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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP) — The government must make magic mushrooms illegal, a doctor in the Queen Charlotte Islands sald Wednesday.

Dr. Steen Andersen said as long as people are allowed to harvest and eat the psilocybe mushrooms which grow

abundantly in the islands’ soggy lowlands, they face the risk |

of genetic damage, degenerative brain disease and death. _ Andersen, who lobbied for restriction of the drug psilocybin in 1974, was responding to a recent B,C, Court of Appeals decision that said possession of the mushroom in its natural

state is not an offence under the federal Food and Drug Act.

He said he committed several people who participated in this fall's mushroom harvest to Riverview mental hospital in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam for treatment of toxic peychosis.

Tn past years he has seen one person die from a mushroom overdose and another die after eating poisonous mushrooms they thought contained psilocybin. .

He said little ig known about the long-term effects of the drug, which resembles LSD.

doctor wants magic mushrooms banned

Andersen said Queen Charlotte Islands residents are worried about the social problems which could accompany fn influx of transients next year if the mushrooms remain legal.

They are establishing a committee to pressure the government to change the law.

in October, animosity between residents and transient mushroom gatherers resulted in sporadic fighting and a rash of minor assault charges.

Andersen said residents are also concerned about possible

effects on the cammunity's youth. .

“Some of them mushroom pickers hire kids to pick the mushrooms for §5 a day, People are worried about what that kind of exposure could mean.”

Meanwhile, RCMP in Masset are in a quandry about what to do with the mushrooms left over from arrests when possession was thought to be illegal.

Sgt. Gordon Gibbs says the mushrooms will remain in police lockers for the time being, but he isn’t sure what he'll do if someone comes to claim them.

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IN IRAN | UN call

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TEHRAN (AP) — Ayatollah Ruhollah

' Khomeini said today the UN

Security Council's call for a negotiated settlement of the US.-Iranian crisis is ‘a step forward,” the official Para hews agency reported.

The news agency said that Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh met with Khomeini in the holy city of Qom and they “noticed that

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a phoney

TORONTO (CP) — Iranian students holding 60 hostages at the United States Embassy In Tehran said in a television interview this morning that they have discovered documentation

_ Giving one of the hostages a = Th false identity-"°""" ot

The 40-minute interview was conducted by a reporter for the CTV television net- work and shown via a live satellite feed on the network show Canada AM.

The two students who were interviewed showed a Belgian passport and other documents they said were forged by the U.S, govern- ment to provide hostage Thomas Ahearn with a cover identity for subversive purposes.

A young, bearded man identified only as Riza an- swered the reporter's questions. A young woman, Mary, who spoke fluent English, provided tran- slation.

Riza, representing the student co-ordinating committee holding the hostages, said the U.S, Em- bassy was not regarded as a diplomatic refuge by the Ira- nian people,

“It is not an embassy, it is a den of esplonage,"’

Economy said the

solution

WASHINGTON (AP) — While not ruling out military force, President Carter is said to be hoping a policy of economie denial — “turning the screws a little tighter” every few days — will induce Tran to free 50 U.S, hostages,

Speaking to a group of about 100 members of the House of Representatives Wednesday night at the White House, Carter was reported to have outlined a series of economic measures he Is prepared to take to end the crisis, now in its jard

day.

The administration appar- ently hopes to enlist the support of several U.S. allles in Europe, all major can- sumers of Iranian oil,

U.S. officiala, who asked

hot to be identified, said

Wednesday night that State Secretary Cyrus Vance may travel to fowr West European capitals next week to try to lIne up support for new U.S. Initiatives,

Vance is due ta go to Belgium for a NATO ministerlal meeting and sources said the trip may be expanded to include Britain, West Germany, France and Italy. :

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this is not a resolution condemning us.”

Observers noted that the comments are the most moderate yet from Khomeini or Ghotzbadeh during the month-long crisis. Last week Khomeini rejected in ad- vance any steps taken by the Security Council, alleging that it is controlled by the United States.

There was no mention of the resolution's call for the immediate release of 50 American hostages ‘held in the U.S. Embassy and did not outline possible negotiations for their re- lease.

The Security Council resolution, adopted unanimously Tuesday, asks Tran and the U.S. to show restraint and negotiate a settlement to the crisis, which began with the Nov, 4. occupation of the embassy by militants,

Meanwhile, supporters of Khomeini and the religious leader of the country’s

Turkish minority clashed in “thet

inly-city nf Qom for the’

. second straight day over the

Islamic constitution that makes Khomeini supreme ruler for life, residents reported,

Two persons were killed and eight wounded in fighting between the groups Wednesday, but no Casualties were reported today. Khomeini visited the minority leader, Ayatollah Mohammed Kazem Shariat- Madari, when the situation became calm in the af- ternoon and said ‘plotters’ were responsible for the trouble,

“Do not quarrel between yourselves and focus on the one and only enemy .., It is your religious duty and national responsibility to concentrate on the con- frontation with the United States,” Khomeini said in a state radio broadcast.

