a intelligence -officer’ has

* Shinmtbed:
anniuriced today the discovery of a scrap of jawbone

- they believe to be the oldest fossil of a direct human

ancestor ever found, a five-million-year-old clue that |

yours. extend man's family tree back by: one million.
-_.. The five-centimetre fragment, which contains two.

molar teeth, was found in-Kenya in February on an

_ @xpedition sponsored by Harvard University and the

National Museums of Kenya.

The researchers were uncertain whether the -
jawbone was from a newly discovered species, or. ari

older sample of the otdést known species from which. ~

humans are directly. descended::’’

But they believed” the foxsil would help fill in the .

misty period more than’3.6 million’ yeara ago when

Mass. (ABY _  Resenrchers.

both cléarly a hominid and it seems to be reasonably
dated at five million years,"’ said Dayid Pilbeam, a

« Harvard anthropologist. {That pushes. the’ oldest
undoubted hominids: back ‘another'millioti'yeare —-

not very much, but it’s 25 per cent more.”

- Pitbeam, ‘who was in. charge of the “pesediich a

“program, sald the newly found fossil is similar to'a

. Bpecies of human ancestor called Australopithecus

afarensis,
Until now, the oldest discovered remains of

- Australopithecus afarensis were!about four million
~ years old. The species has been widely accepted as .

the oldest hominid, and the best known example of it
is Lucy, whose partial skeleton Was uncovered in
Bthiopia in 1977, :

thought to ae ‘split off: from the forebears of .
. -modefi na : : ahs a
What ie im important about | this jaw piece is that it ts

* Since’ they found only a small piece of jawbone, the

new species or another example of Australopithecus

“afarensis, But “if it is different, it isn’t very .
: thferent, " Pilbeam said.

Several species of hominids have been found over
- the years in Africa. They help trace human lineage
from the emergence of modern Homo sapiens 40,000

years ago'back to the erect but smali-brained |

Australopithecus afarensis. But beyond that, the

; fossil record was dark.

No one is sure when humans split apart ‘from thelr

closest ape relatives, the chimpanzees, and evolved
their separate ways,-Recent analysis of blood and
genes from modern primates suggests that the split
could have happened as recently as four million
years ago.

"pesearchers are not sure whether the creature isa

' Richard Craig ‘Smith, 40,

. A decree absolute was
‘by... Ontario

mankind's b ancestors known as hominids _ ~ are

_ Former US. ‘spy sells

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Officials are concarned
forthe dafety of several
U.S. spies now ‘that a”
former army ‘counter.

been charged with selling
the identity of a:U.S.
double agent to a Soviet

The FBI arrested
of Bellevue,

at Dulles International
Airport from Seattle to

~ Trudeau’ S divorce final

OTTAWA. (CP) —

Divorce proceedings
between Prime Minister
Pierre ‘Trudeau and
Margaret Trudeau have
been finalized, the Ottawa
Citizen says.

issued Monday in Toronto
‘Supreme
Court, the newspaper
says. That means the
divorce is complete
except for walvers of
appeal — meaning the
divorce is uncontested —
to be filed by thelr
lawyers. .

Mr. Justice. Nick
McRae agreed to “4
request by Margaret’s
Toronto lawyer, Joel
Skapinker, to keep the
separation agreement
sealed, The Citizen says.
A provision in the rules
of practice allows pene
to request the,

_ agent
: Waguespack ‘said Smith

., Aad Mare
yy

surrender.

- financially strapped, “sell:
employed real... estate”
‘Tavestor was charged.
with © ‘transmitting

national - ‘defence

. information to a Soviet
_. intelligence officer; which:
_ Carries a penalty of life ins

prison: :
In acourt affidavit, FBY
‘Michael: -

acknowledged. in:

February that he “Was

paid $11,000, in cash for”

statement. issued to the

media regarding
“anything to do with the
divorce."

Margaret, reached

Wednesday at CJOH-TV.

which carries . her

_ afternoon talk show, also
declined comment .- and .
the prime’ minister's.

Ottawa lawyer, David
Scott, would only say the
court . hearing was
“simple and went as
expected. ww
‘NEWS TO ME’

Fried Kemper, 35, a
wealthy Ottawa
eatate executive who has

‘dated Margaret for

several months, told The
Citizen the divorce was
“news to me’? and there
were “no plans” for the
two to marry.

