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( TERRACE-KITIMAT _

VOLUME 72 No. 99

20°

TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1978

Shoppers want open hours

The majority of shoppers
Terrace favor
unrestricted store hours,
acenrding to 4 poll conducted
by the B.C. Government
Employees Union — un-

en since last week,
Davis, staff

. reproeatave for the union,

voters whose

. unrestricted hours “by

fairly sizable majority,” so

The poll first began on
Friday, May 12, following an
earlier. meeting of Terrace
council where the problem of
store hours was discussed. .

- Council bad been prepared to

repeal the exisitng shop
closing by-law, but ‘were

stopped by a 50-name
petition of local
businessmen. .

The merchants indicated
they were in faver of
retaining the present by-law,
and council halted action on
the matter 30 the two aides
could get together to discuss
a new by-law,

Davis said local members
of the BCGEU ‘“‘wanted to
respond to the petition that
the businessmen put in.”

“No one even knew what
the community wanted,’” he
said,

The poll has been taken on

a small scale so far at local
shopping centres, but this

week the efforts will be
stepped up. .
The three choices given in
the poll are to keep shop
hours as they are, to keep
shop hours as they are ex-
cept for K-Mart which would

be allowed to open six daysa .

week from 10.4.m. to 10 p.m.,
and unrestricted hours.

In the first 45 minutes of
the poll, 257 people signed |
the poll, Davis said, with a

"strong trend toward favoring

unrestricted hours,

Unrestricted hours are not
intended to force stores to
stay open, Davis explained,
but only to allow for a “free:
market” situation.

The BCGEU poll will ‘give
the shoppers a chance to be
heard,” he said.

Hospital boards —

Davis will take the results
of the poll to tonight’s council
meeting.

manipulated

VICTORIA (CP) — Dennis
Cocke (NDP—New West-
minster) Sunday blasted
hospital boards in British
Columbia for being ©
manipulated by small in-
terest groups.

Cocke, health minister In
the previous ‘New
Democratic Party govern-
ment, told the party’s annual
convention that the present
situation at hospital boarda
around the province is not a
healthy one,

He said the hoards should

be elected by the people at

large to ensure they are
representing all of the
feople,

“A hospital board is open
to domination,” he said.

‘ “It's not regional and it’s not
ein one particular
municipality." 4

A two vehicle accident at the coriter of Kalum and Lakelse on Sunday evening resulted in
a Haney resident being taken to hospital, The woman was struck by a vehicle when

_ another vehicle hit d parked car... The.
*” Peportéd iy satisfactory condition Perey eet Hospitals:

aii, ‘whose jane hai. not. bee

taken Into custody and will be charged with Impaired. driving, ‘fallure to provide an ~

adequate

breathalyzer

sainple

and driving

while ’ disqualified.

‘Busy weekend for
Terrace RCMP ©

“Terrace RCMP were busy
during the holiday weekend
with stolen vehicles, ac-
cidents, drunks and an
‘assortment of other crimes.
- ‘Two trucks were stolen on
Saturday night, one of them
recovered al Red Sand Lake
‘whereit had been abandoned
with a flat tire. The other
truck, which apparently was
stolen in its place, has not yet
been recovered. ;

At about 11:30 p.m.
Thursday night, police at-
tended a motor vehicle
accident on Queensway
which sent two persons to
hospital, A check of the
vehicle showed that it had

been stolen just prior to the -

aceldent. Police are still
investigating.

Terrace Shrystler was the
victim of a theft Thursday
when someone stole a four-
barrel carborator from one
of the vehicles in the parking

prehended last week and
charged with breaking and
entering and theft following

a theft from Finning Tractor.

Two culprits were ap-

Wednesday of $100 cash. No
names have keen released.

Biker Auto Supply was hit
by vandals Friday night

when -a rock was thrown ;

through one of the windows.
Sometime around mid-
night Saturday police
received one complaint from
_the 3300 block Pheasant and
one from 5000 block Walsh of
a prowler,

Around the same ime,
police recovered a 1978 Ford
4X 4 three minutes after it
was reported slolen from the
6000 block Walsh, No name
has been released, but police
lodged one person in the
police cells overnight after
he was picked up in the
vehicle,

A.B.C.. Telvehicle had

, about 30 gallons of gas

. 2 : ;
Fire on.
Firefighters attended a fire
at 6269 Hepple Road on

Braun's Islandat aboul 10:30
Tuesday morning:

- siphoned from its tank while
it was parked at the Keith
Avenue B.C. Tel lot Monday.
Police are still investigating.

A Kitimat man had a boat
and motor stolen when it was
left at Furlong Bay camp-
5

Two males were lodged in
cells for being intoxicated on
Saturday and: one person
charged with impaired
driving.

‘Early Monday morning, 10
persons were lodged for
being intoxicated along with
three others who were
picked up for drinking in a

public place, The three, all’

from Prince Rupert, were
drunk when they rolled a

jeep at Furlong Bay camp- °

site and proceeded to upset
the campsite.

