s- Te Sa em ee Legislative Library oe Parliment Bui Victoria, B.c, V8V-1lz4 ae oa teat Se bee “Serving the "Progressive Northwest Wednesday, April 11, 1984 | - 25 cents by RALPH RESCHKE i. Herald Staff Writer ‘TERRACE— There may be a apetial program implemented in the Terrace school system that enables those. ‘students who are considered ‘gifted’ in in- Ueligence, to lop thelr special talent. In what is hoped to be the final iB the School Board was *. presented with a 20 page draft of - the’ .Enrichment. and Gifted ic alms of the program, how ; h will be received in funding from the ‘provincial government, ~ how. the program’ will ‘be ‘im- hse position paper outlines the if. In brief, the’ ‘position paper recognizes the need for a special program that would supplement Winnipeg) flying with PWA, She won the : prize at the Ladies Diamond Dinner, which was sponsored hy the Lions Club, on: Terry Morris, left, of Paciflc Western Airlines, and Doug McLeod, right, ‘Established 1908 be able to attend- ecial classes. that . will.- heb, " Position ‘Paper (for School District emented, and. who’ ‘benefits from: ; representing Centennial Lions, present Veronica Kiryluik with her prize of a trip for. two anywhere in western Canada (as ‘far as» Saturday, April 7. Astronauts make service call CAPE CANAVERAL, Ma. (AP) — After a $.2-million-kilometre trip to make thelr service call, two space-walking fix-it men stepped inte Challenger'’s open cargo bay today to replace falled parts in the Solar Max satellite so it .can . -Tresume its job of studying the sun. Astronauts. George Nelson and James van Hoften, wearing bulky space suits, floated out of an airlock into the orbital workshop at 3:57 a.m. EST to start six hours of difficult Challenger was flying upside ‘down,’ ahd* Nelson . remarked: “T can look. down and see the moan, me a ugg andy and yan Hote Hotten; ka . awoke just’ aft after, ore and, with preparations going well, ‘they asked Mission Control if they ‘could start the double walk about an hour early. Controllers agreed. “You got a bunch a folks up here looking forward to the space walks today,” shuttle commander Robert Crippen told controllers when they - awakened the five-man crew with the theme from Rocky. The 5.4metre tail satellite, berthed in the cargb bay since the astronauts snared it Tuesday with one flex of the shuttle’s Canadian- Bank t - LAS VEGAS,. Nev. (AP) — A bank vault: manager. and her boyfriend spent days plotting and arr’ passports and plane tickets ‘to Brazil before she abruptly called her husband and parents to aay goodbye forever and disappeared with $2.7 million, ‘the FBI said. In the middle of thelr. planning, the two apparently took-time out to play a few games of Yahtzee, a board-and-dice game, officials Taaice Krebs, 28, an elght-year employee of Nevada’ National Bank, and Richard Cochran, 43, were charged in warrants Tuesday Police TERRACE— As a .result of ‘public cooperation ~ and in- vestigation by the Terrace RCMP, _ $1,500 worth of stelen engine parts were recovered on April 8 The parts were reported stolen on the 7th of April. Two Terrace men are facing charges of theft over $200 and pogseasion. of stolen property. On April 8, a Terrace man was arrested for having care and control of a vehicle while being impaired. Charges have been laid aid the man will appear in court: _A Terrace woman reported a nurse-snatching outside purse-s Hotel. Approximately . $100 was stolen along with personal . Marie. the - dexigned mechanical arn, needed two major components: replaced. _The major part was a one-metre- - square control box that enables the satellite to precisely point its .8clentific Instruments at the sun. : Blown fuses more than three years’ "ago ruined this crucial capability. ' The other part was an .clec- - tronics box whose failure halted one of the seven experiments. - The astronauts say working in their pressurized space suits, often “paint, iis like “surgery in boxing. - "He feele ike romeonie i png eel like someone fe pounding on thern with a ham- mer.” If overnight checks show they haye restored Solar Max’s health, the satellite will be released into its own orbit Thursday to resume solar research. Challenger is to land at Cape Bix effort. ‘The shuttle was 490 kilometres: above the Indian Ocean “on” Tuesday wheh mission. specialist’ Terry Hart extended the 15-metre - Canadarm and caught a pin on the~ side of the slowly spinning satellite - as: both ‘craft raced’ around ‘ the.) globe at 23,000 kilometres an: hour: ‘ “We got it, ” Crippen shouted.as. Hart snared it on the first try;*: . aaving a mission that looked like Ew failure only two daya earlier, ‘President Reagan, ‘in.a radio- phoned ‘cali to: Challenger, '¢ OR pressed his ‘deligtit:.. . The ‘capture, ‘after a chaae. 7 “watellites’ “are” “becoming «more * expensive, Solar Max, which ‘cost $77 million when it was launched in 1980, Would run more than $235 million today. The salvage effort is estimated to cost between $45 | million and $55 million. . : Most. likely candidates for another such rescue mission are Canaveral on Friday, one day late * the fuel-short Landsat. 