The. Trudeaus reached
a.,-formal separation
agreement last October

t, 35,,,fijed
for a no-fa vorce
November, -
after the.
separated 7

couple
following

_ months ‘of sensational -

spans A Iee |

six years:

information about. a U. Ss.
double-agent operation
aimed ‘at learning the

identity. of KGB spies.
- engaged in esplonage

against the United States.

The government sald
Smith gave
Okunev, described as a
‘KGB... officer, © enough
information to identify a
double agent . apparantly

working for the Soviets -
’ - but actually helping U.S.

officials. Both the double.
agent, and: the operation,

her. jet-setting exploits,
The petition asked for a

divorce on the grounds of |
‘long-term separation. In-
Ontario a divorce may be.

granted after a three-
year separation. a
' Teudeau, 4. devout
Roman Catholic, has had

custody of their three.

sons, Justin, 12, Sacha, 10,
and Michel, 8, since the
couple split up in May
1977.

' Under the temporary
Separation agreement
Margaret relinquished all
privileges as wife of the
prime minister.

4

wii 2 othe ne

Vietor -

were code-named Royal
. Miter..

“Smith has provided us

with some. information,
but, we belleve he will |
provide more ‘detailed
information now that he's

under arrest,” said one

federal law enforcement
‘source. ome
“HE HURT Us'

- “He hurt us,” sald this

source: “Obviously, we're
‘concerned about what he
gave up. We're concerned -
_ about the safety of a lot of
. double agents” who, like: .
. Smith, worked with the
-US, .Army Intelligence
- and Security Command, a

counter- -intelligence
operation charged with

protecting the army from. .
=" the army ‘command a3 a

spies. .

‘The fifth spy arrested in
the United States ‘in the
last year, Smith is being.

_ held without, bond for a.

. preliminary: hearing
April 13. -
In the affidavit,

Waguespack alleged that
Smith turned over the

_ information to Okunev at

the Soviet commercial

compound in Tokyo on.

Nov. 7, 1962. The FBI said

-Okunev gave Smith the

identities:

$11,000 in cash at that
tlme.
Officials at the- Soviet

‘embassy in Tokyo said:

Okinev works in the
consular section but they

had no- knowledge of the

spy case or Smith's

arrest.

“It sounds like some

_ Kind ‘of joke on your

part,” Pavel. Kotsuyba,

‘an.embassy counsellor’

said from Tokyo. ‘It’s not

the first of April, you’
Department

know. Lid

“Justice
sources said Okunev
would be expelled from
Japan. -

Smith, who had top-
secret security clearance,
‘worked as a civilian for

case officer on double-
agent operations from

July 1978 until | Seausey
1980, when he left the
government, sald .
Waguespack, who began
investigating Smith last
December.

Waguespack said Smith .
handled the double agent
known as Royal Miter,
from October 1976 to 0 July
1978. :

Others. arrested in the
last year include James

"Harper in California on
_ charges of Spying fe for

Poland,

enyu
Kostadinof ‘in New York

on charges of spying for
Bulgaria, Alfred Zehe in
Massachusetts. on:

charges of spying for.
East Germany, and Ernst
Ludwig. Forblech . in

‘Florida ‘on charges of

spying for East Germany.

"SUPPORT
THE

TERRACE
LITTLE
THEATRE |

; ‘The Heratd, Thursday, April 5, 1984, Pege s

. tree —

Pilbeam ‘sald most experts believe that the split
happened sometime between 3.5 million and eight
million years ago, although some think it could have
been as distant as 15 million years ago.

The latest discovery, Pilbeam said, “would show
that the last common ancestor of hominids and
chimps is at least five million years old. It could be
five million and one years old, or it could be 10
miBion. We don’t know.”

- The bone was found near Lake Baringo in northern |

Kenya by Kiptalam Chepboi, a fossil prospector who
is on the staff of the Kenya museums.

Precise dating of fdssils is difficult, Rocks near the
spot where the latest Jaw was found are close to five
million years old, and bones from ancient pigs and
elephants found in the area are more than 4.5 million

_ ‘years old.

‘The researchers could not tell from the jaw
sample how big the hominid was, Plbeam sald they
hope to answer this and other questions by finding
more fossils when the expedition resumes next year.

School, 3624 Eby Street. All other Kindergarten

$choo! District No.8a (Terrace) announces

Kindergarten Registration Day

will be on

Wednesday, April 11, 1984

for children Ilving in Terrace, Thornhilt,
Kltwanga, and the Hazelton area.

