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_TERRACE‘HERALD, TERRACE, KG,

-to Cow. | delegates. re-elected. the’: Nan«:
aT i ts ftontialat Aino MLA by s vole of 278:t0
approach to our problems,’ | - Appointed. opposition leader. ea TE todttat cone!
he sald, We had just been in-1956, Mr, Strachan flvayears.| .Ht..waa ‘ton ‘¢l
Brince tapers: | ard 1 fok me rocdod a’ | iar qeered th party into a :
nee. Sy elt we needed a firm | tight | ¢ trade |
nm objective as well’as a plan to | union movement, espectally the | rs, once’ characterized by a
ber industry. ssaneite bis ast there,” han ra og + Cor 136, 000-nlember B,C. Federa. | Social Credit . spokesman: as -
h Co le eventually. ch his + Strachan ran as*a CCF eer rom Univer.
tented ONE 12 ten interests into’ carpentry = candidate’ in Nanaimo, where | ‘Mrs Sirackan assombled a | sity’ of British Columbia,’
to lea ed nt a news conf" | ‘ve. always” enjoyed working | he now resides with his wite -| evaw of moderates that took dropped out ‘active party af--
announced at a news conference “with my hands’’ —and thatrade -| ad three children, In the 1949 | over party administration, as | fairs, o's
‘union . movement,‘ Mr,: Stra- | federal election and was | the- party: membership’ voted | There was no contest at last
‘chan rose quickly through the | “S0undly defeated” by conser-. |'more radical elements out of ’ June’s . convention, but: it was
ranks ot the United: Brothor- | Vative George Poarkes, former | office... : an open secret that-Mr; Bez.

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in Victoria: Friday that: he'll.
step downin April,

The 54.year-old carpenter's |
announcement ends a political .

Ms a De || hood of Carpenters and Jofriers. | Lieutenant-Governor of the pro- | His leadership was undssail- | per "95, and’ teneral ‘othes

career filled with electoralfru-.| oot was at ono time union's |v, -|'ed until Juno, 1967, when the | Siths would be trying for the

Mr, Strachan was at the helm | Provincial president, «|, Three years later he took a | NDP*s intellectual wing, led by | job early next year,

Rich through four provincial elec. He sald ‘he’ investigated. all || S10t a-proyinefal politics: and - | “Vancouver-Burrard MLA Tom} Several weeks ago, the young

four political parties and finally.

‘| Won the ..Cowichan-Neweastle: | Berger, revolted,” New Democrats, meeting incon. |
the Co-Operative Com- ;

tlons that saw. a”. steady in-'~

ASQUATCH: HUNTER Rene Dahinden, photographed on a trip.

~ ereage in‘NDP voting strength | Joined Operative Com.) Tiding, a seat ho has held with |” Mr. Borger’s bid to suceeed| vention,
-, ‘tb Terrace last year, is mentloned in John Grean’s new book and ‘hous. representation, ter ,monwealth Federation, forerun. "| ©a8¢ through five Subsequent . | Mr, Strachan fell short at the | to announce the
rR “onthe legendary beasts, See storybelow,. = it Pied never * suite enough, ,; ™ _ a
a penne bo as 2 0 ‘© form a goveriment, . .
! — BOOK CITES SASQUATCH "tg reskguation is. alé0 a vice
¥ Dink s s SQ os FACTS ~ tory of sorts for his bitterest

