V7 EINCTAL LIBRARY CARLIANEN? BLOGS VICTORIA BC v. New rail _ +, Transportation Minister Jack Davis said Tuesday the whole northwest Canada resources area would _become tributary to Prince Rupert, if a rail link is . established between the British Columbia Railway. line and the Great Slave Lake Railway in Alberta. Davis said Tuesday that the link recommended by the Hall Royal Commission on grain handling, was the commission's most significant recommendation as far as B.C. is concerned, ; , | _ Hesaid it was a recognition of the northern corridor concept, which takes Pine Fass between Prince George. and Chetwynd, B.C, and the Canadian -National Railways line to Prince Rupert as the natural - utlet for northwestern commodities. _ “This would really draw much of the northern resource traffic, not only grain, out through Rupert,” - Davis said in an interview. | CITIZEN'S BAND - JRA DIOSJ from —-KITIMAT_ RADIO & TV. Lower City Centre Mall 632-2024 eacscensoaianaies pers HALL RECOMMENDATIONS | system favors Rupert A spokesman for B.C, Rail said the Crown railway would have no objection to a connection between Fort St. John and the Manning subdivision of the Great Slave Lake Railway. The railway would be prepared to move traffic on such a line, he said, but would not get involved in building such a line without detailed study. Both the railway spokesman and Davis rejected the commission’s recommendation of clearing a right of way between Ashcroft and Clinton in anticipation of laying a rail link between the B.C. Rail‘and Canadian National in an emergency. The railway spokesman said CN, CP Rail and B.C. Rail have been against the Ashcroft-Clinton link and noted that if traffic were routed from B.C. Rail onto the other two railways, revenue would be drained from B.C. Rail. Davis said Central Interior terrain was too rugged to lay a line in a hurry. He said Hall, like many people in the east, tend to think of the west as being all prairie. A rail line linking: Ashcroft and Clinton would have to rise 2,500 feet in a relatively short distance. Such a link was recently rejected by a government study group as economically unviable, Davis said. He said he was pleaded the commission favored the - B.C. government’s recommendation that a task force _ comprised of management, labor and government be set up to work on inter-switching problems in the - Vancouver area. He said the Western Transportation Advisory Council Westac would be an acceptable body to structure the task force, as recommended by the Hall Commission. VOLUME 71 NO. 13 , ‘Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazalions, Stewart and the Nass. 1G. DOUGLAS CHANNEL REALTY see = FI Bi «= a 8 = 4 nm @ oe gS a s ‘a | pp = iJ wa o - & =a a a oJ = fc) ® 3 &® Ss Ss % clears out his desk after resigning as city manager in Trail, Ben de Kleine, no stranger to the north, says = he’s looking forward to working in Hitimat'’s ad- : ministrative structure. , Manager system . - clearly defined _ By BILL MARLES “Kitimat has one of the best administrative ‘structures anywhere,” says Ben de Kleine, for-% R : t t Id t | at do ists tarted'wo Shing for the district of e8 working for is Report told governmen | Kitimat this wee as assistant manager. el be © ae FE e reins from municipal manager Arti to expa nd Northland line © Currie, after Currie retires this summer. ie Kitimat has “a clearly defined manager # a9 City Centre: ‘KITIMAT _ “REAL WITH THE FRIENDLY FOLK'* apteeleateteteae Re ‘THURSDAY, MAY 19, W977 TERRACE, B.C. oO. Go how | ‘ a | NO aul: Sf RSIS ASSISTANTS [: Besse sso aces iy 5x , = Transport policy “absurd” Sot aaa SE EAGEAD SS SS SS NAR SS SSR “ atalet ae He ene SR OSS see sratatetatptofetetatetatelatePoteteretatatattetetytatatatat tet titata evoreletanatatabesnestoatanehelasicass sanerarimarerenrsaceaeroreracee meer rate ery eoararetane ee taie recently transferred out. They will do - general detachment work. The newness of the women to the RCMP means they will be playing it by ear. - “POLICEWOMEN OF TERRACE - Ida Koopman (left) and Marjan Comdina are the first two women police con- stables to be stationed in Terrace, They replace two other officers who were RCMP TRAINEES | Two lady officers — walk Terrace beat See rere retazeteteleletecerssepesesececesecnceceseseceeenee noes aticteticeneasheigobessateacncacesncesssncaseseasoceeeonnes or SM Po e b ‘ By BRIAN GREGG tougher than reports throughout the = . Herald Staff Writer country would suggest. The dropoutrate = . With expectations of a two-year stayin iis only seven percent among women 3 Terrace, Constables Marjan Comdina while the dropout rate for men is four and Ida Koopman will complete the last six months of their training with fellow RCMP officers here. The policewomen spent six months in training at Regina before being tran- sferred ta Terrace. Constable Comdina, - gage 22, was born and raised in Prince = Rupert; Koopman, age 23, is from : Hamilton, On rio. percent. Women have only been RCMP officers since 1974, . The women will not be working together, particularly now while they are still in training. They haye taken alt % the self-defense courses and held their | own when they battled male troops during their practice sessions, When they enter a bar, for example, they Se Sa According to the, two police officers, expect to work as any other new police there is presentl a list of 2,618 women . ; take