It ls important that children register at this time
to assist with planning for September. ;

Kindergarten children registering must be five
years old by December 31, 1984. Birth
certificates are required.

All Kindergarten children Ilving west of Munroe
Street In Terrace should register at Parkside

children should register at the primary ‘school °
nearest thelr home. |

Please bring your child’s immunization record to
registration.. Skeena Health Unit will provide
questionnaires at the school for parents to flit
out. They will be picked up by Skeana Health
“Unit staff following registration.

The times for Kindergaren Registration are:
"9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon; 1:00 p.m. - 2:30

Patera eee c I.

papers ee

MTN ian cmeee eeaton

p.m. =
-""” WEDNESDAY, APRIL11

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If you owna _
ll business

Dad

* Gimli inquiry.

WINNIPEG (CP) — 4n Air Canada lawyer’
admitted Wednesday the airliie failed to provide a_-

specific procedure to double-check fuel on board the.
new Boeing 767 in the event of faulty fuel gauges. °

David Saul made the admission during the 37th day ,

of hearings by a federal inquiry trying to determine
why an Air Canada 767. with inoperative fuel gauges
ran out of fuel over northwestern Ontarlo last July 23
and landed at an abandoned miltary airstrip at Gimli,
Man: -

Saul sald on ‘pther planes in the airline's feet, a:
maintenance technician measures. the fuel in the

tanks and the flight's second officer calculates the —

total weight.

However, the 767, a metric aircraft introduced by.

Boeing last year, uses no second officer and the
plane's manuals do not specify who is to figure out the

said.
AN OVERSIGHT |

"Tt was not assigned elther to maintenance or flight ; oo
crew on the 767 and was an oversight,” he said. “It: ~
comes down to 4 very fine point andit was missed."

Earlier in the hearings, headed by County Court .”. we!
Judge George Lockwood, maintenance personnel
have said a ‘fight crew member must determine the toe

‘fuel load:
However, pilots have testified that responsibility
les with malntenance,

In preparation for the Montreal-to-Edmonton’

flight, maintenance technicians at Montreai's Dorval
Airport measured the depth of fuel in the tanks in
centimetres, later converting it-to litres.

Co-plict Maurice Quintal has said he helped

technicians convert litres to kilograms. But, Quintal
used the wrong conversion factor.

As a result, the plane left Montreal with only 22,600
pounds of fuel in its tanks — only about half the fuel.

needed to reach Edmonton — instead of, 22,600 .

kilograms.

Saul sald because of an oversight the manuals m

consulted by the flight crew July 23 didn’t spell out”
who must calculate fuel weight and didn't detail the
method fo be used.
OFFERS DEVICE
Earifer Wednesday, the inquiry was told Boeing
offers a device dealgned to measure fuel weight, in:
kilograme rather than fuel volume; * ; rs
Although such a system would avoid the need ‘or

‘conversion calculations; the airline didn’t order.thia °°"

option, which is used by six other’ airline around te
world. -
In other testimony, Ar canaila's

, eral manager,

of operations enwinesring sdid’ seer of the“.

incident concluded: it would ‘be' too’ dangerous. to
convert the fuel syatem to impérial from metric on

. the conn Haigh ania hough a h vslon
Geoffrey Haigh aa ough such a conversion .
would make the plane uniform with the 102 other. ~

alreraft in-Alr Canada’s fleet, it would invite errors:
by maintenance and flight crews. :

"We ‘sald the airline also conridered converting. ity
entire fleet to metric, but ruled that out because it
would pose even more of a risk of error, at a cost of
$6.5 million,

None of the 73 passengers and crew on board the 767
were injured when Capt. Rob Pearson glided the
powerless plane to an emergency landing. at Glenll,

The inquiry continues today. ‘

headlines” dealing with

weight and confirm the amount of fuelon board, Saul |.

-_ The Government of Canada

"hut Tagislation Streamlined

"Small business tax legislation

$180 wiliton Reduction

contained in Budget 84 are

designed to help the small
recognizes the fact that. - in Federal Taxes and medium Sized business
small and medium siz The net result of simpli- sector grow and prosper.
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economy and are this coun- fr growing small businesses, ll Canadians, including
try’s most dynamic source will mean atax saving for Small business owners, to
of new jobs. small and medium sized help build for the future.
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aan pys particular attention to million . |
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