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. Police and Rescue Crews Recover Body From Skeena

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Closeup of Body before removal

7 R.C.M.P. ARE INVESTIGATING THE Terrace to
DEATHOF A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD TERRACE Thornhill.

Highway 25 and the district of

bridge, said the deceased appeared to be
- wearing a black dress, and was lying face ‘down,

the Federal Skeena Riding,
’ He is described as. an

°. for Jocal timber companies.

_ resident of six. years,

GIRL WHO WAS FOUND UNDERNEATH THE _ Further investigation uncovered the following

OLD SKEENA BRIDGE (SATURDAY) AF-
TERNOON BY TWO CYCLISTS NAMES OR
FURTHER INFORMATION ARE

facts. The girl’s body
proximately 2:30 p.m. ,
NOT closed the bridge to the public, The roadblock,

was discovered at. ap-
By ?'p.m. the Police had

AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME PENDING maintained by manned patrol cars at both ends

FURTHER INVESTIGATION.,
‘This was the only information available,
Sunday morning as .Two RCMP patrol cars
continued their roadblocks at both en

of the bridge, was not lifted until approximately
12 noon Sunday.

One eyewitness who managed to get within

ofthe old several feet of the body, which rested on a snow-

curved Skeena bridge that connects the City of covered slab of ice immediately underneath the

in the snow. The dress was up to her waist and
she was clothed from the waist down, in pan-
tyhose, and appeared to have on white bobby-
socks. From a distance of 30 to 50 feet there was
no evidence of blood either on the body or the ice,

Police gave no reasons for their action in
closing down the bridge for the more than 20
hours period. The body was located near the
base of the second cement.pylon or abutment
from the Terrace end of the bridge. No ex-

s

planation was available as to how the Police
learned the girl was from Terrace, or that she
was 16 years of age. ce

An eyewitness at the scene of the discovery

estimated six police cars were’on the scene by

threé o'clock, Saturday. These were: soon
followed by a fire truck. from Terrace and
Provincial-Emergency rescue vehicle. One
eyewitness estimates the body was _ still
unrecovered from one and a half. to two-hours
later. io

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Serving the. [| TERRACE |
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VOLUME 72 NO. 55

a. ao

‘Aaron White |i

nan

morning.
Charges are pending against one Terrace youth.

Immediately following a short-lived chase Terrace RCMP apprehended two youths in this
vehicle. The pair were said to be driving the car erratically while impaired early Sunday

Terrace Man
_ P.C, Nominee

Aaron White,-a 52 year old training at U. of N.B,
Registered Professional combined’ with . his
Forester. in Terrace is a knowledge. of Industrial

, Nominee for Progressive development with safe @C-
Conservative candidate in ological: practices. make

him: an excellent choice for
date, ere
Some of his concerns are, _
he “says, “uncontrolled
rere growth, ‘deficit
eting and poor planning |
ty te L beral goverment ;

‘married and has four € nominat meeting
children. - 7 _ will ba held in Terrace on
White says hia financial April $0; /Time and place of -
background. as a small meeting will beannounced at
businessman.and economics 4 later date.

energetic. self enployed
” eonsultant Forester working °

White is a local Terrace

Brian Kennedy

a
: , $ $
| : At Skeona 3.9.

Skeena Secondary School
was host “Monday, March
1ith, to a. conference. of
seltool librarians. The
workshop was led by Ms. Liz
: Auiirom, school'librarian at
Killarney Secondary. School
in ‘Vancouver,

_ librarians. from Caledonia,
_ Skeena;;,Clarence Michiel.’ .
Cassie Hall, «and. Thornhill
Primary schools, ‘Attending

oly
1

Helicopter Rescues Six

Librarians Confer _
were iichool librarians, and regular cirriculum
English: and Reading program, remedial. reading;
‘teachers from ‘Terrace, counselling, and curriculum -
Prince Rupert, Kitimat and development were. of” par-
Hazelton. ticular interes! to the school
Topics covered by Ms. librarians, Ms. Austrom
Austrom ~ Included the stressed the role: of the
Library ‘Skills Develop- school’ librarian’. “as
mental Reading Program professional teacher as well
currently in uag'at Killarney as resource person to. staff

. Secondary, Ms Austrom also and students, i
a von °

- discuss
adolescent : aL

‘bibliotherapys:) “and series aporiiéred” by! the
readability. analysis. A Ministry of Education “and. .
closer integration of the the B.C. School Librarians
school’ library with the Association, | 2 .::."¢'-

q.. recent -rends in 4 oe.
“fiction... This workshop is one of a

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Four Gents After 70 Hour Air Search —

-. bitAlt's true." The cost of dropped as low as two centa,: |

~."Canada.on April 1, 1978 will 1915- when an extra penny
~- Ak aston July 1, 1987

"  shith one the Post Office has have gradually increased

ait ww 7 - .
In 11: Years —

‘Iti-may. look . like’ a Wheb the Com. on sending: wf .1.
. Manipulation of the figures first class one ounce letter ..

. Mailing ‘a-one ounce, first The two cent rate lasted
- ldsa: letter: anywhere in bétween the years 1890 and .

be only four cents more than was tacked on to the rate in
ithe form ofa war tax. In 1926
ee ee vy ‘ the. penny tax was removed

And for the history buffy, but by 1931 it had been added
this rate Increase is only the on again and postage rates

had since 1967. In the early ever since, ° partially
‘days of the service there reflecting the costa of run-.

‘| Brian Kennedy, a salesman at To
the company as a Summit Award
Club for 1977, Kennedy was one of. 100 salesmen across
the province who were honored with this award. ‘Kennedy’ and:the other
eeonal winners were invited toa banquet -in Vancouver I'rida y-lo mark

- ~ Summit Award

tem Ford in Terrace, was selected by
winner inthe Profess

Fishing is Doug Larden’s
business, and despite
spending more 70 hours
in bitter cold huddled inside
a lifeboat while his herring
seiner burned and sank on
the open sea, he says he’s
-Teady to get back on the

| water, |

- Larden and his {ive crew
members, son Dowg, 20,°
_ father; Sam, 67,nand Gary
Glegg,.25, Mike Morrison, 37
and Kim McTaggart, were
aboard the 18-metre Mather
II, which was reported
missing: olf the weal cnaat of
- Vancouver Inland Thursday. |
- Saturday night, they were

Canada, and 13 in

ional: Sa lesen s}

~ wete even rate reductions ‘ning the postal service,

\

hos

, back at home after being

Teacued that afternoon by a
Canadian Armed: Forces
helicopter.

“[ was prelty well born

‘and raised on It (flshing),"’

Larden sald in an interview
at his home in this Van-
couver suburb. ‘That's what"

. 1 do for a living and If

something happens, well
thal's the way it does,”

The near tragedy started
Wednesday night tor. the six
fishermen, » whi -were

heading for the lucrative .

hetring grounds. between
Vancouver. Island and the

Aiea Cy lolte Islands. -
“Lad Aki he was -on
watch whenhe hoticed the

radar blink.
LIGHTS FLICKER

“The lighla blinked on and
off again ~ atid --then-
everything jusl went qut,” he
apid, .

He weit below to check the
engine room, but “there was
this pulrid, acid sort of smell
that was just unbearable.’
~ He trled to put‘ oul the
flames with & fire ex-
tinguisher, bki “everthing
was burning too much," and

‘the crew took to the lifebnat.

“T can’! emphasize enaugh
how everybody did as they
were told. Nobody panicked
and nol ance war there any
thought that we. wouldn't
‘make It." oE,

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