In brief:| | Hat Creek delayed

VANCOUVER (CP) — Environmental impact studies on British Columbia Hydro’s proposed Hat Creek power project will not be finished this month as originally scheduled. :

Hydro.spokesman Dave Robertson said Wednesday that completion of the studies is now expected in December, but he gave no reason for. the delay. ;

He said a final decision on whether to build the piant cannot be made until after the studies have been received by Hydro, Earlier this year, Hydro spokesmen said the decision wduld probably be made this fa

A coal-generating plant at Hat Creek would involve the mining of vast coal deposits in‘a valley between Ashcroft and Cache Creek. ‘

The proposed 2,000-megawatt plant would burn 40,000 tons of coal a day and is expected to cost $1.2 billion. It would ultimately be expanded to 4,000 megawatts.

CNR asked to stay

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Residents of two central British Columbia Interior communities, protested the proposed removal of the local Canadian National Railways agent at a Canadian Transport Commission hearing Wednesday.

The CNR is asking for the removal of agents from 11 -

small communities in central B.C. but only residents of

Vanderhoof and Penny presented briefs to protest the |

proposal,

Penny postmaster Jennifer Burrows said the 60 local residents rely on the CNR’s agent-operator to use the company’s phone link in case of emergencies because B.C. Telephone Co., service to the community is unreliable.

_ Penny, located about 60 miles east of here, considers CNR its only reliable link, she said. .

CNR lawyer Howard Pye said it would cost CNR $20,000 a

year to keep the agent who delivers about four telegrams a

month. '

Vanderhoof alderman Ken French also protested the proposed removal of the local agent in his community about 60 miles west of here.

Under the CNR. proposal, fulltime agents would be replaced by part-time operators who would only contro] train traffic. ; ’

Drunk workers

VICTORIA (CP).— Management is the weak link in the united battle against alcoholism, Labor Minister Allan Williams said Wednesday.

Unions have shown a willingness to take action against work-ralated alcoholism, but often they do not get the full co-operation of management, Williams told a seminar sponsored by the Greater Victoria Drug and Alcohol Regabilitation Society. .

He said any joint union-management program to help combat alcoholism would have the full support of the provincial government. ; ‘ .

The number of alcoholics in the aBritish Columbia's 1.1.

million-person work force is between 30,000 and 11,000, Williams said.

Some of these people are in management positions and this, in effect, creates a cover-up, a8 emplouees try to protect other members of the management team, said the

minister. . “Tf I am too critical of the employer group, then I

apologize," he said. “But I ask them to show me I am

wrong.’

Whale of a meal

VICTORIA (CP) — Miracle the killer whale calf began eating again Thursday, eagerly devouring the half-pound portions of ling cod fillets given toit 20timesa day.

The diet was restored by officials of Sealand of the Pacific after a red dye test on Wednesday showed Miracle had only a partial blockage of the intestine.

Sealand manager Bob Wright said Miracle doesn’t ap- pear to be suffering abdominal cramps that worried Sealand officials earlier in the week.

He said the animal has been taken off all merlications.

“we're letting nature take its course,” Wright said,

Miracle was found earlier this summer in Menzies Bay, about 240 kilometres northwest of here, suffering from a gunshot wound, near starvation, and serious infection.

Impaired fines up

THUNDER BAY, Ont. (CP) — A provincial court judge,

t with what he calls an excessive number of impaired drivers, says he-will fine motorists $2,000 for a first im- paired driving conviction.

Judge Roy Mitchell made the announcement this week after 12 persons appeared before him on such charges in one

y, \

A city lawyer said fines for first convictions ‘usually average about $200, but the Ontario attorney-general’s office last year gave judges the right to levy whatever fines

they thought necessary in an effort to get drunk drivers off

the road, . “Some people don’t like it, but there’s nothing one can do about it,” the lawyer said, —

Death toll rises”

KANSAS CITY (Reuter) — Fresh rain fell Thursday as |

the death toll rose to 20 from flash floods that swept through the area earlier this week.

