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John Kennedy is Overwaitea's new manager in Terrace,

Phato by Don Schatter.

John looks forward to fishing

John Kennedy. is the new manager of the Over- ‘waltea store in the Skeena Mall in Terrace.

He has been the manager for three weeks, coming from Merritt where he was manager of the store

there

He is 34 years old, married with three children, a

six-year-old son and twin three-year-old daughters. He enjoys hunting and fishing, and is familiar with the area’s outdoor opportunities since he used to live in

Prince Rupert.

Socred letter writer out

VICTORIA (CP) — A Social Credit party con- stituency executive realgned iis position 'Saturday,'a day after admitting that he used phoney names on letters he sent to Vancouver Island newspapers,

"Norman Hobson, vice- president of the party's Nanaimo constituency of- fice, resigned following a

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meeting with other members of the executive, Constituency president Doug McBride sald ‘the asséciation has a policy that party members must use their real names when writing letters to news

papers,

Hobson of Lantzville ad- mitted putting the fictitious names on letters he wrote to

Kennedy has been with the Overwaitea organization for 15 years and has made nine stops with the store, in Powell River, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Chemainus, Campbell River, Prince George again, Kamloops, Merritt and here. -

He has already bought a house on Lambley Road, and is looking forward to getting settled in and having

time to do some fishing.

papers in Victoria and

Nanaimo before and after.

the provincial electlon Jast spring. The letters, which criticized NDP -members and policy, also bore the address of a little-used parking lot in Nanaimo, Hobson earlier defended his use of the names and address, saying he was

Alexander Cieslk, a member of the Fourth Terrace Cub Pack, is just one of the

youngsters in his group who are working for the Loyal Order of the Moose to clean up around town. The Moose pay the cubs §25 a month for the Saturday morning good deed. They pick up 20 bags of garbage in little more than an hour, The money will help with the cubs’ activittes.

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his property, He said that ever eince he has been in politics‘ he has been sujected to scare tactics and people have':threatened to burn down his home. His-resignation follows an announcement by the at- torneygeneral’s department this it has asked police to investigate two cases of forged letters — ane believed to have originated from Premier Bill Bennett's of-

fice. The two letters — one to the Victoria Colonist and the:

other’ to’ the’ Varicouver Sun — were discovered in the wake of the government’s dirty tricks seandal in which caucus researchers were found to have counselled members on how to go about faking letters to the editors.. A tape of thelr instructlons was distributed by the party to constituency associations during the provincial election campaign. . One of the researchers, Jack Kelly, has resigned and the other, Ellen MacKay, is still to be questioned by party officials, Ron Greig, assistant to Bennett's communications ‘planning adviser, resigned laat week after his name was linked to the phoney letter to the Co- lonist. Lo Meanwhile, Bennett has pledged to.sweep the Social Credit party clean ‘of those responsible for ‘morally and ethically unacceptable. “Te, sig n nnett, s & on the’ television program Capital

Comment, said he expected,

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matter to be the dominant: topic at the Social Credit

party's convention 1 Vancouver in early November,

He sald he wants the.

matter discussed openly and wants people who subscribe to dirty tricka to be rooted out of the party.

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FORT ST, JOHN, B.C, (CP) — The resource-rich Peace River area of British Columbia loat ita major transportation raute Sunday when a spectacular fire destroyed 9 B.C. Rall trestle 20 kilometres south of here,

The 500-metre wooden trestle, bullt over a Peace River flood plain and linked toa steel bridge crossing the river, caught ‘flre after 1 minaway fuel cara toppled cif It and exploded into flames, ;

The 67-ton capacity cars — six carrying gasoline, four loaded with diesel oll and one carrying butane — rolled out of control off a siding about three kilometres north of the trestle and spilled off the tracks when they reached a curve

Railway officials and Fort St. John RCMP are in- veatlgating todetermine how

& cars got loose.

The logs of the bridge, which the rallway estimates could take up to four months to rebuild, will place o severe hardship on the

lumber, petroleum, grain,

and sulphur industries in Fort Nelaon and Fort St. John, which rely on the railway to haul = their products to the coast, Hardest hit will be the forest products companies — three in Fort Nelson, one in

Fort St. John and one jn Taylor, 15 kilometres,south of Fort St. John™-- and Pacific Petroleum McMahon refinery in Taylor.

