PROVINCTAL LIBRAR PARLTANENT BLDGS VICTORIA BC A rise in projected expenditures for the Terrace, school district in 1960 has forced a rate hike of six mills. It was revealed Tuesday night by Secretary-Treasurer Ted Wells. The basic rate will rise from 41 rails to 43.5 mills, a rise which is taking place in other school districts. “The non-shareable -portion of the rate will also rise an SIX MILL INCREASE budget estimates took inte account the salary in- ‘creases which will be forthcoming to the teachers. Wells estimated the 9.5 to 10 per cent increase would cost around $660,000. The 1980 budget foreasts an expenditure of $14.6 million, as compared to $13.3 million in 1979. In other school board news, it was decided to allow secondary school to eat on the school bus on a trial sis. The one-month trial period was instituted at the request of school officials who are concerned about the long bus ride some of the studenis must take. Often they don’t eat breakfast and must endure an hour and fifteen minute ride. There was some criticism of the continued absence eee - School board budget up over $1 million Williams, the government appointed member from Kitwanga, has attended board meetings on an irregular basis. While noting it was not the role of the board to monitor the attendance of its members, Joyce Krause said it was obvious Williams was not showing any real interest in the job. Elaine Johnson the outgoing trustee commented that ‘“‘we seem to Herald Staff Writer The Kitamaat Village Council has informed Kitimat District Council that no new development will be tolerated within Haisla tribal territory until native land claims are settled. The letter states: “owing to the apparent inability of the two senior levels of government to come together to deal with the long outstanding question of Indian land claims settlement in British Columbia, we, the Haisla Nation are obliged in insist that henceforth no new development of any kind will be tolerated within our iribal territory unti] our land claims have been adequately ‘ negotiated and settled." Council members agreed to contact the band council and arrange a meeting early in the new year to find out the location and. extent of Haisla tribal territory. A provisional budget for 1980 was tabled until the Jan. 14 council meeting. The budget indicates that total revenue in 1980 will amount to an estimated $2,500,900, estimated at $7,013,500 leaving a balance of $4,513,000 to be raised by taxation. Arequest for a grant in lieu of taxes from the Kitimat Curling Club was also tabled for two weeks. Council members agreed to write to a communications con- sulting company requesting . information about television service. Alderman Lee Eilis said that if the company -ean offer’ ‘‘more and better television to citizens of Kitimat, counci] should in- vestigate the matter.” Council adopted the 1980 Remuneration By- law giving members a raise in salary. A motion by Alderman Ray Brady that the by- law pe tabled until Qc- toher,..1980 was. lost. for “SRN OF W Beconders “=~ Brady said the salary increase should not be adopted until October so that “in November the people can tell us whether we deserve it." Mayor George Thom and Alderman Max Patzelt have been ap- pointed to the Kitimat- Sikine Regional District DEATH THREATS Iran rejects U.N. TEHRAN (CP) — Students holding 60 Americans hostages at the U.S. Em- basay in Tehran today rejected a UN Security . Council appeal for their release as the I[ranian government made new and stronger threats. against the captives, In Washington, U.S, ot- ficials indicated that the hostages had been threatened with death if they did not confess to charges of ying and pro-shah activi- tes that are being drawn up against them. The official, who asked not tobe identified, said the Americans “have been threatened with execution if they fait to cooperate with their captors,” "You can asaume that I don’t mean co-operation ... in routine matters,” he said, A student spokesman reached by telephone at the embasay said the Security Council resolution calling for the immediate release of the hostages had been rejected because the council ‘‘‘is orchestrated by the United States.” “As it is also obvious that the United States hag great influence on this council, which has nothing to do with WANTED Is teenage pregnancy a problem in Terrace schools? The answer appears to be yes according to school board trustees for School District 88. However, a suggestion to advertise a counselling service in the upcoming school yearbooks was rejected by a 4-1 vote at