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“An early morning fire in Thornhill destroyed this home

located In ‘the 4000 block of River’ Drive. volunteer. flremen responded te the call at approximately : 4:15 a.m., but.by the time they reached the scene, the -

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building ‘was engulfed in flame. No one was living In the building at the: time of the accident and the owner is not In.

‘25 cents

townatthe moment. Ot clals duspect that thefire started in the porch area and quickly spread through the-rest of the. structure. Conducting a ‘preliminary investigation into tne cause of the blaze are’ firefighter Wes. Patterson

(foreground), assistant Depu

ty: Chief Art. Hoving (eft) and |

Thornhill Fire Chief: Jim: Piper. (right). -

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‘Traffic, sidewalks. worry “eldermen

_ byRALPH RESCHKE. \‘Herald Stalf Writer ,TERRACE— Terrace council

The matter will come up again at the next council meeting; with.the engineering committee coming

: reviewed a ‘number of ilems at back with its development Tuesday’. Pepe tee - council ;.agreement pro ’ Scatneeting ;;those: hich ma ight-be.

given special eientlon is the ‘Mohawk. proposal, the RCMP. building, and the disposition of the: quanist hut presently located between city hall and the new ambulance station. .

Ht was decided that the bylaw regarding the ‘rezoning of ' the Mohawk property would goto third reading and that the’ concerns — ‘raised at the public hearing of April 16 would be studied by -the administration and the engineering committee,

In making his motion to go to third reading, Alderman David Geliately said that. special: at- tention should be glven to the issue of sidewalks around the site, the location and construction of a ‘propane storage tank and the landscaping,

He also stated that there should be some sort of development agreement reached between the . Municipality and Mohawk. in regards to to construction of the gas

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Alderman Alan Soutar made his position clear, saying thathe would not vote in favour of the project if Mohawk does not include con- struction of sidewalks .in ‘their plans and also‘if they Insist on. building a propane storage tank on the gas bar site. -

. Traffic problema: are what concern Alderman: Ruth. Hallock, who.is not prepared to go ahead: with approval for. the project. if _ something isn’t Included’ in the proposal to deal with the traffic congestion on that corner,

dealing. with indthor.. issue; - «that: site. at. their own expense,

COWICIT “accepted the recom- mendation of the committee of the

’ whole meeting of April 11, where it

was decided that council approve

‘the proposed building plan. and

proceed to obtain..RCM ‘Police design.approval and financial approval from the Treasury Board. ‘

The plans call for the con- atruction of a building of ‘ap- proximately 17,400 sq. ft. with a net area of 14,638 sq. ft. The building

‘east.is estimated at $1.77 million

and‘ with the addition of $142,000 from: professioanl fees, con- tingencies..set at $124,000, disburesements ° at $18,000 and interim, financing at $150,000, the robs edlimated cost is $2,204,000.

‘Pending. approval’ from the police and the treasury board, the

proposal will go to public: referendum in November of this year, mt

And for the sum of $1.00, the 747 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets (Terrace) purchased the old quansit hut located between eity hall and the new ambulance station.

After a brief presentation from Patrick Hall 0-cat on behalf of the air cadets, council was just as brief

in deciding that the cadets could: ‘have their building. :

Alderman David Gellately made the motion that - administration take the necessary. steps to meet the air cadets request,

His feelings are that the com- munity benefits from- having the air cadets remove the building

from its prezent location, The cadets would'be responsible.

‘for taking: the- Duilding apart, -

transporting. it to the new site at

“the airport, and -re-erecting. it 2 a et frieesry

“It was also. proposed - that. fhe

airport. Mmandger be contacted to - . $ee if the property:on which the

building is to sit.can be leased: to the squadron for the sum of $1. 00 per year.

Council also approved the ap pointment of Eleanor Michaud and Michael Zylicz asthe Thomhill representatives to the District of Terrace Advisory. Parks and Recreation Committee, ,

Both are members of the recently formed Thornhill Ad- visory Parks and Recreation Commission.

A resolution. forwarded by the trustees of School. District 93 calling for the development of two soccer pitches on city owned property located at Parkside was forwarded to the. -tecreation committee.

Alderman Gellately, in making the recommendation, said that there are some items that should be investigated as‘ far .as agreements between the city and the school: board are concerned.

Terrace council will also be showing support for Terrace Air's plans to extend their flight service with the addition of a twin engine plane to their current fleet of single motor sircrafis, . .

Terrace Air had requested that council write a jletler to the Canadian Transport Commission as part of -the ¢ompanies ‘ap- plication for a Group B license enabling them to expand their operation with the addition of the twin engine | aircraft, .

