LEGISLATIVE, LIBRARY Victoria, B.C, - vay 124°) PARLIMENT BUILDINGS. Tuesday, April 5, 1983 25 cents Established: 1908 Be i — ,Volume.77:No. 65 | 4 _ asa result of Monday’ 's announcement that . mill and the Pohje- ‘mill, | ve - months ago.” - employment to. over. 100. people.” B.C. - TERRACE- on - About 1,100 jobs: will open” B.C. Timber will sell the Skeena mill to the. _ West ‘Fraser-Eurocan’ mbine: ‘and’ oper up the Rimmill in Hazelton, the: Kitwanga B.C: Timber. “presdident "John ‘ | Montgomery termed the. arrangement * “the first set of positive moves associated | - ‘with B.C, Timber since. joined | them Me |, “this is very ‘inueh a first ‘step: me . The Skeena mill will be: converted lo a whole log chipping. facility and may start’: up on a.limited basis today. The purchase. “ ‘ price is $2.35 million. In addition, $2. ~ million in capital investment will be Spent: atthe mill “to bring.it to condition’ to: “handle the type of wood: coming ou out ‘of ‘this: | forest.” _ Tt -will ‘be: the first. time since ‘last’ November, the Skeena mill will operate, It - is expected to begin producing a reduced _ : capacity..of 700 tons perday. 0: ; B,C.. Timber. will put some: of : ‘its: - employment funding into upgrading’ roads . and. bridges .to facilitate bringing . out” . tumber; ‘according to Montgomery... Hazelton’s Rim mill will start upin 8 ‘few! weeks since it already. has logs” in ‘its. ‘inventory. The Kitwanga mill will open ‘next and then Pohls. Bath before the end. of “May. yor, «Forest: Minister Tom ‘Waterland. noted uy trucks on the road each day, oe - Deputy. Premier. Grace. “McCarthy, . aa, “chairman of the employment development *-comimittee of cabinet, stressed that for: . every’ "Job in the industry there would bea | “spillover of jobs:to other areas. f Bee | 83 unclear’ ie contractors wil be, but Bill. Hutchinson of the IWA says they + woul ‘be, logging “tore than last year.” “-MeCarthy: deniéd the move- as. an ection bribe saying, “if we made. the mnouncement last fall, you would: “have: th We make good announcements every’ -month.:Let the socialist, the NDP, make: that" “statement (bribe) constantly... " people. with paycheques won't: make ‘the gimmick charge." The: IWA’s Hutchinson said, “one word. will so sum it up — jobs.” But Surrinder Malhotra, ‘also - of: the: IWA, «was: more: _ cautious. “We will have to wait and see : how ‘long the mills ‘will run — two months better. position with: regards to the cast af * or two years," he stated. “t's a ‘political "its supplies, ..~ - 2 “announcement.” |. . Chris Johnson of West Fraser said the: “o.! Skeena NDP. ‘MLA Frank Howard said, move would prove one of the Jong lasting “knew. about it. on Thursday, but. [- benefit to Eurocan. ~- a - edldn't say. anything ‘because it’s their’. .. Lars, Rody.of Enrocan said, “we have. ', Show. It's a good announcement. What it ~ been eyeinigPrice-Skeena quiteawhileand - does show clearly,” headded, “‘is-that B.C. its purchase would allow his company to. - _Timber was permitted by’ the government- ‘open. up its woodlands and- provide . lo make a wrong mave in 1980 when they _ bought: both the Skeena mill and the. Rim + mill,” ' Charging that B.C, Timber was only. _ Prince. Rupert: pulp -operations into ‘a _ Timber" S Montgomery noted, “the money: was not available to us, West Fraser has a . litte better balance sheet,” | " Itis expected;that the Terrace area will - See: 120 0 logging Jobs, 200 sawmill I jobs, and ; idea that the: milis are’ ‘“now- ‘sald to a “eoripany. that’ Ss” “interested in sawn lumber. " us . : Mie: “British. ” Rotéign . _Tuatcht, a: es i mt citizens’ today because’ of. oe thelr “aystematic™ i “including P'> trlo“dalbeged activities; But rtwol pentor ‘the military’ domain,” the for a Soviet. weeldy . Soviet security ‘agency and Interior _ Ministry” publication. that more agents-“may be announced. That was the. largest uncovered soon. ~The ministry said. the number of Soviets expelled . | : Soviets were diplomats ard _ from. Britain at}one time = L Four other: Soviets have non-diplomats and that it since” 1971," when 105 . didnot havea more precise diplomats -and trade | been expelled -for ‘alleged figure. French news reports ' officials were thrown out for. espionage during the last 15 said 47 Soviets were ordered © spying. mo . months from Britain, out, the biggest expillsionof. - ae Eaat bloc _ agents from ae — France. . if t t All of them left for’ Sovie S prot es Moscow today ‘aboard a. special Soviet plane sent to. “Moscow (AP) — The official Soviet news ‘agency Tass Paris. reported, today that Soviet employees’ had been expelled oa C. Timber to-get.away from ‘handling! - 7 Togs. as much as: possible," Bill. McRae of o Skeena. guessed ‘ihere could be as many ag) ET i Sa ie be Se ST one hep + logging’a' lesser amount than previously," “said ‘there would have been an election. . interested.-in ‘pulp, Howard favored the. +. Otflce gaveno details of the spies “Thursday, :j,sourpes. -have’:-aaid the. Sovieta:were betrayed : by a” espionage, “particularly in diplomats and a journalist . ‘defector from “the , KGB Jerry Semenchuk and some. ' Mart’s Easter Bunny contest. Winners were | Louls inners of Shopper’ s Drug. Therrlen,, Shelley " Shkuratoft, Melaine Schmidt, Pauline Lepp, and Tracie Ann Leason. + The : Soviet, Embassy " dented ainy of its personnel '- Were spies and.said the. “expulsion WAS Q Political act by the ‘government of Soctalist ~- President Fraacols Mitterrand, which . includes: four Communists, French. counter- esplonage’ service had “produced evidence of’ a . systematic search . . . by many agents of the secret Services of the U.S.S.R. for. scientific, ‘technical , and - technological information, particularly in the military . The Interior Ministry said. “the: from: France and said: -the Soviet Embassy in Paris protested: tie action..." -. “The embassy resolutely. protests against the unjustified and arbitrary decision: of. French authoritles;". Tasg said in a dispatch from. Paris; quoting an embassy statement. .-The ‘statement said the:French government offered “no. proof,. ‘ae explanations’* ‘ta back its charges of “illegal . actions” by the Soviets.’ * The statement did not specify how many Sovlets had been ordered to leave the country. The French press said the Soviets had been expelled for suspicion of espionage and it put the number at 47, France's biggest. purge ever France’s “Socialist go statement on the subject, later in the day, ‘The Taas report sald those involved had done nothing “gnidé from fulfulling their official - functions directed at consolidating and developing Soviet-French relatons, are Eaat-bloc citizens. The press said ent would issue a formal CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.. (AP): —.-The world’s largest and most expensive ‘gommunications. “satellite - tumbled’ out ‘of: control in) = “today: after release : Millions. stolen - LONDON (AP) — A six-man gang stoi eat least'&? mailiion. from the Us: shuttle, » reported: hours’ later that* it had regained command’ of. "We h e ined control”. the company ‘disclosed today, and pollée‘sources said the final tally coutd Keach &9 million ($17mnillion), 2! It was the biggest cash theft in ‘Britain's history: An :,capture of the thieves. uséd bariknotes collected before thé: four-day E. ‘recorded.