Braun’s:

Firement were unable to:

save a shed containing hay
which burned down, but kept
the fire from. spreading,

Terrace Minl-Museurn in the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Information Booth was

officially opened Friday. Louella Brooks, Vera Frank, Mayor Dave Maroney and -

Norma Bennett cut the ribbon,

A Prince Rupert man ie ~

Cocke clied the current

: abortion controveray at

Vancouver General Hospital
as an example of a board's
domination, -

He said that at present, the
board decides who can and
can't have an abortion.

“Is going to be decided

‘by whoever dominates that

hospltal board,” he sald,
“It's not healthy for the
hosptial business . . . our
whole community should

have access to that hospital
board.”

MINISTER CONDEMNED

Earlier, delegates to the
convention condemned
Human Resources Minister
Bill Vander Zalm's new pay-
as-you-recelve policy for
family services,

They said social workers

now will be spending more
tlme doing. paper work and
debt collection instead of
counselling,
_ The delegates also passed
resolutions calling for in-
creases in social assistance,
handicapped assistance and
mincome.

Gther resolutions passed
Sunday included:

—Condemning the Social
Credit government’ for
eutting back ambulance
service in the province;
-—Calling for a living
allowance for parents bet-
ween the ages of 17 and 19
who are in need of it;

—Allowing victims of
criminal injuries who are
dependent on income
assistance to retain their
compensation under the
Criminal Injuries Act and
not to have it deducted from
the fneome assistance
payments.

Impaired drivers

VERNON, B.C, (CP) -
Police here took videotapes
of at least. seven people

. during the holiday weekend,

and six of them have been

charged with impaired
driving.
Police plan to use the tapes

of the accused performing
balance tests as evidence
should the cases go to trial.
The admissibility of such
evidence, taken-at the same
time as breath testa, has not.
yet been ruled on, although a
Crown ‘prosecutor and police
in Kamloops, B.C., have said
a similar program used by
Kamloops RCMP two years
ago was unsuccessful.
RCMP Insp. Dick Ed-
wards said that the tapes
could only be used if the
‘accused pleaded guilty and

‘that -it was necessary to.

secured the accused's
permission before taping
could occur.

Vernon Crown prosecutor
Bob . Williamson, however,
said tapes were not used in
the Kamloops case because
the judge ruled that it was an
interception of private
communication under the

_ Wiretap provisions of the
Criminal .

That is not the case now,
. hesaid, adding that suspects
are being advised that they

are being taped.

e Williamson said he would
appeal to a higher court if
the videotape evidence is
ruled inadmissable.

Attorney-General Garde

-Gardom has said he sup-
ports the plan to use video

Protesters

arrested

BANGOR, Wash, (AP) -
Nearly 300 demonstrator

were arrested Monday after.

they. climbed a barbed-wire
fence and gathered on a
grassy knoll inside’ the
Trident nuclear. submarine
base to protest inter-natlonal
nuclear weaponry,

The “demonstrators,
holding a United Nations flag
and singing We Shall
Overcome, sald they were’
trying to draw attention to

Assembly special session on
huclear disarmament
opening In New York Clty
today.

The demonstrators, who

> have yet to be charged, said

earlier they planned “ball
solldarity”--no one will leave
jail on bail or personal
recognizance until all are
released on: personal
recognizance.

State Patrol Sgt, R. W.
Borsheara estimated 1,000
persons gathered outside the
Trident base Monday
morning and about one-third
of them used ladders and rug
remnants to scale the six-

. foot-high fence into the base

while the others cheered,

Workers at the base en-
fered at another gate and
there was ho confrontation
between them and the
protesters,

Construction, at the 4$646-
million Trident base on the
Kitsap Peninsula began In
October, 1974, and the flrat af
the nuclear-armed subs is
scheduled for delivery by
spring 1981,

the United Nations General ‘

‘whe U.S. Navy plans 13 of
the submarines.

In Groton, Conn., on
Monday about 30 demon-
strators, lined up outside the
Electric Boat plant to protest
construction of Trident
submarines there. One
demonstrator was arrested
when he refused to leave
after carrying ‘a hlack
coffin-shaped box through
the plant gate,

‘Armed
robbery.

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C,
(CP) - A couple believed to
be. from the United States is
to appear in court today to
face charges laid after the

Tobbery of a Victorla couple |

on an isolated island on
Stuart Lake Friday.

RCMP in this northern
British Columbia com-
‘munity sald Robert Charles
Barnicutt, 31, and hig wife
Pamela, 21, are charged
with armed robbery and
theft over $200.

Const. Ron Lambert said
the .couple was arrested
Sunday by RCMP officers
using boatd to search the
shore of the lake.

He sald a couple entered
the Island home of Robert
Gathercole late Friday
night, holding him and hls
wife at gunpoint before
taking jewelry, three riftes
and: an undetermined
amount of money.