” Council also received a letter from R.L. Rugg, in regards to his “proposal to house the Terrace RCMP: ‘detachment jn his. yetfovated building, we

yor: -Helma

iDigsbrecht stepped ree from ie chair and: let: Alderman George Cla%k assume the duties: of acting mayor while Giesbrecht explained the ‘inadequacies of Rugg's proposal. : :

He said that the property in the Rugg proposal is too! small to contain proper. parking facilities for police vehicles and that it also wouldn't allow for landscaping.

However, Alderman Soutar countered - that Rugg’s proposal inclides four extra lots behind the building to allow for parking. -

The Mayor also pointed aut that the Rugg balance sheet did not contain. any’ -funding fer con- tingencies, whereas the municipal package does contain funding for ‘that. Alderman Soutar, however, thinks’ that. because Rugg's proposal is a firm one, contingency funding is not necessary. .

Soutar also added that because of a ‘whim of council;"’ Mr. Rugg had lost $14,000 in providing his information for his bid to the municipality.

The matter ended when acting Mayor George Clark stated that everyone had spoken at least once onthe matter, and that because

‘ eouncil had already spent so much |

time-on this issue, unless new points could be presented the discussion would end.

A motion that the letter - be received as information was passed and carried.

All counci] members were present at the two hour meeting.

‘Established 1903

LONDON (AP) — Envoys of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy today tried to work out details for ‘evacuating the besieged Libyan People’s Bureau and British police

’ detectives questioned one of the

“Khadafy “revolutionaries"’ who’ had been running the mission. Libya, meanwhile, indicated it

_ would detain British diplomats in

Tripoli until the staff of the bureau leaves Britain. British’ officials ordered the bureau vacated by Sunday midnight night as part of a decision to cut diplomatic. ties with Libya.

On. Tuesday, . British authorities expelled the personal represen- tative’ of Khadafy from Londen,. arrested another Khadafy aide and detained eight Libyan students at London's Heathrow .

The siege began ‘April'17 after a

_ shooting. incident involving a _ crowd of demonstrators who were

outside the bureau. protesting Khadafy’s government. .

A British pollcewoman was killed eid 11 students were injured _ in the shooting ‘which: witnesses sald came from inside the building housing the Libyan bureau.

Citing diplomatic privilege, the Libyans have refused to let British investigators inside the building to

Libyans ordered to open fire

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try to ascertain the origin of the firing. Police marksmen have surrounded the bureay since the | shooting. °

ENVOYS IN LONDON Three envoys of Khadafy, sent at Britain's request, met early today with Foreign Office. Under- secretary Sir John Leahy ‘to prepare the groundwork for the bureau’s evacuation, a Foreign Office spokeaman said. . . Leading the Libyan delegation to . London was. Col. Abdul Rahman

, 4 police intelligence expert and a minister for external security. The other two officials were identified as Nasir Ashur and

‘Ahmed Said.

The envoys are expected to visit the bureau, in an 18th cehtury bullding on elegant St. James's Square,

‘Detectives from Scotland ‘Yard today questioned’ = © Matooq Muhammed Matoog, one _ of Khadafv’s trusted revolutionaries. Matooq was arrested in western ‘London on Tuesday.

‘He was part of a committee of four “revolutionary students" who

' seized control of the embassy Feb.

18, apparently on Khadafy's or- Continued. on page 2

Millions of dollars “damage in earthquake

’ MORGAN HILL, Calif, (AP) — Police closed off damaged homes taday in -the wake of a- strong earthquake that caused millions of dollars in ‘damage in northern. California,.and avthorities .were. “surprised that a temblor strong enough to crack bridges anda dam caused only 21 minor injuries.

The quake struck at 1:15 p.m.

Tuesday and measured 6.2 on the Richter scale of ground motion, the University of: California Seismographic Station said. It was centred on the Calaveras Fault, about 19 kilometres east of San Jose and 80kilometres south of San Francisco.

Although the tremor was felt for hundreds of kilometres, damage was centred in Morgan Hill, about _ 16 kilometres south of San Jose. ‘Twenty-one’ people were reported injured, including two in hospital with concussions and 19 treated and. released, authorities said.

Hardest hit was the Jackson Oaks subdiviston of luxury homes in Morgan Hill, where 30 houses were damaged. Several were knocked off their foundations.

Eight . homes were left uninhabitable, said Dick Maulden of ate Morgan Hill Fire Depart-

meity Manager Charles Cate estimated damage at $5 million to

$10 million in the Morgan Hill area.

"It’s amazing there wasn’t more damage or more injuries,” said ‘ Jane Decker, spokesman for emergency services in Santa Clara County.

Almost one year ago, on May 2,

.1983, a 6.7 earthquake hit Coalinga,

29) kilometres to the south, levelling the downtown, causing $31 million in damage and injuring 47 people. .

Nurse Traynor asked to take ‘truth

TORONTO... (CP) Nurse Phyllis Trayner is due to teatify: again today after startling the: Grange royal comission Tuesday by suggesting someone might have tried to implicate her in 36. mysteriows baby deaths.

