for.

Bennett opposed t

VICTORIA (CP) —-—
Proposals to take over
MacMillan Bloedel Lid, are
not acceptable to the British
Columbia government at this
tlme, Fremler Bill Bennett
said Thursday.

The premier said he has
called a meeting for next
week in Vancouver with

officials of the B.C, forest
giant and Domtar Ltd. of
‘Montreal and Canadian
Pacific Investments (CPI) to
discuss their proposals. ©
‘Bennett said that both
MacMillan Bloedel and CPI
have agreed not to take any
further action until after the
meeting, and he was hoping

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for a similar commitment
from Domtar.

“We're concerned over the
development of the
province— that’s why |
consider this a matter of
emergency,”’ Bennett said.
“That’s the reason why I
called my colleagues on an
emergency basis al this

particular time to discuss it.

“] have advised the par-
ties, and I'm advising the
public of what I have told
both the Canadian Pacific
and MacMillan Bioedel

officials, and what | will be
telling the officials of

O

of the government of British
Columbia is.’

CPI, which already owns
2.8 million of MacMillan
Bloedel’s 21.2 ~=million
common shares, announced
Wednesday it is seeking to
obtain control of the Van-
couver-based forest products

Domtar, and what the policy giant, and intends to make a

public offer for all out-
standing common = shares.

CPI said it would offer a
convertible preferred share
of CPI or $28 cash for each.
share of MacMillan Bloedel.

Its offer came only hours
before the board of directors
of Domtar completed details

MacMillan Bloedel.

Domtar initially an-
nounced its intentions Dec.
21 and said it would offer
company shareholders one
Domtar share plus $3 for
each MacMillan Bloedel
share.

On Friday, MacMillan

MB takeover bid

of its bid to gain control of -

Bloedel madea counter-atter
to gain control of Domlar.

MacMillan Bloedel
acquired 2.8 million Domtar
shares, about 20 per cent of
Domtar’s 14.8 million
common shares, from Argus
Corp. Ltd. and Labrador
Mining and Explorations
Ltd., for $27 a share.

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William Kenneth Bowers,
age 31, was sentenced by
Judge Darrall Collins in
Terrace provincial court on
Thursday to 19 months in
prison after he was found
guilty on several charges of
false pretenses, fraud,
possession of a restricted
weapon and possession of
marijuana.

Bowers was charged on
Nav. 30 on five charges of
false pretenses after he
obtained $487 worth of
clothes from several clothing
stores in’ -the , Kitimat-

Terrace area, the court was

told. Se

The court was told he was
also, ,charged with at-
tempting to defraud the
Kitimat Snow Valley Credit
Union -of $2,000. - He was

-charged-with.: making. a-with

drawal of $4,500 ih cash from
the Toronto-Dominion Bank
after it appeared that he had
$22,903 in the bank, although
he did not actually have that
money there. He was
charged with obtaining
$2,000 worth of travellers
cheques from the Bank of
Nova Scotia in Kitimat by
creating a false bank
balance of $48,000. He ob-
tained a truck from McEwan
Motors in Terrace by
fraudulent means, the court
was told.

He was charged with
possession of a 9 millimeter
seml-automatic Smith and
Weston, without a permit
and a 22 semi-automatic
pistol, without a permit, the -
court was told. He was also
charged with possession of
marijuana, ;

Judge Collins said that
Bowers can become a useful
member of society but he
willhave to upgrade himself.

He said that society iooks
very seriously upon charges
of fraud and, although the 19
months may be a long-term
sentence in Bowers par-
ticular circumstances, a
shorter sentence would not
be a deterent for other
people who might have
similar ideas and the general
public must be protected.

Whales
come.

back

SAN DIEGO (AP) —
California gray whales, once
nearly extinct, will show off
their increasing population
in the next few weeks as they
pass the Southern California
coast on their 6,000-mile
migration from __ their
summer home in the Bering
Sea and other northern wa-

ters.

“We think they (the
whales) were down to about
500 or 600 at one time,” said
Robert Wisner, marine
biologist at Scripps In-
stitutlon of Oceanography in
La Jolla, “This year they
number at least 10,000 and
very probably as high as
12,000,"

The resurgence of the
mammals — some up to 60
feet long and weighing more
than 40 tons — has ap
parently been aided by the
recent recall of Japan's
whaling fleets, said Dr. Ray-
mond Gilmore of the San
Diego Natural History
Museum.

Contest
winners

Daily Herald carriers John.
Clark, of Terrace, and Alice
Watmough, of Thornhill,
recently won $100 each in
their respective drives to gel

more customers.

Alice was at the top of the
list for new customers and
John’s name was drawn in
the circulation contest.

Missiles stall talks
to end the arms race

WASHINGTON (AP) -—-
Further limitations on cruise

missiles were the last-~

minute questions raised by
the Soviet Union that
prevented completion of a
new strategic . arms
limitation agreemer’
{SALT), U.S. sources said
today.

