Daily Colonist - April 25, 1970

Daily Colonist - April 25, 1970

No. 1X3-112th YEAR

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VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1970

I Didn’t Want to Live in Darkness

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TIPTON, Ind. (UPI)

Ann Turner, 15, is living proof of the danger of trying to watch a solar eclipse with the naked eye. She is Wind.

On March 7, despite the warnings she had read, Ann "took a quick look through the window" at her home at the solar eclipse in progress.

"For some reason, I just kept staring out of the window," she told Pat Cline, a reporter for the_ Tipton Daily Tribune. "I was fascinated by what was taking place in the sky.

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"There was no pain or feeling of discomfort as I watched. I stood there perhaps four or five minutes when Mom caught me and made me turn away from the window.”

Ann said she “saw spots before my eyes but I didn't think much about it” Shortly afterwards, she walked down town and suddenly realized when she looked at a traffic signal that she could not read signs.

Frightened, Ann turned around and headed home. As she neared the porch, she said, she found she was "walking in darkness.”

She was too scared to tell her family until the next day, although she "had an intCfition or suspicion that something terrible was happening."

"I cried and cried.” she said. "I didn't want to be blind. God knows I didn't want to live in darkness the rest of ray life.

"I kept hoping the nightmare would end and I could kept getting worse. I was scared. I had disobeyed my parents and the other warnings. I could not go back and change things. It was too late.”

When Mr. and Mrs. Coy Turner learned what had happened, they took Ann to speciaiiats for help. But the doctors shook their heads and said they could not help Ann regain her sight. They said she is 90 per cent blind and can make out only faint lines of very large ob)ecta on the periphery of what used to be her normal sight field.

With the help of a tutor,. Aon is going ahead with her education. She is learning to adjust to the world of darkness.

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California Giant New Seed Offer

By IAN STREET

Benguet Consolidated Inc., which has been declared unwelcome in B.C. because of its gambling connections, isn’t involved in the recent purchase of shares In two provincial companies by Residential Resort Development Ltd., of Freeport, Bahamas, Attorney General Leslie Peterson said Friday.

Peterson made the statement in an interview following charges made earlier by NDP House leader Dave Barrett that Residential was n f f a "sister company” of ^fl I Benguet.

Barrett told a press conference here Thursday that interests controlled by Louis Chesler are major shareholders in Residential and he quoted from a 1967 royal commission report which linked Chesler and Wallace Groves oi Benquet and the Grand Bahamas Port Authority with corruption of government officials in the Bahamas.

Zinnia has always been considered one of the most beautiful flowers, but the newest Colonist free seed offer is something else again — a new strain called California Giant.

It is a product of much research and is really something out of the ordinary. The seeds are offered free by M. V. Chestnut, garden columnist of The Daily Colonist, starting Sunday.

Nerve Gas Trip No Ghost Story PANG Declares

Put the clock ahead One hour? Right!

By MARJORIE NICHOLS Colonist Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Trudeau has been urged by members of the Conservative party to reconsider his decision to stay out of the Quebec provincial election campaign.

Patrick Nowlan (PC - • Annapolis Valley) and Steve Paproakl (PC — Edmonton Centre) Friday called on R Trudeau to «o diwatiy to the ■ ifrlllii I Quebec people in an eleventh-

Hess Sees Family

Rudolf Hess, former deputy to Adolf Hitler, Friday received first visit from members of his family inside West Berlin’s Spandau prison, where he’s only inmate. His wife Use and son Wolf Ruediger, 32, are leaving prison after visit.—(AP)

Before going to bed This Saturday night.

Protest — when and where. Page 12

Trinidad Rebels Free Hostages

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By JOHN MATTERS

-«*»- fhe nerv** ga* atipoient that-the U.S. pRtrw^tw send through Juan de Fuca Strait, within 15 miles of large enough to KOI ersons, or every human being 200 times over.

The size of the lethal shipment — the army hasn't yet announced when it will take place — was discussed by Ralph Friedman of Portland, secretary of a newly- formed organization called People Against Nerve Gaa (PAJ4G), who was In Victoria Friday night.

He will be one of three speakers at a rally that starts at noon today near the Mile 0

By PHILIP HAGER si& " BeaCOn HUI Park appears to be a growing wave of support for Rene Levesque's separatist Parti Quebecoix

"The prime minister should match his charisma against Levesque’s charisma," Nowlan said. "After all, the future of Canada is at stake.”

Earlier this week, the federal Liberals derided that neither Trudeau nor any of his Quebec ministers would take part in the campaign.

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Scholar ‘Lives ’ Burned

Apollo 14 On Schedule

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"As far aB my ^department is concerned we are fully in touch with the situation. We had a meeting i with the president of N. Wf L. (one of the B.C. companies in which Residential has purchased shares) before this story broke yesterday. So the matter is well known to the securities branch of this department.”

Peterson was asked about the NDP spokesman's charge that Socred fund raiser Einar Gunderson was connected with Residential as the result of that company's purchase of 38 per cent pf the shares in N. W. L. Financial Corporation Ltd. and Federated Investments Ltd.

Many of the members of Canada’s Parliament from the four western provinces will meet in Ottawa shortly to investigate proposed new rules that could wreak havoc with cablevision viewing in Greater Victoria.

The disclosure was made Friday by David Anderson, Liberal MP for Esquimalt- Saantch, who also said he would "certainly help” a citizens' campaign against the proposed rules if one is formed.

And he told The Daily Colonist in a telephone interview from Ottawa that the fundamental question in the cablevitrfon controversy i s this: "Should people be told what they can see and what they can't?”

