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LEGISLATIVE LUSRARY,

PARLIAMENT sists
¥ICT .

Diane Sickels, secretary to
e Terrace Diatrict Plan-

, John McNairnay bas an
interesting jog.

Terrace Council has ap-

proved the start of an Of-
ficial Community Plan for
he district ofTerrace, which
will progress by three
stages.
The plan will be conducted
. pricstly by local staff and the:
gaze of whatever additional
assistance might be possible
from students under various
puth employment

Diane’a job, starting
am mediately, ls to collect all
the backgroung data from
issues of local
newspapers,
govenment files and library
data etc. The type of in-
‘ormation sought is historic,
ecreational,’ social,
transportation,
ommunications, labour,
ivie educational, and

dlaries,.

ee

Diane Sickels

Girl With. An
Interesting Job

tabulated and indexed for
ck reference. Estimated
e for compilation is from

May to December of this

year, ;

The second stage, starting
next year, will be to obtain
the public viewpoint by
holding a series of pubilc
meet: and arriving at
specific . pollciea; :, The

 Distrtet-pliiner: will’ "be
“pttent|

ig fd learn in what
directions the public desires
the town to progress. |

Whether it wants more parks
and special recreational
facilities, mare industries to
provide a sounder tax base-if
so what kind of industries.

How big does the public
want Terrace to grow-and at
what rate? How does it want
to zone or re-zone the city?
What plats, for example
does it entertain for Thor-
nhill? New subdivisions?
More hotels and hotsprings?
Arapld transit system? Etc.

To carry out this second

stage will take John Mc-
Nairnay to the end of 1979, it
is expected.

The results of the first two
stages will then be compiled
into a single bound volume
for publication.

e Three of the Com-

munity Plan is that of put-].

ting the policies to work, or
implementation. This calls

-by the HERALD Tuesaday

from'a motorist who said
while driving 6 miles West of
Terrace on Highway 16 he
spotted a small moving
object in the middle of the
road. He stopped and found
it to be an injured kitten.
Retrieving it, he started to
drive further when he saw
another car pulling off the
road ahead, and the woman
driver picking up a second,
similarly injured kitten.
From the observations of
the two drivers, it appeared

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+. VOLUME 72 No. 86 WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1978
s .
- Kitten Bashing
A phone call was recelved an earlier car had proceeded

them, with someone inside
throwing the kittens out of
the window to dispose of
them. Cruelty to animals in
this fashion is a criminal
offense, and perpetrators of
such acts can and will be
prosecuted. The matter is
being reported to the proper
authorities, No legislation,
however, can take the place
of kindness to animals, and
the avoidance’ of un-
ecessary cruelty is much
to be preferred, say SPCA
authorities.

Kitimat Day Care
Holds Open House

Ann Passingham is proud
of the Kitimat Day. Care
Centre-and she has good
reason to be proud of it, tao.:

For the past few weeks
Anne, and all her staff-
Teresa, Elsie, Margaret.
Shigetomi, Pat Jessen and
Christine Foster-have been
busy giving the place what
ney, are calling a “Face

t

Scrubbing, sanding and
painting-painting the dull,
dark furniture beautifully
light, bright colours;
painting the walls-and
wallpapering the walls.

Painting ‘numbers and
figures and illustrations
where the children can see
them and use them....

With a cupacity of 25
children aged 3 to 5 years,
the Kitimat Day Care Centre
at the moment has room for 7
more.. There are just 14
“little ones” at present, in
the building on 27 Osprey

‘Open House is at 8 o’clock
tonight. Ann Passingham
and her staff would love to
show you through, and
maybe serve you a cup of tea
and cakes, .

Terrace Crime

Vandals smashed a win-
dow in the Kermode
Friendship Centre in
Terrace Monday night,
causing approximately $150
damage, according to RCM-

. VANCOUVER (CP) —The

Lo ee oad tho: Staff atthe’ Vanéahver.

to fit the: new policie
determined by stage two. .

A five or ten year capital]

program will be set up to
carry out the findings.

MeNairnay will inclu

plans for new or extended
sewer and water and gar-
bage systems, landfill,
roads, paving projects, and

80 On. ;

At the end of the five or ten
year program, the planner
will start. on a revision of
what has been ac-
complished, and a further
five or ten year program

ape Laws Changing

In Criminaiji Code

By KITTY MCKINSEY

OTTAWA (CP) -- Rape-
law reform, a broader
definition of obscenity and
outlawing of child por-
mography are included in
proposed amendments to the
Criminal Code tabled in the
Commons Monday.

The criminal definition of
rape would be.changed to a
form of indecent assault
against a man or a woman,
emphasizing the violent,
rather than the sexual,
nature of the act.
Highlights of the omnibus

—Tougher law against
male and female
prostitution.

