we ceo soe SLT PAT eaten ees a lat 2 PoaRER Ty TSE eS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of mourners braving a driving rain Sunday filed solemnly through St. Peter's Square to view the body uf Pope John Paul I in a massive oul- pouring of affection for the “smiling ponliff.”” Cardinals arriving from around the world for Wed- mesday's funeral and the canclave Lo elect a new pope made clear they will be seeking a man with the same pastoral background and down-to-earth traits that endeared John Paul to millions even thaugh he reigned a mere 34 days. wie cunciave begins Oct. “Everyone wants a pastoral pope like the one who just passed away, a pope who speaks a language everyone understands, J] believe there are many whu possess such a quality,” said Timothy Cardinal Manning upon flying in from Los Angeles, Long lines of mourners— including many tourists who had come to Rome to hear Pope John Paul give his weekly Sunday blessing—- formed al dawn for the upening of St. Peter's Basilica at.7 a.m. The Pupe’s budy, clad in red: robes, while miler and red shoes, was transferred from the Clementine Hall in the papal palace Salurday evening io a catafalque placed in froni of Bernini's main altar in St, Peler’s, Chrislendom's largest church. Seven abreast, they stood patiently in line through the day, a river of umbrellas Stretching under the eolonnades of ihe great piazza. By 1 p.m. the Valican esti- mated that 30,000 had fited pasl. Among the first ta view the body was the Pope's brother, Edvardo Luciani, 62, whu had been in Australia on a business (rip when the pontiff was stricken. “We were su looking forward to being in the square this morning to hear him speak,” said Mrs. Lee Campbell of Midland, Texas, “It seems impussible that I'm here instead to mourn Pope’s reign short, thousands him." The Congregation af Cardinals, running the 700- millionmember church in ihe period between popes, meets fluday. [thas scheduled an upen-air fu- neral on the steps of Si. Peler's, the site of Juhn Paul's installation as 263rd pontiff just four weeks ago and of the funeral of Pu Paul VI three weeks before, Workmen have begun pre- paring a marble sar- cuphagus oppusite Pope Paul VI's tomb in the basilica's grottoes. Pope Paul was buried “in the simple earth,” accurding lo his stated wishes, : It is nut known whether John Paul left’ such in- structions, but Vatican Radio reported he may have wrilten a testament, even if ply notes scribbled in a OR, Since the papal apart- ments are sealed and put under watch by the Swiss Guards immediately upon lhe death of a pope, the existence of any such lesLament may nut be known until a new pupe is elecied, provineTAt LIBRARY: PARLIAMENT BLOGS YICTORIA'B C Most widely mentioned “‘papabili,” ur pussible popes, are thuse with the basic characteristics that bruught an overwhelming vote tu Albinu Cardinal Luciani vf Venice in his election as Pope Juhn Paul— that is, Italian and pastoral, meaning a prelate ex- perienced in dealing directly with peuple and with no connection to the Valican’s central administration. These include cardinals Corrado Ursi, 70, of Naples, Salvatore Pappalardo, 60, of Palermo, and Giuseppe Siri, 72, of Genua. Siri, the unly cardinal who will have altended fuur con- claves, predicted the con- clave will last two or three days, as opposed to the one day it touk to elect John Paul, “This is a guud thing, so we have more time to reflect,” he said in an interview. Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, 57, the influential Florence archbishop who is con- sidered a pope-maker if not a candidate himself, called the need fur a pastoral pope ‘‘the priurity of priorities.” r , Volume 72 No. 190 TERRACE-KIT Jai IMAT Monday, October 2, 1978 r, i ‘COPPER ALLMETALS Location Seal Gove _ RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD. we buy OPEN TIL 5 p.m. \ BRASS & BATTERIES SAT. Phone 624-5639 J Flipping the flapjacks Elaine Gregg loads up the plate at (he pancake break- ast held Saturday at Mr. Mikes in Terrace to raise money for senior cilizen's projects here, LEGITIMATE DISTRESS CALL Boat is missing, but which ocean SEATTLE (AP) — The Morse code transmissions picked up by at leas! two widely separated ham radio operators Sunday indicated that one of the 12 peuple who survived the sinking of a sailboat had died, and there was no food abvard the life raft. ; “}t looks to me as thoughit is a legitimate distress call,” Coast Guard Lt. Jeffrey MeDannold said Sunday. “The thing in question 1s, Mayor George Thom of Kitimat taught members of Terrace council a lesson in one-upmanship at the regional district meeting held in Ferrace on Saturday. Immedialely afler receiving a lelter from the ’ British Columbia Building Corporalion announcing that tenders would be called within a month on the new district health unit scheduled to be built in Terrace, Mayor Thom pulled the unit out of Terrace and moved it lo Kitimat by a majotity vote of regional directors. In a last minute move, Thom had sent a letter to