The official Pars news agency quoted Khomeini’s son, Ahmad, as saying hia father and Shariat-Madari discussed relations with the U.S. and “CIA agents and SAVAK, who at this critical juncture are sowing discord among Moslems.” SAVAK was the secret police of the deposed shah.

Pro-Khomeini militants have held 60 Americans hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran since Nov. 4 in an attempt to force President Carter to extradite Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Iran to stand trial as a war criminal, Khomeini’s forces ousted the shah’s govern- ment in February,

On Wednesday night, a Khomeini revolutionary guard and one of Shariat- Madari's personal guards were shot dead and eight other persons were wounded In fighting in Qom, 160 kilometres south of Tehran, Informed sources said,

The disturbances in Qom, Khomeini’s headquarters, followed outbreaks of violence in Tabriz, capital of the .Turkishpopulated province of Azerbaijan, this week

Sharlat-Madari's followers protested that state radio and televiston distorted his criticism of the constltution, approved in a national referendum Sunday and Monday, giving sweeping powers for life to Khomelni.

Carter has refused to extradite the shah and on Sunday the ousted monarch was flown to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas

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DOG CONTROL

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With the dog problem rampant in Terrace at least according to some residents, there is an effort being made to locate an SPCA branch here.

SPCA said

answer

Graham Street area is one which should not be ignored.

Christine Cross is the acting local president of the SPCA. She told the Herald that a society official from Vancouver

in ten months,’’ she commented. “I could do that in a month.”

“It is too big an area for Doris Sturko (the dog control officer for Terrace) to cover by " she sai

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Tricksters now vow to tell the cops all

VICTORIA (CP) — Two key figures in the political dirty tricks scandal will tell police everything they know about the affair haunting the British Columbia govern- ment, and not decide im- mediately whether they will sue for wrongful dismissal, their lawyer said Wed- nesday, °

Ellen Mackay, a former Social Credit party caucus researcher, and Jack Kelly, the former head of the research department, are going to be ‘very candid with the police” said Robert Gardner.

Ms. Mackay said the decision to discuss her in- volvement was not made until Wednesday because she was uncertain of her position until then.

AH four = remaining members of the caucus research department were fired Tuesday.

“We are leaving the question of the (dismissal) lawsuit until after the police investigation,” Gardner told reporters. “The reason is that there may be prosecution for counselling criminal acts and if that hap- pens, there's no point in in- itiating a civil lawsuit.”

Ms. Mackay started talking about the affair by revealing that Dan Camp- bell, Social Credit campaign Chairman in the May 10 provincial election, issued a memo-in February ad- vocating the use of a tape which urged party members to play dirty.

The tape includes Ms, Mackay telling a Vancouver seminar how to send letters supporting Social Credit to newspapers and how to sign them with phoney names. Kelly is heard telling party workera to play dirty,

Ms. Mackay said the memo was sent to all ministerial executive aasistants but was ordered withdrawn about three hours later. Copies of the memo were destroyed in shredding machines.

Campbell now is in charge of the government's new

British Columbia House in Otlawa. .

Kelly resigned after the affair came to light in September, bul Ms. Mackay refused to resign or accept a reprimand and kept her job — until the research staff was pink-slipped Tuesday by caucus chairman Jack Kempf.

Kempf said the decision to disband the research staff had nothing to do with the scandal but was prompted by a planned reorganization of the caucus’ support staif.

“It was a case of the department being phased

McKay

reveals a memo

VANCOUVER (CP) — Ellen Mackay, a central figure in the political dirty tricks scandal, revealed a memo Wednesday in which Dan Campbell, Social Credit campaign chairman for the May 10 provincial election, advocated the use of a tape which urged party workers to play dirty.

Miss Mackay, one of four party caucus researchers fired Tuesday by caucus chairman Jack Kempf, decided to speak out on the scandal following a meeting with her lawyer.

out, It was not a case af anyone being fired.’’

He said he would be happy to give the dismissed staff

“Jetters of recommendation if

they ask for them.

Ms. Mackay said ‘the firings, which also affected Susan Cowan, Bob Husband and secretary Penny Lifton, were definitely linked to the scandal which has dogged the Social Credit party for months.

Husband said he is also considering legal action but his immediate concern is finding another job as quickly and as quietly as possible.

Opposition Leader Dave Barrett said Kempf's ex- planation that the firings have nothing to do with the scandal don’t hold up.

“Mr. Kemp! may be fooling himself and he may be fooling the premier but he is not fooling anyone else,” the NDP leader said.

“It's Christmas. Four

peoplehave beenfired witha |

fiveminute notice — these are human beings.”

“The premier’s office has been directly linked to funds coming in from somewhere and being spent for political purposes outside the political party,” he said,

Les Keen, former Soclai Credit party president, said he knew of at least one separate fund over which he and the directors had no control,

In fact, Margaret Murdoch of Terrace said Wednesday that a charter for a local branch of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals

‘was granted last year.

