» Te 1 FOOVEY SERVICE BETHLEHEM (AP) — ‘Thousands of pilgrims arrive in Bethlehem daily and festive lights have been tied around an evergreen tree in Manger Square, but some of SKEENA Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, December 2%, 1978, 1977's hopeful “peace on earth” spirit is missing this year, Security arrangements in the town, in the Israell- occupied West Bank of the TROPHIES AND ENGRAVING Now have a large stock of trophies on hand, All types of meta! engraving done on the premises. toa 2 onEENA OFFICE PRODUCTS BLDG. 4635 Lazelle 635-6329 zs TAT pS oP Oe be eh Seb BPE wee pe Beles pecan BW ree bey = ° Neos Se we Bien Welt Dan le Os Ts ADS tlt Ie ptt Da 4946 GREIG Jordan River, are tight. _ Soldiers and police are frisking visitors at the en- trances to the square, and roadblocks will be in place . on approaches to this ancient town, eight kilometres south of Jerusalem, Last year a bomb exploded near the square, There were no injuries. Bethlehem Mayor Ellas Freij, in his traditional Christmas Eve message last year, alluded ta the hope embodied in Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace mission to Jerusalem a month earlier, “Let Christmas 1977 be known as the beginning of an end to hostilities and the road to peace,” he said. However, Freij said he won't give a message this year. "There is nothing to talk about,”’ he said. ‘The peace was celebrated in Oslo and not in the Holy Land.” He was referring to the Nobel Peace Prizes awarded in Norway to Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Sadat for their efforts to reach a Middle East peace treaty. Freij and his townspeople are Palestinians. Israel and Egypt cannot agree on how to give them autonomy—and a homeland they want—on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip, Bethlehem’s traditional Christmas Eve festivities focus on the Church of Nativity, built by the European crusaders 900 years ago ag a shrine to mark the spot’ where tradition says Christ was mm. Several foreign choirs wil: participate in a Christmas Eve concert in Manger Square before the traditional midnight celebration of pontifical high Mass in St, ‘Catherine's Roman Catholic Church, which abuts the Church of the Nativity, Only a few hundred invited And you've got mail OTTAWA (CP) ~ Grumbling about having to send a few Christmas cards this year? Take heart, Michelle Daignault has at least 250,000 letters to an- swer and she brought itall on herself, . Mrs. Daignault is in charge of promoting fish yrs 5) Sh AS ol | 1S PLEASED TO WELCOME Hy Be * 7 fa f HARDY MEHS MECHANIC ree 2 x De Te Uy soul Yt Per tae Je ben aT. a Lat te Pe , oe vs Z ee. 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In’ response to ad- vertisements on television and in magazines and newspapers, Canadians and afew Americans deluged the Fisheries Food Centre here with requests for three free booklets of fish recipes, Mrs. Daignault can easily | fe hide behind the mound of sacks of mail requesting the booklets. She says 35,000 sets of booklets have already been mailed but unless she gets. more help many inquiries will go unanswered for months .She says she needs 20 helpers to answer all the queries in the next 20 Months, 1. She would have been baitisfied with 50,000 to 100,000 requests. Now she faces 250,000 and it could Teach 200,000. “Our budget ° for the seafood month was $220,000 but it is going to cost at least double, We've had to reprint the booklets.” leader TEHRAN (AP) — A 72- yearold politician and ‘university lecturer has emerged as leader in a bid by the shah of Iran to find a prime minister to head a new civilian government, in- formed sources reported Wednesday. The sources said Dr. GholamHossein Sadigi accepted an offer of the premiership after the shah agreed to a number of po- litical conditions set by the former cabinet minister. Sadiqi now is a sociology and philosophy professor at “3 Tehran University. ey aS 0.0/0, I Aen! Se tatatatetatets ie ce78 Po LE aa ee Se SPEED cise: ezeretetereie7s: oTerarerenaterpcesace: ee mtatatateTee Tete Oa Nae Ce The sources declined to specify these conditions. But they said Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fighting to But it’s all worth it. “The industry reports that fishsales were up drastically because of the promotion,” she said. ‘‘They’re