ve _ MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AQVC —
Presley," the " Missizai
“Glanged Amerie gyra hips
; ed American music atyles, died
aay afternoon of. failure,

; * Jerry Francisco, ‘medical
cbr for Shelby County, said the
cause™ of feat was. “cardiac
arrhythmia, heartheat.

a ‘Be said “that's f et another name for
: ~~ \@ form of heart attack.” -

; 2 =" Braneisco said the three-hour
‘unncovered no sign of any
~ other sea, and there was no sign,

- Vof any drug f abuse

Elvis,
whose

* -autops

being found unconscious at his Grace-
land mani on.

'; George Nichopolous, Presley’s
personal pt physician, said Presley was
t seen alive shortly after 9 am.
Nichopoulos said Presley had Been
taking a number .o yd no
depressants, but be said they did not
contribute to his death. -
SPOKE OF DRUG USE -
‘Gossip reporter Rona Barrett had
discussed:on ABC Television earlier
Tuesday: a ‘book in which former
Hear ea alleged that Presley. had
us
Presley's une unconcious form was

Baptist Hospital spokesman said

Esposito n. resuscitation efforts
and ‘called | ‘or ’ Nichopoalos. and an

Emergency medical technicians

pulin the ambulance continued cardio-

pulmonary resuscitation efforts on
the wa to the hospital.

‘hospital and rat Pre y's Gfafeland

mansion, and scores oe police were

sent to both sites.
Presley had been af

at the hospital during the last few

: years.

eélled sever

e gathered at the ©

went patient .

“HEART ATTACK IS SUSPECTED CA USE

Music superstar, Elvis Presley, is dead

béen admitted to hospital because of
eye trouble, - twisted colon and

Earlier this year the singer cati-
al performances in

Louisiana and returned to Mem

where he was adn tied to hos mi for

w is physician was
exhaustion.

“He had rarely been seen In public .
recently, and his weight was said to
have ballooned.

Nichopoulos’s wife said Presley
was due to leave Tuesday night on an

* exhaustion.

- 11-day tour to begin today in Portland, ~

Sullivan Show in the 1950s, fears were
ressed so strongly about his style
overtly sé
shown only from the waist up.
RESENTED CRITICISM |
“Every time I move on ‘televiaion,
they wrive that-I’m obscene,” Presley
once said. “I've seen a lot worse
movements (han mine every nig
"TV. Look at all that modern dancing
if 1 did those movements, they'd want
ch me. Yet I never read

criticizing. modern ballet.”

His shake, rattle and roll

showmanship—with such million-

OU ez.

sexual that he was-

ht on |
auch in

ormed with slickedback

hair ale Seburas and a perpetual sneer.

Elvis once asked his mother:
oa 4 you think ahm vulgah on

the stage” his mother replied: “You're re

h, but: you're puttin’ too

lve our singin Keep that up,

you, wont 't ve toe to be ®
Presley was bern it ,

erostdomn anouse lo lan.

8, 1936, In his prime in the 1960s, he

carried about 175 pounds on his six-

foot frame but in recent years he was

pla ied by weight pro ems as well

as redeur did not smoke, did not drink .
and did not drive a car.

Me.
epresley’s gyrating hips were only record sellers as You Ain’t Nothin
ared to those But A Houng Dog, Heartbreak Ho
Blue Suede Shoes and Love -Me
d Tender, kept teen-age girls sighing.

> Presley was deciared dead at 3:30 discovered. at his white-columned ©
oe ie (4: A p.m. EDT) at ipaptist mansion by Joe Esposito, his road
Te ibe di where he had been taken by manager a friend, elie Alden, 2 20,
ol “department ambulance after’. was at the mansion, Ni
a

BLAME EXHAUSTION -
he was rumored to be
ion varlous incurable

physicians said he had

erald

a Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stawar? and the Nass
Mon VOLUME 71 NO. 74. Price: 20 cents. _ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,. 197 |

aaa Pn

RESTRICTIONS LIKELY. an

ire hazard rises -

suggestive com
of ae Tok music ‘ormers today.

