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’ VOLUME 72 No. 101

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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1978

Terrace Council Looks at Student
Community Centre Proposal —

Eighty-seven per cent of
the people in Terrace who
responded to a survey want a
community centre, Terrace
council was told-at Monday
night's special meeting.

A group of students from
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School presented council

for a com-
mmity centre along with the
results of the survey done by
the students.

The project first atarted as
8 class educational ex-
Perience, a student
spokesman said, but grew
into a serious interest when
students realized there were
few recreational facilities in
town for teenagers and
entire familles,

The centre, as outlined by
the students, would include a
gymnasium, arts and crafts
rooms, meeting rooms, a

cafeteria, and other facilities
and wouldbe large enough to
accommodate future
growth.

Students chose various
possible locations for the
32,600 square feet of floor
Space, such as Lower Little
Park or a portion of the land
at Kalum .and Qlson
designated for the proposed
health unit and courthouse.

The survey polled 215

Jaycees Want Council

to Free Enterprise

Terrace and District
Jaycees have come out in
favor OF repealing the
municipal shop ours
by-law, but Terrace council
accepted this viewpoint with
little comment at Monday's
council meeting.

Jamie Gilham, by-law
committees chairman for the
Jaycees, asked council in a
letter to ‘free enterprise...
and remove a restrictive

existing municipal shop
hours by-law received two
readings. at an earlier
council meeting, but council
members were stopped from
further action when they

recelved poll of local
businessmen asking for
retention of such a by-law,
Council said they are
waiting for invited input
from the merchants on
drawing up a new by-law
before they go ahead with
third reading of the repeal
by law and adoption.
the meantinem,
howevee,. the B.C, Govern-
ment Employees Union is
conducting a survey of area
shoppers which they will
present to council at the next

representative Roget Davis,
a strong trend in voting
indicates’ shoppers want
unrestricted store hours,

The Jaycees feel that ‘tree
enterprise should be allowed
freedom in its hours of
operation so that the in-
tereats of both merchan and
the public could be best
serviced,” Gilham sald in his
letter.

Ald, Jack Talstra pointed
out that repeal of the
municipal by-law will still
not free merchants to
operate their businesses at
whatever hours they chose,

Since they would still be

subject to provincial
statutes.

However, if store. hours
were regulated under the
Municipal Act, district
personnel would nto be
responsible for enforcement.

_ Mill Worker Tests
Follow Kitimat —

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Union officials say mill

-workers’‘at.the British.

Columbia ‘Forest Products
plant in Crofton on Van-

‘gouver Island will be tested

: ae

pola.
Reertoe

for possible airborne con-

taminints which may be showing if

affecting their lungs.

The testing is being
sponsored by the largest
union in the plant, the Pulp,

. Paper and Woodworkers of

Canada (PPWC). Full
Support is being given by the
company as well as by the

Canadian Paperworkers

Union, the other union rep-
resented in the plant.

The three parties are
sharing the cost of the study,
estimated to ‘be between
$6,000 and $10,000. |

Union officials became
aware of the availability of
the testa while attending the
PPWC national convention
last March, where a talk on

Similar test at the Alvan

aluminum smelter in
Kitimat, B.C., was given.

Results of the testa in
Kitimat caused much con-
troveray when it was found
that 30 per cent of those
tested were affected by some
form of lung disorder
directly related to thelr
occupation,

Jim Young, second vice-
‘president of the PPWC iocal

expected that anything like
these results will be evident
in Crofton.

‘bat ¥ said the
: expects Hat 90

The program is voluntary,

more than” \
take part.
Hebaid the workers will be
given. individual report:
there are any
problems with their lungs.

o° three 1

The study will be analysed

‘union. at the University. of British
the” aiid’ twill be about © peat Bring

oniths before the final
results are available. The: .
coat of the study, between

$6,000 and $10,-000 is being

divided among the two
unions and the company.

Communication|
Blamed In —

Cranbrook Crash

By BRIAN POWER

ROOK, B.C. (CP):

— A coroner’s jury probing
the death of 43 persons in a
Feb. 11 jet crash here
recommended that
the Ministry of Transport
conduct a study of aircraft
communications and control
systems at Cranbrook air-
port,

The jury concluded that a
lack of communications was

an apparent factor in one of.

