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© Joe Murpay, outspoken foe of B. © Hydro’s plans to dam the Stikine and Iskut rivers i in north-western - B.C., won a convincing election victory Saturday - over Bobby Ball, topping the incumbent 114 to 13 in

* the XitimatStikine Regional District vole.

Murphy’ 8 lead in Telegraph Creek, where he isa . carpenter, was 77 to 10 while he swamped Baill in * Iskut, in the heart of the proposed development 52 to 1, Ball's only solace came at a highways camp where he took the poll 3 to 2. Murphy will replace Ball as director’ of area D in

‘the | regional district:

During the campaign, Murphy said proposed Hydro dams on the Stikine and Iskut rivers are the beginning of a process that will destroy the lifestyle

Tel strike near end? Terrate area Telecom-

munications Workers Union (TWU) are stepping up

picketting operations despite - =

the fact that a tentative contract settlement has been, B.c. Telephone Company.

Ken Blanes, spokesman for the TWU - Local 33, says Picket action will get under

way at the airport today

against Okanagas Helicopters because that company is flying super-

visors for the B.C. Tel A 30-year-old picketter Claims that he was struck by two cars driven. by workers Monday ; but Blanes says the. RCMP. have. only taken the company . ‘complaint: that’: to’ the | Vehicle .was ~

"Jim Miller was bit by a car at 5: Mp. ‘Monday when a- management - worker

fy forced his way through ‘the picket line. As he ‘rolled off, the hood, another ‘vehicle struck the was then struck by the second vehicle and the windshield was broken, says

‘one of the drivers was the an same man who bit a pregnant woman two weeks ago,” says Blanes. ,

Bisnes says that when they reparted the incident to the police the RCMP had already taken down a complaint from .ihe driver ami refused o take down the TWU complaint.

The two sides in the 21-dlay- old strike have yet to sign an returt-to-work agreement and company spokesman Keith Matthews saitl the stumbling biock is the future ' of about 20 members of the TWU fired since the ‘strike began Feb. 10. The union wants the workers reinslated before anyone goes back to work, but the company wants to use regular

tion that they'll stay Peimed and we'll have the arbitration later and we take the position that they haven't been found guilty a anything, #0 that was standoti,” union president Bill Clark bid a a hastily-ar- ranged news conference

following a bargaining with federal

Clark said the emplayees

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on a wage package which Is

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federal coniliator Ed Peck

pore a company offer of iast

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The singers and their songs en- tertained for the athletes of Jack and Three Rivers Workshop during the Terrace Downtown Lioan’s Ciub .Music-Hail Revue Saturday. The audience was.

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and livelihood of the people of the area. .

Murphy said be would campaign against the proposed development but Ball, an outfitter and rancher, told ‘voters that be did not propose the dams but he would try to ensure the development

* did not get out of hand.

Meanwhile, the provincial lands - branch has -

rejected an application by B.C. Hydro to build ain - .

access trail into a proposed dam site on the Stikine

River.

build an access route into a gravel deposit near the

Stikine in northwest B.C., about 40 kilometres

north of Prince Rupert.

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asked to pick Its favourite singer and the results were (above left to right) Sandy Cook (third). Suzanne Alway (first), Nijole Orbell (fourth) and Karen Ljungh {second) wiih the band Bad Manners with Wayne

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| ‘These decisions were . confirmed Monday by a spokesman for the lands branch at Smithers.

.- Both proposed routes had become controversial

- heeause of public opposition to B.C. Hyro's plarito

.dam the Stikine.

. Lands ‘branch spokesman Brian Wilkes said .Monday the branch bas disallowed Hydro’s ap- - plication to build a “cat trail" to ‘ransport equip- . “ment such as a‘drill_rig t a proposed dam site : “known as Z, about 25 kilometres downstream of the Stewart-Cassiar highway crossing. ; Four reasons were given for the rejection: It would be hard to block access to the trail to users - olrer than Hydro; the seasitive condition of the *-

Ingvaldson,

Ralph Trelenberg, Harold Olson, Dave Armstrong, and. Myra Trelenberg. Over 500 people turned out and the Lions grossed $1,197 towards the athletes’ fun and fitness special olympics.

