The above photo was taken just a few minutes after the robbery in Rupert,

Monday at 6:25 p.m. Northern Co-op Centre general manger
Corner Store manager Lionel Buller are shown inspecting

Irving and
the two tills which were

rifled by two men wearing Halloween masks, who ordered the female clerk to lie

face down on the floor.

Then then started pressing keys on the two cash registers until the cash drawers
opened, scooped up the contents and fled, on foot, running up Smithers Street,

adjcent to the Rupert store. This
ons in Prince

the lives of five pers

oto, as were

photos of
pert, were taken by Phylis “happened "'to be

e fires that claim

inthe immediate area and was able to use her camera to advantage.

THE HERALD, Thursday, December 22, 1977, PAGE 3

Actress says she had Howard Hughes Baby

. VANCOUVER (CP) —

. Actress Terry Moore, 47,

who says she was
married to the late bil-
lionaire recluse Howard
Hughes, said Tuesda
that she had his child,
which died shortly after a
premature birth.

Miss Moore, who says
she married Hughes
secretly on a boat in

Mexican waters off Cali-
fornia in November, 1949,
said in an interview that
she bore Hughes’s child
in a Munich, Germany,
hospital in October, 1951.

At the time, she was in
Germany making a
movie, and Hughes, who
was in America at the
time, decided ,not to
travel to Germany.

She said the baby, a girl
she named Lisa Marie,
was born three months
prematurely and lived 24

ours before dying of
blood poisoning.

“He (Hughes) didn’t
want a child,” said Miss
Moore, who received an
Pscar nomination | for

supporting actress
the movie Come Back,
Little Sheba.

Female Athlete of 1977

By MEL SUFRIN

CP Sports Editor

Cindy Nicholas, who
became the first woman
to swim the English
Channel both ways nen-
stop and then complained
because she missed a
one-way record by a
couple of minutes, is
Canada's female athlete
of the year for 1977.

The 20-year-old Toronto
student, already planning
another attack on the

Terrace plans busy Recreation Schedule for Winter

by Sharon Lough

Program planning for
the Winter ‘78 session of
Recreational and Aquatic
Programmes has been
completed. The program
handbook is presently
being printed and will be
delivered to everyone via
mail by the end of
December. For a preview
of some of the new
programs, the Parks and
reation Dept. has in
store for you, read on!!
Skating Lessons for
Adults: will be conducted
by an experienced In-
structor. Donna Donald
will help you leam the
fundamentals of skating
including balance, for-

ward and backward
motion, stopping and
changi irection and

more. according to in-

wo ix or rye,
Strange:
SOUPS; RUNOWST avnau
wt wane rs

But
It Is True

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) —
A 19-year-old woman
from suburban Colonie
has been sentenced to two
years probation for em-

zzling money from the
bank where she worked.

The confessed em-
bezzler will get the
money to repay the bank
from a loan at The First
National Bank of Scotia,
where the embezzlment
occurred,

US. District Judge
James Foley — said
Monday he found the
arrangement unusual,
but accepted it. Wendy
Westfall had pleaded
guilty te taking $2,150
rom the bank between
February and August of
last year.

She is to pay back. the
bank in monthly, $61
installments for four
years. That comes to $2,-
928, including interest.

COLUMBUS, Ohio
(AP) Dumpsters,
which are butky garbage
containers, have been
disappearing here so
often that police have
named dumpster thefts
their Crime of the Week.

That qualifies the thefts
for a local program
called Crime Solvers
Anonymous, in which
anyone who calls in a tip
that leads to an arrest
and indictment gets a
$1,000 reward.

The dumpsters, some
loaded with garbage,
began disappearing Jate
last summer, mainly
from businesses and
apartment blocks.
Detective Cal Holt now
has at least 15 to 20
dumpster theft reports on
his desk. He estimates
the total value of the
missing dumpsters at

What do you do with a
hot dumpster? Sand blast
it, repaint it and ship it to
another rt of the
country, Holt said.

“There are markets all
over,’ he said. ‘The
trash business is very
competitive," and people
are: always looking for
ways to cut costs.

dividaual progress, This
program, offered Friday
afternoons, commences
January 20th,

Tots on Ice: a yery
popular learn to skate
program for _—_spre-
schoolers, will again be
offered on Mondays and
Wednesdays, com-
mencing January 16th.

Badminton: is a
popular lifetime sport for

ple concerned with
eeping mind and body
alert and fit. Bandminton
coach, Pat Kenny, will
teach basics of bad-

minton, Tuesday nights, ©

commencing January
17th. ‘
beginning cross

country Skiing: a course
for ages, which in-
troduces the how and
when of waxing and all of
the basic is of cross
country will be offered on
Sundays, commencing

January, 15th., or, Dla:
a Conor, nbhasizes

safety. and enjoyment
during four short cross

country skiing excursions P

into the surrounding area
of Terrace,

Basic Dog Obedience
and Handling: taught by
Sadie Mormon, an ex-

perienced dog trainer and
roomer, will begin
ednesday, January

25th. This course which is
for all dogs, purebred and
otherwise, alms to teach
your dog to respond to
commands given y you.
A Veterinarian and a
professional groomer will
guest speakers ng
two sessions of the 12
week course,
Guitar Ma led will
again ught by Gwen
Waldie. This is an in-
troducductory course for
beginners up to age 16,
which teaches the basis of
guitar playing through
mn and enjoyable
exercises combined with
sing-a-longs. Strummin,
chording and tuning plus
a variety of simple
traditional and popular
songs are included.

im. — 65:30 p
Guitar Magic II occurs on
Thursdays, 4:00 — 5:30
p.m. icommencing
‘anuary. 17th and 19th
respectively.