However, there are only eight members of the society here.

Murdoch, who is the director of the local SPCA branch, said dog patrolling activities had taken place in the past year by last year’s president, Gordie Howe.

Murdoch = explained that Howe had been picking up loose dogs and driving them to the SPCA

- building vin. .Kitimat. * HoWever)” he ‘seems to

have stopped doing this.

Before the SPCA could have any real impact, a building for the dogs has to be secured, Murdoch said,

“T feel they should do something up here,’’ she commented. ‘I. don’t think the problem has been blown out of proportion, and Terrace needs the SPCA.”

Murdoch said there needs to be a com- prehensive spaying and tagging program for dogs. She added the problem of livestock being attacked in the

Old Crow gets to fly

OLD CROW, Yukon (CP) — Booze is about to make a comeback in the Yukon's most northerly community.

Residents voted to ban consumption or possession of alcohal in September, 1978, but the Yukon territorial government felt the vote was not in accord with govern- ment regulations and called another one,

A spokesman for the Yukon Liquor Corp. said Wednesday 57 persons voted against the ban in the new vote, while 41 persons voted to retain it. About 150 residents were eligible to cast ballots.

Last week, two Old Crow trappers were banned from the community by Magistrale Roger Kimmerly until June, 1980 because of a number of alcoholrelated offences.

has been invited up to view the problem first- hand.

Cross said the society's local executive have met ona few occasions, but no real action could be taken until the society official from Vancouver con- firmed the need for a building.

Cross expressed dissatisfaction with the dog control job being done by the municipality.

“They pick up 700 dogs Animals’ owners

said responsible

Some of the local dog owners should come spend a night in the shelter with the dogs and see how it feels,"”

While Doris Sturko makes that comment facetiously, she is concerned over the carelessness of many pet owners in Terrace, After all, as dog control officer for Terrace, it is her job to pick up stray dogs and, in the great majority of cases, put them to death.

“I think there are a bunch of irresponsible pet owners out there,’’ she commented.

However, Sturko thinks the recent concern over stray dogs and attacks on livestock has been blown out of proportion. . :

For example, she has little sympathy for the owners of the two goats who were likely subject to an attack by a pack of dogs earlier last week. Sturko claimed section 5-B of the Dog Control Bylaw prohibits anyone from keeping goats within the district's boundaries,

She cited a similar case where a resident's chickens were attacked and killed. The resident apparently tried to get monetary compensation from the district, but was denied when informed the chickens were not being raised within an area allowed by the bylaw.

There is really nothing that can be done about !oose dogs unless they are on public property. Sturko said she often is unable to pick up dogs because they run from one private lot to the next. For that reason she is not as busy aS many would believe.

“We do patrol more than eight hours, we patrol when we feel it is needed,"’ she said,

Sturko thinks that if an additional truck was put into service by the district it would help, but not clear up the problem,

Sturko thought one way to cut down on stray dogs would be to charge owners a fee, whether or not the dog was retrieved. :

CHILD INJURED

An eight-year-old Terrace boy is resting comfortably in Mills Memorial Hospital following an accident Tuesday, in which he was struck by a moving vehicle,

An RCMP spokesman said Wesnesday, that Robert Bishop of Terrace was hit by a car Tuesday afternoon in the 3400 block of Sparks Street. The spokesman said the boy had been playing in traffic at the time, and no charges are being contemplated against the motorist.

The youth, who altends E.T. Kenney Primarv School, was admitted to the hospital for ob- servation.

Margaret Murdoch... «get SPCA

Guards’ union rep jailed

TORONTO (CP) — Sean O'Flynn, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, was senteticed to 35 days In jail today for con- tempt of court after deliberately defying a court injunction against an illegal strike by Ontario

jail guards.

His lawyer, Ian Scott, said an appea! was

likely.

O'Flynn, a teacher, pleaded guilty to the charge Wednesday. Mr. Justice Douglas Carruthers’ of Ontario Supreme Court had continued the injunction against the union until

O'Flynn was sentenced,

Ina statement read to the court by his lawyer Wednesday, Flynn said the decision to disobey the court order was difficult, but “in the last analysis, my obligation was to respond to the dictates of my conscience at whatever cost in

support of these employees.”

After the 3,000 correctional workers in the province's 61 Institutions went on an illegal atrike Monday, Attorney-General Roy MeMurtry told the Ontario legislature he would seek a jail

- sentence for O'Flynn.

The guards returned to work today after they

approved a tentative agreethent reached

Wednesday between the union and the Ontario government to go to final and binding arbi- tration.

Blenus Wright, @ lawyer in the attorney: general's department, asked Wednesday thal Flynn be given a two-month sentence. He said Flynn had played a dominant role in the strike and had the same powers to stop if as he had to Start it.

The workers are asking for a bargaining unit separate from the 6,000 other union members who work in provincial centres for the retarded and mentallylll,