- By GAILDOTINGA | - ‘Herald Stai(Writer "While many'thipk this’ - -has been a strange -- winter’ fof -weather,. -* George Blakey of the En- virgament Service. psays it could be. a “typical Atmospheric’ .. Terrace winter."* “It is believed that the LEGISLATIVE LISRARY, PARLIABENT BULTDLIS WECROREA,. 8.0.4" ss OY - poet a tae voter ae web ee - COMP. 77/73 because | i , heavy. movtalls ‘of the rs ' early 1970's were ab-; ‘pormal and- that" the _drier;. warmer winters. we've had over the past: three -years_ dre the orm, said Blakey. © “It's hard to say what is. normal for this area weather Tepords have ob, been ’ ~ kept for the est! 5 2 years.”. he said,; : What is known is that... 2 me Canada went through an ° ; - he extremely. mild period. . - between -the- 1930'50's- but then. experienced .- abnormally ,ccid . "weather from the early 1980's to the mid 1970's. ” Blakey says. ‘what. : because | : . established.” nak we're.seeing now could. be ‘the result, of. the | ‘. weather _curve - mre ots “This “could “be: ‘wha he we ‘normally. get in- this* ~ area but’ we're not suré!-— am long-range" . _ trends: ‘Have. not: beers. 1: wink the, ‘exception a : ~ predicted.’ some heavy rainiall-in -, . the month df December, figures for srqwiall and : ‘temperatures’ , close to what the long: ‘Fange’ “forecast . had... “Despite all the ex." tremes we had in’ - December, it. was a 7. > Blakey. came - ( = | "Westend: Food Mart . oe 0am 1pm 635- 5274. tend Westend ~H 635-7228 We Satisty Tummy & Tank ~ 27965 DAYSA YEAR”: |: 7days ‘aweek “Service Venn acr IMATE eee crete P ‘Drivers in area remain: sober “there were few impaired _Grivera over the holiday season inboth Kitimat and “Tertace thid year. Siaff- " Sergeant Hank Dedish of | v the Kitimat ‘detachment db . sald 0 chirigés were laid ‘for impaired driving, over . the holidays there. In Terrace only four were’ ‘ charged [rom Dec. 14 to. and “Terrace. ‘said the 1980 numbers this” year were. less than in previous years. “Moat of the time during , elicits gave “Ter, -the . decrease. », bmpaired Dedish; ‘also strongly. _‘eredited “the free taxi” " parvice for. Alcan em- ployees on New © Year's . Eve. There were no. im- palred drivers picked. up that evening in Kitimat. : Alcan spokesman Hans" Larsen said the free taxi service was very suc- coanful :. ‘again this year. Both faxi companies reported a high usage by Alcan employees. With Toten Taxi it was as high oe OO percent and Rainbow ‘reported that.60 per cent of thelr customers were - my employees. year there were a total of 1,100 taxi trips by ’ Alcan “employees: on New Year's Eve.. In pércenta e. : figures, Larsen said } He-ged the taxi’ com they gave.every ‘redication - : “: panie. ‘wert very. pleaned'” = thiat-they believe the tut is. * faith the! progrant: "and: ‘over? oats oat ty ebuat. the: tame an this year. “The free bus eervices in Kitimat-end Terrace were alao very ‘popular, Larsen . sald. 310 people took ad- vantage of-it which is just slightly leas than the 324 “who took it twat! year. Tas LA sure’ sign’ that. the- holidays are over - . piled at garbage bins. ‘No bonfires have been scheduled fo . - burn the ‘trees In elther Terrace or Kitimal ‘SO most - Chrisimas irees: . residents will be. leaving | It up to rnitpaities to, take - ~ thern away. a Do . "LEEDS.- England AP) ' “absolutely, delighted, - British palice indicated - ‘Aotally detighied with the . * “they, chelleve ; ” arrested -.né Thasa mur: derér | ‘known ait; Yorkshire, Nipper after ac ”. fweyear reignof' terror and’: slhe.. biggest, manhunt: ins iSritinh” criminal. history: -: "electives: ~ “announced: ‘Sunday : cthey .. were’ “questiontig.. a oman “in: ‘connection’ With the York- ; shire Hippet inquiry,” and he would appear in court today ona ‘nerlons charge:” The police: did not say the inan was the killer wanted for the hruta! murders of 13 women in. -nerthern | England's “Yorkshire, ‘and. ‘Lancashife ¢nunites.* ‘Bue, they: “have... developments. al'- this - stage." The police also'sakd the” : : Peter: -tiey-are. “scaling down" > he Ripper ‘investigition. Uregory said the mani: in “ eiintady, is‘in his. 30s,’ oie car parked ina certain. ‘area where prosiitutes lake “clients,” said Ring. Gregory said the man did. not resiaf arrest. He said a” ’ woman with him at the: . “time ‘is helping © with inquiries, but has not been - “ married and: lived~ in *. arrested.". He. did mt ’ Bradford, where, three of .