Police working in a cold drizzle found the body of the latest victim in a creek bed on the east side of the city, where waves of water up to 20 feet high crumbled walls and damaged homes Monday night and early Tuesday.

Mayor Charles Wheeler, who returned Wednesday from London, where he was part of a Missouri trade delegation, sald an estimated 1,200 people still were homeless from the

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He said damage caused by flooding at the city’s posh

Country Club‘ shopping district could total §2 million. - Parlier officials had estimated total damtage for the Kansas City area at between $30 million and $50 million, -

Three of the seven persons still unaccounted for were last geen caught in raging floadwaters.

President Carter has granted emergency disaster aid to five counties in the Kansas City area, One official said that the rains the clty suffered were the. kind that happen once every 1,000 years.

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By DONNA VALLIERES Herald staff writer

Northwest Community kollege may have to drop some of their plaris for the coming year if the provincial ministry of education dees not come up with -more money for’ the college budget.

College bursar Geoff Harris said the province granted only $217,900 for the. antiual capital budget which is short about $400,000 of the figure the college council requested, oO

The beard requested $656,000 for replacement of equipment, minor alter- nations to the buildings and expansion of programs.

Last year’s college budget was $162,000, but Harris said increase in requested funds is due to the fact that the. college just recently started up in its present form and much more money would be needed to continue ongoing

plans, “ NCC is a decentralized facility, Harris explained, having been set up under the community college concept in April, 1976, and various classes and programs’ are

seattered throughout the:

northwest.

The main physical presence is in Terrace, he said, but there are facilities from Prince Rupert to Kitimat and extending to the Buikiey Valley.

‘ff there is a substantial decrease in the amount of money the college requested, either the main centre or the outlying programs would suffer, Harris stated.

“If a certain amount is spent in Terrace, little or nothing would be left for the expansion we had hoped for in other areas,’ he said, and vice versa.

“Cutbacks of any magnitude would have an adverse affect,” he said.

Of the $217,900 received for the year, $53,000 has been allocated to physical changes in the Terrace facility, mainly the relocation of the library which is rapidly growing, according to the bursar.

An amount of $30,000 would go toward the pur- chase of books and $5,000 is earmarked for conversion of tools to metric.

The metric conversion fund is “woefully inadequate”, Harris said, because the ministry of education has committed

| Budget may cut college programs

itself to teaching in metric by September, 1978, and with the amoung of tools the college uses for its trades trining courses such as carpentry it will cost more.

The.portion set asige for new courses and equipment replacement would amount to $129,000.

‘That doesn't go very

‘far,’ harris said, par-

ticularly when the college

has $3 to $4 million worth of .

equipment needing replacement parts and repair.

NCC council reacted strongly to a letter from a ministry of education of- ficial which apologized for the decreased funding, but added the $217,900 “will enable you and your colleagues to move ahead in providing an excellent educational experience to your students.”

Council members voted to invite local MLA’s in the college region to a meeting with the board to try to boost the funds up to a figure closer to the original

est.

Harris said he was op- timistic that the budget could be increased.

Those in the ministry of education are “a respon-

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Vegetable board criticized |

PENTICTON, B.C... (CP)- The Interior Vegetable Marketing Board was ctiticized Thursday at a hearing of the British Columbia _legislature’s committee on agriculture.

George Covert, who operates a. 60) acre farm near Oliver, B.C., 30 kilometres south .of this Okangan community, said growers pay exorbitant selling charges to the board which he said is controlled by persons with no ex- perience in volume _ Marketing.

2 He’ said: the board’s charge on a 20 lb. box of ‘tomatoes is 25 cents, plus four percent of the selling price. The charge for a brokerage service on such a sale would be less than 15 cents a box, he said.

He also criticized the $500,000 purchase by the board last year of Western Packaging, a wholesale and re-packing business in Vancouver.

“They can't run their own organization successfully, and yet buy another business which requires a real professional to operate,” he said. “The results were inevitable Western Packing lost more than $60,000 in 1976.”

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