TV show helps out Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 22, 1992 ~ Page A11 Murder tips flowing in TERRACE — RCMP in- yestigators. have new leads in their search for the killer of Phillip Innes Fraser after an American television broadcast Isl week, 2 Tips from across the conti- nent flooded in after American was found burning in a Prince . per cent. When the fugitive or Back Eddy ne Wi viewers saw the segment about George carwash, Hisbody was suspect is known and identified, Nikos Panagopolous Quarterdeck the Fraser’ murder on the Jan. discovered a month later in a that success rate climbs to 40 Savalas Terrace Hotel Bavarian Inn i5 episode of Unsolved gravel pit near Stewart, Fraser per cent. Don Diegos McDonalds Narthern Motor Troe Ni lig Los Anpeles had been shot. : This is ihe first time a lelevi- Pizza Hut Sandman inn Inn llr, a Los Angeles- i ; i i sion based researcher for the Devi. The last time the hitchhiker crime show of its type has Tim Horton Slumber Lodge sion show, said at least 400 tips . came in about the 1988 murder after the program aired. Prince Rupert RCMP Const. Dennis ‘Bahaus vestigatory are ‘overwhelmed by and extremely pleased with the .publig response.”’ He said police are following up. the many leads the TV show has — generated, * RCMP said the Lips involve - No ‘interest’ said in-. The suspect sightings of possible suspects in the investigation across Canada and the U.S. Fraser, a 23-year-old American traveller, was travell- ing from Alaska to Washington state in June, 1988, He passed through Dease Lake — travell- ing south on Hwy37 — and was last seen at 40-Mile Flat, where he picked up a hitchhiker who is the prime suspect in the case. The next. day, June 19, Fraser’s black Volkswagen Jetta was seen was when Fraser’s car broke down southeast of Meziadin Junction. A Kitwanga couple helped the heavyser, unkempt man tow the Jetta ta Kitwanga. He stayed the night at their place and left in the morning, Although several people have come into contact with the hit- chhiker, he has never been found, Unsolved Mysteries claims to Scholarship idea dumped TERRACE — Teachers have rejected.4 deal to establish a $31,000 scholarship fund from the interest on their delayed pay hikes. _ The idea was put forward by the.school board following an earlier demand from the teachers’ union that all the in- terest. be paid out to the ; teachers, But .Terrace District Teachers’ Union president Robert Brown said last week the memibership voted down the scholarship proposal. The school board doesn’t want to pay out the interest because of the precedent it would set and because of the bookkeeping expenses that would be incurred in calculating - Police asking - for your help TERRACE — Kitimat RCMP are asking for the help of Ter- race residents in finding thieves who abandoned their getaway vehicle here, Unknown culprits broke inte a house ‘at'66 Meldrum St. in Kitimat onthe night of Dec. 26, ; police said. The thieves stole several pieces of stereo and video equipment, three rifles, ‘a shotgun, anda collection ‘of Canadian and American:coins. ace a blgck gerbe 635- ee red 1987 GMC Jimmy — licence humber PAC 077 — out of the driveway. The truck has since. been found in the Terrace area, police said. RCMP are investigating several leads, Anyone with in- formation about these incidents or circulation of the stolen items can contact Kitimal RCMP at 632-7111 or Terrace RCMP at setter ee ere “SUNDANCE ee “INSAN ITY. exactly what each teacher is ow- ed. District teachers were last month paid a total of $1.2 million in back pay that had been held back since last spring in accordance with the defeated Social Credit government's Compensation Fairness Act. Teachers also wanted the in- terest on that money — about $31,000 in total, averaging less than $100 per teacher, School board chairman Edna Cooper said trustees were divid- ed at last week’s board meeting about what should be done now, She said a decision was made to send the teachers another letter giving them more detail on the scholarship idea. “They cannot force us to pay them the money, "” she said. ‘We feel we're doing this as a gesture to them, We don’t have ’ to pay them this money.’ She noted that the average payout ‘would be Jess than $100 per teacher, “Each teacher will not get that much,’ Cooper said. “We see.no reason for us to.incur ex- piefises lordo itfpp thei.” Cate January 23 thru 26 e*: ONLY! 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