1 LEGISLATLVE LIFRARY, COMP, 77/78 EaRLIGMSNY bOLLEANUS, a VICLCHiA, Gee, #bb rc a it Ta * ~ ‘4 4 TERRACE-KITIMAT | | RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. es we buy oe COPPER BRASS Pe ALL METALS & BATTERIES oe a MON. - SAT. oo a OPEN TEL 5 p.m. ‘| [Location Seal Cove Phone 624-5639 |. q - Volume 72 No, 230 20c Wednesday, November 29, 1978 JK y os Red Cross volunteers.are assisting flood.victins clean-up: their-homes. Gas pip By Greg Middleton Pacific Northern Gas. is embarking on a recon- struction project which involves moving a section of ‘its natural gas pipeline away ‘ from 4 the Copper River, a * company spokesman said Tuesday, The rolocation of the ipeline involyes a 7.2 metre stretch on the western approach to the TT Telkwa Pass between Terrace and Prince George about 40 kilometres east of here, Ray Partitt, an environmentalist with PNG 8 The pipeline, which broke in two places during the recent storms and sub- AWAY FROM RIVER | sequent flooding, is to be moved up the hillside away from the river, The cost for the project is estimated at clone to $2 million, Parfitt Parfitt explained that the pipeline, originally con- structed im 1988, was built under the roadbed which follows the river. In the rains and flooding which did ex- tensive damage to Highway 16 and the railway between Prince George and Terrace, the Copper River rechan- ‘nelled and washed away the roadbed in a number of places. The washouts, Parfitt said, and slides which occurred at the same time put that stretch of the pipeline in serious jeopardy. Pariitt indicated that the company feels that it is best to relocate the pipeline now, before winter sets in, rather than risk having it go out and have natural gas service to this area cut off again. The pipeline, which feeds Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert was shut down for several as a result of the breaks caused by the storms and consequently schools and some businesses shut down, Residents were asked to cut back their ther- mostats, something no one wants to see have to happen in the colder weather. Parfitt explained that when the pi was first constructed there was a study which set out stan- Suspect in slaying said under pressure SAN FRANCECO (AL}— Former evpervisor Dan White, a suspect in the. murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was ‘'a casualty of presssure’’ brought on by work, money problems and the birth of a aby, a colleague who visited him in prison said Tuesday has a “T think ev breaking Sait paid Super- visor Lee Dolson, who visited White in his cell Monday night. White, 32, was to be ar- raigned today on charges he murdered Moscone and Milk, the city's first avowed homosexual supervisor. The two men were shot to death Monday— Moscone in a conference room of his office and Milk in White’s old of- ice, White surrendered to More dough for loaf OTTAWA CP - The retail price of a loaf of bread will jump by at-least five cents ginning Jan. 1 because the federal government has decided to scrap a wheat subsidy pald to millers, it was learned Tuesday. Transport Minister Otto Lang is to introduce lation in the Commons week authorizing an increase in the minimum price paid to wheat farmers to $4 a bushel from the present rate of $3.25 a el, Lang, minister responsible for the wheat board, the federal grains marketing agency, said in a telephone interview he hopes to make an announcement ‘‘in a day or two,” Lang confirmed the governemnt has been stueying a new minumum price pald to wheat farmers or come time, Aspokesman said later the government hag secured promises from millers not to take windfall profits as a result of the change. police 45 minutes later. The assassinations oc- curred 30 ‘minutes before Moscone was to name a Successor to White on the board of supervisors, the city’s legislative body. On Sunday night, KCBS radio reporter Barbara Taylor, who had learned White would not be reap- pointed, called him for his reaction, ‘He seemed taken aback,” she said. “He hung up on me, White had resigned from the board No . 10,saying he could notsupporttis wife, Mary Ann, and his four- month-old son, Andrew, on the $9,600 supervisor's salary plus the money he made from a fried potato concession at Fisherman's Wharf. He had earned $19"000 as a fireman, a job he quit to serve on the board. But after securing a $10,000 loan fromtis 16 brothersand sisters, White naked Moscone to reappoint White is believed to have felt double-crossed by the mayor, dards which at the time were considered to be too costly to follow. A later study and pressure from various areas to put in the pipeline resulted in the work being contracted out at a lower construction and safety standard, Another company spokesman said the long- range forecasts on which construction specifications were based weren't accurate enough. He said everyone belleved at that time