Page 14, The Herald, Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Anti-Indian

feeling seen

VANCOUVER (CP) — The leader of the American Indian Movement says that a “kill the wild Indians’’ mentality still exists in the United States, but instead of using the cavalry law of- ficials now brand Indians as criminals and then put them in prison.

“Te is the way they wage war on us now,” said John Trudell, leader of the activist movement,

Trudel] was speaking at a news conference after he and four members of the movement entered Canada Thursday to seek political asylum.

“We are not a threat. We

‘are not the enemy of the

Canadian people. We just want our rights, our natural rights.”

He accused the U.S. Federal Bureau of In- vestigation of harassing group members, hunting them down and putting them In prison,

Trudell added that a militant label has been at- tached to the native Indian rights group to discredit it with the American public as part of a conspiracy to take away the land and natural

resources which belong to the Indians.

“They lie about everything,” he said. “Thay lied about Cambodia,

Watergate and pay-offs to corporations. .

“They also lie about us, saying we are radical and militant,”’

If the activists are allowed to stay in Canada, Trudell said, they will push for for an Inquiry into the extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada to the U.S. to face charges in connection with the 1075 killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reserve.

Trudell said Peltier was.

extradited to the U.S. on the strength of sworn statements by Myrtle Poorbear, who claimed she was an eyewitness to the killing,

But Poorbear made another statement which contradicted those presented at the extradition hearing, Trudell said the con- tradictory statement had been withheld by U.S, of- ficials, .

Peltier now is serving two consecutive life sentences for aiding and abetting in a murder.

Bank now closing smaller branches

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,’ British Columbia's largest char- tered bank, has closed branches in three B.C. communities due to in- sufficient profits, leaving local residents angry and disillusioned over banks in general,

Alert Bay, Sayward and Cordova Bay now are without chartered bank service after the bank permanently closed its doors at the locations Friday.

“These branches are no longer viable operations so weclosed them and that’s all there is to it," Gordon Lewis,

He’s quick to holler

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. (CP) — A carpenter will a quick eye for gold captured the annual world gold- panning championship Sunday in this northeastern British Columbia com- munity.

John Tanasiuk of Ed-

monton recovered a gold —

nugget in his pan and shouted ‘'Gold!’’ in 7.1 seconds in the point- weighted speed-panning event to take the overall title.

The world record is 5.4 seconds.

Tanasiuk, who turned professional goldpanner in 1973, has 36 years experience at the game and came second in the 1978 cham- pionships.

About 50 competitors, mostly from B.C. and Alberta, furiously panned for nuggets and gold flakes before about 200 cheering fans.

Five years

BRUSSELS (Reuter) — Former U.S. state secretary Henry Kissinger said Monday the West has up to five years in which to update ita nuclear strategy to cope with growing Soviet might.

Kissinger told a North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference here the West has to face the fact that the United States will no longer have strategic superiority in the early 1980s when its land- based strategic missiles will become vulnerable.

He was clarifying aspeech he made here Saturday when he seemed to question the credibility of the U.S, nuclear guarantee to its European allies if the only option open to an American president is to launch all-out muclear war.

In the context of a con- tinuing U.S. nuclear com- mitment to NATO, it is imperative to define how this commitment would be carried out, Kissinger told the conference, organized by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

The essence of Kissinger's remarks is that the U.S. should acquire a “coun- terforce” capability, with strategie nuclear missiles accurate enough to destroy Soviet military installations and also longerrange tac- tical nuclear weapons.

bank vice-president said in an interview.

The bank had given local residents one month's notice of closure,

“The gesture was not in good taste, rather it was rude and disgusting," ~- id Giblert Popovich, Alert Bay mayor. “There simpiy wasn't enough time to get another chartered bank into town.”

Alert Bay, a community of 1,-600 located off the north coast of Vancouver Island, is hardest hit by the closures. The nearest chartered bank is in Port McNeill, a 16 kilometre ferry trip away and given the infrequent return runs, the entire trip amounts to half a day.

The island community has credit union but services are limited

The. Alert Bay Credit Union hasno vaultor safety deposit boxes, It also is not licenced by the federal government and so cannot offer govern- ment-guaranteed leans. Cordova Bay residents have access to banking facilities in Victoria. Sayward's 390 residents face a 62-kilometre journey to the nearest chartered bank at Campbell River on northeastern Vancouver Tsland. .

