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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) —A lava dome a pushing up from. flor of Mount St. Helens". “| Bee crater and the mushroom eap-shaped mound Owain the dark, sclentists aay... ; Gea Hime it's for real,” Pele Rowley, U Ss. , eaten sald Sionday, blast month hate tava .

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plein tt, there may be lava » apilot® ” - -* Meanwhile, officials in Portland, Ore. some. "70 kilometres to the south, issued an air potlu- |

by an eruption last week, the yol- cano’s third. major blast in a’ month,” However, Fala and drizale eased driving ;

up'a haze of gritty -

* eindltions in tha , city by afternoon. Officials

posted a 30-kilometre-an-hour 8

free airlinies — Western, Cont . California — resumed normal ¢ "Observers flying over the mountain before clouds setiin Monday reported that the dome, which “Apparently began” forming after the

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volcano’ 8 “Thursday eruption; had grown to. about 200 metres in diameter and hd metres In helght, Rowley said. . - The extrusion Is gow” that only can. Bee seen at night f air, The glow is emanating from below t! ; cracks in the crost of solidified lava,

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By CARLA WILSON - . Herald Atatt Writer With the hot weather here

. risiig and local. firefighters have beer kept busy

‘Most of-these. fires in the Kalum forest district have been caused. by human _farelessness

"Because of | the. drying

a trend and the fire hazard we ‘ are experiencing in the

Kalum forest. district -we would like to‘cautlon people - in regards to the use of £

said “Ken Penderdast, ‘the’

‘district co-ordinator.:: . y “In this area people seem a to be the biggest cause of our : _ fires,” he sald. ~

Trained personnel man the

i tour lookout stations in. the - . district, All ‘summer, wntil

the ‘raihy seagon, the ‘Thornhill, Beaver Bluff, Bell

’ and Bob Quinn Yookouts will

be. in operation. | - “However, most fires are

“y reported. by the general

“Faille, said Pendergast.

now if we don't have a real deluge of.rain I think we'll

by carelessness.

protection agreements with the department of forestry:in Kitimat and Thornhill and an,

- Terrace fire department and forestry is being finalized. The ministry also works In

"close: aison with the local

companies who have- their

own fire fighting equipment. When the hazard rating is

. high the ministry can -

regulate the forest industry s its own

"days,

TE a, fir’ starts the forestry office has a: large assortment of fire pumps, ‘hoses, hand tools and camping. equip-

ment. They also have access -

to all the resources In eupply

warehouses In Smithers and =|.

Vancouver and to equipment

in adjacent: forest districts.

‘AH the heavy equipnient 1s rented to. fight fires and the _ forest service has a contract for air tankers, The. hazard rating detetmiries where the tankers willbe based at, said ~ Peidergast.

The hazard rating is _

worked out through a ‘serles

of: charts that contain. the |

temperature, humidity, wind

precipitation. Through these ‘the ease of ignition, the rate of spread and the dlf- fleulty.of control are calculated and they result in two indexes which when combined give the different hazard ratings.

“The rating determines the forest service standby readiness.. This is the number of people needed and the amount of equipment. It fells. us how much we, can expect to become involved in firefighting,” sald Pen-

dergast. In the .Kalum forest — ’ district fires wil] be fought.

by six initial. attack crewmen. If more. help is needed members of the fotest service are recruited and there. may be san. ad- ditional six people to be on

standby, . said Pendergast.

There ‘is ra significant 5

way ngs’ are » doing.

“Saclose and yet so far. Terrace Co the: Flaherty Trucking runner made His ‘teammate ldoks on. approvingly: w whille the seer font empties ds: en the spot.

mare photos are on Page? Woo ‘

-0p’s Lestie Olesen didn't enies this. fag. by. rach: but. It the boat ‘English ipartorried oy the differehee tn this Terrace Minor: Baseball playoff. at Agar Park: Monday night. « Results of lastnight’s games and."

_Phato ny Greg Middleton ©”

ve alot of fires,” said a cesman for the Kitimat - epar' . ‘ “Phe recent Kitimat: ‘fires | -

- have been mainly bruéh and i slash fires and were caused.

The fire departments have .

agresment between the -

| -mainténance.. of. - ar-

. the future

“TOUGH.

‘HAMILTON © (CP) — Consumers ' .will face | ‘mes ‘during the

Association . of anata - was told M

. , Ereray a

‘Krammer : of - McMaster

_ University tald- delegates | to the association's an-

_ Conserve for an energy:

Jouger we put it “(higher “all prices) of the greater .the shock wil)

“Ina: ae economy: . prices: are the guide. to. Telative: -scarcity, . Kramer said. ‘There ore .

“tifleially ‘low prices with te wreug Kind of ol * with the wrong kind

hat ee

wa Oil pricing is a palit

‘and demands. .

tossed back and

forth between the federal. and Alberta - govern:

ents.