4 Earth because of Nelson's inability Sunday to dock with Solar Max during a free-flying space walk, The fallure of.a latching device carried by Nelson blocked that resources observatory and two $75- million communications satellites that failed to achieve proper orbit . after their launch from the space ‘shuttle by February. : heist | well planned with bank embezzlement, bank larceny, conspiracy and aiding and abetting.in what is belleved to be the largest helst in Nevada history,. the FBI said: The theft was discovered Monday when ‘ bank officials opened for business. The bank, one of nine branches in. Las Vegas and 29 In Nevada, was a central cash. vault for the chain. “It Tooks like they fled the country,” ” FBI agent Bul Jansen The FBI complaint. that promp- ted the arrest warrants sald Krebs, “a. trusted employee who- had access to the (vailt) area," ‘and: a ‘y News Papers ang valuables that were kept in the purse.. A Terrace man is Facing charges of -impa driving after a two vehicle accident on Kalum Lake approximately § a.m. on April 7 and resulted in $3,000 damage to the vehicles, . - Eight people are facing charges of shoplifting in separate incidents at K-Mart and Safeway. Ail eight fi were apprehended during store hours of April7. Two Terrace youths face ‘charges of break and enter and thelt- after belng appreherided breaking into the Terrace Ski Hill . _ Lonige. quality used parts from: WHY BUY NEW? WHEN USEDWILL DO! Do you want parts to Hix up your car but your budget , won't allow It? Beat the high cost of new parts. wits . $.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 635-2333 or 635-9095 34670 Duhan (just off Hwy, ¥6 €} Cochran, a casino worker & who quit his job between March 29 and April . 6, planned the heist and their getaway in. detail, They began - putting the plot into action.as early | as April 2, when ihe two filed for — passporis in Los Angeles, the complaint said. -The two apparently stayed: in California overnight, picking up the passports April 3, authorities “sald. An FBI search of Cochran's . apartment turned up an April $ receipt from the Westwood Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles in the name of “Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cochran." Hill, ‘The accident ocurred at. ~ tey's moat powerful post, oer valllion kilondatres, cde. as. assroom, programming far those “.. children. whose needs. extend .” beyond the ‘time; knowledge and’ = résource limitations af ‘classroom . programming. : “it continues’ that: there are a > significant number of ‘children in as district, who have special frp aetna juoscow (AP) — ‘The Soviet ‘Union's: 1,500-member parliament elected Konstantin’ . Chernenka ord as-Soviet president to suc- the late Yuri Andropov. By becoming ‘president, the-72-.. -yéardld Chernenko. occupies all three.of the positions held by_his eceasor. “Cherrienko took over the coun: teh: 9. ; ces jernénko ‘also’ had: ‘taken ‘dver'as * - _ abilities and that their educational . Opportunities can be met only with special assistance. . ~ In light of this, the program ‘will . bé made up of three components: the \ curriculum -expension com- ponent, which will enhance the - learning of -all students; the enrichment program, which. will respond: ‘to a. specified group’ of _. Students who show the- need for broader ‘and deeper educational experiences by virtue. of. their ‘demonstrated achievement in core subjects; and the gifted com- ponent, which meets the needs of those students who require more intense and ongoing differentiated learning experiences. - -The school board has yet to :, Heceive funding for :the- program from the provincial: government, but ‘the. school district has ‘the option of receiving funds up to $67,332 by implementing the program before January 1, 1985. If the program were started in School District 88, a decision would have to be made ‘by the school ‘board before September in order that a teacher could be hired and a program designed and in place before the - January In "1985 ‘deadline. ; , chairman of the Defence Council. - Chernenko's election - as president was announced by the official Soviet news agency Tass and came at & joint session of the nominal parliament in the Kremlin - Palace. As usual, the election was unanimous. He was nominated by Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, who has emerged as the No. 2 man on * the t2-member governing body. - Gorbachev .called Chernenko -a. ; “staunch advocate for the cause of. * ‘| Expo still threatened VICTORIA(CP) — British Columbia will incur a net loss of $80 million if Expo 86, the world transportation and communication exposition, is cancelled by the government because it can’t get a guarantee of labor peace on the fair's downtown Vancouver site. Fair‘ officials, who abked not to be identified, said