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John Kennedy is Overwaitea's new manager in Terrace,

Phato by Don Schatter.

John looks forward to fishing

John Kennedy. is the new manager of the Over-
‘waltea store in the Skeena Mall in Terrace.

He has been the manager for three weeks, coming
from Merritt where he was manager of the store

there

He is 34 years old, married with three children, a

six-year-old son and twin three-year-old daughters. He
enjoys hunting and fishing, and is familiar with the
area’s outdoor opportunities since he used to live in

Prince Rupert.

Socred letter writer out

VICTORIA (CP) — A
Social Credit party con-
stituency executive realgned
iis position 'Saturday,'a day
after admitting that he used
phoney names on letters he
sent to Vancouver Island
newspapers,

"Norman Hobson, vice-
president of the party's
Nanaimo constituency of-
fice, resigned following a

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meeting with other members
of the executive,
Constituency president
Doug McBride sald ‘the
asséciation has a policy that
party members must use
their real names when
writing letters to news

papers,

Hobson of Lantzville ad-
mitted putting the fictitious
names on letters he wrote to

Kennedy has been with the Overwaitea organization
for 15 years and has made nine stops with the store, in
Powell River, Prince George, Prince Rupert,
Chemainus, Campbell River, Prince George again,
Kamloops, Merritt and here. -

He has already bought a house on Lambley Road,
and is looking forward to getting settled in and having

time to do some fishing.

papers in Victoria and

Nanaimo before and after.

the provincial electlon Jast
spring. The letters, which
criticized NDP -members
and policy, also bore the
address of a little-used
parking lot in Nanaimo,
Hobson earlier defended
his use of the names and
address, saying he was

Alexander Cieslk, a member of the Fourth Terrace Cub Pack, is just one of the

youngsters in his group who are working for the Loyal Order of the Moose to clean
up around town. The Moose pay the cubs §25 a month for the Saturday morning
good deed. They pick up 20 bags of garbage in little more than an hour, The money
will help with the cubs’ activittes.

trying to protect himaelf and

a)

his property, He said that
ever eince he has been in
politics‘ he has been sujected
to scare tactics and people
have':threatened to burn
down his home.
His-resignation follows an
announcement by the at-
torneygeneral’s department
this it has asked police to
investigate two cases of
forged letters — ane believed
to have originated from
Premier Bill Bennett's of-

fice.
The two letters — one to
the Victoria Colonist and the:

other’ to’ the’ Varicouver Sun
— were discovered in the
wake of the government’s
dirty tricks seandal in which
caucus researchers were
found to have counselled
members on how to go about
faking letters to the editors..
A tape of thelr instructlons
was distributed by the party
to constituency associations
during the provincial
election campaign.
. One of the researchers,
Jack Kelly, has resigned and
the other, Ellen MacKay, is
still to be questioned by
party officials,
Ron Greig,
assistant to Bennett's
communications ‘planning
adviser, resigned laat week
after his name was linked to
the phoney letter to the Co-
lonist. Lo
Meanwhile, Bennett has
pledged to.sweep the Social
Credit party clean ‘of those
responsible for ‘morally and
ethically unacceptable.
“Te, sig n
nnett, s & on the’
television program Capital

Comment, said he expected,

former

wr

the phoney letter writing, Ei@

matter to be the dominant:
topic at the Social Credit

party's convention 1
Vancouver in early
November,

He sald he wants the.

matter discussed openly and
wants people who subscribe
to dirty tricka to be rooted
out of the party.

former

in. 3

FORT ST, JOHN, B.C,
(CP) — The resource-rich
Peace River area of British
Columbia loat ita major
transportation raute Sunday
when a spectacular fire
destroyed 9 B.C. Rall trestle
20 kilometres south of here,

The 500-metre wooden
trestle, bullt over a Peace
River flood plain and linked
toa steel bridge crossing the
river, caught ‘flre after 1
minaway fuel cara toppled
cif It and exploded into
flames, ;

The 67-ton capacity cars —
six carrying gasoline, four
loaded with diesel oll and one
carrying butane — rolled out
of control off a siding about
three kilometres north of the
trestle and spilled off the
tracks when they reached a
curve

Railway officials and Fort
St. John RCMP are in-
veatlgating todetermine how

& cars got loose.

The logs of the bridge,
which the rallway estimates
could take up to four months
to rebuild, will place o
severe hardship on the

lumber, petroleum, grain,

and sulphur industries in
Fort Nelaon and Fort St.
John, which rely on the
railway to haul = their
products to the coast,
Hardest hit will be the
forest products companies —
three in Fort Nelson, one in

Fort St. John and one jn
Taylor, 15 kilometres,south
of Fort St. John™-- and
Pacific Petroleum McMahon
refinery in Taylor.

“A brief break in the
service we can live with, but
it would be a near disaster if
it wag a long break,” sald
Doug MacPhail, manager of
Tackama Forest Products of
Fort Nelson.