the Regional Disirict of Kitimat- Stikine advising directors i Raat ome mame att tay, where is it? Is it off the Washinglon cuast or is it 200 miles suuth of Greenland?” Unless the life raft's position could be definitely established, McDannuld said it was possible the search for the survivors of the Fathom Blue could be conducted in both the Atlantic and Pacific. The coast guard said earlier Sunday it was cun- sidering calling off the search after vfficiais could that;‘in the spirit of regional co-operation, I would hike lo offer as an alternative (lo building the unit in Terrace) that the Regional District consider construction the Health Centre in another location which could better assume the alleged high expenditures associated with the centre. *’ . “Tam sure thal my council would favourably consider the lucation of the Health Centre in Kitimat, with the District of Kitimat assuming all cf the debt repayment costs, ‘ Thom advised. Following, lhe receipt of Thom's letter, directors sat _in silence for a minute or two until Terrace Director Vic Jolliffe recovered . suf- find no record of a vessel by that name and one of the ad- dresses [ur a Supposed uwner of the Fathom Blue turned vut tu be a vacant lot in Massachusetts, ’ The initial search was launched after a ham radio uperatlor just west of here tuld authorities Saturday aflernoon he had picked up a weak distress call from a man who said he was abuard the life raft, Subsequent broadcasts, in which the death -of one person abuard was reported, were monitored by uperaturs as far away as New Zealand and the easi evast, the Cuast Guard said, but no two-way communication could be established and the tran- smissions ceased lale Saturday afterncoun. U.3. and Canadian teams began searching the 13,000- squaremile area in which the life raft was believed tu be lucated according lo in- formation provided by the Navy's direction-finding staliun on Skagg's Island, Calif. “There was word last night that there was a case going off of Greenland, but at the time we thought il prubably was a scparate case,’ McDannold said. “However, infurmation to- day leads us to believe there is a possibility that it is the same vessel." CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian guvernment suurces con- firmed Sunday that U.S., Egyptian and Israeli negotiators will meet in Washinglon on Oct. 12 to begin talks leading to the Signing of an Egyptian-Iraeli peace treaty. The sources, whu would not be identified, said the location was changed from the Suez canal city of Ismailia to Washington so U.S. officials would be more available, The talks are the next step vullined by the Camp David agreements signed by President Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last month. They hupe the ac- Middle East warfare. The Egyptian sources said the talks would be held in a place flying the UN flag as stipulated by the agreements. The Egyptian delegation will include War Minister Gen. Mohamed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, acting Foreign Minster Butrus Ghali and others, the sources said, The negotialors will try to work vul a limelable for a twophased Israeli troop withdrawal from Sinai Peninsula. They also will seek ways tu replace the Is- raeli military rule on the West Bank vf the Jurdan River and in the Gaza Strip with a local Palestiniat administration. In Jeruslaem, almost 100 West Bank leaders gaihered in an unusual political meeting Sunday and issued a Statement asking their Palestinian followers to boycott elections for an administrative council and thereby undermine the Camp David agreements. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, mean- while, was quoted as saying his country would not tolerate any declaration of an independent Palestinian State by such a council. In the Gulf of Aqaba, near Israel's southeastern corner, an Isracli gunbuat sank a Palestinian guerrilla boat whose crew intended to blasl the Israeli port of Eilat with __ THOM TURNS TABLES ON TERRACE Health unit is now slated to go to Kitimat ficiently to ask Lhat the letter be, received and filed’? The next item un the agenda was a bylaw ta have the health unit built in Terrace under a cost sharing arrangement under which Kitimat would pay 60 percent of the region's share. The region's share is 20 percent of tolal cost ur approximately $320,000. Thum objected to Jolliffe’s mution and moved one of his uwn seconded by Stewart Director Frank Armitage that the regional district inform the minister of health, the minister ia charge of B C B C and the premier that when tenders are called the building should be constructed in Kilimat. The molion carried with, Direciors Jolliffe, Bob Cooper and Alice Chen-Wing voting against the motion. Chairman Joe Banyay, who did not vole on the mution, allowed the motion to be made because, “ this gives a whule new twist to the situation. '” Olher direclors represenling areas vther than Kilimat or Terrace, when questioned following ihe meeting said, thal if Kitimat was willing to assume