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The driver of the truck, owned over,"Middieton said, he a problem getting scene Friday, while a backhoe started to come Dan Doyle, the was the most serious he's bridge was closed for deparl~n~t of highways by Dragon Lake "It happened so fast I under the bridge as he welder .worked on the "~f the ,truck as he came. ever seen involving a nearly 24 hours as high- Equipment, was hauling din't have time to think engineer for the Terrace bridge and a vehicle. had hauled the same backhoe so it could be ~f the bridge and that he ways department the Hitachi backhoe hack about it." piece o[ equipment down reloaded on the flatbed. region described damage The boom of a backhoe maintenance crews had to the Williams Creek from Granite Creek when Middleton said he was on the Tuesday before. Middleton said the Cont'd riding on a flathed truck to cut away the twisted the accident happened, going about 40 miles an bridge,, about 19 tore out the overhead steel girders. '~rhe Wuck was all over hoom must have bounced page 3 "I thought the truck hour at the time and the road like a pretzel," t~ as he cam~ onto the Union accepts deal / - VICTORIA (CP) -- pounded wage increases- Other benefits include: Members of the B.C. each~carforthrseysarsfor vacation, subsidies for: Government Employee~ a total i~crense of 29.7 per isolated Workers, Improved i Union have voted by\ cent. .. vacation benefits generally :i nearly 76 per cent in favor of and higher shift premiums i: a three-year agreement •. This means that the base and meal allowances. giving them wage increases rate for a'Tfimt-level office Fryer said the talks broke , of almost 30 per cent over assistant will rise from $863 down at 6:30 p.m. Saturday life of the contract. a. month now to $1,099 a and the union served strike Union secretary John month by Aug. l, 1901. mtice. Fryer saidSunday the agreement was a fair one in view• of the bargaining climate this year, not as ( anada s losses good as some contracts, but better than others. He said the only thing that in the million mattered was that more than By PAT HRUSHOWY which is set by the federal three-quarters of the union's EDMONTON (CP) -- government through the more than 30,000 members Canada qculd l~e about 8465 National Energy Board. were happy with the pact. million year" unleasthe There are no immediate Earlier Sunday, 362 federal government rains plans to revise the export computer operators -- its natural gas export price price which was Just in- members of the union em- to match the price Mexico creased to its present level at ployed by the Crown owned has Just negotiated in an the beginning ¢/August. B.C. Systems Corp. served agreement with the United Under current export era. 72-hour strike notice, States. tracts Canada is selling Fryer said the systems Augustine Barrios Gomez, about one tllllon cubic feet ot ..., "atiom appears un- Mexican ambassador to natural gas to the U.S. each willing to go along with the Canada, said in an interview year, of which 85 per cent pattern of agreemenm nno Sunday the $3.285 a thousand comes from Alberta and tlm that strike action will be cubic foot obtained by the balance from British taken at 12:01 a.m. PDT Mexicans is "good ex- Cohimbla. Wednesday unless there Is a perience for Canadians" to The 46,S-cent difference break in the dispute. follow in setting a price for between the Canadian and The master contract ap- natural gas sold to the U.S. Mexican export prices proved by union members in The current export price means Canada would he weekend_tmliotlng provides for Canadian natural gas Is underselling its natural gas This motorcycle accident Sunday was among things keeping police busy. ~,o ~ Or,. ~,.,,= for eight-v~cent com- S2.80 a thousand cubic feet, by about S465 million a year. | I Terrace FIRE woman Terrace RCMP say a forest fire is burning Old hospital showing its age about two miles east o[ stabbed By ED YUDIN The huspitai is oversized which Green says results A Img-slanding dispute Legate Creek on Highway Herald Shaft WHter "What we're looking for is some suggestions on how erupted into vl~once here 18. in extra wasted expense. Green is hoping the we can use that space to provide better services to the. The fire, wldeh police The Kitlmat General Hospital is showing its age government will pump new funds in to modernize the community,' 'Green said. Sunday evening, leaving one says hospital administrator Jack Green, so a team of Terrace woman in hospital reported to forestry, building. He says money would be saved in the long after being kicked and invdvm about two acres. Iro~incial governement consultants will be coming to run. Police discovered the Presently some of the area is used by the child stabbed. Kitimat in the near future to recommend ways to Development Centre, and Skeena Health/Unit. Them The athaek which resulted fire while on the way to improve the institution's efficiency. attend an accident near st Another problem is the hospital's, size. The in. bad been talk of a rehabilitation c~tre, but Or~en in a d~-wldo search by itution was orignally designed to serve a community rays there isn't sufficient demand for such a facility police for the assailants, saw Kltwanga. "The hesDital was built 20 years see and i,'q ,m, o, . , -- o . ~ ..vu u.~ of 35 thousand people. So a lot of space is simply left here to justify it. RCMP arrest at least one No details of the ac- efflclent as'it used to be ' e " ' cident or further details , xphined Green. We re unused. "We've got rooms we don't use, and rooms Other possible uses could include an alcohol portion, expecUng a team of consultants to look at the heating, that were never finished," he said. Police would releaie no on the extent of the forest detoxificatlon centre. Green Is interested ifi using the fire were available air circulation, and insulation systems in the The hospital administrator isanxious to make use of ~ace for any worthwhile ffojeet involving thedi'cal or details at pra8 time i building." " the available space. mental health. Page 2, TM HareM, Manday, September 24, 1979 Little hope seen for ZimbabweMurewaemou.od-"[hisbi "': NEWSBRIEFS By MAUREEN JOHNSON agreement to drop the swrn enemy would have to new constitution. The Rhodeslan government and LONDON (AP) -- As the guarantee of white decide who will run a now ~uerrillexopp~ethepreennt have " been maintained racial deleption's ac- CHICOUTIMI, Qua, (CP) tertzed us for so long" . Zimbabwe PJu)deda pence • perllamont~ry seato is an government and control the. constitution on llreunda it a~lust the government 1..~ ceptunce of the "general • There is ho ca~ tot ~'___"u_enterthelrthlrdweek, Impertantconcessionbuttho country'larmedforcss. • allows the white minority byMuzogewa, theoountrys principles" of Britain's -- Concerned about the shape of Patti quebecols alarm, the study adds, but BdUsh sources ~ld little talks are still a long way Same Britkh sources say control of the country, first black prime mthlster." constitutional draft. The sole lz|dgetlng for next lprtnl'a for total success in from the stated aim of an- they rate as low as 20 per Britain's government is The Patriotic Front dissenter was white former finances, deleptno to the party's national council met ~ere.ndum campaign wilj settUnRlasuooth~thavelefl dla~the~venyexr-old.war cent the chances of an likely to be under un- ~uerrillaalllaneein~istson.a wime minister inn Smith, nave to be tight since the the country ravaged by war, and leading the rebel co,any settlement, pa~cedented Wensure at its new transition ao- new a government delegate. behind cloud doors Sunday_ overall . vca,I and . no" commitu~q"--- dividedby politics and to reco~n/zed independence. Muzorowa's aMe~nent annual party coNFess next ministrationanda new army It was Smith, ie~dar of the to discuss hudgeta and sovereignty-asoolation wsakenodbyeconomicsanc- Before the fl~htlag stops, Friday at the British- month to end trade era- with the guerrillas at the colonial government, who organization for the referendum on- Quebec are each.limited by law m signs." the current hi.racist ad- sponsored talks improves b~r~ons that were imposed co~. broke unilaterally with spending a~maximum of 50 Prime Minister Abel min~tratiun and the black Londun's chances of having on the previous white In carefully vque terms, Britain in 1965 in an attempt oovere/anty.