CURP. 77/73 ~ ee ee weybtieaLVe ob ents Sopeute oe cha: EEL Ea oo abe | - SEATTLE (AP) — A- woman shrieked as the camera zeroed in on a hunter hammering a baby seal’a head and pools of blood, brilliant crimsor against the white arctic ice. Another woman sobbed, and sil still | another yelled, The film, shown at the beginning of a seminar on seal hunting, part of Jacques -Cousteau’s In- . volvement Day here Satur- day, was only five minutes long, but the audience of more than 200 demanded it be.turned off before it was half through. It was one of the strongest emotional outbursts throughout the day-long series of debates, which drew thousands of persons Busy evening expected neltknown ‘eon already ve expecting police a busy Halloween tonight with the theft of 135 dozen eggs from on’ 8 Poul ‘arm on Nort Eby Read discovered earlier last weekend. Last night police took back 18 dozen eggs from the ‘poultry farm after in- Vestigating -< ee of g epee at a at Kies on Lantos d Hill The vandals eluded RCMP, and it is not known if the incident was connected with the theft. Police will be patrolling in force tonight with some members resceduled to late shifts and auxilia ary pati lice " assisting the regu ‘In an otherwise quiel weekend, a 19-year-old man was taken into custody after sdgmage was caused to ‘peaidence at: Northwest to argue such issues as nu- clear power, oil tran- sportation on Puget Sound and whale hunting. As the film projector was silenced, a member .of the audience jumped to his feet. yelling, “That is bull —! Tknow. [do it. I make a living at it.” ‘The self-professed seal oe was Jim Winter, 33. of Newfoundland employed by the: provincial Depart- ment of Education. Hunter said he spent one season on a seal-hunting boat so he could. “articulate to my people what it felt like if rf was done right.”’ DIFFERENT VIEW He is part of the provin- ce’s recently organized campaign to retaliate 7 Seal-hunter pleads Please think of me as a human being’ against an international e fort by environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare to stop seal hunting. The — environmentalists' depiction of the annual harp seal hunt as an inhumane and unnecessary slaughter has been unfair, say government represen- tatives, The province has hired a public relations firm which plans a series of news conferences in mai cities throu out the word, 00 a cos could rea to $100,000, La pa the mana er 0 the cam: PD tal kill them by striking a blow on the head as you have seen,” Mac Mercer, senior program advisor for the herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass ( VOLUME 71 NGO. 125 Price: 20 cents MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,1977 ) t College at 11:40 - ie Comunity gt p.m. Th vy. Police say the man who pointed a .22 calibre pellet gun at an investigating officer, w charged with wilful dama e and a fire arm. ed after the Rallege praned them saying a man d “‘gone berserk” and was causing damage in a reidence building. Flight claims record SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) — A Pan American World Airways 747 Jumbo jet carrying 150 s5e venigh landed ere after flying aroun the Sor in arecor 54 hours, seven minutes. The flight cut more than eight hours from previous record of 62 hours, 27 minutes set by a Boeing 707 cargo jet in 1965. ‘The jet travelled more than 26,000 miles and crossed the North and South - Poles during the joumey. It took off from Sen Frangace - and flew via London, Cape Tela ancl Auckland, New .. The halls of Kiti K’Shan primary school were alive with ‘seary monsters, witches ans ghosts as well as as pretty ladies cute bunnies Friday when the younsters paraded through the school during thier Holloween celebratioins. The students converged on the —_— after the’ ( Weather ) ~-Malnly clondy with isolated showers today. and sunny periods. Today's high 8 degrees, the tongiht about 3 degrees. \ - Dona Vasieres photo parade for a costume judging for the Herlad Spook Spec tacular being held today. Winners for. Kiti K’s Shan Tre. James McKay for the spockiest costuem, Darren Hudson for the most original and Dianee Middletion for the most humourous. | Jast of about two ‘Polytechni the Canadian government's marine mammals program told the audience. “It looks terrible,” he said. “It's a repulsive sight to people not used to” slaughtering animals, and most of us are not used to sla\ tering animais. e do have a humane slaughter operation. Un- fortunately it does not look nice. It is not designed for the benefit of television. It ‘ ‘was designed for the benefit of the animal being har- vested.” KILLING STOPPED Brian Davies, whose International Fund group has flown _ television cameras to the site of the annual hunt, did not argue with government statistics that the harp seal is not in danger of extinction. Instead, he countered, “eyen if there are enoug seals t to. kill, I say don't kill em.’ wat powa ty YiGieries yay-1i: He said ‘‘we feel marine mammals are a creature of a lev telligence”’ and should nat be sacrificed for “nothing more than the luxury fur industry.” Davies’ conviction is a side issue, argue fot ment § kesmen, saying ebate should él whether the hunt is an economic necessity end whether it is done a humane way that ‘ill en sure the herd’s continuation, They said Newfoun- be gh em who auter from employment, need the hunt to Prive. Lions Begpined sponsored artnent. by the the event. Firemen sponsor Hallowe’en party wer Gagne RD Raat et will with bonfire with 3 Hreworks dimes ate tn 0 ¥ doneted ty 12 local cal nechante candy will be served Gunman releases hostages, surrenders TORONTO (CP) — A gunman surrendered shortly after 4:30 a.m. EST Sunday after releasing the lozen hostages held since shortly after 3 p.m. Saturda branch ot the Nation Trust Harold Adamson, Metropolitan Toronto police chief, said none of the hostages were injured but two were taken to hospital— & man was suffering from high blood ressure and a woman had an undisclosed The gunman fired about a dozen shots from a high- poweree rifle during the ident, none directed at hostages or the hundreds of ce who surrounded the d.t the suburban sh ene ng Data entered the bank in a sh centre in the north TP oF the city after ‘two men robbed a nearby drug store of $78. A second man was arrested as he left the rear of the drug store and the gunman fled in a car through the parking lot to the trust company. Paul Arnold Virtanen, 23, of Toronto has been charged with two counts of robbery and one of conspiracy to commit robbery. Michael Edward. Lasalle, 30, a student at Ryerson cal Institute in Toronto and originally from Sydney, N.S., was charged . with armed robbery of the drug store. Ten most powerful women honored NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan, Washington Post pub lisher atherine Graham and Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray ai among 10 women selected by Bazaar magazine as the most powerful women in America. The magazine e reports in its November issue that the 10 women: were chosen partly because they have ‘overcome formidable odds (by) boldly invading ‘first traditionally male-domi- nated areas. The other women named were: Charlotte Curtis, ‘‘the woman earn masthead status” at the New York Times and currently editor of its op-ed page; Lady Bird Johnson, ‘a spiri and tenacious campaigner fer dozens of environmental projects;’’ ABC’s Barbara Walters, “the first woman to co- anchor a prime-time net- work newscast,” who also holds a five-year contract with ABC for a reported 31 million a year; Mary Weus Lawrence, founder, chief executive officer and board chairman of Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., “‘one of the nation’s top-ranking ad- vertising and marketing agencies; Sarah Caldwell, conductor of the Opera Company of Boston, who was cited for “a shrewd business sense that com- plements_ her artistic genius;” Rosalynn Carter, who “raliled support for her long-standin ve to up- ‘ade metital health: Bile ean King, the firat’ woman, athlete to earn more than $100,000 in a single season and ‘‘almost -single- handedly establishec (tennis) as a popular spectator sport.” “after only four years in the House of Represen- tatives, Barbara Jordan already commands more national recognition than most of her co. eagues can look forward Communism celebrates 60th “MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union marks 6) years of comm this week secure in its status as a aU er but far from the dreams of the Bolshe revolution. Despite—or perhaps because of—its military might, the US.S.R. lags the West and even some East European countries in such critical as industry, areas. agriculture, science and . teeny. In many ways it is a coun , lacking develo ‘ the Eaciiities cernmnee to amalier in- ainations and anxious to obtain Western products and plants. Western diplomats with: iong Russian experience acknowledge there have been genuine achievements in recent years. Bul they . often remark on the contrast between the reality of Soviet, life and the picture drawn by the