(" _ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. | ( < WEATHER PER we buy BRASS | COPPER ALLMETALS & BATTERIES Cloudy MON, - SAT. a> with Showers OPEN TIL & p.m. (Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5630) Thursday, August 31, we | f i 19 i. nt Pastor Frank Johnson of the 7th. Day Adventist Church in Terrace was in to visit the HERALD office paratory to embarking on . he: Annual ‘Ingathering= - Appeal of his church. The door to door canvass will be, conducted from September 10 to 22. oe The Adventists have had a Gas Strike Pastor Frank Johnson congregation in Terrace for over 20 years, with a present membership around one hundred, in 192 countries recognized by the United Nations. For years they operated. a - mission boat - the Northern Light - on the B.C, west coast. ; Opening of By Donna Vallieres ing of the new Skeena Shopping Mall in Terrace slated for November 5 could be delayed if striking Pacific Northern Gas Workers refuse to allow natural gas installations to the building. A spokesman for the PNG union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) = are threatening to “escalate actions’ against the com- pany if a Labour Relations Board decision goes in the union's favour. . The labour board is ex-: pected to make. a formal ruling as to what sites. the IBEW can picket and also to make another attempt at. mediating the -three-month old strike. : IBEW workers withdrew their pickets from the Grizzly Valley Pipeline facilities built by Westcoast Transmission two weeks ago pending the labour board's decision on picketing and the union and Pacific Northern Gas went into another bargaining session. Pacific Northern Gas is a subsidiary ‘of Westcoast Transmission. Talks broke down again last week when no headway was made in either side’s bargaining position. © “The company made a few minor concesgions,”’ an IBEW spokesman said, “but they’ still avoided major A,,.atrong. missionary , chureh;-the-Adventists- work: ° Funds collected during the September drive for mission work will be used for self education. projects in belp 1 underdeveloped . . countries, . ‘disaster’; relief; community -: aid, health and education and spreading the Gospel. Less than seven per cent of all funds collected go to administration. Ganadian $ Going Down MONTREAL (CP) The Canadian dollar closed below the 87 U.S. cent level on New York money markets Wednesday for the first time since April, as traders attributed the decline to general weakness in the currency, - The dollar closed at 86.93 U.S. cents on the inter-bank wholesale market, down 17- 100 from Tuesday's closing quote of 87.10 cents. One trader said com- mercial demand for U.S. dollars helped pull the Canadian dollar down. He also cited a continuing lack of confidence in the Canadian economy ‘among currency investors. The dollar last reached 86.93 cents—its Lowest point in 45 years—on April 13. At one point Wednesday it’ dipped to 86.85 cents. G.M. Contre Has Closed for Aug. «The Child Minding Centre which has been closed for the month of August will be reopening with an open house on Friday, September 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at their new ‘location at 4542 Park Avenue, . The centre will be taking children beginning Tuesday, September 5. ..Children up to the age of six can come to the centre for a maximum of three hours, twice a week for a fee of $1.50 per hour, or $2.50 per family. .»Parent are welcome to the open -howse to - say goodbye:to the former staff}. and to greet the new staff and tour the new centre, ..-Refreshments will be served. - ..For more information, zall 638-8211. ‘ Could Delay Skeena Mall. issues.” The union is claiming that Pacific Northern Gas is irresponsible in letting the strike continue this long because of possible dangers to the natural gas system due to lack of maintenance. The IBEW is waiting for the Labour Relation’s Board | decision before taking any further action against the company, but the union spokesman stated that “as far as the union is concerned, no new construction will get natural gas until the strike is over.” This would mean that the Skeena Mall, various other commercial building and a number of houses under construction would be delayed: if construction unions honoured the IBEW picket lines outside of these facilities. The company’s 32 technicians and field maintenance workers. erti- ployed on its gas line bet- ween Prince George and Prince Rupert went on strike June 5 after failing to negotiate a first contract. The union has been-trying to get a first contract with the gas company since May, 1977. . Main demands by the employees include union recognition, job security and ‘clarification of ~ jab descriptions. -- Mew Nerthland Service for Northwest VANCOUVER (CP) — Canadian Pacific Express and CP Rail’s Northland service have established a new transportation service for shipments of up to 20,000 pounds of cargo between northwestern Columbia and other parts of Canada, a CP Rail British spokesman said Tuesday. The service, which started Monday, provides a through routing ona single bill of lad- ing, linking all points across Canada served by CP Ex. preas with Kitimat, Terrace,, Prince Rupert an surrounding communities. B. D. Margetis, CP general manager for coastal marine operations in Van- couver, said the service will provide shippers in the Kitimat, Terrace and