~ diseases, his “But when he appeared on the

By BILL MARLES, office, It’s also unusually - But we've been setting “Tf people do not need a i;
Herald staff writer - dry. record temperatures for they shouldn't light
ce iplakey says we were only most of the last six to seven one,” he added. - .
‘The Terrace-Kitimat area degree below days. The normal high ts burning ts have :
is having its longest hot spell _jecord higi'iempentee a about 20 degrees. Lately, been cancelled in the
Hine” 106i, according to ‘Augustlast Saturday. That temperatures have hovered ‘Terrace “Hanger Distics |
George Blakey at the day thimer soared to a around 90. degr which takes in the lower.
Terrace Airport weather blistering 33.4 degrees.. . The area dot ‘ts last rain Nass area. .
August 2 and even then Kitimat forest ranger Ian
there eter. “hy, tis Brown said the fire rating ff
northwest receiv was high in Kitimat :

“Bill Loiselle.
named publisher

Bu Loiselle, 36, aiveteran of the newspa r business in|
northern B.C., has been appain lisher of the
Terrace Dally "Herald.: He reeude Hamilton,

| Herald publisher fc for even years, who resigned recently
to pursue new cha
bar a vent /s8 on sher of the Mackenzie Times.
Previous to that, he was advertising manager with the.
Peace @ River Block News. unity ‘i
his ences comm: newspapers, B
has r eogiued the importance of local news and ‘com
munity features to s ‘@ newspaper's. presence,:
“I'm satisfied with amount of progress. made
during the tough, last few months when the Herald was
convertedinto a daily. But we've now ironed out most of -
the production oblems and it is time to stresa an in-.
“crease in } news and the introduction of new:
features ; like a women’s page, social items, better
coverag e, increased Kitimat news and mare,” B

pla
“We hope to make dramatic changes in all these areas,
. Also, were about tolaunch a promotional campaign that
willbe extremely beneficial to businessmen in Terrace.”
- Bill said he was pleased about moving bere and has,
already transferred his family wife Jo-Ann and
daughters Michelle and Bonnie - intoa home in town.
‘The new Publisher also praised the. efforts of this

predecesso
Othe lk acy: that Gordon has left us is of a newspaper
that is legacy more and more recog nized as a daily
of Terrace life, I’m pleased that the response from

‘local readers has been'so positive and I pledge :to im-
prove ee muchas I can, én what ‘Gordon has ac-.

A percent ft

‘percent of . fhe normal
monthly moisture.

: er up till August,
oo Bl Blakey.

The weatherman also’.

says humidity has fallen.to

ao'petcent,

humidity: to drop here

because there. are many

trees in:the area.

“This ls one of the reasons

hgh forest fi fire hazard is so
a declined to ve

predictions, but he did say
the hot and dry spell should
continue until Friday. He
added that any forecast for
over & 24 hour period is by
nature leas certain.

Herb Quast, forest ranger _

for the Terrace district, said

there is an extreme fire
hazard on tite southern open.

slopes. In a general sense,
‘though Quast eye the
hazard rating his “high”.
The Terrace forest ser-
‘vice -has attended three
email fires since Friday and
25 so far this year. Quast
says the average number of
fires in the district is 25 or
3. So the seascnal average
has already been met. T

fire season normally con-

tinues still the. end .of Oc-
tober, but this depends on
the the” weather.
Seater
eban yet, bul ie
should be be caret |

. VICTORIA (CP):

Owners of small businesses
will. be inundated with
‘meaningless statistic-
seeking forms under deals:

" lation proposed by the Soc

Credit Fovernment ‘On
position leader Dave
Barrett told the legislature. .

Tuesday.

Barrett said during com:
mittee consideration of the
‘Statistics Act that under the
bill, small businessmen will
be ioytipped into line
‘pushed d
ordered”’
Development Minister Don

pa, who.is responsible :

for the  legalation,

The New Democratic
Party leader ‘said it was
ironle that ‘Phillipe a‘ ‘self-

roclaimed : “freedom
ter from the north,”
should ba the one to propose

{8 bill that will take awa
basic freedoms from sn small

‘businessmen,

But nf least it was a cool

are

that it is very hard for the There
fishermen: ‘to.

any long range’ weather - m

6, “extreme in the. upper ff
rales’ Valley and

Qnion

‘Be valley, Hoot he would

A eople
ae pean

et to
Kitimat River, he said.

He says there is no ban on
campfires, but he would
rather peo people not light fires.
He also a

atches.
The Kitimat forest district

‘is not issuing burning

permits anymore. .
Brown feals we now have
the most serious fixe hazard

in ten years.
Kitimat has had ii fires

this year, Brown says this is

10 Dore than las
total. The Kitimat strict
averages about six or seven
fire a year.

Brown said the fire at
Ham 6 Creek, about 10
miles north of Kitimat, is

‘atill not completely out.

This fire started about three
weeks ago and has covered
about 120 acres. .

