ee Sei, Santa takes a jet plane’ Five year old Dean Richardson, left, and Shelly Trent, both patients of the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, receive presents from Santa and his elf on the flight become.an annual event of his CP Air flights through deck of a CP Air jetliner before take-off in a modern - 6s fon. Rae: tao bd “ “sleigh.” Santa is played by Captain George Brown Credit card horror EDMONTON (CP) — So you think you'll never lose a credit card to a thief. Try this story. A babyvitter ina clty home ae i. a credit card registered mail, Shep Pe ona re table, where y friend saw it and abe it. In two weeks he ran up more than $2,000 in charges. It’s a true story, straight from the files of Det, Tom Fleshman, the city police de- partment's cradit-card fraud .. speciallat. He estiinates he handles about 30 credit card frauds a month, with transactlons totalling between $30,000 and 000, “People are really careless with their credit cards,” he sald in an in- terview, “They leave them lying In their cars, in coat pockets at parties and loose around their homes where anybody can grab them . “Everybody's doing it, from little old ladies taking a card from a neighbor in old folke' home to 13-year- olds taking their mother's card to go shopping.” Thefts are frequent enough here that one year ago the city Police department formed one of Canada’s firet units specializing in credit eard fraud. Stan Peddie, Western Canada security officer with the Royal Bank, was reluctant to discuss total. losses, but said, “In almost all cases where a credit card is stolen you-can be assured it’s golng to be used." He estimated his bank re- celves reports of between $00 story and 1,700 lost or stolen credit cards each month. Doug Simmonds, security officer with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com- merce, sald carelesa holders and alack retailers account for many of the logsea, He said he had one month in which 42 card holders reported cards stolen from vehicles. Fleshman said stolen cards have an average life of abeut two. days, premuming A car that seen unreported can be u or up to a month, or until the holder receives a statement containing charges he or she didn’t run up. Peddie said the biggest headache for banks is the time element and the dif- ficulty in chasing a card's usage back to the source, Card holders are responsible for purchases made on a card that's Jost or stolen, but thelr losses are limited to $50 once they've reported the missing card, Fleshman has a lat of hints for the care and han- dling of credit cards: keep the card on your person; never leave it in a coat pocket or glove com- partment; keep records of card numbera and report them immediately when Lost or stolen; do not lend the eard to anybody, including friends, relatives or children; once it has ex- pred, cut it up and throw It we rone importantly, treat It as you would cash, Drug test said a killer as well PROVIDENCE, B.1. (AP) — Rousted from their cells in the middle of a November night, three Rhode Island state prisoners wore stripped to the waist and swabbed with a yellow ben- zidine solution, Another convict had been stabbed to death that day, and prison officials were searching for the killer. Benzidine turns dark blue in the presence of even minute traces of blood, Partly on the basia of evl- dence S aprovided by that test five years ago, one fue of the prisoners was convicted of the slaying and sentenced to life, Now, all three claim they may have been handed an even graver sentence. Benzidine — used for more than a century as a textile dyé — Is now recognized as a carcinogen. Teats show it can cause cancer of the bladder or liver, sometimes as long as 20 years after expe are, @ convicts fear thelr direct exposure to the chemical greatly increased thelr chances of getting cancer, and they have fileda federal lawauit against the state, each asking more than of $1 million in damages. The suit, to be heard in U.S. District Court in Junuary, alleges the teat was an illegal search and that investigators were negligent in using a carcinogenic chemical that endangered the prisoners’ lives, “When the substance was applied to my skin, the af- fected area felt cold and tingled,” convict Douglas Gomes said in papera filed wlth the sult. “These sen: sations continued while [ ehowered in an attempt to remove the substance. It waa only afver the shower that the tingling sensation aub- alded,"’ Gomes sald his upper bod broke out in a rash a we after the test and later In mores. The akin condition cleared and no other health problems have been reported, sals lawyer Barbara Hurst who is handling the orlsonera’ case. Use of benzidine in har dyes was banned tn the early 1970s. Cars, Trucks& Recreation Vehicles s. ail used cars, trucks & R.V.’s ry i Inside th TERRACE and the elf is first officer John Baxter, Captain George Brown started flying as Santa five years ago and it has British Columbia at Christmas. The Herald, Friday, December 28, 1979 Page ? f JERRACE-KITIMAT erald SECOND SECTION _ a, a. OUT YEAR END CLEARANCE SALE £ 19 demos, all ‘ts: DEN ea all ab be m BY oe 4931 Keith Ave. CAR SOLD ver 1st ~ 9 am-5 pm