Freres we TAME ety I tee Ticket s By ED YUDIN Herald Staif Writer If you bough! a ticket for the Little River Band con- - cert in Kitimat, don't hold your breath, Police in- vestigations have revealed the concert plans were a fraud from the very outset. Posters advertising the mt appearance of the band began showing up in the Terrace-Kitimat area about a week ago. According to police, 3,200 tickets going for $10 and $850 were being sold at a number of outlets including Haida Travel in et te t . wer ee PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLDs3 YICZORIA BC ale Terrace and the Purple Onion and Universal Stores in Kitimat. Around 300 of the worthless ducata were sold before the fraud was un- covered, . RCMP in Kitimat and Terrace were alerted to the dubious promotion of ‘Ken Dolan Preductions” by some of the ticket distributors and CFTK. The distributors were told to stop. selling tickets and hold onto the receipts. Cy Gibb, host of CFTK's public affairs program ‘Profile’ says people at the radic statlon had suspicions from the start. “The Lite River Band{s a band of high calibre, and they certainly don't'have to Fromote a band like that a month in advance," he said, “T just couldn't see why. they would lake the time and expense to play this area.” The internationally renowned group is slated to appear in the Pacific Coligeum on Oct. 26, [t has been revealed the band was booked into Pullman Washington on Oct, 27, the day they were to perform in Kitimat, Further investigations showed the alleged Ken Dolan Productions company never existed. And, ap- parently, neither does Ken Dolan. The man who printed up the tickets, made the fraud here is investigated posters, booked the arena, appears to have disappeared coming as scon as the investigation by Kitlmat and Terrace RCMP is completed, ’ The PoP shoppe N 14 Flavors’ ‘ BOTTLE DEPOT: Beer & Pop Bottles 4636 Lazatle Ava. Terrace, B.C. Open 104.m.-6p.m. daily except Sunday _ Fr til? pm. f Wednesday, October 3, 1979 Nas TERRACE-KITIMAT daily herald 20¢ Volume 73 No. 19) VC RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rugert 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, ete. Call us - We are Open Mon. through Sat, 8 a.m.-5 pm \ —, tonic Photo by Gon Schatfer Serious hearing problems Trus Bean “iy =, wee Eg Cele noes ot tee vows action 0 ‘the community on a regular among Hazeltonchildren has basis caused School District 83 to take action says Trustee Nan Harrison. Also. chairman of the education committee, Harriacn says she will write the B.C. Medical Association, requesting an otolaryngologist be sent to sis. “Dr, Jerry Hicks comes up here on a regular basis, but we're having a great dif- ficulty getting children from the Hazelton area to come up to Terrace and see him," said Harrison. ‘What we're - trying to do is get somebody to go into Hazelton and see if ‘we can get 4 better response from the children.” Many children in the area Appear susceptible to ear infections. If not treated Prompily and properly, it ofien can result in per: manent hearing loss. Ac- cording to Harrison, the No danger claimed in radiation leak RED WING, Minn. (AP) — Radioactive steam emissions from a ruptured tube at the Prairie Island Nuclear plant apparently did not .endanger the -en- vironment, although the steam spewed into the alr for about 27 -minutes, the Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission says. “The total radiation ex-° posure al the plant's site: oundary has been estimated to be less than one-tenth of a millirem, well within permissible limits,” Jan Strasma, 4 commission spokesman, sald Tuesday Radiation monitoring ‘teams from the state an Tax arrears sale will be repeated The annual tax sale for Terrace District lots in tax arrears was so successful, it has been decided to hold mother one Tuesday, Oct. 10, Keith Norman, the treasnrer for the District of Terrace, explained that four Crab fine $250,000 ' ANCHORAGE, Al'.ska (AP) — Two Seattle crab- bing vessels, found fishing illegaliy in the Bering Sea, have paid a total of $250,000 in settlementa, the Alaska department of public safety aaid Tuesday, nt The stale is baitieg one per Ww a 8 crab ta prior to the season opening, a criminal misdemeanor, James Hilt of e Commodore of Seattle ia heduled to enter his plea In Anchorag< on Oct. 23. The dépa:.™ent said the Commodore a:.' the Isa Fjord of Seattle wi '2 found fishing in the Bering, Sea before the Sept. 10 king crab season opened, They were lacated about 200 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor. af the few lots available at Manday’s sale still have not been purchased, Any property in the district for which taxes have not been pald for the last three years, automatically mes on the market for auction. H purchased, the qiginal owner has one year to make up the late taxes and penalties before the land Officially changes hands, Any lota not purchased at the sale are picked up by the municipality. “It was pretty heetic for awhile,” commented Nor- man on Monday's sale, “There were a number of people bidding against each ather,”’ . The lots sold on Monday all went for a price in excess of .the upset price, or. the original property evalration plus the asseased taxes and property. There were 15 people at the sale, five of whom were actively bidding. Of the ten available, eight were valued under $4,000, Three of those remain, and Norman is confident th will be purchased on Oct. 10. The sale will take place at 10 a.m. in the municipal chambers. ‘plant's. owner, Northern Statea Power Co., detected no increase in radiation ground the plant following the rupture, Strasma said, - Commission specialiata planned to run