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: Los ANGELES (AP) —
‘Dorothy . Stratten of, Van-
icouver, Pliyboy magazine's
it Playmate of ‘the
‘Year, was killed with a
“shotgun blast in the face,
apparently by her estranged

elf to death,. police said
‘day.
a ‘he body of the 20-year-old
‘Tbdaaty was found at 12:30"
2. m| sprawled across the bed _
the two-storey, .West Los
ZAnkeles home she had .
pha until recently with
fer husband, Paul Snyder,

oo on top ot the shotgun,

Four hurt
‘in crash |

* Four were taken
t Kitimat: "General Hospital
Friday with minor injuries
following head-on collision
on Haisla ‘Blvd, neat the”
‘Kitimat River. The accident
occurred |. shortly ater
midnight ‘and both cars
totaled. Orre of the drivers
will faceé.a charge of im:
paired driving. Kitimat
RCMP | are still in-
“yeatigating '

7A aryear-otd Kitimat man '
was taken intp custody early
this morning! for theft ‘an
poszession of & narcotic after
police checked,a car
was reported ‘atom earlier.

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shot to death

band, who then shot -

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that peared

Henderson's. log. hovse is almost completed.

gaid police Licut. Glenn

~ Ackerman, The. Heutenant
said ‘friends came to the -

hojise end found the couple
afte no gne had been able to.
reach | Snyder since Thur-
afternoon, ©.
}The indications | are that
ey. died . * sometime

yesterday . (Thursday) af- creases last seen In late 1973

‘shortly ‘after. wage and price
-eontrols were . introduced. ..

‘temoon,” ‘Ackerman said.

He said: the couple had”

‘been married about .

years, but for’the last: two
months Ms, Stratteh | “ha
been | living. ‘eldewhere!
‘Ackerman said the’ couple's

_ {fountry. whos i

“The. death of Dorothy
“Btratten comes a8.a shock to
_us all,” ‘said. Playboy
* publisher Hugh. Hefner ina

- statement, released by. his

officel..‘She was a beautiful

and: talented woman. As”

~ Playboy's Playmate of the
Year and with a film ‘and TV

‘career of: inereasing im- <
portance, her professional .

future was a bright one. But
equally sad to us was the fact

that the loss takes from.us all .
a very special friend of the

Playboy family.":

. Siratten’s most. recent
Appearance was ina Peter:
Bogdanovich film, They All
Laughed, and in a movie
called Galaxina, that has not
yet been. released,’ said
Playboy. She also had bit
parts in. the -movies
Americathon and Skatetown,
U.S.A.

The tall blonde first ap-
ina. cen
‘refold in aaa ts 1978,

; higher “than ‘a “year at ca
- Statisies Canada epartol

. 1978

~~ AEBGTSLATIVE
PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS,
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VICTORIA,
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“t's prefabricated and was s aasembled in Prince George! before 4
was movedto! its present site on Dairy, Avenue, (See Page a)

Penny, CUAP.

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Phote by carte wilson :

OPTAWA (cy =the con-

today.
Food. . prices

_ count. for" ie: hich of the

index, increaged only'0.9 per -
cent in July compared witha
2.2 per cent. jump in June.
The influx of domestic -
produce in late summer
months usually. helps. slow

. food prices untill early fall.

The. ‘increase | ‘in other

‘items excluding food rosé by
percent in July, -un- ..

0.8
changed. from. a> month
earlier, as ‘costs rose for —
housing. and transportation.

~The index stood at-211.5 in
_ July up. from 209.9 in June.
_ The’ index, a widely-used
measure of Inflation, shows
that a basket of goods.and ,
services which cost. $100. in
1971 now costs $211.50."

“ABA result, the
power of a consumer's dollar
fell to 47 cents from hated in

‘1971.

Ths: index; above 0 per

_ cenit for the second month in

a row, “matches similar tn-

. Finance Minister Allan.
‘MacEachen had. forecast —

“ @hout a'10 per cent rise in the
‘index but, until he brings tn

an: expectéd fall. budget, | is
not likely to announce .
flation-fighting ‘measures.

‘VICTORIA’ (CP): — A
‘judictal system ‘that allows

judges to be tried by a “tight

little fraternity" of their own
‘has to be changed, outspoken
Social Credit MLA Jack
Davis said Thuraday. ©

. Davis, a former Socred
cabinet minister relegated to
the backbenches after: his
conviction for.
defrauding the provincial
government of $1,000,

unleashed a strong attack on
the province's judicial’
system during debate on the

attorneygeneral . ministry's -

-chickens to death.
- “The noise excites them to.
‘much they go crazy,” the

whether

his earnings at abdut $5,000

Price increase ‘slows _ |
but continue to go: up:

Dawe ine siower pace of.

costs
ri

‘sumers in Nova: oP uid New.

