Page A4, October 17, 1979 - North Shore News the world outside... . VANCOUVER (UPC) - Foothills Oil Pipeline Ltd. has dropped its proposal to build a pipeline to transport Alaskan crude oil to the continental U.S., leaving the com- peting all-American Northern Tier pipeline - -contender. The decision followed by just hours. the Washington an- nouncement Monday that Interior Secretary Cyril Andrus had recom- mended the Northern Tier route to President Jimmy Carter as the best of four available alter- natives. EL CENTRO, Calif. (UPI) - The strongest earthquake to hit the U.S. mainland in more than eight years shook the southwest corner of the nation from Phoenix to -Los Angeles Monday, causing millions of dollars in damage but no deaths and few major injuries. The quake, registered 6.4 on the Richter scale, was felt along a 150-mile band of the U.S.-Mexico bérder, but most of the damage was reported in California’s agriculturally rich Imperial Valley. SURREY, British Columbia (UPI) - Authorities say a family on an outing to pick wild mushrooms = stumbled ohto one of the largest counterfeit finds in Canadian history. Police said the family members, who asked not to be identified, found phony $100, $50 and $20 U.S. bills Sunday in a buried 5-gallon pail near Surrey, a municipality south of Vancouver. LONDON (UPI) - The Times of London, Britain’s most influential daily and one of the world’s leading newspapers, faces permanent closure today unless management and print union officials reach a last-minute contract agreement. Foothills drops" pipeline proposal proposal .as the leading ‘which . MORE WORLD NEWS P A14 Vancouver-based Foo- thills application withdrawal - citing time pressures, Indian land claims and the election atmosphere in the U.S. - at -the opening day of National Energy Board hearings here. Q The Northern Tier proposal, which would - ship Alaskan oil south by tanker to a- port on Washington state’s Puget Sound, then by pipeline to St. Paul, Minn., has been opposed” by Canada’s government because of the risk of oil spills on the West Coast. Strong quake — hits California Hundreds of after-. shocks, big and small, continued into the early morning hours Tuesday. The Red Cross said 40 to 100 people were in- jured, but apparently only three were hospitalized, including a woman who suffered a ~ ‘heart attack. In the Imperial Valley, walls buckled, ceilings fell in, gas and water lines ruptured... The _ All American’ Canal, which carries irrigation water, was damaged in several places and state officials Counterfeit haul found in pail Three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers here spent Monday counting the $1 million in bogus American money, but a specific figure was not immediately available. “They were out picking mushrooms and they saw the lid of this pail,” Surrey Staff Sgt. Harry Wallace said. “When they opened it up and saw what was in it they called us right away.” London Times faces shutdown The Times management, which imposed the deadline, said it would permanently close the Times, along with the companion Sunday Times and three sister publications, unless a settiement is reached with the major print union, the’ National Graphic Association. announced the | months; “An emergency situation’ a | and other raw materials will also have to be diverted to other channels of tran- sportation. - “Things are looking pretty . grey,” says Doug Larson, the | ‘manager of Pioneer Ter- .minals, which last week opened a new $40 million terminal. - Pioneer and _ the ‘Saskatchewan Wheat Pool are both looking to reroute ’ wheat in by way of Prince George but’ the terminals will not be working | at full capacity. Larson said the company had expected to take up to © six weeks to get the new terminal fully ‘operational, but says it. now looks like only 30 people will be employed to handle the work instead of the original 60. : And if the CNR bridge is not replaced in under six “we’re looking at millions of dollars in lost revenue, not taking into account jobs lost.” : “There is no question we will be affected (by the loss of the bridge),” Klinkow says. “We are going to lose quite a large amount of coal because they can't ship it,” he said. Neptune terminals. handles 3.5 million tons of coal annually. Monday, he said the last of the coal was being cleaned out from the ter- minals and rail cars can’t handle the volume _ the terminal needs. Pellet ships are going out light, Klinkow says and a ship is coming Saturday for phosphor that just isn’t there. As with dustries, the other in- Neptune is still deeply” transportation routes can be used. - Vancouver _Wharves, which ships about six million tons of produce annually, ‘has been using barges to bring across shipments since Saturday. _ John ‘MacKay, the sales manager for the company, says they have been able to _ barge in “roughly 50 per “cent,” of their usual volume. “I would to see equal priority given to our produce on the BCR line,” MacKay says. He also says it is too. early. to take about layoffs because © of the situation. “We're coping,” he said. The new Fibreco woodchip plant received 50 per cent of its shipments over the CNR bridge and a spokesman said they are going to be affected. ' The Hooker Chemical plant up the inlet above Second Narrows has a different problem. Until Tuesday morning the barges which carried raw materials to the plant ‘and ‘finished products out from the plant were not allowed past the damaged bridge. 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PHONE FOR A FREE HOME ESTIMATE 182 PEMBERTON, NORTH VAN, B.C. 986-6022 involved in’ ‘discussions to see what other says North Van City FROM PAGE At_ To ‘North Vancouver City Mayor Jack Loucks the elimination of the bridge is- an emergency situation. _ which should. be dealt with - like a war emergency. “T think it is going to have quite a drastic impact on industry on Shore.” “This is an emergency and -I hope the federal govern-~ ment is going to do everything they can.” He noted that this was the. second time the North Shore had been seriously affected the North 1yor by the knockdown, of a bridge. — In the 1930's he said a ‘ship ran into a bridge and ‘put it: out of commission and this was partially responsible for -a.chain of events that put both North Van City and District into receivership. Both Mayor- Loucks and District Mayor Don Bell agreed there is little the | municipalities can do to alleviate the situation. “The urgency is being put forward ‘by other parties,” Loucks said. fitness centre FOR 1st. MONTH ona membership basis NORTH SHORE INT. PLAZA HOTEL CO-ed sin”