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Dyck, manager of the new Skeena Mall.
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cOMP. 77/73

remove the electrical vault for the Skeena Mall

outside the east entrance of the mail. The vault
is the nerve centre of the mall.

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Demonstration
turnout poor

Terrace-Kitimat Airport Fire Department held a
demonstration near the runway Saturday af-
ternoon. Due to the poor turnout by the public

IN HOUSTON |
Pair found,

the fire hall may not hold such demonstrations in
the future. The firemen had the 6500 gatlons of
fuel aut in a couple of minutes.

A Progressive _Con-
servalive sweep? A Liberal
rout? A stand-pat decision?

Pay your muney and take
your pick as voting begins
today in a record 15 federal
byelections.

More than 900,000
Canadians have a chance to
mark ballols and formally
tell federal leaders and their
parties how they stack up
politically in advance of next
year’s general election.

Predictions of the cut-
come, however, are as
varied as the ridings at
stake.

Conservatives, hoping to
eash in on what they per-
ceive to be an anti-
government, antiTrudeau
mood in the cuuntry, say
they should take 10 of the 15
seats, up from the six they
captured during the last
general election in 1974.

New Democrats,  op-
timiste for similar reasons,
have their eye on “four,
perhaps five,” an aide to
Jeader Ed Broadbent said

Sunday.

But he added that the
party is placing as much
imporiance on pupular vole

as it is un seats. Even if it
loses all 15, the party plans Lo
regard the results as nothing
mure than ‘‘an unfortunate
roll of the dice’ as long as it
increases its share of the

'
popular vole, he said.

In 1974, the NDP touk only
one of the current byelection
ridings—Brvadview in
Toronto.

Liberals, for the must part,

are keeping iheir guesses to
themselves. But party
planners say they would be
cantent with five and pleased
. with seven, the number they
won in the 1974 election.

Posties may defy the

OTTAWA  {CP)-Pustal
workers will defy a back-to-
work bill if hey are ordered
lo remain on the job under
current conditions, union
leader Jean-Claude Parrut
said Sunday.

The federal government
has Lhreatened to introduce a
backto-work bill today and
union execulives were set Lo
meet through the night to
decide whether to fight ur
negotiate.

When Parrot was asked if
he will counsel members to
defy ihe law, he said in
Turento: “I will take my
decision when the time will
come."

Parrot, president of the
23,--member Canadian
Union of Postal Workers
(CUPW), was to tell acting

Labor Minister Andre

Ouellet today whether the
union will go along with la-
bor department intervention
almed at negulialing a new
contract.

“We have gut demands
and we are ready to
negotiate these demands,"
Parrot said after a CUPW
meeling in Toronto. =~

Voting continues
for the new pope

Black smoke billowing inte
the night frum the chimney
alup the Sistine Chapel
signalled to the wurld
Sunday that the cardinals of
the Ruman Cathulic Church
failed tu elect a successur tu
Pope John Paul I on the first
day of vuling in their secret
conclave,

The 111 cardinal-electors -

CONTROVE

begin a second day of yating
today, with two ballots
scheduled fur the murning
and, if nu pope is elected, two
more in the afternvun.

A: few seconds afler the
black smuke began puffing
from the chimney Sunday
evening, it turned grey, but
the Vatican radiu said the
signal was black.

Byelections decided. today

The contested ridings
reach [frum Humber-St.
Geurge's-Sit. Barbe in
Newfoundland te Burnaby-
Richmond-Delta in British
Calumbia.

order

Huwever, he «ded he has
fuund “from past ex-
perience, it is unly when we
are un the street thal they
start to negoliale.”

The mail surlers and
postal clerks represented by
the union have been without
@ coniracl for 14 months
“and we are subjected right
now to all sorts uf in-
justices.”

He said if the government
introduces a back-to-werk
bill bul dees nvlhing tu
improve working cundilions
for postal workers or un-
derculs provisions wun in the
last contract, he will rec-
ommend defiance of the law.

After the Toronto meeting,
Parrol returned to Oltawa
fur the key mecling with
other executives of his union.

one

HOUSTON, B.C. (CP) —

“ Ohe of twa five-year-old buys “F*

found in dense bush during
the weekend died Sunday
alter the culd and wet ordeal
thal prumpled a massive
search fur them Wednesday.

RCMP in this west-central
Brilish Columbia © com-
munity said Jamie Baxter
died in huspital in nearby
Smithers, B.C. after he was
fuund earlier Sunday.

His companion, David
Crocker, was in satidfactory
condition in’ hospital in
Smithers Sunday night after
he was found in good cun-
dition Saturday in bush
abuul five kilometres frum
his home. He was wearing
only lung underwear and his
eval when found,

lt was nol immediately
known whal Jamie diedfrum
but Harry Vandenberg, who
found the boy lying on rucks,
said his hands and face were
blue and his clothes were
svaking wel when
discovered.

