areas of the job.

Hearst not to marry, contrary to Newsweek report

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Patricia Hearst’s mother today termed “totally ridiculous” a report in Newsweek magazine that her daughter plans to marry a former bodyguard,

The magazine said Miss Hearst, 24, who is serving a

seven-year prison term for -

bank robbery, is planning to

marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a - The

Employer af the year was awarded to the Kitlmat Fire Department last Thursday night when Cameron Lawson, right, and ian Murray, missing from picture, presented Lt. Dave Underdown, left, with the Mount Elizabeth Secondary School Careers Week plaque. The department took about seven students during the work-study period where students are mixed in with personnel to get the ‘flavour’ of their position. Some of the boys attended fire calls with Flre Chief Bl Dawsod while still othera attended am- bulance calls. All the boys worked on ‘the Moor’ of the firestation in the ‘nitty gritty"

Newsweek quoted , unidentified sources as saying the couple might be married before Miss Hearat leaves prison.

Miss Hearst returned to the minimum-security federal prison at Pleasanton, Calif., May 15 after failing in court appeals to have her guilty verdict overturned. U.S. Supreme Court had

San Franciaco. policeman réfused to review: the con-

who wtrked during off-duty hours as the newspaper heiress's bod- yauard.

The report is “totally ridiculous,” said Catherine Hearst, wife of Randolph Hearst, president of the San Francisco Examiner,

“Of course ifs not true,” Mrs, Hearst said when asked by reporters about the magazine article. “She's in prison, There are so many rumors about Patty that I don't- bother my mind about them.’’ ‘

Shaw, who has refused to comment on the story, is in- volved in divorce proceedings. He is represented by San Fran- cisco lawyer George Mar- tinez, the same lawyer who

took over Miss Hearst's:

defence last month,

“foe a" time

* fection in’ March?

Miss Hearst gained at-

_ Province-wide resource strategy

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP) Natural resource strategies on a provincial level are needed to avoid government conflict at all levels, Bill Young, assistant chief forester, said Satur- day.

Young, speaking to about 125 Kootenay outdoorsmen, said only provincial resource strategies could adequately cope with regional pricrities and programs.

He said top resource uses were timber production, forest land base, agriculture development, range land, water management, fish, wildlife, forest recreation

Accidentally ...

By THE CANADIAN PRESS At least seven persons died accidentally in British Columbia during the weekend, all in traffic ac-

- eidenis, : Donald Kevin Simpeon, 33, . was killed early Sunday : when his semi-trailer * slammed -inte a ditch on : Highway 5, 25 kilometres : south of Blue River in "+ southern Interior B.C. Wit- : nesses said the impact : shifted a load of wire rope, ‘ crushing the driver's cab.

: Two Vancouver women ‘ died Sunday in a one-car : aceldent at Deroche, B.C., i about 80 kilometres east of : Vancouver. Police said ‘ Travina Devi, 19, and : Drirendra Prasao, 2, were : killed when their car went i outof control and overturned : in a slough. .

: Willlam Wytowich, 50, of : Vancouver, was killed : Saturday when he was hit by * a car in downtown Van- ' couver.

Roy Halderson, 47, of 103

: Mile, B.C., was killed Friday

night when his car left High-

{ way 97 south of the Cariboo t community of Quesnel,

; _ Anna Gronewegen, 39, of : Richmond, B.C., was killed : Friday night in a head-on ; collision at the south exd of : the Oak Street bridge linking : Vancouver and Richmond, ' Police said the driver of the : other car suffered minor + injuries.

: Clilford Alva Chase, 47, of : Port Alberni, B.C. was killed ; Friday night when-his car

left the road and struck a

tree about 4) kilometres east of the Vancouver Island community of Parksville. Pollee said he was alone at the time of the crash. —

The Canadian Press survey, from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday night local times, does not include homicides, industrial ac- cidents or suicides.

News > oddities

HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) - There could be disco dancing in this eastern Oklahoma city of 6,600 later this year--maybe.

The city council voted Tuesday night to put the city’s ban on public dancing

.to a vote of the, pecple at the

Aug. 22 primary, 4 The ordinance, adopted in 1957, prohibits dancing “where the general public Is allowed to participate.”

Not much was heard about the ordinarce untll several weeks ago when a group converting an old depart-: ment store on Main Street Into a diseo dance halt discovered the ordinance would keep the dance hall from opening.

Mayor P. W. Cunningha said the council decided

group circulated a petition seeking an end to the or- dinanca.

m to put the repeal proposition on - ‘the primary ballot alter a

QUEBEC (CP) — The 750 residents of Elie, Man, a farming community 60 kilometres west of Winnipeg, will be enjoying “such city luxuries as singleparty telephone service, five or more television. channels, FM radio, teleshepping and other. services under a five- year communications, program announced today by Communications Minister

Jeanne ve,

Mmeg Sauve said her t sand. the

CanadianTele- .

communications Carriers Agsociation are splitting the $200,000 coat of studies for the experiment, designed to improve communications to rural Canada and to keep Canada in the forefront of fibre-optics technology.

