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2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, January 31, 1978

EDITORIAL Lights Out

When most of Terrace

plunged into darkness

_ Sunday evening, the Terrace HERALD plunged * right along with the rest, All but a small part of 5 the front page had been put together in the

‘> “back shop’when sudd

ly “everything went

+ BLACK." Luckily, the lone male member of the i three at work had a flashlight-three flashlights, ‘' in fact,-and so it was by the glow of a hand held electric torch, the last pieces of set copy were

‘found and pasted up with an appropriate

‘headline, on page one.

Grabbing a camera from under his desk, the editor then set out in the black cold of the windy night-it was about 8 p.m.-to see how Terrace was coping with the power failure emergency.

‘The streets seemed more than usually filled

with cars whose head-ligh

its glared all the more

noticeably against the dark background. Street traffic lights were not working, so motorists from all four directions were forced to

hesitate and make their

own decision when to

proceed at the crossroads. Some streetlights

were on-along the main

thoroughfares. Gims

restaurant on Lazelle looked cozy and warm through the windows as patrons dined by can- delight and small propane lights. Gas-burning

stoves in the kitchen enabled food to be served as

usual, Then, heading back. West on Lakelse, flashing lights of orange, red and white adjacent to the al Canadian Legion indicated feverish ac- tivity on the part of B.C. Hydro workmen, Three large heavy equipment vehicles, all ted

yellow were lin

ed up beside an obvio

ly frac-

tured power pole, at the base of which a white or cream coloured car-akin to a mustange-cringed ~ in a crumpled, cowering

Snapping a number of otographs in the cold with ee eera set for fe {

position.

widest aperture, took

all of ten miniutes and by that time the Hydro “Cherry picker”: an articulated metal arm with a bucket at the end,was hoisting the apparently “totalled”? automobile several feet of the ground alongside the towing vehicle.

At that feverishly workingon cutting

point, apparently the result of usy repairmen who had been d wires and splicing new right around the broken dydro po

vapour street lights flickered-

e-mercury- feebly at first, then

fieninsacence and: tae Bisctoue hed ed

approximately 38 minutes after it-had: begun.-

short power cut-off,

such as this is a good

reminder to all of us to eoare for future, and

more prolonged and se’

ous emergencies, We

are being advised by various authorities to designate one rogm in each home as a “Survival

room’ with an aternate-

keep an emergericy:supply of food and

water on hand, It might be never needed, But in

Eastern Canada last week these who had the, foresight to be prepared were glad they did, when the big blizzard cut off power and tran- sportation and normal living conditiones, It approximately 38 minutes after it had begun. -

been ready, if it had?,

Weekend Fatalities

Six persons killed in fires in Quebec were among 29 accidental deaths across Canada

the weekend. A survey by The Canadian 4 from 6

.m: Friday until late

inday night local times showed four other fire deaths ‘and 17 traffic fatalities: o Besides those killed-in - fires in Quebec, there were five traffic fatalities - in that province.

British Columbia had

two traffic deaths and a slayings _ suicides.

fire death.

In Ontario, one man died after falling off his roof, There also was one fire death, qne drowning and seven traffic fa- talities in the provence.

There was one fire death and two traffic fatalities in Sas- katchewan.

Newfoundland, Nova Scotla, New Brunswick Prince Edward Island and Alberta r no weekend fatalities.

The survey excludes industrial. deaths, and known

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—!

Ottawa — Offbeat.

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa - Score one for Conservative Leader Joe Clark.

Score a big one.

It’s not impossible to

imagine thatit just might | firi bea bi nat o win the

next election if the count is close as it was in 1972 when Prime Minister Trudeau won it by only a margin of two seats and was humbled into run- ning a minority govern- ment for a couple of humiliating years.

Joe’s big one is how to win the public service

vote.

Small stuff, you say, this public service vote, not large enough to swing even a close election.

Think. again.

Not even counting the Armed Forces - which , inexplicably, always

seem to vote heavily -

Liberal - federal public

servants now number

departments, the commissions, various regulatory: agencies. and the crown e ations, = “That's a lot of votes to in with. ut think of the Public

boards,

Service families.

