboard. “Oh, God, please let there be survivors,” wept Ana Bergman, whose sister Paula, 23, was on the airplane with her new husband Saul Weisinger. The Weisingers were married Saturday and were planning a honeymoon elsewhere. “But they changed their plans after I told them about Bariloche,” Miss Bergman said. The British-built BAC- 111 twin engine Austral Airlines jet’ left Buenos Aires on Sunday night on a 1,000 mile non-stop flight to Bariloche, one of South America’s most famous resorts at the foot of the Andes in south- western Argentina near the Chilean border. STARTED SEARCH Driving rains and high winds were lashing the Bariloche area Sunday night and early Monday and, when e plane failed to arrive on time, a search was begun. Noticias Argentinas reported the aircraft experienced landing gear problems while ap- proaching the Bariloche airport. Then the aircraft flew over the airport several times, apparently trying to get the landing gear into position, it said. However, Austral spokesmen could not confirm the report and said they did not know the cause of the crash. Austral is a privately owned Argentine com- pany and competes domestically with the state-owned = airlin Aerolineas Argentinas. Austral also flies to Uruguay. There were Uruguayans, two Brazilians and four other foreigners aboard. The last civil aviation disaster in Argentina two occurred in 1961 when a DC+4 Aerolineas Argentinas passenger plane crashed 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, killing all 67 aboard. In 1975 there were two major crashes of non- commerical planes, one killing 55 military of- ficers and their depen- dents and another killing 34 oil workers on a flight home after a year of work at drilling sites in the Cyclone hits India NEW DELHI (Reuter) — As estimates of the death toll from a weekend cyclone along India’s southeastern coast rose higher than 6,000 people, another cyclone threatened the country's western coast Monday. Bhanu Pratap Singh, India’s state minister for agriculture, said most of the deaths reported so far were due to the collapsing of houses, ‘ The national govern- ment’s official death toll was still less than 1,000, but Samachar news agency reported from the Andhra Pradesh state capital of Hyderabad that the f figure would exceed The cyclone, which moved in Saturday from the Bay of Bengal, struck a 250-mile (400-kilo- metre) stretch of coast in Andhra Pradesh. It was the worst disaster in India since November, 1971, when a cyclone killed nearly 10,000 people in the eastern state of Orissa, VILLAGES WIPED OUT The cyclone, whipping up huge tidal waves that washed awa whole villages, was the second to strike southern India in a week. More than 400 rsons were killed in mil Nadu state the previous weekend. Vengal Rao, Andhra Pradesh chief minister said an 18-foot tidal wave struck the Divi coastal district, washing away men and cattle. Authorities were still recovering and identi- fying the bodies. He said damage wg crops and property wo run into hundreds of millions of dollars. The state government started a rescue and relief operation, dropping food packa es to ma- rooned villages and sending trucks and medical teams to' the damaged areas. | Winnipeggers stranded WINNIPEG (CP) — Residents of Winnipeg and nearby areas were recovering from a weekend storm that left about 20 centimetres of snow and brought most activities to a standstill. __ Atleast one person died in the snow and icy winds that began sweeping into the province from the _Upper midwestern states early Sunday. By late Sunday afternoon, most residents of southern Manitoba and nor- thwestern Ontario had retreated indoors and cleanup operations were halted until about mid- ni unday night. ‘focondar roads and side streets in many municipalities in the region were being cleared Monday. Winnipeg International Airport reopened Monday morning after 20 hours, and the <0 or s passengers stranded by the storm resumed their journeys. Schools in the Winnipeg area were to reopen today. It was the first major storm of the winter for Cardinal gets shuffled OTTAWA Another major troversy is developing over Harold Cardinal, the Indian leader appointed (CP) — con- din February to direct federal Indian affairs in Alberta, Indian Affairs Minister High Faulkner is under heavy pressure to fire Cardinal or at least transfer him from Alberta, where there is increasing opposition against him. Cardinal, 32, was expected to meet Faulkner Monday or ay. Last week the Indian Association of Alberta, (IAA) which Cardinal led for nine years, demanded that he be removed as Faulkner’s Alberta director-general. The posociation said Cardinal § not properly con- sulted Tndlans on reorganization of the Alberta brach of the department. The association is the most powerful Indian group in that province— and one of the most in- fluential in Canada. Observers say Faulkner is in a tight spot and that Cardinal is fighting to retain his job and his credibility. Meanwhile, Joe Dion, IAA president, was not angwerin elephone calls one the matter Monday. A secretary indicated he might be making a statement later. most of southern Manitoba, but the second for southeastern regions of the province and north- western Ontario. Winnipeg had about 23 centimetres of snow and winds that gusted up to 90 kilometres an hour. ROADS, SCHOOLS OPEN The storm was less severe in southwestern Manitoba, where most roads were open Monday and children in school divisions such as Brandon and Turtle Mountain attended classes. Northwestern Ontario bore much of the brunt of the storm. In the Kenora area, most stores, offices, banks and schools were closed Monday. The death attributed to the storm in Manitoba occurred near Ste. Rose, northwest of Winnipeg. RCMP said Romeo Stanley Knockhaert, 36, of Ste. Rose died Sunday when his vehicle got stuck and he left it to try to get help. The weather con- tributed to seven weekend deaths in Min- nesota, six in a traffic accident late Saturday night near Maple Plain. North Dakota reported two deaths, both because of heart attacks ap- parently brought on by overexertion. Election correction Ballot figures were incorrectly quoted in Kitimat-Stikine Regional District election figures but the error does not alter the results. Returning officer for the regional district Lucy i reported that Corbin King received 104 votes a8 opposed to the 94 votes previously reported. at still puts King in Second place ato winner Alice Chen-Wing who received 160 votes. In third place is Allan McColl with 80 votes. ’ af