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VANCOUVER (CP) —.

Premier Bill Bennett denied
Wednesday reports that a
political dirty tricks cam-
paign was plotted during
at. Harrison Hot Speings
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‘B.C. in 1974,

And as the premier was is-
suing hia denial, another
phoney letter to a newspaper
editor signed with the name
of 'a New Democratic Party
Supporter was made public.

Radlo station CJOR quoted
fit Unnamed party source a5
saying the dirty: tricks
campaign of writing“ the
letters and organizing
callers to radio talk shows
was hatched at meetings at
Harrison Hot Springs and at
a Vancouver hotel.

The campaign was to be
used for the February, 1974,
byelection in North Van-
couver-Capilano and the
December, 1978 provincial
election. The Liberals won
the byelection but Social
Credit ousted the NDP in the
1975 general election. |

Earlier reports said the
dirty tricks letters, which
are the subject of a province-

wide police investigation, -

were developed a year ago

election,

The latest letter, the third
with the forged. Gordon
Townsend forged, ap
in the Cowichan Leader at
Duncan, B.C, March 28.

Leader editor Leslie Leyne
said Wednesday the letter's
authenticity was not
checked, « . 7

The. letter erlliclzed NDP.

Karen Sanford, Bob Skelly,
Norm Levi and others for
attacking the B.C. Resources
Investment Corp.. share
distribution.

Meanwhile, the party
source said Bennett attended
the strategy meetings in 1974
and tald supporters the party
would have to adopt same
NDP tactles in order to win.
Bennett said he was
referring to the NDP's suc-
cessful door-to-door can-
vassing, not dirty tricks,

Bill Vander Zaim, current
municipal affairs minister,
Grace McCarthy, past-
president of the party and
current human resources
minister, and Hugh Harris,
Bennett's campaign
manager and = current
executive director of the

for the May 10 provincial _

MLAS" Barbafa Wallace, “Wlhia-the-pa

party, also were reported to
have attended the meetings.

Vander Zalm said he has
never discussed dirty tricks

‘with those people, adding he.
was disappointed the radio _.

station would stoop . to
making such statements. -

“T have never been in on
any meetings anywhere, at

‘anytime where anything &

underhanded was discussed
with respect ‘to politics or
anything else,” he said.

“Harris said he attended the
meetings as a constituent
and has been involved in the

‘party only since June 1. As

executivedirector, he said,
he would never condone
dirty tricks and has never
heard the premier “come
remotely close to condoning
them,”

He said the party source is
lying. ,

Peter Hyndman, pariy
president during the 1975
election campaign and now
the MLA for Vancouver
South, sald he attended some
of the meetings at Harrison
Hot Springs. He said he
heard
ter-writing and phone-in
campaigns, but no mention

_ was ever made of using

phoney names,

Current president Les
Keen also denied any
knowldge of such activities
‘during the 1975 election, He
said the party did tell con-
stituents they could refer to
letter-writing sepeciallets
r rty when pre-
paring letters for thelr local
newspapers.

He said the purpose was to
get well-written letters the
paper would print and still
get the party message
ACTOSS.

The dirty tricks scandal
has resulted in the
resignation of caucus worker
Jack Kelly and has promp-
ted a request that his
colleague, Ellen McKay,

-quit, The pair advised party -

members at constituency
meetings to “play dirty’? and
offered advice on how to use
phoney names to plant let-
ters on editoiai/ pages in
support of Social Credit.

Tapes of thelr advice were

distributed to constituency -

organizations throughout the
province,

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MEXICO CITY (CP) — A
landing on the wrong runway
was blamed for the crash of

Weslern Airlines DC-10.at

“fhe Mexien “City” airport *in’

which 74 persons, Including
at least one Canadian, were
reported killed.

The airport was shrouded
in fog when the plane from
Los Angeles landed before
dawn Wednesday on a
runway that was closed for
repairs, hit a truck and
crashed Into two buildings.
Officials said 71 of the 68,
persons aboard the airliner
and three on the ground were
Killed,

Seventeen others aboard
Flight 605 survived. Three
were in intensive care, nine
were reported in satisfactory
condition and five were
released after first-aid
treatment. ‘

The pilot, Capt, Charles
Gilbert, 53, of Rolling Hills,
Calif,, was among those
killed. Tvo members of the
crew survived. .

