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( TERRACE-KITIMAT _

VOLUME 72 No. 99

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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1978

Shoppers want open hours

The majority of shoppers Terrace favor unrestricted store hours, acenrding to 4 poll conducted by the B.C. Government Employees Union — un-

en since last week, Davis, staff

. reproeatave for the union,

voters whose

. unrestricted hours “by

fairly sizable majority,” so

The poll first began on Friday, May 12, following an earlier. meeting of Terrace council where the problem of store hours was discussed. .

- Council bad been prepared to

repeal the exisitng shop closing by-law, but ‘were

stopped by a 50-name petition of local businessmen. .

The merchants indicated they were in faver of retaining the present by-law, and council halted action on the matter 30 the two aides could get together to discuss a new by-law,

Davis said local members of the BCGEU ‘“‘wanted to respond to the petition that the businessmen put in.”

“No one even knew what the community wanted,’” he said,

The poll has been taken on

a small scale so far at local shopping centres, but this

week the efforts will be stepped up. . The three choices given in the poll are to keep shop hours as they are, to keep shop hours as they are ex- cept for K-Mart which would

be allowed to open six daysa .

week from 10.4.m. to 10 p.m., and unrestricted hours.

In the first 45 minutes of the poll, 257 people signed | the poll, Davis said, with a

"strong trend toward favoring

unrestricted hours,

Unrestricted hours are not intended to force stores to stay open, Davis explained, but only to allow for a “free: market” situation.

The BCGEU poll will ‘give the shoppers a chance to be heard,” he said.

Hospital boards —

Davis will take the results of the poll to tonight’s council meeting.

manipulated

VICTORIA (CP) — Dennis Cocke (NDP—New West- minster) Sunday blasted hospital boards in British Columbia for being © manipulated by small in- terest groups.

Cocke, health minister In the previous ‘New Democratic Party govern- ment, told the party’s annual convention that the present situation at hospital boarda around the province is not a healthy one,

He said the hoards should

be elected by the people at

large to ensure they are representing all of the feople,

“A hospital board is open to domination,” he said.

‘ “It's not regional and it’s not ein one particular municipality." 4

A two vehicle accident at the coriter of Kalum and Lakelse on Sunday evening resulted in a Haney resident being taken to hospital, The woman was struck by a vehicle when

_ another vehicle hit d parked car... The. *” Peportéd iy satisfactory condition Perey eet Hospitals:

aii, ‘whose jane hai. not. bee

taken Into custody and will be charged with Impaired. driving, ‘fallure to provide an ~

adequate

breathalyzer

sainple

and driving

while ’ disqualified.

‘Busy weekend for Terrace RCMP ©

“Terrace RCMP were busy during the holiday weekend with stolen vehicles, ac- cidents, drunks and an ‘assortment of other crimes. - ‘Two trucks were stolen on Saturday night, one of them recovered al Red Sand Lake ‘whereit had been abandoned with a flat tire. The other truck, which apparently was stolen in its place, has not yet been recovered. ;

At about 11:30 p.m. Thursday night, police at- tended a motor vehicle accident on Queensway which sent two persons to hospital, A check of the vehicle showed that it had

been stolen just prior to the -

aceldent. Police are still investigating.

Terrace Shrystler was the victim of a theft Thursday when someone stole a four- barrel carborator from one of the vehicles in the parking

prehended last week and charged with breaking and entering and theft following

a theft from Finning Tractor.

Two culprits were ap-

Wednesday of $100 cash. No names have keen released.

Biker Auto Supply was hit by vandals Friday night

when -a rock was thrown ;

through one of the windows. Sometime around mid- night Saturday police received one complaint from _the 3300 block Pheasant and one from 5000 block Walsh of a prowler,

Around the same ime, police recovered a 1978 Ford 4X 4 three minutes after it was reported slolen from the 6000 block Walsh, No name has been released, but police lodged one person in the police cells overnight after he was picked up in the vehicle,

A.B.C.. Telvehicle had

, about 30 gallons of gas

. 2 : ; Fire on. Firefighters attended a fire at 6269 Hepple Road on

Braun's Islandat aboul 10:30 Tuesday morning:

- siphoned from its tank while it was parked at the Keith Avenue B.C. Tel lot Monday. Police are still investigating.

A Kitimat man had a boat and motor stolen when it was left at Furlong Bay camp- 5

Two males were lodged in cells for being intoxicated on Saturday and: one person charged with impaired driving.

‘Early Monday morning, 10 persons were lodged for being intoxicated along with three others who were picked up for drinking in a

public place, The three, all’

from Prince Rupert, were drunk when they rolled a

jeep at Furlong Bay camp- °

site and proceeded to upset the campsite.