Statistics Canada puta the average family at three and one-hali

é, Pest not all members of

every family are ai

-voting age. xing 26 the family only

a mother, - father, .

an -assume that any children will

of vo age likel

be doe © heir y own tical thinking, which ‘t neceasarily that of

their nts, ‘But because of common

economic interests - the iob,. its status, and bitually increasing pay levels-and public service husband and wife usually vote alike. © For the

é

-YELLOWENIFE,

N.W.T, )CP) — Four of |

the six wildlife scientists

who: encountered * the.

remainf of a fallen Soviet nuclear-powered satellite did not ——_—- receive radioactive. con- tamination, it was an- nounced today.

The other two aclen- tists, who made the

ting near their re- mote _ arate: weather outpost al ‘ardens Grove, N.W.T., were sent to Edmonton. Their condition was not im- mediately known.

The six were identified by a spekesman at the Arctic weather central office in Edmonton as Robert Common, a Canadian, and Americans Gury An- derson, Kurt Mitchell, Chris Norment, Mike Mobley and John Mor- dhorst. Hometowns and other details were not available.

Dr. Ross Wheeler, a ¥ellowknife physician naeid he exam:

ed Common, Anderson, Mitchell and Norment on Sunday night after they were flown here from Wardens Grove,

NO SYMPTOMS

He said they showed no aymptoms of radiation

ckness and were to be released from hospital later today,

Dr. Wheeler did not examine Mobley and Mordhorst, who were flown to Edmonton. How- ever, he doubted the

‘would be seriously atf- _ fected either,

Col. Donald Davidson

-of the’ Canadian Forces,

who headed a team to ‘Wardens Grove on Sun- day after receivingnreports from the eclentists, said two of the six scientists had made a sled trip up the nearby Thelon River on Saturday and found the remains of the fallen satellite on river {ce. Davidson said one of the two men touched the

th le who sign, , overn: Hating sourcos and to {meghtV"l> Hi govern

This is reinforced. by the fact that for all but six of the last 43 years, the Liberals have’ been in charge of hiring and

ng. Hiring in the Trudeau years has tripled. . Firing? Ts the public service? Are you crazy? Why man, they don’t even ‘fire people out of the Post Office when they're caught looting the mails. Too much union trouble. Too much paper work. Just too much trouble. So forget it.

So take that basic 500,000 blic servants and, wi Statscan family at three

and a half persen, be §

conservative and double the civil service vote to a mere million.

Throw in the sym- pathetic public service vote, those others on the public payroll with the municipal, regional and

. provincial governments,

And how many have

you got?

A formidable vote. . Concentrated in Ottawa- -where it controls elght of 10 ridings--in Toronto, montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver; and on the provincial side every Capital from St. John’s to Victoria, ;

The Conservatives cracked the public ser-

vice vote only once when’

Dief won it. along with moat of the rest of the country, all but wipin, out the Liberals an NDP.

But then the public service turned on him, were disloyal to the overnment in office traying it to its old Liberal enemies. - ‘Since then Pierre Trudeau has changed

. “The publie ‘service has become a kingdom of its own with ite: knights

Radioactive satellite fragment drama continues: _ More news “fragments” from the Gdn. Press wire —

metal witha gloved hand. Wheel

er said the readings taken at the crater created by ihe satellite indicated the men “didn’t, recelve a

very high dosage at all.’

*s not like a fallout situation where there is a lot of dust floatingharound. There's just a solid jump of this stuff and maybe some particles scattere¢ around,’ n

Common, 32, was hired by Queen’s University faculty of education in Kingfton, Ont., last year as a temporary replace-

ment in the outdoor with recreation depurtment. ’

Prof, Robert Pieh, head of the department, said in Kingston today that Common and the, other. five were retracing ‘the travels of explorer John Hornby in the mid 1920s.

Hornby was an-. nEnglish explorer and rapper who made ex- tensive journeys through Canada’s Arctic and su

Arctic regions. He and’

two other men starved to. death in 1927 after un-

dertaking an ill-equipped. -

trek to the Dubawnt Lake

area of the Keewatin ‘* District in the Northwest .