official media. “At home, living stan- dards have improved slightly. Life is more open than it was. But you do not have the dynamic nation the revolution envisioned. Just the opposite. It's immobile, frozen, resistant to any change,” said one senior envoy, . COUNTRY TRAN: SFORMED The mobs that stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg—now Leningrad—in 1917. set in motion the transformation of a mass of backward peasants into a world power roughly equal in itary strength to the United But the schism with China continues, most regimes in East Europe remain sub- servient to the Kremlin simply out of fear of open intervention, and the Communist parties in Western Europe are demonstrating increasingly that Moscow-style: Marxism-Leninism is not for them. The revolution also held aut the promise of a classless society in which no one would want for the necessities of life because the state would own, plan and manage the economy. The only area where cen- tralized planning seems to work is arms production, and then it is at the expense of consumer goods While the Soviet system shields citizens from unemployment and in- flation, its performance has been less than brilliant when measured by official promises to become No. 1 economically. With twice the land area of the U.S, and 20 per cent ‘more people, the Soviet gross national product for 1976 was $3,300 a person, not quite on the level of Greece or Spain, while the U.S. figure was $7,936. The Soviet Union produces more oil, coal, steel and cement than the U.S, and is second only to South Africa in the produc- tion of gold. Yet little of this wealth filters down to the consumer. lifetime,’’ Bazaar said. Governor Ray, a biologist who holds a hD, was the. first woman member and the first woman chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. And Bazaar cites Mrs. Graham because the profits of her com- anies—which include ewsweek magazine, TV and radio stations along with The Post—‘‘have more than tripled to over $300 million, placing her empire among e favored For Police said the gunman entered the branch in the north end of Toronto at 3:20 pm. EDT Saturday after driving from the scene of a drug-store robbery. In_ telephone terviews Saturday, the gunman demanded that police bring him a second man ch ed in connection with e ug-store robbery, Mi- chael Edward Lasalle. “T want Mr. Michael Lasalle delivered here . and I’m going to to have a conversation with him and you'll probably have a double execution to write up tomorrow,’' the gunman told a reporter. THREATENS TO KILL In another interview he said: “If it keéps on going, TL killey “Tt ee a a hell af a lot of difference to me now. I know I’m going to jail for a long, long time and it doesn’t make much dif- ference,” The unman identified himself riers as Paul Virtanen an he had been a psychiatric Patient at at Sunnybrook Medical Cen in Toronto, Police said the man was hysterical when the incident ‘began but gradually calmed during a series of telephone conversations. Police said he fired 13 shots from his rifle, a sawed-olf M-1 carbine, but none was directed at - hostages or police. Coffee and hamburgers were brought to the gunman and hostages at his but police said they re’ sed his other demands. They did not elaborate. The gunman's parents were brought to the scene but did not speak to him, although he spoke twice to Lasalle on the telephone. HOSTAGES RELEASED Early Sunday, the gun- man began releasing hostages in groups. Harold Adamson, Metropolitan Toronto police chief who was in char e oF of about 100 policemen a scene, saidhe corner oa the release of the last six hostages. The trust company Tanager who was the last to leave, about 4:30 a.m. EST, carried the an’s rifle. . ve hor had cleared the large shop pping centre aud ed of the prea after the n “arnvel from the drug store. store, at man a sawed-off Shegen vuile a second man waited in a car, police said. The man inside the store demanded money yand drugs from a pharmacist. Sandie Muma, 26, a drug- store employee, said in a interview she was in the rear of the store and slipped out the back door to call police. The man fled out the back door and was arrested with 9 in his possession. Police ‘the second man sacaped in the car. WATTS chopping centre, e 8 gz cen Dianne Luciani was waiting outside the trust company for her husband, Dan, 51, director of forensic payehiatry at a psychiatric pital in Whitby, Ont. Mrs. Luciani said her eightyear-old son saw a man a cowboy suit and. hat get out of a late-model, rust