va ar yaa wee “elit gs. Bennett, who swept’ into power
Don’t knock stories | 228.8. mmite |
| OGK STOPICS | soca create” stministration |f
oo “| See Se _ . | that has- endured. ever. sinca,
of those hairy: men | cessarescts |
baal ao 4 BRE - fie B.C. legislature jor the fiat
/ 3. REVIEWED BY JOE CUNNINGHAM | pane an the saine year and
When you speak of Sasquatches, the-halry men, you can tee et have beer ongaged in
-count either on a horse laugh or acute interest, = s- * personal fond in tho 16 are. |
__.- Ht could be our natural racial vanity-that gets. concerned since then, ¥ :
-Ab.the. possibility ofa man-like creature lurking inthe. |. . os re |
‘woods, And there is more than passing interest whon reports . The NDP leader has charac=
.. 7 eredit the hairy’ ones with a height.of up to 14 feet, aid a - | terized the premier “g traitor, [fh
' Weight of aome 1,000 pounds,’ Would youbelleve acute panie?. .|-a pussyfooting political car- | [
‘| it ttillates the. imagination when'you wonder what would © | petbagger,’* without “a single
.. happen to run Into.14 feet of hairy: beast on a murky‘night, - | ounce: of ‘economic sense in
Aman who self-confessedly helped to investthe sasquatch . | hishead” 250°
; as a. publicity stunt.has row produced a thoughtful if slim Mr. Bennett has jn turn re-
_ book on the subject, oe te ferred to Mr. ‘Strachan as a
_ Author John. Green doesn't make any: bones about sas- |‘ "wildman,'?” a: “socialist bane
" quatches, In his 78page book, lie saya flat. “It isn’t that dit” and an irresponsible “de.
‘they do such a good job of eluding us; its just that. we do stroyer of the democratic pro-
-, such a good job of deluding ourselves,” — . | ces :
~ *. Gpeen, publisher of the Harrison-Aggasiz Advance, was one || - The acid-tongued opposition’
> Of the people Involved:in the Sasquatch hunt of 1958,.a bright . leader arrived in B.C, in the
Idea for a B,C, Centennial project which pald off in major © | ‘spring of.1995 aboard a freight.
publicity for the Harrison community, ~~ 0:3 ae -traln after’a long, hard winter
-_°~ But as. Green says in his interesting book “On the Track © | of’ unemployment in northern
of the Sasquatch," what started as'a gimmick changedto - | ‘Alberta,’ Dee

S “Largest Selection Ever” | »

| genuine inquiry when the publicity it produced brought reac. . | © When the train reached Kam. of eo NS 4 1
a]. tion from people who had actually encountered: the gorilla« loops Mr, Strachan, then bare=: ne Aare aan Lo Sot l —
ro ype animals, ° Author Greer \uses the | #8 pages of his book | y 41, looked out: the hoxear, . We-now have in stock the largest selection of toys ever, _
H te document the Sasquatch search and early encounters, - | doors and saw green fields, bara ic - - : bn
| Some’ of it 1s fascinating reading,’ Like Langley resident, | - “When I saw all those fields there is dolls, truckas and cars, baby buggies, doll houses, Speen he

Albert Ostman who recalled being held captive bya Sasquatch | after all that snow I decided | |
family in 1924, Whether Ostman’s memory faded or his ~ | that B, C, was the place. for
imagination improved in the intervening years, itis a hair. : |" Soe _

raising tail of adventure, According to the book Ostman ~
was captured by the male sasquatch, lived with a family of .
father, mother, daughter, ‘ard son for ‘three days, then

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'’ escaped after the male Sasquatch suffered extreme discomfort _ 7V4"" Skill
BE . after gobbling the contents of Ostman’s snuffbox,. — —-° Ski
; | bef amas accourt incidentally, is aswornstatement made - |
‘ . before a magistrate, . . ey :

JAW

Would you belleve that a Sasquatch has. been captured?

we It’s in Green‘a book, with aphotostat taken from the Victoria‘: ee SN Fe Lo! relae
| ; Dafly Colonist of July 4,-1884, It must have been a small % eye enits nets Pe 7 oud an
a. & -Gne, “estimated at £27 :pounds,: and was. Captured by a train.. » for:C RG | ee St
+ grew. near: Yale, ‘* Theré’ was ‘no follow-up ‘to the story and-. years Mr; er aa worked in. Mada. by

* where the animal finished up —poasibly England -—isn’t- .
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