Terrace area residents are paying more ‘for _ their and home fuel today pesult of Alberta's

and the federa: govern- meril’s decision ty impose an immediate price increase of half a cent a Btre on gasoline and all other olf products.

Increases ranging frien 1.8. cents & litre to two cents a

for the ‘hundreds of millions of dollars" now needed to pay for importing foreign oil to fill the oP left by the reduction " cheaper Semectis supplies ; “Lalonde told the Commoisé the new levy ia needed to pay for the “hundreds of millions of dollars” now needed to pty for importing foreign of to fill the gap left by the reduction of cheaper domestic supplies. .

He told reporters liter the levy, which amounts to 75 — cents a barrel of ail, will be rescinded once Alberia’s production returns to normal bevels,

.Qil and gas prices rise here again

At the same time, be ‘Lougheed’s levy.”

‘warned it could increase if

Alberta goea ahead as

‘planned and cuts ail

production even more later this year. ‘

« Johm Crosbie, finance minister in the former

‘In Edmonton, Alberta Energy Minister Merv ‘Leitch responded that

Canadians will eventually - _ see through suggestions

Alberta is to blame for what the federal government calls

In Ottawa, federal _ op- position MPs quickly dubbed 1 it the Lalonde levy. They accused the government of using the levy as a tactic to divert attention from ils own

behavior in the continuing |

dispute with Alberta over

energy pricing end reyenue

sharing. - The announcement marized the second time this

The price of gasoline and home-heating oll jumped sbout eight-tenths of a cent a litre Sunday as a result of 2

$i-abarre! increase in the wellhead price of oil on Jan. 1. It takes about 60 days for an increase at the wellhead to show up at the retail level. However, the increase’ of half a cent a litre imposed

Monday is a tax.at thef

refinery level and will be felt

immediately by consumers,

bringing the total price in- creases this week to about 13 cents a litre on ail

. Consumers also can expect a further price increase at a aofar-unspecified date as a result of Petro-Canada's recemt $1.¢-billion takeover of Petrofina Canada Inc.

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alpine tundra; sablie opposition, and tbe Tands ig branch had identified alternative methods by which : Hydro could collect information it needs onthe dam. site.

Wilkes said Fydro has withdraw ‘an’ application ° to build a cat trail to explore gravel deposits in the Stikine area because spring thaw is approaching.

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. “That trail constructisn was intended for. frozen . . _ round and we understand Hydro will apply again, - eo! _ in the fall to ‘build the trail.” te 7 ‘A Bydro report in Jarmsary said $7.6-billion worth ‘ | of hydroelectric projects’ on the Stikine and Yakut - : ~ Fivers are lechalealyfesaihlemnd economically at, tractive. i oe

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Norma King, chairperson for the Terraceview Lodge Society, says she was unaware that the decision to phase out Skeenaview in Terrace is under review by health department. officials in Victoria: +:

“That's incredible, ” she said. “1, ‘don't

Frank Howard, NDP house leader and Skeena MLA, made the announcement Monday saying that this is the first break in attilude-sinee for-— mer Health Minister Bob McClelland. came’ to Terrace in 1979" fo- announce the. closing of Skeenaview.

“AS soon as the present minister of bealth was _ appointed I wrote to him urging that just such a ‘yeview. take; =-place,” Howard. says.

“Now that a ‘review is being undertaken I. would urge every group, tion and .in- “dividual interested in- seeing Skeenaview developed further to. communicate with the health ministry and ‘make the case solidly and effectively. What we want is Skeenaview to be kept as a fong-term care facility, providing all levels of service toresidents needing such care.”

“Municipalities, “the regional district: the - BCGEU,. and- other unions, the Terraceview “Society, elderly eitizens’ groups and the: like

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out the need for such a facility, the growing population of the area, and the general value to; society from: keeping and modernizing “' Skeenaview,"” says Howard. |

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