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VOLUME 71 NO. 164 . 20¢ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1977__
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Local B.C. Tel workers picket over Christmas holidays in Terrace.

Christmas fire

The Christmas
festivities were marred
for the Amos family of
Kitamaat Village when
their home was gutted by
fire on Christmas Day.

Henry Amos Jr., his
wife and four children
were visiting in Kitimat
at the dime of the blaze
and so escaped injuries,
but all their sessions
were lost in fire,

There was no insurance
bs elon the house -nor

2 longings. . ;
~pehatat that

a sig tarted by an

electric baseboard heater this

mat the fire

in one of the children’s
m which was
completely destroyed.
Other rooms in the house
were extensively —

damaged
The alarm was
received by Kitamaat

Village volunteer fire
department at about
12:30 pm. The volun:
teers had the fire under

Golden Rule

busy

with

“Goody-Bags”

It was a “Normal”
Christmas for the Golden

control with the aid of Rule busy at its seventh

their small
tient ti department
at. fire. en
arrived at the scene.
No damage estimated:
on the blaze'is mown at
me.

Terrace was quiet
as RCMP & Firemen -
enjoyed Christmas

Statistics from the
RCMP : Batmobile road
blocks checking for

driver were not
available until after the
holiday weekend, it being
the holiday season for
RCMP who - though some
apparently might _
question the statement -
are “human beings + just
like anybody else’!

Terrace RCMP
reported a very quiet
holiday long weekend,
with only one entry on the
police blotter.

A male juvenile was
apprehended inside the

Overwaitea store Mon-

day night before he had
an o portunt to make
off any

said nothing had been

stolen, as the culprit was {0

caught in the act, and was

being detained for further
questioning, Tuesday
morning.

Similarly, the Terrace
Fire Department had

only one entry over the clothi

BEE" 0B "hoa bags tering

—

ot making up

or married
unemployed - with no
children. Thirty-three
sone had signed for
er “BAGS IN THE
Terrace area, and ap-
proximately 50 more
were to do so
befor the holidays were
over.

The “‘Goody-Bags” are
not “‘hampers”', the G.R.
is quick to point out.
They consist of con-
tributions from the local
merchants and private

. Police citizens of good will, A

typical bag contains the
owing: One “dinner
in a bag” that can be
eaten as is - or the bag
can immersed in
boiling water; a comb,
teothbrush, box of
tissues, one pound of good
wrap candies, nuts,
hot chocolate, tea bags,
soup, pop, oranges, ap-
ples, one article oi
(socks or scarf,

same period, The lone ete.) cigarettes or sub-

call was caused by a floor

stitute, and a bottle of

smouldering under a shampoo. Approximate

fireplace.
damage was reported.

The lift was full and the slopes busy a¢ Kitsumkalum
Mountain over the holidays. Scene above was taken at

le or no value of each “bag” is
$20.

noon, Tuesday.

The bags are prepared
with an eye to the cir-
cumstances of the
recipients - many of
whom live in furnished
rooms, with no cooking
privileges. One generous

donor walked into the -.

Golden Rule office before
Christmas and plunked
down enough food for two
persons for one whole
day, said the GR.
manager, thankfully.
Tho it would not be
fair to mention any
specific organizations,

e Catholic Church and
the Free Evangelical
Church “came on like
Gangbusters” - as they
usually do, with their
support for the annual
project, it was reported.

There were at least a
couple of last minute
additions to the list of

names, which meant
extra straining of
resources. Although

most pledges will be
eventually honoured, - as
in past years, there are
usually a few that are late
in coming in, so the staff
holds its breath until
sometime after Christ-
mas when it will know for
certain how the pledges
tally against those
provided for, -

By THE CANADIAN

"oaed rita
son rou

in the oi] fields of central
Alberta say Red Adair
has lived up to his
daredevil reputation
since he was called in last
week to tame a wild
natural gas well,

The 62-year-old Texan,
world famous for his
dangerous _ specialty,
drove a bulldozer to the
inge of a roaring gas
fire Saturday to ve a
drilling rig. off the
wellhead. he well,
blowing wild since Dec. 6
about 130 kilometres
southwest of Edmonton,
had ignited earlier in the

y.

“It was the feat of a
superman,” said a safety
man working for Amoco
Canada Petroleum Co.
Ltd., owner of the well in
the West Pembina field.

“He could have heen’

fried alive. The area
around the well was
ablaze. The heat was fan-
tastic.”

Monday, workers
started work on an B00
metre pipe to pump water
from he Pembing River
to cool off the blazing
well.

Plans were being made
to plant and detonate a
dynamite charge near the
well to snuff the fire b
momentarily cutting oif
its oxygen supply. —

Meanwhile, a
Cessford, Alta., another
exploratory well contin-
ued to blow wild and
efforts to cap it were
hampered by the dif-
ficulty of finding men to
work over. the Chr
break, BLASTED
CRATER

The Cessford well,
operated by Gamma
Resources Ltd., blew wild
Dec. 19, blasting a crater
around the we head and

@ the ing rig.
Opti of the provincial
energy resources con-
servation board said it
could be weeks before it
is brought under control.

For two days last week,
three gas wells were
blowing wild in Alberta.
The other wild well—in
the Lac La Biche area 160
kilometres northeast of
Edmonton and operated
by Gulf Oil Canada Ltd.—
was brought under
control last Friday.

Adair was 25
kilometres away from the
West Pembina well on
Christmas Eve when he
heard it had caught fire.

He had told Amoco
officials he wanted to try
and cap the well in time
to get his men home for
ne ia ped h

“He jum straight
behind a bulldozer and
towed the rig away,” said

company spokesman
Dave McAsey.
“Another few seconds

and the rig could have
been a twisted mass of
metal over the well and
capping efforts could
perhaps have been
delayed for weeks.”

