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VOLUME 71 NO. 154

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1977

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With frustrated, cold motorists and

pedestrians battling snowdrifts in Terrace, it might be
comforting to realize the Terrace district abounds in
boiling hotsprings. One of the best known in the north

deterrnined

is Lakelse Hots

than seven bubbling soruces

naturally heated water.

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rings resort which contains no less
of virtually odor-free

~ Margaret Trudeau Star In
_ Press Conference For Film

MONTREAL (CP) —
Margaret Trudeau met
with the media Saturday
for the first time since
she began shooting a
movie here last week
amid reports that the
company producing the
film was. involved in.
‘financial problems.

a “! : ! Trudeau was tt —~ NOviE—in return for. pat, > we wes ene “ ogee
gta awat soa OY TE OE: acDougall-of: the Batik
eat a een one substantial commission. of - Montreal. ‘and

bead of nerversal Inc.,
e@ company «producing
‘Kings -and Desparate
. Men, to-answer charges
that the company had
circulated false
formation to get financial
backing for the film.

On - Friday, several
people prominent in film
circles listed on a
prospectus as ‘‘advisers”’
to Kineversal said they
never gave permission
for their names to be
used

Kanner said the
prospectus, in which he

_ VICTORIA (CP) —
John Locke Jamieson,
who celebrated his 100th
birthday last May, died
Sattirrday in hospital. He
had: been the RCMP's
oldest veteran.

’ Jamieson joined the
North . West Mounted
Police in 1293 at the age of
16, even though the
enlistment age at that
time was 21, and spent
the next ‘five years at
For? Macleod in south-
western Alberta. He rode
horse patro! with five
other officers, covering
175 miles each week.

He. resigned in 1898,
joined -the Canadian
Pacific Railway and
during the next 44 years
rosefrom engine wiper to

in-

_was tryin

“listed a dozen triends,”’

Among the 11 people

was a rough draft being listed in the prospectus

prepared with a view to
eventual expansion of the
company.

He said the prospectus,
which was supposed to be
confidential, somehow

find finane

Kanner, who plays a

-Tole in the film, added

that, while producers
short on money might be
tempted to take such
offers of financing, “‘we.
have enough money for
three movies.”

Earlier, however, one
prospective investor said

e saw the prospectus
when Kanner approached
him for financing. He
said he thought Kanner.
to impress
him with the list so that
he would invest in Kings
and Kesperate Men.

Veteran RCMP Dies

locomotive engineer to
district superintendent in
the Medicine Hat and
Swift Current areas,

He retired in i942,
moving to Vancouver and
later to Victoria. t ont

ough he spent only
five years with he force,
Jamieson receiyed a
unique tribute on his
centenary, RCMP
Deputy | Commissioner
Peter Bazowski pre-
sented him with a framed
original of the oath of
allegiance he had signed
when he joined the force.

He is survived by his
daughter, Mrs. George
Sullivan of Guelph, Ont.,
and his son John Kenneth
of Houston, Texas. His
wife died in 1962.

Vander Zalm Seeks |
Changes In U.LC. |

‘VICTORIA (CP)
Human Resources|
Minister Bill Vander
Zalm says he plans to
have a major meeting
with federal government
officials in Mareh or

, April of 1978 to ask for
changes to’ Unem-

‘ ployment Insurance
. Commission restrictions.

Vander -Zalm said in an
interview the number of
persons receivin
welfare in British Co-
lumbia will.climb sharply
in December and during
the first quarter of the
new" year because of
tougher UIC regulations.

He said that in the first
six months this year
there was an average of
112,728 people a’ month
receiving social assist.
ance under the province's
Guaranteed Available

‘Tncome for Need, (GAIN)

program. The. .average
monthly number © of
people on welfare durin
1976 was 115,056. =:

The minister «. said
welfare recipients would
receive the — usual
Christmas. bonus with
their cheques this month.
Single persons $15 while
families will get $25,

are Timothy Porteous,
director of the Canada
Council; Donald Me-
Sween, director-general
of the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa; Jean
Gascon, theatrical

’ reached people anxiqus to .
fete for’ the Guraclor. of, the Arts

Centre; Hartland

executives of the United
States company United
Artists Corp.