“A lot of people are angry here,” said one Sayward businessman. ‘The notice given us was inconsiderate and irresponsible,”

But Lewis sald one month’s notice was “normal course because we didn’t want to run the risk of losing staff before we could wind down the operations,"

The employees of the branches, he sald, have been

‘offered jobs at other locations.

to update.

the president would be faced with no choice but to use weapons capable only of destroying citles and the civilian population, which would most probably mean mutual destruction,

“The question of the strategic equation is not only a problern of hardware,” Kissinger said. “It is also of developing a doctrine so that tactical forces and other forces are related to some concept of defence and not only to some theoretical level of destruction.”

He said the West has two to four or five years to remedy the situation, for example by making the land missiles mobile or by putting more strategic forces at sea.

BLACKS CALLED UP

SALISBURY (CP) — Military call-up for blacks in Zimbabwe Rhodesia has been extended to include all Africans between the ages of 16 and 60 who at any time have been registered as apprentices. According to Bovernment sources, this could involve 50,000 blacks who were not liable for conscription under previous regulations, More than 80 pe ‘cent of the country’s se- curity forces are black.

WAS FIRST BISHOP Francois Xavier de Laval was named Quebec's first

Otherwise, he explained, bishop in 1674,

SETTLEMENT |

SEEN SOON

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP)— The latest ina long series of labor disputes at MacMillan Bloedel's Harmac mill could be over Tuesday if the 1,200 workers agree to a

proposed settiement worked out Sunday by the com: .

pany and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada.

Neither side would reveal details of the seltlement which if ratified by the union would end a strike started Aug. 22 when shop steward Jim Pitt was suspended for refusing to handle pulp the union says was produced by supervisors during an earlier three-week strike in

July.

Last Friday, the union suggested that the pulp be gold and the proceeds donated to the British Columbia Lions Soclety for Crippled Children,

Stan Shewaga, president of PPWC, local 8, would not

say whether that action is part of the proposed set- . tlement.

The workers will vote on the settlement Tuesday.

“If the membership ratifies the proposal, I imagine they (the company) will fire up the machines Tuesaday afternoon," he said.

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Investigators sift ashe

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) — Fire officials were sifting through the remains of the Pacific Coast terminal dock Saturday to estimate damage caused by 4 spectacular fire Friday. ‘ Meanwhile firemen were putting out the last minor spot fires and smouldering remains of the dock, ignited by a fire aboard a log salvage boat that the tide moved under the pilings.

Two men aboard the boat, who had been trying to start the boat's engine when its carburetor exploded, escaped uninjured,

More than 75 firemen from the city, and nearby Bur-

naby, Coquitlam, Surrey and

Vancouver fire departments fought the stubborn blaze in the creosote-coated pilings, which one fire spokesman said burned like napalm.

Eight firetighters were treated for facial burns and smoke inhalation.

Six tugs spewed’ water on the flames and three un- derwater divers from the Vancouver fire department tried to douse the flames with floater pumps. But firemen did not gain control until six hours later when a 36-metre-high pile driver tore away railway tracks and concrete along 200 metres of the 400-metre-long dock, exposing burning

_ pilings.

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“I guess the pile driver ‘was one of the turning points in this fire,” said city fire chief John McCallum. “And if it wasn't for the cement fire wall built along the edge of the dock, we could have lost everything.

“The fire had enormous potential because the creosote in the pilings burned like napalm.”

The fire destroyed two of the 10 Pacific Coast Ter- minals, but company president Wellsley Brown sald the company only uses five berths at a tlme.

“So the rest of the dock will be sufficient for our

Turkish police said,

The area is slated for, redevelopment and Mayor Muni Evers said in an in- ferview it is unlikely the docks would be rebuilt,

COOK WAS CARELESS

ODEMIS, Turkey (CP) — When {6 Turks sat down to a meal of one of their favorite dishes to celebrate a bir- thday recently, it was the last meal for seven of them. They died in hospital. The other nine, also stricken, are recovering. The restaurant cook had made a mistake, Instead of frying the dish in olive oil, he had used a highly poisonous insecticide,

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