Fred Hite of the parks
branch says his depar
Epects an
recreational
sometime this week. .

ould mean no cam:

"lente Eres at Lakelse Lake,
chameiks and Kleanza
o _ Creek provincial parks. /

‘Phillips said the bill
makes provision of ©
_information com to
comply wth the federal
statistics act,

2 etl access for.
the .,

ed that people be"
careful with cigarettes ‘and

Eitary

closure .

smother
"businessman with ad-

. The funny faces of Terrace Little Theatre's Children’s
Workshop. The make-up looks better in colour but our
readers should get a good idéa from this picture of what

POWELL - RIVER, B B.C.
(CP) -- An 940,000-gallon oil

Spill that initially ‘was

eported to involve 2.4-
on gallona, came no

Closer than 1,000 feet to the

harbor. before - being
contained Tuesday, . *'

Lorne Lacey, industrial *
at.
Ltd.'s :

relations mana
MaeMillan . Bloed
p mill here, said in an

1,000 feet from the tor

managed ‘to contain’ the.
. 42,000 gallons that esca
from a dike already in place .

d 6 p.m.
a ‘parrels of of off had escaped.

There are 2 gallons in a

terview that. a hastily
- constructed seconda:

- will be
Ree barge id the harbor and the
precaution. against vals

r iage.

: greets passers by who occasionally glimpse such strange

faces amid a lot of waving hands at the theatre. The

young people delight in performing

before Terrace

drivers on Kalum. (Photo by Brian Gregg) -

PO WELL RI VER -

Oil leak threatens port —

Lacey said the spill of
bunker C oil occured when: a
valve at the base of a 60,000-
barrel oil. storage tank
ruptured Monday.. The
accident was discovered
after 20,000

barrel of oil.
nal but 42,000 gallons of

e spill was contained by.
the f

t dike, said Lacey.

He said the oil that rem
ined within the storage tank
onto

ed .on the -ground,

con ed within the firat

a a, PROPOSED STATISTICS ACT arn:
Province wants access to business files 7

PRIVACY INVADED 7
He also said it is not the

government’s intention -

. the vel

. ditional forms because bill
would mainly make av

to. ilable inform tion that St
‘tistics Canada has already

collected.

| contain the sp
Preul pulp mill personnel with.

dike, can be pumped ‘back
into the tank.

bate oll that had been

contaminated with earth.

The remaining oli, within
the second dike, will likely
be soaked up using wood

-chips and then burned in the

pulp plant's power plant.

Mill
murilcipal crews and ar
residents join the f

employees,
area
ht to
cey

their quick response to the
problem. —

But the NDP, led b
Barrett ‘and Gary Lau
‘shocking invasion of

privacy.

- trucks and

"The Powell ‘River fire:
department stood by and
‘bulldozers were.
used to build makeshift
dams on a, hillside. The
company deployed booms
the harbor to contain any oil
taht might geti into the water
ani anizations ipped
to ha e cleanup of maj

oil spilla were standing

| ‘Weather

Same as it was like on
Tuesday, clear & swany
skies.

reatened and |:
‘Economic,

PRINCE GEORGE B.C. cP ~The _

“GAS PROBLEMS FIXED »
Pulp mill resumes operation.

The company spokesman gald the

the gas leak and another man

- Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. leak Friday which resulted in one remained ‘in hospital. ‘Thirteen
mill was back in: tion Tuesday: death was the first industrial ac- others were treated for gaa
after system modifications needed cident of its type since the mill inhalation and released.
to avert any future hydrogen ned in 1966, . The gas leak in the washer and

‘sulphide was | eak were completed.

com spokesman said the
modltleaten, were satisfactory to

‘Management, the union and

Workers’ Compensation | Board.

‘officials.

*- As a result of work done on the
Northwood system, a number of
- other improvements have been
agreed to by management,

Chris Smith, A WCB spokesman,

_ said earlier that the aceident was

caused a by high levels of h en

sulphi de and nee, one 8 could have
anucipa ppe

Smith said several more workers

would have been killed if it had not

been for prompt action by first aid.

attendants.
Walter Langdon-Davies, 36, .
Prince George, dled asa result of

digester area was caused by
reaction of chemicals used in the
cooking and bleaching process.
Hydrogen sulphide is a colorless -
me wi aly used in the pulp in-
In lower concentrations It
smells like rotten eEgs, and it can
parts million.
Smith sald theleve. released in the

’ aceldent was more than 100 parts

per million.

The government .
an he goverment oppered
Lauk to remove ‘the

legislation’s compulsory

aspect,

to.
heel"' the average itisen of
B.C. with a “Stalinist... .

Earlier, Lauk anid the bill
intends to “grind” under

encroachment on human
rights,

’ In other business, the
house gave uno posed
second. readin o the
Mineral. Act, which mod-
ernized a regulations
affecting mining...

“hs well, the legislature
gave unopposed second
reading to the Heritage
Conservation Aet, which

‘ovides for greater pro-

tion of the ‘province's
hintesical sites,

All opposition patties | sald
they welcomed the b