Page A12, July 29, 1979 - Sunday News nuclear si In hearings- SEATTLE (UPI) - Op- _ ponents of Puget Power's proposal to build the Skagit Nuclear Project at Sedro Woolley, Wash., questioned Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission specialists for more than five hours at a hearing last week. - The geology of . Puget’s location near the western Washington town has remained the critical issue in the hearings being con- a From August | onward the Vancouver area will have its own solar energy _in- formation service to assist British Columbians ‘to reduce their dependence on non-renewable energy and turn their attention to their natural energy source — the sun. ee COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE STARTS WEDNESDAY @® °@ ae OTTAWA (UPC) - Prime Minister Joe Clark.:started the first official visit to Africa by a Canadian leadér when he left Friday for a two-week tour of Africa that will include the Com- monwealth conference’ in Lusaka, Zambia. Clark was scheduled to depart Friday morning by an armed forces Boeing 707 to Cameroon for a three-day visit before continuing south to Lusaka for the start Wednesday of the Com- monwealth heads of government meeting. The prime minister, who will later visit Tanzania and -Kenya, will join the other en eee leaders for talks that will continue until the following meetin atinntnst ot cammmmbten Scorching 38-second TORONTO (UPC) - “Hey, you drqwned my worm,” Morgan Hisley accused his mother Tuesday. She hadn't really. The worm, named Bob, was simply enjoying his cool bath and had no intention -of exerting himself in the first annual Great Richview Library Worm Race. Alas, Bob's lethargy - from the water sprinkling that was granted contestants so thoy wouldn't dry up in 31-degree Celsius heat - lasted so long that his 8-year-old owner finished out of the running. The race, held on = the suburban Etobicoke library's lawn in sweltering heat, was won by a professional worm named Nat. Trainer George t ducted by the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board: Last week, nearly 100 representatives of British Columbia showed up to voice their opposition to the proposed nuclear plant, citing a lack of evacuation procedures and displaying skepticism of the plant's safety. ’ Puget Power claims the site free of earthquake faults The service is being provided by the = B.C. Chapter of the Solar Energy Society of Canada. r It will provide general information to the public on solar energy applications and energy conservation in B.C., together with a ~™~= “™ ’ Wednesday and will be dominated by discussion about Zimbabwe Rhodesia, the outcast nation on Zambia’s southern border. Federal officials indicate Clark would take a cautious approach to the conference, emphasizing that Britain holds the main responsibility for the future of its former possession. The visits to the east African nations of Tanzania and Kenya after the con- ‘ference will be to Com- monwealth countries with which Canada has long had tles. But the initial stop in the Cameroons’ will mark ins th ind dash Yamamoto, also cight years old, had selected Nat from the stock of hundreds of thousands of creepy crawlers at his father's fish bait farm. “Fine,” said George when asked how he felt about the win. Nat had cven less to say, but attempted to strangle the finger of a reporter giving him a post- race cxamination. “I gave him ao shot of scotch before the race,” a bystander confessed, but library officials - who held the event (to promote Bookworm Summer - called no inquiry and Nat's win stood. George won a book called “How To Find Worms,” although he already knew the answer - you just go lo his father’s room. centre launched ‘start and says the 1872 tremor was near | - centered sqmewhere- Lake Chelan. a . Opponents have challenged,—-this; -~using preliminary studies by the United. *. States Survey which contends the plant site may be close to a fault line. The U.S.G.S, has also found the 1872 quake could have been centered as far west as Ross Lake. referral service in matters concerning: other professionals, trade and educational groups. The service will be operated by part-time staff member Archie Kaario from its office at 504 Davie Street, Vancouver, phone 683-6416. ; a \ v another step in the development of relations with French-speaking nations that: the previous Liberal government had promoted. It was the site. of Canada’s first mission in a French country in Afnca._ Officials said it had been deliberately chosen: as the first country to visit because it is a bilingual nation, 80 percent’ French-speaking and 20 percent English- speaking. The economic potential of the continent is growing, but the lack of previous visits is partly explained by trade figures that show only one percent of all Canada's exports go to Africa. Second place went to a worm named The Flying Dutchman, raced by I1- year-old Miep Drenth, on vacation from Hilversum, the Netherlands. The Flying Dutchman might have had a shot at first, but after a fast he appeared predestined to crawl around in circles without ever reaching the finish linc. The race was run on cardboard sheets. The worms were placed in a crawly pile in the center, and the first to reach the cir- cumference of a 60- centimeter (2-foot) circle was declared the winner, | Nat scorched the track with a 38-second dash, while the Flying Dutchman needed Afullininute to finish, Geological . MOUNTLIMAR, NICARAGUA: The seal on this Sandinista woman soldier's beret emphasises the lighter side of the civil war which has tomm Nicaragua apart from border to border. The soldier is guarding the remains of what was once ex-president Anastasia Somosa’s plush seaside resort palace. (UPI Wirephoto) SINCLAIR STEVENS CLAIMS Liberals shielded by media By JACK REDDEN OTTAWA (UPC) - Treasury oard President Sinclair -Stevens has accused the news media of protecting the — previous Liberal govern- ment, telling them to “get on the side of Canada” and support Conservative economic policies. “I’m just floored at some of the coverage that’s been coming through the press,” the cabinet minister for the new government of Prime Minister Jee Clark said in an interview with Newsradio Ltd. taped Wednesday and released Thursday. “To me it seems to be a censorship virtually, where the press are determined to not allow the Canadian public to know the magnitude of the problem any Oe n the Trudeau government left them with,” he said. “The press has to stop being so defensive of the previous government and get on the side of Canada,” Stevens said, “and say that somehow or other irresponsibility’s got to be corrected and if this Clark government are (sic) willing to start doing something to ‘correct it, hurrah, we're on their side.”