In another. unorthodox - development, Douglas Hunt, a lawyer for the Ontario Attorney General's ministry, asked Trayner if she would agree to take sodium amytal, a drug regarded as a truth serum, to help her remember the circumstances of many of the deaths. . |

Even though a “report by the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., says Trayner was on duty within hours of 2 of the

. deaths,. Trayner has told the commisalon she can't recall details of moat of them.

sla Hunt made the suggestion,

layer, Claude Thenson, imm lately objected to cotomissioner-Mr, Justice Samuel cau of the. Ontario Supreme ure

Grange said hé would not allow Hunt’s question, saying “it's too novel a approach to me.

“I don’t think we have yet reached the stage where a witness says she can't remember, we offer her a drug and say ‘Try it with this, ve BEING FRAMED?

Hunt's 5 tion came after Trayner eaid it had occurred to her that someone wan tying to im- plicate her in the- deaths, which occurred on the cardiac ward of the Hospital for: Sick Children between June 1960 and March’ 19at.

. The Atlanta report said a number

of the deaths were consistent with overdoses of the powerful heart drug digoxin.

In reply to commission lawyer Paul Lamiek, Trayner sald she could offer no explanation aa to why all the suspicious deaths had occurred near the time she was on duty “unless somebody was using my schedule to make it look Uke I was the only one there when‘ t! deaths occured.”

Lamek , asked if. she was suggesting that someone mn, ‘fave been involved in causing fhe deaths and netting you up or framiiig you

“that has crossed my mind, " Trayner replied, ' But Trayner said she couldn’t think of anyone who had sufficient animosity toward her to do so. Nurse Susan Nelles told the commission earlier this month she

believed someone may have been

killing babies to discredit her nursing ability,

Nelles was charged with mur- dering four of the bablea but was discharged after a preliminary hearing ruled in May 1962 that there was insufficient evidence to send thé case to trial.

ONLY OBSERVER .

After Trayner's reply to Lamek,

Hunt said that if somebody had ’ killed all the bables while Trayner

- was on duty, she was the only nurse

on her team who had an “op- portunity to observe this person, whoever it was."

Trayner agreed with Hunt that such a person would have to be a - Member of medical staff because they were the only people who had authorized access to the Infants, ‘But she would not agree that doctors could be ruled out as suspects because their unsollelted

Presence on the ward in the middle.

of the night — when most of the babies died — would have been suspicious. .

. Trayner sald doctors often came to the ward to check the babies, even when they weren't summoned by the nurses.

“We didn’t say: ‘What are you doing here?" she said,

‘But: she could not recall whether any one doctor was on the ward in _the hours before the 20 babies died.

It was at that point that Hunt suggested she consider sodium amytal, saying it was important she remember if anyone waa near the babies and might have been trying to frame her.

Trayner, nursing tearn leader on

cardiac ward 4A when moat of the deaths occurred, told Hunt she had never purchased digoxin from a pharmacy outside the hospital. Several of the baby deaths

between June 1960 and March 1961. ‘have been linked to overdoses of

the powerful heart drug. GOES TO PHARMACY Trayner, who told police during

their ‘investigation of the deaths -

she believed digoxin was unavailable over the counter, said she later inquired at a Toronto

- Between 15 and 20 aftershocks in| the 3.0 to 4.0 range were reported In the aix hours following Tuesday's quake, said Bruce Bolt, director of

the... beatae Bia of Salitornia Selsmograpl : ;

damage and injuries to the fact - that the epicentre was located away from urban areas with older buildings.

A broken fuel line at the Blossom Hill Auto Repair Shop in San Jose caused a fire that caused $1 million in damage.to the shop and two others, fire officials sald.

The quake caused cracks along the top of the 427-metre long Anderson Dam near Morgan Hill, and the bridge over the dam was knocked from {ts foundation.

A bridge lea to Henry Coe State Park east of Morgan Hill was

' knocked from.-its foundation and ’ suffered

“eerlous damage,” keeping some visitors from leaving the park, a-spokesman said,

In San Francisco, high-rise windows. shook and workers Teported that buildings swayed for 20 to 30 seconds. Glass popped out of windows in the Western Mer- chandise Mart, but no injuries were reported.

Power was knocked out to thousands of customers of Santa Clara County Pacific Gas and Electric, and about 260 prisoners at the Santa Clara County Elmwood jatl in Milpitas were evacuated. |

The Richter scale is a measure of gtound motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold in- crease in magnitude; thus a reading of 6.5 reflects an ear- thqualke 10 times atronger than one of 5.5

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drugatore to see whether it could be = purchased = without = a prescription.

She. said she believed the Pharmacist told her It could only be purchased by prescription.

Hunt then ‘ated Trayner if she was working ‘“‘undercover’’ for the police _ she went to the

a | had’ given police an answer and I wanted to make sure my answer wascorrect,"” she an- awered,

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