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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ?. 1978

sack Donahue

- Men’s National Coach Here

* Jahn: P, (ack) Donahue,

employed @ sports capacity -
with Carling O’Keefe's
Breweries considere
pethaps the top basketball
each in Canada, is on loan

.to Iona Campagnoto’s
Ministry of Fitness and
Amateur . to improve the
Ruafty of basketball in

orthwest B.C. For the past
TE she eral Wedoctan
e herald,

Mrs. Campagnolo. mie
has been telling me how
beautiful this part of Canada
is, and the great love for
basketball there is in her

riding-eapecially amoung.
the Native population. I
have already discovered
that, if anything, she has
understated the case. Thave
y tied in my visit,
: her careful
scheduling to coincide with
the All-Native Basketball
Tournament now in progress
in Prince Rupert,” he added.
Terrace
‘on Tuesday,
Donthise got. off to a busy
gart with Junior Minl-
-Clinie on Basketball for
under 12 at a local scholl in
‘Terrace. _

‘He then drove to Kitimat
for, a ‘luncheon engagement,

followed by a basketball

‘dinic in Kitimat.zx back to

Terrace, fora mini-clinc at 4
p.m. for under 12’s. From 7 —
to 8:30 he worked with senior
men’s basketball’ players,
then 8:30 to 11:30 gave a
Coaches Clinic to about 25
adults 5 of who are woman. '

Radio, TV. and newspaper
Interviews, occupie
Donahue's earlier morning
time, wednesday followed by
an attendance at 10:30 at a
Thorhill School.

Wednesday afternoon, the
top Canadian basketball
coach was to leave for
Prince Rupert for a clinic for
ihe All Native basketball
players at 4 p.m. nd all day
at that city giving similar
Instruction to basketbail
players ‘and coaches and
sports groups,winding up
with an appearance at
Women’s lub Thursday this

evening. He leaves for
Winnipeg Friday, and will
be oe viding. “eglour"
(background information)
there, on Saturday, on T.V.
for CBC at the Saturday

-“Coltege Game” between

Winnipeg University and the
University of Manitoba.
“College Games” appears

Pithout a defeat. Ja

ponabue val
HERALD,"Nearly ail the
kids I have spoken to in
Tegrace say they ver miss
L.”

John P. (Jack) Donahue
has been described as by
sports writersas “A | loveable
humourous man.” This
appeared to be true when he
was in the Herald Qifice and
asked the editor to promate
his latest book-*All 1 Know
About Basketball’... A
hardcover book following the
1 ee pinta Poe
rt apr ti 4“ +
a the pages are blank.
Men's Basketball Donahueis
now in his seventh year as
the Canadian ational
Coach. -

Donahue came to canada
with a coaching record that
more than speaks for itself.
His schoolboy record. shows
a total of 250 victories as
opposed to a mere 48 defeats
compiled at both St. Nicholas

of Tolentine in Bronx, New .

York and Power Memorial in

New York City. While at

Power, his teams at one
point went 7\ straight

says

that a young man: by. the nae

basketball teams
wore ‘Included in this total :

of Kareem Adbul Jabbar
might have had something to
do with it. Herman Masin of
Scholastic Coach says of
Jabbar, “the one person who
helped him most was his
high school coach, jack
DONA NABUE.“

Jack's College coaching

career was spent exculsively
at Holy Cross College- in
Worchester, Massachusetts.
His teams recorded 108
victories as opposed to only
64 defents. the 1869-70
season, Donahue was voted
Cogch-of-the-Year in the
eastern region. Jack’s Holy
Cross team never ex-
perfenced a losing season.

Prior to

Canada, . Donahue h
extensive ince with
Inter-National Basketball. -

He conducted clinics in
eleven countries as well as
being named as an official
observer for the German.

Basketball Federation at the’

1971 “Cham-

European

His six. years | of handling
the Canaidan Men's National
Team have included an
impressive win-loss. record
of 150-50 against the best.

_Plonships.

in the:

were victories over . México,
Yugoslavia, and Poland

Czechoslovakia and Spain ‘~:

and have beaten every
major opponent except the
United States but the biggest
‘win of all was in ‘1975 in
Toronto when we. beat. the
Soviet Union.

Jack speaks at a
multitude of clincis and
dinners each year. Arhtur-
Daly ofthe New York Times,
called Jack ‘‘an honest man
but most so, when heis at his
beat, telling truth and tales
about growing up In New
York City."