Territories, . Common is from St. Anne De Bellevue, Que. Canadian and U.S. search officials said today they have positively identified debris. found in locations in the Nor-. thwest Territories as from ‘a Soviet nuclear- wered satellite which ost orbit last Tuesday. Tvo of the sites were on lake jice near Fort Reliance on the northeast end ofjGreat Slave Lake, abou] 240 - kilometres easto of Yellowknife, the territorial capital, The third site was on river ice on Thelan River near the

‘remote Arctic weather

outpost at Wardens Grove, about 300 kilometres further east. Mahlon Gates, a Nevadabased nuclear

the average f

constituency

‘and - . . Mr. Oberle will lose:the

three ©

Frank Oberle, Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River, has

apa

nomination in the nor- thern section of the Prince George-Peace River constituency. Under the statutes of the British North America Act federal _‘ con- stltwencles are reaistHibuted every teri years a the basis of population. e huge of Prince George -Peace River has been split in half

southern portion of the

selentist, with the Us: energy department, -sa

aneiecis confirmed the debris found in the three ‘locations as from «the fallen .Cosmos-954 sat-

ellite, ered by 100 pounds ot entiched uranium, —

CFB Namao,

headquarters. for the

‘search operation —re- leased photographs today showing the remains of

“4

the satellite found on Thelon River ‘ near Wardens Grove. . .' Nausea, skin burns and loss of hair are specific symptoms ’ _ exposureto radiation, -says G. A. Moas of the University of

associated ©

MODERN TIMES

Frank

the present riding

- of Pritice George and the

Highway 16 area.

. Oberle made his comments on Monday during a radio interview in Ottawa. He stated thathe is looking forward to Sharing the work load of his former con- stituency if his re-election bid meets with success,

“The ‘new system will

allow me to devote more ime to Sine lenialstion

e pipeline slation,”’ Oberle said,’ and will enable me to’ play a major role in co ordinating many of the development: projects scheduled for the north.”

Alberta. vo Moss, who is with the nuclear research centre

‘at the university, said

symptoms do not usually snow up immediately. But if the dose radiation has been high, suich a3 froma bomb, the nausea and skinnburn symptoms might occur within hours,

_Skin burns caused by high doses may develop into tumors or blood diseases such as leu- kemia and anemca, but these diseases. may. not become apparent until 15 to 20 years, Moss said.

‘Another spokesman

~ said extremities of the

body, such as the hands,

Oberle

The City of Prince George has been divided under re-distribution, and

- Oberle feels that it will be

‘much . easier for two Members of Parliament to meet the special and distinctive demanda tn urban center. ; Mr, Oberle makes his

home in Chetwynd, which.

lies in the northern half of the present § con- stituency,and feels that his close ties with the people and problems of

freses River area wilt’ Sr H ve him in goodstead in ijarigdictign 3! 15 wa. hastsedheliedy i $iy7

Otta He

have a higher tolerance

for radiation than more central parts because

‘they are further away

from internal organs. N.W.T. (CP)

Edmonton on Sunday night were reported in good condition today after comeng in contact with the radioactive

wreckage of a Soviet.

nuclear-powered satellite that fell from orbit over northern Canada last

. Tuesday. '.. The two, members of a

sixman wildlife survey

_ party camping out on the

sub-Arctic wasteland while on contract to the Northwest Territories

— Two" of Americans flown to

represented the area in the Federal Parliament since 1972. Mr.Oberle expressed : his. ap-

laced in him and wishes assure all residents of the present riding that he will continue to serve their interests in Ottawa,

“I hope to continue to build on the friends

and sup for out Pa ¥ in both constituencies,

and to serve the unique interests of all of pentral ‘and northern B.C. in

r m

ratte g ul cogs *y erle

government, were: . identified as Mike Moble

and John Mordhorst.

Hometowns were un- available. =. +

‘Tt is believed’ the two men received'a radiation dose not exceeding tliat of two normal xrays, sald

just be ‘back’. to J

glad to, “civilization after being

the bush for four weeks,” hesaid, -

The men were flown to Edmonton for medical

examination “as = a recautionary measure’ ause of their contact

with the wreckage.”

Monday’s Herald carried photos on pages one and four of Terrace Pipes and drums band. Unfortunately the captions below the two photos were switched by mistake. Above. photo shows girl HIGHLAND DANCERS Denise Gilles, far right, Heather simthwaite, center, Crystal

Piper, farleft, doing the HIGHLAND Fling Saturday night Burns Dinner, Hidden from :

j

t the

camera behind Denise, is fourth dancer Randi. :

More photos.and writeup in

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