—Measures to ease prose-

cation in cases of child abuse:

anid.parental kidnapping,
—QOutlawing of loan-
sharking, defined as interest
rates over 0 per cent 4 year.
Drug addiction treat-
ment and enforced com-

munity work as options to
jailsentences. -

Provisions for speedier
trials, '

—Greater protection for
solicitor-client confidence.
STIFFER PENALTIES

Under the rape bill, the
penalty for indecent assault
would be increased to 14
years from five years.
Where serlous physical or
peychological harm results
from rape, the charge would
be. Sggravated indecent
assault punishable by life
imprisonment.

The bill proposes that for
the first-time, a man could be
charged for a sexual assault
on his wife if they are living
apa .
Justice’ Minister Ron
Basford told a news con-
ference he was concerned
about the 1.é-per-cent con-
viction rate for 2,100 cases of
rape reported to police last
year, “Obviously when you

_. Men charged
in stabbing

Two men were charged
Monday in Smithers
. provincial court in con-
nection with the stabbing of
RCMP Corporal John Jacks,
stationed In Granisle, but
recently with the Terrace
RCMP detachment.
Patrick Burn Leon, 31, and
. his brother Joseph P. Leon,
35, both of Topply Landing,
were charged with at-
tempted murder, Illegal use
of a firearm, and pointing a
firearm. 4 ‘ i

Corp. Jacks who was

reported in satisfactory

condition in hospital, was .

knifed after the twomen held

um at bay for a time with a
e. ‘ .

Despite a lacerated liver
from the.twolnch deep stab
wound, ; “Corp. . | Jacks
managed to get into his car.
and pursue the attackers,
and.they were taken iitto

_ custody when additional help

arrived.

_ The two brothers will

appear in court again ‘on

May if in Houston. - ,

have that situation, there is
something very wrong with

“the law,” he said.

Basford said the
“progressive and forward-

looking” changes--_ which -

Include mandatory ban on
publication of the victim’s
name if she requests it—
should encourage more

women to report rape to the perso:

police,

Under the proposed
changes, rape trials would
no longer concentrate so
heavily on the question of
-penetration,. while - dis-
regarding the amount of vio-'
lence used in an attack,
Basford said.

The amendments
recognize that anal and oral
penetration of men and
women and acts involving
sexual contact without
penetration can be just as

harmful to the victim as va-

ginal penetration of women,
he said. .
The Criminal Code now de-

fines .rape as sexual in- -

tercourse with a woman who
is not the wife of the accused
without her consent. It

carries a maximum penalty © P

of life imprisonment. \

Basford said the rape
reform and the omnibus bill
‘should not be dealt with until.

‘there has been extensive
consultation with provincial .
lawyers "

attorneys-general,
and policemen

across
Canada.

Basford, who is not run- -

ning for re-election, said the
government will not proceed
with the bill in this session,
even if Parliament is not
dissolved for an expected
summer election.

Public Aquarium ‘is crying
wolf. Wolf eel, that is.
Aquarium director Dr.
Murray Newman said
Monday that one of its wolf
sels lald 10,000 eggs, they are
fertilized—and all 10,000
could hatch. . .
Wolf eels grow to more
“than two metres in length,

A large amount of copper
eable valued at more’ than
$5,000 was stolen from the
L.G, Scott & Sons compound
during the weekend.

Police are still in-
vestigating.

and Newman seid be is

a

will ralse' sevaral thousand

of the creatures. .

Newman ‘said the
aquarium would wait until
the eels grow to about six
inches; and then use
volunteer’ divers to place
them in ocean areas where
theis populations have been
depleted.

— Death Toll Higher
In Afghanistan Coup

KABUL, Afghanistan
(AP) - The death toll in last
week’s successful coup
against President
Mohammad Daoud’s
government was much
higher than previously
reported, - perhaps in the
thousands, authoritative
sources said today.

Some sources said the
number of dead may have
been as high as 10,000, but
the figures could not be in-.
dependently confirmed, The
sources asked not to be
identified.. OT

Previous reports, based on
rebel radio broadcasts and

indirect word to the outside .

world from. diplomats here,
had estimated that 500
ms were killed when the
military toppled the Daoud
regime and replaced it with
a proCommunist govern-

Snake |
‘Bandits —

WASHINGTON TOWN-
SHIP, N.J. (AP) - A bandit

wielding a five-foot-long
python had no trouble per-

suading two teen-age gas.

station attendants. here to
give up $400, police say.
The bearded thief slung
the snake, a, non-poisonous
- constrictor, around the neck
of one attendant after
-demanding ‘ money, police
said. ‘The attendants, both
students at Westwood High

School, immediately’ com- |

lied,

Police said the robber put
the snake In a white cloth
bag, walked to his getaway
vehicle and drove off.