Jack Donahue is: a
Canadian Citizen whose
inspirational motivation has
moved Canadian Ba
into a new era of excellence.
He led the Olympic National
Mens Team to a fourth place
in the Montreal Olypics in
1976 and is a hard workers
now with the young men who
will represent us in Moscow
in 1980. --

’ When he is not moving
from . coast to coast
spreading | the ‘gospel of
Candian Basketball, Jack’
resides in Kanata, Ontario
and his wife Mary Jane, and
mix children.”

John Jensen urges aid to SWAPO.

The. following press
release recelved Wednesday

fromthe Kitimat-Terrace
‘and District Labour Council. -

ediately follo the
gee ut me Nevthtvest

itativé “of
(South. West African
People’s Organization) in
Nembia,' the following
‘gidtement was released by
the. Kitimat-Terrace and
Labour Council.
“Now that we are better
informed as to the nature
and extent of the plight of the
oppressed ‘peoples = in
famibla — . thi to an

~” tnformative.‘talk-: and..slide

show given in Terrace by a
Namibian representative —
_the executive of the Kitimat-
Terrace and District Labour
Council wishes to make

blic our impressions and
intended plan of action in
support | of the Namibian

le.
as a is clear that the

Government of South Africa _

(white) and those foreign
corporations actively ex-
tracting the natural
. resources of the territory of
Namibia (including two
Canadian firms) in spite of
the. illegality of their
operations, are determined
to continua their oppressive |

’ eontrol over the Namibian

people, Against world-wide
eriteelan and pleas to with-.

._ daw from Namibia, the

Adrikans government of
South. Africa. maintains an
actlve military force of
50,000 South African troops

inside the Namblan territory ©

in: order that the mining

is Mas Tonal ‘Brovulaj-
" SWAPO

companies, in particular, and. Namibia, and ‘to core Northwest lsbour’ groups,
porations operating therein, |

might continue to exploit the
cheap black labour and vast
reserves . of diamonds,

coppers gol and ran entum ‘schelicranipa

‘egitinacy enditi gravity at .

the Namibian “people's
situation today, the Kitimat:
Terrace and District Labour
Council is urging publicly
that the Governmment of
Canada take the following
actions to help the Namibian
people free themselves from
this yoke of oppression.”
“We call upen the
Government of Canada to:
1( remove tax incentives

presently. granted

Canadian Surpordtion

: operaling and investigating

Namibla

2) “disseminate widely
across Canada the in-
formation about’ the
Namibian situationwhich the
government recess ularly |
regularly from the offices of
the United Nations;

3) cease forthwith any and
all diplomatic, economic and
trade relations with South
Africa and Namibia, until
South Africa withdraws from
Namibia and terminates its
policy of apartheid;

. 4) offer political asylum
Jo persons from South Africa
who, for reasons of con-
science, refusle to serve in
South Africa’s armed forces
against the peoples of South
Africa, Namibia and Zim-
babwe CRivooala)s

5) apply strong pressure
.on the four (4) canadian

banks presently giving loans

and . other financial
assistance to South Africa

dependent country’ and
economy once Il libera

been achieved.”
.Mr. John. iene,
spokesperson for the Labour

Council sald that other

Police Report _

Terrace ‘ROMP , ai
prehended two juveniles at

am. W

Oe ne ee a ee

Winterland General Store on
Kalum

‘Apprently the youths had
attempted. to’ enter several
business buildings.

-Police had received a

report-shortly before froma.

person’ who had seen ;the’
youths around the ‘streets. A

passing patrol car Spotted

thetwo on the réof.
The youths were coaxed
off the roof and charged,

taken by an onlooker. " in the Douglas Channel area:-

Tradition Upset ot B.e ie ont ta te

oe .C, , the

LONDON (AFP) — ald the prince, 36, who is possibility of earthquakes or

Prince Michael of Kent, a.
lirst cousin of Queen
ing to

. ls g
British royal tradition by

a divoreee, the

Daily. Mail reported.

| Tuesday. The newspaper

: 4 : Pa, E ae
skills needed to’ rim.an in-- this eecount. ‘They also pl

| school friend of the

areas and countries,

oa some Chruches: and
7 a jponations: from other

‘to B;end financial Gonations " Terrace Hotel, Terrace: or a

cheque could be sent to the
as to t the South Weet Af ican same office, care of Box 743,

