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Local B.C. Tel workers picket over Christmas holidays in Terrace.

Christmas fire

The Christmas festivities were marred for the Amos family of Kitamaat Village when their home was gutted by fire on Christmas Day.

Henry Amos Jr., his wife and four children were visiting in Kitimat at the dime of the blaze and so escaped injuries, but all their sessions were lost in fire,

There was no insurance bs elon the house -nor

2 longings. . ; ~pehatat that

a sig tarted by an

electric baseboard heater this

mat the fire

in one of the children’s m which was completely destroyed. Other rooms in the house were extensively —

damaged The alarm was received by Kitamaat

Village volunteer fire department at about 12:30 pm. The volun: teers had the fire under

Golden Rule

busy

with

“Goody-Bags”

It was a “Normal” Christmas for the Golden

control with the aid of Rule busy at its seventh

their small tient ti department at. fire. en arrived at the scene. No damage estimated: on the blaze'is mown at me.

Terrace was quiet as RCMP & Firemen - enjoyed Christmas

Statistics from the RCMP : Batmobile road blocks checking for

driver were not available until after the holiday weekend, it being the holiday season for RCMP who - though some apparently might _ question the statement - are “human beings + just like anybody else’!

Terrace RCMP reported a very quiet holiday long weekend, with only one entry on the police blotter.

A male juvenile was apprehended inside the

Overwaitea store Mon-

day night before he had an o portunt to make off any

said nothing had been

stolen, as the culprit was {0

caught in the act, and was

being detained for further questioning, Tuesday morning.

Similarly, the Terrace Fire Department had

only one entry over the clothi

BEE" 0B "hoa bags tering

—

ot making up

or married unemployed - with no children. Thirty-three sone had signed for er “BAGS IN THE Terrace area, and ap- proximately 50 more were to do so befor the holidays were over.

The “‘Goody-Bags” are not “‘hampers”', the G.R. is quick to point out. They consist of con- tributions from the local merchants and private

. Police citizens of good will, A

typical bag contains the owing: One “dinner in a bag” that can be eaten as is - or the bag can immersed in boiling water; a comb, teothbrush, box of tissues, one pound of good wrap candies, nuts, hot chocolate, tea bags, soup, pop, oranges, ap- ples, one article oi (socks or scarf,

same period, The lone ete.) cigarettes or sub-

call was caused by a floor

stitute, and a bottle of

smouldering under a shampoo. Approximate

fireplace. damage was reported.

The lift was full and the slopes busy a¢ Kitsumkalum Mountain over the holidays. Scene above was taken at

le or no value of each “bag” is $20.

noon, Tuesday.

The bags are prepared with an eye to the cir- cumstances of the recipients - many of whom live in furnished rooms, with no cooking privileges. One generous

donor walked into the -.

Golden Rule office before Christmas and plunked down enough food for two persons for one whole day, said the GR. manager, thankfully. Tho it would not be fair to mention any specific organizations,

e Catholic Church and the Free Evangelical Church “came on like Gangbusters” - as they usually do, with their support for the annual project, it was reported.

There were at least a couple of last minute additions to the list of

names, which meant extra straining of resources. Although

most pledges will be eventually honoured, - as in past years, there are usually a few that are late in coming in, so the staff holds its breath until sometime after Christ- mas when it will know for certain how the pledges tally against those provided for, -

By THE CANADIAN

"oaed rita son rou

in the oi] fields of central Alberta say Red Adair has lived up to his daredevil reputation since he was called in last week to tame a wild natural gas well,

The 62-year-old Texan, world famous for his dangerous _ specialty, drove a bulldozer to the inge of a roaring gas fire Saturday to ve a drilling rig. off the wellhead. he well, blowing wild since Dec. 6 about 130 kilometres southwest of Edmonton, had ignited earlier in the

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“It was the feat of a superman,” said a safety man working for Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd., owner of the well in the West Pembina field.

“He could have heen’

fried alive. The area around the well was ablaze. The heat was fan- tastic.”

Monday, workers started work on an B00 metre pipe to pump water from he Pembing River to cool off the blazing well.

Plans were being made to plant and detonate a dynamite charge near the well to snuff the fire b momentarily cutting oif its oxygen supply. —

Meanwhile, a Cessford, Alta., another exploratory well contin- ued to blow wild and efforts to cap it were hampered by the dif- ficulty of finding men to work over. the Chr break, BLASTED CRATER

The Cessford well, operated by Gamma Resources Ltd., blew wild Dec. 19, blasting a crater around the we head and

@ the ing rig. Opti of the provincial energy resources con- servation board said it could be weeks before it is brought under control.

For two days last week, three gas wells were blowing wild in Alberta. The other wild well—in the Lac La Biche area 160 kilometres northeast of Edmonton and operated by Gulf Oil Canada Ltd.— was brought under control last Friday.

Adair was 25 kilometres away from the West Pembina well on Christmas Eve when he heard it had caught fire.

He had told Amoco officials he wanted to try and cap the well in time to get his men home for ne ia ped h

“He jum straight behind a bulldozer and towed the rig away,” said

company spokesman Dave McAsey. “Another few seconds

and the rig could have been a twisted mass of metal over the well and capping efforts could perhaps have been delayed for weeks.”