Also involved in the ex- periment are Bell Northern

’ Research, the Canadian Wire and Cable Co. and the Manitoba Telephone System which will supply housing, poles, switches. and per- sonnel to operate and maintain the system,

The, miniater announced the program at a meeting of the carriers association,

Sauve said it is

wrong to believe that rural residents want to avoid urban technology. Of the five

PALATINE, Ii.. {AP} — make a quick trip to a dog. CE) a dog- food plant. But thanks to 60- year-old Art Thompson, worn-out livery horses, old track ponies and gimpy thoroughbreds get a chance to grow old gracefully, frolicking in.a lakeside pasture.

Thompson, 4 jockey in hia youth in his native Britain, ia Stable superintendent at Arlington Park. A couple of kilometres away he has operated his old-horse

tention when she was kid. "retreat for 19 years at'a napped Feb. 4, 1974, fram her. "ented farm, which is home Berkeley, Calif, apartment. 0W to 13 horses, She later joined forces with “I wish I could take in her captors, the Symbionese more of them, and it makes Liberation Army and par- me sad that I can’t, but ticipated with SLA members space is limited’and 0 is my in the April, 1074, bank money.’ says Thompson. ‘'I holdup for which she was spend $7,000, about half my convicted; . .* yearly salary, to keep and ' .._ feed the horses so they can During her appeal, she live out a carefree life, I've . was free on $1 millionbail. always loved horses, it’s as She will be eligible for simple as that. I can’t bear to parole in a year. think of them being carted

other speakers said . the solution would not include closing up every road or banning groups from the wilderness.

TORKSEY, England (CP) — Miss Gladys Wickens, 77, was told by a high cout judge that she may have to 0 to prison if she refuses to sel] her fatm, Miss Wickens agreed to sell her farm and her cattle six years ago but later refused to go ahead with the deal because she said the potential owner was not interested in the. cattle,

and parks and wilderness.

“Give me any combinatlon of priorities for those nine uses and [ would be able, in an-hour, 0 come up with a rough plan for the province which would give us those priorities," Young said.

Ray Demarchi, Kootenay regional game biologist, said coordinated resource Planning could resolve conflict over access to wilderness areas, There foul be a road in every Kootenay valley -by 1962 if

. the problem is not solved,

However, Demarchi and

Thee Shakespearean Room

FORMAL DINING Mon-Thur-8a.m.-12p.m.

F ri-Sat-8a.m.-1 am, (236 CITY oTR. “sur” gatas

Reservations at the Tudor up until 5 p.m.

WED.-SUN. Same? am. | . 632-7200

milllon persons in rural Canada, one-third to onchalf are unhappy with their telephone service.

“About 30 per cent of rural subscribers are still on lines with more than four partiea and while four-party line telephone camrvice ip fast becoming the norm far rura carriers, the demand for single-party service is rising sharply,” she said, |

Economics is responsibile for the situation, not the carriers, She said it costs about seven times more to provide telephone service in low-population areas than in cities.

COULD BE ANSWER

She said fibre optics with "its incredible information- carrying capacity” could be mi 4 glase fib is capable of

"A & fibre is capable o. delivering not only standard telephone service, but cable television and other in- formational, educational and entertainment services not yet dreamed of,’’ sald the minister. ;

“Quite apart from the

social impact of such .

potential, there is the prospect that the revenue from telecommunications services delivered. through fibra could be doubled or tripled through feea for other

Messiah to horses

off to be ground into pet food —

after they've broken down and are of no more use.” -

Seven horses that died of old age while on the farm have been buried secretly by Thompson around tl2 countryside. ,

His ”*. consists of track ponies that are bowed and no longer can ac- company skittish race horses on to the track, worn- out livery saddle horaes and thoroughbreds, all geldings, that broke down racing and were to be destroyed.

His favorite is Francie, a livery horse he rescued fram a van of old nags being hauled off to be killed. “Francia is $6 years old and T've had him elght years,” Thompson said...\"He was just plum worn out, He loves br d and gets two loaves a

iv.

y Te eau a,

services.” ‘ Mme. Sauve said fibre , optics “is one of the hotteat

technological properties of the 70s. ‘Western nations are

Fibre optics to supply Elie with media —

scrambling to perfect and introduce it and a worldwide race is on.”

pC ncial GOMES

The biggest Provincial yet! and still only $5!

NOW ON SALE. BoeIG

Weslemn Conoda Lottery Foundahon

|

CONTACT

JoAnne Ames 635-2044 or Allison Knight 632-4691

HIRE A STUDENT WEEK

JUNE 19-23

| GADILLAG. =” «HEAVY DUTY GHC TRUCKS —

2:00 p.m. EVERY SATURDAY

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LEO DE JONG. — AUCTION OFF SOME SPECIALS

_ LATE MODEL USED CARS OR _ TRUGKS AND ACCESSORIES

\

REMEMBER OUR 2nd BIRTHDAY SALE IS

Terrace, B.C.

STILL ON UNTIL JUNE 29th —

Jim McEwanil