The Canadian Radio- Television Commission 8®* announced April 10 in Ottawa

‘Senate Motive Gall, Not Zeal*

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The provincial cabinet announced Friday that-mining companies in the province will be required-to send-12% per cent of their total output to a copper smelter when one is established in B.C.

The regulation followed approval given by the Legislature at the last session to a new Mineral Processing Act which empowered the government to order producing mines to divert up to 50 per cent of their production to a B.C. smelter.

Since that decision was taken, however, new opinion polls have been published, which show the Parti Quebecois running only slightly behind the Liberals and well ahead of Premier Bertrand’s Union Nationale.

With only three days remaining before Quebecers go to the polls on Wednesday, the two Conservatives say it is urgent the prime minister take action.

Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield and most Liberal MPs from Quebec do not share the view of the two Conservatives.

Stanfield says the prime minister should not go to Quebec unless invited by provincial Liberal leader Robert Bourassa. To date, CaiUiud on Page > one or two of the seven, could be replaced by Canadian, educational o r local programming.

• Bel lingham's Channel 12, one of the most popular stations in this area, might be wiped out by a ban on U.S. stations actively seeking advertising in nearby Canadian areas.

• Cablevision systems might have to black out any program shown by a U.S. station within a week of its appearance on a Canadian station, like the NBC Laugh- In show Monday following the CBC Laugh-In show Friday.

CRTC officials said the purpose of the rules was to Continued on Page 2

Guerrillas Trying To Cut Off Capital?

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STANFORD, Calif. (Special) — Arsonists destroyed the offices and highly valued research of prominent scholars early Friday at the Centre for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Physical damage to the centre was estimated at about $40,000, but to the scholars, the loss meant far more.

“They've burned life — a scholar’s life,” said Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, the centre director. "This was so pointless and wicked."

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Gunderson Is a director of both companies “Einar Gunderson is not in aqy way connected With these people.” the attorney general said. “He is connected with the company (Residential) as are many other reputable Continued on P*gr !

When the bill was first introduced R. D Armstrong, president of Lornex Mining Corporation, said the powers given to B.C- eould kill Lornex's deal with Japanese interests to get the Highland OuatJsned oa Page S

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a series of proponed regulations which could have these effects In Greater Victoria:

• All but two of the seven U.S. stations, but more likely Public reaction to the proposed nerve gas shipment indicates that Canadians and Conttaaed m Page 2

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One Man Kitted

Fu Kempo, was charged with murder. He* raid hr was being beaten and acted in seif defence. „

Jose Gonzalez, 23, also an instructor At tft# Black Qkrt was hit by Keehan with "a blunt instrument” In Bw Cnee, jjolice said. He was taken to Belmont Hospital (or emergency surgery to save his right eye.

His condition was described as J 'falr."

CHICAGO (UPI) — James Koncevic staggered outside, pulled a 14-inch Samurai sword from his stomach and died

Inside the Black Cobra Hall karate school a few doors away, the invaders and Cobras exchanged deadly blows in what police termed a “business feud" between three rival karate schools.

Black Cobra students and instructors told police they were invaded Thursday night by a "crowd of thugs” led by John Keehan, who bilia himself "the deadliest man in the world.’’

Police called the incident the result of a feud in wipch the Black Cobra of the Rung Fu Kempo school was accused of trying to steal students from the House of Dante school and the Tai-Jutaon school.

The dead man, Koncevic, Calumet’City, Hi., is the owner of the Tai Jutson school.

Kbehan was charged with aggravated battery and criminal damage to property. Arrested an charges of disorderly conduct were Russell Berkman. 33, Northfiehi. III., Patrick Garrison, 30, and Gary Bennett, 20. Bertonan owns the Black Cobra Hall.

Police said Keehan was convicted and placed on probation two years ago for trying to bomb the Chicago Jude and Karate Centre. Keehan and another karate Instructor also convicted, Douglas Dwyer, said then the school owed them money for teaching at the school.

Keehan, who caHs himself Count Dante and runs the Housg of Dante karate school, allegedly gained entrance to the locked school by displaying a sheriff's badge and kicking open the door

What Hollowed was a murderous fight between the two groups punctuated with karate screams and powerful combat in the Black Cobra HaJl adorned with knives, spears, lances, sabres and Samurai swords

Koncevic, 26, who came, in with. Keehan, ftedte 14-indh sword plunged into hi* stomach. Jerome Greenwald, 20. an instructor in judo and karate at the Black Cobra Hall of Kung

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MPs’ Topic Cablevision

“maintain the Canadian broadcasting service’’ and emphasized they would not go into effect for present cablevision system^ until their licence renewals come up. For Victoria Cablevision Ltd., that's August, Iff].

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Anderson said Friday that he had been busy in the Commons and on other MP duties and had not as yet sttfdied the CRTC proposals.

But he said the western Liberal caucus — Liberals MP from the four western provinces — was expected to I call a meeting on the pro- | posals "maybe in a couple of j weeks.’’ Other MPs from western Canada would be invited, along with those of the Ontario border areas that will be affected in much the same way as Victoria.

Anderson said his initial reaction to the proposed rules was "pretty negative," although he added the point about U.S. stations seeking business in border areas “may be a different situation.”

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He said he hoped for an early meeting with Victoria Cablevision Ltd. president and general manager Leg Curran, who expressed fears earlier that up to half the cable programs might be lost and is expected to issue another statement soon after detailed study of the proposals. \

Andarson said he would help any citizens' group formed to oppose the CRTC plans. He declined to be a leader because "then people will say it’s political," byt| if a group is formed, “I’ll b* most interested’ ft What IHey have to say ..,