Gascon and  Mac-
Dougall said they had
agreed to offer Kanner
advice but had no
knowledge that their
names would be used ona
formal obard of advisers.

Porteious ,
Sween said they were.
angered. that their names
were being used in the
list, and Eric Pleskow
and William Bernstein of
United artists denied

and Mc-

ever hearing of Kanner or
his company.

The disclosure of the
list came just after the
Quebec Securities
Commission ‘ordered a
ban Froday of the sale of
unregistered securities
offered by Kineversal to
finance the film. .

~~ However, “at the “news

confererice Kanner said

he: had met with a

commission official in

October and that there

were no problems at that
8.

He sald he would at-
tempt to clarigy the
situation when. the
commission offices open
today.

The centre of attention
shifted from financial
questions to Prime
Minister Trudeau's
estranged wife when she
appeared in the room
halfway through the news
conference. .

Searchers Find |
Crashed Plane —

CHURCHILL FALLS,
Nfld. (CP) —- Searchers,
grounded by a blizzard
or more than 24 hours,
Sunday found the
wreckage of an executive
jet which crashed in a
wooded are near here
Friday night, claiming
the lives. of all eight
persons aboard.

Officials said the
wreckage was: sighted
soon after daybreak by a
helicopter pilot flying one
of several aircraft sent up
to‘look for the missing
plane. "

Bodies and parts of the
twin engine, Hawker-
Siddeley 125 were
reported strewn over a
wide area about two
kilometres west of the
airport, which serves this
Labroador company town
of 1,100,

A blizzard late Friday
and ail day Saturday kept
search planes on the
ground. Volunteers
manning snowmobiles
were also forced to stand

y because of zero
visibility.

Weather conditions
were relatively clear
when the plane crashed
at about § p.m. local time
Friday and there was no
indication what caused
the plane, owned hy
Chruchill Falls Labrador

Hydro, to go down, of-
ficials said,

Ministry of transport
officials from Moncton,
N.B., have been flown
into the area to in-
vestigate the crash.

Charles Bursey, a
public affairs spokesman
for the corporation, said
the crash site was in line
with the runway.

Bursey said the pilot of
the aircraft notified the
control tower he was on
his. final approach on a
flight from Montreal and
had the lights of the
airport in view. He was
not heard from again.

The executive jet was
not equipped with an
electronic locator
transmitter (ELT), a
device that automatically
transmits radio signals
ona. on emergency
frequency following a
crash. ,

‘The bodies were to be
brought by snowmobile to
a temporary morgue in
an airport building here
after the RCMP team

completed its job in

locating and identifying
the bodies.
Meanwhile, gloom

pervaded the town as
word went out that the
wreckage had been
found. All those aboard
the plane were known to
most residents.

Space
Craft
Docks

MOSCOW (AP) — Two
Soviet cosmonauts
docked their Soyuz-26
spacecraft with the
Salyut-4  earth-orbiting
space station Sunday,
boarded the laboratory
and began a series of
experiments, the news
agency Tass said. |

Air force Lt.-Col Yuri
Romanenko, 33,
Goefgy Grechko, 46, a
civilian, manoeuvred
their craft into a docking
unit near the instrument
section of Slyut-6 at 6:02
a.m. Moscow time, 10:02
p.m. EST Saturday.

The official an-
nouncement disclosed
that Salyut-6 launched
Sept. 22, has two docking
systems and is capable of
receiving two spacecraft
at the same time. ;

“One docking system is

‘installed on the station’s

transfer compartment
and the other is on the

other side, on the- in-,

strument section,” Tass
said.

“As distinct from the
spaceship ‘Soyuz-25,
which in October ap-

proached thestation from -

the side of the transfer
compartmen, the Soyuz:

-26 was joined with the

station’s second docking
assembly,’’the news
agency reported.
mission abandoned

.. The ..two-man Soyuz

was ,reported to. have
coine within’ 393° feet” of
the space station but was
forced to abandon. the
misssion and return. to
earth for reasons that
were not fully explained.

Sunday’s successful
link-up came nearly 26
hours after liftoff from
the huge Baikonur space
centre in Soviet Central
Asia, 2,240 kilometres
(1,400 miles) southeast of
Moscow.