training in the RCMP. - “Wehave been taught that violence is used as a last resort,” Comdina said. The officers main complaint with their new job is their uniforms. There are no pockets in them so they have no place for notebooks and their gun holsters tend to stick them in the ribs when they sit : down. . ROARS SSO OS eat RS SSS f The federal government. was told by senior policy analysts that coastal transportation — services should be upgraded and expanded, according to a confidential document leaked to the Terrace Herald and obtained by federal NDP leader Ed ‘Broadbent. An executive summary of the 1975 Acres -report, entitled “Coastal Services in British Columbia”, concludes, after 40 pages of documentation, that upgrading direct service ‘(provided by would he affected “by replacing the aging Nor- thland freight passenger vessels with modern roll-on, roll-off freighters designed to accomodate cargo in unit Joad format.’* An executive summary of the report, prepared by the staff at the Ministry of Transport's Systems Analyses Branch, says this option provides ‘clearly the best overall freight system.”’ The study says that the type of passenger service provided then becomes a ‘crucial decision” but the page in the text in which passenger options are ap- parently discussed was missing from the copy obtained by the Herald. Tn making reference to the : summary at a speech in ; Prince Rupert, Broadbent said that ‘‘user-pay philosophy for coastal marine transportation is absurd,”’ The NDP. leader told 200 people that it was one example of the federal government's failure to deal with regional concerns in . the country. He said the report, which has never been made pubiic, recommended the ex- nsion of the Northland ype of service but the government did the op- posite.” _ Northland’s genera! cargo, freight and passenger service, which d been receiving a $3.1 million dollar anntal federal subsidy, was ter- minated last fail when the federal government cut off subsidies. The service has been replaced by RivTow: Straits’ user-pay service with set rates and no sub- sidies, . The change in service has caused considerable discontent among service users. Broadbent urged his listeners to demand that federal Fitness Minister Iona Campagnolo, Liberal member of Parliament for Skeena make the Acres Report public, Graham Lea NDP member of the B.C. legislature for Prince Rupert, said the report advocated expansion of the type of service offered by Northland. Lea said a copy of an executive summary of the Northland.-..-Navigation).. report, received from an anonymous source, called for an expansion of wharf and roll-on-roll-off facilities on the north coast. - Lea said the report's recommendations matched the views of West Coast residents heard by the NDP’s transportation committee in the past few months. ’ “After terminating the subsidy to Northland it is obvious why the govern- ment has hidden the report,”’ he said, “The fed- eral government, did the” opposite. at om rayne, “Lea was accompanying Broadbent on the feder leader’s visit to the com- miunity-before the provincial NDP convention gets under way in Vancouver Friday, Beating what has become a familiar drum, the NDP leader said unemployment and regional problems are at the heart of the national unity question. Prime Minister Trudeau is telling the country that if English Canada had ac- cepted _—the Official Languages Act in 1968 the solidarity of the country wouldn't be in jeopardy today, said Broadbent, but “that's a lot of nonsense.” He said the real source of tension is Trudeau’s failure to deal with the ordinary needs of ordinary Canadians. Begin ready to negotiate TEL AVIV (AP) Menahem Begin, head of Israel’s victorious right- wing Likud bloc, asked the defeated Labor party Wednesday to join in a coalition government. . He said Israel was ready for serious negotiations with its Arab neighbors and ‘‘we stand for peace.” There was no immediate word on whether Labor would accept the offer. Arab states angrily de- nounced Begin ag a “terrorist” and said the Likud victory was a threat to Middle East peace. Begin, quoting from the U.S. Democratic party platform, called for ‘‘face- to-face, direct negotiations’ between Israel and the Arabs, He said he opposed : "externally devised for- mulas,’’ apparently referring to indications Washington might come up with its own plan. “We mean serious negotiations ... we stand for ‘peace,’’ Begin said in an interview at his Tel Aviv apartment, which once served as his guerrilla hideout, “Tl believe President Carter will keep his com- mitment,” said Begin, 63. (Carter) sald there must be morality in foreign relations, May I respectfully ask what ls more moral than ~ from .more -than: ‘ “The prime minister realizes he gets majority government in Ontario and Quebec—and so be it for the rest of Canada,” he said. Broadbent said unem- ployment affecting 1.5 million Canadians is the highest since the Depression and there is a close con- nection between unemploy- ment, .regional discontent and the question of national unity, . Over a four-year period an NDF government would bring the unemployment level down to three r cent cent by stimulating the economy with tax cuts and taking job creation steps such as a housing program. Qn the other topic, Broadbent said his party would do everything possible to prevent con- struction of a proposed oil rt