Canada's, worst air
disasters, and called for the
study to upgrade control
systems to improve airport

ety.

The jury ruled that clearly
defined aircraft contro)
procedures were not evident
before the flery crash in a
snowstorm, resulting in a

’ smowplow being on the

runway when the Pacific

-Westera Airlines Boeing 737

landed..

The aircraft aborted the
landing, but crashed and
burned when a thrust
reverser braking
mechaniam opened on
takeoff. PWA pilots had -
earller been cautioned that
aircraft should not take off
‘after the reversers had been
deployed.

_ JURORS HAMPERED

“The unavailability of
accurate transcripts of tapes
has hampered this jury in
the execution of its duty,”
coroner Dr, Alan Askey was

told, '

Askey said later that he
hopes the transport ministry
will cooperate more freely in
future inquests. °

The jury said it was ap-
parent that there were poor
communications between
the air traffic control centre
in Calgary, the aircraft, and

the Cranbrook air radio.

station. 4

ron ees i

Racing down the Isle at the Kitimat Overwalten store Mrs, Reny of Kitimat pulled $223.33
worth of goods from the shelves in the Herald-Overwaltea shopping spree. More on page

Terrace peaple asking only
three questions: If there wag
a need fer a community

" centre 3187 in favor), if it

should be designed for any
particular age group (no-
163), and how it should be
funded (majority chose
grant funding over volunteer
contribution and property
taxes.)

ackording to the students,
an estimate from a local
contractor on the cost of
building the centre was
between $400,000 and $200,000
and operating costs were

. estimated at $90,000 per

year,
Ald. Vic Jolliffe, however,
disagreed with the building
cost esitmate. He said the
centre could cost as much as

$1.5 million to construct.
Funding application would
be made to the Federal
Public Works and the
Provincial Public
Recreational Facilities and
if recelved, woul leave the

community responsible for

only one-third of the cost.

This money could come
from local fund raising
projects, property taxes or.
co-operation with the
regional district.

Counci] referred the
matter to the recreation and
planning committees for
study, although council
members were wary of
making any statements as to
the possibility of, council-
approved funding. -

Curfew Law
Criticized —

Although one alderman :

called it ‘a ridiculous by-
law," Terrace council ap-
proved a new by-law setting
curfew hours for youngsters
under the age of 17.

Ald. Alan Soutar said he
objected to the by-law
because the maximum fine

which could be imposed on |

parents of nocturnal wan-
derers is

A fine of $5 is such “a tiny
slap on the wrist,” Soutar
said, that teenagers in that

position “would likely just
laugh at the law,"

The new curfew by-law,
which is partially the result
the Sau arto sets

ie Of curfew at 31

i =¢ho! Sionths sf
duly and August, and 10 p.m.
.for the other months: of the
year,

Previous curfew hours.
were one hour earlier,

Ald, Helmut Giesbrecht -

explained'that the purpose of
the by-law is to give police
the authority to pick up
juveniles late at night ‘“‘if
there is a problem” and
added that he is not ex-
pecting ‘'a mass campaign”
by RCMP to clear the streets
after il.

they would like to see stiffer
penalties for breaking the
curfew, but the $5 maximum
fine is set under the
Municipal Act,

Ald, Jack Talstra moved
that council write to the
Attorney-General ex-
pressing their concern about
the smail fine and suggesting
the maximum be increased.

Council gave the by-law
three readings and will be
officially adopted at the next
council meeting.

_ Malpregnaney
suit.

at eee ixwanie: “yaleh: AP)

A man who impregnated his
wife after undergoing a
vasectomy is entitled to sue
for malpractice, the state
Court of Appeals has ruled.
The appeals court Monday
reversed a 1977 Emmet
County Circuit Court verdict
dismissing a suit filed by
Thomas and Kay Bushman
against Burns Clinic Medical
Centre of Petoskey and Dr.
John Hail. It sent the case
back to Judge Martin
Breighner for another trial.

- Kitimat RCMP

Delta King Days brought
excitement and activity to
Kitimat but it also brought
vandalism and a. theft of a
- CB, radio from a vehicle
parked at Little Wedeene

Park during the raft races *
Sunday. '
Charies Norman af .