“Both recognize that the price of domestically- produced crude ofl must rise from $14.76 4 barrel,

. but the westion is by how: -much, Ottawa wants an

interim deal allowing a $2

hike uptil Oct. 1, by whieh

‘ime et hopes to have grea a new agreement | replace the federal- provincial pricing fer- mula, Alberta wants much more than that.

Krammer said con- sumers will face a stiff price increase for oll

ay and thestiffer the increase the. etter. consumers will adju

But> the complex oll formulas

“Pricing

AHEAD FOR: ~ CONSUMERS |

* negotiated 5

19808, the ‘Consumers. Pro

ex James

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bot potato and pricing | . Called: -] + Contained: more alcohol

TIMES

tot tt

+ fe i.

pe riodically - tween . the federal government ‘and -

get of regulations that

perplex consumers, ||

government has. bility. to oxplitn

Canadians, - |. é

“Most of us: ‘are: wot _. partleularly aware. of - fegulations _ something -goes wrong’ .| - .- With-them and that's the ‘gape with the . federal Food and Drug Act,”

Mra. Miles said.

. ‘The act governs: food

content.and labelling: but

_ bas come under fire since ~ @ Supreme. Court of - Canada’ | December that itivolved - Labatt's' Breweries Ltd.

ruling. Inst

‘The company had been taken to court. for atid selling s0- it beer. that

than was": auch a p

rmitted for ct.

The ‘court decided ‘ Labatt's could sell. the

beverage as a t beer

since it was. sol in Ontario'|.and Quebec. ‘where it was produced, -

The act could only have

prohibited its sale under’

that name if ithe beer had

been sold in provinces

where it was not ced. :

produ . ;

That high court decision later forced the federal consumer and

drop 57 charges

against Ontario and |

Quebec supermarkets

- which had been accused . of selling ground beef that contained up to 40 per.

cent pork.

vinees are not the on ay

Association President | Yvonne Mites ‘said: ‘con-' sumers are also confused -[-

the a shocking . food,

regulatiaas to .

Chief: of guards quits —

under newpressure

By. The ‘anposiated’ ‘Press : ~ Commander Abu Sharif of

| Tran’s revolutionary guards - today, ‘apparently -

under pressure -from’

; Ayatollah ‘Ruhollab

Khomeini. Sharif was: : appointed

‘recently .by President

Abolhassan BanlSadr, and

‘the resignation was seen as

another setback for: the

| strug : authority ever wince his

‘Shield. user. gets.

unless |

, Gangerous - tate -undathical and ‘improper .**

president, who ‘has been. ling to: assert’ his

DENVER (AP) — A $6.8

malllion award to. @ woman

who suffered a nearly fatal

“septic abortion after using

the Dalkon Shield marketed by A. “Robins Co, has been

"Fin a decision handed down ' Monday, Denver District

Court Judge Robert

Fullerton upheld the award - .- to Carie Palmer.

“Robins’ marketing: of the Dalkon:. Shield - ‘was characterized by @ conscious decision... inadequa tely ‘product

tested, by

means, using false and misleading advertising,'’ Fullerton said:

The evidence showed that once the company was made specifically aware of the nu-

merous dangerous side ef- |

fecta of the device, including the fact that the Dalkon

" Shield was ‘ cawing septic

abortions, {t suppreased the information, made ad- ditlonal false. claims, and then resorted to an effort to cover up the facts."

. Aseptic abortion is a mis- rriage associated with in-

sme award to sete ons

fo market an

election less ‘than five:

-months ago... ‘The ‘resignation letter, quoted “by Iran's official

Pars ‘news: agency, said . the.

_ Sharif. ~ wanted revolationary guards c orps “to be. an arm. to deprived of the world in furthering the ,Jelamic revolution of Iran.”*

Unfortunately monopoliam of. power and

. secterianism and existing tendencies prevented us

$6 million award -

among scores of ‘similar suits last duly after a two: month

Mrs. Palmer had the ihtra- ‘uterine device inserted In January, 1973,for con- traceptlve procedures, She later became pregnant and buffered a nearly fatal septic abortion.

Douglas Bragg, her lawyer, said during the trial that more than 200 women who wore the Dalkon Shield suffered septic abortions and 17 died.

‘trom this goal. “Any. ‘possi- bility of continulng: e work was curtailed, I had no choice but to resign.”. : The resignation came the .. day after Khomelni tald 3,000 revolutionary guards “marched on the U.S. Em- bassy. in Tehran — where some of the 53 American hostages have. been held for . the last 227 daya — that there might be traitors among the

guards c

said he would ap pot a representative to orm him of developments within: the guard’s ranks. The guards have - been Criticlzed for nat co-oper- “: ating with the armed forces and not obeying the orders of

the revolutionary courts,

In a message read at the rally by his son Ahmad, Kho- meini said: ‘Is it poasible that there are some traltors who made their way amongst you? They are instigating disorder and arrest the People illegally. You should identify we ‘causing chaos. You sh hand them. over to ad revolutionary courte. we

Khomein! condemned any ©

deviation from the principles of Islam and any form of what he called “opportunism and. clique mentality.’