* “the Kipper’ 8 victims were. ‘hilled, Ihe ‘aceardance’: ‘with’ British’ ‘police - practice, o | Gregory refused lo Identify: * the man in advance of tus couriroom:. appearance. Hul Britain's domestic — “news: agency, “Presa Ansoctalion, said, he in A. ‘Suteliffe © of - Heston, near Bradford... i. i > Mertalily - free thie; _ ‘West Yorkshire's Chief . pkogram will ‘cut again: ; Constable ()nald Gregory | : “anid, te and. his meh. ae . next year. zt ¢ - SREPENTIGNY: Que. : eR 5 Shi méinbers of one, Jamily were found “all of them shel, golice- : reported early today. ‘Four of the dead ‘|. SIXIN + -DEAD:IN HOME | deadin their home here,“ FA MILY + discovered -, about ins pam. Sunday." - A 303 Fille was fourid- “pear one of the. bodies, police said, Potice “were: i withholding thé naive of ehildren, three boys and: ‘the family pending fur- Ee girl, between six and ther investigation: : -_ 12 years old. Also dead Repentigny a _ werethe mother and fa- communily ‘of Mabou! “ther of the children, . ” 22.000 people just east o! The ‘bodies were Montreal Isinnd. See Page 5 ; : : = ~ 7 “ gald he is a tongtistance *. “Siruckdriver and. his wife Is. a ‘schoolteacher: yee A police epbkesman ssid. the man's wife was: being \.. , questioned, and Press, + Aasociadion. said a" police. . guard had been put on the, ‘couple's home, : _, Police Sgt. Robert Ring — . and’ Constable . Robert, Hydes ‘told a news: Coal: ference they arrested ihe man late Friday night in J the fed ght’ district of ’. Sheffield, a Yorkshire towt ” close fo the six cities in - . Which’ thé . Ripper killed. . Although he never killed in. .' Sheffidld, many of his victims “were prostilutes.. The two policemen’ satd that during arovline check. - they found. suspiclous * . _ Wentity the w woman. first killing, of prostitute 7 Miho Het ana in tee (he police found a hammer, one of Lhe’ weapons used by ; haat “ “for: Vorkshite Hipper has cost _ early $10 million since his ‘House: period 300, protest : racism claims. DELTA, &.. icp) = Hinarched « one: the, ‘Delta. ” “police. ‘station. ‘Sunday’ ao * '. protest, against racism i . that community, but police ~ chief Doug MacClowd said later that racism isn't a o major problem. - The merch followed the __Satirday firebombing of a hole belonging to an East: Indian family. No injuries were Feported. : “ight people Were asleep’ ” ‘In the House, which hed ,. heen the scene of: Vari ' dalism ‘in the past, wher . ” the firebombing, occurred. Reeidents sald the vart- _dalism was racially Diativaied. . MacCloud ¢ald there had Hicence plates on a parked. — been nopatiérn of violence , ‘Rover. autoniobile. They said afien’a computer: check of (the car‘d, " pegisiration. they. arrested * the driver on duspicion of _ theft of the plates. - “Hd wan jul a hpi check < | against a racial group in “the spraveling munkipality just south of Vancouver and thal while. racism did exist. it was io Worse than ; other mesnicipalitves, MN dont thine we are . ‘minority groups ‘wai. 8. resull of the’ large youth . peeing’ ‘an: - putbreait ‘ot. 4 Three - hundred” ‘people. . pacial, violesite: in Delia,” ‘he sdid, mddind that niuch- of the vandalisi againel population in the con- munity. “Balwinder sidhu, who te raed the dlscm when a gasoline bomb: smashed . basement: . window, said she saw, two _ through a white reat: “ rudning - awa - Mere to happy . that they. mar “burned it” she said,” : “Guys. come around and yell ai us to move. People come and break the win- dows and the windshield of my car. We have had to pul plextgiaad: windows all through the house because . we can't live with broken -_ glace anymore.” Sidhu said the farrly as unsure whether their. in- surance would cover the damage «hich was a fined 10 cre reom. the Ripper. in the, man's ; ar : . the - * Police believe: they have. aor . Newspaper reports said - Oct 30, i975. The alee questioned 200,000 people.’ searched 37.000 hoines and. : ‘checked 180,000 : vehicles. . The «mass. murderer : killed five women in Leeds, . three in Bradford, . iwo in . Manchester and ote: each. - in Halifax, Huddersfield and Preston, all northern industrial towns. a Because his. first victims - Were prostitutes; he! was. -nickaatiied ‘after Jack “thé, " Hipper, ‘who- butchered, ax “prostijutes in. London's. East End in 1888 and. was: - never caught. But his last - three ~. vletima “were . able young women. - Police teHeve:the killer 7 “was motivated’ “by: a ‘ Zeddistic halred Tor women. He. usually ‘Milled -. by”. * sniashing™ his: wietimns’. heads with a hammer and _ stabbing and slashing them ‘with a screwdriver and a | _ knife, savagely routilating . them. And he repeatedly ‘taunted the police with tapes and letters bragging abéut his crimes and. _ Promising to kill again. . His 13th victim was a ° “Leeds University student, *-year-old Jacqueline Hill, who was killed Last Nov. 17 83 she took’ a short cul _home on a brightly iit foot- path in the centre of Leeds. After her murder, women in northern England's _ cities and towns began going about in pairs and groups for protection. Female college students ‘armed themselves with knives, scissors and alarm whistles. Feminist groups ‘gormed movie houses in Leeds and = Bradford showing .lilms depleting: oo - violence agains! women. °& of the three Americans fron the foreiga ininistry. couver: man who died in 3 . ‘He’ says. it’s caiain . ~~ there willbe more'snow. > | . but whether it will stay”. 