Brunswick and Alberta paid’
more for. milk and other.

- dairy products. :
But the higher costs were

L offset: by lower prices for
beet cuts and sugar...

“renters: and. homeowners,

electricity charges added io
the housirig compénent, up .
8.3 per cent from July 1979.
‘The largest year-over-year
increase occurred in the
_ transportation index, up 13.4

‘ per. sent froma year earller.. .

Chickens. die

VANCOUVER (CP) ~- The
fans may have enjoyed’ the

‘aerial antics at the Ab-

botsford - Airshow. - last
weekend, but‘the noise was
searing’ Karl: Arndt's

Abbotsford broiler - chicken
grower - said Thursday.

“"hey fly into the walls and.
into each other and end up in
piles. along. the | walls,

‘smothered to death.

“And now Arndt: at sure
his. ingtirance -
covers 1068 - from’. fear ‘of
flying machines: ~

. “You baby-sit those chicks

day and night: when they're
‘small and all for nothing;”’
he said. “I'll be working for -

nothing for the next ix.
months to pay for the loss.”’
He estimates the: blow: to

Arndt said the excitement

“Who should pass
judgment on judges when
judges themselves have a
vested interest in protecting
the good name of the august
profession in which they
have chosen to serve,” the
North Vancouyer-Seymour
“member said. -

“Lawyers .who let judges:
‘off with little more than a lap
on the wrist are undetmining
our legal system mote than:
they are helping it’?

Judges should be tried bya a
jury of lay when.
they get into trouble, he sald,

as planes fly”

. started last Thursday sight
when the planes. began: to
land for the airshow. He said
he lost about 100 chickens by’

Friday morning.

- fo reassure the 20,000 |

chickens in .the barn, Arndt
and a hired man spent the
weekend ‘‘bird-sitting” " —
‘walking among the birds,
_ whistling to them. a
| “P¥e. whistled: my lungs
out. It's just.a nightmare, ”

_ Arndt said he is not the
-only one with problems. He
. has heard from nejghboring
farmers that horses became
nervous and started fights
with one another, One hog
farmer, he says, claims
some of his hogs died of
heart attacks. -

An. airshow spokesman
‘said if Arndt can prove the
deaths were: caused by’ the. -
“planes ‘he -would be reim-.

_ bursed from the. show's | pro:
_ ten,” the suit claimed. |

insurance, a

) passes judgment or

‘adding they-can't be left in
their. “rarified atmosphere
to protest and pontificate
among themselves.”

Davis made indirect refer-
ehees to well-known cases
involving provincial court
Judge Erik. Béndrodt and
B.C, Supreme: Court Justice
EB, Davie Fulton.

Bendrodt left the bench for
a short time, with pay, to
deal witha drinking problem
after he was seen picking up
& prostitute on a Vancouver
street in October, 1978.

Fulton, a former federal

ETO

a ‘Lee! ‘Harvey. Oswald's
widow: ‘says she'approves of

~ gonvihced ‘the: bod

Increased 5 service coute for.

_ FORT ‘WORTH, Tex. (AP) -

"ain attempt to determine just

- whois: in hig grave, but the

brother : of | the-- accused
presidential: assassin has
won a court order halting the
effort. —
A state district judge on
Thursday. granted’ a tem-
porary. restraining order
after Robert Oswald of
Wichita Falls, Tex., filed suit
calling the move.a-publicity ©
‘stunt arid contending he
would suffer’ ‘severe mental
pain and: anguish” if the
body were unearthed.
_ His ‘sister-in-law, Marina
. Oswald. Porter, says. she
‘ Bigned..an. exhumation:
oO reledde""s athoudh she's.”
ly iy Rose |
Hill Cemetery here is that of :
her dead husband. . ”
_T don't need. the: priol, an
"gh said from her: Rockwall

—_domie, But: she’ ;said-- an

'. exhumation - ‘atid. “autopsy
‘would-end speculatiod over -
‘the idéntity of the body. in *

ve Oswald's grave...

. The renewed effort. to. get |
-authoritles, to dig up the

ts tt halt

— grave is: that of
Russian imposter. oy

“He sought an " exhumation
- order last year, and: was
turned down by the .same.
judge who issued Thuraday’s |
‘order, Judge James Wright.