- Kitimat had ‘his car breken
into and a C.B. stolen.

, RCMP also report four.
persons charged with im-
paired driving over the long
weekend. A fifth person is

jacing a charge of dangerous
driving, refusal to supply
breath sample and impaired
driving.

Two 24 hour license
Suspensions were also issued
over the weekend.

A single vehicle accident
at the Nelabeelah Creek
Bridge on highway no. 25
caused an estimated $500
damage to a Kitimat vehicle
Sunday. The two occupants
received minor injuries,

Could Lose.

~ Day

The Terrace Day Care
Centre is presently situated
in the St. Matthew's Church
Hall and has been there for
the last three years,

In September 1977 the
Church informed us that
they would be unable to
renety ou our ease, as they will

need the uilding {for thelr
own programs. ey nave
been kind enough to extend

our occupancy until August

* 1978,

We have fervently been
looking for other premises |
with no success,

One ideal location was a
house on Park Avenue,
owned by the munielpality.
We have just been notified

Care

that this house was given to
the Child Minding Centre
and to an arts and crafts
group.

If we do not ‘find new
premises by August 91, 2978
the day care centre will have
to close down, As this is the
only children’s centre in
Terrace where working.
parents can leave their

‘children for a full day pre-

school program, with
qualified teachers, we know
that this facility will be
greatly missed

We are now making a last
appeal to: the public for
auvice or help in relocating,
as this type of facility is a
great asset to Terrace.

Outdoor Market

An outdoor farm and garden market has been

granted. approval

from.

Terrace | council.

The market will be held on the municipal parking lot
on Emerson Street, for a trial-perlod of one season
with certain conditions which the Terrace Farm and
Garden Market Society must meet.

The society must be responsible for cleaning up the
site after each market, must carry appropriate in-
surance and accept Hability for damages, and must
comply with provisions of minicipal by-laws.

Council members agreed |

Mrs. Gertrude Reay Of Kitimat, winner of the Herald-Overwaltea three minute shopping
spree, walts with her load as a cashier totals her winnings. Moreonpages. —-

African Whites Sea
Racial War in South

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -
The massacre of whites by
black rebels in Zaire has
churned up eld fears in
whiteruled southern Africa,
the century-old dread that
racial war finally will rid the
continent of European
domination.

“The Shaba invasion in
Zaire is proof positive that
little sand is left in the
hourglass in this part of the
world,’ Séuth-West Africa's
white leader, Marthinus

glee told, 7 jam: Broup..

lye,

“The. tiger tf violénée” Ti” “""

loose in Africa."

Dire warnings like Steyn's
and the headlines in the
region’s newspapers in the
last week--“'Zaire Horror

Orgy Revealed;'’ “Drunk
Boys On Rampage’’ -- have
sent shudders of ap-

prehension through many of
South Africa’s 4.4 million
whites,

For some it strengthened
their resolve against easing
white control over the 18

‘million blacks in South

Africa and against turning
South-West Africa, also
called Namibia, over to
guerrilla-backed black
militants.

In Rhodesia, the Zaire
bloodbath might bolster the
conviction of many whites
that white. Prime Minister
Tan Smth’s internal set-
tlement, with safeguards for.
~ Whites, | is. the correct path to
black-majority. rule, .

gthérigthent ‘tlic
determination of Rhodeslans
of all races to see that the
forces of law and order are
‘maintained in a atate of
disciplined efficiency,” said
the pro-government
Rhodesia Herald newspaper.
“Without that presence, any
government, new or old, will
be easy prey for the '
enemy.” “No Kolwezis

Organized Crime
Broadly Defined

By GERARD McNEIL

OTTAWA (CP) — A royal
commission was told
Wednesday that RCMP
definition of organized crime
was 80 broad that it could

inelude a husband and wife |

conspiring together to ‘cheat
onunemployment insurance.

The definition has been
used to select 900 ‘organized
crime’ targets under a 1972
agreement with the national
revenue department to share
information.

The definition says:
“Organized crime means
two ef more persons con-
certing together on a con-
tinuing basis to participate:
in illegal activities either
directly or indirectly for

the 1872 agreement was
aimed at opening tax files to
enable the RCMP to weaken
organized crime figures by
attacking thelr wealth
through taxation.