Princé Rupert areas “with direct access to all points in Can- ada served by CP Express.” The Northland service was - established Jan. 1 this year when CP took over the marine and trucking operations of the Northland group of companies. The Northland servic provides a twice-weeklY marine freight servict between Vancouver and Kitimat and connecting highway service to Terrace: Prince Rupert and outlying communities. _ Kayna Hudson Bay Herring Chokers About 30 years ago a Manitoba MLA floated shares in a whaling factory for the processing of white whales for oil. The venture failed. Years later a Canadian and the US president of Hickock Leather Co, re-activated the idea and modernized the plant. Just as it came into production the Canadian Government stepped in, with impossible restrictions, and killed it. The Government, which had run native schools to train whalers and guides for tourist sports whaling had to operate the factory was then forced to pay the new company high rental costs to use the factory. _ The government next built a tourist sports whaling molel - right alongside the © whale factory! Local hotel owners protested govern- ment competition and the matel was forced to close. The quota for killing white whales was'700a year In the Churchill River alone. Hudson Bay is home for approximately 12,000 of these interesting, gentle mammals - who have been captured, tagged, tattooed, examined, had harmonicas played to them to determine if they have an ear for music, and ridden, rodeo fashion, by Native taggers employed by the government. The Eskimoes, who protested their harvesting as a threat to their ‘natural’? food supply now are admonished not to eat them because of a dangerously high mercury level, One of the tests conducted by the Hickock Leather company proved the white whale can be skinned twice - a leather can be obtained, af high quality from the outer. | hide and the inner “‘muktuk”’ layer. At times whale carcasses were lined up, hitched ta telephone pole booms, when machinery breakdowns delayed processing and their bodies rotted in the sun, giving off a powerful stench for miles. The odour at- tracted hundreds of polar bears - and the bears have remained a problem and a danger ta the townsite of Churchill ever since, There is much, much more to this story - but the above will give an example of what can happen when well meaning but incompetent officials decide to make a killing from our natural regources. Happily, the whales are on the increase «and the polar. . bears have multiplied to the . | extent no one knows what to do about them. Conversely thetown where it all started - Churchill - onee boasting a population of 7,000 is now on theendangered list, with less than 1,200 residents - mostly welfare recipients and welfare administrators. The above two whales (actually belugas) - six year old Kavna and three year old Sanaq, at the Vancouver aquarium, through no fault of thelr own, have also ended up on the Welfare Rolls, . BULLETIN: BEER STRIKE VANCOUVER (CP) — A majority of striking and locked-out British Columbia brewery workers voted Wednesday to accept a new contract. It was net immediately known when members of the United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distiliery Workers Union would return to work to end the strike-lockout which be- gan May 96 because Victoria local workers have rejected the conditions for a return to work. The companies had said they wanted an acroas-the- _ board acceptance af the two- year deal at all four breweries, Union spokesman John Langley sald Wednesday evening after the vote that brewery employees were prepared to go back to work in Vancouver and New Westminster at the call of the companies. He said it was up to the breweries to work out a settlement with the Victoria employees. . STRIKE STARTED , The dispute began with a strike May 26 at Carlin O'Keefe and escalated to a lockout June 8 at Molson's, . ‘Labatt's and Columbia Brewerles in Creston, B.C. Langley said Victoria La- batt's workers voted 70 per cent to accept the agreement, but 80 per cent turned down the conditions of a return to work. He said Carling O'Keefe workers in Vancouver voted 74 per cent in favor of the contract, Molson’s Van- couver employees voled 57 per cent in favor, and Labatt’s workers in New Westminster appraved the agreement by 5i.per cent. Earlier, Langley has said that a strike fund for union brewery workers could last only one more week, Union members had been receiving about $55 a week in strike pay. Langley told about 200 em- ployees of Labatt's New Westminster brewery thal the lack of strike funds was why he was asking the 1,000 union members to vole on a slightly-revised contract offer from the companies. “Hits a settlement it won't be a popular one,” he sal before the vote. "At best the vote will be touch-and-go." He said the employers still hadn't ‘come up to what we want in COLA (cost of living adjustinent clause}." Tt ie deal # a Ft Fa re allow him to grow all the vegetables and flowers he can care for by himself. Pictured above Mrs. Grace Mantel is ready early in the morning for customers who normally flock to her booth on Kalum St. some three blocks north of Lakelse St. Mrs. Mantel and her husband Jacob owned and operated a flow, hop in town for many years. Mrs. Mantel still grows and sells her flowers from his booth located in front of her home. —