the Tuesday night board meeting. Lisa Brock, the Terrace director for an organization called ‘Birthright’ wrote the board requesting the group be allowed to advertise its services in the yearbook, on school notice boards and through direct contact with students, Birthright offers guidance and support services to pregnant girls and women in _ distress. The subject of pregnancy and abortions recently received wide attention when Health Minister Rafe Mair said he woukl request health officials to in- vestigate whether illegal abortions were being per- formed in the province's hospitals. Mair cited 1978 Statistics showing there were 33.6 therapeutic abor- tions for every 100 live births in B.C., the highest rate in Canada. However, the value of the help offered by Birthright was questioned by Trustee Joyce Krause. She won- additional 3.5:mills. Wells said some of the additional students attending Kitwanga elementary junior of a school board trustee from board meetings. Glenn ave failed in getting him interested.” a : \ : \ > RUPERT STEEL 7 {| TERRACE-KITIMAT - Westend Westend . SALVAGE LTD. | Food Mart Chevron Service ; Open Chevron Saal Cove Ri. Pt Ripert yn ‘ieee RB alae, 635-5274 695-7228 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, ' “We Satisty Tummy & Tank L open Mon irouyh ai mde. L Wednesday, December 5, 1979 20¢ Volume 73 - No. 234 wat 365 DAYS A YEAR” Haisla take TEENAGERS PREGNANCY a land stand A problem here By ANN DUNSMUIR) Expenditures are . dered if the group put enough stress on prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Krause also wondered if Birthright’s avowed nonpolitical stance was con- sistent with its pressuring for changes in the abortion jaws. Another trustee, Nan Harrison, advised the board to put its emphasis on preventative measures and In- stead revise the present health program in this area. The board voted to thank Birthright for its offer, but declined their help. Trustee Dennis Brewer, however, cast a dissenting vote. “Basically, don't think we have any information to deny this opportunity,” he stated. “I really think we made an emotional type decision on the spur of the moment," Brewer said a program should be designed to suit all the parties involved, including parents. He said at present there is some attempt at preventative education at Skeena and Caledonia schools. “It is not enough however, and we must have a program which goes through the school system,” he said. He said the board has been examining the in- stitution of such a program the last two months. and one in Smithers, Wednesday. If you know this man Kitimat 632-7111. RCMP in Terrace and Smithers are looking for this man in connection with a robbery in Terrace ‘The man is black, between 5'9”’ and 5°11” tall, weighs between 150 and 170 pounds and is in his __ late teens or early. twenties. | ... adlt dg alleged that this man entered; the- Ken- . ~ tucky Fried Chicken outlet on ‘Lakelse Street in Terrace, ordered fries and paid for them. Then, when the girl behind the counter opened the till to make change, he allegedly reached into the till and grabbed $210 and fled. He is also alleged to have done the same thing in Smithers in the Smithers News store last this description, the RCMP request that you call them. In Terrace the number is 635-4911, and in or See anyone answering ‘the oppressed people of the werld, its opinion is wor- thless as far ag we are concerned and will not affect us in any way.” In another development, the secretary of Iran's governing Revolutionary Council, Ayatolla Mohammad Beheshti, said the hostages will be tried before a revolutionary court under Islamic law. The penalty for spying under Islamic law is death. hw said the ay ae bmbtivesy “ they will ask a revolullonary court to take responsibility for such a trial.” Zimbabwe plan okay LONDON (AP) — Britain and Patriotic Front guerrilla leaders agreed today on a compromise plan for a ceasefire In Zimbabwe Rhodesia, opening the way for a settlement in the guerrilla war that began. seven years ago, peace conference offictals sald. spokesman for Com- monwealth Secretary- General Shridath Ramphal, who helped resolve the ceasefire dispute, told reporters of the accord after Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the black He borrowed his coat BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A Suffolk sheep named 00. may have been fleeced of its wool by rasites, but the beloved vid now is a sheep in sheep's clothing. 