Tuesday that for more than a year, the exposition has received a minimum of $750,000 a month in funding from: Lotto 649 profits. Last yedr this totalled more than $20 million and the money will continue indefinitely until the fair . is pald off. The: provincial cabinet is ex: pected to receive a report today from Expo chairman Jim Pattison, who ‘was asked March 29 by Premier Bill Bennett to seek guarantees from the building - trades unions of labor peace during construction of the six-month exposition. Pattison met Tuesday with Roy. Gautier, chairman of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, but neither elde would comment on whether any progress was made, Bennett and the business com- munity are concerned cancellatlon o Shell has no o plans to start another self serve station in Terrace but work on the old self serve just involves _ removal of the four 5000 gallon gasoline storage tanks. . Once the tanks are removed, the hole will be filled again but according fo a Shell spokesman, more work on the property is not slated for the near future. in the hole are of the fair would be a blot on British Columbia's repution among its major trading partners. — More than $100 million has been spent on the site, fair officials say, - but if the fair were cancelled today, the net loss would be $80 million with the remainder being — written off as work on the $3-billion B.C. Place real estate development that will follow on the north shore of False Creek when the fair closes. Employees of union contractors working alongside non-union building firms is the major threat to cancellation and Bennett has saidif the dispute can't be resolved it would be better for the province | to cut. its losses and suffer the” embarrassment now rather than later. Fair officials say if labor: troubles forced the cancellation of the exposition a year from now, the net loss to the province would skyrocket to more “than $800 million, . Pattison said last week he was ‘unable to reach a’. successful conclusion with the building trades council, but has refused to ney. ; what he will recommend . cabinet. Velume 78 No.72 Enrichment for District No.88 Children enrolled in the program would be spending approximately half-a day per. week. in’ program, while attending eyuler. classes the rest of the week. They would take the courses at-Clarence Michiel School. . Theboard decided to forward the position paper to all the schools in the District 88 region, to principals and teachers andalsotothe parent - groups that have raised concerms, over this issue.” ’ The School Board also gave approval to the joint use proposal that would see the School District and Municipality. enter into an- agreement over the use of school district playing ‘fields. . Because of the impending cut- ‘backs'-in teaching positions in School District 68, an increased number of teachers have decided ta take leaves of absence in the coming year. Thirty-four. teaching positions will be cut by September and it is hoped that the leaves of absence “will lower. the actual number of people being Jaid off, even though the move -is considered a short: term solution. ~ Cherenko. named president peace and communism. Je Be sald “fhe , many years of service :to “the: Soviet Union’: and had devoted:.‘all his knowledge to building the economy and defence potential oBthe Soviet Union.” ‘When Chernenko led the Poiit- _buro’ ‘a members on to the atage for “the start of ‘the ‘joint session, the 1,500: deputies, -alony:.with ‘other dignitaries “and’Tgieaty;" stood | “Up, stomped their feet and applauded. The silver-haired leader, looking tan and fit, smiled broadly and waved with both hands. Gorbachev, 53, the’ youngest member of the Politburo; was named toa key parllamentary Post that weatern an confirmatién of'his tats in the Kremlin. The post, chairman of the Foreign: Affairs Commission, was one held by Chernenkp under Andropov and for riany- years the preserve of. Kremlin” ideologist Mikhail. Susloy under Leonid Brezhnev. The president, formally called the chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet, is the ceremonial chief of state. . STARTS TRADITION The practice of having the Communist party leader also serve as president was started by Andropov'’s predecessor, Leonld Brezhnev, who took over as Communist party leader in 104 and added the presidency in 1077. Andropov carried on the practice. Seated behind Chernenko today were Politburo members Mikhail Solomentsey, Vitaly Voratnikov, Viktor Grishin and Gorbachev. Other full Politburo members present were Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Geidar Aliev, Defence Minister Dmitri Ustinov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. ais Dan Fagen (on tank), Frank Litchfidle (center of photograph), Ed Rochon (holding onto pipe), and Rene Fagen, sitting behind boom of excavator. Frank and Ed work on contract for Shell, going through B.C. and removing gas tanks from the ground for Shell Canada.