00 the ground is another a | *matter. “Of no con-: . _ Solation éo the sklers is’... that Jan, 9 marks the «~~ ‘halfway point of winter . and by'then we ‘should: -. have received halfof the” “athe ons an hotter, .dvier supumer, ...,don't count on it, Blakey. nd ‘that ‘no. well--* established trends have 7 “hostage. control ae ; "gum sriciin qoeeiavat enya i adc.” ~ President Carter's final offer for the release ‘of the US. hostages. It also says it has transferred.the | three Americans held at the foreign mintstry.to a. - new location and has-taken full control of the other © 49 captives {rom the Isinmic militants who seized ony them 14 months ago. Prime Minister Mohammad . Ali. Réjai’s spokesman, Ahmad Azizi, told The Asmeldted ” Press Sunday that the “US. response’ ls. Being. - a _ studied’ and Iran's reply will be announced later. Azizisaid U.S. Charge d’Affaires Brute Laingen, political officer Victor Tomseth. and security man Michael Howland have been moved: freefi (i fer. eign ministry in Tehraz fo “a inveo apsrigriaty’ place of residcuce,” the olficial Iranian pews - " __c¥eney Pars reported. Cantacted by telephooe fram’ ' Beirut, be told The AP this was done for reasons of “conveniencé.”” “It was decided from the beginning that when the ‘hostages were ‘delivered to the government, the three at the ministry would alto be taken by the: - government," Azizi said. oo. . ~The oiher 4a boatages arencne in the bazida of the government,” he ‘reported, Indlea ting for the first *Laingen, Satara and iia ct at. the foreign rilnisiry whed the militants tobdtewes the: embassy nnd bad been kept there ever:dimee: refused to say where any of the Améritins are being held now or whether all of them are together. US. officials in-Washinglon said‘they have. no confirmation of Azizi’s report that the government has taken contro! of the hostages. But White House — spokesman Jody Powell said the reported transfer: “does calisé us some concer.” He said tiey “hed ~ been under somewhat more favernble conditions . both in terms of communication with them and in terms of the amenities which they enjoyed. ; ‘There was speculation Tran was gathering the . ' Qestages in preparation either to reicase them or to try them as spies, something Iranian officials have threatened to do if the United States does not meet its demands. Asked about the: renewed threats of trials, Powell said: “We have made it very clear that if cur people: - were placed on trial that the government of the United States’ could not ‘it idly by and that very . serious consequences would flow from thal." Details of the. Carter. administration's. last communication conceming the hostages have net teen announced, but informed sources said it con- tained an Offer to deposit about $12 billion in ’ Algerian banks es a guarantee for the release of _ " Tranian assets frozen by the United States. Iranhas demanded Washington deposit 94 billion, in cash and gold in Algeri= aa guarantees fer bath - . the frozes! assets and the fortune transferred abroad By. the bale Shah Mohammad Reza Pallas] and his : Family, -" : “Five: iatalities in'$ j outh areas” Ani. han old Van- Saturday. a ea multiple-car crash earty Salurday was among at least five persona who died accidentally in British te lumbia _ during weekend, A jurvey: ty The Canadian Pread. ftom. 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday right - local times also showed four. olher' » Geathe. all kn trabfie.” = Police said Paul Schole "> web a passenger ina | -vehicld travelling at about 110 kilometres an hour when it went out of control and was in céllision with anothér car al an in- tersection nia seen Scholz Was “I song ie rah accident, which in valved two other cars. _ Bartsira Alice Wighton of Richmond, B.C.. ‘died Bridge In south Vancouver. -Colieen Danielle, of Comox, B.C.; ‘wa kitted « rtwo-ear. ¢fash on -the ‘Oak Stree! says the summers have: a wh oo — ‘Saturday whec-abe wap truck by a@ tar at that Vancouver Island. oily, Police said the woman was walking along a road; The. ~ vehicle failed to. remain at the scene. ‘Laura Ann Montague, 1", “of Richmond, dled Saturday when the cat in which she was went out of control in key. condi: Hees in Highway 99 and was in collision with inather vehicle. Kevin Cameron Smith, 19. of Kelowna, B.C., was | killed Friday night thea lis car went oul of control at a city intersection. aad trashed into a telephone * pole; The survey excledes _ honiieldes, suicides and ~Indesstrial taralitiee. - A ee lee una TTT 2 tac Be wea A ea toe