However, a royal com-.
mission . into RCMP
wrongdoing was told by
counsel John Sopinka of To-
ronto that the agreement
waa subject to varying inter-
pretation by RCMP divisions
across Canada.

Sopinka asked RCMP
Insp. Douglas Crerar of
Ottawa, officer in charge of
the force’s commercial
crime branch, whether the

definition might not include ©

the husband-wife team
cheating on unemployement
Insurance.

_COMMON SENSE MATTER

“T guess it would,” Crerar
replied. He said the in-
terpretation is ''a matter of
common sesige,’’

The exchange came at the
culset of five days of com-
miagion hearlngs into the

‘relationship between the

RCMP and the taxation
branch of the revenue
department...

Sopinka said RCMP in
terest In this approach to
organized crime began in the

1930s when the FBI caught
Chicago gangster Al Capone
with tax evasion.

The approach in Canada
was hampered by a section
of the Income Tax Act which
prevented the revenue
department from giving
confidential income tax data
to police,

The 1972 ‘agreement

enabled: police and tax of- .

ficials to collaborate to
enforce tax laws against
organized crime, It was kept

' secret, even from provincal

attorneys-general who .are
responsible under the con-
stitution for law en-
forcement. .

Quickie

Hers,” the pro-government
Johannesburg Citizen said in
the headline for an editorial
which said: .

“The Zaire drama should
be a warning to the op-
position Progressive Federal
party and other liberals in
this country. The continent,
in fact, is stillpossessed of an
inherent savagery."

Commenting on the siege
mentality, the liberal
newspaper Rand Daily Mail

. of Johannesburg: said: white
. feats growing out of the

Zaire violetice are the wrong
kind of emotion to exploit’

“One should be cautious in
one’s reaction to such events
not to leap to unjustified
conclusions and
generalizations, particularly
in a country like South
Africa, where public
emotions can so easily tp
over to destructive
racialism.”

An estimated 100 or more
white residents were slain by
rebel invaders who last week

-occupied Kolwezi, in Zaire's
Shaba - province. The
French, who sent a
paratroop force in to rescue
trapped foreigners, said
about 150° black Zaireans,
both soldiers and clvilians,
Also were killed, along with
about 200 black rebels,

South Africa and
Rhodesia, meanwhile, are
preparing for: wider war
south of the Zambezi, the
river that divides black-
ruled Central Africa and the
white-cominated south, and
they fear new Cuban in-
volvement,

After a recent Rhodesian -
raid on a suspected guerrilla .
camp in Zambla near the
Zambezi, the  bl-raclal
Rhodesian government
indicated it will step up
border-crossing attacks
against guerrillas,

Divorce

For Margaret.

LONDON (AP) — Prin-'
cess Margaret’s 18-year
marriage to Lord Snowdon,
the former. Antony Arm-
atrong-Jones, ended in a
divorce that took just a few
seconds

Her special- procedure

. “quickie” divorce, one of a

group of 27 in the High Cowt,
went through without hitch
and {t took Judge John Willls
one minute, 63 seconds to
disposa of the cases.

None of the divorced

Couples was required to be

present In the court in the
Gothic-style’ Law Courts at

., the end of London's Strand.

The divorce was granted.
by consent on the grounds
the couple had been
separated for two years.

Among the other 27
couples simullaneously
getting decrees were
Westminster office cleaner
Laura Knowles and former
Dragoon guardsman — -

Michae] Farr, . -

‘Moat of the spectators in

court were journalists.

The princess announced
May 10 that she would
divorce Lord Snowdon.

Although brewery heir
Roddy Llewellyn, 90, has
been the 47-year-old
Margaret’a conatant com-
panion since she and Snow-
don, 48, separated in March
1976, a household spokesman
said at the tlme of the an;

- nouncement that Margaret

does not plan to remarry.

SNOWDON MAY
REMARRY

There been
wideapread opetualtion that
Lord Snowdon may marry
television research asaistant
Lucy Llndsay-Hogg, 33,
daughter of a wealthy Irlah
dreas designer.

A royal announcement on
May 10 about the pending di-
voree action said the prin-
cess will retain cus! ol
her. two children, Viscount
Unley, 16, and Lady Sarah

ArmatrongJones, 14,