2 - THE CITIZEN Prince George - Monday July 21 1975 RCMP removed Indian women and children from the site of a month long blockade of a road north of Pemberton BC Some of the women chose to go to jail Indians face charges after roadblock ended VANCOUVER CP -RCMP acting under orders from the provincial attorney - generals depart department ¬ ment cleared two roadblocks Friday and Saturday and charged 73 Indians with obstructing a highway The first group was at Pem Pemberton ¬ berton north of Vancouver where about 50 RCMP officers moved in Friday evening and arrested 53 Indians most of whom belong to the Mount Cur rie band Early Saturday morning on Vancouver Island about 20 RCMP officers made the sec second ¬ ond batch of arrests when they cleared a blockade across a logging road which leads to a pulp mill and a government wharf near Gold River Judge Anthony Sarich of Campbell River released the 1 6 men and four women on con condition ¬ dition that they not return to the site of the blockade and THE WEATHER VANCOUVER iCTm High low temperatures issued Mon da by the weather olfne and pieupitdtion for the piewous 2 1 hours CranbtiHik 27 12 Ptnticton 28 12 Kevelstoke 26 10 Vcincouier 22 11 Prime Kupcil 16 9 Stewait 13 10 11 Tort llii dy 18 8 - Tofmo 18 10 Comox 22 13 Victoria 21 9 Prime George 18 8 Blue liner 20 10 Karnloops 28 12 Ddwson City 23 12 Uhitehorse 14 8 Kort St John 18 7 - VelUmknife 20 9 - ImiMk m 3 - Mtdiune Hat 28 12 - Kdmonton 21 10 12 Forest fire hazard low Rain during the past few days has lowered the fire hazard in the Prince George Forest District from high to moderate to low A spokesman for the district said 115 men are fighting 33 fires in the district and all are in the mop up stage that they appear in court No date was announced for court appearance Those arrested on the main mainland ¬ land will appear in Pemberton provincial court July 23 A spokesman for the Mount Curne band Verna Stager said Sunday band members who participated in the final stages of the blockade Friday were recuperating during the weekend She said a band meeting is scheduled for Wednesday night A spokesman for the Mowachat band at Gold River refused to comment on possi possible ¬ ble Indians plans but an RCMP spokesman asked if police were expecting another blockade said It could still go either way Deputy attorney general David Vickers said Thursday the blockades must be volun voluntarily ¬ tarily removed or authorities The government is sticking to its position said one spokesman Well be here until these bills are finished The gasoline tax which took effect when it was announced in the June 23 budget still is awaiting second reading approval in principle The other bills need only final read reading ¬ ing to pass But all three are expected to be processed by weeks end despite doubts expressed in UMAEJMMi use less iron ore and is smaller and cleaner than a large integ integrated ¬ rated mill proposed by the Japanese firm Nippon Kokan Kaisha NKK The government and NKK are engaged in a year long 123 million study of potential BC steel mill sites VOICE claims a special study was recently completed for the government indicating many advantages in the direct reduction type of mill would use force to remove them He said Friday a prelimi preliminary ¬ nary search by department officials showed the Mowachat band owned the land on which they built the blockade But further checks revealed a 1938 cabinet order which apparently gives the province the right to use 1 20 of a bands land for services like high highways ¬ ways Mr Vickers said it was clear the government owns the blocked Lillooet por portion ¬ tion of the highway near Mount Currie and that it was being illegally blocked Both blockades were cleared with little violence as the Indians used passive resis resistance ¬ tance The blockade at Mount Cur Currie ¬ rie was established June 17 and the one at Gold River earlier this month Both groups are agitating for settlement of land claims Commons recess near OTTAWA CP - Barring unexpected delays the Com Commons ¬ mons will complete remaining business demanded by the gov government ¬ ernment and adjourn this week for its long awaited summer recess Government House Leader Mitchell Sharp is insisting on passage of three bills still on the agenda one the contentious 10-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax The recess which will last until Oct 14 will not start until the tax bill completes third reading and the Commons grants final approval to amen amendments ¬ dments to the Combines Inves Investigation ¬ tigation Act and the Public Ser Service ¬ vice Staff Relations Act some quarters Privately MPs in all parties say they want to go home Many already have delayed vacation plans and by adjournment will have only about one month left before their children go back to school The heat is another factor Ottawa has suffered through a heat wave for much of July sapping the endurance of gov government ¬ ernment and opposition Steel mill VOICE members are extremely concerned that the BC government may be ignoring the many other sources of steel better suited to meet BCs steel needs than the widely publicized Japanese controlled super mill which NKK and Victoria seem intent upon establishing at Kitimat regardless of other studies or local public con concerns ¬ cerns states a press release VOICE was formed by labor interests in northwestern BC HOME MADE Two die in copter LONDON Ont CP -Two men died Sunday when the helicopter they spent two years building crashed and burned during its first flight on a private airstrip in nearby Middlesex Town Township ¬ ship Provincial police said Norman Arnold 55 of Lon London ¬ don and his son Kenneth 22 of Port Stanley were dead when they reached the scene Brian Dobson owner of the airstrip said he watched the helicopter climb unsteadily about 150 or 200 feet It didnt really hover up he said It just climbed up in a very un unstable ¬ stable manner Mr Dobson said It was up there for no more than a couple of minutes before it seemed to lose a bit of altitude and then drop nose first It crashed into a wheat field a quarter mile from its takeoff and burst into flames ANOTHER DISASTER FOR SPRINGHILL Fire wont beat us residents SPRINGHILL NS CPl A fire destroyed the downtown business district of this former coal mining town Sunday but its residents who have sprung back from four previous catas trophies say they will not let the town die The blaze whipped by winds of up to 40 miles an hour began in a restaurant at the