Canary Island, _.Crash Kills of the Canary Islands and exploded, killing at least 43 of the 14 persons aboard, authorities said. ~ Rescue workers recovered the bodies of 13 crew members and are searching for the other, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Madrid said. . . The paramilitary civil ard said the plane was fiying in clouds and rain at 1,200 feet when it hit a 4,200-foot peak on the island of Hierro. ‘The’ embassy kesman said the aircraft, a Lockheed P-3 Orion, had left Lajes U.S. Air Force Base on Por- al's Azores Islands in mid-Atlantic and was to have returned to base. The plane was a four-en- gined patrol aircraft. Identities of the crew members were withheld Board ‘pending notification of next-of-kin. , Authorities on Hierro said a violent explosion was heard Sunday af- ternoon and that search parties dispatched to the vicinity of the explosion. found the downed plane abnut three hours later. Wreckage and pieces of bodies were strewn for hundreds of yards across the mountainside, authorities said. The islands, Spanish possessions, lie in the Atlantic Ocean off the north African coast. Hi- erro is a small island on the southwest end of the chain, about -160 kilometres (100 miles) from the island = of Tenerife. It was on the runway of Tenerife’s Los Rodeos airport that a 747 jumbo jet of KLM Royal Dutch Airways collided with a Pan American Airways 747 on March 27, killing 577 persons. It was the worst aviation disaster in history. Marsh rsh World Ducks Unlimited (Canada? WHIRLIGIG BEETLES — Whirligig beetles are small (1 cm), silvery-black insects commonly seen in swarms twirling and scooting along the water ' surface like miniature speedboats. 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Hazy, but still impressive. ast This photo was taken around the Exchamsiks River. - Who will get box at bowl — By Bruce Russell LOS ANGELES (Reuter) — When a socially prominent couple divorces, a major issue of the property division may be who is to get custedy of the box at the Hollywood Bowl. So keenly sought after are the 4-by-3'-foot plywood partitions for the summer season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic that they are passed on in wills. One box has been held for three generations by one family. The socially prominent, anxious to be seen at sibly the most socially desirable large gathering in this city, have been known to scan obituaries in the newspaper for news of the death of a box-holder. “T was shocked when 1 got a call from a woman saying, ‘I saw she died; I want her box tickets’,”” says Rose Bardo, season tickets manager of the Bowl. “But it doesn't shock me any more.” The Bowl with its half-dome stage is set in a natural amphitheatre in a wooded canyon totaliy isolated from the crowded suburbia of Hollywood just over its rim. oe rote PICNICS LUXURIOUS ; Concerts in the Bowl, usually preceded by picnic dinners in the boxes, have been likened to Britain’s Glyndebourne where opera-goers in tails and evening dress Joll on the lawn eating dinners from picnic baskets. But there are differences. For one thing, the weather is better. The Hollywood Bow] concerts, held on balmy summer nights under a sky of stars, are almost never rained | out. candlelight. Concertgoers usually turn up at about 6:30 p.m. for their picnic, The concert begins twohourslater. The Bow] has 702 boxes occupying the front of the huge amphitheatre. There are seats for 14,000 more on the benches rising up the side of the hill. BOXES RUN HIGH . ; ; Concertfaers can buy season tickets for all 30 concerts although most buy 10 tickets for one night each week. The most expensive ticket for all 30 con- certs is $335 making the price of a four-person box 1,340. : - A wide variety of orchestral music is performed. “We have to cater to the most highly sophisticated and the most naive concertgoer and everything in between,’? said Ernest Fleischmann, the Bowl's general director. Briefly. PROLIFIC WRITERS Canadians are avid cheque writers—turning out about 60 a year for every according to the Canadian Outstanding business loans by the chartered banks have quadrupled dur- ing the last ten years, the Canadian Bankers’ Associa- tion says. ACCOUNTS SMALL The , Canadian Bankers’ : Association says 67 per cent of personal savings accounts at the chartered banks con- tain less than $1,000 and 37 per cent less than $100. SAVINGS GROW The average personal sav- ings deposit at the Canadian chartered banks now is $1,854, more than double the $805 figure 10 years earlier, ; HEAVY SAVERS The Canadian Bankers’ Association says there are more than 23 million per- sonal savings accounts at the Canadian chartered banks. Concertgoers rarely wear evening