490, who belongs to Deanna Walker and Bill Oves, lost its fluffy fleece after being treated for painful parasites with a. medicine the veterinarian said would elther kill or cure the sheep. 490 was cured, but another sheep treated with the medicine was killed, While 400's fate was preferable, the littte critter was left without a winter coat, So Ma. Walker fashioned a fine jacket out of an old The coat fite snugly 490's neck to derriere, covering its sides and securing In front with atrings tied in a nice bow on its chest. Strings looped around 490's hind legs keep the coat from slipping off. "rT trled to cut it to fit and make it comfortable,” said Ms. Walker, who explained 490's name. “We number the ones we plan to get rid of to keep rom getting emotionally attached,” sha sald. 490’s baldness is not thought to be permanent, and patches of wool aré beginning to reappear. nationalist guerrillas, met with British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington for an hour, Immediately afterward, Carrington, chairman of the peace talks that began here 13 weeks ago, told the House of Lords the Patriotic Front must still formally agree to the ceasefire, but he left little doubt they would. Hesalda British governor, whom he did not identify, would travel to Salisbury in the next few days to take power in the breakaway British colony during a transitional period for free, internationally-recognized elections. British authorities privately reported the chosen governor |s Lord Soames, 59-year-old son-in- law of the late Sir Winston Churchiil. Carrington said final ceasefire arrangements need not take more than two or three days. He also an: nounced a bill will be in- troduced into Parliament on Thursday His remarks appeared to be at odds with statements made Tuesday by Iranian Foreign Minister Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, who told a French newspaper that the students will try the cap- ives. Ghotbzadeh said the hostages will be tried as spies “for sure,” but that head of state Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could overrule any sentences and pardon the captives “if the United States extradites the shah." Ghotbzadeh also accused U.S, Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen and embassy officials Michael Howland and Victor Tomseth — the three top U.S. diplomats In - Iran who are being held at the foreign ministry — of ‘having committed crimes," ‘“Phus once they leave the ministry compound, they will fall into the hands of justice and I will then be the first to demand they be arrested and tried,"* he said. Last week, Ghotbzadeh said the three diplomats were ‘free to leave" Iran. But he later reversed himself when the students at the embassy repudiated his remarks. The Iranians seized the embassy and those inside It Nov. 4, demanding that the U.S. surrender deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Iran for trial. The Carter administration refused and Tuesday Joined the 14 other Security Council members in unanimous adoption of the resolution urging the release of the captives. The resolution was adopted on the fourth con- secutive day of debate In which every speaker called for the release of the hos- tages. The Iranian govern- ment boycotted the debate, Socreds cut researchers VICTORIA (CP) — Soclal Credit MLAs abruptly ellmi- '- nated Tuesday an office that has been a source of embar- rassment for them since September by firing their four remaining research employees, “] guess some of us are Scrooges,”’ caucus chairman Jack Kempf said in response to a reporter's remark that the firlngs were ‘nice Christmas presents.” Among those fired was Ellen Mackay, a researcher who was a key figure in the recent socalled political dirty tricks revelations, which involved the sending of letters with phoney Signatures to newspaper editars in an effort to the New Party ‘op: discredit Democratic position. Kempf, MLA for Omineca, denied the sackings were connected with the scandal which is under investigation by the RCMP, Two of the fired researchers who talked with reporters said they felt the dirty tricks are behind their dismissal. The jobs of the four researchers were eliminated immediately and Kempf gave the employees five minutes notice before an- nouncing the decision ta reporters. The four, researchers Ms. Mackay, Bob Husband, and Susan Cowan,and their secretary Penny Lifton will be given severance pay, said Kempf, However, Husband and Ms, Cowan have worked for the caucus for only four months and under provincial labor law, six months em- ployment is needed to qual- ify for severance pay. Jack Kelly, a fifth em- ployee in the