tests inside the facillty today. : Tests on workers at the site showed readings of between two and six millltems, sald Gerard Goerlng, superintendent of the nuclear operational service. Goering sald r tions permit up to 100 millirema per week, A milllrem is the measure of biological oxposure of Tadiation to human beings, R. S. Leddick, nuclear projects manager for Northern States Power, said there were about 150 workers inside the plant at the time of the rupture, About 100 of them were moved to ancther part of the plant, he said, but the plant waa not evacuated. Northern States Power engineers at the plant, about 45 kilometres southeast of Minneapolls-St. Paul, detected the leak at2:14 p.m. CDT in one of two generators at: the facility, a company spokesman said. By 2:41 p.m., work crews had Isolated the trouble, a rupture in one of 3,300 nickel- and-chromium tubes in the Generatée, sald Dennis Gilberts, general manager of power production for the company, Strasma said all safety systems in the generator worked as designed. Frank Incram, a Norther Starea Power .pokesman in Washington, salu: “Steam @enerator tube leaks are not infrequent at all, But I eY haven't been able to track down exactly how many have resulted in ra- disactivity being released inlo the environment,”’ Action from the Caledonia-Prince Rupert Senior 3-3: tie on Saturday problem Is even more acule in natlve children. - Harrison also reports the career testing program will continue into 1980, Grade 10 and 13 students are given questionalres on their in- teresis and hobbies, The information is then processed through a com- weSateTete: port n hearing © puter and the student receives the results, which is supposed to give a better indication where career talents and interests He, “Our school district does it a little more extensively than other school districts, but everyone has their own system." she added. MAGIC MAIL | CAPER CLAIM VANCOUVER (CP) — The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has accused the Vancouver post office of Playing magician with 1% miilion pieces disoprenr making the m Yr last Thursday night omy ti to have it reappear four days later. Phyliis Webb, Vancouver local geeretary-treagurer said Tuesday the posta Blelght of hand was used to deny union charges that tha post office is understaffed and that mail ja piling up. The union rajsed the staffing problem in public last week, 50 CTV decided to senda camera crew to takea took, Webb told the Van- couver and District Labor Council. She said the post office agreed Thursday to allow the camera crew Inside the downtown building the following day, but In the meantime shipped the massive backlog of mail to the Kelowna, Kamloops, Victoria and New West: minster post offices, he scene for the television cameras was a clean, well-alled sorting ation that didn't support ¢ union’s claims, but the mall all showed up back in Vancouver quetday for sorting, Ms. Webb said. She said the post office is feeling the pinch of the federal government's cuts in civil] service employment. ‘Since June, she sald, 120 employees have quit, retired or been fired by the Van- couver post office, yet management has hired onl lL replacements to date, wit 4 promise to hire another 15 by the end of this month. Post office officials were Unavailable for comment, The union plans a protest rally in downtown Van- couver Oct, 19 to demand the government drop charges against union president Jean-Claude Parrot and other unlon leaders arielng out of last fall's Illegal postal strike. Amalgamation debate By ED YUDIN Herald Staff Writer Should Terrace and Thornhill amalgamate, and when? That will be the issue at hand when a representative of the - ministry of municipal affairs meets with Terrace ¢istrict: council members and representatives of the Regional] District of Kitlmat-Stikine next Wednesday, Oct, 10. The meeting was Originally scheduled for this week, but was postponed when the municipal affairs representative was detained. A committee of three council members and three from the regional district will be set up to study the MORE PAGE 2 Pope pleads for changes NEW YORK (CP) — Pope John Paul, keeping up ls re- lentless pace, encouraged a packed prayer service of religious professionals today to embrace the world in “love; in service, in healing and in reconciliation. vin a family- e of priests and Mane in mde Manhattan’s St. Patrick's ieegral, he. sald that through prayer possible to share with Christ the travail and hopes of all humanity. . Through Him, he told the more than 2,500 church workera, each can brin; “with us the anguish an hopes, the joys and sorrows of all our brothers and sisters in the world,” The Pope began the morning service on the front steps of the church, standing inasteady drizzle to lead an estimated 98,000 people gathered on Fifth Avenue: “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. ; -Godcome to my assistance." ~ He waa greeted by cries of: “Long lve the Pope!’’ which prompted the pontiff e grin and reply: “He 25 ” The service marked the start of a third grueling and hectie day for the Pope — a day that will end in Philadelphia, the third of six U.S. cities he is visiting. In a whirlwind first day in New York, the Pope met and payed and sang with New ork's poorest and proudest. Again and again he pleaded: Share the wealth with those in need. “You must never be content to leave them Just the crumbs from the feast,” he declared Tuesday night to Tore than 75,-000 wor- shippers packed into Yankee Stadium for a pontifical Mass, _ At the stadium, the 59- yearold pontiff was a gentle - — and weary-looking — teacher in tall, glittering miter and golden cloak. “We cannot