eprerir cette 2ARG : YIOPIETA bE City did the job but just a bit too quickly after which time the paving work begins. After final e ee t : LPs mee soe ? a different view. He says bylaws are only needed doubt a contract existed between the residents and the By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer city. There is some difference of opinion between Terrace council and the municipal administrator as to whether the legal procedures for a local paving project were properly followed. The misunderstanding centres around one of six local improvement project bylaws receiving first readings at Monday evening's session of the Terrace district council. It seems the paving of Gare Avenue was ac- complished by the zealous city administration before the bylaw was formally read in council. Usually. the bylaw receives first and second reading in council, costs are in, a final bylaw with a final security issuing to pay for the work is passed. “It came as a bit of a surprise to me,”’ said Alder- man Jack Talstra. “The bylaw should have been read before the work took place.” Another alderman Helmut Giesbrecht agreed that oversight was “careless but not critical.” He says while the administration is at fault for paving a street before the bylaw is formally passed, the intention to do the work had been established beforehand. Property owners on Gare Street had actually petitioned the municipality to do the $14,070 paving job. However, municipal administrator Bob Hallsor took beforehand, if the paving projects obligates the: municipality to borrow funds. “Because it was a relatively minor project, we had sufficient monies from our own funds,” he said in noting the money was taken from genera] revenues. One question raised by the procedure is whether the Gare Avenue residents are now legally obligated to kick in their share of project. Talstra who is a lawyer, says the residents were the ones whohad “petitioned and agreed” to the work. He says this clearly established intent on their part. He says that despite the “‘irreguiar' process, there is no Roy Clark, a senior administrative officer for the ministry of municipal affairs in Victoria, told the Herald that, In general, municipalities are supposed lo give first and second readings to bytaws before paving projects are completed. He added the Gare Avenue project was something “that happens on occasion, especially with paving projects." . Clark said the project could legally go ahead if the residents in the area don’t raise formal objections. He noted thatif funds are tobe borrowed the municipality must receive formal approval for a security issuing bylaw from. the inspector of municipalities. ‘a +4 i RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd.. Pr. Rupert 624-5639. WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - We are open Mon. through Sat., 8 am-S pm. > Scan Wednesday, November 28, 1979 dail } 20¢ Volume 73 No. 229 De, Taxes hang the oil talks By DOUG LONG OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Clark sald Tuesday a dispute with Alberta over the method of taxing higher petroleum industry revenues Temains the lone obstacle to announcement of a new energy pricing policy. Clark emerged from nearly eight hours of private . talks with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed at the prime minlster's 24 Sussex Drive realdence confident a new oil pricing agreement with the provinces is at hand. Neither Clark nor Lougheed would disclose details of the new arrangement, saying the entire package would be un- .- Veiled once: the: taxation. lisue Kaa been ironed out. But both men acknowledged “progress during the day-long The prime minister said Finance Minister John Crosbie’s Dec, 11 budget would include measures to cushion the economic impact of higher olland gas prices in Passarell says the water is dangerous VICTORIA (CP) — MLA Ai Passarell (NDP-Atiin) says he is not satisfied with the health ministry's assurance that con- centrations of uranium and radium found in Atlin's water supply do not reach -the government's a maximum acceptable levels. | However, Wayne Greene, director of the ‘ministry's radiation protection service, sald Tuesday the high levels of concentration: are found only in some streams which flow out of the mountalns. The water is diluted by water from numerous pure streams when they flow to- gether into Surprise Lake, he - “There were some reports of high values, but these were not drinking water,'’ Greene said. Studies of well water, he said, have found up to 31 parts per billion of uranlum and .07 becquerels perre of radium, which is about average for drinking water in B.C. The proposed stan- dards for Ing water are a0 parts per billion for uranium and 1.0 becquerels per litre for radium. Passarell said he thinks the concentrations of radio- active materials in the drinking water may be connected to two recent mongolold births in the, area and to the disappearance of bottom-feeding fish from He eald any level of uranium is too high and the government should forget - about continued testing. “What I want is some action on the part of the department of health and the environment ministry to cleat up the source of the contamination,’’ he said. we The $950,0uv expansion of the Lakelse Avenue is right on schedule according tothe units, Slumber Lodge on project manager. The expenditure calls for incre an expanded resturant and a swimming pool. ased Photo by Ed Yudin U.S. embassy a bomb . "TEHRAN (Reuter) — Stu- dents holding 49 Americans as hostage at the U.S. em: bassy in Tehran said today they have packed the em- bagsy compound with so many explosives that they would die with their captives if the United States attacks: "If we press the buttons, everybody will die in a big blast,” a atudent leader said in a telephone interview. “We will become martyrs.” In a statement broadcart by Radio Tehran, the students said Tuesday the embassy grounds, the walls ef