“A brief break in the service we can live with, but it would be a near disaster if it wag a long break,” sald Doug MacPhail, manager of Tackama Forest Products of Fort Nelson.

“It's the old thing, if the railway is down, we're down. I'm sure going to raise a lot cf hell,”

Seventeen locomotives were trapped north of the trestle which Is used by about 65 cars a day to carry lumber, graln, petroleum, sulphur, veneer and wood chips to markets in the south,

Hugh Armstrong, B.C. Rail spokesman, said the company likely will make a decision today on whether to rebuild the structure or fill in the flood plain with earth,

In the meantime, B.C. Rall is consid using trucks to haul commoditles around the treatle to Dawson Creek,

This is the busiest time of year for the foreat products companies and having to truck large amounts of lumber ‘for an extended period of time could prove costly, :

“We may be forced tose aseistance from somewhere

Open Learning opens an office

The Open Learning In- stitute’s new advisor in Prince George says the role of her newly-established office at 1531 Victoria Street isto ensure that people in the Prince George region who want to continue their education can do so.

Lois Leal, a 32 year old counsellor and education consultant at Simon Fraser University, says the Open Learning Institute was established to extend educational op- portunitles to people who can't take advantage of existing institutions,

“L see my rele in Prince George as working with the college and other existing educational bodies to help people who want to continue their education, as well as helping OLI students with thelr course choices or any other problems they might have,” she said.

Leal said OLI’s hame- Btudy courses can lead te B.A. and B.Sc. degrees as well as certificates in technical and vocational areas and secondary school diplomas.

“Lots of people in the Prince George region can’t attend university or college because of shift work or family responsibility or physical handi-caps or other reasons, and of course many people live in areas remote from college facilities,”’ she said, ‘But now that the Open Learning Institute is In operation there’s no reason

why they can’t proceed with their educational ob- jectives,” .

Leal said in January the institute will be launching ten new career, technical and vocational courses and offering 12 secondary school courses and 17 university courses,

“We've expanded our course offerings dramatically since the

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She said British Colum- bians could register at the Open Learning Institute at any time of year but courses begin in September, January and May.

The Open Learning In- Btitute, she pioneering ai unique telephone-a-tutor system which enables students fram all over the province to call a tutor free of charge for academic help.

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Lois Leal free of charge at 563-4237 or write the Open Institute at 1531 Vietoria Street, Prince George, B.C., V2 214,

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The Herald,Monday, October 22, 1979 Page 3

Fire destroys bridge

to pay the extra freight charges If we have to truck products or trans-ship,”’ sald MacPhail. “We are an far from the market aa you can Su) ge ent on

industry."

More than 700 persona in the town of 5,600 are directly employed in the forest In-

Meshal aaid the mills

will stockpile any lumber

that can't be shipped, but

some workers could be laid if space runs out.

Vic Hope, manager of the Paciflc Petroleum plant, said his company ship butane and propane by tru to Its customers, but liquefied petroleum gas might have to be trans- shipped. .

Operatora of grain elevators, already stacked high because of an excellent

year and a rail car shortaze which has slowed movement to coastal porta, also could experiente problems if the bridge ja out for some time,

The blazing trestle, which caught fire shortly after midnight, waa brought under control Sunday by firemen backed by railway water tankers and helicopters dropping fire retardant.

Plumes of dense black amoke 100 metres high drifted through the Peace River valley as the flames licked at the trestle for several hours.

There were no injuries in the mishap and no evacuations were ordered.

Harlem Clowns coming to town

The Harlem Clowns will be coming to Terrace to play an All-star team made up of teachers and Caledonia grads. The show will take Place at Caledonia Secon- dary School at 8 p.m. on Oct. z.

The Clowns, regular visitors to the Terrace area, will be at Cat's gym playing some straight basketball, and some fun ball, The Clowns specialize in the fancy plays, the trick Bhootlng and passing that provides an evening’s light entertainment.

Part of the proceeds from.

the Clown's show will go to the three area secondary schools to aid thelr athletic

budgets.

Clowns’ lineup features Ray “Showboat" Clay, Herb Scaife, Michael Douglas and Preston Scott. Owner Al Pullins cails the team's style of play “clownball”, and all players are expert showmen who enjoy their shows as much aa the audience. .

Admission to the show is $3.50 for adults, $2.50 for

students and $1.00 for under 10's. Tickets will be available at the door.

Oct. 17 and Oct. o4

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