RIG COLLAPSED

The salvaged drilling
rig collapsed after it was
towed clear and the
cables used to pull it free
were destroyed by the
heat of the fire.

Once the rig was out of
the way, Adair went’ back
to save a giant mobile
crane and several pickup
trucks.

The company could
give no explanation wh:

. the wild well had ignited,

but said that one spark
from any loose metal
banging together could
have been responsible.

“We have been within
seconds of closing the
well several times,” said
McAsey. “But we're sure
Red will eventually
regain his unbeaten
blowout record.”

Since the well ignited,
McAsey said workers
have been putting out
small fires in the area
caused by burning lquid
condensate which had
coated the aren.

tmas .

Finlay Ferguson — $20,000 winner!

t

~ Terrace man
wins $20,000

Finlay Ferguson of 4471
Seotton Avenue, Terrace
was a lucky winner in the
Provincial lottery draw
Monday night. The draw
was made over TV at 10
p.m. Finlay’s winning
ticket was No. 5868279
and according te the
happy holder, Tuesday
morning, is good for a
$20,000 “Bonus Prize’.
He confirmed the winning
number when ie van
couver papers arrived a
noon, Fabsday. A five
year veteran of Wrold
War H, Mr. Ferguson
served with the Rock and
Tunnel branch of the
Rayal Canadian
Engineers- most of it
overseas. An interesting
connection with _ his
wartime service and his
lottery won, noticed by
him is his Military Ser-

vice number of B-28719.

which contains most of

the same numbers.
Ferguson is employed

as a scaler with the B.C,

‘Forestry Service. The

Fergusons have three
children. A davaghter 14,
attends Thornhill public
school, a son Bruce,
employed on the
Canad i es
construction at Watson
Island, Prince Rupert-
living in Terrace and a
second son in the Interior.
Actually . Monday
night’s $20,000 win was a
second for Finlay. In the
last draw he won $50
which he ploughed back
into purchasing ten
tickets. It was on one of
the ten that held the lucky
number in Monday
night’s draw. Rather than
claiming the $20,000 now

and since the ticket is .
also for next

month's draw and there

can only be one wip

claimed per, . ticket,
Finlay is going to let his
ticket ride just in case it
comes or one of the
million dollar draws next
month. “I’m in no
hurry,” he told a Herald
reporter, “‘It’s good for
the twenty thousand; I
checked it out.”

Asked whether he has"
any plans for spen it,
the middle aged Velen
smiled an thought
awhile. ‘‘Il might use
some of it to speculate on
the Stock Market.” From
the way he spoke, this
reporter surmised Finlay
Ferguson is no stranger
to the Market — and
could just as well be
lucky in stocks, too,

Stranglings in Los Angeles
could be work of copy-cat

By LAURINDA KEYS
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Investigators of the
Hillside Strangler case
have been hampered by
dead-end clues, a lack of
tips, and false con-
fessions. But perhaps
most frustrating of all
has been dissension
among law enforcement
agencies drawn together
by the dumping of
murdered females across
the northern suburbs.
The latest
disagreement centres on
whether one of two young
women found slain during
the weekend is the stran-
er’'s latest victim. But
isputes in the case
began soon after it was
noted in mid-November
that the bodies of young
irls and women were

ginning to turn up with .
r

unusual frequency in the
Los Angeles area.

Investigators from the
agencies then involved—
the sheriff's office and
Los Angeles and Glendale
police—met but could not
agree on which victims
were connected. They
continued to handle the
cases separately,
although a tentative lial-
son was set up.

On Nov. 25, Sheriff's
Lieut. Phil Bollington
dropped two names from
a list of 11 possibie vic-
tims of the strangler. He
said no definite con-
nection could be
established between the

nine other slayings and
the deaths of seven-year-
old Margaret Elizabeth
Madrid, found: Noy. 6 in
the city of Industry, and
19-year-old There
Berry of Pomona, found
Nov. 4 in Walnut.

DOUBTS CONNECTION

But Los Angeles police
Cmdr. William Booth
declined the same day to
rule out any of the 11
victims as targets of the
same killer or to pinpoint
any as connected.

“Because of the dis-
Similarities in the case,
the agesand
backgrounds, there is a
strong possibility that a
number of the cases are
not connected in any
way," he said.

However, when a
special strangler police
unit was formed shortly
thereafter and put out its
official list, Miss Berry
and the Madrid girl were
ruled out, At least two
more victims have turned
up since,

Differences were also
apparent in other areas.

{ter interviewing
witnesses under hyp-
nosis, Glendale police
issued a composite
drawing of a man
reported seen driving the
car of Kristina Weckler,
20, whose body was found
Nov..6.0n a residential
lawn in:Glendale.

Los Angeles police said
they would not comment
on the sketch and have

not released any
drawings of their own.
CHIEF LEAKS SECRET

Tension between the
Glendale and Los Angeles
departments rose sharply
when Glendale Police
Chief Duane Baker made
an offhand remark at a
civic meeting that some
of the victims had been
sodomized.

Details of the sexual
attacks on the victims
who were molested had
been a closely guarded
secret. Police had wanted
certain information kept
secret so it could be used
in polygraph tests of
suspects,

The latest
disagreement is between
Pasadena and Los Ange-
les police. Lieut. Dan
Cooke, a spokesman for
Los Angeles police, has
said that a woman found
near the Rose Bowl in |
Pasadena early Saturda
and one found in sout.
Los Angeles shortly after
were apparently killed by
the same person or
persons, but not by the

illside Strangler.

Pasadena police have
said they have the 12th
victim. But they do not
have any suspects.

Los Angeles police
have arrested two men
and charged them with
investigation of murder
in the death of the woman
found in Los Angeles.
Whoever killed one,
probably killed the other,