The buys wandered away
frum (he Cracker home on a
rural gravel link te the tuwn
while their muthers were
visiting after school,

Many of the community's
normal activilies stopped as
up 10.400 volunteers, aided by
two helicopters and tracking
dogs, searched fur the buys.
Officials feared they could
nut survive for long in the
bush,

Northwood Pulp Lid, and
Houstun Forest Products,
ihe !own's major employers,
cluged uperations §0 em-
pluyees could juin in the
search, Stores were all but
empty and secures of women
from church groups and
service clubs fed the sear-
chers,

Jamie was found about two
kilometres from where
David was luecated, Van-
denberg said.

RSIAL BUT MUCH CHANGED

boy dies

‘ called.

an amateur.

act",

Shelford replied,
ministers only

such legislation

-the Terrace Social

directors.

SHELFORD SAYS
‘YES, I'LL RUN’

Socred MLA Cyril Shelford announced
Friday evening that he will seek re-election
whenever the next provincial election is

Speaking to the Terrace Social Credit
Association Shelford said, ‘’| can't quit
before the job is finished, besides which |!
wouldn’t want Frank Howard to run against

During his speech Shelford said Canada,
and particularly B.C., must continue to cut
back on the sale of natural resources in a
raw state, part of our problem is that we
do not develop our own resources, there is
always another country getting Into the

In an attempt to emphasize his argument
Shelford claimed that Ontario will be one of
the warst off provinces in Canada, ‘‘they
will become a have. -- not province’.

The Honourable Hugh Curtis, Minister of
Municipal Affairs, who was on hand for the
Socred meeting told the gathering that he
was not in Terrace to convince the ex-
Agricultural Minister Shelford to run again,
“but | just happened to be here’.

“| never
to the

“Il am not changing my mind about
retirement but apparently the people want
me fo postpone it,” Shelford said.

Asked about possible “‘Right to Work’’
legislation Shelford replied, ‘“‘we would need
a substantial majority of people In support
of such an action before we could consider

Prior ta Shelford’s address new officers of
Credit party were
elected; C. Harter was elected president,
Lavone Holt, treasurer,
eJong, Helen Jefferson were named

listen to
people’’.

E. Chiten, W.

Carter’s energy plan finally wins approval

WASHINGTON (CP) —
The United States Congress
gave Jimmy Carter lhe
biggest domestic victory of
his presidency Sunday,
wearily approving a nalional
energy plan that had
changed a lot since it was
first sent (o Capitol Hill 18
months ago.

‘The 95th Congress sent the
White House a package thal
Includes dricing provisions
for Alaskan natural gas to be

moved to ihe lower 48 slates
via a praposed §$10-billion
Pipeline thruugh Canada.

Critics said the energy
plan will cost U.S. con-
sumers (ov much and
produce few new energy
reserves,

Bul carter saiu lhe
package “will advance utr
national security, insure uur
freedom of actign in foreign
affairs and protect our

ecunumie interesis al hume
and abroad.”

Members of the House uf
Representatives finished
their 231-ta-168 vole for the
energy program at 7:32 a.m.
EDT, shortly after dawn
bruke over an aruund-the-
clock legislative session.

John McMillian, chairman
of Northwest Alaskan
Pipeline Co., called the
House vote ‘‘a major
legislative milestone

marking the end of nearly 25
years uf cungressiunal
debate un natural gas.”

“The U.S. has taken a
giant first slep toward the
development of an effeclive
national energy program,"
McMillian said in a
statement.

The legislation stirred
bilter controversy and ils
outcome was in doubt almost
until the end.

Hefure the final House
vole, Senalur James
Abourezk (Dem, 5.D.) led a
15-hour Senate filibuster
against( a coljection of
energy taxesand lax credits,
delaying not only final ap-
prival uf the program but

also cungressiunal ad-
journment.
The five-parl energy

package is a far weaker one
than Carter sent lu Congress

un April 20, 1977, as ‘the
moral equivalent of war."
A mublti-billion-dollar (ax
on crude wil, which Carter
anee termed the centrepiece
of the program, and a five-
cent-a-gallun tax on gpaseline
were drupped as the
measure worked its way
through Congress.
Nunetheless, the measure
marks the first attempt (ou
uvercume widely divergent
tegional and economic in-

leresis and enact a unified
policy (yu increase energy
production and encourage
conservalion.

A parallel gual is a
reduction af imported vil.
The Uniled Stales nuw uses
aboul 16 million barrels of-vil
daily, importing abuul half
thal amuunt.

Carler’s energy advisers
claim the energy program
approved by Congress will

reduce that -by 2.5 million
barrels daily, impruving the
position of the U.S. dollar
abruad and enhancing
confidence in ihe U.S, ecun-
omy among its trading parl-
ners.

Besides that, the president
had staked his political
credibility on the legislation,

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