Braun’s:

Firement were unable to:

save a shed containing hay which burned down, but kept the fire from. spreading,

Terrace Minl-Museurn in the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Information Booth was

officially opened Friday. Louella Brooks, Vera Frank, Mayor Dave Maroney and -

Norma Bennett cut the ribbon,

A Prince Rupert man ie ~

Cocke clied the current

: abortion controveray at

Vancouver General Hospital as an example of a board's domination, -

He said that at present, the board decides who can and can't have an abortion.

“Is going to be decided

‘by whoever dominates that

hospltal board,” he sald, “It's not healthy for the hosptial business . . . our whole community should

have access to that hospital board.”

MINISTER CONDEMNED

Earlier, delegates to the convention condemned Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm's new pay- as-you-recelve policy for family services,

They said social workers

now will be spending more tlme doing. paper work and debt collection instead of counselling, _ The delegates also passed resolutions calling for in- creases in social assistance, handicapped assistance and mincome.

Gther resolutions passed Sunday included:

—Condemning the Social Credit government’ for eutting back ambulance service in the province; -—Calling for a living allowance for parents bet- ween the ages of 17 and 19 who are in need of it;

—Allowing victims of criminal injuries who are dependent on income assistance to retain their compensation under the Criminal Injuries Act and not to have it deducted from the fneome assistance payments.

Impaired drivers

VERNON, B.C, (CP) - Police here took videotapes of at least. seven people

. during the holiday weekend,

and six of them have been

charged with impaired driving. Police plan to use the tapes

of the accused performing balance tests as evidence should the cases go to trial. The admissibility of such evidence, taken-at the same time as breath testa, has not. yet been ruled on, although a Crown ‘prosecutor and police in Kamloops, B.C., have said a similar program used by Kamloops RCMP two years ago was unsuccessful. RCMP Insp. Dick Ed- wards said that the tapes could only be used if the ‘accused pleaded guilty and

‘that -it was necessary to.

secured the accused's permission before taping could occur.

Vernon Crown prosecutor Bob . Williamson, however, said tapes were not used in the Kamloops case because the judge ruled that it was an interception of private communication under the

_ Wiretap provisions of the Criminal .

That is not the case now, . hesaid, adding that suspects are being advised that they

are being taped.

e Williamson said he would appeal to a higher court if the videotape evidence is ruled inadmissable.

Attorney-General Garde

-Gardom has said he sup- ports the plan to use video

Protesters

arrested

BANGOR, Wash, (AP) - Nearly 300 demonstrator

were arrested Monday after.

they. climbed a barbed-wire fence and gathered on a grassy knoll inside’ the Trident nuclear. submarine base to protest inter-natlonal nuclear weaponry,

The “demonstrators, holding a United Nations flag and singing We Shall Overcome, sald they were’ trying to draw attention to

Assembly special session on huclear disarmament opening In New York Clty today.

The demonstrators, who

> have yet to be charged, said

earlier they planned “ball solldarity”--no one will leave jail on bail or personal recognizance until all are released on: personal recognizance.

State Patrol Sgt, R. W. Borsheara estimated 1,000 persons gathered outside the Trident base Monday morning and about one-third of them used ladders and rug remnants to scale the six-

. foot-high fence into the base

while the others cheered,

Workers at the base en- fered at another gate and there was ho confrontation between them and the protesters,

Construction, at the 4$646- million Trident base on the Kitsap Peninsula began In October, 1974, and the flrat af the nuclear-armed subs is scheduled for delivery by spring 1981,

the United Nations General ‘

‘whe U.S. Navy plans 13 of the submarines.

In Groton, Conn., on Monday about 30 demon- strators, lined up outside the Electric Boat plant to protest construction of Trident submarines there. One demonstrator was arrested when he refused to leave after carrying ‘a hlack coffin-shaped box through the plant gate,

‘Armed robbery.

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C, (CP) - A couple believed to be. from the United States is to appear in court today to face charges laid after the

Tobbery of a Victorla couple |

on an isolated island on Stuart Lake Friday.

RCMP in this northern British Columbia com- ‘munity sald Robert Charles Barnicutt, 31, and hig wife Pamela, 21, are charged with armed robbery and theft over $200.

Const. Ron Lambert said the .couple was arrested Sunday by RCMP officers using boatd to search the shore of the lake.

He sald a couple entered the Island home of Robert Gathercole late Friday night, holding him and hls wife at gunpoint before taking jewelry, three riftes and: an undetermined amount of money.