Halloween was

The police car moved in
quickly beside the crowd of
youths the two RCMP of-
ficera had jn throwing
égge at the other youngsters
at the corner of Lakelse and
Emerson, but without the
aqueeling tires that made
Kojak famous.

The hatless policeman
opened the door of his
already egg-covered blue
and white, Pointing to a lad
of about 18 busily trying to
secret his weapons back in
his pockets, the patrolman
said, ‘you, here.’

The look on the face of the
one singled out changed
from the previous vislon of
delight at having a night to
raise hell, to one of concern
as he faced possible arrest,

With a practiced move the
police officer patted the lad
for concealed weapons,
‘placing just enough of a swat
on the hip pockets of the
fellow’s jeans to break the
eggs he was carrying.

As the lad realized what
was happening, he reached
for Be shirt pocket he
slruggled to get the egg there
out of the shirt before the
policeman’s handa got to it,
With egg already starting to
soak through his pants, the
youlig man suggested to the
policeman he could take the
egg out and the boy volun-
teered to break It over his
own head. .

No use, The pollceman put
the palm of hia hand on the
youth's breast” pocket and,
smiling, quietly crushed it

lat.

One less egg to be lobbed
at a passing motorist.

Except for the egg
throwing and one or two

rocks heaved  throtgh
windows, it was a quiet
evening here and in Kitimat.

The one incident was an

Also listed as among those
killed was Miss K, Kronseth
of Vancouver. The
hometowns of several of the

survivore arid the'déad were’
‘not available and it was not '

known if any other Ca-
nadians were aboard.

Earlier, unconfirmed
reports. said another
Canadian, Identified only as
D.J., 37, was among those
who had survived the crash.
However, no name with
those initials was contained
In the passenger list made
public by the airline.

Among those killed was
Ken Luycoff, 31, a news
producer for ABC, who was
en route to El Salvador to
cover the political violence
there.

Mexican officials said the
runway on which the plane
landed had been closed for
two weeks for repairs and
was dark, while the ad:
jacent, parallel runway that

Airplane on wrong runway

was open was well lighted,
Tail marks on the runway
indicated that the pilot tried

to take off, but the plane's ‘-
*Tanding.’ gear ‘hit’ a” truck, ©

killng the driver, officials
said, The impact sent the
airliner sliding across to the
other runway and it crashed
through a mobile.lounge and
slammed into an Eastern
Airlines building, killing two
persons.

In Washington, U.S.
Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration officials said
after talking
officials that the crash was
caused by an "unknown ap-

” proach-and-landing error,”

"It was definitely not
structural, there’s no
question about that, said
FAA official Dennis Feld-
man, The design of the DC-10
was called into question ear-
lier this year when an
American Airlines DC-10 lost
an engine while taking off in
Chicago, causing a crash
that claimed 273 lives.

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By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writerie

An official of the
provincial Ministry of
Health says a hospital
consultant will visit Mills
Memorial next week ‘‘to
get a look at the general
operation of the
hospital.”

However, Hugh
McGann stressed the
investigation was of a
routine sort, and in no
way should be in-
terpreted as a special
inquiry.

McGann said Wed-
nesday the ministry is
aware of criminal
charges pending against
former administrator
John Allen. He added that
Health Minister Bob

McCleeand. received

Skeena MLA Frank
Howard’s letter
requesting an inquiry into
health care in the area.
The purpose of the
hospital consultant’s visit
Is to look into both ad-
ministrative and health

care at Mills Memorial.
g unfolds...

- Jt. something:
we'll have to deal with it
‘when it happens,” he
said. McGann indicated
he is not expecting
anything ‘‘very
dramatic” to unfold, and
says a special audit of the
hospital's books is not
being contemplated at
this time.

“I don't think we've
heard anything to
discredit the hospital
from the quality of care
that has normally been
provided,” he = said.
McGann pointed out
visits from hospital
consultants are a normal
routine, occuring two or
three times a year.

