Pade A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 28, 1993 TERRACE — The New Demo- cratic Party candidate in the next federal election thinks the Amer- ican military is behind some planned seismic tests up the Port- land Canal, oo A group of American univer- sities ‘will use sonic guns and measure the returns’; from’ the ocean floor, said Joc’ Barrett last week of a report thal arrived in a . plain brown envelope. — Although the official reason is io learn more about the sub-ocean structure of the carth, Barrett thinks the tests will help Amer- ican submarines who have a base just north at Ketchikan, Alaska, ‘It's the ‘final canal before Beam Channel where the subs go. I wouldn’t-be surprised if the in- formation will be. used to help them hide out,” said Barrett. The sub base at Back Island is used to test how quiet the subs can be, Barrett sald the use of 20 sonic guns will kill fish and other aquatic life in the Portland Canal. “In that canal, three-quarters of a mile wide, who knows what the acoustic repercussions will be,” he said. Barrett also questioned the test- ing because it’ll affect Canadian waiers. . He said the American univer- _ sities have applied for permission to do the tests in Canadian Liberal hopeful says jobs key issue in the northwest TERRACE — The biggest is- sues in the northwest are unem- ployment and lack of job ap- portunities, says the newest can- didate named for. the upcoming federal election. | Prince Rupert resident Rhoda Wiitherly, selected by the Liberal party Saturday, said there is not a lot of new development going on. “‘T believe the federal govern- ment has to look at ways to get people to work,’® she said. “You can talk about the deficit but one way of reducing that is to put people to work. The more’ people that pay iaxcs, the more the deficit will: decline,” Wither- ly added, Witherly, From front Job loss man years of employment dis- appear overnight and total direct/indirect income fall a quarter to $20 million. By year 60 the number of actual man years of employment would have crept- up by. 10 while directfindirect- income would have increased by $200,000, wKkKKKK The spring timber Teview cautioned = — that “uncertainties in-; data indicate that this assessment of . timber availability may be optimistic, at least for the next few decades. “*Kalum Forest District staff be- lieve (the volume of wood) in ex- istt cent’, it continned,. And if that was the case, an im- mediate reduction of five percent © would be necessary" to ensure there was not a timber shortage in 110-130 years time, an a. Prince 7 Rupert alderman, defeated Kispiox Val- ley resident Mary McKenna Wil- son. The voting took place via a traveling ballot box. Votes were first cast in Prince Rupert and then in Terrace where the count occurred, Liberal officials from the riding and from Vancouver said ballots were issued to 105 people and 103 votes were cast. But the officials declined to Teveal. the exact results, saying it is against Liberal party policy io do so, Present at the vote in Terrace were Terrace. mayor Jack Talstra, Kitimat mayor Rick Wozney and uit Hazelton mayor Alice Mait- land, Also present was Juanita Hat- ton, who ran provincially here in 1991, Hatton had announced her can- didacy this time but did not get enough people to sign her nomination papers, Hatton said last week that an update memberthip list was delivered to her too late. A Smithers resident at the meet- ing said a voting session should have been held in that town. Failure to. do that, he said, resulted in the area being isolated. 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Barrett wouldn’t disclose where the information came from or to whom it- went before it was passed to himself. “The thing arrived in a plain brown envelope to a researcher — a member of the election plan- ning team,’’:he said, _ Barreit also said he has yet to independently verify the accuracy of the information, The: candidate also declined to release the contents of the docu- menis-other than to talk about * what they contained. “IT want to see the reaction of the Minister.of Defence and the Minister of Fisheries in this coun- try. I want-to see how the govern- ments react,’” said Barrett. Yet the candidate. did promise to release the documents this week. When told that the tone of Bar- rett’s comments were similar to those of retiring MP Jim Fulton, he replied, ‘Kind of reminds me _of my old man, too.”* Barrett’s father, Dave Barrett, is _ the Member of Parliament for a suburban Victoria riding and was premier of B.C. 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