One of the more crowded rafts in the Raft Race Sunday. Seen here from the Kitimat
River Bridge it's obvious that the crew are starting to weary. More on the entire

. celebrations “‘ on

‘pages = 2

and 5

Whites evacuate from
Zaire, soldiers stay

KOLWEZI, Zaire (AP) -
Belgian paratroops departed
Monday, leaving this copper-
mining centre in the hands of

French and Zairean soldiers

after a 3-day evacuation of
nearly 2,500 white civilians
who had been terrorized by
black rebels,

The last unit of the
estimated' 1,200 to 1,500
Belgian troops climbed into
C-130 transport planes at
mid-afternoon. Maj. A.
Couwenhberg, commander of
one Belgian battalion, said
the troops had been ordered
210 kilometres north to the
town of Kamina, :

“were going. home,” he :
_ anid,-and it appéared’ some

wo) a return to Belgium.
ut in’ ‘Brusseds, Belgian
Premier Leo Tindemans
said
paratroops would stay at:
Kamina ‘to guarantee the

safety’? of Belgians
remaining in Zalre's
southeastern Shaba
province.

An-estimated 800 troops of
the French Foreign Legion
remained here. Their
commanders have said thelr
mission is t pacify the

province, known as Katanga ~

when Zaire was the Belgian
Congo, The Belgian troops
said they were here only to
evacyate civilians. Zairean
troops began’ arriving in
large numbers Sunday.

In Moscow, the Soviet

one’ battalion’ of

news agency Tass Claimed
France and Belgium-backed
by the United States which
provided transport planes to
carry fuel and ammunition—
are continuing an ‘armed
Invasion” of Zaire,

The Belgians and
leglonnaires drove rebel
Lunda tribesmen out of this
copper-mining city, home in
peacetime to 101,000 per-
ssons, during the weekend,

_ allowing the evacuation of

whites to Eurepe. Most of
them are Belgian and
French.

French officials ‘say the

_Tebels killed at least 170
’ whites in .the slege that
. began | May. 13... wel oom

‘a «6s spokesman

Many of the rebels are
former Katangan policemen
who were driven into Angola
during ai secessionist
rebellion in the 1960s, and
who mounted a two-month |
invasion of Shaba last spring
from the Marxist-ruled
country where they were
reported trained by Cubans.

In Brussels, there was o
report from a returning
refugee that Jonas Savimbl,
leader of a Western-backed
Angolan guerrilla movement
that opposes the Marxist
governmetn, had heen
captured in the new Shaba
invasion, This was senled by
-for his
movement in Lisbon, Por ,

__tiagal. ao.

Civilians killed

SALISBURY (Reuter) -
Nationalist leader Bishop
‘Abdel Muzorewa has said
reliable sources have told
him at least 105 civilians died
in a battle last week between
guerrillas and security
forces, not 52 as announced
by military headquaters.

In a statement released
Sunday night, the bishop
implied that he believes
Rhodesian security forces
were responsible for the

: killin gs.

‘The military cammand
said last week that the

African trubesman at Juam
Ungoma village were caught
In crossfire between
government troops and
black nationalist guerrillas,
and that the insugents fired
through the crowd, |

Bishop Muzorega sald he
visited survivors in hospital
and found it a painful ex-
perlence--‘“THE MORE
PAINFUL BECAUSE! ama
member of the transitional
government and this makes
me feel morally and
nominally responsible , for
these ghastly deaths ‘and
maimings.”

BR

pemcrmrec ear soci nN

Frank Donahue, president of the Centennial Lions, Manuel Da Silva, shairman of the
Child Development Centre with Todd in wheelchair, Dave Pease, a Lions member, and
Giannino Preto, chairman of the transportation committee, try out the Centre's new bus.

Lions donate bus to
Child Developement Centre

Terrace Centennial Lions
have donated $1,500 to the
Lazelle Preschool to assist
with operating costs and
monthly expenses of the
school,

During the past year the ,

Lazelle Preschool has been
in serjousiy financial dif-
ficulty. Last December the
Eoard of the Preschool made

the decision to close, but was-

given a reprieve by the
Department of Human

Resources ~ in an
arrangement for a different
funding scheme.

Since -that time the
Preschool has been able to
‘operate on a break even
basis, but were in still great
‘gifticulty due to an ac-
cumulated debt, ;

The generous donation
from the Centennial Lions
gives the Preschool the
prospect of a bright future.

The Lazelle Preschool was
established in 197) under the
sponsorship of the Terrace
and District Christian
Council for Social - Resour-
ces, During those years a
number of community
groups have made sub-

stantial contributions to the
Preschool. The School is
designed for children, ages
three to five, in order to
provide them with an
enriched learning en-
vironment. The unique
feature of the Lazelle
Preschool is its. ability to
accomodate children with
special needs. At present
there ls an enrollment of
forty-six children.

Parents interested in
enrolling thelr children in
September should contact
Mary McNairney, at the
Lazelle Preschool, 635-7018.

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