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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 21; 1998

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Short-handed RCMP to get help

Auxilliaries to come

back for Halloween

By CHRISTIANA WIENS
UNARMED, UN-UNIFORMED auxiliary
RCMP officers will be back to work for one
night only on Halloween.

Their presence comes al the request of Mayor

Jack Talstra who moved Friday that city council!

ask auxiliaries for their help an Halloween with
the understanding that the city supports their
position.

“They've decided to come out in civilian

clothes," said Sgt, Darcy Gollan yesterday.

“They'll act the same as Citizens on Patrol -
they! ll report, record and observe what's going
on,

The city made the request while formally
approving an RCMP review panel’s option to
arm and’ uniform auxiliaries as long . as they
were supervised directly.

“This is an important safety issue, * said coun- -

cillor Val George.

The other option — to have unarmed auxilia-
ries work in community policing and crime pre-
vention with varying levels of police supervi-
sion — wasn't feasible. —

“They voted on that already,” said Insp. Doug
Wheler in an interview Friday,

He added the Terrace detachment is short
seven Officers who have transferred out of the
detachment. ,

Gollan said he wasn’t sure when new arrivals

-who. will be. transferred from across the prov-

ince will show up.

“Some of them are promotions ond some are
lateral moves,” he said.

But the detachment desperately needs officers
because of 'a Canada-wide RCMP hiring freeze;

“We're hurting and we're hurting bad,”
Wheler told city council Friday.

The Attomey General's office is expected to
gather municipal decisions on the auxiliary
Options from across the province in six to eight
weeks to make a final decision.

The process is part of Attorney General Ujjal
Dosanjh’s report or Auxiliary policing within
B.C. released last week.

The report also includes an attempt to have
municipal governments pay for part of any extra
auxiliary training needed, said Wheler.

“We're still concerned about safety and even
more so on Halloween, however we felt this
was the best we ‘could do,” said Debbie
Scarborough, an organizing auxilliary member,

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Inspector
Doug Wheler

Two Terrace trustees
out of budget action

School board conflict charge fallout doubles

BROKEN ARROW Society member Carl Healy shows some turrets with the rusting twin barrels of 20mm can-
nons taken in September from a 48-year-old B-36 bomber crash in the Kispiox mountains, The group has been

formed to eventually get the items displayed for the public.

Bomber relics need a home

ANEW SOCIETY is being formed to
bring a piece of Cold War history out
of the wildemess and into public
view.

The Broken Arrow Society came to-
gether Oct. 10 after three gun turrets,
each holding two 20-millimetre can-
nons, were removed in September
from the wreckage of an American B-
36 bomber that crashed in the
mountains north of Kispiox in 1950.

Because the plane first dropped its
atomic bomb over Hecate Strait, the
incident has always been classified as
a “broken arrow’? — the U.S. milita-
ry ’s code word for an accident involv-
ing nuclear weapons, |

The crew bailed out over Princess

Royal Island and set the autopilot to

take the plane out to sea, but some-

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how the bomber — with three engines
afire — tumed and flew a huge 320-
kilometre arc to the northeast before
crashing high in the Kispiox
mountains,

The mystery surrounding the crash
has fascinated aviation buffs for
decades and in recent years items
have been pilfered from the old
wreck,

Broken Arrow Society president
Barry Borutski, an avionics technician
with Central Mountain Air in
Smithers, says the group wants to set
up permanent displays of the artifacts
it removed at the Smithers airport and
in Terrace, possibly at White River
Hel icopters’ base.

““We don’t want people to think this
stuff is going to end up in n somebody's

a

garage,’’ Borutski said, ‘‘We want it
to be on public display.

Rather than being in a regular muse-
um, he said, it should be in an aviation
setting. ;

“We don’t want it to be tucked
away in some forgotten spot next to a
combine or a farm tractor,’’ he said.
“We want to give it a higher profile
than that,”’

Bonttski said the group didn’t real-
ize the site was protected under the
province’s Heritage Conservation Act

when they removed’ items from’ the

wreck.