One of the more crowded rafts in the Raft Race Sunday. Seen here from the Kitimat River Bridge it's obvious that the crew are starting to weary. More on the entire

. celebrations “‘ on

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and 5

Whites evacuate from Zaire, soldiers stay

KOLWEZI, Zaire (AP) - Belgian paratroops departed Monday, leaving this copper- mining centre in the hands of

French and Zairean soldiers

after a 3-day evacuation of nearly 2,500 white civilians who had been terrorized by black rebels,

The last unit of the estimated' 1,200 to 1,500 Belgian troops climbed into C-130 transport planes at mid-afternoon. Maj. A. Couwenhberg, commander of one Belgian battalion, said the troops had been ordered 210 kilometres north to the town of Kamina, :

“were going. home,” he : _ anid,-and it appéared’ some

wo) a return to Belgium. ut in’ ‘Brusseds, Belgian Premier Leo Tindemans said paratroops would stay at: Kamina ‘to guarantee the

safety’? of Belgians remaining in Zalre's southeastern Shaba province.

An-estimated 800 troops of the French Foreign Legion remained here. Their commanders have said thelr mission is t pacify the

province, known as Katanga ~

when Zaire was the Belgian Congo, The Belgian troops said they were here only to evacyate civilians. Zairean troops began’ arriving in large numbers Sunday.

In Moscow, the Soviet

one’ battalion’ of

news agency Tass Claimed France and Belgium-backed by the United States which provided transport planes to carry fuel and ammunition— are continuing an ‘armed Invasion” of Zaire,

The Belgians and leglonnaires drove rebel Lunda tribesmen out of this copper-mining city, home in peacetime to 101,000 per- ssons, during the weekend,

_ allowing the evacuation of

whites to Eurepe. Most of them are Belgian and French.

French officials ‘say the

_Tebels killed at least 170 ’ whites in .the slege that . began | May. 13... wel oom

‘a «6s spokesman

Many of the rebels are former Katangan policemen who were driven into Angola during ai secessionist rebellion in the 1960s, and who mounted a two-month | invasion of Shaba last spring from the Marxist-ruled country where they were reported trained by Cubans.

In Brussels, there was o report from a returning refugee that Jonas Savimbl, leader of a Western-backed Angolan guerrilla movement that opposes the Marxist governmetn, had heen captured in the new Shaba invasion, This was senled by -for his movement in Lisbon, Por ,

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Civilians killed

SALISBURY (Reuter) - Nationalist leader Bishop ‘Abdel Muzorewa has said reliable sources have told him at least 105 civilians died in a battle last week between guerrillas and security forces, not 52 as announced by military headquaters.

In a statement released Sunday night, the bishop implied that he believes Rhodesian security forces were responsible for the

: killin gs.

‘The military cammand said last week that the

African trubesman at Juam Ungoma village were caught In crossfire between government troops and black nationalist guerrillas, and that the insugents fired through the crowd, |

Bishop Muzorega sald he visited survivors in hospital and found it a painful ex- perlence--‘“THE MORE PAINFUL BECAUSE! ama member of the transitional government and this makes me feel morally and nominally responsible , for these ghastly deaths ‘and maimings.”

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Frank Donahue, president of the Centennial Lions, Manuel Da Silva, shairman of the Child Development Centre with Todd in wheelchair, Dave Pease, a Lions member, and Giannino Preto, chairman of the transportation committee, try out the Centre's new bus.

Lions donate bus to Child Developement Centre

Terrace Centennial Lions have donated $1,500 to the Lazelle Preschool to assist with operating costs and monthly expenses of the school,

During the past year the ,

Lazelle Preschool has been in serjousiy financial dif- ficulty. Last December the Eoard of the Preschool made

the decision to close, but was-

given a reprieve by the Department of Human

Resources ~ in an arrangement for a different funding scheme.

Since -that time the Preschool has been able to ‘operate on a break even basis, but were in still great ‘gifticulty due to an ac- cumulated debt, ;

The generous donation from the Centennial Lions gives the Preschool the prospect of a bright future.

The Lazelle Preschool was established in 197) under the sponsorship of the Terrace and District Christian Council for Social - Resour- ces, During those years a number of community groups have made sub-

stantial contributions to the Preschool. The School is designed for children, ages three to five, in order to provide them with an enriched learning en- vironment. The unique feature of the Lazelle Preschool is its. ability to accomodate children with special needs. At present there ls an enrollment of forty-six children.

Parents interested in enrolling thelr children in September should contact Mary McNairney, at the Lazelle Preschool, 635-7018.

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