EAE OCI clini animal wastes intermittently polluted the water supply of a health clinic in this Queen Charlotte Islands community for several months unti) a new line was installed this week, a health official sald Wednesday. Diane MacKenzie, ad- ministrator of health and human resources centres on the islands, said the clinic now draws its water from a well at nearby Queen Charlotte City Regional Hospital after having to boil and disinfect its water for months, . The clinic previously took ita water from a nearby creek. At timea plastic jugs were used to bring water in and. ¢ QUEEN CHARLOTTE CITY, B.C. (CP) - Human and ~ for the Skeena Region Health Unit, says the water and recommended that dressings were done at the hospital instead of the clinic. PROVINCIAL LTBRART PARLIA“SH? RLDS YICTQBIA BC A report by Russ Seltenrich. chief public health inspector sewage system for most of Queen Charlotte City's 600 residents is unsafe and the spread of disease is inevitable unless it is changed. The community is generally supplied by water lines with unprotected intakes in nearby streams but some residents and sonie public buildings, like the hospital, are supplied by private wells. Mrs. MacKenzie said problems with the health clinic's problem water were revealed about six months ego when | bacteria was found in water at the community dental clinic. This led to tests at the medical clinic which revealed high coliform bacteria counts. She said a particularly high count was recorded two weeks ago when the body of a decaying animal was found in the stream supplying the clinic, Mrs. MacKenzie said the health and human resources centre would consider digging its own well or installing a chlorinator if no change is made to the Queen Charlotte City water svstem. However, a new syslem for the city has been held back by financing. The tax base of the unincorporated community is limited and although federal and provincial governments could pay up to 92.5 per cent of the capital costa of a new ‘would have ‘to be paid lly has good water supply system a $10,000 to §20,000 engineering feasjbility study : for by local residents, City residents have a history of rejecting proposals for a new water system and Selienrich saya there is a great danger of transmitting disease through the current syatem. “All it takes is an organism to be present and a susceptible population, It’s not a queation of whether or not it wil] hap pen, It'll happen; it's just a question of when." In the meantime, the Skeena Health Unit has sent notices to all residents recommending they boil all water for human conaumption and add smal} amounts of | household bleach to other water supplies. ; ‘ "The PoP shoppe - FREE PARKING BOTTLE DEPOT — Beer & Pop Bottles Open 10a.m,-6 p.m, dally excep . Fri, till ? pm Chamber | wants sales tax dropped By CHARLES LA VERTU VICTORIA (CP) -' Fuels and supplies used in manufacturing should be exempt from the four-per- cent sales tax, the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce told the provincial cabinet Thursday. The chamber said the tax exemption would encourage industry te expand secondary manufacturing and would help primary industries lower costs and become more competitive. The chamber, ina brief to cabinet, said the government's failure to exempt industry from the tax “contradicts efforta to encourage the development of secondary industry in B.C. and to lessen our economic dependence on the primary ustries of forestry and mining iy) Also encouraged in the brief was the elimination of the sales tax on heating fuels used for residentlal Cham president R.A. Patrick of Dawson Creek sald the brief was well recelyed by cablnet but he could not predict what, If any action, the government would take. The brief, based on the chamber’s 16-page policy paper, urged the government to pay its debts more quickly. “Excessive periods of time have elapsed before certain overdue debts have been paid by the government,” the chamber-sald, “Business and representatives of business cannot afford to pay coats of financing beyond those commited by contract.” The chamber told the cabinet it is concerned that the government’s election promises to remove school furding from property taxes is not in any current or proposed law. - The chamber province ie pay 50 per cent o approved school budgets for 1979 and move to delete the property tax portion of achoo] funding by cutting it by 10 per cent a year for five _ years starting in 1980. On the subject of health eare, it called = for construction of more complete care hospitals of - _ 450 to 500 beds each and the immediate addition of as many more acute-care facilities that are needed. Kitamaat man faces assault charges RCMP have charged a Kitimaat village man with Indecent assault on an 11 year old female. Benjamin Henry Stewart 40, will appear in Kitimat court on Sept 12 to face those charges as well as charges of possessing an offensive weapon dangerous to the public safety. . The alleged incident occured Wednesday , when the girl was returning from school. She was not hurt. Stewart was held in custody at first, he has since been released. Lack of steel held up the production of the new Skeena Health Unit bullding but contruction workers are busy q . TERRACE-KITIMAT Friday, September 7 >a daily herald tye > Volume 73 No. 173 , f RUPERT STEEL& SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Ad., Pr. Rupert. 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all motals, batteries, otc, Gail us - We are trying to make up the time lost now . : Health unit building will be a great help By ED YUDIN Herald Stalf Writer The head office for the Skeena Health Unit will: be moved from Prince Rupert. to Terrace next year. Cotstruction is underway for a new $2 million facility on Kalum - Street to house the local ministry of human resources, mental health facilities as well as the public health unit. “They are going to be really good facilities,” says Claire Ann Brodie, the nursing supervisor for the Skeena Health Unit. “It will make things much easier for the public,” Four Prince Rupert positions in the Skeena Health Unit will be transfered to the new offices on Kalum, in- cluding the nursing supervisor. Brodie, however, will be resigning from her position. At present there are three locations for the unit in Terrace; the nursing and public health inspection on Eby,the audiology and speech departments on Greig, and the long term care and aid te handicaped on Lazelle. These depart- ments will all move into the new building, While there are no plans to expand