areas of the job.

Hearst not to marry,
contrary to Newsweek report

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Patricia Hearst’s mother
today termed “totally
ridiculous” a report in
Newsweek magazine that
her daughter plans to marry
a former bodyguard,

The magazine said Miss
Hearst, 24, who is serving a

seven-year prison term for -

bank robbery, is planning to

marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a - The

Employer af the year was awarded to the Kitlmat Fire Department last Thursday night
when Cameron Lawson, right, and ian Murray, missing from picture, presented Lt.
Dave Underdown, left, with the Mount Elizabeth Secondary School Careers Week
plaque. The department took about seven students during the work-study period where
students are mixed in with personnel to get the ‘flavour’ of their position. Some of the
boys attended fire calls with Flre Chief Bl Dawsod while still othera attended am-
bulance calls. All the boys worked on ‘the Moor’ of the firestation in the ‘nitty gritty"

Newsweek quoted ,
unidentified sources as
saying the couple might be
married before Miss Hearat
leaves prison.

Miss Hearst returned to
the minimum-security
federal prison at Pleasanton,
Calif., May 15 after failing in
court appeals to have her
guilty verdict overturned.
U.S. Supreme Court had

San Franciaco. policeman réfused to review: the con-

who wtrked
during off-duty hours as the
newspaper heiress's bod-
yauard.

The report is “totally
ridiculous,” said Catherine
Hearst, wife of Randolph
Hearst, president of the San
Francisco Examiner,

“Of course ifs not true,”
Mrs, Hearst said when asked
by reporters about the
magazine article. “She's in
prison, There are so many
rumors about Patty that I
don't- bother my mind about
them.’’ ‘

Shaw, who has refused to
comment on the story, is in-
volved in divorce
proceedings. He is
represented by San Fran-
cisco lawyer George Mar-
tinez, the same lawyer who

took over Miss Hearst's:

defence last month,

“foe a" time

* fection in’ March?

Miss Hearst gained at-

_ Province-wide resource strategy

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP)
Natural resource
strategies on a provincial
level are needed to avoid
government conflict at all
levels, Bill Young, assistant
chief forester, said Satur-
day.

Young, speaking to about
125 Kootenay outdoorsmen,
said only provincial resource
strategies could adequately
cope with regional pricrities
and programs.

He said top resource uses
were timber production,
forest land base, agriculture
development, range land,
water management, fish,
wildlife, forest recreation

Accidentally ...

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
At least seven persons died
accidentally in British
Columbia during the
weekend, all in traffic ac-

- eidenis,
: Donald Kevin Simpeon, 33,
. was killed early Sunday
: when his semi-trailer
* slammed -inte a ditch on
: Highway 5, 25 kilometres
: south of Blue River in
"+ southern Interior B.C. Wit-
: nesses said the impact
: shifted a load of wire rope,
‘ crushing the driver's cab.

: Two Vancouver women
‘ died Sunday in a one-car
: aceldent at Deroche, B.C.,
i about 80 kilometres east of
: Vancouver. Police said
‘ Travina Devi, 19, and
: Drirendra Prasao, 2, were
: killed when their car went
i outof control and overturned
: in a slough. .

: Willlam Wytowich, 50, of
: Vancouver, was killed
: Saturday when he was hit by
* a car in downtown Van-
' couver.

Roy Halderson, 47, of 103

: Mile, B.C., was killed Friday

night when his car left High-

{ way 97 south of the Cariboo
t community of Quesnel,

; _ Anna Gronewegen, 39, of
: Richmond, B.C., was killed
: Friday night in a head-on
; collision at the south exd of
: the Oak Street bridge linking
: Vancouver and Richmond,
' Police said the driver of the
: other car suffered minor
+ injuries.

: Clilford Alva Chase, 47, of
: Port Alberni, B.C. was killed
; Friday night when-his car

left the road and struck a

tree about 4) kilometres east
of the Vancouver Island
community of Parksville.
Pollee said he was alone at
the time of the crash. —

The Canadian Press
survey, from 6 p.m. Friday
to midnight Sunday night
local times, does not include
homicides, industrial ac-
cidents or suicides.

News >
oddities

HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP)
- There could be disco
dancing in this eastern
Oklahoma city of 6,600 later
this year--maybe.

The city council voted
Tuesday night to put the
city’s ban on public dancing

.to a vote of the, pecple at the

Aug. 22 primary, 4
The ordinance, adopted in
1957, prohibits dancing
“where the general public Is
allowed to participate.”

Not much was heard about
the ordinarce untll several
weeks ago when a group
converting an old depart-:
ment store on Main Street
Into a diseo dance halt
discovered the ordinance
would keep the dance hall
from opening.

