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| British Columbia Transportation Minister Alex Fraser has asked the federal government to také” any ‘necessary action” to prevent further incidents such as the one which grounded the truck ferry Queen of Alberni last week. Sc

Fraser sent a telegram

__Thursday of the 140-

meter (457-foot) B.C. Ferries Corp. vessel in a narrow

in flash

NEW DELHI, India (UPD ~- Rescue workers used rowboats or waded through shoulder-high

. floodwaters...Tuesday..-to bring relief supplies to survivors of the western industrial city of Morvi and nearby villages ravaged by a flash flood. -

Official estimates said up to 1,000 people died in the rush of water from the

children

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Two accused smugglers threw Haitian children overboard and fired shots into the air to force their human cargo into the dark waters of the Atlantic Monday, authorities say. Five children and one woman died. .

Palm Beach = Sheriff Richard Wille said James

Bahamas and ‘Jeffrey Robert Hastings, 29, Hypoluxo, Fla., were charged with six counts of first-degree murder.

LONDON. (UPI) - Soviet naval strength has been cxpanded = far beyond mere defense needs and now threatens vital Western lifelines around the Cape of Good Hope and in the Indian Ocean, according to the authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships.

“The steady increase in Soviet forces as Western

Ferry grounding ||

VANCOUVER (UPC) -_

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to federal Transports Minister. Don Mazankowski Monday ~

following the grounding —

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Dramatic decline in naval power

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waterway in the Gulf ~’

Islands “Getween Van- couver and Victoria.

Passengers on board. .

the ferry when it crashed into the rocks said the accident because the-vessel had to

dodge smail pleasure and —

fishing boats in the area. Fraser reminded Mazankowski in the telegram that former federal transport minister Otto Lang had com- missioned a study in 1978 of possible dangers in allowing sport fishing in Active Pass. -

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Monchi Dam, breached Saturday by 48 hours of torrential rains. But reporters visiting the

— Scene ..estimated_ 5,000- _7,000 dead, many swept™ far downstream by the

force of the torrent.

been found Tuesday in the water-covered city of some 70,000 people, 300 miles north of Bombay.

Smugglers threw

off boat

Ten Haitians made it to shore safely, authorities said. Two. are. still missing.

“When they got near shore, the person bringing them in forced them overboard at gunpoint,” Wille said,

speculating the smugglers .could have been spooked by ‘a ~spothght from, a police car. “Apparently - the man who was running the boat fired shots in the air.

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numbers have declined dramatically has remained far beyond the needs of defense,” Jane's

said in a foreword to its”

1979-80 edition.

The foreword was written by Jane's cditor. Capt. John E. Moore, a former deputy chief of British naval intelligence.

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The North Vancouver .terminal is designed to handle 750,000 bone dry. units (BDU) a year, and has the handling capacity to full-. load the largest chip carriers now available on the Trans- pacific run, within 24 hours.

One BDU... equals 2,400 - - pounds of bone dry chips. |.. Since the moisture content 4. of most chip loads is about

Only 300 bodies had

50 per cent, one BDU would actually weigh about 4,800 pounds because of the

Harry Cooper, Fibreco’s chairman says he is ‘ex- tremely happy’ with the

. location of the new terminal.

The site, next to the B.C.Rail terminal, was chosen because it is served by all three of the province's railways.

Cooper says BCR had to change lines with CNR in order to get the wood chips to the shipping point on the Fraser river which Fibreco used to use, and he said this

meant an_ additional ex- pense.

The North Vancouver terminal is in an_ ideal

position both economically and physically, Cooper says.

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alive and well "’ We are happy to welcome all cour old friends for dinner in the oid familar location, ¢ # evening from five to ten We will open for lunch in the

very near future

As we prepare for the late (al opening of our new

home, our thanks to you al} for your patience and

support during this sometimes confusing, always

exciting, period of growth and expansion

OPEN FOR DINNER EVERY NIGHT, 5 TO 10 PLM, GUPPY'S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

140 E. 2nd St. NORTH VAN.

RESERVATIONS 980-6322

DIAGRAM OF THE NEW Fibreco-woodchip handling terminal at the foot of Pemberton Avenue in North Van- ‘couver, which was officially opened on Monday. Woodchips are moved automatically from rail cars to waiting —

N.Van terminal — location ‘ideal’

, have agreed to ship up to

_Upon arrival at the plant, the chips are automatically -off-loaded from rail cars and moved by a conveyor belt to storage.

From storage they are moved by conveyor belt to the dock, where they are loaded onto a ship by pneuatic loader, which travels on rails while the ship remains stationery. . os

Harry Cooper, Fibreco’s” ° chairman says the terminal will be working at fuil capacity, ‘within the next couple of years.’

Fibreco has already signed five contracts, in which they

400,000 BDU’s annually to Japan, for a 10-year period. Starting at the end of this week, there will be an initial inventory period during

which the company will build up a_ supply of woodchips from the 52 sawmills operated by

stockholders of Fibreco.

In 1980, the first full year of operation, the North Van terminal will ship “300,000 BDU’s to Japan, ~reaching the full contract figure by 1982. .

The rest of the exports will be to European buyers, who are currently pushing the company to sign a long term multi-million dollar con- tract.

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