stand idly by, enjoying our own riches and freedom, if in any place the Lazarus of the 20th century stands at our door," he told the throng surrounding him Inthestands and on the field. In his accented English, he - spoke of the biblical parable of the feasting rich man con- demned for spurning the begging of Lazarus for table scrape, saying of the story: "It must form our con- sciences. Christ demands openness to our brothers and sisters in need, openness from the rich, openness to the poor.” fi On the second day of his US. pilgrimage, there were not the millions some had predicted, but on every Street there were crowds — thousands upon thousands of people waving, shoutlng, crying, singing, chanting and clapping with joy. amalgamation issue. “We've got to decide whether to amalgamate or stay as we are," said Terrace Mayor Dave Maroney. “We're meeting to get input, there is a Jot involved in amalgamation such as cost-sharing." . There‘ are four alter- natives facing Terrace and)» = Thornhill, The His day included calls on some of those most in need — ‘visits to Harlem, symbol of Police check threats ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Authorities ti about an alleged plot to kill Pope John Paul are looking for a truck driver from El Salvador after finding a sub-machine- gun and four boxes of am- munition in his apartment. A letter to the FBI saying the Pope's life was threatened directed the agency to “check out” the Elizabeth apartment of Alberto Roberto Gustave, 36, an FBI spokesman said, He said that after city police raided the home Tueaday and found the gun, ammunition and an- empty handgun -box,..a regional alert was Issiiéd for the missing Gustave, The spokesman, Michael .McDonnell, said no arrest warrant has been Issued. “There has been no violation that we have jurisdiction over,” Mec- Donnell sald. "An overt act has to take place.” . It was not known whether the letter was signed * Greenpeace claims kill prevented VANCOUVER (CP) — The Greenpeace Foundation was successful Tuesday in stopping two Swedish hunters from shooting two moose in the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park in northern British Columbia, Rex Weyler, director of the environmental group, sald Tuesday, Weyler said in an in- terview from Cold Fish Lake, 320 kilometres north of Smithers, 5.C., that Greenpeace landed a bell: copter to scare off the moose, Weyler said the huntera were very defensive and quiet when he apoke to them. “They sald they were on a holiday and thought what they were doing was quite legal,” he said. “They said they couldn't do this kind of hunting in Sweden because of atrict lawe ao they had come to Canada Instead." The eight-member Green- ace expedition went to patsizi to confront foreign trophy hunters, The group Is part cularly concerned about the caribou herd in the wilderness park and has said its members will stand between the hunters and the animals to stop the hunting, situation can remain the same as now, though that appears unlikely in light of recent developments such as the public transit study, Thornhill can incorporate on its own. The third alternative is Thornhill staying on its own while Terrace ex- tends its boundaries in other directions. The fourth alternative, and the one which is black American poverty, and the ravaged, largely His isinfalt is oor a aa e our , the Pope tald an excited gathering outside St. Charles rremeo Church in Harlem as he arrived to rhythmic handclapping and gospel s app 8 Bospe The supreme pantor of the world’s 700 million Roman Catholics, standing in a bright spotlight on a darkened street, lauded Harlem as the nurturing ground of black American culture and sald the parishioners there were the “messengers of hope.” Later, amid the crumbling tenements of the South Bronx, he said in Spanish: “Brothers and sistera and friends, do not give in to des- palr, but work together. Take the 5 possible for you in the task of increasing your dignity.” With & raln-shrouded Statue of Liberty in the background, Pope John Paul urged Americans today to break the ‘hopeless cycles of renal and ignorance ... af prejudice ... of despair” an the “Inhuman cycles of war, “Freedom and justice will bring a new dawn of hope for the present generation as It has done before,’ he told a crowd estimated at more than 30,04 huddled under umbrellas at Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan beside New York Harbor. . It was the third day of the Pope's week-long vint to the The Pope, arriving at the Battery after a ticker-tape arade down Broadway rom Madison Square Garden, paid respects to Jewish leaders, saying that Christianity and Judaism are closely related and declaring,‘‘ Shalom! Peace be with you,” He commended extensive collaboration between Jewish and Christian bodies in study and work, including a “common determination to reject all forms of antl- Semitiam and dis. crimination.” Earlier, cheers and cries of “Long live the Popel"’ greeted John Paul as he entered a Madison Garden packed with 19,000 atudenta from Roman Catholic high schools, Both at Madison are Garden and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the pope joined nuns, priests and church workers In momling Prayer, youngsters rushed through security lines to try to touch the pontiff and hold his hand He told the crowd at the cathedral that it is possible to share with Christ the hopes of humanity. set getting the moat attention at the moment is amalgamation of Thornhill and Terrace. Even if the amalgamation idea is adopted, there are some hurdles to overcome, “I think we're probably looking at about a year or 80 down the road before anything happene,” Maroney concluded