(SWAPO) to assist them in Terrace, and written. out to

ri}
sthelr efforts to feed, clothe, uabour Advisory Coa

house and defend the many
thousands of Namiblans who President iene oi Gounell

- by Donna Vallicres
* Herald Staff Reporter
along with two other Skeena MP Jona Cam-

juveniles. waiting on the pegnolo spoke to an audience
sidewalk, with attempted

‘and enter ing. Terrace, focusing: her
remarks on the Kitimat oil
. All four, two boys and two port subject.

girls, have been released
from custedy and will ap-
pear incourt. ©
East End Groceries
duffered a broken window,
night. RCMP ap-
peehended two juveniles.
Another hit and run oc |
curred Tuesday evening and
RCMP: caught .a.. suspect
later from a licence number

While speaking to the
Northwest B.C, Professional
Engineers Affociation after
a dinner at the Bavarian Inn,
camnpe lo brought up
_hew objection to the oil port

es
The Skeena MP, who has

the oil port, chronicled the
possibility of an. earthquake

16th in line to the throne, was. tremors is increased, a fact
planning to marry 33-yearald which should be taken into
Marie Christine von Relbn- consideration before con-
itz, the daughter of a Ger- structing an oil - port,
man baron..It said she was Campagnolo said. A more
formerly married to banker detailed account of the
Tom Troubridge, a pint ald. dinnex speech will appear
later.

" have fled to safety j in nearby

in Commieteeinthe wing ofthe ©

Service in| Terrace.:

.Saumers and an em

not come out in. support of"

-Cat

_Inoident At New Remo

vary in some a
cording ‘to our: best in-
formation, bere is the story
as we have tried to sort it
out, without having actually
contacted the main par-
Bill Saumers, the occupant
of a house at'2 Calgary Rd.,
New Remo, is a kind man,
He loves dogs and cats. He
also is the proprietor of Bills
Window Cleaning Janitorial

cording to one, account,

vee
were cleaning igo’s
building on Kalum and Park
when he needed to get
something from. his: home.
Helocked the door after him,
leaving his partner working
there, and proceeded to h

_ place at New Remo and

discovered his house on fire
there, with smoke billowing
from the basement. One
account says Saumers had
approximately. $5,000 worth
of supplies stored below, and
waa overcome by smoke
trying to salvage them. A
second account says he hada
number of small dogs and a

cat that he successfully .

retrieved the dogs, but the
, Saumers was
reported to have’ been.
overcome smoke
inhalation and went into
shock An
called and ‘eventually.
Saumers agreed to go to

. Femained - locked

“AC. .

ambulance was |

_ hospital where he was later .
_faleated, and checked | into.4 Rt
onded to by the local”

- was respon
Ac» RCMP,. B.C. Ambulance

Service Province
‘Emergency Program -
members, and Terrace and
Thornhill Fire Departments,
volunteers and about 30.
spectators. Meanwhile,
at Trigo's Saumers partner
the
building. An hour end ahalf
later, the partner phoned the
police, explaing. his ..dilem-
ma. Although at first. nobody

‘the RMCP_ tracked him,
pwn): ‘obtain

“successfully closed”

Wednesday morning the -

Fire Department said most

- damage had occurred to the

basement. The main floor
and upstairs mostly suffered
mainly “from the smoke,
although -the floor was
“apongy’’. Apart from .the

pussy cat, .neigh-
bours. agreed things ‘could
have. turned out “much

mew where Saumers "was. _ome’

~ Molly Nattress

Mrs. Molly Nattress
has been selected as
chairman of the Advisory
Recreation Commission
for 1978. Mrs. Nattress

has: been active in: the:

community for man
years, particularly with
the Terrace
Theatre. -

Other members of the
Advisory — Recreation
‘Commission are; -Mrs. Lil.
Farkyam -~- Vice: ‘Chair-

_ man, . Mrs. Margaret
Dodd .-. Recording
Secretary, _Mr. Doc

Harrison, Mrs. Donna
Donald, Mr.’ DanQuilty,
Mr. Jim: Neale, Mrs,
Barbara Highe, Alder-

man Jack Talstra, and
- Trustee” Joyce Krause.

. Little

There: is ‘eurrently one

vacancy an the: Com-
mission.

The A d visor y
Recreation ‘Commission

assists the District of .

Terrace Municipal
Council by representing
the concerns of the
community pertaining’ to
parks and recreation’
services in ‘the

development of policy.

~The Commission may
be contacted fhrough any”
member, or by phoning
directly to the Chsirmare
Mrs. Nattress, at, 635-2048
or the Vice-Chairman,
Mrs. Farkvam, at 635-
7435 or the Suwuperin-
tendent of. Parks ‘&
Recreation at 685-6311,

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