we eS atta Peers 4, was Fun ee a Proud owner of an antique MG smiles at the camera during the Kitlmat parade on July Lat. For All as Ganada Week Ended = ~~ } are ke | ra Hidden beh da cloud of smoke rising from the grill LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY, PORLILMEN? BUILDINGS, VICrer ra, PA.c., VSY¥-1N4 COUP. 77/7 #61 . ke : a ae: ; Vy . cakes atthe early morning breakfast In Kitamaat Village. Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo serves sausages and pan 4 \ : RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD.) (~ TERRACE ‘\ The Terrace Grad ALL METALS & BATTERIES . Supplement ‘WON, - SAT. , ann © wll appear in (Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5620) | | Thursday's Edition, VOLUME 72 No. 128 20° 7 July Sth. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972. ‘forestry. y,. bald - -~ fire, which was started bya: Forest Fires Rage As Heat Soars At Mc Mackenzie, Vanderhoof , Here MACKENZIE, B.C. (CP) — Fire fighters continued Monday to battle a 1,200 acre fire which has been burning since Thirsday about 96 kilometres weat of Mackenzie,’ an interior eammunity 169 kilometres north of Prince George. Tom Waller, a fire duty officer with the provincial being battled with air tankers, bulldozers and about & forest fighters. The fire was contained toa 1,200 acre area but Waller said any high winds hitting the area could create serious problems for the crews. | | Meanwhile, Waller said a second fire, invelving 350 acres, was burning out of the, contol Mnday in an area’4s tina 95 kilometres west of Prince George. He sald the second fire started Saturday amd was also man-made, Continued warm tempera-' tures in the Prince George forest district have caused that area to have the highest hazard rating in the vinne. Waller said 15 new - pro fires started during . the eekend bri careless campfire, was derhoof, a community about to 22. - ? Joe Clark Does A Hot Polka TORONTO (CP) — Joe Clark, federal Progressive Conservative leader, braved adownpour Monday to tour a, multicultural festival some of the ethnic events and shaking hands with plenickers. Accompanied by his wife, Maureen McTeer, and his 14- month-old daughter, Catherine, Clark took a quick jaunt around Toronto Island, plunging into crowds Mo one was hurt in a one vehicle accident near MEK Bay Marina on Kitamaat Village Road Sunday at about 9:30 in the afternoon. The vehicle involved was a bus owned by Coastal Bus Lines and driven at the time by Gisela Hoekstra of Kitimat, There were two For B.C.Hydro 7 No Secrets at Site C B. C. Hydro's activities at Site C on the Peace River are far from secret, Hydro vice- president for corporate affairs Charles W. Nash said Wednesday. Nash, addressing the Dawson Creek Gyro Club, sald he found it surprising that the B. C. Wildlife Federation was alleged to be the source of newspaper feadlines charging Hydro with ‘secret’ plans. “y know of few organizations which have been kipt closer to Hydro’s planning process than the Federation,‘ he said. ‘In yiew of the fact that Hydro has held some 275 meetings, with various public groups around the province on various: projects at and oposals over the Ja vents, the use of the work is most inap- arding Hydro’s land ares around Site C, Nash sald Hydro was ap- proached by raperty owners seeking relief front fimancial worry stemming from the uncertainty of the ituation. Hydro ta studying the hydroelectric potential a Site C, 14 miies downstream from the W. A. C. Bennett dam on the Peace, but has not yet decided whether or not to apply for a water Hcense. Hydro's response to those owners who might be. directly affected was & letter offering to - purchase their property and to Jease it back in the interim, ‘with.a buy- ‘back option in the event the . dam proposal ware can- celled, “The letter was public knowledge, and yet Hydro was criticized for promoting ‘secret’ deals,‘ Nash said, “Would ithave been better to ignore the concern of the property owners? Perhaps the critics of this action would have preferred Hydro to let the owners suffer the plight of uncertainty.‘ The uncertalnty has been compounded by well- organized propoganda spread throughout the Peace valley and the province, he continued. “Consider the statement, made many times, that dams on the Peace River © would floek20 per cent of the Class | agricultural land in the province, “Match this against the fact - that the entire Peace- Liard region - about one third of the aren cf the province, contains Jess than six per cent! .- Nash said he did not quote these numbers as an argument in favor of power against agriculture without a reasonable trade-off, but merely as an example of the statements make by those who seem to believe that dishonest means. were justified in opposing ends: which they considered un- favorable, Nush posed the question: “Why should Site C be to introduce himscif. | Atone point, he climbed on Stage with a troupe of Yugo- ‘slavian performers and danced to what the an- nouncer called the ‘Joa rk polka.’ passengers in the bus. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $2,000. Kitimat RCMP are still investigating. erpcarth of ~ Vare="“nimmber ‘oartinig in Whe aren’ | discovery was made. __-srapdneroupseenenenuneanannatedeneennenennennnnennnennens BULLETIN SSP SSOISSRS SPIN reha aleuatuta ah ote uta ataltahataT ala aNaTalahabatatatetatatlanntatotatnalelscioetets E. Local Couple Find Body. A partially decomposed body was discovered at Copper River flats and reported to Terrace RCMP at approzimately 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Sunday. Police are attempting to identify the body o. the male Caucasian. ' No foul play is suspected. The body was entangled in the roots of a tree at the junction of the Skeena and Copper. Rivers. Evom iti in the sand only.a few: feet away; it appears children had been playing néarby, unaware of the corpse. Only 100 feet away, campers were picknicking on the river beach unaware of the tragic remains when the Two local residents, out with their children, noticing the putrid smell investigated the tree stump, thinking at first it could be the remains of a bear, only to discover it was a human corpse. The body was still partly clad, and was said to still have been wearing boots. Aprroximately last October, a “bull cook” in a logging camp upriver was reported missing, and a missing persons notice was inserted in the HERALD. He was believed to have been from Prince George. Police have, as yet, not positively identified the body, and will probably require a dental check to confirm any findings. . considered at allt‘ His ly:: “Because it is a genuinely attractive that connot be ignored, “What about the statement that no more power is needed? “That would be un- believable even if the birth rate in British Columbla remained at no more than sustaining level, There is no way we can lock the door on those wishing to join us in the moat desirable place in the world to live. The planning to ensure that electricity is there when you flick the awitch must begin 10 to 14 years or more shead of the time when that switch will be flicked - if you expect anything to happen.“ Nash referred to the ‘oft- repeated fallacy’ that forecasts of the B. C. Energy Commigsion and B.C. Hydro were far apart and con- sequently Hydro's forecasts: ‘could not be trusted. “Here are the facts,"' he stated. "The B, C, Energy Commission was estimating total energy needs for the whole of British Columbla - gas, oil, other petroleum fuels, coal and electricity - on a particular base year. “B,C. Hydro was estimating electricity needs only, in its own service area only, on a different base year. The results had to differ, . “When the figures and time were reconciled, the two forecasts were remarkably close." Death on Highway 16 A Prince Rupert man is dead following a single car accident 75 miles west of Terrace on High- way 16 Saturday. Kenneth George Toye, 20, was killed when he failed to negotiate a curve, went straight ahead and hit a cement abutment, More than $1,000 damage was done to Department of Highways’ vehicles parked at the gravel pit in Thornhill Saturday. Windows and ‘gauges on equipment were smashed, causing $1,500 damage. Charges are contemplated against two female juveniles who were apprehended Friday evening after breaking into a mobile home on Mark Road. . Two Kitimat youths were caught siphoning gas from a car parked in the 4900 block of Halliwell and charged with theft. A Terrace man was arrested and charged for breaking and entering a private residence on Copper River Road early Saturday morning. Police did not release the man's name. | EurocanPickets Lifted Fire scene between Kitiniat and Terrace Picket lines outaide of Ewrocan in Kitimat were withdrawn Thursday evening after striking workers at Pacific Northern Gas ended the 12-hour picket of the mill for allegedly breaking an agreement signed by the two groups. A spokesman for the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the local gas workers union, said the picket line was with- drawn at 6 p.m. and by 10 p.m. an additional agreement was signed in Vancouver by union business agents and lawyers for Eurocan ’ The agreement Is similar te one signed by the union and Alcan stating thal the line kiln which normally operates on natural gas would be converted to oil. The line kiln operates on two million cubic feet of natural gas each day and Amott to $4,000 each day in « revenue to Pacific Northern Gas, Cost to Eurocan to use oil instead will be $8,000 per y. Three other facilities burn natural gas at Eurocan, but the union spokesman said these would be difficult to convert to oll and the IBEW would not force the company to convert those facilities, IBEW workers went on strike June 5 In offices from Prince Rupert to Fort St, James and in Vancouver after negotiations broke. Four Helicopters Aid 250 Fighting Big Fire For those who woke wp, In Terrace, Monday morning choking and coughing fram the smoke-flled alr, there still seemed little rellef in sight, Monday afternoon, By four otclock In the aflernoon, the total fire size encompassed 2,000 acres - mostly in the Chist Creek valley area. Officials at the Ranger Station in Terrace were assuring the public there was no danger at prevent to life or limb, «Approximately 25) persons, working three shifts, were allempting to bring the blaze under control. . At the peak of their use, four A-26 and one DC-4 air tankers were used, guided by & “Bird Dog" aircraft as the Aerostar spotter plane is called. . Supporting equipment included 10 heavy water tanks, 10 cats - mostly D-76 and D-as - and For helicopters were giving aerial support, These fying machines were belng used to airlift men and fire fighting equipment. as well aa dropping distributing retardants. . "To the North and South the fire guards were established and holding well. .. The fire guards on the West side were being successful in keeping the flames from the highway and the power line - though motorists were being warned, over the radio, not to stop or slow down along the way. _ The East flank was the running end of the fire, and at press time, yesterday, seemed to be heading for a move up the mountain farther into timberland, .. Two causes were piven as posuible origins of the fire. The fire could have developed from a “sleeper”, started by lightning and smouldering undetected for an undetermined perlod of - ii could have been ignited by a carelessly thrown cigarette. Both possibilities are being Investigaled. _ Meanwhile the fire hazard in the forest district is now placed ad "Very High" to Ex- treme, No sign of an early rain appears in the offing to help the firefighters extinguish the very persistent conflagration.