TABAS, iran acruss the parched cvun- side of northeastern Iran where al least 15, rsuns were believed killed in a giant quake that demolished 40 towns and villages and _ badly damaged 60 others. In this easis city, hit by the quake’s epicentre, the dead were stretched oul under the palm trees, their bodies frozen in grolesque postures of sudden death and wrapped in white sheets or colorful handweven cloth. The town’s minarets, mosques and mud-brick houses crumbled under the force of ihe Saturday evening tremors, giving this ancient city about 440 kilumetres southeast uf the capital of Tehran the ap- pearance of a flattened sand castle, Only a few buildings escaped majur damage. The quake, Iran’s worst this year, killed an estimated threequarters of Tabas’ 13,000 residents. Most of the survivors were seriously injured and .ae most severely hurt were flown to Tehran for trealment. Officials feared the death toll from the 7.7 Richter geale quake would swell above the 15,000 mark as repurts were received frum remote villages surrounding Tabas, where thousands were believed buried in the rubble. DEATH TOLLUP More after shocks (AP). —. Aftershocks rolled Monday’ The quake, whieh was [elt throughout two-thirds uf the country and even shook buildings in the capital, struck as peuple were silting down for their evening meal or lounging in front of their houses in the 32-degree heat. “] was sitting in front of my house by the pond,” said a man who Identified himself as Hassan. “It was dark. Then ail uf a sudden I fell to the ground and there was a preal ruar and screams.” Although Hassan's mud- brick hume collapsed around his family, hey escaped serious injury. They now sit onthe sidewalk, surviving un watermeluns and waiting for the army te help them recover their valuables frum the pile of bricks that was once their home. As suon.as rescue Workers found’ a bedy in the wreckage, grieving relatives and friends went abuul the grim task of identification, slapping and = striking themselves in their ritual of grief. The workers spirited the bodies off fur a hurried burial. Gravediggers bit inte the cuarse, hard earth, scraping oul shallow graves. Unable to keep up with the steady procession of badies brought by truck and car, the dead lay in the sun as a Moslem clergyman prayed over them. The iranian army sent 700 Takeovers continue in the oil industry CALGARY (CP) — Five major petroleum cumpanies were ihe targets In a $1- billlon burst of corporate lakeuvers ard acquisitions since June and une financial analyst says it's nuluver yel. “Oll companies now realize the cheapest way lv find vil is to buy another company,’’ the analyst said. “And the cheapest place Ww buy a company is often on the stock exchange." In the last 3% months there have been significant changes, either completed or pending, in the ownership and stock cuntrol-of Ashtand Oi Canada Lid., Siebens Oi] and Gas Lid., TransCanada PipeLines Lid., Husky il Lad. and Universal Gas Cu. Lad. Speculation in the Alberta Investment community lists Amalgamated Bonanza Petroleum Ltd., Canada: Nurihwest Land Lid., Merland Explorations Lid., Canadian Reserve Oil and Gas Lid. and smaller cumpantes such as Sundance Oi) Canada Lid. and Peylo Qils Lid. as takeuver can- didales. All are based in Calgary and have extensive Western ‘Canadian vil and natural gas iniereats, although sume are ‘ eunsidered attractive fur their fureign holdings. A frantic bidding war for Husky Oil in June set the june’ for the summer lakeuvers, . Petro-Canada and Uc- cidental Petroleum Corp. of Los Angeles, wilh bids yalued at mure than $560 millign each, tried ty aul- muscle each «aiher tu pur- chase all Husky shares, only to have thal manoeuvring seultied by Alberia Gas Trunk Lines Co, Lid. Alberta Gas Trunk sur- prised everyone when it announced it had quielly purchased 35 per cent of Husky stock—a figure Lhat it later increased io 36 per cenl, In August, Dume Petruleum Lid. became the largest sharehulder in TransCanada Pipel.ines when it acquired 15 per cent af the pipeline cumpuny’s stuck from Canadian Pacific Investments Lid, and the pension fund of Canadian Pacific Lid. Dome later purchased another seven per cenl of the stock from a number of sellers, including Hume Oil Cu. Lid. Lid. NOTICE ‘Wit sincere regret Chop Suey Garden Restaurant in Terrace wishes to advise its customers that it cannot continue free home delivery. Effective immediately wo will continue to give eur usual proinpt service in every other capacity. Dome then became in- volved in a complex takeover deal for Siebens. The result of thal move, expected to be formally completed early next year, will see Siebens becume a whollyowned subsidiary of Canpar Huldings Ltd., itself a whuliyowned subsidiary of the Canadian National Railways pensjon fund: Dome will end up with about 76 per cent of Siebens assets | and operate the company un behalf of Car - The layest takeuver agreement of the summer was. the, $502.5-milliun July: ‘uffer: af Kaiser“ Resources" of- Vaneouver for . Ashland Oil Canada. \ Kaiser must awail furciga investment review agency approval for picking up the 8i-percent interest in the cumpany owned by Ashland Gil Inc. uf Kentucky before formally offering lo pur. chase the remaining 17 per. cent of the shares held by private shareholders. The smallest and least campliculed lakeover was an offer in August by Aquitaine Co, of Canada Lid. ly purchase