the compound and all the buildings have been mined or wired with exploalves, ready to be set off in case of an American raid to free the hostages. The students stormed the embassy Nov. 4 to press Iranian demands for ex. tradition of the deposed ehah irom the United States, where he is being trea:sd for US. ready to give up WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter has stepped up his war of words with Iran, saying his government will never sub- mit to blackmail and that American honor will take edence even over the vea of the 49 hostages being _ held at the U.S. embassy in TaAnd ald h nd, aides say, the president will underline his stand in a televised news conference scheduled for 9 p.m, EST tonight in which he hopes ‘to rally U.S. public on and convince Iran of U.S. solidarity. White House and U.S, state department officials are saying meanwhile that they want to k the Iranian crisis from belling over untll the UN Security Council meets again Saturday. The Carter administration fears Iranian leaders believe they can "win some battle for American public opinion and that the American people will end up supporting their demands’ for a telal of the deposed shah, sald a White House offlelal who asked not to be named. The official said Carter hoped to dispel that im- asion at hia news con- erence. US. officials said Tuesday it ls possible some useful dia- cussions might take place this weekend if Iran's lives foreign minister, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, shows up for the UN debate on the embassy siege, . State department spokesman Hodding Carter shid if BaniSadr’s presence has the “side effect of allowing some kind of contact between leading representatives of that government and ours, that might be useful under cer- tain conditions.” That vasa shift in the U.S. position, which had previously ruled out any negotiations unless Iran agreed to release the hostages unconditionally. cancer and other ailments. Meanwhile, Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, sald the United Nations Security Council meeting on the crisis was a US.-dictated exercise. “The verdict of a court or council formed under the direct influence of the United States would be dictated in advance, leading to the condemnation of our op- pressed nation,’’ he said. SHAH TO MOVE TO MEXICO MEXICOCITY (AP) — The shah js expected to return to his Cuernavaca retreat within 10 days, a member of his public relations staff said today. Mark Morse, who arrived in Cuernavaca on Tuesday from New York, said; “It all depends on when his medical treatment ends but we belleve he will be here in elght to ten days.” Morse wae interviewed by telephone at the Villa Dos Rios in Cuernavaca where Shah Reza Mohammed Pahlavi lived after his arrival In Mexico on June 10. He sald Iran would not recognize the meeting, convened by UN Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim, ar accept whatever decision it might take. In the lateat move in an- Helpation of possible U.5. use of force against Iran, Army Commander Azizollah Fallahi was quoted as saying that the air space over the holy city of Qam has been closed to all traffic, in- eluding government | helleopter flights. Located about 135 kilometers south of Tehran, Qom has been Iran's unof- ficial capital elnce Khomein! took up residence there on return from exile in Paris last February, Government officials frequently travel to Qom by helicopter to consult with the ayatollah. On Monday, the 7?-year- old Iranian leader called for mass military tralning almed at building up the country's armed forces over the next few years. All three branches of the Tranian armed forces have been put on alert following President Carter's warning last week that he might order military action if the hostages were harmed. Tran has threatened to try the hostages as aples. y \ The PoP Shoppe 14 Flavors BOTTLE DEPOT Beer & Pop Bottles 4636 Lazetie Ave. Terrace, B.C, Open 10.a.m.-¢p.m. dally excapt Sunday Fri. di? pm. DC 10 CRASH Exeursion a disaster None sur AUCKLAND (CP) — The burnt-out wreckage of a missing Alr New Zealand DC-10 was found in the Antarctic today and there were no reports of survivors among the 257 people aboard, officials at search headquarters in Auckland said, A Canadian was listed among the passengers, A search plane from the U.S. Antarctic base at McMurdo sighted . the wreckage on the icy slopes of Mount Erebus, a 3,600-metre mountain near the plane’s last reported position. The pilot of the search plane aaid the wreckage was about 700 metres up the side of the mountain, with large pleces of the plane scattered | over & LOb-ietre area. . Officials said the crash was New Zealand's worat air accident ever and by far the country’s worst disaster since an earthquake in 1931 took 255 lives. The airline said the 237 pansenge’s aboard the DC-10 ‘included 48 foreigners — one Canadian, 12 Americans, 24 Japanese, seven Australians and two Britons. The rest were New Zealanders. Names and home towns of the 157 passengers and 20 crew members were not available. In Toronto, an Air New Zealand spokesman said he would net comment on the Identity of the Canadian, “T'm only prepared to talk to the next of kin," he said. The passengers had paid $359 for what was supposed to be an 11-hour flight to the Antarctic coast and back from Auckland. Air New Zehland sald it understood the jet had completed its sightseeing run arki.was on its way back to New Zealand when radio contact was lost at 2 p.m. today New Zealand tlme (8 p.m. EST Tuesday). It was then still over Antarctica, between 50 and 65 kilometres from McMurdo. The loss of radio contact was blamed on sunapot activity and did mot cause immediate concern. But at 8 p.m. the airline announced the plane was an hour overdue for a refuelling stop at Chrlatchurch, o New Zealand's South Island, ‘Two houra later, the alriine said the plane was Jost. It sald ita fuel would have been used