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‘text of a public statement

-| Federal Constituency . . Associa.

vtlon in Terrace’ on, : Saturday
~ afternoon, His statement laid

- he was eighteen years old. His

- Vancouver. youth.
’ “Friends:

' grade of brake fluld is about

Wednesday, April 19, 1967 -

TERRACE ““OMINECA” HERALD. TERRACE, B.C.

Following ia the completa

aied “Sunday evening. over
CFTE:TV ‘by Member of Par-
jament for Skeena,: Frank
Howard. Mr. Howard addressed
his constituents after first
speaking to the Skeena “NDP

bare the facts surrounding hig
‘ehildhood, and.a conviction for|-
armed robbery. in. 1848, when

background was held in ques-
tin after he received a letter
“of extortion last month ‘from 3 a

Totight 1 want to make a
declaration and a statement to
you that’s probably the . ntost

DID YOU:
KNOW
THAT...?

The fluid in your brakitg
system becomes contaminated.
with dirt and water, which’
lowers the boiling. point ‘of,
your brake fluid.

The boiling point of a good

S49 degrees fahrenhelt, but,
when contaminated can ‘start
evaporating at about 398 de-
grees fahrenheit which is
-lower than the boiling point
of even the cheapest grade of
brake fluid.

The contamination, also
creates rust and pitting of the
smooth finish in your master
and wheel cylinders .and
should be changed at - ‘Teast
once a year.

_For thorough checkup and
‘complete brake service, call
Curley's Safety Service Ltd,
at 635-5640 on Highway. 16
West, Terrace, B.C. — “for
brakes that breathe!” Adv

‘The Frank Howard Statement

thought it would be a pretty | #

ever: made “tn my Life. Import-
is-| ant: ta ‘me that is, becauge it
involves'me very | intimately,
and: Because I feel some emo-'
tion _about what I- am ‘about. to
tell. you, 1 hope yau won't mind
if T ‘consult’ some notes in my.
hand hiere,..that I've made about
the sftuation;. just. so that 1]

brilliant. manouevre if we. wert

hutterseotch, if Po ‘mot mis
taken. “Anyhow — if we'd steal

at home — and.we dtd:
And‘I. guess I waa.the only

‘to ateal ‘a ple — I think.it was |:

apie. from a restaurant that |
was In ‘conjunction with a hotel |.

important public statementI've}.

fieulties when I was younger,
Started At 12

_jother young fellows and I

order. ;

Extortion Letter. we
About: a_week-. “ago . now

you undoubtedly : tread In’

young ‘lad. in: Vancouver. who
had been: charged int Court with
writing a-letter of extortion to
me, in: -which’.he- - : threatened,
if I. didn't give him $5,000, to

disclose»: certain | - information
about, my past. That's. what I

The young Jad who wrote: the
letter is eighteen years of. age
end Idon't want to mention
his namie, even though it is of
public knowledge — but I don't
want- to distribute it any fur-
ther than it is because he has

-) relativés,: brothers and sisters
-|and a.family ‘that are innocent

of his actions and... TI don't

- want to ‘involve them in this

aither, and so if'I don’t make
referente to his name, you'll
understand: why,-

Foster’ Childhood .
Before I get to that though,
perhaps-I could give ‘you some
insight into my background, go
you'll understand some of the
things I went through in my
earlier years fo0, | -

. From the age of about aix
months I was raised by foster
parents, and they were good
parents to me... I loved and
admired them. They're both
gone naw. But some of the kids
with whom I went to school
and with. whom I Played,. Were
nt... sort. of... 100 pleas
ant sometimes about ‘the fact
that I was raised by foster par.
ents and I got into a few diz.

as other lads have.

When I was about 12, two

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SUN u FE
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follow It in some. reasonable

adian Press’ stories . about - a}

want : to speak with you ‘about. -.

one: recognized: in this. escapade
'| and ‘sometime ‘after that I was
arraigned In- “Magistrate's Court.
Because my foster. ‘Parents
didn't ‘legalty ‘adopt | “Me, | “the
authorities | placed me in the
-care of - the - Children’s. Ald

twelve, “I'-went- from there to

‘member of the then: Provincial

for awhile — and I went from
there to some . other - foster
Parents — didn’t get along too

orphanage and went to other
foster parents and go on — 1
Tan away.once too. and © was
brought back again. And then
when I. was elghteen — co

me this letter, got: into a
‘rather’ serlous bit of trouble.
And that’s what this is all