services the new facility will have room for possible ex- pansion. “The building will be so constructed so there'll be lots of space for staff increases and thereby program increases'’, noted Mary Spoke, a senior nurse at the Skeena Health Unit. She said that a dental hygienist may be added in the near future. It's SIX STILL HELD ADAMSVILLE, Que. (CP) — Two: armed robbers, holed up for more than 12 hours in a credit union, released one of thelr hostages shortly before midnight Thureday in exchange for food. “ + Quebed | provincial: pollce spokesman Pierre Lemarbre said the bandits let one woman go, but he did not give her identity, It is believed the hostagetakers are still holding six other people, Lemarbre added. The hostage-taking in this agricultural village #0 kilometres east of Montreal began at 11 a.m, EDT when the robbers were interrupted in the middle of a holdup by Police. A passerby aaw the robbery in progress and turned in an alarm. One of the two men tald a reporter from The Canadian Preas in a telephone interview. that he felt “‘like a rat who's caught in a corner — and a rat can get pretty mad when he’s cornered," He said he and his partner are armed with Pistols and pockets full of ets. Photo by Greg Middleton “IT was coming out of the door when I almost ran into a plainclethes policeman," sald the English-speaking bandit. He said he is 19 years old and was released from prison last week, but declined to give his name. “Somebody must have been passing by and called the police,” He said his partner, a French-speaking man of about 28 whom he said he had just mel, tinted a pistol at the police officer expected that liaison between the ditlereny departments will be facilitated by the cen- tralization move. The and forced him to back Kitimat operation will not away outside the credit be changed, union, The Kalum facility is Police, settled in for a expected to be in nightlong vigil, have been maintaining contact with the two hostage-takera by telephone. Lemarbre said negotiations were operation sometime in the new year. Optimistic predictions set January as the opening date. It may not be completed though till April ac- cording to Brodie. continuing, but declined to give details, THREE MISSING | Seareh on for plane Buffalo aircraft have been brought in for the search By ERLEEN COMEAU Herald Staff Writer A search is presently being conducted by CFB Comox search: and rescue for a light aircraft with three persons on board that went missing on a flight from Smithers to ° Victoria. Wednesday. Headquarter for the search is being established at the Terrace airport where Buffalo aircraft from Comox will be based for air search missions to be conducted from. The aircraft was reported overdue on a flight note when it did not arrive in Victoria at the time the pilot filed as his estimated time of arrival. Within 90 minutes of being reported overdue a communication search is conducted, said CFB Comox. The pilot, indicated on his flight plan that he did not have an ELT, emergency Jocater transmitter, but It has been learned by air search and rescue that the owners of the aircraft did hye one The pilot, indicated on his flight note that be did not have an ELT, emergency lecater transmitter, but it has been learhed by air search and rescue that the owners of the aircraft did have one placed on board. ’ Names of the plane's occupants were not released by Canadian officials but the United States Coast Guard in Alaska said the name of the pilot was Phillip D. Hardin but no hometown was available. Canadian officials said one Canadian and two Americans were believed to be aboard. CFB Buffalo completed a search of all high probability areas along the route travelled by .the aircraft, Thursday. The Cessna 206 piloted by Phillip Hardin ia beieved to have originated in California and departed from Smithers airport at 1 pm Wednesday. Terrace pilots are volunteering their time and aircraft to assist in the search and a spokesman for the rescue team advised that these pilots will be given grid maps Friday to continue the search . Trawler sinks PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. vessel and taken into port at. (CP) — A large steel-hulled Prince Rupert. trawler capsized today in No one was seriously hurt rough seas in Dixon when the vessel overturned, Entrance, about 60 kilo- although one man suffered a metres weat of this north broken arm. coaat community. The seven crew members of the 9%-metre Scotia Bay were picked up by a passing fish boat. They were to be transferred to a coast guard The pilot of a coast guard helicopter which flew over the site of the capsizing said a small oil slick was spreading out from the Scotia Bay, Monkeys taking children as pets DURBAN, S.A. (AP) — Six monkeys tried to abduct two little brothers fram a Durban yard and the boys had to be rescued by their mother and gtandmother, the South African Press Association reported. Marcelle Greyvling, 16 months old, and his three- yearoild brother, Morne, were not Injured and may just have been prospective playmates for their hairy kidnappers. But their mother, Deborah Greyvling, was not amused by the incident Wednesday, She told the SAPA she had taken her sons to visit her mother next door when she heard the children . aereaming and crying and rushed outside to see what wes the matter. “To my horror, each of my sons was being dragged by a. monkey on each arm. I screamed at them but they continued to pull the across the verandah," No word yet on methanol plant By ED YUDIN Heraid Stalf Writer _Ocelot Industries of Calgary has still not decided whether or not to go ahead with a proposed $140 million methanol plant in the northwest. Ocelot President Roy Fisher says the choice of the plant site — Kitimat or Prince Rupert —isstillup in the air. “While we haven't decided to go ahead yet, we are quite confident it will come about. We still have to arrange the financing, and we can’t do that until we have firm sales contracts with buyers “in our hands,” he said. Ocelot is in the midst of securing those con- tracts. Methanol is a valuable, multi-purpoge in- dustrial chamical. [t is used to produce MTBE, a Gasoline additive that takes the place of lead. Methanol Is also tne oasic building block of acetic acid, antifreeze, and Is also processed as a glue for the plywood industry. There are a number of ways to produce methanol, the moat efficient being from natural gas. It can also be produced from wood byprodu cts, A decision concerning the plant development should be forthcoming sometime next mouth, according Fisher. .