. The sources, who asked
not to be identified, said the

issues were raised by the

Soviets at Saturday mor-

ning's negotiating session in
Geneva, after the U.S.
delegation felt all the es-
sential issues had been re-
solved.

sut at that session,
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko said the Soviets
wanted a ban on ‘multiple

sportation

Year's Eve.

for you.”

can to promote it."

ALCAN OFFERS
FREE RIDES

Any of Kitimat’s 313,000 residents, can
leave thelr cars at home on New Year's Eve
and tackle their party rounds with tran-
supplied by

For the second year, the company has
arranged free all-night bus service.
Municipal buses will handle regular day-
time routes every half hour from 6 p.m,
until $:30 a.m. Jan. 1.

Bill Rich, works manager at the Kitimat
smelter, sald that about 225 people used the
service when it was Introduced last New

“The heaviest traffic was between 2 and 3
a.m.," he said. “By then, it’s probably just
as well to have somebody else do the driving

‘Safety off the job is (ust as important as
safety at work, and we're glad ta do what we

Alcan’s 2500 employees are offered free
taxi service for the third year from 6 p.m. to
6 a.m. during the celebrations.

The service provides for a two-way trip
within the communities of Kitimat and
Kitamaat Village; Terrace and Thornhill.
Taxl companies in Kitimat and Terrace will
look affer all the driving.

Alcan.

warheads on U.S. cruse
missiles.

The U.S. plans to introduce
the cruise missile with a
single warhead and later
upgrade it with a multiple
warhead, the sources said.

Present plans do not en-
vision putting multiple
warheads on the missiles
until after the 1985 expiration
date for the SALT [1 trealy,
thesources said, Bul the U.S.
delegation felt it unwise to
agree to a one-warhead
provision, which the Soviets
would try to preserve in
future SALT agreements.

The Soviets also asked for
restrictions on long-range,
pilotless reconnaissance
aircraft, which the Uniled
States is now developing.
The Soviets said that the new
aircraft looked like cruise
missiles and would be dif-
ficult to distinguish fram
them,

Quebec will move a little
closer fo the west coast as a
new French TV channel is
scheduled to be seen in this
areaafter Jan. 8. People will
not need cable to see lhe
French programs over
Channel 11.

CBC is also laking over the
mainlenance of the tran-
smilter site on Copper
Mountain after Jan, 8. Until
that time CFTK has been
responsible for maintaining
the site. This change will not

IN IRA

Oil industry
is shut down

TEHRAN (CP) — Iran's
strike-plagued oil industry,
the backbone of the
economy, virtually shut
down Thursday and new
anli-shah rioting raged
across the country with
reports of dozens of lifes
taken in the violence.

Anti-American _ protests
continued and in the
southern city of Shiraz
demonstralors firehombed
an Iranian-American
cultural centre as Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's
foes demanded that the
Carter administration with-
draw its support from the
monarch,

Al least 30 people were re-

. ported, killed in, clashes

belweeti anti-shah deman-
strators and troops in the
southern city of Ahvaz, and
three more died in the north-
western city of Qazvin,
where rioters attacked a

police station. .
A ranking Moslem holy
man appealed to the

thousands of striking oil
workers (o return to work,
but said they should produce
only enough fuel for do-
mestic needs. Iranian state
radio urged everyone to
conserve fuel.

Garbage collection in this
city of 4.5 million was being
halted as an econamy move,
and banks throughout the
country began closing
because of a shortage of
bank notes. Cash supplies
have been destroyed by fires
and delayed by trans-
portation disruptions.

The strike has cost Iran,
normally the world’s second
largest oil producer, about
$70 million a day in lost
foreign exchange.

Gasoline was rationed and
bus service in the capital
was halted.

The radio reported anti-

’ shah rioting in several cilies |

thal have been the scene of
almost continous fighting in
recent days. It said
protesters leoted food stores
in Brojerd and Rezayeh.
Troops fired aver the
heads of several hundred
demonstraters who surged
through (he streets within
three blocks of the heavily-
guarded U.S, Embassy com-
pound here. Demonstrators
burned cars and buses but
the mobs appeared smaller
than in recent days, ap-
parently because the
Moslem weekend began
Thursday, Witnesses said
eight to 10 persons were

wounded by army gunfire in
Tehran. As many as seven
persons had been reported
killed Wednesday in Tehran
demonstrations,

The worst violence of the
day was reported to have
occurred in Ahvaz, where an
Iranian doctor teld Reuter
by telephone: “About 30 to 40
people have been killed and
more than 15 injured in
gunfire.”

The doctor said nearly 10
bank branches and the of-
fices of the national airline,
Iranair, were also set ablaze.

Oil-industry sources said
all of Iran’s refineries had
shut down, and no pelroleum

. was being refined anywhere

in the country. The sources ..

said about 300,000 barrels of

crude oil were taken from
the ground -Thursday but
were being stored until the
refineries begin operating
again. Iranian wells nor-
mally produce about six-
million barrels of crude
daily.