Mayor P. W. Cunningha
said the council decided

group circulated a petition
seeking an end to the or-
dinanca.

m
to
put the repeal proposition on -
‘the primary ballot alter a

QUEBEC (CP) — The 750
residents of Elie, Man, a
farming community 60
kilometres west of Winnipeg,
will be enjoying “such city
luxuries as singleparty
telephone service, five or
more television. channels,
FM radio, teleshepping and
other. services under a five-
year communications,
program announced today
by Communications Minister

Jeanne ve,

Mmeg Sauve said her
t sand. the

CanadianTele- .

communications Carriers
Agsociation are splitting the
$200,000 coat of studies for
the experiment, designed to
improve communications to
rural Canada and to keep
Canada in the forefront of
fibre-optics technology.

Also involved in the ex-
periment are Bell Northern

’ Research, the Canadian
Wire and Cable Co. and the
Manitoba Telephone System
which will supply housing,
poles, switches. and per-
sonnel to operate and
maintain the system,

The, miniater announced
the program at a meeting of
the carriers association,

Sauve said it is

wrong to believe that rural
residents want to avoid
urban technology. Of the five

PALATINE, Ii.. {AP} —
make a quick trip to a dog.
CE) a dog-
food plant. But thanks to 60-
year-old Art Thompson,
worn-out livery horses, old
track ponies and gimpy
thoroughbreds get a chance
to grow old gracefully,
frolicking in.a lakeside
pasture.

Thompson, 4 jockey in hia
youth in his native Britain, ia
Stable superintendent at
Arlington Park. A couple of
kilometres away he has
operated his old-horse

tention when she was kid. "retreat for 19 years at'a
napped Feb. 4, 1974, fram her. "ented farm, which is home
Berkeley, Calif, apartment. 0W to 13 horses,
She later joined forces with “I wish I could take in
her captors, the Symbionese more of them, and it makes
Liberation Army and par- me sad that I can’t, but
ticipated with SLA members space is limited’and 0 is my
in the April, 1074, bank money.’ says Thompson. ‘'I
holdup for which she was spend $7,000, about half my
convicted; . .* yearly salary, to keep and
' .._ feed the horses so they can
During her appeal, she live out a carefree life, I've .
was free on $1 millionbail. always loved horses, it’s as
She will be eligible for simple as that. I can’t bear to
parole in a year. think of them being carted

other speakers said . the
solution would not include
closing up every
road or banning groups from
the wilderness.

TORKSEY, England (CP)
— Miss Gladys Wickens, 77,
was told by a high cout
judge that she may have to
0 to prison if she refuses to
sel] her fatm, Miss Wickens
agreed to sell her farm and
her cattle six years ago but
later refused to go ahead
with the deal because she
said the potential owner was
not interested in the. cattle,

and parks and wilderness.

“Give me any combinatlon
of priorities for those nine
uses and [ would be able, in
an-hour, 0 come up with a
rough plan for the province
which would give us those
priorities," Young said.

Ray Demarchi, Kootenay
regional game biologist, said
coordinated resource
Planning could resolve
conflict over access to
wilderness areas, There
foul be a road in every
Kootenay valley -by 1962 if

. the problem is not solved,

However, Demarchi and

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milllon persons in rural
Canada, one-third to onchalf
are unhappy with their
telephone service.

“About 30 per cent of rural
subscribers are still on lines
with more than four partiea
and while four-party line
telephone camrvice ip fast
becoming the norm far rura
carriers, the demand for
single-party service is rising
sharply,” she said, |

Economics is responsibile
for the situation, not the
carriers, She said it costs
about seven times more to
provide telephone service in
low-population areas than in
cities.

COULD BE ANSWER

She said fibre optics with
"its incredible information-
carrying capacity” could be
mi 4 glase fib is capable of

"A & fibre is capable o.
delivering not only standard
telephone service, but cable
television and other in-
formational, educational and
entertainment services not
yet dreamed of,’’ sald the
minister. ;

“Quite apart from the

social impact of such .

potential, there is the
prospect that the revenue
from telecommunications
services delivered. through
fibra could be doubled or
tripled through feea for other

Messiah to horses

off to be ground into pet food —

after they've broken down
and are of no more use.” -

Seven horses that died of
old age while on the farm
have been buried secretly by
Thompson around tl2
countryside. ,

His ”*. consists of
track ponies that are bowed
and no longer can ac-
company skittish race
horses on to the track, worn-
out livery saddle horaes and
thoroughbreds, all geldings,
that broke down racing and
were to be destroyed.

His favorite is Francie, a
livery horse he rescued fram
a van of old nags being
hauled off to be killed.
“Francia is $6 years old and
T've had him elght years,”
Thompson said...\"He was
just plum worn out, He loves
br d and gets two loaves a

iv.

y Te eau a,

services.” ‘
Mme. Sauve said fibre
, optics “is one of the hotteat

technological properties of
the 70s.
‘Western nations are

Fibre optics to supply Elie with media —

scrambling to perfect and
introduce it and a worldwide
race is on.”

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