Paul Nichol, Terrace. Elks chaplain (left), hands Terrace
First Scout member Tim Fleming a cheque for $500 while
Bill Christy, exalted ruler; Cory Fleming, scout leader and
* Slim Timbertake, past exalted ruler (right) look on. The,
money will go to the Jamboree of the Pacific held In Sooke.

. from Aug. 6-13. There will be 13 scouts and two leaders
among the 2500 people at the jamboree. Local scouts will
attend a loca! camp In Houston In two weeks If the Aorest .
fire has not. destroyed thelr plans. '

BEIRUT (AP): —

warned today that a new wat between Iara].
and Syria on Lebanese territory would cause
American casualties, and It blanried the rising ‘Despite Syria's denunciations of the United ©
States and Israel, Lebanon's state, and
- __ privately owned radio sations said tensions
~ between Syrian and Israeli forces in the Behan
bad eased, .
- The. broadcasts sald Lebanese Presiden
Amin ‘Gemayel's ‘government . resolved to
. dispatch emissaries to the Arab world in anew ©
effort to break the deadlock on: withdrawal of
. foreign armies from ‘Lebanon. .

Pe ee a ene

tensions on President. Reagan's ‘“thiret for’
‘blood

The warting © came ‘in an’ editartal by ‘the,
Damascus newspaper al-Raath, voice of Syrian’ |
President ‘Hafez, Assad’ governing Socialist —
Baath. Party. It appeared aimed at the U.S8:°"

Lebanon's —
force...

pasctcniolag:

“America knows the ‘meaning of modern *
warlare and.so does Israel,” sald the editorial, as
brosideast by Syrian state radio. “Destruction —

comes ‘to-all who deny the rights of others. :
"If die United. States wants to make Arab ~
tlood spill through a war it prepares for with —
Israel, this does not mean that American blood
will pot be alld as well — al this inorder to

~ quench Reagan’s thirst for blood.” ; .. kilometre ceasefire line, ~: Damascis called the report “baseless.” .. the centres, which assist
It was the first indirect threat that the The Israell-Syrian ceasefire has been shaky 4, _featat toured PLO unite in northern Lebaaon native people -lving in or
iiirines might ‘bes targetsince’ Syria ‘and: because ‘of Syria's strong “objections. tot iat my ay HT viaiiig the tobbninads boot one Aiihs Mebwa-aress; fimmgn
Baatet tanhidhed 1 Bin dita 3° 6a dant’! | Yeraeli-Lebaness top withdrawal pact aigied"* '*"tripoll. “A PLU spokednian déatet Pantuls that? '~Sit-million, trpm i9t0:3
Lebanon's Bekss Valley lant week. “earlier this month. Under the 'U.S.mediated . ” Arafat was planning to move his offices from ‘Miillion Last year; ‘Munro .

DEFEND SELVES |

US. residents homeless. after mudslides

_ evacuation of 1,300: people.
‘Falrview

The. Associated Press At
least: 1,800 people «were
homeless. today after
- saturated ‘mountainsides
gave’ way in Nevada and
Utah, Killing - atleast. ‘one
person’.and ‘injuring six’
others..as swiftly moving
rivers“of mud: smothered
: cara; homes and: streets,
- officlals sald.

‘In a Yugged aréa near
~ Carson City, Nev., a 16-
> hectare ‘(40-acre) chunk of
dirt ‘and ‘snow slid Monday’
into”’‘a. mountain. lake,
releasing ‘muck: that raced
five kilometres down the

Washoe ‘Valley. The mud _

damiagéd nine homes and 12 -
to 1§ vehicles, killing one
person “and injuring six -
others, guthorities said:

‘At least three people were
reported: “missing early
today, said Washoe’ County ™
Deputy. Sheriff Mike Jack:

Meanwhile, mudslides in,
Utah — piready, hard hit. by.
spcing runoff — threatened.
two towns . 160 kilometres

a

multinational

 _” ggreement, Israel will not withdraw Its treopa
Responding to the Syrian warning, Mai. Fred from Lebanon until Syria and. the PLO begin to
‘Lash, spokesman for the marine force’ in
Belrut, stressed what he called the peaceful
role.of: the U.S. contingent but said the: 1, 300: ©
marines ‘would defend themselves if attacked.
“Certainly we're not looking to take any’
action along the offensive line or initiste any."
action tantamount to beginning something that
would tie seen to be a warllke act,” Lash sald.
Two mortar rounds landed inside marine
lines near the: south ends of the runways at.
Beirut's international airport Monday. night,
" posaibly. strays from recutting battles between |
Cariatian and: Drase militias on hills wasrty.

A: slide. in-:
Canyon 128 kilometres south’
of Salt Lake City blocked
Cottonwood |. Creek late .
Monday,, and - the 1,100

residents of Fairview were :

taken to Mount Pleasant, 0.6
kilometres’ ‘away, sald
‘ Sanpete. County sheriff's
dispatcher David Edwards.

‘ Officiala feared the water

would flood Falrvlew: wher!
it breaks - through ‘the -

blockage.’
The second. Utah slide
came without wariing when

8 satutated . imountalnalde
‘on the east ‘side. of -Far-
-mington, M4. Klometres
_ north of ‘Salt Lake, started: ”
‘slipping about & pam. ‘MDT °°

Monday. =~: -
SCALES DOWN AREA ;
- City and Davis: County

he ‘authorities ;. ‘initially cane

_mounced ; evacuation of a
-t Jarge portion of the city, but

Hho tea wes seule down es

_ the, cde stabilised. °

“ sonnel "director. and In-

Apart carly today, freee: fermetion tfiees, “i 20

aude

rrr

- Soviets. critical

- wasoow cRetiiey =the’ : overcoming the - ~ celal .
situation or settling the:
economic’ and ° financial
contradictions between the
western countries,” ” Tass
said.

summit. of seve Wweaterd ~
lea In Williamsburg,
Va,’ id nothing: to ‘resolve:
their economic. prablems'

and Ignored ‘the difficulties °

of ‘the Third World, the

Official Soviet news agency ;

Tass bald today.

“Their - rommunique,

contains many © general
pliraséd but in fact offera no

practical . measures = for

it’s |

is 46 Vague
of abstract phrases
that each t was

able to interpret ft in his
‘own way, the: Soviet agency
said.

pall out. .
Israel invaded Lebanon’ last June to smash

PEO guerrilla bases and ‘forced: PLO leader —
‘Yasser Arafat to evacuate His Beirut command
“post three months later, *
PLO sources In ‘Kuwait reported tiday that
-" srafat-has ordered his chief ald Salah Khalaf,
“also known as Abu Iyad, to Moscow on. Wed:
- nesday to brief Kremlin leaders on the tensions -
: ‘inthe Bekaa and atk for more military support. -
‘The Soviet Union isa principal arms euppller to
the PLO and Syria. =”
For! the last two weeks. Acaat has been at :

. “Imaal ‘and Syria lopped their *palldupe in

_ eastern Lebarion on Monday. Observers and.
: » western diplomatic sources reported Israel
bolstered its 25,000-man army in Lebanon with —
10,000 new troops in the southern Bekaa, facing -
Syria's. ‘ettimated 40,000 troops along the 80:

ne

re

people were evacuated and_
all but 30 were spending the
night . with - friends: or
relatives, with shelter being
sought for the other 30.”

1.46 kilometres wide and 2.4
to 3.2 kilometres long.