all the shares of Universal Gas Co, Ltd. of Calgary for $22.4 million. The deal must still be ap- proved by the fervign in- vestment review agency. Fields applauded ROCHDALE, inglund (Rewers -- British music hall performer Gracie Fields, 40, was applauded when she pave a farewell performance in humetown here Saturday night. One of the test popular entertainers in the English- speaking world, Qur daracie, the Lancashire Lass, sang Sally, the Iipeent Aspidistra in the World and alher favorites, Her vuiee was loud and clear, aud she broke into a dance as. she sang | Could Have Daneed AH Night. - Gracie, who hegan tile working in a norte Bngland cotton ini, has dived for many years uf the THalian resort island of Capri with her Romanian husband Haris Alperovici. ier performance Satur: day opened a Rochdale Theatre whieh bas been numed after fer. born aver a fish and chip shop in ftochedule. her She was” suldiers, fuur medical teams. and numerous = rescue workers lu help hause about 1,000 survivors in tents along Tabas’ dirt airport runway, Meanwhile, new tremors were fell Munday. They lasted only a [ew muments, but residents feared a secund majur quake. Reports from the village of Bushruyeh, about = 40 kilumetres nertheast ol Tabas, said only 26 persons were injured and no une had been killed. However, the village of Duhak, 40 kilo- metres tu the suulheast, was destroyed and 2,000 - were feared dead or injured. An earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale rocked the same area on Aug. 31, 1968. Tabas suffered same damage and 12,000 people in the area ‘were killed. ELECTED CHAIRMAN HONG KONG (Reuter) -- Soong Ching-ling, Bb-year-old widew of the founder of modern China; Sun Yat-sen, has been elected an honorary chairman of the country’s National Women's Federation, the Chinese news agency Hsinhua re- ported Sunday. She was élecied alung with Teng Ying-chao, widow of the late Premier Chou En-lai, at a Peking congress. SAF AFTER A WEEK Few problems seen Sehools have been back in operation fur over a week now, Surprisingly few problems have arisen, ac: cording {co schoul Trustee Mrs. J. Krause. There were a few minor busing difficulties which are almost inevilahle during the first week of school. Most of These have new been cleared up with the few remaining to be settled | shady. WEATHER A storm. is: moving in off the cuast of Prince Rupert, bringing with it cloudy weather wilh frequent showers and brisk winds this: afternoon, More of the same type of weather is expected for tomorrow, With possibly a slight) improvement on Thursday and Friday. The expected high for loday is 12 degrees Celsius, wilh aluw tonight of aruund 8, It looks as though the sunshine we've been enjoying the past few days will be short lived, but hopefully it will be back for a relurn = engagement sometime in the near future. Temperatures and con- dilions are close to normal fur this lime of year, however, and it looks as though autumn will seen he upon us. jfrdmons, fa Aa a wo Ardmons eo : * a a iss Ardmons Construction of various types lovk place over the summer munths. - Superin- tendent of Maintenance, Mr. L.R. Heller reporting all projects have been handled to his salisfaction, A new music rgum_ ad- dition al the Hazelton Secondary School has been completed and is now in use. Theinew Elementary-Juniw =. Secondary schval at 3Kit- wanga should be completed by Octcber 15, whieh will mean a finish lwo months: ahead of the projec "sn. original | { _., meeting. The adventure playground =. al Copper Mountain has been completed and is currently in USC. A second vat of paint has een applied lo the Roary ‘Tennis Courts after several delays caused by weather conditions. It is anticipated thal line painting and in- siallation of nets will be completed by Seprember 20. A reporl an the renuvatiuns required, and financial costs invelved, with the Hart Farm project will be prepared fur school hoard consideration at a future aut Heda Aaverd v [HONDA Ardmona - a Pear Halves All Packed in Pear Juice Your Choice. 14 fl. oz. tins eS esl Cocktail * Fruit Quarters All Packed in Pear Juice ‘ Your Choice. 14 fl. oz. tins PU & PEACH DUALS iced Cling Peaches ¢ Hondas Givi Sedan Test drive a Honda today at TERRACE HONDA SALES 4012 Hwy. 16 Terrace, B.C. V8G IL 638-8171 The Herald, Tuesday, Sepfember 1% 1974, Page 3 POLICE NEWS Vandals continue Wo harass duwntown businesses. Four more locations had winduws smashed during the weekend. An RCMP spokesman explained that it is difficult ta apprehend these peuple because they simply thruw a rock or bottle through a winduw, then quickly move wut of the area. Perhaps related i the vandalism is the fact that sume 32 liquor charges were laid by the KCMP belween Friday and Monday the police said. These were mostly offences connected with consuming liquor in a j Dealer Licence Number 020664 — aqidmions = 4 Where Westemers win all-ways Western Canada Lotlery Foundation public place or drinking aleoholic beverages while under the legal age of 19, All were charged under the fiquor control act, Two businesses were broken intu during the weekend. McEwan Motors was entered and a set of keys taken which allowed two youlhs lo steal one of the cars parked un the let, Two juveniles will be charged. Nu names were released. Hlue Ribbon Bakery was . also broken into where a sum of muney Was taken. 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