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development, that it provided justif, fication for repaiting and .

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Board
wants
answers
on park
closure

_ By GAIL DOTINGA:
* Herald Staff Writer '
A telegram (protesting the
' extended closure.of Lakelae
' Lake provincial park will, be’,
sent ‘to, Vietoria,«
Regional district. council

members. voted In favor of

sending the telegram to Jim
 Gubot * provincial minister
of lands, parks and housing, —
‘at Saturday's meeting in an
attempt to get the park
opened as soon as possible.
The park has been closed due
to hazardous trees.
“Work still. hasn't started, ©

people are. petting

"frustrated, they're tearing.

down, the gate and using the
park /despite the dangergqus
‘treag," said: ‘Director: Les
Watmough ae

ref
porkh riment. |:
ake departn -Bob-. Cooper
“feats that work on the park is
belhg done in an inap-
propriate mariner.
“They have a tendency to

- ‘do things backwards. Some

of the trees in the picnic site |
were taken out! this-spring ~
when it was muddy. ‘Instead
’ of making a mess out of the -
place, they should have
taken. the” out in the”
winter,’ he said.
«T feel we should protest in
- the strongest order ‘to the
provincial government, it’s
the only warm water lake In
the area that is heavily used
by both the residents and.the
tourists,” said Jack Talstra..
Concern. was expressed:
_over the number of frees
” marked to be cut down, some
members stated that. there
were a 1,000.
SIE you, walk in the park
almost every tree Is painted’

if all those trees have to

come down they'll never get
itdone ina couple of weeks,”
sald Watmough. ;

A suggestion was made to
have the sections where the
hazardous trees ‘are closed
- off to the public, =

Inthe telegram the beard
‘members will ask. the
govenrment to substantiate
their claim that a large
number of treds have to be
cut down, -

Talstra suggested that the
telegram be followed-up by
the board in a: further: at-
tempt to get the. provincial .
government’. to-act’ on the
matter quickly,

Queen mom
- birthplace.

is. unknown?

LONDON (UPI) — It was-
a week the, British royal
establishment’ would rather
forget.

As 4°. result” ‘of a
parishioner’s curiosity, a
spokesman had to admit that.
no one kiows exactly where '
the Queen Mother was bern
nor why her eccentric father
gave false details when he
registered her birth. -

Everyone agrees the
Qreen Mother was born on
Aug. 4, 1900, and that date
will be celebrated all over
’ the nation this.year to mark
the 80th birthday of the
-kingdom’'s most. popular
lady. i

These five boy scouts. e are on thelr way home to.

Jk

Kitimat after. a weekend of camping on the

Exstew. ‘River: Troops

from Terrace, Prince:

Rupert and. Stewart also. attended.

By LARRY ROBERTS
VANCOUVER, . Wash.

(UPL — Unpredictable, .
violent Mount..St * Helens

‘ steamed. ominously. today
from a sever-lour weekend

eruption that: spewed gritty.

volcanic ash oyer thousands ©

of i square files of the most” inovement :of- underground

magma, started at 2:39 a.m. -

pulated areas’ of coastal
Oregon and: Washington. ;

For’ seven hours Sunday’

morning, the: ymile-wide
-erater of Mount St. Helens

fired away like a ee hgh .

cannon, ee amido an
as 9 miles ami
flashes.
No new casualties ‘ were

: reported, although scientists
‘ said the eruption was the -.

toate serloys. since - the

" hating

gigantic May: 18 explosion:

that blew. off: the top .2,300
feet of the mountain and
_ claimed at least 42 lives.
Gov. Dixy Lee Ray -ex-
tended. the reatricted zone
around the mountain fram 5

io 20 miles, including the.

towns of Cougar and Yale, -

which were evacuated,
Winds carried ashes from

Suriday’s eruption over‘ an

area of about 12,000 square
miles, including Portland,
Ore., and the “heavily
populated area around Puget
Sound in Wash in Washington. = -

turned the thick ash:

cloud into mud pelleté in
western Washington,
making highways slippery
holiday. motorists,
i orting out electrical
trangformers and

, threatening. water Supplies

in some communities,

' University of Washington
- selamologists: first’ reported

earthquake ~’ activity on

Mount St. Helens, incliding
tremors-. and -

harmonic -
“seismic ‘noises"' indicating

Sunday with. magnitudes of
4,0 on the Richter scale that

“Late Sunday, . however, the 7
west at lower levels and

“northwest — at

National Weather Service
sighted eeveral. plumes of

ah over the peak of Mount .

thon 20. dropped off- to ese,

St. Helens at 9, wo, to 11,000"
feet.

