| t + Abicycle, five brooms and a woman weather technician ‘packing a guitar and cook- | “book — a motley:erew' you ’ ‘say?’ an a ‘SYPhat: was" a ‘typical :cargo mManifest:recently on the big’ ~ from Los ‘Angeles no‘ such . ' cannot-sit here indefinitely.” "Ocean. Falls was forced to ‘| cancel a five-year deal: in- _. _ volving 100,000 tons of news- print.-with the “newspaper i Crownowned ‘B.C. Cellulose » 1.Co,, which owns Ocean Falls, | announced it was closing the “‘newsprint~ plant® because ‘of: i méunting losses“. and i inadequate timber ‘supplies. - The Times wants the com- ‘ * supply i price, to ¥ . 2 . hee Cor aterm a Ant fa = VICTORIA. (CP). — A “Broup of church, union and aa ihe Net won support "From the New Democrats ‘on. Thursday for their op- ‘bosition to. the provincial , ‘a i i; VANCOUVER (CP) — A ..Npmall minority of the people ‘dapprehended for petty \shoplifting are senior itizens ‘who despite their _ Unumbers pose some special “problems for the courts and (fhe: commurity. ; “. ‘They are generally unable io pay fines, are often too rail for community’ service ‘work and jail terms are grarely. appropriate. . e Provincial’ court Judge Ken Page of | Rcouver, calls shoplifting by ‘Weniors acry forhelp. *. “They 'ré shoplliting ridicalous’ things that they siisn’t need — little fripperies “fifit . they ‘could pay for,” Page bays. - Co Asa'With people like this, the emphasis “is getting to-the aot of’ the problem." voreiron ‘Ress of the the + Elizabeth Fry Society of B.C. { supervises shoplifters’. treatment clinics where 15° | per cent of those referred for ihelp are seniors. - . ‘ Group counselling proven * highly successful with most } shoplifters' doesn't work 4s } well with the elderly. K - i * VANCOUVER,: Wash. * (AP) — The bodies of two i more victims of the May 18 } eruption of Mount St. Helens i were found Thureday, } bilnging to 28 the number of $ confirmed victims of the vol- i ca , q cano, Cowlitz County Sue riff Les: Nelsdn sald the bodies, one of which Was trapped in a log : jam below the volcano, were found’ ‘hear each ‘other. Searchers’ needed a: chain saw to recover the victim eau | said H ; | PRINCE. RUPERT, B.C. * Canadian Coast. Guard : i: However, a lawyer for the” any constructive resporises -i Times said in an interview from B.C. Cellulose. |: . Niese sald. thie newsprint ; Carlier this year ‘when the . “supply situation "Js “ not:-" Haga t f pariy to find: it an alternate. | excess "4 at a comparable said the Times already has but B.C. Cellulose is “had to pay more. than ‘the of North. Van- - ' gre angry," she says. than $10, most of the thefts ., department and most of - the log jam, he - on the jagged coast of British Columbia, 8 : “Our conversations any fruit,, and we're - becoming concerned about it,” he-said, . NOT TAKEN LIGHTLY: ” critical forthe Times, but “when you lose some 100,000 tol five: es. over: four, OF: years; that's pthing ip; He. said * that- newsprint: would cost. “in of $20 millien,”’. and A supported by h pveramert *s Holiday Shop- "already have and allow the, ing Ach But. the gamete; municipalities anda .th ind, Ah SLING SBnRS Fehr pebpls geile tomin Tes toll make the decidion,"” he sald “The legislation gives in- dividual municipalities the power to enact a local bylaw - thal would allow ‘anything he ‘from. complete’ Sunday : open - closure to wide-open shop- Senior stealing; “acry for help’ . Instead, they are. paired with trained volunteers who - spend as much as 20 hours a Thonth over a three-month ‘period acting as companions and trying to get’ them’ in- yolved -in -community. -ac- tivities.” - soe years, “The high cost of living is ’ getting to everybody — they The security chief of one _ large Vancouver department store agreés, n0 _ that older ‘people. on fixed ‘in- comes watch helplessly as fi, “tha valbe of their dollar -Bhrinks. ., woe “1¥ou can imagine the panic that comes over A erson — and we all want to self-sufficient,” he says: ‘The security chief, who asked not to be named, says he. apprehends about six shoplifters a week who are’ over the age of 60... . . Elderly shoplifters. rarely take anything worth more ‘are from- the grocery those apprehended have ‘enough money to pay for what. they've stolen. “The majority, (when caught) ‘will admit doing It, but why they've done it, they don't know," he says. : The security officer says most elderly shoplifters apprehended in his store are not charged. Instead, the family is informed and asked to supervise the offender. __ "There are some cases where they don’t haye family,” he says. “In those net NE a maa ams Boonie pers (a OL families ‘who, inhabit : * some of the. remotest, specks, .: . B have - ‘ultimatum has béen: issued, been uniform and clyilized, - although he admitted “we ‘but they haven't: borne. us ~ v2 Tn the ue ke Nr ied om er ping: The bylaw must pass a “. Taynielpal-wide ‘referendum io“ :before’it'can be enacted, “open up business on Sunday, . “Ritchie said nothing is carved in stone. - “Small businessmen fear ihm to warkshardenter the ~pomie: baled “volume. )(eat, of ‘an additional day's overhead -and salaries will have to be .passed along to customers. representatives - _ Union “have indicated that if Sunday enings are left up to in- dividual municipalities ‘it “will, lead to chaos, Church legislation-on religious ourids.: . ane ao _ Graham’ Lea’ (NDP -— : Prince Rupert) said the NDP ' saucus ig oppased to the bill. “Some oppose on religious grounds, others like ‘myself asthe critic for. small ~business are opposed on - “Apusiness “grounds and we have others in our caucus - who, are opposed on labor grounds." : ooo MILAB pany ” the. bill. A cases, we charge the SG,UN8 . fk. r, that’s 4 should - groups are opposed to the: LAs have received more ” than 8,000 pieces of mail'on. _ Most. appropriate to their “