dress. The. - local custom favors informality in clothing. But... some of the parties turn up with butlers (one butler: ~ 2} was seen dragging a sumptuous feast down the aisle on a child’s playcart). They put-siiver cande- ... Jabra on their tiny plywood tables so they can eat by - i ae ‘says New York 0. dolly, en But some question it. “Evolution does not have a *' says Northern Llinois University SUNDAN CE INTRODUCING Super Ski Packages ~ Downhill & Cross Country BEE GEGINNER INTERM EXPERT | Also first time ever midweek rental rates on C.X, Downhill. Monday to Friday (Xmas and Holidays not included) | C.X. Skis, Poles, Boots » - $5.00 per day Midweek - Most Rental Equipment New This Year | THINK SKI!! “4136 LAKELSE AVE. Can life change from one form to another? By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Religion Writer The world gives forth a myriad stream of variations, differences in colors, races and con- formations. It continually modifies the landscape, ants nd creatures. Life changes, evolves. But to ow great an extent? That problem has absorbed scientists for more than a century and lately has aroused new questions, occasional challenges ahd conflicting interpretations, particularly abcut the beginnings of hu-manity. ; “Things have become a lot more confusing in the last 10 years than they were before,” says Marquette University anthropologist Claude Stipe. “The process used to be seen as very simple, but so many difficulties have come up.” However, to some degree, changes in living things obviously go on—an obser-vable evolution within kinds. Mad . . Itcan produce taller corn, faster horses, hornless cattle, sweeter g apes. It yields enormities and miniatures. UNIVERSALLY RECOG-NIZED That sort of generic differentiation, called “speciation” or changes within interbreeding species, producing new ones, is universally recognized and demonstrated. . But the theory of general evolution, holding that all ving forms, including humans, developed ‘ gradually from simple, chance organisms through -versifying, branching lines across class boun- . aries, has run into contin-uing un-resolved puz- es. . - Predominantly, scientists affirm it. ‘There’. - always are. disagreements in detail, but it makes . Sense of a lot of phenomena in the natural world,” ".- niversity anthropo-logist Clifford ‘ood case, iochemist Garret Wenderkooi. “It’s not based on good science. It’s philosophic, not sci-entific.” _ SCIENTISTS ASK QUESTIONS The mostly quiet, interdisciplinary ferment is on a matter that most modem observers probably regarded as firmly settled, impressed from ele- mentary biology texts that general evolution was . thoroughly verified, disputed only by cranks and backw bigots. But the sporadic questioning comes from scientists themselves. “The concept of evolution lacks the central place in biology it had 20 years ago,” says Harold Man- - of the biology department of Loyola Uni- — ner, hea SKI & SPORTS ‘Downhill Skis, Boots, Poles | | $5.50. : Midweek _ ee TERRACE, B.C. PHONE 635-5848. Rate Schedule ver-sity in Chicago. ‘It doesn’t seem to have much future. - “There is no concrete evidence that one life form changes enough to change into a different life orm.” Efforts to demonstrate that it could happen have gone on unavailingly ever since Charles Darwin's rigin of the Species in 1859 and his later Descent of Man tulated that thesis, It has become the broadly assumed viewpoint. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THIS 15 NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING INTO RATES CHARGED FOR NATURAL GAS SERVICE BY PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS LTO. WE URGE YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEARING AND ASK THAT. YOU READ THE TEXT OF THIS NOTICE. .-Pacilic Northern Gas Lid. has filed an Application with the Britith Columbla Energy Commission for increased rates for all classes of natural gas sarvice within its service area, and for the provision of a {ate payment penalty on overdue accounts. .. The British Columbia Energy Commission has set down the Application for public hearing commencing at the hour of 9:00 a.m. local time on Wednasday, February 1, 1978 in the Hearing Room of the Cam- mission in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia. aA copy of the Application ‘and supporting material . may be obtained by writing to Mr. P.M. Steele, Pacific | Northern. Gas Ltd., 1333 West Georgia Street, Van- BS. couver, British Columbia, V6E 3K9. The Application “and supporting material are also available for in- spection at the offices of the Applicant in Vancouver ; and in the communities served, or at the offices of the . 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