ex- tremely pleased with the campaign and would like us to do it again next year.” With the proclamation of the 200-nautical-mile fisheries zone Jan. 1, i977, the amount of fish caught by Canadians has increased steadily. While the main outlet for Canadian fish is overseas, officials wanted to see domestic consumption in- crease. Nutritionists agreed it would improve the Ca- nadian diet, ‘ Fish consumed annually per person in Canada has jumped in the last few years to almost 17 pounds from 12 pounds but is still one of the lowest in the world. The requests were almost evenly split among English- and French-Canadiahs but the bulk of the English ones came from the Prairies. The booklets can be ob- tained by writing Mrs. Daignault, Fisheries Food Centre, 401 LeBeton St, Ottawa KIA OE6, ! New Iranian | seen | oe stay on his throne amid widespread opposition to his one-man rule, has given Sadiqi two weeks to patch together a civilian govern- ment. - It would then take over from Gen. Gholam-Reza Azhari's military-led regime, appointed by the 59- year-old monarch Nov. 6 to try to restore order amid swelling violence. Religious leaders, headed by the self-exiled Ayatollah Khomaini, have led riots for the last 11 months in op- position to the shah’s efforts to modernize the Moslem country. At least 1,-400 persons are reported to have died, but opposition sources put the figure higher. : Thousands flock to Bethlehem _ guests can squeeze into the Catholic church, but the service will -be projected - onto a large screen in Manger Square and tran- smitted via satellite to mil- lions of television viewers worldwide, Beyond the pageantry of. Christmas, Bethlehem, home to approximately 15,000 Moslems and Christians, is a leading tourist attraction throughout the year. Tourism Ministry spokesman Michael Gidron said 60,000 tourists will visit Bethlehem this month, 8,000 on cruise ships and 33,500 more by airplane. SMALL THEFTS COSTLY VICTORIA (CP) — Theft of shopping carts is costing store owners and ultimately consumers millions of dollars each year and little is being done to stop it, a grocery store spokesman says, Jack Fidler, head of Canada -Safeway in Victoria, says that thieves caught stealing a $65 shopping cart at most get a mild reproach, while a person pocketing a can of beans without paying is charged with theft, an “It’s just one of those darn things,”’ Fidler said in an interview, “It's going on all the.time and I don't see any answer for: . Cet ais og BERT a" He saigsas thes i ging» Safeway stores in.-Micy toria expect to lose about 300 carts this year—20 per cent of their stock—at an estimated cost of almost. $20,000. Fidler said thatin 1977 losses through theft and vandalism of shopping’ buggies totalled $1.5 million in British Colurhbia“”” 16 RRR EG Oa GNaal oles Store-ownerssay youngsters are resron- sible for much of the- problem, taking the buggies for joy rides and using the wheels for go- carts and fancy skat- eboards. Adults also are involved. Carts also are used for planters, picking up grass clippings, taking empty beer and soft drink bottles lo bottle exchanges and shifting clothes in apartmentlaundry rooms, The metal frame backs of the carts apparently make excellent barbecue grills. oo. NEWS IN BRIEF LONDON (Reuter) — Wastefrom the toilet sinks of airliners may be spreading cholera and other disiases around the world, the journal New Scientist reports. Dr. Charles Rondle and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have been investigating why cholera accasionally turns up in peculiar places, such as the Dordogne area in southwest France and the Essone district in the north. They discovered that these and other spots where cholera has inexplicably appeared are all beneath the paths of regular flights from India to the West. Second stage closer REGINA (CP) — The an- nouncement Tuesday that the Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corp. Ltd. (Ipseo) would be one of two suppliers of pipe for the Alaska high- way gas pipeline brings the second phase of expansion totalling $80 million by Ipsco closer to certainty, Sas- katchewan Premier Allan Blakeney said today. Ipsco is already proceeding witha $45-million newroliing mill at its Regina plant. Additional facililies were dependent on the company supplying some of the pipe for