Tass said both
sosmonauts are feeling
well after boarding the
7.5 ton laboratory that
orbits between 326.4 and
265.6 kilometres (204 and
166 miles) above the

- earth,

Flight director Alexi
YeHseyev told Soviet
television yiewers the
“most significant fact is

‘ that the manned work has
started.”’
Experiments ‘being

conducted by romanenko
and Grechki include
studies of physical
processes and
phenomena in space,
medical and biological
studies, technical ex:
periments and gathering
earth and atmospheric
data, Tass said.

“The program also
envisages carrying out
maintenance, inspection,
checking and testing of
the other docking
assembly in the transfer
compartment,” it said.

The agency did not say
whether a second soyuz
would be launced to link
up ‘simultaneously with
the Salyut-6 using the
other dock.

The Soviet manned
space flight program is
believed to be con-
centrating on the effects
of prolonged
weightlessness on human
crews, The longest that
Soyuz crews have been
able to stay in space is 63
days. A U.S. Skylab crew
remained in space for 84
days in 1974.

A Soviet team came
down after 18 days in
orbit in February, In
dune, 1971, three Soviet
cosmonauts died while
returning to earth after
their capsule appraentl
decompressed. In April,
1973, a Salyut station lost
its solar energy panesl
and could not be manned.

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Terrace Wins In Sports

Bantam Hockey

The Prince George
Bantam Rep. hockey
team were 13 hours en
route to play Terrace
Bantams at the local
arena Saturday near
Houston. Iee and snow
road conditions and a
filter clogged with Ice
causing a two hour
stopover to get the bus

mobile again, added to
the delay.
Terrace won the
Staurday gaem witha 5 to
4 score. Sunday morning,
the two teams played
again, and this time
Terrace increased the
margin with a 5-3 win.
Making the Terrace
victories all the more
significant was the fact
the Prince George
players had come out

By-Election Race

OAK BAY, B.C. (CP) —
Premier Bill Bennett has
yet to set the byelection
date and the parties have
not yet nominated their
candidates, but the race
to fill Scott Wallace’s Oak
Bay legislature seat is
definitely on.

On Saturday, Wallace
was canvassing door-to-
door in South Oak Bay
with Vic Stephens, the
provincial Progressive
Conservative Party's
newly-elected leader.
And the liberal Party has
opened its campaign
headquarters in the
former Oad Bay bakery
in the. heart of the
viallage area of this
Victoria suburb, . .

The vote has been
prociptated by Wallace’s
decision to resign from
the legislature Dec. 31
and return to his medical
practice after serving for
several years as an MLA
and as party leader. -

Although’ he’s not
running fer election,
Wallace showed Saturday
that he will be fighting for
whoever gets the Con-
servative nod at the still-
to-be set nominating
meeting.

It was Wallace who did
all the talking at a pre-
‘Canvass rally and who
introduced Stephens to
householders as the two
joined other convassers
in a bid to retain the seat
for the- Conservative
‘Daly. ome. way

2OM€ WAY. 0.

a “Phere'’s. only-one. WAY:
to wir an election like this
one,’’ said -Wallace.
“tmock on as many doors
as you can and prove
you're bringing govern-
ment to the people. ‘

' “You'll never get
anywhere sitting in a
campaign headquarters
and spending a lot of
money pontificating in
advertisements.” _

Stephens, a relative

newcomer to politics who ,

fought a strong’ but
fruitless campaign in
Comox Inthe 1976 general
election, nodded and
noted he had ta: prac-
tically run all the way
when he knocked on
10,000 doors in that
campaign.

He doesn’t have a
legislature seat and has

. Three. consider: °
- .;. Mo sbandidates . -have. .;
declared thémsélvée for

not said whether he would
contest the byelection for
his party.

Oak Bay mayor, Brian
Smith, a federal. ¢ard-
carrying Conservative,
announced Friday he will
oppose former Victoria

erman Frank Carson
for the Social Credit
Party's nomination.
Carried Banner

Smith, one of Premier
Bennett's: tennis part-
ners, joined the party just
before its November
convention. Carson, a
long-time party member,
carried the party banner
in Oak Bay during the
1975 election.