Wayne Epp, the
chairman of the Mills
Memorial Hospital board

says a visit of this sort is.

“routine when a new
administrator is moving
in.” With the resignation
ef John Allen, Shirley
Bentley, the firector of
nursing has taken over as
the interim ad-
ministrator,

Epp admitted the
recent publicity con-
cerning the hospital may
have been a factor in
moving up the date of the
visit of June Burns, the
hospital consultant,

“T'm sure this has
prompted her to visit at
this time," he said.

The hospital ad-
ministration could use
‘some help in lightening
the workload of the new
interim administrator,
Epp said.

Advertisements for the
permanent position have
been placed in Vancouver
newspapers, but it will be
some time before a
replacement is selected,
a board member in-
dicated.

doors.

camera.

SECRET MEET

After a special, privately arranged meeting,
held insecret, the Mills Memorial H
has decided to continue to meet behind closed:

Despite requests from members of the media
that the meetings be open to the public and
reporters, the board voted to keep to policy
making body meetings of the public institution in

While two.weeks ago a majority of board
members polled by the Herald said they favored
opening the meetings, the officials elected by the
society which runs the hospital voted
unanimously to bar both

-their_monthly.decision-making ses .

ospital board

press and public from
ss.

Pickets close airport

Air radio operators
have set up a picket line
at the . Terrace-Kitimat
Airport, causing the
cancellation of all in-
strument-rated flights in
and out of the airport,
according to Gordon
Lund, airport manager.

Operators there were
doing their designated
jobs up until last night,
but set up the line this
morning, sald Lund.
Operators have been on
the picket line for the last
two days at the Prince
Rupert airport, causing
its closure to IFR flights.

This closure means
that no CP Air flights can

use the airport. Peter
Chettle, manager of CP
Air here in Terrace, said
that the reason his airline
ean’t use the facility is
that the lack of a
weatherman _ cancels
flights.

“We can't use the
airport if there is no
weatherman, and the
weatherman hasn't
crossed the picket line,”
Chettle said. "If we can’t
get local weather in-
formation, we can’t
land."

Lund said that flights
that are not instrument-
flight rated can still use
the Terrace airport.

a relatively quiet evening

assault. on a female, but
police have a suspect in
cells. There were no reports
of Halloween treats being

omen ions Sait ide RRB aN Ee a

tampered with.

A Halloween bandit who
went trick-or-treating at a
Canadian Imperial Bank of

These youths opposed a similar group in the egg war

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Commerce branch in
Tiverton, Ont., on Wed-
nesday escaped: with §100,-
000, but across Canada,
Halloween activities were
less spectacular,

Police reported several
pranks, and in Toronto about
20 persons were arrested for
disturbing the peace In
downtown scuffles, egg
pelting and screaming of
obscene remarks,

In Tiverton, a man dressed
in women's clothing and
carrying a sawed-off shotgun
tied up two tellers and
manager Doug Woods after
emptying the vault, The
large amount of money kept
at the bank was to cash the
pay-cheques af employees
from a néarby nuclear power
station.

Provincial police had’
roadblocks throughout the
area about 200 kllometres
northwest of Toronto.

In Amherst, N.S., a
pumpkin was dropped from
a bridge over the Trans-
Canada Highway onto a
passing car, shattering the
windshield. A surprised Dr.
Tom Lockwood of Moncton,
N.B., was not injured,

An abardoned curling rink
in Newcastle, N.B, burned
in the afternoon, and police
around the province

reported several minor fires

on roads to block traffic.

A three-year-old girl in
downtown Saint John broke
ner leg when she was struck
by a car while trick-or-
treating,

Prime Minister Joe Clark
got a recipe for campaign
stew in Ottawa — a large
model of a can of Clark
beans built by Carleton
University students as part
of their annual Halloween
pranks.

But the stew didn’t last
long on Parliament Hill.
Under orders from the
RCMP, the students loaded it

back onto a truck and drove
away.

Halloween humor,
however, wasn't abounding
inside the Commons. *

Jim Fulton, the NDP
member for the west const
riding of Skeena, sat through
half the daily question period
wearing a false nose. When
no one said anything, the
neglected Fulton took it off.

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