Offictals ‘said about 10

homes were damaged, and
three were destroyed,

Miles said the slide was
starting to harden today.
“It’s becoming cement-like,
but it’s a situation that could
change,” he said:

Monday’ sslides hit only a,
six weeks after | a moving, :

a

Syria warns of U S. casualties in, war.

fragments or craters, and Lebanese state ratio
said neither shell had exploded. —

_ tempting to ‘crush a spreading mutiny among
- Lebanon-based officers in bis Fatah ‘guerrilla,

: army, ‘the main PLO faction, «"-~. a

. The mutineers were reported to feel that
' Arafat’s command has compromised the PLO
+; ealiae by esinsidering a political settlement with.

Palestinian étate. They also’ are sald to, be

_ unhappy. that Arafat placed two close aides in
top PLO command positions. a

. The mutiny has ‘raised the possibility. that:

; rebellious officers ‘will order PLO strikes oo

_ Israeli positions without Arafat’ 8 permission, —
leading to Israeli retaliation. ’

“The Voice of Lebanon, the Christian ‘radio
station, reported Arafat escaped unhurt from
. an assassination attempt early Monday in the --
Beksa just west of the SXYRIAN BORDER,
BUT THAT ONE OF HIS BODYGUARDS WAS .
_. KILLED. PLO spokesman Abu Ziad in

: Damascus fo Tripoli because the mutineera -

- took over control of six PLO supply warebouses
“in Damascus last Saturday.

_” ABC News reported the Israelis have con-

cluded- that ambushes of thelr troops in

- Lebanon are part of.a war of attrition launched

by the Syrians using PLO guerrillas as

‘ protection,

“mountain of mud dammed

“Spanish Fork Canyon about
100 kilometres south of Salt

. Lake City, blocking a major
_ cvlhighway, a railway line and
Miles said the slide WAS,

iforming- a lake that .still

-floods the town of Thistle...

@ new alldes came as

“flodd control. officials in

many areas of the state
believed they had a handle

- on. the spring: runoff that
olficinia . have called the

“worst . possible -scenario”

—a record year of rain and.
‘ snow, with a- cool,
spring’ followed by. ‘Budden -
x : problems, —

wet

surrogates, spurred on by Soviet advice and.” .

. The Israelis have warned they: will not
_ tolerate a war of attrition. Eight Israelis have
died and 73 have been ‘wounded . in 33 attacks
this: month alone,

Sizice the Invasion, at leant 400 laraelis have
been Kdlted and more ® than 2,700 wounded. ,:

“e

Three streets converted ;

into makeshift canals were
channelling: the runoff
through Salt Lake City.
Residents in some séc-
tions of the city were told to
curtail water use because

.gome treatment plants,
unable to cope with the huge"

flow.of water, had been shut

down.
Temperatures

expected to be about two

beginning Wednesday. was

expected to reduce runoff

were:

De ald

_, Gordon; Ritchie, ‘BCR. vice-president,

says It: hes been approached ‘by Swan”
Wooster Engineering Co. Ltd., of: Van. -
. couver, atbout, a Jint-venture consulting

service... :

‘Ritchie nald in an interview that the 190
. Kilometre Ine ‘being “built: acrows.: the:
- Rockies ‘is a femarkable. demonstration of '
the engineering talents of the railway:and’:.
“the ability af ‘te management wo embrace :
- néw technology, 0 ,
Tho brainchtine Is to open in December,
4. 24 months after’ the signing of coal: ‘export’
contracts elléwed it to atart vetting. con- _

struction contracts.

Ritehle mata the line is behig ball. ay
_ arduous terrain where’ sow is en-.
comtered seven months of the year. ~

Unit trains of 96 cars will be hauled by
‘electric Jocomotives drawing power from. _
a $0,00volt overhead line,- the second . ~
largest sytem: in the world after the
Saldanha Bay line of ‘South - African, 7

Railways and Harbors,

‘The 490 100-tonne cars “will have sell.
steering trucks, to reduce both rail and
. wheel wear, In the largest test in North
America of this type of equipment, says

Ritchie.”