The clouds of volcanic ash
from the latest eruption were
so thick early Sunday that

- they extended. the dark

several hours: past the

-normal daybreak hour of.
6:30 a.m...

“Birds .aren't singing —
it’s: eerie,” said Ruth
Jenkins, .a resident of Mc-
Cleary, ‘Wash., about 40
miles - northwest, of the
voleano. —~

Light wirids, “going south-

higher
elevations, distributed the

Quakes rocking

Yosemite park

MAMMOTE LAKES,
Calif. (UPI) — iciais
warn “there ls a strong -
likelihood” of more tremora
in the Sierra Nevadas where
a rash of earthquakes |
‘swayed ski lifts, sent
boulders crashing down
mountainsides and rocked:
bulldings from San Fran-
cisco to Los Angeles, Nine

People were Injured,

e first of two rful
quakes — centered in the
Mammoth Lakes area near
Yosemite National Park —

hit about 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
Hundreds of campers, skiers
and. vacationers were
spending the Memorial Day
holiday in the popular resort
region.

The second major quake
hit about 12:45 p.m, Hoth
registered 6 on the Richter
Seale and seismologists at
the University of California
at Berkeley said they ap-

parently were not related to

the Intest eruption of the
Mount St. Helens volcano.

olcano blows again

ash fallout over adan-shaped
-. grea stretching out more
than’ 150° miles from the
‘volcano, Visibility was
impaired in a triangular
area from Yakima, dué'east
of the mountain, northwest
to Cape Flattery on the coast
and south ‘to Newport, Ore

.The fallout grounded
helieoptersat Toledo, Wash.,
the staging area for search
and . rescue and body
recovery missions. Several
airlines canceled all flights
out .of Portland, and the
Federal -Aviation

ministration . barred in-
strumentflights over most of
the region. - .

* OTTAWA (UPC) — The federal
government should take over all
Canadian National and Canadian
Pacific Railway stations and con-
vert them into multi-functional
transportation and communications

centers, New Democratic

toe critle Les Benjamin said

“Benjamin: eaid the conversion,
based on European practice, would

“that the infermo,: ¢

Ad-,

KENORA

KENORA, Ont. (UPC) —
Thie’ 10,000 ‘residents: of this .
northwestern Ontarlo towa
waited today to see if winds
would continue to hold at bay .
- the 200-square-inile forest
fire that has threatened their
community since Saturday.

Officials predicted Sunday
the largest
of 84 fires. blazing ‘through’
Ontario's tiridar-dry: forésts,
would pass safely 16 miles‘to .
the’ northeast of the town

unless: the southeast winds

- shifted around to‘ the north. -
‘But: Kenora: Mayor: Udo
Romstedt. spent - Sunday
drawing up contingency
plans .in case, the town's —
nervous ‘residents were -
forced to join. the more than’.
6,000. Ontario. citizens
‘already forced, ‘to flee their:
homes. ;
In "Winnipeg, Manitoba

Some, 3,500:
Lake, Ont., forced out of
their homes when. a B00.

acrefire moved to within one |
mile of town, were removed
to Manitoba evacuation ©

centers in a “military airlift
Friday, ;

The same wind shift that
provided respite to Kenora
swept flames toward the -
Grassy Narrow .. Indian
Reserve . 50° milés to the
northwest, forcing 450 people
to flee-in. buses before fire
engulfed the only access

read to the community.

Officials said the road was
“cut off shortly after the last
busioad of - evaciees -

_ escaped. All 450 were-taken. .

to Kenora.
Another 100 to 1) people, .
also threatened. by. shifting .

winds, were-evacuated from —

seven townships between
Kenora and Dryden, Ont.,

_ Saturday., Altogether, 39

fires. had consumed 480
square ‘miles of timber in
., forthwestern Ontario by
Sunday night.

The Kenora fire ‘‘is about
16 to 16 miles from town and
’ it won't ‘get any closer to
Kenora unless ‘the. wind
- shifts," said ministry of
‘natural resources
‘spokesman Richard Van-
dervieit.

“People in town are ap-
prehensive but there ia no
feeling of panic.” —

Vandorvielt said if the fire,
which was not expected to be
brought under control for at
least several days, continued
on its present course the only

inhabited areas. threatened:

would be lightly-cottaged

abeas.

’ “We're doing what we can,
oping the winds die down
and hoping like hell . for
_ vain,” Vandervliet said. He

Party

resiilt in better use of stations and said.