RIG COLLAPSED

The salvaged drilling rig collapsed after it was towed clear and the cables used to pull it free were destroyed by the heat of the fire.

Once the rig was out of the way, Adair went’ back to save a giant mobile crane and several pickup trucks.

The company could give no explanation wh:

. the wild well had ignited,

but said that one spark from any loose metal banging together could have been responsible.

“We have been within seconds of closing the well several times,” said McAsey. “But we're sure Red will eventually regain his unbeaten blowout record.”

Since the well ignited, McAsey said workers have been putting out small fires in the area caused by burning lquid condensate which had coated the aren.

tmas .

Finlay Ferguson — $20,000 winner!

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~ Terrace man wins $20,000

Finlay Ferguson of 4471 Seotton Avenue, Terrace was a lucky winner in the Provincial lottery draw Monday night. The draw was made over TV at 10 p.m. Finlay’s winning ticket was No. 5868279 and according te the happy holder, Tuesday morning, is good for a $20,000 “Bonus Prize’. He confirmed the winning number when ie van couver papers arrived a noon, Fabsday. A five year veteran of Wrold War H, Mr. Ferguson served with the Rock and Tunnel branch of the Rayal Canadian Engineers- most of it overseas. An interesting connection with _ his wartime service and his lottery won, noticed by him is his Military Ser-

vice number of B-28719.

which contains most of

the same numbers. Ferguson is employed

as a scaler with the B.C,

‘Forestry Service. The

Fergusons have three children. A davaghter 14, attends Thornhill public school, a son Bruce, employed on the Canad i es construction at Watson Island, Prince Rupert- living in Terrace and a second son in the Interior. Actually . Monday night’s $20,000 win was a second for Finlay. In the last draw he won $50 which he ploughed back into purchasing ten tickets. It was on one of the ten that held the lucky number in Monday night’s draw. Rather than claiming the $20,000 now

and since the ticket is . also for next

month's draw and there

can only be one wip

claimed per, . ticket, Finlay is going to let his ticket ride just in case it comes or one of the million dollar draws next month. “I’m in no hurry,” he told a Herald reporter, “‘It’s good for the twenty thousand; I checked it out.”

Asked whether he has" any plans for spen it, the middle aged Velen smiled an thought awhile. ‘‘Il might use some of it to speculate on the Stock Market.” From the way he spoke, this reporter surmised Finlay Ferguson is no stranger to the Market — and could just as well be lucky in stocks, too,

Stranglings in Los Angeles could be work of copy-cat

By LAURINDA KEYS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators of the Hillside Strangler case have been hampered by dead-end clues, a lack of tips, and false con- fessions. But perhaps most frustrating of all has been dissension among law enforcement agencies drawn together by the dumping of murdered females across the northern suburbs. The latest disagreement centres on whether one of two young women found slain during the weekend is the stran- er’'s latest victim. But isputes in the case began soon after it was noted in mid-November that the bodies of young irls and women were

ginning to turn up with . r

unusual frequency in the Los Angeles area.

Investigators from the agencies then involved— the sheriff's office and Los Angeles and Glendale police—met but could not agree on which victims were connected. They continued to handle the cases separately, although a tentative lial- son was set up.

On Nov. 25, Sheriff's Lieut. Phil Bollington dropped two names from a list of 11 possibie vic- tims of the strangler. He said no definite con- nection could be established between the

nine other slayings and the deaths of seven-year- old Margaret Elizabeth Madrid, found: Noy. 6 in the city of Industry, and 19-year-old There Berry of Pomona, found Nov. 4 in Walnut.

DOUBTS CONNECTION

But Los Angeles police Cmdr. William Booth declined the same day to rule out any of the 11 victims as targets of the same killer or to pinpoint any as connected.

“Because of the dis- Similarities in the case, the agesand backgrounds, there is a strong possibility that a number of the cases are not connected in any way," he said.

However, when a special strangler police unit was formed shortly thereafter and put out its official list, Miss Berry and the Madrid girl were ruled out, At least two more victims have turned up since,

Differences were also apparent in other areas.

{ter interviewing witnesses under hyp- nosis, Glendale police issued a composite drawing of a man reported seen driving the car of Kristina Weckler, 20, whose body was found Nov..6.0n a residential lawn in:Glendale.

Los Angeles police said they would not comment on the sketch and have

not released any drawings of their own. CHIEF LEAKS SECRET

Tension between the Glendale and Los Angeles departments rose sharply when Glendale Police Chief Duane Baker made an offhand remark at a civic meeting that some of the victims had been sodomized.

Details of the sexual attacks on the victims who were molested had been a closely guarded secret. Police had wanted certain information kept secret so it could be used in polygraph tests of suspects,

The latest disagreement is between Pasadena and Los Ange- les police. Lieut. Dan Cooke, a spokesman for Los Angeles police, has said that a woman found near the Rose Bowl in | Pasadena early Saturda and one found in sout. Los Angeles shortly after were apparently killed by the same person or persons, but not by the

illside Strangler.

Pasadena police have said they have the 12th victim. But they do not have any suspects.

Los Angeles police have arrested two men and charged them with investigation of murder in the death of the woman found in Los Angeles. Whoever killed one, probably killed the other,