that the pipeline was safe enough but fe conceded that view had revised, Parfitt sald there have been meetings with federal fisheries department and provincial fish and wildlife representatives. He sald the company is working with the two government bodies to minimize the environmental damage. Both Parfitt and fisheries department head here, John Hipp, say that any fish eggs in the river in that area have probably been destroyed by the fl . While Hipp said construction in the river was a concern. The two agreed rel that the damage in that area was done and that It would be best to do the necessary construction now. Hipp said that the steelhead fishery in the Copper River could be hurt but that no one would know for certain for two or three years. A fish and wildlife department spokesman said WASHINGTON AP - A Callfornia peychiatrist sayd lower class teen agers are less likely than their more affluent peers to get mixed up with religious or racial cults because these youths “can recognize a atreet bustle,” “Very few of the cults are able to recruit lower class young adults, either black or white," said Margaret eline move planned the indications were that steelhead, a sea-run_rain- . bow trout which spawn in the apting rather than in the summer tend to lay in holes along the bottom and might yell have weathered the FLQ exiles plan return MONTREAL (CP) — CBC saya Jacques and Louise Cossette-Trudel, wanted for the 1970 kidnapping of British trade commissioner James Cross, will soon end their exile in Paris and return to Montreal. Quoting unidentified police and immigration offictals, CBC sald the couple who were members of a Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) cell will be back with their three children “sometime after Dec, 10.” They are among five members of an FLQ cell flown to Cuba eight years ago in exchange for the ease of Cross, who was held for 59 days, The others are Jacques Lanctot, Marc Carbonneau and Yves Langlois AIE have been living in Paris for about four years but there appears to have been a split between Lanctot and the CossetteTrudels, who now openly question the wisdom of ¢ FLQ Trudeau pleads OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau urged provincial premiers Tuesday to help finance major development projects in transportation and energy that would create new jobs and add strength to the troubled economy. Trudeau reminded the 10 premiers at the second day. a y economic conference they had agreed to give consideration to a list of new projects at their last economic meeting in Feburary, But few of them had advanced beyond the discussion stages. He said badly-needed projects to improve grain handling, to build a natural gas pipeline from Montreal to eastern parts of Quebec and the Maritimes and to develop Martime energy were still on the drawing boards ; “T cannot help feeling that too many projects have been trapped for too long in the planning stages and that what we really require is the political commitment to push ahead with a deeper sense of urgency ‘and pur- pose,” he said. Trudeau said he was struck by the irony that it. . had taken Canada only a few weeks toreach agreement on the $12-billion natural gas pipeline to carry Alaska -through: Canada:to -. h natural U.S. markets. But there had been little more than talk about im- portant projects of direct benefit to Canada. Trudeau’s comments, which opened detailed discussion by the govern- ment leaders on economic development, added weight to arguments by Sas- katchewan Premier Allan Blakeney on Monday. The Prairie premier had urged governments to take the lead in important energy projects that would create jobs and strengthen the economy. Trudeau said he was en- couraged that Canadians now expected the private sector to take on obligations once assumed to be the role of government. But governmenta must also recognize the im- portance of their investment in projects such as roads, railways, ports and energy systems which contribute to the strength of the economy. It also was important that in limiting the role of goverment “we must take great care not to damage the social fabric of our society by a loss of compassion for the aged, the young and the less favored.” An unexpected issue at the conference has been a federal proposal to postpone pro’ a $1-a-barrel increase in the price of domestic crude oil scheduled for Jan. 1. Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said Tuesday that his province had agreed to the postponement in return for a $1-abarrel increase next July and again in January, 1980. But the consuming provinces, sensing the federal government was seeking a postponement until after a spring election, couldn't agree at a special Closed meeting Tuesday. “We're told that it’s in the national interest and that * for assistance just happens to took a lot like the Liberal interest," said Quebec Premier Rene Levesque after the private meeting of the premiers and Trudeau. DELA OTTAWA CP Provincial premiers declined Tuesday to give quick approval to an Ottawa Alberta plan that could delay the next round of domestic oil price increases until after the expected federal election next year. But as the premiers left the second day of the three day economie summit, several said they expected to talk about the ‘issue privately with their ‘colleagues overnight in preparation for a resumption of the formal negotiations today. “The matter is still up in the air,” said Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed as he left a private one hour lunch where the deal was ‘ “We're prepared to go either way they decide," Lougheed added, OIL PRICE Y STALLS referring to the plan to cana Jan. 1 increase of $1 & batrel-three cents a gallon-in favor of $i in- creases next July and again in January of 1960. Premier Willlam Davis of Ontarlo, the major ponsuming province, said willing to go along with delaying the January increase until July. ; But he could not sup- port adding an additional $1 increase in January of 1960 in return. He said his province has been con- sistent in its opposition to price increases and would continue that stand. Many of the premiers said in interviews they fee] the federal decision to delay an increase ia motivated more by the election next spring than by concern over inflation.. Gov't unveils grant schemes OTTAWA (CP) — Urban Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet unveiled Tuesday a | long-awaited $400-million Brant program to provide community services across the country over the next two years. Quellet said $150 milllonswill be awarded to the provinces Jan. 1, 1979 with another $250 million the following year, pending written agreement with provincial governments. The funds will go to municipalities for auch projects as sewage treat- ment facilities, water supply systems, day care centres, Tecreation buildings and ‘neighborhood improvement plans. Ouellet’ making the an- nouncement following a Commons committee on housing, sald the program will In- troduced in the House of Commons next week. He said the program will vide increased flexibility and wider latitude to the provinces and their municipalities in using federal funds. Moreover, it would eliminate duplication of federal administrative procedures “by dls- entangling the federal government from project- by-project serutiny."” Earlier previews of the community services grants program at federal- PSYCHIATRIST SAYS Cultists can’t con poor Singer, a psychiatric professor at the University of California in San Fran- In an article in a recent edition of Journal, published by the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals, Ms. Singer said: “Lower class yougha in the United States, primarily there are no free dinners and no free meals. They can recognize a street hustle.” The report was wwritten before the ritualistic mass suicide earlier this month Involving more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult commune at Jonestown, Guyana. Ms. Singer said there are about 250 different cults in the U.S. and that the larger and more prominent ones use extremely sophisticated recruitment methods which are taught to their followers. These methods include getting close enough to gaze into a person's eye to determine whether the person is a warm, loving person who would be easy to recruit or one who would be hard to get. “They begin their love bombing of the new recruit Provincial housing ministers’ conferences would have involved direct grants to municipalities, The program was to have started in June, 1977 with a $250-million purse extended to Dec, 31, 1978. Plans were tponed twice “‘because of ucratic snaggles,"’ said a Ouellet aid. More recently Finance Minister Jean Chretien told provincial ministers that financial arrangements would have to be delayed. The government wanted to reduce federal contributions to social services and post- secondary education pra- grams with the provinces, but the ministers refused. Quellet sald the plan will replace three federal pro rams: The Neigh- orhood Improvement Program which ended new submissions at the end of March, the Municipal In- centive Program and the Municipal Infrastructure Program which both end’ Dec. 31, Jean Pigott, Progressive Conservative housing critic, said the program Is a good one if the government can stick with its commitment. The money will be awarded to the provinces based on urban population © and municipal tax structure, - Ouellet said. from that point onward," he wrote "Middle and upper class young adults have not had Sree ptberience with FY ra in growing u toknow how artful decelvers on the street can operate.” The peyu The psychiatrist said she based her research on in- terviews with 250 young people with cult experience.