office, resigned Oct. 8 after a tape recording was produced on which he was heard advocating dirty tricks to defeat the NDP. He The Overwaltea store in the new Clty Centre Mall has since made efforts to regain his job Mackay, appearing shaken after the an: nouncement, said she would be meeting her lawyer, Robert Gardner of Van- couver, today and ia con- templating legal action against the 31-member caucus. She also was in- volved in the tape-recording. Kempf said the party caucus had been polled by telephone in the last two days and a decision had been made to eliminate the research office. The move was made, he’ sald, in the light of budgeting decisions made last summer and the caucus had opted for changes to ‘restructure and reorganize” its support staff, But he added there was no Intentlon to find the four party workers new jobs, “It's got nothing to do with that,” sald Kempf, when asked if the firings were related to the dirty tricks affair. ‘As far as [’m con- cerned, the letters-tothe- editor affair was over and done with a long time ago,” Kempf has been on the hot seatseveral times during the affair himself, As caucus chairman, he was expected to ‘discipline those who ad- vised party officers ta send bogus letters. But Ms. Mackay refused a reprimand and one-month suspension without pay for her part in the affair, saying she was acting under the authority of party officials. Instead, she hired Gardner to look after her interests, Tories win tax OTTAWA (CP) — The minority Progressive Conservatlye government easily won approval in principle Tuesday for its election promise of major tax breaks for home-owners, By a vote of 138 to 114, the Commons gave second reading to iegialation to put the mortgage interest and property tax credit plan into effect this year, Liberals and New Democrats made no real attempt to defeat itand three Liberals broke ranks and joined three Social Crediters to support the government, Seventeen other Liberals, including four palred with absent Conservatives and five New Democrats and two Social Creditera did not vote. The three Liberals who voted to send the tax credit lan on to committee were eorge Baker from the Newfoundland riding of Gander-Twillingate, Marcel Roy of the Quebec riding of Laval, and Joseph-Roland Comptois of the Quebec riding of Terrebonne. Liberal whip Tom Lefebvre said he was unable to account for all those not voting, NDP whip Lorne Nystrom said his party's five missing members had commitments in their con- stituencies. Both the Liberals and NDP had spoken out strongly against the tax credit scheme on the grounds that it offers no benefits to most Canadian householders, Social Credit had also raised criticisms, but party leader Fabien Roy supported the minority government as he has in the past. The two main opposition parties made it clear Tuesday they would continue to press the Conservatives for changes in the plan, next year If not this year, Both want to help renters and Sey Ms. Mackay said eath member of the office was given a letter saying their services were no longer required but there was no explanation provided. The dirty tricks affair sur- faced in September when Premier Bili Bennett was on a business trip in Asia but the tapes involving Kelly and Ms. Mackay were sent to party constituency officers before last May's provincial election. Since the revelations, many forged letters have been revealed and three party officials, Kelly, George Lenko, executive assistant to Human Hesources Minister Grace McCarthy, and Ron Grieg, an assistant commu- nications adviser to Bennett, have resigned. vote homeowners ineligible for benefits because their in- comes are too low. . The vote on the tax credit plan came just one day after the latest Gallup poll showed voter support for the Con-, servatives down sharply and the Liberals ahead in popu- larity, Scrooge i is alive here Scrooge is alive and well in British Columbia with the holiday humbug attitude, Just ask employees at provincial government of- fices, Provincial Secretary Evan Wolfe sald Tuesday that 40,000 civil servants won't necessarily get a day off Dec. 24 for a longer Christmas break. “As far as we're con- cerned," sald Wolfe, ‘Dec. 24 is a working day.” Townsend, viee ‘president. of Overwaitea. The new extension In Kitimat is opened by, left to right, Ron Olmstead, district manager; Garry Yorga, store manager; Kitimat Mayor George Thom and Doug store covers an area of 27,000 square feet, and has a staff of 40 people, 30 of which come from the old store in the upper level of the City Centre Mall.