all ihe debt reduc- tion cosl and Terrace was not, than on behalf of their ratepayers they would have luaccept the muve of the unit tu Kitimat. During the meeting Thom explained that a letier to the district council from Mayor Dave Maroney of Terrace plainly said that Terrace would not accep! the debt reduction costs Thum described the letter as,« a personal insult to me." In the letter, nol released lu the press, Maroney said the prupusal submitted to the Buard by the Mayor of Kilimat suggestion Lhat Terrace assume the full cust of debt repayment uf the Health facility is saying none ulher than that the concept of Regional Huspital Districts in this area should be disbanded, as the District of Kitimat only wanls to con- iribuie financially towards develupments which locate in their coummunily. “Such is a very parochial attitude displayed by the District of Kitimal and could very seriously effecl any future spirit of couperalion belween the Districts of Terrace and Kitimat in areas such as industrial development, towris! promotion, etc.” The letter, which was written as an answer to an earlier suggestion by Thom that since Terrace would be receiving grants in lieu of taxes from the provincial government, Terrace should assume the Regional Districts share of the cost, Stated unequivocavly that, the District of Terrace will not consider assuming the debt repayment coats of this eords. willl.end~30- years-:uf. NEXT STEP Mid-east talks nearing treaty Saudi Arabian officials have reassessed the agreements and now consider them a “majur step forward." Any such treaty must be IN BEIRUT Guns short BEIRUT (Reuter) — The roar of big guns wrecked a fragile ceasefire in Beirut Sunday .as a defiant right- wing leader vowed that his forces will fight until the last Syrian soldier had been _forced out of Lebanon... “* "Shoradi¢ mortar and auto- matic weapons fire gained in intensity shortly after President Elias Sarkis held urgent talks aimed at prolonging an uneasy truce which ended a 10-hour battle in the Christian east side of the city Saturday. only a part of a com- prehensive Middle East setllement, he said on the CBS television show Face the Nation. blast truce In Damascus, Syrian newspapers accused the United States and Israel of being behind the latest outbreak of fighting. “The flare-up of the security situation in Beirut and nearby areas had been éxpected ever since the Camp David parties signalled zero hour to the criminal forces in Lebanon to move once more and drag the country to a holocaust of blood and destruction,” said the ruling Baath Party newspaper, alBaath. PRINCE GEORGE Prisoner killed PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — A prisoner was shot prisoners at the provincial institution were being and killed by a guard during ‘released inte an exercise an escape allempt Sunday al the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre in this central British Columbia community, an RCMP spokesman said. No names were released, but the spokesman said the man had been remanded on a murder charge, laid in Dawson Creek earlier this year, The incident occurred as Lion blitz The Terrace Lions will be conducting a blitz of Terrace households tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on behalf of the Canadian National In- slitute for the Blind. Sume 250 canvassers will hit the streets in a con- centrated effort tu raise funds to help the blind Regional Health Facility on any basis other than our fair proportion as a member municipality of the Kitirmal- Stikine Regional Huspita District. "ll must alsy be stated that the Regional Hospital District has no authority to require our assumplion of the full debt repayment and even if such a resolution or bylaw were passed the District nuw makes it clearly understoud that we will not participate on such a basis,’ Maroney said in his letter. The major difference of upinion between Kitimat and Terrace hinged on wheiher ur net the provincial government plans to pay area, he said. Two prisoners broke away from the group and started to scale a gate, When a warning shot was fired, one of them surren- dered by climbing to the ground while the other continued over the gate. The prisoner hid behind a building and then attempted to climb another gate, when he was shot by a prison guard. tonight throughout the Terrace district. Lion's organizers have made a special plea to Terrace residents to make sure dogs are lied up properly this evening so that the volunteer canvassers may make their rounds without incident, grants in lieu of laxes on the new facility. Thom quoted from speeches made by Premier Bill Bennett which said that HC BC would pay full pruperly laxes un any building it owned. The Health Unit will be built and uwned by B'C BC. Jolliffe and Cooper puinted wut that Terrace had not been able to obtain anything in writing regarding the province's willingness to pay taxes, ‘““ How could we explain to uur taxpayers if we accepted all the custs and then did not cont. page 3 mourning — } os oe eee