up 30 minutes earlier, The U.S. base at McMurdo Sound took charge of the search for the missing plane and sent up five aircraft — two C-130 Hercules, a C-141 Starllfter and two helicop- DC 10s plagued NEW YORK (Reuter) ~ The Air New Zealand airliner lost today in An- tarctica is the third DC-10 to crash this year. A Western Airlines DC-10 landed on the wrong runway at Mexico City airport last month and plowed into a maintenance building, killing 56 passengers and crew members. An American Airlines DC- 0 crashed In Chicago last ‘ liling”275 passengers and crew in the worst U.S. air disaster in history. The Chicago disaster called into question the safety of the giant jets, which carry more than 100,000 passengers dally throughout the world. The American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff at Chicago's O’Hare airport when one of its three engines fell off. Small cracks in the pylons joining the engines to the wings were discovered in several DC-108 after aviation officials ordered a thorough ‘check of DC-10s flown by U.S. airllnes. McDonnell Douglaa, the DC-10 manufacturer, denied that the cracks in the engine mountings had been caused by faulty design and blamed Improper maintenance procedures by the airlines. But representatives of U.S. consumer ‘assoclationa alleged the jet, hailed as a revolutionary aircraft when it went into service in 1871, was improperly and hastily designed. It was not the flrat com- plaint levelled at the DC-10 in ite troubled, elght-year tory. Investigatora biamed faulty design of a cargo hatch cover for one of the worat sir disastera in hiatory, the crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 In 1974. The cover flew off the plane shortly before it crashed near Paris ulling 346 persons, After the crash, Mc- Donneli Douglas changed the cargo door and redesigned the passenger floor. Another DC-10 crash, in Loa Angeles in March, 1978, killed two people and led to changes In the plane's tires so that they could withstand a greater load. - this was the vived the crash ters. An Orlon from the New Zealand Air Force was: searching the ocean south of New Zealand. The Starlifter had flown Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia to McMurdo Sound from Christchurch for a flight Thursday over the South Pole commemorating the first filght over the pole 50 years ago by his famous polar explorer uncle, Ad- miral Richard Byrd, The C-141 returned to Christchurch today after following the route from the Antarctle which the missing airliner should have taken. “They didn't see anything,” an official at the U.S. Navy support base in Christchurch sald. ‘“We are in contact with McMurdo, tut they haven't reported anything (either),” he added, The airline operates the Antarctic sightseeing flights during the Southerh Hemisphere’a summer and fourth this season. The planes fly from . New Zealand Food eo prices J a rising OTTAWA (CP) — Higher prices for fish, beverages and fresh vegetables helped Push food prices up slightly etween October and November, the agriculture department aaid today. The department's monthly food-at-home index rose by 0.47 per cent and stands 13.1 per cent higher than in November, 1979. The cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for a week stands at 1.4, up 3 cents from October. Fish prices rose 3.6 per cent during November “reflecting strong demand and higher coata of fishing, processing and dis- tributlon."’ November is pro- claimed fisheries and seafood month by the federal government to help promote consumption of fish. Higher prices for coffee and soft drinks pushed up the beverage index by 1.5 per eent in a month. Fresh vegetable prices rose by 5.6 per cent because of higher peice for Imported tomatoes and cabbages. Prices for Imported fresh produce are expected to rise sharply in the next few months. Fire damaged pulp mill reopens The Eurocan pulp and paper mill in Kitimat resumed limited operations Tuesday after recelving permission from the pollution control branch to operate without a key pollution control device damaged in the Nov. 11 mill fire. The mill has been shut down since that fire which destroyed the mill's precipitator and caused a total estimated $10 million damage. The precipitator is used to remove chemical exhausts from the mill's steam room. When it became apparent that the precipitator could not be replaced until sometime in March, the company petitioned the pollution contro] branch to relax the condillons of their permit. That permission was secured late Monday according to Stan Fritter, a company spokesman. “Basically they have established a standard and a surveillance committee was established this week to review the results,” he said. Fritter said equipment had to be installed to bypass the precipitator. “We won't know what levels of operation can be reached until we have tested the bypass and get some experience in this,” he added. Tegid Jones, the pollution contro) branch public relations officer, said he had not been aware per- mission to restart the mill had been granted. He said he presumed the PCB officer in Terrace, Fred Hodgson, had given the go-ahead. Jones noted the standards approved for Eurocan's operations would conform to the maximum federal and provincial pollution limits established by law. He said the company would have to keep emission levels below 400 micrograms of pollutant per cubic metre of air on the site, and 200 micrograms of pollutant per cubic metre of air within the limits of the municipality of Kitimat. What are the chances of the emissions levels staying within those prescribed limits? Bob Grace, a PCB officer in Terrace said Tuesday, the situation will be closely monitored by the sur- veillance committee and the nine monitoring stations set up in aid around the mill site. “it's a sort of wait and see type of thing,” he said. “We don’t really know h vy much of the pollutant will come out when the mill is started."