the multi-billion- dollar pipeline. J. D. Maclellan, Ipsco president, said in an in- terview Tuesday the com- pany has plans for an §3- million expansion .to its Edmonton plant. Blakeney told a news conference it had always been Saskatchewan's position that if the pipeline went ahead, [psco would bea likely supplier of pipe. Then Steel Company of Canada (Stelco) was also chosen as a supplier. Chrysler losing money DETROIT (AP) _ Chrysler Corp., facing slumping car sales and red ink, has borrowed $231.5 million from two U.S. in- _ 5urance companies. The sale of 15-year notes to Prudential Insurance Co. and Aetna Life Casualty Co. will provide Chrysler with $94 million and free the automaker from paying $75 million in old debts over the next four years, Chrysler disclosed Tuesday. The loan is the most recent ina series of moves to help othe. company, which is ex- pected to lose $250 million this year and faces capital outlays of $7.5 billion to upgrade plants and redesign cars over the next five years, Warlier this year, Chrysler sold its European sub- sidiaries to the French auto firm PSA Peugeot-Citroen for an estimated $323.9 million in Peugeot stock and $230 million in cash. The company also sold $250 million in new preferred stock this year and said some common stock will be sold to employees during the next few vears. Whale catch to be reduced TOKYO (Reuter)-— The International Whaling Commission agreed Wed- nesday to reduce the sperm whale catch in the northern Pacific next year by 41 per cent to 3,800 whales, con- ference sources said. Japan and the Soviet aygign are the only whaling \titries'' Affected by * the 19705 qdota, -a ‘compromise © between pro-and = anti- whaling countries. Sources said the agreement came at a meeting of the 17-member commission after two days of inconclusive debates, mainly between the Unitet States and Japan. Japan wanted to maintain its 1978 quota of 2,754 whales while the U.S., the leading conservationist force at the conference, called for a severe cutback in the catch anda ban on killing females, they said. The compromise agreement allows up to 11.5 per cent of the quota to be females, compared with 20 per cent this year, the sources said. The conference, ~ which began Tuesday, followed a ‘June ‘méeting’ in Londén -which- failed: le - reweh agreement on the northern Pacific sperm whale catch. Among the 17 commission members, Japan, the Saviet Union, Brazil, Iceland, Denmark and Norway are whaling countries. Australia recently announced its in- tention ta step whaling. Besides the U.S., member countries are Canada, Britain, France, Argentina, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama and South Africa. Conviction over turned | AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Ap- peals today overturned the conviction of Elmer Henley in connection with the 1973 Great taste with half the calories. Agrect light beer for all kinds of reasons. sex-torture slayings of 27 youths, The court said Henley was denied due process when Judge Preston Dial refused to allow him to present evidence on a motion to move the trial from San Antonio. , The ruling means that Henley, a high school dropout, likly will face retrial in San Antonio, Tex., where the trial was moved from Houston. A Bexar County jury con- vicled Henley, then 18, of six of the 27 slayings and sen- tenced him to six con- secutive 99-year sentences, Henley was arrested after he telephoned police in the Houston suburb of Pasadena and told them he had shot and Killed Dean Corll, head of the homosexual torture ring, ; Henley then led police to 27 bodies buried at three sites in and around Houston. Many of the victims were from Henley's neighborhood, More bombs in Ireland BELFAST (Reuter) — Bombs rocked three leading hotels in Northern Ireland on Wednesday night In a new blitz by Irish Republican Army guerrillas, police said, No one was reported in- jured in the attacks, which set two hotels on fire and damaged the third. The police, who said more hotel bombings could be expected, blamed the at- tacks on the militant Provisional wing of the IRA, which launched bomb at- lacks earlier in the week In London and other mainland British cities. Last Christmas season, the Provisionals bombed hotels across Northern [reland, where they are fighting to end British rule.