The cannons and other artifacts were
slung out by a Bell 206 helicopter
owned by White River and carried to

_a container at the company’s com-

‘Continued Page A2

By ALEX HAMILTON

FORMER SCHOOL board chair Roger
Leclerc and trustee Gary Turner have agreed to
abstain from current budget related discussions
in order to avoid risks of real or perceived con-
flict of interest, says newly appointed chair
Linda Campbell.

The move leaves the Terrace area with just
two of its four trustees able to participate in
budget deliberations,

Al a beard. meeting.Oct, 7, Kitimat trustee
Peter King accused Leclerc of being in a con-
flict of interest when dealing with administra-
tive cuts because his wife is an executive secre-
tary in the Terrace board office,

“He has no problem with cutting secretarial
positions in Kitimat and Stewart, but he dis-
agrees with cuts to the board office here,” King
said,

King said he wondered whether Leclerc
would be able to impartially look at administra-
tive layoffs al the Terrace board office.

Leclerc said legal counsel assured him that.
neither he nor Turmer had been in a conflict of

interest in the past and the only way they'd be
in a conflict in the futuré is if they voted in
areas dealing directly with their spouses’ jobs.
To help the board deal with the severity of the
budget deficit and to avoid further accusations,

Continued Page A2

Treaty compensation

talks to hit high gear

THE PROVINCE is moving
to fast-track negotiations to
compensate forest com-
panies and logging con-
tractors affected by the
Nisga’a treaty. ro

Premier Glen Clark named
Bruce McRae, an assistant
deputy minister of forests,
to negotiate for the province
with businesses that will
lose timber and work in the
Nass Valley under the
treaty.

“Although the treaty itself
has not yet been ratified by
the Nisga’a or the federal
and provincial governments,
I believe it is essential to be-
gin negotiating compensa-
tio as soon as possible,”’
Clark said.

“T also belicve that log-
gers should not be asked to
bear a disproportionate
share of the cost of scitling
this treaty, I have therefore
asked Mr. McRae to begin
discussions in this regard
with the Truck Loggers As-
sociation.”

Although the Truck Log-
gers Association (TLA)
represents a number of large
Jogging contractors in this
area, it doesn’t represent
many smaller outfits and
ownler-operators.

Many of

them are

fepresented by the North-

west Loggers Association
(NWLA), who were un-
aware of the announcement
until it came out Oct. 14,

NWLA president Ken
Houiden said his group
wants to be fully involved in
the talks and not merely
have - its members
represented by the TLA's
negotiator,

“ft sounds like we'll be
directly invoived,’’ Houlden
said Saturday after Initial
discussions with McRae,
who could come here as ear-
ly as this week,

Previously, he said, the
government gave no indica-

KEN HOULDEN of the Northwest Loggers Associa-
tion wants ta ensure independent owner-operators
aren't cut out of treaty compensation talks.

tion it would recognize
compensation beyond major
forest ticence holders like
Skeena Cellulose.

“It’s certainly encourag-
ing,’’ Houlden said. ‘‘We
were under the impression
we were getting absolutely
nowhcere."’

A key issue, Houlden
says, is what happens if
Skeena Cellulose trims the
amount of work all its major
evergreen contractors get to
evenly distribute the pain of
timber-cutting lost under the
treaty,

The effect could be
devastating oti some inde-
pendent tuck and equip-
ment owners,

Look at what happens,
Houlden said, when a con-

tractor normally cutting
150,000 cubic metres and
using five independent

truckers to haul the wood
faces a 20 per cent cut.
The . four most senior

truckers survive, he said, but
the last onc on the list loses
all his employment.

“It has the potential of
hitting some individual con-
tractors a fot harder than
others.”

The compensation costs
are to be evenly split be-
tween Ottawa and Victoria.

The province in the sum-
mer released a range of $18
to $25 million as its
estimate of what it will take
to compensate forest indus-
try interests affected by the
Nisga’a treaty,

McRie is to begin talks

with Skeena Cellulose, the

company most affected by
the treaty,

Any agreement developed
with affected logging con-
tractors would form the
basis for discussions with
logging contractors and con-
tractor associations affected
by future treaties in ‘other
regions, Clark indicated.

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