Another
airliner
crashes

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
A United Airlines DC-8
aircraft fram New York
experienced engine trouble
and crashed while coming in
for a landing Thursday,
killing ‘at least one person
and injuring numerous
others.

Ambulances from nearby
hospitals sped to the scene in
a mixed residence and
business
About 175 people were
believed to be aboard the
plane, said Alan Willis,
aviation information officer
for the Port of Portland.

Witnesses said there were
was no fire when the plane
hit about 6:15 p.m. PDT.
People were reported
walking around, looking like
they were in shock. Officials
said there appear to be
survivors.

Survivors were taken to a
nearby church, Power lines
wted knocked down,

Several houses in the area
were reported demolished. A
rescue helicopter was irying
to land in the area,

One survivor said he “ran
like hell” after the crash.

neighborhood.

NEW YORK (CP) — A
prolonged shutoff of
Iranian petroleum ex-
ports would have a sig-
nificant effect on oil
supplies, but the world
market can withstand a
brief halt in Iranian
supplies, U.S. oil industry
officials said Thursday.

“The key question is
how long they will con-
tinue “to have — this
rélatively low export
level,” said Gary Ross,
an. economist with the
Petroleum Industry
Research Foundation, an
industry-supported
organization,

The violence in Iran has
halted exports from the
country, which normally
ships sixmillion barrels
daily, making it the
world’s second-largest oil
exporter. Western
Europe, [srael and Japan
all are major buyers of
Iranian oil.

_ The United States
imported an average of
849,000 barrels a day of oil

nine months of the year—
4.5 per cent of the
country’s oil consumption
and 10.7 per cent of its
imports.

It takes about 30 days to

WE’RE OK BUT
FOR HOW LONG?

from Iran during the first —

ship Iranian oil to the
United States, so ail from
will keep arriving for
several weeks even if dis-
ruptions continue.

During much of

November and Decem-
ber, Iranian exports were
reduced to half normal
levels or less, but the
industry was able to
make up the difference,
mostly with exports from
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,
Ross said.
. Most of.Canada’s. im-
ported oi] comes from
Venezuela and Saudi
Arabia and petroleum in-
dustry experts in Ottawa
say the interruption of
Iranian oil exports is
unlikely ta have any
noticeable effect in
Canada which in the first
eight months of 1978
imported 31.4 million
barrels of Iranian crude
oil and petroleum
products.

Israeli officials said
their country was in no
danger of running out of
oil despite the crisis in
Iran, which usually
supplies about 70 per cent
of Israel's oil
requirements.

Officials in Jerusalem
said Israel was buying oil
from Mexico.

Alberta’s oil
fund increases

EDMONTON (CP) — Al-
berta's petroleum riches
helped produce a $7545-
million operating surplus in
1977-78—a fiscal year in
which the = provincial
government earned $5.1
billion and spent $3.4 billion.

Public accounts released
Thursday by provincial
auditor Doug Rogers show
that the government put
$948.5 million of the $5.1
billion it earned in the 12
months that ended last
March 31 into the Alberta
Heritage Savings Trust
Fund,

The fund, set up in 1976 as

WITH BRIAN GREGG
he town around us

alfect the CBC affiliate’s
own programing, however,

CBC recently installed a
40-foot tower on Copper
Mountain lo facilitate these
changes.

The simultaneots
broadcast of CBC radio over
AM and FM frequencies will
begin sometime in January.
Eventually the AM
frequency will be phased out
and listeners of CBC radio
will have to have FM radios
to get reception.

The FM signal is much
belter than the present AM
signal, we are told. There is
{oo much interference on AM
and the FM signal will be
more distinct. It is also
apparently cheaper to
operate an FM signa! than il
is to operate an AM signal.

Kitimat is scheduled to gel
a French radio stalion in
February. The mind boggles
when one considers how this
will benefit the large Por-
tuguese and East Indian

population in that Com-
munity, This station will
also be heard over FM radio.

It's good that people are
not taking their good limes
out into public places this
season. So far the holidays
have been very quiet and not
too many people have been
charged for drunken driving.

If you are going to fly high
into 1979 take a taxi or walk.
Otherwise, we'll see you in
court.

The RCMP have advised

an investment vehicle to
diversify the province's
economy, gels 30 per cent of
the government’s energy
and natural resource
revenue each year. IL had an
equity of $3.2 billion at the
end of 1977-78.

The accounts show that the
province had a consolidated
surplus as of last March 31 of
$4.8 billion—$1.6 billion in its
general revenue fund and
$3.2 billion in the herilage
savings trust fund. The
consolidated surplus was up
$1.9 billion from 1976-77,
when it stood at $2.9 billion.

that the firearms amnesty
recall program is still in
effect, unofficially. As of
Jan. 1 it will be necessary for
all businesses involved in the
sale, purchase, repair.
manufacture, ele., of
firearms and ammunition to
be licensed in accordance
with the new gun laws
coming into force, = In-
dividuals or businesses who
have not done so should
contact the RCMP office.

Meanwhile, Happy New
Vear,