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VANCOUVER (CB) —~ ‘The . federal and. B.C, govern- ments are. ‘cont their public ©“ debate - development of the multi. . million-dollar coal flelda in northeastern BC.

At ‘issue is. the. 115-' Kilometre Anzac spur. line,. -which mugt be bullt 10. carry. coal from. the rich Sukunke flelds. to Prince. George, in central B.C.‘

The provincial .govern-. ment is not belng forced to

Ray Perrault, government : Jeader in the Senate, told a news conference Monday. He was responding to Pre- mier® Bill Bennett's an- nouncement Saturday. that. _ B.C. will “‘go-it alone,” and the: ‘provincially-owned B.C. Railway, not the federally. owned “Canadian. National

. Ralkways, will build the Anzac line Wish ficniclal te -

ery a ioe

- deal ‘with Japan” 0: B.C, ‘Rail has eat Imated

“the Line will coat $215

"put. the CNR saya §300

million would he jum.

The federal government is. stil “massively involved” in

the project .as.a “whole, “Perrault tolda: news con- ference.

‘ Ottawa will spend at least $400 million to upgrade the CNR mainline from Prince George: to Prince Rupert to

carry increased coal ton-—

nages, -build a new coal terminal near’ Prince.

R , and buy eight coal —

tra na, he

But cevincial Industry © Minister Don Phillips © dlaputes the. $400, milion -

. "gaan the CNR iine,' cted to coat $70 million, : be financed on. a coat-

‘over - bh

proceed alone on the project, -

ahd from

out,

says Ottawa -

$400 million. figure

disputed by province. a Fecavary basis, Phulips inid 7

in. Victor:

- also is recoverable, he said,

B.C.’s rejection of a $70- “alllion offer ‘for - either support facilities or capital ‘construction costs of the Anzac line. is the only dif- fererice between the de-

_ velopment plans-Bennett an-

pounced Saturday and those ‘agreed upon Friday in Ot- tawa, said Perrault. The: B.C, government bad tentatlvely agreed to the CNR the construction . job, but Bennett said Saturday that the railway wanted to recover its con- struction coats from the project too quickly. a Oye said the province will build: the line with financing from: naturel | (gas revenues. Sota apes ved

; five’ billlon ‘tonnes oft metallurgical coal: from the fields to Japanese steel companies. Long-term value of the sale has been estimated at $3. § billion to $5 billion. * There is no way B c. can match a coal deal .betweer Japan. and -Australla, another bidder In ths. coal- exporting sweepstakes; Dave Barrett, provincial ‘New Democrati¢ leader, said in a to be delivered today in Tokyo to the JapanCanada Soctety. Australian coal is easier to mine and can be sold at a lower price than. the B.C. Produc ct, said Barrett, and

joss o¢ receiving & poor. ‘return on investment.

Prisoners holding their own lawyer

CHICOUTIMI, Que. (CP)

— Telephone ‘negollatlons .

continued early todiy bet- ween provincial policemen and three prisdners holding both a guard and thelr lawyer hostage at the local provincial jail. .

Police said the three, armed with picks and ‘knivea, are demanding their freedom. They want a car, gas masks, and a half-hour head start before they will * release the hostages.

“After that they can shoot '

us, kill us — we'll take our chances,’ sald prisoner Roger Scott, 24, contacted by os Monday afternoon the small provincial

One of the most controversial topics in the Pacific Northwest today is. the proposed plan by the

Aluminum Company of

Canada to expand their

electricity fenerating capacity at Kemano,

The plan to dam rivers in the Bulkley Valley and add to the Nechako has environmental groups up in arms and politicians in the Houston-Smithers area against the scheme. Local city and regional district board

“We know nothing like this has ever worked," added 30- year-old fellow prisoner

van Broulllard. “It's just that we'd rather die than gq back to the pen.

Brouillard sald he spent nine of the last 10 years in prison.

The third prisoner is Jean- Claude Lavole, 20, said police, , adding all three were

jail awaiting trial for the recent armed robbery of two banks in nearby Jonmulere.

They said they hit had decided

on the hostage-taking afier .

discovering that the prosecution was going to ask "10, 12, 14 years,"

Herald runs Kemano series |

members have come out in favor of the proposal which would see as many aB three how aluminum smelters

here.

Canadian Press staff writer Vic Parsons spent a number of days in the srea doing research on the controversial Industrial expansion and the Herald will

be publishing the results of his extensive interviews

research in a six-part series.

can't make the - Australian deal without: _ suffering direct financial

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