bottom of the steeply sloped Main Street and moved uphill destroying 18 buildings in its path Among them were the town hall the police station the former fire hall the weekly newspaper building the towns only theatre two mail order stores a furniture store the Knights of Pythias Hall a paint store a candy making shop and four apartments A widows home also had to be bulldozed into the ground to break the fire before the flames reached it and others beyond The pall of smoke hanging over the town Sunday was dif different ¬ ferent only by its eye stinging acridity from the frequent blue haze from an underground coal fire which has been burn burning ¬ ing for 17 years a memorial of the underground explosion which killed 75 miners in 1958 and all but ended the coal min mining ¬ ing era in this town Town officials were to meet today with those affected by the fire Premier Gerald Regan called a special session of the cabinet for Tuesday morning to receive reports on the situation from Environ Environment ¬ ment Minister Glen Bagnell who toured the area Sunday in his capacity as minister under the Emergency Measures Act It was uncertain how many businesses would be rebuilt but townspeople reacted unanimously the town will go on Deputy Mayor Ralph Porter said the loss of the businesses will be hard on the towns tax base but he does not believe any residents will leave He said the town was able to save most of its records and will carry on business next week at the new fire hall No accurate estimate of loss was available but Fire Chief Norman Kavalak said it would be more than 3 million most of it covered by insur insurance ¬ ance Charles Albon publisher of the Springhill Record had put out the last edition Thursday and he and his staff had been enjoying a three week vaca vacation ¬ tion He was able to save the weekly newspapers books and subscription file but every everything ¬ thing else was lost It is the second time the newspaper has been destroyed by fire since Mr Albon bought it in 1928 It was wiped out in the big fire of 1957 and was also slightly damaged in a smaller fire last January Now at 79 Mr Albon says he will not rebuild although his sons might More than 100 firemen from 10 communities as far away as Truro NS aided the Spring hill detachment mere were no serious injuries although one fireman suffered a minor eye injury and several others suffered minor cuts Mayor William Mont said the fire will have more impact than the 15 million blaze of Boxing Day 1957 That fire levelled 14 structures and left 34 homeless Springhills worst disasters have been the three murderous bumps underground explosions in the coal mines that once were its life blood One on Oct 23 1958 killed 75 men and devastated Number 2 colliery In 1956 an explosion in Number 4 colliery killed 35 persons Smoke drifts down the street Sunday after a fire burnt through much of the business district of Springhill By Associated Press The Beirut newspaper Al Anwar says Egypt and Israel have agreed to a three year truce under which United States troops will man elec electronic ¬ tronic listening posts in the Sinai Desert and Israel will pull back from key mountain passes and the Abu Rudeis oil oilfield ¬ field Official sources in Jerusalem said Israel had proposed that US personnel MAN CROWNED New nude wrinkle BELMONT Ont CP -Organizers of The Miss Nude Ontario contest added a new wrinkle to the com competition ¬ petition this year The winner of the annual contest 24-year-old Brenda Mulder of Brantford watched Sunday as her hus husband ¬ band Bill 30 was crowned Mr Nude Summerset by five nude women judges The male nude contest was held as a tribute to International Womens Year contest officials said Mr and Mrs Mulder were chosen by coincidence they added About 50 families belong to the Summerset Park nudist camp one of three in Ontario Belmont is 15 miles north northeast ¬ east of St Thomas NO JOB IS TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL Hire a student this summer contact your local Canada Manpower Centre for information Canada Manpower Centre for Students No 100-1460- 6th Ave 562 2161 NS Here firemen check the smouldering ruins for fires PLEDGE MADE TO CONTINUE Greenpeace 30000 in debt VANCOUVER CP The Greenpeace expedition to save the whales in the Pacific ended Sunday 30000 in debt but an expedition crew member promised it will resume next summer Bob Hunter told a crowd of 3000 gathered at Jericho Beach to welcome the Greenpeace V and VI home that the group will sail a bigger ship next summer to harass Russian whalers Mr Hunter said a larger boat is needed because the Russian fleet which has a top speed of 20 knots was able to quickly outdistance the Greenpeace V the fishing boat Phyllis Cormack which has a top speed of nine knots He said the confrontation with Russian whalers off the California coast would never have happened if the sperm whales had not been attracted to the Greenpeace V The whales came right at our boat and the chaser boat we were following had to change course said Mr Hunter a Vancouver Sun columnist Thats the only reason we intercepted them the whales Mr Hunters speech also contained criticism of the Canadian government which he said is in the business of saving whalers and the International Whaling Commis Commission ¬ sion which he called a fraud and a front operation He said the Greenpeace Foundation which paid out 70000 for the expedition now will concentrate on raising the money to pay off the debt by holding a lottery and dances Were in an inflationary position and the cost of protest protesting ¬ ing has goneup said Mr Hunter The expedition left here in late April met off the northern tip of Vancouver Island patrolled the northern Pacific without sighting the whaling fleets and then split up with the Greenpeace V heading south Lightning kills Ontario teen By Canadian Press David Michael Lewis 19 of London Ont was killed Sun Sunday ¬ day and a companion seriously injured when the tree they were standing under was struck by lightning John Joseph LeBlanc of Windsor was listed in serious condition in hospital Sunday night Thunderstorms and winds gusting up to 70 miles an hour uprooted trees felled hydro poles and caused extensive damage throughout much of southern Ontario In Hamilton the storms knocked down about 30 hydro poles and caused a five hour power failure Municipal hydro and tele telephone ¬ phone officials were still trying to assess damage Sunday night Nine tenths 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