That decision recently: was |

upheld -by a civil appeals
-court here and now is before
‘the Texas Supreme Court:

‘Eddowes’ Ss ‘lawyer, -
- Charles Pittman; said -
“Thursday they had received
“Jegal authority” to exhume
the body, but did not disclose
the source.’of the authority.
Wright, then’ granted -4

temporary restraining order
ard ordered-a bearin ig on the
., matter “AUB. 22. :

The lawsuit ‘filed. by
‘Oswald contended: Mrs.
Porter, Eddowes, . Dallas
County” Medical Examiner-
“Charles Petty, Dallas County
> Judge Garry Weber and
Rése Hill Cemetery “have
conspired to disinter the
body of Lee Harvey. Oswald.
and remove it from ita
present place of burial.”

The suit sald Weber signed
the exhumation order, The
county judge could not be -
reached for "comment -
‘Thursday night.

‘Eddowes's . efforts to
-exhume the body are
- “eontinuing ‘action’ for his
Own. ‘personal gain and to

justice . minister and
provincial Progressive
Conservative ‘party leader,
was fined $500 and had his
driver's licence suspended
for three months as a result
of an impaired driving
charge in 1979. :

“HOW can you explain to

- ‘the average layman why the
‘in group in. the legal
profession rarely ever.
suspends a judge ~~ a mild
admonition of course,” he
said. “But then, if they have
a drinking probkém of a
crf problem, they get

mei

, Higgins and’ Btgke
“Ol 4

ad

He won t put
-job-on.

FREDERICTON (CP). =
Uiberal: Leader Joe: ‘Daigle;
while faniiing the embers: of
_au..- explosive political
_terruption trial, refused ©

thal.
ay to-
iormer

galled aot by Dalgl
“Jenged him | Thuceda
follow the path” off

Liberal -leader.“

"Daigle ssid to doag would
be ‘tabsolugely

Metric
seve

be delayed at least’ ‘aviother |
‘year because of the: federal
government's Indecision, the

president of - th /Reail

- Council of Canada said -

today. .

Alasdair McKichan ‘aia in
an interview from Toronto

the earliest that" super: -

markets can: start the® two
year conversion process js.
- January, 1082, @_year: jater
than the latest deadline Bet.
by the former. ‘Progressive
Conservative . “gaverninent.

The conversion “bad been
_Bcheduled for 1990. but: was
“delayed by © ‘the: : : Con-

mote a book he has writ+ servatives while tht ghange

to metrit was reviewed.

r ji tae -
six months leave of “absence
with full pay. +

“They get a paid heliday —
enough time away from the
bench for them -to. gat over
‘the shock of having. beer in
¢rouble with: the” law:-and,
hopefully, long’ envugh for
the public to forget what they
did in the first plate.

Davis — whose quiet volca
falled to hide the bitterness.
about the way his own case
was handied — said the
judge made a big polnt of the
fact be was a and
saying he could naj be dealt

eto ak oar

dges?’

line .

"_preposteroits.” 7 The Liberal ;

opposition leader said
Hatfield was “squirming and
wriggling” to cloud the issue
‘of his own credibility, .

“It's nat my credibility mn

Conservative premier’ 8
resignation, saying evidence
— and the judge's in-
" terpretation of evidence — at
the trial of former Tory fund
‘raiser “Francis, Atkinson
showed Hatfield lied by dis-

_avowing knowledge of any —

Tory kickback scheme.
The premier, in New York,
fo observe the Democratic’
national. convention,
responded to his own
political melee by saying he

“will rebuke the charge: in

* detail with his own evidence
Aug, 26.

ra

Hatfield said he will .

discuss at a news conference’
“then information dating as.
far back as 1972, when the
events leading to: ihe
Atkinson trial began...
The first obvious victim
was Higgins, the man who
-dropped the bomb in the
legislature in. 1977 by

_ alleging a pervasive Tory .

kickback ‘system, and who
later. resigned as Liberal
leader and MLA when some
of his accusations were
dismissed ‘by -a. judicial
Anquiry.

‘ Next was Atkinson, found
guilty’. this. month of
corruptly paying a govern-
ment employee, and then
-given an absolute discharge
when the justice department
refused to give. him im-
munity .

with as an ordinary citizen.

Davis was convicted in
county court of converting
eight firstclass airline
tickets paid for by the
province into economy fares
and pocketing the difference.
He was fined $1,000 and
placed on probation for two
months.

“Having been a politician,
I received an extraordinary
sentence," Davis said. That
is not equality before the law
... and to make my point,
it’s not the kind of treatment
that a judge would get at the
hands of other judges.” -

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