“It's the old thing, if the
railway is down, we're down.
I'm sure going to raise a lot
cf hell,”

Seventeen locomotives
were trapped north of the
trestle which Is used by
about 65 cars a day to carry
lumber, graln, petroleum,
sulphur, veneer and wood
chips to markets in the
south,

Hugh Armstrong, B.C.
Rail spokesman, said the
company likely will make a
decision today on whether to
rebuild the structure or fill in
the flood plain with earth,

In the meantime, B.C. Rall
is consid using trucks to
haul commoditles around the
treatle to Dawson Creek,

This is the busiest time of
year for the foreat products
companies and having to
truck large amounts of
lumber ‘for an extended
period of time could prove
costly, :

“We may be forced tose
aseistance from somewhere

Open Learning
opens an office

The Open Learning In-
stitute’s new advisor in
Prince George says the role
of her newly-established
office at 1531 Victoria Street
isto ensure that people in the
Prince George region who
want to continue their
education can do so.

Lois Leal, a 32 year old
counsellor and
education consultant at
Simon Fraser University,
says the Open Learning
Institute was established to
extend educational op-
portunitles to people who
can't take advantage of
existing institutions,

“L see my rele in Prince
George as working with the
college and other existing
educational bodies to help
people who want to continue
their education, as well as
helping OLI students with
thelr course choices or any
other problems they might
have,” she said.

Leal said OLI’s hame-
Btudy courses can lead te
B.A. and B.Sc. degrees as
well as certificates in
technical and vocational
areas and secondary school
diplomas.

“Lots of people in the
Prince George region can’t
attend university or college
because of shift work or
family responsibility or
physical handi-caps or other
reasons, and of course many
people live in areas remote
from college facilities,”’ she
said, ‘But now that the Open
Learning Institute is In
operation there’s no reason

why they can’t proceed with
their educational ob-
jectives,” .

Leal said in January the
institute will be launching
ten new career, technical
and vocational courses and
offering 12 secondary school
courses and 17 university
courses,

“We've expanded our
course offerings
dramatically since the

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seven-course pilot project in
September,"’ she said. “And
we'll be Increasing our
course offerings every
semester from now on for
some time.”

She said British Colum-
bians could register at the
Open Learning Institute at
any time of year but courses
begin in September, January
and May.

The Open Learning In-
Btitute, she
pioneering ai unique
telephone-a-tutor system
which enables students fram
all over the province to call a
tutor free of charge for
academic help.

Persons wishing more
information about the Open

Learning Institute can call.

Lois Leal free of charge at
563-4237 or write the Open
Institute at 1531
Vietoria Street, Prince
George, B.C., V2 214,

said, is .

The Herald,Monday, October 22, 1979 Page 3

Fire destroys bridge

to pay the extra freight
charges If we have to truck
products or trans-ship,”’ sald
MacPhail. “We are an far
from the market aa you can
Su) ge
ent on

industry."

More than 700 persona in
the town of 5,600 are directly
employed in the forest In-

Meshal aaid the mills

will stockpile any lumber

that can't be shipped, but

some workers could be laid
if space runs out.

Vic Hope, manager of the
Paciflc Petroleum plant,
said his company ship
butane and propane by tru
to Its customers, but
liquefied petroleum gas
might have to be trans-
shipped. .

Operatora of grain
elevators, already stacked
high because of an excellent

year and a rail car
shortaze which has slowed
movement to coastal porta,
also could experiente
problems if the bridge ja out
for some time,

The blazing trestle, which
caught fire shortly after
midnight, waa brought under
control Sunday by firemen
backed by railway water
tankers and helicopters
dropping fire retardant.

Plumes of dense black
amoke 100 metres high
drifted through the Peace
River valley as the flames
licked at the trestle for
several hours.

There were no injuries in
the mishap and no
evacuations were ordered.

Harlem Clowns
coming to town

The Harlem Clowns will be
coming to Terrace to play an
All-star team made up of
teachers and Caledonia
grads. The show will take
Place at Caledonia Secon-
dary School at 8 p.m. on Oct.
z.

The Clowns, regular
visitors to the Terrace area,
will be at Cat's gym playing
some straight basketball,
and some fun ball, The
Clowns specialize in the
fancy plays, the trick
Bhootlng and passing that
provides an evening’s light
entertainment.

Part of the proceeds from.

the Clown's show will go to
the three area secondary
schools to aid thelr athletic

budgets.

Clowns’ lineup
features Ray “Showboat"
Clay, Herb Scaife, Michael
Douglas and Preston Scott.
Owner Al Pullins cails the
team's style of play
“clownball”, and all players
are expert showmen who
enjoy their shows as much aa
the audience. .

Admission to the show is
$3.50 for adults, $2.50 for

students and $1.00 for under
10's. Tickets will be
available at the door.

Oct. 17 and Oct. o4

WINSDAY

tickets good for