Black and White
Photography: is an in-
troductory course on
basic camera and
darkroom techniques.
Learn form aan expert,
how to use your 35mm
camera to its full
potential and how to
evelop and print your
own photographs. The
course taught John
Dando, occurs Monday
and Wednesday nights,
7:00 to 9:500 p.m. com-
mencing January 17th.

For further in-
formation regarding
these programmes,
please ‘ contact the

reation Program Co-
ordinator, Sharon Lough,
at 638-1177 or 638-1174,

Registration for all of
these programs will
occur on January 14th,
2:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the
Terrace Arena Banquet

m.
_ | Interested in becoming
' film. projectionist for’
the upcoming Film Series

for Young People?? The
first film showing is the
Little Prince on January
20th. Interested persons
should contact the
Recreation Programme
Co-Ordinator at 638-1174

Last Minute Briefs

HOUSTON (AP) — A
man who says he spent
four days in a pawn shop

attic after trying to-

burgle the establishment
has turned himself in—
saying he was sick,
hangry and thirsty, police

say.

Orlando Vasquez, 32,
was found Monday. He
was charged. with
burglary and held in lieu
of $5,000 bond, police
said.

Vasquez said he had
been hiding since last
Thursday night when
three other men who
helped him break into the
building were ap-
prehended by police.

CHICAGO (AP)
Police say the driver of a
getaway car who fell
asleep on the job when he
should have been step-
ping on it foiled a $5,000
service station holdup.

Police said a squad car
gave chase when two men
escaped on foot after the
heist Monday.

When one of the bandits
arrived at the getaway
car, he found the driver
asleep. The driver,
rudely awakened, got
scared and ran.

The two bandits and the
driver were arrested.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The 2,°500 electricians
employed by British
Columbia Hydro have
voted in favor of a new
twoyear contract, the
International
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers said Tuesday.

The agreement in-
cludes a sixper-cent
increase in the first year,
retroactive to April 1, and
the maximum allowable
under federal anti-
inflation board guidelines
for next year.

Hydro workers had
threatened to strike but
accepted an offer made
by the company Nov, 25.

ASH POSES THREAT

JAKARTA (AP) — Ten
thousand villagers in
central Java have been
evacuated to safer areas
because of the increasin
threat of a lava as
deluge from the Semeru
volcano, the =miass-
circulation newspaper
Kompas said Tuesday.
Ashes have been seen
moving down the voleano
for the last two weeks but
no deaths or injuries have
been reported.

ACCEPTED
REFUGEES

KUALA LUMPUR
(AP) — Homes have been
found in Australia, the
United States, France
and the Netherlands for
more than 75 per cent of
the 4,-000 Vietnamese
refugees in Malaysia, the
regional UN high com-
missioner for refugees,

R. Sampathkumar, said

Tuesday.

WAs MEDICAL
PIONEER

IOWA CITY (AP) —

Dr. William Paul, in-
ventor of buffered aspirin
and professor emeritus of
orthopedic surgery at the

University of lIowa’s pe

College of Medicine, has
died after a brief illness,
He was 77.

-RECESS TALKS

GENEVA (Reuter) —
The United States, Soviet
Union and Britain
recessed for one month
Tuesday their talks
aimed at drafting a
treaty to ban all nuclear

weapons tests. The dele-

ations declined to
isclose details of the
discussions but con-
ference sources Said they
agreed to recess until

Jan. 18.
SWIMS AROUND

POINT
CAPE TOWN (Reuter)

— Californian marathon:

swimmer Lynn Cox on

Tuesday became the first

person to swim the
r

around Cape Point, the
extremity of the Cape of

Good Hope. She com-
pleted the 16-kilometre
(10-mile) swim from
MacLear Beach, on the

Atlantic side of the ©

ninsula, to Buffels Bay

three hours and two
minutes.

FAMILY KILLED

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP)
— A family of four died
early Tuesday in a fire
that damaged three of
‘four apartments in a
wood-frame _ structure.
Other residents of the
building escaped after
Joseph Seneca, a milk-
man about to begin his
daily rounds, noticed the
fire. and warned them.

. But the occupants of the

third-floor apartment.
could not escape. The vic-
tims were identified as
Leo Mander Jr., 25; his
wife, Debra, 23; their
daughter, Terri, 3, and
son, Michael, 1,
authorities said.

PLAN FLIGHTS

TOKYO (Reuter) —
Japan Air Lines (JAL)

plans to operate flights to . & 3

Rio de Janeiro via New

York starting next June, |

nding the outcome of
talks with the countries
concerned, a spokesman
said today.