The New Democratic
Party hasri’t scheduled a
nominating meeting yet
but Charles  Earber
(NDP-Victoria) said

‘Sunday that it would be

held in early January.

Barber said a special,

byelection committee has
been formed and
meetings have been held.

He said a “‘very suc-
eessful medium-scale
businessman’’ has of-
fered his name for the
NDP nomination and
there will be an an-
nouncement soon.

“Tt would be a very
important...signal — tc
smaillbusinessmen
throughout Britis
Columbia,” said Barber.
“Tt would better show
that the NDP represents
all constituencies in: the
province.”’ .

the Jan. 12 Liberal
nomination meeting, but
Bob Monaghan, president
of the oak Bay Liberals,

said three prominent |
people are considering *

running in the race.

Monaghan said people
had been coming in and
out. of the qiberal eam:
paign headquarters
day Saturday. -

iberal leader Gordon

Gibson has said the
byelection will. be a
“barometer of the public
attitude. to the present.
political climate” in B.C.
and Stephens said
Saturday it will decide
“whether we are going to
turn the opposition en-
tirely over to the
socialists (NDP).”

Rie

tops ir the Cariboo
League, having defeated.
Quesnel, Williams Lake,
100 Mile House and the
Prince George Bantam
Spruce Kings.

Travelling aboard ‘the
Prince George bus with
the Bantam Reps was the
Prince George PeeWees,
who went on to play
Kitimat. They were due
to return, also aboard the
same bus as the P.G.
Bantams, Sunday. af-
ternoon. . ,

Water Polo

Terrace Men’s tea
defeated Prince
Rupert 13 to 11 in the
all day water polo
event, Saturday.

In a round robin
contest Sunday
morning, Terrace
women emerged
victorious over Prince
Rupert, Prince
George, and Kitimat.
Alli in all, it was a
winners weekend for
Terrace despite snow-
blocked streets and
drifted in lanes.

School
Board
Meeting

There will-be a general
meeting of the Board of
Trustees of School
District 68 (Terrace) in
the Board Room Wed-

‘nesday, December 14 a

7:30 p.m. oo

Items on the agenda for
the meeting include
briefs on Hazelton
Secondary School, Joh
Fieid Elementary School
and terrace Primary
Teachers Association.

_The board will also deal
with a-_report from Mrs.
‘Rena Bolton, Home and
School Co-ordinator, and
Northern Winter Games.

“gated for

night’s meeting “are
Departmerit Heads -—
Reassignment, and
_ Board philosophies.

‘Highway |
Blocked

VANCOUVER (CP) ~
TheSalmo-Creston
section of Highway 3 was
closed. Sunday as Ca-
nadian Forces. crewa
used artillery on slopes
which posed an
avalanche hazard. - .

A spokesman for the
ministry of highways said
avalanches were also
being shet down in the
Rogers Pass section of

Search Begins For #oariage
Pr. Rupert Vessel

VICTORIA (CP) — A
search began Sunday for
the Gustav, a 53-foot
trawler with four persons
aboard, that went
missing on a trip from
Prince Rupert to Vic-
toria.

Search and Rescue
officials said planes and
helicopters were being
used to search the west
coast of Vancouver
Island and north of the
island,

Those aboard the
Gustav when it left
Prince Rupert Nov. 10
were identified as: John
Trail, 23, of Victoria, the
ship’s operator; his

brother David, 29, Wendy
Trail, 27, and Mary Ann
Grubb, 20, a of

Shawnigan Lake.

Search officials said
the four had planned a
leisurely trip south to
Victoria, and were ex-
pected to arrive here
around Dec, 4,

closed intermittently.

The ministry advised
motorists not to use the-
Fraser Canyon section of
the Trans-Canada High-.
way because freezing.
rain and smail_ slides’
were making driving.
conditions azardous'
Sunday.

Blizzard conditions”
were reported between:
Tete Jaune Cache and the
B.C.-Alberta boundary. .
. Most highways in the,

rovince were reported to.

ave compact snow or.
bare and wet sections.

Scene Sunday. afternoon on

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