He said the cost to the taxpayer
would fare comparably with the $200
million capital investment in alrport

make It easier for transfers between
bus, train, urban transit, ferry and

air services.

| — A “bid. dog: -alreratt. |

; forest fire sees a hot apot

.| bomber:

1, Wehave a problem seeing

Such a change, he said, would ala
provide the incentive for m
to leave their automobiles a home
and make greater use of alternate
fuel efficient ground transportation,

“The only cost of the project
should be for renovation since, for
the most part, the railways were
- ‘given the land for nothing in the first
place and the buildings have already
paid for themselves,” Benjamin

stones fre

SPOTTER |
PLANE
ESSENTIAL. |

“ABNOR, Ont. “gees:

‘air strikes on‘a
northwestern .. Ontario

‘at the edge of a fire break, |
points an attack
the site and barks for a
‘ground crew to look out
below..

With resolute swiftness,
a water “bomber. pilot
takes the call and skims
his aircraft 75 feet above
the tree line, skirting tall
trees, to ‘drop a sheet, of

“This ay ‘dog aircraft
is monitoring ‘the radio |”
| frequencies’ that the fire
crews ‘are using . to
communicate’ between
| themselves," said ‘water

pilot - Larry
Burton, "He will let them
know when we're coming

in.
“Bis job primarily is to |
pick’ out tatgets on the |
ground for us and direct
‘accurately hit the targets.
| bécause of the level we fly
at'— 75 feet or less over
the tree.canopy. —-

“It's - very very dif
ficult to pick out solitary
pines . or dead" treen
sticking up above the

al iree canopy,” he

aad. ‘There’ the odd one
that can. jump “ and
grab you

Burton aid that
skimming the tree tops
becomes more dan
with each passing day.

lane at |

us in so that we can more |

added the ‘ministry. was
putting ite manpower
Nock where it ‘would do the.
‘moat ont poo, but that only rain ©
dampen the, fire's
flames,

Eight cottages have been
lost in the Kenora blaze 0
far. oe te lives. woe OH

«Ministry spokesman Ole
Olsen. said fire , fighters
 “gueceeded. ” Sunday -.

“under control one .

Sparing the pte a vad
‘spat 8 and valu
8 vations Fett behind in
y's hurried exodus, .
A-wind shift Saturday
helped turn back the 9

.square-mile blaze with

: flames licking at the treetops
‘anly a mile from the com-
munities’ of Red Lake ‘and
-Bélmertown.
Olsensaid the fire was now
moving. toward a lightly:
.. populated area ‘but! sell

sae
six: homes in Starrat saber
in both communities, as well
as remote logging campe in
the area, were evacuated
- Friday: with the Red Lake
residents.

About 10,000 firefighters ©

and an equal, number of
support ‘staff had :.been
thrown into the province-.
wide effort by Sunday.
: Equipment was being fiown
‘in from eastern Ontario and
‘Boise, Idaho.

The blazes, sparked by
careless campers,” lightning

and railway care, have found

plentiful fuel from a. hot dry
boring | following a winter of

light an
a ficials. said eight to 12
le ‘had: been charged
ae Friday with setting
illegal camping fires in the

region

‘On. ‘Saturday, a private
single-engine DeHavilland
Otter crashed and burned on
takeoff from Carling Lake.
_ The pilot and five fishermen.
“being evacuated were ‘hurt,
but not critically and stayed -
behind to extinguish the fire.

Speeding Roo roped.

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)
— A police officer with an
experienced lasgo arm was
credited with stopping: a

” speeding wallaroc on Skyline

Bowevard.

The wallaroo —
Australian animal related to
the kangaroo — was clocked

at 40 mph as it sped away.

from pursuing officers

Sunday, Officials at the San

. Francisco Zoo later said the

wallaroo, a female, probably

fence by climbing under &
nce,

Police at. Taraval Station

. were alerted to the escape by
. 8 neighbor who said he saw a"

kangaroo strolling down the
street not far from the zoo.
Officers Donald Con-
dencia, Mark Hawthorne
and Joe Finnegan then gave
“hot pursuit, catching up with
the animal as it bounded.
along Skyline Boulevard
away from the zoo.

The wallaroo is one . of
seven kept at the zoo, and the
first wallaroo to escape the
200 since 1968.

9, . a )

Gov't takeover of rail stations. urged

. terminals and the $4.7 billion annual
investment in roads.

An integrated, bus-high speed
train system ‘‘is the single ‘most
efficient way to reduce petroleum
consumption because transporta
consumes 54 percent of Canada's
petroleum," he said.

“Even though buses and trains are

four to five times more energy ef-
ficient than autos, the share of in-

tlon

tercity passenger travel carried by

ot te

total in 1977,"" Benjamin sald.

buses and trains has declined from

cent of the total in 1967, to 3.5

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