NEW PRESIDENT

NEW HAVEN, Coon, %

{AP) — Yale professor A.
Bartlett Giamatti has
been appointed resident
of Yale University it was
announced Tuesday. At
39, he will be Yale's
youngest-ever president.
Of Italian heritage, he
also is the first to break
the school’s Anglo-Saxon

1 tradition. He will of-

ficially assume the

presidency July 1.

CELEBRATIONS
STOPPED

On Christmas Eve of
1972, the city of Managua,
Nicaragua, was struck by
an earthquake that
levelled 40,000 of its 73,000
homes.

record that eluded her,
was a clear choice in the
annual year-end poll
conduc by . he
Canadian Press.

Second was Sylvia
Burka of Winnipeg,
speed skating: chan Bion
8 a mpion-
speed and third was skier
Kathy Kreiner of Tim-
mins, Ont., who placed
fifth in World Cup giant

slalom racing.
Kreiner was the 1976
winner of the poll after

capturing a gold medal in
e giant slalom at the

. Winter Olympics.

“Oh, darn it,’’ were
Nicholas’s first words
after landing at Dover,
England, Sept. 8, having
made the round-trip in 19
hours, 55 minutes—10
hours and five minutes
faster than the record set
by John Erikson of the
United States two years
earlier.

She was mildly upset
because her time on the
crossing to the French
coast was eight hours, 58
minutes, just two minutes
off the women’s record of
8:56 held by Wendy
Brooke of England.
PLANS RETURN

She promptly turned
around and swam back to
England in 10 hours, 57

minutes, well off her own.

France-to-England
record of 9:46, And before
going to sleep she an-
nounced she would return
in 1978.
More than 100 sports
writers and sportscasters
icipated in the annual
poll, first held in 1933, and

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43 picked Nicholas first,
16 second and four third.
Based on ae 4-2-1
valuation, that gave her
165 points, -

Burka, who surren-
dered her over-all. world
speed skating title in 1977
but came back within
weeks to win the sprint
championship, received
21 firsts, 22 seconds and
13 thirds for 120 points,
and Kreiner got 16 firsts,
19 seconds and 17 thirds

for 109 points. .
Keren
n

Fourth with 72
was 15-year-old
Kelsall of Surrey, B.C.,
the Canadian woman

nastics © champion,
ifth with 68 was Debbie
Brill of Victoria who won
a silver medal in the high
jump at the World
Student Games in
Bulgaria, and sixth with
25 points was swimmer
Bec Smith of Ed-
monton who set a
Canadian record of
2:18.52 in the 200-metre
individual medley, It was
the year’s ¢ fastest
time for the distance in
the world.

Others who received
firstplace votes included
a number of athletes
from Edmonton—
swimmers Shannon
Smith and Cheryl Gibson
and world women’s
trapshooting champion
Susan Nattrass. .

There was also s' rt
for two golfers,

rofessional Sandra Post,
ormerly of . Oakville,
Ont, and. amateur
champion Cathy Sherk of
Fonthill, Ont.

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“He didn’t want anyone
to have a claim on his
estate and he saw to it
that I didn’t get pregnant
again,” she said, ‘‘I
really wanted a child and
was heart-broken when
our daughter died.
MOULD CHILDREN

“I thought he was bein
selfish.. But he argu
that unless you were
around children con-
stantly to create and
mould them, they would
hurt your image, blacken
your name.”

Miss Moore said she
was 18 when she met
Hughes, then 43.

After a courtship that
lasted a year, she said
they were married by the
master of a boat, char-
tered by Hughes, in Mexi-
can waters west of San
Diego. She said her
mother and Hughes’s
aide Noah Dietrich were
ship's log, the only legal
ship's log, only leg
record of the marriage,
was later destroyed by
Hughes.

Miss Moore said the
marriage was legally
recognized in California
and Mexico, and that they
were never divorced, but

that after eight hears, she
left Hughes.
WRITING BOOK

Miss Moore, who was
married three other
times, now lives with her
children in Brentwood,
Calif,, where she is
writing her
autobiography, which she
said is mainly about
Hi es.

eis to appear as a

witness in the court case
in Las Vegas over
Hughes’s so-called Mor-
mon will. She said
Hughes made only one

ill, donating his entire
fortune to his medical
institute. ;

“I know the so-called
Mormon will is a fake,"’
she said. “He only ever
wrote one will—and that
directed all his money to
his medical institute he

talked about, even on our
wedding night. That was
his reason for living.

“I think his real will
was destroyed by his
aides. They guarded him
night and day. Towards
trolled by the people be

y people
tried to help.”

NOTICE

1978
BUSINESS LICENCE
INVOICES

Have now been mailed to all 1977 licenced
businesses. If your firm or businass has not

received an invoice contact the District of

Terrace immediately.

Anyone doing

business within the District of Terrace
without a valid licence is subject to

prosecution.

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GLOSED sat. Deo 25
Mon. Dec. 26

OPEN Wod. - Sat.
Reg. Shopping Hours

Signed,

T.G. Chesterman,
Licence Officer. |
District of ‘Terrace:

Tues. Dec, 27