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EDMONTON JOURNAL. Wednesday, May 27, 1981 C19 Affordable may mean $100,000 Bodies still missing LETHBRIDGE (CP) Police are still mystified by a case in which a man has confessed to murdering three people whose bodies have never been found. Jeffery Heath, 31, Kathy Heath, 33, both of East Wenatchee, and Kenneth Solmon, 25, of Yakima, have been missing from the Lethbridge area since February. Steven Lee Hauden-schild, 25, originally from California, has said he killed the three people who were linked to an American motorcycle club. But police have not uncovered any trace of the trio despite three months of investigation.

I CONTINUES AT THE MEADOWLARK STORE ONLY. By KELLY McPARLAND ST. ALBERT An "affordable" house in St. Albert may soon cost $100,000. City council is almost certain to approve a bylaw Monday allowing houses to be built on lots as narrow as 10.5 metres, compared to the 17.5-metre minimum set for current homes.

Developers say the smaller lots will allow them to control the skyrocketing price of housing by reducing land costs 10 per cent. But even at that rate, other costs could push the price of the lowest-priced detached homes to between $90,000 and $100,000. "People are misleading themselves if they believe by going from a 17.5-metre lot to a 16-metre lot they're going to solve the housing problem," Mark Bet-teridge of Nu-West Land Development said Tuesday. Mr. Betteridge acted as representative of St.

Albert's four main developers at a public meeting into the proposed bylaw this week. Only a handful of residents turned out, and none voiced strong opposition to the plan. The bylaw will allow 15 per cent of the houses in a subdivision to be built on lots with 10.5-metre frontages. Twenty-five per cent of the subdivision could be on lots of between 12 and 15 metres. Sixty per cent must be on lots of 15 metres or more.

Mr. Betteridge said the bylaw will not mean lower prices, but will let developers hold increases to a minimum. Innovative designs allow builders to put houses of up to 117 square metres on the smaller lots. He said similar size houses in Sherwood Park sell for about $90,000. However, housing costs are increasing between 15 and 18 per cent a year.

"If you continue with 17.5-metre lots they're going to go up at the same rate, and you'll end up with even higher prices," he said. City officials say land costs are the main reason an average 108 square metre home that sold for $23,000 in 1971 costs $90,000 today. In 1971, land represented 30 per cent of the cost of a house. Today it equals about 46 per cent. The bylaw appears to have majority support, but at least two aldermen say they will oppose it.

Aldermen Bill Shields and Ken Allred say the bylaw won't lower housing prices, which was council's intention in introducing the measure. "Narrower lots are only one of several alternatives open in the area," said Aid. Shields. He said an experiment with small lots in the city's Woodlands subdivision did not reduce prices. He said the city should get more involved in provincial price-assistance plans, and consider paying servicing costs out of municipal revenue.

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Mrs. Beaupre of Donnelly said "in light of what has happened, I'm not surprised (that the minister called the However, she said she is surprised that Mr. King didn't consult the board first. She said Mr. King advised her May 7 that an investigation of the division would be made.

Mr. King said Monday he called the investigation because of the number of concerns in a variety of areas expressed to him from administration, teachers, parents and students. "No one of these concerns are of particular significance. No one would justify an inquiry. But the number (about 12 letters) in a short space of time (three weeks)" and the different interest groups represented in those letters suggested that an inquiry was warranted.

Mr. King said it is By Carolyn Heiman Two High Prairie school board members say Education Minister Dave King should have consulted the board before ordering an investigation of the division. Board chairman Laurie Gates says he welcomes the investigation, announced May 22, but "I wish the minister would have done a preliminary inquiry before calling the investigation. "It is not proper for the minister to interfere to that degree without consulting the trustees." He said there are Other less serious alternatives, including sending department staff to -High Prairie to advise the board on how to handle problems, which could have been taken before the inquiry was called. Mr.

King appointed a three-member committee to look into instructional programs, policy and decision-making practises of the school board and the administrative operation. The committee is to complete work by the end of June. Both Mr. Gates and trustee Marie Beaupre rare for a minister take the initiative to to Scout jamboree or Kananaskis Twenty-seven hundred Alberta households will be quieter July 1-10. That's when the country's Boy Scouts and Venturers will host Canadian Jamboree 1981 (CJ '81) in Kananaskis Country, 90 kilometres west of Calgary.

A site at Bow Valley Provincial Park has been prepared for the event, which will play host to 16.000 Canadian scouts and 1,300 scout leaders. A mile-long central road, wells, showers and flush toilets have been provided at the site by the Alberta government, and Scouts Canada has budgeted an additional $5 million for the event. Representatives from 20 countries are also expected to attend, according to Don Dick, Scouts Canada executive director for Alberta and Saskatchewan. Boy Scouts, who range from 11-14 years of age, can choose from 19 types of activities including an overnight hike, Olympics, rodeo, pioneering and an obstacle challenge. Venturers, youths between 14 and 18 years of age, will participate in activities such as a 36-hour hike, archery, canoeing, bicycle motorcross and a crisis challenge.

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