Society,.. and when- Twas ‘just
Vancouver, accompanied by al -

Police Force and was lodged]: im
in an: orphanage in “Vaneouver| -

well, and came back “to: the/

incidentally — the same age as].
this young fellow who wrotal --

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-'The letter that I ‘got from|
this young lad said that —
atarted off by saying that I am
living under a false name and
that Tm concealing a serious
criminal record. Maybe I. could
read you part of it and ther
youll know as I do what he
said — after caying just what
I said — then he eays as fol-
lows! | ,

"Send $5,000 in ten, twenty
and fifty dollar bills, "not new,
to Mr. Albert March, care of
Vancouver General. Delivery,
Vancouver, B.C., in a small box
wrapped in brown paper. If
received within 21 days of
March 15, you will be. repaid
at $100 a week for one year
beginning May 4, If not, I will
totally ruin you by- distributing
proof of your past,. to your
friends, relatives, political’ as-
sociates and appropriate auth-
orlties, Likewise if you involve
any authorities or establish my
identity. If you comply, you
won't be bothered again and
will be promptly repaid. I’m
sure you realize this Joan is in
both our best interests.”

The signature is simply —
“An Old Friend.”

I took this letter immediately
that I got it ‘to-the RCMPolice
In Ottawa;i and: ‘turned ituoven
to them’ this += ‘what: -Tve!:
read from, incidentally ig just}:
a copy of the original —

‘He just made-a serious error.’

- turned |‘

of the loggers Jocal of the Twa,
a to 800 member union
and * uring that. time, tilou-
sands and perhaps hundreds of
thousands of dollars were hand-
led by that local union. All the
accounts and books were al-
ways held, as -.serupulously
correct by the chartered ac-
countants wlio looked after our
affairs. os

May Ruin Career -

~ Pye been your member. of
the Legislature for this Provin-|:
‘cial riding of Skeena for one
term from 1653 -until 1956. I've
‘been your Member of .. Parlia-
mént in Skeena for ten years.
‘T've tried in all those years to
do the best. that I could, And
T realize that this disclosure
may ruin my political career
-but - that’s... that may bel.
+». I have no control ” over |
that. ;

I don't have any hard feel-
‘ings or rancour for this young
lad _who'wrote me this letter.

they desire to nominate ahy-| many times dees.a person have
hody to contest the next Fed-| to pay for an error in his
eral election. We hope the} youth? ... Thank you,
convention will ‘be held...
as I said... . by October.

I€ someone nominates me —
I intend to accept. But perhaps
this. nominating convention
procedure will give me an in-
dication oF how people feel
and think about this situation
and give me an idea as to how
I should . . . what J should do,

Because after all... . it’s

its | your’ choice . . : not

mine. ;

‘In making that -cholce " and
‘that decision, I just ask you to}.
think and ask yourselves, how

April 19th

T hope that the court — if he's
found guilty, treats him 1en-
jently and gives him a chance,
Our annual convention of
the Skeena Constituency Asso-
ciation which was held yester-
day, decided: to hold a- nomin.
ating convertion by October, | j
“by'iniit-balist’ system. In other
“words;’ avery member of the
association will be asked if

She used to -be bothered by hackaches
and tired fecling. When she learned
that ‘irritation of the bladder and
urinary tract can yeault In backacha
and tired feeling, sha took id's
Kidney Mare saat gigk Dodd's Pilla.
kos, eldners, wre to» edn relleve.;

net the buekwate ani

tized feling. “Soon she felt better —
better. If you are bothered by
backachs. Hoda" ‘a Kidney Fills may help
you. You can depend on Doid's.

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it over. to them” Land. the
“RCMPolice’ took the ‘steps and
apprehended this young
who sent me the letter.
Id like to deal with a couple |f
‘of the items contained in there. if
Np False Name.

The reference {0 a false

name ig really not correct... I
took the name of my foster,
parents, automatically I guess,
TI suppose: they: registered me
in a school in that name and

I just went through school and |i
through my years: in the or-

ia| phanage and: that _ under that :
m; name,

" And it-wasn’t untill I went to
join the Navy in 1942 that 1/]
discovered that I didn't have a
birth certificate in that nama
and in. searching this problem
through — I found ‘thet my

real name, that. of my parents |B

— my true’ parents —. , Was
Howard, the name I have dow.
Not Ashamed ;

And I hope. you'll: appreciate
too that — while I'm. certainly
not ashamed of the name of my ||

appreciate why I don’t want |j

to mention it to you now be-iA

cause this ig a public statement |
that will probably. go far-and|8

wide through the newspapers! .
of this country and I have|&

| relatives — my foster | parents |)
I. don't/i

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want to involve them and fheir/§
families. now. They're. com-|I
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to: tell ‘only involves’ me L
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