The stick-up occurred at 9
p.m, Sunday,

Detective Rober. Maher
sald nine fouth who, . was
caught in the powerful gri
of the snake was frightened,
but unhurt. ios

“He had quite a tale to tell
his friends at school,” said
Maher.

Police said they were
convinced tha boys’ story
about the snake was true.

Tent. :

The sources said many of
the dead were members of
Daoud’s elite personal
troops. :

They ‘also confirmed rebel:

reports that the 69-year-old -

Daoud and his brother and
adviser Naeem, 65, were
killed, and said Dacud’s
wife, all three of his sons and
a number of young grand-
children were among the
others slain on the palace
grounds Friday morning; the
day after the coup was)
launched .

A young Certified Public
Accountant from Portland,

Oregon, who arrived in

Terrace last Sunday. is

-literally becoming the talk

of the town because of a
series of seminars he is

holding at the Alliance

Church, here. -
An estimated 300 persons
attended the Sunday. night

- Meeteger tell them the
- oplltiiati that ib Aquarium’. average tanily i

average fanilly could SAVE
more monéy by having the
wife stay home and- look
after the kids, rather than
having her put the kids in a

day care centre, or hire a.

babysitter.
But that was not even the
beginning! .
MacGregor is convinced

-the economy of the United

States and Canada is going
down the drain at so great a
speed it will reach total
bankruptcy somewhere
between 1930 and 1982.’

He has some pretty con-
vineing figures to prove it.
The U.S. budget for this
year, for instance, he says, is
set for a fifty billion dollar
deficit. Next year
economists anticipate an 60
billion dollar deficit, The
Gross National Debt of the
Us. right now is $5 trillion

Hars,

As of April ist this year the
International: Monetary
Fund went off the geld
standard entirely, and en-
tered an era of ‘Fiat
‘money- paper money, w
absolutely nothing to back it

up.

Money-Saver Is

He points to the steadily
dropping U.S. dollar-with the

Canadian dollar declining.

below the U.S. dollar by 15 to
17 per cent with no sign of
stopping. .
MacGregor. describes in
graphic detail what hap-
pened in 1919 when Germany
+ went bankrupt and workers
travelled to the banks every
day’ with wheelbarrows of

. paper: depreciated: currency.

“just .to-buy-- one’: day's
groceries, When a 5 pien-
- nigstamp jumped to a cost of
millions of marks! The
same thing could-with some
changes- happen to us in
Canada if the tremendous
rate of deficit spending is not
halted. Lo

What positive things can
the people of Terrace do, to
prepare themselves for this
or safeguard themselves
against the effects of in-
creased inflation?

The. boyish-faced ac-

_countant beams when he
hears you ask-he is glad you
asked that question because
he has a whole list of an-
swers he can reel off as fast

- as you can absorb them.

Energy costs. He can
show you how you can save
$200 a year on your energy

- bill by just carrying out a
few, simple adjustments.
Just putting a timer on your
hot water heater alone will
save you over a hundred
dollars a year. You will then
have hot water when you
need it-as much ag you need-
the elements or gasor oil will
shut off at night and other

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COMP. 77/78

times when you are away.

Get rid of that second car. -

That can save you a bundle.

Smaller wattage light bulbs
replacing higher wattage
ones; Tear up that credit
card if you possibly can. If
you need one-tear up the
rest, and keep the one you
have left paid up to save
paying: the high interest
rates... .

‘Malcolm’ MacGregor's .

book, “Your Money Mat-
ters” has zipped the 60,000
sales mark. Two large or-
ders being filled will zoom it
past the 100,000 mark before
the end of the month.

Seemingly, there is no end
in sight,

The public's last chance to

see and hear him in Terrace
comes  tonight-the last
.evening of the seminar, at
the Alliance Church. Extra
chairs may he. needed-the
building only holds 300-but
Pastor Roy Taylor (a sur-
prising number of local
clergy are attending the
lectures) has assured
Malcom no one will be
turned away, ~

the “Church Con-
nectlon”? .MacGregor finds

the Bible an exelting

financial textbook; quotes

‘from it liberally to prove his

points, and his book is
published by “Bethany
Fellowship inc.”, a religious
publishing house in Min-
neapolis -Billy Graham’s
town- in the U.S

paryoo

Ron MacMillan, as Ben,,and Don MacLeod, as his
father Jacob share this scene from the Terrace Little
Theatre's performance of “Leaving Home.” The play
willbe in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Saturday, May 13,

f.,

and Sunday, May 14, a8 p.m. both eventigs. Tickets
are $4 for adults and $2.50 for students and senior
eltizengi: Advance tkekets are available at McCall's

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