at Kitimat, south of ere, and a Kitimac-to- Edmonton oil pipeline. “The party had categorically rejected the proposal from the first moment it was released,” Broadbent said. He said: the federal government was remiss in not developing a national enerey policy. He added that the country should: be looking toward . conservation methods and the development of alter- native ‘sources of energy. ad sek -system”, says de Kleine. There’s no confusion = about the manager’s role, which is to coordinate ‘the activites of all departments. He says there’s “adequate staff for the manager to direct th # policies of council. In that role, he can also serve a’ ‘an advisor to council. . So : After being in Trail for six and a half years, de : Kleine felt he wanted a different challenge. Trail i = avery stable community in that its population has; timat, there’s; eetezetet © decline a bit over the years. But in = “the excitement of possible growth” _ # He has worked all over the north... in Northern: % Alberta, Whitehorse and Inuvik. He’s always fe’ = the north was an area of new horizons as opposed to: a the south where everything is largely settled. # ‘Ten years ago, de Kleine became the first tow i manager of Inuvik on the Mackenzie River delta =the Northwest Territories. The challenges theres: were considerable. For instance, none of the town: ‘council members had any experience. ee | ee & 5S * tte # Like Kitimat, Inuvik was built from scratch as ai model community. Inuvik was to replace Aklavik,: native people’s community that was sinking back: into the river. But the Indians and Eskimos had: é their trapping and fishing grounds at Aklavik, and: they eventually moved back to the older set-: tlement. De Kleine, however, says there are still: flooding problems at Aklavik. BS : He praises Kitimat council for following through; on the original town plan of the 1950's. % Many of the older communities were created: # before planning was active or known, says dei: a built, it is hard to go back: #and change things that are creating problems: -& without creating a new townsite. He says Kitimat: Kleine, Once the town is “has the advantage of a good start. ie = It's not de Kleine’s intention to make any drastic z oe ibe here,” he says. NEW ISRAELI LEADER to keep a commitment?” Begin said he would not be .pinned down on Likud’s pledges never to withdraw om the West Bank of the Jordan River. “It is futile,’’ he said, “If we with- draw from Judea and Sa- maria (the West Bank) our security is destroyed and the chance of peace falls to the ground,” The party platform does not ban withdrawal, It pledges the West Bank “will not come under alien rule.” In broadening its appeal for the election, Likud indicated a readiness to trade parts of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the Sinai degert. Begin repeated his in- tention to issue a call to leaders of Egypt, Syria and Jordan to jon him at the bargaining table, either in their respective capitals or at Geneva. “Ifthe Geneva conference is convened let’s say, at the end of this year, I will go to Geneva,” he said. Begin’s victory took U.S. @ changes unless it becomes necessary. # HesaysKitimatisa beautiful place. ‘I’m glad to Shoat cceranonsenersenea aaa afar! rata eteate ie ata ate! NO GARDEN OF EDEN IN PRINCE GEORGE PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. {CP) — Joe Payne, co- owner of the Garden of Edn Adult Sex Boutique in Victoria, now says his firm no longer wants to open an outlet ner. Payne said in a telephone interview Wednesday that ‘the firm will look for a franchiser interested in operating a shop, here. The firm's change of heart . followed a 244 year battle to open up a shop here that would sell sex aids and devices, On Tuesday, the Supreme, Court of Canada ruled in a unanimous decision that a municipality is not em- owered to withhold a usiness licence on grounds of protecting community moral welfare. The decision upholds a British Columbia Appeals Court decision in August, 1975, City solicitor Bob Dick said Prince George spent about $30,-000 on its court battles with the boutique. Mayor Harold Moffat said Tuesday that the answer might be setting a $3,000 fee for business licences for sex shops. He said other cities charge similar fees for such “shops. Ro OS officials by surprise but a Carter spokesman said the president wants to meet the new Israeli premier. The new U.S, ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, arrived in Tel Aviv Wed- nesday. He told reporters Carter and a succession of U.S. congresses had af- firmed support for Israel’s existence, “and ! cannot conceive of a time when it might falter.” The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said the Likud bloc united extremist ° groups and “their leader, in particular, categorically opposes a return to the Arabs of territories occu pied in 1967...” The Tass news agency said Labor was defeated because of corruption and “the near future will show what policy will be pursued by the leaders of the Likud bloc when they come to State-controlled radios in Arab lands branded.Begin a “notorious terrorist’’ and said the election would spell disaster for President. Carter's peace efforts in the Middle East. Palestinian guerrillas threatened to ‘‘escalate violence’ in the Israeli- occupied Gaza Strip and the Weat Bank, over which the Likud wants to retain Israeli sovereignty.