. Engineers | shoard the seven 6,000-

_ horsepower electric locomotives being

- puilt by “ithe diésel division of General
’ Motors of Canada Ltd. will “eventually

> pedelve operating Lnstructions from a cab-

mounted cmibode ray tube, once BCR has

: fully tested this equipment in mainline
service. |
The trains will rideon continuous welded

“pall at a maximum speed of 56 kilometres

per hour, Energy costs are expected to he

50 per cemt below those of diesel-electric

“cometives a and maintenance will show a

Native

OTTAWiA. (CP) — Native
Friendship Centres across
Canada will get a 42-per-
cent budget increase this
fiscal year to finance ex-

pansion and’ to increase - »

employee’ aplaries, Indian

' Affairs Minister = John

Munro sald Monday,
The natioval budget for

told a news conference:

‘He made’ ‘the an:

nouncememt on behalf of —

Secretary of State Serge
“Joyal, whose department

‘administers the program.
Joyal was jp Vancouver *

Monday.

centres willl recelve wage
parity. wikh. those. doing

_ Comparable work ‘in the
“meaning -

public service, .
many will recelve increases
above the federal restraint

(program, Miynro conceded.

Barney’ Batise, national

a ;
Shapying Centre
695-7440.

BCR offers new service —

Employees. “at the 94°

The Herald, Teaday. inay, n, igen, ; Pape, 2

VANCOUVER (CP).— B.C, Railway lp ° gf per cent’ coat reduclion.”

| 80 pleased! with 'the rapid progress.om its. © Ritchie sald TR has an agty dened

A $000-miliion branchline into the-northeast “larges railways, |. Leo \.

_ coalflelds uhat it-is thinking of marketing ~ ‘Tediteovered that It would have to spend
ite experience In tunnelling nd 00,600-velt around $15 million on equipmet to purge
electrification, major tunnels after passage of 3,000 horse |

. power diesel-electric locomotives and U8.

“eqidpment was prone to failure.
_EVLECTRIFICATION ©: WAS

oe COMING | “FUME | PROBLEMS — IN
“January, 1983,: ‘and. provincial. cabinet

Unter. oe

“below. Rogers’ Pasa in B:C.'s:
Mountains, but has shelved. major ‘work

from $150 million to $600 million;
, GOT QUICK APPROVAL. : :
‘Four ‘tunnels on the B.C. Rallway
branchline have an aggregate length of 17
. kilometres; while CP Rail has two tunnels
with a combined length of 199.2 metres,

‘something: like electrification, which we
‘ think they ‘ahould have at Rogers Pass,"
_ faye Ritchie. “We got all the necessary
approvals in a matter of months,”

The Jum p-off point for the-BCR mineral .

. line Is a function to be named Tacheeda,
’ 122.5 kilometres north of Prince George, in
central B.C. .

Starting at 785 metres above aca level,
the branchllne crosses the Parsnip River
on a 169.2-metre, two-span bridge and runs
uphill at a maximum grade of 1.6 per cent

- 0 @ summit at 1,199 metres.
_ The high point occurs at mid-point in a

Tunnel, beneath the crest of the Rocky

». Mountains. .
'N. A. McPherson, vice-president of
operations and maintenance -with- BCR,
-., Bald the company’s next major project will
probably be electrification , hetroen
_ Tachesda ad Prince George. my

centers. funded

president of the. centres, secretaries in the: public
gaid many native em- service . although many.
ployees at the centres have
been pald at the rate of Superyiaory Work.

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TRIP WINNERS

: sian
siren *

"allways warned ‘BCR the ventilation «° =
“SSPROPOSED AS A MEANS: OF ° ‘OVER

approval was granted in March. Federal: m
Assistance. was “promised . five months."

-! Blteble ald CP Rall ha ic parathig -
since 1978 to drive a second railay tunel . - oo
"until 1964, Meanwhile, the cost has ome. :

“It would take CP Rail years to approve’

nine-kilometre tunnel, known as Table -

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